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Analysis / Israel completing capital's borders with walls
By Danny Rubinstein, Ha'aretz 5/29/2005
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership were very pleased with the results of the first summit meeting between Abbas and U.S. President George Bush.Their satisfaction derived, among other things, from one of Bush's key statements: "Israel should......more..
Eight arrested south of Ramallah
International Middle East Media Center 5/27/2005
Friday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Beit Liqya, south of Ramallah, and arrested eight residents. A local source in the village reported that soldiers, supported by armored vehicles, invaded the village, broke into dozens of homes and conducted......more..
Report: Four killed, 25 injured in one week
International Middle East Media Center 5/27/2005
Israeli soldiers resumed their operations and invasions in the Palestinian territories killing four residents, and injuring 25 others over the last week. A report prepared and published by the Information Center revealed that 347 violations to the truce were reported......more..
Protestors Descend on Muqata Calling for Destruction of Apartheid Wall
StopTheWall.org 5/24/2005
Around 300 demonstrators – most from the nearby village of Bil’in - gathered in downtown Ramallah during the evening of May 23rd to protest the ongoing colonization of their lands by the Apartheid Wall. Congregating at the city’s Al Manara central square......more..
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the OccupiedPalestinian Territories, 19 - 25 May 2005
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 5/26/2005
A number of Palestinian civilians, including three children, were injured by IOF. / IOF conducted 16 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and one in the Gaza Strip. / Houses were raided and 14 Palestinian civilians were arrested by IOF......more..
Dozens detained, interrogated in Hebron
International Middle East Media Center 5/25/2005
Wednesday afternoon, Israeli soldiers intensified military presence in Bab al-Zawiya area, in the center of Hebron, and interrogated dozens of residents. A local source in Hebron reported that soldiers broke into dozens of homes and stores, forced the residents out......more..
Work on the Annexation Wall to resume in the Salfit Area
International Womens' Peace Service 5/24/2005
The Israeli High Court has lifted the temporary injunctions - May 21, 2005 -- The Israeli High Court has lifted the temporary injunctions that had frozen construction work on the Annexation Wall in the eastern Salfit area. The May 16th ruling will......more..
Why Us? On the academic boycott
By Tanya Reinhart, Electronic Intifada 5/25/2005
A boycott decision -- like that passed by Britain's Association of University Teachers to boycott two Israeli universities -- naturally raises a hue and cry among Israelis. Why us? And why now just when negotiations with the Palestinians might be renewed?It......more..
Palestinian moderately hurt by PA police officers in Ramallah
Ha'aretz 5/23/2005
A Palestinian man was moderately hurt by Palestinian Authority police officers during an anti-separation fence demonstration in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday evening. Palestinian sources said the police force protecting the Muqata government building fired warning shots......more..
Army invades area near Bethlehem
International Middle East Media Center 5/23/2005
Monday morning, Israeli soldiers surrounded Bir ‘Ona area, near Bethlehem after closing it and imposing curfew barring the residents from leaving their homes. Director General of the Popular Committee against the Wall at the department of local government, said that......more..
First Lady visits Western Wall
YNetNews 5/22/2005
Laura Bush visits Israel as part of six-day tour aimed at advancing women's rights in the region; Bush stops at Western wall, to visit Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum next -- U.S. First Lady Laura Bush and Gila Katsav, the wife of......more..
Palestinians, Israelis protest as Laura Bush visits Jerusalem holy sites
Yahoo! News 5/22/2005
JERUSALEM (AFP) - US First Lady Laura Bush faced Palestinian and Israeli protests as she toured Jewish and Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City during a one-day visit to Israel and the West Bank. Wearing a black headscarf and accompanied......more..
Jerusalem residents scramble to fight wall
By Ahmad Sub Laban, Electronic Intifada/Palestine Report 5/22/2005
The arrival of an Israeli army jeep into the Kaf Al Hawa neighborhood in Dahiet Al Barid, a West Bank suburb of Jerusalem, is no longer an unusual sight for residents. In fact, it has become a common sight and......more..
Palestinian injured, 26 Israeli peace activists arrested in Bilein
International Middle East Media Center 5/20/2005
A medical source in Sheikh Zayed hospital, in Ramallah reported that one resident was injured in the village of Bilin, west of Ramallah, dozens suffocated after inhaling gas fired by the army. The source stated that Hussein Mohammad Hasan, 40......more..
