Jillian Kestler-D’Amours

According to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, 350 private Israeli security guards are currently employed in East Jerusalem by private security firm Modi’in Ezrahi, which is subcontracted by the Israeli Ministry of Housing and Construction, to protect 2,000 settlers living illegally in the occupied territory.

Several activists were arrested by Israeli forces today while attempting to ride segregated buses serving illegal Israeli settlements.

The Israeli government plans to forcibly displace 27,000 Bedouins in the occupied West Bank within three to six years.

A new exhibition reveals how the right of return for Palestinian refugees could be implemented.

Israel is deporting more than 140 released Palestinian prisoners to Gaza permanently, despite many being from Jerusalem and elsewhere in the occupied West Bank. Their families, therefore, remain unable to see their loved ones.

A plan to force Palestinian schools in occupied East Jerusalem to only use textbooks assembled and published by the Israeli ministry of education is part of an ongoing attempt to erase Palestinian identity, history and culture from the city.

Netanyahu has condemned attacks on mosques and cemeteries by Israeli extremists but his government is facilitating such violence.

Palestinian and Israeli security forces urged to allow journalists do their work.

Thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails continue to hunger strike and commit other acts of civil disobedience to demand basic human rights. Meanwhile, activists in Palestine and around the world hold hunger strikes in solidarity.

Israel’s use of administrative detention, expulsion and widespread closure of Palestinian cultural institutions will be fortified and backed by a bill that threatens to turn law-abiding citizens and organizations into “terrorists.”