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The ongoing struggle in Ni’lin
Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 5/31/2008
Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign - In the past weeks, the village of Ni’lin has been a site of active struggle against the latest Occupation land grab. Frequent protests and confrontations between villagers and Occupation soldiers have occurred on the site......more.. e-mail
Gazans wounded in border protest
Al Jazeera 5/30/2008
At least 15 Palestinians have been wounded after Israeli troops used gunfire to stop about 3,000 Hamas supporters from approaching one of the Gaza Strip’s main border crossings with Israel, witnesses say. Palestinian medical workers said on Friday......more.. e-mail
Dozens treated for tear gas inhalation at the weekly Bil’in protest
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 5/30/2008
Villagers from Bil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, supported by international and Israeli peace activists conducted their weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli wall built on the village’s land on Friday......more.. e-mail
Australian national radio discusses Palestine coverage in the media
Interview, ABC Radio Australia, Electronic Intifada 5/30/2008
Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah is our first guest as we examine visibility in the media and the preconceptions and stereotyping that tag some people as less than desirable and see others ignored altogether.Antony Funnell: Today’s program deals with......more.. e-mail
The villagers of Al Khader conduct their weekly nonviolent protest
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 5/30/2008
Around 200 villagers from Al Khader village near Bethlehem, in the southern part of the West Bank protest on Friday the Israeli wall and settlements constructed on the village land. Supported by 50 international and Israeli peace activist the villager......
The Israeli army attacks a nonviolent protest near Bethlehem and kidnaps one civilian
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 5/30/2008
The Israeli army attacked the nonviolent protest organized by the villagers of Al-Me’sara village south of Bethlehem on Friday morning and kidnapped one protester. Supported by international and Israeli peace activists the villagers gathered at the nearby Israeli......
Demonstrations in al-Ma’sara, Bi’lin and al-Khader
Mahmoud Zwahre, International Solidarity Movement 5/30/2008
Press clippings - On the 30th May, around 150 people from the village of Al-Ma’sara demonstrated against the building of the apartheid wall on their land. As usual the demo started from the middle of the village ad continued......more.. e-mail
IDF fires into crowd of 3,000 Hamas protesters at Gaza border
Reuters, Ha’aretz 5/30/2008
GAZA - Israel Defense Forces troops used gunfire and tear gas on Friday to keep more than 3,000 Hamas supporters from approaching one of the Gaza Strip’s main border crossings with Israel, wounding at least six Palestinians, witnesses said......more.. e-mail
More rockets hit south; Islamic Jihad claims responsibility
Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 5/31/2008
Four Qassams fired at Israel Friday afternoon; two land near Gaza’s Erez crossing. Two more rockets fired from Gaza Friday night - More rockets hit south: Palestinians fired four Qassam rockets from the Gaza Strip at Israel Friday afternoon......more.. e-mail
News Briefs - IDF Raids Gaza
Ha’aretz 5/30/2008
Israel Defense Forces tanks and infantry raided the northern Gaza Strip before dawn yesterday, and rounded up some 60 Palestinian suspects. The prisoners were passed on to be interrogated by the Shin Bet security forces. A few hours later, Palestinian......more.. e-mail
Saeb Erekat meets with US Consul General
Ma’an News Agency 5/30/2008
Jericho – Ma’an – Chief Negotiator for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Saeb Erekat met with U. S. Consul General Jack Wallace in Jericho on Friday to discuss the latest political developments in the Palestinian territories. Erekat told Ma’......more.. e-mail
Israeli army spokesperson: soldiers who attacked demonstrators in Ni’lin will be prosecuted
Ma’an News Agency 5/30/2008
Bethlehem - Ma’an - The Israeli army spokesperson announced that all the Israeli soldiers who attacked Palestinian and Israeli demonstrators on Thursday protesting against construction of the separation wall in Ni’lin will be punished because they violated Israeli......
