
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
Gaza City 11 October 2011
A daughter of a former prisoner who spent 33 days on hunger strike writes from the Gaza Strip, urging international solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails. Read more about "The prisoners are the living martyrs"
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
Gaza City 5 October 2011
As reports come in that the US may be preparing to cut a substantial portion of the aid it gives to the Palestinian Authority because of its bid for statehood, people in the occupied West Bank and Gaza are bracing for possible consequences. Read more about Palestinians brace for US aid cut following PA statehood bid
5 October 2011
Sawsan Khalife’ is a young woman activist and a Palestinian citizen of Israel. The daily discrimination she encounters in Jerusalem and the tragic killing by Israeli forces of a school friend have been determining factors for her work. Read more about "Our identity is under attack;" Palestinian youth activist interviewed
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 “principal 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
Gaza City 26 September 2011
A women’s tennis table team is set to leave Gaza for Jordan to participate in an international Arab table tennis tournament in October. The four-strong team is traveling for the first time since Israel imposed tightened closure measures on Gaza in 2007. Read more about Women athletes break barriers inside and outside Gaza