Palestinians say 17-year-old shot dead by IDF troops in West Bank

Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid into the West Bank on Friday, local residents and medical workers said.
The residents said the 17-year-old was killed while confronting IDF troops who raided the village of Beit Umar, near the West Bank city of Hebron.
The military said that soldiers entered Beit [...]

Our Defense Forces, our war crimes, our terrorism

Author’s note: This is the second version of this piece. The first was written, I freely admit, in anger and in suspicion, not least because of the many cases of the unwarranted killings of Palestinian civilians which have gone unreported, underreported, glossed over, or misrepresented in the Israeli media, and because the army was initially [...]

(Another week of) Israeli Human Rights Violations

The four children from the Abu Me’tiq family who were killed by an Israeli missile that hit their house
- 9 Palestinians, including 5 children and a woman, were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip.
- The victims include a woman and her 4 children who were killed when IOF shelled their house in Beit Hanoun [...]

Signs Supplement - Ethnic Specific Weapons

Today’s conditions brought to you by the Bush Junta - marionettes of their hyperdimensional puppet masters - Produced and Directed by the CIA, based on an original script by Henry Kissinger, with a cast of billions…. The “Greatest Shew on Earth,” no doubt, and if you don’t have a good sense of humor, don’t read [...]

Beit Hanoun families flee Israeli onslaught

Gaza – Ma’an – Dozens of Palestinian families from the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun left their apartments in tower number one at the An-Nada neighborhood to tower number 25 trying to find shelter from Israeli shelling.
The coordinator of the local committee for countering Israeli attacks, Sabir Za’aneen said he saw dozens of [...]

Gaza: The Killing Zone - Israel/Palestine

life in Gaza is a constant gauntlet of Israeli sniper fire, military rockets and army bulldozers. No one is safe. In light of the escalating tensions, we’re bringing back one our most moving documentaries, a hard-hitting expose of life in the Occupied territories. We speak to the children caught in the crossfire and find out [...]

Safed chief rabbi calls on state to exact ‘revenge’ against Arabs - “Hang the children of the terrorist”

 The chief rabbi of Safed, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, is calling on the government to carry out “state-sanctioned revenge” against Arabs in order to, in his words, restore Israel’s deterrence.The Musawa Center for Arab Rights in Israel said it planned to urge the Attorney General to censure Eliyahu over the comments and punish him “at the [...]

Israeli forces destroy Palestinian house, car, near Jenin

Jenin – Ma’an – Israeli forces demolished part of a house and blew up a Palestinian civilian car in the West Bank town of Az-Zababda, near the city of Jenin.

Palestinian security sources said that more than 15 Israeli military vehicles raided the town in the early morning, surrounding the town’s mosque and catholic church before [...]

How Israeli Troops Invade Homes in Gaza, Brutalize, Smash and Steal

By ED O’LOUGHLIN

Gaza

SAFA ABU SEIF, 12, was fatally wounded as she stood in an upstairs room of her home in the Gaza City district of Jabaliya 10 days ago.

She was one of 27 children identified by United Nations staff among the 107 Palestinians who were killed in five days last week. Another 25 dead, including [...]

How to be An Israeli Journalist - Never Write “Murder” or “Palestine”

By YONATAN MENDEL

A year ago I applied for the job of Occupied Territories correspondent at Ma’ariv, an Israeli newspaper. I speak Arabic and have taught in Palestinian schools and taken part in many joint Jewish-Palestinian projects. At my interview the boss asked how I could possibly be objective. I had spent too much time with [...]