Israel threw stun grenade at 11-year-old — Human Rights Watch
An Israeli soldier throws a stun grenade at Palestinians. Mamoun Wazwaz APA images (Courtesy The Electronic Intifada)
by Rania Khalek The Electronic Intifada
An Israeli soldier throws a stun grenade at Palestinians. Mamoun Wazwaz APA images (Courtesy The Electronic Intifada)
by Rania Khalek The Electronic Intifada
In February 2015, the New York Review of Books published a piece by Ken Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, an organization often criticized for its close ties to the military and intelligence establishments.
Noam Chomsky’s critique of the boycott/divestment/sanctions movement against Israel, which is in solidarity with the Palestinian people, has attracted wide attention.1 The Nation, where his article appeared, published five responses, to which Chomsky responded, and at least five appeared independently.2 Chomsky’s views were not new, but were first expressed during a BDS initiative in 2002, at Harvard and MIT.
The Israeli government uses such denial of water to trigger people displacement, particularly in areas slated for colonial expansion, especially since these communities are mostly farmers, who depend on water for their livelihoods. Cutting off Palestinian communities from their water resources usually precedes dispossession of land for new colonial projects.
After 66 years of brutal occupation “peace talks without applying the principles of International Law are an exercise in delusion”
By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC News | March 23, 2014
A Palestinian journalist has reported that he and two of his colleagues were used by the Israeli military as ‘human shields’ during an Israeli military invasion of the Aida refugee camp, near Bethlehem.
Operation Dove | March 16, 2014
At-Tuwani, Occupied Palestine – On Sunday March 16, during the Jewish holiday of Purim, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians and Internationals on Palestinian fields near Mitzpe Yair illegal outpost.
By Yossi Gurvitz | Yesh Din | December 18, 2013
Soldiers break into the wrong house at night, go on a rampage – and make off with a woman’s savings from 15 years of work