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Five Injured, Eight Detained At Anti Wall Protest In Budrus Village Central West Bank
IMEMC - Friday March 19, 2010 - 17:01, Five Palestinians were injured, eight others detained when Israeli troops attacked an anti wall protest at the village of Budrus, near Ramallah city, central West Bank.
Bil’in Protest The Wall, Israeli And International Supports Join Braking Army Orders
IMEMC - Friday March 19, 2010 - 16:48, The villagers of Bil’in, central West Bank, along with international and Israeli supporters protest the Israeli-built wall on villager's lands.
Villagers Protest Israel’s Wall Near Bethlehem
IMEMC - Friday March 19, 2010 - 16:27, Villagers of al-Ma’sara, near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, protested, the Israeli built wall on villagers’ lands, on Friday.
In Defiance of Military Orders, Scores Protest At The Village Of Nil ‘in, Central West Bank
IMEMC - Friday March 19, 2010 - 15:53, Villagers, along with international and Israeli supporters, protested on Friday at the village of Nil ‘in, central West Bank, the Israeli built wall on farmers lands.
Fatah and Hamas Trade Accusations Over Jerusalem Clashes
IMEMC - Friday March 19, 2010 - 07:15, The rival Fatah and Hamas movements have returned to trading accusations, this time over the Israeli violations in Jerusalem and its holy sites.
Two Wounded As Army Bombards Gaza
IMEMC - Friday March 19, 2010 - 06:42, The Israeli Air Force carried out a series of air strikes targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip, wounding two residents and causing excessive damage.
12 wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza
3/20/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - At least 12 Palestinians were wounded as Israeli F16 warplanes struck the southern Gaza Strip on Friday night. Local sources said Israeli warplanes launched three attacks near the ruins of the Gaza airport. Medics said 12 people wounded people were transported to Abu Yousef An-Najjar hospital in the city of Rafah. Three people were moderately injured while the rest were only slightly hurt, they added. Israeli warplanes were still heard flying over the Gaza Strip at the time this report was filed. The bombing was the second aerial attack in less than 24 hours. Early on Friday morning Israel's air force bombed six targets across the strip, including open areas near Khan Younis, a tunnel along the Gaza-Egypt border, and a factory. No one was reported injured. Palestinian militias also said they clashed with Israeli forces east of Gaza City on Thursday evening.
Protesters challenge village closures
3/20/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Palestinian and international protesters joined half a dozen demonstrations across the occupied West Bank on Friday afternoon, in the first reaction to Israel's declaration of two villages as "closed military zones" last week. An American citizen was seriously injured after being struck in the arm by Israeli fire in Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, onlookers said. Her colleagues from the International Solidarity Movement later identified her as Ellen Stark. An ISM statement said she was "shot from less than four meters away with a rubber bullet, which lodged in her left arm, breaking her wrist. " She was evacuated for medical attention by the Red Crescent, an Israeli military spokesman said. He described the woman's injuries as light, and said they were caused by the use of riot-dispersal means. He said the injury came during "the violent and illegal riot near Dir Nizam, during which rocks were hurled toward security forces. "
Israel tightens Jerusalem restrictions
3/19/2010 - Jerusalem - Ma'an - Israel planned to limit the entrance of male Palestinian worshipers to East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque area on Friday, officials said, preventing men under the age of 50 from visiting the site. Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said the restrictions would not apply to women visiting the Old City landmark, and that the area remained open for other visitors as normal. Rosenfeld told Ma'an he was aware of "no unusual activity on the Temple Mount," denying reports that police damaged several doors to ablution rooms at a Ministry of Endowment building, and that forces were seen standing on rooftops adjacent to the mosque. Israeli police were expected to deploy in force throughout the occupied eastern half of the city, officials said, following violent clashes over the past several days that left dozens of Palestinians and Israeli police injured.
Unrest in Hebron, Beit Ummar sees dozens injured
3/19/2010 - Hebron - Ma'an - Following Friday prayers on Hebron's Tareq bin Ziad Street, clashes erupted between tens of worshipers and Israeli soldiers guarding the Ibrahimi Mosque, witnesses said. An Israeli military spokesman said soldiers responded with "riot dispersal mechanisms" when approximately 80 individuals began "hurling rocks and burning tires" in what he called a "violent illegal riot. " Fifteen were injured, Red Crescent medics confirmed, with eight treated for tear-gas inhalation in the field, and six hospitalized including one man who was struck with a rubber-coated bullet during the clash, officials at the Al-Muhtaseb Hospital in Hebron said. Onlookers said soldiers fired on a Red Crescent ambulance as it evacuated some of the injured, shattering its windshield. The military spokesman said he was unfamiliar with the incident, and noted troops used no live or rubber-coated bullets during the clash.
Clashes across Jerusalem as court evicts 15
3/19/2010 - Jerusalem - Ma'an - Hundreds of young Palestinian men clashed with Israeli border police in the Shu'fat refugee camp north of Jerusalem on Friday, witnesses said. " At least 15 boys were beaten and detained when they took shelter in an empty building 100 meters away from the military checkpoint" at the entrance of the camp, one witnesses said. " Israeli soldiers disguised as Arabs and an under-cover unit that surrounded them inside the building," the witness, who preferred not to be named, added. "When they were forced out they had blood on their faces. "Rubber-coated bullets and tear-gas were used against the group, and ambulances were unable to access the injured, locals said, with traffic being turned around as far away as the A'nata and As-Salam neighborhoods. Violence erupted when camp residents concluded Friday prayers and gathered at the military checkpoint at one entrance, throwing. . .
