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Demonstrations in Ni’lin continue after a 4 month old baby is injured and a 9 year old shot in the head Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 8/30/2008
On Thursday morning Occupation forces stormed the town in an attempt to suppress protests and intimidate the people of Ni’lin. The military gathered close to the girls’ secondary school and fired tear gas and sound bombs, terrifying... more.. e-mail
A dirty business?
Josh Scheinert, Jerusalem Post 8/28/2008
Three years ago, privately owned garbage trucks from west Jerusalem began dumping their loads in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Dahiyat a-Salam to avoid paying for designated dumping sites near Abu Dis.
Today Dahiyat a-Salam is home to a giant... more.. e-mail
Lev Leviev sells properties in New York
Erez Wollberg and Globes' correspondent, Globes Online 8/31/2008
Africa-Israel sold two downtown properties and half of the Clock Tower and The Times building in midtown Manhattan. Africa-Israel Investments Ltd. (TASE: AFIL; Pink Sheets: AFIVY), controlled by chairman Lev Leviev, has signed a term sheet for the sale of... more.. e-mail
Tenth Grader Zeinab M’ali imagines Ramallah without the ravages of war
Zeinab Mohammed Abdel Salam M'ali, Palestine News Network 8/30/2008
From Common Dreams and the Imagine Palestine 2018 essay contest: " A cry of the past... and shock of present" AL BIREH, Ramallah--Here are my eyes wandering in a country with wonderful clean streets, where there are no signs of... more.. e-mail
Reports from the Ground: Weekly Non-violent struggles in Bi’lin, Ni’lin and A-Masara
Palestine Monitor, Palestine Monitor 8/30/2008
30 August 2008 Bi’lin: Young Palestinian shot in the head, and dozens sick from tear gas and wastewaterRamallah 30-08-08 - The weekly non-violent protest in Bi’lin against the construction of the Wall on the village... more.. e-mail
Palestinian citizen injured in the head at the hands of IOF troops in Na’lin
Palestinian Information Center 8/30/2008
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces on Friday fired bullets and teargas at Palestinian citizens and foreign sympathizers who were marching in a peaceful demonstration against the construction of the separation wall on the lands of Na’lin village west... more.. e-mail
Military wing of Islamic Jihad celebrates graduation of trained fighters
Ma’an News Agency 8/30/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, are preparing for a major imminent confrontation with Israel, and graduated third class of fighters on Friday. The military group organized a celebration for the graduating battalion... more.. e-mail
Palestinian Minister of Tourism visits 5,500 year old olive tree near Bethlehem
Ma’an News Agency 8/30/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Palestinian minister of tourism and antiquities Khuloud D’eibis visited the 5,500 year old olive tree in the village of Al-Walaja near Bethlehem in the southern West Bank. The tree, dated to 3,500 BC by... more.. e-mail
Young Palestinian shot in head with rubber-coated bullet, dozens sick from wastewarer and tear gas in Bil’in
Ma’an News Agency 8/29/2008
Ramallah – Ma’an - Mohammed Jaber Daraghameh was shot in the head with a metal bullet Friday as he participated in a protest march in the village of Bil’in and was transferred to Ash-Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Ramallah... more.. e-mail
Nil’in surrounded by Israeli troops, demonstrators pray on confiscated lands
Ma’an News Agency 8/29/2008
Ni’lin – Ma’an – Despite the presence of Israeli forces around the village, and the journalists who were barred from entering the area, the protesters from Ni’lin reached the separation wall and performed their Friday prayers... more.. e-mail
Nonviolent resistance continues as Israeli forces brutalize demonstrators
PNN, Palestine News Network 8/29/2008
Amin Abu Wardeh - Mohammed Jaber Daraghameh was shot in the head on Friday in western Ramallah’s Bil’in Village. He was one among of a massive group of Palestinians with foreign and Israeli supporters. Israeli forces opened... more.. e-mail
IOF conduct 53 incursions into West Bank towns, arrest 48 Palestinians in a week
Palestinian Information Center 8/29/2008
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) said in its weekly report that the "Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law continued in the OPT during the reporting period (21 - 27 August 2008)"The report listed numerous... more.. e-mail
Weekly A-Ma’sara protest against the Wall
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 8/29/2008
Around 100 internationals, Israeli peace activists and Palestinian villagers marched after the Friday prayers in Al-Ma’sara village near Bethlehem, in a nonviolent protest against the wall being built on village lands. [end...
