Ramallah

Bubble in aid-dependent West Bank bound to burst, say economists

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Ramallah
6 August 2012
The economic bubble in the West Bank will burst, and instead of working to remove Israeli restrictions, the Palestinian Authority continues to push for investments in the private sector.

How obsession with "nonviolence" harms the Palestinian cause

Linah Alsaafin
Ramallah
10 July 2012
Is it really “popular resistance” when Palestinians are sometimes outnumbered by Israeli activists at weekly demonstrations?

Palestinians reclaim streets despite PA police repression

Eoin O'Ceallaigh
Ramallah
8 July 2012
The violence of the Palestinian Authority police is not unexpected, yet it was still shocking to see such unfettered brutality on the streets of Ramallah in the middle of the afternoon.

Farmer spurns Israel's cash offer, refuses to allow settlers on his land

Aghsan Barghouti
Ramallah
8 June 2012
What happens to a small village in the West Bank over the next few weeks will set a precedent about whether Israel will abide by its highest court’s ruling when it comes to dismantling settlements.

Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strikes continue as Israel violates agreements

Linah Alsaafin
Ramallah
5 June 2012
Since the end of the mass hunger strike in the early hours of 15 May, rumors of Israel reneging on the agreement have solidified into facts.

Palestinian Authority silent as Israel consolidates fuel monopoly

Charlotte Silver
Ramallah
11 May 2012
Israel’s monopoly over distribution of fuel to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip has yet to be challenged by the Palestinian Authority.

Interview: "counterrevolution" threatens mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners

Asa Winstanley
Ramallah
17 April 2012
The Palestinian Authority announced that Palestinian Prisoners’ Day would mark the start of a massive new wave of hunger strikes. But factionalism threatens the success of this movement, says Addameer’s Mourad Jadallah in an interview with The Electronic Intifada.

Court victory for Raed Salah deals blow to UK "anti-terror" policy

Asa Winstanley
Ramallah
9 April 2012
Palestinian activist Sheikh Raed Salah’s court victory in his deportation case has implications for both the UK government’s relationships with pro-Israel groups and its anti-terrorism legislation.

Israel causes $66 million worth of damage to EU-funded aid projects

Charlotte Silver
Ramallah
4 April 2012
A new report by the European Commission indicates that 82 humanitarian aid projects that it funded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were destroyed or damaged by Israeli military attacks between 2001-2011.

Palestinian Authority jails journalist for publishing exposé on foreign ministry

Asa Winstanley
Ramallah
30 March 2012
The Palestinian Authority imprisoned journalist Yousef al-Shayab Wednesday because of something he wrote, and because he insists on protecting his sources, say his colleagues

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