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Corrie family asks U.S. court to reopen trial against bulldozer company
The family of a woman killed trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in 2003 asked a federal appeals court panel to reinstate its lawsuit against Caterpillar Inc., saying the company knew bulldozers it sold to the government were being used to commit human rights violations.
Cameraman shot by Israeli forces while covering Gaza clashes
New York, July 6, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is outraged by Thursday's shooting of a Palestinian cameraman by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. Imad Ghanem, a cameraman for the Hamas-affiliated satellite channel Al-Aqsa, was filming paramedics transferring victims of an Israeli tank shell in the eastern part of Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza when Israeli tanks began firing at them and other residents in the area, according to Sameer al-Bouji, a cameraman for the Pal-Media news agency who filmed the incident. Ghanem was shot in the leg and fell to the ground, al-Bouji told CPJ. The footage, which was broadcast on Al-Jazeera, shows the cameraman being shot twice more in the legs from a distance as he lay injured, his camera beside him. According to news reports, both of Ghanem's legs were amputated.
Third Anniversary of ICJ Ruling Against Israel's Apartheid Wall Marked by Renewed Land Grab and Continued Impunity
Ramallah, 09-07-07: The third anniversary of the International Court of Justice ruling against Israel's Apartheid Wall on 9 July will pass this year with an announcement by Israeli authorities of plans to build a new section of the Wall on the lands of Beit Jala near Bethlehem, a land grab that will see the further confiscation of Palestinian land, economic devastation, the destruction of natural resources and the separation of Palestinian families from one another.
Support for Hezbollah still high in south Lebanon
AITA AL-SHAAB, Lebanon, July 10 (Reuters) - He passed all his school exams, helped out in his father's sandwich bar, ran a bicycle shop and still found time to train with local Hezbollah guerrillas in this village on Lebanon's border with Israel.
Hamas bans Israeli produce in Gaza
Hamas's Finance Ministry on Monday barred Israeli fruits and vegetables from entering the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to the spokesman for the Fruit Growers Association.
Gaza Struggles as the West Presses Hamas
In the month since Hamas took over Gaza, the 1.5 million Palestinians there have become more cut off than ever, supplies and jobs slipping away as its rival Fatah, backed by Israel and the West, pressures Hamas.
Olmert says does not want Gaza, West Bank divided
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday he does not want Palestinians divided into two separate political entities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where the Islamist group Hamas seized control last month. "The solution remains two peoples, two states -- a Palestinian state and a Jewish state," Olmert told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera during a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories by Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
Mashaal: Hamas would cooperate with Gaza probe
Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal said that his organization was prepared to cooperate with an Arab inquiry committee looking into the goings-on in the Gaza Strip, Israel Radio reported on Tuesday.
Egypt vehemently opposes deployment of int'l force in Gaza
Cairo vehemently opposes the deployment of an international peacekeeping force in the Gaza Strip, Egypt's intelligence chief Omar Suleiman told a delegation of MKs from the left-wing Meretz party in Cairo Sunday.
The family of a woman killed trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in 2003 asked a federal appeals court panel to reinstate its lawsuit against Caterpillar Inc., saying the company knew bulldozers it sold to the government were being used to commit human rights violations.
Cameraman shot by Israeli forces while covering Gaza clashes
New York, July 6, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is outraged by Thursday's shooting of a Palestinian cameraman by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. Imad Ghanem, a cameraman for the Hamas-affiliated satellite channel Al-Aqsa, was filming paramedics transferring victims of an Israeli tank shell in the eastern part of Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza when Israeli tanks began firing at them and other residents in the area, according to Sameer al-Bouji, a cameraman for the Pal-Media news agency who filmed the incident. Ghanem was shot in the leg and fell to the ground, al-Bouji told CPJ. The footage, which was broadcast on Al-Jazeera, shows the cameraman being shot twice more in the legs from a distance as he lay injured, his camera beside him. According to news reports, both of Ghanem's legs were amputated.
Third Anniversary of ICJ Ruling Against Israel's Apartheid Wall Marked by Renewed Land Grab and Continued Impunity
Ramallah, 09-07-07: The third anniversary of the International Court of Justice ruling against Israel's Apartheid Wall on 9 July will pass this year with an announcement by Israeli authorities of plans to build a new section of the Wall on the lands of Beit Jala near Bethlehem, a land grab that will see the further confiscation of Palestinian land, economic devastation, the destruction of natural resources and the separation of Palestinian families from one another.
Support for Hezbollah still high in south Lebanon
AITA AL-SHAAB, Lebanon, July 10 (Reuters) - He passed all his school exams, helped out in his father's sandwich bar, ran a bicycle shop and still found time to train with local Hezbollah guerrillas in this village on Lebanon's border with Israel.
Hamas bans Israeli produce in Gaza
Hamas's Finance Ministry on Monday barred Israeli fruits and vegetables from entering the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to the spokesman for the Fruit Growers Association.
Gaza Struggles as the West Presses Hamas
In the month since Hamas took over Gaza, the 1.5 million Palestinians there have become more cut off than ever, supplies and jobs slipping away as its rival Fatah, backed by Israel and the West, pressures Hamas.
