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Human Rights

Leaked documents show PA outsourced Palestinian land and rights to Turkish firm

Charlotte Silver
San Francisco
19 September 2012
The Palestinian Authority is confiscating privately-owned agricultural land in the West Bank to build industrial parks.

Interview: Israel depriving Bedouins of right to education, says attorney

Charlotte Silver
San Francisco
17 September 2012
Despite an Israeli high court ruling to open a high school in a Bedouin village, students remained deprived of basic educational facilities.

Gaza engineer kidnapped from Ukraine goes on hunger strike over solitary confinement

Joe Catron
Gaza Strip
14 September 2012
Dirar Abu Sisi, the deputy engineer of the only power plant in the Gaza Strip, is in solitary confinement in an Israeli prison after being kidnapped from Ukraine.

Racism pushing Palestinian citizens of Israel to Ramallah

Jerusalem
12 September 2012
Palestinians with Israeli citizenship are moving to the West Bank in search of jobs, education and community.

Siege leaves 80 percent of Gaza's factories shut

Eva Bartlett
Jabaliya
10 September 2012
Most of Gaza’s industrial factories have closed and remained shut since Israel sealed the borders and devastated the export economy beginning in 2006.

Palestinians fleeing Syria denied help in Lebanon

Moe Ali Nayel
Beirut
7 September 2012
Palestinian refugees fleeing the violence in Syria to Lebanon are not able to access the same relief as Syrian nationals.

Egypt reopens border crossing with Gaza -- for now

Eva Bartlett
Rafah Crossing
4 September 2012
Palestinians are cautious about the future of freedom of movement between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.

Israel, settlers committing war crime of pillage in Dead Sea, says new report

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
3 September 2012
By mining natural resources from the occupied West Bank for its own economic purposes, Israel is committing the war crime of pillage.

Love and light at the end of Gaza’s tunnels

Mohammed Omer
29 August 2012
Brides and bridegrooms are now being smuggled through the Gaza tunnels, adding to the usual fare of medicine, building materials and commercial goods.

Eviction worries for Palestinians in new Libya

Rebecca Murray
Tripoli
29 August 2012
Property disputes in post-Gaddafi Libya have hit the Palestinian community hard as more refugees arrive from Syria.

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