Strike paralyses West Bank
Al Jazeera 2/28/2009
A general strike to protest against Israel’s plans to evict 1,500 Palestinians from their homes in the Silwan district of Jerusalem has paralysed much of the occupied West Bank. Shops and schools were closed and the streets were... more..e-mail
Seeing the ruin of Gaza from the Ruins of Umm el-Jimal
Bert de Vries, Palestine News Network 2/28/2009
Jordan - On January 15 my wife and I sat in the guest room sipping tea with Abdullah Serour, the current sheikh of the Umm el-Jimal village in northeastern Jordan.I have been working in the area for over thirty years, among... more..e-mail
Bil’in resists the cancer of settlements and noxious gas
Kristen Ess, Palestine News Network 2/28/2009
Pouring rain, high winds, flooding to the north in Tulkarem’s Qaffin, and the heavy presence of Israeli soldiers wielding machine guns did not stop the Bil’in nonviolent resistance this week or any other.It has been four years, every Friday, that... more..e-mail
Khudari: Rebuilding Gaza can only start when crossings are opened
Palestinian Information Center 2/28/2009
GAZA, (PIC)-- Chairman of the Popular Committee Against the Siege (PCAS), MP Jamal al-Khudari, commended the stream of solidarity delegations arriving in the Gaza Strip, but stressed that these appreciated efforts should culminate in the opening of the border crossings... more..e-mail
Friday protests in solidarity with Silwan
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 2/28/2009
In spite of Friday’s stormy weather, villagers in Jayyous, Ni’lin and Bil’in held their weekly demonstration against the Wall. Several people were wounded, and one student in Jayyous was arrested. A mass demonstration also took place in Jerusalem to protest... more..e-mail
Soldiers kneecap 17 year old Khoza’a girl
Sharon Lock, Tales to Tell, ISM 2/27/2009
We went to see 17 year old Wafa Al Najar, who was shot yesterday, in Naser Hospital today in Khan Younis. In Palestinian tradition, both her family and neighbours were keeping her company. But they were able to do little... -- See also: Tales to Tell - From Gaza 2009more..e-mail
Sniping at the elderly in Khoza’a
Eva Bartlett In Gaza, ISM 2/27/2009
For 2 months, Walid Abu Arjela and his family haven’t dared to return to their land in Am Almad of Khoza’a village, east of Khan Younis, in the lethal Israeli-imposed “buffer zone”. The land in question, 550 m from the... -- See also: VIDEO - Sniping at the elderly in Khoza’amore..e-mail
Israeli forces shoot four demonstrators in Ni’lin
Ma’an News Agency 2/27/2009
Ramallah – Ma’an – Israeli soldiers shot four peaceful Palestinian protesters with rubber-coated metal bullets in the West Bank village of Ni’lin, near Ramallah on Frida. After the Friday Muslim prayer, the villagers staged their weekly demonstration against the Israeli separation wall... more..e-mail
Dozens suffered teargas inhalation duringthe Bil’in Weekly Protest
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 2/27/2009
The residents of Bil’in, near the central west Bank city of Ramallah marched towards the wall today after the Friday prayer, the protest was joined by Israeli and international activists. Protesters carried a huge banner with the flags... more..e-mail
Army attacks the weekly Nil’in protest injuring four
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 2/27/2009
Scores of villagers from Nil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, on Friday midday, held their weekly protest against the illegal Israeli wall being built on the village’s land. At noon, villagers along... more..e-mail
Bil’in protesters support transitional government, condemn Israeli home demolitions
Ma’an News Agency 2/27/2009
Bethlehem - Ma’an - Israeli and international activists joined Bil’in residents Friday in the weekly after-prayer protest against the continuing aggression, humiliation and violence being perpetrated against Palestinians. This week protesters showed solidarity with all political factions and carried a huge banner... more..e-mail
PA urges visiting US envoy to press Israel on Jerusalem demolitions
Ma’an News Agency 2/27/2009
Jericho – Ma’an – The Palestinian Authority (PA) urged the visiting United States envoy to halt an Israeli plan to demolish up to 90 Palestinian houses in Jerusalem and expel 1,500 residents on Thursday. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat raised this issue... more..e-mail
This Week in Palestine -Week 09 2009
Ghassan Bannoura - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center News 2/27/2009
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file|| 15 m 0s || 13. 7 MB || Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www. imemc. org, for February 21st through February 27th, 2009... more..e-mail
Eviction in Haifa
Maisa Abu Ghazaleh, Palestine News Network 2/27/2009
