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A family’s ongoing Nakba International Womens’ Peace Service 4/30/2008
On Monday, the 28.04.08, two IWPS volunteers went to Kufr Qadum village in the Qalqilya district to follow up on a night time incursion the day before.Kufr Qadum is half surrounded by the illegal Israeli settlement Qadumim, which blocks its... more.. e-mail
Stranded holders of Egyptian travel documents go on hunger strike in Gaza
Palestinian Information Center 4/30/2008
RAFAH, (PIC)-- Holders of Egyptian travel documents, who are stranded in the Gaza Strip, have announced their intention to go on hunger strike as of today Wednesday until they are allowed back to their relatives and places of residence. The... more.. e-mail
Gaza ’on point of explosion’ warns UN
Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor, The Independent 4/30/2008
Gaza is about to reach a "point of explosion" that could lead to another breakout by the desperate Palestinian population, trapped by an Israeli economic blockade, the most senior UN official in the territory has warned. Thousands of Palestinians surged... more.. e-mail
News in Brief - Border Police officer indicted for shooting Israeli protester
Ha’aretz 4/30/2008
A Border Police officer has been indicted for shooting an Israeli protester at an anti-separation fence demonstration staged at the West Bank village of Bi’lin. The case is the first in which a member of the security forces... more.. e-mail
Qorea’: 'We know our rights, and we will struggle for them'
Saed Bannoura & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 4/30/2008
Head of the Palestinian Negotiations Team, Ahmad Qorea’ (Abu Ala’), stated on Tuesday that peace talks with Israel will set facts on the ground, and added that the ongoing Israeli attacks are a blow to all international and... more.. e-mail
ANALYSIS: Livni and About Gheit starting to sing harmonious duet
Barak Ravid, Ha’aretz 4/30/2008
Relations between Egypt and Israel are undergoing a change, say sources at the Foreign Ministry. Following the terse exchange between Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and her Egyptian counterpart, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, over Egyptian security efforts in the Sinai Peninsula, the... more.. e-mail
Rabbi warns of near collapse of the Buraq Wall
Palestinian Information Center 4/28/2008
OCCUPIEd JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Shmuel Rabinovich, the so-called rabbi of the Western Wall, has warned of the fall of big rocks over heads of Jewish worshippers near the Buraq Wall, which is 18 meters high. Hebrew daily Ma’ariv quoted... more.. e-mail
Israeli army wounds a Palestinian near a border fence in northern West Bank
Rami Almeghari & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 4/27/2008
The Israeli army shot and wounded on Sunday morning a Palestinian resident when he approached a barbed wire security fence just near the Israeli settlement of Elkana to the north of West Bank. Eyewitness said the Israeli soldiers, manning the...
Weekly demonstrations in Bil’in, Al-Khader and Shabtin villages
International Solidarity Movement 4/26/2008
Bil’in: On Friday, the villagers of Bil’in located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah conducted their weekly non-violent protest against the illegal Israeli wall built on the village land. As the case each week... more.. e-mail
IDF troops wound West Bank Palestinian trying to enter Israel
Avi Isaacharoff and News Agencies, Ha’aretz 4/27/2008
Israel Defense Forces soldiers late Saturday shot and wounded a Palestinian man after he attempted to cross the West Bank security fence into Israel near the settlement of Elkana. Troops shot the man as he jumped up onto the fence... more.. e-mail
Border games
Zvi Bar'el, Ha’aretz 4/27/2008
If Israel rejects Hamas’ terms for a cease-fire, then Cairo will consider unilaterally opening its border with the besieged Gaza Strip, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said yesterday. In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Abu Zuhri said Hamas’ proposal... more.. e-mail
Manhunt over: IDF nabs 2 Palestinian infiltrators
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 4/26/2008
Two Palestinians who crossed Gaza Strip border fence north of Kissufim Crossing Saturday night captured by IDF troops; high alert lifted. Earlier, area residents ordered to stay home for fear of terror attack - Gaza manhunt over:IDF forces captured two... more.. e-mail
European left joins Palestinian nonviolent resistance
Kristen Ess, Palestine News Network 4/25/2008
Bil’in -- The weekly nonviolent resistance against the Wall and settlements in western Ramallah’s Bil’in Village continues, but Friday’s demonstration was brutal. Demonstrators have been undeterred despite beatings, shootings and arrests, but yesterday... more.. e-mail
Bil’in: scores injured by the Israeli army tier gas
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 4/25/2008
On Friday, he villagers of Bil’in located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah conducted their weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli wall built on the village land. As the case each week, villagers from Bil... more.. e-mail
Nonviolent resistance removing barrier in Ramallah village
Palestine News Network 4/25/2008
Jerusalem / Maisa Abu Ghazaleh -- Israeli settlers attacked dozens of Palestinians and foreign supporters as the group engaged in a nonviolent action against land confiscation and settlement expansion. Dozens of settlers attacked and beat them, while hurling insults. They tore away... more.. e-mail
The Village of Al Khader stage a nonviolent protest against the Israeli Wall
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 4/25/2008
Around 100 villagers from Al Khader village located near Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank supported by a small number of international and Israeli peace activist protest the illegal wall Israeli is building on the village... more.. e-mail
Army attacks an anti Wall demonstration near Ramallah
Manar Jibrin, International Middle East Media Center News 4/25/2008
Friday afternoon, dozens of residents of Shabateen village , north west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah marched to the construction site of the Separation Wall on their farm lands. After reaching the site, the residents stopped the Israeli... more.. e-mail
Palestinian, Israeli, international peace activists take control of Israeli military checkpoint
Ma’an News Agency 4/24/2008
Ramallah Ma’an - A group of Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists took over an Israeli checkpoint that separates Ramallah and the village of Ein Kinia on Thursday, reopening a road that had been closed since the beginning of... more.. e-mail
Israel’s ’separation wall’ is no barrier for drug dealers
Majeda El Batsh, Daily Star 4/25/2008
Agence France Presse - OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: At the foot of the wall Israel has built to cut off East Jerusalem from the Occupied West Bank, a Palestinian man, seeing no police around, furtively removes a packet from a hole in the... more.. e-mail
Israeli troops shoot and injure Palestinian
Ma’an News Agency 4/23/2008
Ramallah Ma’an A Palestinian man was injured on Wednesday morning when Israeli soldiers opened fire on him in the central West Bank village of Qatanna in Ramallah district. Ma’an’s reporter quoted Palestinian security sources...
