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Commemorating the Nakba: al-‘Awda Camp
Stop The Wall 5/8/2008
The al-‘Awda Camp was inaugurated on Thursday in Ramallah. The camp is a main feature in this week’s Nakba commemoration and will serve as a central site for daily cultural and educational events.
The camp, which was open from......more.. e-mail
Samr Al Bakar at nonviolent demonstration in Al Khader: the masses will not be frightened
Najib Farrag, Palestine News Network 5/8/2008
Bethlehem - Four citizens were wounded and bruised in southern Bethlehem Friday during the weekly nonviolent demonstration. Two of the injured are children as a result of severe beatings by Israeli soldiers, as is the Chair of the Committee Against the......more.. e-mail
The Israeli army attacks the weekly Bil’in protest, dozens treated for tear gas inhalation
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 5/9/2008
On Friday, villagers from Bil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, supported by international and Israeli peace activists conducted their weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli wall built on the village’s land......more.. e-mail
Protestors in Bethlehem affirm the right of return
IMEMC Staff, International Middle East Media Center News 5/9/2008
Around 200 Palestinians, internationals and Israelis demonstrated at military checkpoint placed at the southern entrance of Bethlehem, to protest the wall Israel is building on the lands of the Palestinian village of Al-Khader near Bethlehem on Friday morning. The protest......more.. e-mail
This Week In Palestine - Week 19 2008
Ghassan Bannoura - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center News 5/9/2008
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file|| File 12. 8 MB || Time 14m 0s || This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www. IMEMC. org, for May 3rd, to through to May 9th......more.. e-mail
Peres: ’We are ready to pay a price for the day of peace’
Yuval Azoulay and Barak Ravid, Ha’aretz 5/7/2008
Memorial Day events began last night with the wail of a siren at 8 PM. An official ceremony was held near the Western Wall in Jerusalem last night. Speaking there, President Shimon Peres said, "We are ready to pay a......more.. e-mail
Bedouin soldiers: Israel shuns us
Yonat Atlas, YNetNews 5/6/2008
On Remembrance Day, Bedouin community mourns IDF casualties, calls for end to inequality - Equal only in death:Among those observing Remembrance Day the families of 168 Bedouin casualties killed in the line of duty since Israel’s
establishment. Forty......more.. e-mail
US Secret Service tours Knesset ahead of Bush visit
Amnon Meranda, YNetNews 5/6/2008
Agents ’raid’ Israeli parliament one week before US president’s festive visit in celebration of Israel’s 60th anniversary - Americans raid Knesset: About one week before US President George W. Bush’s planned visit to......more.. e-mail
Hamas government says Israeli-Palestinian talks ’aimless and useless’
Rami Almeghari & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 5/6/2008
The de-facto Hamas government in Gaza described yesterday the latest Palestinian-Israeli peace talks as ’ aimless and useless’. Taher aL-Nuno, spokesman of the government, said in a statement, faxed to press yesterday night that ’such meetings aim at......more.. e-mail
One killed, five injured in collapse of tunnel under Rafah border
Ma’an News Agency 5/5/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – A Palestinian man called Rami Ash-Sha’r, who was in his twenties, was killed on Monday afternoon and five others were injured when an underground tunnel collapsed in Brazil neighborhood, near the border with Egypt......
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
Bir Nabala Wall: A Devastating Blow to the Palestinian Economy
Stop The Wall 6/27/2007
Case Study, Ma’an Development Center, June 27th, 2007 - Bir Nabala is one of Jerusalem’s many Palestinian neighborhoods isolated from the rest of the city by massive sections of the eight-meter high concrete Wall. Bir Nabala was once a... -- See also: FOR MORE, PLEASE PRESS HERE. [PDF 140KB]...more..
Six injured at the Bil’in weekly protest
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 6/30/2007
Residents of the village of Bil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, joined by international and Israeli supporters, on friday midday marched against the construction of the illegal wall that separates the village from its farming land......more..
PLO Report: Israeli army killed 11 Palestinian children during the month of June 2007
Ameen Abu Wardeh - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 6/30/2007
The Palestinian liberation organization PLO- international and national relations Dept. issued a report on Saturday stating that the Israeli army has killed 11 Palestinian children five of which were killed when land mine left by the Israeli army exploded in......more..
This Week in Palestine – Week 26 2007
IMEMC - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center 6/29/2007
Click Here to download or Play MP3 - || File 18.3 MB || Time 20m0s || -This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for June 23 through 29, 2007.
Israel invades the Gaza Strip and Nablus, kills......more..
Tel Rumeida: 15-year-old Boy Hit By a Soldier in a Police Car
the ISM Media Team, International Solidarity Movement 6/30/2007
Hebron Region. - June 29th, 2007 - At approximately 10o’clock two 15-year-old boys where detained by The Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) for shaking the fence surrounding the Jewish cemetery. The cemetery is placed opposite one of the boys home......more..
