News tagged with 'jaffa'. Found 3 tagged news.

Border guard gets one year for shooting illegal resident

Jerusalem :: Israel | 14 days ago

Border Guard officer Tomer Avraham, 21, who was convicted of shooting an illegal Palestinian resident to death during an operation two years ago, will receive one year of jail time and a year and a half of probation, the Tel Aviv District Court ruled...

Tags: Tomer Avraham, Adina Avraham, Jaffa

Israel celebrates and suppresses at 60

Ramallah :: Palestine | 6 months ago

Posted by jesse.rosenfeld

Over the past few weeks Israel has become a sea of emblems to mark the 60th anniversary of its creation, with blue and white flags cloaking the state's cities, towns and settlements. The celebrations are patriotic bravado, making America's fourth of July...

Tags: Israel, Palestine, Jaffa, 60, nationalism, settlements, Jerusalem

A people with a land

Tel Aviv :: Israel | 7 months ago

Posted by jesse.rosenfeld

As a wave of settlement expansion continues to wash over the Occupied Territories, the increasingly militant Palestinian-Israeli counter-response was evident at this year's week of Land Day demonstrations

Tags: land, Palestine, tel aviv, jaffa, settlement, occupation, israeli, occupied territories, intifada, gentrification, demolition, ethnic cleansing, popular committee