The military attack Ni’lin weekly protest and injures seven including three journalists
Ghassan Bannoura & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 1/30/2009
On Friday midday Scores of villagers from Nil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, held their weekly protest against the illegal Israeli wall being built on the village’s land by the Israeli settlement... more..e-mail
Every family has a story, here are some of them
Eva Bartlett writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Electronic Intifada 1/30/2009
There are many stories. Each account -- each murdered individual, each wounded person, each burned-out and broken house, each shattered window, trashed kitchen, strewn item of clothing, bedroom turned upside down, bullet and shelling hole in walls, offensive Israeli army graffiti... more..e-mail
Israeli troops attack a nonviolent protest near Bethlehem
Ghassan Bannoura & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 1/30/2009
Scores of villagers from Al Ma’ssara, located near the southern West Bak city of Bethlehem and their international supporters protest the Israeli illegal wall on Friday. The protesters gathered at the village school then marched towereds the location... more..e-mail
Death to Arabs'ť graffiti found written by soldiers in Gaza homes
Saed Bannoura & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 1/30/2009
Several media agencies around the world published images of home walls that remained standing t Gaza during the latest Israeli offensive, yetsome residents who fled their home came back to see "Death to Arabs" graffiti written by the soldiers after... more..e-mail
Givati troops leave ’Death to Arabs’ graffiti in Gaza
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 1/30/2009
New images from Strip’s Zeitoun neighborhood show inscriptions on walls signed by infantry brigade soldiers - The Israel Defense Forces is still searching for the soldiers who scrawled "Death to Arabs" inscriptions on walls in Gaza’s Zeituon... more..e-mail
Vandals attack Venezuela synagogue in ’worst ever’ attack on Jewish community
The Associated Press, Ha’aretz 2/1/2009
An armed group vandalized Caracas’ oldest synagogue, shattering religious objects and spray-painting walls in what Jewish leaders called the worst attack ever on their community in Venezuela. Two security guards were overpowered by about 15 people who ransacked the... more..e-mail
West Bank demonstrations for Gaza under siege
PNN, Palestine News Network 1/31/2009
Ramallah -- Demonstrations throughout the West Bank began early Friday and continued through the evening with calls for solidarity with Gaza. Although the major Israeli invasion has ended, the siege and closure have not. The weekly nonviolent Palestinian demonstration in western... more..e-mail
Demonstrations against the Wall in Ma’sara, Bi’lin and Ni’lin
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 1/31/2009
Demonstrations against the Wall occurred this week in al-Ma’sara, Bi’lin and Ni’lin. Despite the ongoing attacks from soldiers sent to control and suppress the demonstrations, villagers have shown no signs of abandoning weekly actions against the Wall.
In Ma’sara, dozens... more..e-mail
Dozens suffered teargas inhalation during the Bil’in Weekly Demonstration
Abdullah Abu Rahmah, International Middle East Media Center News 1/30/2009
People left the village of Bil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah after Friday prayers in a massive demonstration, in which a group of international and Israeli peace activists. Waving Palestinian flags, and banners people... more..e-mail
Who torched my car?
Palestinian Information Center 1/31/2009
On Friday, 23 January, at 9:20 pm, unknown assailants (I know their identities and have handed their names over to the police) set my car ablaze while parked in front of my home (in downtown Nablus). The arsonists jumped... more..e-mail
My terror as a human shield: The story of Majdi Abed Rabbo
Donald Macintyre in Jabalya, Gaza, The Independent 1/30/2009 As battle raged in Gaza, Israeli soldiers forced Majdi Abed Rabbo to risk his life as a go-between in the hunt for three Hamas fighters. This is his story...After yet another fierce, 45-minute gun battle, Majdi... more..e-mail
Siege against ‘Azzun Atmeh tightened as 75 residents are further isolated
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 1/29/2009
Occupation forces have intensified the closure of ‘Azzun Atmeh, reinforcing the Wall on the southern edge of the village. At least 75 residents are isolated to the east, in addition to agricultural land and structures. Soldiers have also been impeding... more..e-mail
Jesus in Gaza – A Poem
The Palestine Chronicle is pleased to feature a new poem, Palestine Chronicle 1/29/2009
I met Jesus in Gaza last nightNailed to a concrete wallImpaled by shrapnelThrough hands and feetWearing a crown of barbed wireAnd a countenance of sorrowAt his feetA bloodied childFrozenStillColdTattered were her clothesUgly were her woundsI wept for herHe wept for... more..e-mail
First evidence of damage to Gaza’s cultural sites emerges
Lauren Gelfond Feldinger, The Art Newspaper 1/28/2009
JERUSALEM. After a 3,500-year history of invasions, the latest war on the beleaguered coastal strip of Gaza has once again put historic sites at risk. With the fragile ceasefire still in force, The Art Newspaper has learned that Gaza’s... more..e-mail
Gaza Strip academics, journalists: BBC out of Gaza
Ma’an News Agency 1/29/2009
Gaza – Ma’an – Palestinian academics and media personnel, as well as international activists, demanded the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) leave the Gaza Strip over its refusal to air an appeal for aid on the network. Academics organized a sit-in near the... more..e-mail
Tunnel vision
Anshel Pfeffer, Ha’aretz 1/29/2009
The almost hermetic closure of the Rafah border crossing since the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007 may have inflicted great suffering on the Palestinians, but thanks to it, Egyptian tunnel owners were able to add a... more..e-mail