Anti-Wall demo in Artas village, near Bethlehem; organisers demand Israeli-Palestinian peace
Ma’an News Agency 6/29/2007
Bethlehem - Ma’an - The inhabitants of Artas village, located south of Bethlehem, organized a demonstration on Friday against Israel’s illegal construction of the separation wall, which is built on the villagers’ lands.The villagers demonstrated in the......more..
Features-Gaza gets supplies, despite closures, bombs
Alastair Macdonald Reuters Foundation, ReliefWeb 6/29/2007
GAZA-ISRAEL BORDER , June 29 (Reuters)- The trucks are there, piled high with foreign foodstuffs. There’s a grinding of gears, dust, hand signals and a man with a clipboard, waving load after load through the heavy frontier gate.
But......more..
Economic downturn in Beit Umar and Hebron
Jeanne Abdulla, The Electronic Intifada, 29 June 2007, Electronic Intifada 6/29/2007
The purpose of our field visit was to get acquainted with the Network, Advocate and Resist (NAR) work in Hebron. The impact of the Wall/barrier is devastating to the local community. A Palestinian Hydrology Group representative mentioned how they......more..
Some 600 West Bank villagers face prospect of new displacement
Ma’an News Agency 6/28/2007
AL-WALAJE (WEST BANK), 28 June 2007 (IRIN) - Nearly all the Palestinian residents of al-Walaje village were displaced by the 1948 Israeli-Arab war or are descendants of those displaced, and many now again face the prospect of forced displacement, this time......more..
Israel-OPT: Some 600 villagers face prospect of new displacement
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Integrated, ReliefWeb 6/28/2007
AL-WALAJE (WEST BANK), 28 June 2007 (IRIN) - Nearly all the Palestinian residents of al-Walaje village were displaced by the 1948 Israeli-Arab war or are descendants of those displaced, and many now again face the prospect of forced displacement, this time......more..
Why Boycott Israel? Because It’s Good for You
Gabriel Ash, Dissident Voice 6/23/2007
Israel’s support...is led by an ideological kinship animated with revolutionary zeal and supported by the needs of financial capital to liberate itself from the chains of the welfare state.The boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel’s......more..
What Really Happens in Gaza and the West Bank
Kawther Salam, The Daily Life of Kawther Salam 6/26/2007
On Sunday 24, it became known that Keith Dayton and Jacob Wallace, the US Consul General in Jerusalem, are dictating the “security policy” for Palestine. Several meeting were held between the PA president Abass, the American envoys, and Palestinian General......more..
Keeping on a Steady Course to Apartheid
Jeff Halper, MIFTAH 6/28/2007
For all the attention and hysteria the latest events in Gaza have generated since the Hamas “takeover,” for Israel they represent nothing but a minor blip in its inexorable drive towards its own unilateral “solution:” apartheid. Israel’s end-game, explicit and......more..
Israel allows wheat into Gaza
Al Jazeera 6/28/2007
Israel has allowed a shipment of wheat from the UN to be transported into Gaza - the first goods to pass the Karni economic crossing since Hamas took control of the territory two weeks ago. While the co-operation was small scale......more..
Erection of barriers stokes fears in Ain al-Hilweh
Mohammed Zaatari, Daily Star 6/28/2007
SIDON: The erection of walls of sand-bag barriers by militant factions in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp and neighboring Taamir has left residents feeling caught in a potential no-man’s land, with weapons seemingly at the ready on all......more..
Bethlehem children protest against internal clashes
Najeeb Farrag - IMEMC, International Middle East Media Center 6/27/2007
The Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, based in Bethlehem, organized a peaceful protest for children from various parts of the West Bank, and from within the Green Line, who marched in the streets of Bethlehem demanding......more..
Minister Bandak meets British Consul General to garner support for emergency government
Ma’an News Agency 6/26/2007
Ramallah – Ma’an - Minister of local governance and agriculture, Ziad Abdullah Al-Bandak, met with British Consul General to Jerusalem, Richard Makepeace, on Tuesday in his office in Ramallah.The two officials discussed the latest developments in Palestine, including the recent incidents in......more..
EU reaffirms its support for the people of Gaza during meeting with Mustafa Barghouthi
Ma’an News Agency 6/26/2007
Ramallah - Ma’an - The secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative party, Dr Mustafa Barghouthi, met on Tuesday in his office with the European Union’s head of mission in Jerusalem John Kjaer.The dire conditions in the Palestinian......more..
New dress code may ban leather from Knesset
Amnon Meranda, YNetNews 6/26/2007
Proper dress code for MKs on top of Knesset code of ethics committee’s list. Latest debate revolves around questions of leather, fur and sandalsMK Ahmad Tibi (United Arab List-Ta’al) proposed Tuesday that the Knesset ban MKs......more..
Dr.Barghouthi: Israel does not want peace
Nisreen Qumsieh - 1 of International Middle East Media Center - IMEMC, International Middle East Media Center 6/25/2007
Legislator Mustafa Barghouthi, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, said that Israel does not want peace with Palestine because Israeli officials refuse to move forward with peace negotiations. Israel aims to shrink the Palestinian Authority to functional authority, limited to......more..
