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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..
Bili’n Tractor still confiscated in an example of Israeli “Justice”
International Solidarity Movement 5/31/2007
The Israeli Civil administration (the administrative arm of the military rule in the West Bank) is demanding 5428 shekels ($1357) to cover the expenses of towing the tractor they confiscated from Bil’in farmers, Tuesday the 29th, to the......more..
Jerusalem goes on strike
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center 5/31/2007
A general strike was implemented on Thursday in east Jerusalem in protest against the killing of three Palestinians at the site of the illegal wall earlier this week. The strike was called for by Palestinian civil society organizations and the......
High-ranking US delegation meets Saeb Erekat to discuss recent political developments
Ma’an News Agency 5/30/2007
Ramallah - Ma’an - The head of the negotiations department in the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Dr Saeb Erekat, met with a high-ranking US delegation on Wednesday.In the meeting, the two sides discussed the latest political developments in the region......more..
Dichter rules area near Temple Mount off-limits to Muslim burial
Nadav Shragai, Ha’aretz 5/30/2007
Police have prevented Muslim burial at the foot of the Temple Mount for several months, as Public Security Minister Avi Dichter responded to pleas to reserve the area as a significant archeological site. The area is one of the most......more..
PM Haniyeh misses cabinet meeting for security reasons; cabinet discusses addressing UN regarding illegal wall
Ma’an News Agency 5/28/2007
Gaza - Ma’an - Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh missed Monday’s cabinet session in Gaza City for security reasons.Palestinian minister of information, Mustafa Barghouthi, announced that Haniyeh followed the session from an undisclosed place. According to Barghouthi, the......more..
President of the European Parliament visits the Palestinian territories to show Europe’s commitment to Middle East peace
Ma’an News Agency 5/28/2007
Bethlehem - Ma’an - The President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, is on a three-day visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.According to a press release from the European Parliament, Mr. Pöttering will meet......more..
A bridge between reality and peace
Fouad Abu Hamed, Daily Star 5/28/2007
I have watched on Israeli television the concern that animal rights have generated. In Israel, there is a problem with the elderly abandoning their dogs, so an activist group opened a shelter for the abandoned animals. As a Palestinian, I......more..
Man killed in rocket attack on Sderot
Yael Branovsky, YNetNews 5/27/2007
At least three Qassams land in southern town on Sunday morning. Oshri Oz, 36, seriously injured as rocket lands near his car, dies of his wounds at hospital; another person lightly hurt and several people suffer from shock. Earlier, Qassam......more..
Olmert hints at attacks against senior Hamas officials
Daily Star 5/28/2007
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday pledged unlimited military action against Palestinian militant groups, saying "no one involved in terror" would be immune after a Hamas rocket attack from Gaza killed a man inside the Jewish state. The warning......more..
Men killed in shootout were East Jerusalem residents
Jonathan Lis, Ha’aretz 5/27/2007
Two gunmen killed during a Saturday night shooting attack near the separation fence in the Jerusalem area were discovered yesterday to be residents of Jabel Mukaber in East Jerusalem who hold Israeli identity cards. The bodies of the gunmen, identified......more..
Army invades Deheishe refugee camp in Bethlehem, clashes reported
IMEMC Staff, International Middle East Media Center 5/27/2007
A large Israeli force invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem and the Deheishe refugee camp Saturday night, and eyewitnesses said that a drone plane was deployed above the area. Eyewitnesses said at least sixteen military vehicles invaded the area......
VIDEO - Demonizing the Non-violent Resistance
IDF spokesperson’s campaign to demonize Non Violent peace, International Solidarity Movement 5/27/2007
Video - Commentary -- IDF spokesperson’s campaign to demonize Non Violent peace activists -- According to the Israeli news internet site, Walla, on Friday, May 25, the Israeli military spokesperson claimed that the demonstration in Bil’in "ended in relative......more..
4 Qassams hit Negev after IAF strike in Gaza
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 5/27/2007
Air Force strikes Islamist group position near Dir al-Balakh refugee camp; Palestinians retaliate with four rockets toward Negev, one person suffers from shock in Sderot. "Aerial attacks in Strip have an accumulating effect on terror activists," IDF official saysThe Israeli......more..
Israeli forces detain Palestinian children and women in family home in Marda near Salfit
Ma’an News Agency 5/26/2007
Nablus Ma’an Israeli forces on Saturday invaded the northern West Bank village of Marda, north of Salfit, and occupied a family home, detaining women and children inside.The troops prohibited entry and exit, to and from the home belonging......