PNN exclusive -- A large police unit forcibly evicted the Abu Shimla family from Haifa this week, a city with a large Palestinian population within the boundaries of the Israeli state. The three-story home was the scene of a physical assault... more..e-mail
New Land Seizure Orders Issued During the Gaza Operation - February 2009
Americans For Peace Now, MIFTAH 2/26/2009
The Peace Now Settlement Watch Team latest report discloses that a number of new land seizure orders were issued during the Gaza operation, a number of these orders were related to the route of the separation fence.In most cases they... more..e-mail
Spray your tag on West Bank wall - long-distance
Jordan Times 2/25/2009
RAMALLAH (Reuters) - It could turn out to be the world’s longest graffiti space - the massive concrete barrier separating Israel from the Palestinians.Over the Internet, a group of Palestinian graffiti artists is offering to spray paint your personal message... -- See also: Send A Messagemore..e-mail
Trapped Between the Wall and the Green Line
Mel Frykberg, Inter Press Service 2/26/2009
RAMALLAH, Feb 26 (IPS) - "They started smashing down doors at 2am last Wednesday before moving through homes and destroying property," says the mayor of Jayyus, Muhammed Taher Shamasni."Residents were assaulted, money was stolen, computers confiscated, over 60 young men... more..e-mail
Israel seizes land in plan to encircle West Bank town with fence
Ma’an News Agency 2/26/2009
Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Israeli military has issued an order to confiscate farmland in order to build a 295-meter barbed-wire fence separating the West Bank town of Beit Ummar from an adjacent highway. According to the Beit Ummar’s municipal council... more..e-mail
Vigil marks anniversary of Baruch Goldstein massacre in Hebron
Ma’an News Agency 2/26/2009
Hebron – Ma’an – Palestinians and their international supporters held a vigil marking the 15th anniversary of the massacre of 33 Palestinians by an Israeli settler in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday. The demonstration took place near the fence... more..e-mail
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel says he cannot forgive Madoff
Ha’aretz 2/26/2009
Calling accused swindler Bernard Madoff a "crook, a thief, a scoundrel," Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel said on Thursday he could never forgive the man he says stole all of his foundation’s money - Wiesel... more..e-mail
In Jerusalem, ’Sinful’ city buses stoned by ultra-Orthodox Jews
The Independent, Palestine Monitor 2/26/2009
It is an all too familiar scene: the Israeli bus, travelling near predominantly Palestinian East Jerusalem, is pelted with stones that smash windows and startle passengers. Except this time the stone-throwers are not Arabs but Jews. The violence is part... more..e-mail
Israeli forces seize two teens from Jayyus
Ma’an News Agency 2/24/2009
Qalqilia – Ma’an – Israeli troops detained two teenagers from the West Bank village of Jayyus, near the city of Qalqilia, early on Thursday. Local sources told Ma’an that several Israeli vehicles invaded Jayyous at dawn and raided several houses, arresting Sa’ed...
Don’t get down on Durban II
John Boonstra, The Guardian 2/24/2009
By attending a planning session for the anti-racism summit, the US signals a welcome willingness to engage the world - To forestall any potential conniptions from those for whom "Durban II" conjures up all sorts of fervid demons, the US decision... more..e-mail
Behind the walls of Balata camp
Palestine Monitor, Palestine Monitor 2/23/2009
The Balata Refugee Camp near Nablus is the largest refugee camp in the West Bank by population—but it is the smallest in size. Today, 20-25,000 people live in a camp which is one square kilometer in size. The... more..e-mail
420 acres of Bethlehem taken as 'state land' for settlement expansion
Ben White, Palestine News Network 2/23/2009
It is quite likely that you have not heard of the most important developments this week in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the West Bank, while it has been "occupation as normal", there have been some events that together should be... more..e-mail
Photo Story - Bil’in: four years of nonviolent resistance
Palestine Monitor, Palestine Monitor 2/23/2009
Bil’in was just an ordinary Palestinian village until four years ago when the villagers decided to organize weekly nonviolent protests against the construction of the Apartheid Wall and the confiscation of their lands. Since then Bil’in... more..e-mail
Change in Qalqilya Wall route affects five communities
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 2/23/2009
Occupation forces have announced that the route of the Wall in the Qalqilya district will be modified. This change will affect the southern area, around the Alfe Menashe settlement, cutting off massive amounts of land from three villages and ensuring... more..e-mail
