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O Little Town of Bethlehem
By Sherri Muzher, Palestine Chronicle 12/22/2006
strong>Growing up in a Palestinian Christian home, the cities in the Bible came alive through my parents’ stories of visits to nearby Bethlehem and Jerusalem .O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee......more..
High Court approves cutting off a-Ram from East Jerusalem
B’tselem 12/21/2006
On 13 December 2006, the High Court of Justice rejected the petition filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and the human rights organization Bimkom against the section of the separation barrier that severs the Palestinian community a-Ram......more..
Archbishop of Canterbury condemns Israeli Wall around Bethlehem
Palestine News Network 12/23/2006
The Israeli-built wall is "a sign of all that is wrong in the human heart", the Archbishop of Canterbury said today in Bethlehem. Speaking to the town’s civic representatives shortly after walking through the wall, Dr Williams said......more..
The Wall Chokes Another Village to Death
International Womens’ Peace Service 12/14/2006
strong>Like many villages and towns in a small place named Palestine, a small villiage named Azzun Atma is being choked to deathAzzun Atma has a death sentence hanging over its head. A few kilometers inside......more..
Be’lin Weekly Demonstration Against Illegal Israeli Seperation Wall
International Middle East Media Center 12/22/2006
Today, like the past 2 years, the demonstrations in Be’lin started after Friday prayers with participants including residents of the village, Internationals and Israeli activists participating.This week there was a high percentage of International demonstrators, in which the... Olive branches in Bil’in fail to quell IOF aggression...more..
Peretz okays Ma’aleh Adumim barrier
Jerusalem Post 12/22/2006
Defense Minister Amir Peretz has approved the original route of the separation barrier surrounding the Ma’aleh Adumim enclave, placing 64,000 dunams of West Bank land on the Israeli side of the barrier, Jerusalem lawyer Shlomo Lecker told The......more..
Dodging the Wall for Christmas
By Kristen Ess, Palestine News Network 12/22/2006
The International Court of Justice in the Hague issued its ruling against Israel’s Wall in the West Banktwo years ago, however construction continues.In northwestern Jerusalem tens of thousands of Palestinians are separated from one another, and from their......more..
IHT: "To live and let live, among the olive groves"
By Firas Aridah, International Solidarity Movement 12/22/2006
ABOUD, West Bank: For the 39th consecutive year, Palestinian Christians in towns and villages like Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Aboud will celebrate Christmas under Israeli military occupation. In Aboud, our hardships increased in October 2005, when the Israeli military issued......more..
Olive branches in Bil’in fail to quell IOF aggression
International Solidarity Movement 12/22/2006
Today’s weekly demo against the Apartheid Wall in Bilin saw some rare but welcome wet and overcast weather. Instead of the usual midday sun, clouds and drizzle accompanied the marchers on their route from the village mosque to the wall.The......more..
Remember Do’a, martyred by the Occupation on her way from school
Stop The Wall 12/21/2006
Fara’on - Do’a Abdel Khader Naser, a 13 year old girl from Izbet Naser close to Fara’on village south of Tulkarem, was killed yesterday by bullets from the Israeli occupation. Do’a was shot in the chest and hand as she walked......more..
Struggling for Education: The gruelling path to school of the students in Beit Ur
Stop The Wall 12/9/2006
Twelve year-old Hamaam Ismael sits down leaning against a massive tree that died after it was uprooted by an Israeli bulldozer to prepare the land for the footprint of the Apartheid Wall. The young boy wonders about his and his......more..
Enclosing the village of ’Azzun ’Atmah and separating its residents from their farmland
B’tselem 12/19/2006
Azzun ’Atmah, a village with 1,800 residents located southeast of Qalqiliya, lies three kilometers from the Green Line (Israel’s 1967 border). The settlement Sha’are Tikva was built just east of it, on lands belonging to......more..
Buried treasure that’s kept in the dark
By Meron Rapoport, Ha’aretz 12/18/2006
The first 10 minutes at the excavation site passed in silence. The moment we saw the high walls and the large, well-preserved rooms dug into the ground between the olive trees, the archaeologists in the group started to bound from......more..
