ISRAEL released a 12-year-old girl, believed to be its youngest female Palestinian detainee, yesterday after nearly three months in prison.
Dima al-Wawi, from a village near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, was arrested and sentenced in February for attempted manslaughter and possession of a knife.
She is alleged to have gone to the illegal israeli settlement of Karmei Tzur with the intention of stabbing settlers.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER


