An Israeli human rights group is appealing a court decision upholding the policy that allows Christians âbut not Muslimsâto exit the besieged Gaza Strip for worship at Jerusalem’s holy sites.
Activists preparing the new aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip charge that Israel sabotaged one of their boats at the Greek port of Piraeusâand denied Israeli reports that they intend to kill soldiers, using chemical weapons.
After the State Department issued a warning that those running the Gaza blockade may face “injury and death,” six Congress members sent a letter to Hillary Clinton “to ensure the safety of the US citizens” on the new aid flotilla.
A new Israeli proposal that would forcibly transfer more than 40,000 Bedouin citizens into government-planned townships in the Negev desert has raised the ire of Bedouin communities and their supporters
Dozens of armed Israeli settlers attacked residents of Qusra village in the northern West Bank, as Israeli troops broke up a an anti-settlement rally in Iraq Burin and conducted raids across the West Bank.
The mosque in the village of Maghayer near Ramallah suffered damage and threatening graffiti in a pre-dawn vandal and arson attackâwith scrawled slogans calling it a “price tag” by Israeli settlers.
Thousands of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv in support of a return to the 1967 bordersâas the IDF fired on protesters attempting to cross the Golan Heights ceasefire line from Syria, leaving several dead.
The Abu Alkiyan Bedouin clan pledge to resist their forcible relocation to make way for a new Jewish town outside Beersheba. Israel says the clan is illegally squatting state landsâalthough it was transferred there in 1956 by military order.
A new bill in the Knesset would change Jerusalem neighborhoods with Arabic names to Hebrew onesâwhile Mayor Nir Barakat said the municipality would continue to build Jewish-only housing regardless of “political issues.”
West Bank settlers reportedly set fire to Palestinian agricultural lands near Nablus after being evicted by Israeli troops from nearby Joseph’s Tomb, which they again attempted to occupy.
Israeli army troops shut down Friday anti-wall protests in villages across the West Bank, saying the unarmed weekly demonstrations have been declared illegal under new special “closed military zones.”
Following an activist campaign, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s name has been dropped from the list of honorary patrons of the JNF-UKâaccused of complicity in the displacement of Palestinians.