Israel compensates Palestinian farmers for destroyed land
Ma’an News Agency 1/29/2009
Qalqiliya – Ma’an – Israel reimbursed Palestinian farmers in the West Bank city of Qalqiliya on Thursday for damages incurred to their farmlands by flooding from Israel in 2004. The Palestinian farmers had filed a lawsuit claiming damages after a water line... more..e-mail
Peres in Davos: I’m a licensed optimist
Haggai Golan, Shlomit Lan, and Irit Avissar, Globes Online 1/29/2009
The president has held meetings on setting up investment funds, including with Russia’s Putin. Even in the midst of the most severe global economic crisis for 70 years, President Shimon Peres remains optimistic. "There has been a puncture... more..e-mail
Israel to respond harshly to deadly Gaza border blast
Amos Harel and Anshel Pfeffer, Ha’aretz 1/29/2009
Israel is gearing up to respond harshly against Hamas in response to a remote-control bomb attack at the Gaza Strip security fence Tuesday, which killed an Israel Defense Forces tracker and wounded three other soldiers, one seriously. It was the... more..e-mail
Israeli forces demolish a Palestinian owned flat in Jerusalem
Ghassan Bannoura & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 1/28/2009
Israeli military bulldozers demolished on Wednesday morning a Palestinian owned flat located in Silwan neighborhood in Jerusalem city. The flat is located in a building; it is the home of Talal Al Shoki and his eight family members. Local sources... more..e-mail
No security for Palestinians under Israeli occupation
Najib Farrag, Palestine News Network 1/28/2009
PNN -- Israeli forces opened direct fire on a home in Bethlehem’s Al Azzeh Refugee Camp early yesterday. Forty-five year old Azzeh home owner Laith Issa describes being in his bedroom before dawn. "I had been watching a news... more..e-mail
Peace Now: Settlements expanded faster in 2008
Efrat Weiss, YNetNews 1/28/2009
On day US Mideast envoy arrives in Israel, Peace Now movement publishes report on settlement expansion activity last year. Yesha Council pleased with ’documentation of Zionist enterprise’ - Jewish settlements and outposts in the West Bank expanded more rapidly... more..e-mail
Palestinian economy: Foundation of a state or common burden?
Sami Halabi, Electronic Intifada 1/27/2009
The consequences of Israel’s recent war on Gaza are evident to anyone with a television or Internet access. Recurrent images of civilians dying or injured in Gaza’s hospitals, smoke bellowing from distant buildings on the horizon... more..e-mail
Naalin holds Holocaust exhibit
Roi Mandel, YNetNews 1/27/2009
8217;Unfortunately, we are paying price for pain suffered by Jews,’ says member of village committee - As the world commemorated the Holocaust Tuesday, a small village in the West Bank held a surprising exhibit memorializing the most tragic event... more..e-mail
Palestinian gunman involved in today’s attack injured in IAF strike
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 1/27/2009
Air Force targets motorcycle in Khan Younis driven by Hussain Abu Shamia, who took part in border attack on IDF patrol earlier today that killed soldier, wounded three. Top military officials said response to attack ’should not be proportional... more..e-mail
Soldier killed, 3 injured in border blast
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 1/27/2009
Six days after last soldier leaves Gaza, explosive device detonated near army patrol vehicle traveling along border fence. Non-commissioned officer killed, officer seriously injured, two other troops sustain light wounds. Palestinians report of clashes in area, including sniper fire - For... more..e-mail
Killings Threaten Gaza Truce
Griff Witte, Washington Post 1/27/2009
Tensions Rise Before Visit of New Middle East Envoy - JERUSALEM, Jan. 27 -- Palestinian fighters detonated a bomb near the fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning, killing an Israeli soldier, the Israeli military said. Later in the... more..e-mail
At a Flash Point in Gaza, A Family’s Deadly Ordeal
Jonathan Finer, Washington Post 1/27/2009
ZAYTOUN, Gaza Strip -- Just before dawn on Jan. 4, a sledgehammer crashed through the living-room wall of the home of Almaz al-Samuni in this southern enclave of Gaza City, pounding a hole wide enough for someone to poke a rifle... more..e-mail
Gaza mourns, as does the West Bank
Palestine Monitor, Palestine Monitor 1/26/2009 As the situation deteriorated in Gaza, Palestinians in the West Bank came out in force to demonstrate and show solidarity with the people. However even peaceful demonstrations can result in death here. 6 protesters, mainly teenagers, were shot dead...more..e-mail
Eyewitness in Gaza: Yesterday and Tomorrow
Ewa Jasiewicz – Gaza, Palestine Chronicle 1/24/2009
We’re like trees, we have our roots and they allow us to grow, little by little, we grow up and then they cut us down. But, whatever they throw at us, whatever they do to us, we are... more..e-mail
Fear and trauma in Gaza’s schools
Alex Dziadosz in Gaza, Al Jazeera 1/25/2009
As students filed into the courtyard of Asma elementary school in Gaza City for the first time since the Israeli offensive began, they were greeted by a bleak reminder of the violence that left more than 1,300 Palestinians dead and... more..e-mail
West Bank settlers seize farmland south of Hebron
Ma’an News Agency 1/25/2009
Hebron – Ma’an – Israeli settlers flanked by soldiers seized new land south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday, Palestinian security sources said. Security officials in Hebron said that the settlers, from the nearby settlement Karmel, near... more..e-mail
Child casualties of Israel’s war on Gaza
Rory McCarthy, The Guardian 1/23/2009
Stories of 10 of the 280 or more children who died during the three-week military operation.Abdul Rahim Abu Halima, 14, was killed when his home was hit by an Israeli white phosphorus artillery shell in Atatra, in north-eastern Gaza, on... more..e-mail