Israel’s refusal to enter peace talks shows its unwillingness for peace, Barghouthi says
Ma’an News Agency 6/24/2007
Ramallah - Ma’an - Former Palestinian information minister and head of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, has declared that the Israeli insistence on refusing to enter into Palestinian-Israeli negotiations in order to find a solution assures their unwillingness......more..
Um Salamona: Tree Planting met with violence by IOF
the ISM media team, International Solidarity Movement 6/23/2007
Bethlehem Region -- At approximately 10.30 am a group of about 60 Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals gathered near the Palestinian village of Um Salamona to support Palestinian farmers in their protest against Israeli Apartheid Policy and to help them plant olive......more..
Bil’in: Excessive Aggression by IOF against demonstrators continues
the ISM Media Team, International Solidarity Movement 6/23/2007
Bil’in Village -- At 1:30 on the 22nd June 2007, Palestinian, Israeli and international activists gathered together for the 124th demonstration against the Apartheid Wall being built and the expansion and occupation of the nearby illegal Settlement of......more..
Hamas Opens Doors of Notorious Prison
Ulrike Putz in the Gaza Strip, Palestine Chronicle 6/22/2007
The headquarters of the Fatah-controlled security force in Gaza have been open to the public since last Thursday. Every day is open house now.The cells are small, perhaps six feet by six feet, with only an overhead lamp to provide......more..
Everything is possible
Yigal Bronner, The Electronic Intifada, 22 June 2007, Electronic Intifada 6/22/2007
It feels strange to discuss possible solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Do we prefer a one-state formula or two states, one next to the other? Which of the two solutions is more possible? These questions sound so remote from the......more..
Anti-wall demonstrations show who the real enemy is, Palestinian National Initiative says
Ma’an News Agency 6/22/2007
Bethlehem - Ma’an - The Palestinian National Initiative participated in demonstrations on Friday in the southern West Bank against Israel’s illegal construction of the separation wall and Israeli settlements on Palestinian West Bank land.The demonstrations were organized in......
Israeli soldiers arrest two at Umm Salamoneh
John Smith & Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC, International Middle East Media Center 6/22/2007
Around 50 residents of the village of Umm Salamoneh, located to the south of Bethlehem in the West Bank, joined by international and Israeli peace activists, marched on Friday against confiscation of land by Israel for the purposes of the......more..
Five injured at Bil’in demonstration
John Smith & Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC, International Middle East Media Center 6/22/2007
As is the case each week, the people of Bil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, joined by international and Israeli peace activists, conducted their weekly protest against the construction of the illegal wall that will cut......more..
Dr. Barghouthi accuses Israel of taking advantage of the Palestinian crisis to prevent creation of a Palestinian state
Ma’an News Agency 6/22/2007
Ramallah - Ma’an - The secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, has warned that Israel is trying to take advantage of the Palestinian unrest to destroy Palestinian efforts to create an independent state.During a meeting in......more..
This Week in Palestine – Week 25 2007
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center 6/22/2007
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || Time 11m6s|| File 10.1 MB|| This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for June 16 through 22, 2007.
Hamas and Fatah trade accusations as......more..
Harvard honors AUB professor Samir Khalaf
Jim Campbell, Daily Star 6/22/2007
BEIRUT: The Lebanese sociologist Samir Khalaf certainly isn’t the first Arab academic to gain recognition in the West, and he isn’t likely to be the last either. But the honors that Harvard University bestowed on him......more..
Resistance begins, and so does the repression
International Solidarity Movement 6/19/2007
On June 11, 2007, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) announced the launching of a campaign to rebuild the home of every Palestinian family whose house is demolished over the coming year. The launch was held in conjunction with......more..
Palestinian cabinet gets to work amid aid hopes
By Hossam Ezzedine - RAMALLAH, West Bank, Middle East Online 6/18/2007
Hamas dismissed new cabinet as ’illegitimate’ lackey of Israel and US -- EU to provide aid to new government, Israel ready to release over $600 mln in Palestinian tax money. -- Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s emergency cabinet met......more..
Israeli military analyst presents a plan to counter ’Hamastan’
Ma’an News Agency 6/18/2007
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli military analyst, Ron Ben Yishai, urged the Israeli political and security leaders to not waste time and endeavour to counter what he described as "Hamastan"; the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.Yishai said that any procrastination will enable......more..
Israeli authority begins excavations for the separation wall near Bethlehem
Ma’an News Agency 6/18/2007
Bethlehem - Ma’an – The Israeli authorities on Monday morning began excavating the area around Al Walaja, north of Bethlehem, in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, for the construction of the separation wall.The Wall is to cut through the village......
US Consul in Jerusalem says that Washington supports Abbas’ new government
Ma’an News Agency 6/18/2007
Bethlehem – Ma’an – United States Consul General in Jerusalem, Jacob Walles, said that the US will fully support the Palestinian emergency government, which he said represents the Palestinian people in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip.Walles said the......
