Audio Report: The Daily News For May 11, 2006
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Jenin residents barred from traveling `“until further notice`; Israeli blockade affects daily lif
It took Jamil Khairi, a Jenin resident, seven hours to arrive to his home city from Ramallah during which he was forced to navigate difficult dirt roads in order to…
Dying for medicine in Gaza
Ahmed Ayad was unfortunate to fall sick while living under what Israel and its allies in the west are defining as the "ministries of terror". The 42-year-old Palestinian father of…
Fuel crisis in Palestine as Israel cuts supply
Dor Energy, the Israeli company that provides fuel to the Palestinian areas, has cut off all fuel shipments to the West Bank and Gaza, leaving Palestinians without fuel — a…
3 Palestinian children die due to medicine shortage
Three Palestinian children who suffer from kidney failure died Tuesday at Shiffa Hospital in Gaza due to the severe medicine shortage caused by an Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip,…
A Modest Proposal for Peace in Palestine
Peace may now be possible if the international community grabs the olive branch tentatively offered by Abbas and Hamas. “Peace at last, peace at last, thank God Almighty, there’s peace…
Hamas and the Palestinians
Innocent Palestinian people are being treated like animals, with the presumption that they are guilty of some crime. Because they voted for candidates who are members of Hamas, the government…
Palestinian gas stations organizing nonviolent demonstration against fuel crisis
The Bethlehem area is suffering a serious gas shortage which if continued would paralyze traffic in the district. Prices were already high, and have now skyrocketed. Lines of cars are…
Audio Report: The Daily News For May 10, 2006
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Audio Report: The Daily News For May 9, 2006
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Israeli Authorities level two houses in Jerusalem
Israeli bulldozers leveled on Tuesday morning one Palestinian house in Beit Hanina neighborhood, in Jerusalem after claiming that the house was illegally constructed seven years ago. Another house was leveled…
Audio Report: The Daily News For May 8, 2006
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Army invades Nablus, arrests 9 including a young woman
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday morning and arrested 9 residents including a young woman.Army vehicles and jeeps stormed the city and the nearby…
The Al Quds Brigades aghast at British newspaper report that they intend to assassinate Abbas
A newspaper article published Sunday has incensed the armed resistance wing of Hamas, the Al Qassam Brigades. The piece claims that Al Qassam intended to assassinate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.…
Settlers attack children in Hebron, wound three
Three Palestinian school children were injured in the West Bank city of Hebron after being attacked by extremist settlers living in illegal settlement outpost in the city. The attack…
P.A security officer arrested in Hebron
Last night Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian citizen at a military checkpoint occupying the western Hebron area of the southern West Bank. At the same time, Israeli forces are intensifying…
Mobile phone Camera captures torturous soldiers abuse against Palestinians in the West Bank
Many remain unaware of Israeli soldiers’ behavior against Palestinian citizens at checkpoints in the West Bank, the racial slurs, the torturous behavior and humiliation. This is the story,…
This Week in Palestine – May Week 01
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Cash-strapped Gaza taxi drivers turn to cooking gas for fuel
Facing sky-high petrol prices and fewer passengers, Palestinian taxi driver Abdel-Hakim Yassin now powers his shabby cab with cooking gas canisters as a financial crisis deepens in the Gaza Strip.…
Audio Report: The Daily News For May 4, 2006
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Go Home, Mofaz!
