Palestine Today – July 18 2006
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Israeli children send gifts to Lebanese Children
I have seen so many photos of war and dead people and I can say that I got used to see these photos,, however, I was never disgusted more than…
Hamas Spokesman: Hamas and Hezbollah connected by resistance culture not organizational ties
The spokesman for the Hamas parliamentary bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr. Salah Bardawil, denied any organizational relationship between the Palestinian Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah. In a press statement,…
Southern Hebron villages face emerging water crisis
According to official sources from the Hebron Municipality, about 22,000 Palestinian citizens living in the villages just south of Hebron will face a water crisis in the upcoming weeks. This…
After 23 days of closure, Rafah border crossing partially reopens
The Rafah-Egypt border crossing was partially reopened on Tuesday morning to allow Palestinians who had been trapped for the past 23 days on the Egyptian side of the crossing, to…
American woman assaulted by guards at Israeli border crossing demands justice
A mother and son, both American citizens, were savagely beaten last week by Israeli security at the Israeli entry point into the Palestinian West Bank from Jordan: Allenby Bridge. The…
What Are They Fighting For?
Whatever may be the fate of the captive soldier Gilad Shalit, the Israeli army’s war in Gaza is not about him. As senior security analyst Alex Fishman widely reported, the…
Interview: Dr. Mustapha Barghouthi
IMEMC exclusive Interview with Dr. Mustapha Barghouthi, Palestinian independent legislator, on the current situation in Gaza, and his public statement that the crisis could cause the dissolution of the Palestinian…
Gaza Under Darkness
"I have lost a total of $1000 US dollars since the power supply has been cut, the number of my customers has decreased to minimum, I stay idle at my…
Can You Describe Your Feeling when a Missile Falls beside Your Baby?
The three-day-old baby, Mohammed, and his mother Asam 23, were sleeping in their room when an Israeli missile hit their house early Monday morning in the heart of Jabalia refugee…
Students in Qalqilia celebrate exam results:Residents discuss their mixed feelings
The Palestinian people live a life of contradictions- joy and sadness, life and death, construction and demolition. Despite the continued Israeli incursions into the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and…
Prominent Palestinians voice their opinions, speak out against Israeli agression
In light of the escalating conflict between Israeli forces and the Lebanese resistance party Hezbollah, on top of the already heightened Israeli military aggression in the Gaza Strip, many prominent…
Lebanon’s Al Manar TV ‘Marked for Death’
After years of asymmetric attacks on the First Amendment – assassinating journalists, surveilling dissent and censoring the free flow of information – the Democracy Mukhabarat rules. Using national security to…
Chicago Professor Fired for Allowing Questions about Judaism and Islam
I am Douglas Giles, an adjunct professor who was fired for allowing students to speak in a World Religions class at Roosevelt University, Chicago. I have taught college philosophy, ethics,…
Foreign Ministry in Gaza bombed for second time
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry was bombed by Israeli aircraft for the second time in a week, injuring five residents. An 8-story section of the building collapsed and dozens of houses…
Israeli Soldier killed, seven others wounded in Nablus
An Israeli soldier was killed and seven others were injured early Monday morning in an explosion in the West Bank city of Nablus. Al Aqssa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing…
Israeli Road Block Removed from Palestinian village in non-violent action
Today in Izbat Tabib, in the Qalqiliya region, in the northwestern West Bank, over 250 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists successfully removed a land mound road block in order to…
Israeli Road Block Removed from Palestinian village in non-violent action
Today in Izbat Tabib, in the Qalqiliya region, in the northwestern West Bank, over 250 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists successfully removed a land mound road block in order to…
Gaza, repeated, ad infinitum
We woke up this morning to the footage. No less than six hours after we watched, live, the Israeli bombing of a Gaza building last night, the same rogue military…
Palestine Today – July 17 2006
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The Moment of Truth Is Now for Arabs
A Golf ball landed in my front yard. It came from the direction of my neighbor across the street. I was not sure if one of my neighbor’s kids threw…
Two Palestinians Killed, Israel Bombs Ministry of Economy, bridge in Gaza
