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Israel’s coronavirus lockdown is blocking human rights work, but not abuses
Rights groups warn Israel's emergency directives are making it more difficult to monitor and protect Palestinian rights during the pandemic.
By
Judith Sudilovsky
March 31, 2020
Israel is trying to ‘break’ this East Jerusalem village — with brutal results
Malek is the latest child in occupied Issawiya to lose an eye from a rubber bullet as Israeli police intensify repression of Palestinian residents.
By
Judith Sudilovsky
February 25, 2020
Daily police violence is the new norm in Issawiya — with no end in sight
For the past six months, Israeli police have subjected Issawiya's residents to daily raids and arrests. No one seems to know the goal of the operation — including the police.
By
Oren Ziv
November 12, 2019
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For Jerusalem police, even directing traffic is a form of terrorism
One of East Jerusalem’s most prominent political activists was arrested for supporting terrorism — while trying to solve a traffic jam in his own neighborhood. Israeli police arrested a well-known Palestinian activist in East Jerusalem earlier this week, accusing him of encouraging drivers to run over Israeli officers while he directed traffic in his neighborhood. Muhammad Abu…
By
Oren Ziv
August 29, 2019
In one East Jerusalem neighborhood, summer vacation has become a war zone
For children in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, summer vacation means dodging rubber bullets and watching their fathers and brothers arrested and humiliated every day.
By
Yuval Abraham
August 22, 2019
In East Jerusalem, nightly raids leave Palestinian neighborhood reeling
For the past six weeks, Israel has been sending paramilitary police forces to raid the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya every evening. The raids, a severe form of collective punishment, have left one young Palestinian dead and hundreds wounded. By Aviv Tatarsky It’s 5:30 p.m. and some 10 large police vans rumble into the East Jerusalem neighborhood…
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+972 Magazine
August 4, 2019
Israel deports 14-year-old girl to Gaza — without telling her parents
Ghada had spent her entire life in the West Bank, yet somehow found herself deported to the Gaza Strip after being arrested by Border Police officers. Israeli authorities deported a 14-year-old epileptic Palestinian girl from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip earlier this month, without notifying her parents, and despite the fact that she…
By
Edo Konrad
January 31, 2018
Is Jerusalem forcing a new direction for the Palestinian struggle?
‘This is the least expensive occupation in history,’ says one Palestinian resident. What he wants in return are equal rights in a democratic state. Could this be the future of the Palestinian national movement? When I first met Osama Essawi in the summer of 2014, Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” had claimed its 500th Palestinian…
By
Samer Badawi
December 8, 2017
WATCH: This is what it looks like when Israel demolishes your home
Israeli authorities demolish homes, car repair shops, and businesses in four different East Jerusalem neighborhoods — in a single day. By Eli Bitan Hundreds of Israeli soldiers, police officers, and municipal inspectors made their way to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya on Tuesday mornin, to demolish two large apartment buildings, an agricultural business, and…
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+972 Magazine
August 16, 2017
Police admit arresting Palestinian man to prevent him from protesting
Police arrested Muhammad Abu Hummus to prevent him from peacefully demonstrating against the Jerusalem Marathon — then lied about it. By John Brown* In March of this year, Israeli police arrested Muhammad Abu Hummus, a resident of the village Issawiya in East Jerusalem, where he serves as a member of a community organizing committee. He was arrested along…
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September 15, 2016
Dispelling the myths about building in Jerusalem
In Jerusalem, construction of Jewish neighborhoods continues unabated, while Palestinians are still struggling for basic infrastructure. By Aviv Tatarsky There is no construction freeze. As opposed to declarations by right-wing politicians such as Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat or Education Minister Naftali Bennett, construction in Jerusalem was never frozen, while the cranes and bulldozers keep working…
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+972 Magazine
July 7, 2016
WATCH: How a single checkpoint affects an entire neighborhood
Ever since the eruption of the latest round of violence, the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya has been essentially blocked off from the rest of the city by a single checkpoint. Dozens of residents, along with students from Hebrew University and members of Knesset, held a demonstration calling to open the checkpoint and end the…
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Social TV
January 7, 2016
WATCH: Barbecue at the checkpoint? Why not
Following a wave of stabbing attacks in Jerusalem, Israeli security forces erected checkpoints and barriers at the entrance to many of the city’s Palestinian neighborhoods, causing untold hardship to the vast majority of residents who had nothing to do with the violence. How would you feel if you found infantry officers holding a barbecue at…
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Social TV
December 10, 2015
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