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Israeli Police Detains 30 Left-wing Protestors In East Jerusalem
IMEMC – 14 May 2010 – The Israeli police detained on Friday at least 30 left-wing protestors in Sheikh Jarrah Arab neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem. One protestor was evacuated to a Jerusalem hospital suffering cuts and bruises.
Two Settlers Wounded near Ramallah
IMEMC – 14 May 2010 – Israeli sources reported Friday evening that two settlers were wounded after their vehicle came under Palestinian fire in near Ein Yabroud village, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
Palestinian Forcibly removed out of his home in Hebron
IMEMC – 14 May 2010 – Israeli soldiers forcibly removed a Palestinian resident from his rented home in Al Shuhada Street, in the center of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and claimed that the home is “owned” by the army.
Marking The 62 anniversary Of The Nakba AL Ma??ssara Protest The Wall
IMEMC – 14 May 2010 – At least around 150 villagers along with Israelis and Palestinians gathered on Friday in the village of Al Ma’ssara, southern West Bank and protest the Israel wall.
Troops Attack The Wall Protest In Bil??in And Arrest One Journalist
IMEMC – 14 May 2010 – Israeli troops arrested on Friday a journalist and attacked protesters with tear gas during the weekly anti wall protest at the village of Bil??in central West Bank.
Palestinian Teenager Killed in Settler Shooting East of Ramallah
IMEMC – 14 May 2010 – A number of major news providers, including Forbes, al-Jazeera, the BBC & the Associated Press, are reporting that a Palestinian youth has been killed in an act of aggression by a settler living in the occupied West Bank, following an incident involving the throwing of stones at the settler’s vehicle on route 60, east of Ramallah.
Human Rights Watch: Israel unlawfully destroyed Palestinian property during the war in January 2009
IMEMC – 14 May 2010 – Human Rights Watch revealed that Israeli army intentionally and unlawfully destroyed Palestinian property, falsifying claims that Palestinians used them for military purposes, during the January 2009 Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.
PCHR Weekly Report: Infant killed, 3 civilians wounded by Israeli forces this week
IMEMC – 14 May 2010 – In its weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that during the week of 06-12 May 2010, an infant died from tear gas inhalation fired by Israeli forces in Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron.
Palestinian boy shot, sources say by settlers
5/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by settlers, security sources confirmed late on Thursday, saying the child was targeted after throwing stones athis attackers’ car. Israeli military sources told media that the boy’s body was found, but did not confirm that the cause of death was shooting and said an investigation would be….
Israeli forces penetrate Rafah following explosion
5/14/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – An Israeli military vehicle was hit when an explosive charge detonated beneath it during a patrol of the Gaza buffer area north of Rafah on Friday morning. No injuries were documented by Israeli forces, and no armed faction has claimed the reported attack. Following the report, however, Palestinians in Gaza said eight Israeli….
Beit Safafa sit-in tent dismantled by Israeli forces
5/14/2010 – Jerusalem – Ma’an – The sit-in tent erected by the Salah family following the forced eviction from their home by settlers was demolished by Israeli forces on Thursday night, rendering an elderly couple homeless a second time. Eighty-nine-year-old evicted resident Sheha Salah lost consciousness during the raid and was taken to hospital for treatment, family members said….
High-profile detainee denied medical care, society says
5/14/2010 – Tubas – Ma’an – A prominent Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader in Israeli prison has been suffering from severe stomach pains and unable to see medical staff, the Tubas Detainees Society reported on Friday. Prisoner of Israel Mustapha Maslami was detained during the Second Intifada after being shot in the leg, society chair Mahmoud….
Arrest sweeps in Jenin, Tubas
5/14/2010 – Jenin – Ma’an – Israeli forces detained two residents from the Al-Far’a refugee camp in Tubas on Friday and handed over summoning orders to two others west of Jenin, security sources said. Israeli forces backed by armored vehicles raided the Al-Far’a camp and fired bullets and tear gas during house searches, security sources said. Ahmad Abdallah Tayeh….
Protests across West Bank
5/14/2010 – Ramallah – Ma’an – Injuries and arrests were reported Friday across the occupied Palestinian territories, as Israeli police and military forces cracked down on anti-wall protests in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Protesters clashed with Israeli police forces in Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem home to a number of settler groups. Police said 14….
Yaffa man marks 26 years in Israeli prisons
5/14/2010 – Jerusalem – Ma’an – A Palestinian man from Yaffa will mark his 26th year in Israeli custody on Saturday, officials from the Center for Detainees Studies announced. Researcher Abdel Nasser Farawneh said the man, Hafeth Qandas, was sentenced to 28 years in Israeli jails following his detention on 15 May 1984. He is now 52, and remains….
United march on Nakba anniversary in Gaza
5/14/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – The national and Islamic action factions in Gaza said they would hold a massive joint march on Saturday, marking the 62nd anniversary of the 1948 Nakba together. Walid Al-Awad with the Palestinian People’s Party (PPP) said Islamic Jihad called an all-factions meeting on Thursday that included representatives from rivals Fatah and Hamas. At….
Israel army: 2 hurt by Palestinian fire
5/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Palestinians opened fire at an Israeli vehicle north of Ramallah late Friday, the Israeli military said, apparently in the same area where Israeli settlers allegedly killed a Palestinian teenager a day earlier. Two Israeli civilians were lightly injured by sh
attered glass, a military spokesman said. Forces were searching the area, he said. Fatah’s….
Al-Aqsa claims responsibility for Ramallah attack
5/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – A shooting attack that lightly injured two Israelis late Friday was carried out by Fatah’s armed wing, the group said. In a statement, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said its forces opened fire on a car belonging to settlers near the Ramallah junction at 6:45pm. The group’s forces confirmed a direct hit on….
Arab Bank troubles stem from Hamas, economist says
5/15/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – Officials from the Palestinian Monetary Authority (PMA) tried to assuage fears of a collapse of the banking sector in Gaza, stating on Thursday, that its strong relationship with the Arab Bank was in good shape. Since the Arab Bank let off three quarters of its Gaza staff in April, then closed two out….
Protesters bill events as ‘culture of resistance’
5/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – The popular Palestinian singer Rim Banna will preform by the path of Israel’s separation wall at Al-Ma’asara on Friday, as protesters continue to call for a halt to the confiscation of West Bank lands. The event, which comes the day before Palestinians across the globe mark the 62nd anniversary of the Nakba, when….
For third week, Gaza imports increase
5/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Gaza crossings were closed on Friday, marking a continuation of limited terminal function despite a gradual inching up of goods imports permitted by Israel. Last week, total of 713 truckloads of goods entered Gaza, which the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairssaid was a 14% increase over the 625 trucks allowed….
Nablus man released from Israeli custody after 11 months
5/14/2010 – Nablus – Ma’an – Israeli forces released a Nablus man following four months in detention, during which his family was permitted a single visit, relatives said. The former detainee, Mahdi Kayali, was released from Ofer prison on Wednesday afternoon, and received by family members who had been waiting outside the facility since early that morning. According to….
Israeli forces detain 3 from Ramallah overnight
5/14/2010 – Ramallah – Ma’an – Israeli forces detained three young men from the village of Sinjel near Ramallah on Friday morning, witnesses said. Journalist Yehya Habayeb identified those detained as:Rizeq Masalmeh, a student at the American University in JeninAzem Masalmeh, a cousin of ReziqOday Asfour, a student at Abu Dis UniversityIsraeli media sources said two men were….
US contributes $20 million to Lebanon refugee camp
5/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – US Ambassador to Lebanon Michele Sison announced Wednesday that the United States is in the process of contributing $20 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to support reconstruction and emergency relief at Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon. Fighting destroyed the camp….
In photos: Launching of the largest Kuffeiyeh
5/14/2010 – Prime Minister Salam Fayyad takes part in a ceremony launching the largest Palestinian Kuffeiyeh in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on 13 May 2010. The ceremony was held on Thursday, during preparations for events marking the 62nd anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, to take place on Saturday, when Palestinians mark the anniversary of their….
Tulkarem village devastated by bird flu
5/14/2010 – Tulkarem – Ma’an – At least 750,000 chickens will be slaughtered and destroyed in the Tulkarem-area town of Bal’a, as a heavy Palestinian police presence surrounded the area, ensuring area birds diagnosed with bird flu were not transported out. The village, which exports between 4-5,000 cartons of eggs per day to areas in the West Bank….
The Russians are coming
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – Israel expressed “deep disappointment” Thursday over a meeting the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held this week in Syria with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, saying the organization must play a role in peace efforts. Calling Hamas “a…
Imposed solution can end Palestinian conflict
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – The old ways of negotiating between Israel and Palestine have failed. We need a multilateral approach using international law Israel has an extremely close relationship with the central mediator involved in brokering a peace deal, the…
Yemen’s sorrowful options
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – When the Soviets concluded their pull out from Afghanistan in February 1989, the United States government abruptly lost interest in the country. A devastated economic infrastructure, entrenched poverty, deep-rooted factionalism and lack of international aid caused…
Who are the Palestinians?
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – This item was sent to the MEGA (Middle East Geneticists Association) mailing list with subject title “Genetics & Politics.” It is a copy of a letter sent to the Society of Histocompatability & Immunology by Dr….
