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After a year of battling for justice for her husband, Jihan Banat and her four children have found neither justice nor solace, and the Palestinian public has been left without answers. Source Views: 0
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A year after the assassination of Nizar Banat, a grieving family and evidence of judicial collusion
July 13th, 2022 
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No Comments »PA releases killers of activist Nizar Banat
June 22nd, 2022 Awake Goy Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has ordered the release of 14 officers accused of killing Palestinian activist Nizar Banat last year, Quds Press reported yesterday. "The PA, ordered by President Mahmoud Abbas, has released the 14 suspects on condition that they attend the court hearings on time," one security source told the news site. Meanwhile, an informed […]
Nizar Banat extrajudicial killing is just the tip of Palestinian Authority corruption
December 30th, 2021 Awake Goy In January of this year a group of individuals including myself who applied to work at Local Aid Co-ordination Secretariat (LACS), part of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minster’s office, met with Dr. Mohamad Shtayyeh, the Prime Minister. Dr Shtayyeh, who likes to show that he is close to people, utilized this opportunity to assure […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: authority, banat, corruption, extrajudicial, killing, nizar, palestinian No Comments »Palestinians continue protests over Nizar Banat’s killing, amid growing criticism of PA repression
August 26th, 2021 Awake Goy Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the city center of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday in protest of the Palestinian Authority’s killing of popular activist and dissident Nizar Banat earlier this summer. Surprising to some, the demonstration ended with no state violence against the protesters. Previous protests in Ramallah and other areas of […]
Despite PA crackdown, Palestinians continue protests over killing of Nizar Banat
July 6th, 2021 Awake Goy In the early morning hours of June 24th, Palestinian Authority security forces raided the home of prominent Palestinian activist and dissident Nizar Banat. His family says he was pepper sprayed and brutally beaten with metal clubs and rifle butts before he was taken into custody. Just a few hours later, he was pronounced dead. The […]
Posted in News Tags: continue, crackdown, despite, killing, nizar, Palestinians, protests No Comments »The assassination of Nizar Banat means there’s only one solution for the Palestinians
June 30th, 2021 Awake Goy The assassination of political activist Nizar Banat during his arrest by Palestinian Authority security services is a turning point in occupied Palestine. It is no less important and dangerous than the shift represented by the recent Jerusalem uprising, which covered Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and the territory occupied since 1948. The occupied West Bank […]
Posted in Middle East Tags: assassination, banat, means, nizar, Palestinians, solution, there No Comments »Video: Palestinians protest Abbas, PA following killing of Nizar Banat
June 27th, 2021 Awake Goy On June 26, 2021, Fatah loyalists from Mahmoud Abbas’s faction, some of which identified as undercover Palestinian security personnel, attacked demonstrators with sticks and stones as they made their way to Palestinian Authority headquarters in Ramallah, West Bank. Protesters marched following the extrajudicial killing of prominent opposition activist Nizar Banat by the Palestinian Authority in […]
‘Down with the ignominious authority!’: On the assassination of Nizar Banat
June 26th, 2021 Awake Goy Editor’s Note: The following is a statement issued by the One Democratic State Campaign following the killing of Nizar Al-Banat by Palestinian Authority forces. Mondoweiss occasionally publishes press releases and statements from organizations in an effort to draw attention to overlooked issues. Statement of the One Democratic State Campaign on the assassination of Nizar Banat Down […]
