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Protest in Artas against the Israel wall
IMEMC – 7 Aug 2010 – Friday August 06, 2010 – 20:27, The people of the village of Artas west of Bethlehem organized on Friday their weekly march against the construction of the wall on their land.
Anti-wall protest in Ni’lin to commemorate the death of one of its activists
IMEMC – 7 Aug 2010 – Friday August 06, 2010 – 20:16, The villagers of Ni’lin near Ramallah in the West Bank organized their weekly nonviolent protest Friday at noon.
Dozens Wounded In The Weekly Nonviolent Protest In Bil’in
IMEMC – 7 Aug 2010 – Friday August 06, 2010 – 19:51, The Popular Committee against the Wall and settlements in Bil’in organized their weekly march against the construction of the Wall on Friday at noon.
PCHR Weekly Report: 2 killed, 7 wounded, 7 abducted by Israeli forces this week
IMEMC – 7 Aug 2010 – Friday August 06, 2010 – 18:47, In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the week of 29 July — 04 August 2010, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that Israeli forces killed two Palestinian resistance fighters, one of whom was killed in an extra-judicial execution, in the Gaza Strip. Two resistance fighters were wounded by Israeli bombardment.
Abbas is not opposed to direct talks with conditions
IMEMC – 7 Aug 2010 – Friday August 06, 2010 – 18:26, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has laid out the conditions that would get Palestinians back into face-to-face discussions with the Israelis.
Palestinian-American professor threatened by Israeli authorities
IMEMC – 7 Aug 2010 – Friday August 06, 2010 – 17:49, Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, who has taught at Yale and Duke Universities in the US, and is a renowned author and activist on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, has been issued an order by the Israeli military to appear before a military tribunal on August 9th.
Settlers Attack International Peace Activists In Hebron
IMEMC – 7 Aug 2010 – Friday August 06, 2010 – 17:36, A group of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank City of Hebron attacked on Friday a number of international peace activists in Al Bweira area, in Al Dahiya Al Sharqiyya.
Settlers Assault A Palestinian Woman In Hebron
IMEMC – 7 Aug 2010 – Friday August 06, 2010 – 13:07, A group of settlers assaulted a Palestinian woman in Al-Buweira area east of Hebron in the southern West Bank Friday morning.
Masked settlers attack Danish, Canadian peace activists
8/6/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers violently attacked two international peace activists in a neighborhood east of Hebron on Friday, the International Solidarity Movement reported. Witnesses said three masked settlers attacked the activists in the Al-Buweira neighborhood, and fled after taking their passports and cameras, adding that Israeli soldiers offered the activists first aid. Canadian…. Related: Masked settlers attack international peace activists in Hebron
Gaza crossings shut down
8/6/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities informed their Gaza crossing counterparts on Friday that all crossings into the coastal enclave would be shut for the day. Palestinian liaison official Raed Fattuh told Ma’an that the crossings would be closed on Friday, and remain sealed for the scheduled closure day on Saturday. During….
3 boys taken from homes for suspected rock throwing
8/6/2010 – QALQILIYA (Ma’an) — Israeli forces entered the town of Azzun shortly after midnight on Friday morning and took three 14-year-old boys from their homes, head of the municipal council told Ma’an. Local official Ahmad E’mran said the town, west of Qalqiliya, was targeted during a night raid, and that….
3 injured in Bil’in weekly protest
8/6/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli forces injured three protesters, and dozens more suffered tear gas inhalation at the weekly anti-wall protest in Bil’in on Friday, the local popular committee against the wall said. International and Palestinian activists participated in the rally against the separation wall, which cuts villagers off from more than 60….
Settlers torch farmland east of Nablus
8/6/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers set fire to hundreds of dunums of farmland in the northern West Bank village of Beit Furik, locals said. High temperatures, dry earth and a water shortage all caused the fire to spread rapidly, witnesses added, noting a delay in the arrival of Civil Defense Crews. Ghassan Doughlas, a….
In photos: Aftermath of a home raid
8/6/2010 – MaanImages / Rami Swidan – Israeli forces entered the home of Osama Hamadneh shortly after midnight on 5 August 2010. His family was woken up and put in one room of the home as soldiers went through the rooms and searched, with family members saying it was unclear what the men and women were looking for. Following….
Egyptian forces chase rocket suspects in Sinai
8/6/2010 – CAIRO (Ma’an) — Egyptian security sources in the Sinai said a search was ongoing for two vehicles suspected of involvement in the rocket launches toward Israel and Jordan on Monday. Officials said they could not release details as the search was ongoing, but noted that it centered on the 15 kilometers of the Egypt-Gaza….
Hamas wing welcomes Egyptian resistance
8/6/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas’ armed wing the Al-Qassam Brigades released a statement late Thursday night attesting total non-involvement with the Monday rocket launches that hit Eilat and Aqaba.”Military acts from the resistance are carried out inside of Palestine,” spokesman ofthe brigades Abu Obeida said, added in a statement that also welcomed….
