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Artery Of Life 5 Arrives in Istanbul
IMEMC – 28 Sep 2010 – Wednesday September 29, 2010 – 02:29, The Artery Of Live 5 solidarity flotilla heading to the Gaza Strip arrived on Tuesday in Istanbul and its activists held a press conference at a cultural center.
Mitchell To Meet Abbas, Arab And Israeli Leaders
IMEMC – 28 Sep 2010 – Wednesday September 29, 2010 – 01:45, The US State Department stated Tuesday that U.S. Middle East peace Envoy, George Mitchell, will be meeting Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and several Arab and Israeli leaders during his Wednesday and Thursday tour in the region.
Israeli Passengers From The Jewish Boat to Gaza Claim Military Statement Was False
IMEMC – 28 Sep 2010 – Wednesday September 29, 2010 – 00:24, Despite claims by the Israeli Military that the the boarding of the Jewish Boat to Gaza, the Irene, was conducted in a non-violent manner and was without incident, those onboard the ship have come out disputing the honesty of these reports, following the release of the Israeli citizens participating in the event.
Israeli Police Close Roads In East Jerusalem Neighborhood After Renewed Clashes
IMEMC – 28 Sep 2010 – Tuesday September 28, 2010 – 23:10, In the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, on Tuesday, Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian neighborhood residents, provoking a scuffle between Palestinians and Israeli settlers, according to local sources.
Palestinian Boy Released From Israeli Jail On Bail
IMEMC – 28 Sep 2010 – Tuesday September 28, 2010 – 18:55, An Israeli court released 12-year-old Karam Khaled Da’ana from Hebron, on bail after spending eight days in jail. Yet, the boy will not be allowed to go home until the case is concluded.
Settlers attacks reported in a number of West Bank lcoations
IMEMC – 28 Sep 2010 – Tuesday September 28, 2010 – 18:48, Israeli settlers attacked on Tuesday morning some areas in the village of Qaryut south of Nablus and broke into some houses, local sources reported.
Jewish Boat To Gaza Captured
IMEMC – 28 Sep 2010 – Tuesday September 28, 2010 – 14:43, The Irene, known as the Jewish Boat to Gaza, has been intercepted by the Israeli navy, on Tuesday, and is currently in transit to the Israeli port city of Ashdod.
Medics: Gaza worker shot at northern border
9/28/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian worker collecting stone aggregates near Gaza’s northern border was injured Tuesday when Israeli forces stationed near the Erez crossing opened fire. The worker said he was collecting rubble from an evacuated settlement before the incident. Palestinian medical services official Adham Abu Silmiyya identified the victim as….
Infant injured in Hebron raid
9/28/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — An infant was hospitalized Monday after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli police during a raid near Hebron, activists said. Mahmud Muhammad Abdul Fattah At-Teet, 18 months, was transferred to a clinic in Beit Ummar and then to a hospital, Palestine Solidarity Project spokesman Muhammad Ayyad Awad said, after the raid….
Report: Settlers prep to evict Jerusalem families
9/28/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A Sunday court ruling has opened the door for further evictions of Palestinian families in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, settlers told the Israeli press Monday. Jerusalem settler leader Aryeh King told the Israeli daily Haaretz that before the weekend, three Palestinian families would be evicted from their homes….
Gaza family narrowly escapes Israeli airstrike
9/28/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian family from the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip narrowly escaped death when an Israeli drone fired a missile at the family’s home Monday night, relatives said. The shelling coincided with an airstrike on the nearby Al-Bureij camp killing three militants. Kamal Abu Shamla….
Israel boards boat carrying Jewish activists
9/28/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli commandos boarded a Gaza-bound aid ship crewed by Jewish activists Tuesday, Israel’s army said. The Israeli military said the “provocation yacht” had been boarded without incident and was being routed to the Israeli port of Ashdod. Organizers called the “boat and its fate a [. . ] symbol of the chances….
Israeli police detain 24 in East Jerusalem
9/28/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli police detained 24 Palestinians from an East Jerusalem neighborhood on Tuesday, an official said. Wad Hilwa Information Center director Jawad Siyam said several women and children in the Silwan neighborhood were briefly detained when Israeli military and police forces shut down the entrance to the Wad Hilwa area. Palestinians were….
Jihad says fighters not injured in airstrike
9/28/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement denied on Tuesday that three Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike on Monday night were affiliated to the faction’s Al-Quds Brigades. The dead, three young men in their 20s, were transferred to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, officials said….
14 justices sue PA over vehicle restrictions
9/28/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Fourteen Palestinian supreme court justices have filed a lawsuit against the Palestinian Authority, prime minister and finance minister Salam Fayyad, and transportation minister Sa’di Al-Krunz. The plaintiffs complain that the Ramallah-based Palestinian government’s decision to reduce the number of government cars used by civil servants has inflicted….
Scuffles bring police back to Silwan
9/28/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Entrances to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan were closed off Tuesday when clashes erupted between settlers and Palestinian residents of the area. Violence was focused in the Wad Hilwa quarter, after locals said a settler assaulted a man on his way to work sparking a brief street scuffle between Palestinian….
Israel releases child charged with stone throwing
9/28/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — An Israeli military court Tuesday released a 13-year-old child following six days of detention on charges of stone throwing, fining the boy 2,000 shekels ($545). Karam Da’na was detained from his school in the Old City of Hebron on 22 September by Israeli forces and taken to the….