PLO envoy in Washington talks to Palestine Note
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – By Sarah Harlan Washington – As the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) prepares for renewed peace talks with Israel moderated by the United States, I had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Amal Jadou , deputy chief of…
US pledges $20m to Lebanese refugee camp
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – Washington – US Ambassador to Lebanon Michele Sison announced Wednesday that the US will contribute $20 million for “reconstruction and emergency relief” at the Nahr Al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, the US Department of State…
Report: Israeli police use dogs against demonstrators
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – Washington – Israeli police used police dogs against Palestinian and international protesters for the first time an a demonstration in Ramallah, Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported Friday. A police dog trains with in New Zealand […
Hamas responsible for Arab Bank pullout, economist says
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – Washington – Recent Arab Bank branch closures in Gaza were an effort for the bank to distance itself from Hamas, Palestinian economist Muhsan Abu Ramadan told Ma’an News Agency in a report on Friday. Arab Bank…
Phat Pharm CEO rebrands Israel
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – Martin Kace, the fomer CEO of Joe Boxer and Phat Pharm, gave a short talk on Thursday night titled “Rebranding Israel, Honestly” sponsored by the New Israel Fund at a New York bar called Sweet and…
Bird flu breaks out in West Bank
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – Washington – Three-quarters of a million chickens will be culled in the Bal’a village near Tulkarem as a result of an avian flu outbreak, Ma’an News Agency reported Friday. The outbreak of bird flu in Bal’a…
30 arrested in Sheikh Jarrah
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – New York – Israeli forces arrested 30 protesters and injured a journalist in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Friday, Israeli media reported . “Yes Sheikh Jarrah can,” the billboard reads, graffitied in support of…
Russia signs Syria arms deals
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – New York – Russia has agreed to sell warplanes, anti-tank weapons and air defense systems, Reuters reported on Friday quoting Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency on Friday. A Hungarian air force MIG-29 fighter jet appears in an…
Shin Bet arrests boycott leader
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – Nazareth – The recent arrest of two respected public figures from Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority in night-time raids on their homes by the Shin Bet secret police – brought to light this week when a gag…
Settlers blamed for shooting death of boy
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – Reports say boy, 14, was shot in the back New York – A young Palestinian boy was shot dead near Ramallah on Wednesday evening. Palestinians said that an Israeli settler was to blame for the killing…
J’lem Mufti barred from Al-Aqsa
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – Washington – Israeli occupation forces have barred Jerusalem mufti Sheikh Ekrima Sabri from entering the Temple Mount for six months, Al-Jazeera reported Friday. Al-Aqsa Mosque located at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City is the…
Yemen: IDP camp ‘better than home’
Palestine Note 14 May 2010 – Haradh – IRIN – Three square meals a day, 24/7 electricity and a resident-to-medical staff ratio of less than 400:1 are hardly the facilities one associates with camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs), yet conditions in…
Obama urges funds for Israel shield
AlJazeera 14 May 2010 – US president asks Congress to back Israeli “Iron Dome” anti-missile system.
Prosecutors weighing charges against bus driver involved in fatal crash
Ha’aretz – Ghanem Bahjat likely to be charged either with manslaughter or causing death by negligence over role in accident in which 5 people were killed on Thursday.
Israel refuses re-entry to 5 Druze who made condolence call in Syria
Ha’aretz – Golan Heights residents stuck in Syria for more than six weeks after visiting family members in Suwara.
Tel Aviv marathon draws record number of runners
Ha’aretz – 39 participants treated by Magen David Adom during the course of the morning.
5 dead, dozens hurt as bus collides with truck in north
Ha’aretz – Driver of bus apparently had his license revoked in the past due to serious traffic violation.
Diplomats: Iran improving technology for high-grade uranium
Ha’aretz – Iran first started enriching small amounts of uranium to higher levels in February, saying it wanted to make fuel for a medical research reactor.
Clinton: We won’t get a serious response from Iran without sanctions
Ha’aretz – U.S. Secretary of State: We won’t get any serious response out of the Iranians until after the Security Council acts.
Report: Russia signs arms deal with Syria
Ha’aretz – A Russian news agency quotes a senior Russian official as saying Syria will be supplied with warplanes, anti-tank weapons, and air defense systems.
Two Israelis lightly injured in West Bank shooting attack
Ha’aretz – Palestinian sources say settlers killed stone-throwing teen near Ramallah on Thursday; police earlier alerted by Israeli citizens who saw three men, one armed, get out of the car in the area.
Four Israeli Bedouin arrested for conspiracy to commit terror acts
Ha’aretz – Residents of Rahat detained by police for routinely throwing firebombs at civilian cars on a central Negev highway.
Shin Bet agent discusses his ‘special relationship’ with a Hamas spy
Ha’aretz – G., aka ‘Captain Loai,’ was a Shin Bet man who ran agent Mosab Yousef – the son of a Hamas leader and the security service’s top source in that militant organization. ‘I admire the road he took,’ G. tells Haaretz in an exclusive interview about his relationship with an enemy-turned-friend.