Romney calls for doubling Guantanamo population
Nick Juliano, RawStory.com 6/15/2007
Debating the treatment of foreign detainees at Tuesday night’s debate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he thought the US should "double" the number of prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay Cuba.In the same exchange, former New York Mayor......more..
US ’to unblock’ Palestinian aid
BBC Online 6/16/2007
The US will lift a 15-month embargo on aid to the Palestinians once a new emergency government excluding Hamas is sworn in, a US diplomat has said.US consul-general in Jerusalem Jacob Walles said there were no obstacles to re-engaging......more..
Hundreds flee Gaza as Hamas tightens grip
Conal Urquhart in Ramallah and Peter Beaumont in London, The Guardian 6/17/2007
Hundreds of Fatah supporters fled by land and sea yesterday after Gaza’s fall to Hamas late last week fractured Palestine in two. Palestinian officials said hundreds of Fatah supporters were allowed by Israel and Egypt to travel to......more..
Crowd loots Gaza home of Arafat
Ali Waked and Reuters, YNetNews 6/16/2007
Witnesses say crowd took furniture, wall tiles and personal belongings from villa of deceased Palestinian leader; Fatah gunmen attempt to kidnap Hamas-affiliated official in Ramallah. Palestinian official says American envoy told Abbas US would lift ban on aid to emergency......more..
Palestinian workers union condemns the invasion and occupation of its HQ in Gaza City by Hamas gunmen
Ma’an News Agency 6/16/2007
Nablus – Ma’an – The secretary general of the Palestinian syndicate of workers’ unions, Shahir Sa’d, on Saturday condemned the invasion and occupation of its main headquarters in Gaza City by Hamas gunmen.Sa’d said in......more..
VIDEO - Protesters take Rubber Bullets to Head and Stomach
International Solidarity Movement 6/16/2007
Bil’in Village -
Video by Emad Borna --Three demonstrators were injured by rubber bullets in another of the weekly non-violent demonstrations against the Apartheid Wall and land grab in Bil"in village.A 29 year old American journalist was hit......more..
Israel praises Hamas-free cabinet
BBC Online 6/17/2007
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says prospects for peace could be boosted by the creation of a new Palestinian government without the Hamas party.Israel would regard such a cabinet as a partner, he said, adding that Hamas’ exclusion "creates......more..
Are Israel’s armed forces destined for more decline?
Uri Bar-Joseph, Daily Star 6/16/2007
Approximately six months before the Six-Day War, the Israeli armed forces rejected an American proposal to assist Israel in finding technological solutions to the intensifying infiltration of Palestinian guerrillas into Israel. Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin and his generals expressed......more..
Two States for One People
Ronny Shaked, MIFTAH 6/15/2007
Fatah has collapsed in the Gaza Strip; it’s gone completely under. Gaza has turned into a jungle. Everyone is fighting each other. The political conflict between Fatah and Hamas has turned into a clan war, a war between......more..
Amnesty: Enduring Occupation
International Solidarity Movement 6/14/2007
Amnesty International releases report on 40th Anniversary of Israel"s Occupation of the Palestinian Territories -- Marking the 40th year of Occupation of Jerusalem -- In addition to highlighting the various repercussions of Israel"s 700 km Apartheid Wall, built on Palestinian......more..
Israeli activists plan to rebuild all Palestinians homes demolished over next year
Ma’an News Agency 6/13/2007
Jerusalem - Ma’an - On Monday, June 11, 2007, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) announced the launch of a campaign to rebuild the home of every Palestinian family whose house is demolished over the coming year, approximately 300......more..
Tory leader calls himself ’Zionist’; U.K. Jews campaign against boycott
Assaf Uni, Ha’aretz 6/14/2007
The leader of Britain’s Conservative party, David Cameron, called himself a "Zionist" Tuesday as he slammed a British initiative for an academic boycott against Israel. Cameron, responding to questions at the annual luncheon of Conservative Friends of Israel......more..
JPost: Right of Reply: Anarchy in the Holy Land!
Uri Gordon, International Solidarity Movement 6/13/2007
It’s pretty rough being an Israeli anarchist these days. On a good day you are dismissed as irresponsible and naive, ignorant of history and blind to reality while your dedicated, life-risking activities are, at best, an easily-absorbed tantrum......more..
The Writing on the Wall
Miko Peled The Electronic Intifada, Electronic Intifada 6/12/2007
The difficulty a writer faces in writing about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that it is buried in decades of mythmaking. Most writers and readers are still in awe of the Zionist narrative and are either afraid or lack the tools......more..
TA fountains painted red to protest killing of Palestinians
Moran Rada, YNetNews 6/11/2007
Anarchists add red paint to water in two central fountains, say paint represents blood of Palestinians killed and injured by IDF in territories Anarchist activists sprayed red paint on walls across Tel Aviv Sunday night and added red paint to......more..