The world’s strongest currency
Nathan Sheva, Ha’aretz 5/30/2008
Since the begining of 2008, the shekel has gained 15% against the dollar, and slightly more against the British pound and the Canadian dollar. It is up 8% versus the Swedish kroner and has picked up 24% against the South......more.. e-mail
Report: 6 Palestinians injured by IDF fire in Gaza
Ali Waked, YNetNews 5/30/2008
Hamas organizes rally near Sufa crossing in protest of siege imposed on Strip by Israel. Palestinians say soldiers opened fire at thousands of protestors approaching crossing - Palestinian sources reported Friday afternoon that six Palestinians were injured by IDF fire near......more.. e-mail
30 injured as Israeli army attacks protest in Ni’lin
International Solidarity Movement 5/27/2008
Ramallah Region - Photos - On Tuesday, 27th May, approximately 500 residents from the village of Ni’lin and Al Midya in the Ramallah governorate, as well as international and Israeli activists, converged in Al Midya to protest against the construction......more.. e-mail
Growing up a refugee in Deheisha, never forgetting Beit Urtab
Kristen Ess, Palestine News Network 5/27/2008
The day marking 60 years of Al Nakba has come and gone, but that does not mean that Palestinians do not still live a daily ’Catastrophe.’ On Tuesday, as 21 year old Ghassan Hamdan suggests from Deheisha Refugee......more.. e-mail
Israeli troops violently disperse anti-wall protest in Nil’in
Ma’an News Agency 5/27/2008
Ramallah – Ma’an – Several Palestinian civilians, including journalists, were injured when Israeli troops forcibly dispersed a demonstration against the separation wall in the West Bank village of Nil’in, near Ramallah, on Tuesday. The spokesperson of the Popular......more.. e-mail
Israeli forces arrest one Palestinian and assault activists protesting settlement expansion in Bil’in
Ma’an News Agency 5/27/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Palestinians in the West Bank village of Bil’in, together with international and Israeli activists, protested the expansion of the illegal Matityahu East settlement on Monday while Israeli settlers installed six mobile homes on the......more.. e-mail
Dozens wounded in confrontation with IOF troops in Na’lin
Palestinian Information Center 5/27/2008
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- More than thirty citizens and journalists were wounded in the confrontations in Na’lin village west of Ramallah city on Tuesday between IOF troops and citizens angered over confiscation of their lands. Eyewitnesses said that two journalists......more.. e-mail
Construction of Wall in Ni’lin 'Deepening Israel’s Apartheid System in Palestine'
Palestinian National Initiative, Palestine Monitor 5/27/2008
Ramallah, 26-05-08: "The further expansion and consolidation of Israel’s Apartheid system in Palestine," is how Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary General of the PNI, today described the confiscation of Palestinian land for the construction of the Apartheid......more.. e-mail
Israeli military checkpoint in Nablus takes on look of border crossing
Amin Abu Wardeh, Palestine News Network 5/27/2008
Nablus -- Huwara Checkpoint in Nablus is being extended and converted from a barrier checkpoint into a terminal, as occurred at Ramallah’s Qalandiya Checkpoint. These West Bank checkpoints, including Bethlehem’s 300, are being converted into what appear......more.. e-mail
Poster child of nonviolent resistance takes severe blow
Palestine News Network 5/27/2008
Ramallah / PNN -- In spite of years of persistent nonviolent resistance, the village of Bi’lin is still under fire, and it is getting hotter. Israeli settlers and soldiers began moving in the trailers that signal the beginning of any......more.. e-mail
Border Police hurt 16 activists near Na’alin separation fence
Yuval Azulay, Ha’aretz 5/28/2008
Hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli peace activists gathered near the separation fence in the West Bank village of Na’alin to protest the construction of the security barrier. According to the demonstrators, Border Police troops who arrived on the......more.. e-mail
Fayyad, American officials to announce US aid projects in Jenin
Ma’an News Agency 5/27/2008
Jenin – Ma’an – Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, US Consul General Jake Walles, and the director of the US Agency for International Development with visit the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday. The officials announce 2. 5 million......more.. e-mail
Israeli settlers and army start to expand illegal settlement on Bil’in land
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 5/26/2008
Israeli settlers under the protection of the Israeli army started on Monday morning to install homes on lands that belong to villagers from Bil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Iyad Burnat, of the local......more.. e-mail
The Call is Palestinian, but the Decision is Israeli!
