4 Jul 2009 - The Israeli National Water Company has cut off the water supply to two Arab Druze towns inside Israel. While water cut-offs by Israeli authorities are common within the Occupied Territories of Gaza and the West Bank, they are fairly unheard of within Israel itself.
3 Jul 2009 - Israel sources reported Friday that Israel said it would pay compensation to the United Nations for shelling its property, including schools and warehouses, in the Gaza Strip during the war on Gaza six months ago.
3 Jul 2009 - The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported Friday that three children from the central West Bank city of Ramallah were diagnosed with the swine-flu.
3 Jul 2009 - Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinian villagers along with their international and Israeli peace supporters during the weekly non-violent protest against the wall in Ni'lin village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, on Friday.
3 Jul 2009 - Three injured and dozens suffered from gas inhalation when Israeli troops attacked the weekly protest in Bil'in village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday.
3 Jul 2009 - Israeli Housing Minister of the extremist Shas movement stated Thursday that it is essential for the state of Israel to construct settlements in the Negev and the Galilee to 'counter the increasing number of Arabs who do not love Israel'.
3 Jul 2009 - A Palestinian woman was shot and moderately wounded in her lower body after an Israeli soldier opened fire at her at the B’qaot military roadblock in the Jordan valley.
3 Jul 2009 - Local sources in Jerusalem reported on Thursday evening that Israeli soldiers and security men broke into the yard of the Al Aqsa Mosque and Al Marwani prayer area, and kidnapped three residents, including a reporter.
3 Jul 2009 - The Israeli army admitted that the 17-year-old girl who was killed in the Gaza Strip on Thursday died of Israeli military fire, and that eleven other Palestinians were injured in the incident.
3 Jul 2009 - Hamas media spokesperson, Sami Abu Zuhri, denied statements made by president Mahmoud Abbas, in which he accused Hamas of planning to assassinate senior Palestinian Authority (P.A) officials in the West Bank.
3 Jul 2009 - The Israeli Army rejected on Thursday a report which was published by the AMNESTY International regarding the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip, and said that the report was unbalanced, and wrongly interprets the law of wars.
3 Jul 2009 - Palestinian Medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported Thursday that a 17-year-old girl was killed, and her 24-year-old brother was injured when the army fired an artillery shell at an area close to Juhr Ed Deek in Central Gaza.
International Solidarity Movement - Fox News, 2 July 2009 - Former U. S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and several other human rights activists remained in an Israeli prison Thursday after refusing to sign a deportation form that they claim is self-incriminating. In a...
International Solidarity Movement - London, 2 July, (ECESG) – The European campaign to end the siege on Gaza (ECESG) called today for international human rights organizations and lobbying groups to organize large protests in front of Israeli embassies across Europe in solidarity with activists of Free...
International Solidarity Movement - Ha'aretz, 2 July 2009 - Ramallah's intellectual elite, foreigners and curious spectators gathered last Saturday at the Friends School in Ramallah to hear writer and political activist Naomi Klein lecture to a packed auditorium. Following a musical interlude by a string quintet, one...
International Solidarity Movement - 2 July 2009 - Lubna Masarwa and Huwaida Arraf, both organisers of the Free Gaza Movement, have now been released from Ashdod Detention Facility, where military authorities had held them from 9. 00 p. m. on 30th June until 1. 00 p. m...
International Solidarity Movement - YNet News, 2 July 2009 - An Israeli citizen who was among 21 peace activists apprehended by the IDF en route to the Gaza Strip says she was held under conditions resembling a "horror movie. " Houida Araf, who was released on Wednesday, told...
International Solidarity Movement - Democracy Now, 2 July 2009 - Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire speaks to us from her jail cell in Israel. She was taken into custody along with twenty others, including former US Congress member Cynthia McKinney, when the Israeli military boarded their...
3 Jul 2009 - The United States is opposed to enacting a new set of financial sanctions against Iran that are due to be discussed in the G8 summit next week, diplomatic officials in New York reported Friday. ...
3 Jul 2009 - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden pressed Iraqi leaders Friday to do more to foster national reconciliation and offered American assistance in achieving that, as concerns grow that a lack of political progress is fueling violence in Iraq. ...
3 Jul 2009 - Bahraini officials visited Israel in an official capacity for the first time on Friday to collect five of their nationals Israel was deporting, a Bahraini news report and an Israeli official said. ...
2 Jul 2009 - A United Nations human rights investigator on Thursday called Israel's seizure of a ship carrying relief aid for the Gaza Strip "unlawful" and said its blockade of the territory constituted a "continuing crime against humanity". ...