2 Gaza crossings partly open
9/28/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Two crossing terminals will be operational Tuesday, Israeli authorities told Palestinian officers, who estimated that 330-340 truckloads of goods would be transported into the Gaza Strip. Via the southernmost crossing of Kerem Shalom, Palestinian liaison official Raed Fattouh said 230-240 truckloads of commercial goods and humanitarian aid were….
Human rights film fest declared Nablus success
9/28/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Students at An-Najah National University in Nablus kicked off the Human Rights Film Festival with a teleconference from Gaza on Sunday, as organizers continued to connect audiences in the West Bank with students globally. Two screenings Wednesday were set to see students videoconference with a South African community group and American….
Egypt detains 12 migrants along Israel-Sinai border
9/28/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Egyptian security forces stopped two groups of African migrants attempting to cross the border into Israel from the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, a security source said. The source said forces spotted eight migrants near the Taba crossing trying to breach the fence into Israel.”The officers hailed the migrants who….
Abbas: Opposition has every right to mistrust Israel
9/28/2010 – PARIS, France (Ma’an) — President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that he did not fault Palestinian opposition factions for treating with suspicion Israeli plans for the West Bank.”There is a difference between opposition and ‘enemies of peace’,” he told reporters in Paris following a meeting with French Jewish leader Richard Prasquier. Palestinians….
PA official: No special treatment for settlers
9/28/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — A Palestinian Authority official denied Tuesday that Israeli settlers had been granted permission to restore Joseph’s Tomb in the northern West Bank district of Nablus, saying only the PA would be allowed to undertake the work. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said reports in Israeli media….
MK: Release prisoners ‘with blood on their hands’ for Shalit
9/28/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli member of parliament said Tuesday that his government should consider the release of Palestinian prisoners “with blood on their hands” if it would secure the release of a captured Israeli soldier. Speaking to Israel Radio, Shaul Mofaz said the prisoners’ release should be implemented “if there wasn’….
Haniyeh welcomes ‘positive action’ on unity
9/28/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza government premier Ismail Haniyeh said Tuesday that national reconciliation requires genuine will as well as an agreement on political and security partnership. Addressing ministers during the weekly cabinet meeting in Gaza City, Haniyeh said “we welcome the latest positive actions for reconciliation; we assure that we will put our….
WATCH: New video disproves settler version of Silwan shooting
Palestine Note 28 Sep 2010 – Jerusalem- Jerusalem police automatically accepted the version of the settlers guard about what led him to shoot dead Samer Sarhan. The head of the police, Aharon Franco declared that the guard was blocked and attacked by…
‘Jewish Boat to Gaza’ intercepted by IDF taken to Ashdud port
Palestine Note 28 Sep 2010 – Washington- The Israeli navy intercepted the “Jewish Boat to Gaza” earlier this morning and denied it access to enter into the Gaza strip waters. The boat according to a statement released by Jewish Voice for Peace…
Israel seizes Gaza aid boat
AlJazeera 28 Sep 2010 – Voyage organised by European Jewish groups to condemn “collective punishment against 1.5 million Palestinians”.
Egypt tycoon escapes death penalty
AlJazeera 28 Sep 2010 – Hisham Talaat Moustafa jailed for 15 years after court scraps death sentence for murder of his pop star lover.
Netanyahu disowns minister’s speech
AlJazeera 28 Sep 2010 – Israeli prime minister says foreign minister’s speech at the United Nations was “not co-ordinated” with his office.
Israeli Navy Boards Gaza-Bound Aid Ship
PNN – PNN – The Gaza-bound aid ship ‘Irene’ was boarded and taken over by Israeli Navel forces at approximately 11:30 am on Tuesday. Israeli Navy boarded the aid ship without incident and is…
Court Ruling Allows Settlers to Evict Palestinian Families From Homes
PNN – Jerusalem – PNN – On sunday a Supreme Court ruling may allow settler groups to evict more than a dozen families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah….
Direct Talks Between Israel and Palestine Suspended
PNN – PNN -After international pressure to extend the settlement freeze Israel decides to let the moratorium expire on Sunday. Standing beside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a press conference in Paris, French President…
Israeli Bombardment Targeting Gaza Leave Three Killed
PNN – Gaza — PNN — three Palestinian men were killed on Monday night during an air strike targeting the Al Buraje refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.c The Al Qudes brigades, the armed…
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (16-22 September 2010)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Tel Aviv woman throws kids out of fourth floor home and jumps
Ha’aretz – All three suffered serious bodily injuries; woman and her son are in induced coma, breathing through respirator.
Livni to Netanyahu: Don’t bring about the collapse of peace talks
Ha’aretz – Kadima chairwoman says she will support any decision which will save the negotiations with the Palestinians.
Vice PM: Settlement freeze was a mistake
Ha’aretz – Silvan Shalom tours Hebron as Israel’s settlement moratorium expires; knocks Palestinian request to extend freeze, saying even 10 months were ‘excessive.’
Settler leader: Construction freeze was needless, wasted gesture
Ha’aretz – Leading settlers gather to mark end of 10-month moratorium on West Bank construction; Refrain from defiance that can harm peace process, says settler MK.
Jewish Gaza-bound activists: IDF used excessive force in naval raid
Ha’aretz – Activists aboard Gaza-bound ship ‘Irene’ counter IDF version that the vessel was taken over in a peaceful manner.
Gilad Shalit’s brother: Don’t despair, you will not be forgotten
Ha’aretz – In new letter, handed to Red Cross’s Mideast chief in Geneva, brother of abducted IDF soldier writes of family’s continuing efforts to secure his release.
