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Eight Palestinians, Including Three Children, Killed By Army Fire In Gaza On Tuesday
IMEMC – Wednesday March 23, 2011 – 04:22, In the most recent wave of Israeli military escalation targeting the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian medical sources reported that eight Palestinians, including two children, were killed as the army bombarded the Gaza Strip.
Resident Wounded As Army Bombards Gaza, 19 Wounded Tuesday
IMEMC – Tuesday March 22, 2011 – 11:05, As Israel renewed its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, another resident was wounded east of Gaza city while the Israeli army conducted a limited invasion into Gaza city. A total of 19 residents were wounded in the Gaza City on Tuesday.
Israel To Launch A Campaign Against New Flotilla Heading To Gaza
IMEMC – Tuesday March 22, 2011 – 10:36, As the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) and a number of European solidarity groups declared intentions to send a relief flotilla to the besieged Gaza Strip this coming May, Israel will be declaring a campaign on Tuesday to counter the flotilla.
Hamas Delegates To Visit Egypt Soon
IMEMC – Tuesday March 22, 2011 – 10:03, The Palestinian Information Center, affiliated with the Hamas movement, reported Tuesday that Egyptian Foreign Minister, Dr. Nabil Al Arabi, stated that Hamas delegates will be visiting Egypt soon in order to hold talks on resuming Palestinian reconciliation talks.
Army Invades Awarta Village
IMEMC – Tuesday March 22, 2011 – 09:48, Only a few days after Israeli soldiers concluded a military operation in Awarta village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, troops invaded the village again on Tuesday morning and imposed.
Israel kills 9 Gazans in day of strikes
3/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli warplanes killed four Palestinians in an air strike on Az-Zaitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City on Tuesday evening, medics said. The attack came hours after Israeli artillery fire hit a home east of Gaza City killing a child, a teenager and three adults. Emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya….
5 killed as Israeli tanks shell Gaza home
3/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A child, teenager and three adults were killed and others injured by Israeli artillery fire which hit a home east of Gaza City on Tuesday afternoon, the second shelling and third hit of the day. Earlier, two were injured in the same area in separate incidents involving artillery fire and….
Gaza child dies 10 days after attack
3/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A five-year-old boy died Monday in the Gaza Strip, 10 days after he was attacked in the coastal enclave. Mustapha Ahmad Sehwel’s parents said he went to buy fuel with his brothers when unidentified attackers poured fuel on his trousers and set fire to him. His brothers put….
Israeli artillery, strike injure 2 east of Gaza City
3/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli artillery fire and a drone strike injured two Palestinians Tuesday in separate incidents east of Gaza City, after a night of heavy shelling on the Strip that injured 18. Shortly before 10 a. m. artillery fire injured one man in the Ash-Shuja’iyya neighborhood, just after witnesses reported….
Israeli forces re-enter Awarta
3/22/2011 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces re-entered the northern West Bank village of Awarta at sunrise Tuesday, announcing via loudspeaker that the community was under curfew the for a second time this month. The village had been under a military curfew from March 12-16 as Israeli police, military and intelligence forces searched the area….
Foundation: Israeli forces enter Al-Aqsa compound
3/22/2011 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Israeli forces raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound Tuesday morning and detained five worshipers, a statement by the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage said. The statement said “25 extremist settlers toured and desecrated the Al-Haram Ash-Sharif compound.”After that forces raided the compound at 8:30 a. m. and detained Muhammad….
Settlers attack Aqraba farmland
3/22/2011 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Settlers on Tuesday destroyed agricultural land owned by Palestinian villagers near Nablus in the northern West Bank. The Agricultural Work Committees Union recently planted hundreds of seedlings on the land around Aqraba village. Residents of the illegal Itamar settlement uprooted the seedlings and destroyed water wells in the area, the union….
Israeli forces detain journalist in Awarta
3/22/2011 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Sources at Voice of Palestine Radio told Ma’an that the station’s director of programming was detained by Israeli forces in the village of Awarta, after the village was locked down under a military curfew. Kamal Sharab’s home was searched during a raid, and soldiers detained….
Brigades claim attack on military post
3/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an)— The An-Nasser Salah Ad-Din Brigades said Tuesday that their fighters launched a home-made projectile at the Sufa military post shortly after midnight. The brigades, part of the militant wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said a single projectile was fired at 12:30 a. m. toward….
Gaza border violence in March
3/22/2011 – The following is a summary of reports on projectile fire, gunfights, air strikes and artillery fire in the Gaza border area since the beginning of March. 1 March – Armed wings of Hamas and PFLP claim fire at Israeli forces in northern Strip. Witnesses say Israeli fire injures 22-year-old Gaza man in southern Strip. Israeli….
Resistance factions claim projectile launches
3/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Two resistance groups in Gaza claimed that their fighters carried out separate attacks on Israeli targets Tuesday. The National Resistance Brigades, the military wing if the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said in a statement that two homemade projectiles were fired “toward Israeli settlements north of Gaza.”According….
Settler violence since outpost demolition
3/22/2011 – Since the end of February, seven Palestinians have been injured by settler gunfire, two have been stabbed, two have been beaten, seven have been injured by stones, at least six cars have been torched, and dozens of acts of vandalism and harassment have been reported. An escalation in violent attacks began after the Israeli government….
Haniyeh: President’s invite still open
3/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Tuesday that his invitation to President Mahmoud Abbas to hold talks in the Gaza Strip was still open. Haniyeh said he invited Abbas to the enclave to continue talks to resolve the national split between Hamas and Fatah, and their rival governments in the….
Lawyer: Detainee in urgent need of surgery
3/22/2011 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian detainee Ma’zouz Bsharat, held in Israel’s Shatta prison, is in urgent need of surgery, his lawyer said Tuesday. Bsharat has already undergone one surgery, but reacted badly to medication he was given which caused him to vomit constantly, the lawyer said. Israeli forces detained Bsharat in….
Gazans protest abduction of engineer
3/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Friends and family members of a Gaza engineer held a sit-in Tuesday in front of UN headquarters in Gaza City protesting Israel’s abduction of Dirar Abu Sisi, director of Gaza’s sole power plant. Abu Sisi went missing on February 19 after boarding a train in the….
Germans back Israelis after Gaza fighting flares
3/22/2011 – BERLIN (DPA) — Germany voiced support Tuesday for Israel after a flare-up of fighting with Hamas radicals the previous day.” We condemn the massive missile bombardment of Israel from the Gaza Strip in the strongest terms. We demand that Hamas cease such acts of violence immediately,” said Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle at a Berlin news conference….
UN’s Serry condemns killing of civilians in Gaza
3/22/2011 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The UN’s envoy to the Middle East Robert Serry on Tuesday condemned Israel’s killing of civilians in Gaza. On Tuesday afternoon, an Israeli tank fired at a family playing football outside their home in the eastern part of the Ash-Shaja’iya neighborhood in Gaza City. The….
Israel opens sole operating crossing for limited deliveries
3/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) – Israeli authorities allowed 250 trucks of goods to enter the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian officials said. Liaison officer Raed Fattouh said nine trucks would bring cement for UN building projects in Gaza through the sole operating crossing Kerem Shalom. Fattouh added that Israel would allow two trucks of….
Gaza: Militant group calls for coordinated response to strikes
3/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Spokesman for the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s armed wing condemned Tuesday the recent string of Israeli air strikes targeting the Gaza Strip. Abu Khaled, speaking on behalf of the National Resistance Brigades, accused Israel of using the strikes as an attempt to block the progress….
Republicans’ Palin dines with Netanyahu
3/22/2011 – JERUSALEM (AFP) — Sarah Palin, darling of the US Republican right, joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for dinner at his Jerusalem residence on Monday on the second day of a “private visit” to Israel. The meeting, at which the two were accompanied by their spouses, was off-limits to the media, and Netanyahu’s office….
