News Highlights: Israeli settler groups are given approval to take over more Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem. Cairo police attack demonstrators in and around Tahrir Square, killing at least 33. Israeli authorities extend the detention of a female Palestinian journalist from al Quds TV, even though no charges have yet been brought against her. …
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Nov 15
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News Highlights: Palestinian activists board settler buses in Jerusalem, in an inspiration from the Freedom Riders of the US civil rights movement; all the activists are arrested but later released. Palestinian prisoner advocates say Israeli authorities have failed to lift arbitrary restrictions on detainees in Israeli jails, including the extended use of solitary confinement. 3 …
Nov 08
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News Highlights: Palestinians continue to protest against the Israeli apartheid wall and its confiscation of land, especially in the Bethlehem region; al Walaja village will be entirely encircled by cement blocks on the wall is completed and the land of the Cremisan monastery in Beit Jala is now also threatened. Israeli military forces board two …
Nov 01
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News Highlights: UNESCO votes in favour of admitting Palestine as a full member; the US, which voted against the move along with Israel and Canada (amongst others), immediately cuts its funding to the UN body. Another Palestinian is killed in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes, bringing the death toll to 12 in two days. Feature: The …
Oct 25
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News Highlights: Palestinian leader Ahmad Saadat and other prisoners temporarily suspend their hunger strike to see if Israeli officials will keep their promises of ending solitary confinement; Saadat has already lost over 10 kilos and is in the prison hospital. Egypt and Israel agree to a prisoner swap, which will see 25 Egyptian prisoners, including …
Oct 18
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News Highlights: The prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas goes ahead, but does not include any minors nor at least 8 of the women Palestinian prisoners nor all the top imprisoned leaders. Rights groups state the forced exile and deportation by Israel of some of the released Palestinian prisoners constitutes a “serious war crime”. Late …
Oct 11
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News Highlights: Israel and Hamas have reportedly agreed to a prisoner exchange, but none of the high profile Palestinian political prisoners will be included. The hunger strike by political detainees in Israeli jails continues, as fear mounts about the health of PFLP leader Ahmad Saadat. As olive harvest season begins in the West Bank, the …
Oct 04
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News Highlights: Thousands of Palestinians demonstrate in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, as the detainees enter the 8th day of their hunger strike. Israeli officials carry out more demolitions in occupied Jerusalem, the second in 2 days. Palestinians rally against U.S. diplomats visiting the occupied West Bank, with some of …
Sep 27
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News Highlights: Israeli officials approve 1100 new settler housing units in the occupied West Bank, a move condemned by Palestinian and international leaders. Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails start a hunger strike to protest the use of longterm solitary confinement and abuse of prisoners and their visitors by authorities. Israeli forces arrest a Palestinian …
Sep 20
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News Highlights: Palestinian and international activists set up a watchdog group to monitor the increasing settler violence against Palestinians and their property in the occupied West Bank Israeli military forces force Palestinian vehicles to wait for hours at 3 major checkpoints in the West Bank Mahmoud Abbas will push ahead with seeking full UN membership …