Nadia Hasan, Palestine Think Tank 5/26/2008
The 60 years of Israeli Occupation of Palestine and other areas of the Arab Homeland puts constant pressure in a direct way upon the daily lives of the Palestinian people. Walls and fences, checkpoints and block roads, closure and siege......more.. e-mail
Israeli forces arrest, injure protestors attempting to block land confiscation near Ramallah
Ma’an News Agency 5/25/2008
Jerusalem – Ma’an – Israeli army said on Sunday that it arrested five Israeli activists who took part in a peaceful demonstration against the Israeli separation wall in the West Bank village of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah. Several......more.. e-mail
VIDEO - Report: Syria already reaping ’fruits of peace’
Roee Nahmias, YNetNews 5/25/2008
VIDEO) Following agreement between Lebanese factions, resumption of dialogue with Israel, French foreign minister seeks to lift boycott, meet with his Syrian counterpart. Damascus expects fresh start in its relations with Arab, European states - VIDEO - Syria
earning first political gains......more.. e-mail
Nonviolent Palestinian resistance continues in spite of Israeli attacks and arrests
Palestine News Network 5/23/2008
Bethlehem / Najib Farrag -- The nonviolent resistance continued its weekly demonstrations in southern Bethlehem on Friday. In Umm Salamuna Village, residents and supporters walked together toward the Wall that is hemming them in. Israeli soldiers prevented the group from moving and......more.. e-mail
Israel at 60 - Business as usual, and homes for sale
Aaron Lakoff, International Middle East Media Center News 5/22/2008
Haifa, Palestine - Standing on the beach of Haifa, on the coast of the Mediterranean sea in northern Israel, I had a very strange phone conversation.A friend and I were filming and photographing old abandoned homes. Many of these beautiful beach-front......more.. e-mail
Three injured during the weekly protest of Bil’in
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 5/23/2008
Villagers from Bil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, supported by international and Israeli peace activists conducted their weekly nonviolent protest, on Friday midday, against the illegal Israeli wall built on the village’s......more.. e-mail
Weekly nonviolent demonstration moves to Nillin Village
Hindi Mesleh, Palestine News Network 5/23/2008
Ramallah -- The western Ramallah village of Bil’in is the poster-child of nonviolent resistance. For years locals and foreign supporters have demonstrated every Friday against the Wall, settlement expansion and land confiscation. They have remained undeterred by Israeli attacks......more.. e-mail
IDF kills 5 gunmen in Gaza, Palestinian sources say
Reuters, YNetNews 5/23/2008
Heavy clashes erupt between Israeli soldiers, Hamas gunmen near Rafah in the southern Strip. Palestinians say 30 men arrested in raid - Israeli troops killed three Hamas
gunmen on Friday in clashes with militants in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical......more.. e-mail
Israeli occupation digs a trench alongside border security fence
Palestinian Information Center 5/23/2008
KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- IOF troops started digging a trench to the west of the border security fence east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Local sources told PIC correspondent on Friday that the IOF have started the digging......more.. e-mail
This Week In Palestine - Week 21 2008
Ghassan Bannoura - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center News 5/23/2008
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file|| Time 11m 0s || File 10. 0 MB || This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www. IMEMC. org, for May 17h, through to May 23rd, 2008......more.. e-mail
Bethlehem’s Governor Salah Ta’amri: Palestine Investment Conference good for Palestinians despite Israeli measures
Interview by Marian Houk, Ma’an News Agency 5/23/2008
Bethlehem - Bethlehem’s Governor Salah Ta’amri said the Palestine Investment Conference is a good opportunity for Palestinians, despite"Many people have their doubts about the conference, because of the closure, because of the Israeli measures, because of......more.. e-mail
Israel’s Identity War
Caelum Moffatt, MIFTAH 5/22/2008
This picture is one of many murals found painted on a wall close to theBeit Romano settlement in the Jewish H2 area of Hebron. The fresco isan integral part of a larger group that colorfully illustrates the historyand prospective future......more.. e-mail
Ni’lin: Palestinians begin the long, non-violent struggle against the Wall
Palestine Monitor, Palestine Monitor 5/20/2008
Israeli military responds with unprovoked aggressionThe road to peace is continually broken by walls.The Israeli military has commenced building a new section of the Wall through the town of Ni’lin, roughly eighteen kilometers west of......more.. e-mail
VIDEO - Palestinian killed in IDF attack in Gaza
Ali Waked, YNetNews 5/22/2008
Sources in Strip say army fired at Hamas members’ procession in protest of blockade. Military officials say soldiers shot at armed Palestinians approaching border fence - A Palestinian was killed and 18 others were injured Thursday after Israel Defense Forces......more.. e-mail
VIDEO - Antitank missile ’found in Gaza school’
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 5/22/2008
IDF soldiers uncover weapons at school yard in Sajaiyeh neighborhood. Earlier, Palestinian man killed, 18 injured by Israeli fire during Hamas procession - Israel Defense Forces soldiers operating in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday uncovered a launcher and an antitank......more.. e-mail
More demolition orders issued in al-Khadr
Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 5/20/2008
May 16th, 2008 - On 9 May, Occupation forces issued 5 demolition orders in the village of al-Khadr, west of Bethlehem. The orders threaten four homes as well as a large water tank that accounts for much of the village supply......more.. e-mail
Deputy Secretary of US Treasury upbeat on outcome of Palestine Investment Conference
Ma’an News Agency 5/22/2008
US Consul General Jacob Walles [MaanImages] Bethlehem - Ma’an - Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury Department Robert M. Kimmit was upbeat on Thursday on the outcome of the Palestine Investment Conference. "Our view is that this conference has met......more.. e-mail
Film review: 'Territories'
Stefan Christoff, Electronic Intifada 5/19/2008
Territory is a central theme in all political conflicts in the world, as national borders across the globe have consistently shifted. Territories is a new feature documentary by Montreal filmmaker Mary Ellen Davis that explores the photographic work and global......more.. e-mail
'America Don’t Worry! Israel is Behind You!'
