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Archives: Apartheid
Oct.: Israelis kill 30 Palestinians, wound 1500; 7* Israelis Killed, over 20 Wounded
By IMEMC | - - Since October 1st, 30 Palestinians have been killed, and more than 1500 others injured by Israeli troops, according to the most recent report by the Palestinian Ministry…
Activists strip against Israeli separation wall in Bethlehem
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Several foreign activists stripped bare near the Israeli separation wall in the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank in refusal of ongoing Israeli policies against Palestinians under…
Nearly all of Gaza’s Water ‘Undrinkable’
By Celine Hagbard - (IMEMC) | - - Reporters from RT (Russia Today) traveled to Gaza to look into last year’s report that 90% of Gaza’s water is undrinkable. As they sampled…
Israel plans to tear down 13,000 Palestinian Buildings in Palestine
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has produced a report [pdf] in which it finds that "Official data released…
Israeli Policies could make Gaza uninhabitable in 5 years: UN
UNCTAD Press Release | UNCTAD/PRESS/PR/2015/026 | (Geneva, Switzerland) | - - Gaza could become uninhabitable in less than five years in wake of 2014 conflict and ongoing de-development, according to new UNCTAD…
Major World Aid Groups & 150,000 people demand end to Israel’s Gaza blockade
Oxfam | (Press Release) - - Oxfam Press Release : More than 150,000 people from around the world have today joined 35 aid, faith, development and human rights organizations in backing an…
President of Israel declares Israeli Squatting in Palestinian West Bank a “Right”, key to Zionism
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Monday declared Israeli squatting on the Palestinian West Bank a "right" and as an essential Zionist principle. Reuven,…
Israel: Surge in Unlawful Palestinian Home Demolitions: 126 in West Bank Left Homeless
Human Rights Watch | - - (Jerusalem) – The Israeli military unlawfully demolished at least 39 structures in Bedouin Palestinian communities in the West Bank on August 17 and 18, 2015. The…
Israel’s Illegal blockade of Gaza based on “made-up laws”; resistance outlawed
By Azeezah Kanji | (OpenDemocracy) | - - Israel invokes the privileges of engaging in international armed conflict but denies Palestinians their corresponding entitlements under the same body of law. This is…
Israel issues demolition order for mosque in Palestinian East Jerusalem
Ma'an News Agency | - - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli municipality officials delivered a demolition order Friday to the al-Qaaqaa Mosque, a house, and a studio apartment in the Silwan neighborhood of…
Gaza: Managing the Disaster isn’t Enough; not one of 11,000 buildings repaired
By Charlie Hoyle | (Inter Press Service) | - - The rubble of twisted concrete and metal bakes in the hot Mediterranean sun of a regional heat wave. A year on from…
Israeli troops Suppress Demo for Hunger-Striker Allan, in Coma
By Saed Bannoura - (IMEMC News) Dozens of Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, Saturday, after Israeli soldiers assaulted hundreds of residents marching in solidarity with hunger striking detainee Mohammad…
Israeli Lawmaker: Palestinians ‘preventing expansion’ of settlements
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- An Israeli Knesset member this week convened a meeting to stop Palestinians from "preventing the expansion" of Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West…
Settlement Expansion Largely Responsible for Violence in Occupied West Bank
By Kanya D'Almeida | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Just weeks after an 18-month-old baby was killed in an arson attack in the Palestinian village of Duma,…
Rebuilding destroyed Palestinian homes: Resistance one house at a time
By: Anna Kokko | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - ANATA (Ma’an) -- In the northeastern corner of the Palestinian village of Anata, between the separation wall and Israel's illegal settlement of…
Amnesty Visualizes Israeli War Crimes on anniversary of Gaza Black Friday
AJ+ | (Video Report) | - "A joint study by Amnesty International and Forensic Architecture reconstructs Israel's four-day bombardment of the city of Rafah in Gaza." AJ+ "Amnesty Report Visualizes Israel's War…
Israel to put 300 more Squatter Homes in West Bank, Palestine asks UN to Intervene
Ma'an News Agency | - - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The PLO and Palestinian presidency on Wednesday strongly criticized an announcement by Israel to approve 300 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank.…
Israelis who illegally squatted on Palestinian land in West Bank Sneak back in
AFP | (Video report) | - - "Several hundred people on Tuesday illegally re-entered the former Sa-Nur settlement in the northern West Bank after being expelled by Israel in 2005." AFP: "Israelis…