Bethlehem in Christmas, surrounded and lacking resources
International Middle East Media Center 12/21/2006
As Christmas approaches, Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, remains surrounded by the Israeli Annexation Wall, and strangled by Israeli checkpoints and expanding settlements. This year, Bethlehem is challenging the closure, and siege, and the residents are trying their best......more..
Palestine Times: "Defiant villagers united in face of violent occupation"
International Solidarity Movement 12/21/2006
The demonstration is small but feisty. Accompanied by around 15 international supporters and a few Israeli stalwarts, the inhabitants of Bil’in, a village in the West Bank near Ramallah, voice their protest against the Israeli Wall and settlements that threaten......more..
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 14 - 20 Dec. 2006
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 12/21/2006
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) * 9 Palestinians, including a child, were killed by IOF in the West Bank.* 4 of the victims were extra-judicially executed by IOF......more..
Changes to separation fence route cost state NIS 700 million
Ha’aretz 12/21/2006
Changes to route of the West Bank separation fence at the behest of the High Court of Justice have cost the state roughly NIS 700 million, and could reach as high as NIS one billion in the near future.The High......more..
Lights of hope shine out in Bethlehem, thanks to Hamas
Times of London 12/21/2006
Bethlehem is sunk in gloom: sealed off from Jerusalem by Israel’s wall -- Bethlehem’s festive lighting engineers have been working for 26 days and have decorated half of Star Street. Their labour is a true act of Christmas charity: they have......more..
Two people from Bil’in injured in protest against the Apartheid Wall
Stop The Wall 12/16/2006
This Friday [12/15/2006], as every Friday, people from the village of Bil’in marched against the Apartheid Wall after prayers.Around 200 protesters took part in the demonstration, marching to their land isolated by the Wall carrying the......more..
Christmas against the Apartheid Wall
Stop The Wall 12/16/2006
Each year before Christmas, believers and activists alike take the occasion to raise awareness about the occupation of Palestine, in particular its devastating effects on Bethlehem. This year, the Sacred Heart Catholic church in St Ives, UK, has cancelled its......more..
Ten Year Old Girl Shot and Killed East of Tulkarem
International Middle East Media Center 12/20/2006
Palestinian sources reported that a ten year old girl, Du’a’ Abd Al Qader, was shot and killed by an Israeli sharpshooter while playing near the illegal Israeli wall in the eastern side of Tulkarem city in the......more..
UK Church erects its own Wall at Christmastime in solidarity with Bethlehem
Palestine News Network 12/20/2006
The following came from Father Paul Maddison, Parish Priest of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church. They will erect their own Wall in solidarity with Bethlehem. Their statement is reprinted in full. Each year before Christmas, believers and activists alike......more..
The illegal rezoning of Jerusalem’s Al Ram
Palestine News Network 12/19/2006
Wall construction in East Jerusalem’s Al Ram is ongoing. Twenty-two schools are threatened with closure as students and teachers alike cannot reach them.Although the International Court of Justice in the Hague ruled that Israel must halt construction, remove......more..
Peretz approves zero tolerance policy along northern border
Ha’aretz 12/20/2006
Defense Minister Amir Peretz on Tuesday agreed with a recommendation by senior Israel Defense Forces officers that Israel should respond harshly to Hezbollah provocation along the Israel-Lebanon border.Such provocation includes throwing rocks at IDF patrols, holding protests near the border......more..
When There’s No One Left to Blame: What Are You Going to Do Now, Israel?
By Virginia Tilley, Alternative Information Center 12/16/2006
Johannesburg, South Africa -- Now that three small boys have been killed by assassins’ bullets, and a Hamas judge dragged from his car and murdered, perhaps you are pleased. The Palestinians are finally succumbing to your plots, you think. The......more..
Non-violent march in Bil’in village met by Israeli military violence
International Middle East Media Center 12/15/2006
In the weekly protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall, held today in the village of Bil’in, a group of villagers, internationals and Israelis gathered in the village after noon prayers to march down to the site of the......more..
