Hebron: More detentions and home occupation update
International Solidarity Movement 3/27/2007
More detentions and update on home occupation by Israeli settlers -- The settlers have worked very quickly and through the nights, despite the still outstanding High Court decision on the legality of their occupation of the Palestinian house, to install electricity... more..
Near neighbours worlds apart in West Bank
ReliefWeb 3/26/2007
GIVON HA’HADASHA, West Bank, March 26 (Reuters) - A deep trench gouged along the planned route of an Israeli barrier cuts Sabri al-Ghorayeb’s house off from the Palestinian village where his relatives live. His other neighbours are... more..
Médécins Sans Frontières providing drinking water to the evacuated villagers of stricken Um Nasser
Ma’an News Agency 3/28/2007
Bethlehem - The international aid agency, Médécins Sans Frontières (MSF), has been providing drinking water to the population of Um Nasser, whose homes were flooded with waste water when the wall of a cesspool collapsed on Tuesday.MSF said in a press... more..
Land Day Demonstrations, This Friday & Saturday, March 30-31
International Solidarity Movement 3/27/2007
This Friday, March 30th, marks the 31st Anniversary of Land Day, a day commemorating the killing of six Palestinians in the Galilee on March 30, 1976 by Israeli troops during peaceful protests over the confiscation of Palestinian lands. Land Day... more..
Water rights expert: Israel must compensate for theft of Palestinian water
Palestine News Network 3/27/2007
Dr. Fadiyah Deibs is calling for the United Nations to put an end to the Israeli siege on Palestinian water sources. The Israelis control the Palestinian water supply and therefore the Palestinians have no rights in this regard, said the... more..
Despite frequent warnings, an environmental disaster hits the Bedouin Village, wall of sewage water basin collapses killing four
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights 3/27/2007
The wall of a sewage water basin located on a hill in north-east of the Bedouin Village in north Gaza collapsed today creating a flood. The disaster resulted in the death of four - two women and two children - and caused... more..
Catastrophe in Gaza: flood of sewage kills six, numbers rising
Ma’an News Agency 3/27/2007
Gaza - At least six Palestinians have died and many others have been injured when a pool of sewage burst its banks near the Bedouin village of Um An-Nasir in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning. The rescue operation is... more..
VIDEO - Welcome To Inspection Point (2/3)
Electronic Intifada 3/27/2007
Video, Domhan Eile Media Project, 27 March 2007 -- Israel has occupied the West Bank and Gaza for 39 years. In 1948, 900,000 Palestinians were expelled from present day Israel. Their six million descendants live in refugee camps in the West... -- See also: YouTube video link
Parents of Palestinian girl killed by IDF in December sue state
Ha’aretz 3/27/2007
The parents of a Palestinian child who was shot dead by IDF soldiers near Tul Karm in December have filed a compensation suit against the state.The father of 14-year-old Doaa Abd al-Qadr, who has been in police custody on... more..
Amnesty Calls on Arab Leaders to Press for an International Force in Palestine
International Middle East Media Center 3/27/2007
Amnesty International has called on the Arab leaders, ahead of their due summit meeting in Saudi Arabia Wednesday, to lobby for the deployment of an international monitoring force across the occupied Palestinian territories.The statement maintained that this force should be... more..
Threat to Al Aqsa Mosque greater than ever after media and critics swayed by Israeli campaign
Palestine News Network 3/17/2007
A prominent Jerusalem cartographer reported Saturday, “The demolition and excavation that began at Moroccans Gate would allow Israelis and extremist Jews free access to the courtyard of Al Aqsa Mosque while it restricts freedom of movement and access to the... more..
Students in Beirut mobilize against the Apartheid Wall
Stop The Wall 3/22/2007
From the 12th to the 15th of March, students at the American University of Beirut (AUB) organized a three day campaign to make the Apartheid Wall, its reality, political meaning and effects on the ground better known on their campus.A... more..
Photo exhibit continues in Ramallah: At the Checkpoint
Palestine News Network 3/27/2007
The photos hang along the wire outside the checkpoint, stopping people in their tracks who connect with the artist’s rendition of their own suffering. Palestinian photographer Khaled Jarrar’s photos continue to hang at a checkpoint in... more..
Twilight Zone / Dress Code
By Gideon Levy, Palestine Chronicle 3/26/2007
i>Psychiatrist Dr. Yaakov Elish of the Be’er Yaakov Mental Health Center, who examined the prisoner for the High Court, wrote: "In the wake of distress over imprisonment, he has developed a depressive response with tendencies to self-injury... more..