Defense Min. yet to start court-ordered reroute of Bil’in fence
Akiva Eldar, Ha’aretz 4/24/2008
Eight months after the High Court of Justice ordered the state to dismantle the segment of the separation fence near the Palestinian village of Bil’in within "a reasonable amount of time," the Defense Ministry has yet to do... more.. e-mail
Crossing the Line interviews author Michael Neumann
Podcast, Crossing the Line, Electronic Intifada 4/22/2008
This week on Crossing The Line: Many Palestinians and solidarity activists advocate for the one-state solution as the best for both Israelis and Palestinians. Host Naji Ali talks with author and professor Michael Neumann who argues that the one-state solution... more.. e-mail
Israel allows entry of aid into Gaza
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 4/22/2008
Despite repeated infiltration attempts and attacks on Gaza crossings, Israel reopens Sufa border crossing in southern Strip to allow entry of some 80 trucks carrying food, medical supplies - Several days after it was sealed off following the Palestinian attacks
on... more.. e-mail
Qassam rocket hits home in Sderot
Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 4/22/2008
Some cases of shock among Sderot residents reported after Qassam hits house. Altogether three rockets were fired at Israel on Tuesday - A Qassam rocket hit a home in Sderot on Tuesday, causing some of the residents in the city to... more.. e-mail
Israeli military kills three Palestinians in Beit Lahia
Saed Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 4/22/2008
On Monday evening, an Israeli ground-to-ground missile and concurrent ground invasion resulted in the deaths of three Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia. The Israeli military reported killing one Palestinian with a tank-fired missile, and two... more.. e-mail
Qassam injures 3 Palestinians in Gaza
Ali Waked, YNetNews 4/21/2008
Rocket hits Beit Hanoun home, lightly wounding three people; Palestinians claim IDF shell fired at house -Qassam attacks hit Palestinians as well. A rocket landed Monday in a Palestinian house in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, lightly injuring... more.. e-mail
IDF kills 3 Palestinians in Gaza
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 4/21/2008
IAF aircraft fires at group of three gunmen not far from border fence in northern Gaza, killing on of them; Givati force enters Strip, kills two others - The Israel Air Force attacked a group of gunmen spotted near the border... more.. e-mail
South braces for infiltration from Gaza
Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 4/21/2008
Infiltration attempt over weekend leads to tightening of restrictions on Gaza-vicinity communities, residents instructed to refrain from approaching border fence. Defense officials concerned terrorists may use smuggling tunnels to bypass IDF - Residents of Israeli communities neighboring on the Gaza border... more.. e-mail
Minor explosion near Ad-Dira Hotel on Gaza beach
Ma’an News Agency 4/21/2008
Gaza Ma’an An explosion on Sunday night near the Ad-Dira Hotel on the beach near Gaza City caused some damage to nearby buildings, but no casualties were reported. Sources in the hotel said they did not believe the... more.. e-mail
Masri: Policy of isolating Hamas proved its failure
Palestinian Information Center 4/21/2008
GAZA, (PIC)-- The US-Israeli policy of isolating Hamas has proven its failure as expressed in former president Jimmy Carter’s speech on Monday, MP Mushir Al-Masri, secretary of Hamas’s parliamentary bloc, said. He said that Carter’... more.. e-mail
Like gang warfare
Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz 4/21/2008
On both sides of the fence locking in the Gaza Strip, there is a war of desperation going on. Hamas is fighting against the insufferable siege that the Gaza Strip has been under for many months, and the Israel Defense... more.. e-mail
This Week In Palestine - Week 16 2008
Ghassan Bannoura - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center News 4/18/2008
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || File 12. 8 MB || Time 14m 0s ||This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www. IMEMC. org, for April 12th through to April 18th, 2008... more.. e-mail
Mario Vargas Llosa: How Arabs have been driven out of Hebron
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Independent 4/19/2008
Hebron is the image of desolation and pain. I’m talking of the H-2 sector, the oldest part of this ancient city, which is under Israeli military control and where some 500 colonos--settlers--live in four settlements... more.. e-mail
200 march against Israeli separation wall in Al-Khadr
Ma’an News Agency 4/19/2008
Bethlehem Ma’an 200 residents of the West Bank village of Al-Khadr, near Bethlehem, staged their weekly demonstration on Friday against the construction the Israeli separation wall, which organizers say will all but annex more than 90% of the... more.. e-mail
Hamas car bomb injures 13 Israelis
Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem, The Independent 4/19/2008
Hamas suicide bombers in two military-style Jeeps yesterday blew themselves up at a Gaza border crossing, wounding 13 Israeli soldiers. The Israel Defence Forces said the vehicles were detonated after driving through a border fence on the Israeli side. Four...
