A group of Israeli settlers attacked and wounded Palestinian hikers and foreign tourists while they were walking a trail in the occupied West Bank on Friday. An Italian national’s arm was fractured and bruised, while others suffered from burns as settlers sprayed pepper gas on their faces and used clubs and batons to hit them, Palestinian[…]
INTERNATIONAL An Israeli police officer who shot dead Iyad al-Halak, a Palestinian with autism, in occupied East Jerusalem in May 2020, was promoted this week despite facing a court case over the killing, it has emerged. The officer, who belongs to the border police and whose name is under a gag order, shot Halak, 32, claiming he[…]
INTERNATIONAL An Israeli court sentenced four Palestinian citizens of Israel to dozens of years in prison after charging them with participating in inter-communal violence during nationwide riots in May last year. Haifa District Court sentenced Mohammed Abu al-Haija, Mohammed Abu Romi and Baha Abu al-Jaija to seven years in prison and Ibrahim Merih to[…]
INTERNATIONAL Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian elementary school near the city of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank on Wednesday. Asafat, a boys’ and girls’ school, was demolished in Asafat al-Fawqa, one of the villages that make up the area of Masafer Yatta, whose Palestinian residents have long been threatened with eviction and[…]
Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday, according to the Health Ministry, Anadolu reports. A ministry statement said 11 other Palestinians were injured in the raid in the Jenin refugee camp, including three seriously. According to local residents, clashes erupted in[…]
INTERNATIONAL A Google employee who is quitting the company this week has accused the tech giant of profiting from the systemic abuse of Palestinians after her efforts to thwart a billion-dollar contract with the Israeli military were reportedly met with retaliation. Ariel Koren, 28, will be leaving Google on Friday citing what she said was its[…]
Calls for justice are mounting after a Palestinian-American teenager was brutally beaten by US Police at a traffic stop last month near Chicago. On 28 July, a video filmed by a bystander went viral showing two police officers in Oak Lawn, Illinois, on top of the teen, 17-year-old Hadi Abuatelah, beating him[…]
INTERNATIONAL More than 50 human rights organisations have called for an end to the “pressing attacks” being mounted by the United States and Israel on the United Nations commission investigating racial discrimination and repression against the Palestinian people. Last year, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) established an “ongoing” international commission of inquiry to[…]
INTERNATIONAL Israeli military officials have confirmed that Israel was responsible for the deaths of five Palestinian children killed on the last day of the country’s recent bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip. Several defence officials told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that an army inquiry into the attack on the Falluja cemetery on 7 August[…]
Resistance group Hamas has called for providing international protection to Palestinian children against Israeli “crimes”, Anadolu Agency reported. “Israel is practising all types of crimes against Palestinian children, including killing, abduction, assassination, siege and house arrest,” Hamas said in a statement marking the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression. The[…]
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