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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 364

Ibrahim Sarsur

Ra'am party members at the campaign headquarters in the Arab Israeli town of Tamra, as the results of the Israeli elections are announced on November 1, 2022. (Flash90)
May 24, 2024, 1:02 am
Ra’am says Israel committing ‘unforgivable’ crimes against humanity in Gaza
Party leader Mansour Abbas faces calls for his resignation after evading question on whether Israel carried out war crimes in fight against Hamas
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of convicted terrorist Rushdi Hamdan Abu Mukh being welcome at his home town of Baqa al-Gharbiyye after his release from prison, April 5, 2021. (Twitter)
April 6, 2021, 8:44 am
Released Arab Israeli who killed IDF soldier gets hero’s welcome in hometown
Rushdi Hamdan Abu Mukh, imprisoned for 35 years, is paraded in streets of Baqa al-Gharbiyye; family of victim Moshe Tamam demands his citizenship be revoked
By ToI Staff
Israeli Muslims protest Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya minority outside the Burmese embassy in Tel Aviv on September 11, 2017. (Screen capture: Twitter)
September 11, 2017, 10:27 pm
Israeli Muslims protest Myanmar ‘atrocities’ against Rohingya
Outside of Rangoon embassy in Tel Aviv, head of Islamic Movement accuses Burmese army of ‘crimes against humanity’ against ethnic minority
By AP
Illustrative photo of security prisoners in an Israeli prison (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
December 30, 2014, 10:51 pm
Arab Israeli security prisoners call for political unity
Walid Daqa, sentenced to life in prison, says unified Arab list in 2015 elections is the only way to combat ‘racist Zionism’
By Elhanan Miller
An Israeli Arab casts his vote in the Knesset elections in the northern town of Umm al-Fahm, February 10, 2009. (Photo credit: Herzl Shapira / FLASH90)
October 12, 2014, 2:22 pm
Facing extinction, Israel’s Arab parties move toward unity… and growth
A raised Knesset ‘threshold’ means all three Arab parties could disappear in the next elections. But running together, they could win unprecedented support. Their leaders are doing the math
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Illustrative photo of security prisoners in an Israeli prison (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
May 21, 2014, 3:52 pm
Palestinian security prisoners declare massive hunger strike
All 5,000 inmates held in Israeli jails will stop eating Thursday in solidarity with administrative detainees
By Elhanan Miller
Palestinians celebrate the third installment of the prisoner release by Israel at the presidential compound in Ramallah, December 31, 2013. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
March 9, 2014, 3:56 pm
Erekat: Israel to release 30 prisoners on March 29
Arab MK says he fears Israel may leave some Arab Israeli terrorists off the final list
By Elhanan Miller
Israelis wearing keffiyehs hold up hands covered in fake blood to protest the release of Palestinian prisoners near the prime minister's office, July 28, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)
March 5, 2014, 7:12 am
A struggle over Arab Israeli terrorists, as final release looms
Opponents and proponents of freeing 14 pre-Oslo prisoners agree that the US is exerting massive pressure on Netanyahu
By Elhanan Miller
Gilad Shalit attends Bastille Day celebrations at the French Ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot's residence in Tel Aviv in July. Shalit hasn't given many details about his captivity in Gaza, but he hasn't vanished from sight either. (photo credit: Ariel Schalit/AP)
December 26, 2013, 4:30 am
Gilad Shalit calls for release of Jonathan Pollard
106 Israeli MKs also appeal to Obama to free jailed American-Israeli spy, days after information about US spying on Israel emerges
By ToI Staff and JTA
Demonstrators hold signs calling for the release of Jonathan Pollard during a demonstration in 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 25, 2013, 10:33 pm
106 Israeli MKs appeal to Obama to release Pollard
Days after information about US spying on Israel emerges, huge Knesset majority demands jailed spy’s freedom
By Marissa Newman
MK Meir Sheetrit (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 8, 2013, 12:40 pm
Hatnua demands that electoral threshold rise be gradual
Party’s call for a two-stage hike, to 3% and then 4% across separate elections, pits it against larger coalition partners
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)
July 27, 2013, 8:38 pm
Netanyahu set to free all pre-Oslo prisoners, says ‘it’s for the good of the country’
Bitter cabinet battle expected Sunday; in public letter, PM writes that leaders are sometimes forced to make difficult and unpopular choices
By Michal Shmulovich and Elhanan Miller
Palestinian school children, in a Hamas-organized procession, march in solidarity with prisoners held in Israel (Photo credit: Sliman Khader/ Flash 90)
July 27, 2013, 1:57 pm
‘Israel agrees to release 24 Israeli-Arab pre-Oslo prisoners’
If true, Israel Radio report means all ‘serious’ longterm security inmates, including major terrorists, will go free as new talks move forward
By Michal Shmulovich and Elhanan Miller
Family members of Ahmad Abu-Jaber, jailed in 1986, hold up posters calling for his release, July 25 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
July 26, 2013, 1:31 am
Kerry promised all pre-Oslo prisoners will go free, claims Arab MK
US secretary said he won’t convene sides unless Israel agrees to release ‘full list,’ says Ibrahim Sarsur; Kerry himself now sounding cautious about talks restarting
By Elhanan Miller
Ahmad Tibi, in the Knesset plenum in June, tears a bill regulating the Bedouin settlements in the Negev. (photo credit: screen capture/Knesset Channel)
July 21, 2013, 4:42 pm
Knesset Iftar meal canceled due to Arab MKs’ boycott
Arab parties angered by passage of Bedouin resettlement plan and the Knesset speaker’s disciplinary measures against MKs
By Haviv Rettig Gur
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