Israel-bound projectile misfires in Gaza
8/6/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza police said a home-made projectile exploded before it was launched from west of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday. Witnesses told Ma’an that they heard an explosion in the Al-Waha area of the town, near the border with Israel, but said it was unclear….
Following hospitalization, Fayyad said in good health
8/6/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority officials in the office of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said the leader was in good health and was continuing his work as usual following a gallbladder infection earlier in the week. On Thursday evening, Fayyad was transferred to the Ramallah Government Hospital when he complained of severe pain in….
Hamas: PA security arrests 8 West Bank affiliates
8/6/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — A statement from Hamas officials in the West Bank said Palestinian Authority security services detained eight of its members and affiliates. The Friday statement said the arrests were politically motivated, adding that they took place principally in the Qalqiliya, Hebron and Nablus districts….
F-16 occupies Gaza bedroom
8/6/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The press began flocking to the bedroom of a 20-something Gaza man last week, after photos of his war figurines made local headlines. Crammed into his narrow room, under an asbestos ceiling, are Abed Al-Latif As-Sadudi’s models of the figures that made an impression on the young….
Lettuce capital of Palestine protests wall
8/6/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Residents of Irtas village hosted international peace activists for a demonstration march against the continued construction of the separation wall on Friday. Nearly 100 gathered in the valley marking the village center, and set off to Wad Abu Amira, where Israeli forces continue wall construction. Spokesman of the popular committee against….
Algeria to send school books for Gaza kids
8/6/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Algerian parliamentarians will provide school uniforms and stationary for all children in Gaza’s government schools, the education minister said. Mohammad A’squl said the Gaza ministry sent information about the students to Algeria so that the donation could be sent in time for the new school year….
Erekat: Israel holds key to direct talks
8/6/2010 – JERICHO (Ma’an) — Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat affirmed Friday that the “key to direct talks is in the hands of the Israeli government.” Speaking after meetings to update French general consul, Fr?ɬ©d?ɬ©ric Desagneaux, and Norwegian representative Tor Wennesland, on latest developments in Palestine, Erekat expressed the PLO’s denunciation of….
Al-Habbash: Any political solution without Jerusalem will fail
8/6/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Religious Affairs minister, Mahmud Al-Habbash, called on all factions to stand behind Jerusalem, which he said is the basis of a political solution in Palestine. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, the minister said that despite the difficulties such as checkpoints, many institutes are based in Jerusalem because of the….
British delegation arrives in Gaza
8/6/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A British delegation bringing aid arrived in Gaza on Friday via the Rafah crossing on Egypt’s border. Ahmad Yousef, speaking for the committee to end the siege, said the group of 60 included two MPs and two members of the House of Lords and the head of the….
250 couples wed in mass ceremony in Gaza
8/6/2010 – GAZA (Ma’an) – The Islamic Organization held a mass wedding for 250 couples in a stadium in southern Gaza on Thursday afternoon. Thousands of family members attended the ceremony in Rafah, and were joined by Hamas leaders, including Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. Haniyeh said he hoped the next mass wedding ceremony will be….
Heatwave causes fires across Israel
8/6/2010 – TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Fires broke out across Israel on Friday as the heat wave continues, Israeli press reported. Firefighters are attempting to control fires in Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and in the Galilee, Israeli daily Haaretz said….
Newsweek columnist Fareed Zakaria returns ADL award over NYC Islamic center
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – New York – Newsweek columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria has returned an award he received from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over the group’s opposition to the construction of a Muslim community center near the former…
WATCH: Support gathers for US boat to Gaza
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – New York – Some 400 people crowded onto a small boat for a cruise around southern Manhattan on Thursday evening to help raise funds for an initiative to send an American ship to challenge the Israeli…
Smoke on a bridge: Lebanon awaits a verdict
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – Jamal is a Lebanese driver in his late 50’s. He appeared unshaven and terribly exhausted as he drove his old passenger van from the airport in Beirut to the Bekaa Valley. Although it was not a…
Will the Israel-Lebanon border blow up?