Haaretz: IDF - 'Reuters reporter risked his life by going to Bil’in'
Original article published in Haaretz on the 19th April 2008, International Solidarity Movement 4/19/2008
Bil’in Village - The Israel Defense Forces spokesman on Friday said the Reuters writer who was lightly to moderately wounded by IDF fire near the West Bank separation fence in Bil’in put his life in danger by... more.. e-mail
Gaza terror cell attempts to infiltrate southern border
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 4/19/2008
Thirteen IDF soldiers moderately-lightly wounded as Palestinian gunmen detonate car bomb, open fire on troops in apparent abduction attempt near southern border. Hamas claims responsibility for what IDF deems ’biggest incident since disengagement’ - Two soldiers were moderately wounded... more.. e-mail
Gaza ’ready to explode,’ Hamas leader says
Ma’an News Agency 4/19/2008
Gaza Ma’an Saturday’s car bombing attack on the Karem Shalom crossing point was a warning of what could be a popular explosion in the face of Israel’s ten-month siege of the Gaza Strip, Hamas... more.. e-mail
IDF: Reuters reporter risked his life by going to Bi’lin
Haaretz Service, Ha’aretz 4/19/2008
The Israel Defense Forces spokesman on Friday said the Reuters writer who was lightly to moderately wounded by IDF fire near the West Bank separation fence in Bi’lin put his life in danger by going to the area... more.. e-mail
After killing 1 from Reuters in Gaza, Israeli forces open fire on demo in WB, injuring colleague
Kristen Ess, Palestine News Network 4/18/2008
Ramallah - Demonstrators in the village of Bil’in took off in massive march after Friday prayers in solidarity with the prisoners confined in Israeli prisons. After killing a Reuters cameraman in Al Buriej Refugee Camp in the southern Gaza... more.. e-mail
Bil’in demonstrators march in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners
Ma’an News Agency 4/18/2008
Ramallah Ma’an Palestinians organized a mass demonstration in the West Bank village of Bil’in to protest Israel’s separation wall and to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Thursday was Palestinian Prisoners’... more.. e-mail
MIFTAH Condemns in the Strongest Terms, the Israeli Military Raid on the Gaza Strip
MIFTAH, MIFTAH 4/17/2008
The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, MIFTAH condemns in the strongest terms, the Israeli military raid on the Gaza Strip on April 16, which resulted in the deaths of 20 Palestinians, several of whom are... more.. e-mail
Arab paper: Olmert offers Abbas 64% of W. Bank
Jerusalem Post 4/17/2008
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has offered the Palestinians 64 percent of the West Bank as part of a future peace agreement, London-based Asharq Al-Awsat reported Wednesday.
According to the report, Olmert told PA President Mahmoud Abbas that the Palestinians could...
IDF foils infiltration from Gaza
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 4/17/2008
Desert Patrol force identifies Palestinian cell approaching fence near Kerem Shalom border crossing, opens fire at gunmen, killing one and wounding another. Palestinians say men belonged to Hamas - An IDF force thwarted an attempt by three Palestinian gunmen to infiltrate... more.. e-mail
PNI: negotiations with Israelis must stop as they provide cover for continued crimes
Amin Abu Wardeh, Palestine News Network 4/17/2008
Nablus -- The Palestinian National Initiative National is demanding that the Palestinian Authority stop negotiations and contacts with the Israeli government. The negotiations are providing a "cover for the massacres perpetrated by Israeli forces. " The PNI called on the PA to... more.. e-mail
Barak: Jewish people seek peace
Neta Sela, YNetNews 4/17/2008
Defense minister: We will do everything in our power to advance peace, but stay on guard - The Jewish people seeks peace and is loyal to the ancient decree calling on it to "seek peace and pursue it," Defense Minister Ehud... more.. e-mail
Three Israeli soldiers killed in ambush near Gaza border
Amos Harel, Ha’aretz 4/17/2008
Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers from the elite Givati Brigade were killed on Wednesday in an exchange of heavy gunfire with Palestinian militants next to the Gaza Strip security fence. A preliminary IDF investigation suggests that an operational error occurred... more.. e-mail
IOF artillery shells Palestinian hospital
Palestinian Information Center 4/16/2008
GAZA, (PIC)-- Two IOF artillery shells slammed into the Wafa’a hospital east of Gaza city at dawn Wednesday severely damaging the ground floor, X-ray department and the laboratory, the hospital administration said in a press release. The shelling... more.. e-mail
Kibbutz homes damaged by Qassams
Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 4/16/2008
At least 19 rockets fired towards Israel since morning hours, several buildings sustain damages in afternoon barrage - Nine Qassam rockets were fired towards Israel on Wednesday afternoon in the latest barrage by Palestinian terror groups in northern Gaza. The rockets... more.. e-mail
IOF artillery targets Gaza mosque
Palestinian Information Center 4/16/2008
GAZA, (PIC)-- IOF artillery fired at and partially destroyed and burnt Al-Salam mosque in Sha’af area east of Gaza city other than demolishing fences of a religious school. The IOF shelling burnt copies of the holy Quran and... more.. e-mail
