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UNIFIL: IDF troops violated UN-drawn border with Lebanon
Ha''aretz 9/28/2006
Israel violated the UN-drawn border it shares with Lebanon on Thursday, six weeks after its cease-fire with Hezbollah guerrillas went into effect in the region, the spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon said.Alexander Ivanko, a spokesman... French tanks face off with Israelis near border village...more..
Report Number Seven from Lebanon: The Dutch Delegation
By Samia A. Halaby, Al-Jazeerah Info 9/27/2006
On Thursday September 21, 2006, I returned to Bint Jubail guiding members of the Dutch delegation from D4. We walked again through the streets and I searched for our friend of the scarves store. It was 3:30 and I......more..
Palestinian boy arrested by Israeli troops near separation wall, north of Jenin
Ma''an News 9/27/2006
Jenin – Ma''an - Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian boy from the town of Al Yamun town near the separation wall in mysterious conditions on Wednesday.Eyewitnesses said that the boy, Mohammad Fraihat, 15, was near the separation wall near Salim military camp......
Thousands of Palestinians have been internally displaced due to the Wall
Ma''an News 9/27/2006
Ma''an - Thousands of Palestinians have been forced to leave their homes as a direct result of the Wall built by Israel in occupied East Jerusalem, a report by the BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights and the...Israel''s West Bank Wall forces thousands of Palestinians out of their homes - report and Report: Displaced by the wall...more..
Land confiscations as Occupation ties a concrete noose around Azzoun Atme
Stop The Wall 9/21/2006
Occupation forces are to confiscate more Palestinian land in order to build a continuation of the Apartheid Wall that will completely encircle the West Bank village of Azzoun Atme in south Qalqilya district. Confiscation orders have been issued to farmers......more..
Bureau of Statistics reports on Palestinian status since beginning of Intifada
Ma''an News 9/27/2006
Gaza-- Gaza - Ma''an – The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics has issued a report in which it reviewed the Palestinian situation on the sixth anniversary of the Intifada.The report said that 4348 Palestinians were killed between the beginning of the Intifada......more..
''Modern art comes to the West Bank''
BBC 9/27/2006
One weekday lunchtime in September, 40 residents of Ramallah in the West Bank board a bus in the city centre. Their destination is a contemporary art exhibition at the Peace Centre in Bethlehem''s Manger Square, the first of its kind... Damien Hirst''s £50 masterpiece...more..
Israel''s West Bank Wall forces thousands of Palestinians out of their homes - report
ReliefWeb/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre 9/26/2006
GENEVA, 26 September 2006 – Thousands of Palestinians have been forced to leave their homes as a direct result of the Wall built by Israel in the occupied West Bank, according to a study published today by the Norwegian Refugee Council''s......more..
Popular Committee Member Targetted in Bil’in
International Solidarity Movement 9/22/2006
At the weekly anti-Wall protest in Bil’in today around 75 villagers, internationals and Israelis tried to march to the site of the illegal Wall but were stopped by soldiers on the edge of the village. As the demonstrators tried to......more..
Signs of life in Bint Jbeil
By Samia A. Halaby, Electronic Intifada 9/24/2006
From Bint Jbeil, Live from Lebanon -- On Thursday September 21, 2006, I returned to Bint Jbeil, guiding members of the Netherlands delegation from D4. We walked again through the streets and I searched for our friend from the scarves store... Photostory: Bint Jbeil to Beirut...more..
Israeli forces wait outside Al Khader Mosque during evening Ramadan prayers, attack worshippers
Palestine News Network 9/25/2006
Three young Palestinians were wounded in the southwestern town of Al Khader during the late night hours. The terror ensued when Israeli forces surrounded the Grand Mosque in the town square as thousands of Palestinian Muslims prayed on the second......more..
Israeli forces confiscating more Palestinian land for settlement expansion
Palestine News Network 9/24/2006
The Israeli military issued a decision to confiscate more West Bank land to build a settler bypass road within the Salfit District south of Qalqilia City in the northwestern West Bank. “Baber Samaria” Street construction will confiscate hundreds of acres......more..
Villagers from the West Bank village of Bil''in try to reclaim some of their land - by building a hotel
Ma''an News 9/25/2006
Ma''an - A group of Palestinian villagers are trying to reclaim some of their land stolen for the continued construction of settlements in the West Bank in an innovative way: by planning to build a Palestinian hotel in an Israeli settlement.Villagers......more..