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – he situation on Israel’s northern border seems to be on the verge of erupting again. The details don’t particularly matter, although it seems pretty clear that the Lebanese army instigated the latest violence. The good news…
1,000 rally in Sheikh Jarrah to mark one-year evictions anniversary
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – Washington — More than 1,000 protesters gathered in Sheikh Jarrah, joined by hundreds of others across Israel, to mark the one year anniversary of evictions of Palestinian families from the East Jerusalem neighborhood, Ynet News reported…
Campaign underway to save Yale professor from Israeli jail
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – Washington – Palestinian activists and former Yale professor Mazin Qumsiyeh is under threat of arrest for his participation in and support of nonviolent resistance in the West Bank, according to fellow Palestine activists. Qumsiyeh has been…
Palestinian refugee kids visit math museum
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – Washington — Palestinian refugee children, part of the US-back Camp Discovery summer program, visited the Math Museum at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem, Ma’an News Agency reported Wednesday. Palestinian children painting a mural at their summer…
Texas surgeon on medical mission to treat Palestinian children
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – By Sarah Harlan and Steve Sosebee Washington – On August 5, Dr. Jose Monsivais from El Paso, Texas completed a 2-week mission providing expert hand surgery for children in Lebanon’s refugee camps and in the southern…
Algeria to fund Gaza’s schoolchildren
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – Washington — Algerian parliamentarians will fund uniforms and textbooks for all Gaza’s children in government schools in the coming school year, Ma’an News Agency reported Friday. Kindergartners in the West Bank city of Hebron. [delayed gratification…
PA official: Palestinians must hold on to Jerusalem
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – Washington — Palestinian Authority Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmud Al-Habbash said during a press conference Friday that Jerusalem remains vital to any peaceful resolution with Israel, Ma’an News Agency reported . Despite the obstacles of roadchecks and…
Ukraine arrests Israeli for organ trafficking
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – Washington — An Israeli man has been arrested in Ukraine for allegedly running a black market organ trafficking ring. A Ukrainian police squad. [WikiMedia] Haaretz reported Friday: The Israeli, whose name was not revealed, was arrested…
Settler violence: International activists attacked in Hebron
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – Washington – Three masked settlers attacked three international activists in Al-Buwayra near Hebron Friday morning, according to reports. Settler violence usually targets Palestinians, but internationals aligned with Palestinians are targets as well. [Boris from Vienna -…
Report: Settlers torch Palestinian land near Nablus
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – Washington — Israeli settlers torched tens of acres of Palestinian-owned farmland in the West Bank village of Beit Furik, southwest of Nablus, residents told Ma’an News Agency Friday. Ghassan Doughlas, a Palestinian Authority settlement affairs officer,…
Clinton HHS secretary claims harassment at Israel airport
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – Washington — Former US Secretary of Health and Human Services has complained of abuse by officials at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport, citing her Arab last name as the cause, Ynet News reported Friday. Donna Shalala spent…
Dep. FM says LAF coming under control of Hezbollah
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon accused the Lebanese Army of coming under the control of Shia Islamist movement Hezbollah, Lebanon’s The Daily Star reported Friday. Israeli Deputy FM Danny Ayalon [IsraelMFA – Flickr] Three Lebanese…
Saudi King coaxes Abbas on direct talks with little effect
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – Washington — Saudi Arabia is now urging Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to agree to direct talks with Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported Friday. Saudi officials have also offered to “sweeten the deal” by offering financial…
Report: No jail time likely in Mossad forgery case
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – Washington — After Poland agreed yesterday to extradite to Germany suspected Mossad agent Uri Brodsky, who allegedly assisted Israeli agents in the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud Mabhouh in January, German media has released reports saying…
Hamas militants applaud Sinai attackers
Palestine Note 6 Aug 2010 – Despite denial of involvement, PA says Hamas OK’d attack Washington – Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, released a statement Thursday night that further denied the Islamist movement’s involvement in rocket attacks Monday on the Israeli resort…
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (29 July — 04 August 2010)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
‘PR campaign for next IDF chief’
Jeruslalem Post 6 Aug 2010 – Channel 2: Document shows plan to alter public image of army officers.
‘Israel demands LAF court-martial’
Jeruslalem Post 6 Aug 2010 – Lebanese paper claims Israel wants unit commander held accountable.
Wave of fires breaks out across Israel
Jeruslalem Post 6 Aug 2010 – Four injured as fires hit South, North and Jerusalem region.
Report: Shin Bet head in Egypt
Jeruslalem Post 6 Aug 2010 – Yuval Diskin reportedly meets Cairo officials to discuss Sinai rocket fire.
US releases 2009 terror report
Jeruslalem Post 6 Aug 2010 – State Dept. addresses terrorist activity, threats in ME, N. Africa.
Tilting the Turkey-Israel-US triangle
Jeruslalem Post 5 Aug 2010 РPrime Minister Erdogan, facing domestic electoral challenges and feeling international pressure, is bashing Israel less… for now.
International Solidarity Movement
Masked settlers attack international peace activists in Hebron
8/6/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – Al-Buwayra, HEBRON – This morning, in a second day of violence in the village of Al-Buwayra, near Hebron, two international peace activists were attacked by three Israeli settlers wearing black masks. Both were left seriously injured and have been hospitalized following the unprovoked attack. The settlers knocked Canadian Peter Cunliffe, 26, to the ground then beat…. Related: Masked settlers attack Danish, Canadian peace activists
Due to heat wave, fires break out across Israel
Ha’aretz – Firefighting crews battling blazes in the Galilee, Golan Heights and hills outside Jerusalem.
