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..
Barta’a 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 Barta’a 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 "œgeneral disregard" for "œits 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
Israel’s 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 acceptance Israeli sovereignty over the entire city. At a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the reunification... more..
Village near Bethlehem protests against the Wall
Alice Grey - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 5/11/2007
This weeks action is part of the "Stop the Bleeding of Bethlehem" campaign launched few in April to nonviolently resist the wall in Bethlehem area. Several nonviolent actions have been organzied in Bethlehem area through the campaign since launched.
This... more..
Ban Ki-moon appoints a Japanese, a Finn and an American to the board of the UN Register of Damage caused by the Wall
Ma’an News Agency 5/11/2007
Bethlehem - Ma’an - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, has named three prominent international experts as members of the Board of the United Nations Register of Damage caused by the Construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.According to... more..
IDF officer laments troops’ role in W. Bank scuffle with activists
Haaretz Service, Ha’aretz 5/14/2007
Israel Defense Forces Colonel Yehuda Fuchs admits he was mistaken in his decision not to call for reinforcements during last week’s scuffle with leftist activists in the West Bank, Channel 10 reported Sunday. According to a report written... more..
Four injured in weekly protest in Bil’in against separation fence
Meron Rappaport, Haaretz Correspondent, Ha’aretz 5/13/2007
Israeli demonstrators said Friday that a Border Policeman shot a rubber bullet from short range at a Palestinian protester at the weekly demonstration against the construction of the West Bank separation fence held in the village of Bil’in... more..
Battalion commander calls for dismissal of officer who attacked Israeli activists
Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent, Ha’aretz 5/12/2007
The commander of the Israel Defense Forces Judea battalion, Colonel Yehuda Fuchs, recommended Thursday the dismissal of the IDF reservist officer filmed the day before striking left-wing Israeli activists at a West Bank demonstration. The officer, who holds the rank... more..
Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations
Report, Electronic Intifada 5/10/2007
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) Three Palestinians were extra-judicially executed by IOF in the West Bank. Thirteen civilians, including six children and a girl, were wounded by... more..
Poll: 96% of Israeli Jews won’t give up Western Wall for peace
Nadav Shragai, Ha’aretz 5/14/2007
Ninety-six percent of Israeli Jews are against Israel relinquishing the Western Wall, even in exchange for lasting peace and ending the dispute over Jerusalem, a new poll suggests. According to the poll, most Israeli Jews do not believe territorial concessions... more..
Resistance fighters in Gaza escape an Israeli raid
Rami Almeghari - IMEMC & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center 5/13/2007
Palestinian resistance fighters from the Islamic Jihad group escaped Sunday an assassination attempt by an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza. Witnesses said the attack, which took place near the border fence with Israeli in Beit Hanoun city, caused the... more..
This Week In Palestine – Week 19 2007
IMEMC - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center 5/12/2007
Click Here to download or Play MP3 File || Time 18m0s || file 16.5MB || This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for May 05 through May 11, 2007. Let’s begin our weekly report... more..
Sneh: World Bank report slamming Israel is one-sided
Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent, Ha’aretz 5/13/2007
The World Bank report on restrictions imposed by Israel on the freedom of movement of Palestinians is erroneous and imbalanced, said Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh Wednesday, responding to news of the report published in Haaretz on Tuesday. Sneh told... more..
In Gaza, chaos versus democracy and democracy versus chaos
Rami Almeghari writing from the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine, Electronic Intifada 5/9/2007
Perhaps some youth are trying to imitate what’s going in the outside world; we don’t have solid information on the existence of such groups," said Palestinian Interior Ministry spokesman Khaled Abu Helal in response to the... more..
Two Palestinian residents wounded as Israeli army enters Gaza
Rami Almeghari - IMEMC & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center 5/9/2007
Palestinian medical sources confirmed that one Palestinian resident was shot and wounded in his legs after the Israeli army opened a hole in the barbed-wire fence on the eastern Gaza-Israel border line.
