Israeli settlements

Sahar Francis, director of Addameer, analyzes the hunger strike agreement signed by Palestinian political prisoners.

Stories from Abu Dis, a suburb which found itself suddenly cut off from Jerusalem by Israel’s wall.

Extreme poverty forces hundreds of children to work in Israel’s illegal settlements.

Thousands of Palestinians marched to destroyed villages and called for the return of Palestinian refugees.

A decision was made last week barring Palestinians from running for student union president at a college in the Galilee.

In a recent op-ed, the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman smugly offers the Palestinians how to settle their “conflict” with Israel: accept the settlements and the violent settlers, give up a large part of East Jerusalem, and forget about the refugees’ right of return.