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29 March 2011
A bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week which calls on the government to deny funding to any organization, institution or municipality that commemorates the founding of the Israeli state as a day of mourning. Read more about Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba
28 March 2011
In the last month Palestinians in Jerusalem continued to face ongoing violence and settler takeovers of their homes. The Electronic Intifada reports on the latest developments in occupied Jerusalem. Read more about Court orders Jerusalem family to share home with settlers
25 March 2011
A coalition including Palestinian refugees from Lifta are appealing to the Jerusalem municipality to stop plans to build Jewish-only condominiums atop the remains of the depopulated village. Read more about Suspended in time, Lifta under threat
24 March 2011
Israel admitted this week that it was behind the abduction of a Palestinian engineer from Gaza who went missing more than a month ago while traveling on a train in the Ukraine. Read more about Israel admits role in disappearance of Gaza engineer
24 March 2011
Richard Falk, an investigator with the UN Human Rights Council, warned this week that Israel is carrying out a form of ethnic cleansing against Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem. Read more about Legal expert warns of "ethnic cleansing" in Jerusalem
23 March 2011
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Israeli settlers observed their own “Day of Rage” last Thursday, launching reprisal attacks on Palestinians for the recent murder of a settler family in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, and the demolition of a settlement structure by the Israeli authorities. Read more about Settlers attack Palestinians on "day of rage"
18 March 2011
Under pressure over its involvement with the Israeli occupation, Danish-British security firm G4S recently stated its intention to withdraw from some of its contracts with Israeli companies in the West Bank. Read more about Security firm G4S partly withdraws from W. Bank
16 March 2011
AWARTA, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Food supplies are running low, ambulances have been detained for hours at checkpoints and hundreds of young men have been held, interrogated and beaten up, some requiring hospitalization, in the Palestinian village of Awarta in the northern West Bank. The village has been under continuous curfew for four days. Read more about Palestinian village under siege following settler killings
al-Araqib 17 March 2011
As Israel continues to deepen its claims on land in the occupied West Bank, the state is aggressively pursuing a similar project within the green line boundary. Read more about Palestinian Bedouins in al-Araqib: "We won't leave"
Jabalia refugee camp 16 March 2011
Gaza power plant official Derar Abu Sisi went missing in Ukraine earlier this year and is now believed to be held in an Israeli prison. Rami Almeghari reports for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about Family of engineer believed kidnapped by Israel speak out