In photos: Farmers under fire in Qalqiliya
3/19/2010 - MaanImages / Khaleel Reash - 1-5: A Palestinian farmer holds a banner during a demonstration in front of an Israeli military checkpoint that leads to his fields after soldiers prevented him and other farmers from crossing near the West Bank city of Qalqiliya, March 17, 2010. - 6-10: Palestinian farmers use ploughs and hand tools while planting crops on their farmland near a section of the Israeli separation barrier, which surrounds on three sides the northern West Bank city of Qalqiliya, on March 16, 2010. [end]
Report: Israeli settlers uproot 25 olive trees near Nablus
3/19/2010 - Nablus - Ma'an - Settlers from Israel's Eli area uprooted 25 olive trees from the Al-Batshisha neighborhood of Qaryut village in the northern West Bank, an official said Friday. Residents discovered the destruction Thursday morning, when they arrived at the agricultural lands approximately 600 meters away from the Eli settlement. Ghassan Daghlas, who holds the settlement file for the northern West Bank, reported the incident, which followed on the heels of the destruction of at least 40 fruit trees just north of the area the week before. Qaryut village council head Abed An-Naser Al-Qaryuti said "this is the second time the settlers had uprooted and chopped olive trees of the village only within a week. " Al-Qaryuti said the trees were on land belonging to Mohammad Jaber,Ahmad Jaber, Abed Al-Aziz Al-Mardawi and Yaser Hasen.
Israel closes all 3 Gaza crossings
3/19/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - The Gaza Strip's three main crossing points with Israel were expected to be closed Friday, a Palestinian official said. Liaison official Raed Fattouh told Ma'an that there would be no transport of aid into Gaza. Fattouh said the three crossings, Kerem Shalom, Karni and Nahal Oz, were also scheduled to be closed on Saturday. Last week, 538 truckloads of goods entered Gaza, a United Nations report said Friday. The number is below the March average for 2009 of 761 truckloads per week, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported. Before the siege began, 2,807 truckloads of goods entered the coastal enclave each week, according to the report. [end]
Report: Rafah Today journalist prevented from travel to US
3/19/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer was denied a visa to the United States where he was scheduled to speak in Chicago about the living conditions in Palestine, tour organizers said. "Effectively canceling a planned speaking tour, the U. S. consulate in the Netherlands has put an extended hold on the visa application of [Omer]," tour organizers in Chicago wrote in a news statement. When contacted, a representative said, the US Consulate in the Netherlands said it could not provide an update, while the US embassy told organizers they could not help. The tour would see Omer speak in Santa Fe, Houston, and Chicago, where he would have been hosted by Haymarket Books in Chicago at the Newberry Library, which will reportedly go ahead with the event via skype. The event is funded by Lannan Foundation, whose focus is the promotion of "cultural freedom, diversity and creativity. . . "
Barghouthi celebrates PhD conferral in prison
3/19/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - Palestinian detainees at the Hadarim detention center celebrated the conferral of a Doctorate degree on Marwan Barghouthi from Cairo University on Friday, the Prisoners Society reported. Al-Barghouthi, a member of the Fatah revolutionary council and central figure in the Prisoners Document that proposed a unity deal between Fatah and Hamas in 2007,was sentenced to a life term for involvement in resistance to the Israeli occupation in 2002. During his incarceration Al-Barghouthi studied political science at the Cairo University, Prisoners Society head Ra'fat Hamdunah said. The prisoners said the conferral of a PhD on Barghouthi is a victory for Palestinians and a triumph over the occupation, Hamdunah reported. . . . .
3 Palestinians detained overnight
3/20/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Three Palestinians were detained overnight in the occupied West Bank, Israel's army reported Friday morning. An Israeli military spokesman said the three were seized in the districts of Bethlehem, Qalqiliya, and Ramallah. Soldiers found weapons in the home of one of the unidentified detainees, the official said, in the Al-Fureidis area southeast of Bethlehem. Among the arms were a pistol, two knives, the detonator of an explosive, two bottles filled with bullets, and a pair of army binoculars, he said. The other two unidentified detainees were seized in the city of Qalqiliya and the town of Qatanna, southwest of Ramallah, the spokesman added. [end]
Settler lightly injured by rocks near Bethlehem
3/19/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Israeli news reports said a settler was injured Thursday when his car was pelted by stones east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Israeli forces were combing the area searching for the alleged stone-throwers, the Hebrew-language daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported. [end]
Report: 10 Israeli soldiers mistakenly enter Hebron
3/19/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Ten Israeli soldiers mistakenly entered a section of the West Bank city of Hebron under control of the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday, news reports said. Israel's Channel 2 reported Thursday that a group of young Palestinian men noticed the soldiers and began to throw stones, which escalated into physical altercations during which three soldiers were lightly injured and their belongings stolen. An Israeli patrol arrived at the scene thereafter, firing tear gas and stun grenades, Channel 2 reported, citing confirmation from Palestinian sources in the southern West Bank city. Approached by Ma'an, however, Palestinian Authority security officials were not familiar with the report. . . . .