New markers for wall path near Hebron
International Middle East Media Center 5/21/2005
Friday afternoon, Israeli soldiers placed new markers for the route of the Separation Wall in al-Ramadeen area, south of Hebron. Sheikh Nawwaf al-Za’arneh, secretary of the Popular Committee of al-Ramadeen refugees said that soldiers placed new markers, setting the newWall......more..
Citizen Wounded, Scores Suffocated in anti-Apartheid Wall Demonstration
WAFA 5/21/2005
RAMALLAH, May, 21, 2005, (WAFA)-Israeli Occupation Forces(IOF) opened fire at a peaceful demonstration, wounding one citizen and caused suffocations to scores others in Bi'lin village in the West Bank, witnesses said. They told WAFA that Palestinian and international......more..
On Behalf of President Abbas, Abdul Raheem: Israel's Practices will Kill Current Peace Opportunity
WAFA 5/21/2005
RAMALLAH, May 21, 2005 (WAFA)- Secretary-General of Presidency al-Tayyeb Abdul Raheem warned Friday that Israel's policies of not implementing the understandings agreed upon will lead to losing the present opportunity of achieving peace. Abdul Raheem's remarks came during the opening......more..
Palestinian Envoy Dismisses Israel Pullout
Yahoo! News 5/21/2005
WASHINGTRON - A Palestinian official Thursday dismissed Israel's planned withdrawal from Gaza as a "recipe for continuing Palestinian suffering" as long as Israel continues to build settlements on the West Bank and there are no negotiations for an overall peace accord.While......more..
Picture Editor Awards: Arafat's failing health
BBC 5/21/2005
The Nikon Picture Editor Awards are soon to be decided. One of the candidates for the Photo Essay section is Odd Anderson, a 35-year-old Norwegian who works for Agence France Presse. He has spent his life photographing major events......more..
Twilight Zone / In the shadow of Gush Katif
By Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz 5/19/2005
Only in Sarajevo have I seen such destruction. In Sarajevo and in Rafah. Neighborhood upon neighborhood without a single home that has not been damaged, a single apartment that has not been torn up, a single wall that has not......more..
Beit Lakia boys killed in IDF ambush, Palestinians claim
Ha'aretz 5/20/2005
After two Palestinian boys were killed by Israel Defense Forces fire in the West Bank town of Beit Lakia two weeks ago, the army investigated and concluded that, due to the soldiers' overenthusiasm, a routine incident had deteriorated into a......more..
First lady set to visit Temple Mount
YNetNews 5/19/2005
Laura Bush set to arrive Sunday, will visit holy sites of Judaism, Islam and Christianity -- American First Lady Laura Bush will begin an official visit to Israel Sunday, and plans to visit the Temple Mount , Western Wall, and a church......more..
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the OccupiedPalestinian Territories, 12 - 18 May 2005
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 5/19/2005
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Intensified Attacks in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) -- Four Palestinians, including a woman, were killed by IOF. / One of the victims was killed by IOF at a military checkpoint in the West Bank. / A number of......more..
Occupation will lead to collapse of Zionism
By Iqbal Jassat, Electronic Intifada 5/19/2005
A fresh study by a Geneva-based institution confirms a growing consensus that Israeli land grab will be the foremost factor leading to an ignoble collapse of the Zionist colonial project.Centre for Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), a respected Swiss human......more..
Israeli Killing of Palestinians, Land Grab Persist Unabated
Palestine Media Center 5/18/2005
US Envoy Ward Praises Palestinian Security Reforms -- In the second violation in less than a week of the Sharm el-Sheikh ceasefire understanding, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shot dead a 22-year old Palestinian in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday......more..
Apartheid misses the point
By Meron Benvenisti, Ha'aretz 5/19/2005
The use of the term apartheid and the comparison between Israel and South Africa under minority white rule are taking over public discourse.In the past week alone, the comparison has been made in at least five instances: the separation fence......more..
Israel Rushes Construction Acts to Link "Maa'leh Adomim" with Jerusalem
International Press Center 5/17/2005
PALESTINE, May17,2005 (IPC+Agencies)---The Israeli government is to start expanding the construction of the Apartheid Wall within few days in the periphery of the illegal settlement block "Ma'leh Adomim "to be annexed to Jerusalem, the future capital of the......more..