Ten Palestinian children arrested in Hares
Uruknet May 14, 2010 – Between 1 and 6 a.m. Thursday morning, 10 boys under the ago of eighteen were arrested from their homes in the village of Hares, Salift region. The boys, entirely innocent, were taken to Huwarra detention center where they are now being held. A massive number of soldiers were involved in the raid. They arrived in the…
Video: Palestine Before the Nakba 1948
Uruknet May 14, 2010 – Ameer Makhoul is an Israeli citizen, human rights activist, and head of the internationally recognized Ittijah NGO, engaged in “strengthen(ing) and empower(ing) the Palestinian people within the Green Line (1.5 million Israeli citizens by) promoting the development of Palestinian civil society and advocating for political change, economic and social development.” He’s also chair of the Public…
Israeli Persecution of Human Rights Activists
Uruknet May 14, 2010 – Ameer Makhoul is an Israeli citizen, human rights activist, and head of the internationally recognized Ittijah NGO, engaged in “strengthen(ing) and empower(ing) the Palestinian people within the Green Line (1.5 million Israeli citizens by) promoting the development of Palestinian civil society and advocating for political change, economic and social development.” He’s also chair of the Public…
Video: Palestinian Villages Destroyed during the Nakba
Uruknet May 14, 2010 – Message 1: While playing one day, I found a beautiful wooden box stacked back in the cupboard. It was well-hidden and surrounded by several sheets as if to protect it from theft or damage. I quietly and carefully opened the box. Inside was only one item: an old iron key. I ran to my grandmother and…
62 Years, 62 Messages: We have A Home and it’s Called Palestine
Uruknet May 14, 2010 – Message 1: While playing one day, I found a beautiful wooden box stacked back in the cupboard. It was well-hidden and surrounded by several sheets as if to protect it from theft or damage. I quietly and carefully opened the box. Inside was only one item: an old iron key. I ran to my grandmother and…
Our Paradise on Earth
Uruknet May 14, 2010 – …In this paradise I was born and grew up. We worked hard the whole year, nevertheless we were content and very happy. We were wealthy; we had our families and friends around us and we had lands, cattle and property. We had a home we loved. This home is called Jrash. Then the Zionists came. The…
High-profilePalestinian detainee denied medical care, society says
Uruknet May 14, 2010 – A prominent Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader in Israeli prison has been suffering from severe stomach pains and unable to see medical staff, the Tubas Detainees Society reported on Friday. Prisoner of Israel Mustapha Maslami was detained during the Second Intifada after being shot in the leg, society chair Mahmoud Sawaftah said in…
Gaza: music to live by
Uruknet May 14, 2010 – “Why are you rushing? Isn’t it nicer like this?” Mohammed Omer, oud teacher (an oud is similar to a lute) at the Gaza Music School, asks his student. Omer takes the oud and demonstrates, playing the song slowly, gracefully, with the ornamentations that are key to Arab music. Mohammed Abu Suffiya, the 10-year-old student, has only…
Amnesty International: Israel must stop harassment of human rights defender
Uruknet May 14, 2010 – Amnesty International has called on the Israeli authorities to end their harassment of a human rights activist whose week-long detention by the Israeli authorities was extended today. Ameer Makhoul, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, was arrested in a dawn raid at his home in Haifa, northern Israel, by the Israeli security services and police on 6…
Zionist settlers execute Palestinian youth in Ramallah
Uruknet May 14, 2010 – A Palestinian youth died at dawn today, 14th May, after being shot by Zionist settlers in Wadi Al-Haramiyya in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian medical sources have reported that the boy, who has been identified as sixteen year old Aysar Yasser Fawaz Zarraq, bled to death for three hours in Wadi Al-Haramiyya after being shot late…
Yousuf: Israeli threats to freedom flotilla a crime
Uruknet May 13, 2010 — Dr. Ahmed Yousuf, the head of the government committee for breaking the siege and receiving delegations, said there are Israeli preparations to attack anti-siege boats and multinational activists who will come this month by sea to the besieged Gaza Strip, describing such threats as a “big crime”. Dr. Yousuf called on the international community to intervene…
Italian study reveals Israeli use of toxic and carcinogenic weapons in Gaza wars
Uruknet May 13, 2010 – A research study conducted by specialist Italian academics revealed the presence of residual toxic and carcinogenic metals (metallic chemical elements) in the tissues of Palestinians wounded during the Israeli wars on the Gaza Strip in 2006 and 2009. The research was carried out by the research group of new weapons based in Italy, which is composed…
Jerusalem Day is Every Day for Us
Uruknet May 13, 2010 – As strange as this may sound to an outsider, there is no day out the year that I despise more than Jerusalem Day. I live in Jerusalem, my children were born there and to me, it is the city closest to my heart. Still, tell me “Jerusalem Day” three times and I might just start hyperventilating….
Shin Bet recruiters enticing Palestinian medical students with Jerusalem entry permits
Uruknet May 13, 2010 – The Shin Bet security service is trying to recruit Palestinian medical students as a condition for granting them entry permits to Jerusalem, according to two medical students at Al-Quds University pursuing internships in Palestinian university hospitals in the city. The two students told Haaretz that a “Captain Biran” who said he was the Shin Bet agent…
Israel: The not-so-new Fascism — Palestinians, the not-so-new Unter-Menschen
Uruknet May 13, 2010 – The parallels are obvious to see, unless of course you don’t want to see the ‘victims’ turn into the victimizers. Such is the case with Israel, which quite properly should be described as a white racist, settler colonial state. But this is a description that is ‘beyond the Pale’ for the ‘civilized’ nations to accept. For…
Yemen’s Sorrowful Options: ‘Revolt, Migrate or Die’
Uruknet May 13, 2010 – …Since Yemen is not officially an occupied country, dono
r countries can easily disown their financial promises. Such promises are only made when Yemen is set for some military operation or another, or to prop up the central government’s own proxy war on terror. However, when the Yemeni people are in genuine and dire need for help,…
Settler celebrations of ethnic cleansing disrupt Sheikh Jarrah for second straight day
Uruknet May 13, 2010 – Hundreds of settlers held disruptive celebrations in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah yesterday in honor of “Jerusalem Day”. Dancing, screaming and praying in the street, the settlers disrupted life for over six hours, as police barricades and teeming masses prevented traffic from flowing as usual. One Palestinian woman was violently assaulted in the afternoon, resulting…
Iran – Photos and Video:General Strike in Kurdistan
Uruknet May 13, 2010 – Bazaar in Sanandaj shut down: Despite all of the security measures in Kurdistan for today, reports indicate that the bazaar in Sanandaj is completely shut down and the students did not attend their classes. The streets of Sanandaj are full of special guards. The city seems to be shut down. City of Divandareh: complete shutdown of…
US funds ‘apartheid’ road network in Israel
The National 14 May 2010 – USAid has reportedly built 114km of roads in the West Bank that critics say isolate Palestinians and leave main roads for exclusive use by settlers.