Unmanned drone goes down north of Gaza, media reports
3/19/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies - Israeli media reported the crash of a military drone shortly after it flew north over Gaza on Friday. The report said the drone was being used for surveillance, and said it was not taken down by Palestinian groups in Gaza, but rather as the result of an electronic malfunction on account of bad weather. [end]
Clinton: Settlement gaff ready for satisfactory end
3/20/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the BBC Friday she believes parts of the Israeli government behave in ways "that are not in the best interest of the government as a whole. "Clinton was referring to the Israeli Ministry of the Interior announcement of 1,600 settlement units to be constructed in settlements in East Jerusalem. The move came in the middle of US Vice President Joseph Biden's visit to Israel, and embarrassed the US, which maintains the opinion of international law, that settlements built on occupied land are illegal. The secretary of state spoke after a meeting of the Quartet in Moscow on Friday morning, where representatives from the EU, US, UN and Russia gathered for discussions on the peace process. Clinton told the BBC that she spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the phone the night before the meeting, and said she. . .
Quartet demands real settlement freeze
3/19/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - In Moscow, the International Quartet reiterated on Friday its call for Israelis and Palestinians to implement their previous agreements and obligations, in particular adherence to the Road Map peace plan. "The Quartet urges the government of Israel to freeze all settlement activity, including natural growth, dismantle outposts erected since March 2001; and to refrain from demolitions and evictions in East Jerusalem," a statement issued after the meeting said. The Quartet, made up of the US, UN, EU and Russia, also called on both sides to "observe calm and restraint and to refrain from provocative actions and inflammatory rhetoric especially in areas of cultural and religious sensitivity. " The statement recalled that Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem remained unrecognized by the international community, and underscored that the status of Jerusalem is a permanent-status. . .
Abbas injured after fall in Jordan
3/19/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - President Mahmoud Abbas was lightly injured after falling in his hotel room in Amman, Jordan on Friday, an official said. Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said Abbas suffered bruises and would require physical therapy and a few days of rest. "We are following up with treatment, but his health is good and there is no cause for concern," said Dr Abdullah Al-Bashir, Abbas' physician. Nasser Al-Lozy, the head of the Jordanian cabinet, visited Abbas shortly after the accident. Abbas, 75, has served as head of the PLO since 2004. He was elected Palestinian president in 2005. [end]
Ashrawi: Jerusalem hosts high-level meeting with EU’s Ashton
3/19/2010 - Ramallah - Ma'an - PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi spoke out agaisnt the continuation of indirect negotiations carried out by Mahmoud Abbas and PLO officials, during an interview with Ma'an on Thursday. "Israel is the only side that will see positive results from such talks," Ashrawi said, noting she expressed the same sentiment during a meeting with EU foreign policy cheif Catherine Ashton in the Spanish Consulate in Jerusalem earlier in the week. Spain currently holds the presidency of the European Parliament. Ashton traveled to Moscow Thursday night for a meeting with the Middle East Quartet, where representatives from the EU, US, UN and Russia will discuss the current situation in the region. Ashrawi called the meeting the first of its kind since the closure of the Orient House by Israeli officials in 2001.
Hamas: PA must unleash the resistance
3/20/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - The resistance is ready to "painfully strike at the heart of the occupation if any harm comes to Al-Aqsa," a Hamas official told protesters out in support of Jerusalem on Friday. Massive rallies were held in south and central Gaza, organized by Hamas and Islamic Jihad in support of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and in protest of the rededication of a Jerusalem synagogue in the Old City. Hamas leader Mushir Al-Masri told protesters in the central Strip that "neither siege nor borders will stop us from moving to Al-Aqsa when it is harmed," referring to what many believed was a series of provocative actions culminating in the rededication of a synagogue 300 meters from the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Monday. Increased restrictions on Muslim men wishing to pray at the holy site were put in place last week, and a closure of the West Bank was announced shortly after Israel announced the construction. . .
Hamas: PA arrests 8 West Bank members
3/19/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Palestinian Authority security forces have arrested eight Hamas affiliates in the West Bank, the party said Friday. In a statement, the Islamic movement said PA forces detained the Hamas members in Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, and Tulkarem. On Wednesday, Hamas said PA forces arrested 10 members in Nablus, Hebron and Qalqiliya. [end]
’Full Signal’ explores risks of cellular technology
3/20/2010 - Soraya Bauwens-Nuseibeh - Jerusalem - Ma'an - Full Signal, the debut documentary by Palestinian-American director Talal Jabari, explores the potential health risks of wireless technology and the proliferation of cellular antennae across the world. Filmed in more than 10 countries, the documentary interviews scientists, activists and lawyers about the effects of cellular technology and its regulation, as the number of overall cell phone users increases globally. In an e-mail interview with Ma'an, Jabari spoke of increasing awareness of the issues surrounding the technology, comparative government regulation of the industry, and his own changing perceptions. What compelled you to make Full Signal? Our neighbor has had a cell antenna on his roof for a while, and I really never thought about it other than it provided me with full signal on my phone.
Israel to switch to summer time 26 March
3/19/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Israel's Ministry of the Interior announced Friday 26 March as the day Summer Time will set clocks forward in 2010, and set 12 September 2010 for the falling back of the clocks. At 12 midnight on 26 March in Israel, clocks will be set one hour forward. The Palestinian Authority is expected to meet on Monday and set the date for Summer Time. In 2009, the Palestinian Authority announced on Monday 23 March that summer time would go into effect at midnight on the 26th, the last Thursday of the month. In Gaza, clocks changed on 27 March 2009. [end]
At least 12 wounded in IAF missile strike on Gaza
Ha'aretz 19 Mar 2010 - Israel retaliates after pro-al-Qaida militants fire five Qassam rockets in 24 hours, killing a Thai worker.