Israeli army arrests seven in Bethlehem and Ramallah areas Friday
Ma’an News Agency 12/15/2006
Bethlehem - The Israeli army arrested seven Palestinians in Bethlehem and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank early on Friday morning, according to Israeli media sources.The sources added that five of the arrested men were from the village of Hizma south......
UN to register complaints against West Bank fence
Ha’aretz 12/16/2006
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly approved plans for a UN registry to record and process claims of damages caused by Israel’s construction of its West Bank barrier.Israel rejected the move, saying it had set up......more..
Main entrance to Temple Mount said in danger of collapse
Ha’aretz 12/15/2006
The ramp leading up to the Mugrabi Gate - the main entrance to Temple Mount serving tourists, security forces and visitors - is in danger of collapse, a Jerusalem municipal engineer has warned.The ramp has not been in use for more than......more..
The Village of Al-Wallaja vs. the State of Israel
By Tania Tabar, Electronic Intifada 12/14/2006
The house of Munthir Mahmoud Hamad stood alone. Almost perfectly square in shape and made up of gray cement stone - it stood on a tiny hilltop among rubble - what was likely to have been a previously destroyed home. A makeshift......more..
More lands confiscated from Kafr al-Labad, east of Tulkarem
Ma’an News Agency 12/14/2006
Tulkarem - Israeli forces have confiscated hundreds of acres of Palestinian lands belonging to the northern West Bank town of Kafr al-Labad, east of Tulkarem. The lands have been confiscated for the establishment of the separation wall around the Israeli settlement......
Clashes at border as Hamas tries to bring in cash
The Guardian 12/15/2006
Prime minister forced to leave $35m behind · Israel shuts Gaza crossing to protect finance boycott -- Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian prime minister, was blocked from bringing millions of dollars of desperately needed donations home last night after Israeli forces closed Gaza......more..
Two Palestinians arrested in Tulkarem
Ma’an News Agency 12/14/2006
Tulkarem - Israeli forces have, on Thursday, invaded the southern neighbourhood of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, and searched the home of the recently deceased Fida’ Fthi Tirawi, destroying property throughout the building.Ma’an’s correspondent stated......
IDF told to dismantle small barrier hampering Palestinians
Ha’aretz 12/14/2006
The High Court of Justice on Thursday ordered the Israel Defense Forces to dismantle a small barrier that runs along 41 km in the southern West Bank, following a petition submitted by Palestinian residents and the Association for Civil Rights......more..
Palestinian civil society threatens to boycott the UN’s Register of Damage if their concerns are not addressed
Ma’an News Agency 12/14/2006
The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organization’s Network has sent an open letter to Mr. Kofi Annan, the secretary general of the United Nations, voicing Palestinian civil society’s various concerns about the UN’s Register of Damage regarding Israel’......more..
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 07 - 13 Dec. 2006
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 12/14/2006
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) * Two Palestinian couple were killed by the explosion of a mysterious object from the remainders of IOF. * A Palestinian woman died from......more..
Bethlehem tree lighting Friday evening
Palestine News Network 12/15/2006
In spite of the blockade, closures, arrests, killings, settlements, and the Wall, the Christmas tree will be lit on Friday night. Rarely has anything been able to stop the lighting, albeit some years the mood is less festive than others.The......more..
Displaced By The Wall
Badil 12/8/2006
strong>Forced Displacement as a Result of the West Bank Wall and its Associated RegimePalestinians have undergone several waves of forced displacement, since the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, and continue to face displacement today. The......more..
Study: "Wall forced 17% of Jerusalem families out of the city"
International Middle East Media Center 12/13/2006
The Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (BADIL) conducted a study that revealed that 17% of the Palestinian families in Jerusalem were forced to relocate outside the borders of Jerusalem as a result of the Israeli procedures and... Badil: Displaced By The Wall...more..
High Court set to rule on A-Ram fence petitions
Jerusalem Post 12/13/2006
An expanded panel of nine High Court justices headed by retired Supreme Court President Aharon Barak is due on Wednesday to hand down its ruling on petitions objecting to the route of the separation fence cutting off 58,000 Palestinians, including......more..