International Solidarity Movement
Palestinian Youth Shot Dead East of Ramallah
5/14/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – Popular Struggle Coordination Committee – Aysar Yasser alZaben, 16 years old, was shot in his back yesterday evening in his family’s lands in Mazra’a alSharqia, east of Ramallah, apparently by a settler. Aysar alZaben’s body was found in his plot by family members only hours after he was shot. He was found lying dead on the….
Sheikh Jarrah endures settlers’ ‘Jerusalem Day’ celebrations of ethnic cleansing
5/14/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – Hundreds of settlers held disruptive celebrations in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah yesterday in honor of “Jerusalem Day”. Dancing, screaming and praying in the street, the settlers disrupted life for over six hours, as police barricades and teeming masses prevented traffic from flowing as usual. One Palestinian woman was violently assaulted in the afternoon….
Ameer Makhoul’s Political Detention Extended
Alternative Information Center – On the 12th of May 2010, an Israeli Magistrates Court extended the political detentions of Palestinian civil society activists Dr. Omar Said and Ameer Makhoul by 4 and 5 days, respectively. The extensions were issued in…
Marking The 62 anniversary Of The Nakba AL Ma’ssara Protest The Wall
PNN – Ghassan Bannoura – PNN- At least around 150 villagers along with Israelis and Palestinians gathered on Friday in the village of Al Ma’ssara, southern West Bank and protest the Israel wall. Al…
Troops Attack The Wall Protest In Bil’in And Arrest A Journalist
PNN – Ghassan Bannoura – PNN – Israeli troops arrested on Friday a journalist and attacked protesters with tear gas during the weekly anti wall protest at the village of Bil’in central West Bank….
AMERA’s Chicken Project Expands
PNN – AMERA – PNN – American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) Chicken Project has been a resounding success since its start in 2009. It has expanded to more than 550 families in impoverished…
UN: Israeli Forces Injured 24 Palestinians In One Week
PNN – Bethlehem – PNN – Israeli forces injure 24 Palestinians throughout the West Bank, including in East Jerusalem the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported on Friday. The report documents…
Settlers Kill A Teenager In Central West Bank
PNN – Ramallah – PNN – A Palestinian teenager was shot and killed by Israeli settlers on Thursday night near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Ayssar Zrak, 16 years old, died after…
MIDEAST: Children Fight Off Israel With Music
IPS GAZA CITY, May 13 (IPS) – “Why are you rushing? Isn’t it nicer like this?” Mohammed Omer, oud teacher (an oud is similar to a lute) at the Gaza Music School, asks his student. Omer takes the oud and demonstrates, playing the song slowly, gracefully, with the ornamentations that are…
16-year old youth shot dead by settler
Stop The Wall – An Israeli settler killed a 16-year old Palestinian from the village of Mazra’a ash-Sharqiyyeh in the West Bank. Ayssar Yasser Az-Zaben was shot in the back after an armed settler chased his group into fields near his village yesterday at dusk. [
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory ( 06-12 May 2010)
PCHR 12 May 2010 – A peaceful protest organized by Palestinian civilians in Beit Jala town against the construction of the annexation wall….
Iran expands enrichment facility
Jeruslalem Post 14 May 2010 – Diplomat: 2nd “cascade” for enriching Uranium to 20% level ready.
2 shot in attack near Ramallah
Jeruslalem Post 14 May 2010 – Israelis driving near Ramallah lightly wounded from Palestinian fire.
Fighting proliferation with proliferation
Jeruslalem Post 14 May 2010 – Threat of a nuclear Iran prompts Saudi research.
Palestinian teen shot to death
Jeruslalem Post 14 May 2010 – Family says son was nearby when a settler fired at stone-throwing youths.
Jerusalem named top travel destination
Jeruslalem Post 14 May 2010 – Capital is the only Middle Eastern city to receive award.
Beduins arrested for terror plot
Jeruslalem Post 14 May 2010 – Suspects aged 16-24 planned to throw explosives at traffic.
Medvedev and Obama talk Iran, Mideast
Jeruslalem Post 13 May 2010 – Leaders discuss the need for “non-standard” approaches to problems.
Don’t interfere with campus conflicts | Antony Lerman
The Guardian 14 May 2010 – Debate in universities needs to be had — but it shouldn’t be interfered with by outsiders deciding what is or isn’t acceptable I was a Jewish student at the then very radical Sussex University in the…
Imposed solution can end Palestinian conflict | Omar Rahman
The Guardian 14 May 2010 – The old ways of negotiating between Israel and Palestine have failed. We need a multilateral approach using international law It is a sign of how far the peace process has retrogressed that the Israelis and Palestinians…
Jewish settlers shoot dead Palestinian youth-police
Relief Web 14 May 2010 – Source: Reuters – AlertNet
Wheelchairs Reach Disabled Kids in Gaza
Relief Web 13 May 2010 – Source: Life for Relief and Development
Food Given to 1,500 Families from Palestinian Camps in Jordan
Relief Web 13 May 2010 – Source: Life for Relief and Development
Lebanese arrested for spying for Israel
YNet News – Man suspected of providing Jewish state with details of location of Lebanese….