Russia tells Abbas of growing Mideast concern
3/22/2011 – MOSCOW (AFP) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told visiting President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday that he was concerned about the fate of the Middle East peace process given the current turmoil in the region. The Russian leader told Abbas he still supported an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, the message he took….
Former Israeli PM gets 7 years for rape charge
3/22/2011 – TEL AVIV (AFP) — Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav arrived at the Tel Aviv district court on Tuesday, where judges handed down a sentence of seven years jail time after his conviction on two counts of rape and other sexual assault charges. Katsav was convicted in December of rape, sexual harassment, indecent acts and obstruction of….
Qatar supports unity, Fatah says
3/22/2011 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Qatar is in full support of Palestinian unity efforts, Fatah Central Committee member Jibril Rajoub said Monday. Rajoub said the support came in the form of an official letter delivered to President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads the Fatah party, from Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifeh Ath-Thani. Abbas had earlier….
Gaza’s Hamas rulers and teachers protest UN plans to teach Holocaust in schools
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – Washington Post – T he United Nations has launched a new plan to teach the Holocaust in Gaza schools, drawing fierce condemnation from Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers, school teachers ‚Äî and even the body tasked with peace negotiations with Israel….
Jerusalem tram winds around political, religious and archaeological barriers
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – Washington Post – After years of delays, Jerusalem’s historic light rail is set to begin running next month, completing a journey that has circumvented ancient bones, archaeological treasures, budget overruns and political controversies that have repeatedly threatened to derail the…
Fayyad’s five-week period to form government expires
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – Los Angeles Times – Five weeks after Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad dissolved his Cabinet, saying he needed to better prepare for upcoming elections and eventual statehood, he has yet to form a new government. Fayyad tendered his government…
Charlie Sheen to the Rescue!
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – Other than Jewish tribesman-elect Charlie Sheen, who awakened from his hibernation to announce that according to Jewish law he is, in fact, Jewish —- all the better to defend against the charge of making an anti-Semitic rant against the Jewish…
Gaza’s cherry tomatoes selling in Europe
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – Ma’an – Cherry tomatoes grown by farmers in Gaza can now compete with settlement produce on European supermarket shelves. The Gaza Strip has exported cherry tomatoes since the 1980s, said Jamal Abu An-Naja, who manages the export of vegetables and…
Qatar supports unity, Fatah says
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – Ma’an – Qatar is in full support of Palestinian unity efforts, Fatah Central Committee member Jibril Rajoub said Monday. Rajoub said the support came in the form of an official letter delivered to President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads the Fatah…
Gazans protest abduction of engineer
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – Ma’an – Friends and family members of a Gaza engineer held a sit-in Tuesday in front of UN headquarters in Gaza City protesting Israel’s abduction of Dirar Abu Sisi, director of Gaza’s sole power plant. Abu Sisi went missing on…
Russia tells Abbas of growing Mideast concern
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – Ma’an – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told visiting President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday that he was concerned about the fate of the Middle East peace process given the current turmoil in the region. The Russian leader told Abbas he still…
Dislike for Qaddafi Gives Arabs a Point of Unity
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – New York Times – With his brutal military assault on civilians, and his rantings about spiked Nescaf?©, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi handed many leaders across the Arab world what had otherwise eluded them: A chance to side with the people while…
Gaza Strip residents seek to join the ‘Arab spring’
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – Jon Donnison, BBC News – Gazans will often tell you they are a rare breed. Tough and resilient are two qualities sometimes attributed. A friend of mine’s cat recently leapt from the tenth floor of a tower block in Gaza…
Israel admits to holding missing Gaza engineer
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – Los Angeles Times – Derar Abu Sisi, an engineer and deputy manager of the Gaza power plant, was reported missing last month in Ukraine after he boarded a train to Kiev but never made it. First, bloggers reported it. Then…
Palestinians ask for international protection citing rise in attacks by Israeli settlers
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – Los Angeles Times – The Palestinian Authority asked for international protection Monday citing a sharp rise in Israeli settler violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank. The call came after three Israelis from the Havat Maon settlement allegedly stabbed…
Tripoli air strikes keep pressure on Gaddafi
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – BBC News – Libya’s government says more civilians have been killed in a third night of air and missile strikes by coalition forces enforcing a no-fly zone. (Please visit the site to view this media) Explosions and anti-aircraft fire have…
Israel tank shells kill three Gaza children, one man
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – Los Angeles Times – Several Israeli tank shells landed Tuesday at a playground in Gaza City, killing three children and their grandfather and injuring 12 other children and women, hospital sources and witnesses said. (Please visit the site to view…
Syria Protests Spread
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – Allies desert Yemeni president Reuters – Popular unrest swelled into a crisis for one Arab autocrat and began to rattle another long seen as immune on Monday as leading figures parted ways with Yemen’s president and street protests spread in…
Gaza after the revolution
Palestine Note 22 Mar 2011 – Sara Roy, Foreign Policy – For the U.S. government and media, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been treated as a stepchild of sorts to the revolutionary events sweeping the Middle East. This was clarified to me recently by a prominent American…
Syrian forces ‘open fire on protesters’
AlJazeera 22 Mar 2011 – Residents say at least four people killed in the southern city of Daraa, where protests have been held since Friday.
Libya Live Blog – March 23
AlJazeera 22 Mar 2011 – As the uprising in Libya continues, we update you with the latest developments from our correspondents, news agencies and citizens across the globe.
Yemen Live Blog – March 23
AlJazeera 22 Mar 2011 – As the Yemen uprising escalates, we update you with the latest developments from our correspondents, news agencies and citizens across the globe.
Turkey blocks no-fly zone role for NATO
AlJazeera 22 Mar 2011 – France calls for non-NATO body to lead mission as Erdogan says Turkey will “never point a gun at the Libyan people”.
Anti-aircraft fire erupts in Tripoli
AlJazeera 22 Mar 2011 – Gunfire and explosions shake the Libyan capital for a fourth night as fighting rages on around the country.
Fire burns at Egyptian Interior Ministry
AlJazeera 22 Mar 2011 – Blaze breaks out as police demonstrate outside, while some accuse officials of destroying incriminating documents.
Yemen’s president warns of civil war
AlJazeera 22 Mar 2011 – Opposition reject Saleh’s offer to quit by the end of the year as embattled Yemeni president warns of civil war.
UN calls for Syria probe as hundreds protest
AlJazeera 22 Mar 2011 – UN human rights chief calls for investigation into weekend crackdown as protesters take to the streets for a fifth day.
Israeli attacks kill eight in Gaza
AlJazeera 22 Mar 2011 – Victims include children and armed fighters, as raids continue in the Gaza Strip.
Ex-Israeli president jailed for rape
AlJazeera 22 Mar 2011 – Moshe Katsav sentenced to seven years in jail for rape and other crimes.