Dr. Barghouti Warns of Apartheid Wall Dangerous Effects on Future State
International Press Center 5/17/2005
GAZA, Palestine, May 17, 2005 (IPC) - - The Secretary General of the National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, warned today of the continuous Israeli expansionist measures, mainly the construction of the Apartheid Wall and isolation of Jerusalem, and their catastrophic effect on......more..
Give the bullies a chance to repent
By Shamai Leibowitz, Ha'aretz 5/18/2005
Ariel Sharon's decision to postpone the disengagement until after Tisha B'Av is surrender to a dictate by the settlers more than an understanding of the Jewish calendar....fast days..are meant for soul-searching. They are meant to make us repent......more..
Al-Haq: Israel's land swap with Palestinians is illegal
Electronic Intifada 5/17/2005
Report, Al-Haq -- Al-Haq is gravely concerned by recent reports that Palestinians whose land has been seized for the construction of the Annexation Wall will be offered alternative land in the West Bank. If implemented, such actions would be in gross......more..
Israel to Begin Extending West Bank Barrier
San Francisco Chronicle 5/16/2005
Israel plans to start extending its West Bank separation barrier around its largest settlement bloc by the end of May — construction that would in effect expand Jerusalem's boundaries and cut off Palestinians from the city they seek as a future......more..
The dead who walk among us
By Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz 5/16/2005
i>"Peaceful demonstrations against the separation fence face violent, deadly responses from soldiers, as if there were no cease-fire." The days of commemoration are over. After honoring the memory of our dead who perished in the Holocaust and those......more..
A sea of illegal practices in the Galilee
Ha'aretz 5/15/2005
The publication of the findings of the state comptroller's report seems - now that a week has passed - like a forgotten and insignificant event. Nonetheless, it is worthwhile discussing these findings again, especially against the background of the state prosecutor's remarks......more..
Human Barrels Block Apartheid Wall in West Bank
WAFA 5/16/2005
RAMALLAH, May, 16, 2005, (WAFA)-International Solidarity Movement (ISM) said on Sunday that four Israelis and a Swedish activists barricaded themselves inside metal barrels placed on the route of the Apartheid Wall that is to seize50%. of Bil'in village in......more..
Palestine's Ambassador to Berlin Criticizes Fischer's Words on Wall
International Press Center 5/15/2005
GAZA, Palestine, May15, 2005 (IPC+ Agencies)--The Palestinian ambassador to Germany, Abdullah Al-Efranji, criticized yesterday the German FM, Joschka Fischer's remarks over the Israeli Apartheid Wall, in which the latter believed that the wall has some positive effects. Mr. Al-Efranji......more..
Israel to Link Settlements, Al-Quds
Islam Online 5/16/2005
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, May 16, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Defying international resolutions and bilateral agreements with the Palestinians, Israel is to begin work next month on a section of its controversial separation wall which will link the largest Jewish settlement in......more..
Thousands March on Al Nakba Day to Protest the Continuing Theft of Palestinian Land
StopTheWall.org 5/16/2005
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets throughout Palestine on the 15th of May to commemorate Nakba Day – the Catastrophe of 1948 that heralded the beginning of the Occupation, the destruction of more than 450 Palestinian villages and the expulsion......more..
Occupation Forces Confiscate Another 770 Dunums of West Bethlehem Land: 22,000 Palestinians Ghettoized between Walls and Colonies
StopTheWall.org 5/15/2005
Palestinians in the western areas of Bethlehem district have received new confiscation orders amounting to 770 dunums of land, taken for the Apartheid Wall and the expansion of the colonies in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc. Villages throughout this area......more..
Let's paint the separation fence!
Ha'aretz 5/17/2005
Abu Yo" is the nickname given to Japanese director Noboru Tsubaki by members of the Al-Kasaba Theater in Ramallah, after his son Yo, according to common Arab practice. What is uncommon about Tsubaki is the great effort that the well-known......more..
High Court allows construction of fence to resume around Ariel
Ha'aretz 5/16/2005
The High Court of Justice yesterday lifted a temporary injunction on the construction of three parts of the separation fence south, east and north of the northern West Bank settlement of Ariel, allowing the army to continue construction of the......more..
Palestinian death strains ceasefire
AlJazeera 5/16/2005
Israeli troops have shot and killed a Palestinian in Tulkaram, further straining the tenuous three-month-old ceasefire between the two sides. The incident on Monday came just a day after Palestinians marked the anniversary of al-Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948 when thousands......more..