Israel’s Message
Ilan Pappe, Palestine News Network 1/23/2009
In 2004, the Israeli army began building a dummy Arab city in the Negev desert. It’s the size of a real city, with streets (all of them given names), mosques, public buildings and cars. Built at a cost of $45... more..e-mail
Two homes occupied during Jayyous protest
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 1/23/2009
The weekly Friday demonstration against the Apartheid Wall in Jayyous was once again met with intense repression from Occupation forces. For several hours, soldiers occupied the rooftops of two houses in the village and fired tear gas, rubber bullets and... more..e-mail
Israeli troops attack Nil’in weekly protest against the wall
Salah Al Khawajjah, International Middle East Media Center News 1/23/2009
Scores of Palestinians from the village of Nil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, On Friday, conducted a protest against the illegal Israeli wall being built on the village’s land by the Israeli... more..e-mail
Three injured during the Bil’in Weekly Demonstration
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 1/23/2009
Residents of Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, gathered after Friday prayers in an act of solidarity with the people of Gaza, insisting that the village is still resisting the wall and settlement building... more..e-mail
Demonstrator hospitalized after Israeli forces fire on Bil’in demonstrators
Ma’an News Agency 1/23/2009
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Hundreds of Palestinians joined a peaceful march for Palestinian unity and against the Israeli attacks on Gaza in the West Bank village of Bil’in on Friday. Three people were injured. One person, Khames Fathi Aburahma, was hospitalized after... more..e-mail
Al Ma’ssara village protest the Israeli wall near Bethlehem
IMEMC News & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 1/23/2009
On Friday, scores of villagers from al-Ma’ssara, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, suported by international peace activists, protested the illegal Israeli wall being built on the village’s lands. The demonstrators called for... more..e-mail
Israeli troops overrun village near Ramallah
Ma’an News Agency 1/23/2009
Ramallah - Ma’an - Israeli troops overran a village near the northern West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday at dawn, witnesses said. Ma’an’s correspondent also reported that more than 30 Israeli military vehicles overran Ni...
This Week in Palestine -Week 04 2009
Ghassan Bannoura - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center News 1/23/2009
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || 10 m 0s || 9. 15 MB ||This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www. imemc. org, for January 11th 2009 through to January 23ed 2009... more..e-mail
Barak: ’This is the time for drastic budgetary expansion’
Ora Coren, Ha’aretz 1/23/2009
This is the time for immediate, drastic expansion [of the budget], without any stops, for investments in infrastructure and research and development, and for retraining workers and creating growth for the stage after the crisis," said defense minister and Labor... more..e-mail
In Gaza, love is the strongest weapon
Kathy Kelly writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Electronic Intifada 1/21/2009
18 January 2009
Late last night, a text message notified us that the Israeli government was very close to declaring that they would stop attacking Gaza for one day. Shortly before midnight, we heard huge explosions, four in a row... more..e-mail
Sacrosanct State and Complacent West
Jeremy Salt – Ankara, Palestine Chronicle 1/20/2009 Attack on UN school in Gaza. Merkel: ’Thousands of (Israelis) are living in fear.’’Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided.’ -- Barrack Obama ’I’ve been to... more..e-mail
Four Palestinians injured in Ni’lin
Saed Bannoura & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 1/21/2009
Hundreds of residents and international peace activists held on Wednesday a protest in Nil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and chanted slogans against the Annexation Wall and the Israeli assaults against the Gaza Strip... more..e-mail
Zion Oil and Gas completes share offering in US
Globes' correspondent, Globes Online 1/21/2009
The company explores for oil and gas between Tel Aviv and Haifa. Zion Oil & Gas Inc. (AMEX:ZN ) has raised $2. 49 million on Wall Street. The funding was the third of three stages, in which it raised a total... more..e-mail
’Legal’ weapons also kill
Amira Hass, Ha’aretz 1/21/2009
The weapons and ammunition that killed the brothers Kassab and Ibrahim Shurab, aged 28 and 17, were legal. But apart from the weapons and ammunition, was there anything legal about killing them? On Friday, January 16, the two were driving... more..e-mail
Gunmen fire at IDF troops in 2 incidents
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 1/20/2009
Force fired on near Gaza border, south of Kissufim crossing; 40 minutes later, gunmen shoot at another Israeli force in central Strip. No injuries reported. Meanwhile, army begins pulling out last forces from Strip. Reservists released, regular brigades remain in... more..e-mail
Amid dust and death, a family’s story speaks for the terror of war
Rory McCarthy in Zeitoun, The Guardian 1/19/2009 48 members of the Samouni family were killed in one day when Israel’s battle with Hamas suddenly centred on their homesHelmi Samouni knelt yesterday on the floor of the bedroom he once shared with his... more..e-mail
Home closure in East Jerusalem
Maisa Abu Ghazaleh, Palestine News Network 1/19/2009
Jerusalem - In a measured move the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem municipality sent workers on Monday to close the family home of Abu Ala’ Adehim. He was one of two young men involved in an attack on a yeshiva for leaders in... more..e-mail