Gaza rocket strikes south Israel for fifth time in 24 hours
Ha'aretz 19 Mar 2010 - IAF aircraft attack at least six locations in Gaza, including smuggling tunnels, in response to deadly rocket.
Al-Aqsa omitted from Pesach Haggadah cover
Uruknet March 19, 2010 - Haggadot for Pesach distributed Thursday in kindergartens throughout religiously mixed Jaffa bore a photo of the Temple Mount on the cover, but the al-Aqsa Mosque, which is also located in the east Jerusalem compound, was conspicuously omitted. An image of a model of the "third temple" was superimposed on the photo in place of the mosque,...
Zionism's Invented State: Book Review
Uruknet March 18, 2010 - Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism arrived in the mail shortly after I completed sending a thank you note to two other authors and friends, Kathleen and Bill Christison. The Christison’s had just released their newest title, Palestine in Pieces: Graphic Perspectives on the Israeli Occupation (Pluto Press) and I felt that they deserved a...
Israel Is Boss
Uruknet March 18, 2010 - ...Corporate media pretend U.S.-Israeli relations are in "crisis," just as they have many times in the past. It’s all a charade, a play for national and international audiences. In real crises, relationships are called into question. But there has never been any question about who is in charge of this "partnership": Israel. And don’t you dare...
Comrade Mizher: Mass action needed to support Palestinian steadfastness
Uruknet March 18, 2010 - Comrade Jamil Mizher, member of the Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, called for an immediate and complete end to the farce of negotiations with the occupation, and ending the internal Palestinian division in order to confront the occupation and its newest attacks on Jerusalem and al-Aqsa. He emphasized the need...
Gazan Fisherman Struggle to Stay Afloat
Uruknet March 18, 2010 - Gazan 45 kilometers long, beautiful Mediterranean coast is fished by 3,500 professional fisherman. Many more people earn their daily bread doing jobs related to this trade, such as producing and repairing nets, transporting fish and selling it at the markets, running restaurateurs etc. We met Mr Mahfouz Kabariti the President of Palestine Sailing Federation and Palestinian...
Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (11-17 March 2010)
Uruknet March 18, 2010 - Summary - Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law escalated in the OPT during the reporting period (11 – 17 March 2010): Shooting: During the reporting period, 31 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children and 5 women, were wounded when IOF used excessive force against peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to the construction of the Annexation...
PCHR Strongly Condemns Inauguration of Synagogue in Occupied East Jerusalem
Uruknet March 18, 2010 - The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns recent measures taken by Israel in East Jerusalem, the latest of which has been the inauguration of a synagogue in the old city. PCHR holds Israel responsible for the escalation of the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). PCHR also confirms that East Jerusalem constitutes an...
The Lawfare Project's Anti-Democratic Agenda
Uruknet March 18, 2010 - Its web site (thelawfareproject.org) calls Lawfare: "The use of the law as a weapon of war." Fact Check: Provided they contradict no others, laws are sacrosanct, especially fundamental international ones like the UN Charter, Four Geneva Conventions, their Common Article 3, the Rome Statute, Nuremberg Tribunal and judgment, Genocide Convention, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and...
Please help little Amal from Gaza
Uruknet March 18, 2010 - A couple of nights ago I watched the documentary 'Children of Gaza’ on Channel 4’s 'Dispatches’. The film was made by the award winning documentary maker Jezza Neumann. Since then I can’t get the face of Amal, one of the four children featured in the film, out of my head. Amal was wounded during Israel’s attack...
So much for freedom of speech: Nakba Law passes first Knesset vote
Uruknet March 18, 2010 - The Knesset voted yesterday in favor of Israel Beitenu’s "Nakba Bill", which authorizes the finance minister to hold funds from institutions or groups who question the nature of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, or who mark the Palestinian Nakba on Israel’s Independence Day. The goal of this bill – as stated by MK Alex...
A Prosthetic Leg at the Palestinian Auschwitz
Uruknet March 18, 2010 - Monday 14 March 2010 at quarter past nine in the morning at the Zionist Qalandiya checkpoint towards entry into Jerusalem, the gate of Auschwitz 2. A female Israeli Nazi soldier orders an invalid Palestinian girl to take off her pants in front of the crowd of Palestinians waiting at the checkpoint, thousands of waiting men and...
A Very Dangerous Racial Israeli Publication in Jerusalem! بالعربية , English and French
Uruknet March 18, 2010 - These are translated copies (English and French) of the publication which was published by the Israelis in Arabic to people of Jerusalem within their savage campaign to judaize Jerusalem and the historical holy land of Palestine: [...]
Haifa divides over restaurant's ban on Israeli soldier
The National 19 Mar 2010 - Israelis mount angry demonstrations and threaten staff after an Arab-owned restaurant refuses to serve an IDF soldier wearing his military uniform.
Big Four set Palestine deadline
The National 19 Mar 2010 - US, UN, EU and Russia also back freeze on all new construction in East Jerusalem.
Middle East talks tense after air strikes
The National 19 Mar 2010 - Israeli air strikes over the Gaza Strip in retaliation for a fatal rocket attack lend a fresh sense of urgency to international Middle East talks held in Moscow today.
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Palestine Note 19 Mar 2010 - I understand what is going on at AIPAC right now. I know it because I volunteered there for a year back in the 1970's and then had a senior job there in the 1980's. I left...