The Separate and Unequal Rule
Nadia W. Awad, MIFTAH 2/23/2009
Israel has managed to do it again. Somehow, they have twisted a distressing event around completely and made themselves look like saints in the process. They have come out looking like the good Samaritans, while making life even more unbearable... more..e-mail
Decommissioning the arms trade
Andrew Beckett, The Guardian 2/23/2009 When government agencies cloak arms exports to Israel in secrecy, we have a moral and legal right to prevent their damage.During the night of January 17 2009, the last day of the Israeli attack on Gaza, six... more..e-mail
Remove Our Grandmother’s Name from the Wall at Yad Vashem
Michael Neumann and Osha Neumann, Counterpunch, Palestine Monitor 2/23/2009 To the President of the State of Israel and the Director of the Yad Vashem MemorialFollowing the example of Jean-Moise Braitberg, we ask that our grandmother’s name be removed from the wall at Yad Vashem... more..e-mail
Adjusted separation wall’s route isolates five Qalqiliya villages
Ma’an News Agency 2/23/2009
Qalqiliya – Ma’an – The route of the Israeli separation wall south of Qalqilia in the northern West Bank was adjusted to separate five Palestinian villages of Ras Tira, Wadi Ar-Rasha, Ad-Dab’a, Ar-Ramadin and Abu Farda Bedouin hamlets. According to Hadil Haneiti... more..e-mail
IDF thwarts attack near Kissufim
Ali Waked, YNetNews 2/23/2009
Soldiers spot Palestinians attempting to plant explosive device near border fence, while assault helicopter opens fire at suspicious vehicle approaching fence. Shortly afterwards, Qassam rocket hits open area near Sderot - IDF says thwarted attack against its forces on Gaza Strip... more..e-mail
Isolation looms for Ni’lin and surrounding villages
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 2/22/2009
In Ni’lin Occupation forces uprooted 25 olive trees for the construction of the Karyat Safer terminal, precipitating clashes between soldiers and the people of the village. The construction of the Wall and terminal will completely isolate Ni’lin and five other... more..e-mail
New path of apartheid wall gobbles up more fertile lands in Qalqilia
Palestinian Information Center 2/22/2009
QALQILIA, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority has started recently to put marks across the lands of the Palestinian village of Wadi Al-Rasha, south of Qalqilia city, in preparation to modify the path of the apartheid, separation wall in the area... more..e-mail
Qassam hits open area in Negev
Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 2/22/2009
Rocket alert system activated at around 9:10 am Sunday in Sderot, nearby communities. Qassam explodes near border fence in Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council; no injuries or damage reported - A Qassam rocket exploded Sunday morning in an open... more..e-mail
Homemade projectile hits western Negev; no injuries
Ma’an News Agency 2/22/2009
Bethehem – Ma’an – A homemade projectile fired from northern Gaza struck near the separation barrier at Israel’s border, according to a Hebrew newspaper. Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Sunday morning that the rocket struck an open area near the wall, within Sha’ar...
Durban II drafts: Israel is racist, occupying state
Shlomo Shamir, Ha’aretz 2/23/2009
Draft resolutions for the United Nations Durban II summit on racism brand Israel as an occupying state that carries out racist policies, Haaretz has learned. The resolutions appear to confirm concerns that the second World Conference Against Racism will be... more..e-mail
Israeli forces shoot four protesters at Ni’lin anti-wall demonstration
Ma’an News Agency 2/21/2009
Ramallah – Ma’an – Four protesters were injured in clashes that followed a peaceful demonstration against the Israeli separation wall in the West Bank city of Ni’lin on Friday. The demonstration proceeded from the village towards the lands that are slated to... more..e-mail
Friday protests continue despite week of raids and arrests
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 2/21/2009
Demonstrations continued in four villages this Friday, despite a week of invasions, raids and detentions aimed at crushing the popular resistance. Protests against the Wall were held in Jayyous, Ma’sara, Ni’lin and Bi’lin, where the people commemorated the fourth anniversary... more..e-mail
Six Palestinians wounded in Al-Khalil, Ramallah with IOF bullets
Palestinian Information Center 2/21/2009
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces used live bullets against Palestinian demonstrators in Beit Ummar, Al-Khalil district, and Bi’l’in, Ramallah district, wounding six of them, locals reported. IOF soldiers fired at the demonstrators in Beit Ummar hitting... more..e-mail
Return to Bil’in
Seth Freedman, The Guardian 2/21/2009
