Israeli human rights group B’Tselem today (Monday, 31 Dec.) releases its year-end report. According to B’Tselem data, the number of Israelis and Palestinians killed in clashes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip dropped. However, there has been deterioration in many other measures of the human rights situation in the Occupied Territories. The primary [...]

52 Patients killed by Israeli Occupation due to Closure!

96% of factories are closed

67 thousand factories employee become out of work

25 thousand of textile workers became jobless

100% of textile factories are closed

$58 million are the losses of wooden industries

570 thousand of wooden industries workshop are closed

20-30 food lorries inter Gaza Strip instead of 300 in [...]

Israeli Justice: Israeli policeman gets community service for shooting, paralyzing Palestinian

A Tel Aviv Court on Sunday sentenced a Border Policeman who shot and paralyzed a Kafr Qasem resident to six months of community service and a one-year suspended prison term.

In 2003, Haim Castro shot Salah Amar from a distance of a half a meter, claiming [...]

This is unbelievable and really shows how absolutely clueless American politicians are:

A push by right-wing American Jewish activists to change the constitution of the governing Palestinian party is gaining momentum in Congress, even as Israelis are dismissing the document as “irrelevant,” and the umbrella body of American Jewish organizations has voted against taking up the [...]

Whew… Israel - and its army - saved again from that nasty anti Semitic PR by parents of dead children ( I remember those pictures, doesn’t anyone else? More massacre albums here, here, here, here and here ) by its its own extremely fair and just politicians…

The Israel Defense Forces will not take legal action [...]

More than 100,000 individual people read Sabbah’s Blog each month. Why have I set up this Facebook Group? Well, I’ve always wanted my own fan club . . . JOKE!

Seriously, from time to time there will be events on the blog which I would like to notify my readers of. You won’t be bombarded - [...]

Merry Christmas

New York Human Rights Carolers Debut Songs Protesting Lev Leviev’s Israeli Settlements

New York, NY, Dec 22 - Fifty New York human rights carolers sang parodies of holiday tunes today in front of LEVIEV New York to protest Israeli diamond mogul Lev Leviev’s destruction of communities in Palestine, Angola and in New York City. This was [...]

Image by: Carlos Latuff

Israel Rejects Hamas Truce Offer, Continues Attacks on Gaza (via: Washington Report)

As Muslim and Christian Arabs, Europeans, and Americans celebrate Eid and Christmas-and Jews having recently celebrate Hanukkah-Israel is attacking Gaza. In less than a week-since Tuesday, Dec. 18-Israeli air strikes and ground troops have killed 20 Palestinians, and injured many more [...]