Palestinian groups launch a torrent of projectiles at Israeli targets, Al Aqsa Brigades launch operation ’Punched Wall’
Ma’an News Agency 6/11/2007
Gaza – Ma’an – Several Palestinian factions on Monday claimed responsibility for targeting Israeli sites with mortar shells and homemade projectiles.The Fatah-affiliated Al-Aqsa Brigades said in a statement that they launched two projectiles at Sderot and another at Zikim, after......more..
Israeli police erect a flying checkpoint in PA-controlled central Hebron
Ma’an News Agency 6/11/2007
Hebron – Ma’an – Israeli police on Monday morning erected a military checkpoint on ’Ein Sarah Street in the centre of Hebron, in the southern West Bank. The soldiers detained dozens of Palestinian vehicles and inspected the occupants’......
For Just Peace on the Basis of Two States: Israel & Palestine
The Jerusalem Initiative, MIFTAH 6/11/2007
Upon the invitation of the Palestinian People’s Party (PPP) & the Israeli Communist Party (ICP), an international conference was held in East Jerusalem during the period 02 - 04 June 2007, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation......more..
End of the road
Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz 6/7/2007
Sof haderekh: mota shel medina" ("The End of the Road: Death of a Country") by Tzur Shizaf, Am Oved, 314 pages, NIS 79To live in an Arab house in Jaffa and claim to be a leftist; to suspect all of......more..
Those 40 Bad Years
Uri Avnery, Palestine Chronicle 6/8/2007
When the International Court published its simple, clear and indisputable opinion that the Wall violates international law and several conventions which have been signed by Israel too, our Supreme Court just disregarded it."Rest has come to the tired / Repose......more..
TA: Thousands protest ’corrupting occupation’
Yoav Kapshuk, YNetNews 6/9/2007
Protesters, including left-wing activists and bereaved parents, call for peace negotiations and end to Israeli control over Palestinian territories. Peace Now: Occupation marks destruction of Zionism Thousands of people gathered in central Tel Aviv Saturday evening to attend a rally......more..
A City Still Divided after 40 Years
John Murphy, MIFTAH 6/7/2007
Israel is marking the 40th anniversary of its capture of East Jerusalem and reunification of the city in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war with a year full of festivities. The Old City walls are dressed up with twinkling blue and white......more..
Several thousand protest 40 years of occupation at T.A. rally
Haaretz Service and The Associated Press, Ha’aretz 6/10/2007
Several thousand people attended a march in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening to protest 40 years of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, which began when Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day......more..
Tear Gas canisters from Israeli army cause fires in Bil’in olive groves, 6 demonstrators arrested
International Solidarity Movement 6/9/2007
Many internationals joined the Palestinians and Israeli activists during today’s demonstration at Bil’in village. The Israeli forces didn’t even allow the demonstration to approach the barbed wire they had put at the road at......more..
IDF Chief backs wider operation in Gaza Strip
Ze''ev Schiff, Ha’aretz 6/10/2007
The Israel Defense Forces should broaden the scope of its offensive action in the Gaza Strip, Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi has recommended in recent days. Ashkenazi nonetheless believes that it is best to avoid a massive ground operation in......more..
IDF foils Islamic Jihad kidnap bid
Amos Harel, Ha’aretz 6/9/2007
The Israel Defense Forces thwarted an attempt by Islamic Jihad yesterday to kidnap an Israel Defense Forces soldier near the Kissufim Crossing in the Gaza Strip. The four militants who carried out the attack approached the area in a car......more..
Al-Quds brigades detonate an explosive device near the separation wall in Jenin
Ma’an News Agency 6/9/2007
Tulkarem – Ma’an – The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, claimed responsibility on Saturday for detonating an explosive device at the Qafin gate, near the separation wall, west of Jenin, in the northern West Bank.The......
They came back alive
Amos Harel, Ha’aretz 6/9/2007
For the Israel Defense Forces, the failed attempt yesterday by Islamic Jihad and Fatah to abduct an IDF soldier from the Kissufim Crossing in the Gaza Strip ended with reasonable results. The organizations’ claims that they had succeeded in......more..
MPs Letter in Guardian on 1967 Anniversary
British MPs, MIFTAH 6/7/2007
Letter from British MPs in the Guardian - 6 June 2007Forty years ago, Israel launched the six-day war that changed the face of the Middle East and initiated one of the longest occupations in modern history (Six-day war, June 5). Since......more..
Israeli sources: Israeli troops shoot dead a Palestinian attempting to "infiltrate" Israel
Ma’an News Agency 6/8/2007
Bethlehem - Ma’an - The Israeli army opened fire at two Palestinians who were attempting to approach the security fence between the northern Gaza Strip and Israel, killing one of them, Israeli sources reported on Fridaymorning .The sources added that......
Non-violent protestors attacked at Ertas village
Ghassan Bannoura & John Smith, International Middle East Media Center 6/8/2007
A number of demonstrators were attacked by the Israeli military at Ertas village, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on Friday afternoon while non-violently protesting against Israeli plans to confiscate land in the area.Approximately 70 residents of the......more..
