A Palestinian mother of two and her 16-year-old brother were shot and killed by Israeli security guards at Qalandiya checkpoint in April, even though eyewitnesses say they posed no risk. The police refuse to release the CCTV footage – maybe they know something we don’t? By John Brown More than four months after a shooting incident at Qalandiya checkpoint that led to the death of a Palestinian woman and her 16-year-old brother, the Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court on Monday upheld Israel Police’s request to extend the gag order on the details of the affair by another month. The police said that…

Source: Gag order extended as police refuse to release CCTV footage of Qalandiya killing | +972 Magazine

A disturbing story of violence and racism on the light rail in Jerusalem, and how the cellphone in your pocket can deliver justice.  On the surface of things you could write it off as just another case of anti-Arab racism, wrapped neatly in Jewish Israelis’ all-too-common racist fears of Palestinians. Just another incident among many on public transportation in Israel, just one of many that have taken place on the light rail in Jerusalem. But this was something else. I’ve heard no small number of stories of Palestinians being harassed and attacked in public in recent weeks. There was the young Jewish woman who…

Source: A Jew, and Arab and a smartphone meet on a train in Jerusalem | +972 Magazine