Irish lecturers call on EU to boycott Israeli universities
Ha''aretz 9/24/2006
Irish academics have called on the European Union in an open letter to impose a moratorium financial support to Israeli academic institutions until Israel ends the occupation in the Palestinian territories.The call for the boycott, published last week in the......more..
Tulkarem Refugees Call for Israel Boycott in Trade Fair
WAFA - Palestine News Agency 9/25/2006
TULKAREM, September 24, 2006 (WAFA)- Tulkarem Refugees and other institutions called to boycott Israeli products, said Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign.In trade fair that is taking place in Tulkarem city, Palestinian citizens and traders gathered in the refugee camp to......more..
Weekly peaceful anti-wall protest in Bil''in attacked by Israeli military
International Middle East Media Center 9/22/2006
At the weekly anti-Wall protest in Bil’in village today, around 75 villagers, internationals and Israelis tried to march to the site of the illegal Wall construction on village land, but were stopped by soldiers at the edge of the village.As......more..
Weekly peaceful anti-wall protest in Bil''in attacked by Israeli military
International Middle East Media Center 9/22/2006
At the weekly anti-Wall protest in Bil’in village today, around 75 villagers, internationals and Israelis tried to march to the site of the illegal Wall construction on village land, but were stopped by soldiers at the edge of the village.As......more..
Despite Hague ruling, Israeli government destroys more Palestinian lives and confiscates more land
Palestine News Network 9/21/2006
Qalqilia -- Despite the International Court of Justice ruling that the Israeli Wall inside the West Bank is illegal under international law, Israeli forces continue its harmful expansion. While the Wall currently cuts far into West Bank land from that claimed......more..
Despite Hague ruling, Israeli government destroys more Palestinian lives and confiscates more land
Palestine News Network 9/21/2006
Qalqilia -- Despite the International Court of Justice ruling that the Israeli Wall inside the West Bank is illegal under international law, Israeli forces continue its harmful expansion. While the Wall currently cuts far into West Bank land from that claimed......more..
Muslim and Christian nonviolent Palestinian resistance against occupation
Palestine News Network 9/22/2006
In honor of the International Day of Peace, Muslims and Christians took the streets of Bethlehem under last night''s evening stars. Local clergy and foreign supporters joined the nonviolent Palestinian march, passing from the Benedict Monastery and Bethlehem’s Education Ministry.They......more..
Muslim and Christian nonviolent Palestinian resistance against occupation
Palestine News Network 9/22/2006
In honor of the International Day of Peace, Muslims and Christians took the streets of Bethlehem under last night''s evening stars. Local clergy and foreign supporters joined the nonviolent Palestinian march, passing from the Benedict Monastery and Bethlehem’s Education Ministry.They......more..
Damien Hirst''s £50 masterpiece
The Independent 9/21/2006
Their work may be worth a fortune, but under the rules of a new exhibition, As If By Magic, 25 world-class artists agreed to spend no more than £50 on materials and deliver a set of instructions to the modest......more..
Damien Hirst''s £50 masterpiece
The Independent 9/21/2006
Their work may be worth a fortune, but under the rules of a new exhibition, As If By Magic, 25 world-class artists agreed to spend no more than £50 on materials and deliver a set of instructions to the modest......more..
The Clenched Fist of the Phoenix
By Arthur Neslen, CounterPunch 9/20/2006
What Made Israel Burn Lebanon, Again?What made Israel burn Lebanon again? The decision to go to war hurled Israel''s economy into a wall, smashed the deterrent'' power of the country''s army, plunged its northern population into misery, and magnified......more..
World Bank Proposes Oiling The Prison Gates
International Solidarity Movement 9/19/2006
Executive Summary: The recent report from the World Bank, An Update on Palestinian Movement, Access and Trade in the West Bank and Gaza, vividly illustrates the damage that is being done to Palestinian people and trade by the ongoing occupation... West Bank and Gaza: World Bank Multi-Donor Trust Fund grant to sustain essential health, education and social services delivery...more..
Occupation confiscates more Land in West Bank and announces Apartheid Road
Stop The Wall 9/16/2006
The Occupation is to isolate over 7000 dunums of Palestinian land in the Bethlehem and Hebron areas in preparation for the continuation of the Wall and the construction of an apartheid road which will carve through the south of West......more..
Gunmen attack Wafa office in Gaza
Jerusalem Post 9/19/2006
A Palestinian journalist working for the Palestinian Authority''s official news agency Wafa was severely beaten Tuesday by masked gunmen who stormed his office in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip and destroyed all the equipment and furniture.The identity of the......more..
