Yazan Samer Jabari’s death brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army fire in the first fourteen days of 2023, to ten, including three minors.
Palestinian, 19, Dies From Wounds Suffered in Jenin
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Invading Israeli forces kill 5 Palestinians in West Bank
On Wednesday and Thursday Israeli troops invading Palestinian towns killed three teens, a 25-year-old, and a father trying to defend his son, bringing Palestinian deaths in the first 12 days of 2023 to 9.
Israel’s new radical government shows itself reckless and racist
Israel’s newly sworn-in government includes some shockingly extremist figures who have wasted no time implementing their agenda. Peruse a few excerpts from articles describing their recent escapades.
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.
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 young man of 22. Two other Palestinians in their twenties were also killed in the last days of December.
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 41 days of beatings in an Israeli prison, 16-year-old Shadi Khoury is finally released to house arrest
His family had to break their usual tradition of visiting his grandmother on Christmas in Bethlehem and attending Christmas mass because of Shadi’s house arrest…
His mother is concerned that his adolescence has been lost forever…
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 they were expelled.
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 2022.
WATCH: O Little Town of Bethlehem, Palestine
Video by If Americans Knew. All the clips in this video took place in Bethlehem. Read more…
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 to be.