Israel increases use of bullets, tear gas against journalists
Jerusalem 12 October 2011
Palestinian and Israeli security forces urged to allow journalists do their work. Read more about Israel increases use of bullets, tear gas against journalists
Jerusalem 12 October 2011
Palestinian and Israeli security forces urged to allow journalists do their work. Read more about Israel increases use of bullets, tear gas against journalists
Haifa 10 October 2011
Thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails continue to hunger strike and commit other acts of civil disobedience to demand basic human rights. Meanwhile, activists in Palestine and around the world hold hunger strikes in solidarity. Read more about Hunger strikes will continue until prisoners' demands respected
Birmingham 6 October 2011
The Electronic Intifada has obtained email correspondences between Israeli lobbyists and British governmental officials which prove a plot to ban Palestinian political leader Sheikh Raed Salah from the UK. Read more about Revealed: UK government plotted with Israel lobby to ban Salah
1 October 2011
While attention is focused on the Palestinian Authority’s UN recognition initiative, Israel is quietly taking hugely significant steps to transfer 30,000 Palestinian Bedouin in the Naqab (Negev) desert from their ancestral lands. Read more about Israeli government approves plans to transfer 30,000 Palestinian Bedouin
Birmingham 30 September 2011
Two days of testimonies in the trial of Sheikh Raed Salah reveals that the UK has named as a “principle source” in its deportation case against the Palestinian leader a pro-Israel lobby group with a history of smearing critics of Israel as anti-Semitic. Read more about UK government conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism in Salah trial
Doha 27 September 2011
Earlier this month an announcement appeared on a French website, calling for “militants with military experience” to participate in a solidarity trip to Israel and the occupied West Bank between 19 and 25 September. Read more about French far-right recruits join Israeli settlers in West Bank
22 September 2011
Ayed Dudeen is back behind bars again; he has already spent four years in Israeli custody. Read more about Israeli "administrative detention" punishes entire family
Jerusalem 22 September 2011
Israel’s use of administrative detention, expulsion and widespread closure of Palestinian cultural institutions will be fortified and backed by a bill that threatens to turn law-abiding citizens and organizations into “terrorists.” Read more about Knesset moves forward on bill granting Israel unchecked, draconian powers
Gaza Strip 20 September 2011
National Palestinian consensus on the Palestinian Authority’s UN statehood bid, as The Electronic Intifada’s interviews with various factions and broader debates indicate, is decidedly lacking. Read more about PA goes to UN without Palestinian consensus behind it
Jerusalem 20 September 2011
Amid reports that the Israeli military is arming and training Israeli settlers in advance of a United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood later this week, Palestinian activists in the West Bank have organized emergency response teams to document Israeli settler attacks and prevent more from taking place. Read more about Settler violence rises in West Bank; more expected before UN vote