The man spent the night in custody and was released the next morning to two days of house arrest in exchange for a 3,000-shekel ($913) bond. The assailants were released under restrictive conditions on the day of the attack.
“Little girls are now afraid that their dreams of becoming doctors or scientists will evaporate if they lose their access to education.”
The rubber bullet hit the 12-year-old in the head and fractured his skull, despite police regulations that prohibit firing rubber bullets at a person’s upper body or at a minor; ‘He went to get bird food,’ his father said.
Ahmed and Mahmoud Muna were held in detention for two nights in harsh conditions, after police raided their bookshop and confiscated books they claimed ‘incited violence.’
The brothers were questioned just once for 15 minutes. ‘We challenge the Israeli narrative, but also the Palestinian narrative.’
What else is new? Israeli police shot nineteen-year-old Samer Qawasmi after an alleged stabbing attack, then left him to bleed to death.
Ha’aretz’s correspondent covered the story of the city’s unification after the Six-Day War. Fifty years later he revisits the dramatic decision that changed the face of the Middle East. He reports that this critical act, which for 50 years has prevented peace, was not a result of strategic planning or motivated by existential national need…
For the past six weeks, Israel has been sending paramilitary police forces to raid the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya every evening. The raids, a severe form of collective punishment, have left one young Palestinian dead and hundreds wounded.
A succession of Israeli demolitions this month has left dozens of Palestinians homeless – with winter approaching – or without work. Let’s make our legislators aware of and accountable for this never-ending travesty.
Some tombstone in an East Jerusalem cemetery contained the words “graves of martyrs of the Intifada of Jerusalem.” This was objectionable to Israeli forces, so they raided the cemetery in the middle of the night an broke the tombstones to pieces. That’s how it works under occupation.
The Palestinian Directorate of Education organized a celebration to honor retired Palestinian teachers, but Israeli forces raided the event and sent everyone home.