Nadia Hasan, Palestine Think Tank 5/19/2008
I remember a few years ago walking through the wonderful narrow streets of the occupied Old city of Jerusalem, seeing a small shop managed by an old Palestinian man who was selling souvenirs to the tourists. I entered the shop......more.. e-mail
Israel’s Secret Fears
Haim Baram, MIFTAH 5/17/2008
Israel marks its 60th birthday in a climate of increasing racism, intolerance, corruption and militarism. A nation that has long seen itself as one of the most misunderstood is now almost unable to understand the world beyond its borders. Fear......more.. e-mail
Weekend sees more rocket fire from Gaza
Yuval Azoulay, Ha’aretz 5/19/2008
Qassam rockets and mortars from the Gaza Strip continued to strike communities bordering the costal territory over the weekend, and the Israel Defense Forces remained on high alert in the area. No injuries were reported as a result of the......more.. e-mail
Hundreds join nonviolent anti-wall protest in Al-Me’sara
Majeeb Farraj, International Middle East Media Center News 5/16/2008
Around 250 Palestinians and Internationals, including 70 Americans demonstrated against the construction of the separation wall on the land of Al-Me’sara village south of Bethlehem on Friday morning. The protestors wore black T-Shirts, and raised black flags in......more.. e-mail
Al Khader village protests the Israeli wall
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 5/16/2008
On Friday midday, the popular committee of Al Khader village"”near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem"”held a non-violent demonstration to protest the construction of the illegal Israeli wall, demanding an end to the Palestinians Nakba and recognition......more.. e-mail
Weekly Bil’in protest: dozens treated for tear gas inhalation
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 5/16/2008
Villagers from Bil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, supported by international and Israeli peace activists conducted their weekly nonviolent protest, on Friday midday, against the illegal Israeli wall built on the village’s......more.. e-mail
This Week In Palestine - Week 20 2008
Ghassan Bannoura - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center News 5/16/2008
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file|| 19 m 0s || 17. 3 MB || This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www. IMEMC. org, for May 10th, to through to May 16th, 2008......more.. e-mail
Azzeh refugee: They are taking everything, including our words
Kristen Ess, Palestine News Network 5/16/2008
Not only did the Israelis cause Al Nakba, the Palestinian Catastrophe in 1948, they continue to do so with arrests, killings, checkpoints land confiscation, settlement expansion and Wall construction. "They have taken everything from us and still want more," said......more.. e-mail
LEBANON: Palestinian refugees stage demo near Israeli border
Google Earth, IRIN - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 5/16/2008
DHAIRA, SOUTH LEBANON, 16 May 2008 (IRIN) - Several hundred Palestinian refugees marched to the Lebanon-Israeli border on 14 May exchanging loud-hailer greetings and storming part of the fence in dramatic scenes commemorating 60 years since they - or in most cases......more.. e-mail
Report: Palestinian youths wounded by IDF fire near Erez
Ali Waked, YNetNews 5/15/2008
Thousands of Palestinians march to mark ’nakba’ anniversary, hundreds start advancing towards border fence, key crossing. Sources in Gaza report several young men wounded as IDF troops try to keep them at bay - Hundreds of Palestinians marched towards......more.. e-mail
Public Statement of the National Committee to Commemorate the Nakba at 60
Stop The Wall 5/15/2008
Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, May 15th, 2008 Public Statement of the National Committee to Commemorate the Nakba at 60 – Palestine
Their is no Alternative to the Return to Our Homes and Properties - To the People of Palestine,
Whether you......more.. e-mail
Four killed in Israeli raids on Gaza
Middle East Online 5/14/2008
GAZA CITY - Four Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip, medics said, as US President George W. Bush landed in Israel on the first leg of a Middle East tour. Three Palestinians were killed......more.. e-mail
Plan puts shul in Arab part of J’lem
Akiva Eldar, Ha’aretz 5/14/2008
The Jerusalem municipality has begun the process of approving a plan for a new housing complex, including a synagogue, in the heart of the Arab neighborhood of Silwan south of the Old City. The plan, submitted by the right-wing Elad......more.. e-mail
’Music gives me hope’
The Guardian, The Guardian 5/14/2008
Conductor Daniel Barenboim, the sole Israeli citizen to bear a Palestinian passport, says he is ’living evidence’ that only a two-state solution can bring peace to the Middle East. Remembering his childhood, he explains why. There are photographs......more.. e-mail
Palestinian worker dies after being detained by Israeli soldiers
Maan News, Palestine Monitor 5/14/2008
Jenin - Ma’an - A Palestinian worker died on Friday while trying to pass ’illegally’ through the Israeli separation wall to get to work in Jerusalem. Abed Ar-Rahman Saba’neh, 44, from the West Bank town of......more.. e-mail
West Bank demonstrates in unison for Right of Return
Najib Farrag, Palestine News Network 5/14/2008