Meanwhile, witnesses said that the Israeli forces involving... more..
Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades shoot Israeli soldier near Gaza border
Ma’an News Agency 5/9/2007
Gaza – Ma’an – The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on Wednesday claimed responsibility for shooting an Israeli soldier near the separation fence, east of Juhr ’Adeik...
My brother has been imprisoned twenty years
Translated by Saed Bannoura - IMEC - Feature by Ali Samoudi - Jenin, International Middle East Media Center 5/9/2007
We want a solution, my brother was kidnapped by the army twenty years ago, and each time there is a prisoner swap deal, Israel excluded him.Through the years, Israel never even considered releasing him". His sister told me about how... more..
Barghouthi: The World Bank Report shows Apartheid established by Israel in Palestine
George Rishmawi - Amin Abu Warda, International Middle East Media Center 5/9/2007
The latest World Bank report shows that Israel has established an Apartheid System in Palestine and isolated nearly 50 percent of the West Bank land, Dr. Mustafa Bagrhouthi, Palestinian Minister of Information said on Wednesday.
Israel has destroyed the economic... more..
Sneh complains about ’one-sided’ World Bank report
Avi Issacharoff, Ha’aretz 5/9/2007
The World Bank report on restrictions imposed by Israel on the freedom of movement of Palestinians is full of errors and imbalanced, said Deputy Defense Minister Efraim Sneh yesterday, responding to news of the report published in Haaretz on Tuesday... more..
Israeli TV: "US and EU object to Israel’s plan for an offensive in the Gaza Strip"
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center 5/8/2007
The Israeli TV reported on Tuesday evening that the United States and the European Union objected to an Israeli plan to carry out a large-scaled military offensive in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, Palestinian chief negotiator, Dr. Sa’eb Erekat... more..
Israeli forces besiege home in Bethlehem for 8 hours, arrest 2 men but not the targeted man
Ma’an News Agency 5/8/2007
Bethlehem - Ma’an - More than 17 Israeli military vehicles invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and besieged a home in the Ad Doha area on Monday afternoon.Ma’an’s correspondent reported that the Israeli forces... more..
Soldiers force out of vehicle a woman returning home after a cesarean procedure
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center 5/8/2007
The Maan News Agency reported on Monday that soldiers stationed at Barta’a Israeli roadblock, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, forced a woman who was returning home after conducting a cesarean surgery to step out of... more..
The road back to Ramallah, -bat’s journal
by: -bat, International Solidarity Movement 5/7/2007
Hebronin a service taxi, one of the large ones this time, and retrace the route I had taken the night before. It had been dark when I arrived, but now it is daylight, and I have someone to explain what... more..
IDF unveils contingency plan to counter militants’ efforts in Gaza
Aluf Benn Amos Harel, Ha’aretz 5/7/2007
The Israel Defense Forces recently presented a contingency plan to the cabinet to counter the firing of Qassam rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip and thwart Palestinian efforts to consolidate military power there. Palestinian militants have launched a number... more..
IDF’s Galant hands cabinet new plan for halting Gaza terror
Aluf Benn Amos Harel, Ha’aretz 5/8/2007
The Israel Defense Forces recently presented a contingency plan to the cabinet to counter the firing of Qassam rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip and thwart Palestinian efforts to consolidate military power there. Palestinian militants have launched a number... more..
Palestinian ambassador to Saudi Arabia hosts British ambassador
Ma’an News Agency 5/7/2007
Riyadh – Ma’an – The Palestinian ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jamal Shoubaki, on Monday received the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia, William Bati, in the Palestinian embassy in Riyadh.The meeting marks the first visit of a British... more..
Global Day of Action, June 9-10
from 7 May 2007, International Solidarity Movement 5/6/2007
The World Says NO to Israeli Occupation! Stop the Wall Global Day of Action - June 9-10, 2007In order to ensure that the local, regional and national actions will have the necessary global impact, we need your contribution and feedback... more..
