Palestinian Resentment News Today

This is the kashmir the Indian Government wants the world to see. Beautiful, serene, filled with tourists. Away from sight is the more grim picture. A painful long running conflict, more recently a clampdown on democratic rights. Journalists who can bring out peoples voices and the grim realities say they are being silenced by the government. This kashmiri reporter pictured here at one of his court hearings. He has been injailforfive years charged under terror laws. His father, mohammed, says hi...

His father mohammad says asif was targeted for this article he wrote about an anti india militant. Translation everyone knows he is innocent. I he is a professional reporter and was jailed for his writing about the militancy. They wanted to make an example out of him. So otherjournalists dont dare to cover topics the government does not approve of. At the time of his arrest, asif� s daughter was six months old. Areeba might have been reunited with herfather when he was given bail last year. Bu...

This man tells me that the settler harassment became unbearable. translation: they used to stop outside our house at midnight - and honk their car horns, | or send kids to harassers. or send kids to harass us. they would scare sheep and block |them in or empty our water tank. j settlers are emboldened by the new political reality of israel. there is a sense of impunity and that adds to palestinian resentment. with huge new investment and settlements, hostility is here only looks set to deepen. y...

Presence to change the landscape. without grazing land for their sheep, palestinian herders worry for their future. this month, nearly 90 people fled from the slopes where they had lived for generations, blaming settler harassment. this man tells me that the settler harassment became unbearable. translation: they used to stop outside our house at midnight - and honk their car horns, or send kids to harassers. or send kids to harass us. they would scare sheep and block them in or empty our water ...

Hoped it will make a large chunk of a state of their own. but with hardline israeli ministers totally opposed to that now in power, building in settlements is being approved at record speed. the goal is to cement an israeli presence to change the landscape. without grazing land for their sheep, palestinian herders worry for their future. this month, nearly 90 people fled from the slopes where they had lived for generations, blaming settler harassment. this man tells me that the settler harassmen...