When your village becomes a “firing zone” – that’s ethnic cleansing
In order to intimidate Palestinians into leaving their own land, Israel declares various areas of the West Bank "military firing zones." It's one of…
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The Two-State Solution is dead. It’s time for One Democratic State.
"The "two-state solution" is no longer a viable option – if it ever was. Meet the campaign for a more just, long lasting solution:…
Winter weather brings fresh disaster to Gaza
This winter is expected to be even tougher than usual, as Covid lockdown restrictions push yet more people into poverty. More than half the…
Israel’s obscene mismanagement of the Covid-19 vaccine
“No country has done what we are able to do,” said Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu. He is so right – but not in the…
Israel destroys Palestinian nature reserve, uproots 10,000 trees
The 98-acre reserve had been part of the Greening Palestine project organized by the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture...
Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinian teen, bleeds to death
Israeli occupation forces have just killed another Palestinian youth. The heavily armed Israeli combat soldiers say the boy tried to attack them with a…
Israel detains, interrogates four Palestinian children, ages 9-10
Palestinian children are frequent targets of the Israeli military and court systems – contrary to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,…
Settler violence: a rampage by Israel’s own homegrown supremacists
Imagine white supremacists routinely invading suburbs and rural villages to terrorize Black people. Now imagine these attacks growing so extreme that white supremacists can…
UN reports on human rights abuses in Israel-Palestine, Jan.5-18 2021
The UN published its biweekly report on the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories. As usual, Israeli soldiers and settlers carried out numerous attacks,…
Israeli harassment of Palestinian Bedouin village won’t let up
Al Araqeeb, a Palestinian Bedouin village inside Israel, fights valiantly against the ethnic cleansing program of Israel. It's a battle for the record books,…