APN legislative round-up for the week ending March 19, 2010
Palestine Note 19 Mar 2010 - 1. Bills and Resolutions 2. Congress and the Jerusalem Settlements Dust-Up 3. AIPAC on the Hill Next Week 4. Dear Colleague Bashing PA 5. APN on Iran Sanctions, Jerusalem Settlement Issue 1. Bills and Resolutions ( Jerusalem )...
World leaders ‘condemn’ West Bank settlements, while some Israelis say Obama is ‘fair’
Palestine Note 19 Mar 2010 - UPDATED The international "quartet" charged by the United Nations with overseeing the Middle East peace process met in Moscow this morning and issued a strong statement against settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem....
Rocket from Gaza kills 1 in Israel, which returns fire
Palestine Note 19 Mar 2010 - A rocket fired from Gaza on Thursday killed a Thai agricultural laborer at an Israeli cooperative farm on the border called Nativ Haasara. Israel responded within hours, launching air strikes on six targets in Gaza. Although...
'HANG TOUGH WITH NETANYAHU'
Palestine Note 19 Mar 2010 - IF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION STAYS TOUGH, STAYS THE COURSE, EVERYONE WINS With relations still icy between Israel and US and a slew of ultimatum between them, Media Matters Action Network Senior Foreign Policy Fellow MJ Rosenberg...
Iraq: Elections but no stability
Palestine Note 19 Mar 2010 - With close to 90% of the votes tallied in Iraq's parliamentary elections, the coalition headed by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has taken a slim lead over the bloc led by his main challenger, Iyad Allawi....
Egypt appoints senior Sunni figure
AlJazeera 19 Mar 2010 - Sheikh Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed al-Tayeb named as head of Al-Azhar Islamic institution.
Gazans wounded in Israeli strikes
AlJazeera 19 Mar 2010 - Up to seven missiles strike targets in Gaza Strip after day of clashes in West Bank.
Quartet calls for settlement freeze
AlJazeera 19 Mar 2010 - Middle East negotiating bloc meets in Moscow amid tensions between Israel and US.
Quartet to Israel: Freeze settlements
Jeruslalem Post 19 Mar 2010 - Abbas welcomes statement, but says implementation by Israel is the real test.
'Quartet's comments distance peace'
Jeruslalem Post 19 Mar 2010 - In Brussels, Lieberman says peace must be built meticulously, not forced.
IAF strikes in Gaza after Kassam attack
Jeruslalem Post 19 Mar 2010 - 6 targets hit, 2 reported wounded; Security sources: Hamas not behind attack.
Security and Defense: 2011 – The year Palestine is born?
Jeruslalem Post 19 Mar 2010 - By the summer of 2011, Salam Fayyad may finally succeed in totally reforming the Palestinian Authority – and that could spell big trouble for Israel.
US, Russia disagree over Bushehr
Jeruslalem Post 19 Mar 2010 - Iran's Russian-built nuclear plant cause for concern, Clinton tells Lavrov.
Clinton: US pressing for talks
Jeruslalem Post 19 Mar 2010 - UN and Russia also intent on relaunching peace negotiations.
Police brace for rioting in Jerusalem
Jeruslalem Post 19 Mar 2010 - Planned protest march by Right in Silwan is postponed until late April.
MKs to PM: Stand up to US on J'lem
Jeruslalem Post 19 Mar 2010 - 78 members sign or support letter backing building in capital.
UN, Russia intent on restarting peace
Jeruslalem Post 18 Mar 2010 - Meeting in Moscow, commit to pushing Israel and Palestine to resume talks
Israeli Court Rules: Arrest of 2 ISM Activists Illegal
WAFA 19 Mar 2010 - TEL AVIV, March 19, 2010 (WAFA) The Israeli Supreme Court handed down its verdict last week regarding the arrest of International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activists Bridget Chappell and Ariadna Jove
Violent Clashes Result in more than 200 Palestinian Injuries, OCHA Reported
WAFA 19 Mar 2010 - JERUSALEM, March 19, 2010 (WAFA)- In one of the most violent weeks recorded in the West Bank in the past few years, 221 Palestinians and 17 members of the Israeli security forces were wounded in
Haaretz poll: Most Israelis See Obama as Fair, Friendly
WAFA 19 Mar 2010 - TEL AVIV, March 19, 2010 (WAFA)- U.S. President Barack Obama's popularity is sweeping among Israelis who think his treatment of Israel is friendly and fair, according to a Haaretz-Dialog poll
Abbas: Quartet Statement very Important
WAFA 19 Mar 2010 - AMMAN, March 19, 2010 (WAFA)- President Mahmoud Abbas described Friday the Quartet statement that urged the government of Israel to freeze all settlement activity, including natural growth, dismantle
Quartet Calls on Israel to Freeze all Settlement Activity
WAFA 19 Mar 2010 - MOSCOW, March 19, 2010 (WAFA)- The international Quartet urged the government of Israel to freeze all settlement activity, including natural growth, dismantle outposts erected since March 2001 and to
PES President: Europe’s Wake up Call for the Two-state Solution
WAFA 19 Mar 2010 - BRUSSELS, March 18, 2010 (WAFA)- The Party of European Socialists (PES) President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen wrote Wednesday an article entitled: Europe’s wake up call for the two-state solution. It reads
MIDEAST: 'Day of Rage' Engulfs Palestine
IPS QALANDIA, West Bank, Mar 17 (IPS) - On Tuesday tens of hundreds of Palestinians of all political persuasions took to the streets, alleys and sidewalks as widespread rioting and protests spread across East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and into Israel proper.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/2203.shtml
Stop The Wall - Addameer and Stop the Wall havbe launched a new website to support the campaign to free Palestinian human rights defenders active against the Wall:
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/2202.shtml
Stop The Wall - This morning, the Israeli occupation forces have attacked residents of Ni’lin who were gathered in a march to protest the military orders against their village and the provocative Israeli construction close to the Palestinian holy places. [
Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (11-17 March 2010)
PCHR Israeli troops detain an international peace activist during a protest over land confiscation in Beit Ummar village near Hebron
ISM activists to face first hearing, Supreme Court rules arrests illegal
3/19/2010 - International Solidarity Movement - 19 March - The Israeli Supreme Court handed down its verdict last week regarding the arrest of International Solidarity Movement activists Bridget Chappell and Ariadna Jove Marti from Ramallah on February 7. The decision ruled that the arrests were illegal, but refrained from further comment on which Israeli department was responsible. Chappell and Marti's first hearing in the Tel Aviv District Court regarding their deportation orders will take place at 3pm this coming Monday, March 22. The illegality of their arrests will be pursued in this case. A panel of three judges' decision issued last week declared that the arrest of Australian and Spanish nationals Chappell and Marti in Area A of the Palestinian Authority (under full Palestinian civilian and military control under the 1994 Oslo Accords) was illegal, but did not specify whether it was the military's invasion of the ISM's. . . .