Israeli Attacks on Gaza Continue: Death Toll Stands at Eight, Including Three Children
PNN – Gaza-PNN- Three Palestinian were killed on Tuesday evening and another one injured when Israeli fighter jets struck Gaza City, bring Tuesday’s total death toll today to eight, including three children. At least…
Four Killed, 31 Injured by Israeli Attacks Targeting Gaza
PNN – Gaza — PNN — Four Palestinian civilians, including two children, were killed and 12 others injured when Israeli tanks bombarded a house in Gaza City on Tuesday afternoon. Local sources said that…
Breaking Syria’s Silence
PNN – By Alex Gozney –PNN- Syria may be a comparative latecomer to the scene as far as the Arab popular uprising is concerned. However, the fact that protests have occurred at all is…
Hamas Political Bureau: We Have No Veto on Technocrat Government
PNN – Damascus — PNN – Izzat al-Rasheq, a member of the Hamas political bureau in Damascus, said on Tuesday that the Islamist movement “would not block” the formation of a technocrat-led Palestinian unity…
Former Israeli President Sentenced 7 Years for Rape
PNN – Tel Aviv — PNN – On Tuesday morning a Tel Aviv District court sentenced President Moshe Katsav, 65, to seven years in prison with two years of probation for rape, sexual harassment…
Six Palestinian Arrested by Israeli Troops During West Bank Raids
PNN – Jerusalem — PNN — six Palestinian civilians were arrested on Tuesday by Israeli troops during invasions tragting a number of West Bank communities. In Jerusalem, a group of Israeli settlers tried to…
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Unknown Persons Blow Women’s Beauty Salon in Rafah and Car of The Assistant Comptroller General of the Security Services in Gaza
Palestinian Center for Human Rights Sunday, 20 March 2011
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (10-16 March 2011)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
PCHR Receives Diplomatic Envoy from the Russian Federation
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Alternative Information Center
Israel Campaigns against Gaza-Bound Freedom Flotilla II Planned for May
Alternative Information Center – Israel launched a public campaign Tuesday (22 March) against the international organizations planning the Freedom Flotilla II aid convoy, set to sail to Gaza in May of this year.
Gaza Truck Drivers Strike to Protest Israel’s Closing of Karni Crossing
Alternative Information Center – Truck drivers in the Gaza Strip declared a strike to protest Israel’s closing of the Karni crossing, previously the main passage for goods into Gaza. Although drivers have currently suspended their strike, they demand to know…
Israeli Air Force Attacks Gaza Strip, Killing Five
Alternative Information Center – Israeli military forces have launched five air strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip in recent days. At present, five people have been reported dead and at least ten others, including five children, were also injured in…
AIC Video: Palestinian Leaders in Jerusalem Targeted
Alternative Information Center – An Israeli campaign to target Palestinian community leaders and organizations in Jerusalem seems to be underway.
Police Prevent Israeli Activists from Providing Information on Settler Tourist Site in Silwan
Alternative Information Center – Police prevented Israeli activists from providing information to visitors about the settler tourist site “City of David” in Silwan. After demanding that the activists leave, the police apparently provided information about them to the site’s management….
Israeli Police Violently Repress Protests in East Jerusalem Silwan Neighbourhood
Alternative Information Center – Violent confrontations between Israeli police forces and Palestinians erupted in East Jerusalem’s Silwan neighbourhood over the weekend.
BDS Action: Tell Wikimedia Not to Hold 2011 Annual Conference in Israel!
Alternative Information Center – Wikimania, the annual conference of the Wikimedia community, is set to be held in Haifa in August. Tell Wikimedia that its mission of cultivating collaboration and a shared culture cannot be furthered in a gathering held…
Musician-activist Bob Geldof to Receive Award from Israeli University
Alternative Information Center – Musician and human rights activist Bob Geldof will accept an honorary degree from Israel’s Ben Gurion University later this year, thus ignoring the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli institutions. Ben Gurion University itself is particularly active…
Executive Brief: Food Price Trends in the Middle East and North Africa March 22, 2011
Relief Web 22 Mar 2011 – Source: Famine Early Warning System Network
Israel kills 9 in Gaza in deadliest day in months
Relief Web 22 Mar 2011 – Source: Reuters – AlertNet
Ten Airstrikes and One Incursion into Gaza – Al Mezan Condemns IOF Escalation, Calls for Protection of Civilians, Warns War Crimes may Happen Again in Gaza
Relief Web 22 Mar 2011 – Source: Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
UNICEF helps make safe, reliable water possible in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Relief Web 22 Mar 2011 – Source: UN Children’s Fund
Grad rocket explodes near Ashdod as Gaza tensions spiral
Ha’aretz – No injuries or damage reported as result of rocket; at least 7 Palestinians, including 4 civilians, were killed during heavy exchanges of fire between IDF and Gaza militant groups.
MESS Report / There is a small war starting along Gaza border
Ha’aretz – What began as a local escalation is steadily transforming into a broader conflict that the sides will apparently have difficulty stopping.
Barak: Israel facing Mideast ‘earthquake’ and anti-Israel ‘tsunami’
Ha’aretz – Speaking at New York event, Defense Minister says Israel has proven it is an island of stability, an ‘outpost of the free world values in a tough neighborhood.’
Syria security forces kill 4 in attack on Daraa mosque, witnesses say
Ha’aretz – Protesters calling for political freedoms and an end to corruption have said that they were going to remain in the mosque until their demands were met.
IDF: Syria may provoke Israel to distract from domestic unrest
Ha’aretz – Defense officials have been following events in Syria closely over the last few days, especially after the violence in the southern town of Dara’a.
Gadhafi: Foreign ‘fascist’ forces will end up in history’s dustbin
Ha’aretz – Beleaguered Libya leader’s speech comes as U.S.’s Clinton estimates Gadhafi may be considering exile in wake of foreign strikes.
Katsav to be stripped of annual state benefits after rape sentencing
Ha’aretz – NIS 1.8m in annual state benefits are intended to fund an office, aides, secretaries, a car and driver, a daily newspaper and a phone.
Attorney Uri Messer testifies holding over $300,000 cash for Olmert
Ha’aretz – Messer is considered a critical witness in the case in which Olmert stands accused of receiving hundreds of thousands of shekels in cash-filled envelopes from Jewish-American businessman Morris Talansky.
Peres: Katsav sentence shows we are all equal before the law
Ha’aretz – Netanyahu says ‘today is a day of pride in the Israeli justice system’; Livni says sentence gives hope that Israel is undergoing positive change.
Katsav erupts at jail sentence for rape: You let the lie win
Ha’aretz – Former president publicly denies his guilt as he is sentenced to seven years in jail for rape, sexual offenses; attorney hints at appeal.
FACT FILE / Katsav is not only convict among Israel’s political elite
Ha’aretz – Over the years a number of Israeli politicians have been convicted of various offenses, mainly – but not exclusively – white-collar crimes.
Former President Moshe Katsav gets 7 years in jail for rape
Ha’aretz – Katsav also receives two years probation and is ordered to pay NIS 125,000 compensation to his victims; judges: No man is above the law.
Four children seriously injured in car accident near Modi’in
Ha’aretz – Mother of children was driving the car when she slammed into a truck that had stopped mid-turn on Highway 444.
Barak: Israel facing Mideast ‘earthquake’ and diplomatic ‘tsunami’
Ha’aretz – Speaking at New York event, Defense Minister says Israel has proven it is an island of stability, an ‘outpost of the free world values in a tough neighborhood.’
Hamas threatens to retaliate for IDF killing of Gaza civilians
Ha’aretz – Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad condemned the IDF attack, which killed four civilians, and called for international protection of civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu expresses regret for Gaza civilians killed in IDF strike
Ha’aretz – IDF mistakenly killed four civilians, three of whom were teens, while returning fire from Palestinian militants; IDF has opened an investigation into the incident.
Netanyahu: Palestinians are not ready for peace with Israel
Ha’aretz – The prime minister slammed the opposition for saying that they were close to reaching a peace deal with the Palestinians at one point.
IDF strikes Gaza group about to launch rocket; Hamas says four killed
Ha’aretz – IDF says Islamic Jihad group was about to launch Grad rocket, the same type that landed in Be’er Sheva last month; earlier in day, four Palestinians were killed when IDF fire struck a building near Gaza City.
IDF tank fire kills four Palestinians in Gaza, hospital officials say
Ha’aretz – Gaza medics say 13 Palestinians, including children, were also wounded when Israeli tank fire struck a home in the Strip; IDF says they fired towards militants who had launched mortars against troops.
