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Only pressure will lift Gaza medical siege
A delegation of four Israeli members of Physicians
for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel), including three
doctors and PHR-Israel's Clinic Manager, entered
Gaza this morning. At the same time, an emergency
dispatch of medical supplies at a value of approximately
US $40,000 was delivered by PHR-Israel into Gaza, for
the purpose of distribution to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza
City and the European Hospital in Khan Younis, both
of which are suffering from severe shortages.
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel
Gaza Update 9 Jan 2008
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel delegation and
emergency convoy of medical supplies enter Gaza,
while Israeli High Court of Justice denies 8 life-threatening
cases access to medical care.
Israeli High Court ruling traps cancer
patients in Gaza Strip
Fourteen extremely ill patients from the Gaza Strip
who were denied permits on to enter Israel for medical
treatment either in Israel, Jordan, or Egypt lost an
appeal to the Israeli High Court of Justice on Tuesday,
according to Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) in
Israel, who took the appeal to court.
ISRAEL-JORDAN: Group of Gazans arrives
in Jordan for free medical treatment
Source: IRIN The Israeli restrictions on the movement
of people and goods in and out of the Gaza Strip,
which has severely affected the health sector, has
forced many patients to seek treatment outside the
coastal enclave.
Gaza Humanitarian Situation Report
- Power shortages in the Gaza Strip 8 Jan 2008
Three killed, nine injured in Israeli
strikes on Gaza Strip
Gaza – Ma'an – Two people were killed and four
others injured in an Israeli artillery attack on a house
in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israeli artillery fire on northern Gaza
leaves two Palestinains dead
Two Palestinians including a woman have been reportedly
killed and three others wounded Wednesday when the
Israeli artillery opened heavy fire towards a gathering
of Palestinians near a house in the northern
Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoun.
Israeli Army Invades Quisin,
Two Children Arrested and Tortured
On Monday night at 9pm, twelve Israeli jeeps
stormed into the West Bank village of Quisin firing
live ammunition, rubber bullets, tear gas and sound
bombs. All men in the village between the ages of
fifteen and forty were brought to the playground of
the local school. The army took pictures of all the
older men whilst interrogating the teenagers,
looking for "wanted" children who had thrown
stones at the armoured jeeps. At one point,
a soldier held a knife to the throat of a twelve year
old boy and threatened to kill him. After three
hours the army arrested two sixteen year old boys,
Hassan Fachri and Ali Nayef, releasing everybody else.
Hamas: six more members
detained by PA in West Bank
The Hamas movement said on Wednesday
that Fatah-allied Palestinian security services
have seized six Hamas members in the
northern West Bank.
Israeli military kidnaps three
Palestinians in the West Bank
Security sources reported that military operations
were executed in the West Bank cities of Qalqilia,
Tulkarem and Bethlehem and two Palestinians
kidnapped while a third Palestinian was kidnapped
at the bridge of King Hussein on the Jordanian border.
Statistic: 700 Palestinians including
48 female kidnapped from Nablus in 2007
Statistics issued by the Palestinian Prisoners'
Society about the number of abducted Palestinians
in the past year in the Nablus district show
that at least 700 were kidnapped.
Police and Soldiers stand by while
Settlers Occupy Palestinian Land,
Build Structures, and Harass Local Residents
This morning at 4am, January 9th,
settlers from the occupied house Beit
HaShalom and Kiryat Arba settlement began
putting up structures on Palestinian land belonging
to the Jabri family, in the valley between Kiryat Arba
and Beit HaShalom. At first the settlers erected
a tent which they later dismantled. Later around
50 young male and female settlers used large
stones to block the military road and to build
pathways and structures on land belonging to
the Jabri family. They also made a Star of David
from stones and earth, measuring approximately
10m across, easily visible from the air.
Israeli military issues demolition orders
to residents of Kherbet Taweel
The Israeli Authority gave demolition orders
to residents of Kherbet Taweel in Aqraba village
in eastern Nablus on Thursday to demolish their
buildings, claiming that they don't possess
building licenses.
Israel hiding settlement facts to protect image
THE Israeli Government has told a court that it does
not want to reveal the true extent of Jewish settlement
in the occupied Palestinian territories because the
information would damage its image abroad,
a local newspaper has reported.
Olmert tells Bush construction in
Jerusalem to continue
At end of meeting with US president in capital,
prime minister makes it clear Israel will not halt
building plan in east Jerusalem despite American
objection. 'We made it clear Jerusalem's status
is different than that of the settlements,' Olmert says.
Bush chooses not to confront his host,
focuses on outposts: 'They must be evacuated'
Netanyahu to Bush:
J'lem to stay under Israeli control for eternity
Opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu on
Thursday morning told visiting U.S. President
George W. Bush that "Jerusalem belongs to the
Jewish people and will remain under Israeli
sovereignty for eternity."