Jimmy Carter meets with former Hamas cabinet minister
Ma’an News Agency 4/16/2008
Bethlehem Ma’an Former US President Jimmy Carter met with Nasser Addin Ash-Sha’ir, the former minister of education in the elected Hamas government of 2006, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Ash-Sha’ir said he... more.. e-mail
Home Rebuilding Camp Offers Hope to Victims of House Demolition
Rafat Shomali, Palestine News Network 4/16/2008
Bethlehem - In the year 2007, 208 houses in the West Bank and 78 in East Jerusalem were destroyed by Israeli bulldozers, leaving hundreds of families homeless and impoverished. In a new twist on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Holy Land Trust... more.. e-mail
Cameraman among 20 dead as violence in Gaza escalates
The Independent 4/16/2008
At least 17 Palestinians -- including a Reuters cameraman filming tank movements -- and three Israeli soldiers were killed yesterday in the heaviest day of Gaza bloodshed since early March. In the most lethal incident, an Israeli helicopter fired four missiles which... more.. e-mail
Heavy exchanges of fire in Gaza; 10 Qassams fired at Negev
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 4/16/2008
Givati Brigade force enters Strip after identifying gunmen near security fence, two soldiers sustain light to moderate wounds in ensuing clashes; IDF soldiers operating near Khan Yunis detain a number of Palestinians. Rockets fired toward Negev region land in open... more.. e-mail
VIDEO - 3 IDF soldiers killed in Gaza battle
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 4/16/2008
Video) Givati Brigade suffers three fatalities forces enter Gaza in pursuit of Palestinian terrorists who approached security fence near Kibbutz Be’eri; ’Soldiers only buffer between terror organizations, Israeli citizens,’ says IDF official - VIDEO -Givati Brigade’... more.. e-mail
IDF officials predict Hamas PR campaign against blockade
Amos Harel and News Agencies, Ha’aretz 4/16/2008
Israeli military officials believe Hamas is likely to launch a public relations campaign shortly over Israel’s economic blockade of the Gaza Strip. In addition, they foresee a possible attempt to breach the Egyptian border at Rafah or possible... more.. e-mail
The Politics of Archaeology in East Jerusalem
Yigal Bronner and Neve Gordon, MIFTAH 4/15/2008
Archaeology has become a weapon of dispossession," Yonathan Mizrachi, an Israeli archaeologist, said in a recent telephone interview with us. He was referring to the way archaeology is being used in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood in the oldest part of... -- See also: Part of Palestinian house in Jerusalem caves in due to Israeli excavations more.. e-mail
They’re Routinely Tortured for Throwing Rocks
Patrick Moser, MIFTAH 4/15/2008
OFER MILITARY CAMP, West Bank - Mohammed, 14, barely glanced at the Israeli military judge as he was led shuffling into the cramped courtroom, his legs in shackles.The Palestinian boy had eyes only for his father, and mouthed the traditional Arabic... more.. e-mail
Islamic-Christian front warns of scheme targeting Arab presence in Jerusalem
Palestinian Information Center 4/15/2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Dr. Hasan Khater, the secretary-general of the Islamic-Christian front for the defense of Jerusalem and holy shrines, warned that the IOA started a few days ago to implement a dangerous scheme targeting the Arab and Islamic presence... more.. e-mail
Israeli settlers from Efrat attack Palestinian farmers in southern Bethlehem
Najib Farrag, Palestine News Network 4/15/2008
Bethlehem -- Settlers from Efrat attacked farmers and their families in Bethlehem’s Al Khader yesterday. The Palestinians were working on their lands that are now dangerously close to the Wall as it expands through southern Bethlehem. Efrat, illegal as... more.. e-mail
IOA bulldozers flatten Palestinian home in occupied Jerusalem
Palestinian Information Center 4/15/2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli-controlled municipality of occupied Jerusalem has demolished the home of Younis Subaih in Enata village in occupied Jerusalem at the pretext of lack of construction permit. IOF troops encircled the area and blocked traffic during the... more.. e-mail
Ten Palestinians injured in confrontation at entrance to Azzun ’Itma
Ma’an News Agency 4/15/2008
Qalqilia Ma’an Ten Palestinian citizens were injured on Monday evening at the entrance to the northern West Bank village of Azzun ’Itma, south of Qalqilia. The head of the local council, Azmi Salamah, was one of the... more.. e-mail
Hamas denies rumours about intention to assault Egyptian borders
Palestinian Information Center 4/15/2008
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement categorically denied what was alleged by the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper in its Tuesday issue about its intention to breach the border wall between Egypt and Gaza and to wage an attack on Egyptian soldiers, describing the... more.. e-mail
Hamas denies media reports of plans to breach Egypt’s borders
DPA, Ha’aretz 4/16/2008
Egypt’s official newspaper reported Tuesday a detailed plan by the Palestinian Hamas movement to blow up the concrete wall along the border at Rafah and to kill Egyptian security forces. The Islamic movement was quick to deny the... more.. e-mail
Israeli forces penetrate southern Gaza Strip
Ma’an News Agency 4/15/2008