Hamas protests UN plans to teach Gazans about the Holocaust
Ha’aretz – Recognizing the Holocaust is often seen by some Palestinians as tantamount to acknowledging Jewish land claims.
IDF strikes Gaza five times following recent mortar barrage
Ha’aretz – Gaza sources cite five wounded in extensive strikes, which the IDF says targeted smuggling tunnels and arms production sites, as well as terror bases.
For all his faults, Assad is the devil we know
Jeruslalem Post 22 Mar 2011 – Analysis: When Israel looks at Syria it also sees the possible development of a new enemy, far more radical and extreme.
‘Turkey finds weapons on Iran cargo plane, arrests crew’
Jeruslalem Post 22 Mar 2011 – Turkish officials find rocket launchers, mortars, automatic weapons on plane inspected over the weekend, Turkish paper reports.
Protesters march in Syria for fifth straight day
Jeruslalem Post 22 Mar 2011 – Leading rights activist detained; analysts: No Mideast leader is immune from revolt; Assad is ‘between a rock and a hard place.’
Messer: I held envelopes full of money for Olmert
Jeruslalem Post 22 Mar 2011 – One-time attorney of former PM testifies in Talansky affair; says he received envelopes from Shula Zaken, denies wrongdoing.
‘Mossad snatched me, handcuffed me and hooded me’
Jeruslalem Post 22 Mar 2011 – Palestinian engineer abducted by Mossad in Ukraine tells human rights lawyer he was denied rights, intensely interrogated.
2 Palestinian teenagers arrested by army in Hebron
22 Mar 2011 – West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-Israeli forces detained Tuesday morning two Palestinian teenagers after storming and searching their homes in Al-Urob refugee camp, northern Hebron.
1 injured as Israeli tanks shell east Gaza
22 Mar 2011 – Gaza Strip, (Pal Telegraph)-Israeli military forces fired Tuesday morning artillery shells at the eastern borders of Gaza strip and Al-Nahda neighborhood in Rafah city.
Israeli curfew imposed on Awarta village
22 Mar 2011 – West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-Israeli occupation forces imposed Tuesday a curfew on the village of Awarta in the south of Nablus city.
Clashes reported in Silwan
22 Mar 2011 – West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-Violent clashes erupted yesterday between Palestinian citizens and Israeli forces in Silwan town leaving one citizen injured.
17 injured as Israel strikes Gaza Strip
22 Mar 2011 – Gaza Strip, (Pal Telegraph)- 17 Palestinians were injured yesterday night as Israeli warplanes carried out multiple airstrikes targeting different pats in Gaza Strip.
Israel To Launch A Campaign Against New Flotilla Heading To Gaza
Uruknet March 22, 2011 – As the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) and a number of European solidarity groups declared intentions to send a relief flotilla to the besieged Gaza Strip this coming May, Israel will be declaring a campaign on Tuesday to counter the flotilla. May marks one year after the Israeli Navy and army commandos boarded the Turkish…
Obama claims Gadhafi is a danger to U.S.
Uruknet March 22, 2011 – So here it is: Two days after the U.S. launched cruise missiles at targets in Libya, President Obama is making the case for the war in an open letter to the speaker of the House and the president of the Senate. In the letter, Obama makes the case that Moammar Gadhafi actually threatens the national…
MI6 puts gun to generals’ heads: Our spies phone Gaddafi’s men direct to warn: Defect or die
Uruknet March 22, 2011 – British intelligence is warning Colonel Gaddafi’s generals that it could be fatal to remain loyal to the Libyan leader. MI6 spies and military officials are contacting commanders in Tripoli trying to persuade them to defect, the Daily Mail can reveal. Their message is blunt: ‘General, we’ve got the GPS co-ordinates of your command post. They…
Since When Was it “Leftwing” To Love Imperialism?
Uruknet March 22, 2011 – Certain elements of the mainstream left in my context have abdicated all responsibility by supporting the US “humanitarian intervention” in Libya. The argument is that the “Libyan people” have requested imperialist intervention and so imperialism can be humanitarian in this context. Thus, arguments that were not acceptable during the phase of imperialism opened by September…
Fire burns at Egyptian Interior Ministry
Uruknet March 22, 2011 – Fire has swept through a building inside Egypt’s Interior Ministry compound during demonstrations by police over pay and working conditions. Flames and black smoke could be seen rising from the seven-story building which has been a focal point for protests since Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s former president, was toppled last month. Ambulances and fire engines raced…
STRATFOR’s analysis: Libya, the West and the Narrative of Democracy
Uruknet March 22, 2011 – …Whenever you intervene in a country, whatever your intentions, you are intervening on someone’s side. In this case, the United States, France and Britain are intervening in favor of a poorly defined group of mutually hostile and suspicious tribes and factions that have failed to coalesce, at least so far, into a meaningful military force….
Aid industry doing no harm in Palestine?
Uruknet March 22, 2011 – The “Palestine Papers” reveal fully the extent to which Palestinians have neither genuine leadership nor a partner for peace. At the foreground is an unrepresentative “authority” prepared to compromise the most fundamental of Palestinian aspirations for an unrelenting colonizer and its imperious supporter. In the background lies a key mechanism enabling Palestinian deprivation: the aid…
“Paying the Price” – Again.
Uruknet March 22, 2011 – Now Libya’s people are “paying the price”, for being, well, Libyan, I am reminded of another people that, to use the words of the appalling Madeleine Albright, then US., Ambassador the the UN., were : ” … a price worth paying.” She was talking of the deaths of half a million Iraqi children, on 12th May 1996. When…
On World Water Day, support the academic boycott call
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U.S. rescue chopper shoots six Libyan villagers as they welcome pilots of downed Air Force jet
Uruknet March 22, 2011 – Six Libyan villagers are recovering in hospital after being shot by American soldiers coming in to rescue the U.S. pilots whose plane crash-landed in a field. The helicopter strafed the ground as it landed in a field outside Benghazi beside the downed U.S. Air Force F-15E Eagle which ran into trouble during bombing raid last…
Israel kills 9 Gazans in day of strikes
Uruknet March 22, 2011 – Israeli warplanes killed four Palestinians in an air strike on Az-Zaitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City on Tuesday evening, medics said. The attack came hours after Israeli artillery fire hit a home east of Gaza City killing a child, a teenager and three adults….Earlier in the day, Israeli tanks fired at a home on An-Nazzaz…
Ex-Israeli president jailed for rape
Uruknet March 22, 2011 – Moshe Katsav, Israel’s former president, has been sentenced to seven years in jail for rape, Israeli media reported. The judges also handed the former leader a two-year suspended sentence and ordered him to pay a fine of 100,000 shekels ($28,000). The sentence was approved by two of the three judges at Tel Aviv district court…
The Iraq scenario is repeated in Libya
Uruknet March 21, 2011 – …Iraqi Turkmen Front Turkey Representative Hicran Kazancƒ± spoke to Yeni Akit: “An Intervention shall not bring Democracy but Disaster ” and continued by drawing attention to the events in 2001 to the Iraq intervention process and said that this was a continuation to the U.S. project to re-arrange the borders and change the regimes of 22…
Call for Action against the Bombing of Libya!
Uruknet March 22, 2011 – …The A-APRP (GC) calls on all peace-loving, spiritual and religious, progressive and revolutionary peoples and forces in every corner of the world, regardless of your position for or against Muammar Quadaffi and his regime, to join the A-APRP (GC) in building a worldwide, militant, grassroots, mass and independent movement against this onslaught of imperialist, zionist,…
El-Iraqiya.