Bush appoints U.S. General to
monitor road map peace plan
U.S. President George W. Bush has named Lt. Gen.
William Fraser to monitor the Israeli-Palestinian
"road map" for peace, the White House said Thursday.
The long-stalled road map, which underpins Bush's
renewed push for an agreement to create a
Palestinian state, calls on Israel to halt all
settlement activity and for the Palestinians
to rein in militants.
ANALYSIS: Palestinians believe
Bush won't pressure Israel
U.S. President George W. Bush was not the
bearer of big news for the Palestinian people
when he spoke in Ramallah after meeting
with Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas on Thursday.
Palestinians in Ramallah brace for
visit by 'that criminal' Bush
It was only at 1:30 P.M. that Amjad arrived with
his truck and his crane to hang American and
Palestinian flags on the streets around the
Muqata government headquarters.
No one from the Palestinian Authority wants
to leave them hanging too long, for fear
they might be burned.
Dozens injured and arrested in anti-Bush
demo in Ramallah
Dozens of Palestinians were wounded and at
least ten arrested in Ramallah when Palestinian
police attempted to disperse a demonstration
opposing the visit of the US President
George Bush on Thursday morning.
No welcome for Bush in Gaza
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza
staged protests against President
George Bush's visit. The demonstrations
underlined the deep political split with
West Bank moderates who welcomed
the visit as an important gesture.
George W. Bush: You are not welcome
While I was driving in the car the other day,
there was a radio report that the Israeli high
court has approved to cut off the electricity
from Gaza and leave Gaza in darkness to
intensify the collective punishment on Gaza.
When the Israeli high court previously agreed
to ban the transfer to Gaza of fuel to supply
the main power plant, there were power cuts
for at least eight hours a day. Power and
fuel cuts mean that hospitals, factories and
other essential services suffer as a result.
Mohammed Ali writes from Gaza.
Nasrallah: US backs 'racist Israel'
American President George W. Bush's
visit to Israel elicited some harsh statements
from Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan
Nasrallah Wednesday evening. According
to Nasrallah, Bush views Israel "as a Jewish
state, that is, racist...its existence is premised
on race. Israel aspires for a racially pure existence."
Israeli Arab parties join leftist
protests against Bush visit
Israeli Arab party representatives joined left-wing
protests around the country to demonstrate on
Wednesday against U.S. President George W.
Bush's visit to Israel and the West Bank.
From Palestinians, Harsh View of Bush
JERICHO, West Bank — President Bush will
not be coming to this oasis city of beige hills,
lush green plantations and ancient ruins on his
visit to the Palestinian Authority on Thursday.
Given the apparent antipathy of the local population,
it is probably just as well. A poster on a gate along
the Israeli barrier in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.
"It would be much better if he didn't visit our land at all,"
said Bashar Fadl Ahmed, 34, an orthopedic surgeon who
was shopping in the town square early this week,
echoing the sentiment of many here. "He won't achieve
anything. He is trying to do something in his last year,
but where was he before?"
Bush visits Bethlehem
During his one day visit to the Palestinian areas the President
of the United States of America George Bush arrived on
Thursday midday to the Nativity Church located in
the centre of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Bush's "vision" is Palestine's nightmare
Much more important issues than the siege on
Gaza were on Bush's agenda. The need to realize
and work on a "vision" for the future was in the
forefront of Bush's mind. "The parties" should now sit down
and "negotiate a vision" -- the parties being Israel, the fourth
strongest military might in the world and a forty-year-long
occupier, and the Palestinians, a stateless people who
have been dispossessed by Israel for sixty years and
under brutal military occupation by their colonizers for
over four decades. Sam Bahour comments from
al-Bireh/Ramallah.
In pictures: Bush in West Bank
Bush to tell Abbas:
Choose statehood
or chaos
United States President George W. Bush was given a
red carpet welcome when he arrived on Thursday in the
West Bank city of Ramallah to meet with Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and tell him that
the choice before him "is of a state or chaos."
Bush in Israel: West Bank outposts
'have got to go'
U.S. President George W. Bush said after meeting
with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem on
Wednesday evening that the unauthorized settlement
outposts established in the West Bank had "to go."
Bush says US opposes Israel
undermining Abbas forces
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Thursday
Washington opposed any Israeli actions that could
undermine Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas's security forces.
Bush shifts focus to W.Bank in
Mideast peace push
U.S. President George W. Bush faces a balancing
act in West Bank talks with Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, the second day of a
Middle East peace mission laden with scepticism.
Bush sees Mideast peace treaty
signed by Jan 2009
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Thurday he
believes a peace treaty between Israel and the
Palestinians will be signed before he leaves office
in January 2009.
Bush in Israel, Sees Peace Chance
Lights in the Old City of Al-Quds will be turned off
before dawn so that Bush can get a better view of
the sun rising over its ancient walls.