PHOTOS - Meet Ni’lin - 'This is normality'
Palestine Monitor, Palestine Monitor 1/19/2009 Palestine Monitor’s Photographer spent three weeks in the little town of Ni’lin, South of Ramallah, sadly famous for its fate following the building of the Appartheid Wall. - For 8 months, the residents of Ni’lin have held... more..e-mail
Graffiti at Tel Aviv University: Barak a murderer
Yaheli Moran Zelikovich, YNetNews 1/19/2009
TAU slated to host defense minister as part of Student Union activities. Political activists made particularly unfriendly reception for Barak - An uninviting reception was scrawled on the walls of Tel Aviv University’s Law Department for Defense Minister Ehud... more..e-mail
No honeymoons in Gaza
Eva Bartlett writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Electronic Intifada 1/17/2009
16 January 2009, 5:11pm
Wael Selmi displayed a surprising kindness and welcome -- you are welcome any time -- given that his life’s work had just been leveled by the invading Israeli army. Even more surprising, given that the... more..e-mail
Families targeted
Saleh Al-Naami, Al-Ahram Weekly 1/15/2009
Israel is using weapons of mass destruction to take out ordinary families in Gaza, reportsClockwise from top: Palestinians mourn the death of one of their relatives, killed during the Israeli strikes, at the local cemetery in Gaza City; Palestinian families... more..e-mail
Man loses sons during 'lull'
PNN, Palestine News Network 1/18/2009
Gaza - During the three hour lull that Israeli forces had agreed to for the United Nations to receive humanitarian aid, they shot a family. Friday afternoon’s case was not the first and not the last. Sixty four year... more..e-mail
Summary execution in southern West Bank
PNN, Palestine News Network 1/18/2009
Hebron -- During the killing of over 1,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the demonstrations against them the occupation remains in the West Bank. This week a family lost their father in Hebron. Yasser Saqr Ismail Tameizi had his six... more..e-mail
Israel begins pulling troops from Gaza; soldiers say ’could have done more’
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 1/18/2009
Infantrymen leaving Gaza pursuant to Saturday’s cabinet decision think cessation of operation too hasty, say IDF could have and should have crushed Hamas will to shoot rockets at Israel - Cleared for publication: The IDF began pulling some of... more..e-mail
Ramzi Shouhki, checkpoint baby
Maisa Abu Ghazaleh, Palestine News Network 1/18/2009
Jerusalem -- Mirvat Shouhki holds the Israeli-issued blue identification card meaning Jerusalem. Her husband holds green, by which the Israelis mean West Bank. Her new born will soon be issued an identity. Baby Ramzi Shouhki will be deemed ’blue’... more..e-mail
West Bank Stands Strong Against Increased Repression
Stop The Wall 1/18/2009
For the third week in a row, intense demonstrations were held all across the West Bank on Friday, with thousands of people coming out to protest the Occupation’s strategy of annihilation in Gaza. Once again, Occupation forces used brutal tactics... more..e-mail
Ongoing attacks on hospitals and medical equipment in Gaza
Palestine News Network 1/17/2009
Polly Basak for PNN -- Three hospitals were attacked on the same day in the Gaza Strip where Israeli forces disregard the Fourth Geneva Convention which prohibits targeting medical facilities, ambulances and personnel. Since the major attacks began on 27 December... more..e-mail
Israel to annex lands from Bethlehem villages in order to expannd Gush Azion settlement Bloc
Saed Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 1/17/2009
The Israeli army decided to annex lands from the Palestinian villages of Husan and Nahhalin, near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, in order to expand the illegal Gush Azion settlement bloc. The decision, sighed by Noam Tibon, the general... more..e-mail
IDF strike hits UN school, killing mother, two children
Avi Issacharoff, Ha’aretz 1/18/2009
The Israel Defense Forces yesterday fired on a Gaza building owned by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees, killing one woman and her two children. The facility, a school, was hit in the morning, as the... more..e-mail
Flags of silence, nonviolent resistance in Ramallah
Palestine News Network 1/17/2009
Ramallah -- After Friday prayers in western Ramallah’s Bil’in Village, residents gathered as they do every week to protest Israeli occupation. Yesterday the focus was on the Gaza Strip with members of the nonviolent resistance wearing the... more..e-mail
Abu Bakker: Israel still seeks to bury the PLO
Ma’an News Agency 1/17/2009
Ramallah – Ma’an – As Israel’s attacks in Gaza continue to draw the world’s attention their policy of Judaizing Palestinian East Jerusalem continues, said member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Najat Abu Bakker said in Ramallah on Saturday. Bakkar reminded the... more..e-mail
Five injured and dozens suffered teargas inhalation during the Bil’in Weekly Demonstration
Abdullah Abu Rahma - Coordinator of the Popular Committee to resist, International Middle East Media Center News 1/16/2009
On Friday midday the residents of Bil’in village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah demonstrated against the Israeli’s rejection of the international efforts for ceasefire. The residents of Bil’in today gathered after... more..e-mail
11 injured in the weekly protest of Ni’lin near Ramallah
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 1/16/2009
Scores of Palestinians from the village of Nil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, On Friday, conducted a protest against the illegal Israeli wall being built on the village land by the Israeli settlement and... more..e-mail
Troops attack a nonviolent protest near Bethlehem: two women injured
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 1/16/2009