Three killed, four wounded in East Jerusalem, and a large Israeli force invade Bethlehem
George Rishmawi - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 5/27/2007
A large Israeli force invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem and entered the Deheisheh refugees camp Saturday at night, and eyewitnesses said that a drone is also hovering above the area.
Eyewitnesses said at least sixteen military vehicles invaded......more..
Wall and Checkpoints Reach San Jose
Eyal Marcus, International Solidarity Movement 5/26/2007
US students set up ‘checkpoint’ on campus.Students at San Jose University disguise as soldiers, Palestinians at improvised checkpoint to condemn Israeli army’s occupation of West Bank.On Israel’s Independence Day this year, Max Grossman, an......more..
This Week In Palestine Week 21 2007
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center 5/25/2007
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || File 15.5 MB|| Time 17m0s || This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for May 19 through 25, 2007.
Nonviolent resistance continues to grow in......more..
Party time, again
Daniel Ben Simon, Ha’aretz 5/25/2007
Back in those days, prior to the previous elections, admiration for Amir Peretz was so widespread that in the towns of Tira and Taibeh, they pasted his picture on cars and on the walls of their homes. There is a......more..
Cape of Good Hope: One Apartheid Regime Down; One More to Go
Ramzy Baroud, Middle East Online 5/25/2007
Amongst the many names scribbled at the fenced wall at the helm of Cape of Good Hope, someone took the time to write Palestine. In the Apartheid Wall erected by Israel on Palestinian land in the West Bank, the South......more..
One taken prisoner in Nonviolent action in Bethlehem
George Rishmawi - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 5/25/2007
At least two hundred Palestinians, accompanied by a number of Israeli and International peace activists marched to the confiscated land in Artas village, south of Bethlehem, on Friday after the noon prayer. A number of other international and Palestinian activists......more..
Six wounded, two taken prisoner in Bilin’s weekly anti-wall protest
George Rishmawi - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 5/25/2007
A number of Palestinians and internationals have been injured, and two others were taken prisoner in the weekly protest in Bilin, on Friday, as army attacked the protestors with tear gas, sound bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets. In their weekly......more..
Peaceful protests in Umm Salamuna and Artas, 1 arrest
Ma’an News Agency 5/25/2007
Bethlehem - Ma’an - Palestinian villagers and international peace activists joined forces on Friday to peacefully protest the ongoing annexation of Palestinian West Bank land.In Umm Salamuna, a village south of Bethlehem in the south of the occupied West Bank......more..
One arrested at demonstration against land destruction
25 May 2007, International Solidarity Movement 5/25/2007
Bethlehem Region One arrested at demonstration against land destruction in Artas, Bethlehem - UPDATE - According to Gaby Lasky, George’s lawyer, George will be taken to court tomorrow afternoon or evening in Jerusalem. The judge will hear the charges brought......more..
US consul meets with Palestinian tourism minister in Bethlehem, discuss the importance of tourism in promoting peace
Ma’an News Agency 5/24/2007
Bethlehem - Ma’an - The United States consul general in Jerusalem, Jack Walles, visited the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday, where he was received by the Palestinian minister of tourism and antiquities, Khouloud Daibes. The consular official for......more..
US students set up ’checkpoint’ on campus
Eyal Marcus, YNetNews 5/25/2007
Students at San Jose University disguise as soldiers, Palestinians at improvised checkpoint to condemn Israeli army’s occupation of West Bank -- On Israel’s Independence Day this year, Max Grossman, an Art and Design lecturer at the University......more..
Water and Resistance
Timothy Seidel, Palestine Chronicle 5/24/2007
A hydrology initiative such as this is the form that a relevant nonviolent resistance has taken in the Occupied Territories. And it goes unnoticed by many in North America because it is not as recognizable as demonstrations or sit-ins.The view......more..
Israeli army kills a Palestinian farmer in northern Gaza
Rami Almeghari - IMEMC & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center 5/24/2007
Israeli army killed Thursday morning a Palestinian farmer in northern Gaza, confirmed medics. Officials at the Kamal Edwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahiya, said that a gunshot has been fired at a Palestinian farmer by......more..
Nonviolent resistance manage to stop bulldozers in Artas
George Rishmawi - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 5/24/2007
The bulldozing of the land in Artas village near Bethlehem has temporary stopped after an Israeli court ruled a preemptive halt of work in the village on Wednesday and Thursday.
The court ruling was made after the villagers filed a......more..