Netanyahu: Israel, Palestinians can reach Mideast peace in a year
Ha’aretz – Prime Minister’s comments released hours after FM Lieberman presents UN with his draft for a population, territory swap, as part of final status peace deal.
Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate resists deportation from Israel
Ha’aretz – Mairead Maguire has been barred from entering Israel as a result of her participation in the Rachel Corrie Gaza-bound aid ship in June.
UN panel: Israel suppressing footage of Gaza flotilla raid
Ha’aretz – Member of the UN Human Rights Council’s fact-finding mission says Israel is trying maintain a monopoly over its version of the deadly May 31 events aboard the Turkish aid ship…
Lieberman presents plans for population exchange at UN
Ha’aretz – Controversial scheme would see part of Israel’s Arab population moved to a newly created Palestinian state, in return for evacuation of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Abbas: Settlement construction will ‘force’ us to quit talks
Ha’aretz – Palestinian President reiterates threats to walk out of peace negotiations, despite U.S. efforts to mediate compromise.
Cargo of armed UN mines sparks El Al security alert in Canada
Ha’aretz – Drama at Toronto airport over anonymous shipment of primed explosives – later revealed to be destined for the UN in Sinai.
Gaza’s troubled tunnel trade swings into reverse
Ha’aretz – Tunnel imports plummet in Gaza after Israel eases blockade, resulting in closure of most tunnels.
Israel commandos ‘peacefully’ board Jewish Gaza-bound aid boat
Ha’aretz – IDF says commandos peacefully intercepted the ‘Irene’, the latest vessel to try to breach an on the Palestinian territory in the wake of Israel’s deadly flotilla raid in May.
U.S. envoy speeds to Mideast in effort salvage peace talks
Ha’aretz – George Mitchell will try to bridge gaps that Palestinian, Israel and American officials failed to close in a frenetic round of meetings in the U.S. last week.
U.S. says Syria ‘very interested’ in pursuing peace talks with Israel
Ha’aretz – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met on Monday in New York with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem to push for negotiations.
Jewish Boat to Gaza boarded by Israeli forces and taken toward Ashdod port
Uruknet September 28, 2010 – The Irene, a boat carrying nine passengers and aid for Gaza’s population has been taken over by the Israeli navy and denied access to Gaza. The boat is flying a British flag and its passengers include citizens of the US, the UK, Germany and Israel. Two journalists are also on board. Last contact with the…
Gaza: Three Palestinians killed in Israeli raid
Uruknet September 28, 2010 – Three Palestinians said to be members of the Islamic Jihad group have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the southern part of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical workers and the Israeli military have said… Ambulance workers and medical officials said they recovered three bodies from the site of an explosion that occurred late…
Europe Offers Tax Benefits for Illegal Settlements
Uruknet September 28, 2010 – Organisations raising funds to benefit the Israeli army and illegal settlements in the West Bank enjoy tax-exempt status in Europe, an IPS investigation has shown. The Sar-El Foundation is one of several groups working in the Netherlands dedicated to supporting the Israel Defence Forces. It organises regular visits to Israel, where Dutch volunteers spend three-week…
Israeli Raid on Gaza Flotilla: A Revealing UN Rights Council Report
Uruknet September 27, 2010 – Following Israel’s raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on 31 May, the UN Human Rights Council elected to establish an independent international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law, including humanitarian and human rights law. On 23 July the three-person Mission was appointed. It consisted of Chairman Karl Hudson-Phillips, retired Judge of the International…
Riots Grip East Jerusalem
Uruknet September 27, 2010 – … Abed Shaludi, a member of the Bustan Committee Against Home Demolitions agrees with Diliani’s assessment, saying that the settlers are trying to provoke an uprising. “We are sick of the settlers and the situation. Our economical situation is weak, there are insufficient schools for our children, the settler guards walk in groups and intimidate the…
Homeless Bedouin Take On the State
Uruknet September 27, 2010 – The pukk…pukk …pukk of a generator wired into the engine of a small truck punctures the silence of the desert. A man folds the bottom of his long yellow galabiya robe, tucking it into his blue jeans. He takes a plank of wood from the back of the truck and carries it over to a…
No Closure without Addressing the Nakba
Uruknet September 27, 2010 – Facts that cannot be denied regarding the Palestinian-Israeli issue: the conflict did not start in 1967; Arab Palestinians constituted seventy-five percent of the total population and owned around 94.2 % of the land in Palestine by the end of the Mandate in 1948; and majority of the Palestinians today are refugees scattered throughout the world. Israel…
Israeli Settlers Begin Clearing Beit Ommar Land Immediately After Settlement Freeze Expires