Shalit campaigners plan ship-borne protest off Gaza coast
Ha’aretz – Relatives of the abducted IDF soldier are to be joined by members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Zubin Mehta.
Thousands attend funeral of seven family members killed in collision
Ha’aretz – ‘Just last week we cried together over the destruction of Jerusalem and now we are crying over another destruction,’ Rabbi Bernstein said at his relatives’ funerals.
Report: Israel demands discharge of Lebanese company commander
Ha’aretz – Israel denies report; IDF believes commander solely responsible for sniper fire that killed and Israeli officer at Lebanon border Tues.
Shin Bet chief reportedly visits Egypt over rocket fire from Sinai
Ha’aretz – Palestinian intelligence sources: Rocket fire at Israel, Jordan apparently initiated by Iranian intelligence officials.
Hamas leaders in Syria urge West Bank operatives to kidnap Israeli settlers
Ha’aretz – IDF West Bank division commander, Brig. Gen. Nitzan Alon, has warned Israeli settlers to be on alert for possible abduction attempts across the territory.
Police and settlers clash following West Bank outpost demolitions
Ha’aretz – Four people arrested; Settlers torch Palestinian fields in response to the demolition of several wooden structures at the outpost Mitzpe Avihai near Kiryat Arba.
315 Palestinians including 37 children and 5 women arrested by IOF in July
Uruknet August 6, 2010 – The Supreme National Committee for the Support of Detainees said that at 315 Palestinians, including 37 children and 5 women, were arrested during the past month of July in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. Al-Khalil was the most affected city as the IOF arrested a hundred residents from this southern West Bank…
Israel’s siege on freedoms
Uruknet August 6, 2010 – It’s three years since I’ve been back to Gaza. Much has happened since my last visit. Fatah waged a failed coup and now rules only the West Bank, while Hamas is in charge of Gaza. Israel launched its deadly Cast Lead assault. Fuel shortages. Electricity crises. And so on. I needed to regain perspective. So…
Palestinians Denied Access to Water
Uruknet August 6, 2010 – According to OCHA (the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), Palestinians face a serious water crisis, being denied access to their own resources. Cara Flowers with the Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Group (EWASH – a coalition of almost 30 water and sanitation sector organizations in Occupied Palestine) said many vulnerable communities in…
Settlers torch farmland east of Nablus
Uruknet August 6, 2010 – Israeli settlers set fire to hundreds of dunums of farmland in the northern West Bank village of Beit Furik, locals said. High temperatures, dry earth and a water shortage all caused the fire to spread rapidly, witnesses added, noting a delay in the arrival of Civil Defense Crews. Ghassan Doughlas, a Palestinian Authority settlement affairs…
EXCLUSIVE…Emily Henochowicz Speaks Out: Art Student Who Lost Her Eye After Being Shot by Israeli Tear Gas Canister in West Bank Protest Discusses Her Life, Her Art, and Why She Plans to Return
Uruknet August 5, 2010 – August 5, 2010 – Today, a Democracy Now! global broadcast exclusive interview with Emily Henochowicz. She’s the twenty-one-year-old American art student who lost her eye in May after being shot in the face by an Israeli tear gas canister at a protest against Israel’s attack on the Gaza flotilla that left nine people dead. “I’m…
A Question for ISCI/Badr: Why Should the Next Iraqi Premier Be “Regionally Acceptable”?
Uruknet August 5, 2010 – A new member of parliament and a high-ranking member of the Badr corps in Wasit, Qasim al-Aaraji, made some interesting comments in an interview with the Aswat al-Iraq news agency today. Rejecting Maliki’s accession to a second term, he stressed how the next prime minister would have to be “nationally and regionally acceptable”: “Regionally”, Mr….
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (29 July — 04 August 2010)
Uruknet August 5, 2010 – Shooting: During the reporting period, IOF killed two members of the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip. They also wounded 29 Palestinians, including 16 police officers, two women, two children and two resistance activists. They also injured a Palestinian boy and two international human rights defenders in the West Bank. During the reporting period, IOF…
Backed to the wall
Uruknet August 5, 2010 – …No doubt, Hamas is relying on a false belief that it can marry governing and resistance. It believed that the “disengagement plan” and redeployment of Israeli troops to the periphery of the Gaza Strip in September 2005 represented a collapse of the Oslo Accords. Accordingly, its participation in the 2006 elections would not be regulated…
Clinton Refuses to Answer My Questions About Gaza Flotilla
Uruknet August 6, 2010 – ….On June 14, 2010, I delivered to the Bureau of Consular Affairs, Office of American Citizen Services a letter to you requesting investigation of the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla in which one unarmed American citizen was killed by Israeli commandos and fourteen other American citizens were kidnapped from international waters and taken to…
Al-Sana calls for international protection for Negev Bedouins
Uruknet August 5, 2010 – Last week, the Bedouin village of al-Arakib in the Negev was completely razed during a brutal surprise dawn raid by Israel Land Administration workers supported by thousands of black clad Israeli special unit forces, police officers and aerial units. Dr. Awad Abu-Farikh, a resident of Al-Arakib and a spokesman for the village said “We were…
Hanna urges churches worldwide to prevent Israeli decimation of historic Christian sites
Uruknet August 5, 2010 – Theodosios Atallah Hanna, Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, has called upon churches internationally to immediately intervene to prevent Israel from continuing to obliterate features of Christianity in the Palestinian town of Ein Karem situated west of Occupied Jerusalem. Accompanied by his lawyer Keis Youssef Naser, Hanna visited Ein Karem on…
Arab liaison appointed by Israel is accused torturer
The National 6 Aug 2010 – Critics say Captain George’ — the police’s new Arab affairs officer and a former interrogator — reflects a growing hostility towards Palestinians.
