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OPT: Palestinians must not be
re-imprisoned within the Gaza Strip
Amnesty International today called on the parties
involved in the future management of the Rafah crossing
at the Gaza-Egypt border to ensure the fundamental
rights of the people of Gaza. The governments of Israel
and Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas
de-facto administration in Gaza must guarantee the
local population's rights to health and an adequate standard
of living, and their right not to be subjected to collective
punishment, including arbitrary restrictions on movement.
Israel-OPT: Medical supplies
in Gaza running low
The Israeli-imposed restrictions on imports to the
Gaza Strip are threatening the lives of vulnerable
patients, the Oxfam aid agency has said.
OPT: Protection of civilians
weekly report 09 - 15 Jan 2008
Israeli troops invade Bethlehem city,
surrounds a house and clash with local youth
An Israeli army force invaded the southern
West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday
afternoon, surrounded a house and clashed
with local youth.
Five Palestinians kidnapped
from Hebron
Israeli military kidnapped five Palestinians in the
southern West Bank city of Hebron and the nearby
al-Thahriya town, Monday at dawn.
Israeli forces invades Jenin and kidnaps six
Israeli forces invaded the northern West Bank city of
Jenin and the two nearby villages of Rummana and
Zbuba, kidnapping six Palestinians in the early
hours of Monday morning.
Israeli attack kills 5
Palestinians in Rafah
Five Palestinians were killed early Friday in air
strikes near Rafah, including a leading Hamas
militant involved in rocket and mortar
attacks against Israel.
Soldiers attack underage Palestinian
detainees during interrogation
One of the lawyers of the Palestinian Prisoners
Society visited Hasharon Israeli prison on January
23 and met with a number of detainees, including
underage detainees illegally imprisoned by Israel.
2 Border Guard officers charged
with assault of Palestinian teen
Video depicting officers beating 17-year old
Palestinian teenager at West Bank village of
Hawara during routine patrol aired on Ynet last
March. Court indicts both for aggravated assault
of a helpless minor.
Israeli army continues threatening
to kill youth in Azzoun
The Israeli army have continued in their
unprovoked harassment of the residents of
Azzoun over the past week. On Saturday the 26th
of January, at around 6pm, one jeep entered the
village of Azzoun and circled the streets with sirens
blaring. The soldiers positioned themselves in the
main square, directly opposite the mosque as
prayer was finishing. They proceeded to stop
young men, searching their clothes and
checking identification, detaining two men
for approximately 30 minutes.
Palestinians try to prevent arbitrary
arrests in Hebron, are removed by police
On Sunday, the 27th of January, at 4:15pm,
the Israeli army arrested 6 Palestinian boys, all
of them 15 years or younger in the old city of
Hebron accusing them of breaking into a house
and stealing things from inside. The soldiers
took one boy who was walking with his mother
and picked up another one, who was just walking
down the street.
Top court asked to order
Israel to give Gaza more fuel
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Rights groups asked
Israel's Supreme Court on Sunday to order the
state to restore full fuel supplies to the Hamas-
run Gaza Strip to prevent a humanitarian crisis
from erupting in the territory.
Gazans head home as Egypt
chokes off supplies
Thousands of Palestinians streamed home
through the breaches in Gaza's border with
Egypt on Sunday after Egyptian authorities
choked off supplies to the area and moved
to restore control.
Haniya's former advisor expects
reopening of other Gaza crossings
Former advisor for the Palestinian prime minister,
Ismail Haniya of Hamas, said Sunday that having
the Egypt-Gaza border line reopened by what he
termed ' the Palestinian people's will' can be
repeated at the Gaza-Israel border line at
Eritz checkpoint.
Egyptian foreign minister:
Cairo wants regular operation of
Rafah crossing terminal
Egyptian foreign minister, Ahmad Abu Elgheit
confirmed yesterday Cairo will take the necessary
measures to rein in movement of Palestinians at its
borders with Gaza, after floods of Gazans flew into
the Egyptian territories, following knocking down
of the fence-off iron wall.
Hamas gains edge as
border crisis eases
Palestinian militants and Egypt restored some
order on the border Sunday, and Hamas gains
leverage in negotiations. Jerusalem and Egypt -
The Gaza border crisis showed signs of easing
Sunday. The militant Palestinian group Hamas,
which controls the territory, encouraged Gazans
to go home after hundreds of thousands had
streamed across the Egyptian border in the
past five days.
Gaza's falling wall changes
Middle East map for ever
The tide of humans pouring over the frontier from
Gaza into Egypt for days has now become a vast
convoy of carts, cars and lorries. Peter Beaumont
joined the jubilant throng who watched as the
borders of a conflict that has lasted for generations
were crossed.
