http://www.trcb.com/en-Us60Sat, 26 May 2012 11:05:38 ESTCopyright 2012 Electronic Intifada, TRCB.com All Right Reservedhttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/woman-killed-in-gaza-air-strike-was-anticipating-wedding-49926.htmThe chairs that Nidal and Najah Qdeih were sitting in when they were killed in an air strike. (Rami Almeghari) Around midday last Friday, Ibrahim Qdeih was chatting with his daughters and wife Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:27:10 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/woman-killed-in-gaza-air-strike-was-anticipating-wedding-49926.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israeli-education-ministry-launches-land-day-witch-hunt-49835.htmPalestinians mark Land Day in Jaffa, March 2011. (Oren Educators and students who took part in the 35th annual Land Day commemorations on 30 March are being investigated by the Israeli education Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:43:30 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israeli-education-ministry-launches-land-day-witch-hunt-49835.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/post-mubarak-egypt-may-end-gaza-closure-49767.htmPalestinians in Gaza wait to leave through the Rafah Crossing into Egypt. (Wissam CAIRO (IPS) - Two months since the ouster of longstanding president Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's new transitional Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:34:57 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/post-mubarak-egypt-may-end-gaza-closure-49767.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/village-remains-under-siege-weeks-after-settlement-murders-49500.htmIsraeli soldiers stop a Palestinian driver on the outskirts of Awarta village, 22 March. (Jafar Awarta is a poor, sprawling village in the northern occupied West Bank. Surrounded by land that is Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:19:55 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/village-remains-under-siege-weeks-after-settlement-murders-49500.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israeli-attacks-on-gaza-kill-5-injure-30-49432.htmIsraeli air strikes on Gaza killed five and injured dozens more on Thursday, 7 April. (Ismael As Palestinians were preparing for their weekend this Thursday afternoon, all of a sudden barrages Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:28:52 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israeli-attacks-on-gaza-kill-5-injure-30-49432.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/goldstone-reconsideration-undermines-justice-for-gaza-49330.htmIsraeli leaders have barely hidden their jubilation at an opinion article in last Friday's Washington Post by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone reconsidering the findings of his United Nations-appointed inquiry into Israel's attack on Gaza in Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:07:13 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/goldstone-reconsideration-undermines-justice-for-gaza-49330.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israel-lays-gaza-like-siege-on-west-bank-village-48840.htmAn Israeli army watchtower overlooks a locked metal gate blocking the main entrance to the village of Beit Ommar, 29 March 2011. (Nora Barrows-Friedman) Since 24 March, Israeli forces have sealed Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:27:43 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israel-lays-gaza-like-siege-on-west-bank-village-48840.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israel-criminalizes-commemoration-of-the-nakba-48655.htmYoung Palestinian refugees, victims of the Nakba, study at a refugee camp in Syria, 1959. (UN Photo) A bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week which calls on the government Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:35:49 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israel-criminalizes-commemoration-of-the-nakba-48655.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/court-orders-jerusalem-family-to-share-home-with-settlers-48578.htmTear-gas fired by Israeli soldiers at Palestinians in Silwan, occupied East Jerusalem. (Anne In the last month Palestinians in Jerusalem continued to face ongoing violence and settler takeovers Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:37:28 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/court-orders-jerusalem-family-to-share-home-with-settlers-48578.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/suspended-in-time-lifta-under-threat-48386.htmYacoub Odeh in Lifta (Jillian Kestler-D'Amours) A natural spring, countless olive trees, a mosque and virtually every stone used to build the village's unmistakable houses -- Yacoub Odeh Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:02:38 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/suspended-in-time-lifta-under-threat-48386.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/legal-expert-warns-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-jerusalem-48288.htmA Palestinian man walks past an Israeli riot police officer in Silwan, occupied East Jerusalem. (Anne RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - "If the regime that encourages incitement, racism and Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:06:23 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/legal-expert-warns-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-jerusalem-48288.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israel-admits-role-in-disappearance-of-gaza-engineer-48285.htmIsrael admitted this week that it was behind the abduction of a Palestinian engineer from Gaza who went missing more than a month ago while traveling on a train in the Ukraine. Israeli officials confirmed that Dirar Abu Sisi, 42, was being held in Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:30:41 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israel-admits-role-in-disappearance-of-gaza-engineer-48285.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/settlers-attack-palestinians-on-day-of-rage-48178.htmIsraeli forces close a West Bank road after Israeli settlers set fire to two Palestinian cars at the entrance of the Qadumim settlement, 17 March 2011. (Khaleel RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:04:37 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/settlers-attack-palestinians-on-day-of-rage-48178.