2 Jul 2009 - The European Union on Friday summoned Iranian ambassadors across the 27-nation bloc in a joint protest against the detentions of staff at the British Embassy in Tehran. ...
3 Jul 2009 - Syria's leader praised President Barack Obama's outreach for dialogue and invited him to visit Damascus in remarks released Friday just days after the United States said it plans to return its ambassador to Syria after a four year absence. Syrian President Bashar Assad comments came in a telegram.
3 Jul 2009 - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' security forces have significantly widened a crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank in the past month. They have doubled the number of detainees and are increasingly targeting the wives of activists, school teachers and others on the fringes of the Islamic militant group, Hamas officials say.
3 Jul 2009 - An Israeli submarine sailed the Suez Canal to the Red Sea as part of a naval drill last month, defense sources said on Friday, describing the unusual manoeuvre as a show of strategic reach in the face of Iran. Israel long kept its three Dolphin-class submarines, which are widely assumed to carry nuclear missiles.
3 Jul 2009 - An official Bahrain delegation travelled to Israel on an unprecedented trip to recover a group of nationals held by the Jewish state, the state news agency reported on Friday. According to BNA, the Bahrainis were in a group of pro-Palestinian activists on a ship seized by the Israeli navy Tuesday as it headed for the Gaza Strip in defiance of Israel's blockade.
3 Jul 2009 - Israel's Defense Ministry has recommended a partial lifting of the embargo on the Gaza Strip as a goodwill gesture toward the Palestinians to spur talks to free a long-held captive soldier, an Israeli news site reported Friday. Israel has been linking the opening of Gaza's borders to the release of SergeantGilad Schalit, an Israeli soldier held by Hamas for three years.
30 Jun 2009 - In July '08, a soldier shot a handcuffed detainee in the presence of his commander, yet the two were charged only with “unbecoming conduct”. Today, the Israeli High Court of Justice ruled in favor of changing the indictments to reflect the gravity of the
27 Jun 2009 - In its new report B'Tselem warns about the danger inherent in neglecting wastewater treatment in the West Bank. The report criticizes both Israel and the Palestinian Authority for their failures, which have harmed the health and future water supply of all
GAZA CITY Thursday, July 02, 2009 (IRIN) - Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border opened briefly on 25, 26 and 27 June allowing Gaza patients in need of emergency care, students, and foreign visa holders to exit.
TEL AVIV Tuesday, June 30, 2009 (IRIN) - A new report by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) paints a grim picture of life in the Gaza Strip: insufficient housing, damaged infrastructure, limited access to clean water and the discharge of raw sewage into the sea.
3 Jul 2009 - The Iranian government has made it a practice to publicize confessions from political prisoners, often subject to sleep deprivation, solitary confinement and torture, rights groups say.
3 Jul 2009 - The Israeli defense minister and the Obama administration’s Middle East envoy will confer for the second time in a week to pursue regional peace efforts, a senior Israeli official said.
Ha'aretz - 6/8/2009, Ha'aretz - Interior Minister Eli Yishai has begun to make good on a pledge to exploit all the resources of his ministry, "its branches and its influences over local government" to expand settlements in the territories. Yishai, who is also...
Antiwar.com - Antiwar. com, Jason Ditz, June 09, 2009 - Outraged at Prospect of 'More Balanced Approach,' Peled Calls to Intervene in Congressional Races - Israeli news outlets are reporting the leak of a letter from Israeli cabinet minister Yossi Peled to the rest of the...
Times of London - June 8, 2009, Times of London - Hillary Clinton refused yesterday to rule out a pre-emptive Israeli military strike on Iran. It was the first time that a senior member of the Obama Administration had openly discussed such a possibility. The US Secretary...
Jerusalem Post - June 9, Jerusalem Post - In a sign of growing concern in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's government over US President Barack Obama's Middle East policies, Minister-without-Portfolio Yossi Peled proposed Israeli sanctions on the US in a letter to cabinet ministers on Sunday. . . . In...
7/3/2009 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - A top United Nations official in a statement on Friday denounced Israel's seizure of a humanitarian aid ship bound for the Gaza Strip earlier this week. The UN official, Special Rapporteur for human rights in the Palestinian territories Richard Falk...
7/3/2009 - Bethlehem - Ma’an/Agencies - Israeli forces shot on sight a young Palestinian woman approaching the Hamra checkpoint on foot after allegedly warning her to halt and firing warning shots in the air, Israeli press reported Friday. Palestinian security forces later identified the woman...