Uruknet September 27, 2010 – On Monday, September 27th, 2010, at around 7am, Israeli settlers from Migdal Oz used a bulldozer to clear 2 dunams of Palestinian land in the southern West Bank. The land belongs to Abed al Halim Abu Ayyesh from Beit Ommar. The settlers began clearing his land close to the entrance of Migdal Oz just hours…
Settlement Activities Did Not Stop During Settlement Freeze, Research Center Says
Uruknet September 27, 2010- The Land and Research Center reported that Israel was ongoing with its settlement activities during the co-called temporary settlement freeze that officially expired by midnight Sunday. The Center said that Israel continued the work in more than 120 settlements and annexed large areas of Palestinian lands in the West Bank. It added that statistics revealed that…
Reaping terror’s reward: get in there first — that’s the secret
Uruknet September 27, 2010 – …Here’s the roll-call on who introduced terrorism (along with biological, chemical and nuclear weapons) to the Middle East: * Bombs in caf?©s: first used by Zionists in Palestine on 17 March 1937 in Jaffa. (actually grenades).* Bombs on buses: first used by Zionists in Palestine on 20 August-26 September 1937 * Drive-by shootings with automatic weapons: IZL…
Meeting at Red Cross Headquarters to discuss protection of Jerusalem MPs threatened with deportation
Uruknet September 27, 2010 – Officials from the Red Cross in Jerusalem and Gaza convened a meeting at the headquarters of the legislative council in the Gaza Strip to discuss ways to protect the Jerusalem deputies threatened with deportation. The meeting was attended by the leadership of the legislative council, the international campaign and officials of the Red Cross in…
No Justice for Jerusalem: Murdering Palestinian Jerusalemites in Cold Blood
Uruknet September 28, 2010 – Have you heard of Ziad Al-Julani, Mohammed Abdeen, Ra’id Abu Hammad, Hazim Al-Dab’aat and Samir Sarhan? Have you read their names in newspapers, in website articles, in social media messages? Have you stopped for a minute to think about these people, about their lives and the injustice done to them? Have you thought about these…
The Village Of Burin: Under Attack By Surrounding Settlements
Uruknet September 27, 2010 – The village of Burin is located less than 10 kilometers south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. With a population of approximately 3,500 that is wholly dependent on the yields of their olive trees, Burin’s lands are hemmed in by two settlements on the North and South ends of the village, named Bracha and…
Three protests in Gaza: Israeli sniper shoots Palestinian man, leaving him in critical condition
Uruknet September 27, 2010 – A 20-year-old Palestinian man, Sliman Abu Hanza, is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot in the abdomen with a ‘dum dum’ bullet at a demonstration in Al-Faraheen, Khan Younis, on Sunday. The injury was inflicted during one of three non-violent demonstrations which took place on Sunday; in Beit Hanoun, Maghazi and Faraheen…
Israel soldiers injure and detain Hebron child
Uruknet September 27, 2010 – Israeli soldiers attacked and detained a 13-year-old Palestinian boy on Monday in the Ar-Ras neighborhood of Hebron, witnesses said. Locals said soldiers hit Sayel Rebhi Abu Quweder, leaving him bleeding from his forehead and with bruises on his face. The boy was then handcuffed and taken to an unknown location, residents added…
Boat of Jewish Activists Heading for Gaza Strip
Alternative Information Center – An aid boat sponsored by Jewish activists is scheduled to arrive in Gaza waters today, 28 September, around noon.
Ashton Regrets Israeli Decision not to Extend Moratorium on Settlements
WAFA – BRUSSELS, September 28, 2010 (WAFA)- The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission Catherine Ashton, regretted the Israeli decision
HR Defenders: UN Rights Council Must Ensure Follow‚Äêup on Goldstone Report
WAFA – GENEVA, September 28, 2010 (WAFA)- Tthe Committee of independent experts mandated to monitor and assess domestic investigations by Israel and the Palestinian side into war crimes committed during
Israelis Protest at Ashdod Port against Capture of Ship to Gaza
WAFA – TEL AVIV, September 28, 2010 (WAFA)- Dozens of Israeli peace activists gathered on the beach near Ashdod port, to which the Jewish Peace Ship is being towed by the Israeli Navy, to protest the
Ir Amim: Israel Should Deal Fairly with Palestinian Claims on Homes in West Jerusalem
WAFA – TEL AVIV, September 28, 2010 (WAFA)- ‘The political future of Sheikh Jarrah should be determined in negotiations’ said the Israeli Ir Amim NGO’s executive director, following the report that the
Mitchell in Mideast as Abbas says talks may collapse
Daily Star 28 Sep 2010 WASHINGTON: The United States and Israel on Monday agreed to advance work on a weapons system that would help Israel defend against short-range ballistic missiles similar to those launched by Hizbullah during the 2006 summer war….
US and Israel ink deal on short-range missile defense
Daily Star 28 Sep 2010 WASHINGTON: The United States and Israel on Monday agreed to advance work on a weapons system that would help Israel defend against short-range ballistic missiles similar to those launched by Hizbullah during the 2006 summer war….