Four years on, nothing has changed in this West Bank village fighting the encroachment of Israeli settlers - Exactly two years ago, I made one of my first post-army forays into the West Bank, travelling to the village of Bil’... more..e-mail
PLO says it will cancel negotiations with a right-wing Israeli government
Ma’an News Agency 2/21/2009
Jericho – Ma’an – The Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) top negotiator told US officials on Saturday that it will not negotiate with an Israeli government that rejects the principle of a two-state resolution to the Middle East conflict. Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat... more..e-mail
U.S. weighing participation in ’Durban 2’ conference
Shlomo Shamir, Ha’aretz 2/22/2009
Draft proposals to be brought to the vote at April’s UN World Conference Against Racism in Geneva, Switzerland ("Durban 2") include references singling out Israel for criticism and denunciation as a state maintaining racist politics, say UN sources... more..e-mail
The real Israel-Palestine story is in the West Bank
Ben White, The Guardian 2/20/2009
It is quite likely that you have not heard of the most important developments this week in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the West Bank, while it has been "occupation as normal", there have been some events that together should be... more..e-mail
Hammouri: Israeli schemes to overtake Jerusalem are beyond our ability to combat alone
Maisa Abu Ghazaleh, Palestine News Network 2/20/2009
PNN exclusive - Director of the Jerusalem Center for Economic and Social Rights, Ziad Hammouri, said today that Israel has intensified the process of Judaizing the city of Jerusalem. While speaking with PNN he described the creation of a conclave through... more..e-mail
Rally marks 4 years of struggle against fence
Ali Waked, YNetNews 2/20/2009
Israeli security forces use tear gas against hundreds of protestors in Bilin who gathered to mark four years of struggle against separation fence. According to security forces, protestors threw stones. Protestors say some suffer from smoke inhalation - Hundreds of people... more..e-mail
Four injured at the Nil’in weekly protest
Ghassan Bannoura & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 2/20/2009
scores of villagers from Nil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah On Friday midday, held their weekly protest against the illegal Israeli wall being built on the village’s land. At noon, the Palestinians... more..e-mail
Fayyad joins protesters at weekly march against Israeli wall
Ma’an News Agency 2/20/2009
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayad visited the village of Bil’in on Friday, joining prayer services and expressing his solidarity with residents there. This visit was also times to join residents for their fourth anniversary, which marked the the... more..e-mail
Mortar barrage hits Negev; no injuries
Ilana Curiel, YNetNews 2/20/2009
About 10 mortar shells fired from Gaza hit open areas near western Negev communities shortly after 9:30 am; no injuries or damage reported. Earlier Friday Qassam rocket launched by Palestinian gunmen lands within Palestinian territory - A barrage of about... more..e-mail
This Week in Palestine -Week 08 2009
Ghassan Bannoura Audio, International Middle East Media Center News 2/20/2009
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file|| 13 m 0s || 11. 9 MB || This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www. imemc. org, for February 14th through February 20th 2009.
Egyptian-mediated truce... more..e-mail
Hamas refuses to free Israeli soldier in return for lifting Gaza blockade
Ian Black in Damascus, The Guardian 2/20/2009
Hamas has flatly rejected Israel’s demand that it free a captive soldier in return for lifting the blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian movement called instead for international pressure on Israel to force the borders open to... more..e-mail
Israel demands release of captured soldier in return for Gaza deal
Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem, The Guardian 2/19/2009
Egyptian mediators taken aback by new demand - Israel toughened its conditions for a ceasefire with Hamas yesterday, saying no deal could be reached before the Palestinian Islamist group freed an Israeli soldier captured nearly three years ago. In an unanimous... more..e-mail
Singing Martyrdom
Natalie Abu Shakra - Gaza, Palestine Chronicle 2/19/2009
8217;Raise your voice, raise your voice, raise it in your song! Songs are still possible, they are still possible!’"Please tell me how he was! How did you find him? Was his body still put together? Was it... more..e-mail
Resistance organizer to PNN: Israeli forces target Palestinian future
PNN, Palestine News Network 2/19/2009