Bethlehem - The National Campaign to Implement the Right of Return organized nonviolent marches throughout the West Bank on Wednesday in memorial of Al Nakba. All began in the morning and headed for the demarcation lines. Beit Sourik, Qalandiya Refugee Camp......more.. e-mail
Defense officials: Egypt to open Rafah, cease-fire or not
Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Ha’aretz 5/14/2008
Egypt will reopen the Rafah crossing to Palestinians even if Cairo’s initiative to mediate a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas fails, according to assessments by Israeli defense officials. The Israel Defense Forces, meanwhile, is taking steps to be......more.. e-mail
Our key still works
Kristen Ess, Palestine News Network 5/13/2008
For the 60 year memorial of Al Nakba, I have been interviewing elderly refugees for months, people who remember their villages and towns, who talk about their old lives and the new ones they have etched out in the camps......more.. e-mail
VIDEO - IDF soldier documented shooting demonstrator at close range in Bil’in
Ali Waked, YNetNews 5/13/2008
Video) Footage obtained by Ynet shows soldier firing rubber bullet at close range at young protestor demonstrating near Palestinian village; "I’ll continue showing up,’ says youngster, who religiously attends Friday Bil’in rallies against security fence......more.. e-mail
Palestinian worker dies after being detained by Israeli soldiers
Ma’an News Agency 5/13/2008
Jenin - Ma’an - A Palestinian worker died on Friday while trying to pass ’illegally’ through the Israeli separation wall to get to work in Jerusalem. Abed Ar-Rahman Saba’neh, 44, from the West Bank town of......more.. e-mail
Four Palestinians injured in rally against separation wall near Ramallah
Ma’an News Agency 5/13/2008
Ramallah – Ma’an – Four Palestinians were injured on Monday as Israeli forces opened fire at a rally protesting the separation wall in the central West Bank village of Ni’lin west of Ramallah. Local residents from the village......more.. e-mail
Priority: Statehood
Daoud Kuttab, MIFTAH 5/13/2008
In the spring of 1948, my father, George Kuttab, and his brother Qostandi fled Musrara, a Jerusalem neighborhood just outside the walled city, after their sister Hoda’s husband was killed in front of her and their children. When......more.. e-mail
Egypt reseals Gaza border
Agence France-Presse - AFP, ReliefWeb 5/13/2008
EL-ARISH, Egypt, May 13, 2008 (AFP) - Egypt closed its border with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a security official said, after opening it for three days to allow Palestinians to leave the Hamas-ruled territory for medical treatment.
Since Saturday, 1,433......more.. e-mail
People of Ni’lin clash with soldiers in defense of their land
Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 5/13/2008
In the village of Ni’lin, outside Ramallah, residents clashed with Occupation soldiers over plans to confiscate village land for the construction of the Wall.
The people of Ni’lin began to protest around 9:00 in the morning and did not......more.. e-mail
Settler youth steal donkey and its foal from Palestinian farmer
International Womens’ Peace Service 5/13/2008
Date of incident: 08. 05. 2008 - Place: Wadi Qana, Salfit District - Witness/es: Owner - Description of Incident: Two donkeys – an adult and a foal – were stolen by settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of Yaqir from a Palestinian farmer while......more.. e-mail
Nujaidat: Building a bridge at Magharba gate may affect Aqsa walls
Palestinian Information Center 5/13/2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Zahi Nujaidat, the spokesman of the Islamic Movement in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands, has warned on Tuesday that walls of the Aqsa Mosque could crack if the Israeli occupation government pursued the construction of the controversial......more.. e-mail
Shufa road block removal
International Womens’ Peace Service 5/13/2008
On Saturday 10th May, the municipality of Shufa together with the Combatants for Peace invited Palestinian, Israeli and international activists to jointly commemorate the Nakba by removing the multiple road blocks that separate Shufa from its neighboring village Izbet Shufa......more.. e-mail
Video shows officer shooting protester with rubber bullet at close range
Yuval Azoulay, Ha’aretz 5/14/2008
The human rights group B’Tselem on Tuesday revealed video footage showing an Israel Defense Forces officer firing a rubber-coated bullet at an Israeli protester at close range, during a protest against the separation fence in Bil’in... -- See also: Video of the incident - YNet and Military Police to investigate firing of rubber-coated steel bullet at unarmed demonstrator in Bil'in - B'tselem...more.. e-mail
Palestinian right of return is not what’s holding up a peace agreement
Daoud Kuttab, Washington Post, Palestine News Network 5/12/2008
In the spring of 1948, my father, George Kuttab, and his brother Qostandi fled Musrara, a Jerusalem neighborhood just outside the walled city, after their sister Hoda’s husband was killed in front of her and their children. When......more.. e-mail
Israeli forces impose curfew on Azzun Atma
Ma’an News Agency 5/12/2008
Qalqilia – Ma’an – Israeli forces imposed a curfew on Sunday afternoon on the northern West Bank village of Azzun Atma after a Molotov cocktail was thrown towards an Israeli vehicle traveling on the main road near the village. Eyewitnesses......