Israeli army attacks non-violent protestors at Umm Salamoneh
John Smith & Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center 6/8/2007
On Friday, Palestinian residents of the West Bank village of Umm Salamoneh, located to the south of Bethlehem, carried out their weekly demonstration against land confiscation and the construction of the illegal wall that will isolate the village from its......more..
Israeli army attacks non-violent protestors at Bil’in
John Smith & Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center 6/8/2007
The village of Bil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, was on Friday witness to the weekly protest against the construction of the illegal Israeli wall in the area. As with every week, local residents were joined......more..
Water and Resistance
Timothy Seidel writing from the West Bank, occupied Palestine, Electronic Intifada 6/8/2007
The view from the Palestinian village of Nahhalin, in the west Bethlehem area, is sobering. This small village -- along with the villages of Husan, Battir, Wadi Fuqin, and Al Walaja -- are becoming more and more isolated from Bethlehem. As Israeli......more..
Some 20 protestors hurt in weekly anti-fence demonstration at Bil’in
Yossi Melman, Ha’aretz 6/8/2007
Some 20 protestors were hurt at the weekly anti-separation fence demonstration at the West Bank village of Bil’in.According to protestors, 16 people were treated for inhaling tear gas and fours others from injuries caused by rubber-tipped bullets fired......
Jewish History Crowds Out Jerusalem Arabs
Dan Williams, MIFTAH 6/8/2007
Many of the Palestinian widow’s original neighbors are gone, bought out by an Israeli heritage trust. Now there are Jewish settlers next door. Beyond sprawls an archeological dig with a political program in which she is, at best......more..
Israel deploys robo-snipers on Gaza border
The Register 6/5/2007
Israel has begun deploying stationary robot gun-and-sensor installations along its borders with the Gaza Strip, according to reports.Both Jane’s Defence Weekly and Defence News reported last week that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have begun deploying automated gun......more..
"Stop the bleeding of Bethlehem" campaign launched in Bethlehem
Nisreen Qumsieh, International Middle East Media Center 6/8/2007
Palestinian activists from Bethlehem city in the West Bank announced the construction of a framework to face Israeli occupation and to raise levels of international awareness and support the Palestinians against Israeli transgressions of human rights. Husam Jubran, one of......more..
Friday demonstration in Bil’in: 6 arrested, several minor injuries
Ma’an News Agency 6/8/2007
Bil’in - Ma’an - Like every Friday for over two years, international and Israeli peace activists joined Palestinian villagers in Bil’in, a village west of Ramallah in the central West Bank, on Thursday, to protest the......more..
Israelis Protest to Mark Six-Day War
Ilene R. Prusher, MIFTAH 6/8/2007
Civilians shuffle in line at a checkpoint, waiting nervously in the bright sun to get to the end of the fenced-in tunnel. When they do, they find themselves confronted by M16-wielding soldiers who tell them they’re not......more..
Efforts to relaunch Roadmap underway, Erekat assures US consul
Ma’an News Agency 6/8/2007
Jericho - Ma’an - Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chief negotiator Saeb Erekat met with the US consul general in Jerusalem, Jack Walles, on Thursday evening and discussed the developments in the Palestinian arena.Erekat affirmed in a press release received by......more..
This Week In Palestine – Week 23 2007
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center 6/9/2007
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || File 14.9 MB|| Time 16m19s || Welcome to This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for June 2nd through June 9th, 2007.
Palestinians this week......more..
All Lebanese factions welcome proposal for Paris talks
Daily Star 6/9/2007
French foreign minister says informal meeting aims to break ice between rival groups. -- Factions from both sides of Lebanon’s political divide voiced their support on Friday for a French proposal to host informal fence-mending talks in Paris. The......more..
Israeli army resumes razing trees in Bethlehem
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center 6/7/2007
The Israeli army and a group of settlers continued their efforts to raze trees in a Palestinian graveyard near the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem on Thursday morning. Eyewitnesses told IMEMC that the soldiers and several armored Israeli vehicles surrounded......more..
Ban products with a criminal flavour
Adri Nieuwhof and Mieke Zagt, Electronic Intifada 6/7/2007
One of the reasons why Dutch consumers choose to buy organic products is the use of environmentally friendly cultivation methods. To protect consumers against improper use of the hallmark ’organic’, the European Union published the Regulation on organic......more..
UNIFIL denies report of Israeli border incursion
Daily Star 6/8/2007
BEIRUT: Some Israeli soldiers almost crossed the Israeli border into Lebanon on Thursday but did not violate the Blue Line, according to the National News Agency. The NNA said the soldiers approached the area between the Blue Line and the......more..
Begin’s grandson takes stand against separation barrier
Agence France Presse (AFP, Daily Star 6/8/2007
JERUSALEM: A grandson of Israel’s late right-wing Prime Minister Menachem Begin is a regular protester against the country’s West Bank separation barrier, media reports said on Thursday. The Maariv tabloid published a photograph of 32-year-old......more..