Qalqilia - At sunset yesterday Israeli forces vacated the Jayyous school where they had interrogated youth from the Qalqilia Governorate town since the early morning. Youth Coordinator of the Stop the Wall Campaign Mohammad Othman told Thursday that 17 young people... more..e-mail
’I Will Never Vote for Corruption’
Mats Svensson, Palestine Chronicle 2/19/2009
He himself intended to vote for Hamas. "I am not religious," he said. "I don’t pray, I don’t fast. But I will vote for Hamas because we are sick of all the thieves, we are sick... more..e-mail
Obama’s Caterpillar Visit a Thumb in the Eye for Human Rights Activists
Stephen Zunes, ZNet 2/16/2009
Over the objections of church groups, peace organizations and human rights activists, President Barack Obama decided to return to Illinois to visit the headquarters of the Caterpillar company, which for years has violated international law, U.S. law and its own... more..e-mail
IAF strikes targets near Rafah
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 2/19/2009
Palestinian sources in Gaza say Israeli aircraft struck targets along Philadelphi route; earlier soldiers open fire at Palestinian trying to plant bomb along border fence; man lightly hurt, evacuated to Beersheba hospital; sources in Gaza say IDF operated in northern... more..e-mail
Construction ongoing at Jerusalem ’Museum of Tolerance’ built on Muslim cemetery
Ma’an News Agency 2/19/2009
Jerusalem – Ma’an – Israeli authorities have begun bulldozing portions of the Ma’aman Allah Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem, where the West Jerusalem municipality intends to build a museum. Fieldworkers form the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Islamic Waqf and Heritage visited the cemetery on... more..e-mail
Egged suspends service through Mea Shearim after buses damaged
Yair Ettinger, Ha’aretz 2/19/2009
Egged partially suspended several Jerusalem bus lines that pass through the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood Mea Shearim yesterday after residents threw stones at several buses and punctured their tires. Ultra-Orthodox youths demonstrated throughout the day to protest the bus company’s... more..e-mail
The left’s role must be in the streets
Yitzhak Laor, Ha’aretz 2/17/2009 It was only during Netanyahu’s term as prime minister that Israel did not embark on any operation of razing villages and towns, including killing civilians, like Operation Accountability (1993), Operation Grapes of Wrath (1996), the Second Lebanon... more..e-mail
The closure of Al Ram
Maisa Abu Ghazaleh, Palestine News Network 2/17/2009
PNN exclusive -- The occupying Israeli administration closed the only remaining passage of Dahiyat Barid between the Jerusalem suburb of Al Ram and the city. The northern town was a part of the city until the Wall was imposed down the... -- See also: Israel seizes West Bank landmore..e-mail
PLO official urges leaders to cut ties with Israel over settlement expansion
Ma’an News Agency 2/17/2009
Nablus – Ma’an – Palestinian leadership should stop contact with Israel until it stops expansion of illegal settlements and the separation wall in the West Bank, a senior official in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said on Tuesday. A member of the... more..e-mail
Gaza operation boosts news websites
Noa Parag, Globes Online 2/17/2009
TIM survey: 50% of surfers said that they spent more time online than usual during Operation Cast Lead. The fighting in Gaza sent hits on news websites surging, according to the TIM survey of weekly exposure rates for January 2009... more..e-mail
Market report / Ashot soars 85% on jet engines deal
Tal Levy, Ha’aretz 2/17/2009
Locally, the story of the day was Ashot Ashkelon, shares of which skyrocketed by 85%. Inside a week, the armaments maker has gained 390% after nabbing a 10-year contract to supply shafts for jet engines to an American aviation... more..e-mail
The Little Things That Pass Us By
Joharah Baker, MIFTAH 2/16/2009
Almost every word is linked to associations. In the case of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, people immediately think of fighting, Israeli settlements, perhaps the separation wall, when this term is mentioned. Images of rock throwing (or rocket firing) Palestinians are conjured... more..e-mail
Human Rights Watch sees signs of white phosphorus use in Gaza
Ashraf Khalil, Los Angeles Times 2/15/2009
On Jan. 24, a research team from Human Rights Watch visited Khozaa. Researcher Marc Garlasco, a weapons expert, examined the markings on the artillery shell that killed Hannan Najar. - Khozaa, Gaza Strip -- The reddish-brown scorch marks are still visible on... -- See also: VIDEO - Gaza: lives in ruinsmore..e-mail
Assad receives Saudi envoy
Middle East Online 2/16/2009
DAMASCUS - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad received Saudi intelligence chief Prince Meqrin bin Abdul Aziz on Sunday as the Arab rivals stepped up a rapprochement after a four-year estrangement.