Bil’in and Ni’lin demonstrate in the face of closed military zone orders
3/19/2010 - International Solidarity Movement - The smell of tear gas hung over the villages of Ni'lin and Bil'in today. The shouts demanded an end to apartheid and access to farmlands. The odd and surreal status quo was maintained this Friday. The attempts to squash the nonviolent popular resistance have been in vain. Like the rocky, Palestinian landscape, dotted with olive trees, this resistance is fertile. As these olive trees have been uprooted or burned, the state of Israel has attempted to sow these popular demonstrations with salt. It has been to no avail. Last week's orders posted in Bil'in and Ni'lin declaring the villages closed military zones for all of Friday had no effect on the demonstrators or village-life in general. Butchers displayed their wares, children laughed and kicked their footballs about and the cries for freedom echoed off the walls. The midnight raids did nothing to deter the groundswell of the popular struggle.
Israeli military unsuccessfully attempt to invade Iraq Burin: repeat tomorrow?
3/15/2010 - International Solidarity Movement - 14th March - The Israeli military sent eight jeep loads of soldiers to Iraq Burin, near Nablus, on Saturday to prevent villagers from accessing their farmland. Violent settler attacks on previous Saturdays leave the villagers and their land threatened. The military's solution to these attacks has not been to protect the Palestinians, but rather to deny them access to their land. As the men of Iraq Burin sat peacefully at the edge of their village, watching soldiers and settlers on their terraces and in their olive groves on the opposite hillside, another group of soldiers approached from the hill immediately above the village. With no apparent provocation or reason, soldiers fired volleys of tear gas and percussion grenades at the assembled villagers, then seized houses at the edge of the village to fire rubber bullets and more tear gas into the street. Despite this barrage of weaponry, villagers refused to run and hide, and the soldiers ultimately retreated at dusk.
Clinton: Decision to escalate row with Israel 'is paying off'
Ha'aretz 19 Mar 2010 - U.S. Secretary of State says pressure over East Jerusalem construction could restart negotiations.
Top U.S. Reform rabbi to Israel: Freeze East Jerusalem building
Ha'aretz 19 Mar 2010 - Rabbi Eric Yoffie: Building in Arab sections of Jerusalem in current political climate isn't prudent.
Suspects in N.Y. synagogue-bomb plot say FBI was involved
Ha'aretz 19 Mar 2010 - Four men face life in prison for trying to bomb synagogues and shoot down planes in New York last spring.
Putin: Russia could back UN sanctions against Iran
Ha'aretz 19 Mar 2010 - UN resolution 'possible', Russian prime minister tells Hillary Clinton in Moscow.
Lieberman on Quartet call: You can't make artificial peace
Ha'aretz 19 Mar 2010 - Quartet eyes Palestinian state within two years, urge end to East Jerusalem building plans.
Report: Obama, Netanyahu to meet in U.S. on Tuesday
Ha'aretz 19 Mar 2010 - Israel confirms the leaders scheduled last minute meeting amid growing tension, Fox News reports.
Did Nazis exaggerate death toll in WWII Dresden air raid?
Ha'aretz 19 Mar 2010 - Dresden historians say only 25,000 Germans were killed in allied bombing of Dresden, not 500,000.
Israel to engage in 'trust-building' moves in wake of East Jerusalem row
Ha'aretz 19 Mar 2010 - Netanyahu delivers Israel's response to U.S. demands, reportedly offers 'don't ask don't tell on future builds.
East Jerusalem: One bit of land, two opposing communities
The Guardian 19 Mar 2010 - In the neighbourhood of Ramat Shlomo, ultra-orthodox Jewish residents remain indifferent to the diplomatic storm On a quiet hillside, where streets are named after rabbis and lined with synagogues and yeshivas, the residents are indifferent to...
Israeli-Palestinian peace hopes rise as US envoy prepares to get talks moving
The Guardian 19 Mar 2010 - • Mitchell's trip to region back on after concession • Blair expects resumption of indirect negotiations The US special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, is due to fly to the region on Sunday to...