The Cleansing of Artas - Continuing to Resist
International Solidarity Movement 5/23/2007
Bethlehem Region -- This coming Friday, May 25th the residents of the south of Bethlehemarea will hold a large demonstration against the wall which separates them from Bethlehemand steals their lands. This week the struggle reached the village of Artas, near......more..
Mazuz versus Herzl
Israel Harel, Ha’aretz 5/25/2007
Hanging on the wall was a box: "This is the sky-blue box (and) every penny inserted in it liberates the soil." This box was in homes, classrooms, youth movement branches, and workplaces - in Israel and the Diaspora. Young and old......more..
Bombing fails to break resolve of Aley residents
Nour Samaha and Maher Zeineddine, Daily Star 5/25/2007
Store owners insist on repairing damage and reopening for business. -- ALEY: A determination to return to normal life permeated this mountain resort town the morning after an explosion collapsed walls and shattered a row of storefronts, wounding 16, including an......more..
Bartaa residents, and residents of surrounding areas isolated and repeatedly attacked
Mustafa Sabri IMEMC, International Middle East Media Center 5/23/2007
Wasfy Qabha, Palestinian Minister in charge of Settlements and the Wall portfolio reported that Israel has increased its attacks against the Palestinians people, and institutions, and that the Israeli Annexation Wall totally isolated the residents of Bartaa village, and its......more..
Amnesty: Threefold increase in killings of Palestinians by IDF in 2006
Yoav Kapshuk, YNetNews 5/23/2007
Human rights group"s annual report slams Israel"s activity in the territories, says settlers, soldiers committed "serious human rights abuses"; report also says Jewish state committed war crimes during Second Lebanon WarIncreased violence between Israelis and Palestinians resulted in......more..
Police on high alert ahead of holiday
Efrat Weiss, YNetNews 5/22/2007
Closure imposed on West Bank and Gaza due to terror alerts; policemen to deploy in crowded areas, including markets and parks --The security forces have imposed general closure on the West Bank and Gaza Tuesday, in light of about 10......more..
Open Letter to Rolling Stones: Boycott Israeli Apartheid
Statement, Electronic Intifada 5/21/2007
Dear Rolling Stones,
The Palestinian arts community received in disbelief media reports of your upcoming performance in Israel, at a time when Israel continues unabated with its colonial and apartheid designs to further dispossess, oppress, and ultimately ethnically cleanse Palestinians......more..
Separation fence guards shoot at journalists
Ali Waked, YNetNews 5/21/2007
Five reporters covering anti-fence demonstration near West Bank settlement fired at with live ammunition by Defense Ministry security guards.Four separation fence security guards fired at a group of five journalists who tried to approach people demonstrating against the fence near......more..
(VIDEO) The future of the human family
Delivered by Mairead Corrigan Maguire on April 18, 2007, International Solidarity Movement 5/21/2007
Nonviolence: The Future of the Human Family," Part 1 Maguire is Northern Irish social worker who, with Betty Williams, founded the Community of Peace People, also known as the Peace People Organization, a grassroots movement of both Roman Catholic and......more..
Family’s trees uprooted in Artas, Palestinian Information Minister attacked by Israeli soldiers
ISM Media Alerts, International Solidarity Movement 5/20/2007
Bethlehem Region - Video from Munster43 -- On Sunday morning, May 20, Israeli Occupation Forces destroyed an apricot and date orchard comprised of 28 trees in the village of Artas near Bethlehem. Four Israeli activists were arrested. At 5:30 AM, approximately......more..
Soldiers attack information Minister during protest in Bethlehem
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC, International Middle East Media Center 5/21/2007
Israeli soldiers attacked on Sunday the Palestinian Information Minister, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, after his participation in a nonviolent protest against the bulldozing of olive orchards in Ertas village, near Bethlehem. The soldiers violently assaulted Barghouthi and hit him along with......more..
Palestinian family watches as their ancient trees are demolished by triumphant soldiers
Ma’an News Agency 5/20/2007
Bethlehem Ma’an Early on Sunday morning the Israeli forces razed a field of trees in Artas village, south of Bethlehem.On Saturday night Ma’an’s reporter went to the location where the trees were to be......more..
Rockets rain down on Negev
Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 5/20/2007
Qassam rocket barrages continue for sixth consecutive day on southern communities; eleven rockets land since morning Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip fired 11 Qassam rockets at the western Negev on Sunday.Four rockets landed near the southern town of Sderot......more..