Uruknet 21st March 2011. El-Iraqiya means the Iraqi She. The female, the woman, the mother, the grandmother, the aunt, the daughter, the sister, the friend, the wife, the partner… 21st of March is a good date to write about Her, about She. It happens to be the first day of Spring and Mother’s day in the Arab world, in Iraq….
Iraq snapshot – March 21, 2011
Uruknet March 21, 2011. Chaos and violence continue, the US military announces a death, protests take place around the US over the weekend, though covered by the many segments of the press they are largely ignored by ‘listener supported’ and ‘independent’ media, Nouri and his lackeys pursue talks with the US about the US military remaining in Iraq past 2011,…
Statement on the potential use of depleted uranium in Libya
Uruknet March 21, 2011 – ICBUW is concerned that the current use of US Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier ground attack aircraft could lead to DU contamination should their cannon be deployed against ground targets. ICBUW is also concerned that the potential for contamination may increase significantly as the conflict develops if US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt ground attack aircraft are…
A Hundred Years of Rain: Air War Comes Full Circle in Libya
Uruknet March 21, 2011 – Ian Patterson notes that the air war unleashed on Libya by the Western powers last week coincides very neatly with the 100th anniversary of the first military air strike — which was launched by a Western power against … Libya. From The London Review of Books: The world’s first aerial bombing mission took place 100 years…
Israeli Settler Violence Report: January and February 2011
Uruknet March 21, 2011 – A detailed account of settler violence throughout the West Bank in the months of January and February 2011. The report is based on primary sources, including interviews with Palestinian victims of violence, together with information from Palestinian activists and officials with first-hand information concerning settler violence. On 2 January, while farmers from the village of…
Israeli Army Cooperates with Settlers in Attacks on Palestinians
Uruknet March 21, 2011 – Following the killing of five settlers in Itamar on 11 March, there has been a substantial increase in violence toward Palestinian residents of the West Bank by the Israeli army and settlers, who act in tandem. On 12 and 13 March, settlers from Yitzhar entered the Huwara village in the Nablus district and threw stones…
Activist account of repression of unity protests in Gaza City
Uruknet March 21, 2011 – …What I hear from people who were arrested is that they are accused of being with the West. I know many of the young people here who are involved in these protests, and Hamas is wrongly trying to depict these protests as Fateh instigated, supported by Zionists and their Western allies. I think I personally…
Greek communists denounce imperialist intervention in Libya
Uruknet March 21, 2011 – The KKE denounces the military intervention in Libya, unleashed by international imperialism with the participation of Greece, headed by the EU imperialists, the butchers of France-Britain, with the support of the USA. This is the EU of “democracy and freedom”; this is the “free world”! The pretext of the imperialists -and of G. Papandreou too-…
Israeli settler stabs Palestinian in At-Tuwani
Uruknet March 21, 2011 – — On the morning of March 21st, 2011 soon after 7 o’clock a Palestinian man from the village of Tuba was attacked while he was going with his donkey to the village of At-Tuwani. Not far from the first house of the village a masked settler, coming from the Havat Ma’on outpost, ambushed him and…
Tripoli under new round of airstrikes
Uruknet March 21, 2011 – Loud explosions and heavy anti-aircraft gunfire were heard in the Libyan capital city of Tripoli at around 9:00 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) on Monday as the third round of Western-led airstrikes started…After the explosion, Libyan government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim held an emergency press conference to strongly protest the bombing. He said Western countries has…
Nic Robertson Slams Fox News’ Libya Human Shield Story- Video
Uruknet March 21, 2011 – Fox news reported that journalists from CNN, Reuters and the Associated Press were used as human shields at the Gaddafi compound, preventing British jets from bombarding it. However, a CNN correspondent Nic Robertson blasted Fox News as he talked to Wolf Blitzer, Robertson points out that no Fox News journalists were on the bus to…
Settler opens fire on funeral procession
Uruknet March 21, 2011 – Two Palestinians were shot Monday afternoon when a settler disembarked from his car on the Jerusalem-Hebron road and opened fire on a funeral procession heading to the Beit Ummar cemetery. Medics said two were injured in the shooting, including 59-year-old Muhammad Ali Abu Safiyya who was in critical condition after being shot in the chest,…
Bombing Libya to “save Libya”: The forces behind this war
Uruknet March 21, 2011 – The same global powers that used the force of arms to colonize Africa, suction out its natural resources and enslave millions of its people are now raining bombs and missiles down on the continent’s largest oil producer. A great irony in the vicious and yet cowardly attack on Libya is that the same exploiters and…
Defections hit Yemen president
Uruknet March 21, 2011 – Military leaders, ambassadors and tribal chiefs in Yemen have made clear their support for pro-democracy protesters, ramping up pressure on Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s president, to step down. Following a wave of defections, Mohammad Nasser Ali, Yemen’s defence minister, appeared on state television on Monday maintaining that the army still backed Saleh. “The armed forces…
Detainee Abu Sisi Discloses Detail of His Kidnapping in Ukraine to PCHR Lawyer, PCHR Calls for Immediate Release of Abu Sisi
Uruknet March 21, 2011 – On 19 February 2011, members of the national intelligence agency of Israel (Mossad) kidnapped Derar Mousa Yousef Abu Sisi, 42 while he was in the Ukraine. Mr. Abu Sisi is the Director of the Operations, Department in Gaza Power Generation Plant. Mossad then transferred Abu Sisi to Israel. Abu Sisi is currently being detained in…
I am Every Child.
Uruknet March 21, 2011 , I am Every Child. , Right. I will only say this once. For those saying “humanitarian intervention” is right in Libya. , I am every child soiling him or her self, in terror at the sound of the “liberating” ‘planes. , I am every child that throws up in terror. , I am every child that loses their home, and…
Patriarch will unite Lebanon: conference
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 JAL AL-DIB: The newly elected Maronite Patriarch will bring new hope and help reunite the Christian community in Lebanon and abroad, a Kataeb (Phalange) Party official said Tuesday. Speaking at a conference at Jal al-Dib’s Catholic…
Rights activists interrogated over EU-backed report
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 BEIRUT: Human rights campaigners were summoned by the Justice Ministry Tuesday for their role in a EU-funded report and released after three hours of interrogation but still face the threat of further action. The investigation into…
Hezbollah blames U.S. for Florida Quran burning
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 BEIRUT: Hezbollah condemned the burning of a copy of the Quran by a U.S. evangelical preacher as an “abominable crime” Tuesday, holding the U.S. administration responsible. The party said in a statement that the act was “…
Wafaa Sleiman encourages children to express opinions
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 BEIRUT: First Lady Wafaa Sleiman said Tuesday it was no longer possible to prevent children from expressing themselves and participating in decision-making and social work. Speaking during a celebration of Monday’s Children’s Day at the Presidential…
Lebanon to face severe water crisis if key steps aren’t taken
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 BEIRUT: Lebanon is facing an unprecedented struggle to effectively manage its dwindling water resources as an unplanned and unchecked surge in regional urban migration threatens Middle Eastern drinking and sewage infrastructure, an international conference concluded Tuesday….