7/3/2009 - Gaza – Ma’an – The Kererm Shalom crossing will be partly open Friday and all others will be closed, said Gaza crossings official Raed Fattouh. Israel is expected to allow 57-67 truckloads of aid and commercial goods through points into the Strip, as...
7/3/2009 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Three demonstrators were injured by Israeli forces at an anti-wall demonstration in the West Bank city of Bil'in, near Ramallah, on Friday. The injured were named as Adeeb Abu Rahmah of Bil'in, as well as two Europeans identified only by...
7/3/2009 - Gaza – Ma’an – The Gaza-based Popular Committee Against the Siege called for more aid ships to attempt voyages to the Strip, according to a statement on Friday. The Popular Committee, along with the Free Gaza Movement, urged the international community to condemn Israeli...
7/3/2009 - Gaza - Ma’an - A women's union on Friday condemned what it called the crime committed by Israeli forces on Thursday that left a Palestinian girl dead in central Gaza. A women's bloc affiliated with the Popular Struggle Front condemned the death that Israel's...
7/3/2009 - Gaza – Ma’an – De facto Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Friday commented on Amnesty International's report this week that both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes during the Gaza assault last winter. At his weekly address at a local Gaza City mosque, Haniyeh...
7/3/2009 - Jerusalem – Ma’an – A group of Israeli intelligence forces disguised as tourists entered the Haram Ash-Sharif in Jerusalem Friday, the Al-Aqsa organization for Waqf and Heritage claimed. The Haram, or sacred compound, holds the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque, and was...
7/3/2009 - Gaza – Ma’an – A coffee shop in Khan Younis was set ablaze by unknown arsonists before dawn Friday morning, causing severe structural damage. This is the second time the coffee shop has been targeted by vandals and arsonists. It is located next to...
7/3/2009 - Nablus – Ma’an – Israeli troops detained at least three Palestiains from their homes in the West Bank overnight Thursday, sources confirmed. According to Israel Radio at least three “wanted” Palestinains were taken from Nablus and Hebron and transported to unknown locations for questioning...
7/3/2009 - Gaza – Ma’an – Large crowds assembled on Friday at the funeral procession for a 17-year-old girl killed by Israeli shelling in central Gaza late on Thursday night. The procession took to the streets from a local mosque and marched with the body...
7/3/2009 - Gaza - Ma’an - Five Bahraini citizens participating in the Free Gaza Movement’s voyage to Gaza were deported on Friday, following their Tuesday afternoon seizure by Israeli forces in international waters off the Gaza coast. Coordinator of the Palestinian International Campaign to Lift the...
7/3/2009 - Jerusalem – Ma’an – Patriarch Atallah Hanna at the Orthodox Church expressed anger toward what he called the “inhumanity” of home demolitions targeting Palestinians living in Jerusalem during a visit to a now-homeless Palestinian family there Friday. Atallah Hanna, also known as Theodosios of...
7/3/2009 - Bethlehem – Ma’an – In the Gulf nation's apparent first state visit to Israel, Bahraini officials arrived in Tel Aviv on Friday to accompany five nationals awaiting deportation. "[T]he Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior sent a mission...
7/3/2009 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Israel has offered the United Nations compensation for damage its military caused to UN facilities in the Gaza Strip last winter, an official said on Friday. "The Israelis have indicated that they will pay compensation, particularly for our buildings that...
7/3/2009 - Salfit - Ma’an - Hamas officials said Palestinian Authority security forces detained 14 party members and affiliates across the West Bank on Thursday night. The members were detained in Jericho, Salfit, Qalqiliya, Tulkarem and Bethlehem, Hamas said. The detentions come as talks between the...
7/3/2009 - Nablus - Ma’an - The Palestinian Ministry of Health diagnosed another case of H1N1 Friday morning, bringing the number of cases across the West Bank up to 51. The latest victim is from the Bethlehem suburb of Beit Sahour, and told health officials that...
7/3/2009 - Nablus – Ma’an – The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Friday that three new cases of H1N1 were diagnosed in the West Bank city of Ramallah, increasing the total number of cases to 54. The three caes are of children who got the...
2 Jul 2009 - Eight British and Irish citizens among those held after trying to import aid supplies Israeli authorities are holding 19 international activists who tried to...
2 Jul 2009 - Objecting to justice being dealt to a lynch mob endangers every member of Israeli society, whether Jewish, Arab or other While Israel's legal system...