Olmert says does not want Gaza, West Bank divided
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday he does not want Palestinians divided into two separate political entities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where the Islamist group Hamas seized control last month. "The solution remains two peoples, two states -- a Palestinian state and a Jewish state," Olmert told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera during a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories by Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
Mashaal: Hamas would cooperate with Gaza probe
Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal said that his organization was prepared to cooperate with an Arab inquiry committee looking into the goings-on in the Gaza Strip, Israel Radio reported on Tuesday.
Egypt vehemently opposes deployment of int'l force in Gaza
Cairo vehemently opposes the deployment of an international peacekeeping force in the Gaza Strip, Egypt's intelligence chief Omar Suleiman told a delegation of MKs from the left-wing Meretz party in Cairo Sunday.
Hamas denies Abbas charges it is letting Al-Qaida enter Gaza
Hamas officials Tuesday hotly denied allegations by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that the militant Islamic group letting Al-Qaida infiltrate the Gaza Strip, under full Hamas control since its defeat of Fatah last month.
Israeli army shells Palestinian homes; Palestinian resistance retaliates with homemade shells
Israeli army tanks stationed at the southern Gaza-Israeli borders shelled Palestinian homes located in Rafah city on Tuesday midday.
Urgent appeal on the situation of the Jahalin Bedouin living in the occupied Palestinian territory and threatened by forced displacement
The petitioners are the Jahalin Bedouin, who face arbitrary displacement as a result of home demolitions and restricted access to land and essential services, and the residents of the villages of Abu Dis, Al 'Zaryya, Eastern Sawahrah, Al Za'ym, and Sheikh Sa'ad. The Bedouin and the villagers are affected by the E1 plan (the planned construction of a new settlement east of Jerusalem, labelled by Israel as an expansion of the Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Adumim) and the construction of the Wall in the occupied West Bank (1).
Acting PLC speaker terms Abbas' decree for new PLC session illegal
Acting Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Ahmed Bahar said on Tuesday that President Mahmoud Abbas' decree for convening the PLC in its second round session is illegal.
Israeli ex-minister says Barghuti should be freed
Israel's former deputy defence minister Ephraim Sneh said on Monday after visiting Marwan Barghuti in prison that the former West Bank Fatah leader would be more useful outside jail than inside.
Another UK Body Boycotts Israel
The British Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), one of Britain's largest trade associations, has decided to boycott all the products made in Israel in protest at the practices of the Israeli army in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Olmert to Assad: 'I am ready to hold direct talks with you'
'Come to" Jerusalem to talk' "was the message of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to Syrian President Bashar Assad, in an historic interview to Saudi satellite station Al Arabiya, aired by Channel 10 Monday evening.
Delivering results
With kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston free, Hamas has shown itself far more adept at imposing security on Gaza than its critics anticipated .
Statement: One country, one state
For decades, efforts to create a just peace for Palestinians and Israeli Jews have failed. The current crisis has further set back hopes for a political solution to the conflict. In this context, a group of scholars, journalists and activists met in Madrid, at the invitation of Universidad Complutense de Madrid, for five days of intensive discussion on alternatives to this ongoing impasse, framed by their belief that a democratic state in all of historic Palestine provides the only moral and practical basis for a just, sustainable peace.
Palestinian journalist describes "the worst experience of her life": being stuck on Egyptian side of Rafah
In conversation with Ma'an, Najida Balbisi, a journalist for Al Quds newspaper, berated all decision-makers for failing to re-open the crossing, asking, "Isn't it enough that we are [stuck] between the sky and the land for more than one month?" "Hundreds of children are screaming because of the heat and the hunger, and hundreds of sick people are suffering pain," she said. "Are the decision makers waiting for all the people here to die so the crossing will be reopened?"
Lebanon war shredded US clout in Mideast The British Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), one of Britain's largest trade associations, has decided to boycott all the products made in Israel in protest at the practices of the Israeli army in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Olmert to Assad: 'I am ready to hold direct talks with you'
'Come to" Jerusalem to talk' "was the message of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to Syrian President Bashar Assad, in an historic interview to Saudi satellite station Al Arabiya, aired by Channel 10 Monday evening.
Delivering results
With kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston free, Hamas has shown itself far more adept at imposing security on Gaza than its critics anticipated .
Statement: One country, one state
For decades, efforts to create a just peace for Palestinians and Israeli Jews have failed. The current crisis has further set back hopes for a political solution to the conflict. In this context, a group of scholars, journalists and activists met in Madrid, at the invitation of Universidad Complutense de Madrid, for five days of intensive discussion on alternatives to this ongoing impasse, framed by their belief that a democratic state in all of historic Palestine provides the only moral and practical basis for a just, sustainable peace.
Palestinian journalist describes "the worst experience of her life": being stuck on Egyptian side of Rafah
In conversation with Ma'an, Najida Balbisi, a journalist for Al Quds newspaper, berated all decision-makers for failing to re-open the crossing, asking, "Isn't it enough that we are [stuck] between the sky and the land for more than one month?" "Hundreds of children are screaming because of the heat and the hunger, and hundreds of sick people are suffering pain," she said. "Are the decision makers waiting for all the people here to die so the crossing will be reopened?"
Washington's unconditional and unflinching support for Israel during its 34-day bombing of Lebanon last year dealt a key blow to US influence in the Middle East, already eroded by the Iraq war.
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