Netanyahu disowns Lieberman’s UN call for expelling Arab Israelis
Daily Star 28 Sep 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel’s foreign minister said on Tuesday a peace deal with the Palestinians could take decades and pressed his own plan which seeks to get rid of as many Israeli Arab citizens as possible in…
Damascus hails ‘constructive’ dialogue despite US warnings
Daily Star 28 Sep 2010 DAMASCUS: Syria on Tuesday hailed its “constructive dialogue” with the United States after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met her Syrian counterpart Walid al-Moallem in New York and warned Damascus not to undermine stability in…
Divided Palestinians mark 10th anniversary of Intifada
Daily Star 28 Sep 2010 GAZA CITY: Palestinian leaders from Hamas and Fatah paid tribute to the Al-Aqsa Intifada on Tuesday as they marked the 10th anniversary of the devastating Palestinian uprising.”The Intifada restored the dignity of the Palestinian people and…
Iran to press for recognition of ‘nuclear rights’ in negotiations
Daily Star 28 Sep 2010 TEHRAN: Iran will press to have its “nuclear rights” recognized in talks with world powers who accuse Tehran of seeking atomic weapons, a Foreign Ministry spokesman told reporters on Tuesday.”Iran has announced its view points and…
Israeli navy diverts Gaza-bound yacht
The Guardian 28 Sep 2010 – Naval personnel board boat carrying 10 Jewish activists who were trying to break sea blockade The Israeli navy today boarded a yacht carrying 10 Jewish activists who were attempting to break the sea blockade around Gaza ,…
Solving the West Bank settler problem | Gabrielle Rifkind
The Guardian 28 Sep 2010 – Engaging with vilified Israeli settlers and letting them help forge Israel’s future could make them pioneers in a peaceful future The Israeli construction freeze in the West Bank hangs like a dark cloud over the peace…
OPT: Human Rights Council holds Interactive dialogue on Report of Fact-Finding Mission on Israel’s attack on the Humanitarian Flotilla
Relief Web 28 Sep 2010 – Source: UN Human Rights Council
OPT: 10 years to the second Intifada — summary of data
Relief Web 28 Sep 2010 – Source: Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
A Joint Appeal from Civil Society: The International Community Must Act Now to End Impunity for War Crimes in Israel and Palestine
Relief Web 28 Sep 2010 – Source: Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, Asian Legal Resource Centre, BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, F?©d?©ration Internationale des Ligues des Droits de I’Homme, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Palestinian and International Human Rights Defenders: ‘UN Rights Council Must Act Now to Ensure Follow- ?up on “Goldstone Report” and End Impunity for War Crimes in Israel and Palestine’
Relief Web 28 Sep 2010 – Source: BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, F?©d?©ration Internationale des Ligues des Droits de I’Homme, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Europe Offers Tax Benefits for Illegal Settlements
IPS Organisations raising funds to benefit the Israeli army and illegal settlements in the West Bank enjoy tax-exempt status in Europe, an IPS investigation has shown.
8th Week against the Apartheid Wall, November 9 — 16 2010
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UN experts say Israel suppressing flotilla footage
YNet News – Independent panel investigating Israel Navy raid claims Jerusalem is suppressing….
Arabs from north accused of recruiting for Hamas
YNet News – Two residents of Shfaram and Umm al-Fahm indicted for attempting to locate….
Lieberman: Peace deal may take decades
YNet News – In address to UN General Assembly, foreign minister says, ‘New generation that….
Iran unveils seaplane used for attacks, surveillance
YNet News – Islamic Republiv’s defense minister boasts its latest achievement – Bavar-2….
Navy stops Gaza-bound ‘Jewish vessel’
YNet News – (Video) IDF takes over boat carrying nine activists after warning passengers not….
Greece searches ship for arms bound for Syria
YNet News – Greek authorities suspect French-owned cargo vessel carrying weapons from North….
2 Druze suspected of spying for Syria
YNet News – Majdal Shmas residents Fares Shaer and Said Abu-Zayad accused of working for….
1,000 pray at renovated Joseph’s Tomb
YNet News – Ten years after intifada incident which left IDF soldier dead, site torched,….
Ahmadinejad to throw stone towards Israel
YNet News – London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper reports Iranian president planning….
Ministers: Lieberman causing Israel damage
YNet News – Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s speech before the UN, which was in stark contradiction with the official position of Israel’s government, has set Prime Minister …….
Teachers filmed hitting kids: The Facebook video that rattled Syria
YNet News – Three weeks ago a video uploaded by a Facebook group in Syria showing school teachers abusing small children became the talk of the town in the Arab country. In the …….
PM’s Office: Lieberman’s UN speech not coordinated with Netanyahu
YNet News – The content of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s address to the UN General Assembly was not coordinated with the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said …….
Abbas: Israel to blame if talks fail over settlements
YNet News – “Whoever decides to continue to build settlements and provide aid and protection to them decides to halt the negotiations,” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told AFP …….
10 Years to the second Intifada
B’tselem 26 Sep 2010 – Summary of data
Palestinian Information Center
Abbas is unfit to lead the Palestinian people
PIC 28 Sep 2010 – The reaction of the PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to the latest Zionist provocations, including the all-out settlement expansion drive has been disastrous and calamitous.
Zahhar: The Palestinian people’s general mood is with the resistance
PIC 28 Sep 2010 – Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar said that the general mood of the Palestinian people is all for the Palestinian resistance and against the peace talks with the Israeli occupation state.
Activists call on countries to stop Israeli violations
PIC 28 Sep 2010 – The Freedom Flotilla coalition ended its meeting in Athens after discussing developments related to current efforts to end Israel’s siege on the Gaza Strip and its unlawful policies.
Hamas calls on Abbas to end “pointless talks”
PIC 28 Sep 2010 – In an apparent attempt to materialize Palestinian reconciliation, Hamas called on de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to pull out of “pointless talks” with Israel.
Israeli court allows displacement of Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah area
PIC 28 Sep 2010 – Haaretz newspaper said that the high Israeli court issued a decision allowing the right-wing institutions to displace tens of Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
Israeli navy storms ship Irene, takes it to Ashdod port
PIC 28 Sep 2010 – Israeli marines on Tuesday boarded and took control of the Gaza-bound aid ship “Irene”, operated by Jewish human rights activists, forcing it to dock at the port of Ashdod..
Israeli occupation police round up 34 Palestinians in Silwan
PIC 28 Sep 2010 – Israeli occupation police on Tuesday rounded up 34 Palestinians in Silwan suburb, occupied Jerusalem, following violent confrontations in that troubled neighborhood, Hebrew media reported.
Haneyya: Palestinian state only guarantee for stability
PIC 28 Sep 2010 – Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya has said that the only road to security and stability in the region was the establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital.
