Report: 1 million Palestinians detained by Israel since 1948
Israeli authorities have detained approximately one million Palestinians since the establishment of Israel, according to a statement by the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs,…
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Israel prevents Gazans from traveling for medical treatment, including children with cancer
Just 42% of Gazans were allowed to travel to Israel for medical treatment last December. Cancer rates among Palestinian children have increased by 40%…
B’Tselem: Soldiers drag 8-year-old from house to house in Hebron for over an hour in search of stone-throwers [Video]
Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem reports: On 19 March 2017, around midday, eight-year-old Sufian Abu Hitah was wandering barefoot outside his house in Hebron…
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Video shows Israeli policeman beating Palestinian truck driver [Video]
The Jerusalem Post reports that a video shows an Israeli policeman beating an East Jerusalem truck driver...
Powerful resignation letter by UN’s Rima Khalaf about removal of UN apartheid report
Khalaf writes that the UN report on Israeli apartheid was removed due to pressure by states who violate the rights of people going through…
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Alison Weir: Israel’s New Travel Ban [video]
Israel recently banned foreigners who support boycotts against Israel from being allowed to enter Israel. People have objected in outrage to the law, particularly…
Ha’aretz: Israeli Students Undergo Right-wing Indoctrination Before Going on School Trips Abroad
Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper reports: 'The messages are simple and repetitive,' a mother of an 11th grade student says. 'All the Arabs hate us, in…
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Palestinian Memories: The Story of a Palestinian Mother and Her People [Video]
From WHTT.org: Rev. Alex Awad, tells the remarkable and inspiring story of his mother, Huda Awad, who was left a widow with seven children…
I am a proud Palestinian woman and a humanitarian. I am also the mother of the youngest Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail
When I closed my eyes, all I could see was my little boy, scared and alone, in a freezing cold prison cell. I later…
Killed March 6, 2017: Bassel al-A’raj, 31
March 6, 2017: Bassel al-A’raj, 31, was killed by Israeli soldiers in al-Biereh town in the central West Bank district of Ramallah after the…