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2 Hamas militants killed in IDF strike
Ali Waked, YNetNews 11/28/2007
   Air Force strikes in southern Strip, kills two Islamist group members. Earlier Palestinians fire rocket and 5 mortars at western Negev - -An Israeli air strike on aHamas position in the southern Gaza Strip Wednesday killed two militants. Palestinian medical sources... more..

Israeli military has power over Palestinian farmers’ lives and source of income.
Ali Samoud - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 11/28/2007
   Open the gate’.close the gate, a command which only an Israeli soldier has the right to declare on a huge iron gate set up near the electronic fence supplementing the illegal separation wall in the centre of Faqqu... more..

Palestinians: IAF missiles kill 2 Hamas naval officers in Gaza
Mijal Grinberg Yoav Stern and Youval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents, Ha’aretz 11/28/2007
   The Israel Air Force on Wednesday killed two Hamas naval police officers when it fired missiles at a Hamas security position in the southern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian security source and medical workers said. At least 10 other people were... more..

IMEMC’s Photographer beaten and detained by PA Security in Bethlehem
George Rishmawi - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 11/27/2007
   Palestinian Security forces assaulted and detained IMEMC’s photographer and news producer Ghassan Bannoura as he was covering an anti-Annapolis demonstration in Bethlehem on Tuesday afternoon. Bannoura was stopped by an officer who was not in a uniform, and... more..

Palestinians take to streets in protest against Annapolis
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 11/27/2007
   As leaders commenced the Annapolis conference in Maryland USA, Palestinians on Tuesday took to the streets across the West Bank city Gaza strip to voice their opposition to the summit. In Ramallah, scores of Palestinians responded to a call by... more..

IAF strikes Hamas post in south Gaza city of Khan Yunis
News Agencies, Ha’aretz 11/28/2007
   The Israel Air Force attacked a Hamas post in Khan Yunis Tuesday, a few hours after the conclusion of the Annapolis summit. The attack came after a day of mortar shells fired at Israel, with some landing near the Kerem... more..

30 injured, 200 detained as PA forces crack down on anti-Annapolis rally in Ramallah
Ma’an News Agency 11/27/2007
   Bethlehem – Ma’an – 30 protesters were injured when hundreds of heavily-armed Palestinian police and security forces dispersed a peaceful demonstration in opposition to the international meeting in Annapolis in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday.Eyewitnesses said that... more..

The Judaization of East Jerusalem
Alice Rothchild, The Electronic Intifada, 27 November 2007, Electronic Intifada 11/27/2007
   With the Golden Dome and the ancient walls of the Old City as backdrop, the cascade of Palestinian homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan is undergoing a dramatic transition. At first it is hard to spot the Israeli... more..

Sherri Muzher: More Couples’ Therapy in Annapolis
Palestine Chronicle 11/22/2007
   Here we go again with another meaningless "couples’ therapy" session with no concrete goals or meaningful substance.Palestine is the spouse that wants to discuss tangible issues.Israel appears to be the spouse that doesn’t really want to be... more..

More Couples’ Therapy in Annapolis
Sherri Muzher, MIFTAH 11/22/2007
   Here we go again with another meaningless “couples’ therapy” session with no concrete goals or meaningful substance.Palestine is the spouse that wants to discuss tangible issues.Israel appears to be the spouse that doesn’t really want to be there but would... more..

Lands of ’Awarta town annexed and its history falsified
Ameen Abu Wardeh - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 11/20/2007
   8217;Awarta village, located southeast of the West Bank city of Nablus, has been invaded by groups of Israeli settlers who are more extreme than any other settlers in the West Bank.The town is currently an open-air jail after the... more..

Settler leader: People have lost faith in Zionist vision
Efrat Weiss, YNetNews 11/21/2007
   Outgoing Binyamin Regional Council head Pinchas Wallerstein says, ’Had we started the struggle a week earlier, we would have won. ’ On eve of Annapolis conference, he believes ’the people are also allowed to make foolish decisions’... more..