VIEW: Gaza then and
now — Daoud Kuttab
Clearly, the false trappings of a state provided as
part of the Oslo peace process have resulted in
little tangible change for Palestinians. They got
an elected president (who for a while was trapped
in his headquarters), a parliament and government
(whose MPs and ministers are not guaranteed
passage from Gaza to the West Bank), and passports
(whose numbers must be entered into Israeli computers)
Olmert, Abbas to ask Egypt to
seal Gaza border
Israeli, Palestinian leaders agree to approach
President Mubarak and urge him to close breached
border. Israeli PM says flow of humanitarian aid and
fuel supplies to Gaza will resume.
Egyptian police frustrate
stream of Palestinian shoppers
Dozens of policemen in riot gear at Egyptian
checkpoints set up in the pouring rain just a few
miles from the border with Gaza yesterday failed
to halt the relentless flow of Palestinians into Egypt
five days after the border was breached.
Egypt shuts El-Arish stores
to deter Gazans
Specially deployed Egyptian police officers yesterday forced shopkeepers in the northern Sinai city of El-Arish
to close their stores to prevent Palestinians from Gaza
from shopping in the city, according to local reports.
Hamas, Egyptians guards
work together to reclose border
(Video) Security forces, militants string barbed wire
fence across one of three breaches in border in latest
effort to stem flood of Palestinians across frontier.
Meanwhile, EU considers sending monitors back
to Gaza border.
Gazans breathe air of
freedom for fifth day
Egypt to take measures to control Gaza border
as aid agencies continue to warn against Israeli
restrictions.
State: Israel to restore supply
of industrial-use fuel to Gaza Strip
The state told the High Court of Justice on
Sunday that Israel would restore the supply of
industrial-use diesel to the Gaza Strip to target
levels set prior to the blockade imposed on Gaza
earlier this month.
Egypt accepts plan to reopen Rafah
The US-brokered deal allows the terminal to
operate with the Palestinian Presidential Guard
controlling the Palestinian side, and European
Union observers acting as a third party.
hand in Gaza border dispute
The European Union on Monday raised the
possibility of sending its monitors back to Gaza's
breached border with Egypt and Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas sought to rally
Western support to sideline Hamas.
Israel trying to break Palestinian will
Islamic Jihad leader Muhammad Al-Hindi said on
Saturday that the siege on the Palestinian
territories is a continuous escalating Israeli
policy aimed at breaking the will of the
Palestinian resistance.
streets into sewers
A stream of dark and putrid sludge snakes through
Gaza's streets. It is a noxious mix of human and
animal waste. The stench is overwhelming.
The occasional passer-by vomits. Over recent days this
has been a more common sight than the sale of food on
the streets of Gaza, choked by a relentless Israeli siege.
Hundreds of thousands of Gazans, almost all of its able
male adults among a population of 1.5 million, crossed
over into Egypt last week to buy essential provisions --
and a new lease of life. That has staved off starvation.
But streets continue as sewers.
Israel decides to resume pumping
fuel to Gaza
The decision by the Israeli Supreme Court came after
a petition has been by Palestinian and Israeli
humanitarian groups.
Palestinians suffer as the world fails Gaza
Talking is not enough to halt the colonisation of the West Bank. ZIONIST colonisation, wrote the Zionist thinker Ze'ev Jabotinsky in 1923, can develop only "under the protection of a force independent of the local population — an iron wall which the native population cannot break through".
Arab foreign ministers call for
reopening of Gaza crossings
Arab foreign ministers called Monday for the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt to be reopened, on the sixth day of a Palestinian exodus across the breached border. The ministers said Israel had "total responsibility, as the occupying power, for the deteriorating situation in Gaza," and adopted a resolution after a meeting Sunday calling for all crossing points to be reopened after militants blew up the border wall at Rafah on Tuesday.
"GAZA: LIFT THE BLOCKADE" -
The Relief Convoy on its way
The initiative for the large action that took place today (26.1.08) started when the well-know psychiatrist, Dr. Eyad al-Sarraj, the human-rights activist from Gaza, met in the Gush Shalom office with a small group of Israeli peace activists, in order to tell them about the desperate situation in the strip. It was decided on the spot to organize in Israel a relief convoy for the Gaza Strip people, and to fight by all political and juridical means for the right to get it in. It was agreed that two parallel protest rallies would be held simultaneously on the two sides of the wall.
Protests across the US call
for an end to Gaza siege
Over the weekend, protests were held in a number of US cities and towns calling on Israel to end the imprisonment of 1.5 million Palestinians inside Gaza without access to food, safe water, electricity or medical care.
