French police question 8-year-old on suspicion of “defending terrorism”
28 January 2015
Child was reported to police by school principal after allegedly refusing to take part in a minute of silence for Charlie Hebdo victims.
Rights and Accountability
Investigators: Israel fired on Gaza civilians carrying white flags
28 January 2015
Only one team of medical experts has been allowed to enter Gaza to assess the harm inflicted after summer assault.
Jerusalem light rail suspended service to help Israeli army invasion
27 January 2015
Light rail operator Veolia facilitates arrest of ten-year-old Palestinian boy in occupied East Jerusalem.
Israel defender Alan Dershowitz has long history of attacking sex abuse victims
27 January 2015
As rape allegations against Alan Dershowitz intensify, his bellicose denials, steeped in brazen hostility towards rape victims, reflect a shockingly overlooked history of hysterical misogyny and rape trutherism.
Ten-year gap between Palestinian and Israeli life expectancy: report
24 January 2015
The Palestinian healthcare system is in a state of chronic crisis.
"No respite" from Israeli violence against Palestinian children, says human rights group
19 January 2015
Palestinian children were regular targets of Israel’s systematic violence throughout 2014.
Islamophobic rally in Texas as senators push for anti-Palestinian bill
18 January 2015
Why is a Texas senator proposing that the US move its embassy to Jerusalem?
Palestinian survivors of migrant shipwrecks tell their harrowing stories
17 January 2015
Gaza man survived four days at sea after September shipwreck.
ICC preliminary probe on Palestine still a long way from war crimes trials
17 January 2015
International Criminal Court takes first, small step on long and obstacle-filled road to justice for Palestinian victims of Israeli war crimes.
Palestinians in Israel call for strike after youth killed by police
16 January 2015
Sami al-Jaar is the 49th Palestinian citizen of Israel killed by police since October 2000, according to rights groups.