The road that divides two peoples
BEN LYNFIELD IN ANATA, WEST BANK - scotsman.com, International Middle East Media Center 11/20/2007
   IN THE valley beneath an impoverished town in the Judean desert hills near Jerusalem lies the latest innovation in Israel’s 40-year occupation of the West Bank: a motorway with a 16ft-high wall in the middle to separate... more..

Palestinian Rights Committee, approving four draft texts, demands that Israel immediately stop construction of separation wall, settlement activities
United Nations General Assembly, ReliefWeb 11/20/2007
   GA/PAL/1066 Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 305th Meeting (PM) Committee Marks Adoption of Security Council Resolution 242 (1967); Palestine’sPermanent Observer Says Officials from Both Sides Preparing for Annapolis Meeting The General Assembly... more..

Jerusalem Diary: Monday 19 November
Tim Franks, BBC Online 11/19/2007
   BBC News, Jerusalem SWEET SMELL OF ABU DISMy car smelt wonderful all Tuesday afternoon. It was filled with the aroma of freshly ground Arabic coffee: a fat mound of roasted beans, a good slug of cardamom pods, and a thin... more..

IDF foils terror attack on Netiv Ha’asara
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 11/19/2007
   Soldiers open fire at terrorists attempting to climb Gaza security fence near Israeli community; some would-be attackers hit - -IDF forces and security officers from Netiv Ha’asara foiled on Monday an attempt by terrorists to infiltrate the community, located... more..

Mortar barrage hits Negev; no injuries
Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 11/19/2007
   Some 20 mortar shells fired by Palestinians in Gaza toward Israel; Qassam lands in kibbutz - -Some 20 mortar shells fired by Palestinians in north Gaza landed in the western Negev Monday afternoon. No injuries or damage were reported in the... more..

Photostory: Bil’in, the art of shaking off
Adam Beach, The Electronic Intifada, 19 November 2007, Electronic Intifada 11/19/2007
   In January 2005 the people of the West Bank village of Bil’in began holding weekly demonstrations demanding access to their farmlands that had been cut off by the Israeli separation barrier. During that time of popular and nonviolent... more..

Nine injured, four kidnapped in Bil’in’s weekly anti-wall protest
IMEMC Staff, International Middle East Media Center 11/16/2007
   The villagers of Bil’in, located northwest of Ramallah in the West Bank, along with their international and Israeli supporters, conducted their weekly protest against the illegal Israeli wall built on the village land. This week, French parliamentarians, municipality... more..

Archaeologists harshly criticise Israeli excavation
Middle East Online 10/11/2007
   ANKARA - A team of Turkish experts harshly criticised a controversial archaeological dig in Jerusalem undertaken by Israel, according to a report published Friday in the Turkish daily Today’s Zaman.Turkish experts visited the site because the Ayyubid, Mameluke and... more..

Members of French Parliament to join Bil’in protest
http://www.bilin-village.org, International Middle East Media Center 11/16/2007
   36 members of the French parliament are scheduled to attend this week’s demonstration against the illegal Israeli wall in the central West Bank village of Bil’in, located near Ramallah, the popular committee of the village has... more..

Tough homecoming for Lebanon’s refugees
The Christian Science Monitor, ReliefWeb 11/14/2007
   After three months of fighting, Palestinians return to flattened refugee camp. By Nicholas Blanford Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon - Abu Tawfiq stands in the soot-encrusted ruin of his home as cold rain blows in where an outside wall once... more..

Deeply alarmed by number of mines laid each year, General Assembly would urge aid for development of national mine-action capacities, by Fourth Committee draft
United Nations General Assembly, ReliefWeb 11/13/2007
   GA/SPD/390 Sixty-second General Assembly Fourth Committee 22nd Meeting (AM) In Debate on Israeli Practices, Focus Shifts to Separation Wall, Deemed ’Noxious’ to Palestinian Welfare, ’Pretext’ for Israeli Claim to East Jerusalem The General Assembly... more..