Jewish and Arab protesters stage joint effort against evictions
The National 6 Aug 2010 – Demonstrations across Israel call for the end of Palestinian housing demolitions to make way for Jewish settlers.
American VIP Humiliated at Airport, Ynet reported
WAFA – TEL AVIV, August 6, 2010 (WAFA)- Prof. Donna Shalala, Clinton’s secretary of health, arrives in Israel in order to fight academic boycott against Israel, claims she was held at Ben-Gurion Airport
Dozens Suffer Teargas Inhalation
WAFA – RAMALLAH, August 6, 2010 (WAFA)- Organized by the popular committee against the Wall, in the West Bank village of Bil’in west of Ramallah, a massive march against the construction of the apartheid
Palestinian Fence Damaged in At-Tuwani Village
WAFA – HEBRON, August 6, 2010 (WAFA)- Palestinians from At-Tuwani in South Hebron Hills found Wednesday that the fence built between the village and the wood bounding Havat Ma’on Jewish outpost had been
New Yorkers Turn Out to Support U.S. Boat Sailing to Break Gaza Blockade
WAFA – NEW YORK, August 6, 2010 (WAFA)- More than 400 New Yorkers crowded into the Marco Polo Marina on 23rd Street at the FDR Drive last night for a sunset cruise around Manhattan to
Gaza aid flotilla to set sail from Lebanon with all-women crew
The Guardian 6 Aug 2010 – Arabic singer joins crew of nuns, doctors, lawyers and journalists for humanitarian mission despite Israeli warning A ship bearing aid for Gaza is preparing to leave Tripoli in Lebanon this weekend in the latest attempt to…
Muslim Aid delivers over £130,000 of Medical equipment to Gaza Hospital
Relief Web 6 Aug 2010 – Source: Muslim Aid
Middle East tops discussions between Ban and US Secretary of State
Relief Web 6 Aug 2010 – Source: UN News Service
Security Council Briefed by Force Commanders of Missions in Liberia, Sudan, Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo, Middle East Truce Supervision Organization
Relief Web 6 Aug 2010 – Source: UN Security Council
Lebanon: MTI Donation to UNRWA: Providing Injections in Short Supply
Relief Web 6 Aug 2010 – Source: American Near East Refugee Aid
LEBANON: Racism Legitimised by Law
IPS Lebanon has a reputation for openness because of the relative freedom enjoyed by women in comparison to other Middle Eastern countries. But many women face rampant discrimination.
New Report: People versus Oppression
Stop The Wall – One year ago, Stop the Wall and Addameer released a report entitled “Repression Allowed, Resistance Denied”, which detailed the repression of Palestinian human rights defenders active against the Wall since 2002.Today, in the 6th anniversary of the ICJ ruling against the Wall, The campaign publish this new document covering the ongoing repression between March – June 2010. [
Bil’in: 3 injured in weekly protest held in defense of Jerusalem
Stop The Wall – A delegation of participants in the 17th International Festival of Farkha, composed of youth from the West Bank and Palestine ’48, joined the residents of Bil’in in the demonstration. The clashes erupted as the Israeli occupation violently responded to the village’s protest. [
Israel, Lebanon ‘committed to cessation of hostilities’
YNet News – UNIFIL commander meets with senior IDF, Lebanese army reps at Nakoura crossing,….
Report: Iran starts more efficient uranium enrichment
YNet News – Iran has begun using extra equipment installed earlier this year to enrich uranium more efficiently, stepping up its nuclear work despite United Nations sanctions, a …….
General launches campaign against IDF chief?
YNet News – A document carrying the logo of the Arad Communications PR office reveals a planned campaign for the appointment of Major-General Yoav Galant as the next Israel Defense …….
1st year: 1,000 rally in Sheikh Jarrah
YNet News – More than 1,000 people across Israel on Friday took part in activities marking one year since Jewish residents entered the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. …….
IDF chief honors reservists seriously hurt in Lebanon war
YNet News – The Second Lebanon War ended four years ago, but Captain (res.) Yonatan Levin and Sergeant (res.) Dror Candelshtein are still fighting. During a ceremony at the …….
