Jerusalem 8 June 2011
For Abd al-Rahim Bisharat, Israel’s goal of taking full and permanent control of the Jordan Valley is clear. “Their goal is that they want us [to] get tired of our land and leave it so that they can expand the settlements.” Read more about Life in Jordan Valley strangled by Israeli military control
8 June 2011
One of the big lies that the peace process industry has been telling for the past few years is of an economic boom in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, brought about by the supposedly competent, technocratic rule of the handpicked, US-backed “prime minister” Salam Fayyad and the Palestinian Authority. Read more about Busting the myth of the West Bank "economic boom"
8 June 2011
The PLO “chief negotiator” Saeb Erekat has categorically denied a report in The Washington Post suggesting that the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership that he represents has dropped its insistence that Israel halt settlement construction in the occupied West Bank before resuming US-brokered negotiations with Israel. Read more about Saeb Erekat denies Washington Post claim Palestinians dropped settlement freeze demand
Gaza Strip 7 June 2011
For Palestinians in Gaza, the answer to “Have you ever been to Jerusalem?” is usually a complicated one. Read more about Traveling to the other part of home
7 June 2011
Read more about Democracy Now! reports from the Rafah crossing in Gaza
7 June 2011
Coming right on the heels of the recent vote by the largest student union in Europe to support the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement — which called for “thorough research into [the University of London Union’s] investments and contracts” with companies guilty of “violating Palestinian human rights” as set out by the Palestinian Boycott National Committee (BNC) — Read more about Largest academic union in UK passes key motions for Palestinian rights
7 June 2011
More information is emerging about events in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus, Syria. Read more about Update on protests, killings in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria
7 June 2011
Former professors of Dirar Abu Sisi, the engineer from Gaza who went missing during a train trip in Ukraine last February, refute allegations in Israel’s indictment that the man was taught weapons systems at university. The indictment also claims that one of Abu Sisi’s professors studied at a military engineering school in east Ukraine, though no such school exists, the Associated Press has found. Read more about Former professors refute Israel's indictment of kidnapped Gaza engineer
7 June 2011
The Government of Israel, which has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967, has stated its intention to complain to the United Nations over the march from Syria on the occupied Golan Heights yesterday. At least twenty persons are reported to have been killed by Israeli fire during a protest marking Naksa Day or the 1967 occupation of Arab lands. Read more about Israeli bullets killed protesters, yet Syria is responsible say Israel, US
6 June 2011
Disturbing reports have emerged that a large number of Palestinians have been killed in a shooting in Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus, Syria. Read more about Mass shooting reported in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria - video