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New Home for ex-Gaza Settlers: Deep in W.Bank Akiva Eldar, MIFTAH 3/31/2008
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recently approved the construction of 48 new apartments in Ariel, deep inside the northern West Bank.Last week, Olmert told foreign correspondents that Israel is not building in the territories outside the settlement blocs. Ariel has been... more.. e-mail
Israeli Army Invades Marda, Imposes Curfew, Arrests 2
International Solidarity Movement 3/31/2008
Reports Salfit RegionAt about 10 AM today, Monday, March 31, 2008, the Israeli army invaded the village of Marda, in the Sulfiet region of the West Bank. After invading, the army immediately announced curfew on the entire village, thus prohibiting... more.. e-mail
Demonstration in Umm Salamuna calls for solidarity from Arab nations
International Solidarity Movement 3/31/2008
Bethlehem Region On Sunday, March 30th, more than 200 protesters took to the main street in Umm Salamuna to demonstrate against the Apartheid wall. What is usually a small weekly demonstration in Umm Salamuna, was this week host to an... more.. e-mail
Israeli forces seize eight Palestinians in the West Bank
Ma’an News Agency 3/31/2008
Ramallah – Ma’an – Israeli forces seized eight Palestinians in the West Bank on Sunday night and Monday morning, witnesses and security sources said. Israeli military vehicles invaded the towns of Beit Rima and Deir Nidham, near Ramallah, on Monday... more.. e-mail
Agha calls on the world to pressure Israel to respect The Hague resolution
Palestinian Information Center 3/31/2008
GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Mohamed Al-Agha, the agriculture minister in the PA caretaker government, stated on the occasion of the land day that the Israeli occupation takes pleasure in killing Palestinians and destroying trees, confiscating lands and expanding its settlements, calling... more.. e-mail
Stocks sink on Wall Street woes
Nathan Sheva, Ha’aretz 4/1/2008
Today is the last trading day of the first quarter, and a terrible quarter it was. Tel Aviv stocks have lost roughly a fifth of their value - much more in the case of real estate shares - since the beginning of... more.. e-mail
Gathafi: Arab summit as fruitless as predecessors
Middle East Online 3/31/2008
DAMASCUS - Libyan leader Moamer Gathafi said on Sunday that an Arab summit which wrapped up in Damascus earlier in the day had been as fruitless as its predecessors. "There is nothing new to mention in this summit, it is like... more.. e-mail
Digg It
Leonard Doyle in Washington, The Independent 3/31/2008
The US arms industry is backing Hillary Clinton for President and has all but abandoned its traditional allies in the Republican party. Mrs Clinton has also emerged as Wall Street’s favourite. Investment bankers have opened their wallets in... more.. e-mail
Palestinians mark Land Day, protesting Israeli theft of territory
Ma’an News Agency 3/30/2008
Nablus – Ma’an – Palestinians took to the streets across the West Bank and Israel to commemorate Land Day this weekend, in protest of ongoing Israeli confiscation of Palestinian land through settlement expansion and the construction of the separation wall... more.. e-mail
Palestinian Land Day breaking the Israeli myth: a land without a people for a people without a land
Palestine News Network 3/30/2008
Bethlehem / Najib Farrag - Four citizens were wounded and bruised as a result of various abuses committed by Israeli occupation in the village of Umm Salamuna, south of Bethlehem during the march mass rallies commemorating Palestinian Land Day. Protests were held... more.. e-mail
Medics recover bodies of Palestinian fighters in Gaza
Agence France Presse - AFP, Daily Star 3/31/2008
GAZA CITY:Palestinian medics said on Sunday they had recovered the bodies of two Palestinian militants killed in an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip. The two men were identified as Murad Khader, 24, and Rabia Mohsin, 23... more.. e-mail
Qassam hits western Negev, causing no damage or injuries
Haaretz Staff and Agencies, Ha’aretz 3/31/2008
A Qassam rocket landed in the western Negev yesterday, causing no damage nor injuries, a day after a rocket hit between a children’s house and a nursery school in a Negev community. Israel Defense Forces troops killed two... more.. e-mail
IOF troops kill Palestinian teenager, block ambulance from collecting his body
Palestinian Information Center 3/29/2008
BEIT HANUN, (PIC)-- IOF soldiers last night killed a Palestinian teenager for coming close to the security fence between northern Gaza Strip and Palestinian lands occupied in 1948. Medical sources said on Saturday that the unidentified Palestinian youth was barely... more.. e-mail
2008 Land Day Events Fall under Shadow of Apartheid and Settlement Expansion
Palestinian National Initiative, Palestine Monitor 3/29/2008
Ramallah, 30-03-06: Palestinians will mark the 32nd anniversary of Land Day this year with a week-long series of peaceful demonstrations throughout the West Bank. Land Day commemorates the killing of 6 Palestinians by Israeli troops in the Galilee... more.. e-mail
Tulkarm Continues Land Day Commemmoration, Israeli Military injures 2
International Solidarity Movement 3/28/2008
Tulkarem Region PhotosToday, Friday, March 28, 2008 two demonstrators were injured with rubber-coated steel bullets (one seriously), as the second of Tulkarm’s Land Day demonstrations took place in the village of Deir al Ghusun, 8km north of the... more.. e-mail
Israeli forces kill Palestinian teenager in Gaza
Ma’an News Agency 3/29/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday night. A medical crew succeeded in retrieving the body of the 18-year-old and transferring it to Kamal Udwan Hospital in... more.. e-mail
IOF troops kill Qassam fighter, wound two others in Khan Younis
Palestinian Information Center 3/29/2008
KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- A Palestinian resistance fighter of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, called Bilal Al-Astal, 17, was killed and two others were wounded during confrontations on Friday with a special Israeli force that infiltrated into an... more.. e-mail
Israeli military attacks weekly Bil’in protest, 17 injured including 7 journalists
Video, International Solidarity Movement 3/28/2008
Ramallah Region Rachel CorrieOriginal article found on IMEMC. For original article click hereOn Friday March 28, 2008 scores of residents of Bil’in, a village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, along with their international and Israeli... more.. e-mail
Assad: Israel rejecting peace
Roee Nahmias, YNetNews 3/29/2008
Arab Summit in Syria off to medial start as only 11 Arab League leaders accept Syrian President Bashar Assad’s invitation to attend Damascus gathering. ’Syria believes in peace, Israel not interested’ he says - Syria believes in... more.. e-mail
Open letter to Arab Summit in Syria: sever all ties with Israel
Palestine News Network 3/29/2008
The One Democratic State Group calls on all Arab leaders meeting in Damascus to:1- Withdraw the Arab peace initiative since Israel has not been willing to reciprocate by creating new facts on the ground and by adopting colonial policies... more.. e-mail
Israeli military attacks weekly Bil’in protest, 17 injured including 7 journalists
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center 3/28/2008
Scores of residents of Bil"™in, a village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, along with their international and Israeli supporters, took to the streets on Friday to conduct their weekly nonviolent protest against the Israeli Wall and... more.. e-mail
IDF kills gunman on Gaza border fence
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 3/28/2008
Exchanges of fire erupt as lookouts spot armed "terrorist" near northern Strip fence. Army believes gunman planned "terror" attack against IDF patrol - A Palestinian gunman was killed Friday evening in an exchange of fire with IDF soldiers near the border... more.. e-mail
Anti Wall protest in Al Khader village near Bethlehem
Manar Jibrin & Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center 3/28/2008
At least 250 Palestinians from the village of Al Khader located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, joined by Israeli and international peace activists staged a protest on Friday midday against the illegal Wall Israel is building on... more.. e-mail
Qassam explodes between Negev preschool, children’s house
Reuters, Ha’aretz 3/29/2008
A Qassam rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Friday exploded in a western Negev community directly between a children’s house and a nursery school. There were no injuries in the incident, as the nannies... more.. e-mail
This Week In Palestine "" Week 13 2008
Ghassan Bannoura - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center 3/28/2008
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The Gaza I live
Tom Garofalo/Catholic Relief Services, ReliefWeb 3/27/2008
Most Americans think of Gaza as a place of suffering and militancy, but the reality is that Gaza is home to some of the most inspiring and creative people in the Middle East. For the past two years, as the... more.. e-mail
Continuing demolitions: Hebron and Jerusalem under attack
Stop The Wall 3/20/2008
Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, March 20th, 2008Occupation forces demolished homes and property across the West Bank, with the Jerusalem and Hebron municipalities the most adversely affected.
Homes were demolished in al-Jeeb in northwest Jerusalem and Hizma in the northeast... more.. e-mail
Palestinians ’Tortured’ in Egypt
Mohamed el-Sawwaf, MIFTAH 3/27/2008
Palestinians who were detained in Egypt after crossing from the Gaza Strip accused Friday, March 21, Egyptian security forces of torturing and abusing them to get tips on the resistance movement Hamas and its armed wing. " We were beaten, kicked... more.. e-mail
Ereikat asks EU to pressure Israel to commit to the Road Map
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center 3/27/2008
The head of the Negotiations Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO, Dr. Sa’eb Ereikat, asked the EU, USA, UN, and Russia to but more pressure on Israel to commit to the Road Map Peace Plan. Ereikat made... more.. e-mail
’End Rabbinate’s monopoly on Kashrut’
Goel Beno, YNetNews 3/26/2008
More and more businesses turning to alternative, unauthorized bodies for kashrut services, claiming Chief Rabbinate charges unreasonable fees for certificates - At a first glance, the kashrut certificate that hangs on the wall of Falafel Hakikar in Tel Aviv looks like... more.. e-mail
Barak approves five mobile homes for Hebron Hills settlement
Akiva Eldar, Ha’aretz 3/26/2008
Defense Minister Ehud Barak recently approved the the transfer of five mobile homes to the settlement of Teneh Omarim in the southern Hebron Hills for evacuees from the Gush Katif settlement of Morag. The Civil Administration spokesman confirmed that the... more.. e-mail
Hamas under threat from both the PA and Israelis
Palestine News Network 3/25/2008
Bethlehem / PNN -- Sources in the Hamas party told reporters Tuesday morning that Palestinian Authority security services continue to target its members, as do Israeli forces. The population of Hamas members is growing in both PA jails and Israeli prisons. And... more.. e-mail
Sri Lankan Prime Minister visits West Bank and meets with Abbas
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center 3/25/2008
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka visited the West Bank on Tuesday. The visit started in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, where Wickremanayake met Palestinian Authority officials including the Governor of Bethlehem Salah Ta’mari... more.. e-mail
Sri Lankan Prime Minister visits West Bank
Ma’an News Agency 3/25/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, began a visit to the occupied Palestinian territories beginning with the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The Prime Ministers said that the Israeli separation wall, which snakes through... more.. e-mail
When Disaster Strikes
Gideon Levy, MIFTAH 3/24/2008
It looks, terrifyingly, like Gaza. Behind tin fences, at the northern entrance to the Askar refugee camp in Nablus, hides a compound characterized by poverty, one of the most miserable we have seen. Brown hens peck at garbage in the... more.. e-mail
IDF deploys new ’anti-terror’ system around Gaza
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 3/23/2008
Army upgrades its capabilities in the Gaza region: New system combines camera, machine gun and enables IDF troops stationed in operations room to identify and fire at terrorists without risking themselves - First report : A new system deployed by the IDF... more.. e-mail
15 people in ar-Ra’as threatened with demolition
Stop The Wall 3/17/2008
Occupation forces issued a military order to Yusif ‘Ali Badirat demanding that he leave his home in the village of ar-Ra’as. The village, which is located south of Tulkarm, has been split into two parts by the Wall. The order... more.. e-mail
Land Day Demonstration in al-Masara
Action Alert, International Solidarity Movement 3/24/2008
Hebron Region ISM Media AlertsOn Friday, March 28th the villagers of al-Masara will hold a non-violent demonstration to commemorate Land Day and voice their opposition to the annexation wall and settlement expansion. This will be the 60th demonstration held in... more.. e-mail
Bank of Israel cuts interest rate to lowest level in history
The Associated Press, Ha’aretz 3/24/2008
Stanley Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel, cut the rate by half a percent to 3. 25 percent on Monday. The goal is to stop the drop in the value of the American dollar against the Israeli shekel. Israeli... more.. e-mail
Threatened by Israeli snipers, villagers in Al-Khadr protest construction of Israeli wall
Ma’an News Agency 3/22/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – About seventy residents of the West Bank village of Al-Khadr, near Bethlehem, staged their weekly nonviolent demonstration on Friday against the construction of Israel’s separation wall, which organizers say will result in the de... more.. e-mail
Palestinian nonviolent demonstration against Wall in honor of mothers
Palestine News Network 3/21/2008
Bethlehem -- At the weekly nonviolent demonstration in southern Bethlehem the President of the Women’s Center, Fatima Briggih, honored Mother’s Day. She spoke of the "struggles of mothers who protect their children against all odds; loving, teaching... more.. e-mail
Despite Israeli violence, Palestinian nonviolent resistance will not be deterred
Palestine News Network 3/21/2008
Bil’in / PNN -- It has been ongoing for four years: the weekly nonviolent Palestinian demonstrations against Israeli Wall and settlement construction. The Israeli policies contravene international law and Bil’in residents continue to protest. These nonviolent demonstrations began... more.. e-mail
Palestinian civilian shot dead
Al Jazeera 3/20/2008
A Palestinian civilian has been shot dead by Israeli troops near the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Israel. Hassan Abed, 60, was farming his land on Thursday in al-Qarara when he was shot, according to medics and witnesses... more.. e-mail
Western Ramallah village ringed by Israeli settlements
Kristen Ess, Palestine News Network 3/20/2008
The road west of Ramallah is lush with grass, pine trees, cactus and the immortal olive tree. It is a four kilometer trip up hill on gravel and dust once we have passed the turn-off to Bil’in Village... more.. e-mail
Israeli "Civil Administration"ť demolishes three Palestinian houses near Jerusalem
IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 3/20/2008
Bulldozers belonging to the so-called Civil Administration Office, which is under the Israeli army control in the occupied territories, demolished on Wednesday three Palestinian houses in two villages near Jerusalem. Two houses were demolished in Hizma village and one house... more.. Israeli "Civil Administration"ť demolishes three Palestinian houses near Jerusalem
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Twilight Zone / When disaster strikes
Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz 3/20/2008
It looks, terrifyingly, like Gaza. Behind tin fences, at the northern entrance to the Askar refugee camp in Nablus, hides a compound characterized by poverty, one of the most miserable we have seen. Brown hens peck at garbage in the... more.. e-mail
IOA expands tunnel beneath Omeria School in occupied Jerusalem
Palestinian Information Center 3/20/2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Palestinian citizens in occupied Jerusalem said that the IOA is carrying out excavations inside the western tunnel beneath the Omaria School in the old city with the aim of expanding it. In its issue published on Thursday, the... more.. e-mail
Rocket damages Negev house; Medics: IDF kills Gaza civilian
News Agencies, Ha’aretz 3/20/2008
Israel Defense Forces troops killed a Palestinian civilian near the border fence with the Gaza Strip on Thursday, medical officials said. The officials said the 60-year-old farmer was shot dead riding on his donkey near the frontier fence east... more.. e-mail
IDF denies involvement in death of Palestinian farmer
Ali Waked, YNetNews 3/20/2008
Palestinian officials report 65-year-old man riding his donkey killed near Gaza border fence; Israeli army denies troops opened fire. Earlier Thursday morning, gunmen detonate explosives against Israeli patrol along border, causing no injuries - Palestinian sources in Gaza reported on... more.. e-mail
Women of the Underworld: On Being Thrown Out of Israel
International Solidarity Movement 3/20/2008
Denial of entry - What stays with me most from the last few days is the kindness of women. Just ordinary women, caught in bad circumstances, being nice to one another - I’ve spent a lot of the last week... more.. e-mail
Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories - Draft resolution
United Nations Human Rights Council, ReliefWeb 3/18/2008
Right of the Palestinian people to self-determination - The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, in particular the provisions of Articles 1 and 55 thereof, which affirm the right of peoples... more.. e-mail
Egyptian security arrests Turkish charity delegation en route to Gaza
Palestinian Information Center 3/20/2008
GAZA, (PIC)-- Egyptian security authorities arrested a Turkish team grouping representatives of charitable societies while on its way to enter Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing, Turkish sources said. They said that the five arrested Turks included journalists and charity... more.. e-mail
News in Brief
Ha’aretz 3/20/2008
Fayyad: U. S. to give $150 million to PA - three tons of potassium nitrate stopped near Qalqilyah - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad announced yesterday that the United States will soon transfer $150 million in aid, part of its pledge to... more.. e-mail
Senior Yahoo! executive to visit Israel
Noa Parag, Globes Online 3/20/2008
Yahoo! looks to Walla! to join its search battle against Google. Sources inform ’’Globes’’ that Ettore Leale, general manager for search and marketing in emerging markets at Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) will arrive in Israel tomorrow... more.. e-mail
Israel snipers get OK to fire at barrier protestors
Middle East Online 3/19/2008
JERUSALEM - Israel’s attorney general has eased firing regulation restrictions against Palestinians demonstrating at the separation barrier near Jerusalem, a justice ministry official said on Wednesday. The decision allows border police snipers to fire at protestors damaging the controversial... more.. e-mail
Far from Palestine’s sea
Diana Buttu writing from Ramallah, occupied West Bank, Electronic Intifada 3/19/2008
In September 2000, I decided to do my part to bring peace to the Middle East. As a Canadian attorney of Palestinian origin, I believed I could use my legal skills to help broker a peace agreement between Israel and... more.. e-mail
Olmert Defiant on Settlements
Al Jazeera English, MIFTAH 3/19/2008
Ehud Olmert has said that Israel will not stop building on occupied land in and around Jerusalem, defying US criticism and sparking protests from Palestinians during renewed negotiations. The Israeli prime minister said his government would continue to build hundreds... more.. e-mail
Israeli bulldozer destroys one-room house near Jenin
Ma’an News Agency 3/19/2008
Jenin – Ma’an – Israeli forces demolished a one-room house on Wednesday in the northern West Bank village of Barta’a Ash-Sharqiyya in southern Jenin district under the pretext that it was built without license. Ma’an’...