Assad "received a message from King Abdullah on relations between the two... more..e-mail
New Settlement Approved East of the Apartheid Wall
Palestine Monitor, Palestine Monitor 2/14/2009
In 2006 Peace Now and Palestinian land owners petitioned the Israeli high court regarding the evacuation of the illegal outpost know as Migron. The high court finally heard the petition and in 2007 Ehud Olmert gave the defense Ministry two... more..e-mail
300 Israeli settlers under military guard invade Artas village in Bethlehem
Palestinian Information Center 2/14/2009
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- About 300 Israeli settlers escorted by IOF troops and border guards invaded Friday several areas in the Artas village, south of Bethlehem, and set up several tents on these areas which are threatened with annexation. This Israeli... more..e-mail
On a world so indifferent
Assem El-Kersh, Al-Ahram Weekly 2/12/2009
The next carnage in Gaza may just be around the corner unless the Arabs understand why the world is always letting them down. Have we forgotten Gaza in such a short space of time? That is, except for some residual... more..e-mail
Roadside bomb, Grad rocket disrupt calm in south
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 2/15/2009
Explosive device set off against IDF troops patrolling fence along Gaza border after Grad lands in Hevel Yave region without setting off alarm - The Homefront Command on Saturday established a committee to investigate an apparent malfunction in the rocket alert... more..e-mail
Marking Four Years of Nonviolence
Palestine Monitor, Palestine Monitor 2/14/2009
A commemorative protest, marking the four year anniversary of Bil’in’s weekly resistance against the construction of the Apartheid Wall and the confiscation of Palestinian lands, will take place next Friday after the Noon prayer. Palestine Monitor...
Investigators focus on possible Madoff accomplices
Stephen Foley in New York, The Independent 2/14/2009
The FBI has begun questioning low-level employees as it seeks to build a full picture of Mr Madoff’s operations and of which senior staff had the greatest access to the Wall Street grandee’s inner circle. Mr... more..e-mail
Journalists capturing nonviolent Palestinian resistance targets of Israels
Ramallah, Palestine News Network 2/13/2009
PNN exclusive -- Western Ramallah began the weekly nonviolent demonstration in honor and memorial of Mohammad Qasim and Arafat Khawaja who were killed by Israeli forces during previous protests against occupation. The small town of Na’lin has made a... more..e-mail
Teargas, rubber-coated bullets fired during weekly Bil’in protest
Ma’an News Agency 2/13/2009
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Residents of the Ramallah-area village of Bil’in gathered again on Friday after prayers in a protest joined by international and Israeli activists and groups. The protesters carried Palestinian flags and banners calling to stop “crimes against... more..e-mail
15 injured among them journalists during Nil’in weekly protest
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 2/13/2009
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
No rest for the nonviolent resistance movement: S Bethlehem, Amherst, Tulkarem
Kristen Ess, Palestine News Network 2/13/2009
This week’s demonstration went on in southern Bethlehem’s Umm Salamua despite the presence of hundreds of settlers on nearby Artas Village’s Mount Abu Zrour. Israeli violations are omnipresent in the West Bank and therefore... more..e-mail
Too early? Kadima throws ’victory party’
Amir Mizroch, Jerusalem Post 2/11/2009
The outer wall at Kadima headquarters in Petah Tikva’s industrial zone is still adorned with a very large poster of the party’s founder, Ariel Sharon, but that could change soon.
Inside the bustling building on Tuesday... more..e-mail
40 dumums bulldozed in Masha village
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 2/9/2009
February9th, 2009 Occupation forces bulldozed 40 dunums of land isolated behind the Wall in Masha. 100 olives trees were also cut down, in what appears to be the beginnings of settlement infrastructure development in the area.
