News Highlights: Israeli officials authorize a plan to uproot and “resettle” 30,000 Palestinian Bedouin in the Negev. Israeli soldiers demolish Palestinian water infrastructure in the occupied northern West Bank. Palestinians mark the 18th anniversary of the signing of the failed Oslo accords, and note how the accords worsened the situation on the ground for Palestinians. …
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Sep 06
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News Highlights: Settlers torch a mosque in the occupied West Bank as EU representatives criticize the provocation and also express concern over the impact of the separation wall on the village of Al Walaja. Egyptian authorities put up a 2 metre high wall around the Israeli embassy in Cairo, as Egyptians continue to protest the …
Aug 30
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News Highlights: Israeli troops attack a peaceful protest in the Palestinian village of al Walaja near Bethlehem and arrest 4 Israeli peace activists who joined the rally; al Walaja is set to lose half of its farming land due to construction of the Israeli apartheid wall. Egyptians continue their protest outside the Israeli embassy in …
Aug 23
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News Highlights: 4 days of Israeli airstrikes kill at least 15 Palestinians, including a two year old toddler Palestinian medical official in Gaza says Israeli forces have been using new and more lethal weapons against the population there Israeli human rights groups criticize the decision of the Israeli Supreme Court upholding the route of the …
Aug 16
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News Highlights: Israeli warplanes strike Gaza, killing one Palestinian and wounding others, including a 6-year-old child; later, Israeli forces shoot and kill a Palestinian teen near Deir al Balah, with more than 10 gunshot wounds to the head and upper body according to medics Israeli officials announce more illegal settlement housing to be built, with …
Aug 09
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News Highlights: French multinational Veolia, at the center of an ongoing boycott campaign, announced major losses; Veolia has been involved in illegally building Israeli projects on occupied Palestinian land. Palestinian prisoners rights group called for the release of Bushra al-Tawil, 18, who has been held for a month without any charge; she is the daughter …
Aug 02
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News Highlights: UN official Chris Gunness says link between Israeli settlement expansion and Palestinian displacement is “abundantly clear”. UN envoy Robert Serry urges restraint from Israeli authorities after 2 Palestinians are killed in a dawn raid by Israeli soldiers on a Palestinian refugee camp. Egyptian tanks enter Tahrir Square to evict protestors on the first …
Jul 26
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News Highlights: Israeli gunboats attack Gazan fishermen, forcing them back into Israel’s unilaterally imposed 3 mile limit. Israeli settlers torch Palestinian farmland near Nablus, the latest in dozens of such attacks by extremist settlers against Palestinians. Salam Fayyad asks Arab countries for aid, saying the Palestinian Authority will not be able to pay salaries otherwise. …
Jul 19
This week …
News Highlights: Israeli navy commandos seize control of a French ship in international waters, that was trying to bring aid to Gaza; the ship had 16 people on board, including 3 journalists. Israeli air raids on Gaza have killed 3 people and injured 20 in the past 2 weeks, including 6 children, according to local …