Palestinian Information Center
No amount of Hasbara could beautify Israel ‘s ugly face
PIC 6 Aug 2010 – Israeli hasbara doctors and their mouthpieces in the West don’t stop dithering about the perceived failure of the Israeli propaganda machine “to get the message through” to western audiences.
Occupation has started expulsion of Jerusalem residents with West Bank IDs
PIC 6 Aug 2010 – A human rights organisation said that the Israeli occupation has started expelling Jerusalem residents who carry West Bank IDs despite the fact that they lived in Jerusalem before 1967.
Jewish settlers set fire to olive groves in Beit Fourik
PIC 6 Aug 2010 – Extremist Jewish settlers on Friday afternoon set fire to olive groves in the village of Beit Fourik to the east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Abbas’s militia arrest eight Hamas supporters
PIC 6 Aug 2010 – Abbas’s militia continued its vicious arrest campaign against Hamas supporters in the West Bank arresting eight of them on Friday in the districts of Qalqilya, Nablus and al-Khalil.
Jewish settlers assault Palestinian woman in al-Khalil
PIC 6 Aug 2010 – A group of Jewish settlers attacked on Thursday evening a Palestinian woman in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil injuring her.
315 Palestinians including 37 children and 5 women arrested by IOF in July
PIC 6 Aug 2010 – The Supreme National Committee for the Support of Detainees said that at 315 Palestinians, including 37 children and 5 women, were arrested during the past month of July..
Khreisha calls for an end to political detention and torture in PA prisons
PIC 6 Aug 2010 – The second deputy speaker of the PLC, Hasan Khreisha, called for the release of all political prisoners, including the academics who were lately arrested and are being tortured in the PA jails.
More delegations visit sit-in tent of Hamas lawmakers in O. Jerusalem
PIC 6 Aug 2010 – Muslim and Christian delegations have visited Thursday the sit-in tent of the four Hamas officials threatened to be exiled from their city by force, condemning the Israeli decision..
Haneyya: The Palestinian people excelled at surviving against the odds
PIC 6 Aug 2010 – Ismael Haneyya, the Palestinian prime minister, has vowed Thursday that the Palestinian people would continue their march for freedom and liberation to the end..
Turkish Mavi Marmara ship starts journey home
PIC 6 Aug 2010 – The Israeli occupation authorities allowed the Turkish Mavi Marmara ship to sail back home two months after the Israeli navy stormed it and killed nine Turkish human rights activists.
World Briefing | Middle East: Egypt: Officers Accused of Rape
New York Times 6 Aug 2010 – An Egyptian woman wearing a black veil that covered her face said on television this week that police officers raped her after she stopped to ask for directions in a rural part of the country.
World Briefing | Middle East: Israel: Turkish Boat Heads Home
New York Times 5 Aug 2010 – The Mavi Marmara, the Turkish passenger boat at the center of a deadly raid by Israeli naval commandos as it tried to breach the blockade of Gaza in late May, was towed out of Haifa on Thursday.
AT-TUWANI: Palestinian fence damaged in village
Christian Peacemaker Teams – Palestine – Palestinians from At-Tuwani found Wednesday that their fence built between the village and the nearby Havat Ma’on settler outpost had been partially destroyed during the night.
At-Tuwani: Father of shepherd who videoed settlers stealing sheep threatened with fine
Christian Peacemaker Teams – Palestine – Israeli police make no attempt to deter Israeli settlers from stealing a sheep as its Palestinian shepherd takes video of the theft. But they fingerprint and threaten to fine the shepherd’s father, who was not involved in the incident.
Hebron: Israeli military assaults activists in street-opening action
Christian Peacemaker Teams – Palestine – The Israeli military seized local and international nonviolent activists trying to regain Palestinian access to a local street in Al Khalil (Hebron) on 24 July 2010. By the end of the episode, Israeli Military and police had arrested six local and international activists.
Tony Judt passes
Mondoweiss – We’ve heard that Tony Judt died today, the historian and writer/speaker, after a long illness, ALS. A giant, is all I can think right now, someone of tremendous intellectual confidence who followed such a worldly and erudite path that when the Israel/Palestine issue came front and…
Oren’s falsehoods
Mondoweiss – At Alex Kane’s blog , more on Ambassador Michael Oren’s Op-Ed in the Washington Post. Oren writes: Recent events have revealed the dimensions of this divide. On the same day last month that the Arab League authorized Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to move from proximity talks…
Settlers burn, assault, march, wear black masks, and other news from
Mondoweiss – Today in Palestine: Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Settlers torch farmland east of Nablus NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers set fire to hundreds of dunums of farmland in the northern West Bank village of Beit Furik, locals said. High temperatures, dry earth and a…
media conspiracy theory
Mondoweiss – The Israel lobby is an expression of older Jews chiefly. Sidney Harman is as old as Methuselah, almost. His wife Jane Harman, a congresswoman who appears at AIPAC and works for Israel’s interests, is 65. Forbes on Sidney Harman’s purchase of Newsweek : “Jane Harman would like…
In NY harbor, Palestinian-Americans take leadership role in US campaign for Gaza
Mondoweiss – Last night I joined a three-hour cruise on New York harbor that served as a fundraiser to send a U.S. boat to Gaza in October. This morning I have three strong impressions of the event: 1, the great widening that is taking place on the issue…
Articles
Emily Henochowicz speaks out: art student shot with tear gas canister interviewed on Democracy Now!
