Police push forcibly away dozens of American and European doctorsWho tried to enter the Gaza Strip at the Erez CheckpointEntry of the physicians for an academic conference in Gaza was forbidden by the military authorities Activestills photos At noon police and military forces pushed away dozens of American and European physicians who knocked on the … Read more
On Thursday, Sept. 11, the Supreme Court in Jerusalem deliberated on the appeal lodged by the Gush Shalom movement against the creation of a settler radio station (“Radyosh” – “Judea and Samaria Radio”) . The judges gave the state ten days to answer whether it would be willing to cancel, in practice, the proceeding of … Read more
Ynet News MEIRAV CRYSTAL, YNET: Station run by ‘Arutz Sheva’ alums suspended activity early 2008 upon Gush Shalom injunction The fate of a divisive radio station being built in the West Bank will be decided in Israel’s High Court of Justice on Thursday. Work on the station was suspended in early 2008 following an … Read more
The passage of the boats has proven:the siege on Gaza is a meaningless folly, the time has come to remove it The government of Israel realized that it would be severely damaged by assaulting boats carrying peace activists and humanitarian supplies – and thereby demonstrated to the whole world that the continuing siege of the … Read more
Gush Shalom to government: let the boats through and don’t harm peace activists The Gush Shalom movement calls upon the government to let the two humanitarian boats which sailed yesterday from Cyprus, carrying peace and human rights activists from 17 countries (among them Prof. Jeff Halper of Jerusalem) to sail unmolested, reach the Gaza shores … Read more
Had they been Israelis, the ‘prisoners with blood on the hands’ would have been set free long ago. In the very last moment of his term, Ehud Olmert took the decision to set right a small part of a longlasting injustice and set free two people who, in fact, should have been freed already with … Read more
Mahmoud Darwish’s death – a big loss for the Palestinian people as well as for peace seeking IsraelisDarwish’s memory should be honoured by the inclusion of his poems in the curriculum of Israeli schools “At his gravesite we salute Mahmoud Darwish, son of Galilee, conscience of the Palestinian people, poet of anger and hope, partner … Read more
Nobody will shed a tear as the political career of Ehud Olmert grounds to its end. In the two years he had at the helm of the Israeli ship of state, he has failed to perform even a single worthy act. Ehud Olmert should indeed be going. Not only because a Prime Minister cannot go … Read more
10 year-old Ahmad Husam Yousef Mousa was murdered yesterday as he demonstrated, together with his friends against the separation fence which is being constructed on the lands of his village Nilin, taking away the lands and sole source of livelihood of many of its inhabitants. When Ahmad and his friends reached the construction site the … Read more
.The shooting of a tied-up Palestinian detainee at Ni’ilin is an example of what takes place every day in the Occupied TerritoriesInvestigation of soldiers and officers must be taken out of the army’s handsThe battalion commander present during the shooting should be prosecuted There must be put an end to the situation where the Army … Read more