MP Mona Mansour: PA military trials in the West Bank unconstitutional
PIC 28 Sep 2010 – Palestinian Legislative Committee member Mona Mansour (Nablus) said PA military trials organized against Islamic movement supporters and leaders in the West Bank are “unconstitutional” and “unlawful”.
Palestinian citizen wounded in IOF shooting
PIC 28 Sep 2010 – A Palestinian civilian was hit with a bullet in his right thigh on Tuesday when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stationed near Erez crossing fired at him.
Palestinian eviction threat comes at a sensitive moment
LA Times 29 Sep 2010 – The evictions of three dozen Palestinians would deliver a devastating blow to the peace process, Palestinian officials say. A court ruling would allow Jewish landowners to build housing in an Arab-dominated Jerusalem neighborhood. A threat to evict about three dozen Palestinians this week from their East Jerusalem homes to allow Jewish landowners to build housing in an Arab-dominated neighborhood is posing the latest threat to fragile Mideast peace talks.
Israel Stops Jewish Activists From Entering Gaza
New York Times 28 Sep 2010 – Israeli navy commandos peacefully commandeered a catamaran trying to break the blockade, officials said.
Israeli Foreign Minister Distances Himself From Talks
New York Times 28 Sep 2010 – At the U.N. General Assembly, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said peace with the Palestinians required an intermediate agreement lasting “decades.”
No Death Sentence for Tycoon in Egypt
New York Times 28 Sep 2010 – A court ordered Hisham Talaat Moustafa, a former member of Parliament, to serve 15 years in prison in the murder of a Lebanese pop star.
New video disproves settler version of Silwan shooting
Mondoweiss – From the Wadi Hilweh Information Center : Wadi Hilweh Information Center video reveals that the testimony given by the guard who killed Samer Sarhan last week Wednesday is invalid. The video recording was aired on Israeli Channel Two News. The killer told the Israeli police that the…
Why aren’t our congressmen hearing from this victim of endless Israeli expansion?
Mondoweiss – Now that Israel has made clear that the endless colonization process will continue, you’d think we might hear from the victims of that process. Meet Atta Jaber, a farmer whose house outside Hebron has been destroyed four times by settlers but who rebuilds and hangs on,…
Obama continues Bush policy promoting anti-democratic crackdown in the West Bank
Mondoweiss – Nathan Thrall has a great article in the current issue of the New York Review of Books on an issue that has received scant attention in the US press – US support for Salam Fayyad’s anti-democratic crackdown in the West Bank. US support has come mainly…
‘Why would YOU want to go THERE?’
Mondoweiss – This post introduces a new contributor, a young European Muslim who works in Israel/Palestine. She uses the Arabic pseudonym, Warda Yusuf, an homage to her grandfather, out of visa concerns. There she stood in a Cambridge University debating chamber, her stutter not failing her as she…
While the world sends its regrets, settlers move to evict dozens of Palestinians from E Jerusalem homes
Mondoweiss – and other news from Today in Palestine Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Dozens of Arab families may be evicted from East Jerusalem neighborhood under court ruling Judges reject appeal by Palestinians claiming to own a large plot in the western portion of Sheikh Jarrah,…
Israeli Navy Intercepts Jewish Aid Ship Heading to Gaza
Al-Manar 28 Sep 2010 – Israeli warships on Tuesday intercepted an aid ship, holding Jewish activists aiming at broking the blockade of Gaza, and diverted the vessel to an Israeli port. Amjad al-Shawa, a Gaza-based organizer, told AFP that ten “Israeli warships forced the boat to head for (the Israeli port)…
Abbas: If Settlement Building Continues, Talks Will Stop
Al-Manar 28 Sep 2010 – Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said Tuesday that Israel should impose a new moratorium on settlement building in the occupied West Bank for as long as “peace talks” are continuing. Abbas gave US mediation more time to work when he announced Monday he wouldn’t decide whether…
3 Palestinians Martyred in Israeli Air Raid on Gaza
Al-Manar 28 Sep 2010 – Israeli occupation forces kill three Palestinians Monday evening in an air raid on the southern part of the Gaza strip, Palestinian medical sources said. The martyrs, who had just got out of a car near El Bureij refugee camp, were members of the Al-Quds Brigade, the…
Meshaal to Abbas: Hold Your Promise… Quit Talks!
Al-Manar 27 Sep 2010 – The head of Hamas political council Khaled Meshaal on Monday called on Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to quit peace talks with the Israeli enemy after construction of settlements resumed in the occupied West Bank. “I call on my brothers at the Palestinian Authority, who had…
Pioneering Iranian blogger jailed
BBC 28 Sep 2010 – Iran sentences prominent blogger Hossein Derakhshan to 19 years in prison for ‘propagating against the regime’, Iranian media say.
Israel controversy over UN speech
BBC 28 Sep 2010 – Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman sets out Mid-East peace proposals at the UN that PM Benjamin Netanyahu says he had not cleared.
Israel intercepts Gaza aid boat
BBC 28 Sep 2010 – The Israeli military says it has taken control of a boat carrying Jewish activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip and is towing it into an Israeli port.
Iran stoning decision ‘not final’
BBC 28 Sep 2010 – Iran’s foreign ministry says no decision has been taken concerning a woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery after earlier conflicting reports.
