Category: Miscellaneous

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A core component of America’s foreign policy since September 11 has been educational reform in Muslim countries to check the influence of extremist ideologies and fundamentalism. International obligations under the…

Only three hours after the Rafah Border Crossing was opened, the Israeli side phoned the European observers an the crossing and ordered them to close it for "secuirty concerns". It…

Two Palestinian residents were injured and three were taken prisoners in an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Rammallah which started Thursday morning and lasted until the…

Information about the Palestinian prisoner’s conditions in Israeli prisons. Interview with ex-prisoner Arifa Warkat from Balata refugee camp (Nablus). And music from a Palestinian band called Turab. The song is…

Whatever we think of Israel’s assault on Lebanon, all of us seem to agree about one fact: that it was a response, however disproportionate, to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah.…

This 23 minutes audio piece presents 3 villagers that are struggling against Israeli law to have right of ownership of their own lands. Hanin Amr and Tania Tabar report. Click…

There were bulldozers turning over the tons of rubble, a cloud of dust and smoke a mile high over the smashed slums of Beirut’s southern suburbs and a tall man…

A Sky News newscaster, interviewing British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Sunday, July 30 demanded an answer to this paraphrased question: if indeed Israel had precise intelligence that a Hezbollah…

Nigel Parry, The Electronic Intifada 9 August 2006 As the Israeli war on continues to dominate world headlines, ‘s ongoing war against Gaza seems to be taking place in a…

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Israeli forces invaded the Balata refugee camp in the early hours of Wednesday morning and surrounded one house of a Palestinian family and threw several tear-gas bombs in the neighborhood,…

Two representatives of the Arab Bedouin community attended a United Nations meeting in Geneva last week entitled, “The Forum of Coexistence.” The UN meeting dealt with the difficulties of Indigenous…

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It is impossible to speak of a Hizbullah victory’ when nearly a thousand Lebanese civilians have been killed, thousands more injured, a million people internally displaced; and Lebanon’s infrastructure, environment…

It is 28 days since Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers, prompting a ground and air assault on by the Israeli army. In that time, 932 people have been killed in…

In the southern Gaza Strip’s Khan Younis Refugee Camp 72 year old Mohammad Salameh received notice to evacuate his family home. Israeli warplanes were overhead and intended to continue the…

It is clear that Israel, the occupying power, does not care about the international condemnation of its actions in the occupied Territories, nor of its constant violations of international law.…

Marty Wrin, Boston-based activist and Grassroots International staff member walked over 120 miles in 36 hours to raise money and awareness to ship medical supplies to hospitals and clinics in…

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Israeli and Western sources agree on defining the start of the current round of hostilities in Gaza and Lebanon as an unprovoked act of hostility from the side of Hamas…

Members of the Women’s Organization of Jenin gathered outside the city’s International Red Cross office Thursday afternoon to protest Israeli aggression against the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples.  The women proudly…

Dozens of Palestinians farmers living adjacent to the Israeli Wall in Jenin have been issued warnings saying that Israeli forces will soon come to uproot hundreds of olive trees on…

Interview with George Abu Zulif, Defense for Children International, about GazaQ:  Could you speak briefly on the effects of the latest Israeli attacks, the invasion into Gaza on children in…

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The Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCPO) survey, released Wednesday, showed 70 percent of Palestinians showing various degrees of support for current President Mahmoud Abbas, a member of the Fatah…

People walk the dusty, broken roads in scorching summer heat, taking shelter in the basements of empty buildings. In Gaza and , in the refugee camps of Khan Younis, Rafah…

Asira Al Shamaliyeh, a town of about 12,000 located a few kilometers north of the mountains from Nablus, has come to suffer under a new aspect of occupation. Asira has…

The Israeli army conducted an air, sea and land attacks on several areas in the Gaza strip Wednesday at dawn. In Al Boraj refugee camp, central Gaza, F-16 jet fighters…

The rage and extremism of the Islamic militants in Lebanon and the occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza appear incomprehensible to the outside world. The wanton murder, the…

Adel Samara is one of thousands of Palestinian-Americans living in the West Bank who have been the targets of what appears to be a new Israeli policy denying them re-entry…

The Israeli government’s Foreign Ministry is involved in efforts to influence public opinion on the Internet. ‘s Foreign Ministry orders Internet propagandists, so called "trainee diplomats," to skew online polls…