European campaign calls for more sea voyages to break Gaza siege
Palestinian Information Center 8/29/2008
BRUSSELS, (PIC)-- The European campaign for lifting the siege on Gaza has deeply appreciated on Thursday efforts of the foreign supporters who boarded two boats and went to the besieged Gaza Strip, considering such attempt as the first step in... more.. e-mail
12-year-old hit by rubber bullet during Naalin ’riot’
Ali Waked, Efrat Weiss, YNetNews 8/28/2008
Anti-security fence rally in West Bank town turns violent yet again, as four Border Guard officers sustain mild injuries after being stones. Palestinian sources report troops’ use of crowd control measures results in boy suffering light head injury -A... more.. e-mail
Soldiers invade West Bank cities, kidnap 10
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 8/28/2008
Israeli troops invaded the West Bank cities of Tulkarem, Hebron, Bethlehem, Jenin and Tubas on Thursday morning and kidnappedten civilians, local sources reported. Israeli soldiers, backed by military vehicles, invaded Tulkarem, in the northern part of the West Bank, and... more.. e-mail
Weekly
Repot: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 21-
27 August 2008
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 8/28/2008
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue
Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in
the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) - 9 Palestinian civilians, including 5
children, and an Israeli human rights defender, were wounded
by IOF gunfire in the West Bank. The... more.. e-mail
Israeli activist detained, then released, for taking part in ’Free Gaza’ boat action
Saed Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 8/28/2008
After being held overnight in Ashkelon Prison, Israeli peace activist Jeff Halper was released Wednesday. While the 44 international activists on the two ’Free Gaza’ boats were allowed by the Israeli military occupation to enter the Gaza Strip... more.. e-mail
Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory 21 Aug- 28 Aug 2008
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - PCHR, ReliefWeb 8/28/2008
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied PalestinianTerritory(OPT) - 9 Palestinian civilians, including 5 children, and an Israeli human rights defender, were wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank.
- The 9... more.. e-mail
The zoo on the road to Nablus
Amelia Thomas, Electronic Intifada 8/27/2008
Dr. Sami greeted the journalist at the ticket office.
"Welcome," he said. "Please come this way."
He began a tour of the zoo, first heading north up the zoo’s main avenue, past the dry fountain, the restaurant, and... more.. e-mail
Israeli report: IOA gradually erasing green line
Palestinian Information Center 8/26/2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- A report prepared by an Israeli leftist movement revealed that the Israeli occupation authority was continuing to expand settlements in the West Bank at an accelerated rate that would eventually erase the green line separating the Palestinian... more.. e-mail
Al Walajah official to PNN: Israeli forces wanted to break into Municipal Building
PNN, Palestine News Network 8/20/2008
Bethlehem - The Secretary of the Municipality of Al Walajah near Bethlehem told that a heavily armed group of Israeli soldiers tried to storm the Municipal Building Wednesday morning. The town is known for its nonviolent resistance. "No reasons were given... more.. e-mail
The Gaza Concentration Camp: Ancient Colonialism through a Nazi filter
Agustin Velloso, Translated By Toni Solo, Palestine Think Tank 8/20/2008
PhotosWhen you approach the Erez crossing point to enter Gaza from the north, you notice a concentration camp straightaway even if you may never have seen one like the ones turned into museums or educational centres, or like the ones... more.. e-mail
Case of shooting nonviolent Palestinian demonstrator at point blank range reopened
Maisa Abu Ghazaleh, Palestine News Network 8/20/2008
Jerusalem -- The Israeli High Court is scrutinizing a ruling in the shooting case of Ashraf Abu Rahma. Israeli forces shot him in western Ramallah’s Nal’in Village, a town active in the nonviolent resistance against the Wall... more.. e-mail
The Only Alternative to Two States is Conflict
Ghassan Khatib, MIFTAH 8/19/2008
With Palestinians facing greater and greater difficulties in their struggle to achieve an independent state in the territories occupied by Israel in the war of 1967, a serious debate has been sparked over the viability of the two-state solution.The continuing... more.. e-mail
Court halts IDF tribunal against soldier who shot bound Palestinian
DPA, Ha’aretz 8/19/2008
High Court Judge Ayala Procaccia ordered an injunction on Tuesday against the Israel Defense Force’s military tribunal overseeing the case of the IDF soldier who shot a bound Palestinian with a rubber bullet at close range. The move... more.. e-mail
Court suspends Ni’lin shooting case
Jerusalem Post 8/19/2008
High Court Justice Ayala Procaccia issued an interim injunction on Tuesday suspending legal proceedings against a lieutenant-colonel and a sergeant charged with responsibility for the shooting of a bound and blindfolded Palestinian during a protest in Ni’lin last... more.. e-mail
Visits to east Jerusalem sites up dramatically
Shelly Paz, Jerusalem Post 8/19/2008
The Company for the Development of East Jerusalem reported 28 percent growth in the number of visitors to the historical sites in and around the Old City’s walls during the first six months of 2008.