Hague slams Iran ahead of US trip
YNet News – New foreign secretary indicates Britain will continue to push for UN sanctions….
Obama seeks $205 million for Israel rocket shield
YNet News – Recognizing threat of missiles from Hamas, Hezbollah, US president seeks….
Palestinians say settlers killed Palestinian youth
YNet News – Sources in West Bank say local Jews shot teen to death after their car was….
Noam Shalit: Gilad crying out like Ron Arad
YNet News – Some 300 people attended a rally outside the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem on Friday evening, in which they called on Benjamin Netanyahu to work for the quick …….
Report: US inches closer to Iran sanctions
YNet News – WASHINGTON – US officials are quietly confident they are within striking distance of a long-sought agreement to impose new international economic sanctions on Iran …….
2 hurt in shooting attack near Ramallah
YNet News – Two Israelis were lightly injured from shrapnel on Friday evening after Palestinians opened fire at their vehicle near the British Police roadblock, north of the West …….
30 protestors arrested in Sheikh Jarrah
YNet News – Violent clashes broke out Friday afternoon between left-wing activists and police forces in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. About 30 protestors …….
Russia to sell Syria warplanes, air defense systems
YNet News – Russia has signed deals with Syria under which it will sell it warplanes, antitank weapons and air defense systems, Itar-Tass news agency quoted a senior Russian arms …….
Iran detains Iraq soldier over border shooting
Daily Star 14 May 2010 ARBIL, Iraq: Iranian troops fired into the air and detained an Iraqi border patrol officer after mistaking Iraqi border guards for Kurdish rebels on a northern stretch of the two countries’ border, officials said on Friday.There…
Greece hit by twin bomb blasts, no fatalities
Daily Star 14 May 2010 ATHENS: Bomb blasts at a prison and a court have rocked two Greek cities in the past 24 hours following anonymous tip-offs to Greece’s media, with police on Friday blaming far-left militants for one of the…
Israeli settler shoots dead Palestinian teen
Daily Star 14 May 2010 RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank: An Israeli settler shot dead a 16-year-old Palestinian youth after his car was stoned in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian security sources and activists said on Friday.Ayssar Yasser al-Zaben, 16, from Mazra…
Palestinians mark ‘catastrophe’ of 1948 exodus, demand right of return
Daily Star 14 May 2010 GAZA CITY: Palestinians marked on Friday the 62nd anniversary of the Nakba, the “catastrophe” of Israel’s creation, demanding the right of return of hundreds of thousands driven from their homes. Protests were staged in the Hamas-ruled…
Diplomats
say Iran beginning to expand enrichment facility
Daily Star 14 May 2010 VIENNA: Iran has set up new equipment that could let it produce more enriched uranium from a smaller amount of raw material, diplomats said Friday. The step could one day make it easier to produce a…
Turkish prime minister visits troubled Greece, backs arms cuts
Daily Star 14 May 2010 ATHENS: Longtime foes Greece and Turkey held a historic joint cabinet meeting in Athens on Friday, in a new top-level effort to overcome old grudges through better neighborly ties and economic cooperation that comes in the…
Palestinian Information Center
300 thousand Palestinian refugees within 1948-occupied Palestine
PIC 14 May 2010 – Many people think that the only Palestinian refugees resulting from the creation of Israel in 1948 are those living in refugee camps in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip or neighbouring Arab countries
Russia: other members of the Quartet have contacts with Hamas
PIC 14 May 2010 – The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that international communication had been opened with Hamas explaining that Moscow views Hamas as a movement that enjoys popular support..
Two settlers wounded near Ramallah
PIC 14 May 2010 – A settlers’ car was fired at on Friday evening near the village of Ein Yabroud to the east of the southern West Bank city of Ramallah resulting in two settlers (a man and a woman) being wounded.
Tens of thousands participate in two marches in Gaza to mark the Nakba
PIC 14 May 2010 – Tens of thousands of Palestinian participated on Friday in two huge marches in the Gaza Strip to mark the 62nd anniversary of the nakba.
Ministry of Public Works starts rebuilding destroyed homes
PIC 14 May 2010 – The Minister of Public Works and Housing in Gaza and a representative of IHH on Thursday laid the foundation stone for rebuilding homes destroyed by the Israeli occupation army..
Occupation authority renew orders barring Shiekha and Baz from entering Aqsa
PIC 14 May 2010 – Israeli occupation authorities on Thursday renewed orders barring Sheikh Ali Abu Sheikha and Sheikh Yousef Al-Baz from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque, for a period of six months each.
Tamimi: Female prisoners have high spirits
PIC 14 May 2010 – Female captive Ahlam al-Tamimi told Buthaynah Dekmak that the conditions in Telmond prison suffer like other prisons from escalation of measures after April’s actions..
Bahar: Return of refugees will not be achieved through negotiations
PIC 14 May 2010 – The first deputy speaker of the PLC, Dr. Ahmad Bahar said that Britain bears full historical responsibility for the Palestinian people’s Nakba, which resulted in the uprooting of Palestinians.
