PA arrests prominent businessman who called for Abbas' downfall
3 December 2013
Today’s incident suggests that the Abbas Palestinian Authority regime will brook no dissent or defiance from any quarter.
Rights and Accountability
Video: Israel police brutalize child amid anti-Prawer protests
1 December 2013
The Prawer Plan is a “calculated and premeditated plan to sever the historical ties that bind Bedouin Palestinian communities to their land” and “reveals once again the colonial nature of Zionism and the apartheid character of the Israeli state,” says BNC.
Israeli forces raid home to arrest 4-year-old, dad says
28 November 2013
“I told the officer, ‘you want to arrest him; should I send milk and diapers with him?”
One year after “ceasefire,” Gaza’s suffering deepens
21 November 2013
Palestinians are constantly lectured: “It is your resistance that brings punishment on you. Be quiet and you will see things improve.” But this is a lie.
Video: As siege stops pumps, Gaza children wade to school in sewage
17 November 2013
This is no “natural” disaster. It is the result of the sewer-like politics of the region, where Israel and Egypt collude, with US and EU complicity, to tighten the Gaza siege.
Prison or death? Egypt coup regime forces grim choice on Palestine refugees
11 November 2013
Horror at sea: Syria refugees describe children and elderly drowning in desperate flight from Egypt persecution.
South Africa further limits ties with Israel
4 November 2013
“The struggle of the people of Palestine is our struggle,” South Africa’s minister of international relations says.
New evidence hoped to free Holy Land Five
1 November 2013
Humanitarians were prosecuted because of donations to Islamic charities in Palestine.
Palestinian arrested in Chicago because of her community activism, groups say
26 October 2013
A pillar in Chicago’s Palestinian community faces jail time and deportation over a conviction by an Israeli military court more than four decades ago.
Israel blocks European parliament members from visiting besieged Gaza Strip
26 October 2013
Israel’s ongoing theft of Palestinian land, and now its ban on a parliamentary delegation visiting Gaza, are signs of its confidence that it can bully the with impunity.