Teenager severely beaten and then placed under house arrest
Palestine News Network 3/26/2007
Fadi Shqerat is a 17 year old boy from Sawahre in East Jerusalem who Israeli soldiers beat so severely on 12 February his leg is broken. He is not allowed to leave home, accused of throwing stones. During the height... more..
Israeli settlers kill man in northern West Bank
Palestine News Network 3/26/2007
Northern West Bank residents near Nablus feared the worst when 51 year old shepherd, Mohammed Hamdan Ibrahim Masjid, did not come home last night. He had taken his flock out early Sunday, but most of them had returned by the... more..
Hamas fighter killed during training in the Gaza Strip
International Middle East Media Center 3/27/2007
The Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, stated on Monday at night that one of its fighters was killed during training in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The brigades identified the fighter as...
US Secretary General meets president Abbas in Ramallah
International Middle East Media Center 3/25/2007
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon met on Sunday in Ramallah, in the northern part of the west Bank, with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and expressed his shock over the harsh living conditionsthe Palestinians are facing under occupation, Wall, settlements and... more..
UN Secretary General in Aida Camp
Palestine News Network 3/25/2007
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, was in Aida Refugee Camp today. He condemned the Wall that now runs along its northern side on confiscated lands “This is a cause of pain and suffering,” he said, “and a major... more..
Land theft continues to destroy lives in Jenin district
Stop The Wall 3/8/2007
Occupation forces have distributed military confiscation orders in Faqu’a Zabda, Yabat and Barta’a village, northern Jenin district. -- 150 dunum of land has been confiscated alone in Faqu’a, north east of the district capital. The land is located east of the... more..
Open-Ended Negotiations
By Mahmoud Labadi, Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN) 3/9/2007
The Tripartite Summit Meeting of Jerusalem between Olmert, Abbas and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on February 19, 2007 is but one episode of an open-ended tragedy, called the "Peace Process" in the Middle East. With all the respect... more..
Palo Dutch Concept Factory returns to Ramallah
By Arjan El Fassed, Electronic Intifada 3/13/2007
The Palo-Dutch Concept Factory has a clear core business: generating ideas, for campaigning in the broadest sense. These ideas are born in Ramallah, Palestine. Young Palestinians coaching (and are being coached by) Dutch experienced advertising and PR experts. Generating ideas... more..
Bilin, My Love: Israelis against the occupation
International Middle East Media Center 3/7/2007
Last night an Israeli film director named Shai Carmeli-Pollak, along with residents of Bilin village, visited the Alternative Information Center in Beit Sahour for a screening of his film ’Bilin Habibti’. This non-fictional film documents the struggle of... more..
Art from Gaza and the West Bank: Gallery of a troubled nation
By Donald Macintyre, The Independent 3/13/2007
strong>The Palestinian answer to Charles Saatchi pursues the elusive dream of a permanent home for his unique but unheralded collection.Mazen Qupty had always planned to study film - the seventh art as he calls it. Yet... more..
Jerusalem’s Apartheid Tramway
By Philippe Rekacewicz and Dominique Vidal, Middle East Online 3/12/2007
strong>Two French companies are involved in the construction and operation of a light rail system from the centre of Jerusalem to a northern terminus. It is promoted as a unifying project: In fact, it will be yet another... more..
German cardinal sorry for ghetto remarks
Ha’aretz 3/11/2007
The head of the German Bishops Conference conceded that some statements made by members on a recent visit to Israel and the West Bank were "inappropriate." Cardinal Karl Lehmann responded a few days ago to a letter sent to him... more..
Nonviolent resistance to occupation: family refuses to leave despite being surrounded by settlements
Palestine News Network 3/12/2007
Ibrahim Attallah is sitting in the nearly destroyed village of Khallet Sakariya. His family is alone now, surrounded by barbed wire and the observation posts that double as sniper towers. The elderly man is the resident of what is referred... more..
Environmental protest on Monday against route of Wall through desert close to Ma’ale Adummim settlement
Ma’an News Agency 3/12/2007
Bethlehem - Several environmental organizations are planning to hold a demonstration on Monday in protest against the proposed route of the separation wall close to Ma’ale Adummim settlement, located east of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, as it... more..
IDF soldiers kill Palestinian near security fence along Gaza Strip
Ha’aretz 3/10/2007
Israel Defense Forces troops on Friday shot and killed a Palestinian man who approached the security fence along the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said.The IDF confirmed that soldiers shot at two Palestinians behaving suspiciously near the fence in central Gaza...
Four youth shot and injured near Wall in western Ramallah
Palestine News Network 3/7/2007
Palestinian medical sources report that four youth were injured in the central West Bank on Tuesday.The young people threw stones at Israeli forces and the Wall in western Ramallah’s town of Beitunia, while soldiers opened fire early yesterday...
