VTJP Headlines - Occupied
Palestine and Israel 5/7/2008
News
Israeli air strike kills one, wounds 20 in Gaza Strip
Agence France Presse - AFP, Daily Star
5/8/2008
Israeli forces storm Jenin, prompting criticism from security commander
Ma’an News Agency
5/7/2008
Olmert ’may quit over scandal’
Al Jazeera
5/7/2008
146 Patients killed by Israeli siege of Gaza, Palestinian officials say
Ma’an News Agency
5/7/2008
10 structures in Duma threatened with demolition
Stop The Wall
5/6/2008
Resident dies of wounds sustained on Monday
Saed Bannoura & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News
5/7/2008
Two detainees in need of direct medical attention, surgeries
IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center News
5/7/2008
Muncipality worker arrested by Israeli military, bulldozer impounded
International Womens’ Peace Service
5/7/2008
Undercover Israeli forces abduct Palestinian worker in Beit Layiha
Ma’an News Agency
5/7/2008
Abu Marzouk: Algeria offered to cover all Gaza needs of energy for free
Palestinian Information Center
7/5/2008
Jordanian authority bans solidarity rally with Palestinian people
Palestinian Information Center
7/5/2008
Barghouthi calls on PA to suspend negotiations until settlement construction stops
Ma’an News Agency
5/7/2008
Israeli settlement activities on Palestinian lands sabotage peace, PLO secretary says
Rami Almeghari & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News
5/7/2008
Palestinians inside Israeli boundaries are not partners in growth
Palestine News Network
5/7/2008
Refugee stories - Missing my life in Nahr el-Bared
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in, ReliefWeb
5/7/2008
Security forces on alert for holiday
Yuval Azoulay, Ha’aretz
5/7/2008
Israeli holidays mean further movement restrictions for Palestinians
IRIN - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
5/7/2008
Nablus court sentences man to life in prison for collaborating with Israel
Ma’an News Agency
5/7/2008
PRC fighters confront Israeli forces in southern Gaza
Ma’an News Agency
5/7/2008
Clashes in West Bank, borders closed until Thursday
Missionary International Service News Agency - MISNA, ReliefWeb
5/6/2008
One dead in new Israeli air strike in Gaza
Ma’an News Agency
5/7/2008
An Israeli army attack on southern Gaza leaves five residents wounded
Rami Almeghari & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News
5/7/2008
Israeli forces injure 4 armed resistance members in S Gaza Strip, overtake homes, bulldoze land
Palestine News Network
5/7/2008
Palestinians: IAF strikes in Gaza kill 1 militant, wound 13 others
News Agencies, Ha’aretz
5/7/2008
Al-Aqsa Brigades ’ambush Israeli forces’
Ma’an News Agency
5/7/2008
Fatah, DFLP fighters shell Sufa crossing
Ma’an News Agency
5/7/2008
Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in Hebron
Ma’an News Agency
5/7/2008
Hamas calls on resistance factions to retaliate to Israeli aggression on Gaza
Palestinian Information Center
7/5/2008
High tension in Qabatiya after PA security kills child, wounds others
Palestinian Information Center
7/5/2008
Undercover Israeli forces seize Palestinian fighter near Nablus
Ma’an News Agency
5/7/2008
The Israeli army kidnaps three civilians from Hebron and nearby Sourif village
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News
5/7/2008
PFLP fighters shell Sufa crossing in two separate attacks
Ma’an News Agency
5/7/2008
Palestinian security forces arrest 19 in Azzun
Ma’an News Agency
5/7/2008
Two Hamas members ’arrested’ in the West Bank
Ma’an News Agency
5/7/2008
7 Palestinians kidnapped in the West Bank
IMEMC Staff, International Middle East Media Center News
5/7/2008
60 Years of Nakba: 21,915 Black Balloons Over Jerusalem
International Solidarity Movement
5/7/2008
Supreme Court Recognizes Petition Challenging Discriminatory Citizenship Law Barring Family Unification