International Solidarity Movement 8/6/2010
Democracy Now! – Emily Henochowicz speaks out: art student who lost her eye after being shot by Israeli tear gas canister in West Bank protest discusses her life, her art, and why she plans to return.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Today, a Democracy Now! global broadcast exclusive interview with Emily Henochowicz, who—you may remember her name. She’s the twenty-one-year-old American art student who lost her eye in May after being shot in the face by an Israeli tear gas canister.
Emily is entering her senior year at Cooper Union’s prestigious art program here in New York City. This past spring, she chose to study abroad in Israel at a leading art school in Jerusalem. Emily holds Israeli citizenship. Her father was born in Israel, and her grandparents are Holocaust survivors. Soon after she arrived in Israel, Emily began spending time in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. And many of her drawings began to reflect the harsh realities of Palestinian life in the Occupied Territories.
AMY GOODMAN: On May 31st, news broke that Israeli commandoes had attacked a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in the Mediterranean and killed nine activists onboard. Emily decided to take part in a protest against the Israeli assault, and she joined demonstrators at the Qalandiya checkpoint in the West Bank. Israeli border police began firing tear gas canisters at the protesters. One of them hit Emily in the face and blasted her left eye out of her head. Several bones in her face were crushed. She was rushed to the hospital, but her eye could not be saved.
The Israeli Defense Ministry said, well, according to preliminary checks, the border police dealt lawfully with the protest and that the firing of tear gas was justified…. more.. e-mail
So please tell me again: What’s the war about?
William Blum, Axis of Logic 8/5/2010
When facts are inconvenient, when international law, human rights and history get in the way, when war crimes can’t easily be justified or explained away, when logic doesn’t help much, the current crop of American political leaders turns to what is now the old reliable: 9/11. We have to fight in Afghanistan because … somehow … it’s tied into what happened on September 11, 2001. Here’s Vice-President Joe Biden: “We know that it was from the space that joins Afghanistan and Pakistan that the attacks of 9/11 occurred.” 1
Here’s Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC): “This is the place [Afghanistan] we were attacked from 9/11.” 2
Rep. Mike Pence, the third-ranking House Republican, asserted that the revelations in the Wikileaks documents do not change his view of the Afghan conflict, nor does he expect a shift in public opinion. “Back home in Indiana, people still remember where the attacks on 9/11 came from.” 3
Here’s President Obama a year ago: “But we must never forget this is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans.” 4
And here is the president, two days after the release of the Wikileaks documents, referring to Afghanistan and Pakistan as “the region from which the 9/11 attacks were waged and other attacks against the United States and our friends and allies have been planned”. 5
Never mind that out of the tens of thousands of people the United States and its NATO front have killed in Afghanistan not one has been identified as having had anything to do with the events of September 11, 2001. more.. e-mail
VIDEO – Support gathers for US boat to Gaza
Palestine Note 8/6/2010
New York – Some 400 people crowded onto a small boat for a cruise around southern Manhattan on Thursday evening to help raise funds for an initiative to send an American ship to challenge the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
Activists on board the fundraising cruise in New York on Thursday evening. [Photo: Palestine Note]
The initiative, US to Gaza, is trying to raise $370,000 dollars to pay for a ship dubbed “The Audacity of Hope,” after the book by President Barack Obama. The group plans to sent the ship toward Gaza in the fall.
One of the organizers, former US diplomat and Lt. Col. Ann Wright said the group is “trying to do the impossible, that in a period of like nine weeks we’re trying to raise 370,000 dollars so that in the name of the US people we can have a ship that’s going to challenge the blockade, the Israeli blockade, the American blockade, the EU blockade of Gaza.”
Wright was on board one of the ships on the Gaza “Freedom Flotilla” which was attacked by the Israeli navy on May 31, leaving nine passengers dead. The attack on the flotilla sparked an international outcry against Israel’s policies toward Gaza. Write said the incident only further galvanized activists to act to end the blockade.
