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A solemn Eid for relatives of Gaza detainees
11/29/2009 - Gaza - Ma'an - As the Eid Al-Adha festivities are underway across the world and in the Palestinian territories, relatives of Gazan detainees in Israeli jails describe their sorrow at not being able to rejoice, as the sight of empty chairs at the traditional feast tables fills the homes of Palestinians in Gaza. Among the 800 Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip in Israeli jails, prisoner Nafeth Ahmad Harz, 54, has been serving a life sentence since 1985. In cooperation with the Husam Association for Detainees' Affairs, Harz's four children, Ahmad, Muhammad, Suheir and Basma, spoke of the difficulties their family has faced in the 24-year absence of their father. "We were kids when our father was detained and now we are all married and my dear father wasn't there to share in these events with us, but his picture is always there, on the walls in our home,"¯ Ahmed said.
Greek football delegation concludes Palestine tour
11/29/2009 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - A Greek delegation of veteran footballers and musicians left the occupied Palestinian territories on Saturday evening, following a week of events and visits organized by the Greek organization Struggle Until Victory Forever. The delegation included Greek singer Vasilis Lekkas and a number of Greece's members of parliament. On Thursday, a friendly football match was held between veteran Palestinian and Greek footballers at the Feisal Husseini Stadium in Ar-Ram, the Palestinian team winning 3-1. The Greek delegation toured Palestinian refugee camps and the Israeli Separation Wall, in addition to late President Yasser Arafat's grave in Ramallah, where they placed flowers. A tour of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem was postponed on Friday until the afternoon, as the Struggle Until Victory, Forever delegation participated in the Bil'in and Ni'lin protests against Israel's Separation Wall.
Army renews use of live ammunition against demonstrators
AlJazeera 25 Nov 2009 - Twice this month, soldiers fired 22-caliber bullets at demonstrators against the Separation Barrier in Ni'lin, injuring four. This contradicts the JAG's statement that this potentially lethal ammunition is not a means to disperse demonstrators, and that s
Gate forced open in Ni’lin’s separation barrier – eight demonstrators wounded and one arrested
11/29/2009 - International Solidarity Movement - Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, 28 November - This morning, a group of demonstrators in the West Bank village of Ni'lin managed to surprise the Israeli army and, using bolt cutters, cut open one of the gates in the fence built on the village's lands. Israeli soldiers arrived at the scene and fired rubber-coated steel bullets as well as tear gas canisters at the demonstrators, followed by the use of live ammunition. Eight people were wounded during the action. Seven demonstrators were injured by rubber-coated steel bullets, and a one and a half year-old baby was evacuated to a Ramallah hospital suffering from tear gas inhalation, caused by soldiers firing a tear gas canister into her house. Today marks the first time Israeli soldiers invade the residential parts of Ni'lin in an attempt to suppress a demonstration, since Palestinian demonstrator Aqel Sadeq Srour was shot. . . .
Group: Soldiers beat Hebron man en route to mosque
11/27/2009 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Christian Peacemaker Teams observers responded to a call from vendors in the Old City of Hebron on Thursday, saying a Palestinian man was being beaten by Israeli forces. When the observers arrived, a statement said, "six soldiers were detaining a young man who appeared to be in distress. He was holding his abdomen and crying. His mother and a man held him while an older man spoke with the soldiers. " The observers said they conducted interviews with four eyewitnesses to the event, including two Palestinians and two internationals. The reports, according to the observers, corroborated the vendors' story that the "young man was stopped and asked for his identity card. A soldier pushed him against the wall. When the youth asked, 'Why do you push me? ' the soldier beat him. He was struck on the head [and] stomach with a rifle butt and kicked in the groin.