Palestine Monitor, Palestine Monitor
5/7/2008
Feature - Sixty years on, Palestinians mourn loss of homeland
Alistair Lyon, ReliefWeb
5/7/2008
One woman lightly injured after car struck by stone near Jaljulya
Jerusalem Post
5/8/2008
Astal: Israel tends to escalate its aggression against Gaza
Palestinian Information Center
7/5/2008
Sderot will celebrate, in spite of everything
Fadi Eyadat, Ha’aretz
5/7/2008
Palestine Today 050708
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News
5/7/2008
Interview with the detained head of the Legislative Council Dr. Aziz Dweik
Saed Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News
5/7/2008
Peres: I didn’t imagine Qassams would be fired from Gaza after pullout
Lily Galili, Ha’aretz
5/7/2008
EU donates 35.5 million Euros to the PA
Ma’an News Agency
5/7/2008
IAEA chief hopes to shed light on alleged Syrian reactor soon
Reuters, Ha’aretz
5/7/2008
Turin book fair faces protests for honouring Israel
Middle East Online
5/7/2008
Jewish-Iranian lawmaker: Israel’s behavior is ’anti-human’
Reuters, Ha’aretz
5/7/2008
Olmert: Solution to Mideast conflict is not far out of reach
Yuval Azoulay and Barak Ravid and The Associated Press, Ha’aretz
5/7/2008
Hamas: We told Egypt Rafah crossing must be opened if Israel refused calm
Palestinian Information Center
7/5/2008
Peres: ’We are ready to pay a price for the day of peace’
Yuval Azoulay and Barak Ravid, Ha’aretz
5/7/2008
Italian president defends decision to open book fair for Israeli writers
The Associated Press, Ha’aretz
5/7/2008
Gaza residents now live in cantons, a PFLP statement reads
Rami Almeghari & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News
5/7/2008
World leaders congratulate Peres for Israel’s 60th year
Ha’aretz
5/7/2008
British writer: just because we have a Palestinian event does not mean we must invite Israelis
Palestine News Network
5/7/2008
Houston Palestine Film Festival opens 9 May
Announcement, Houston Palestine Film Festival, Electronic Intifada
5/7/2008
Foreign national is key witness in new probe of Olmert
Jonathan Lis Ofra Edelman and Tomer Zarchin, Ha’aretz
5/7/2008
Friedmann: Keep Supreme Court out of immigration, citizenship laws
Tomer Zarchin, Ha’aretz
5/7/2008
Professor who headed conversion probe: Check rabbinic court for criminal actions
Yair Ettinger, Ha’aretz
5/7/2008
Protesters block roads in Lebanon amid labour strike
Middle East Online
5/7/2008
Widows and orphans face daunting challenges in Iraq
Marwa Sabah, Daily Star
5/8/2008
German help for Iraq invasion ruled illegal
Agence France Presse - AFP, Daily Star
5/8/2008
Iran rips Iraqi support for UAE claim to islands
Agence France Presse - AFP, Daily Star
5/8/2008
Congress sees US soldier suicides cover up
Middle East Online
5/7/2008
Articles
Orwell prize goes to lament for Palestinian landscape
Lindesay Irvine, The Guardian, Palestine Monitor
5/6/2008
Arab-Israeli recalls ethnic cleansing in 1948
Mehdi Lebouachera, Daily Star
5/8/2008
Memories of a refugee
Khalid Mansour - Translated by Saed Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News
5/8/2008
Sixty years ago in Battir (Part 2)
Hasan Abu Nimah writing from Amman, Jordan, Live from Palestine, Electronic Intifada
5/7/2008
Mental Barriers in Palestine
Mats Svensson, MIFTAH
5/5/2008
Gaza improvises under siege
IRIN, Electronic Intifada
5/7/2008
Talking to ’Terrorists’
Jimmy Carter, MIFTAH
5/5/2008
Linus Pauling Still Teaches Courage
Rami G. Khouri, Middle East Online
5/5/2008
The ANZAC-Palestine connection
Sonja Karkar, Electronic Intifada
5/7/2008
A Roadmap Collision Course
Joharah Baker, MIFTAH
5/7/2008
US politics: you not electable if you are not pro-Israeli
Kristen Ess, Palestine News Network
5/7/2008
Global Food/Energy Crises and the Middle East
Rami Khouri, Middle East Online
5/7/2008
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