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Settlers furious over reconnaissance arrests

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:01:55 +0000

Activists in custody for monitoring security forces; settler leader to ‘Post’: Police, prosecutors have lost their sanity.

Hospital inspectors hand out NIS 1,000 fines to smokers

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:05:12 +0000

Hospital in Nahariya says its inspectors, all hospital employees, have been specially trained by Israel Police, the courts.

Israel closure of Al-Aqsa access ramp stirs row

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:36:37 +0000

Israel has closed a controversial wooden access ramp to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound over public safety fears, police said Monday, sparking a war of words with Jordan and the Palestinians.

Journalists beaten and sexually assaulted in Egypt

admin — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:37:28 +0000

Two female foreign journalists on Thursday described harrowing sexual assaults carried out by crowds or police as they tried to cover demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy said she was sexually assaulted by police during hours under detention after taking part in protests on the sprawling square that has become a landmark of More >

Libel law protects truth, strengthens democracy

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:10:56 +0000

Netanyahu: Nobody thinks there will be a thought police; Mofaz warns ‘

Israel to send back Crown Heights beating suspect

admin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:29:47 +0000

A Brooklyn Hasidic man will soon be shipped back from Israel to answer charges that he beat up a police officer’

IDF, Police doctors could replace residents

admin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:18:00 +0000

Minister of Finance Yuval Steinitz has hinted that he may draft IDF and Israel Police doctors to work in hospitals.

This Week in History: Deadly riots on the Temple Mount

admin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:50:40 +0000

After fringe Jewish group attempts to lay cornerstone for a ‘

5 Israeli-Arabs arrested for plotting terror attacks

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:36:16 +0000

Midnight Migron Expulsion

admin — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:23:00 +0000

7:30 AM 850 police and soldiers were used to destroy 3 homes in Migron in the early morning.

3:41 AM Honenu legal organization reports that 7 have been arrested at Migron,. 5 girls, 1 boy, and 1 adult.

3:27 AM Prosecutor’s office is awake. They are trying to cancel Judge Hendel’s stop order.

3:18 AM Commander in charge decided to honor court order. Will not destroy homes.

2:47 AM It’s not over… Commander in charge of the expulsion operation is apparently not planning to follow the judges order, and is planing to continue with the destruction of the Migron homes.

2:42 AM Destruction and expulsion of Migron temporarily halted. At least 2 girls arrested by police for trying to block the expulsion forces.

2:37 AM UPDATE: Judge Meltzer Hendel orders a temporary halt to the destruction of the 3 Migron homes.

2:33 AM UPDATE: Migron houses may not be destroyed yet. Residents are calling on loudspeakers that an emergency appeal has been filed with the High Court minutes ago, and police must wait until they come back with a decision.

Monday, 2:26 AM Hundreds of police are currently violently destroying parts of Migron. The are has been closed by the IDF, including to reporters, but some reports are leaking out.

3 families have been thrown out into the street as their houses are about to be have been destroyed.

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