7 February 2012
This evening, twitter users saw it extremely necessary to raise more awareness on the deteriorating conditions of Khader Adnan, the hero of the battle of empty stomachs. Twitter users chose the hashtag #Dying2Live for this purpose, they succeeded in getting the hashtag to be on the top ten global trending topics for a short while. This blog will be solely narrated by some of those twitter users: Read more about Khader Adnan, Dying to Live
Gaza Strip 7 February 2012
Seventeen-year-old Haneen Abu Jalala died last month at an Israeli hospital from what her family says were complications from white phosphorous fired at their home three years ago. Read more about Is 17-year-old girl Cast Lead's latest victim?
7 February 2012
A collection of artwork created by children in Gaza immediately after Israel’s attacks in the winter of 2008-09 will be shown at Pennsylvania’s Swarthmore college in April, after it was censored by a museum in California. Read more about Gaza children's art exhibition to be hosted at Swarthmore college
Ramallah 7 February 2012
Israel’s illegal acts of resource pillaging in the occupied West Bank are “benefitting” the Palestinian population, according to the Israeli high court. Read more about Stealing Palestine's resources is illegal, despite Israeli court ruling
7 February 2012
The Public Committee against Torture in Israel (PCATI) reveals how Israel has evaded criminal investigations into all 701 complaints of torture and ill-treatment. Meanwhile the torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian detainees continues. Read more about Shabak tortures and ill-treats Palestinian detainees with impunity
Jerusalem 7 February 2012
Twenty Bedouin communities in the Jerusalem area, in which 2,600 persons live, are facing displacement to make way for Israeli settlement expansion Read more about 2,600 Bedouins threatened with displacement as Israeli settlements expand
7 February 2012
Human Rights Watch issued a 90-page report on Israeli occupation policies affecting Palestinian residency rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel has arbitrarily denied thousands of Palestinians the ability to live in, and travel to and from, those areas, says the rights group. Read more about Human Rights Watch: Israel must stop tearing Palestinian families apart
6 February 2012
Amnesty International today told Israel to release or try Khader Adnan, the gravely ill Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 51 continuous days, ever since his arrest by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank on 17 December. Read more about Amnesty to Israel: Release or try Khader Adnan, gravely ill after 51 days hunger strike
6 February 2012
Poet Lisa Suheir Majaj writes exquisitely of the profound personal and collective loss that defines Palestinian history in her book, Geographies of Light. Read more about "Words flower from fragile bodies": the poignant poetry of Lisa Suheir Majaj
6 February 2012
The US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) is asking supporters to sign a pledge to defend civil and human rights as it was revealed last week that the lead government prosecutor of the Holy Land Five has been assigned to the ongoing secret investigation against anti-war and international solidarity activists across the US. Read more about US Palestinians organize as government renews threats to indict solidarity activists