What is to be done with Mofaz now? As an elected MK on Kadima’s list, his place is in the Knesset. The mark of shame on his brow will only…
Audio Report: The Daily News For May 3, 2006
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Due to Israeli Siege, Gaza Suffers Unprecedented Health Crisis
Several Health Ministry officials at the Palestinian National Authority have warned of a serious health crisis in Gaza Strip due to the shortage of medicines and basic medical supplies, caused…
May 3: 58th Anniversary of ‘the Catastrophe’: Al Nakba
The entire debate between the old and the new historians revolves round the question of moral responsibility for the consequences of the first Arab-Israeli war. It is a pleasure and…
P.A Labor Minister; `“Our projects should be development and not relief`
As the workers of the world, and the Palestinians, celebrated the First of May, Palestinian workers remained jobless as a result of the Israeli military procedures, attacks and checkpoints barring…
Audio Report: The Daily News For May 2, 2006
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Israeli Military confiscates land, demolish Palestinian house, barn in Hebron area
The Israeli Army commander of the West Bank issued three military orders on Tuesday — to demolish a house and a barn in the West Bank city of Hebron and…
Israeli industrial zone in West Bank cheap laborer desribes the area as a ‘chemical grave’
Despite the daily repression, 45 year old Abu Fathi goes to work in an industrial zone beside an Israeli settlement in the Salfit District. Among the thousands of Palestinians working…
Audio Report: The Daily News For May 1, 2006
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Hamas: We are not involved in Karni attack plot
Hamas’ spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri distanced the movement from the plot to attack Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip which was foiled by the Palestinian security forces last week. Abu…
Israel crosses the threshold
On September 9, 1969, a big brown envelope was delivered to the Oval Office on behalf of CIA Director Richard Helms; on it he had written "For and to be…
Palestinians mark international workers day in Ramallah
A major Palestinian nonviolent march swept through the West Bank streets of Ramallah Monday in honor of International Workers Day. Their first stop was with Fateh spokesperson Ahmed Abdul Rahman…
17 residents arrested in the West Bank city of Hebron
The Israeli army invaded several villages and areas in the West Bank city of Hebron and arrested 17 residents, Monday morning, Palestinian sources rerported. In Bani N’aim village, troops stormed…
Bilin residents Protest the construction of the Wall on their land
On Friday the 28th of April on behalf of the International Middle Eastern Media Centre I traveled to Bilin to cover the weekly protest and resistance to the Israeli illegal…
Abbas must be allowed to be the link
It’s still too early to say if there is going to be a change of Israeli policies vis-a-vis the internal Palestinian situation by the yet-to-be-formed new Israeli government. Ehud Olmert…
This Week in Palestine – April Week 4
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Army invades Jenin and surrounding villages, arrests residents
Islamic Jihad Movement official in Jenin, Mahmoud Al Sa’adi, said that Israeli forces launched a wide arrest campaign on Friday against resistance fighters in several areas of the Jenin District.…
Robert Fisk: Another brick in the wall
If I were an Israeli I would have built a wall, but not as a way of stealing land. We have been conned again. The Israeli elections, we are told,…
PA: Arrest of Lawmaker Ahmed Mubarak is part of the pressure campaign against government
Palestinian Legislative Council Secretary General, Dr. Mahmoud Al Rahmahi has strongly condemned Iseael’s arrest of Palestinian Legislative Council member Ahmed Mubarak from Ramallah Thursday morning. On Thursday morning, a large…
Audio Report: The Daily News For April 27, 2006
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The Israeli army evacuates a military bass in the Beit Sahour
The Israeli Army evacuated the Osh-Ghrab military base east of of Beit Sahour near Bethlehem in the West Bank, on Thursday morning. Residentsfrom the surrounding area rushed inside the military…
Audio Report: The Daily News For April 26, 2006
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Three Resistance Fighters injured in clashes with PA security in Gaza Strip
Three resistance fighters who belong to the Popular Resistance Committees were injured Wednesday, when they clashed with the Palestinian Security forces who prevented an attack with a car bomb at…
Palestinians accuse US of practicing terrorism against Banks who transfer funds to PA
Palestinian government spokesperson Ghazi Hamad accused the United States’ administration of terrorism against Palestine by preventing Banks from transferring aid money to the Palestinian Authority causing a severe financial crisis…
Rubber bullets menace West Bank
Rubber bullets being fired in the occupied West Bank have seriously injured another Palestinian civilian. Ruba Mahmoud Awayes, 21, was on her way home from college when she was hit…
Palestinian PM: We collected funds for Salaries, trying to get them in
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniya said the government managed to collect funds needed for the state employees’ salaries, from Arab countries. Haniya said the money is now with the Arab…
New PA officials travel the same path as vegetables peddlers to market due to Israeli restrictions
The maze of Israeli military checkpoints inside the West Bank ensure that not only vegetables must be carried to market, but also students must walk to school, workers to their…
Audio Report: The Daily News For April 25, 2006
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PA Gov’t does not object Abba’s receiving aid and managing it