Jewish settlers kill Palestinian boy
PIC 14 May 2010 – A Palestinian boy on Thursday night died of a bullet wound to the back in the Wadi al-Harameyyeh neighbourhood of Beirzeit in the southern West Bank district of Ramallah.
Iran step could boost ability to enrich uranium, diplomats say
LA Times 14 May 2010 – The Western envoys say Iran has more machines producing medical reactor-grade uranium. The disclosure increases pressure on those seeking a resolution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program. Iran has expanded the number of machines producing medical reactor-grade uranium, an incremental step that could increase its ability to produce the highly refined material necessary to build a nuclear bomb, said two diplomats in Vienna, home of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency.
Palestinian Youth Shot Dead in West Bank
New York Times 14 May 2010 – The body of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy was found by his family in the farmlands of their West Bank village late Thursday night.
Kurds Stage Strike in Iran to Protest Executions
New York Times 14 May 2010 – Iranian Kurds staged one of their largest strikes in recent years, closing shops and bazaars in a challenge to the country’s leaders, who have long worried about this restive minority population.
Ameer Makhoul’s Political Detention Extended
Alternative Information Center 3 – On the 12th of May 2010, an Israeli Magistrates Court extended the political detentions of Palestinian civil society activists Dr. Omar Said and Ameer Makhoul by 4 and 5 days, respectively. The extensions were issued in closed door hearings in which Said and Makhoul were not…
How do you occupy the internet?
Mondoweiss – The neocons are flailing. JINSA, th
e Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, has sent out another email saying that the Obama plan to “train and equip” local proxies in the war on terror is failing because these local forces are part and parcel of the problem….
Inside the Beltway, at Cato no less, Iranian honoree says ‘gushing wound of Palestine’ is source of the radical fundamentalism
Mondoweiss – Amazing DC event. Huge Cato Institute dinner, 800 folks in the Washington Hilton ballroom in black tie, for the awarding the bi-annual Milton Friedman award. Amusing and occasionally profound speeches by CATO head Ed Crane (plenty of Greece mockery) and George Will. Republican country here, knowledgeable…
If it was all about oil, we’d have boots on the ground in Venezuela‚Ķ
Mondoweiss – The latest in a dialogue about the Israel lobby theory . In his response to my criticism Stephen Maher oddly ends up repeating the same leaps of logic that I objected to in the first place. To wit: no one disputes the fact that the US covets…
Dershowitz has Groucho Marx syndrome, only wanting to be at events that don’t invite him
Mondoweiss – Yesterday I did a post about Alan Dershowitz attacking a Harvard colleague, Duncan Kennedy, in his speech at Tel Aviv University last week. Dershowitz assailed Kennedy’s Harvard Law School class on Israel/Palestine legal issues but didn’t mention Kennedy by name. Then Kennedy responded to Dershowitz in…
Traveling from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv in N.Y
Mondoweiss – Gerald Steinberg spoke at a Midtown synagogue last night. He is the leader of NGO Monitor, which has waged a war against human-rights organizations, many of them Israeli, whose work was drawn upon by the Goldstone Report. I wanted to lay eyes on him because he…
Articles
Israeli Persecution Of Human Rights Activists
Stephen Lendman, Jnoubiyeh5/14/2010
Ameer Makhoul is an Israeli citizen, human rights activist, and head of the internationally recognized Ittijah NGO, engaged in “strengthen(ing) and empower(ing) the Palestinian people within the Green Line (1.5 million Israeli citizens by) promoting the development of Palestinian civil society and advocating for political change, economic and social development.”
He’s also chair of the Public Committee for the Defence of Political Freedom within the Arab Higher Monitoring Committee in Israel.
On May 10, Haaretz writers Jack Khoury, Amos Harel and Asshel Pfeffer headlined, “Two Israeli Arabs arrested on suspicion of spying, contact with Hezbollah,” saying:
“Reports of the arrests circulated widely on unofficial websites and blogs, but government censors had banned the Israeli press from reporting them until the gag order was lifted late Sunday night,” May 9.
Makhoul’s brother, Assam, a former Hadash MK, “said the family had no details of the investigation but they suspected authorities had singled out the activist because of his campaigns against the government’s ‘racist and discriminatory policies’ against Israeli Arabs.”
He’s well known as a regular participant in conferences on the topic and for actively criticizing government policies.
Hussein Abu Hasin, a lawyer familiar with these type cases, told Haaretz that Israeli espionage charges are so vague and wide-ranging that incidental Internet chats or phone conversations with anyone about anything might be used as a pretext to prosecute for communicating with someone in an “enemy state.” Hasin called these laws “draconian,” and in the case of Makhoul….more..e-mail
Mohammed Barakeh Interview: Is Israel really a fascist regime?
Haaertz, Israeli Occupation Archive5/12/2010
Hadash party chairman: ‘There is no horizon of peace, there is no horizon of equality and there is no horizon of democracy.’
MK Mohammed Barakeh, chairman of the Hadash party and a resident of Shfaram, participated on Monday in a demonstration in Haifa demanding that the government “stop persecuting Arabs.”
Q) MK Barakeh, do you really believe there is a fascist regime in this country, as you said at the demonstration?