Settler enclave mocks Mideast peace prospects
Middle East Online 10/11/2007
   HEBRON, West Bank - When the Israeli army occupied the top two floors of Mohammed al-Jabari’s hillside home in the Palestinian West Bank city of Hebron for two weeks in September, he blamed his neighbours. Since 200 hardline Jews... more..

Nine injured, including Japanese journalist; four arrested at Bil’in demonstration
Ma’an News Agency 11/16/2007
   Ramallah – Ma’an – Nine people were injured and four others arrested during the weekly demonstration against the separation wall in Bil’in, near Ramallah in the central West Bank on Friday.Local residents, foreign peace and some residents from... more..

This Week In Palestine - Week 46 2007
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC - Audio Dept, International Middle East Media Center 11/16/2007
   Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || File 11. 0MB || Time 13m 0s ||This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www. IMEMC. org, for November 10th through November 16th 2007. Palestinians mark... more..

Deeply alarmed by number of mines laid each year, General Assembly would urge aid for development of national mine-action capacities, by Fourth Committee draft
United Nations General Assembly, ReliefWeb 11/13/2007
   GA/SPD/390 Sixty-second General Assembly Fourth Committee 22nd Meeting (AM) In Debate on Israeli Practices, Focus Shifts to Separation Wall, Deemed ’Noxious’ to Palestinian Welfare, ’Pretext’ for Israeli Claim to East Jerusalem The General Assembly... more..

Israeli military confiscates lands near Jenin
Ali Samoudi - IMEMC, International Middle East Media Center 11/13/2007
   Israeli forces on Tuesday ordered scores of Palestinian farmers near the northern West Bank city of Jenin to evacuate their orchards, forbidding the owners from using them.Local farmers reported that enforced Israeli forces descended on fields located behind the illegal... more..

Austrian bishops prevented from praying at Western Wall
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC, International Middle East Media Center 11/12/2007
   Israeli authorities on Monday barred thirteen Austrian bishops from praying at the Western Wall after the clergymen refused to remove the crucafixes they wore around their necks. Upon entering the compound, the Bishops were given an ultimatum by the Rabbi... more..

Jerusalem leaders to Abbas: "Don’t give up Jerusalem"�
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & agencies, International Middle East Media Center 11/12/2007
   Over 100 prominent Palestinian residents of Jerusalem on Monday published an ad in a Jerusalem newspaper appealing to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas not to give up the Palestinian right to the city of Jerusalem. The 108 signatories of the appeal... more..

Military bulldozers uproot lands west of Bethlehem
Najeeb Farraj – IMEMC, International Middle East Media Center 11/12/2007
   Israeli military bulldozers uprooted on Sunday afternoon large areas of Palestinian orchards which belong to residents of Al Ma’sar village, south of Bethlehem; dozens of trees were uprooted.Dozens of residents rushed to the area and tried to stop... more..

Swedish parliamentarians visit Bethlehem
IMEMC Staff, International Middle East Media Center 11/9/2007
   A delegation of Swedish governmental officials on Thursday visited the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, holding meetings with their opposite numbers, and attending talks on a wide variety of Bethlehem-related issues.Among the issues discussed were the impact of the... more..

Pilgrims reach Bethlehem after four-week long walk
Najeeb Farraj - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 11/9/2007
   A group of pilgrims from Portugal on Thursday afternoon reached the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem after walking for a total of four weeks.During the journey, participants in the pilgrimage visited Nahaleen, Husan, al-Khader, and the Aida refugee camp... more..

Israeli Settlements Burden Peace Push
Amy Teibel, MIFTAH 11/9/2007
   The pounding chatter of jackhammers echoes over a wind-swept West Bank hilltop as workers lay bricks at a new apartment building rising in this sprawling Jewish settlement. The Israeli government says it’s ready to make a deal that... more..