Gaza Ma’an Israeli forces penetrated the town of Al-Qarara in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning accompanied by bulldozers. Local sources said that clashes erupted in the area between the invading Israeli forces and Palestinian resistance fighters... more.. e-mail
Letters: Demolition of Palestinian homes
Linda Ramsden, Director, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions UK, The Guardian 4/16/2008
Since 1967, more than 18,000 Palestinian homes have been demolished by the Israelis and fewer than 10% have had anything to do with security reasons (Area C strikes fear into the heart of Palestinians as homes are destroyed, April 15... more.. e-mail
Abu Hussein: All we are guilty of is their hatred for us
Maisa Abu Ghazaleh, Palestine News Network 4/15/2008
Jerusalem -- Bulldozers and heavy machinery from the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem Municipality demolished another Palestinian home in East Jerusalem yesterday. Younis Sobeih lived with his family in the suburban town of Anata. At the time of demolition on Monday Israeli forces claimed... more.. e-mail
IWPS calls for new volunteers
International Womens’ Peace Service 4/15/2008
IWPS calls for new volunteers - Peace and human-rights volunteers needed in Palestine - Are you a woman who is interested in working for international justice? - Do you want to support Palestinian non-violent resistance? - Are you willing to accompany farmers while they... more.. e-mail
Part of Jerusalem’s Western Wall crumbling
Middle East Online 4/15/2008
Part of Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the holiest site for Jews, has started crumbling and needs to be fixed to protect worshippers who bow in prayer before the massive ancient stones, officials said on Tuesday. Each year, some six... more.. e-mail
VIDEO - Western Wall stones crumbling
Nissan Straukler, YNetNews 4/15/2008
Video) Stones added to top of wall in 19th century show concerning signs of disintegration. ’Renovations will be done with cooperation of Israel Antiquities Authority, in accordance to Jewish law,’ says Western Wall rabbi - VIDEO - A routine inspection... more.. e-mail
Manifest Destiny?
Uri Avnery, MIFTAH 4/14/2008
NEXT MONTH, Israel will celebrate its 60th anniversary. The government is working feverishly to make this day into an occasion of joy and jubilation. While serious problems are crying out for funds, some 40 million dollars have been allocated to... more.. e-mail
Egypt re-opens Gaza crossing border to hospitalize Palestinians
Deutsche Presse Agentur, ReliefWeb 4/14/2008
Cairo_(dpa) _ Egyptian authorities reopened Monday the Rafah crossing border to allow injured Palestinians to receive treatment in hospitals in Egypt, security and medical sources said.
Ambulances carried some 22 wounded Palestinians to hospitals in Cairo, sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur... more.. e-mail
Israeli military trials impose ’charade’ of justice on Palestinian children
Patrick Moser, Daily Star 4/14/2008
Agence France Presse - OFER MILITARY CAMP, Occupied West Bank: Mohammad, 14, barely glanced at the Israeli military judge as he was led shuffling into the cramped courtroom, his legs in shackles. The Palestinian boy had eyes only for his father... more.. e-mail
Israeli forces invade northern Gaza Strip
Ma’an News Agency 4/13/2008
Gaza Ma’an Israeli tanks, jeeps, and bulldozers entered the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalia on Sunday morning amid heavy gunfire, witnesses said. Sources on the ground in Jabalia said Israeli ground forces, with helicopters overhead, had crossed...
What’s up, Doc? Carrot crops grow costly in face of Gaza fire
Fadi Eyadat and Mijal Grinberg, Ha’aretz 4/14/2008
Farmers at the kibbutzim Nir Oz and Ein Hashlosha in the western Negev are considering changing the type of crops they grow near the border with the Gaza Strip because the carrots, potatoes, peanuts and wheat already there require a... more.. e-mail
Livni to tell Gulf leaders: Iran the threat, not Israel
Barak Ravid, Ha’aretz 4/14/2008
DOHA, Qatar - Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni arrived here yesterday to attend the 8th annual Doha Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade, at which she has been invited to give a keynote speech. Senior Lebanese and Iranian officials responded by... more.. e-mail
IDF: Army unequipped to deal with infiltrations from Egypt
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 4/13/2008
Commander of division entrusted with sealing Israel-Egypt border says lacking infrastructure, absence of fence and adherence to strict moral codes undermine forces’ ability to curb infiltrations -"The State of Israel
has lost it deterrence because it is unequipped to... more.. e-mail
Israeli authorities order demolition of 3 shops near separation wall
Ma’an News Agency 4/12/2008
Tulkarem Ma’an - The Israeli authorities ordered three shop ownersfrom Nazlat Issa village north of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank to demolish their shops saying they were built without licenses and they are too close to the separation...
Israeli forces invade Zbuta village
Ma’an News Agency 4/12/2008
Jenin - Ma’an - Israeli forces invaded Zbuta village northwest of the West Bank city of Jenin in the early hours of Saturday, breaking into a number of houses before withdrawing in the early morning hours without any arrests. According...
