PCHR Report: 23 killed, 41 wounded by Israeli forces since Dec. 13th
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Report, in the two week period between the 13th and 26th of December, 2007, 23 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces, 41 were wounded, and 87 were abducted by Israeli forces.
Israeli Aircrafts Wound 3 Citizens in Gaza Strip
Three citizens were wounded on Friday morning in the Gaza Strip city of Khanyounis, medical sources said. Witnesses said that Israeli aircrafts bombarded a group of people in Abasan town, east Khanyounis governorate and wounded three citizens. Medical sources said that three citizens were hit with shrapnel missiles and their condition is reported to be moderate.
Two Israelis, two Palestinians killed in West Bank
Palestinian militants killed two off-duty Israeli soldiers who were hiking on Friday near the West Bank city of Hebron, in a clash that left two of the gunmen dead, Israeli and Palestinian security sources said. An Israeli army spokeswoman said Palestinian gunmen opened fire at the soldiers who live in a nearby Jewish settlement and were on leave at the time of the incident. The Israelis shot back at the gunmen, the spokeswoman said.
Five Palestinian resistance fighters
killed in attacks by Israel occupation forces
Five Palestinian militants were killed in two separate Israeli attacks late Thursday in the southern and central Gaza Strip.
After the meeting: IDF kills Qureia's bodyguard
PA reports special IDF unit killed bodyguard of chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Quriea only a few hours after a meeting with Olmert in Jerusalem.
An Israeli warplane strikes a target in central Gaza, kills a fighter
An Israeli warplane struck a target in central Gaza Strip on Thursday evening, apparently, near the Gaza power plant.
Abbas to get armoured vehicles but not with guns
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Armoured vehicles will be delivered to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's security forces within the next month, a Palestinian government minister said on Friday. Israel agreed in November to allow the Palestinians to receive up to 50 lightly armoured vehicles but a dispute emerged over a Palestinian demand that they have guns mounted on them.
Petition: Israel stalling on permits for terminally ill in Gaza
In a petition delivered to the High Court of Justice Thursday, Physicians for Human Rights claim that the state has refused entry to Palestinians who require immediate medical treatment and is now dragging its feet.
The Israeli army attack school boys near Hebron
The Israeli army invaded the village of Sourif located near the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday midday and clashed with local school boys.
One Palestinian teen kidnapped as the army invades a village west of Bethlehem
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army invaded the village of Bateer, located west of Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank.
IDF checking if Palestinian missile narrowly missed helicopter
Reuters video published Thursday captures air force helicopter hovering over Gaza when unidentified object flies by, emitting smoke trail.
IDF: Probes of suspected crimes against Palestinians up 36%
The Israel Defense Forces launched 207 investigations into troops' suspected crimes against Palestinians in 2007, up 36 percent from the year before, the military said Thursday. A recent report by the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din faulted the military for not opening enough investigations into allegations of mistreatment of Palestinians.
Two International peace activists injured in Bil'in
On their weekly anti Wall protest, the residents of the village of Bil'in west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah were joined by Israeli and International peace activists.
Protest Against Israeli Racism
Residents of a number of villages in the Ramallah area organized a protest joined by a number of International and Israeli peace activists at Highway 443, on Friday after the noon prayer. Protesters carried anti-racism signs and Palestinian flags, and demanded that the Israeli authorities allow them to use this road that passes through the villagers' land.
PM to Abbas: Israel won't undermine final status talks
Israel will not undermine negotiations toward a final-status agreement, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting in Jerusalem on Thursday.
Palestinians 'helped settlements'
A Palestinian parliamentary inquiry has found that four Palestinian companies sold cement to Israeli firms building Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The cement, imported from Egypt, was to have been used to build houses for homeless Palestinians. The matter will now be referred to the Palestinian attorney-general, MP Hassan Khreisha told Reuters news agency. He said there was no evidence any of the cement was used in the construction of Israel's West Bank security barrier. The Palestinian firms reportedly sent 420,000 tons of cement to Israel. The cement had "gone to build Israeli houses - settlement units," Mr Khreisha said.