Al-Quds Municipality approves controversial Jewish-only bridge across Muslim holy site
IMEMC Staff, International Middle East Media Center News 5/12/2008
On Sunday night, the Committee for Planning and Building of the Jerusalem Municipality approved a plan for constructing a new bridge, the al-Mugrabi bridge, across the ground of the Al-Aqsa mosque in Old Jerusalem. This approval despite objections by several... -- See also: Jerusalem planners okay route of new bridge to Mugrabi Gate...more.. e-mail
In 'Jerusalem wedding,' students demand right of return
Ma’an News Agency 5/12/2008
Jerusalem – Ma’an – Hundreds students at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem staged a mock wedding on Monday to mark the 60th anniversary of the expulsion of Palestinians from most of historic Palestine. The bride was nicknamed "Thawra," meaning revolution......more.. e-mail
Young people, be fairies. Only a weak Israel can put us back on the right track
Benny Ziffer, Haaretz Hebrew Edition, Palestine Think Tank 5/11/2008
On Sunday, one of my students (I am a lecturer in a course from four to six at Tel Aviv University) approached me after the class and told me that she was the producer of an alternative Memorial evening, which......more.. e-mail
Qassam lands near school bus in Sderot
Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 5/11/2008
After several hours of relative calm, fire on western Negev renewed as one rocket hits southern college’s parking lot, another lands near bus carrying children in Sderot. Woman, three children treated for shock - Palestinian gunmen fired two Qassam......more.. e-mail
'Hunger and Anger' - 1500 protest in Hebron
Stop The Wall 5/11/2008
An estimated 1,500 people demonstrated yesterday in front of the government offices in Hebron. Men, women and children from villages and towns across the Hebron district turned out to participate. Above:A large number of women were present at the......more.. e-mail
Palestinian man ’severely beaten’ at checkpoint in Azzun Atma
Ma’an News Agency 5/11/2008
Qalqilia – Ma’an – Israeli soldiers severely beat a Palestinian man at a checkopint at the entrance to the village of Azzun Atma, near the West Bank city of Qalqilia, on Saturday evening. Thirty-one-year-old Khalid Ahmad was severely bruised and......more.. e-mail
9 activists injured as Israeli army attacks demonstration in Shufa, Tulkarem
International Solidarity Movement 5/10/2008
Tulkarem Region - Photos - On Saturday 10th May, approximately 200 Israeli, Palestinian and international activists converged on the village of Shufa, seven kilometres south-east of Tulkarem in the north-west of the West Bank, to remove the Israeli-imposed roadblocks that deny the......more.. e-mail
Israeli settlers take over house in village near Bethlehem
Ma’an News Agency 5/11/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli settlers seized control of a Palestinian house in the southern West Bank village of Artas, near Bethlehem, on Saturday evening. According to Khalid Al-Azza, the head of the Popular Committee against settlement construction and the......
Gaza plunges into darkness as Israel cuts fuel supplies
Agence France Presse - AFP, Daily Star 5/12/2008
The besieged Gaza Strip faced new blackouts on Sunday as its only power plant shut down after receiving no fuel from Israel in four days, senior Palestinian officials said. Meanwhile, Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert on Sunday blamed Hamas for all......more.. e-mail
10 Palestinians injured during Nakba commemoration protest
Stop The Wall 5/11/2008
Ten Palestinians were injured today in Shufa village, south of Tulkarem, when Israeli forces attacked a demonstration on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Nakba.
Members of the National Committee to Commemorate the Nakba had gathered with grassroots......more.. e-mail
Jerusalem planners okay route of new bridge to Mugrabi Gate
The Associated Press, Ha’aretz 5/12/2008
Jerusalem’s City Hall on Sunday said its planning commission has approved the route of a new bridge to the hotly disputed Temple Mount, a site holy to both Muslims and Jews. An earthquake damaged the old bridge to......more.. e-mail
Kibbutz man killed in Hamas mortar attack
Yuval Azoulay and Or Kashti, Ha’aretz 5/11/2008
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired 21 Qassam rockets into the western Negev yesterday, causing a few minor injuries as well as some damage to buildings, including a Sderot synagogue and a structure near Sapir College. Other rockets landed......more.. e-mail
NAKBA COMMEMORATION EVENTS
Mary Rizzo, Palestine Think Tank 5/10/2008
Press release - BADIL and the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign on behalf of the National Committee to Commemorate the Nakba - Nakba Commemoration - 11 May, 2008. Prominent authors and poets from around the world present their work in the Palestine Literary Festival. The......more.. e-mail
UK protest: Occupation root cause of poverty
Paul Collins, Palestine News Network 5/10/2008
London- The British government is today urged to take action over Israel as the anti-poverty charity War on Want warned that millions of Palestinians face a humanitarian catastrophe unprecedented in its history. The warning comes before a protest to mark......more.. e-mail
Commemorating the Nakba: al-‘Awda Camp
Stop The Wall 5/8/2008
The al-‘Awda Camp was inaugurated on Thursday in Ramallah. The camp is a main feature in this week’s Nakba commemoration and will serve as a central site for daily cultural and educational events.
