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For Palestinians, May 15 marks the date their ancestors were displaced during the creation of Israel. RT talks to Ahmed Tibi, a Palestinian-Israeli member of the Knesset to find out whether divisions in the country can be bridged and discuss the importance of the Nakba for Palestinians around the world.
An Israeli military court has released a Palestinian journalist on bail after seeing this video showing him rushing to the aid of his wife at a West Bank demonstration, a popular committee said on Sunday. Bilal Tamimi, an independent journalist, was detained by Israeli forces at a popular protest in Ramallah-district village Nabi Saleh on Friday, April 20th. Granting bail to Palestinians imprisoned under Israel's military system is unusual, and Tamimi intends to sue for false arrest and assault.
Al Jazeera's "Still Going Strong" series focuses on an elderly woman in the occupied West Bank who is determined to get an education, and who is going about it in a rather unusual way. Now aged somewhere in her 70s, nobody knows her exact age, Arifeh Malaysheh's arrival in the schoolyard was at first the source of much amusement. Al Jazeera's Paul Brennan reports from Jaba.
In August the Israeli military used prohibited weapons to target lower and upper limbs of Palestinians, leaving surviving victims severely disabled from amputations; now they are targeting the head. There are no survivors from these attacks. As Dr Ayman Al-Sahbani, of Al Shifa Hospital Emergency Department attests, most of the dead had had their heads blown off -- there was just nothing there.
We, the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organisations (PCHRO), would like to mark International Women's Day by expressing our solidarity with administrative detainee Hana Shalabi. Hana, 29 years old, previously spent more than two years in administrative detention before she was released in October 2011 as part of the prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas. Less than four months later she was arrested once more by Israeli authorities at her home near Jenin, when she was beaten with the butt of a rifle by an Israeli soldier. Following her arrest, she was beaten, blindfolded and later forcibly strip-searched and assaulted by an Israeli male soldier. Hana was given a six-month administrative detention order and spent the first three days of her internment in solitary confinement. She was later sentenced to solitary confinement for a further seven days as punishment for her continuing hunger strike.
Khoolod Badawi, a charismatic and passionate Palestinian woman takes us to the "ground zero" of her identity -- the village of Safuri, from which her family was exiled in 1948.
Mohammed Khatib speaks out in support of the freeing of Ashraf Abu-Ramha, a fellow anti-wall and anti-occuption organizer from the village of Bil'in who has been arrested by the Israeli military. The village of Bil'in has led non-violent protests against the separation wall since 2004, and successfully changed the route of the wall in the village if Bil'in.