Tulkarem Farmers in Boycott of Israeli goods
International Solidarity Movement 9/19/2006
Palestinian traders and farmers will gather in the Tulkarem Refugee Camp on September 20th for a Palestinian goods market, boycotting Israeli products as a statement of resistance against Israel’s ongoing occupation, The Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign said.The Campaign said......more..
Israeli military to build 4500 meters of separation wall in ''Azzun Atma, sealing the town
Ma''an News 9/18/2006
Qalqilia--Israeli forces have issued a military order on Monday to build a new stage of the separation wall around the village of ''Azzun Atma, south of Qalqilia, in the north of the West Bank.Sources from the village council stated......
More Land Confiscation in Bethlehem and Hebron districts
International Solidarity Movement 9/18/2006
The ghettoization of the southern part of the West Bank has escalated recently with confiscation orders being issued for the Apartheid Wall, settler-only roads and the expansion of settlements. Last Friday an order for the confiscation of a further 100......more..
Churches attacked in Gaza, W. Bank
Jerusalem Post 9/15/2006
A hitherto unknown group calling itself the Swords of Islamic Right on Saturday threatened to blow up all churches and Christian institutions in the Gaza Strip to protest remarks made by Pope Benedict XVI about Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.The......more..
Non-violent Resistance in Bil’in Works
International Solidarity Movement 9/15/2006
Today, as every in Friday for the last year and 7 months, the villagers of Bil’in marched from the mosque to the Wall. Joined by international and Israeli activists, the marchers were confronted on the edge of the village with......more..
Magal to install security system along northern border
YNet News 9/18/2006
Company to install intrusion detecting system along border fence -- Magal Security Systems announced Monday it has received an order of about USD 5.5 million from the Israeli Defense Ministry for installation of a perimeter intrusion detection system along the northern......more..
Not only stones… lives, dreams and memories
By Mira Nabulsi, Zajel Youth Exchange Program 8/27/2006
In Palestine the first thing you do in the early morning is turn on local TV’s, radios, websites and newspapers…. What’s the latest news? Any invasions? Is it safe to go to work? Another ordinary day or another ordinary day......more..
In Hamas schools, every child has a computer
By Avi Issacharoff, Ha''aretz 9/8/2006
GAZA - The bell rang at 10 A.M. and the hundreds of children who were on break in the Dar al-Arkam school yard ran like crazy to their classrooms, but in a perfectly orderly manner, with hardly any shouting. Despite the......more..
Schools not running in Qalqilia, some due to the strike and others due to Israeli policy
Palestine News Network 9/7/2006
Director of Education in Qalqilia, Yousef Al Awda, told PNN Thursday that 691 out of 1,303 teachers are on strike. The nearly half who do wish to attend schools in the northwestern West Bank district cannot reach them.Israeli......more..
Electronic fence to be built on Egyptian border
YNet News 9/7/2006
Good years of drug and weapon smugglers to soon end; IDF preparing to build electronic protective fence on Israel-Egypt border replacing shorter, more simple fence that was on border until now -- Is this what will prevent infiltration of "terror" cells......more..
UNRWA school kids throw stones during Israeli military invasion of Bethlehem
Palestine News Network 9/7/2006
From all entrances to Bethlehem, residents stood on the sides of the road as Israeli military vehicles plowed through Thursday afternoon.That was the scene as the jeeps came from the settler road that runs past Al Khader in the southwest......more..
Azzam Al-Ahmad meets with the American consul general
Ma''an News 9/7/2006
Ramallah--The head of the Fatah parliamentary bloc, Azzam Al-Ahmad, has, on Thursday, updated the American consul general in Jerusalem, Jack Walles, with the developments in the Palestinian Territories. He referred to the continuation of the Israeli killing of Palestinians......
''Quiet transfer'' in East Jerusalem nears completion
By Elodie Guego, Electronic Intifada/Forced Migration Review 9/6/2006
Israel is close to implementing a long-term plan to transform the demographic structure of annexed East Jerusalem. Policies to revoke the residency permits of Palestinian Jerusalemites and to Judaise the city have been described as ethnic cleansing.After victory in the......more..
Israeli forces restrict freedom of movement for ambulance transporting critically ill patient
Palestine News Network 9/6/2006
Impeding ambulances is among the ABCs of occupation. New ways to inflict agony are discovered, while old tricks are revisited. The eastern entrance to Qalqilia is the scene of ongoing violations of international law.The northwestern West Bank city is closed......more..
"What did the shops ever do to them?"