NGO’s concerned over the working of the UN Register of Damage caused by the Wall
Electronic Intifada 12/12/2006
On December 11, a number of NGO’s sent a letter to Riyadh Mansour Head of the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations. The letter includes a response to the Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to......more..
Bethlehem welcomes the world although this year Christmas will be celebrated behind the Wall
Palestine News Network 12/12/2006
The Mayor of Bethlehem, Dr. Victor Batarsa, held his traditional Christmas season kick-off press conference and stressed that “the birthplace of Jesus Christ is in its worst economic, political and tourist conditions in those 2,000 years.”Dr. Batarsa continued in......more..
Al-Aqsa Brigades end their part of the truce by firing two projectiles at Sderot on Sunday
Ma’an News Agency 12/11/2006
Gaza - The Al-Aqsa Brigades, the main armed wing of Fatah, launched on Sunday afternoon two homemade projectiles towards the Israeli city of Sderot in retaliation for the killing of two Palestinians and the arrest of another 15 in the occupied......
Beit Iksa: the making of another ghetto
Stop The Wall 12/8/2006
Last Wednesday, the farmers in Beit Iksa were issued confiscation orders by the Occupation. This amounts to the theft of another 600 dunums of land from the village will be used to build the Wall. According to the village council......more..
Anata: a Palestinian community squeezed among the Wall
Stop The Wall 12/5/2006
In Anata, north-east of Jerusalem, the Occupation Forces distributed further confiscation orders. These additional orders will confiscate 167 dunums and 700 square meters from the land of Anata for the construction of a new phase of the Wall surrounding the......more..
Hamas promises $50,000 to dress up Bethlehem for Christmas
Ha’aretz 12/10/2006
The fundamentalist Islamic Hamas government of the Palestinian Authority is promising $50,000 to dress up Bethlehem, Jesus’ traditional birthplace for the Christmas holiday, more than twice the amount spent in previous year.Yet even the extra cash - if Hamas pays......more..
Bethlehem welcomes the world although this year Christmas will be celebrated behind the Wall
Palestine News Network 12/12/2006
The Mayor of Bethlehem, Dr. Victor Batarsa, held his traditional Christmas season kick-off press conference and stressed that “the birthplace of Jesus Christ is in its worst economic, political and tourist conditions in those 2,000 years.”Dr. Batarsa continued in......more..
Ramallah to twin cities with Birmingham, UK
Ma’an News Agency 12/11/2006
Ramallah - Head of the Ramallah-Birmingham society, Basif Ad Dik, has stated that twinning agreements have been signed between 41 Palestinian towns and cities with British towns and cities.The announcement about a twinning agreement between Birmingham and Ramallah came during a......
Amnesty Secretary General visits Bil’in, observes weekly protest
International Middle East Media Center 12/8/2006
Dozens of Palestinian residents, Israeli and International peace activists held their weekly protest in Bil’in village, West of Ramallah, against the Israeli Annexation Wall. Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International visited the village and the construction site......more..
IOF target Bilin non-violent activist
International Solidarity Movement 12/8/2006
UPDATE 7pm Ahmed has been taken from the police station to Ofer military detention centre. He has been accused of damaging the illegal apartheid wall, resisting arrest and being in a Closed Military Zone. -- At today’s peaceful demo against the......more..
Carter defends ’anti-Israel book’
Jerusalem Post 12/9/2006
Former US President Jimmy Carter defended his harsh criticism of Israeli policy in his latest book, saying he hopes to erode the "impenetrable wall" that blocks the American public from seeing the plight of Palestinians.The top-selling book, "Palestine: Peace Not......more..
A project of dispossession can never be a noble cause
By Ahdaf Soueif, ZioPedia/The Guardian 11/17/2006
strong>Israel’s liberal intellectuals lament the malaise that grips their country - but refuse to face up to the ethnicide at the heart of itBefore Donald Rumsfeld departed from the Pentagon, the "Transformation Group" he......more..
Sadaa: Video and Audio Resources
Alternative Information Center 12/7/2006
Sadaa is the production unit of the AIC. Our focus is the production of audio/visual material for television and internet broadcasting. The aim of Sadaa is to offer Israeli and International audiences an accessible representation of the reality of......more..