It will Always be about Jerusalem
Joharah Baker, MIFTAH 3/19/2008
To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Sir Isaac Newton postulated his law of motion eons ago and today, it still rings true, not only in the laws of physics but right here in the streets of... more.. e-mail
Israeli border guards given official instructions to shoot Palestinians in Jerusalem
Palestine News Network 3/19/2008
Jerusalem / PNN- Israeli forces stationed at what is now the "Jerusalem Envelope," the Wall surrounding East Jerusalem, have received specific instructions to shoot Palestinians. This is according to Israeli Army Radio quoted by Israeli sources Wednesday. The "Jerusalem Envelope" refers... more.. e-mail
Israel orders army to use lethal fire against Palestinians protesting illegal wall
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center 3/19/2008
Israeli media sources reported on Wednesday that the Israeli government has given new orders to the army, which allow troops to use live rounds at Palestinian protesters near the illegal wall surrounding the city of Jerusalem. The new orders allow... more.. e-mail
New settlement construction will strangle Beit Safafa
Stop The Wall 3/15/2008
Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign - A spokesman from the District Committee for Planning and Housing revealed that 2,200 additional housing units for the East Jerusalem settlement Giv’at HaMatos had been approved two weeks ago. These make up the... more.. e-mail
McCain says believes Abbas
Roni Sofer, YNetNews 3/19/2008
Republican candidate for US president visits Western Wall in Jerusalem. Palestinian president wants to advance peace process and does not support what is happening in Gaza, he tells Foreign Minister Livni - Senator John McCain, the Republican candidate for president of... more.. e-mail
US grants 150 million dollars to Palestinian Authority
Agence France-Presse, ReliefWeb 3/19/2008
RAMALLAH, West Bank, March 19, 2008 (AFP) -The United States signed an agreement on Wednesday to give 150 million dollars (95 million euros) to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s West Bank government.
The funds are the first installment of... more.. e-mail
Fanatics Taking Over
Yehuda Litani, MIFTAH 3/19/2008
Three days after the murder of the eight Mercaz Harav yeshiva students, I traveled to the only place in Jerusalem where Jews and Arabs meet every evening – the Abu-Leil family’s falafel stand in the French Hill neighborhood. On Saturday nights... more.. e-mail
Rabbi stabbed in neck in E. Jerusalem terror attack
Jonathan Lis, Ha’aretz 3/18/2008
A Palestinian stabbed a Haredi rabbi in the neck in Arab East Jerusalem on Tuesday, but medical workers said his wounds were light and not life-threatening. A police spokesman confirmed that the attack, near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’... more.. e-mail this link
Israeli High Court orders an end to excavations in Silwan
International Middle East Media Center 3/18/2008
The Israeli High Court of Justice and after several months of excavations which caused damages to the constructions and houses of the Palestinian residents of Wadi Hilwa neighborhood Silwan town, in East Jerusalem, ordered on Tuesday a halt to the... more.. e-mail this link
Victory in Silwan for nonviolent resistance
Palestine News Network 3/18/2008
Jerusalem / Maisa Abu Ghazaleh - After months of excavations under East Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood during which the Israelis have caused a great deal of structural damage, the Israeli High Court has demanded it end. The nonviolent resistance is largely... more.. e-mail this link
Occupation forces continue with abuses at ‘Azzun ‘Atma gate
Stop The Wall 3/7/2008
Occupation forces have carried out assaults and blocked workers, farmers and students from passing through the gate in ‘Azzun ‘Atma. The village, located in the Qalqilya district, is surrounded on three sides by the Wall.
Occupation soldiers assaulted a number... more.. e-mail this link
Gaydamak brings portable shelters to Sderot
Elad Rubinstein, YNetNews 3/18/2008
Billionaire arrives in rocket-battered town with trucks carrying five new portable bomb shelters to be placed in various locations across Sderot. ’If there’s demand for more structures, we shall consider it positively,’ Gaydamak pledges. Billionaire Arcadi... more.. e-mail this link
Egyptian president warns Israel: No occupation lasts forever
The Associated Press, Ha’aretz 3/18/2008
CAIRO, Egypt ? Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned Israel on Tuesday that no occupation lasts forever and urged the Palestinians to give peace a chance. "Your people’s security cannot be attained by exercising a policy of collective punishment, aggression... more.. e-mail this link
Jerusalem: the East Side Story premieres tonight
Palestine News Network 3/18/2008
The highly acclaimed film director and human rights activist Mohammed Alatar will be in London for the premiere of his new film "Jerusalem: the East Side Story" tonight in London’s Curzon Soho Studio. Alatar said earlier that he... more.. e-mail this link
Bil’in Outpost Under Attack
Kobi, International Solidarity Movement 3/16/2008
On Friday night one of the Palestinian activist was beaten and threatened with murder by soldiers on patrol at the outpost. - The outpost is a small room that the villagers of Bil’in built on their land separated from... more.. e-mail this link
Ethnic Cleansing Cannot be Ignored
Rami Khouri, Middle East Online 3/16/2008
BEIRUT -- At the summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Dakar, Senegal, March 13, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that the Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, “are facing an ethnic cleansing campaign through a set of Israeli decisions... more.. e-mail this link
Hamas okays Fatah presence at Rafah
KHALED ABU TOAMEH, Jerusalem Post 3/16/2008
Hamas leaders claimed over the weekend that they were very close to reaching a deal with Egypt over the reopening of the Rafah border crossing.