Woman reported killed in explosion at mall in East Beirut
Associated Press, Ha’aretz 5/21/2007
An explosion near a busy shopping mall sent black smoke billowing in the Christian sector of the Lebanese capital late Sunday, witnesses and TV stations reported. Police had no immediate information about causalities from the explosion, which was heard across......more..
How we could live together
Fouad Abu Hamed, Middle East Online 5/19/2007
Israelis do not understand the origin of their security problems, which stem from their occupation of our land. Israel cannot sit here on my land and say to my people, You cannot have a homeland because of our security concerns......more..
NY Times: Red Cross Report Says Israel Disregards Humanitarian Law
STEVEN ERLANGER, International Solidarity Movement 5/19/2007
JERUSALEM, May 14 " The International Committee of the Red Cross, in a confidential report about East Jerusalem and its surrounding areas, accuses Israel of a "general disregard" for "its obligations under international humanitarian law " and the law of occupation in......more..
Israeli bulldozers enter Artas village near Bethlehem, group of peace activists attempt to stop them
IMEMC - News, International Middle East Media Center 5/19/2007
At least fifty peace activists decided to stay overnight outside of Artas village where Israeli army bulldozers came to prepare for the construction of the wall. Eyewitnesses told IMEMC that the army left the construction site but remaind near. Saturday......more..
Knesset taskforce formed to oversee situation in settlements
Shahar Ilan, Ha’aretz 5/20/2007
A taskforce of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee has been established recently in order to oversee the situation in settlements in the occupied territories. Kadima MK Otniel Schneller , who is the former Yesha Council secretary-general and is known to......more..
IDF attacks after Qassams land in Sderot
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 5/20/2007
Eight Qassams land Saturday night, hours after soldier wounded from Hamas-launched missile; IAF attacks series of targets in Gaza, Palestinians report four deadEight rockets were fired at the western Negev Saturday evening. No one was injured in any of the......more..
Israeli soldier hit by Qassam rocket in Gaza
Ma’an News Agency 5/19/2007
Gaza Ma’an An Israeli soldier was wounded after his military vehicle was hit by a missile in Gaza.Israeli news source, Ynet News, reported that the soldier was operating a bulldozer near the border fence of the northern Gaza......
Attacks from Gaza continue Saturday
Ynet reporters, YNetNews 5/19/2007
Eight Qassams land Saturday night, hours after soldier wounded from Hamas-launched missile; Earlier Saturday, two rockets land in Sderot, air force targets launching cell in responseAn IDF soldier was wounded from shrapnel, Saturday afternoon, after an anti-tank missile hit the......more..
Showered with tear gas on Nakba day
19 May 2007 Ramallah, International Solidarity Movement 5/19/2007
from A-Infos -- This Friday the theme of the demonstration in Bil’in was the Nakba. This week marked 59 years from the formal robbery of most of the Palestinian lands by the Israeli settler colonialists with blessing of the......more..
Protest in Artas against Israeli confiscation of land
Ma’an News Agency 5/18/2007
Bethlehem - Ma’an - The Palestinian National Initiative (PNI) organized on Friday a protest in solidarity with the owners of land threatened to be confiscated by the Israeli authorities in the village of Artas, located south west of Bethlehem in......
Olmert to Abbas: "the period of Israeli self-restraint is over"
Ma’an News Agency 5/18/2007
Bethlehem - Ma’an - Israeli TV revealed on Thursday evening that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and informed him, "The period of Israeli self-restraint is over and the army will be in charge of responding......more..
Israeli forces arrest five Palestinians near Qalqilya on suspicion of planting an explosive device next to the Wall
Ma’an News Agency 5/18/2007
Qalqilya - Ma’an - The Israeli forces arrested on Friday morning five Palestinians in the Qalqilya region and three in the Salfit region.The five in Qalqilya allegedly planted a 15 kilogram explosive device near the separation wall west of Qalqilya......more..
Two detained, others wounded in anti-wall nonviolent protest in Bethlehem
George Rishmawi & Eliza Sprout - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 5/18/2007
Around 60 Palestinian, Israeli and International protesters gathered in southern Bethlehem on Friday to commemorate the 59th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba and to protest against the construction of the annexation wall on Palestinian land.
After a series of speeches......more..
Eight wounded in a nonviolent protest in Bilin
Staff - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 5/18/2007
In the West Bank village of Bilin Palestinian and international peace activists marched after the Friday prayer to the construction site of the wall in village. Two Palestinian Parliament Members also joined the weekly nonviolent demonstration which is organized this......more..