Hoax bomb threat at Beirut Justice Palace causes panic
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 BEIRUT: A report which turned out to be a hoax about a bomb planted inside Beirut’s Justice Palace caused panic Tuesday, while a false report about dynamite sticks tossed at the headquarters of a radio station…
Ruins of Jbeil’s Phoenician port to be uncovered
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 JBEIL: Caretaker Culture Minister Selim Wardy and the municipality of Jbeil launched Tuesday the archeological project “Jbeil and the Sea,” which aims at retrieving the city’s Phoenician-era port. “We hope our work will shed light on…
Riyadi lose 12-point lead to go down 2-0 in WABA final
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 BEIRUT: Lebanese side Riyadi went down 2-0 in the best-of-five final of the West Asian League against Jala’a Tuesday, leaving themselves a mountain to climb next week when they meet again in Beirut. Jala’a made the…
Gadhafi defiant as Libya bleeds
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 TRIPOLI: Moammar Gadhafi’s forces attacked two west Libyan towns Tuesday, killing dozens, while rebels were pinned down in the east and NATO tried to resolve a dispute over who should lead the Western air campaign. Gadhafi…
Turkey seizes rifles on grounded Iranian plane
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: The Turkish authorities have seized rifles on a Syria-bound Iranian plane, grounded since the weekend, and questioned its seven-man crew, police and judicial sources said Tuesday. The cargo plane, a civilian Ilyushin, was ordered…
Israel’s ex-president Katsav gets seven years for rape
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 TEL AVIV: Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav was sentenced to seven years behind bars Tuesday after being convicted on two counts of rape and other offenses in a scandal which has rocked Israel. The judges also…
Saleh warns of civil war if he’s forced to quit
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 SANAA: Yemen’s president said Tuesday his country would descend into civil war if he were forced to quit and pledged to step down more than a year early, while Washington voiced concern about instability in the…
Children among 8 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 GAZA CITY: Israeli airstrikes and shelling killed eight Palestinians, including three children and their uncle, in the Gaza Strip Tuesday, medical officials said, in the deadliest day of conflict in the enclave in months. Palestinian medical…
Hundreds continue to protest in Syria
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 DARAA, Syria: Hundreds of people marched in southern Syria for a fifth straight day Tuesday, protesting against the government of President Bashar Assad and shouting “Freedom, freedom. Peaceful, peaceful.” Protesters gathered near the Old Omari mosque…
Bahrain to focus on restoring security
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 Bahrain’s foreign minister said Tuesday his country would focus on restoring security and pushing ahead with political consultations after Gulf troops quashed one month of protests while the U.N. human rights office called on Manama to…
Refugees report thousands displaced in eastern Libya: UNHCR
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 GENEVA: The U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday that that thousands of Libyans have fled their homes in the east of the country, according to witnesses crossing the border into Egypt. “UNHCR staff at Egypt’s border with…
Protesters set up camp in Muscat ministries district
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 MUSCAT: About 100 Omani demonstrators set up tents Tuesday in a district of the capital housing the main government ministries, demanding political reform. Protests against autocratic rulers sweeping the region have not spared usually tranquil Oman…
Ankara wants humanitarian operation for Libyans under United Nations
Daily Star 22 Mar 2011 ISTANBUL: The United Nations should be the umbrella for a solely humanitarian operation in Libya, NATO member Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said Tuesday, staking out opposition to international military intervention. Turkey has said it…
Eight killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip
The Guardian 22 Mar 2011 – Civilians among victims, including three from the same family At least eight people have been killed and dozens injured after Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. The dead included four civilians who were killed when a…
Moshe Katsav handed seven-year prison sentence for rape
The Guardian 22 Mar 2011 – Former Israeli president set to appeal after being jailed for raping one woman and sexually harassing two other staff Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav has been sentenced to seven years in prison for rape and other…
Settlers Observe ‘Day Of Rage’ Pouring Wrath On Palestinians
IPS Israeli settlers observed their own ‘Day of Rage’ last Thursday, launching reprisal attacks on Palestinians for the recent murder of a settler family in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, and the demolition of a settlement structure by the Israeli authorities.
Commemorate Land Day 2011 by Joining the Global BDS Day of Action 30 March
Stop The Wall – Feb 12, 2011— The BDS National Committee (BNC) is calling on you to unite in your different capacities and struggles to join the Global BDS Day of Action on Land Day, 30 March 2011, in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s right to self determination on their ancestral land. [
Israeli court extends Gazan engineer’s remand
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – Dirar Abu Sisi, who was seized by Israeli security forces in Ukraine, will be….
US jet crashes in Libya, both crew members safe
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – Equipment malfunction causes F-15E fighter jet to crash southwest of Benghazi…..
Judge criticizes Mazuz in Katsav case
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – Judith Shevach claims former attorney general overstepped authority in Katsav….
‘Katsav should pay for the rest of his life’
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – Mother of A. from President’s Residence welcomes Katsav sentence. A. from….
Yemeni leader says he’ll step down by year’s end
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – US-backed President Ali Abdullah Saleh says won’t hand power to army commanders,….
Palin U-turns before entering Bethlehem
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – US politician backtracks before West Bank checkpoint, returns to Jerusalem…..
Netanyahu: No one is above the law
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – Prime minister addresses sentence handed to former President Moshe Katsav, says….
Moshe Katsav sentenced to 7 years in prison
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – (Video) TA District Court sentences former President Moshe Katsav to seven years….
Report: Turkey discovers weapons in Iran plane
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – Turkish media reports plane forced to land in southeast Turkey carried rocket….
Grad fired from Gaza lands near Ashdod
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – Tension in south rise: Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired a Grad rocket towards Ashdod Tuesday night, marking the first time the Israeli city has been targeted since … ….
Syrians call for revolution; UN: Probe protestors’ death
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – Protests spread in southern Syria Tuesday as hundreds of people marched to demand reforms in a previously peaceful village, witnesses and activists said. In a nearby … ….
IDF kills 4 Gaza terrorists ‘behind Beersheba attack’
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – An Israeli air strike killed four Palestinians terrorists in Gaza Tuesday evening, Hamas figures said after four Palestinians, including two youths, were killed in a … ….
‘Katsav is rapist disguised as president’
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – “It’s not a day of mourning and not a day of celebration, but it’s another blessed day of doing justice and punishing a sex offender — a rapist disguised as a president,” … ….
MK Zahalka: Racist laws target Arab sector
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Arab Knesset Member Jamal Zahalka (Balad) exchanged harsh words regarding the Nakba bill and other pending laws during a heated … ….
IDF fire in Gaza kills 4; Jihad vows response to ‘massacre’
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – Palestinian sources said four people were killed Tuesday afternoon from Israeli artillery fire towards Gaza City’s Tufah neighborhood. Two youths, aged 11 and 16, were … ….
Fire tears through Egypt Interior Ministry building
YNet News, 22 Mar 2011 – Fire tore through an Egyptian Interior Ministry building in central Cairo on Tuesday and a ministry source said it was probably linked to a protest by police demanding … ….
Palestinian Information Center
Eight Palestinians, including two children and an elderly man massacred by IOF
PIC 22 Mar 2011 – Eight Palestinians including two children and an elderly man were killed and at least 11 others were injured when the IOF bombed a home east of Gaza Tuesday afternoon and an airstrike that followed.
UN official calls settlement construction ?¢‚Ǩ?ìethnic cleansing?¢‚Ǩ¬ù
PIC 22 Mar 2011 – UN rights expert Richard Falk warned that Israel?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s settlement activities and the eviction of Palestinians from their homes are aimed at ?¢‚Ǩ?ìethnic cleansing?¢‚Ǩ¬ù.
After attacking its prince, Fatah turns to Qatar for Palestinian reconciliation
PIC 21 Mar 2011 – Jibril Al-Rajoub has claimed Qatar will make efforts to see that Hamas complies with Mahmoud Abbas’s ?¢‚Ǩ¬ùreconciliation initiative.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù Hamas has denied the initiative.
Egypt FM says Hamas delegation in Cairo soon
PIC 21 Mar 2011 – Egyptian foreign minister Nabil Al-Arabi said that a delegation from Hamas Movement is expected to visit the capital Cairo soon to complete consultations over the inter-Palestinian reconciliation.
Two Palestinians shot amid growing settler attacks
PIC 21 Mar 2011 – Two Palestinians were shot Monday in Al-Khalil province as Jewish settlers escalated attacks against the Palestinians across the occupied territories of Jerusalem and the West Bank.