Army kidnaps two children from Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem
Dina Yasmeen - Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 6/6/2007
Two Palestinian children were reportedly kidnapped by Israeli forces that invaded Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem city located in the southern part of the West Bank on Wednesday afternoon. Local sources told IMEMC that the two boys were Khaled Qaraq......more..
The Shin Bet and the Persecution of Azmi Bishara
Jonathan Cook in Nazareth, Palestine Chronicle 6/6/2007
So now we know. As Israel’s Palestinian politicians have long been claiming, a Jewish and democratic state is intended as a democracy for Jews only. No one else is allowed a say -- or even an opinion. The second......more..
Stop the Bleeding of Bethlehem
International Solidarity Movement 6/6/2007
Let’s work together to put an end of 40 years of occupation! -- Political parties together with local NGOs, social and political activists, and the people of the Bethlehem area are inviting you to join them in their activities......more..
A revolutionary spirit, an impatience for simplistic critique and a necessary defense of the frame
Jim Quilty, Daily Star 6/6/2007
Palestinian-American artist Samia Halaby discusses the art and politics of her abstraction INTERVIEW BEIRUT: "It’s not that I view all critics as politically indoctrinated," a frowning Samia Halaby says over her cup of tea. "It just sounds that......more..
Defending Israel from democracy
Jonathan Cook, Electronic Intifada 6/5/2007
The second Palestinian intifada has been crushed. The 700km wall is sealing the occupied population of the West Bank into a series of prisons. The "demographic timebomb" -- the fear that Palestinians, through higher birth rates, will soon outnumber Jews in......more..
The Tragedy of Hebron
Feras SSA, International Solidarity Movement 6/5/2007
It is a nice thing to make a tour anywhere around the world since you will see and learn new things. But a tour in the old city of Hebron will be a tragedy for any one who belongs to......more..
2 Qassams fired at Negev
Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 6/6/2007
Palestinians fired two Qassam rockets at Israel from the northern Gaza Strip late Tuesday night. The "śColor Red"ť alert system was activated in Sderot, but it remained unclear where the rockets landed. There were no reports of injuries.Al-Quds Brigades, the......more..
Nonviolent Demonstration in Bethlehem to mark 40 years of Occupation
Dina Yasmeen - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 6/5/2007
About 100 Bethlehem area residents demonstrated on Tuesday at the Nashash Israeli army checkpoint between Bethlehem and Hebron cities in the southern part of the West Bank, closing it down for 20 minutes and demanding an end of the illegal......more..
3,235 Palestinians killed since the start of the second intifafa, PCHR reports
Ma’an News Agency 6/5/2007
Gaza - Ma’an – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) announced that 3,235 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the Al-Aqsa or second intifada, which began in September 2000.A report issued by the centre stated that......more..
We Deserve the British Academic Boycott!
Benny Tziper, International Solidarity Movement 6/4/2007
Haaretz - June 4th 2007 - Translated by Rann Bar-onLast Friday morning I drove to the Palestinian village of Bil’in.Bil’in, the village that has turned into a symbol of the struggle against the Apartheid Wall and against the......more..
Judge to Court: No to settlement building in Bil’in
Eyad Burnat, head of the Bil’in popular committee against, International Solidarity Movement 6/4/2007
The Supreme Court orders the State: explain why the new plan for the Matityahu East neighborhood shouldn’t be annulled -- There are two petitions concerning the Matityahu East neighborhood in the settlement Modi’in Illit currently in front......more..
Israel rejects Amnesty report urging end to West Bank fence
Haaretz Service and The Associated Press, Ha’aretz 6/5/2007
Vice Premier Shimon Peres Monday rejected a special Amnesty International report which urged Israel to dismantle the West Bank fence, declaring that suicide bombings had been curtailed almost entirely since the barrier was erected. In a report timed to coincide......more..
ISRAEL-OPT: Wall creates Palestinian cultural divide
Tom Spender/IRIN, IRIN - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 6/5/2007
Cousins Rana and Rasha fear Jerusalem men will snub them for marriage because they do not live within Israel’s wall. --JERUSALEM, 29 November 2006 (IRIN) - The young Palestinian women in the Jerusalem classroom become animated when the conversation......more..
Gila Svirsky
The Guardian 6/5/2007
Gila Svirsky was in Jerusalem for the last days of the war, and queued all night to be among the first allowed into the Old City and to the Western Wall after the battles were won. "At 5am we surged......more..
Amnesty urges Israel to tear down West Bank separation fence
Reuters, Ha’aretz 6/4/2007
Rights group Amnesty International said Monday that the fence Israel is building to separate itself from the Palestinians in the West Bank is illegal, has caused the Palestinians death and suffering, and should be torn down. The barrier, mostly razor......more..