2 Jul 2009 - The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza assault that investigates violations of human rights and international law committed in the context of the Israeli assault on Gaza in December 08/January 2009 will hear as well accounts of the repression meted out in the West Bank during this period. Two people were killed in Ni'lin demonstrating in solidarity with Gaza, and two eyewitnesses are set to testify before representatives of the international community.
2 Jul 2009 - Two new fact sheets have been released. The first, “The Palestinian economy – Occupation, de-development and normalisation,” gives a concise summary of Stop the Wall's economic analysis, within which we clarify how the dominant approach to investment and development in Palestine serves to strengthen the Wall, checkpoints and military closures, creating “sustainable” ghettos in the West Bank. The second, “Boycott Elbit Systems!” turns the spotlight to Elbit Systems, one of the largest Israeli security and defense firms. ll as security systems for the Wall and settlements. Elbit has major subsidiaries across the globe, and any BDS campaign against arms trade must take the company into account. [
3 Jul 2009 - In first public appearance since being appointed to post, Dr. Michael Oren says Iran moving fast towards having nuclear bomb that 'could wipe Israel off map in seconds,' Israel concerned about timing of Obama's engagement with Iranian regime
3 Jul 2009 - While Israel mulls easing siege on Gaza, locals continue to suffer from continued shortage of basic food products, forced to pay high prices for smuggled, low-quality goods from Egypt
3 Jul 2009 - Defense minister to travel to London next week for another meeting with US envoy to Mideast. Barak to convey steps Israel is willing to take to advance dialogue with Palestinians
3 Jul 2009 - UNRWA commissioner-general says Israel agreed to pay compensations for UN buildings destroyed during IDF's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. UN chief Ban Ki-moon seeking payment for damages estimated at $11 million
3 Jul 2009 - Haredi Community leaders promise stormy rallies against decision to keep Karta parking lot open on Saturdays. Police, Border Guard to deploy in great numbers across haredi neighborhoods, vow zero tolerance in response to violence
3 Jul 2009 - Two people injured, six arrested when fight breaks out between two groups of park-goers, one from east Jerusalem, other from Rahat. Eyewitnesses: Chairs and all kinds of other objects flew through the air
2 Jul 2009 - Last week the Israel Defense Forces entered another round in its own version of the wars of the Jews. The chief of staff's bureau decided to forbid religiously observant soldiers from walking out of military gatherings that include performances by female singers. As a compromise, soldiers who abide by the religious injunction against hearing a woman's voice are allowed to avert their eyes. ...
2 Jul 2009 - Early one morning A., a resident of one of the unrecognized Bedouin villages in the south realized that his older son was not in his bed. ...
2 Jul 2009 - I'm not a wretched Arab woman. How can I whine that I've been deprived?" Lucy Aharish protests. "I like my life just fine, despite all the stinking racism that exists here." Following the remark by Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch of Yisrael Beiteinu (he told an undercover detective, "You look like a real Araboosh," using a derogatory word for Arab) she gave interviews to magazines from Germany to Abu Dhabi and had an opinion slot on the current events program anchored by Ofer Shelah and Raviv Drucker on Channel 10 - which she left in a huff a little over a year ago. ...
3 Jul 2009 - Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman renewed his rejection of international demands to freeze settlement expansion in the West bank..
3 Jul 2009 - The Arab Organization for human rights in the UK said on Friday it was greatly disturbed for the sharp deterioration in human rights in the West Bank..
3 Jul 2009 - Farook Al-Qaddomi said that Hamas's military action two years ago against the mutiny trend in Fatah was a victory against the corrupt PA security apparatuses..
3 Jul 2009 - Arab member of the Knesset, Jamal Zahlaka said that the statements made by the Israeli minister of housing mean that the Israeli government wants to force us into confrontation.
3 Jul 2009 - Heyam Ayyash, 17, was killed on Thursday and four others were wounded by an Israeli tank shell that fell at Juhar al-Deek in the central Gaza Strip.
3 Jul 2009 - Israel occupation police raided the Aqsa Mosque on Thursday evening and kidnapped three Palestinians including a Journalist, according to local sources.
3 Jul 2009 - I have no doubt whatsoever that Shimon Peres, the President of the criminal state of Israel , would be the main winner in any international championship for the world’s worst liar and hypocrite.
3 Jul 2009 - Dr. Bassem Naim, the health minister, met with a delegation from the international committee of the Red Cross and discussed with them the health situation in Gaza and ways of developing this sector.
3 Jul 2009 - IOF on Tuesday night blocked Palestinian firefighters from reaching cultivated lands of Anin village to extinguish a fire that started at a late night hour and continued till Wednesday morning.
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