Umm Salamuna anti-Wall demo and tree planting in Hebron this Friday
International Solidarity Movement 3/7/2007
This Friday the villagers of Umm Salamuna and neighbouring villages in the South Bethlehem region will protest against the bulldozers which are currently razing their land for the Apartheid Wall. The villagers will hold midday prayers on their land before... more..
Al Quds Brigades bomb two Israeli targets in retaliation for assassination of ’martyrs’
Ma’an News Agency 3/7/2007
Tulkarem - A cell of the Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility on Wednesday morning for detonating an explosive device near a checkpoint close to the separation wall in the Shwekeh region north of Tulkarem, on... more..
Political tourism gains popularity in Jerusalem
Ma’an News Agency 3/7/2007
Bethlehem - It seems that tourists who visit the holy city of Jerusalem are no longer satisfied with a visit to the Western wall followed by taking a dish of Jerusalemite Hummus as they have enjoyed for generations previously. The Israeli... more..
Four decades of confiscation leave a fraction of the former "bread basket"
By Ali Samoudi, Palestine News Network 3/6/2007
strong>Jenin -- Despite having completed building the Wall in the Jenin District, Israeli forces continue intensifying settlement activities to overtake more of the northern West Bank.Abdel Razeq Abu Al Hija, involved with settlement monitoring, reported Tuesday... more..
Israeli army shoots and injures two Palestinian civilians near Ramallah
International Middle East Media Center 3/6/2007
On Tuesday riots broke out in the West Bank village of Beitunia, near Ramallah. Israeli media reported that angered civilians threw stones at Israeli occupation forces and tried to dismantle part of the illegal wall. Troops shot and injured two...
B’Tselem: Israeli security forces abuse Palestinian workers
Ha’aretz 3/7/2007
Israeli security forces frequently beat Palestinians working illegally in the country, sometimes severely, and detain them for hours without food and water, an Israeli human rights group said in a report published Tuesday. Security officials said in response to the... more..
Second Annual Conference in Bil’in 18 – 20 April 2007
International Solidarity Movement 3/6/2007
February 2007 marks the second anniversary of the weekly non-violent protests in opposition to the “work-site of shame” for the Apartheid Wall that has annexed almost 60% of the land of Bil’in village in the West Bank. Bil’in has become... more..
Fighters detonate two explosives near the Wall, military patrol in Tulkarem
International Middle East Media Center 3/7/2007
The Palestinian Maan News Agency, reported on Tuesday at night that fighters of the Al Quds Brigades, that armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, detonated explosive charges in two seperate incidents targeting the Annexation Wall gate, and a military patrol... more..
How Barack Obama learned to love Israel
By Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada 3/4/2007
I first met Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama almost ten years ago when, as my representative in the Illinois state senate, he came to speak at the University of Chicago. He impressed me as progressive, intelligent and charismatic. I... more..
Apartheid in Israel
By Michael Jansen, Palestine Chronicle 3/2/2007
strong>It is important for Israel to silence or smear anyone who compares Israel to apartheid South Africa. On the one hand, Israel argues that the Jewish state has a moral basis for existence: recompensing the Jews for centuries... more..
Villagers barred from their land in Tulkarem area
International Middle East Media Center 3/5/2007
Residents of the West Bank village of Far’oun near Tulkarem said that they have not been able to enter their farmland since the Israeli army closed the gate in the annexation wall, known as Gate number 708, several months ago... more..
Mines thrown into Golan Heights
YNetNews 3/4/2007
10 anti-personnel mines tossed over security fence into Israeli side of Golan Heights, the area from which the mines were thrown considered Israeli territory. Identity of perpetrators remains unclear. Military calls incident unusual, Israel says it will file complaint with... more..
Keep Hope Alive campaign holds second International Planting Day
International Middle East Media Center 3/5/2007
On Saturday March 3rd the Joint Advocacy Initiative of the East Jerusalem YMCA and YWCA of Palestine held this year’s second International Planting Day. Over 40 international participants, along with around 20 local volunteers planted olive trees on... more..
Umm Salamuna anti-Wall demonstration: the nonviolent resistance will not be deterred
Palestine News Network 3/2/2007
Hundreds of Palestinians staged a nonviolent demonstration in Umm Salamuna Village as Israeli forces continue the confiscation ofland for Wall construction throughout the Bethlehem District. Foreign and Israeli supporters joined in Friday’s action that was sponsored by grass... more..