Israeli army invade eastern Gaza City
Ma’an News Agency 4/12/2008
Gaza Ma’an - A number of Israeli army vehicles stormed the Al-Shaja’iyah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City on Saturday afternoon, Palestinian sources reported. Eyewitnesses told Ma’an that four Israeli military vehicles and two bulldozers stormed...
Injustice for West Bank children in Israeli military courts
Middle East Online 4/12/2008
OFER MILITARY CAMP, West Bank - Mohammed, 14, barely glanced at the Israeli military judge as he was led shuffling into the cramped courtroom, his legs in shackles. The Palestinian boy had eyes only for his father, and mouthed the traditional... more.. e-mail
IMEMC: Israeli army prevents Israelis from joining non-violet demonstration in Al-Khader
IMEMC, International Solidarity Movement 4/11/2008
Photos - Bethlehem Region - The Israeli army prevented a number of Israeli peace activists to join the Palestinian residents of Al-Khader in their weekly nonviolent protest against the construction of the separation wall on their land on Friday at noon. Eyewitnesses... more.. e-mail
Israeli forces arrest Medical Relief volunteer
Ma’an News Agency 4/11/2008
Bethlehem Ma’an - Israeli forces arrested Qassem Ali Al-Qadi a volunteer in the Palestinian Medical Relief from Sourif, north of Hebron claiming he had been spotted too close to the separation wall. Medical Relief said an Israeli force raided...
Israeli strikes kill 2 Hamas gunmen in Gaza
Reuters, YNetNews 4/11/2008
IDF says carried out air strike targeting terrorists in Hamas-controlled territory. Palestinian medical workers say seven other gunmen wounded in two air strikes outside southern Gaza city of Khan Younis - Israeli air strikes killed at least two Hamas gunmen
in... more.. e-mail
Parents of Briton killed by IDF fire in Gaza seek compensation
Ynet, YNetNews 4/11/2008
8217;We claim that the denial to the family of fair and just compensation amounts to supporting a policy of indifference and disregard for innocent civilians,’ Tom Hurndall’s parents say in letter to Israeli ambassador to London... more.. e-mail
IDF inquiry into Nahal Oz raid highlights failures
Amos Harel and Yuval Azoulay, Ha’aretz 4/11/2008
A preliminary IDF inquiry into the Palestinian raid on the Nahal Oz fuel depot on Wednesday has revealed serious failures in the way some of the forces were deployed and operated during the attack. Two Israeli civilian truck drivers were... more.. e-mail
Barbed wire erected to prevent Israel-Lebanon border violations
DPA, Ha’aretz 4/10/2008
Members of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon on Thursday began erecting a barbed-wire fence along the Lebanon-Israel border to prevent violations of the "Blue Line" that could jeopardize the region’s fragile cease-fire. "About 50 UN soldiers... more.. e-mail
The Invisible Right
Rafat Shomali, Palestine News Network 4/9/2008
Bethlehem - I demand an explanation to a question, a question I just can’t understand, "Why do the Israelis always remember their past and we are asked to forget ours? Why are we asked to forget the 800,000 Palestinians... more.. e-mail
Hamas blamed after two Israelis killed at fuel depot
The Independent 4/9/2008
Two Israeli civilians were killed yesterday by Palestinian gunmen who managed to break through Gaza’s border fence in a daylight attack on the nearby main fuel depot of Nahal Oz. The attack threatened to presage a fresh outbreak... more.. e-mail
Negotiating... or Just Talking?
Issa Samander, MIFTAH 4/9/2008
Assad is a farmer from a small village near the northern West Bank town of Tulkarm. The family concern has done well over the years, producing some 12,500 liters of olive oil and three tons of almonds and other produce... more.. e-mail
Forewarned, truck drivers escaped Gaza attackers
Fadi Eyadat, Ha’aretz 4/10/2008
The terror attack yesterday on the fuel depot near the Karni terminal on the Gaza border, in which Palestinian gunmen killed two Israelis, appears to have been planned as a way of abducting an Israeli soldier or civilian, said Israel... more.. e-mail
IDF investigates Nahal Oz attack
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 4/9/2008
Probe to focus on how Gaza terrorists managed to infiltrate Israel in broad daylight without being detected. Southern Command: Soldiers’ quick response prevented large-scale attack - The IDF’s investigation into Wednesday’s deadly shooting attackat
Nahal Oz... more.. e-mail
George, Laura Bush to visit Masada; Ehud Olmert to play tour guide
Barak Ravid, Ha’aretz 4/10/2008
U. S. President George W. Bush is likely to visit Masada during his visit to Israel next month for Israel’s 60th anniversary celebrations, U. S. sources said yesterday. Organizers of Bush’s planned two-and-a-half-day stay said they... more.. e-mail
Governmental sources in Gaza denies news of allowing in fuel by Egypt
Palestinian Information Center 4/9/2008
RAFAH, (PIC)-- Sources in the caretaker government categorically denied the news reported by the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper about allowing large quantities of fuel and gas into Gaza by the Egyptian authorities, while eyewitnesses reported that the Egyptian security apparatuses are... more.. e-mail
Egyptian security forces deployed on border with Gaza
Ma’an News Agency 4/9/2008
Gaza Ma’an Egyptian security forces have been deployed heavily along the Rafah border with the Gaza Strip fearing that Palestinians may force the border wall open again on Wednesday. Palestinian sources told Ma’an that the deployment... more.. e-mail
Animals, humans face similar fate when surrounded by Israeli walls
Jim Miles, Middle East Online 4/8/2008
Book review of:The Zoo on the Road to Nablus A Story of Survival from the West Bank by Amelia Thomas (Public Affairs, New York, 2008).