This Week In Palestine Week 20 2007
IMEMC - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center 5/18/2007
Click here to download or listen to MP3 File.|| 16.4 MB|| Time 18m0s.This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for May 12 through 18, 2007.
While the Palestinian prepare to commemorate 59 years......more..
Newsweek: A Grittier Trip to the Holy Land
Sarina Rosenberg, International Solidarity Movement 5/17/2007
The Israel that 18,000 young Jewish Americans will see this summer on the free, 10-day trip offered by Taglit-birthright Israel is a land of ancient religious sites, sandy beaches and buff young soldiers. "It’s a Jewish identity......more..
And now, a fetus
Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz 5/17/2007
Memorial posters decorate the walls of the Rafidiya government hospital in Nablus, covering earlier posters of countless young people who have been killed. But this poster is like nothing we have seen before: a fetus covered in its own blood......more..
Wall Street welcomes Israeli software cos
Ran Dagoni, Washington, Globes Online 5/17/2007
Israels economic minister in New York: I predict that many contracts will result from this conference. -- Israeli high-tech companies long ago realized that Wall Street is not only an arena for raising money through offerings, but also the a major......more..
The Nakba has Never Ended
Julia Pitner, Electronic Intifada 5/15/2007
With the celebration of Israel’s 59th year of independence comes the mourning of the 59th year of what the Palestinians call Al-Nakba -- the disaster. Israel celebrated its Independence this week by "locking down" the Palestinians in their towns......more..
AIC: Paying for the Occupation
Cara Loverock, International Solidarity Movement 5/15/2007
The Village of Husan Near Bethlehem -- In the Palestinian village of Husan , Mahmoud, like so many farmers in the West Bank, faces daily challenges in having his land close to a settlement, which brings harassment, destruction and abuse with no......more..
"There is no Substitute for the Return to our Homes"
The National Committee for the Commemoration of the Nakba, Electronic Intifada 5/15/2007
As a result of the Zionist aggression against Palestine, the plight of the Palestinian people is accumulative and ongoing. Now, in the 59th year of our forced displacement, we are threatened with new forced displacement due to the construction of......more..
Bethlehem Commemorate 59 anniversary of Al-Nakba
George Rishmawi - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 5/15/2007
On Tuesday, the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Bethlehem, and as part of the Stop the bleeding of Bethlehem campaign organized two nonviolent sit-in protests.
The first protest started at 11:00 am in the morning at......more..
Palestinian supreme judge warns of extremist rabbis’ attempts to break into Al-Aqsa Mosque
Ma’an News Agency 5/15/2007
Jerusalem Ma’an Palestinian supreme judge, Sheikh Tayseer Rajab At Tamimi, warned on Tuesday of Israeli rabbis’ attempts to break into the Al-Aqsa Mosque.The warning came following a tour of the Al-Aqsa compound by extremist Israeli rabbis under......more..
Palestinian Mufti general hosts delegation of young democrats and republicans from the US
Ma’an News Agency 5/15/2007
Jerusalem Ma’an Palestinian Mufti general, Sheikh Muhammad Hussain, hosted a US delegation representing young Americans from the democratic and the republican parties, who are visiting Palestine to learn about the prevailing political and educational conditions.The Mufti said in......more..
’Professional errors’ blamed in soldiers’ attack on anarchists
Amos Harel, Ha’aretz 5/14/2007
IDF inquiry holds reservist commander responsible; soldier still denies culpability.
"Professional errors" led to an incident last week in which reservists assaulted members of the Anarchists Against the Wall group after the demonstrators destroyed a roadblock near the West Bank......more..
Twilight Zone / A day in the life
Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz 5/10/2007
We were just sitting down on the plastic chairs in the living room when the noise began. Boom after boom, volleys of gunfire. Closer, farther away, single shots and rounds of automatic fire. Occasionally, too, a brief respite. Jamal poured......more..
Book Review: "Overcoming Zionism"
Raymond Deane, Electronic Intifada 5/13/2007
Born in 1936 in Brooklyn of Ukrainian Jewish parents, Joel Kovel is the author of 10 books and over 100 articles. He practiced psychiatry and psychoanalysis for 24 years, abandoning them in the mid-1980s partly because of dissatisfaction with......more..
Olmert: Israel seeks world acceptance of a united Jerusalem under its sovereignty
Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service, Ha’aretz 5/14/2007
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday he would seek to expand the borders of Jerusalem and that he hoped for eventual world acc | |