European Parliament says they sensed Egyptian desire to end Gaza siege
PIC 21 Mar 2011 – Members of the European parliament said they sensed a consensus among the Egyptians they met on the need to end the five-year siege on the impoverished Gaza Strip.
Palestinian resistance retaliates, fires homemade rockets at Israeli targets
PIC 22 Mar 2011 – Palestinian resistance fighters fired rockets Monday at Israeli targets along the northern border with Gaza in response to aggression against populated areas that injured many civilians.
Children and women wounded during Israeli air raids on impoverished Gaza
PIC 22 Mar 2011 – Israeli warplanes at a late hour Monday bombed civilian areas in the densely-populated Gaza Strip wounding 18 Palestinians, mostly children and women.
ISRAEL BOMBS RESIDENTIAL AREA OF GAZA CITY — MARCH 22, 2011 — KEN O’KEEFE [VIDEO]
Intifada-Palestine: 22 Mar 2011 – The American taxpayer continues to pay for Israel to terrorise children by dropping bombs on residential areas of Gaza. Women and children were injured in Israel’s latest bombing. more
Arabs Winning their Freedom—Americans, Rise Up for Your Freedom from Israel
Intifada-Palestine: 22 Mar 2011 – Protests erupted in Libya, in the wake of similar anti-government protests in Egypt and Tunisia. (Photo Courtesy of Yahoo News). Mohamed Khodr Why Do They Hate Us‚ÄîIsrael Why Do We Hate Them‚ÄîIsrael “Muslims do not hate our freedom, but rather they… more
Iran ‘can do little’ after GCC sends troops to Bahrain say analysts
The National 22 Mar 2011 – Although Iran is angry that countries in the Gulf have sent troops to Bahrain after Shiite protests on the island, there is little danger that it will take overt reciprocal action in support of its fellow Shiites, most analysts say, since to do so would risk war with Saudi Arabia and possibly the United States.
Deraa governor fired as unrest continues in Syria
The National 22 Mar 2011 – Dissent reported to be spreading as Syrian government launches an inquiry into the killings of protesters, promising those responsible would be held to account
Family mourns senseless death of Bahiya Al Aradi, in wrong part of Bahrain at wrong time
The National 22 Mar 2011 – Bahiya Al Aradi, 51, was driving to her best friend’s house near Manama, passing through multiple military checkpoints on the strife-hit island of Bahrain, when she was apparently shot in the back of the head. Five days later she died in hospital. Her family still have no idea what happened, or why.
Women remain barred from voting as Saudi Arabia announces elections
The National 22 Mar 2011 – Elections for municipal councils will be only the second the country has ever held, but after two-year delay to consider giving votes to women, females will still not be allowed to participate.
Israel admits kidnapping operations manager of Gaza’s only power plant
The National 22 Mar 2011 – Israeli officials confirmed that Dirar Abu Sisi was being held in Shikma prison, after he was kidnapped on February 18 while travelling on a train to the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. However, the explanation for Mr Abu Sisi’s abduction and detention are still covered by a court gagging order.
Syria protesters march again despite crackdown
LA Times 22 Mar 2011 – Hundreds turn out for a fifth day in Dara demanding political freedoms. Syrian security forces are blamed in the deaths of at least five people in recent days during a crackdown on demonstrations. Protesters marched in the southern Syrian city of Dara on Tuesday, pressing…
Yemen president’s ouster may deal U.S. huge setbacks
LA Times 22 Mar 2011 – President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been a key U.S. ally in a turbulent region. If he steps down, Yemen may become a terrorist haven and a proxy battleground for Saudi Arabia and Iran. Al Qaeda fighters, mercurial rebels and well-armed secessionists slip through the dangerous…
Protest Spreads to New Southern Syrian Village
New York Times 22 Mar 2011 – Protests spread in southern Syria Tuesday as hundreds of people marched to demand reforms in a previously peaceful village, witnesses and activists said.
Protesters March in South Syria for Fifth Day
New York Times 22 Mar 2011 – Hundreds of people marched in southern Syria for a fifth straight day on Tuesday, protesting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad and shouting “Freedom, freedom. Peaceful, peaceful.”
Israeli Attack on Gaza Militants Kills 4 Civilians
New York Times 22 Mar 2011 – Mortar shells killed three youths playing soccer and a 60-year-old grandfather exiting his house.
No to imperialist intervention in Libya!
WSWS – The World Socialist Web Site categorically opposes any military intervention in Libya. The drive toward war has nothing to do with the humanitarian pretexts offered up by the major powers. Rather, it represents the violent imperialist subjugation of a former colony.
Australian Labor government, Greens hail imperialist assault on Libya
WSWS – The entire political and media establishment has thrown its support behind the drive to oust the right-wing Gaddafi dictatorship and replace it with a client government amenable to the strategic and economic priorities of US and European imperialism.
Bahrain: Gulf states intervene against mass protests
WSWS – By Niall Green, March 15, 2011, The military intervention of Saudi Arabia into Bahrain is aimed at putting down the mass protests there and intimidating opposition at home. Behind the actions of the Saudis, US imperialism is working to ensure its economic and strategic interests are…
Hillary Clinton in Tahrir Square
WSWS – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Middle East tour, capped by a stroll through Cairo’s Tahrir Square, presents an unparalleled profile in hypocrisy.
Egyptian constitutional referendum passes amid low turnout
WSWS – The thoroughly fraudulent and undemocratic nature of Saturday’s referendum in Egypt was the declaration from the Supreme Military Council that in the event of a no vote it would impose its own constitution until a new one is drafted.
Bill Maher asks Michael Oren whether ‘being an Occupier has changed the Jewish people,’ but
Mondoweiss – lets slide Israeli Ambassador Oren’s promise that “we want Palestinians to have their own state,” if they “recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.” In this segment last week , Maher, oblivious to the rights of Palestinian citizens, as well as to Palestinian refugees’ Right…
‘Addicted to empire‚Ķ potential quagmire’ ‚Äî Walt
Mondoweiss – Stephen Walt on the Libyan intervention at Foreign Policy : The only important intellectual difference between neoconservatives and liberal interventionists is that the former have disdain for international institutions (which they see as constraints on U.S. power), and the latter see them as a useful way to…
JVP Executive Director interviews Israeli activist in the Nation
Jewish Voice for Peace – On December 27, 28-year-old Israeli activist Jonathan Pollak was sentenced to three months in jail. He was the only one arrested at a Critical Mass bike ride in Tel Aviv, thus clearly indicating the arrest was politically motivated. Jonathan went to jail on January 11. We…
Boston Globe on Brandeis JVP’s exclusion from Hillel
Jewish Voice for Peace – This week, in the latest clash on the Waltham campus over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Hillel at Brandeis refused to accept Jewish Voice for Peace, which urges divestment from companies that profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and urges boycotts of goods made there.
