Redefining Our Relationship to A People’s Struggle Hana Shalabi is every Palestinian woman. (Alternative News) By Ramzy Baroud (Based on talks delivered by Ramzy Baroud at Israeli Apartheid Week conferences in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Canada – March 5, 6 2012) In the Winter 2012 Edition of Palestine News – published by the Palestine [...]
A mosque in Qusra village was damaged when settlers threw burning tires into it, damaging its entire first floor. West Bank, Palestine. Nazi-like Jewish settlers have continued to attack mosques and churches in the West Bank as part of a seemingly concerted effort to force Palestinians to leave their homes. The government-backed settlers [...]
I Palestinian protester Mustafa Tamimi, left, was killed when Israeli forces shot a tear gas canister at his face [AFP] There is a famous scene in Mary Shelley‘s classic where Victor Frankenstein realises that he created a monster and that this monster might be the end of him. Such is the scene that comes to [...]
An man inspects a mosque in northern Israel which was torched in the Bedouin village of Tuba Zangaria. (AFP/Jinipix Ancho Gosh, File) SALFIT (Ma’an) — A mosque was set on fire on Wednesday by settlers in the West Bank village of Bruqin, near Salfit, local officials said. The governor of Salfit Isam Abu Bakr told [...]
Palestinian youths try to put out a fire in an olive grove in the West Bank village of Hawara in October 2011. Seven young Israeli women, six of them minors, have been arrested on suspicion of participating in the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian olive trees, Israeli police said on Sunday. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh, File) JERUSALEM [...]
Harvesters were told to stop picking olives in Burin. (Photo: ISM) By Ben Lorber, ISM, West Bank As this year’s olive harvest sends Palestinian families across all of historic Palestine out to their olive trees, a new nonviolent resistance group called Refusing to Die In Silence is patrolling the West Bank, protecting harvesters from increased [...]
Issam Kamal Odeh was shot dead by Israeli forces in Qusra near Nablus on Sept. 23 during confrontations after morning prayers. (MaanImages) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Authority on Monday said the Israeli government was “implicitly encouraging settlers to continue on their rampage” by failing to hold them to account for violent crimes. “Israeli [...]
Palestinian protesters throw stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes in the West Bank village of Qusra near Nablus September 23, 2011. (REUTERS/Nir Elias) JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Following a recent increase in ‘Price tag’ attacks on Palestinian holy sites, former high-ranking Israeli security officials warned of the risk of a surge in violence across the [...]
Published today (updated) 11/10/2011 20:16 Palestinians confront Israeli soldiers during a demonstration in the West Bank village of Wallaja near Bethlehem, June 5, 2011. (MaanImages/Luay Sababa) GENEVA (Reuters) — Israeli security forces escorting settlers into West Bank villages appear to have used excessive force against Palestinians, the UN human rights office said Tuesday. The [...]
Palestinian protesters throw stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes in the West Bank village of Qusra near Nablus September 23, 2011. (REUTERS/Nir Elias) JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Following a recent increase in ‘Price tag’ attacks on Palestinian holy sites, former high-ranking Israeli security officials warned of the risk of a surge in violence across the [...]
Mosque set alight in Galilee village A Palestinian shows the damage to a family house which was firebombed by Jewish settlers in the West Bank village of Huwwara near Nablus. [AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh] JERUSALEM (AFP) — A mosque in northern Israel was set on fire overnight Sunday in a suspected ‘price tag’ attack, Israeli police [...]
Israeli forces kill Palestinian in northern West Bank Published yesterday (updated) 23/09/2011 22:02 Medics say Issam Kamal Odeh was shot dead by Israeli forces in Qusra near Nablus on Friday during confrontations after morning prayers. (MaanImages) NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Friday killed a Palestinian man and injured five others during clashes in [...]
PA: Settlers shoot at homes in Burin village, Nablus Published today (updated) 19/09/2011 15:22 A Palestinian man looks on as Israeli soldiers check the damage inside a class room at Alsawya girl school in the West Bank Village of Sawya near Nablus, 20 October 2010 after Israeli settlers burned the school. [MaanImages/Rami Swidan] NABLUS [...]
PA: Settlers attack 2 Palestinians in Nablus Published yesterday (updated) 14/09/2011 14:51 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers attacked two Palestinians on Tuesday evening in the northern West Bank, Palestinian Authority officials said. PA settlement affairs official Ghassan Doughlas said residents of the illegal Yitzhar settlement attacked Iyad Sanakreh and Salah Sanakrah, from Balata refugee [...]
Settlers burn cars, vandalize mosque in Nablus area Published today (updated) 08/09/2011 22:28 Israeli settlers march toward the evacuated settlement of Homesh, near Jenin, on 26 March 2007. [MaanImages/Anat Zakai] NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers uprooted olive trees, set fire to cars and vandalized a mosque in the Nablus area on Thursday, officials said. [...]
Settlers attack shepherd in Nablus Published yesterday 21:12 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Friday attacked a Palestinian shepherd in Qusra village in the northern West Bank and killed two of his sheep, witnesses said. Ma’an’s correspondent in Nablus said minor clashes broke out after the incident as locals tried to defend the shepherd, [...]
