Amira Hass is the Haaretz correspondent for the Occupied Territories.
Born in Jerusalem in 1956, Hass joined Haaretz in 1989, and has been in her current position since 1993. As the correspondent for the territories, she spent three years living in Gaza, which served of the basis for her widely acclaimed book, "Drinking the Sea at Gaza." She has lived in the West Bank city of Ramallah since 1997.
Hass is also the author of two other books, both of which are compilations of her articles.
At one of the hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints the IDF has across the West Bank, a soldier stopped the car of A.T. Inside the car was also A.T's 10-year-old son, who stared at the uniformed soldier approaching the car. The soldier's rifle was half-slung, half-aimed. "You want peace? You want peace?" the soldier asked, surprising A.T., a member of the People's Party, formerly known as the Palestinian Communist Party.
0 commentsThus far, this intifada has been a total failure. It hasn't succeeded in realizing three of its clear political aims: to explain that the Israeli presence in the territories is nothing other than occupation; to explain that the occupation-control of another nation on its own land, is wrong and bad from a pragmatic political point of view; to explain that the Palestinians are sick of this occupation.
0 commentsIn the war the Palestinians have declared on Israel, they have deployed the weapons listed below.
0 commentsThere's seemingly no connection between the two steps the Palestinian Authority took recently: In July, senior PA officials released their view of why Camp David failed. A year late, they tried to prove that the Barak's offers could not have guaranteed an agreement that would have meant genuine Palestinian sovereignty and the establishment of a viable state with territorial contiguity.
0 commentsOn the morning news, in Hebrew, it sounds very dramatic: The IDF destroyed three Force 17 outposts in the Ramallah area. Listeners had no doubt: It was a reaction to the murder last Thursday of Ronen Landau, the 17-year-old from Givat Ze'ev southwest of Ramallah.
0 commentsM.G. of Hebron married M.R. on July 7. Even two days after the wedding, on July 9, women continued to drop by and to bless the young newlyweds. Dozens of young people - the children of the women who came to visit, the children of the neighbors, and the young relatives of M.G. and his bride - gathered inside the house and near the door. The house is located about 200 meters from Kiryat Arba and is in an area that is under total Israel (civil and military) control.
0 commentsThe main highway of the southern section of the West Bank - Highway 60 that links Bethlehem and Hebron - has been closed both to Palestinian cars and to Palestinian pedestrians since May 3, 2001, after two women, residents of the Jewish settlement of Efrat, were shot dead by terrorists.
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