International Solidarity Movement 9/6/2006
As soon as we fix it, they will come. They will come the next day!" -- This morning between 2 and 4 o’clock Israeli military forces entered Balata Refugee Camp, south-east of Nablus city center. Soldiers traveling in two armoured bulldozers... Refugee camp storefronts destroyed and one man arrested in daily invasion of Nablus...more..
West Bank village encircled by barbed wire and Israeli chemical factories
Ma''an News 9/6/2006
Nablus--Ma''an - The northern West Bank village of Qusin is being completely strangled by barbed wire fences put up by the Israeli forces.The Israeli occupation authorities have now encircled this village, northwest of Nablus. Recently, the Israeli forces erected a......more..
Israeli Settlers begin construction of a new road in Hebron
International Middle East Media Center 9/6/2006
A group of Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba, east of the West Bank city of Hebron, started to open a new road to connect the settlement with the Ibrahimi mosque (Tomb of Patriarchs) in the city......more..
Army bars teachers from reaching schools near Qalqilia
International Middle East Media Center 9/6/2006
Israeli soldiers stopped on Wednesday a number of school teachers and barred them from from arriving to their school where they teach in the village of Ras-Tira near the West Bank city of Jenin.The troops stationed at the gate of......
Hebron Reels Under Israeli Walls
Palestine Chronicle 9/6/2006
AL-KHALIL, West Bank — Palestinians in the occupied West Bank town of Al-Khalil (Hebron) are reeling under multiple Israeli walls, barbed wires and curfews, while their school kids continue to be harassed and bullied by immune Jewish settlers."Life is difficult......more..
Nasrallah: Hezbollah assumes missing IAF airman Ron Arad is dead
Ha''aretz 9/7/2006
Hezbollah assumes that Ron Arad is dead, the organization''s leader Hassan Nasrallah said Wednesday, in the second part of a film on missing Israel Air Force navigator Ron Arad. The film was aired on Lebanese television network LBC and Israel''s... Hezbollah: Missing Israeli airman Arad likely dead...more..
MER: The Only Place Where There’s Hope
International Solidarity Movement/Middle East Report 9/3/2006
An Interview with Muhammad Khatib, Jonathan Pollak and Elad OrianBeginning in December 2004, and then every Friday since February 2005, Palestinians, Israelis and internationals have converged on the West Bank village of Bil‘in to demonstrate against the barrier that......more..
Husband shot dead in Ramallah by undercover Israeli agents
International Solidarity Movement 9/4/2006
On Monday, September 28th, at about 10PM, two ISM activists were walking back to the ISM apartment in Ramallah after having bought falafels.They were on one of the main roads leading to Al-Manara square, which was behind them. They left......more..
Helicopters strike gunmen in south Gaza
YNet News 9/5/2006
First IAF strike kills two men in Rafah; two activists killed in second strike on their car in Gaza City, later third strike targets gunmen approaching border -- Before daybreak Wednesday, Israeli helicopters fired at gunmen in the southern city of......more..
Freedom Summer 2006
International Solidarity Movement 9/5/2006
Freedom Summer 2006 in Palestine was a success! We had just under 100 internationals join Palestinians in solidarity to resist the occupation in places all over the West Bank.The ISM continued its support for Bil’in village in its weekly demonstrations......more..
The joint struggle against the occupation and the separation fence continues
A-infos 9/2/2006
This week the joint struggle of the Bil''in popular comity and the Anarchists Against The Wall was not restricted to the Friday Demonstration. At the beginning of the week a meeting of the main activists of both Bil''in and the......more..
''Occupation To Blame'' For Fires Devastating Olive Groves In The West Bank
Stop The Wall 9/2/2006
Hundreds of olive trees were destroyed yesterday by fires that broke out on Palestinian land cut off by the Apartheid Wall.The villages of Azun, Izbit Tabib and Nabi Ilyas lost several hundred dunums of land to the blaze, which local......more..
Expansion of infrastructure for Zionist settlers in the south
Stop The Wall 9/1/2006
Occupation authorities issued a confiscation order on August 29th for 3 dunums 900m2 from Harmala village southeast of Bethlehem. Land is being confiscated in a built-up area to build a concrete wall. This Wall will be 1 ½ km long west......more..
VIDEO - Bil’in Demonstrators Attacked by Experimental Weapons
IndyMedia/International Solidarity Movement 9/1/2006
One Palestinian and one Israeli were also hit with a sponge bullet, which places needles within the skin and sucks out blood.-- Friday afternoon, the first of September 2006, the non-violent Bil’in demonstration began as it has every week for... Bil’in Demonstrators Attacked by Experimental Weapons ...more..
