2022: 12 months of Israeli violence against Palestinians
2022 was a deadly year for Palestinians under Israeli occupation. If Americans Knew brought you crucial information – and will continue in 2023.
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Israel has killed three Palestinians already in 2023
Following a deadly 2022, the new year has already seen Israeli forces kill three Palestinians - a 15-year-old from Bethlehem, a 17-year-old, and a…
Israeli guards called him “the Christian” to insult him, then beat him some more
Israeli police burst into his home, broke his nose and a tooth, then dragged him by force, bound and blindfolded, to their van. After…
A Christmas Tree Brings Life to a Destroyed Palestinian Village
For former residents of Iqrit, where Israeli forces leveled everything but the church in 1951, religious rituals bind them to a place from which…
Two Palestinian cancer patients die of Israeli medical neglect
Israel notoriously blocks Palestinian patients, especially in Gaza and in Israeli prisons, from obtaining permission to travel for medical care. Ten have died in…
Unholy days and nights in Bethlehem
The "little town of Bethlehem" that we sing about at this time of year is far different from what many of us imagine it…
Palestinian brothers killed after Israeli settler runs them over
Local media report that the brothers had stopped to change a tire while running errands for their sister's wedding, when they were deliberately struck…
2 more deaths: Israeli sniper shoots girl, 16, in head; 59-yr-old dies from wounds
An Israeli sniper shot a Palestinian teenage girl in the head during a raid of a Palestinian city; a Palestinian man died of injuries…
Invading Israeli forces assassinate 5 more Palestinians in two days, including 16-yr-old
Israeli attacks continue against Palestinians, some of whom are exercising their internationally recognized right to resist occupation. Others are 'collateral damage.'
Israeli Soldiers Kill Another Palestinian – fifth one in December
Israeli soldiers killed yet another Palestinian man, Mojahed Hamed, alleging that he had shot at an Israeli military post from his car. No Israelis…