"More Israelis have... more.. e-mail
Israeli forces storm three towns in northern tip of West Bank
Ma’an News Agency 8/17/2008
Jenin – Ma’an – Israeli forces stormed the village of Silat Adh-Dhahr in south west Jenin on Sunday morning along with villages of Ti’nnik and Zububa north west of the city where the patrols searched agricultural lands. The... more.. e-mail
Dozens choke on tear gas as protest is dispersed in Ni’lin
Ma’an News Agency 8/17/2008
Ramallah – Ma’an – Dozens of civilians choked on tear gas Sunday when Israeli forces dispersed a peaceful protest that began in the town of Ni’lin north of Ramallah. The protest was organized by the Ni’lin... more.. e-mail
Islamic Jihad leader warns of Israeli plans to demolish Al-Aqsa Mosque
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 8/16/0200
Islamic Jihad leader, Ibrahim an-Najjar slammed the ongoing excavations Israel is carrying out under the Mughrabi Gate ramp near the Western Wall (Al-Buraq Wall) and the Aqsa Mosque Noble Sanctuary, (Haram ash-Sharif) in the old city of Jerusalem. An-Najjar’... more.. e-mail
Israeli army attacks peaceful anti-wall demonstration near Dir Al-Ghusun
Ma’an News Agency 8/16/2008
Tulkarem – Ma’an – Israeli soldiers attacked an anti wall demonstration west of the town of Dir Al- Ghusun in the northern West Bank on Saturday. Israeli soldiers detained three demonstrators, and attacked and beat several others including local journalists... more.. e-mail
IOF troops wound number of weekly Nilin anti-wall protesters
Palestinian Information Center 8/16/2008
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The IOF troops violently assaulted Friday the weekly anti-wall, non-violent march in the Nilin town near Ramallah, which led to the injury of a number of protestors. After the weekly Friday prayer, hundreds of Palestinians along with international... more.. e-mail
Palestinian nonviolent resistance continues weekly demonstrations, several injured
Iyad Burnat, Palestine News Network 8/16/2008
Bil’in - After Friday Prayers, the inhabitants of western Ramallah’s Bil’in and their supporters participated in the weekly demonstration against the Wall. They raised Palestinian flags and signs with slogans that condemn the policies of... more.. e-mail
Non Violent Protest against the wall at Al-Ma’sara
Dorris Norrito, International Middle East Media Center News 8/15/0200
International action groups joined local villagers at Al-Ma’sara on Friday in a non-violent protest against the building of the wall on the village’s land. Close to a hundred of the Palestinian, Italian, French, Israeli and American... more.. e-mail
Gush Katif Museum opens in Jerusalem
Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post 8/17/2008
On the back wall of the newly created Gush Katif Museum in Jerusalem hangs a photograph of four tattered Israeli flags on a rope in the Gaza Strip during the 2005 disengagement.
