Israeli officer involved in killing of autistic Palestinian man brought to trial
The accused officer faces the watered down charge of “reckless manslaughter”, despite the victim’s family as well as several politicians calling for the accused to face the more serious charge of murder
Israel closes investigation against security personnel accused of killing mentally ill Palestinian citizen
The family of Mustafa Younis (26) has appealed the verdict of the Israeli public prosecutor which justified the murder as the correct response to a “terrorist attack”
Israeli government accused of shielding police officers who shot dead Iyad al-Hallaq
32-year-old Iyad al-Hallaq, a Palestinian man with autism, was shot dead at an Israeli police checkpoint on May 30. The police officer who shot him has been charged with only reckless homicide
Protests erupt across Palestine against Israeli annexation plan
Protesters gathered in major West Bank cities of Ramallah, Jericho and Bethlehem, as well as in Gaza city in Gaza, to put forth a united Palestinian front against Israel’s illegal, unilateral actions
Global protests against Israel’s ‘Annexation Plan’
People across the world have expressed solidarity with Palestinians against the Annexation Plan and Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ as moves that would further erode Palestinians historic rights
Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian man on his sister’s wedding day
27-year-old Ahmed Erekat was left to die, bleeding on the ground at an Israeli military checkpoint while he was on his way to pick up his sister and mother from a salon
Netanyahu unfazed by protests against annexation of occupied West Bank
Massive protests broke out in Tel Aviv on June 6 against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank.
Unfazed by protests, Netanyahu reiterates plan to annex more Palestinian territory
Israel has occupied Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza since 1967 and also built numerous illegal settlements, violating several international laws. It now plans to formally annex a large part of these territories
“Day and night, Palestinians are facing a settler-colonial machinery of oppression”
Vijay Prashad talks to Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian on the nature of Israeli settler-colonialism, the killing of Iyad al-Hallaq and the various forms of resistance to occupation.
