News Items

The following news items have been syndicated by the following sources:

  • B'Tselem
  • Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
  • Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU)
  • The Mondoweiss Blog
  • Health and Human Rights Project
  • Border policeman to be jailed for assaulting Palestinians

    In March 2005, B'Tselem reported to the DIP that three garage owners in Baka a-Sharqiya claimed to have been assaulted by border policemen. In 2009, one of the policemen was convicted in two of the cases and was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment, a

  • Construction of Barrier frozen in Ma'ale Adumim

    In June '09, the state informed the Israeli High Court of Justice that it had frozen construction of the Separation Barrier in this area. The planned route would cut off the northern West Bank from the south and severely infringe the Palestinians' right t

  • Israel must investigate Operation Cast Lead

    With the publication of the Goldstone Committee report today, human rights organizations in Israel are studying the report and its conclusions, and they call upon the Israeli Government to take the report seriously and to refrain from automatically reject

  • Last Day Of Delegation

    Today is the last day of our delegation's travels.  Several of us met yesterday at Jeff Halper's home to discuss furthering the partnership between AJJP and ICAHD.  We talked about joint education efforts, coordinated campaigns and joint delegation planning.  Our delegation has been a great...

  • on the Wall

    Our itISapartheid.org campaign now resides on a bit of the Apartheid Wall between East Jerusalem and Ramallah. Two school-age Palestinian boys were sitting on the curb as I painted it....

  • Dr. Hasan Matani


    Jeff and I have had the great pleasure, for the fourth year, of staying with Dr. Hasan Matani at his home in Qalansuwa.  Dr. Matani is a board member of Physicians for Human Rights...

  • I’m sitting at the Ramallah Cultural Palace at the opening of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program’s international conference, Walls vs. Bridges. This is a modern facility with a large auditorium, in which are seated over a hundred internationals, all mental health...

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  • Erez Checkpoint Demonstration 10.26.08



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  • Demonstration At Erez Checkpoint

    At 2:00 pm today, two busloads of demonstrators, the participants who were denied access to the Gaza Community Health Center Conference in Gaza, arrived at the Erez Checkpoint for a demonstration to protest the Israeli Army's refusal to permit entry to Gaza.  The buses brought participants from...