Slideshow:"It shows that there is something torn... more.. e-mail
Islamic Jihad leader warns of Israeli plans to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque
Ma’an News Agency 8/16/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – In marking the 29th anniversary of the 21 August 1969 burning of the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Islamic Jihad leader Ibrahim An-Najjar questioned current excavations carried out by Israel beneath the Mughrabi Gate ramp near the... more.. e-mail
Five injured in non-violent protest in Bi’lin
Ma’an News Agency 8/15/2008
Ramallah – Ma’an – Four internationals and a Palestinian child were among those injured in the Bi’lin protest on Friday afternoon. This week’s protest was staged as a sports day that included dozens of children’... more.. e-mail
Abu Halabeyya: Israeli excavations reach foundations of the Aqsa Mosque
Palestinian Information Center 8/15/2008
GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian legislator Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabeyya has disclosed on Friday that the Israeli excavation works under the Aqsa Mosque started to threaten its foundations, which will jeopardize the existence of the holiest Muslim shrine in Palestine. According to... more.. e-mail
Challenging the siege from Rafah to Cyprus
Rami Almeghari, International Middle East Media Center News 8/15/0200
On Sunday, hundreds of Hamas supporters, many stranded Gaza patients, students and travelers, took part in a rally at the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing terminal in southern Gaza, against the continued closure of the terminal for the past... more.. e-mail
HLT: Israeli forces destroy and we rebuild
Osama Awwad, Palestine News Network 8/15/2008
Israeli forces uprooted tens of trees and demolished a home in Wad Rahal in southern Bethlehem. This is not new for the Israelis, but this time a group of nonviolent demonstrators rebuilt the house and replanted trees.The keys have been... more.. e-mail
Anti-wall rally in Al-Ma’sara prevented from reaching protest site
Ma’an News Agency 8/15/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Dozens of residents of the village of Al-Ma’sara south of Bethlehem were attacked with Israeli sound bombs, clubs and rifle butts as they tried to reach their protest site outside of Bethlehem. The group... more.. e-mail
Weekly non-violent protest at Bil’in
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 8/15/0200
The Israeli army dispersed the weekly non-violent protest in Bil’in village north of Ramallah on Friday midday with gas, guns and grenades. After the weekly Friday prayer, a group 300 internationals and peace activists marched ain solidarity with... more.. e-mail
Nonviolent Palestinian resistance undeterred by Israeli violence
PNN, Palestine News Network 8/15/2008
Ramallah - During a nonviolent Palestinian demonstration in western Ramallah, Israeli forces injured 15 people. Three foreign supporters were also arrested at the central West Bank protest against the Wall. The march began yesterday, Thursday, with dozens in a group of... more.. e-mail
7 injured in weekly non-violent protest in Nil’in
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 8/15/0200
IMEMC’s correspondents reported on Friday that a group of peace activists including internationals and local villagers marched in a non-violent protest against the wall at Nil’in village. After the Friday prayer was over the protestors marched... more.. e-mail
Weekly peaceful protest at Al Khader village
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 8/15/0200
A group of fifty internationals, peace activists and non-violent protesters marched in protest against the illegal wall on Friday midday at al Khader village located near Bethlehem. IMEMC’s correspondents reported that the protest took place after the Friday...
2 police officers hurt in Naalin riots
Efrat Weiss, YNetNews 8/15/2008
Palestinians, leftists clash with security forces during anti-fence rally; Israeli photographer hurt - More violence in Naalin:Two Border Guard police officers and an Israeli photographer were hurt Friday during riots at the West Bank village of Naalin, near Ramallah. Officials... more.. e-mail
PCHR Weekly Report: 18 injured in Israeli attacks, including 3 children
Saed Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 8/15/0200
In its weekly summary of Israeli attacks for the week of 07 - 13 August 2008, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) reports that 18 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, were injured by Israeli forces gunfire in the West Bank... more.. e-mail
This Week in Palestine week 33 2008
IMEMC News - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center News 8/15/0200
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This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www. IMEMC. org, for August 9th, through August, 15th, 2008.
Lead: Israeli Prime... more.. e-mail
Israeli forces destroy 25 commercial produce stalls in the eastern West Bank
Fathy Khdeirat, Palestine News Network 8/14/2008
Jericho - As reported on Tuesday as breaking news on the PNN English news ticker, on Tuesday, 12 August, at least 25 market stalls owned by Palestinian farmers were demolished by Israeli forces in the Jordan Valley. Israeli soldiers went on... more.. e-mail
Obama and America’s Wall of Ignominy
Robert Weitzel, Madison, US, Palestine Chronicle 8/13/2008
8217;Greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us one from the other.’"The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. These now are the walls we must... more.. e-mail
8 injured as protesters gather in Ni’lin
International Solidarity Movement 8/13/2008
Ramallah Region - Photos - At 11 am on Monday August the 11th approximately 200 Palestinians, Israeli and international activists marched towards the construction site of the illegal apartheid wall in the West Bank village of Ni’lin. Photos courtesy ofActivestills... more.. e-mail
3 injured from rubber-coated bullets, tens vomit from sewage water sprayed at them in Ni’lin
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 8/9/2008
Although the Occupation forces tried to close the entrance of Ni’lin, locals from surrounding villages and international solidarity activists were still able to attend an anti-Apartheid Wall demonstration in the village.