Anti-wall protests mark UN partition anniversary
11/27/2009 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Israeli forces opened fire on anti-wall protesters in two West Bank villages on Friday, according to news reports. Commemorating the UN's annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, residents of Bil'in and Nil'in, two villages near Ramallah, rallied against Israel's separation barrier on Friday afternoon. Dozens reportedly suffered tear-gas inhalation in both areas, although there were no reports of more serious injuries. Activists said Israeli forces fired stun grenades in addition to the tear-gas. Protesters demonstrate each week against the wall, built inside the Green Line on Palestinian territory, which cuts through the center of both villages. Last week, Israeli forces shot two Palestinians with live ammunition in Nil'in. In 1977, the UN General Assembly called for the annual observance of 29 November as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/2118.shtml
Stop The Wall - On 23 November 2009, after 61 days of detention for the purpose of interrogation by Israeli Security Agency officers, human rights defender Mohammad Othman received his first administrative detention order. The administrative detention order is set for a three month period, during which time Mohammad will be held without charge or trial. The judicial review of the order is scheduled to take place on 25 November at the Military Court of Administrative Detainees in Ofer Military Base. [
Palestinian woman suffers a stroke after settlers invade her family’s house in Sheikh Jarrah
11/27/2009 - International Solidarity Movement - On Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 1:00am, five settlers and settler security, who are currently occupying the Gawi family house in Sheikh Jarrah, attempted to take over a section of a house belonging to the Palestinian al-Kurd family. The Israeli police were alerted immediately, however, before they managed to arrive, the settlers started attacking the Palestinians living in the house. One settler violently pushed a member of the al-Kurd family, Maysa, against a wall and thereafter grabbed her son, Munjad, by the lapel. After their arrival and a long discussion with the al-Kurd family concerning the legal status of the house, the Israeli police reluctantly escorted the settlers out. As a result of the tumult, Refka Kurd, 85, suffered a stroke. She was taken to a hospital and is in stable condition. This is the third settler incursion into the al-Kurd family house in.
Rabbis maintain senior Israeli Army officers contaminated by politics
Daily Star 26 Nov 2009 Israelis were perturbed when new recruits at a recent passing-out parade at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the remains of Judaism's holiest site, suddenly unfurled banners reading, "Our Sons Do Not Evacuate Jews." The concern became more acute last week. After the demolition of two hilltop settler houses in the occupied West Bank.
[uruknet.info] In His Cave, a Palestinian Farmer Makes a Stand
Uruknet November 25, 2009 - Abed Abed-Rabbo doesn't want to live in a cave, but its the only way he can stay on his farm. The Palestinian farmer, 48, inherited the property in the village of Wallajeh, on the southern edge of Jerusalem, from his father and his grandfather but had to flee amid the 1967 Six-Day War, when Israel occupied...
Inside Israeli jails, the real victims of a cry for justice
11/24/2009 - International Solidarity Movement - Jesse Rosenfeld, The National - Amid the growing media fever over a possible prisoner swap involving the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held by Hamas, another young captive has a less visible public profile - but personifies Israel's chokehold on Palestinian self-expression. Mohammad Othman, 33, from the West Bank town of Jayyous, and an activist with the grassroots Palestinian organisation Stop the Wall, was arrested on September 22 at the Allenby Bridge crossing on the Jordanian border. He was on his way home after a meeting in Norway with supporters of the global movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel (BDS). Adameer (Arabic for "conscience"¯), the Palestinian prisoners' support and human rights organisation, contends that his arrest is a result of "his successful human rights advocacy and community activism"¯.
Palestinians tear down chunk of own 'Berlin' wall
24 Nov 2009 - West Bank, November 24, 2009, (Pal Telegraph) - Palestinians mark 20th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall by protesting Israel's 'apartheid' wall. Palestinians tore down a chunk of Israel's West Bank separation barrier (known by Palestinians as 'apartheid' wall) on Monday in a protest staged to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall came down. A...
Inside Israeli jails, the real victims of a cry for justice
11/24/2009 - International Solidarity Movement - Jesse Rosenfeld, The National - Amid the growing media fever over a possible prisoner swap involving the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held by Hamas, another young captive has a less visible public profile - but personifies Israel's chokehold on Palestinian self-expression. Mohammad Othman, 33, from the West Bank town of Jayyous, and an activist with the grassroots Palestinian organisation Stop the Wall, was arrested on September 22 at the Allenby Bridge crossing on the Jordanian border. He was on his way home after a meeting in Norway with supporters of the global movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel (BDS). Adameer (Arabic for "conscience"¯), the Palestinian prisoners' support and human rights organisation, contends that his arrest is a result of "his successful human rights advocacy and community activism"¯.
Gazan farmers unable to work their land in ‘buffer zone’
11/20/2009 - Oxfam - Gazans don’t want to rely on aid. They want to work on their land, reports Catherine Weibel. -- Driving along the buffer zone, a military no-go area that extends along the entire perimeter of Gaza and borders Israel, is an eerie experience. A long, horizontal brownish strip of earth runs along the Wall that separates the Gaza Strip from Israel. The desolate landscape is only dotted with the ruins of destroyed buildings, while a large, silver observation balloon, fully equipped with video cameras by the Israeli army, floats slowly by in the sky. What used to be a green, fertile area of rich farming and grazing land has turned into a deserted place where no one dares to go and cultivate. Gazan farmers are now forbidden to enter the zone by the Israeli army. According to reports, Israeli soldiers shoot towards farmers working on their lands along the buffer zone nearly every week.