In mid-January, bulldozers arrived... more..e-mail
Ma’an’s Nasser Lahham calls on Palestinian leadership to act on seperation wall issue
Ma’an News Agency 2/9/2009
Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Palestinian leadership must decide whether the Israeli separation wall can stay or whether it must be demolished, said Ma’an’s Chief Editor Nasser Lahham in Ni’lin on Sunday. Lahham’s remarks came at a conference organized by the Popular... more..e-mail
PFLP-GC urges end to incitement among Palestinian groups
Ma’an News Agency 2/9/2009
Ramallah – Ma’an – Isma’il As’ad, a political official with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC), urged Palestinian political factions to end incitement against one another. The PFLP-GC said that dialogue is the only solution to the... more..e-mail
Shas: Lieberman to legalize civil marriage
YNetNews 2/9/2009
Religious party slams Rightist leader’s visit to Western Wall, claims he will ’open pork stores’ - After waging a long battle against the ultra-Orthodox parties, Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem on... more..e-mail
The resistance option
Robin Yassin-Kassab, Electronic Intifada 2/8/2009
Hamas isn’t Hizballah and Gaza isn’t Lebanon. The resistance in Gaza -- which includes leftist and nationalist as well as Islamist forces -- doesn’t have mountains to fight in. It has no strategic depth. It doesn... more..e-mail
Venezuela arrests 11, including 7 cops, over synagogue attack
Reuters, Ha’aretz 2/8/2009
Venezuelan investigators on Sunday said seven police agents and four civilians were arrested in connection with an attack on a synagogue that sparked international condemnation. The Venezuelan public prosecutor’s office said the civilians included at least one security... more..e-mail
Property tax receipts fall sharply
Ariel Rosenberg, Globes Online 2/8/2009
Tax Authority: Property tax revenues on real estate deals totaled NIS 322 million in January 2009. The global crisis is also affecting new and second-hand deals for residential and income-producing properties in Israel. Israel Tax Authority figures for January 2009...
The Israeli army storms the village of Bil’in and attack two journalists
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 2/8/2009
Israeli soldiers attack the village of Bil’in near the central West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday midnight. Witnesses told IMEMC that Israeli soldiers searched a number of homes, when Haytham Al Khateeb and Samir Nazal, two local journalists, tried...
Jayyous under attack this week: olive trees destroyed, demonstrators shot
Mohammad Othman, Palestine News Network 2/6/2009
Jayyous - Since Thursday evening the village of Jayyous has been the site of intense repression at the hand of Israeli forces who have been firing tear gas, rubber coated steel bullets and live ammunition at villagers. On Friday afternoon there... more..e-mail
Israelis impose curfew, detain four in northern West Bank
Ma’an News Agency 2/6/2009
Qalqiliya - Ma’an - Israeli forces imposed a curfew on Thursday night in the northern West Bank town of Jayous, near Qalqiliya, according to witnesses. Four Palestinians were detained by Friday morning, sources said. Palestinians in the area told Ma’an...
Two injured and dozens inhale teargas at weekly Bil’in demonstration
Ma’an News Agency 2/6/2009
Bethlehem - Ma’an - Two Palestinians were injured as the residents of Bil’in and several international activists participated in the weekly demonstration against the Israeli siege on Gaza, occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the continued building of settlements... more..e-mail
Local organizer in nonviolent resistance arrested
Najib Faraj, Palestine News Network 2/6/2009
PNN exclusive -- Demonstrations went on throughout the West Bank on Friday in protest of Israeli occupation. This week at the anti-Wall and settlement march in southern Bethlehem Israeli forces arrested a major figure in the local nonviolent resistance. The President... more..e-mail
Israeli troops attack a nonviolent protest near Bethlehem and detain two
International Middle East Media Center News 2/6/2009
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 towards the location...
Two people shot and olive threes uprooted during the weekly demonstration
International Middle East Media Center News 2/6/2009
On Friday around 200 youth from Jayyous organized the weekly demonstration after the Friday prayer. The youth marched to the South Gate, protesting against the new path of the Apartheid Wall. As always the Israeli soldiers tried to stop the...
Israeli army take 13-year-old from outside home near Tulkarem
Ma’an News Agency 2/6/2009
Tulkarem – Ma’an- Israeli forces took a Palestinian boy from Ash-Shuweikah near Tulkarem after invading the northern suburb which abuts the separation wall on Friday. Palestinian Security sources identified the boy as 13-year-old Ahmad A’dnan Ash-Sheikh Yousef. He was taken...
This Week in Palestine -Week 06 2009
Ghassan Bannoura - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center News 2/6/2009
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || 13 m 0s || 11. 9 MB ||This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www. imemc. org, for January 31st through to February 6th 2009.