This time the Occupation experimented with new techniques in... more.. e-mail
11 injured in anti-fence protest in Naalin
Ali Waked, YNetNews 8/14/2008
Palestinians report demonstrators wounded by rubber bullets, Swedish national breaks her leg. Member of West Bank village’s anti-fence committee arrested Wednesday night - Eleven demonstrators were injured Thursday afternoon during an anti-fence demonstration in the West Bank village of... more.. e-mail
Settlers vow fierce resistance if PM’s peace plan comes to fruition
Haaretz, Palestine Monitor 8/13/2008
13 August 2008 The "shelf agreement" that the Israeli government has proposed to the Palestinian Authority, whose details were released Sunday, would leave within Israel some 220,000 settlers living in 48 settlements in settlements blocs. This area, west of the... more.. e-mail
IDF: Forces shoot Syrian gunman at border
Reuters and Roee Nahmias, YNetNews 8/14/2008
Army spokesman says infiltrator carried a gun; man lightly wounded, treated in Israeli hospital - IDF forces shot and wounded an armed man who crossed from Syria into the Golan Heights on Wednesday, the army said. Violence along the Israeli-Syrian border... more.. e-mail
Secret Plans Revealed: Train to the Western Wall
Danny Adino Ababa, YNetNews 8/12/2008
Jerusalem Municipality holds secret meeting in which plans are unveiled for extension of city’s light train to Dung Gate, just minute’s walk from holy site; tunnel through Mt. Zion also proposed -Jerusalem’s new light... more.. e-mail
Did we learn nothing from loss and hardship?
Seth Freedman, The Guardian 8/12/2008
We will never share our homeland and Jerusalem with anyone else." So said Nadia Matar, de facto shepherd of her flock of acolytes as they marched around the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday night to commemorate... more.. e-mail
Despair among Egyptians stranded in Gaza
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 8/12/0200
Local sources reported that 180 Egyptian citizens, many of them women and children have been stranded in the Gaza Strip since the demolition of the Rafah border wall in January. Most of the Egyptians crossed into Gaza to visit relatives... more.. e-mail
Despair among Egyptians stranded in Gaza
Ma’an News Agency 8/12/2008
Gaza - Ma’an – Some 180 Egyptian citizens, many of them women and children, have been stranded in the Gaza Strip since the demolition of the Rafah border wall in January. “Someone tell our President Hosni Mubarak that we want to go... more.. e-mail
Dichter vows to restore Sharon’s vision to Kadima
Gil Hoffman, Jerusalem Post 8/12/2008
Public Security Minister Avi Dichter officially declared his candidacy for the Kadima leadership on Tuesday in a speech at Herzliya’s Air Force House, in which he compared himself to Kadima’s founder, former prime minister Ariel Sharon... more.. e-mail
Al Aqaba: The war of nerves
Palestine Monitor, Palestine Monitor 8/10/2008
In PicturesFor more than 40 years the people of Al Aqaba have been struggling for the right to exist on their land. Surrounded by three military training camps, they are facing continuous house and public infrastructure demolitions. Located in the... more.. e-mail
Obama: the Israelis would be crazy to reject this offer
Daoud Kuttab, Amman / Jerusalem, Palestine News Network 8/10/2008
Election related news continue to be made in the Middle East weeks after the Barack Obama visited the region. The office of the Palestinian president released, Wednesday, a copy of the peace poster that Abbas presented to Obama. The peace... more.. e-mail
A war for war’s sake
Mahmoud Darwish, Al-Ahram Weekly 4/11/2002
April 11, 2002 - What we are now seeing is the expression of the will of a people that has no choice but to resist.This is a war for war’s sake, since it has no other... more.. e-mail
Egypt sends 500 policemen to Gaza border
Ali Waked, YNetNews 8/10/2008
Hundreds of Palestinians protest in Rafah area, calling on Cairo to open Egypt-Gaza crossing - Hundreds of Palestinians and Hamas
supporters demonstrated Sunday near the Rafah border crossing, between the Gaza Strip andEgypt.