IOA orders Palestinians to evacuate 25 apartments in north of Jerusalem
11/23/2009 - Palestinian Information Center - OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) handed last night court orders to evacuate 25 Palestinian apartments in Samiramis area behind the segregation wall in the north of occupied Jerusalem. Hatem Abdelqader, the Palestinian Authority’s resigned minister of Jerusalem affairs (who seems to be still functioning in the position), said that a large number of Israeli troops and policemen along with an extremist Jewish figure known as Aryeh King stormed at night the neighborhood and handed the residents evacuation orders. Abdelqader noted that these apartments accommodate more than 200 individuals most of them are children and women. He said that according to the documents that the residents of these apartments received, the Israeli settlers claim ownership of 33 dunums of the Palestinian lands. . . .
P.A To Move Four Main Files To The United Nations
IMEMC 21 Nov 2009 - Saturday November 21, 2009 - 23:19, The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank decided to move to the UN four main files, regarding borders, the Wall, the Palestinians state and the illegal weapons used by Israel during its offensive against the Gaza Strip.
Previously banned ’tutu’ bullets return to Nil’in
11/21/2009 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Israeli forces have renewed using live fire against Palestinian protesters in the West Bank. An Israeli court first outlawed the "tutu" ammunition in 2001, but the last two Fridays soldiers have used the "tutu" bullets in Bil'in and Ni'lin, two villages near Ramallah, during their weekly anti-wall rallies. Israeli TV broadcast on Saturday the controversial weapon being used against Palestinians the day before. Israeli rights organizations insist the weapon is a deadly weapon, as it has killed Palestinians in the past. An Israeli spokeswoman confirmed to Ma'an that the weapons were being used in the two villages, but only within the law and when necessary. In Nil'in on Friday, Israeli forces shot and injured two Palestinians with the weapon. One was hospitalized after being shot in the knee, but later released, according to a spokesman from the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Nil'in.
'Road to Jerusalem' project brings city home
11/21/2009 - Jerusalem - Ma'an - Eighty large ceramic signs are being erected around the West Bank, each indicating the distance from the sign to the Old City of Jerusalem as part of a cultural initiative to reintegrate Jerusalem into the lives of Palestinians cut off from the city by Israel's separation wall. The International Academy of Art in Palestine with renowned artist Khalid Al-Hurani in cooperation with the committee of Al-Quds Capital of the Arab Culture 2009 launched the project, called "Road to Jerusalem," as part of the final official program for the 2009 events. The Al-Arabi Media firm was contracted by the group to install the signs in cities, villages and Refugee Camps and as well as locations inside Israel including public gardens, community centers, universities and schools, a statement from the company said. The goal of the project is to stress that Jerusalem is the Palestinian capital," officials said. . . .
Two injured as Israeli army fires at Peaceful demo
20 Nov 2009 - Europe, November 20, 2009, (Pal Telegraph) - Around 200 people participated today in the protest in Ni'lin against the Apartheid Wall, including a delegation of Scandinavian students.
Two protestors shot and injured with live ammunition in Ni'lin
Stop The Wall 22 Nov 2009 - Last week, the popular committee of Ni’lin received information that the Israeli army would ‘step up’ their operations against Ni’lin’s resistance against the illegal Apartheid Wall. This information was confirmed when the demonstration reached the Apartheid Wall yesterday. The fence was expanded with additional concrete blocks and upon arrival, demonstrators were ‘warned’ by the Israeli army that if they would not leave, they would be fired upon with live ammunition again. [
Palestinian goes on hunger strike over denial of medical treatment
11/21/2009 - International Solidarity Movement - Popular Struggle Coordination Committee - Ibrahim Burnat, a resident of Bil'in, who was shot in the thigh with live ammunition during an anti-Wall protest in the village on 13 June 2008, went on hunger strike last Thursday, after he was denied a permit to attend medical treatment in a Tel Aviv hospital. After being refused a permit to enter Israel for the sake of receiving medical treatment for the First time, Bil'in activist Ibrahim Burnat went on a hunger strike last Thursday, in a desperate attempt to breach bureaucratic indifference. On 13 June 2008, Burnat was shot with live ammunition during a demonstration against the wall in his village. Three bullets penetrated his thigh and caused extensive injuries, including a massive fracture, and long-term nerve damage. On 1 November this year, Burnat was scheduled to undergo medical examinations at the Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv, where he hoped a treatment plan to recover sensation in his leg could finally be established.