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"The Israelis at the Ekhelof hospital appeared ashamed and disappointed of their government’s horrible actions in Gaza, due to the deadly injuries it has been inflicting on Palestinians." “Yousef, Yousef,…

{mosimage)The capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah and the ensuing Israeli retaliation against has created shock waves in the Middle East which are likely to bring about considerable changes,…

"Israel has actually from the early days of the invasion lost most of its deterrence cards against Hezbollah but apparently Hezbollah still has the possibility of disrupting life in central…

The children of Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus took to the streets on Monday to protest the war crimes being committed by the Israeli military and to demonstrate their solidarity…

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It is almost unbelievable that after the US speeded delivery of guided bombs to Israel, Israel forces shell civilians in Qana killing at least 37 children, the same city in…

At military roadblocks between Palestinian cities in the West Bank Israeli forces continue to contravene international law, specifically the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit interference in medical procedures. Dr. Ali Al…

A male news anchor appeared on screen from the safety of Arabic station Al-Jazeera’s studio in Doha as two female correspondents in full war gear reported live from both sides…

The irony is almost beyond belief. Since the capture of an Israeli soldier, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to a large-scale military operation, what Israel calls “Summer Rain”. Because…

With Israeli invasions ongoing in both Lebanon and Gaza, Palestinians in the West Bank report that Israeli forces have begun tightening already strict procedures that Palestinians must endure at the…

On Sunday, August 29th of last year, the hurricane we’d been watching metastasize in the Gulf of Mexico crossed from sea to land, disfiguring and permanently altering the city of…

It is an accepted theory that truth is the first casualty of war. In the present Israeli war on Lebanon spin is certainly the first victor.  The misinformation and the…

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Watching the news today in my grandfather’s home in Lebanon, all I want to do is weep. Until today, I was cautiously optimistic. Until today, there were some positive developments…

Nearly a hundred Palestinians, Israelis, and international peace activists protested the impending construction of the Separation Wall in Al Khader, west of the city of Bethlehem, Friday in what has…

This week I had the pleasure to appear on American radio, on the Laura Ingraham show, pitted against David Horowitz, a "Semite supremacist" who most recently made his name under…

An official source from Hamas, who wished to remain anonymous, told PNN Thursday that the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, will not be released until Israeli authorities respond to the…

In the past two weeks, since the onset of Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon, regional and international media has all but forgotten Palestine. The killings, incursions, and arrests by…

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What if Israel fails to win the battle against Hezbollah?  Many are asking such a question, especially in the shadow of the results of the early ground battles, which Israeli…

In an act of nonviolent resistance, a Palestinian man refused to stop reading prayers from the Qur’an, despite beatings and racial slurs from Israeli soldiers, eyewitnesses reported.  Israeli soldiers at…

{mosimage}Beirut is burning, hundreds of Lebanese die, hundreds of thousands lose all they ever owned and become refugees, and all the world is doing is rescuing the "foreign passport" residents…

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The Qalqilia Office of Civil Defense was called up this morning to extinguish a large fired that had broken out in the town, near the Israeli Wall. According to eyewitnesses,…

Jan Egeland, who is in Gaza to evaluate the destruction caused by Israel’s offensive on Palestinians, claims that the Israeli use of force is “disproportionate”. It has been reported that…

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As was recovering from a year of cruel assassinations and explosions, it was hit this month yet again by another confrontation with . The year 2005 saw the murder of…

As was recovering from a year of cruel assassinations and explosions, it was hit this month yet again by another confrontation with . The year 2005 saw the murder of…

As was recovering from a year of cruel assassinations and explosions, it was hit this month yet again by another confrontation with . The year 2005 saw the murder of…

Wesley Clark, the retired four-star general who is one of 10 candidates for the Democratic nomination for president, has written a new book that is just arriving on bookstore shelves.…

International and Israeli peace activists joined residents from villages near Hebron and Jerusalem to help rebuild homes destroyed or badly damaged by Israeli settlers. Participants from the International Solidarity Movement…

Some months ago I was invited to reflect on my journey as a child of Holocaust survivors. This journey continues and shall continue until the day I die. Though I…

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Leading Palestinian artist Ismail Shammout died this week at the age of seventy-six. With a career that spanned over fifty years, Ismail Shammout was one of the most influential Palestinian…