The camp, which was open from......more.. e-mail
Samr Al Bakar at nonviolent demonstration in Al Khader: the masses will not be frightened
Najib Farrag, Palestine News Network 5/8/2008
Bethlehem - Four citizens were wounded and bruised in southern Bethlehem Friday during the weekly nonviolent demonstration. Two of the injured are children as a result of severe beatings by Israeli soldiers, as is the Chair of the Committee Against the......more.. e-mail
The Israeli army attacks the weekly Bil’in protest, dozens treated for tear gas inhalation
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 5/9/2008
On Friday, villagers from Bil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, supported by international and Israeli peace activists conducted their weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli wall built on the village’s land......more.. e-mail
Protestors in Bethlehem affirm the right of return
IMEMC Staff, International Middle East Media Center News 5/9/2008
Around 200 Palestinians, internationals and Israelis demonstrated at military checkpoint placed at the southern entrance of Bethlehem, to protest the wall Israel is building on the lands of the Palestinian village of Al-Khader near Bethlehem on Friday morning. The protest......more.. e-mail
This Week In Palestine - Week 19 2008
Ghassan Bannoura - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center News 5/9/2008
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 May 3rd, to through to May 9th......more.. e-mail
Peres: ’We are ready to pay a price for the day of peace’
Yuval Azoulay and Barak Ravid, Ha’aretz 5/7/2008
Memorial Day events began last night with the wail of a siren at 8 PM. An official ceremony was held near the Western Wall in Jerusalem last night. Speaking there, President Shimon Peres said, "We are ready to pay a......more.. e-mail
Bedouin soldiers: Israel shuns us
Yonat Atlas, YNetNews 5/6/2008
On Remembrance Day, Bedouin community mourns IDF casualties, calls for end to inequality - Equal only in death:Among those observing Remembrance Day the families of 168 Bedouin casualties killed in the line of duty since Israel’s
establishment. Forty......more.. e-mail
US Secret Service tours Knesset ahead of Bush visit
Amnon Meranda, YNetNews 5/6/2008
Agents ’raid’ Israeli parliament one week before US president’s festive visit in celebration of Israel’s 60th anniversary - Americans raid Knesset: About one week before US President George W. Bush’s planned visit to......more.. e-mail
Hamas government says Israeli-Palestinian talks ’aimless and useless’
Rami Almeghari & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 5/6/2008
The de-facto Hamas government in Gaza described yesterday the latest Palestinian-Israeli peace talks as ’ aimless and useless’. Taher aL-Nuno, spokesman of the government, said in a statement, faxed to press yesterday night that ’such meetings aim at......more.. e-mail
One killed, five injured in collapse of tunnel under Rafah border
Ma’an News Agency 5/5/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – A Palestinian man called Rami Ash-Sha’r, who was in his twenties, was killed on Monday afternoon and five others were injured when an underground tunnel collapsed in Brazil neighborhood, near the border with Egypt......
Sinkable Israel
Ayman El-Amir, Al-Ahram Weekly 5/1/2008
Next week Israel will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its declaration of independence in the presence of an enviable number of dignitaries and heads of state. One week later, on 15 May, the Palestinians will commiserate their Nakba -- the day......more.. e-mail
Video: Who burned Nahr al-Bared?
Ray Smith, Electronic Lebanon, Electronic Intifada 5/5/2008
Since 10 October 2007, residents of the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon have been gradually allowed by the Lebanese army to return to the ruins of their homes. However, the core of the camp, the so-called......more.. e-mail
Gaza residents say IDF soldiers looted their homes
Ali Waked, YNetNews 5/5/2008
Palestinians recount ’nightmarish’ searches by troops during counterterrorism ops. ’The mental scars will remain for a long time. We have never experienced such brutality,’ resident says - Gaza residents say they were subjected to inhuman treatment at......more.. e-mail
IOF troops bulldoze 220 dunums of lands, demolish 9 Palestinian homes
Palestinian Information Center 5/4/2008
KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces demolished nine Palestinian civilian homes and bulldozed 220 dunums of cultivated lands during their incursion into Abbassan east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Legal sources told PIC reporter that the IOF wreaked such......more.. e-mail
Palestinian worker imprisoned and beaten by Israeli police tells his story
Ma’an News Agency 5/3/2008
Nablus – Ma’an – Fifty-year-old Palestinian construction worker Mahmoud Bani Nemra says he was beaten by Israeli police after being arrested on route to his job in Israel last December. Just released after four and a half months in Israeli......more.. e-mail
Dozens treated for tear gas inhalation after weekly Bil’in demonstration
Ma’an News Agency 5/2/2008
Nablus – Ma’an - Dozens of protestors had to be treated for tear gas inhalation following the weekly demonstration against Israel’s separation wall in the village of Bil’in, north of Ramallah on Friday. Local villagers, international......