Scores of villagers from AL Ma’ssara located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem conducted their weekly protest on Friday. The villagers gathered at the village entrance then marched towards their lands where the army is building... more..e-mail
This Week in Palestine -Week 03 2009
Ghassan Bannoura - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center News 1/16/2009
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file|| 14 m 0s || 12. 6 MB || This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www. imemc. org, for January 10th 2009 through to January 16th 2009... more..e-mail
Hundreds rally in Tulkarem, condemning ongoing Gaza attacks
Ma’an News Agency 1/16/2009
Tulkarem – Ma’an – Hundreds joined in condemning the Israeli massacres in Gaza on the streets of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank Friday, January 16, 2009The rally was organized by the Palestinian Islamic and national factions, and demonstrators took to the... more..e-mail
Silent protests in Bil’in condemn Israeli, American veto over international action
Ma’an News Agency 1/16/2009
Bethlehem - Ma’an - The regular Friday afternoon demonstration in Bil’in was symbolically silent this week, as the protesters wearing UN, EU, and Arab League flags marched gagged in protest of world silence on the Gaza massacres. The gags were shoes covered...
Women march in Ni’lin in solidarity with Gaza
Ma’an News Agency 1/15/2009
Ramallah – Ma’an – Hundreds of Palestinian women and schoolgirls marched against the Israeli invasion of Gaza in the West Bank town of Ni’lin on Thursday. The protesters carried Palestinian flags and denounced Israel’s killing of women and children in Gaza. The...
Court: No more wall separating Ashkenazim, Sephardim
Kobi Nahshoni Published, YNetNews 1/15/2009
Petition filed with High Court about more than a year ago after haredi school was suspected of ethnic discrimination. Judges rule courtyard wall separating Ashkenazi, Sephardic students must be taken down - After a year of deliberations, High Court Justices Edmond... more..e-mail
Expert: Worst drought in 80 years faces Israel
Zafrir Rinat, Ha’aretz 1/16/2009
Though there are still more than two months left in the rainy season, the writing is already on the wall: Expect another dry winter that will worsen the state of Israel’s water economy. To date, most parts of... more..e-mail
IDF soldier seriously hurt in anti-tank missile attack in Gaza
Anshel Pfeffer and Haaretz Service, Ha’aretz 1/15/2009
Seven Israel Defense Forces soldiers were wounded on Wednesday, one of them seriously, as Palestinian militants fired anti-tank missiles at Israeli paratroopers just outside Gaza City. One soldier sustained moderate wounds and five were lightly hurt as Israel’s... more..e-mail
Gaza sewage lagoons could collapse
IRIN, Electronic Intifada 1/13/2009
JERUSALEM (IRIN) - The Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) is concerned that waste water lagoons in the northern Gaza Strip could collapse due to the current fighting between Israel and Hamas.
"With Israel’s latest bombardment, there is a real risk... more..e-mail
MIDEAST: Anger Begins to Knock at the Borders
Mel Frykberg, Inter Press Service 1/14/2009
RAMALLAH, Jan 13(IPS) - A number of armed attacks have taken place on Israel’s borders with Palestinian territories in the last six days as Arab public anger over the death and destruction wrought on Gaza spills over from... more..e-mail
Soldier kills Palestinian gun-snatcher
Efrat Weiss, YNetNews 1/13/2009
Palestinian man succumbs to wounds in Hebron hospital after being shot by guard at IDF base - Shot and killed: A Palestinian man attempted to steal a weapon from a soldier stationed south of Mount Hebron on Tuesday. The soldier shot... more..e-mail
IDF soldier seriously hurt in Gaza, possibly by friendly fire
Haaretz Service, Ha’aretz 1/13/2009
Four Israel Defense Forces soldiers were wounded on Monday, one of them seriously, as Israeli forces pressed on into the 17th day of an offensive aimed at destroying Hamas terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. The four IDF paratroopers were... more..e-mail
America-Israel Cultural Foundation in danger of closing after Madoff losses
Noam Ben Ze'ev, Ha’aretz 1/13/2009
The Israeli cultural world was shocked to learn that a major supporter of the arts was substantially harmed in the Bernard Madoff scandal. The America Israel Cultural Foundation reportedly lost $30 million of its endowment after it was deposited in... more..e-mail
’Soon we’ll have nowhere left to run. Nowhere in Gaza is safe’
Fares Akram in Gaza city, The Independent 1/12/2009
We’ve left our home. Like 60,000 other Gazans, we’ve taken our belongings and fled. Once again, we’ve become displaced people. Soon, there will be nowhere to run to, since nowhere in Gaza is safe... more..e-mail
Israeli soldiers fire tear gas on village children protesting Gaza violence
Ma’an News Agency 1/11/2009
Ramallah – Ma’an – Children in Bil’in demonstrated Sunday in yet another act protest against the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip Sunday. The children rallied in solidarity with all the young in Gaza who have come under Israeli fire. Children wore... more..e-mail
Israeli troops ’shot at from Syria’
Al Jazeera 1/11/2009
Israeli troops in the occupied Golan Heights have come under small arms fire from Syria, Israeli military officials have said. No one was injured in the incident on Sunday, but it was been reported to the United Nations force that... more..e-mail
IDF soldiers come under fire at Syria border fence
Eli Ashkenazi and Yoav Stern, Ha’aretz 1/12/2009
A number of Israel Defense Forces soldiers came under cross-border fire on Sunday while working on the fence between Israel and Syria. There were no casualties in the incident, but the bullets struck a few vehicles on site. "In the... more..e-mail
Thousands of Jews rally against Hamas
Audrey Gillan, The Guardian 1/12/2009
