by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Jun 27, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Over just three days last week, Israeli forces carried out at least 113 “search and arrest operations” in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and more than 80 Palestinians were detained during the June 20-23 monitoring period, the UN reports. Restrictions on...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Jun 27, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Even after surviving horrific bombing injuries, patients in Gaza’s few working hospitals are still dying from infections due to lack of medical supplies, while many victims are children, US health workers who have returned from the war-torn territory said. Adam...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Jun 27, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Senior White House officials have told Israel’s defence minister that Washington will maintain a pause on a single shipment of heavy bombs that has been held up since May, the Reuters news agency reports, citing a senior US official. The US and Israel remain in...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Jun 27, 2024 | Palestine Updates
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that Palestinian medics were prevented from reaching a man who was shot and killed by Israeli forces on June 18 after allegedly attempting to stab a soldier in the Bethlehem area of the occupied...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Jun 27, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, has welcomed the Norway Pension fund’s move to divest from Caterpillar over concerns its heavy equipment is being used by the Israeli military to violate human rights in Palestine....
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Jun 27, 2024 | Palestine Updates
It took just six weeks for the US-built humanitarian pier on Gaza’s shoreline to begin to fail. The pier became operational on May 17, but problems arose almost immediately. Eight days later, high waves overwhelmed the pier and it was temporarily closed, only...