This tale from the West Bank operates at several levels. Nominally it is about... more.. e-mail
Tunnel meant for terrorist infiltration found in N. Gaza
Yuval Azoulay and Mijal Grinberg, Ha’aretz 4/9/2008
Israel Defense Forces troops operating overnight Tuesday outside the northern Gaza Strip town of Jebaliya uncovered an opening to a tunnel into Israel. The opening was discovered during a Givati infantry raid some 700 meters inside the border fence. The... more.. e-mail
IDF uncovers tunnel in Palestinian house
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 4/8/1920
Joint IDF-Shin Bet operation reveals 11. 5-feet tunnel not far from Israeli community of Kfar Aza; one gunman killed, three injured during raid - A 3. 5-meter (11. 5-feet) tunnel dug inside a Palestinian house was uncovered Tuesday... more.. e-mail
Olmert: Easing restrictions important
Roni Sofer, YNetNews 4/8/1920
Prime minister says he views relieving restrictions on Palestinians as way to build trust with pragmatic elements among them - Easing restrictions on the Palestinians is one of the ways to build trust with the pragmatic elements among them, Prime Minister... more.. e-mail
ADL: Switzerland financing terrorism
Associated Press, YNetNews 4/8/1920
US-based Anti-Defamation League slams multibillion dollar deal Geneva struck with Iran for supply of natural gas. Full-page ads in major newspapers proclaim Switzerland world’s ’newest financier of terrorism’ - A major US Jewish organization on Tuesday stepped... more.. e-mail
Ramon: All Ofra homes built on private Palestinian land
Akiva Eldar, Ha’aretz 4/8/2008
All 450 homes in Ofra, the "mother of settlements" in Samaria, were built on privately owned Palestinian land, Vice Premier Haim Ramon said during a session at the Knesset State Control Committee two months ago. This is the first time... more.. e-mail
Physically-assaulted female prisoner appeals to save her from losing eyesight
Palestinian Information Center 4/7/2008
BETHLEHEM, (PIC)-- A female prisoner in the Israeli Hasharon prison called Shireen Hasan from the Bethlehem city appealed to human and prisoners’ rights organizations to intervene to save her from losing her eyesight after an Israeli interrogator beat her... more.. e-mail
Demolition of houses near the Separation Barrier, Far’un village, Tulkarm district
Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, ReliefWeb 4/6/2008
On 31 January 2008, the Civil Administration delivered to two homeowners in Far’un, a village south of Tulkarm, notice that orders had been issued to demolish their houses, which lie close to the Separation Barrier. In 2007, the... more.. e-mail
Fanatic Jewish group builds new tunnel under the Aqsa Mosque
Palestinian Information Center 4/6/2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Hebrew TV has revealed on Saturday that the Jewish fanatic Al-A’ad group excavated a new tunnel in Salwan village leading the foundations of the Aqsa Mosque. According to the TV, the tunnel was part... more.. e-mail
Boy dies as Jewish state launches new attack in Gaza
Daily Star 4/7/2008
A Palestinian boy was shot dead by Israeli tank fire in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian medical sources said. Abdullah Buhar, whose age was given as either five years or eight,was hit by shrapnel to his head... more.. e-mail
IDF razes 10 more roadblocks in bid to ease West Bank mobility
Yuval Azoulay and Haaretz Service, Ha’aretz 4/7/2008
The Israel Defense Forces over the weekend dismantled 10 dirt roadblocks in the West Bank, bringing to 60 the total number of security barriers removed in the last week, the Defense Ministry said. Most of the dirt mounts were removed... more.. e-mail
Diskin: Complete fence before gestures
Roni Sofer, YNetNews 4/7/2008
Shin Bet chief warns cabinet against easing restrictions on Palestinians while separation fence remains breached. Aide to defense minister says Barak is working to locate budget for fence’s completion, adds diplomatic considerations taken into account as well - Shin... more.. e-mail
Palestinians protest West Bank wall, settlements, settler-only roads in Friday’s nonviolent actions
Ma’an News Agency 4/5/2008
Bethlehem Ma’an 130 Palestinians staged a nonviolent demonstration against Israel’s separation wall in the West Bank village of Al-Khadr, near Bethlehem, on Friday, facing down as many as 20 heavily-armed Israeli soldiers and snipers who blocked... more.. e-mail
Israeli forces kill Palestinian farmer in Gaza
Ma’an News Agency 4/5/2008
Gaza Ma’an Israeli forces shot and killed a 35-year-old Palestinian farmer named Ra’fat Mansour and injured another Palestinian man during an ongoing attack on the area near the cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip, medics... more.. e-mail
Israeli fire kills Palestinian farmer
Middle East Online 4/5/2008
GAZA CITY - A Palestinian farmer was killed by an Israeli artillery round on Saturday as he worked in his fields near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, Palestinian medics said. The strike near the northern town of Jabaliya... more.. e-mail
Protests take place in Bil’in and Umm Salamona
Eyad Bornat, International Solidarity Movement 4/5/2008
Ten non-violent protesters were reported injured during the weekly Anti-Wall protest at the village of Bil’in located near the West Bank city of Ramallah on midday Friday. As the case each week, villagers from Bil’in along... more.. e-mail
Nonviolent resistance moves forward as Israeli forces injure 2 children and arrest supporters