Israeli forces shoot at Gaza bird-catchers, farmers
11/21/2009 - International Solidarity Movement - Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada, 20 November - On 15 November at 8:30am, a number of young men went as usual to the land near Gaza's northern border with Israel planning to catch birds. Amjad Hassanain, 27, was among the bird-catchers hunting near the border fence when Israeli soldiers began shooting. The shots which missed the other bird-catchers hit Hassanain, grazing his shoulder. Cameraman Abdul Rahman Hussain, filming in the vicinity, reports having seen the group of bird-catches head north. "We were near the former Israeli settlement of Doghit," said Hussain, referring to the area northwest of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. 8220;I had gone to the border area to photograph a young bird-catcher. We were about 400 meters from the border fence, but when we heard the shooting, we moved back to around one kilometer. ”.
Troops Attack Ni’lin Weekly Nonviolent Protest
IMEMC 20 Nov 2009 - Saturday November 21, 2009 - 00:17, A Palestinian villager from Ni’lin village, near Ramallah, was injured, and several protesters suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation after the Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall.
Villagers near Bethlehem stage a protest against the Israeli wall
IMEMC 20 Nov 2009 - Friday November 20, 2009 - 14:52, Villagers from Al Ma'sara, southern West Bank, along with their international and Israeli supporters staged a protest against the Israeli wall on Friday.
Palestinian shot at weekly anti-wall protest
11/20/2009 - Ramallah - Ma'an - Israeli forces shot and lightly injured a Palestinian in the West Bank village of Nil'in on Friday, witnesses said. Sa'd Attallah Amira was reportedly taken to a hospital with moderate injuries. He was shot in the foot, onlookers added. Hundreds of village residents and international peace activists attempted to reach lands on the other side of Israel's separation barrier on Friday, but were stopped by soldiers standing guard. Israeli soldiers fired live bullets, tear-gas canisters, and a foul-smelling liquid on the demonstrators, they said. Salah Al-Khawaja, a leader of the Palestinian National Initiative and member of the village's Popular Committee, said "Israel's escalation in the Palestinian territories, the wall, settlement expansion, and arrests are aimed at imposing a reality on the ground.
Bil’in: Undercover Israeli police detain youth at workplace
11/20/2009 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Israeli forces invaded the village of Bil'in at 9am Thursday morning and detained a local youth involved in the weekly demonstrations against the Israeli separation wall, a statement from the local Popular Committee said. "In an escalation of the recent arrest campaign conducted by the Israeli military in attempt to crush the popular struggle against the Wall in the village, an undercover army unit invaded Bil'in this morning and arrested a local youth, 19 year old Mohammad Yassin," the statement said. The Popular Committee described the incident, saying a "civilian Isuzu pickup with undercover soldiers dressed as Palestinians" entered the village "searching for residents suspected of organizing and participating in the village's weekly demonstrations. " Yassin was reportedly detained from the car garage where he works as a mechanic.
[uruknet.info] Gazan farmers unable to work their land in buffer zone'
Uruknet November 20, 2009 - Driving along the buffer zone, a military no-go area that extends along the entire perimeter of Gaza and borders Israel, is an eerie experience. A long, horizontal brownish strip of earth runs along the Wall that separates the Gaza Strip from Israel. The desolate landscape is only dotted with the ruins of destroyed buildings, while a...
[uruknet.info] Gaza: where is the buffer zone?
Uruknet November 20, 2009 - At 8:30 on November 15, a number of young men went as usual to the land near Gaza's northern border with Israel, intending to catch birds. Amjad Hassanain, 27, was among the bird-catchers hunting near the border fence when Israeli soldiers began shooting. The shots which missed the other bird-catchers hit Hassanain, grazing his shoulder. Cameraman...
MIDEAST: West Is East, When Israel Decides
IPS JERUSALEM, Nov 18 (IPS) - Along a wall not about to come down - a hotel no longer a hotel, but an outpost.
