Palestine Think Tank

Following the interchanging of the roles of coordination between the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli occupation raided the Palestinian charities of Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah and Jenin in the West Bank cities, closing, vandalizing, looting, destroying, and transferring their respective properties to the Israeli military central command Gadi Shamni, and the Palestinian Authority [...]

In the picture: nets run over the pavements of the Old Quarter of Hebron,  to spare the pedestrians getting hit by the trash dropped out the windows by the settlers. Nazi-like Jewish settlers have of late stepped up their indiscriminate attacks on Palestinian civilians and their property throughout the West Bank.
In some areas, like in [...]

Hebron: Occupied Palestinian Territories
By Nour Amir in Jerusalem
The Palestinian Authority (PA) Preventive Security Force (PSF) on Tuesday arrested Awadh Rajoub, a Hebron-area journalist, apparently as part of a general crackdown on non-conformist journalists and intellectuals.
Eyewitnesses said a dozen PSF officers raided and searched Rajoub’s press office in the small town of Dura, 12 miles [...]

Even in his wildest dreams, Midhat Radwan Abu Karsh never imagined that one day he would be tied up to a power pole and savagely beaten by bigoted Jewish settlers who believe that non-Jews are animals in a  human shape.
Yet, this is exactly what happened to him earlier this week when [...]

It’s springtime in the the South Hebron Hills. That means that our Palestinian neighbors are working hard on their land all day. This upset upsets the Israeli settlers living in Ma’on and Havot Ma’on and all of the beauty of spring ends up overshadowed by petty ugliness and violence.
But the beauty is still there.
Joy in [...]

Last week, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released video clips showing masked Jewish settlers ganging up on and severely beating elderly Palestinian peasants near the town of Yatta, southwest of Hebron. At least three Palestinians were wounded in the unprovoked assault, including a man and his wife, both in their early sixties.
The latest act [...]

WRITTEN BY IAN JACK
For the settlers, subsidies and tax breaks have become as important a motive as Deuteronomy
At Birzeit University in Ramallah last week a young woman student in a headscarf asked how it was that Nadine Gordimer, the South African novelist and Nobel laureate, could agree to visit and speak in Israel. Hadn’t Gordimer [...]

At 1.00 in the morning on the 30th of April, the Israeli Army raids orphanage in Hebron, home to 110 girls, seizing all equipment from community sewing workshop.
The Hebron Orphanage for girls is run by the Charitable Islamic Society,(I.C.S) and houses 110 children.
Witnesses said that approximately 40 Israeli soldiers raided the sewing workshop, which is [...]

This series of reports from Iqbal Tamimi tells us how the IOF decides that they’d rather cast the future of children to the street and render them eternally dependent upon “aid” from others – that then gets blocked.
1) Israeli occupation forces stormed at dawn today, Wednesday, 30/4/2008 the orphanage sewing workshop of the Islamic Charitable [...]

Police forced to intervene after group of right-wing activists began insulting German legislators near Tomb of the Patriarchs in West Bank city. Israeli ambassador in Berlin to personally apologize.
”The Israeli police and army showed no willingness to step in and said they couldn’t guarantee the safety of the delegation,” the statement said. ”In order to [...]