“I was a part of the flotilla the last time,” Wright said at a news conference at a Marina on 23rd Street before Thursday’s cruise, “And let me tell you, what happened there—that flotilla actually changed policies in the world, but didn’t change them enough, and that’s why we’re so proud of you all, 450 people people are going to be here tonight, 400 will be able to get on the boat.” more.. e-mail
Uribe’s appointment to flotilla probe guarantees its failure
Electronic Intifada: 6 Aug 2010 – The appointment of outgoing President of Colombia Alvaro Uribe Velez to a UN-commissioned inquiry into the massacre by Israel of human rights activists aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla makes a mockery of the investigation. Jos?© Antonio Guti?©rrez and David Landy comment for The Electronic Intifada.more
Israel’s siege on freedoms
Electronic Intifada: 6 Aug 2010 – Zionist sympathizers and their ilk have been providing us with the same “evidence” that Gaza is burgeoning: the markets are full of produce, fancy restaurants abound, there are pools and parks and malls … all is well in the most isolated place on earth — Gaza, the “prison camp” that is not. However, “prison camp” might be an understatement.more
Al-Quds University flouts own academic boycott
Electronic Intifada: 6 Aug 2010 – Al-Quds University is maintaining a joint Israeli-Palestinian master’s degree program with Haifa, Hebrew and Tel Aviv universities, despite a decision taken by its own University Council in February 2009 to distance itself from Israeli academic institutions. Jillian Kestler-D’Amours reports for The Electronic Intifada.more
Israel Plans Mass Forced Removals of Bedouin
Palestine Chronicle: 6 Aug 2010 – By Jonathan Cook – Al-Araqib Israeli security forces destroyed a Bedouin village this week for the second time in a matter of days, leaving 300 inhabitants homeless again after they and dozens of Jewish and Arab volunteers had begun rebuilding the 45 homes. Human rights groups warned that these appeared to be the opening shots in a long-threatened campaign by the Israeli government to begin mass forced removals of tens of thousands of Bedouin from their ancestral lands in the southern Negev. The High Follow-Up Committee, the main political body for Israel’s Arab minority, vowed this week to help rebuild the village for a second time and said it would call on the UN to investigate Israel’s treatment of the Bedouin. Al Araqib village, which is a few kilometres north of the Negev’s main city Beersheva, has become a symbol of the struggle by about 90,000 Bedouin to win recognition…more
Lebanon, Palestine: Provoking War
Palestine Chronicle: 6 Aug 2010 – By Stephen Lendman Perhaps suggesting a larger-scale planned offensive, recent violent Israeli outbreaks struck Gaza, the West Bank, and Israeli/Lebanon border, the first there since the summer 2006 war. Like Cast Lead, it was Israeli aggression – violent, lawless and unrelenting, a scorched-earth blitzkrieg, inflicting vast destruction, causing billions in damage, killing over 1,000 Lebanese, injuring thousands more, and displacing around a million others (about one-fourth of the country’s four million population), including over 300,000 children fleeing north for their lives. In the end, Hezbollah handed Israel a humiliating defeat. Perhaps revenge is planned. On August 4, Ma’an News reported that Israeli and Lebanese troops clashed – exchanging fire, killing four Lebanese citizens, including three soldiers. One Israeli soldier was killed. Reports said violence erupted after Israeli soldiers crossed the border, then tried uprooting a tree to install a surveillance camera and equipment, a chain of events leaving five dead….more
No Guns? They Must Be Terrorists
Dissident Voice: 6 Aug 2010 – Somehow, the Chilcot Inquiry has become like Big Brother. About once a month it pops up as a small item in the news and you think: “Oh blimey, I didn’t realise that was still going on.” Before long, like Big Brother, they’ll come up with stunts to try and revive some interest. So they’ll reintroduce contestants from previous inquiries such as Martin McGuinness and Christine Keeler, or make some witnesses complete a task of finding hidden ping-pong balls in the room or they have to give evidence blindfold. So it might seem these procedures are pointless, in which case it makes no difference that the Israelis have agreed to co-operate with a United Nations inquiry into the episode in which nine people died after the Israeli Defence Force went aboard the Mavi Marmara as it sailed towards Gaza. But it seemed to matter to the Israelis, because until this week…more of deposit” and $1.2 billion in mutual funds. Operated from behind a fa?ßade of well-appointed offices and…more
Smoke on a Bridge: Lebanon Awaits a Verdict
Dissident Voice: 6 Aug 2010 – BEIRUT, LEBANON — Jamal is a Lebanese driver in his late 50’s. He appeared unshaven and terribly exhausted as he drove his old passenger van from the airport in Beirut to the Bekaa Valley. Although it was not a particularly arduous trip, it was made more grueling by the way Jamal drove, negotiating the elevation, the hectic traffic and the many army vehicles speeding by. In Lebanon, a sense of urgency always seems to prevail, even when there are no urgent matters to tend to. Jamal’s driving style has probably changed little through the successive Israeli wars and bombardments of Lebanon in past years (the last being the 2006 war, which destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure and killed hundreds of civilians). Although no bombs were falling now, Jamal could feel something in the air. “They are cooking something big,” he said, “but what it is, no one really knows for…more
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