Riots Grip East Jerusalem
Antiwar.com 28 Sep 2010 – SILWAN, Occupied East Jerusalem — Tension, the twisted carcasses of gutted vehicles, buses with smashed windows, smoldering dumpsters, streets riddled with rubber-coated steel bullets and empty cartridge cases, tear gas, and air thickened with black soot from burning tires marked the beginning of the fifth day…
Peace might upend wealth of Israelis
Sabbah report 28 Sep 2010 – With the resumption of settlement construction in the West Bank yesterday, Israel’s powerful settler movement hopes that it has scuttled peace talks with the Palestinians, too. It would be misleading, however, to assume that the major obstacle to the success of talks is the right-wing political…
UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis “Executed” US Citizen Furkan Dogan
Sabbah report 28 Sep 2010 – By Gareth Porter* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US…
Reaping terror’s reward
Sabbah report 28 Sep 2010 – Get in there first — that’s the secret If it wasn’t for the “war on terror” America and Israel wouldn’t be enjoying such military fun and games and reaping such fat rewards. Whole new industries are flourishing thanks to the considerable effort they’ve devoted to sowing…
(en) Palestine-Israel, Joint struggles at the end of Summer
A-infos 28 Sep 2010 – During the week anarchists against the wall of Tel Aviv reinforced the Sheikh Jarah coalition both in the eastern Jerusalem occupied Sheikh Jarah and Silwan and in the support for the Arakiv Bedouins in the south of Israel. Confrontations with the Israeli state forces were also…
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Reasoning Against Peace
Jonathan Cook, CounterPunch9/28/2010
Too Heavy a Price for Israeli Elites?
With the resumption of settlement construction in the West Bank yesterday, Israel’s powerful settler movement hopes that it has scuttled peace talks with the Palestinians.
It would be misleading, however, to assume that the only major obstacle to the success of the negotiations is the right-wing political ideology the settler movement represents. Equally important are deeply entrenched economic interests shared across Israeli society.
These interests took root more than six decades ago with Israel’s establishment and have flourished at an ever-accelerating pace since Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the 1967 war.
Even many Israeli Jews living within the recognised borders of Israel privately acknowledge that they are the beneficiaries of the seizure of another people’s lands, homes, businesses and bank accounts in 1948. Most Israelis profit directly from the continuing dispossession of millions of Palestinian refugees.
Israeli officials assume that the international community will bear the burden of restitution for the refugees. The problem for Israel’s Jewish population is that the refugees now living in exile were not the only ones dispossessed.
The fifth of Israel’s citizens who are Palestinian but survived the expulsions of 1948 found themselves either transformed into internally displaced people or the victims of a later land-nationalisation programme that stripped them of their ancestral property.more.. e-mail
Israelis ‘Executed’ US Citizen Furkan Dogan
Gareth Porter, Truthout, Information Clearing House9/27/2010
UN Fact-Finding Mission Says…
September 28, 2010 “Information Clearing House” — The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos.
The report reveals that Dogan, the 19-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent, was filming with a small video camera on the top deck of the Mavi Marmara when he was shot twice in the head, once in the back and in the left leg and foot and that he was shot in the face at point blank range while lying on the ground.
The report says Dogan had apparently been “lying on the deck in a conscious or semi-conscious, state for some time” before being shot in his face.
The forensic evidence that establishes that fact is “tattooing around the wound in his face,” indicating that the shot was “delivered at point blank range.” The report describes the forensic evidence as showing that “the trajectory of the wound, from bottom to top, together with a vital abrasion to the left shoulder that could be consistent with the bullet exit point, is compatible with the shot being received while he was lying on the ground on his back.”
Based on both “forensic and firearm evidence,” the fact-finding panel concluded that Dogan’s killing and that of five Turkish citizens by the Israeli troops on the Mavi Marmari May 31 “can be characterized as extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions.” (See Report [.pdf] Page 38, Section 170) — See also: Source and UN Report (PDF) more.. e-mail
Nobel Peace Laureate denied entry to Israel
Mya Guarnieri, Ma’an News Agency9/28/2010
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire was denied entry to Israel on Tuesday morning and detained at the country’s Ben Gurion International Airport.
Maguire, an Irish peace activist and a co-founder of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, was traveling to Israel and the West Bank with a delegation to learn about the efforts of Jewish and Arab women working for peace and co-existence.
“Dedicating your life to peace should not be a threat to national security,” one of the six founders of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, Jody Williams, said as she prepared to board a flight to Tel Aviv in the wake of the detention.
Maguire began the fight against deportation immediately, with the help of Adalah, a local NGO that advocates for the rights of Israel’s Palestinian citizens.
“We believe that the decision to refuse entry to Ms. Maguire is based on illegitimate, irrelevant, and arbitrary political considerations,” Adalah attorney Fatmeh El-Ajou commented.
“All of her activities [in Israel and Palestine] were done in a peaceful and nonviolent form and all of her activities should be protected under the right to express her opinion,” El-Ajou added.