Palestinians walk next to the fence marking the border between the southern Gaza Strip, left...
Treasury worried by budget deviation
Zeev Klein, Globes Online 3/16/2008
Senior official sees NIS 1. 5 billion in budget cuts cut by Passover. A senior Ministry of Finance official is very concerned about the expected deviation from the government’s spending and deficit targets caused by recent cabinet spending... more.. e-mail this link
Jews, Arabs, Americans join Jerusalem Palm Sunday march
The Associated Press, Ha’aretz 3/17/2008
Waving palm fronds, thousands of Christians from around the world celebrated Palm Sunday, walking the path they believe Jesus rode on his donkey as he entered Jerusalem days before his crucifixion. The procession with the top Catholic cleric in the... more.. e-mail this link
IAF strike kills three Islamic Jihad militants in northern Gaza
Yuval Azoulay and Avi Issacharoffs and The Associated Press, Ha’aretz 3/15/2008
At least three Islamic Jihad militants were killed and six others wounded Saturday evening as the Israel Air Force carried out two consecutive air strikes in the northern Gaza Strip. The first air strike killed three militants who were preparing... more..
Israeli Soldiers Shoot Peaceful Protestor in Head at Weekly Bil’in Demonstration
Palestine Monitor 3/14/2008
5 years on from Rachel Corrie’s killing, internationals still targets of Israeli military violence - The shooting of a European activist participating in the weekly non-violent protest in Bil’in village yesterday, just two days before the fifth... more..
It’s not oil, it’s water
Kristen Ess, Palestine News Network 3/15/2008
Kristen Ess--"Even getting a water or sewage treatment plant in the West Bank takes 10 years for Israeli approval, since the occupation government controls most all aspects of Palestinian life," a woman working in the field told me in... more..
Israel planning $400 million wall on Egyptian border
Ma’an News Agency 3/15/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israel plans to spend rough 400 million US dollars to construct a new wall on its border with Egypt in hopes to increase its security. The 84 kilometer concrete and barbed wire barrier will be equipped... more..
Hamas waiting for Abbas’ response to Rafah border proposal
Ma’an News Agency 3/15/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – Hamas is waiting for a response from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas regarding a resolution to the crisis surrounding the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, Hamas leader Ayman Taha said on Saturday. Hamas... more..
When the cartoon is as cutting as the occupation
Olivia Snaije, Daily Star 3/14/2008
Exhibition of Naji al-Ali’s work reveals that, 20 years on, it’s still eerily contemporary.LONDON: It has been just over 20 years since master political cartoonist Naji al-Ali was assassinated in London. To commemorate this sad anniversary... more..
Is Israel engaging in ethnic cleansing?
Rami G. Khouri, Daily Star 3/15/2008
At the summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Dakar, Senegal, on Thursday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that Palestinians in Occupied East Jerusalem "are facing an ethnic cleansing campaign through a set of Israeli decisions such as... more..
Two Israelis wounded in clashes with IDF at anti-fence protest
Meron Rappaport, Ha’aretz 3/14/2008
Two Israeli protestors were wounded Friday in clashes with Israel Defense Forces troops during a weekly protest against the construction of the West Bank separation fence near the Palestinian village of Bil’in. The protesters accused IDF troops of... more..
Photos of the Sea
Diana Buttu, Middle East Online 3/14/2008
Diana Buttu recalls her experience of meeting a Palestinian family in occupied Palestine who have never seen the sea despite living just 10 miles away from the shore. In September 2000, I decided to do my part to... more..
Nonviolent resistance undetered even as Israeli forces use new weapon
Palestine News Network 3/14/2008
Ramallah / PNN – In the weekly nonviolent demonstration in Bil’in Village, west of Ramallah, Israeli forces injured six people. After Friday prayers the march began, with international and Israeli supporters in the midst. They held banners condemning construction of the Israeli... more..