"Key of Return", a Marriage Gift in Gaza
Electronic Intifada 5/15/2005
Sami Abu Salem writing from Gaza, occupied Palestine -- GAZA (WAFA) -- Different sizes of woody "key of return" ornamented with brandy names of Palestinian cities, were hanged in the tent of Nasser Flaifel 34, in Gaza. Other various Palestinian antiquities, including......more..
Dozens held, attacked near Qalqilia
International Middle East Media Center 5/12/2005
Thursday morning, Israeli soldiers held dozens of workers on a military checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. A local source in Qalqilia reported that soldiers stationed near the eastern gate of the separation wall held the workers......more..
BADIL Releases New Information Packet on Palestinian Refugees
Badil 4/11/2005
They forced me out twice before and they have threatened me with my home's destruction and demanded that I leave it saying that the house is near the Wall and perhaps on the Wall's path. Is it not enough the......more..
Why the Gaza Pullout Matters
By Aaron David Miller, MIFTAH 5/12/2005
On Thursday, Israel will celebrate its 57th Independence Day. Yet all these years after its creation - after five wars, two intifadas and the assassination of a prime minister - neither its borders nor its identity are agreed upon by all of......more..
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the OccupiedPalestinian Territories, 05 - 11 May 2005
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 5/12/2005
One Palestinian died from a previous wound inflicted by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). / A number of Palestinian civilians were injured by IOF. / IOF have continued to construct the ‘Annexation Wall in the West Bank; IOF fired at Palestinian civilians......more..
Twilight Zone / My 20th year
By Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz 5/12/2005
Dakah is an Israeli Arab, and nobody cares about him. -- Now they have added a Perspex board with holes, in addition to the two separate iron lattices. One can't even touch a finger. The head of the Prisons Services, Major......more..
Gazans penned in poverty
Washington Times 5/11/2005
AL-MAWASI, Gaza Strip -- Trapped between Jewish settlements and the Mediterranean, the Palestinians of al-Mawasi are struggling to survive. An Israeli security fence meant to separate Jews from Palestinians has folded the roughly 1,600 families of al-Mawasi into the settlement bloc......more..
Fighting for turf
Al-Ahram Weekly on-line 5/12/2005
Where is the Muslim Brotherhood/Egyptian government dynamic heading? Omayma Abdel-Latif looks into a long-troubled relationship on the brink of a major confrontation over reform --The photographs on the walls of the Muslim Brotherhood's Al-Malek Al-Saleh Street headquarters, north of......more..
Army to grab 770 Dunams in Bethlehem, Hebron
International Middle East Media Center 5/11/2005
Palestinian Ministry of Local Government reported that the Israeli Authorities informed dozens of residents of Bethlehem and Hebron of intentions to grab lands in order to use them for military training and the Separation Wall. Khaled Al-Azza, director general of......more..
Dance to Pass
International Middle East Media Center 5/10/2005
If you want to pass through the checkpoint, you will have to dance for us”, an Israeli soldier told a Palestinian child who was trying to cross a gate of the Separation Wall in his way back home in Jaba......more..
Residents appeal IHC to reach their lands
International Middle East Media Center 5/11/2005
Palestinian residents appealed the Israeli High Court to allow them entry to their own lands located behind the Wall surrounding Jerusalem, and to reveal the list of properties considered by Israel as ‘absentee properties’. The Israeli online daily Haaretz reported......more..
The Man Who Sold Jerusalem
Palestine Media Center/The Independent 5/11/2005
The secret sale of a priceless plot of land in the Holy City has threatened the fragile balance between the religions. Donald Macintyre reports on the Greek Orthodox priest accused of selling out his Palestinian flock for Israeli gold -- These......more..
Al Kidwa Warns of Israeli Delay's Ramifications on Peace
International Press Center 5/11/2005
GAZA, Palestine, May11,2005 (IPC+Agencies)---Foreign Affairs Minister, Nasser Al Kidwa warned yesterday of the deterioration of situation in the occupied Palestinian territories if Israel went on non-compliance with its commitments as outlined in the Sharm El-Sheikh understandings, asserting peace......more..
Death of a Myth
By Uri Avnery, Palestine Chronicle 5/11/2005
The uproar has been raging for two weeks so far, and is showing no sign of abating.Israel is shaken to the core - is it the postponed "disengagement plan? Is it the killing of demonstrators against the Wall? No, it's a......more..