Non-ID Palestinian refugees want to live normal lives, but are told: you do not exist
BEIRUT: In the maze of dirty streets that spreads from Beirut's revamped Sport City to the shabby Halabi quarters, 20,000 refugees are clustered in what is known as the Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian camp. In a town plagued by poverty, many families live in complete destitution. These forgotten people, known as non-ID Palestinians, have fallen through the cracks of legality and belong nowhere.
Hamas in the crosshairs
One November night in 2006 in his fourth floor office in the western wing of the Israeli Ministry of Defence, General Amos Gilad, head of the ministry's department of political security, met with Elliot Abrams, American deputy national security adviser. On the agenda of this meeting that Abrams had come specially to Tel Aviv for was only one item: how to ensure the fall of Hamas after it had grown clear that the siege on the West Bank and Gaza Strip had not only failed to cause its collapse but had actually increased support for Hamas among Palestinians.
Barack Obama backs Israel remaining a Jewish state
His key statement was: "The Palestinians would have to reinterpret the notion of right of return in a way that would preserve Israel as a Jewish state.
February Olive Planting 2008
A program for Civil International Solidarity with Palestinians: Invitation to the Olive Planting Program 2008, 2nd - 11th February. Agricultural experts in the Holy Land estimate that over a million olive trees have been uprooted and destroyed by Israel since it was created in 1948. Almost half of these olive trees were uprooted during the past 7 years after the start of the 2nd Intifada (Palestinian uprising against the Israeli Military Occupation).
Israeli "Defense" Minister Ehud Barak is definitely the most dangerous politician in the Middle East. Ahmadinejad can only dream of having the powers – political and military, conventional and non-conventional – that Barak already possesses.
' Israel has megaton nuclear bombs'
A Washington-based military think tank has revealed that Israel has produced nuclear weapons with 'a yield of one megaton'.
A year of Palestinian disunity
2007 has not been an ordinary year for Palestinians and their enduring cause. It witnessed a mini-civil war between Fatah and Hamas, a short-lived government of national unity, followed by a brief but bloody showdown in Gaza that ended with Hamas taking over the coastal strip. For its part, Fatah retaliated by establishing its own separate authority in Ramallah and instigating a vindictive and widespread inquisition against Hamas supporters and institutions in the West Bank.
Twilight Zone / Deer hunters
After a night of rain, the sun broke through the clouds. Two brothers and their brother-in-law decided to go for a hike in the wild, through the spectacular valley of olive trees, west of Ramallah in the West Bank. Around midday they suddenly noticed a herd of deer descending pell-mell into the valley. They stood and watched, certain that in the wake of the frantically fleeing animals, other people would appear. And, in fact, a few minutes later they spotted a group of soldiers slowly making their way into the valley.
Beware of Barak
The person who destroyed the Oslo process and initiated the second intifada, the person who demolished the Israeli peace camp from within, by spreading legends about a "generous offer" rejected by the Palestinians, by persuading the Israelis that he "unmasked" Arafat and that there was no Palestinian partner -- this person still calls himself "the leader of the Israeli peace camp." That's one of Israeli "Defense" Minister Ehud Barak's most dangerous traits: his inherent untruthfulness, his presenting himself as the very opposite of what he actually is.
Miko Peled: On Trust and Dialogue - My Personal Odyssey
For me, the myths that we Israelis are taught regarding the war of 1948 and the establishment of the Jewish State were indisputable historical facts. They had to be so because my father fought and was wounded in 1948.
Vijay Rajiva: First Steps towards Implementing Res. 181
from Palestine Chronicle - Headlines
A Palestinian state already exists under International Law requirements since the PLO Declaration of Independence of 1988.
Nicola Nasser: A Peace-killing Linkage, De-linkage
Whereas the Fatah-Hamas bloody race for controlling the PA institutions is self-evident, all indications refer to an emerging third power.
The PLO Declaration of Independence in 1988 calls for the Partition Line. And despite Oslo (1993), Arafat himself returned to that position from 1999 onwards.
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