The army attack Bil’in non-violent protest: six injured, one kidnapped
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center 3/14/2008
Dozens of residents of Bil’in, a village near Ramallah, took to the streets on Friday in their weekly demonstration protesting against the illegal confiscation of village land through Israel’s continued expansion of the wall. The residents... more..
Al Khader village near Bethlehem holds its weekly anti-wall protest
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center 3/14/2008
Around 100 Palestinians from the village of Al Khader located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, joined by Israeli and international peace activists staged a protest on Friday midday against the illegal Wall Israel is building on the... more..
UN official: Israeli siege failed to make Gaza people revolt against Hamas
Palestinian Information Center 3/13/2008
GAZA, (PIC)-- John Holmes, the UN coordinator of humanitarian affairs, stated that the Israeli idea that the siege on Gaza would lead its inhabitants to topple the Hamas Movement proved to be unsubstantiated. In an interview with the Reuters news... more..
AUDIO - This Week In Palestine - week 11 2008
Ghassan Bannoura - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center 3/14/2008
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file|| File 10. 9 MB || Time 12m 0s || This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www. IMEMC. org, for March 8th through to March 14th, 2008... more..
The Popular Committees demands Islamic Summit to protect the Aqsa Mosque
Saed Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center 3/14/2008
The Palestinian Popular (Folk) Committees issued a press release demanding the Islamic Summit to issues serious resolutions in order to protect the Al Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem, in addition to protecting the Arab and Islamic sites and houses in the... more..
Egypt fence plans unveiled
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 3/14/2008
Ynetnews presents plans for new border fence characterized as ’national emergency project’ aimed at hindering terror threats on Egyptian border; fence to consist of two sections, construction scheduled to start in three months - Fence to counter southern terror... more..
Abbas accuses Israel of committing ’ethnic cleansing’ in Jerusalem
News Agencies, Ha’aretz 3/14/2008
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing" in Arab East Jerusalem by banning the building of Palestinian homes and cutting the city off from the occupied West Bank.Abbas told a summit of the 57-nation Organization... more..
Confiscation orders in Hebron area to pave the way for the Apartheid Wall
Stop The Wall 3/11/2008
On February 28th, Occupation forces distributed military orders to the farmers of al-Dhahriya and Dura, both located to the southwest of Hebron, which will pave the way for the confiscation of their land.766 dunums of land will be confiscated... more..
Security forces hunting Gazan heading to Israel from Strip
Haaretz Service, Ha’aretz 3/13/2008
Israeli security forces on Thursday were searching for a Palestinian man who escaped supervision at a Gaza border crossing and fled toward Israel, Army Radio reported.The man had been given permission to cross from the Gaza Strip into Egypt through... more..
No discounts and no installments
Akiva Eldar, Ha’aretz 3/10/2008
When soldiers fell in defense of the settlers in Gush Katif, the Jewish brain invented the patent of unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. When a terrorist from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jebel Mukaber murders yeshiva students in the... more..
Barrier turns Nu’man village into virtual enclave
Kareem Jubran/B''tselem, IRIN - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 3/10/2008
Palestinian school children must pass this Israeli checkpoint to go to and from schoolNUMAN, WEST BANK, 9 March 2008 (IRIN) - "With the Wall’s route like this we can’t go anywhere," said Yousef al-Darawi, as he drew... more..
The wrong man for the ILA
Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar, Ha’aretz 3/10/2008
The appointment of a new director of the Israel Lands Administration could very rapidly go from being a bureaucratic issue that primarily concerns land experts to a ticking bomb for society, due to the sensitivity of the matter of land... more..
Egyptian plan, with US and EU backing, engages Hamas, PA and Israel in resolving Gaza crisis
Ma’an News Agency 3/9/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Egyptian diplomatic sources revealed the details of a ceasefire proposal that Cairo plans to present to Israel and to Palestinian leaders from both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.The sources told the Al-Hayat newspaper in London, that... more..
The road to Gaza runs through Tehran
Amir Oren, Ha’aretz 3/10/2008
Anyone who says that a big operation in Gaza will be 10 times as complicated, complex and dangerous as Operation Defensive Shield" - the West Bank incursion of spring 2002 - "doesn’t know what he is talking about," a senior... more..
Friday Anti-Wall demonstrations marked by violence
International Solidarity Movement 3/8/2008
Bil’in Village Tulkarem RegionQaffin Friday, March 8th, saw a large demonstration in the West Bank town of Qaffin against the annexation wall. The demonstration was organised by the Qaffin municipality and featured a large block of activists from... more..