Maguire has been a vocal critic of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians, including the siege on Gaza. In May, she participated in the Freedom Flotilla, a convoy of aid ships that set out to bring aid to the besieged Gaza Strip…. more.. e-mail
UN mission finds Israel used “incredible violence” in Flotilla raid
Electronic Intifada: 28 Sep 2010 – “No one was safe,” once Israeli soldiers began using live ammunition on board the Mavi Marmara , says an authoritative UN investigation team into the Israeli attacks on the Gaza aid flotilla.more
Israel’s Reasoning against Peace
Palestine Chronicle: 28 Sep 2010 – By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth With the resumption of settlement construction in the West Bank yesterday, Israel’s powerful settler movement hopes that it has scuttled peace talks with the Palestinians. It would be misleading, however, to assume that the only major obstacle to the success of the negotiations is the right-wing political ideology the settler movement represents. Equally important are deeply entrenched economic interests shared across Israeli society. These interests took root more than six decades ago with Israel’s establishment and have flourished at an ever-accelerating pace since Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the 1967 war. Even many Israeli Jews living within the recognised borders of Israel privately acknowledge that they are the beneficiaries of the seizure of another people’s lands, homes, businesses and bank accounts in 1948. Most Israelis profit directly from the continuing dispossession of millions of Palestinian refugees. Israeli officials assume that the…more
A Lie at the Heart of Israel’s Settlement Project
Palestine Chronicle: 28 Sep 2010 – By Richard Irvine As Israel’s self-imposed and largely irrelevant settlement freeze ends, Prime Minister Netanyahu has asked settlers to show ‘restraint’. It is an interesting choice of adjective, for people who show restraint are the injured and outraged; they are victims who although entitled to a full measure of justice settle for less to maintain good will and harmony. In the context of the West Bank settlers and Israel’s illegal colonisation no adjective could be less appropriate. Yet unwittingly it also reveals the mendacity behind Israel’s whole approach to these negotiations. Settlements – or to describe them accurately, illegal Jewish only colonies – did not happen by accident; nor do they continue as some sort of unfortunate but unavoidable historical hangover. Rather they are central to Israel’s entire policy with regard to the Palestinian territories. Centrally planned, funded and protected the settlements are aimed at achieving strategic goals. What those…more
Is South African Foreign Policy with Palestine Tied in Knots?
Palestine Chronicle: 28 Sep 2010 – By Iqbal Jassat — Pretoria In a recent interview, South Africa’s ambassador to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, Ted Pekane, made an intriguing observation: “Currently we have no intention of breaking ties with Israel. That would be counter-productive. Our policy of engagement applies to Israel as well. Only if the [Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas] asked us to support the disinvestments and sanctions campaign against Israel would we consider packing our bags”. This admission is the closest any senior foreign ministry official has come to in revealing an inherent weakness in this country’s relations with Israel/Palestine. It is shocking too in that it implies our diplomatic engagement in the world’s number one conflict zone is blinded and being pursued while voluntarily having our hands tied behind our back! More importantly, it discloses an intolerable weakness that inevitably is exploited by the stronger of the…more
It Takes a Cynic: ‘If I Were Not Obama, I Would Be Diogenes’
Palestine Chronicle: 28 Sep 2010 – By Dallas Darling As a lawyer and one time activist, President Barack Obama should not have lashed out at the Cynics when he asked the United Nations General Assembly and the world to back his plan to forge a Palestinian State and a secure Israel. Actually, it is Cynicism itself that is sorely and desperately needed in order for a just and secure Palestinian State and Israeli State to peacefully co-exist and thrive. It is unfortunate too, that the current meaning of “cynic” is someone who assumes the worst about human nature. However, Cynicism was an Ancient Greek philosophical movement probably founded by Diogenes of Sinope. The Cynics took their name either from their meeting place or from the word kynikos, referring to the free, unfettered-and always questioning-lifestyle mixed with contempt for the established social and political orders of their day. Cynics continually challenged and rejected the tyrants and tyrannical…more
Israel’s Political Firewall against the Truth
Palestine Chronicle: 28 Sep 2010 – By George Polley In an article published in the September 6th edition of The Palestine Chronicle (“Imagining Palestinians as Equal”) I began with this quote from novelist Aldous Huxley: “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” It is the key to separating out what is blatant propaganda and what is fair and honest communication. The purpose of Israel’s political firewall is blocking out and discrediting the testimony of the people it abuses on a daily basis and their supporters, through using high level elites. In my mental health career working with abusive systems was a main interest, and this is classic abusive system behavior. The example I used in the article was The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), formed earlier this year. Billing itself as dedicated to the scholarly research of the manifestations of…more
Israeli Raid on Gaza Flotilla: A Revealing UN Rights Council Report
Palestine Chronicle: 27 Sep 2010 – By Richard Lightbown Following Israel’s raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on 31 May, the UN Human Rights Council elected to establish an independent international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law, including humanitarian and human rights law. On 23 July the three-person Mission was appointed. It consisted of Chairman Karl Hudson-Phillips, retired Judge of the International Criminal Court and former Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago; Sir Desmond de Silva, former Chief Prosecutor of the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone; and Ms Mary Shanthi Dairiam, a specialist on international women’s rights. They were assisted by a large team including external specialists in forensic pathology, military issues, firearms, the law of the sea and international humanitarian law. The Mission began work in Geneva on 9 August and an advanced unedited edition of its report was published just over six weeks later on 22 September. Israel’s response so far…more
Jewish Boat On Its Way
Dissident Voice: 28 Sep 2010 – Haaretz reported this week that a boat carrying Jewish activists from Israel, Germany, the U.S. and Britain set sail on Sunday for Gaza, hoping to breach Israel’s blockade there and deliver aid. 9 Jews will participate in this brave mission: amongst them is Rami Elhanan, an Israeli peace activist whose daughter Smadar was killed in a suicide bombing in 1997. Elhanan rightly maintained that it was his moral duty to act in support of the Palestinians in Gaza because reconciliation was the surest path to peace. “Those 1.5 million people in Gaza are victims exactly as I am,” he said. Refusnik Israel Air Force pilot Jonathan Shapira, another passenger aboard the ship, told Haaretz that “we hope that the soldiers and officers of the Israeli navy will think twice before they obey orders to stop us.” Shapira also reflected on recent Jewish history: “Let them remember the history of our…more
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