Tagged: Occupation

Refusing food, medicine or court hearings, Palestinians fight administrative detention
Shatha Hammad, Middle East Eye

Refusing food, medicine or court hearings, Palestinians fight administrative detention

A dozen Palestinians imprisoned by Israel have been staging various forms of strike in protest of a policy denounced as violating their rights to fair trial

on October 1, 2021
Israel forms special task force to pressure Ben & Jerry’s over settlements boycott: report
Bryan Metzger, Insider

Israel forms special task force to pressure Ben & Jerry’s over settlements boycott: report

The Israeli government is scrambling to mount a massive pressure campaign against Ben & Jerry's and its parent company Unilever following the company's decision to stop selling its ice cream in occupied Palestine territory, Axios reported on Tuesday.

on July 28, 2021
Israeli settlements amount to war crime - U.N. rights expert
Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters

Israeli settlements amount to war crime - U.N. rights expert

Israeli settlements in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank amount to a war crime, a U.N. human rights investigator said on Friday, calling on countries to inflict a cost on Israel for its "illegal occupation".

on July 12, 2021
‘We live in a new era’: the next generation of Palestinian activists
Heba Saleh, Financial Times

‘We live in a new era’: the next generation of Palestinian activists

Young Palestinians’ anger is rooted in grievances arising from the humiliations of the occupation, the expansion of Israeli settlements on occupied territory, discrimination against Arabs within Israel and disappointment with an ageing and autocratic Palestinian leadership.

on July 12, 2021
Fact Sheet: Meet Israel’s New Government Fact Sheets

Fact Sheet: Meet Israel’s New Government

on June 15, 2021
Tax-Exempt U.S. Nonprofits Fuel Israeli Settler Push to Evict Palestinians
Alex Kane, The Intercept

Tax-Exempt U.S. Nonprofits Fuel Israeli Settler Push to Evict Palestinians

U.S. charities are funding Israeli settler organizations working to evict Palestinians from their East Jerusalem homes.

on May 14, 2021
Fact Sheet: Meir Kahane & The Extremist Kahanist Movement Fact Sheets

Fact Sheet: Meir Kahane & The Extremist Kahanist Movement

Kahane was a Jewish supremacist who espoused violence and wanted to establish a theocratic Jewish state encompassing not just all of current Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories (the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza), but large parts of neighboring Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq.

on February 24, 2021
Palestine: 2020 in Review Fact Sheets

Palestine: 2020 in Review

30: Total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territories (the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza), according to the United Nations, including 27 who were shot with live ammunition. 9: Number of Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in the occupied territories. 2,639: Total number of Palestinians injured by Israeli forces in the occupied territories, including 407 children.

on January 6, 2021
Amer Zahr: Comedian Palestinian-American Profiles
Karmah Elmusa, IMEU

Amer Zahr: Comedian

If you’re a Palestinian and you want to find reasons to be sad, it’s not difficult,” says Zahr. “I believe that no matter who we are, and no matter what sort of situation you’re in, there are at least 5 to 10 funny things that happen to you every day. Or if you’re a Palestinian, it’s more like 50 or 100 things. We live in a surreal universe, and we see a lot of weird stuff.”

on January 21, 2016
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