The protestors, including Acting Palestinian Parliament Chairman Ahmad... more.. e-mail
US Consul General expresses condolences over loss of Darwish
Ma’an News Agency 8/10/2008
Jerusalem – Ma’an – US Consul General Jacob Walles sent his condolences to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the death of Mahmoud Darwish, who passed away on Saturday in the United States following open heart surgery. Ma’an received... more.. e-mail
Egypt sends 500 riot police to border with Gaza Strip
Reuters, Ha’aretz 8/10/2008
Egypt sent around 500 riot police to its border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday, fearing that supporters of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas will try to storm the frontier, security officials said. The officials said Hamas, which rules the... more.. e-mail
ISRAEL-OPT: Honey makes Hebron life a bit sweeter
Shabtai Gold/IRIN, IRIN - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 8/10/2008
HEBRON, 10 August 2008 (IRIN) - The toughest part of the West Bank just got a bit sweeter, with an influx of beehives, helping farmers cope with the decline in their economic situation. Stuck between two Israeli settlements, the Palestinian residents... more.. e-mail
Yousef Amira (17), second youth from Ni’lin martyred by Occupation forces
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 8/5/2008
On Monday August 4, 17-year-old Ni’lin resident Yousef Amira died from previous injuries received on July 30, when he was shot twice in the head with rubber bullets during a popular demonstration in Ni’lin.
Soldiers shot Yousef just hours... more.. e-mail
Border Guard uses '˜Skunk’ as new crowd-dispersal means
Efrat Weiss, YNetNews 8/10/2008
Out with rubber bullets, tear gas, shock grenades; in with new, stinky means to scatter violent rioters. After using new tool during Naalin riot, officers report Palestinians ran to shower, changed clothes - The Border Guard has begun using a new... more.. e-mail
Israeli forces spray protesters in Ni’lin with unknown substance
International Solidarity Movement 8/10/2008
Ramallah Region - Photos - At 1pm on Friday the 8th August the citizens of Ni’lin gathered as usual to pray on their land. They were prevented from reaching the usual site of their Friday prayer by around twenty Israeli... more.. e-mail
Poll: What will cause Jerusalem’s 3rd destruction?
Ynet, YNetNews 8/10/2008
Tisha B’Av survey reveals biggest fear amongst members of all Jewish denominations is division of city into capital of two nations - Jews in Israel
on Sunday lamented the destruction of the First and Second Temples at the Western... more.. e-mail
Soldiers spray unknown substance on demonstrators in Bi’lin
International Womens’ Peace Service 8/9/2008
On Friday 8th August 2008, IWPS joined Palestinians and international and Israeli activists for the weekly demonstration against the Israeli Apartheid wall in Bi’lin. The village has lost vast amounts of land as a result of the wall’s construction. In... more.. e-mail
IOF troops use chemical mix against weekly Bil’in peaceful march
Palestinian Information Center 8/9/2008
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The IOF troops on Friday attacked the weekly Bil’in peaceful march, which is organized against Israel’s apartheid wall and its theft of Palestinian land, and used crowd dispersal means including waste water mixed with... more.. e-mail
Israeli army sprays toilet water at Bil’in protesters
Ma’an News Agency 8/8/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli forces used a new weapon against Bil’in protesters on Friday, and opened up streams of contaminated water on Palestinians, Israelis and international activists protesting the construction of the separation wall on village lands... more.. e-mail
The Israeli army attacks a non-violent protest at Al Ma’sara village
Rula Shahwan & Marina Ayyoub, International Middle East Media Center News 8/8/0200
Local sources reported that the Israeli army attacked the weekly non-violent protest at al Ma’sara village south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday midday. A group of internationals, peace activists and villagers marched in a... more.. e-mail
United by Misery: Two Boys from Gaza and Nilin
Ramzy Baroud, Palestine Chronicle 8/8/2008
Mohamed Bahloul is suffering from kidney failure.Ahmed Moussa was a 12-year-old Palestinian boy from the West Bank village of Nilin, near Ramallah. Mohamed Bahloul is a 12-year-old Palestinian boy from Gaza City. The former was shot and killed... more.. e-mail
Report: Israeli violence enjoys impunity
Mel Frykberg, Electronic Intifada 8/8/2008
RAMALLAH, West Bank (IPS) - Only six percent of probes into offenses allegedly committed by Israeli soldiers and settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank yield indictments, a new report says.
The report "Justice for All" released last week by... more.. e-mail
Israeli forces attack protesters in Al-Ma’sara
Ma’an News Agency 8/8/2008
Bethlehem - Ma’an - The Popular Campaign Against the Wall (PCAW) organized a demonstration in the village of Al-Ma’sara in the Bethlehem district, to protest against Israeli expansionist plans. The demonstration took place on Friday. The Palestinian National... more.. e-mail
VIDEO - Continued violence and repression against the popular protests against the wall in Ni’lin
International Solidarity Movement 8/8/2008
Ramallah Region - Photos - On the 7th of August around 300 hundred people protested against the building of the apartheid wall at the land of Ni’lin. The demonstration started at 11 am and marched from the village centre. It... more.. e-mail
Weekly peaceful protest of the wall at Al Khader village
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 8/8/0200
A group of 150 non violent protesters marched in protest against the illegal wall on Friday midday at al Khader village nearby the West Bank city of Bethlehem. IMEMC’s correspondents reported that the protest took place after the...