Two injured in anti-wall rally
11/20/2009 - International Solidarity Movement - YNet News - Some 400 Palestinians, left-wing activists take part in weekly demonstration against separation fence's route in West Bank village of Naalin, say IDF violated law by dispersing crowd with sniper fire. Army says protestors were hurling stones. Two Palestinians were moderately injured Friday afternoon by Israel Defense Forces fire during the weekly rally against the separation fence in the West Bank village of Naalin, southwest of Ramallah. The army said the protesters hurled stones and rioted. Some 400 protesters, including Palestinians and left-wing Israel and foreign activists took part in the demonstrations. According to the protesters, the IDF violated the law by using live ammunition in the form of "tutu bullets" while attempting to disperse the crowd. The claim has not been confirmed by Israeli sources. Earlier, the IDF conveyed a message to the protestors that the demonstrations would be handled in an aggressive manner.
Barghouthi: Negotiations doomed to fail
11/19/2009 - Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies - Negotiations with Israel will achieve nothing, jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi told Reuters in an interview published on Thursday. Through written messages passed from the prison via his lawyer, Bargouthi urged Palestinians to embark on popular and diplomatic campaigns to achieve statehood, the news agency reported. "Betting on negotiations alone was never our choice. I have always called for a constructive mix of negotiation, resistance, political, diplomatic and popular action," he said, according to Reuters. Calling for a popular campaign against settlements, Bargouthi cited Israeli policies in Jerusalem, the Gaza blockade, land expropriation and Israel's "racist" West Bank wall as indications talks would achieve little. He also called on Hamas to sign a reconciliation agreement, which Fatah signed last month, that would end the two-year. . .
[uruknet.info] Feature: Shot With My Hands In The Air
Uruknet November 19, 2009 - Earlier this year, Khamis Fathe Abu Rahmah, aged 27, was shot in the head with a high-velocity tear gas canister whilst participating in a non-violent demonstration at the wall in Bil'in, a Palestinian village. It was the same weapon the Israeli Occupation Forces would use to murder his close friend Bassem Abu Rahme, in the same...
MIDEAST: West Is East, When Israel Decides
IPS JERUSALEM, Nov 18 (IPS) - Along a wall not about to come down - a hotel no longer a hotel, but an outpost.
Bil’in: Undercovers arrest Palestinian youth at his workplace
11/19/2009 - International Solidarity Movement - Popular Struggle Coordination Committee - In an escalation of the recent arrest campaign conducted by the Israeli military in attempt to crush the popular struggle against the Wall in the village, an undercover army unit invaded Bil'in this morning and arrested a local youth, 19 year old Mohammad Yassin. In the morning hours of Thursday, 19 November 2009, a civilian Isuzu pickup with undercover soldiers dressed as Palestinians, drove into the village of Bil'in, searching for residents suspected of organizing and participating in the village's weekly demonstrations. At around 9am, the soldiers arrived at the garage where Yassin works and arrested him. The arrest involved the beating of Yassin himself, as well as of his brother and his mother, who assumed that the disguised soldiers were just random by-passers attacking their kin.
West Is East, When Israel Decides
11/19/2009 - Antiwar.com - The family received no compensation for the takeover. - JERUSALEM — Along a wall not about to come down — a hotel no longer a hotel, but an outpost. The three-story, 36-room Cliff Hotel used to be a favorite for Western pilgrims in search of the "authentic Holy Land flavor" because of its extensive gardens; it was a favorite also among Jerusalem Palestinians for wedding parties. Perched on a hillock opposite the biblical Mount of Olives, The Cliff offered (still offers) imposing views — eastward through the Judean desert down to the Dead Sea and up the mountains of Moab across the Jordan River; southwards to the church spires of Bethlehem; and westwards to the walled Old City and the Golden Dome of the Rock. Five years ago, in the wake of the Palestinian Intifadah uprising, Israel began to build its concrete security wall to fend off would-be bombers coming into Jerusalem.
Report: Israeli forces open fire on Gaza workers near Erez
11/18/2009 - Gaza - Ma'an - Israeli troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing at least one work hose in the Gaza Strip as the group was collecting construction debris near the Erez border area in the northern Strip. The Local Initiative, based out of Beit Hanoun, said the shots were fired from the Erez watchtowers at 8:30am. The group said the shots were aimed directly at the group of workers, collecting construction debris about 500 meters away from the border wall. The workers were collecting damaged stones and cement for processing at the local brick factory, which has been processing reused construction materials for the rebuilding of thousands of homes in Gaza, destroyed during Israel's Operation Cast Lead last winter. Israel has maintained a strict siege on the Strip, prohibiting the transfer of cement into the area.