Palestinian factions and Israel reject US benchmarks for the peace process
Ma’an News Agency 5/6/2007
Hebron – Ma’an – The Palestinian factions have unanimously rejected the American document entitled ’Acceleration Benchmarks for Agreement on Movement and Access as well as on the Gaza Security Situation’. They say the document trivializes the Palestinian cause... more..
Hamas rejects US security draft
BBC Online 5/5/2007
The militant group Hamas has rejected a US plan for improving security and easing restrictions on movement in the Palestinian territories.It requires the dismantling of certain checkpoints in the West Bank in return for an end to rocket attacks on... more..
Al-Numan villagers peacefully protest against isolation by illegal wall; met by Israeli military force, two injured
Ma’an News Agency 5/5/2007
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Residents of Al-Nu’man village today took part in a non-violent demonstration at the Israeli separation fence, with divides them from relatives and loved ones in the nearby village of Al-Khas.At around 11am, some 80... more..
The Weekly protest of Bil’in continues
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 5/5/2007
In their ongoing weekly protests, local villagers of Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, were joined with international and Israeli peace activists who marched together against the Israeli separation wall built illegally on their village... more..
Painted peace activists entangle illegal separation fence in Al Numan near Bethlehem
Polly Bangoriad - MEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 5/5/2007
The ’Stop the Bleeding of Bethlehem’ campaign gathers momentum with today’s action --As part of the "Stop the bleeding of Bethlehem Campaign", dozens of peaceful protestors marched from both sides of the illegal annexation wall between... more..
Six Days of Action against the Occupation of Palestine
Six Days of Action against the Occupation of Palestine, International Solidarity Movement 5/5/2007
40 Years is Enough! Global Day of Action - June 9 2007 from the Kibush 40 coalition The second week of June will mark forty years since the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Six Day war... more..
Action in al Khas and al-Numan villages dazes Israeli forces
by ISM Beit Ummar, International Solidarity Movement 5/5/2007
Demonstrators reach the wall in al-Numan Residents of Al-Nu’man and Al-Khas villages today took part in a non-violent demonstration at the Israeli Apartheid Wall, which divides families and relatives between the two villages.The two villages were practically one... more..
"They will not break me"
Adri Nieuwhof and Amer Madi writing from Mas''ha, occupied Palestine, Electronic Intifada 5/3/2007
Hani Amer lives with his wife and six children in the village of Mas’ha in Qalqilya district. His six-year-old son is the youngest child. According to Hani, since the 1970s Israel has confiscated at least 7,000,000 square metres... more..
Nonviolent Anti-Wall Protest by Palestinian Workers in Bethelehm
George Rishmawi - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 5/4/2007
A large number of Israeli soldiers stopped the demonstrators who carried signs demanding an end to the construction of the wall which is annexing a very wide agricultural area to Israel. Troops prevented the demonstrators from reaching the construction site... more..
Demolition at Beit Izja
from 3 May 2007, International Solidarity Movement 5/4/2007
This morning, Thursday 3rd May 2007, the IDF, Border Police guards, Private Security Guards, a contractor and some labourers arrived at the home of Abu Samir (Muhammad Sabri Ghanayem) to take down the fence around his house and replace it... more..
Anti-Wall protest in Bethlehem halted by Israeli Forces
by 4 May 2007, International Solidarity Movement 5/4/2007
Some two hundred peaceful demonstrators in Bethlehem protested on Friday against the construction of the annexation wall in the village of Wadi Al-Neiss. The demonstration included mostly Palestinian workers in addition to international peace activists and observers to commemorate Labor... more..
Border Guard kills 3 Islamic Jihad members near Jenin
Ynet reporters, YNetNews 5/4/2007
Armed Palestinians clash with Israeli force conducting arrests in village near West Bank city. IDF says one of killed men was wanted by security forces. Jihad members fire two Qassam rockets at Israel in response to incident; no injuries reported... more..