The sign taped to the front of 10-month-old Ezra Wiesenberg read: "The IDF don’t hide behind me! Stop Hamas abuse of children shields. "Strapped to his mother Ann’s chest, Ezra and his family had travelled... more..e-mail
Dozens of people injured in Jayyous demonstration for Gaza and against the Wall
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 1/9/2009
Another mass demonstration was held in Jayyous on January 9th, with protesters coming out to denounce the Occupation’s strategy of annihilation in Gaza, as well as its ongoing theft of village land with the Apartheid Wall. Over 700... more..e-mail
Hitting the wall
Laurie King writing from Washington, DC, Electronic Intifada 1/10/2009
About a year ago, I had a vivid dream. Somewhere in the West Bank, on a hot and dusty day, I was standing with a news team filming a story at the Separation Wall. A correspondent with a microphone in... more..e-mail
West Bank protests grow as the massacre in Gaza continues
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 1/10/2009
The entire West Bank was once again mobilized on Friday, with tens of thousands of people coming out to protest the Occupation’s ongoing slaughter of the people of Gaza. Many of the demonstrations were met with intense violence... more..e-mail
Israeli soldiers open fire on stone-throwing demonstrators near Tulkarem
Ma’an News Agency 1/10/2009
Tulkarem – Ma’an – Stone-throwing Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Israeli soldiers at an Isreali electric fence in the village of Qiffin, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem. Head of the village council, Sa’eed Hersha, told Ma’an that Israeli forces fired...
Two Palestinians injured in clashes with the Israeli army in Hebron area
Ma’an News Agency 1/10/2009
Hebron – Ma’an – Two Palestinians were injured when clashed erupted between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli forces in and around the southern West Bank city of Hebron. One demonstrator was shot by a live bullet in theRas-A’rud neighborhood in the town of...
Fischer bows out of NY Fed race
News Agencies, Ha’aretz 1/11/2009
Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer took himself out of the running to replace Timothy Geithner as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, according to a report published Thursday by the Wall Street Journal. Last month, the... more..e-mail
Gaza offensive traumatises generation of children
Jonathan Cook - JERUSALEM, Middle East Online 1/9/2009
The four-storey building of the Community Mental Health Programme in Gaza City is damaged, its walls still standing but the offices of its 150 employees wrecked by an Israeli bombing raid last week.As Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants waited anxiously for... more..e-mail
Jenin resident stabs two Israelis in Tel Aviv and is detained by Israeli police
Ma’an News Agency 1/9/2009
Bethlehem - Ma’an - Israeli media reported Friday that a Jenin resident stabbed two Israelis in Tel Aviv on Hertzel Street, injuring the two lightly. Israeli authorities were concerned over how the Jenin resident travelled from Jenin to Tel Aviv, since barbed...
This Week in Palestine -Week 02 2009
Ghassan Bannoura - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center News 1/9/2009
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || 12 m 0s || 10. 9 MB ||This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www. imemc. org, for January 3rd 2009 through to January 9th 2009... more..e-mail
The village of al Ma’ssara protest the Israeli attacks on Gaza
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 1/9/2009
The villagers of Al Ma’ssara, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, protest the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza on Friday morning. The protest was organized at the lands owned by the villagers where Israeli is... more..e-mail
Rallies for Gaza across the West Bank; some erupt into clashes
Ma’an News Agency 1/9/2009
Tulkarem – Ma’an – Angry rallies took place all over the West Bank Friday, where West Bankers and international activists called for a stop to the Israeli violence in Gaza, and labeled Operation Cast Lead a massacre. In the Tulkarem area three... more..e-mail
The Israeli army attacks the weekly protest on Nil’in near Ramallah; five injured
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 1/9/2009
On Friday, Hundreds of Palestinians from the village of Nil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, conducted a protest against the illegal Israeli wall being built on the village land by the Israeli settlement and... more..e-mail
Bil’in demonstrators remind the world of the Holocaust
Eyad Burnat - Bil'in local committee, International Middle East Media Center News 1/9/2009
The residents of Bil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, gathered in a protest today after the Friday prayer. The protest was joined by Israel and international activists standing in solidarity with Palestinians and opposing... more..e-mail
A Music School Silenced in Gaza
Nadia Hijab, Middle East Online 1/8/2009
The day after the music school was hit (by Israel), its coordinator called each of the children and their parents to make sure they were safe, and also to assure them that the school would be repaired, restocked, and reopened... more..e-mail
Send in the dogs, the soldiers will eventually follow
Amira Hass, Ha’aretz 1/9/2009
Palestinians say Israeli soldiers remain in their tanks until the last minute before taking over a Gaza residence. "The soldiers don’t dare get out of the tanks and come into our homes - only after they send in dogs... more..e-mail
Bethlehem demonstrators rally for Gaza at Nativity Square
Ma’an News Agency 1/8/2009
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Demonstrators assembled in front of Bethlehem’s Nativity Church on Thursday to protest what some called Israeli "massacres" against children in the Gaza Strip. National and Islamic groups organized the demonstration, where protesters lifted flags and raised...