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/security-firm-g4s-partly-withdraws-from-w-bank-47784.htmQalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah. (Oren Danish-British security firm G4S recently stated its intention to withdraw from some of its contracts with Israeli companies in the Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:25:31 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/security-firm-g4s-partly-withdraws-from-w-bank-47784.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/palestinian-bedouins-in-al-araqib-we-wont-leave-47668.htmSheikh Siyakh al-Turi in al-Araqib village (Elo B) Reclining under a recently constructed tent in the Bedouin village of al-Araqib, Sheikh Siyakh al-Turi gestured toward the bare terrain Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:29:47 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/palestinian-bedouins-in-al-araqib-we-wont-leave-47668.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/palestinian-village-under-siege-following-settler-killings-47564.htmAWARTA, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Food supplies are running low, ambulances have been detained for hours at checkpoints and hundreds of young men have been held, interrogated and beaten up, some requiring hospitalization, in the Palestinian village of Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:04:03 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/palestinian-village-under-siege-following-settler-killings-47564.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/family-of-engineer-believed-kidnapped-by-israel-speak-out-47560.htmFour of Derar and Veronika's children at the family's home in Gaza. (Rami Almeghari) In mid-January Derar Abu Sisi, 42, the operations director of Gaza's sole electricity-generating plant, Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:29:39 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/family-of-engineer-believed-kidnapped-by-israel-speak-out-47560.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/interview-palestinian-women-prisoners-shackled-during-childbirth-47102.htmVIENNA (IPS) - Female Palestinian prisoners detained in Israel are often denied legal representation and medical care while being housed in squalid conditions that can include sharing cells with rodents. According to Fabrizia Falcione, a women's Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:34:58 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/interview-palestinian-women-prisoners-shackled-during-childbirth-47102.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/gaza-truckers-protest-israels-closure-of-commercial-crossing-47098.htmPalestinian truck drivers stop protest Israel's closing the Karni crossing, 7 March. (ZUMA Press) On 2 March Israel announced the complete closure of Karni, the principal commercial crossing Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:11:48 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/gaza-truckers-protest-israels-closure-of-commercial-crossing-47098.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/dutch-opposition-boycotts-parliamentary-delegation-to-israel-46990.htmDutch opposition parties boycotted a parliamentary delegation to the Middle East in February after parties supporting the right-wing government insisted on going ahead with the visit despite an Israeli government ban on allowing the lawmakers to visit Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:20:23 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/dutch-opposition-boycotts-parliamentary-delegation-to-israel-46990.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/egyptian-activists-move-to-shut-down-infamous-secret-police-46868.htmAn underground archive at Amn al-Dawla headquarters after it was stormed by activists. (Hossam el-Hamalawy) CAIRO (IPS) - The much-feared secret police and intelligence service that protected the Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:18:32 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/egyptian-activists-move-to-shut-down-infamous-secret-police-46868.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/women-fight-for-rights-in-post-mubarak-egypt-46869.htmEgyptian women were at the forefront of the protests to oust Hosni Mubarak. (Matthew Cassel) CAIRO Jazeera) - Marwa Sharaf el-Din, an Egyptian law PhD candidate at Oxford University, spent part Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:36:55 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/women-fight-for-rights-in-post-mubarak-egypt-46869.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/anti-government-protests-erupt-across-iraq-46616.htmIraqi riot police in Baghdad block the road for people protesting over corruption, unemployment and poor public services, 4 March. (Ahmad BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hundreds of people have converged on Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:06:29 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/anti-government-protests-erupt-across-iraq-46616.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/pro-democracy-protests-spread-to-oman-46605.htmHundreds of Omanis protest in Sohar, the Gulf country's second largest city, 28 February. (Karim SOHAR, Oman - Fresh protests have taken place in the Gulf sultanate of Oman, following a wave Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:10:00 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/pro-democracy-protests-spread-to-oman-46605.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/mubarak-regime-source-of-sectarian-unrest-46294.htmChristians are a minority in Egypt and have been subject to a number of violent attacks in recent years. (Matthew Cassel) CAIRO (IPS) - Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak portrayed himself Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:22:01 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/mubarak-regime-source-of-sectarian-unrest-46294.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rights