Palestine News Network 4/5/2008
Bethlehem / Najib Farrag -- The Palestinian nonviolent resistance continued yesterday around the time of Friday prayers in southern Bethlehem’s Umm Salamuna. This is a weekly event. Israeli forces met the demonstrators with Billy clubs and rolls of barbed wire... more.. e-mail
Israeli forces did not remove roadblocks in West Bank: Abbas and Olmert to meet Monday
Palestine News Network 4/5/2008
Beirut / PNN - The head of the Negotiations Affairs Department in the Palestine Liberation Organization, Dr. Sa’eb Erekat told the press on Saturday that President Mahmoud Abbas will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday. It was... more.. e-mail
Ramon: Jerusalem not for negotiations, wall our borders
Palestinian Information Center 4/5/2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Haim Ramon, the Israeli deputy premier, has affirmed that public and secret talks with PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and his team do not include Jerusalem, "which all knows is not for negotiations". Ramon in a statement carried... more.. e-mail
Barghouthi: Negotiations are Meaningless until Israel Stops Settlement Expansion, Halts Construction of Apartheid Wall, and Ends Siege on Gaza
Palestinian National Initiative, Palestine Monitor 4/5/2008
Ramallah, 03-04-08: PNI Secretary General Mustafa Barghouthi MP said today that negotiations with Israel are meaningless until it meets basic conditions that reflect a genuine commitment towards peace. The MP made the statement at a press conference held... more.. e-mail
Land Day: What began in 1976 continues today
Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Arabs48.com, Stop The Wall 4/1/2008
In 1976, Palestinians protested a massive expropriation of land in the Galilee region.In 2008 the protests continue to mark March 30th, while Occupation forces continue to occupy land and expand the settlements that creep across Palestine.
These settlement practices, which... more.. e-mail
Hamas: Gaza sniper aimed for Public Security Min. Dichter
Amos Harel and News Agencies, Ha’aretz 4/5/2008
Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida announced Friday that sniper fire from Hamas’ military wing, which wounded Public Security Minister Avi Dichter’s bureau chief near Gaza, was in fact aimed at the minister himself. Dichter’s senior aide... more.. e-mail
Returning to Nablus: Collateral damage
Alice Rothchild writing from Nablus, occupied West Bank, Electronic Intifada 4/2/2008
Since 2003, a health and human rights project developed by members of Jewish Voice for Peace has organized yearly delegations to Israel and Palestine, joining with partners such as Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Palestinian Medical Relief Society. We document... more.. e-mail
Israeli High Court Issues Stop-Work Order on Silwan Excavations
Palestine Monitor, Palestine Monitor 4/2/2008
The arrest of eight Palestinian and Israeli activists in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on March 13 came as yet another unsettling, though unsurprising development in the community’s ongoing battle to protect itself from expanding settlement activity... more.. e-mail
Palestinian Red Crescent Society: Annual Appeal No. MAAPS001 Report 2006-2007 (2)
International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies, ReliefWeb 4/3/2008
This report covers the period of 01/01/06 to 31/12/07 of a two-year planning and appeal process.
In brief Programme summary:Despite huge financial challenges due to lack of support from the Palestinian government following the international... more.. e-mail
Israeli court imprisons Palestinian child for passing near the separation wall
Palestinian Information Center 4/2/2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli Ofer military court on Wednesday sentenced a Palestinian child from occupied Jerusalem to four months imprisonment after "convicting" him of walking near the separation wall. Asrana (our prisoners) legal center said in a statement that...
Egypt opens Gaza crossing for 1 day
ASSOCIATED PRESS, Jerusalem Post 4/1/2008
RAFAH, Egypt - Egyptian authorities opened Rafah terminal on Egypt-Gaza border for a single day on Tuesday to let around 350 Egyptians stuck in Gaza Strip for the past two months to return home, a security official said.
According to the... more.. e-mail
The right to hike
Zafrir Rinat, Ha’aretz 4/3/2008
Until now it has been difficult for an Israeli to imagine what a Palestinian feels as he walks the land, and isn’t busy musing about its political or nationalist nature. Writer and author Raja Shehadeh has written a... more.. e-mail
IDF commandos kill two Hamas gunmen in Gaza
Yuval Azoulay, Avi Issacharoff and Mijal Grinberg, Ha’aretz 4/2/2008
Two Hamas militants were killed early yesterday morning when they encountered an IDF commando unit operating in the central Gaza Strip. There were no Israeli casualties. The incident occured close to the border fence, north of the Kissufim crossing. The... more.. e-mail
Land Day commemorations continue in Nazlat ‘Isa, Tulkarm
International Solidarity Movement 4/1/2008
Tulkarem RegionPhotos On Monday 31st March, residents of the Tulkarm district continued their Land Day demonstrations with a protest against the separation wall in the village of Nazlat ‘Isa. Approximately 100 protesters confronted Israeli soldiers as they attempted to... more.. e-mail
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