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The limits of the Spanish 'Left' on its defence of the Palestinian people
Ángeles Diez - Translated by Manuel Talens, revised by Mary Rizzo, Palestine Think Tank 2/5/2009
During the current Israeli aggression to Gaza both the Spanish Left and Right have built linguistic fences to position themselves around the problem. The case of the Spanish institutional Left is without any doubt paradigmatic: on one side there a... more..e-mail
Soldiers shoot Palestinian with grenade
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 2/5/2009
IDF patrol shoots Palestinian approaching border fence with hand grenade after firing warning shots -IDF forces prevented an attack by a Palestinian man Thursday by firing shots that apparently killed the assailant. The Palestinian approached the border fence in southern... more..e-mail
Israeli troops assassinate a Palestinian resistance fighter near Jenin
Saed Bannoura & Ali Samoudi & PNN, International Middle East Media Center News 2/5/2009
Early Thursday morning, Israeli forces assassinated 23 year old Aladdin Issam Abu Al Rub. Al Rub was a local leader of the al-Quds brigades, the armed resistance wing of the Islamic Jihad. Before dawn, Israeli Special Forces invaded the southwestern... more..e-mail
Across West Bank, villages hit with confiscation orders
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 2/4/2009
During the month of January, Palestinian villages across the West Bank were hit with a wave of confiscation orders. In the Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron districts, Occupation forces closed or confiscated land for the construction of new segments of the... more..e-mail
The Israel Lobby?
Noam Chomsky, Palestine Chronicle 2/3/2009
8217;Do the energy corporations fail to understand their interests, or are they part of the Lobby too?’I’ve received many requests to comment on the article by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (henceforth M-W), published in... more..e-mail
Israeli kidnaps five young men from the village of Bil’in near Ramallah
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 2/4/2009
Five young men from the village of Bil’in located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah were kidnapped on Wednesday by the Israeli military. Troops stormed the village then raided several houses and searched them. During the...
Gaza artist exhibits on war-scorched walls
Middle East Online 2/4/2009
GAZA CITY - Ghoulish blue figures reach skyward towards an elusive red spiral in an abstract rendering of Gaza life hung in the ruins of a cultural centre bombed and torched during the Israeli offensive.
The paintings hang in the scorched... more..e-mail
Home demolitions rise in East Jerusalem, Four houses destroyed, 12 more scheduled to be demolished
Maisa Abu Ghazaleh - Palestine News Network PNN, International Middle East Media Center News 2/3/2009
With the escalation of demolitions of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, Khader Dibs issued a condemnation of the Israeli-controlled Municipality. As Chairman of the Popular Committee against the Wall in Jerusalem, Dibs told PNN today, "the Israeli occupation authorities have... more..e-mail
Home demolitions rise in East Jerusalem, 4 destroyed with 12 listed as next
Maisa Abu Ghazaleh, Palestine News Network 2/3/2009
PNN exclusive -- With the escalation in demolitions of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, Khader Dibs issued a condemnation of the Israeli-controlled Municipality. As Chairman of the Popular Committee against the Wall in Jerusalem, Dibs told PNN today, "The Israeli occupation... more..e-mail
Israeli Authorities demolish a Palestinian owned garage and a warehouse in Jerusalem
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 2/3/2009
The Israeli municipality of Jerusalem demolished on Tuesday a Palestinian owned bus garage and a warehouse for construction materials. The bus garage is owned by the Abu Dayah family, Palestinian family in Jerusalem that runs a tourism buses company, the... more..e-mail
IOA demolish four Palestinian homes in Jerusalem
Palestinian Information Center 2/3/2009
OCCUPIED JERUSASLEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority has ordered the demolition of four Palestinian homes in Wadi Al-Joz suburb and Shafat refugee camp in the occupied city of Jerusalem, alleging that those homes were close to the apartheid wall. According... more..e-mail
E1 settlement project ongoing, Israel invested 200 M. NIS for settlement construction
Saed Bannoura & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 2/1/2009
Israel is ongoing with the infrastructure work, which includes roads and homes in the so-called E1 area, in east Jerusalem in order to impose its own vision of any future peace deal by disconnecting geographical contiguity of the Palestinian territories... more..e-mail
’Scared to be identified as Jews’
Yedioth Ahronoth, YNetNews 2/1/2009
A. , a Jewish woman living in Istanbul, writes of difficulties faced by Jews following rising anti-Semitism in Turkey in wake of Gaza op - "Me and my friends in the Jewish community in Istanbul are scared to give out our names... more..e-mail
Chavez condemns Caracas synagogue attack
Reuters, YNetNews 2/2/2009
Venezuelan president suggests anti-Semitic vandalism plotted by opposition leaders to tarnish his socialist revolution - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday condemned an Israel,
suggesting it was plotted by opposition leaders to tarnish his self-styled socialist revolution.
Armed men broke into... more..e-mail
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