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Israel 'is breaking law with Gaza ban'
Sari Bashi, the director of the Israeli human rights group, Gisha, said the country was inflicting "collective punishment" on the 1.5 million Palestinians by closing the main commercial crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip at Karni.
Olmert to Abbas: Don't talk to Hamas
Israel's gestures to the Palestinian Authority, as well as increasing cooperation with the new government, will end if PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas again agrees to a government condominium with Hamas, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Abbas on Monday.
Israel finalises list of Palestinians to be freed
Sari Bashi, the director of the Israeli human rights group, Gisha, said the country was inflicting "collective punishment" on the 1.5 million Palestinians by closing the main commercial crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip at Karni.
Olmert to Abbas: Don't talk to Hamas
Israel's gestures to the Palestinian Authority, as well as increasing cooperation with the new government, will end if PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas again agrees to a government condominium with Hamas, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Abbas on Monday.
Israel finalises list of Palestinians to be freed
Israel finalised a list on Tuesday of 250 Palestinian prisoners to be freed later this week as part of a series of moves to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas.
Abbas refuses prisoner release list
Dr. Sa'eb Irikat, head of the Palestinian negotiation department, said that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused the list of 250 Palestinian political prisoners that Israel is planning to release as a goodwill gesture to bolster Abbas and his new appointed government.
Abbas consolidates his control over West Bank
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigned as head of an emergency government and was immediately appointed yesterday to lead an interim Cabinet, after a state of emergency imposed after Hamas' Gaza takeover expired.
Palestinians in Sinai desperate to return to Gaza
Khowla Salah al-Ghalban, nine months pregnant and barely able to move, lies on a concrete floor in the Egyptian border town of Rafah as flies buzz around her. She hopes to make it home to Gaza before her baby comes.
Four injured during clashes between Palestinian stranded at the borders and Egyptian security
Palestinian sources told IMEMC that clashes took place between the Palestinian stranded at the Egyptian side of the Gaza strip borders on Tuesday.
Karni closure is taking economic toll
As the Hamas reign in Gaza stretches into its second month, local businesses on both sides of the border are suffering as the Karni crossing, the main thoroughfare for the passage of commercial goods between Israel and the Gaza Strip, has been open only for the transfer of humanitarian necessities since June 12.
Bush Pledges Aid for Abbas Government
Mr. Bush said Palestinians faced a stark choice: freedom and progress under Mr. Abbas and his Fatah-led government, or "chaos and suffering" and endless violence under Hamas, the radical movement that Mr. Bush said had "betrayed the Palestinian people."
PCHR: "Palestinian Detained and Tortured in Hams-controlled prison dies of torture
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, calls for opening an immediate investigation into the death of Waleed Abu Dalfa during his detention in al-Mashtal intelligence outpost, northwest of Gaza City.
Displacement and Israel's Wall
Width matters. Semantic disputes concerning the Israeli Palestinian conflict have existed for years. Arguments continue over Jimmy Carter's use of the word "apartheid" to describe the system under which Palestinians live in Israeli administered areas. These areas are called "Judea-Samaria" and considered "disputed" land by the Israeli camp while others refer to them as the "West Bank" and "occupied". Finally the term, "The Wall" , is dismissed by Israel as a misrepresentation of the controversial structure it is building. Supporters of Israel claim that only a small percent of the structure consists of a 25 feet high concrete wall. The remainder is considered a simple wire "fence" that can not be equated with a wall. In reality, neither of these descriptors conveys the structure's essential nature.
Anata: More Homes Being Rebuilt
Monday July 16th, 2007. Four members of the ISM have taken part in a work camp in Anata ( Jerusalem area), organized by ICAHD, with the support of other organizations. The goal of this summer work camp is to rebuild a house demolished by the Israeli Occupation Forces in December 2005. 25 internationals from the US, New Zealand, Italy, England, and many other countries, as well as a variable number of Israeli volunteers, who go for one or some days, have taken part in this camp, that started on the 14th of July and will finish on the 28th with the inauguration of the house, hopefully, completely finished. The construction of the house is paid for by the internationals, who pay $1000, apart from their physical contribution with their work to build the house, hand by hand with Palestinian workers.
Hamas denies "political prisoners" jailed in Gaza prisons
A spokesman for Hamas affirmed on Tuesday that the Gaza Strip prisons, run by the Islamic movement, were empty from "political prisoners," saying the confined were "security internees" only.