A long way from home
Shiri Lev-Ari, Ha’aretz 3/9/2008
Gilad Elbom left Israel seven years ago and moved to the United States. He was following his love - of the English language. After completing his bachelor’s degree at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Elbom began writing stories in English... more..
West Bank Barriers Keep Rising Despite Promises of Relief
Griff Witte, MIFTAH 3/8/2008
Karim Edwan’s skepticism about the U.S.-backed Middle East peace process is rooted in his morning commute.To travel from his home in this West Bank village to his job as an emergency room doctor, the 35-year-old must... more..
Women in Palestine still attacked and harassed by the occupation
Saed Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center 3/9/2008
The Al Haq institution which defends human rights issued a statement marking the Eight of March, the International Women Day, and stated that Palestinian women are subjecting to abuse of their fundamental rights by the 40-year old Israeli occupation.The... more..
Israeli soldier killed in Gaza fighting
Middle East Online 3/7/2008
The Israeli army confirmed that one of its soldiers was killed and several others wounded in a blast on Thursday at a military post near the border with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip."An Israeli soldier was killed and three others... more..
Dichter: E. J’lem Arabs involved in militant activity should be expelled
Haaretz Staff and Agencies, Ha’aretz 3/7/2008
Public Security Minister Avi Dichter told mourners at Friday’s funeral for eight yeshiva students killed by a Palestinian gunman on Thursday that East Jerusalem Arabs should be expelled to the West Bank if found to be involved in... more..
Egypt building Gaza wall
Middle East Online 3/7/2008
EL-ARISH, Egypt - Egypt has started building a concrete wall along its border with Gaza, a security official said Thursday, even as it speaks to Hamas about improving the dire situation in the increasingly isolated enclave. "Egypt has started work on... more..
IMEMC: Palestinian farmer critically wounded by Israeli army gunfire in Bil’in
International Solidarity Movement 3/6/2008
Bil’in Village A Palestinian young man was wounded by Israeli army gunfire in the village of Bilin near the northern West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday afternoon. Eyewitnesses told IMEMC that Wa’am Burnat, 18 was... -- See also: IMEMC article more..
VIDEO - IDF to use unmanned jeeps in conflict with Gaza militants
Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 3/6/2008
Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for March 6, 2008.
The Israel Defense Forces are set to introduce an unmanned jeep into the ongoing conflict with Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. While pilotless drones are already common in the...
Homes in northern Arab al-Ramadin threatened with demolition
Stop The Wall 3/6/2008
Occupation forces delivered five military orders to five homes in northern Arab al-Ramadin on the 19th of February. The threatened homes are built of canvas, wood and sheet iron and provide shelter for 15 people, all of whom are part... more..
Gaza ambush kills Israeli soldier
Al Jazeera 3/6/2008
An Israeli soldier has been killed and near the separation wall between Israel and the Gaza Strip, despite efforts to broker a truce after a week of Israeli military action.Three other soldiers were injured when a bomb detonated in the... more..
IDF tracker killed by roadside bomb
Yuval Azoulay Mijal Grinberg and Avi Issacharoff, Ha’aretz 3/7/2008
Suliman Abu-Juda, 28, was killed yesterday morning when the jeep he was riding in was hit by a roadside bomb near the border fence in the Kissufim area of the central Gaza Strip. Abu-Juda was a tracker on routine patrol... more..
Gaza’s Holocaust
Dr. Elias Akleh, MIFTAH 3/4/2008
Holocaust is the genocidal crime against people based on their ethnicity. This genocide could be perpetrated through different means such as poison gas, guns, tanks, air raids, biological warfare, economical siege, starvation, destruction of vital natural resources, eviction into desert... more..
Al-Khader village protests the wall
Adri Nieuwhof and Samer Jaber, Electronic Intifada 3/3/2008
For the last two months the residents of al-Khader have demonstrated every week against the illegal construction of the Israeli wall on their land. The demonstrations are organized by the al-Khader Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, with the... more..
How to Become an Israeli Journalist
Yonatan Mendel, The London Review of Books, Palestine Monitor 3/3/2008
A year ago I applied for the job of Occupied Territories correspondent at Ma’ariv, an Israeli newspaper. I speak Arabic and have taught in Palestinian schools and taken part in many joint Jewish-Palestinian projects. At my interview the boss asked... more..
Israeli police tighten security measures in Jerusalem to quell protests
Palestinian Information Center 3/4/2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli police announced on Tuesday via the Hebrew radio in occupied Jerusalem that they tightened the security measures and deployed police elements in the city in order to quell any rallies or protests against the IOF... more..
Palestinians are shot as they take to the streets in response to Gaza massacres
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