VIDEO - Popular protests against the annihilation of Gaza all over Palestine
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 1/8/2009
Mass demonstrations, vigils and protests in solidarity with Gaza have erupted all over Palestine. The call for an immediate end to the brutal massacre of Gaza, for national unity and the liberation of Palestine, have dominated the mobilization everywhere.
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Israeli soldiers fire tear gas at Bil’in women’s protest
Ma’an News Agency 1/8/2009
Ramallah - Ma’an - Dozens of Palestinian women suffered tear gas inhalation at a demonstration in Bil’in in support of the people of Gaza on Thursday. A group of women and children set out to demonstrate in the...
Venezuelans march over Gaza crisis
Al Jazeera 1/9/2009
Protesters have marched on the Israeli embassy in Venezuela, calling for an end to Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip. More than 1,000 demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and chanted slogans in support of Gaza outside the embassy in... more..e-mail
Israel’s Looming Catastrophe
Robert Parry, Middle East Online 1/6/2009
For the past three decades, Israel has charted a course that invites its own destruction by relying on two risky propositions: first, that it could extend its security perimeter beyond the reach of a devastating missile attack, and second, that... more..e-mail
Four of six IDF soldiers killed in Gaza were victims of friendly fire
Amos Harel, Ha’aretz 1/7/2009
Four Israel Defense Forces soldiers, who were killed in two separate incidents in the Gaza Strip on Monday, appear to have been killed by friendly fire, according to initial military investigations. Three soldiers from the Golani Brigade - Cpl. Yusuf Muadi... more..e-mail
Massive IDF firepower protects soldiers
Amos Harel, Ha’aretz 1/7/2009
The strategy of the Israel Defense Forces is to utilize tremendous firepower in order to protect the ground forces during the fighting in built-up areas, a senior officer explained to journalists yesterday. Speaking to the media through a secure telephone... more..e-mail
Report: Dozens dead in IDF strikes
Ali Waked, YNetNews 1/6/2009
Number of Palestinian citizens killed in Gaza increases dramatically, as UNWRA school sustains direct hit; at least 30 Palestinians evacuated from their homes die. Earlier, building in Zeitoun neighborhood collapses following bombing, some 13 people killed - Dozens of civilians killed... more..e-mail
Comment
Ran HaCohen - writer, teacher, Tel-Aviv University, International Middle East Media Center News 1/5/2009
Comparisons?"Ramallah is not Auschwitz. Israel is not the Third Reich. We have no death camps and we haven’t massacred one third of the Palestinian population in gas chambers. Therefore, everything we do is quite all right. We...
Gaza war diary: No restraint
Alan Fisher in southern Israel, Al Jazeera 1/5/2009
Driving along the road listening to Israeli radio, the programmes in this part of the world are suddenly and frequently interrupted by alerts. "Siren in Sderot, Siren in Sderot," says the woman with the deep voice in Hebrew. This is... more..e-mail
Jayyous rises up in support of Gaza
Stop The Wall 1/5/2009
In the latest of a series of demonstration organized in Jayyous by the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, over 800 people gathered to protest the Wall and to show their solidarity with the people of Gaza. January 2rd was the... more..e-mail
'They know no limits now'
Eva Bartlett writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Electronic Intifada 1/3/2009
In the haze of dust and smoke from the latest F-16 strike, a family self-evacuates. The dispatcher at the Jabaliya Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) receives call after call from terrified residents fleeing their homes. It’s a... more..e-mail
Humanity’s Stake in Gaza
The Jordan Times, MIFTAH 1/3/2009
Wasted time is always to be regretted. But in the Middle East, wasting time is also dangerous. Another year has now passed with little progress in bridging the divide between Palestinians and Israelis. The current air strikes on Gaza, and... more..e-mail
With the troops: ’This is a war that we have to fight’
Kim Sengupta, The Independent 1/5/2009
The tiny house at Sderot was all but destroyed by the rocket which struck at 8. 06am, punching a gaping hole through the roof. Diane Mosadi, a widow of 74 living alone, escaped with only minor injuries. The other homes... more..e-mail
Israeli animated war film ’Waltz with Bashir’ captures top U.S. critics’ award
Haaretz Service and Reuters, Ha’aretz 1/4/2009
In a surprise move, the National Society of Film Critics chose "Waltz With Bashir" as the year’s best film on Saturday. Other film associations had picked "Slumdog Millionaire," "Milk" or "Wall-E" for the category. Israeli director Ari Folman... more..e-mail
Sun: TASE rises despite Gaza escalation
Ron Steinblatt, Globes Online 1/4/2009
Africa-Israel, Israel Corp. and the banks all recorded rises But Migdal fell again. The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) rose today. The Tel Aviv 25 Index rose 1. 03% to 674. 24 points, the Tel Aviv 100 Index rose 1%... more..e-mail
Israel invades Gaza: Heavy fighting as tanks cross border
Donald Macintyre and Kim Sengupta in Jerusalem, The Independent 1/4/2009
Israeli troops and tanks were engaged in heavy fighting with Hamas militants last night after Israel followed up its eight-day air assault on Gaza with a ground offensive. The attack, backed by military helicopters, had been preceded by a heavy... more..e-mail
Gaza: Propaganda, Perception, and Reality
William A. Cook, Palestine Chronicle 1/2/2009 ’How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be.’ -- (Oedipus Rex, Scene I)As the Israeli military launched an "all out war" with Hamas in the Gaza strip, as casualties mounted to 400 dead and another 1450... more..e-mail
Israeli troops move into Gaza Strip
Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters, The Independent 1/3/2009
Israeli troops backed by helicopters advanced into Gaza today, a Palestinian
witness and the Israeli army said, in the first ground action of an
eight-day offensive against Hamas in the Palestinian enclave.