Ministers okay list of 256 Palestinian prisoners
List includes Fatah, PFLP and DFLP members slated to be released on Friday in gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Ministers Shaul Mofaz, Eli Yishai oppose move. 'We are constantly busy making one-sided gestures – this is wrong,' says Yishai .
A historic anomaly
It's a pity that no one learns from history. This truism is nowhere better illustrated than in today's savage rift between Fatah and Hamas. What a nadir in Palestinian fortunes for one side in Ramallah to trumpet western support while the other starves in Gaza. This shocking spectacle is a sad echo of an earlier scenario, then as now, infinitely more damaging to the Palestinians than to their enemies. "The Arabs have been so misguided in the conduct of their case that I sometimes wonder whether Jewish agents are not at work inside the Arab camp," wrote a British Foreign Office official following the bungled Arab rebellion against Britain in 1936. For two years the Arabs fought valiantly, suffered enormously and were brutally punished by the British in ways reminiscent of the Israeli army's methods today. They ended up starving, their leaders killed or exiled, and the fruits of their struggle vitiated by internal splits.
Popular Committees slams arrests, torture, in Hamas' Executive Force prisons
The Popular Committee issued on Monday a statement slamming the continuation of political arrests carried by the Hamas-controlled Executive Force in the Gaza Strip, and demanded Hamas to stop its "violations and return the situation to how it was before Hamas overtook Gaza".
Iran not involved in Gaza attacks: Haniya
On Monday, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniya denied PA President Mahmoud Abbas's allegations that Iran, Syria, and Qatar had a hand in the recent Gaza Strip attacks.
Intel tech centre plan for Gaza pre-dates Hamas
PCHR: "Palestinian Detained and Tortured in Hams-controlled prison dies of torture
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, calls for opening an immediate investigation into the death of Waleed Abu Dalfa during his detention in al-Mashtal intelligence outpost, northwest of Gaza City.
Displacement and Israel's Wall
Width matters. Semantic disputes concerning the Israeli Palestinian conflict have existed for years. Arguments continue over Jimmy Carter's use of the word "apartheid" to describe the system under which Palestinians live in Israeli administered areas. These areas are called "Judea-Samaria" and considered "disputed" land by the Israeli camp while others refer to them as the "West Bank" and "occupied". Finally the term, "The Wall" , is dismissed by Israel as a misrepresentation of the controversial structure it is building. Supporters of Israel claim that only a small percent of the structure consists of a 25 feet high concrete wall. The remainder is considered a simple wire "fence" that can not be equated with a wall. In reality, neither of these descriptors conveys the structure's essential nature.
Anata: More Homes Being Rebuilt
Monday July 16th, 2007. Four members of the ISM have taken part in a work camp in Anata ( Jerusalem area), organized by ICAHD, with the support of other organizations. The goal of this summer work camp is to rebuild a house demolished by the Israeli Occupation Forces in December 2005. 25 internationals from the US, New Zealand, Italy, England, and many other countries, as well as a variable number of Israeli volunteers, who go for one or some days, have taken part in this camp, that started on the 14th of July and will finish on the 28th with the inauguration of the house, hopefully, completely finished. The construction of the house is paid for by the internationals, who pay $1000, apart from their physical contribution with their work to build the house, hand by hand with Palestinian workers.
Hamas denies "political prisoners" jailed in Gaza prisons
A spokesman for Hamas affirmed on Tuesday that the Gaza Strip prisons, run by the Islamic movement, were empty from "political prisoners," saying the confined were "security internees" only.
Ministers okay list of 256 Palestinian prisoners
List includes Fatah, PFLP and DFLP members slated to be released on Friday in gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Ministers Shaul Mofaz, Eli Yishai oppose move. 'We are constantly busy making one-sided gestures – this is wrong,' says Yishai .
A historic anomaly
It's a pity that no one learns from history. This truism is nowhere better illustrated than in today's savage rift between Fatah and Hamas. What a nadir in Palestinian fortunes for one side in Ramallah to trumpet western support while the other starves in Gaza. This shocking spectacle is a sad echo of an earlier scenario, then as now, infinitely more damaging to the Palestinians than to their enemies. "The Arabs have been so misguided in the conduct of their case that I sometimes wonder whether Jewish agents are not at work inside the Arab camp," wrote a British Foreign Office official following the bungled Arab rebellion against Britain in 1936. For two years the Arabs fought valiantly, suffered enormously and were brutally punished by the British in ways reminiscent of the Israeli army's methods today. They ended up starving, their leaders killed or exiled, and the fruits of their struggle vitiated by internal splits.