Israeli violations of international law in Jerusalem serious as reported by human rights coalition
Palestine News Network 12/6/2006
The coalition of civil institutions to defend the rights of Jerusalemites said that the Israeli authorities occupying the city continue to commit grave breaches.The violations include those of human rights, international law, international humanitarian law, United Nations conventions, and the......more..
IDF wounds 2 Palestinians near Gaza
Jerusalem Post 12/7/2006
The IDF wounded two Palestinians on Wednesday as the men approached the Gaza border, the army said, raising concerns about the future of the shaky truce between the two sides that went into effect last week.In one incident in northern......more..
Azzun ‘Atma Farmer Resists Land Annexation
International Solidarity Movement 12/6/2006
Azzun ‘Atma farmer Sameh Yousef scored a small victory in his struggle against the theft of his land today when the IOF pledged to erect a fence on the edge of his field rather than 15 metres inside it. The......more..
Artist used ancient fossils to put new twist on old home
Daily Star 12/1/2006
FALOUGHA, Lebanon: Artist Omar Zeidan Aouar has turned his parents’ home in Falougha into an exhibit for his artwork. Aouar said his "Man and Nature Foundation," the name he has given the project, was meant to achieve "calmness." Artists......more..
Trapped between the lines
By IRIN, Electronic Intifada 12/4/2006
In five articles, IRIN examines the human consequences of the wall for both Israelis and Palestinians.Only 20 men attended the funeral of Ma’azouz Youssef’s grandfather as the rest were not allowed to pass through Israel’......more..
Sabatash checkpoint closed indefinitely
International Solidarity Movement 12/5/2006
The checkpoint commonly known as “Sabatash”, named after the Palestinian security forces that used to maintain a presence there, has been closed indefinitely for all civilian traffic bar humanitarian transportation such as ambulances and medical supply deliveries. This turn of......more..
UN General Assembly postpones talks on the Wall
Ma’an News Agency 12/5/2006
Bethlehem - The United Nations General Assembly has postponed an emergency session to discuss Israel’s separation wall built in the West Bank. The meeting is expected to take place after ten days.Diplomatic sources in New York said that the......
Al Nu’man Village targeted: already surrounded by the Wall, the gate is now open to Israeli settlers PDF Print E-mail
Palestine News Network 12/4/2006
Northern Bethlehem’s Al Nu’man Village is enveloped from all sides by the Wall and residents cannot come or go without passing through an Israeli controlled gate.On Sunday Israeli forces occupying the village to the east of......more..
The Olive Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree
By Joey Weinberg, International Middle East Media Center 12/3/2006
Today (Thusday, Nov 16) is definitely a good day to pick some olives; in fact, with the heavy rain from yesterday, it is even better that we are doing this as soon as possible, as too much rain makes problems......more..
Northern West Bank residents: held hostage in Barta’a, prelude to deportation
Palestine News Network 12/4/2006
Israeli forces issued a decree to annex Barta’a Village in Jenin. The northern West Bank town is the latest victim of the Israeli Wall route. Barta’a lies along the western edge of the Jenin District, near......more..
For farmers, much of their land remains out of reach
ReliefWeb/IRIN 12/4/2006
JAYYOUS, 30 Nov 2006 (IRIN) - Israel began building a 703 km-long barrier through the West Bank in the occupied Palestinian territories in 2002. Much of it is an electric fence but in heavily populated areas it becomes an eight-metre high......more..
UN: West Bank wall leaves 50,000 Palestinians trapped between the Green Line and Israel’s illegal barrier
Ma’an News Agency 12/4/2006
AZZUN ATMA, 4 December (IRIN) - Israel began building an eight-metre high, 703 km-long concrete barrier through the West Bank in the occupied Palestinian territories in 2002. To date, 670 km of it has been completed. Israel says the wall is......more..
Erekat meets with UN human rights chief
Ma’an News Agency 12/4/2006
Jericho - Chief of the negotiations department in the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr Sa’eb ’Erekat has met on Monday with the Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council, Professor John Dugard. Dr ’Erekat submitted to......more..
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