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OPT: Gaza Humanitarian Situation Report 15 - 23 Aug 2007
Israeli army starts demolishing Palestinian homes in Tubas
Israeli military bulldozers started to demolish homes and residencies in Krebet Homsa in the Jordan valley to the east of Tubas in the West Bank on Thursday morning.
Israeli soldiers kidnap 10 Palestinian civilians, while settlers attack homes in Hebron district
Palestinian media sources reported that Israeli troops have invaded the Al Fowar refugee camp, located south of Hebron city in the southern West Bank. Soldiers searched and ransacked homes, kidnapping 10 civilians.
Fatah protest in Gaza against Hamas turns violent
Hamas security men opened fire after protesters hurled rocks at them in the Gaza Strip on Friday in the biggest demonstration against the Islamist group since it seized control of the territory in June.
Blast in Car East of Gaza City Wounds 7
An explosion ripped through a car east of Gaza City late Thursday, witnesses said. Hamas security officials said Israel fired a tank shell at a group of fighters, wounding seven, including one seriously. The Israeli army, which frequently targets Palestinian militants in air and ground operations, said it was looking into the report.
Christian Peace Keepers
Settler with Automatic Rifle Threatens Internationals and Shepherds.
Brutal army procedures at the Al Hamra checkpoint
The Israeli army was faced with an outburst of anger when residents gathered to protect a Palestinian student from the brute attack that he was exposed to at the Al Hamara checkpoint
Arabs here to stay--'Population exchange' notion leaves Arab-Israelis no choice but to seek world's help
The notion known as "population exchange," a term that aims to conceal the transfer principle inherent in disengaging from the Wadi Ara region and handing it over to the Palestinian Authority, has again been placed on the public agenda.
Presidency spokesperson: "We will not accept a state with provisional borders"
Responding to news published by Israeli Newspaper, Haaretz, regarding the Palestinians presidents' approval to the creation of a Palestinian State with provisional borders, presidency spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rodeina, stated on Thursday that president Mahmoud Abbas rejects this proposal since any solution to the conflict should be based on establishing an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital, and the Right of Return of the Palestinian refugees.
Gulf between Qaddoumi and Abbas widens as Fayyad receives US blessing for Presidential bid
The Jordanian daily, Ad-Dustur, on Thursday quoted "reliable Palestinian sources" as saying that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas does not intend to stand in presidential elections after his term ends in a year and a half. The sources added that a prominent Fatah leader, and member of its central committee, Mahir Ghneim, has refused to be nominated as Abbas' successor.
Israeli soldiers attack head of the Islamic movement and chief of Islamic Justice, in Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers attacked on Wednesday evening Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic movement in Israel, and Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, Chief Islamic Justice and the Mufti of Jerusalem, as Sheikh Sabri was holding a charitable dinner on the rooftop of one of the Palestinian houses in Jerusalem.
Fatah Struggles to Regain Power
Fatah officials acknowledge that the shortest way to regain the support of the people is to conclude their peace talks with Israel with a political settlement that will convince the Palestinian public.
Hamas leader condemns Islamist charity blacklist
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Thursday slammed a U.S. decision to blacklist a major Gaza charity as an attempt to weaken the Islamist group after it seized control of the coastal region.
Hamas detains journalists at Gaza rally
Hamas briefly detained four journalists, including an AFP photographer, on Friday as it broke up a mass rally for the rival Fatah movement in Gaza City. Forces from the Islamist movement which has ruled Gaza since mid-June forced AFP photographer Mohammed Abed from his car as he left the rally, during which Hamas fighters fired in the air to disperse the several thousand demonstrators.
Report: Hamas government spokesman resigns
Palestinian source says Ghazi Hamad decided to quit his job as Hamas' 'face' in Gaza Strip because movement had failed to reach compromise with Fatah: 'Hamad opposed the Strip takeover, thinking it would only cause trouble'.
Saving the Children
The responsibility of protecting our children from the Israeli occupation is already heavy enough. Let us not continue to create such deep wounds in our children that one day we will be powerless to mend them.
Paralysed Gaza girl faces uncertain future
Two therapists at the Alyn Children's Hospital in Jerusalem are helping her. Maria cannot kick her legs or even feel the water she's floating in. She is permanently attached to a ventilator. Maria was paralysed from the neck down by an Israeli rocket attack in May 2006.
Scant medicine supplies endanger Gaza patients' lives
Ellian Dabba, a nephrotic aged only19, was lying on a bed at home in Gaza but not in hospital to receive the vital dialysis treatment when reporter visited him. Looks pale and exhausted, the wretched young man who was paradoxically studying at the Gaza's Faculty of Medicines before falling ill hardly helped his tears from rolling down when he was asked about his illness.
Campaign fury at visas refusal
PEACE campaigners in the city have condemned a decision not to allow the Palestinian Under-19 football team entry to the UK. The Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre said it was "shameful" the young players from the Gaza Strip will not be able to join a goodwill tour of north England.
Refusal of visas for members of a Palestinian football team
Three thousand and one hundred miles by sea from where I write in Devon there is a "Warsaw" ghetto in Gaza. There are other ghettos in the ineptly name West Bank and in the Arab states about. There are three times as many people imprisoned within Gaza as there were in the ghetto constructed by the Third Reich.
A Boycott Of Israel: Something Has Changed
From a limestone hill rising above Qalandia refugee camp you can see Jerusalem. I watched a lone figure standing there in the rain, his son holding the tail of his long tattered coat. He extended his hand and did not let go. "I am Ahmed Hamzeh, street entertainer," he said in measured English. "Over there, I played many musical instruments; I sang in Arabic, English and Hebrew, and because I was rather poor, my very small son would chew gum while the monkey did its tricks. When we lost our country, we lost respect. One day a rich Kuwaiti stopped his car in front of us. He shouted at my son, "Show me how a Palestinian picks up his food rations!" So I made the monkey appear to scavenge on the ground, in the gutter. And my son scavenged with him. The Kuwaiti threw coins and my son crawled on his knees to pick them up. This was not right; I was an artist, not a beggar . . . I am not even a peasant now."
Teaching Under Apartheid in Palestine
When I first decided to go to Palestine to teach kids English and yoga my main concerns were managing the kids' behavior, assessing their needs and maintaining their interest. After all, those are the most challenging issues I face everyday in my classroom in Philadelphia. In the US I rarely get through an entire unit and to actually teach without a behavior related incident interrupting class is a very rare event. I quickly found it to be quite the opposite in Tel Rumeida which left me feeling like a fish out of water in the beginning.
Political Tourism in Jerusalem
On a recent visit to Jerusalem, two tours of the city and its surroundings underlined the disparities in what different people see in the city- Jews, Arabs, residents, tourists - which is also to say what they choose not to see.
Eyal Weizman Interview: Israel's Oppressive Architecture of Occupation
Dissident architect Eyal Weizman explains the mechanics of Israel's occupation of Palestine to Anindya Bhattacharyya.
Meanwhile in Iraq
Meanwhile in Lebanon
Meanwhile in the U.S.
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