The small column of military vehicles crossed the... more..e-mail
Israel tests anti-protest weapons on teenagers near Ramallah
Ma’an News Agency 1/2/2009
Bethlehem - Ma’an - In another demonstration on Friday in the village of Bil’in, Palestinian, international, and Israeli activists carried Palestinian flags and banners in a weekly march against the Israeli separation wall. . . . Israeli soldiers. . . apparently tested a... more..e-mail
Twenty injured as Israeli Army attacks demonstration in Nil’in village
Grace Welsh, International Middle East Media Center News 1/2/2009
At least 200 villagers from the village of Nil’in, located near the West Bank city of Ramallah, supported by Israeli and international peace activists, protested on Friday the illegal Israeli wall being built on the village land. The... more..e-mail
Al Ma’ssara village near Bethlehem protests the illegal Israeli wall
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 1/2/2009
On Friday morning, 50 protesters gathered at the entrance of Al Ma’ssara village, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem to protest the illegal Israeli wall. Israeli soldiers completely cordoned off the area with barbed wire... more..e-mail
Three injured in weekly protest in Bil’in
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 1/2/2009
As has been the case for the past four years, residents of Bil’in village, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, supported by Israeli and international peace activists, conducted on Friday their weekly protest against the... more..e-mail
’Anarchists’ block entrance to IAF base in protest of Gaza strikes
Ofri Ilani, Ha’aretz 1/3/2009
Twenty-one members of the "Anarchists Against the Wall" group were arrested Friday morning after they blocked the entrance to the Sde Dov Israel Air Force base in North Tel Aviv. The protestors, wearing white masks and covered in fake blood... more..e-mail
Photos from Rafah following Israeli air-strike - 30th December
International Solidarity Movement 1/2/2009
Gaza Region - Photos - These photos were taken on Tuesday 30th December in a residential neighbourhood of Rafah called Hi Alijnina, following an Israeli air strike at approximately 5. 00am local time. One house was totally destroyed and adjacent homes were...
This Week in Palestine -Week 01 2009
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 1/2/2009
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file|| 12 m 0s || 10. 9 MB || This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www. imemc. org, for December 27th 2008 through to January 2nd 2009... more..e-mail
Gaza leader at war with Israel -- and his own rivals
Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem, The Independent 1/3/2009
Ismail Haniyeh will hardly be encouraged to emerge from wherever he is hiding in Gaza by the bombing which killed his Hamas comrade Nizar Rayan and 19 others including 11 Rayanchildren on Thursday. Mr Haniyeh, who as de facto Prime... more..e-mail
Technion, Yeshiva University, Hadassah lower loss estimates in Madoff scandal
The Associated Press, Ha’aretz 1/3/2009
Yeshiva University, the American Technion Society and Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, this week released statements clarifying the losses they suffered in the wake of the Bernard Madoff affair. The three Jewish organizations that invested with... more..e-mail
Living under Israeli Fire
Ola Attallah – Gaza, Palestine Chronicle 1/1/2009
8217;I can’t feel anything any more. I have lost all my senses.’"Nobody dares to step out of the house," says an anguished Palestinian mother in the bombed-out Gaza Strip.The life of Abu Anas Al-Banna, his... more..e-mail
Israeli troops briefly enter Strip near Gaza City, clash with Hamas fighters, killing one
Ma’an News Agency 1/1/2009
Gaza - Ma’an - One activist was killed as Israeli troops entered the Gaza Strip east of Gaza City, but retreated shortly after they clashed with Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades. The Hamas-wing reported that Israeli troops entered the Strip briefly in the early...
Officials discuss compensation for workers in Gaza-area cities
Ruth Sinai, Ha’aretz 1/2/2009
Teams from the treasury, the Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry and the Histadrut labor federation met yesterday to discuss compensation for employees and employers in the communities surrounding the Gaza Strip. The conditions and terms will probably be similar to... more..e-mail
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