Gaza pullout diverting media gaze
AlJazeera 5/11/2005
A top Palestinian official has told Aljazeera.net that while the world is focusing on the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from Gaza, Tel Aviv has strengthened its grasp on the West Bank. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saib Uraiqat told Aljazeera.net on......more..
Farmers, soldiers clash near Hebron
International Middle East Media Center 5/10/2005
Dozens of Palestinian farmers clashed with Israeli soldiers and guards of the ‘Separation Wall’; who attacked woman identified as Siham Yousef Abu Aker, 30. Siham was nine months pregnant and aborted after the soldiers attacked her.The clashes which erupted in......more..
OCHA Weekly Briefing Notes Update for oPt, 27 April - 3 May 2005 (PDF)
Palestine Media Center 5/10/2005
Of note this week: • Palestinian woman miscarries while delayed at Khan Younis checkpoint (section 4). • Lifting of age restrictions for Palestinian males crossing Nablus checkpoints (section 5D and table). • 8-9 metre high concrete wall of Bethlehem Barrier installed (section......more..
A Palestinian Woman Aborted as Israeli Soldiers Clash with Locals
International Press Center 5/10/2005
PALESTINE, May10, 2005 (IPC+WAFA)-- A large number of Israeli soldiers clashed yesterday with inhabitants of the West Bank village of Deir El-Assal, causing a Palestinian pregnant woman to abort and wounding a man....soldiers confronted with tens of local......more..
Photostory: Nablus' Old City
By Maureen Clare Murphy, Electronic Intifada 5/10/2005
Writing from Nablus, Occupied West Bank -- The West Bank city of Nablus has historically boasted itself as the commercial and business center of Palestine. The West Bank's largest city, it dates back some 4,500 years. However, Nablus' economy, cultural heritage......more..
Israel honors its fallen
YNetNews 5/10/2005
Memorial day for over 20,000 casaulties in Israel's wars commemorated countrywide Tuesday night -- TEL AVIV - A minute-long siren was heard all across the country at precisely 8 p.m. Tuesday, marking the opening of Memorial Day events commemorating the 21,954 killed......more..
Woman Suffers Miscarriage, 3 arrested by Israeli Soldiers
WAFA 5/9/2005
HEBRON, May 9, 2005, (WAFA)- Palestinian woman miscarried Monday while another one was arrested when Israeli soldiers attacked villagers while they were at their own land in Hebron, witnesses said. They told WAFA that 30-yaer-old woman, Siham Abu Akar......more..
Israeli Occupation Goes on Rampage in oPt
International Press Center 5/7/2005
GAZA, Palestine, May7, 2005 (IPC+WAFA) --- Despite cease fire, the Israeli occupation troops run amok in the occupied Palestinian territories, arresting three demonstrators against the wall in the West Bank village of Bilin, and a citizen in Bethlehem, as armed......more..
Palestinians ready to die to protect Al-Aqsa
Middle East Online 5/9/2005
Four Palestinians wounded in pitched clashes between Israeli police and hundred of Palestinians in Jerusalem. -- Hundreds of Palestinian demonstrators clashed with police Monday in pitched battles on the streets of occupied east Jerusalem after Israeli authorities limited access to the......more..
IDF to remove barriers blocking Nablus access
Ha'aretz 5/10/2005
The Israel Defense Forces Tuesday morning will remove the dirt embankments that have completely blocked access from the Nablus region to the northern part of the Jordan Valley for the past two years. Removing the barrier near the village of......more..
Military police to investigate death of two Palestinian youths
Ha'aretz 5/10/2005
The chief military prosecutor, Brigadier General Avihai Mandelblit, on Monday ordered the military police to investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two Palestinian youths from Beit Likiya last week. The two were killed by Israel Defense Forces fire during......more..
‘Hague ruling not all bad’
YNetNews 5/9/2005
Chief Justice Aharon Barak says International Court of Justice’s harsh decision on West Bank security fence has some positive aspects -- TEL AVIV - The International Court of Justice’s ruling, which harshly criticized the West Bank security fence built by Israel in......more..
Aoun's return a key moment
BBC 5/7/2005
For 14 years, his supporters covered Beirut's walls with graffiti reading: "Aoun will return". Now Michel Aoun, a former army commander-in-chief and one time prime minister is back in Beirut after years of exile in France. Members of his party......more..