One Palestinian was killed and eight were injured as Israeli air force war planes bombed a house in Gaza city on Saturday morning. The house is located in Al-Sheikh Radwan,…
This Week in Palestine, July Week 2
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Palestinian fighters attempt to force border re-opening
After nearly three weeks of border closure between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, in which at least eight Palestinians waiting there have died from heat exposure, a group of Palestinian…
Muhammad Joudeh (83 years): ‘The land is my soul and it keeps our dignity’
Community Voice, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, June 10th, 2006 In Rafat, as throughout Palestine, the spirit of resistance against the Occupation has passed through generation to generation. The land…
Palestine Today – July 13 2006
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‘Apartheid Israel worse than SA apartheid;Congress of SA Trade Unions
The “apartheid state” is worse than the apartheid that was conducted in , Willie Madisha, the Congress of SA Trade Unions president, said on July 10 on the South African…
Racism, Not Ignorance, Plagues the Media Covering Palestine
Racism is "the belief that one ‘racial group’ is inferior to another and the practices of the dominant group to maintain the inferior position of the dominated group. Often defined…
Five children killed, seven injured in Israeli airstrike on playground
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that five children were killed and at least seven were injured after Israeli soldiers fired a missile at a playground in Dir Al…
Hafrada is the Zionist form of Apartheid
In response to an article by Dr Steven King, Prof James Bowen , chairman of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, outlines why people should join the group’s protest today.Irish Examiner, 8…
Palestine Today – July 12 2006
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UNRWA Commissioner General expresses dismay over the massive destruction in Gaza
Wednesday afternoon. The new Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Far East (UNRWA), visited several shelled areas in the Gaza Strip,…
In Gaza offensive, Israel hits Western aid projects
Beit Hanoun’s veteran bridge builder shrugged off his latest misfortune: the Israelis destroyed the main span into town three years ago. The European Union rebuilt it. And overnight the Israelis…
Americans of Palestinian origin denied entry to Israel
"It must be a mistake, the caprice of a clerk at border control," Aadel Samara responded when his wife Enayeh informed him by phone on May 26 that her entry…
Woman, Child die at the Rafah border crossing
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported a Palestinian woman and child died on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Border Crossing Tuesday. This makes a total of four Palestinian…
Palestine Today – July 11 2006
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Offer of Subsidies by Israeli Government for Industry Relocation to Occupied West Bank
The following is a translation of an official Israeli Government Notice published in Hebrew in Haaretz on July 9, 2006 describing a 32% increase in subsidies for Israeli industry that…
“My child does not know me,†released Palestinian Political Prisoner
“My child does not know me,” says just released Palestinian political prisoner, Mohammad. “I felt great pain, but I must accept this fate as she came into this life while…
Palestine Today – July 10 2006
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Channelling the resistance
Israel is more worried about resistance attacks against its soldiers than its civilians, for the former are the guardians of Zionism and the prestige of self-appointed supremacy, writes Azmi Bishara.…
Crisis in US Media Coverage of Gaza
One element fueling the current crisis in Gaza is the ongoing failure of US corporate media coverage of Israel/Palestine. US policy, public opinion and mainstream media coverage of Israel/Palestine are…
International Organizations Express Concern Over Developments in Gaza
Several international organizations working in the Gaza Strip expressed their concern over the recent developments in Gaza, and the ongoing Israeli attacks that have left dozens of Palestinians dead and…
The reoccupation of Gaza: Israel and the Big Lie
There is arguably no modern state that more shamelessly employs the propaganda technique of the Big Lie than Israel. Since July 6, Israel has been deploying its military forces in…
Kidnapped by Israel: The British Media and the Invasion of Gaza
Few readers of a British newspaper would have noticed the story. In the Observer of 25 June, it merited a mere paragraph hidden in the "World in brief" section, revealing…
‘Summer Rains Are a Good Blessing’
"Summer rains are a good blessing" — this is the title for a lesson in the second-grade grammar book of Palestinian children in Gaza. And while it is true that…
Christian Churches in Jerusalem: Stop the violence and pursue a just peace!