Demonstration planned at village abandoned by Jerusalem and prohibited West Bank services
Ma’an News Agency 5/4/2007
Bethlehem - Ma’an - Residents of Al Nu’man village, located east of Bethlehem, will stage a symbolic action on Saturday, 5th May, to draw attention to the daily human rights violations they experience as result of Israel’... more..
This Week In Palestine – week 18 2007
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center 5/5/2007
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || File 19.2MB || Time 21m0s || This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for April 21 through May 04, 2007.
These stories and more coming up... more..
Outsmarting the Occupation in Bil’in
4 May 2007, International Solidarity Movement 5/4/2007
For 27 months, villagers from the West Bank village of Bil"in have been non-violently resisting Israel"s Apartheid Wall and land theft. Palestinians have been joined by Israeli and international solidarity activists at Bil"in’s regular Friday... more..
PA: IDF troops kill Palestinian near Gaza Strip border fence
Reuters, Ha’aretz 5/2/2007
A Palestinian man was reportedly shot dead in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday in what Palestinian emergency workers described as a brief Israeli raid near the border fence. An Israeli army spokesman said he was checking the report. A... more..
Bushra’s final exam
Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz 5/3/2007
Blood on the hands: Two crimson handprints stain the white wall. The tile floor shines in shades of brown, the walls are painted in white and soft pastels, their new house, after the two previous ones were destroyed by the... more..
Action Against the Wall, Settlements, and Transfer
International Solidarity Movement 5/3/2007
Residents of Al Nu’man Resist Exclusion and Indirect Forcible Transfer! Call For symbolic action - lift the siege! Saturday, 5th May11 a.m. Residents of Al Nu’man will stage a symbolic action drawing attention to human rights violations... more..
BADIL launches 59th anniversary of Palestinian ’Nakba’ with the ’2007 Al-Awda Award Festival’
Ma’an News Agency 5/3/2007
Bethlehem - Ma’an - The Bethlehem-based BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights held their ’2007 Al-Awda Award Festival’ on 1 May in the Ramallah Cultural Palace.The BADIL centre says that the competition was aimed at... more..
Solidarity concert brings together Jewish, Palestinian neighbors
Daphna Berman, Ha’aretz 5/4/2007
Jewish residents of areas bordering the East Jerusalem village of Jabal Mukaber came out this week in support of their Palestinian neighbors with "a concert of hope." The event was organized with the objective of showing solidarity with the residents... more..
Israeli authority changes the track of the Wall in Jenin and confiscates more Palestinian land
Ma’an News Agency 5/2/2007
Nablus - Ma’an - The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) condemned the continuing land confiscation for the construction the separation wall and the settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.The committees say that the Israeli authority confiscated 400 dunams (400,000m²) to... more..
Palestinian minister of information meets South African intelligence minister
Ma’an News Agency 5/2/2007
Ramallah – Ma’an – The Palestinian minister of information, Dr Mustafa Bargouthi, has hosted a visit from the intelligence minister of South Africa, Ronald Kasrils. The two officials discussed the dire conditions and suffering of the Palestinian people, due to... more..
Palestinians start preparations to commemorate the "Nakba"
Ali Samoudi - IMEMC, International Middle East Media Center 5/2/2007
The National Committee for Commemorating the Nakba Day (cataclysm) along with several national and Islamic factions in the occupied territories, the Refugees’ Affairs Department, the Palestinian Coalition for the Right of Return, the Popular campaign Against The Wall, the... more..
Palestinians start preparations to commemorate the "Nakba"
Ali Samoudi - IMEMC, International Middle East Media Center 5/2/2007
The National Committee for Commemorating the Nakba Day (cataclysm) along with several national and Islamic factions in the occupied territories, the Refugees’ Affairs Department, the Palestinian Coalition for the Right of Return, the Popular campaign Against The Wall, the... more..
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