Press and independent media
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One Palestinian, two Europeans injured at anti-wall rally
03/07/2009
[Ma’an] Three demonstrators were injured by Israeli forces at an anti-wall demonstration in the West Bank city of Bil’in, near Ramallah, on Friday.
Oppose the state, not the people
02/07/2009
[Ha’aretz] Ramallah’s intellectual elite, foreigners and curious spectators gathered last Saturday at the Friends School in Ramallah to hear writer and political activist Naomi Klein lecture to a packed auditorium. Following a musical interlude by a string quintet, one of whose members is blind, Klein took the stage. She chose to speak – in Ramallah – about her Jewish roots.
Disorderly conduct is way too weak a charge for soldier who shot bound and blindfolded Palestinian
01/07/2009
[UN-Truth] Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled today that “disorderly conduct” charges against a soldier who shot a bound and blindfolded protester and his commanding officer who reportedly said “shoot him” — as a joke, but said he never thought the soldier would take him seriously — were much too lenient.
Cry in the night: What else can we do for the suffering ?
30/06/2009
[Waging Nonviolence] As I read through my emails yesterday morning, I came across one that had been sent by the Popular Committee of Bi’lin (West Bank). It’s subject line read: “Bi’lin Invaded by Israeli Soldiers.” The email, sent by Iyad Burnat, the head of the Popular Committee, describes a 2:30 am raid by close to 70 soldiers. Declaring Bi’lin a “closed military zone,” the soldiers broke into a number of homes. In the process, they seized and took away - for no stated reason — two sixteen-year-old boys, Mohsen Kateb and Hamoda Yaseen.
In the West Bank, Suburb or Settlement ?
30/06/2009
[Washington Post] Chaim Hanfling knows a lot about this settlement’s population boom. Six of his 11 siblings have moved here from Jerusalem in recent years to take advantage of the lower land prices, and at age 29, he has added four children of his own.