A statement by Christian leaders issued Saturday stated, "Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands at a distance; for truth stumbles in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter. Truth…
World cup? Palestinian women’s football team dreams of playing on grass
On a covered, concrete sports pitch in Bethlehem, 12 women are being put through their paces by the coach. They run around the pitch several times, do their warm-up exercises…
Excerpts from the blog of Mona, Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza
The power is still off. It comes on and off irregularly. The electricity company is trying hard to supply power to 1.5 million people who used to get electricity from…
Hospitals in Northern Gaza facing blood shortage as injured pile in
The Palestinian Health Ministry on Friday called on Gaza Strip residents to donate blood, reporting that apart from 24 Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours, 82 Palestinians were wounded…
Elderly man dies at border crossing; thousands of Palestinians stranded on Egyptian side
As the Israeli offensive into the Gaza Strip continues, claiming over 40 Palestinian lives this week alone, thousands of Palestinians are stuck at the closed border, sweltering in the heat…
‘Only Israeli lives count?’
The June 25 Palestinian fighters’ raid on an Israeli military post near the Gaza-Egypt border has sent Israel “scrambling to defend itself,” the voice of a BBC news reporter declared…
This Week in Palestine, July Week 1
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Palestinian security forces on high alert to confront Israeli forces to Gaza Strip
In a step aimed at confronting the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Interior Ministry gave orders to the Palestinian National Forces to be on highest alert and…
Army war plans attacks Beit Lahya, five residents killed several other injured
At least five Palestinians have been killed and several injured in an air strick at a residential block in Al Salteen area in Beit lahya town in the Gaza steip,…
Palestine Today – July 06, 2006
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Captured Palestinian Minister of Prisoners’ affairs health deteriorates; Israeli army transfers mos
Thursday morning Israeli army will charge the Ministers and Parliament Members with the affiliation with the Hamas movement in military courts in both detentions of Salem near the West Bank…
Europe’s response to the siege of Gaza is shameful
The Palestinians have no partner for peace. They will only have one if Israel agrees to recognise Palestine’s right to function. Thank goodness for the Swiss. Alone in Europe, their…
A trip to Erez crossing,
The Gaza strip, the most densely populated place on earth is completely walled up no one can get out or in, without the Israeli armies’ blessing. The Gaza strip has…
A trip to Erez crossing,
The Gaza strip, the most densely populated place on earth is completely walled up no one can get out or in, without the Israeli armies’ blessing. The Gaza strip has…
A trip to Erez crossing,
The Gaza strip, the most densely populated place on earth is completely walled up no one can get out or in, without the Israeli armies’ blessing. The Gaza strip has…
Israeli tanks enter Gaza Strip
Palestinian officials and witnesses said at least seven tanks, along with armored personnel carriers, entered the abandoned settlement of Nissanit, one of ‘s former settlements in northern Gaza, on Wednesday…
Palestine Today – July 05, 2006
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Israeli Army bombs, school, university and Ministry of Interior in Gaza
Israeli war planes shelled Dar Al Arkam School in the center of Gaza city Wednesday at dawn. The school was hit with two missiles that completely destroying the building along…
Palestine Today – July 04, 2006
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Army arrests Hamas spokesperson in the West Bank
Israeli army arrested Hamas spokesperson Farahat Assad in the West Bank Tuesday while he was on his way home to the Al Teera neighborhood near the West Bank city of…
Two Invasions, One Reasoning
What is the common denominator between the decision of the Israeli military to invade the West Bank in March 2002, and their decision to invade Gaza this week? One could…
Israeli Report on Discrimination Disputed by Bedouin Sector Rights Groups
When the Justice Ministry submits its report in August in Geneva, social groups will simultaneously submit documents criticizing the state report and elucidating state discrimination against the Bedouin sector. Bedouin…
The Other Side of Palestine: Crime in the Valley
Beyond the barren Judean Mountain range, east from Jerusalem, lies the Jordan Valley, an area which receives almost no media coverage, despite being home to 52,000 Palestinians and accounting for…
Palestine Today – July 03, 2006
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300 Palestinians stuck at the Rafah border crossing
Some three hundred Palestinian residents are currently stuck at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing after Israeli closed the Palestinian side. Palestinian officials are currently holding talks with…
Soldiers at Annexation Wall gate delay ambulance carrying sick child for two hours
Israeli soldiers guarding the gate of the annexation Wall near Azoun Atma village, 10 kilometers to the south of Qalqlia in the northern West Bank, stopped an ambulance transferring a…
Killing a Nation to Rescue a Soldier
From where I sit, that soldier appears to have become one more pawn in Tel Aviv’s attempt to destroy forever the Palestinian hope of a homeland. I am so tired…
Report: Israel will demolish one of Jerusalem’s seven historic gates
The Israeli Archeology department decided to destroy one of the gates in the Jerusalem old wall, which leads to the Aqsa mosque yards, in the old city, media reports said…
The games children play in Gaza
Most areas of the Gaza Strip are currently experiencing an extremely difficult period — Israeli warplanes and tanks never stop, day or night, firing heavy artillery against every target possible.…
This Week in Palestine, June Week 4
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Shooting Down Chances for Middle East Peace
The chance for peace is such a fleeting thing. Blink and you miss it. Open your eyes again and the guys with the biggest guns have shot peace down. I…
Weather forecast for Gaza: ‘Summer rain’
The Israeli Occupation Forces have called this a "Summer Shower" of their re-occupation (as if they ever left) of Gaza. While I’m hearing this, I feel like I’m watching my…
Palestine Today – June 29, 2006
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When is the capture of an enemy soldier a ‘kidnapping’ or an ‘abduction?’