Israeli top brass meet Bush at airport
"US and Israel are strong allies," he said.
"The source of that strength is a shared belief in
power of human freedom."
heaps of praise in Jerusalem
Bush, the first U.S. president to visit
the Jewish state
in a decade, received an extraordinarily warm
welcome on Wednesday.
Chief rabbi thanks Bush for 'war against Iraq'
During a short verbal exchange Wednesday at the
Ben-Gurion Airport Terminal, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi
Yona Metzger thanked President George W. Bush for
the US's military intervention in Iraq. "I want to thank you
for your support of Israel and in particular for waging a
war against Iraq," Metzger told Bush, according
to the chief rabbi's spokesman.
Bush reportedly answered that the chief rabbi's
words "warmed his heart."
Rightists flood King David hotel
with faxes in protest of Bush visit
Letters addressed to US president urge him to release
Pollard and refrain from advancing Israeli territorial
concessions in Jerusalem as part of peace agreement with Palestinians.
Banned-from-US Israeli official
to dine with Bush
Israel minister banned from entering United
States for spy case to dine with American
president. JERUSALEM - An Israeli minister
barred from entering the United States over his role in
a high-profile spy case has been invited to dine with
President George W. Bush during his stay in Jerusalem,
an official said Wednesday. "Pensioners Affairs Minister
Rafi Eitan has been invited to a dinner organised by the
Israeli prime minister and other members of
the government in honour of the US president,"
said Eitan's spokeswoman Ela Bar-Or.
Olmert to lay down Israel's red lines
Prime minister to clarify Israel's non-negotiable
terms to visiting US President Bush.
with warning for Iran
JERUSALEM — President Bush began an eight-day
Middle East peace mission Wednesday as Israeli
leaders warned him and the world not to forget about
the regional threat that Iran poses.
57 MKs vow to vote against
evacuation-compensation bill
Fifty-seven MKs vowed to vote against a bill legislating
compensation for settlers who choose to leave their
homes east of the separation fence before a final-status
agreement is signed with the Palestinians, according to
a petition presented to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday.
No more withdrawals
We must resist pressure for further pullouts,
as they will mark Israel's demise.
Arab MK accuses MDA of racism
against Palestinians
MK Tibi outraged by directive calling on medics to take
precautions when treating Palestinians.
The slow march to equality
For all the obstacles in their way, the Palestinian
women's national football team is still intent on making
a mark on the international game.
4 months incarceration for soldier
who abused Palestinian detainee
The Southern Command Military Court sentenced
a Givati Brigade soldier to four and-a-half months in
prison, after he was convicted of abusing a handcuffed,
blind-folded Palestinian detainee.
Pilgrims' progress breaks Gaza siege
More than 2,000 pilgrims have finally returned to
the Gaza Strip via Egypt's Rafah crossing after being
stuck on the border for five days. The repatriation followed
their staunch refusal to return home via alternate,
Israeli-controlled border crossings. "The pilgrims'
insistence to cross via Rafah forced the Egyptian
government to bring a quick resolution to the problem,"
Magdi Hussein, secretary-general of Egypt's frozen
Socialist Labour Party and leader of the unofficial
Committee to Break the Gaza Siege, told IPS.
Israeli military jams Palestinian
radio with propaganda
According to local sources, several Palestinian radio
stations on the FM radio dial in the Gaza Strip have
been jammed by Israeli military propaganda.
Entries sought for 2008 Boston
Palestine Film Festival
The Boston Palestine Film Festival (BPFF)
is now accepting entries for its second annual
festival to be held in October 2008. BPFF seeks to
present the extraordinary narrative of a dispossessed
people living in exile or under Israeli occupation.
Palestinian cinema represents a powerful means
for visually interpreting the collective identity,
historic struggle and emotional expression of
Palestinians today. The festival will showcase
the diverse and creative work of all filmmakers
(any nationality) exploring both historic and
contemporary themes related to Palestinian
culture, experience, and narrative.
Ethnic Cleansing Goes On
Ilan Pappe interviewed in Italy.
A simple truth in Gaza
The day before the US president arrived in the
region, a crowd of thousands gathered in the
Gaza City rain – preceded by a truck loaded
with speakers they slowly proceeded through
the city, carrying a total of 62 coffins, all of them
empty. Each symbolised one of the people that
Palestinians say died since Israel sealed the borders
because they could not get out of Gaza to
receive medical treatment.
The world according to Avigdor
Anyone staying long enough in the
West Bank comes to
realise that the apparatus of the Occupation
(prevention of free movement, house demolitions,
indefinite, administrative , detention - just to mention
a few of its features) disrupts civilian life beyond any
possible security concerns and has
a further unstated, though clearly identifiable, goal.
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