A) “In the past, we shouted at demonstrations: ‘Fascism will not get through.’ But now, apparently, it is here at the door. A web of laws has been passed in the Knesset in recent years that don’t fit any democratic criterion. There is an assault on the Arab minority, as well as on its leadership and its media. Anywhere else in the world, they would have passed laws to punish war criminals. The only place where they are now thinking about a law to punish people who expose war crimes is Israel — and I am referring to the Anat Kamm case.”
Q) If there were a fascist regime here or anything resembling one, you wouldn’t be in the Knesset, but in prison.
A) “When I talk about fascism, it’s not only the Arab minority’s freedom of speech, it’s the fact that the economy is in the hands of 20 families and the fact that the social gaps are growing. Therefore, to try to reduce this whole matter to a question of Jews against Arabs — that’s not what it’s about.”
Q) Nevertheless, even if the situation is not good, what’s the connection to fascism? This is a slogan you use very freely.
A) “Racism has become more sophisticated over the years. It doesn’t have to be exactly according to Mussolini’s criteria. What is really outrageous is the silence of the lambs…. — See also:Sourcemore..e-mail
Buy Palestinian products
Akiva Eldar, Ha’aretz, Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development5/10/2010
Suppose some Palestinian group managed to set up a new settlement on land abandoned by refugees of the 1967 war in the Jordan Valley. What would your average Israeli patriot have to say about an Israeli contractor who agreed to build it, or about Jewish workers clambering on Palestinian scaffolds? What an outcry we’d hear from the Israeli right about such traitors! Never fear, our forces would never allow the uncircumcised to fix even a peg in the occupied territory under absolute Israeli contro
l (some 60 percent of the West Bank ). The imagined scenario of Jews building homes for Palestinians was created only for the sake of discussion – specifically of the protests in Israel against the ban recently imposed by the Palestinian Authority against Arabs working in the settlements.
It takes no small amount of audacity to threaten the Palestinians with harm to their economy if they refuse to continue building Israeli settlements on their own land. Only we are allowed to threaten boycotts every Monday and Thursday against countries that dare to criticize us. After all, we, as is well known, have the monopoly on patriotism. Remember the treatment the Etzel and Lehi underground militias meted out to Jewish girls who went to bed with British soldiers?
“Buy Israeli goods” is an important ethos – with emphasis on the word “Israeli.” Many Israelis, including this writer, and peace-seekers all over the world boycott products made in the settlements. But if Palestinian factory workers dare leave their jobs in the Barkan industrial zone in the West Bank, the president of the Manufacturers Association, Shraga Brosh, says he’ll make sure that the government closes off the Haifa Port to Palestinian goods.
The entire world, with our American friends at the forefront, insists that the beefing up of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem cannot be reconciled with the “two states for two peoples” solution. How can the Palestinian leadership be expected to stand by idly while 25,000 Palestinian workers put a stamp of approval on the occupation through their own labor and the sweat of their own brows?…. — See also:Sourcemore..e-mail
Gaza youth learn music and challenge the occupation
Electronic Intifada: 14 May 2010 – GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) – Mohammed Omer, 28, is one of five teachers at the Gaza Music School in Tel al-Howa, Gaza City. Formerly in the al-Quds hospital Red Crescent complex, the school moved to its current location not far from the hospital after the complex was bombed and burned during the 23-day Israeli assault on Gaza. Eva Bartlett reports.
Arrest of Palestinian leaders in Israel “a dangerous development”
Electronic Intifada: 14 May 2010 – The recent arrest of two respected public figures from Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority in nighttime raids on their homes by the Shin Bet secret police — brought to light this week when a gag order was partially lifted — has sent shock waves through the community. Jonathan Cook analyzes.
A Family Story within Middle East’s ‘Untold Story’
Palestine Chronicle: 14 May 2010 – By Aras Coskuntuncel — Hurriyet (Turkey) Ramzy Baroud’s ‘My Father Was A Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story’ will become a classic piece of literature about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through powerful language and stories rife with humor that subtly call to mind the bigger issue at hand. Baroud dialectically combines his family’s story and modern Palestinian history through inductive and deductive logic by relating his family’s story as the story of the Palestinian people and by making the Arab-Israeli issue a family matter. With this method, the history of Baroud’s family and Palestine becomes one inseparable body. Baroud’s heartbreaking story should be told, and by the power of the story and its language we understand the outright atrocities committed by Israel and the political and the cultural scene in Palestine. Baroud’s story starts in Beit Daras, a small, peaceful village north of Gaza that, like so many others, fell victim to…more
Shin Bet Arrests Leader of Boycott Movement
Palestine Chronicle: 14 May 2010 – By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The recent arrest of two respected public figures from Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority in night-time raids on their homes by the Shin Bet secret police — brought to light this week when a gag order was partially lifted — has sent shock waves through the community. The arrests are not the first of their kind. The Shin Bet has been hounding and imprisoning politicians and intellectuals from the country’s Palestinian minority, a fifth of the population, since the birth of the Jewish state more than six decades ago. Currently, two MPs from Arab political parties, as well as the leader of the popular Islamic Movement, are facing trials. But the detention of Amir Makhoul and Omar Sayid is seen differently — as the gathering storm clouds in a political climate already fiercely hostile to its Palestinian citizens. Mohammed Zeidan, the head of the Human Rights…more
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