Palestinian Minister of Finance, Omar Abdul Raziq said on Tuesday the government has no objection if the President’s office will receive and manage international aid for the Palestinian Authority including…
A Double-standard Policy Towards Palestine
The international community double-standard policy towards the Middle East region, particularly, Palestine, has been steadily apparent since the formation of a Hamas-led Palestinian government in both the West Bank and…
Hamas: We expect Abbas to protect the Government
Following statements made by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in which he threatened to fire the Hamas-run government, Ghazi Hamad, a spokesman for the government said that Abbas should not…
Three-day national dialogue to begin Tuesday
President of the Political Committee in the Palestinian Legislative Council, Abdullah Abdullah, said the three-day national dialogue will begin Tuesday in Gaza and Ramallah via video conference. Hamas, Fatah, and…
The republic of Elad
On a Sunday, during the intermediate days of Pesach, Jerusalem was quite empty. Maybe the sudden rain kept the tourists away. In the city center, next to the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian…
Nablus Municipality Building, dating back thousands of years, attacked by anti-Hamas Fateh fighters
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) submitted two strongly-worded condemnations Sunday against aggressions in Nablus. Armed members of resistance parties, defying internal agreements, are using weapons reserved only to…
Hamas, Fateh agree to end internal clashes, tension
The Hamas-led Palestinian government and the Fateh movement, headed by the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, have pledged on Sunday to work in order to end the tensions between them after…
Fateh uproar over Hamas leader’s speech
Fridays’ speech by Hamas Political Office leader Khalid Mashal, put Fateh officials over the edge. They went so far as to refer to Mashal’s words from exile in Syria to…
Al Aqsa Brigades demand clarification of yesterday’s Hamas speech
The Fateh linked armed resistance wing, the Al Aqsa Brigades, demanding Hamas for clarifications of the statements made by Khaled Mashal on Friday. Saturday, the Al Aqsa Brigades, demanded the…
Army arrests two and turns one house into military post
Israeli forces arrested two Palestinian in Bethlehem and Hebron areas in the West Bank on Saturday morning, a Palestinian source reported. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society in Hebron said Israeli forces…
Hamas’ predicament: partly political naiveté?
Two months before the Palestinian election, I met in Ramallah with Hassan Yousef, a senior West Bank leader of Hamas. Talking to him before he began an interview on our…
Last chance for two states
"One million of the estimated 3.8 million Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories rely on Palestinian Government salaries for their livelihoods. Impoverishing and embittering our people will not only exacerbate…
This Week in Palestine, April Week 3
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PLO seconds Abbas decision to stop the formation of a special security unit
The executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, (PLO) approved in a statement published on Friday, the Presidential decree preventing the government to form a special security unit in the…
Palestinian MOF considering giving partial salaries to ease crisis
In bid to ease the hard situation, the state employees are facing because of the financial crisis the Palestinian Authority is in, the Palestinian Minister of Finance Omar Abdul Razeq…
Audio Report: The Daily News For April 20, 2006
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Can Hamas Change to a Political Organization?
Occupation is the seed-bed for terrorism. It creates a uniquely fertile environment for random acts of violence directed at civilians. The insightful analysis of Robert A. Pape “Al Qaidas Smart…
Earth is Closing in on Us
The shells keep falling. They’ve gotten inside my head, so that it’s not just my house shaking but but my brain throbbing. It’s like someone is banging a gong next…
Empty pockets, growling stomachs in Gaza
Food for everybody in the world is a means to survive, to stay alive and maintain a normal, healthy life. But in Palestine, food has become increasingly hard to buy,…
Audio Report: The Daily News For April 19, 2006
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April 18 Newscast
{enclose dailynews041806_ready.mp3} The daily news, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, http://www.IMEMC.org, for Tuesday April 18, 2006. The Israeli Army invade several West Bank cities and conduct…
PM Ismail Haniyeh: Peace is the Fruit of Justice
I know there are many people who mendaciously and maliciously or maybe ignorantly portray us as bellicose and anti-peace and prone to violence. As the Palestinian people continue their long…
Audio Report: The daily news for April 18, 2006
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Resistance demands Abbas to apologize for denouncing Tel Aviv bombing
The Popular Resistance Committees, and the Al Aqsa Brigades, demanded the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to apologize for slamming and denouncing the Tel Aviv suicide bombing carried by a suicide…
Activists describe West Bank violence
Two young human rights activists spoke last night in California about the Palestinian population of Tel Rumeida, Hebron, a West Bank neighborhood that also contains some of what were considered…
Troops break into two Palestinian schools near Jerusalem
For the second day, Israeli troops broke into Anata Secondary School for Boys, and Salah Ed Deen Elementary School in Anata, north of Jerusalem, and detained dozens of students. Head…
Uri Avnery: The Trees Went Forth
I met Olmert in the 60s, when I was a Member of the Knesset. He was the apprentice and servant (literally) of another Member: Shmuel Tamir. Ehud Olmert is now…
Audio report: The daily News
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Are 40 Percent of All Swedes ‘Anti-Semites?’