Jewish Telegraph Agency on Brandeis Hillel’s exclusion of JVP
Jewish Voice for Peace – Adam Lerner, a sophomore at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., where
Facebook Activist Charged With Incitement And “Humiliating Public Employee”
Sabr 22 Mar 2011 – Thursday March 17, 2011 08:29 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News A Palestinian Facebook activist from Sakhnin, north of the country, was kidnapped by the Israeli police on Wednesday and was placed under interrogation on charges of “inciting violence, and humiliating a public employee”. Mohammad Ghanayim…
Gazans protest abduction of engineer
Sabr 22 Mar 2011 – GAZA CITY ( Ma’an ) — Friends and family members of a Gaza engineer held a sit-in Tuesday in front of UN headquarters in Gaza City protesting Israel’s abduction of Dirar Abu Sisi, director of Gaza’s sole power plant. Abu Sisi went missing on February 19 after boarding…
Red Cross: Family visits in prison were suspended for Jewish holidays
Sabr 22 Mar 2011 – [ 21/03/2011 – 11:33 AM ] JENIN, ( PIC )— The Red Cross said the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) cancelled prison visits scheduled for Monday due to Jewish holidays and the cordon imposed on the West Bank. The Red Cross added that Palestinian families were scheduled to visit…
Detainee Abu Sisi Discloses Detail of His Kidnapping in Ukraine to PCHR Lawyer, PCHR Calls for Immediate Release of Abu Sisi
Sabr 22 Mar 2011 – PCHR Monday, 21 March 2011 11:30 Ref: 22/2011 On 19 February 2011, members of the national intelligence agency of Israel (Mossad) kidnapped Derar Mousa Yousef Abu Sisi, 42 while he was in the Ukraine. Mr. Abu Sisi is the Director of the Operations, Department in Gaza…
‘Four protesters killed’ in Syria
BBC 22 Mar 2011 – At least four people have died after security forces fired on protesters outside a mosque in the Syrian city of Deraa, human rights activists say.
Strikes on Gaza ‘kill children’
BBC 22 Mar 2011 – Two Israeli military strikes on Gaza have killed eight Palestinians, including two children and four militants, officials say.
Israel ex-President Katsav jailed
BBC 22 Mar 2011 – Israeli ex-President Moshe Katsav is sentenced to seven years for rape – the first former head of state to be jailed.
Fire at Egypt interior ministry
BBC 22 Mar 2011 – A fire which broke out in a building in the Egyptian interior ministry compound in Cairo has now been extinguished.
Muslim Brotherhood Goes Mainstream in Egypt
Antiwar.com 22 Mar 2011 – CAIRO — Egyptians voted in a nationwide referendum yesterday on proposed amendments to the constitutional articles that govern the electoral process. But regardless of the outcome, political analysts are certain that the Muslim Brotherhood, outlawed throughout the 30-year rule of ousted president Hosni Mubarak, remains poised…
Arab Deaths and US Hypocrisy
Antiwar.com 22 Mar 2011 – The stench of death hanging over protest centers in the Arab world is more than matched by the rank hypocrisy befouling Washington and the lesser capitals of Western Empire. There is, however, not the slightest allusion to “hypocrisy,” in the imperial media. The “H” word is…
Italian FAI on North Africa uprisings (translation)
A-infos 22 Mar 2011 – Tunisia: a social revolution (from Umanita Nuova 23rd January 2011) —— 17th December, a young unemployed who occasionally sells fruits, Mohamed Bouaziz, goes up in flames against the harassments that he suffers everyday from Tunisian police. —— In few days the protest of the Tunisian working…
Palestine-Israel, The persistence (Tsumud) of the joint struggle continue
A-infos 22 Mar 2011 – On the back ground of the general uprisings in the Arab countries, the persistence of the joint struggle contribute its share of rebellion. As the moment of truth for the last settler colonialist project in the modern world approach, the rightists intensify their onslaught and the…
France, Press release on the war in Libya of CGA: Libya: For the revolution, against the imperialist war!
A-infos 21 Mar 2011 – Faced with the insurrection of the Libyan population in their attempt to put an end to several decades of dictatorship by the Qaddafi clan, the government has responded with increasingly violent armed repression. This repression forms part of the escalating repression of the various dictatorships in…
“Offset” Your Dollars to Israel Before Tax Day!
US Campaign to End the Occupation 22 Mar 2011 – March 17, 2011, We are taking our message directly to the decision-makers and proving to them that we are galvanizing a national movement to end weapons transfers to Israel and redirect that money to unmet needs here at home. Help us keep this campaign going strong.
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Village of Awarta faced mass arrests, violence and massive destruction during five days of curfew
International Solidarity Movement, Israeli Occupation Archive3/20/2011
19 March 2011
During the five day curfew in the village of Awarta, south of Nablus, the Israeli military raided homes and detained around 300 people, the youngest 14 years old. Some of the men were taken to the local boy school were they had to leave their finger prints and DNA and some were taken to the military base at Huwwra checkpoint. According to mayor, Qays Awwad, 55 men are still in Israeli custody. Some of the detainees reported that they had been abused by the soldiers while they were detained and handcuffed. It has been reported that a 75 year old woman was handcuffed and had to sit on the ground while the soldiers went through her home, and that an 80-year-old woman was beaten by soldiers.
Three Scandinavian ISM activists were in Awarta during the five day curfew, from Saturday afternoon until Wednesday noon. From the roofs of people’s houses they witnessed how the Israeli soldiers went into homes, arrested men and made the families wait outside while they raided their homes resulting in large scale damage to property. The ISM activists also visited homes that soldiers had searched to find broken windows, cut fuse-cables, smashed furniture, and polluted drinking water caused by Israeli soldiers.
Hundreds of soldiers entered the village in military vehicles early on the morning of the 12th of march, following the murder of five members of a settler family in the nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Itamar. According to the soldiers, they were searching for the murderer and would continue until they found one. One soldier told ISM activists, “we will search this village until we find someone.” In the process of “searching” the houses the soldiers damaged framed pictures, furniture, TV-sets, gas heaters, smashed holes in floors and walls, stole money and jewelry, and poured liquids over computers…. — See also: Source more.. e-mail
Israel’s Latest Apartheid Law
Ilan Pappé, CounterPunch3/22/2011
Introducing ASOI
Those of us who have been veteran comrades in the struggle for peace and justice in Palestine have quite often been frustrated by the inability to galvanize enough support in the political and media establishments in the West against the brutal occupation of the West Bank and the strangulation of Gaza. We believed that clear cut evidence of the oppression and the highly visible criminal policies that raged since 1967 should have at least triggered a world reaction similar to the one that now takes place against Libya, and even more so.
But we know all the reasons why it did not, and will not happen. And yet we may have overlooked one particular reason, indeed one successful ploy of the Israeli peace camp that seems to have aborted any such effort in its buds. The liberal Zionists believe strongly in the existence of two discrete entities one Israel and one that lies on the other side of the 1967 green line which have very little in common. The acceptance of this line as a hard fact is the main justification given in the West for the inaction against Israel (one which is also supported by some of Palestine’s best friends and of course the Palestinian Authority). The line drawn is not just a political boundary it is mainly a moral border. Everything that is happening in the occupied world is diametrically opposed to life in democratic Israel and hence the argument is that if you treat Israel as a pariah state then you will also harm the ‘good’ part, the pre-1967 state. This is also the basis to the continued support for the two states solution that bases peace on the ability of moral Israel to re-invent itself in the pre-1967 borders.
I hope this distinction would at least disappear from the vocabulary and dictionary of the Western solidarity movement with Palestine (where it can still be heard in loyalty to the peace camp in Israel, the PA and the invisible lord of realpolitik)…. more.. e-mail
What Price Palestine…?
Mikail Jubran, Intifada-Palestine3/21/2011
Popular revolt has transformed Tunisia. A budding revolution takes hold in Egypt. Civil war is raging in Libya. Social unrest intensifies in Yemen, and sectarian strife heightens in Bahrain.
What this this all mean for the Palestinians?
During the past several weeks they have held their breath with high anxiety, watching as events have unfolded around them. The tension in the Palestinian territories is so thick now that one can feel it rubbing against their faces. They are witnessing a massive popular “Intifada” that threatens to leave them behind in a state of perpetual uncertainty.
Sure sounds pretty gloomy.
To make it more confusing, self-proclaimed specialists, commentators, analysts, pundits, and countless others really think that they know what is best for the Palestinians.
Who are they fooling here?
Let’s step back a bit and examine the real landscape that lies before the Palestinian people at this juncture.
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