[uruknet.info] West Is East, When Israel Decides
Uruknet November 18, 2009 - Along a wall not about to come down - a hotel no longer a hotel, but an outpost. The three-storey, 36-room Cliff Hotel used to be a favourite for Western pilgrims in quest of the 'authentic Holy Land flavour' because of its extensive gardens; it was a favourite also among Jerusalem Palestinians for wedding parties. Perched...
MIDEAST: West Is East, When Israel Decides
IPS JERUSALEM, Nov 18 (IPS) - Along a wall not about to come down - a hotel no longer a hotel, but an outpost.
IDF uses ‘two-two bullets’ in Ni’ilin clash
11/17/2009 - International Solidarity Movement - The Jerusalem Post, 15 November 2009 - IDF troops used ammunition equivalent to live bullets against protesters at Ni'ilin on Friday, where a weekly protest by Palestinians and left-wing activists from Israel and abroad is held against the West Bank security barrier. The military ordinarily only uses protest-dispersal means such as tear gas and a recently introduced "skunk bomb" that is harmless but exudes a pungent stench. One Border Police officer was lightly wounded in Friday's clash when he was hit by a rock. He was given preliminary treatment at the scene and later taken to a hospital. A rioter at Friday's protest said the military fired ‘two-two bullets,' small metal pellets similar to those fired by BB guns but of a larger caliber (5. 6 mm. vs the BB gun pellets' 4. 5 mm. ). The man said ‘two-two bullets' have not been used against protesters since May.
Bargouthi dismisses ’ridiculous’ threats
11/16/2009 - Ramallah - Ma'an - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's threat to take unilateral action against Palestinians were they to declare statehood is "ridiculous," according to Mustafa Barghouthi, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative. "There aren't any Palestinian territories left to threaten - they're all occupied," Barghouthi said in a statement on Monday. Regarding other threats to halt transfers of money collected in taxes on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, Barghouthi said taking such a step would require Palestinians first cancel the Paris economic accord. He urged the PLO Central Committee to move forward with its proposal, as well as seek international sanctions on Israel until it fulfills its obligations to remove or reroute the separation barrier as per the International Court of Justice's 2004 ruling on the wall's illegality.
Bill Clinton visits Al-Aqsa compound
11/16/2009 - Jerusalem - Ma'an - Former US President Bill Clinton visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock on Sunday, sources said. The visit surprised officials, however, as the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs was not told in advance. "It seems it was a special visit," said Jerusalem endowments director Azzam Al-Khatib. Israeli forces suddenly imposed a number of strict security measures, and then half an hour later, Clinton entered from the Moroccan Gate, Al-Khatib added. The US Consulate opted not to inform officials of the visit ahead of time as they usually do, he said. A spokeswoman for the consulate told Ma'an that Clinton's visit to Jerusalem was personal and thus not coordinated with the Americans. Meanwhile, Israeli media reported that Clinton visited the Western Wall, as well.
10-year-old Palestinian boy jailed for 11 hours
11/15/2009 - YNetNews - Hussam Faisal Muhana throws stones during demonstration in his village near Tulkarem, detained in Israeli prison for 11 hours, returns home shocked and in pain. IDF spokesman: Event being investigated - Hussam Faisal Muhana, 10, heeded the calls made on Saturday over the loudspeakers throughout his village of Deir al-Ghusun near Tulkarem encouraging residents to participate in a demonstration against the separation fence. Together with other children and youth from the village, he went to the demonstration. The children threw stones at the security forces that clashed with the demonstrators. Despite his young age, Muhana was arrested. "There were two soldiers there who beat me in the legs with a club. After that, they took me to Ariel," the boy told Ynet the day after his arrest. Still in shock, he didn't know whether he was taken to a police station or to a military base.
[uruknet.info] Dublin: Hundreds Attend Rally Against Israeli Apartheid in Palestine
Uruknet November 15, 2009 - Saturday 14th November 2009 hundreds of Palestinians and solidarity activists rallied in Dublin to protest against Israel's apartheid practices in Palestine. The rally - part of an international week of global mobilisation against the walls of apartheid in Palestine from November 9th to 16th 2009, called by the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign - was compe'red...
[uruknet.info] Palestinians breach wall near Tulkarem
Uruknet November 14, 2009 - At least six demonstrators were arrested in the northern West Bank after they breached a section of Israel's wall on Saturday, Palestinian and Israeli sources said. The protesters said they intended to march to lands that were left isolated behind the wall in Deir Al-Ghusun, northeast of Tulkarem, and managed to break open one of the...
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