This Week In Palestine - Week 45 2007
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 11/9/2007
   Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || File 11. 0MB || Time 13m 0s || This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www. IMEMC. org, for November 3ed through November 9th 2007. U.S. Secretary... more..

Five injured and two kidnapped in the weekly protest at Bil’in.
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 11/9/2007
   On Friday, the villagers of Bil’in joined their international and Israeli supporters and marched against the wall that is built illegally on the village land. The protest started from the village mosque went through the village towards the... more..

Two kidnapped, three injured during peaceful demonstration near Bethlehem
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center 11/9/2007
   The villagers of Um Salamunah, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, along with Israeli and international peace activists, on Friday gathered in a peace protest against the illegal wall Israel is constructing on the village land. As...

Nothing less than our freedom
Mohammed Khatib, The Electronic Intifada, 7 November 2007, Electronic Intifada 11/7/2007
   Israeli border policemen scuffle with Palestinians and peace activists during a demonstration against the apartheid wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in, November 2006. (Fadi Arouri/ MaanImages For the people of our small village of Bil’... more..

Dispute rages over al-Durrah footage
Martin Patience, BBC Online 11/8/2007
   BBC News, Jerusalem They were images broadcast all over the world. The TV footage of a young Palestinian boy, Muhammad al-Durrah, and his father cowering in front of a wall as Israeli forces and Palestinians exchanged gunfire at a crossroads... more..

Turning the other cheek
The Guardian 10/11/2007
   Bassam Aramin holds up a photo of his 10-year-old daughter Abir (l), who was killed in January in the West Bank village of Anata. Photograph: Gali TibbonShortly after 9am on a fresh Tuesday morning in January, Abir Aramin, 10... more..

Caelum Moffatt: Walking in Paradise
Palestine Chronicle 11/6/2007
   The olive branch has been a symbol of peace since ancient Greek mythology three millennia ago. With the masses of olive groves which span across the land, it is an anomaly that peace has not yet ensued. Subscribe NowBy Caelum... more..

IDF soldier killed in operational accident near Gaza
Hanan Greenberg, YNetNews 11/6/2007
   Hummer vehicle overturns for unknown reason during routine patrol along border fence; soldier seriously injured, later dies of his wounds - - An IDF soldier was killed Tuesday morning in an operation accident at the Gaza Strip border, near the Kissufim checkpoint... more..

Erekat meets with US officials, calls for implementation of Road Map
Ma’an News Agency 11/4/2007
   Ramallah – Ma’an – Chief PLO Negotiator Saeb Erekat met with US Assistant Secretary of State David Walsh and American Consul General Jake Wallace on Sunday. Erekat stressed the need to resolve the core issues of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.Erekat, who... more..

Olmert says identifies with Yuval Rabin’s criticism
Roni Sofer, YNetNews 11/4/2007
   Government ministers address harsh speech delivered by former prime minister’s son at memorial rally. Rabin slammed Israel’s law enforcement system, calling it ’a weak, unstable and silent wall’. Minister Boim: He is completely right... more..

Prison Service: We won’t allow celebrations at Amir brit
Raanan Ben-Zur, YNetNews 11/4/2007
   Relatives of Rabin assassin Yigal Amir to arrive at prison tomorrow for brit of murderer’s newborn son; Police to deploy in numbers to ensure ceremony goes on without disturbance - - Police and Israel Prison Service officials are preparing for... more..

Reaping the Occupation’s Fruit
Amira Hass, MIFTAH 11/2/2007
   If the plot of land belonging to Dr. Salam Fayad, the Palestinian prime minister, were located 50 meters west of its present location, in the level part of the village of Deir al-Ghusun, it would now be growing thorns and... more..

’Fence Driving Christians Out of Holy Land’
Matthew Wagner, MIFTAH 11/2/2007
   Socioeconomic hardships caused by the West Bank security barrier are contributing to the decline in the Christian population in the Holy Land, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. "I... more..

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