Middle East quartet's cut-and-paste diplomacy
The Guardian 19 Mar 2010 - Statement is strong on the face of it, but mostly restates the ground rules for peace between Israel and the Palestinians Full text of the Middle East quartet statement The US and Israel may have defused...
Middle East quartet statement: full text
The Guardian 19 Mar 2010 - Document condemns Israeli settlement building in East Jerusalem and calls for Palestinian state within 24 months Middle East Quartet Statement Israel Palestinian territories Middle East guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this...
Holding back a settlement | Stephen Pollard
The Guardian 19 Mar 2010 - Palestinian demands to halt construction in East Jerusalem are a ruse to end negotiations, and delegitimise Israel It's easy to look at the past week's events in Israel and paint Binyamin Netanyahu as the guilty party....
Quartet blasts Israel over East Jerusalem settlements
The Guardian 19 Mar 2010 - Strongly worded statement from Middle East peace envoys calls for pullout from Palestinian territories within 24 months The Middle East quartet has strongly denounced Israeli moves to build 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem and urged...
Gaza rocket strikes south Israel for fifth time in 24 hours
Ha'aretz 19 Mar 2010 - A rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip struck the western Negev on Friday, for the fifth time in 24 hours. ...
Shas journal: Obama is 'a stone-throwing Palestinian'
Ha'aretz 19 Mar 2010 - The official Shas journal "Day to Day" published Thursday an editorial depicting United States President Barack Obama as "a Palestinian stone throwing youth in East Jerusalem, and not a strategic leader." ...
OPT: Statement by Middle East Quartet
Relief Web 19 Mar 2010 - Source: UN Secretary-General
Israel/OPT: Report on the events in Jerusalem, March 16, 2010: Severe violence, injuries, arrests, delays and prevention of medical treatment
Relief Web 19 Mar 2010 - Source: Physicians for Human Rights
Mideast mediators condemn Israeli settlements again
Relief Web 19 Mar 2010 - Source: Reuters - AlertNet
14 Palestinians injured in Gaza strike
YNet News 19 Mar 2010 - Air Force jets bomb Hamas facility near Dahaniyeh airport in retaliation for earlier Qassam fire
Erdogan: Israel erasing Palestinians
YNet News 19 Mar 2010 - Turkish prime minister slams Israeli approval of new homes in east Jerusalem, says normalization of relations depends on lifting of Gaza siege
Clinton: Pressure on Israel paid off
YNet News 19 Mar 2010 - US secretary of state explains peace talks are back on track due to US pressure on government
Turks protest Israeli housing plans
YNet News 19 Mar 2010 - Hundreds take to Istanbul streets in protest against east Jerusalem building plans, some burn flags
Netanyahu to meet Obama in Washington
YNet News 19 Mar 2010 - Fox News reports prime minister will meet US president on sidelines of AIPAC convention. Netanyahu also set to meet Clinton, offer to slow down Jewish housing projects in areas beyond Green Line
Quartet calls on Israel to freeze all settlements
YNet News 19 Mar 2010 - Mideast mediators slam east Jerusalem housing plan, Lieberman responds: You can't force peace
Hundreds protest against West Bank security fence
YNet News 19 Mar 2010 - Despite IDF edict declaring area a closed military zone, demonstrators gather for weekly protest in Bilin, Naalin. Security forces arrest three rioters
Qassam hits near Negev kibbutz
YNet News 19 Mar 2010 - Day after foreign worker killed in Netiv Ha'asara, another rocket fired from Gaza; no injuries, damage
Palestinian demonstrators, Israeli forces clash in West Bank, occupied Jerusalem
Daily Star 19 Mar 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Israeli security forces in the West Bank and East Jerusalem during anti-settlement protests after the Muslim Friday prayers, as simultaneous protests took place across the region. In Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, troubles broke out in the Shuafat Palestinian refugee camp, where AFP
Mousavi vows 'year of perseverance' in Iran fight
Daily Star 19 Mar 2010 TEHRAN: Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi vowed a "year of perseverance" in his fight against the government, in an internet message on Friday marking the Persian new year. Mousavi, who remains steadfast in rejecting the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June last year, said a "retreat would be treason to Islam
Quartet tells Israel to halt settlement activity, reach peace by 2012
Daily Star 19 Mar 2010 MOSCOW: The Middle East Quartet on Friday urged Israel to stop building settlements and set a bold target for a final deal with the Palestinians by 2012 as it tried to kickstart the stalled peace process.But Israel's foreign minister - whose country angered the international community by announcing last week the construction of 1,600 new settler homes
EU agrees to act to stop Iran jamming broadcasts, internet
Daily Star 19 Mar 2010 BRUSSELS: EU nations are determined to take action to end Iran's "unacceptable" jamming of satellite broadcasts and internet censorship, according to a text agreed by European ambassadors in Brussels. "The EU calls on the Iranian authorities to stop the jamming of satellite broadcasting and Internet censorship and to put an end to this electronic interference
Russia says Tehran wasting opportunity for dialogue
Daily Star 19 Mar 2010 MOSCOW: Russia warned Iran Friday it was missing out on a chance to start a broad dialogue, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton again sought to win the Kremlin's assent for a tougher stance on Tehran.Iran's defiance over its nuclear program means the nation is wasting a chance for talks to find a solution, Russian Foreign Minister
Egypt TV shows footage of Mubarak talking, working
Daily Star 19 Mar 2010 CAIRO: Egyptian television on Friday aired new footage of President Hosni Mubarak, who has been recovering in Germany after surgery, showing the 81-year-old making phone calls from hospital. Footage showed Mubarak, wearing a grey cardigan, sitting at a table and going over paperwork with his chief of staff Zakaria Azmi at the Heidelberg
Kuwaitis march in support of the Aqsa Mosque
PIC 19 Mar 2010 - Thousands of Kuwait youths have staged a sit-in Thursday in support of the Aqsa Mosque and the occupied city of Jerusalem and condemning the Israeli practices against the first Muslim Qibla.
