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.
Israeli military forces with bolldozers demolished the “unrecognized” Palestinian village of Dkaika in the Jordan Valley, leaving some 60 residents homeless.
Recent weeks have seen a spate of angry protests by Bedouin in both Jordan and Israel. Thousands battled security forces in the Jordanian city of Maan after two tribesmen were killed.
Israeli activist Yonatan Pollack began serving a prison term for riding his bicycle during a Tel Aviv protest against Operation Cast Lead two years ago, causing traffic jams.
As the Israeli military again bombed three sites in Gaza, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned that Hamas would “make a terrible mistake to test our will to defend our people.”
An Israeli court ruling overturned an Israeli Defense Forces decision to allow a Palestinian farmer to work a contested field near the West Bank settlement of Shiloh.
The governments of Brazil and Argentina announced that they are recognizing Palestine as an independent state within the borders defined in 1967.
Most of the 33 British passengers on May’s Gaza aid flotilla have asked to give oral testimony to Israel’s Turkel Commission to Examine the Maritime Incident, but say their request has been “snubbed.”
