Fatah leader Tawfik Tirawi called for a “day of rage” against the United States next Friday after the Obama administration blocked a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements on the West Bank.
Israel’s Knesset approved introduction of a bill banning boycotts against the state, following a heated debate during which Arab and left-wing MKs walked out.
A report from Israeli rights organization Yesh Din shows 91% of Palestinian complaints about settler violence on the West Bank end without indictments.
Palestinians demonstrating in support of Egyptian anti-government protesters were forcibly disbanded when a few dozen men in plainclothes disrupted the rally in Ramallah.
Jewish Voice for Peace Los Angeles chapter leader Estee Chandler discovered a “WANTED for treason and incitement against Jews” poster plastered on her front porch.
Hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip rallied in solidarity with the uprising in Egypt. Marchers carried banners reading “People want the regime out” and “Down with Hosni Mubarak.”
Palestinian security forces shut down a demonstration in front of the Egyptian embassy in Ramallah, and called in one of the organizers for questioning.
Haifa-based human rights activist Ameer Makhoul was sentenced to nine years in prison on “espionage” charges—despite the fact that his “confession” was made under torture.
Israeli forces injured one Palestinian at the weekly anti-wall rally in the West Bank village of Bil’in, near Ramallah, as soldiers fired tear gas to disperse protesters.
Israeli diplomats and Washington lobbyists are scrambling as Ireland, Russia, Peru and even the US State Department make moves towards recognition of Palestinian sovereignty.
President Mahmoud Abbas pledged he will personally face satellite channel AlJazeera to address its release of secret documents from a decade of Israel-Palestinian negotiations.
Guyana’s Foreign Ministry announced that the country was recognizing Palestine as an independent nation. Guyana is the sixth South American country to do this in a little more than a month.
