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Israel bars children over eight from visiting fathers in prison

Joe Catron
Gaza City
10 June 2013

After his eighth birthday next month, Obeida Shamali will be banned from seeing his dad.

Video: As Obama lands, Israeli soldiers violently arrest Palestinian 8-year-olds on their way to school

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 03/20/2013 - 16:21

The video shows harrowing scenes of young children clinging to parents as heavily-armed Israeli occupiers drag them away.

Israel arrests Palestinian activists "to finish colonization project"

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Ramallah
1 March 2013

Jamal Juma’ from the group Stop the Wall believes that every Palestinian known as an activist is a target for Israel.

Israeli army spokesperson's inaccuracy exposed, as judge releases Palestinian detained in Hebron

Submitted by Ben White on Fri, 09/14/2012 - 10:49
Earlier this week, an Israeli military court judge ordered the release of a Palestinian whose violent arrest by non-uniformed Israeli soldiers a month ago was captured on video.

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.

Book review: Finkelstein airbrushes Palestinians out of their own struggle

Asa Winstanley
11 July 2012
In his latest book, Norman Finkelstein superbly criticizes Zionist revisionist historians but ignores Palestinian agency.

'It's a shame they didn't kill him': Israelis react to video of soldiers kicking Palestinian child

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 22:34

Israeli Facebook users reacted with joy, and incitement to murder, on seeing a video of Israeli soldiers kicking a Palestinian child.

Video: As soldiers guard them, Israeli settlers attack Palestinian village, shooting one

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 02:43

Video shows Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians with stones, live fire and setting fire to fields as Israeli occupation forces guard the settlers. One Palestinian was shot in the head.

"ICC was a hoax from the start": How the rules were broken to deny justice to Israel's victims in Gaza

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 04/04/2012 - 18:43

The International Criminal Court (ICC) “was a hoax from the start.” So said Michael Mandel, a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, in response to the ICC Prosecutor’s shocking decision yesterday to refuse jurisdiction over Gaza war crimes without even referring the matter to judges.

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