IOF troops quill a women demonstration in Jerusalem
PIC 19 Mar 2010 - A large number of Palestinian women took part in a demonstration after the end of the Friday prayer the Aqsa Mosque, according to local sources in the occupied holy city.
Aqsa tv condemns US treasury for putting it on "terrorist-financing list"
PIC 19 Mar 2010 - The Aqsa Satellite tv station strongly condemned a decision by the US Treasury to put Al-aqsa tv on its terrorist-financing list..
Erdogan condemns Israeli measures in occupied Palestinian territories
PIC 19 Mar 2010 - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned Friday the Israeli practices in occupied Palestinian territories, particularly the decision to build more Jewish settlements..
At least 11 Palestinians wounded in Israeli occupation airstrike
PIC 19 Mar 2010 - At least eleven Palestinians were wounded Friday evening as a result of an Israeli occupation airstrike targeting the airport east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.
Jewish extremists distribute a picture of Jerusalem without the Dome of the Rock
PIC 19 Mar 2010 - Jewish extremists distributed a picture in Tel-Aviv depicting the holy city without the Dome of the Rock, according the Yedioth Ahronoth on Friday.
Bashiti family: We own the land on which Hurva synagogue was built
PIC 19 Mar 2010 - The Palestinian Bashiti family have asserted Thursday that the land on which the Hurva synagogue was built belongs to them and that they have the title-deeds to prove their claim.
Israeli occupation used tens of banned weapons during war on Gaza
PIC 19 Mar 2010 - Dr. Basim Na’im said that analysis of samples taken from the bodies of war victims as well as samples of soil from Gaza confirmed the use by the Israeli occupation of banned weapons
Israeli occupation escalates attacks on Gaza
PIC 19 Mar 2010 - Israeli occupation aircraft attacked seven targets around the Gaza Strip since dawn Friday in response to a rocket fired from the Strip by a Palestinian group into 1948-occupied Palestinian lands.
Abbas's militia quell a demonstration in Bethlehem on behalf of IOF
PIC 19 Mar 2010 - Abbas's militia on Thursday quelled a demonstration, in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, against the opening of the ruin synagogue just meters from the Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
Hillary Clinton, Russians clash publicly over Iran reactor
LA Times 19 Mar 2010 - With Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at her side, the secretary of State reproaches Moscow for building and fueling the plant without assurances on weaponry. Lavrov stands his ground. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had barely arrived in Moscow for nuclear arms and Mideast talks when tensions over Iran flared up publicly Thursday.
U.S. envoy trip to Mideast is back on
LA Times 19 Mar 2010 - George J. Mitchell, whose planned visit had been called off amid a diplomatic dispute with Israel, will head back to the region this weekend to resume talks. The Obama administration said Thursday that its Middle East peace envoy is headed to the region this weekend to resume consultations, a visit that had been postponed earlier in the week over a diplomatic dispute with Israel.
Clinton Calls Israel’s Moves to Ease Tension ‘Useful’
New York Times 19 Mar 2010 - At an international meeting on Friday, the emphasis was on starting Israel’s indirect talks with the Palestinians.
Iran Releases Opposition Leaders, Rights Advocates Say
New York Times 19 Mar 2010 - Rights advocates said that Iranian authorities have released on bail dozens of high-profile opposition figures who were arrested after the disputed June presidential elections.
Times watch
Mondoweiss - 19 Mar 2010 - There’s a disappointing story in the New York Times today about that fatal rocket attack on Israel yesterday. It plays pretty big, on page three. In the first paragraph we are informed that the rocket was fired from "Hamas-controlled" territory. It isn’t till we reach the...
Obama could study Reagan and grow a pair
Mondoweiss - 19 Mar 2010 - MJ Rosenberg at media matters lays out the power an American president can exercise over Israel, and the lobby’s fear of his doing just that. Rosenberg doesn’t fully explore the hidden dimension here– of course it’s our national interest and of course Obama has power, why...
Is Israel’s crackdown on free speech coming here?
Mondoweiss - 19 Mar 2010 - Mohammed Omer, the Gaza journalist who was beaten by Israeli forces at immigration after he accepted a prize for his reporting in Europe last year, is apparently now being blocked from doing a speaking gig in Chicago, with Ali Abunimah. His support group has called for...
Israel lobbyist warns Obama, he’ll pay on health-care vote
Mondoweiss - 19 Mar 2010 - At TPM, Justin Elliott has tracked David Schenker, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, doing some highlevel horsetrading, suggesting on Alhurra, the US-sponsored Arabic station, that Obama has to back down on his fight with Netanyahu because of his need for votes on the...
Oren’s historical fiction about Lebanon war has long tradition in MSM hasbara
Mondoweiss - 19 Mar 2010 - Michael Oren has an op-ed in Thursday’s NY Times about the Bibi-Biden flap. While a comprehensive dissection would consume many times the length of the original, my attention was drawn to a very narrow issue that appears in the following sentence: "Previous withdrawals, from Lebanon and...
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