Anatomy of a Statistical Flim-Flam On March 14, 2006, a report on anti-Semitism in was published with sensational findings. It claimed that a significant proportion of the Swedish public harbor…
Gaza on brink of implosion as aid cut-off starts to bite
An empty watchtower overlooks a deserted road lined with rusting vehicle parts. The only traffic is a pregnant bitch and a mule and cart. This is Gaza’s economic lifeline, the…
9400 Palestinian political prisoners are imprisoned Israeli jails
On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners Day, Hussam Khader, who was an elected Palestinian Legislative Council Member at the time of his arrest, issued a statement regarding his case. The…
Palestinian girl loses eye after being shot by Israeli sharpshooter
A Palestinian college student from the Nablus area has lost her right eye after an Israeli army marksman shot at her while she on her way home from school. The…
Who is a terrorist?
The scenes from Gaza are heartbreaking. Heartbreaking? That’s not for certain. The sight of the Aben family from Beit Lahiya mourning its 12-year-old daughter Hadil last week did not stir…
Arab residents of Israel barred from entering Jericho
Israeli soldiers barred on Friday and Saturday thousands of Arab residents of Israel from entering the West Bank city of Jericho after Israel announced the Palestinian controlled city as a…
Gaza Mayor: Work stopped in more than 30 projects because of the closure
The Mayor of Gaza, Dr. Majed Abu Ramadan said, work in more than thirty projects has stopped because of the current closure imposed on the strip by the Israeli army.…
Elections in Palestine and Israel: Sumus vs Apartheid
This is, as they say, the crunch. This is the political moment all Israeli governments – all of them, Labor, Likud and ‘National Unity’ – have been working towards the…
Palestinian resident declares willingness to sell his house, offer money to the PA
Adnan Abu Haniya, 48 from Huwwara village said he is willing to sell his house and to offer the money to the Palestinian authority in a challenging step to the…
This Week In Palestine – April Week 2
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Despair amongst PA employees with further delays in salary as US, EU cuts aid to Palestians
Despair and fear is on the rise among Palestinian Authority employees [one of the largest sectors of the employed in Palestine] because of the delay in getting their salaries. After…
The Lobby and the Bulldozer
Weeks after a British magazine published a long article by two American professors titled "The Israel Lobby," the outrage continued to howl through mainstream U.S. media. A Los Angeles Times…
From Isdud to Ashdod: One man’s immigrant dream; another’s refugee nightmare
The Palestinian village of Isdud, about 50 km south of Tel Aviv on the Israeli coast, was taken over by Israeli forces during the creation of the state of Israel…
The uber-wardens
Two weeks ago, on Israeli Election Day, at 8 A.M., drivers wishing to leave Tul Karm from the eastern exit (toward Anabta) discovered that their permits were invalid. A soldier…
Gaza Airport: The airport with no planes
Tawfiq Musmar takes up his place behind the lost luggage desk at Gaza international airport each morning, checking all is in order at the baggage carousel before wandering off to…
Aqsa Brigades fighters briefly take over Cabinet building in Ramallah
Palestinian fighters of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh movement, briefly briefly took over the Cabinet building in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Thursday, protesting…
Iranian nuclear crisis is an inevitable result of Israel’s nuclear policy
There is widespread international agreement that Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons is an alarming prospect, but very little attention is paid to the most obvious, immediate reason why: that there…
As Aid to Palestinian Authority dries up, Palestinians facing food crisis
New Finance Minister Omar Abdel-Razeq has said the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority cannot pay salaries, at least for now. The suspension of direct aid to the Palestinian Authority by the European…
Palestinians in Jenin march on anniversary of 2002 Israeli massacre
Thousands of Palestinian marched through the streets of Jenin on Monday to mark the fourth anniversary of what they term the Jenin massacre — an Israeli assault on the refugee…
Eyeless in Gaza
Like the blinded Samson, America has great power but cannot see its obvious use. Hamas running Gaza, contrary to what our politicians and pundits are saying, is an opportunity to…
The Earth is Closing in on Us
The shells keep falling. They’ve gotten inside my head, so that its not just my house shaking but but my brain throbbing. It’s like someone is banging a gong next…
`“Let’s do it Saturday!`
{mosimage}Saturday has become a strange day of rest for the families from Anata, East Jerusalem. Parents go about their work without the anxiety of going to the secondary school gates…
No medications for the Gaza Strip
The Palestinian Ministry of Health slammed the Israeli decision to ban the entry of medication to the Gaza Strip, and the American and the European Union decision to halt all…
More Israeli restrictions on Qalqilia City
The bypass roads, checkpoints, land confiscation and Wall construction, which the city of Qalqilia into a prison housing 45 thousand Palestinians, were not enough for the Israeli government. Israeli soldiers…