More than 200,000 marched in Tel Aviv, under a banner with the word “Go!” in Arabicāa key symbol of the protest movement that brought down Hosni Mubarak, and a clear reference to Bibi Netanyahu. Below, in Hebrew, were the words: “Egypt is here!”
A visit to Israel by PLA chief of staff Gen. Chen Bingde to meet with IDF chief of staff Lt.-Gen.Benny Gantz signals an effort by China and Israel to rebuild commercial military ties that have been weakened by US pressure on Tel Aviv.
A group of tent town rent protesters have issued “Letter from Tel Aviv,” calling for Jewish-Arab unity in confronting the housing crisis, protesting the “Judaization” of urban space, and rejecting the colonization of the West Bank as a solution.
The Supreme Court of Israel issued for the first time an order for the Israeli government to dismantle an “illegal” settlement outpost in the West Bank. Migron outpost, established by the Binyamin Regional Council, is built on privately owned Palestinian land.
Israeli security forces restricted access to al-Aqsa mosque, fired tear gas at anti-wall protesters in the West Bank village of Bil’in, and launched air-strikes on Gaza on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Militant West Bank settlers have joined the Tel Aviv tent town protest, pitching a line that aggressive settlement of the Occupied Territory is the solution to the crisis. Will the protest movement take the bait?
Twelve Israeli settlers accused of setting fire to Palestinian mosques, property and vehicles have been slapped with restraining orders limiting their movement in the West Bank, the military announced on the recommendation of Shin Bet.
Some 150,000 took to the streets in cities across Israelāthe biggest protests the country has seen in decades, to demand action on rising rents and the high cost of living. But right-wing politicians seek to scapegoat African immigrants for the crisis.
One year after the announced “easing” of the Gaza siege, the IDF releases a report boasting of improved conditions in the Strip. But the Israeli rights group Gisha crunches the numbers to reveal that the “easing” is more illusory than real.
The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem finds that more than 800 Palestinian youths under the age of 18 charged with throwing stones in the West Bank over a six-year period have been imprisonedāwhile imprisonment of minors is illegal in Israel.
More than 3,000 peopleāJews, Muslim, and Christians, Israelis and Palestiniansāmarched in Jerusalem to demand an independent Palestine in the 1967 borders, chanting “Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies.”
Hundreds of young Israelis are now living in a tent city they have erected on the fashionable Rothschild Boulevard across from the National Theater to protest unaffordable rents in Tel Aviv.