300 Palestinians march against Israeli wall near Bethlehem
Ma’an News Agency 5/3/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – 300 Palestinians marched against the construction of Israel’s separation wall in the West Bank village of Al-Khadr on Friday. Former Information Minister and head of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouthi was among them......more.. e-mail
Palestinian man beaten by Israeli soldiers at checkpoint in Azzun Atma
Ma’an News Agency 5/3/2008
Qalqilya – Ma’an – Israeli soldiers beat a 24-year-old Palestinian man at the entrance to the West Bank village of Azzun Atma on Saturday afternoon. He was hospitalized in the nearby city of Qalqilia. Taha was accused by Israeli......more.. e-mail
’We are living in a combat zone’
Kim Sengupta, The Independent 5/2/2008
The Qassam rocket had destroyed the bathroom and blown down part of the wall to the kitchen. Smoke and dust swirled in the shaft of sunlight coming through the 4ft wide gash in the ceiling as Oshri and Karmit Malka......more.. e-mail
This Week In Palestine - Week 18 2008
Ghassan Bannoura - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center News 5/2/2008
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || File 17. 3 MB || Time 19m 0s ||This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www. IMEMC. org, for April 26th through to May 2nd, 2008......more.. e-mail
No reconciliation, no truce
Dina Ezzat, Al-Ahram Weekly 5/1/2008
Gaza is giving Cairo a headacheAs the window for a Palestinian-Israeli peace deal closes President Mubarak and King Abdullah of Jordan intensify coordination on a fall-back positionTomorrow, Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit and his Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni are scheduled to......more.. e-mail
Taking Back the Land: Non-violent resistance in Palestine
International Womens’ Peace Service 5/1/2008
IWPS House Report No. 107 - Today, for a few hours, Palestinians took control over an illegal Israeli settler outpost on the outskirts of Ramallah. Replacing Israeli flags with Palestinian ones, Mohammed Al-Khattib and other members of the Bil’in......more.. e-mail
IOF troops kidnap 30 Palestinians during incursion into Khan Younis
Palestinian Information Center 5/1/2008
KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- A large number of IOF troops reinforced by tanks, bulldozers and aerial cover invaded amid intensive gunfire at dawn Thursday the Farahin neighborhood in the east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip and kidnapped 30 Palestinians. Palestinian......more.. e-mail
ISM: Summer Against Apartheid
International Solidarity Movement 5/1/2008
ISM Statements SUMMER CAMPAIGN 2008 - ‘Summer Against Apartheid’The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is issuing a call-out for office and field volunteers for its "Summer Against Apartheid" in the West Bank and Gaza strip. Whether it’s......more.. e-mail
Bishops told to remove crucifixes at Jerusalem’s Western Wall
Ma’an News Agency 5/1/2008
Bethlehem - Ma’an - Irish religious leaders on a visit to the Middle East were unable to visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Thursday morning after a security official ordered them to remove their crucifixes, Yussef Dorkhom, Counsellor for......
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
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
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
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
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
OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 23- 29 May 2007
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, ReliefWeb 5/29/2007
Of note this week Gaza Strip: - 12 Palestinians were killed, including one woman, and 68 injured during IDF military operations in the Gaza Strip, including during IAF air strikes, ground incursions near the border areas and IDF fire from the......more..
Israel and the Price of Blindness
Roger Cohen, GreenPagan/International Herald Tribune 5/27/2007
A three-minute Palestinian movie says what needs to be said about estrangement and violence in the Middle East. It features a woman driving around Jerusalem asking for directions to the adjacent West Bank town of Ramallah. She is met by......more..
An Unholy Impasse
Barbara Allen Kenney, MIFTAH 5/31/2007
I am one among many American tourists who have recently visited Jerusalem, but I made some stops not included on most itineraries and discovered a vast structure hidden in plain sight.Incoming caravans of tourists disembark from hulking, climate-controlled dromedaries as......more..
Israel 2007: Worse than Apartheid
Ronnie Kasrils Mail&Guardian, International Solidarity Movement 5/31/2007
It is chilling to pass through the myriad checkpoints - more than 500 in the West Bank. They are controlled by heavily armed soldiers, youthful but grim, tensely watching every movement, fingers on the trigger. Fortunately for me, travelling in a......more..
And the Land was Troubled for 40 Years
Gershom Gorenberg, MIFTAH 5/31/2007
The hillside below us is a terraced vineyard, or was until the bulldozers came. There’s a sharp smell of sage and recent rain, and the steady grind of heavy machinery. It is a cold day; a Palestinian man......more..
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