This is obviously the outcome of the newly emerged Hebraic arithmetic laws. For 2 kidnapped Israeli soldiers who are still kept alive, 500,000 innocent Lebanese civilians are displaced. For 2…

The following are two interviews with Tina and Michael Hannouneh.  Tina is an American of Palestinian origin who was beaten by Israeli border guards, along with her son, Michael, at…

Ahead of her trip to the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on 21 July 2006 blamed Hizbollah for the current crisis and announced that her trip is…

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert described what is happening in Lebanon as saying. "This is an act of war." Olmert is correct. This is war. It has been war, non-stop,…

This audio documentary features audio of the people in the village of  Majdal Shams shouting across the minefield (1967 cease fire line) that separates them from their relatives in Syria.…

The general surprise that Lebanese civilians are taking the brunt of Israel’s onslaught — and the unwillingness in some quarters of the media to report the fact — reflects a…

An Egyptian legal committee has warned of the serious consequences of the Israeli use of chemical weapons against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip for more than a week…

Israeli army troops stormed the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Saturday at dawn, after putting the city under siege for a week.  Resistance fighters attacked the invaders. More than…

The fury of Israel’s offensive in Lebanon has more than a few observers shaking their heads. The vast majority of Western media reports do not accurately portray the fact that…

The fury of Israel’s offensive in Lebanon has more than a few observers shaking their heads. The vast majority of Western media reports do not accurately portray the fact that…

The disparity between Israel’s public narrative and its actual intents cannot possibly be any more palpable than in the current Gaza onslaught following the capture by Palestinians of an Israeli…

Since the Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip started on June 27th, Israeli ground forces and warplanes have been killing Palestinian men, women and children, destroying the Palestinian economy…

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We, the undersigned Israeli filmmakers, greet the Arab filmmakers who have gathered in Paris for the Arab Film Biennial. Through you, we wish to convey a message of camaraderie and…

B’Tselem’s (The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) initial investigation indicates that, during an incursion by Israeli forces into Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip,…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights released a report today calling attention to the 26 Palestinians killed during the past week by Israeli forces. The report highlighted the lack of…

16 Palestinians were killed early Friday morning, four  of them are from the same family, when Israeli forces shelled a house in Shajaiyeh district, east of Gaza City. The four…

Dr. Jom’a Al Saka, the spokesperson of Al Shifa hospital in Gaza, said in an interview with the IMEMC that if the Israeli "Summer Rain" military operation continues, Gaza will…

Saraya Al Quds, the armed resistance wing of the Islamic Jihad party, claimed responsbility today for the bombing of the southern Israeli town of Sderot.. Members of the group told…

Hizbollah took two Israeli soldiers prisoner in Lebannon, a legitmate act of state protection as these were military personel from a hostile state on Lebanese territory. This security precaution is…

The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has worsened significantly since March 2006, especially since the massive Israeli offensive that began in late July, stated John Dugard, the United Nations…

Israel has opened "windows" for the foreign powers to evacuate their terrified nationals from Lebanon. Obligingly, the foreign media have turned these "windows" into an opportunity to avert their gaze…

Hizbollah took two Israeli soldiers prisoner in Lebanon, a legitimate act of state protection as these were military personel from a hostile state on Lebanese territory. This security precaution is…

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“We are at war!” claimed the Israeli leaders five years ago. A unique kind of war: a unilateral war, where only one side, Israel, is fighting, hitting, destroying, assassinating, arresting,…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Ramallah Wednesday at dawn and stormed the WAFA news agency headquarters in the city and arrested five residents. The Israeli army…

Less than one hour after the Washington-based Pacifica network had phoned me about a live interview about Maghazi camp, where I live, I laid down my head on the pillow,…

According to medical sources in the West Bank city of Nablus reported that injures toll until the noon time reached to 23 injuries, two critical one of them a child.…

IMEMC Exclusive interview with Karen Abu Zeid, director of UNRWA – the United Nations Refugee ans Works Agency in Gaza, about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. Q. Could…

Dear Family and Friends, Ha! I think I am becoming a reporter now! First, we are still safe, but hardly anyone sleeps. The bombing has been continuous, day and night…

For the first time since 1967, Israel is preventing the entry of Palestinians with foreign citizenship, most of them Americans, who are arriving from abroad, but have lived and worked…