Three arrested west of Ramallah
International Middle East Media Center 5/6/2005
Friday afternoon, Israeli soldiers arrested three residents during a protest against the Separation Wall in the village of Bilien, near the West bank city of Ramallah. A local source in the village stated that hundreds of residents and dozens of......more..
Army bulldozes farmlands near Hebron
International Middle East Media Center 5/6/2005
A local source in the village of al-Sammoa’ near Hebron reported that military bulldozers uprooted farmlands located between al-Radeem, Ghwein al-Tihta, and Ghwein al-Foqa areas south of Hebron. Army bulldozed the lands in order to erect the Separation wall section......more..
Homemade shells fired at Sderot, Salah ed-Deen brigades claims responsibility
International Middle East Media Center 5/6/2005
Salah Ed-deen brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees declared responsibility for firing two homemade shells at Sderot. The brigades said that the shells were fired in retaliation of the death of two children killed by the Israeli......more..
Video uncovers under cover agents
International Middle East Media Center 5/6/2005
In a Jerusalem press conference, Israeli leftist groups who took part in the Belein village demonstration on April 28, presented a video that shows undercover soldiers throwing stones from the protesters' side to provoke violence. Elan Frenkel (AIC), Uri Avnery......more..
6 Wounded in Peaceful Rally in Ramallah by IOF
WAFA 5/6/2005
RAMALLAH, May 6, 2005 (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) wounded Friday six citizens in the West bank city of Ramallah during a peaceful demonstration, witnesses said. Witnesses revealed that IOF soldiers opened fire at a peaceful rally demonstrating against the......more..
Court: Palestinians to get W. Bank plots in place of land taken for fence
Ha'aretz 5/6/2005
Israel will offer state land in the West Bank to Palestinians whose land was confiscated for the separation fence, the Defense Ministry official in charge of the fence, Colonel (res.) Danny Tirza, said yesterday. Supreme Court President Aharon Barak said......more..
A brand from the burning
By Akiva Eldar, Ha'aretz 5/6/2005
i>...the other "brands" Americans most associated with the "Israel" brand were South Africa, followed by China, India, police, the UN and Cuba... For many years now, thousands of diplomats, spokespeople and other agents of the hasbara (Israeli public......more..
The Bekaa gears up for cannabis crops
Daily Star 5/6/2005
Farmers rush to replant their fields -- BEKAA: This is Baalbek, the city of the sun, where ancient Romans engraved images of opium poppies on the walls of their temples. Nowadays, following the recent Syrian troop withdrawal, local farmers are hoping......more..
In the Age of Innocence
Editorial, MIFTAH 5/5/2005
Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinian children Wednesday afternoon in the West Bank village of Beit Liqya, west of Ramallah. The youth were protesting the construction of a section of the illegal Annexation Wall near their homes when two army......more..
Israeli military murders school children at anti-Wall protest
Electronic Intifada/ISM 5/4/2005
BEIT LIQYA/RAMALLAH -- Two cousins, 14 and 15 years old, were shot dead today by Israeli soldiers who opened fire on a demonstration against the Apartheid Wall in the village of Beit Liqya. After school ended for the day students......more..
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Attacks in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 5/5/2005
Three Palestinians, including two children were killed by IOF./18 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children and a journalist, were injured by IOF. / IOF fired at Palestinian civilians demonstrating in protest to the construction of the “Annexation Wall” in the West......more..
Wall construction resumes, east of Beit Sahour
International Middle East Media Center 5/5/2005
Residents of al-Nu’man village, east of Beit Sahour near Bethlehem, said that military bulldozers resumed the construction of the last section of the Separation Wall, near the village after it stopped over the last 18 months. Jamal Dar’awi, head of......more..
6 arrested in a Tel Aviv rally against the killing of 2 Palestinian teens
International Middle East Media Center 5/6/2005
Hundreds of Israeli left-wing protesters demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening against the killing Wednesday of two Palestinian youths in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers. The two teenagers were shot dead near the village of Beit Likia, west......more..
Israeli commander suspended over deadly West Bank barrier protest
ReliefWeb 5/5/2005
JERUSALEM, May 5 (AFP) - An Israeli army commander has been suspended over the fatal shooting of a Palestinian teenager during a protest against the West Bank separation barrier, military sources said Thursday. "The head of central command decided to withdraw......more..
ACRI: Separation fence clear violation of int'l law
Ha'aretz 5/5/2005
The route of the West Bank separation fence is a clear violation of international law as laid down by the International Court of Justice at The Hague and it must thus be moved from the West Bank to inside Israel......more..