Popular Committees slams arrests, torture, in Hamas' Executive Force prisons
The Popular Committee issued on Monday a statement slamming the continuation of political arrests carried by the Hamas-controlled Executive Force in the Gaza Strip, and demanded Hamas to stop its "violations and return the situation to how it was before Hamas overtook Gaza".
Iran not involved in Gaza attacks: Haniya
On Monday, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniya denied PA President Mahmoud Abbas's allegations that Iran, Syria, and Qatar had a hand in the recent Gaza Strip attacks.
Intel tech centre plan for Gaza pre-dates Hamas
An Intel IT center planned for the Gaza Strip that has surfaced in news reports was announced in early November, pre-dating the Hamas election victory.
Nothing to sell the Palestinians
Abu Mazen's struggle against the Hamas government is mainly political-legal in nature. He established an "emergency government" in the West Bank that has now become a "transition government." The name is not important. What counts is that from a legal point of view this government does not have to, and of course cannot, receive the approval of the parliament, whose work has been paralyzed. A large majority of the MPs are representatives of Hamas, and a large percentage of them (residents of the West Bank and East Jerusalem) are sitting in Israeli prisons - which is how Abu Mazen can attempt to transfer more powers to Palestine Liberation Organization institutions. These institutions are considered representative of all the members of the Palestinian nation, in all its diasporas, and therefore they are (at least formally) above the institutions of the PA, which represent only the residents of the West Bank and Gaza, and thus constitute about half the nation.
Hamas Declares New Palestinian Caretaker Govt. As Illegal
Hamas strongly condemned Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas' decision to turn the emergency government headed by Salam Fayyad into a caretaker administration. Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, declared the caretaker government illegal and called on Palestinians not to deal with it.
Nothing to sell the Palestinians
Abu Mazen's struggle against the Hamas government is mainly political-legal in nature. He established an "emergency government" in the West Bank that has now become a "transition government." The name is not important. What counts is that from a legal point of view this government does not have to, and of course cannot, receive the approval of the parliament, whose work has been paralyzed. A large majority of the MPs are representatives of Hamas, and a large percentage of them (residents of the West Bank and East Jerusalem) are sitting in Israeli prisons - which is how Abu Mazen can attempt to transfer more powers to Palestine Liberation Organization institutions. These institutions are considered representative of all the members of the Palestinian nation, in all its diasporas, and therefore they are (at least formally) above the institutions of the PA, which represent only the residents of the West Bank and Gaza, and thus constitute about half the nation.
Hamas Declares New Palestinian Caretaker Govt. As Illegal
Hamas strongly condemned Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas' decision to turn the emergency government headed by Salam Fayyad into a caretaker administration. Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, declared the caretaker government illegal and called on Palestinians not to deal with it.
Behind the Fatah-Hamas confrontation: Palestine wrecked
Since the Oslo peace process ground to a halt, the key question remains. Is Israel prepared to withdraw from the territory it occupied in 1967 and allow the creation of an independent Palestinian state? There seems little ground for optimism.
Israel - Palestine: Shame of Ertas
9 Minute Video: The Israeli army against palestinian ... The Israeli army against palestinian farmers family .
Protesters occupy UK warehouse of Israeli exporter
Yesterday afternoon of a group of Palestine solidarity protesters entered the main UK warehouse of Israeli company Carmel Agrexco in Uxbridge, Middlesex. Their action is part of the growing movement to boycott Israeli apartheid, which aims to end Israel's breach of international law and abuse of human rights in the occupied territories of Palestine.
Poll: 50% in U.K. think Jews more loyal to Israel than home nation
Half of the British public believes that Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their home country, an Anti-Defamation League poll released in Tuesday showed.
France warns Israel over possible attempt to kidnap Hizbullah members
Kuwaiti newspaper report says France received intelligence information according to which Mossad is planning to kidnap members of Shiite group participating in conference of Lebanese groups near Paris .
US, Israel plotting to kill Nasrallah - report
According to al-Madar, the intelligence services of Saudi Arabia, the United States and Israel sought to track secret Hizbullah bunkers in Lebanon as part of a plot to assassinate Nasrallah.
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