Amira Hass

The Independent Commission for Human Rights, which chronicles violations , fulfills a vital, unifying role in Palestinian society.

To visit Palestinian-controlled areas, some foreign nationals need military entry permit that Israel doesn't explain how to get.

A new Palestinian initiative seeks to revive the PLO's old-time strategy, abandoned following the Oslo Accords. It includes Israel's Jewish population, but without calling them by name.

New initiative would allow Palestinian refugees the right of return to 'a state of all its citizens.'

Bedouin say plan would merge different tribes, which clashes with their tradition; Israel has already shelved plan due to settler opposition, Maariv reports.

A Yiddish children’s song evokes the huge gap between the legacy of East European Jews and current sentiment in Israel.

The High Court of Justice will deliberate in May over the request of the resident’s family to appeal a court order of eviction from their apartment so that it can be repossessed by the heirs of the pre-1948 Jewish owner.

One Palestinian prisoner writes that the bravery in the Oscar-nominated documentary, denounced by the Israeli government as slander, affected even militant inmates, suggesting they could benefit from exposure to nonviolent literature.

According to a British researcher, the work of the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee reflects another example of Israel's ability to coerce and restrict the Palestinian population.

A prisoner who suffered serious injury 18 months ago, which he alleges was caused by torture, files a High Court petition asking that the military prosecution open a case against investigators in the Shin Bet security service.

Most Israelis labor under the misconception that restrictions on Palestinian movement were a result of suicide bombings, but they started long before that.

Natan Blanc, who has spent over 100 days in military prison, first refused to serve in the IDF in November, due to his opposition to Israeli occupation.

The large defense budget has been criticized because it is seen as part of the internal oppression system, as well as maintaining the crumbling Fatah movement’s hegemony and the status quo with Israel.

Twenty-five percent is earmarked for defense; Palestinian Authority hopes donors will cover $1.4 billion shortfall.

Court gives prison service three weeks to reconsider prohibiting Afnan Abu Jweid - who has served eight years for arms trading - from making daily, supervised phone calls.

Thousands of Christians gathered in Jerusalem for the start of Easter week on Sunday.

Because all the tickets to events with President Barack Obama had been given out, our reporter set out to breathe in tear gas and also got a soccer lesson.

U.S. President Obama supports resuming negotiations without prior conditions at Ramallah meeting on Thursday; PLO and Fatah protest that his position on the settlements issue is too weak.

President's praise for security services is insulting in light of the economic collapse of the Palestinian Authority.

Sam Bahour, who voted for Obama, explains why he has no expectations for the president's visit and why the Palestinian strategy in the United States has it all wrong.

The killing of a Palestinian, Ziad Jilani, by border policemen refuses to go away and has reached the High Court of Justice. Is every Arab driver in Jerusalem involved in an accident an automatic terror suspect?

Opposition figure Dr. Mustafa Barghouti says U.S. president's tilt toward Israel, as seen in visit itinerary, disappoints Palestinians and speeds up end of two-state solution.

Defense lawyer Itamar Ben Gvir calls suit part of continuing harassment of settlers in southern Hebron Hills by leftist groups; police recommend prosecution.

Ayman Sharawneh, one of hundreds freed in 2011 in exchange for Gilad Shalit, was arrested again in January 2012, agreed to confinement in Gaza for ten years, lawyer says.

Israel's High Court of Justice is to rule on the state's right to declare ownership of 1,000 acres of undeveloped land located in West Bank settlement of Efrat, which Palestinians say belong to them.

It would make sense for Palestinian schools to give classes in resistance: how to build multiple 'tower and stockade’ villages in Area C; how to behave when army troops enter your homes; how to identify soldiers who flung you handcuffed to the floor of the jeep, in order to submit a complaint.

If a black president doesn’t change the internal American reality, why should anyone expect him to do anything against the Jewish separation regime that has been created here between the river and the sea?

On Jan. 14, a military judge heard nine appeals of administrative detention orders issued to Palestinian residents of the West Bank. In each case, the judge revoked the appeals, providing the same decision - word for word.

Ayman Sharawna, one of the prisoners released in the swap to free Gilad Shalit, will have a petition debated today in the High Court of Justice. At the core of the debate is the character of Israeli military law.

The generous aid given to the Palestinians through various channels is the reward offered by Western states in exchange for the tolerance they show toward Israeli apartheid.

Like Canada’s First Peoples, the Palestinians’ nationhood cannot be measured in numbers.

Over the past few weeks, Palestinian spokesmen have made three main promises that would shake up and disrupt the violent complacency with which Israel continues to dominate the Palestinians.

The festivities of the Hamas in Gaza last week sent a message of 'We told you so.'

We've reached the stage at which much more than labeling produce from the settlements will be needed to make us understand that military superiority isn't a permanent guarantee of our existence in a region where we are a minority, but act like the lord and master.

Why should one keep making the pilgrimage to the High Court of Justice? Because there is still a belief that the judges there know and see enough to worry about this place's future.

Palestinian Authority leaders feel entitled to act like the 'big guys' of sovereign states: get rich, enrich their cronies, and create dynasties of senior office holders.

The people of Israel proved last year that they are not devoid of knowledge or of the recognition of injustice. Therefore, every single member of this thinking crowd bears direct responsibility for the disasters that will befall this place.

The Civil Administration is protecting a law that its title in contemporary Hebrew is 'keeping most of the West Bank Palestinian-free.'

Recent demonstrations in the West Bank were triggered by the humiliation in the very willingness of PA President Mahmoud Abbas to hold another empty meeting - this time with Shaul Mofaz.

Warnings should go to Israelis who are planning this summer's protests; experts should not warn Israelis about the dangers of burning down of a mosque, but rather, the dangers of their government.

Israel wants Hamas rule in Gaza because it guarantees the disconnect between the Strip and the West Bank.

An ongoing hunger strike by nearly 2,000 Palestinian inmates stands as a reminder of their humanity, but Israelis are more interested in revenge.

IDF commanders and their subordinates will learn the lesson after Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner's act - they'll check for any subversive cameras before going on to do what is unexceptional in the Wild East.

For the sake of hegemony, Israel is mortgaging the well-being of its children and the lives of its grandchildren, together with the well-being and lives of children and grandchildren throughout the region.

Israel's position in its periodic report to the donor-coordination group for the Palestinian Authority reminds one of the boy who kills his parents and then demands an orphan's pension.

Tender for a luxury development in Lifta, a Palestinian village on the western outskirts of Jerusalem, destroyed in 1948, was withdrawn by court order.

It's no coincidence that a group of young Palestinians now organizing protests in the West Bank against a return to negotiations is called 'Palestinians for Dignity.'

Palestinians are heroes, and that's not simply a flowery journalistic phrase, but a fact not intended for thugs, rather for people who shut their eyes - and they are many.

The silence of Yad Vashem and other Holocaust memorial institutes to the recent rash of anti-democratic legislation is deafening.

Those spending their Saturdays having fun rather than defending shepherds and farmers should not be surprised if the day after, Jewish fundamentalism even invades their bedrooms.