This Day In Palestine May 29, 2007

This Day in Palestine Brought to From: Shadi Fadda

*Israeli Special Forces Execute Palestinian Man at Point Blank Range During
Attack on Ramallah*
Israel undercover 'special forces' executed a Palestinian man at point blank
range this afternoon during an attack on Ramallah. The man, identified as
Omar Abu Daher, was initially shot in the leg outside the offices of the
Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute on Ramallah's Main
Street.

*Settler fires rounds of live ammunition at Arabic houses in the
Negev*
Palestinian sources reported on Monday evening that an Israeli settler fired
several rounds of live ammunition at several Arab houses in an
"unrecognized" village in the Negev.

*Soldiers fire at the vehicle of Palestinian Information
Minster*
Palestinian sources in Ramallah, in the northern part of the west Bank,
opened fire at the vehicle of Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, the Palestinian
Minister of information, during an invasion to the city on Tuesday.

*Army kidnaps two residents form Al Thahryia and Beit Omer towns near
Hebron*
The Israeli army invaded the towns of Al Al Thahryia and Beit Omer located
near Hebron city in the southern part of the West Bank, searching homes and
kidnapping two civilians.


*Israeli army storms Rafah as Palestinian president calls for truce with
Israel*
For the first time in two weeks, Israeli army carried out early on Tuesday
dawn a ground attack on southern Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians, said
to be Hamas members, wounded a 32-year-old woman and other two men.


*Israeli army kidnaps 9 Palestinian civilians from Nablus, among them
legislator Jamal Al Terawe*
The Israeli army invaded Balata refugee camp near Nablus on the early hours
of Tuesday morning.

*Video: Israeli forces invade Balata refugee
camp.
On 24 May 2007 the Israeli Army invaded the Balata refugee camp outside the
West Bank city of Nablus. First entering the camp disguised as Palestinian
civilians, and later with a number of armored vehicles, the army arrested
camp residents and placed the entire population under curfew. This video
produced by the Research Journalism Initiative and the Anarchist Film
Collective "A-Films" documents the invasion.


*Detained Palestinian Legislative head and Legislator receive extended
detentions*
The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) issued a press release on Monday
stating that the Israeli authorities have extended the detention of the head
of the Palestinian Legislative


*Illegal settlement infrastructure exposed on Palestinian
land.
Two days before the Israeli Supreme Court will hear the appeal (1526/07)
submitted by Bil'in residents and Peace Now against the decision of the High
Commission of Planning in the civil administration to 'launder' the illegal
building in the settlement Matityahu East, agricultural work on land that
the Israeli Civil Administration has defined as a private Palestinian
'enclave' was stopped after a tractor used for ploughing exposed the sewage
pipes of the Matityahu East settlement. The head of the security of Modiin
Elite warned the farmers that working the land was endangering their lives,
because of buried electricity cables.


*PA official: Haniyeh limiting appearances, fears assassination by
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has limited his public appearances
because he fears being targeted for assassination by Israel, his spokesman
said Tuesday.



*Palestinian president to meet Israeli PM next
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Tuesday he will hold talks with
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on June 7, their first meeting in nearly
two months.

*Israel to indict Hamas detainees
Military prosecution to ask court to extend remand of dozens of
organization officials captured in wide-scale operation last week. Defense
establishment not ruling out possibility of arresting Palestinian PM Haniyeh

*Refugees Forever: Inside Bedawi
Bedawi Camp is much like other Palestinian Camps: crowded, narrow streets
winding between cement buildings hung with tangles of wire, the ground
running with water, often muddy because it is not tarred. Small scooter
motor bikes push their way between the people, children with clothes too
small from them and holed at the knees running and playing ball and wanting
to pose for photo after photo


*'We have no rights and no
The standoff between the Lebanese army and Islamic militants has focused
attention on the 400,000 Palestinian refuges in the country.


*Aid flows into Palestinian account after US
shift
With U.S. backing, donor funds have started flowing into an account
controlled by Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayyad to pay partial
government salaries, Palestinian and Western officials said on Monday.

*'Arab support for Barak a
disgrace'<>
*
Bad blood between former prime minister and Israeli Arabs, dating back to
October 2000 riots, does not stop them from favoring him over Ami Ayalon in
Monday's primaries. Minister Herzog: We are moving towards national
reconciliation.


*Iraqi Refugees Turn to the Sex Trade in
Syria*
Back home in Iraq, Umm Hiba's daughter was a devout schoolgirl, modest in
her dress and serious about her studies. Hiba, who is now 16, wore the
hijab, or Islamic head scarf, and rose early each day to say the dawn prayer
before classes.
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