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Shot while filming a gunbattle
Palestinian journalist shot by Israeli Occupation Forces.
11 resistance fighters, most from Hamas, killed in Israeli occupation forces attack on Gaza
Eleven resistance fighters, most or all from Hamas, died in clashes with Israeli forces Thursday, one of the deadliest days of fighting since the Islamic militant group wrested control of Gaza in mid-June.
Five Palestinians killed in Israeli attack
Five Palestinians were killed and more than six others were injured early Thursday in an Israeli occupation forces attacked Breij and Maghazi refiugee camps in central Gaza.
Three injured at Bil'in demonstration
On Friday, the village of Bil'in conducted its weekly demonstration against the illegal Israeli wall near the village. As is the case each week, the villagers were joined by Israeli and international peace activists.
Haniyeh: IDF operation criminal massacre
Haniyeh also said Palestinian gunmen had the right to respond .
Palestinians claim man's death caused by ambulance delay at checkpoint
A Palestinian who drowned in a swimming pool died Thursday because an ambulance coming to his aid was held up at a checkpoint, local Palestinians said. Medical staff at the Nablus hospital - where he died after 20 minutes of CPR - said Zaid Asiah (27) could have been resuscitated had he arrived sooner.
News: Press Says Hamas Won Johnston Test
British and American dailies agree that Hamas has scored some points by securing the release of abducted BBC reporter Alan Johnston.
How Syria helped win Johnston's release
DAMASCUS - The world rejoiced over the release of British Broadcasting Corporation journalist Alan Johnston, who had been held captive by Islamist militias in Gaza for 16 weeks. Hamas, recently ejected from government by Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, took the credit.
Palestinians go on hunger srike at Gaza border
Some 100 Palestinians stuck on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing declared a hunger strike Friday, demanding they be allowed to cross into the Gaza Strip.
Iraq: Brazilian resettlement breakthrough for Palestinians in desert camp
UNHCR is grateful for a generous offer by the Government of Brazil to resettle an estimated 100 Palestinian refugees who formerly lived in Iraq. Most of the Palestinians have been living in Ruwayshed inside Jordan – 60 km from the Iraq border – for the past four years. There, they have faced extremely harsh conditions in a dusty and scorpion-infested desert camp with nowhere to go. In recent years UNHCR has repeatedly appealed for a humane solution for this group. Until this latest response from Brazil, only Canada and New Zealand – which took 54 and 22 Palestinians respectively in recent years – had come forward to help this desperate group.
Detained Palestinians complain of Lebanon army abuse
Dozens of Palestinians detained while leaving a besieged refugee camp in Lebanon have complained of abuse by the Lebanese army, ranging from beatings to some cases of sexual abuse, human and civil rights activists say.
Lebanese defend abused Palestinians from siege camp
Lebanese rights activists on Friday rose to the defence of Palestinians from a besieged refugee camp in northern Lebanon at the centre of alleged "racism" and cases of abuse at the hands of the army.
Palestinians in Lebanon siege camp running out of supplies
Palestinian groups and aid workers said on Wednesday they are working to protect hundreds of refugees believed to be trapped by deadly fighting around a camp in north Lebanon and running out of supplies.
Fatah on shaky ground in West Bank
Routed in the Gaza Strip, the Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is fractured and adrift at a moment when it is viewed by the outside world as the best hope for blunting the militant Hamas movement in the West Bank.
Rightists plan new illegal outposts
According to a decision by settler leaders, a group of settlers will establish the first outpost on Efrat's Eitam hill in about three weeks. In the weeks to follow, four other outposts are expected to be established.
Report: Settlers use just 9% of state-allocated West Bank land
West Bank settlements have been allocated huge amounts of land, but use very little of it, according to a Peace Now report. Only nine percent of the area under settlement jurisdiction has been built on, and only 12 percent is being used at all, the report said, citing Civil Administration figures. But despite their huge unused land reserves, 90 percent of the settlements exceed their boundaries, and about one-third of the territory they do use lies outside their jurisdiction, the report added.
Villages of Wadi el-Neiss protest against land confiscation
Approximately 100 Palestinian villagers from Wad el-Neiss, located to the south of Bethlehem in the southern part of the West Bank, side-by side with Israeli and international supporters, protested today against the illegal confiscation to land to for the construction of the illegal Israeli wall.
Israel starts to build illegal wall near Beit Jalla town in Bethlehem area
The Israeli army started this week to built a huge section of the illegal wall on land confiscated from Palestinians near the town of Beit Jalla, near Bethlehem city in the southern West Bank.
Right's group: Israel ruining economy in Gaza Strip
The virtually total closure imposed on the Gaza Strip since Hamas's takeover in June has almost destroyed the Palestinian economy and threatens to turn its 1.4 million residents into charity cases, Gisha, the Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, charged in a report released Wednesday.
Israel admits to the destruction of Mosques in villages within the 1948 borders
According to a report published in the weekly supplement of Israeli daily Haaretz on Friday, Israel has admitted to the destruction of tens of Mosques in the destroyed villages of 1948 during the first years of Palestinian Nakba "catastrophe", a policy implemented by Israel to demolish Arab and Islamic history in Palestine. The orders were given directly by senior officials of the Israeli army and totally were supported by David Ben Gurion.
Vanunu should be a free man
The news that Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower who served 18 years in prison for confirming that Israel had nuclear weapons, has been sentenced to a further six months in prison and a six-month suspended sentence shows the vindictiveness of the authorities and their contempt for international law and human rights (Vanunu jailed again after talks with foreigners, July 3).
Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust
...Against this background, it is especially painful for me, as an American Jew, to feel compelled to portray the ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as 'holocaust.' The word is derived from the Greek holos (meaning 'completely') and kaustos (meaning 'burnt'), and was used in ancient Greece to refer to the complete burning of a sacrificial offering to a divinity. Because such a background implies a religious undertaking, there is some inclination in Jewish literature to prefer the Hebrew word 'Shoah' that can be translated roughly as 'calamity,' and was the name given to the 1985 epic nine-hour narration of the Nazi experience by the French filmmaker, Claude Lanzmann. The Germans themselves were more antiseptic in their designation, officially naming their undertaking as the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question.' The label is, of course, inaccurate as a variety of non-Jewish identities were also targets of this genocidal assault, including the Roma and Sinti ('gypsies'), Jehovah Witnesses, gays, disabled persons, political opponents.
Stonewalling in Ramallah
Even as the Abbas government does Israel's bidding, it is being targeted by its new patron .
The war within Fatah
Dismissing the recent infighting in Gaza as a showdown between Fatah and Hamas only is simplifying a far more complex problem .
Gilad Atzmon Interviewed
The word Zionism is almost meaningless in Israel and within the Israeli discourse it is actually non-existent. Zionism may mean something to the American settlers in the West Bank or the new wave of French immigrants to Israel, but not much more than that, says Gilad Atzmon.
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