Demonstrations against the wall and expanding settlements in Bil’in, Qalandia, Umm Salamuna; clashes in Bethlehem
Ma’an News Agency 3/2/2007
Bethlehem - At least ten Palestinians were injured during a demonstration against the ongoing construction of Israel’s illegal separation wall in Bil’in village, located west of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Friday.Media sources said that... more..
Man Injured In Accident Dies After Soldiers At Gate Delay His Transport To Hospital
B’tselem 3/1/2007
On 17 February 2007, around 9:40 P.M., three young men from ’Azzun ’Atmah were summoned to help free a car that was stuck in a field in the village. They drove to the area in a tractor... more..
Budrus: Occupation tries intimidation in attempt to subdue popular resistance against Wall
Stop The Wall 2/28/2007
Occupation Forces descended upon the village of Budrus during the night of 27 February village, throwing sound bombs and flare lights amongst the houses. A curfew was imposed as jeeps drove through the village leaving pamphlets warning villagers not to... more..
Fara’on suffers fresh house demolitions as Occupation Forces invade village
Stop The Wall 2/27/2007
Occupation Forces invaded Fara’on village, south of Tulkarem on 27 February, entering from the south at midday. A total of 12 military jeeps and four bulldozers accompanied the Soldiers who took part in the assault upon six Palestinian properties, located... more..
Palestinian youth throw stones at Wall in protest of Al Aqsa destruction
Palestine News Network 3/2/2007
The West Bank’s Bethlehem broke out in a volley of bullets and stones Friday as Palestinian youth protested the destruction at Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque.Dozens of young people began the demonstration on Friday afternoon in front...
Virtually at war
The Guardian 2/26/2007
Includes audio] Rory McCarthy reports on a collection of computer games whose content is drawn directly from events that have shaped the Middle East -- In a former school turned art gallery in Israel two images are projected onto the wall... -- See also: Audio versionmore..
Non-Violent Protestors Defeat Israeli Bulldozer by Sitting on It
International Middle East Media Center 3/1/2007
On Thursday the Palestine Solidarity Project released information about yesterday’s events in Um Salamoneh village. The Palestinian village stands to lose 700 dunams of vital farmland to the construction of the illegal Israeli Wall and settlements.Israeli bulldozers started... more..
Give Mecca a Chance to Deliver
By Dr. Daud Abdullah, Palestine Chronicle 3/1/2007
strong>The massive loss of land to the Wall and settlements and the one-year embargo have reduced the Palestinian people in the territories to such abject poverty that the World Food Programme (WFP) has declared that 46% of them... more..
A Day in the Life of Nablus Under Curfew
By Kirsten Sutherland, Electronic Intifada 3/1/2007
strong>Nablus, 26 February 2007Dr. Ghassan Hamdan, Director of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society in Nablus, got up at five o’clock this morning after just two-and-a-half hours sleep. Until that time, he had been... more..
Senator Hillary Clinton’s ILLEGAL Jewish-Only Colony of Gilo and George’s Ancient Indigenous Christian Village of Beit Jala
By Eileen Fleming, Al Jazeerah.info 2/26/2007
strong>Clinton’s "neighboorhoods" are illegal colonies on Palestinian landOn February 1, 2007 Senator Hillary Clinton’s delusional remarks to AIPAC/ American Israel Public Affairs Committee, prove she has never outgrown her favorite movie... more..
Norman Finkelstein & Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami Debate
Democracy Now! 2/14/2006
Complete Transcript - Download MP3 audioAMY GOODMAN: We turn now to one of the longest running and most bitter conflicts in modern history: Israel and the Palestinians. Well over a decade has passed since the historic Oslo Accords that brought hopes... more..
Palestinians mount nonviolent resistance campaign as Israeli forces escalate land confiscation
Palestine News Network 3/1/2007
Israeli forces have escalated land confiscation throughout Bethlehem during the past several days, targeting Umm Salamuna in the south and Beit Jala in the west. The Israelis are building the Wall through Bethlehem, further isolating the West Bank from Jerusalem... more..
DFLP Anniversay demo in Bil’in village this Friday
International Solidarity Movement 2/28/2007
This Friday the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine will celebrate its 38th anniversary in the village of Bil’in. Speeches will be held in the village after midday prayers before the march to the Apartheid Wall, which has annexed... more..
Explosive device and anti-tank missile launched at two Israeli patrols in Gaza Strip
Ma’an News Agency 3/1/2007
Bethlehem - Israeli sources reported on Thursday evening that the Paslestinian resistance hurled an explosive device at an Israeli patrol near an electronic fence in the northern Gaza Strip.An anti-tank missile was launched towards another patrol in southern Gaza Strip. The...
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Hebron: More detentions and home occupation update 
