By Eric S. Margolis Internally displaced women and children walk in the Chota Lahore camp in Pakistan’s Swabi district 75 miles northwest of Islamabad, May 20, 2009. Some 1.5 million Pakistanis fled the military onslaught […]
ASYA ABDUL-HADI, WALTER L. HIXSON A Palestinian man checks damage caused by an overnight Israeli air strike on Gaza City, on Dec. 26, 2020. (PHOTO BY MAHMUD HAMS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle […]
Members of the Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas, mask-clad due to the coronavirus pandemic, stand guard at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 9, 2021. (File/AFP)Short Url […]
Israeli Apartheid: Calling It Like It Is WALTER L. HIXSON WAGING PEACE Israeli forces arrest a Palestinian for confronting Jewish settlers attempting to seize agricultural lands in the occupied West Bank city of Salfit, on […]
Ramallah, October 19, 2020—Wael Tahan, a 47-year-old Palestinian truck driver, built his home in 1992 on his own land in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. In mid-August, he watched Israeli bulldozers demolish that home. […]
Limited recourse for ill-treatment in Palestinian juvenile justice systemOct 02, 2020Palestinian forces deployed near Nativity Square in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on March 22, 2013. (Photo: Oren Ziv / Activestills.org) Part 1Rights […]
November 11, 2020, Ramallah—“What did these children do wrong to die in such a horrible way?,” asked 15-year-old Aseel M. following news on September 1 that three young Palestinian children from the same family died […]
Posted by: John Phoenix Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Israeli forces committed grave violations against Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip throughout 2020 at rates comparable to previous […]
‘Israeli’ authorities imprison Palestinian child with rare autoimmune disease without charge Ramallah, January 28, 2021—Israeli authorities issued a six-month administrative detention order on Monday against a 17-year-old Palestinian boy with a rare autoimmune disease, extending […]
‘Israeli’ interrogator sexually assaults Palestinian child detainee Ramallah, February 10, 2021—An Israeli interrogator allegedly physically and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in Israeli custody during interrogation in mid-January at a Jerusalem detention facility. The […]