When is the legitimate right to self-defense against a mighty military machine by a defenseless people called ‘terrorism’? The answer, a puzzling one, is that it is called ‘terrorism’ by…
Audio: Surviving the Gaza Beach Massacre
The Israeli shelling of Gaza beach is just another episode in the endless carnage that is the holy land’s 21st century manna from heaven, another level of the global war…
Palestine Today – June 28, 2006
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Palestine Today – June 27, 2006
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4-year old critically wounded in Israeli shelling survives surgery
Under the close supervision of the Arab Doctors Union (ADU), Egyptian surgeons have successfully extracted Israeli rocket shrapnel from the body of 4-year-old Lateefa Ghalia, who was critically wounded in…
Palestine Today – June 26, 2006
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Israeli court limits army power to keep farmers off their land
Palestinian farmers scored a victory Monday, at least on paper, when the Israeli High Court curtailed the army’s power to deny West Bank farmers access to their lands. In response…
Anatomy of the West Bank ‘Realignment’ Plan
The US government, with European urging, has requested that Israel give negotiation of a bilateral agreement with the Palestinian Authority one last shot. If by the end of the year…
Hamas to Resistance groups: Keep the Israeli soldier alive
The Hamas government called upon the Palestinian resistance groups who were involved in the attack against the Israeli military post Sunday to keep the Israeli soldier captured during the operation…
A week of Israeli ‘restraint’
In Israeli discourse, Israel is always the side exercising ‘restraint’ in its conflict with the Palestinians. This was true again for the events of the past week: As the Qassam…
Rachel Corrie: What’s in a Name?
My Name is Rachel Corrie was first staged in London at the Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs on 7 April 2005, then on 11 October 2005 at the Royal Court,…
This Week in Palestine, June Week 3
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Gunmen attack Preventive Security headquarter in Khan Younis
A senior official at the Preventive Security force in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that gunmen attacked on Sunday at dawn with shells and…
This week in Palestine, June Week 2
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Armed clashes break out in Tulkarem’s Legislative Council Headquarters
Members of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed resistance wing of the Fateh movement, stormed the Tulkarem headquarters of the Legislative Council late Thursday night. Once inside, the members opened…
Case Studies: Economic Sanctions Endanger the Lives of Very Ill Palestinians
Dr. Ghassan Bannoura, a doctor at Al Hussein Hospital (The Governmental Hospital) in Beit Jala, spoke recently of a patient named Mustafa Ahmaro, two and a half, from Hebron who…
Home Demolitions Increase After Ban On ‘Neighbor Procedure.’
An inquiry conducted by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has revealed that there has been a huge rise in the number of houses destroyed by the Israeli army in the process…
Children and Resistance: Audio feature
When a fighter dies who is lost? When a young man ends his life strapped to a bomb who is left behind? And where do the new generations find a…
Palestine Today – June 15, 2006
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WHO: averting humanitarian health crisis for Palestinians
The World Health Organization (WHO) called for urgent action to avert a humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories. WHO reported that the health sector in occupied Palestinian is currently…
Ministry plans ‘universal’ immigration law to ban Arabs from residency rights in Israel
Israel’s Justice Minister, Haim Ramon, has ordered his department to hurriedly draft the country’s first immigration law to protect Israel’s Jewish majority. He said a Basic Law was needed within…
Palestine Today – June 14, 2006
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