Emily Henochowicz, a US citizen, lost her eye after being shot with a tear gas canister at the Qalandia Checkpoint, while participating in a demonstration protesting the IDF raid of the Gaza Flotilla.

Following a Supreme Court order on the issue of discrimination against the Sephardic girl students in Immanuel, which sentenced the Hassidic parents of the girls at the “Beit Yaakov” School to jail; the parents headed a mass demonstration at the police station in the Russian Compound in Jerusalem.

Shirin Mohammed Hassan, one of the 20 Palestinian female prisoners released in exchange for a tape in which the Israeli captive soldier Gilad Shalit is seen. Beitunia checkpoint, near Ramallah.

The Gaza Flotilla and the events that followed.
On May 31st six boats sailed from Turkey on their way to the Gaza Strip in order to break the Israeli blockade on the strip and transfer equipment to its residents. After they refused Israel’s request to transfer the equipment via the Israeli ports, a military attempt was made to take over the ship, and a violent conflict ensued between the IDF soldiers and the passengers aboard the Mavi Marmara. As a result, nine passengers were killed. Following the operation and its consequences a media storm evolved in Israel and throughout the world and brought about an easing of the blockade on Gaza.

Demonstrators in the Old City of Jerusalem, from Sheikh Jarrah to Silwan, after Friday prayers.

Palestinian women and children, traveling to pray in the Al-Aqsa Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan, suffer frustration and humiliation as they cross the Qalandia checkpoint. This year, conditions improved at the checkpoint as a result of cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.