West Bank

Israeli Checkpoint On-Camera with no shame [Must watch video]

by Antoine Raffoul January 5, 2012

“We let them suffer, in the sun, in the rain, that’s it. That’s what I wanted to say. Let the whole world know.” – Israeli border police
If this goes on ON-CAMERA, just imagine what goes on OFF-CAMERA.

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It’s not that Israel is finding new ways to expel Palestinians, it’s that no one cares

by Amira Hass November 15, 2011

Interior, justice and defense ministries decided to cease respecting a gentlemanly agreement with with Palestinians and their spouses holding passports of mostly western countries. Israel canceled their resident status.

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Palestine-Israel Map 2011

by Haitham Sabbah September 24, 2011

A visual illustration of the Occupied Palestinian land over decades of conflict with Israel. Some of the maps also illustrate the Jewish settlements and outposts.

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Jewish Settlers Run Over Disabled Palestinian, Abduct Another, Plan New Massacres

by Haitham Sabbah September 18, 2011

Jewish settlers ran over a disabled Palestinian on Sunday and abducted another on Saturday night in the West Bank, Palestine.

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March 15 and the roots of our struggle

by SR Editor March 29, 2011

A mass mobilization of Palestinians to pressure Hamas and Fatah to end the four-year-long division. Rather than topple the governments, as was the goal with the uprisings in neighboring countries, demonstrators hope to be able to bring them together.

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Israeli settler hits Palestinian kids, runs

by Haitham Sabbah October 9, 2010

Leader of Jewish settlers in the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem) neighborhood of Silwan has deliberately run over two Palestinian children and fled the scene. (see video) The Israeli car driven by David Be’eri, the leader of hardline Elad organization trying to settle Jews in Silwan, charged a group of Palestinian kids, hitting one boy full on and throwing another off his feet.

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The reality of Israel

by Khalid Amayreh October 8, 2010

Israelis, often thoroughly absorbed in their collective sanctimony and self-righteousness, seem never to stop repeating the eternal mantra that the Jews are a “light unto the nations” and Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East”. This week, several events occurring in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories highlighted the stark gap between what Israelis think about themselves and the reality.

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The Settlement Freeze and the Peace Process Freeze [video]

by Nadia Hijab September 30, 2010

With Michele Dunne, Nadia Hijab and Daniel Levy. On or about Sept. 26 the Israeli government’s declared settlement moratorium came to an end. This has been identified as a major obstacle in the nascent peace talks. The moratorium has been incomplete and settlement construction has continued in many areas despite the so-called “freeze.” As settlers [...]

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Peace might upend wealth of Israelis

by Jonathan Cook September 28, 2010

With the resumption of settlement construction in the West Bank yesterday, Israel’s powerful settler movement hopes that it has scuttled peace talks with the Palestinians, too. It would be misleading, however, to assume that the major obstacle to the success of talks is the right-wing political ideology the settler movement represents. Equally important are deeply [...]

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Jewish settlements can now be tracked on your iPhone

by Haitham Sabbah September 20, 2010

Peace Now releases ‘Facts on the Ground’ application in which the settlements are marked in blue, the outposts in red, and clicking on a place name displays demographic statistics. Want to know what’s happening in the West Bank settlements in real time? In addition to ‘Sudoku’ and ‘Street Fighter,’ iPhone owners will now be able [...]

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Children with guns. The IDF in the West Bank – By Amira Hass

by Amira Hass August 15, 2010

By Amira Hass* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Nighttime raids, pointed guns, arrests often accompanied by beatings, kicks, curses and painful and extended handcuffing. The ordinary behavior of Israeli children in uniform. Children in the West Bank throw stones at army vehicles and Israeli cars, mainly those belonging to settlers. That is the undeniable truth. [...]

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Time to crack down on settlement funding – by Yousef Munayyer

by Yousef Munayyer July 21, 2010

By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz To say that the proliferation of Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory is an impediment to peace is an understatement. As Israel continues to gobble up Palestinian land, the individual rights of landowners and the Palestinian people are trampled upon, leaving no realistic peace process of which [...]

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Ahmad Sabbah, first deported Palestinian prisoner to Gaza as “infiltrator”

by Haitham Sabbah April 22, 2010

Israel deported a prisoner from Tulkarem to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, in a move that followed the approval of the new military order No. 1,650 to expel Palestinians living in the West Bank. Ahmad Sabbah’s family was waiting at the Al-Thahriyah crossing to receive their son after 10 years behind bars, but were surprised [...]

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Deporting Gandhi from Palestine

by SR Editor April 19, 2010

By Jamal Dajani* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The Israeli government’s recent announcement of Army order No. 1,650 was just the latest act of provocation in a series of calculated measures to derail any possible resumption of peace negotiations. Under this new draconian measure, anyone who doesn’t have a “permit” to be in the West [...]

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20 Palestinian fatalities at demos against the apartheid wall

by Haitham Sabbah April 14, 2010

To date, twenty Palestinians, ten of them minors, were killed while protesting the Wall. 20. 5 June 2009: Yousef ‘Akil’ Tsadik Srour, 36 Shot in the chest with 0.22 calibre live ammunition during a demonstration against the Wall in Ni’lin. 19. April 17, 2009: Basem Abu Rahme, age 29 Shot in the chest with a [...]

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