Israel's Gaza Fiasco
Some 2,000 Israelis, including MPs and
left-wing activists, gathered outside the Erez crossing
on the Gaza Strip border to protest Israel's shutdown.
Support Children of
The Gaza Strip And West Bank
Egyptian Midfielder Dons Gaza
Solidarity in Africa Cup
This was first posted by Um Kahlil. Egyptian
Midfielder Mohamed Aboutrika reveals the slogan
"Sympathize with Gaza" after scoring in Egypt's 3-0
win over Sudan in the African National Cup. The
display of solidarity resulted in a yellow card
on Saturday.
A Taste of Freedom
"I finally taste freedom now–at least a temporary
freedom of movement," a 32 year old Gazan man
rejoiced, the Gaza-Egypt border newly opened.
Thousands climbed over Israel's downed Wall, a
Wall which encompasses and contains the Gaza Strip.
The hungry, assaulted, and ignored crowds clamoured
into Egypt to stock up on daily goods, basic foods, and
medical supplies.
The Blockade of Gaza, Worse Than a Crime
It looked like the fall of the Berlin wall. And not only did
it look like it. For a moment, the Rafah crossing was the
Brandenburg Gate. It is impossible not to feel exhilaration
when masses of oppressed and hungry people break down
the wall that is shutting them in, their eyes radiant, embracing
everybody they meet - to feel so even when it is your own
government that erected the wall in the first place.
Gaza siege is 'morally wrong'
AN MEP who is demanding the Israeli siege into
Gaza is stopped is going there to see the situation first
hand. Welsh MEP and Plaid Cymru deputy president Jill
Evans will fly to the Holy Land after organising a vigil in
Queen Street, Cardiff.
Report: Chief Rabbi says move
Gazans to a Palestine in Sinai
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger has been
quoted as calling for Gazans to be transferred to the
Sinai Peninsula, to a Palestinian state which he said
could be constructed for them in the desert.
Source: J'lem will be last topic on peace agenda
A senior political source in Jerusalem stressed Sunday that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has still not formulated an idea for resolving the question of Jerusalem.
Israeli Arabs furious over
decision not to indict police officers
Higher Arab Monitoring Committee severely criticizes
Attorney General Menachem Mazuz's decision to close
case against police officers implicated in riots of October
2000; Human rights organization plans to appeal to
international legal bodies, foreign countries for help.
Arab MKs slam AG's ruling.
Israeli Arab group declares strike over
AG decision on Oct. 2000 riots
The Israeli Arab Higher Monitoring Committee
said on Monday that the Arab sector will go on a
business strike on Friday, following Attorney General
Menachem Mazuz's decision not to indict the police
officers involved in the killing of 13 Arab Israelis during
the riots of October, 2000.
Arabs plan strikes, protests in
response to Mazuz decision
Following Attorney General Menachem Mazuz's decision to close
case of October 2000 riots, Arab sector set to embark on protest
marches, strike on Friday.
Israelis halt Gaza project backed by Tony Blair
Tony Blair has suffered a setback in his role as Middle
East peace envoy after Israel blocked progress on a key project.
Arab MKs to attend Habash funeral
Ahmad Tibi, Jamal Zahalka prepare to leave for Jordan to take
part in funeral of PFLP founder. 'He was one of the most
prominent Palestinian leaders of the 20th century,' says Zahalka.
Farewell Hakeem, George Habash
George Habash never saluted a Zionist, never "negotiated"
under the Israeli flag, never traded kisses with his people's
killers, never knelt before a king, and never stretched a
hand in beggary.
Arun Gandhi resigns from NY peace
center after making anti-Jewish remarks
Grandson of revered pacifist Mahatma Gandhi forced to quit peace
center he headed after saying 'Israel and the Jews are the biggest
players in global culture of violence'.
Alarm bells sound over "Jewish state"
Within recent months, several Israeli and US officials have
stressed Israel's unique character as a "Jewish state." But
according to many Arab observers, the designation negates
the right of Palestinian refugees to return to Israel, and leaves
the door open to expulsion of Israel's Arab citizens.
"The idea of a 'state for Jews' neutralizes the right of some
five million Palestinian refugees to return to what is now Israel,
" Abdel-Halim Kandil, former editor-in-chief of opposition weekly
al-Karama told IPS. "It would also subject Arabs resident in
Israel to the possibility of expulsion at any moment."
For West Bank head-scarf maker, it may be a wrap
All of Yasser Hirbawi's 76 years show on his grizzled face as
he surveys the four creaking looms still churning out the black-
and-white head scarves that are synonymous with his people.
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