Rachel Corrie’s family called the Haifa District Court ruling rejecting their lawsuit a “black day for human rights’—while Israeli officials welcome it as a long-due exoneration.
A French court will investigate the death of Yasser Arafat following a petition by his widow, filed after an Al Jazeera investigation discovered traces of polonium-210 on his final effects.
Hamas security forces arrested a Salafi sheikh upon his release from a Gaza hospital where he was treated for wounds sustained in an Israeli targeted strike.
A Tel Aviv councilor’s speech, in which he proposed adding Arabic to the city’s logo, disappeared from a video recording posted on city hall’s official YouTube channel.
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood blamed the deadly attack at the Rafah crossing on Israel’s Mossad, while the IDF said it was carried out by “global jihadists.”
Holocaust-denying comments by a Hamas official win international coverage, while an Israeli military invasion of al-Aqsa Mosque received practically no mainstream reportage.
Palestinian refugees at the Yarmouk camp in Damascus have joined the Syrian uprising. But Palestinian militants backed by the regime are targeted by the rebels for assassination.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on July 22 ordered the demolition of eight Palestinian villages in the hills south of Hebron because the Israeli military needs the land for training exercises. A total of 1,500 residents will be evicted from… Read moreIsrael issues demolition orders for eight Palestinian villages
Five Israeli tourists are blown up at a Bulgarian resort. Netanyahu wastes not a minute in blaming Hezbollah. Conspiranoid websites waste not a minute in blaming an Israeli “false flag” attack. Birds of a feather, it seems.
A panel commissioned by the Israeli government recommended that the state “legalize” dozens of unsanctioned West Bank settlements, and nullify Supreme Court decisions that have barred settlement expansion in certain areas.
A delegation of senior British jurists released a report finding Israel’s treatment of Palestinian children in custody violates international law, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Fourth Geneva Convention.
Police detained 89 demonstrators after more than 6,500 people flooded Tel Aviv’s Habima Square to protest the arrest of Daphni Leef, a leader of last summer’s mass movement against the high cost of housing in Israel.