Amnesty International: Israel destroying hope of Palestinians
Yaakov Lappin, YNetNews 6/4/2007
New report on West Bank charges Israel with ’destruction of hope’ of Palestinians with checkpoints and security fence; in interview with Ynetnews, report’s author claims her analysis is balanced -- A new Amnesty International Report on the......more..
Separation fence decision lacked security, economic sense
Meirav Arlosoroff, Ha’aretz 6/3/2007
The Israel Defense Forces wasted billions of shekels by indiscriminately firing artillery shells during last summer’s Second Lebanon War, according to the findings of the Brodet Committee report examining the defense budget. However, this revelation is small change......more..
My search for the West Bank’s ’invisible’ town
Sarah Helm, The Guardian/The Observer 6/3/2007
8217;Jenin? you want to go to Jenin?’, asked a Palestinian villager, standing near an unmanned Israeli roadblock somewhere in the northern West Bank. The villager scratched his head as if surprised to hear the city’s name......more..
Meshaal Proposes Truce Deal; Israeli Troops Kill Two Children
MIFTAH, MIFTAH 6/2/2007
Two Palestinian boys were killed on Friday when Israeli special forces opened fire at them in an open area that was once the Israeli settlement of Dugit in the northern Gaza Strip. Ahmad Abu Zubeida, 9 and Zaher Majdalawi, 10......more..
Seven injured and three arrests by Israeli troops at weekly peaceful demonstration in Bil’in
Ma’an News Agency 6/2/2007
Ramallah – Ma’an - Seven demonstrators were injured, including a foreign citizen, during the weekly non-violent protest in the central West Bank village of Bil’in on Friday.Weekly protests against the construction of the separation wall in the village......more..
Israeli forces invade Far’un village in search of stone-throwing youths
Ma’an News Agency 6/2/2007
Tulkarem – Ma’an – The Israeli forces on Saturday afternoon invaded the northern West Bank village of Far’un, south of Tulkarem.Ma’an’s correspondent reported that several military vehicles invaded the village and held a wide-scale......
Kibush40: Six Days of Demonstrations and Events
Kibush 40, International Solidarity Movement 6/2/2007
Surrounding the 40th anniversary of the Occupation from Kibush 40 -- June 5, 2007 , will be the fortieth anniversary of the malignant Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights . The present suffering and bloodshed atGazaand Sderot are......more..
Two boys killed by Israeli troops
Al Jazeera 6/1/2007
Israeli troops have shot dead two Palestinian children in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical staff said. An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed on Friday that troops had shot at what they said were suspicious figures trying to plant an object......more..
Desperate Palestinian Farmers Take on UK Government over Israeli Arms Export
Jon Robins, MIFTAH 6/1/2007
There is no normal life for us any more. We barely get by,” says Saleh Hasan, 60, a labourer living in Bethlehem and one of a number of Palestinians hoping to bring a legal action in the UK courts against......more..
Separating the Waters (Part 1)
Clemens Messerschmid, Electronic Intifada 6/1/2007
In 2002 Israel began construction of the so-called separation wall. By the end of July, the first two segments of the wall were completed, comprising a northern section running from Salem to Elkana, 10km south of Qalqiliyah (128 km length......more..
Separating the Waters (Part 2)
Clemens Messerschmid, Electronic Intifada 6/1/2007
A wall of rhetoric
Initially, the wall began life in Israel as the brainchild of the "Left", i.e. the Labour Party and Meretz. It was they who first demanded that the wall be built, and they wanted it built it......more..
Israeli army and settlers attack a non-violent protest in Hebron
Nisreen Qumsieh - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 6/1/2007
The Israeli army and settlers attacked a non-violent protest against the Annexation wall in Bani-Na’em, near Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank, on Friday midday. Palestinian Information Minister. Dr Mustafa Barghouthi participated in the protest......more..
Seven injured at weekly demonstration in Bil’in
John Smith - 1 of International Middle East Media Center - IMEMC, International Middle East Media Center 6/1/2007
On Friday, the villagers of Bil’in, located near the central west bank city of Ramallah, side by side with Israeli and international supporters conducted their weekly protests against the construction of the illegal Wall that is being built on village......more..
Against the Wall in Bethlehem
1 June 2007 Um Salamona, International Solidarity Movement 6/1/2007
At approximately 10:30am Palestinian, International and Israeli demonstrators gathered in Um Salamona for a demonstration against the wall and to access land which Palestinians have been prevented from reaching by the IDF due to the construction of the Aparthaid......more..
This Week In Palestine – Week 22 2007
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center 6/1/2007
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || File 11.9 MB|| Time 13m0s || This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for May 26 through June 1st, 2007.
Norway decides to channel aid......more..
Poll: Israelis Finished With Withdrawals
Ezra HaLevi, Arutz Sheva 6/1/2007
IsraelNN.com) A poll carried out by the Knesset channel found a majority of Israelis want no more withdrawals from parts of the Land of Israel – not even for "real peace."The poll, conducted by the Dahaf Institute for the Knesset......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......
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..
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