Press and independent media
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Breaking the West Bank
04/11/2008
[The Guardian] We were expecting it, but the deafening noise of the first sound bomb still came as a shock. The cry went up, "gas, gas", and blue-white smoke hissed out from a tear gas grenade.
"No violence. No violence," someone shouted. "Hold your hands in the air." But the gesture was not reciprocated. The grenades kept coming, perhaps 20 in all. Fortunately the wind carried most of the gas away across the fields.
Israel's apartheid wall dislodges 28,000 Palestinians in three years
30/10/2008
[Palestinian Information Center] A survey conducted by the Palestinian central bureau for statistics revealed that the demographic impact of Israel’s apartheid wall have doubled in the last three years, asserting that the wall led to the displacement of about 3,880 Palestinian families composed of approximately 28,000 people.
Criminal neglect in the West Bank
22/10/2008
[Ha’aretz] As happens every Sukkot holiday, tens of thousands of Israelis accepted the Jewish National Fund’s invitation to take their families to visit olive groves across the country. Many participated in the harvest celebrations and heard the tale of the olive tree, the symbol of peace. And as happens every year when the olive harvest begins, dozens of youths set out from the settlements and outposts to the olive groves of the West Bank to confront their Palestinian neighbors. They also threatened human rights activists who volunteered to help the harvesters and beat a photographer who came to document the Sukkot riots.
Awarding of the 2008 Carl von Ossietzky Medal to Anarchists Against the Wall and Bil'in Popular Committee
14/10/2008
[International League for Human Rights] By honoring Anarchists Against the Wall and the Bil’in Popular Committee, the Board of Trustees of the International League for Human Rights highlights the organizations’ common conviction that helps them surmount great obstacles and dangers in their mutual ideal of a worthy - and shared - future. Their exemplary activities are – in the age of globalization - of great significance for the realization of the ideals of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - well beyond Israel/Palestine.
Palestinian farmers separated from their olive groves
07/10/2008
NI’LIN, WEST BANK, 7 October 2008 (IRIN) - As the olive harvest gets under way in the West Bank, residents of the Palestinian town of Ni’lin say much of their land, where their trees are, is off limits because of Israel’s Barrier.