Bil’in Popular Committee: Toilet water - the new kind of weapon used against the people from Bil’in
International Solidarity Movement 8/8/2008
Bil’in Village - Today, 8th August 2008, after the Friday Prayers, the inhabitants of Bil’in, Israeli, and international peace activists participated in a demonstration against the wall. They raised Palestinian flags and signs with slogans that condemn... -- See also: Bil'in village website - English more.. e-mail
Sewage and gas will not deter the Palestinian nonviolent resistance
Palestine News Network 8/8/2008
Ramallah / PNN -- In western Ramallah’s Bil’in Village the weekly Palestinian nonviolent resistance has not given up. Today while protesting the Wall, settlements, and land confiscation, dozens of Palestinians and their supporters were injured. Israeli forces sprayed... more.. e-mail
The Israeli army attacks the nonviolent protest in Bil’in village
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 8/8/0200
The Israeli army dispersed the weekly nonviolent protest located in Bil’in village north of the West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday midday with gas, guns and grenades. local sources reported. After the weekly Friday prayer, a group... more.. e-mail
A visit to Naalin
Roi Mandel, YNetNews 8/8/2008
Peace Now tours West Bank village; local ’guide’ slams IDF, makes no mention of stone throwers - A delegation of Peace Now members from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem toured Wednesday the Palestinian village of Naalin, which has been a... more.. e-mail
Anti-Semitic graffiti prompts Sarkozy’s son to take legal action
Reuters, Ha’aretz 8/9/2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s son Jean Sarkozy has taken legal action over anti-Semitic graffiti in the Paris suburb where he is a local councilor, the website of the daily Le Parisien said on Thursday. The website said Jean... more.. e-mail
Ni’lin and people across the West Bank fulfill pledge to Ahmad Mousa: protests continue unabated
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 8/2/2008
On Friday, new faces appeared in Ni’lin to join a demonstration of more than a thousand against the Apartheid Wall. Occupation soldiers shrank from confronting the people, instead vacating the area. Demonstrators then proceeded to tear down two kilometers of... more.. e-mail
9 killed as Hamas raids Fatah stronghold in Gaza
Ali Waked and AP, YNetNews 8/2/2008
Islamist group’ security forces raid stronghold of Fatah-allied Hilles clan in Gaza City. In retaliation, masked Fatah gunmen in West Bank briefly seized Hamas-linked university professor in West Bank. Earlier five Palestinians killed in smuggling tunnel’s collapse... more.. e-mail
The Murder of Ahmed, Age 10
Kim Bullimore – The West Bank, Palestine Chronicle 8/1/2008
On Tuesday, July 29, Ahmed Ussam Yusef Mousa, aged 10, was shot dead with a single shot to the head by Israeli occupation forces.Ahmed was murdered, just before 6pm, when he and a group of youth from Ni’lin... more.. e-mail
The Israeli army attacks a non violent protest in Yatta village
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 8/2/0200
Israeli troops attacked on Saturday a nonviolent protest against the wall in Yatta village near the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday midday, local sources reported. The sources added that a group of Palestinian and international peace activists... more.. e-mail
Troops invade West Bank cities, kidnap 2 civilians
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 8/2/0200
Israeli soldiers invaded Ni’lin village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah and the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday dawn, and kidnapped two civilians. Local sources reported that the army invaded Ni’...
Ceasefire breached: 3 mortars land in western Negev
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 8/2/2008
Military forces, emergency unit from Kibbutz Nahal Oz dispatched to security fence area following Hamas-Fatah clashes -Three mortar shells fired by Hamas gunmen in Gaza late Saturday landed in the western Negev, causing no injuries or damage. The IDF was...
