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As Israel pushes punitive demolitions, family of 13-year-old Palestinian attacker to lose its home

Isabel Debre | 31/08/2023 | AP News

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Should Twice a Year Be Enough for Palestinians to Access Their Own Land?

Amira Hass | 20/08/2023 | Haaretz

Israel's High Court rejected Anin villagers’ petition to work their land beyond the separation barrier every day, ruling that twice a week was sufficient. Now Israel's army says the farmers...

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Who Cares if Palestinians Are Dead or Alive?

Gideon Levy | 02/04/2023 | Haaretz

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‘When I Fight With My Husband, I Have Nowhere to Go;' What It's Like Living as an 'Illegal Resident' in the West Bank

Amira Hass | 23/07/2021 | Haaretz | Foreign Press

Israel refuses to approve family reunification for thousands of citizens of Arab countries who are married to Palestinians...

Israel Razed a Palestinian Mansion as Collective Punishment, U.S. Intervention Be Damned

Gideon Levy & Alex Levac | 16/07/2021 | Haaretz | Foreign Press

The IDF blew up the family home of a Palestinian accused of murdering an Israeli. The High Court rejected a petition against the demolition, which argued that the assailant lives in the U.S. Even the...

Hope for fractured Palestinian families as Israel law ends

Al Jazeera | 12/07/2021 | Al Jazeera | Foreign Press

With the failure of the law’s renewal, more Palestinians will begin the arduous and expensive process of applying to Israeli authorities to obtain residency rights for their West Bank spouses....

US to Israel: No Palestinian punitive home razing, we won't let this drop

Tovah Lazaroff | 10/07/2021 | The Jerusalem Post | Foreign Press

"The home of an entire family should not be demolished for the actions of one individual," the US Embassy spokesperson said on Thursday....

Court: Law punishing parents for childrens' rock-throwing illegal

Idan Zoshine | 09/07/2021 | The Jerusalem Post | Foreign Press

A lawyer for Adalah - the NGO which filed the appeal to the High Court - said it is an "invalid, discriminatory and vengeful tool that violates the basic principles of criminal law."...

Palestinians start applying for citizenship under family unification laws

Jeremy Sharon | 08/07/2021 | The Jerusalem Post | Foreign Press

Following the government’s failure to renew the Citizenship Law this week, some 13,000 Palestinians married to Israeli citizens can start naturalization process to obtain citizenship....

Israel's Cruel Citizenship Law Is Rotten, Racist and Unredeemable

Dahlia Scheindlin | 24/06/2021 | Haaretz | Foreign Press

For 18 years, Israeli governments have backed a law built on faulty security arguments, explicit demographic engineering and pure human suffering. The Bennett coalition seems set to prolong ruining...

Israel approves demolition of Palestinian home after attack

Joseph Krauss | 23/06/2021 | Associated Press | Foreign Press

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Palestinian Family's West Bank Home to Be Demolished Following Court Ruling

Lauren Giella | 23/06/2021 | Newsweek | Foreign Press

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Israel’s Demographic Warfare Wages on Both Sides of Green Line. With One Difference

Amira Hass | 21/06/2021 | Haaretz | Foreign Press

Palestinian negotiators in the 1990s thought it would be purely a technical matter to facilitate family reunifications and the return of people to the territories...