Israeli settlement

Israeli forces close Nablus-area school, say vehicles were stoned

Ma’an – 03/12/2014 NABLUS – Israeli troops on Wednesday morning shut down a secondary school which serves two Palestinian villages south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, a Palestinian official and locals said Wednesday. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement-related activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers denied hundreds of schoolchildren […]

Several More Abducted in West Bank, Settler Assaults Taxi Driver with Pepper Spray

IMEMC News & Agencies | December 2, 2014 An Israeli settler, Monday, reportedly attacked a Palestinian taxi driver in Jerusalem with pepper spray before fleeing the scene, according to Israeli media sources. Additionally, several more Palestinians were abducted by Israeli forces between Sunday evening and Monday morning. The Jerusalemite was driving on King George Street […]

Israel’s Model of Political Despair in Jerusalem

By Jonathan Cook | Dissident Voice | November 26, 2014 Relations between Israelis and Palestinians have descended into a dangerous melee of tit-for-tat attacks and killings, with the violence of the past few weeks centred on Jerusalem. The city, claimed by Israel as its “undivided capital”, has been torn apart by clashes between Israeli police […]

Synagogue killings on the site of an Israeli massacre of Palestinians

On the Contrary | November 21, 2014 The moral lesson of the “Nazi Holocaust” is supposed to be that humanity must not forget what happened. Yet many of the beneficiaries of “Holocaust” sympathy and reparations have worked to make certain that  the world does not remember the mass murder of Arabs by Israelis. The 2100 Palestinians killed by the Israelis […]

Three shot with live ammunition during Nabi Saleh protest

International Solidarity Movement | November 22, 2014 Nabi Saleh, Occupied Palestine – Israeli forces shot and injured three Palestinians participating in a weekly Friday demonstration in the village of Nabi Saleh. Soldiers fired .22 caliber bullets, a form of live ammunition which has maimed and killed many Palestinians, even as Israel continues to claim it […]

Israeli soldiers protect Jewish settlers attacking Palestinian village

Yesh Din | November 20, 2014 Israeli occupation forces did nothing to stop Jewish settlers from attacking Palestinian villagers, according to videos released by the Yesh Din rights group, showing soldiers pointing guns at Palestinians while Israelis are throwing stones from behind the soldiers. The soldiers appear to be protecting the masked and armed Jewish […]

Palestinians repair thoroughfare in nonviolent action

CPTnet | November 15, 2014 SOUTH HEBRON HILLS — On Saturday, 15 November 2014 the South Hebron Hills Popular Committee (a nonviolent Palestinian organisation resisting occupation in the South Hebron Hills region), coordinated an action to develop the road that connects the city of Yatta to At-Tuwani and surrounding villages located in the area Israel […]

Jewish settlers storm Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem

MEMO | November 16, 2014 Scores of Jewish settlers on Sunday stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem, a Palestinian official said. “As many as 59 settlers stormed the holy compound through Al-Magharbeh Gate under the protection of Israeli police,” Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, director-general of the Organization for Muslim Endowments and Al-Aqsa Affairs, […]