Ni’lin lays Ahmad Mousa to rest
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 8/1/2008
As the martyrs’ body was taken out of the morgue on the first floor of the Ramallah Public Hospital, the eyes of his family and friends were full of tears and expressions of sadness, anger, and hate. They had come... more.. e-mail
PPSF condemn Israeli attack on protesters south of Hebron
Ma’an News Agency 8/2/2008
Ramallah – Ma’an – The Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF) condemned the Israeli attack on the peaceful protest march against the wall near the village of At-Tuwani near Hebron on Saturday. The village is next to the illegal settlement Ma... more.. e-mail
India urges end to ’cycle of violence’ in Middle East
Ma’an News Agency 8/2/2008
Bethlehem - Ma’an - Concerned over the Middle East situation, India urged the region to stop "the cycle of violence," saying that the Palestinian issuecannot be resolved by force. "We continue to urge an end to the cycle of violence... more.. e-mail
Maan: Bil’in - dozens injured after inhaling tear gas, town waits for court verdict
Ma'an, International Solidarity Movement 8/1/2008
Bil’in Village - Photos - Dozens of residents and a Palestinian journalist suffered breathing problems after inhaling tear gas fired on them by Israeli soldiers during a peaceful protest in the village of Bil’in on Friday afternoon. The... more.. e-mail
The struggle against Jerusalem’s quiet ethnic cleansing
Jonathan Cook, Electronic Intifada 8/1/2008
In the first hours of dawn, Nader Elayan was woken by a call from a neighbor warning him to hurry to the house he had almost finished building. By the time he arrived, it was too late: a bulldozer was... more.. e-mail
The Nakbah Project: A nightmare of shattered lives
Jane Frere, Electronic Intifada 8/1/2008
Bethlehem, the cradle of Christianity, is caught in an unending nightmare. "What can we do?" Amal, a Palestinian woman, asked me when I met her in the town. A 17-year-old boy was shot dead in Bethlehem Square in the... more.. e-mail
Five injured in Ni’lin protest
Ma’an News Agency 8/1/2008
Ramallah – Ma’an – Five locals were injured after being hit by rubber coated metal bullets at a protest in the West Bank village of Ni’lin on Friday. The demonstration was held to protest the construction of the... more.. e-mail
Northern West Bank activists join Ni’lin launch women’s movement against the Wall with demo
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 7/24/2008
A women’s demonstration organized by the Ni’lin Popular Committee against the Apartheid Wall marched yesterday from the center of Ni’lin to the land threatened by confiscation by the Occupation forces. Headed by female activists and organizations from all over Palestine... more.. e-mail
Seven injured as Ni’lin continues its struggle against the construction of the apartheid wall
International Solidarity Movement 8/1/2008
Ramallah Region - Photos - On the 1st August, Palestinian protesters, joined by Israeli and international solidarity activists, marched to the construction site of the apartheid wall in Ni’lin. Well over 100 meters of barbed wire at the site was... more.. e-mail
Bil’in: dozens injured after inhaling tear gas, town waits for court verdict
Ma’an News Agency 8/1/2008
Ramallah – Ma’an – Dozens of residents and a Palestinian journalist suffered breathing problems after inhaling tear gas fired on them by Israeli soldiers during a peaceful protest in the village of Bil’in on Friday afternoon. The protest... more.. e-mail
Dozens suffer from Gas inhalation during the weekly nonviolent protest in Bil’in village
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 8/1/0200
The Israeli army dispersed the weekly nonviolent protest located in Bil’in village north of the West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday midday with gas, guns and grenades. After the weekly Friday prayer, a group of internationals and... more.. e-mail
Five kidnapped Palestinian MPs injured inside a recklessly driven prison van
Palestinian Information Center 8/1/2008
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Five kidnapped Palestinian lawmakers of the change and reform bloc, which is affiliated with Hamas Movement, were injured as they were being transported in a prison van to court. According to a letter leaked out of prison on... more.. e-mail
A number of children were injured during a nonviolent protest in Bethlehem
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 8/1/0200
Local sources reported that a number of Palestinian children were injured during a non violent protest against the illegal wall in Al Ma’sara village near by the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday midday. [end...
This Week in Palestine 31 2008
IMEMC News - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center News 8/1/0200
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || 12m 0s || 11. 00MB ||This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle
East Media Center, www. IMEMC. org, for July 26th, through August, 1st, 2008.
Palestinian negotiators confirmed this... more.. e-mail
Second youth targeted in two days: Yousef Amira (17) from Ni’lin mortally wounded
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 7/31/2008
The Occupation forces have once again escalated their attempts to suppress the daily demonstrations of Palestinian popular committees and villagers to the construction of the Apartheid Wall.
Yesterday evening at around 10 pm, Israeli occupation forces shot two rubber coated... more.. e-mail
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