Hundreds rally in TA against IDF killing of 2 Palestinian teens
Ha'aretz 5/5/2005
Hundreds of left-win protesters demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening against the Israel Defense Forces' killing Wednesday of two Palestinian youths in the West Bank. The two teenagers were shot dead near the village of Beit Likia, west of......more..
Prisoner Dies of Wounds at Israeli Jail Hospital
International Press Center 5/5/2005
TULKAREM, Palestine, May 5, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - A prisoner died today of his wounds at an Israeli jail's hospital, after Israeli soldiers shot and wounded him during the extrajudicial execution of an Islamic Jihad leader in Tulkarem. Local sources said......more..
Israeli rights group supports Hague court's decision against separation fence
ReliefWeb 5/5/2005
JERUSALEM, May 5, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) - The Association for Civil Rights inIsrael (ACRI) Thursday expressed its support for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague declaring that the Israeli separation fence a gross violation of international law......more..
Securing the Wall from International Law: an initial response to the Israeli State Attorney
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 4/1/2005
PCHR Position Paper -- Background The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the 9th of July 2004 issued an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of the construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).1 This represented a......more..
Arrest of 5 Israeli Activists Tied Themselves to Olive Trees Protesing the Wall
WAFA 5/4/2005
RAMALLAH, May, 4, 2005,(WAFA)-Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested today morning 6 citizens and 5 Israeli activists in protest of seizing land and building the Wall in the West Bank. Witnesses told WAFA that that Israeli pacifists from Ta'yosh......more..
Seven killed, 200 arrested in April
International Middle East Media Center 5/4/2005
A report conducted and published by the International Solidarity Institution for Human Rights revealed that Israeli soldiers killed seven Palestinian, including three children in April and arrested more than 200 Palestinians on military checkpoints, crossings or from their homes. Three......more..
Israeli activists tie themselves to Olive trees
International Middle East Media Center 5/4/2005
Wednesday morning, Israeli activists of the Anarchist movement tied themselves to olive trees in Bel’in village in an attempt to stop military bulldozers from uprooting trees for the purpose of building the separation wall. The Israeli radio reported that soldiers......more..
IOF Kills Two Youths in Ramallah
WAFA 5/4/2005
RAMALLAH, May, 4, 2005,(WAFA)-Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed on Wednesday two youths in the West Bank (WB) city of Ramallah, sources said. Eyewitnesses told WAFA that Israeli soldiers brutally opened heavy machine gun fire with rubber bullets and......more..
A Tale of Two Demonstrations
By Uri Avnery, Palestine Chronicle 5/1/2005
i>"We were enveloped by a cloud of white gas, with the thump of bursting grenades coming at us from all directions.." The day before yesterday, two demonstrations were held, just a few dozen kilometers apart.One took place at......more..
The Disengaged: Gaza And The Fragmentation Of Palestinian Nationhood
By Jennifer Loewenstein, Palestine Chronicle 5/1/2005
i>"It is incumbent upon us to ask ourselves what possible benefits Israel derives for itself by continuing to squeeze the Gaza Strip even after its 'Disengagement Plan.' What does it gain by promoting policies that would make the establishment......more..
Stuck in the throat
Editorial, Ha'aretz 5/4/2005
The government decision to turn the college in Ariel into a university is one of those decisions meant to demonstrate the kind of political determination that eventually turns out to be a stupid provocation and ends up being costly and......more..
Palestinians say two teens killed by IDF gunfire
Ha'aretz 5/5/2005
Palestinian sources said Israel Defense Forces soldiers shot and killed two teenage Palestinian cousins at a separation fence work site next to a village near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday evening. Palestinian youths clashed with IDF soldiers......more..
Gush Shalom: Savage Israeli Occupation Attack on Peaceful Palestinian-Israeli Mass Demonstration Against the Land-Grab Wall in Bal’een
Palestine Media Center 4/30/2005
28.4.05)...a demonstration against the Apartheid, Land-Grab Wall-Fence which is being built on the land of the village. The fence, which almost touches the houses of the village, separates the village from most of its land, on which the ultra-orthodox......more..
Frist: Pullout must allow for Palestinian statehood
Ha'aretz 5/2/2005
Visiting United States Senate Majority leader Bill Frist said Monday that Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank in the summer must allow for creation of a Palestinian state. Frist, a Republican from Tennessee, is......more..
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