Here is a new sample of the “peace loving Israeli occupation”.

The following video testimonies produced and published by B’tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) shows a sample of Palestinian daily misery life under the Israeli occupation:

Video testimony - Maysun al-Hayek:

In February 2002, Maysun al-Hayek and her husband were on [...]

One of the leaders of the Palestinian people has been incarcerated for approximately five years now in Israel. The time has come to release him. For years, Marwan Barghouti has tried to persuade Israelis to end the occupation through negotiation. He has gone from one Israeli party headquarters to the next, meeting with politicians across [...]

[Image by Carlos Latuff]

By Uri Avnery’s - Gush Shalom
14/04/07

AT THIS moment, negotiations on a prisoner exchange are in full swing.

The term “negotiations” is really inappropriate. “Haggling” seems more fitting. One could also use an uglier expression: “trafficking in human beings”.

The planned deal concerns living people. They are being treated like goods, for which the officials [...]

By: Philippe Khan

Appalling photographs of abuse and torture by American guards at U.S. military bases and detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan shocked the international community, but the Palestinians have been suffering harsher treatment inside Israeli prisons since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The Palestinians’ suffering at the hands of [...]

The US is holding a nine year old Canadian citizen without charges in a ‘Detention Center’ in a legal limbo. Call it international limbo. Detained by U.S. Customs officials after their flight to Toronto made an unscheduled stop on American soil nearly four weeks ago, Kevin and his Iranian parents, Majid and Masomeh, feel they [...]

Jewish activist arrested for “illegal” protest against (legal) wall on stolen land. He was activist convicted of participation in an illegal protest against the separation fence asked the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court to sentence him to jail time, rather than community service or a suspended sentence. Despite his request, the court [...]

The attached is from our local Al-Quds newspaper on Nov 1, 2006. A story about a 2-yr old girl who was released from an Israeli prison near Ramallah. Her name is Aiysha, which in Arabic means “life.”

Aiysha’s mother gave birth to her while detained in an Israeli prison. Aiysha was released two days ago, her [...]

Many Palestinian children in Israeli Telmond Prison are being exploited by “forced labor in which they must work eight hours for a few shekels,” as reported by the Prisoners Information Center.

One of the children made a statement after his release. “The prison administration has forced all prisoners in Telmond Prison to work eight hours for [...]

Remember the hook-handed captain and his infamous ‘Saturday Night’ Fatwa? Well, finally, Abu Hamza al-Masri (a.k.a. Mustafa Kamel Mustafa) has been jailed for seven years after being found guilty of 11 terrorism charges, including soliciting murder and threatening behavior. Personally, I think this is very little for him.

Please sign this new petition asking the Egyptian Interior ministry to free Abdolkarim Nabil Seliman, currently in an Egyptian jail for his critical blogging.