Bethlehem to be hemmed in on four sides, the latest for the Wall & a settler road in the southwest
Palestine News Network 9/5/2006
The Israeli forces Commander for the Central Region of the occupied West Bank, Major General Yair Naveh, has decided to confiscate 152 dunams of southern Bethlehem. The stated aims of the confiscation are “military purposes” and “the security wall.” Director......more..
IDF fire kills father and son in Gaza Strip; another Palestinian killed at border fence
Ha''aretz 9/4/2006
Security forces arrest 2 Fatah men who tried to fire rockets from W. Bank, on Hezbollah''s orders'' -- Israeli security forces recently arrested two Fatah activists in Tul Karm who tried unsuccessfully to launch home-made rockets into Israel. The Border Police''s......more..
Israel confiscates 152 dunums of farmland near Bethlehem
Ma''an News 9/4/2006
Bethlehem--Israeli occupation forces have issued warrants to confiscate 152 dunums (1 dunum = 1000 square meters) of land which belong to the Palestinian town of Umm Salamuna, south of Bethlehem, to be used for building the separation wall and for......more..
Israeli factory contaminates air in northern West Bank village & large swathes of land confiscated
Palestine News Network 9/4/2006
An Israeli military checkpoint lies in the northern Nablus village of Qusin with the same name. Barbed wire surrounds several points of the village extending to the Beit Iba Checkpoint and the situation is worsening for residents. Qusin is about......more..
PA condemns Israeli decision to contravene international law by expanding settlements in West Bank
Palestine News Network 9/4/2006
The Palestinian Authority condemned the Israeli authorities’ decision to impose another 700 units in already illegal settlements in the West Bank. The decision and condemnation were both issued Monday.The Israeli government will expand Batar Illit Settlement, west of Bethlehem, and......more..
IDF rubber bullets hit 7 fence protesters
Ha''aretz 9/4/2006
Seven protesters, including four Israelis, were hit by rubber-coated steel bullets fired by the Israel Defense Forces during demonstrations against the separation fence in the West Bank village of Bil''in Friday. The protesters said the firing was unprovoked, while the......more..
Israel formally announced confiscating 14 percent of Bethlehem
Palestine News Network 9/1/2006
Israel has both effectively and officially overtaken northern Bethlehem, swallowing the entire Rachel’s Tomb area. The process was slow enough, ongoing for the past two years, however it all occurred with very little fuss. Those that did protest were gassed......more..
Israeli forces arrest eight Palestinians in the West Bank; increase closure around many villages
Ma''an News 9/1/2006
West Bank-- West Bank - Ma''an – The Israeli forces arrested eight Palestinians early on Friday morning in the occupied West Bank, claiming that they are wanted by the Israeli authorities. A number of additional closures in the northern West Bank were......more..
Nonviolent Palestinian resistance in Al Khader against Israeli Wall confiscating 90% of farm lands
Palestine News Network 9/1/2006
Southwest of Bethlehem in the West Bank lies the town of Al Khader. Like many towns before it and many to come, Al Khader is losing its land.The Israeli government is confiscating 90 percent of the town’s agricultural land for......more..
Local residents, international peace activists protest against the Wall in Al Khader
International Middle East Media Center 9/1/2006
Dozens of Palestinian residents of Al Khader village, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, supported by international peace activists, marched on Friday against the construction of the Annexation Wall on their lands. Following Friday prayers at the village''s mosque......more..
Protestors Managed to Remove a Fence in Bethlehem
International Solidarity Movement 9/1/2006
Today, September 1, 2006, in the village of al-Khadr, in the Bethlehem region, Palestinian and international solidarity workers removed a razor wire barrier serving as a preliminary basis for the Apartheid Wall. During the action, approximately 100 Palestinian and international......more..
Peace activists protest against the Wall in Bilin, demand implementing High Court Ruling
International Middle East Media Center 9/1/2006
Dozens of Palestinian residents, 150 Israeli and International peace activists held their weekly protest in Bil''in village, near the West bank city of Ramallah, and demanded that Israel implement the ruling of the High court of Justice, to dismantle part......more..
Protest held in solidarity with a Bethlehem resident who lost his shop to the Israeli Wall
International Middle East Media Center 9/1/2006
Friday, a group of Palestinian residents of Bethlehem and international peace activists held a solidarity act in the city in support of a poor resident who lost his small shop for the construction of the Israeli Annexation Wall. The shop......more..
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