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PCAS: Children of Gaza go on a rally calling for peace and ending siege!
Gaza Strip, January, 1, 2008, (PCAS) - Part of the endless activities organized by Popular Committee against sieges (PCAS), the committee organized a rally for besieged children in Gaza Strip. Hundreds of children participated in the rally which took place in Gaza city with massive media coverage.
Report: the Israeli army kills 68 Palestinians and kidnap 450 during the month of December 2007
The International Solidarity Association for Human Rights (ISAHR) issued it's monthly report for December 2007 on Wednesday, the report states that the Israeli army have killed 68 Palestinians and kidnapped 450 in the West Bank and the Gaza strip.
Report: the Israeli army kidnaps 2300 Palestinian workers in year 2007
The general Palestinian workers union issued a report on Wednesday stating that the Israeli army and police had kidnapped 2300 Palestinian workers during the year of 2007.
An Israeli army invasion into eastern Gaza leaves six dead, 11 injured
The Israeli army killed early on Wednesday six Palestinians and injured eleven others in a new fresh Israeli ground offensive on eastern Gaza City.
Israeli attack kills four Gaza militants -- medics
Israel launched an attack in Gaza City on Wednesday, killing at least four Hamas militants and wounding two, Palestinian medical staff and the Islamist Hamas group said.
IDF kills Hamas member in central Gaza
Soldiers operating in Strip open fire at gunmen approaching security fence; Islamist group member killed, three other gunmen injured.
Israeli Gaza siege kills 3 patients
Children of Gaza call on Israel to end the siege. Three other Palestinian patients have lost their lives as a result of Israel's siege on the Gaza Strip, bringing their death toll to 60.
Two Badly Injured as Bil'in Residents Attempt to Thwart Settler Land Grab
Mohammed Khatib and Abdullah Abu Rahme of the Bil'in popular committee were today badly beaten by settlers whilst attempting to stop the positioning of a settlement outpost on village land. They are currently receiving treatment in Sheik Zaid hospital, both are in a stable condition. Cameraman Emad Bornat was beaten also but escaped with footage of the attack after settlers destroyed his camera.
On the New Year's Eve, 8 Palestinians killed in renewed Hamas-Fatah clashes
Gaza – Ma'an –The residents of Gaza Strip, namely, As-Sabra and Ash-Shuja'iyy neighborhoods in Gaza city were not able to sleep on the New Year's Eve as clashes did not stop between the Hamas-affiliated police, the Dugmush family and Fatah' supporters, Ma'an's reporter said.
Israeli forces raid Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip
Gaza – Ma'an – The Israeli forces on Tuesday morning penetrated in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip using tanks and helicopters, eyewitnesses told Ma'an's reporter. According to the eyewitnesses, the invading Israeli forces closed Salah Addin street and entered the area near the building of Beit Hanoun municipality and Al-Wadi Al-Gharbi (the western valley) street firing from machine guns towards Palestinian houses.
Palestinian security arrests 3 Hamas' members
Nablus – Ma'an – Hamas movement said on Tuesday that the Palestinian security services arrested 3 Hamas members on Monday evening in the West Bank. In a statement, Hamas said the Palestinian security arrested Sheikh Muhammad Alqam, Imam of a mosque in Salfit in the northern West Bank, who was arrested twice before in addition to Bahjat Shalabi from Masha village near Salfit. The statement added that a high-school Hamas-affiliated student was arrested in Jenin in the northern West Bank.
Israeli troops kidnap eight Palestinians during morning invasions to several part of the West Bank
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli troops kidnapped eight Palestinian civilians during morning invasions on Wednesday that targeted several parts of the West Bank.
Three Palestinians injured as settlers of Mattityahu attack Bil'in
Abdullah Abu Rahama, coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlement reported on Wednesday that a group of settlers attempted on Tuesday night to establish two mobile homes on Bil'in's lands, a village located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah,in spite of the decision made by the Israeli Supreme Court in September 2007 ruling that land must be returned to Bil'in residents. The Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlement used the loud speakers to inform Bil'in villagers about the settlers attack.
More than 100 Palestinian pilgrims return to Gaza
About 150 Palestinian pilgrims returning from Mecca entered the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after a border-crossing dispute left about 2,000 of them stranded in Egypt.
Jewish activists set up new West Bank wildcat outpost
Right-wing Israeli activists Wednesday placed two mobile homes on Palestinian-owned land in the West Bank, residents said, a move likely to further inflame a row over Jewish settlements. The Israeli activists beat up two Palestinians who attempted to stop the trucks transporting the caravans to the new unauthorised outpost near the West Bank village of Bilin, the witnesses said. The Jewish ultra-Orthodox settlers wished to use one of the caravans at the outpost -- close to the settlement of Modiin Illit -- as a synagogue, public radio said.
Israel: West Bank Roadblocks Will Remain
Israel's network of roadblocks will remain in place across the West Bank, the defense minister said Tuesday, sparking an outcry from Palestinians who say they cannot rebuild their economy until people and goods move freely.
Al-Arabiya: Israel decides "not to build new settlements"
Israel has given new assurances to the United States on Jewish settlement activity in the occupied West Bank ahead of a first visit to the region by President George W. Bush next month, army radio reported on Friday. Orders have been given to halt construction activity in the settlements of Maale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, and the Ariel bloc in the northern West Bank, the radio said citing housing ministry officials.
An Unholy Land Grab: The Story of a Palestinian Farm and Settlers
The young settlers waiting nearby for us to discover this, jeered and laughed and came towards us. My companions ran back to ask the army to protect us while nervously I stayed with the car.
The Great Divide: Israel's forbidden road
It runs straight through the heart of the occupied West Bank, but Palestinians are not permitted even to set foot on the asphalt their ancestors laid. Donald Macintyre reports from Beit Sira. It's just after dusk on Route 443, where the heavy northbound traffic from Jerusalem decelerates as it approaches the Maccabim checkpoint. The Israeli commuters, impatient to get home to Tel Aviv or the dormitory town of Modiin, have no idea that in the darkness to the left of the four-lane highway, everyday scenes are unfolding that tell their own story about this land and the conflict that has scarred it for 40 years.
Ungenerous occupier: Israel's Camp David exposed
After seven years of rumors and self-serving memoirs, the Israeli media has finally published extracts from an official source about the Camp David negotiations in summer 2000. For the first time it is possible to gauge with some certainty the extent of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's "generous offer" to the Palestinians and Yasser Arafat's reasons for rejecting it. In addition, the document provides valuable insights into what larger goals Israel hoped to achieve at Camp David and how similar ambitions are driving its policies to this day. Jonathan Cook analyzes the document for EI.
Court rules to evict 8 Jewish families from E. J'lem house
Eight Jewish families must vacate an illegally built East Jerusalem house they have been living in since 2004, a court has ruled, marking the largest ever removal of settlers from East Jerusalem. But the municipality has come under heavy pressure to prevent such an eviction.
Fatah fears Shalit deal will strengthen Hamas
Officials in Abbas' party say release of Islamist group parliament members in framework of prisoners' deal for kidnapped soldier's release would undermine Palestinian president's status. Hamas: Israel doesn't object to release of Barghouti and PFLP leader behind Minister Ze'evi's killing.
Resheq: Reasons for blocking Palestinian pilgrims unacceptable
DAMASCUS, PIC-- Ezzat Al-Resheq, the prominent Hamas political leader and member of its political office said on Tuesday that all reasons presented to justify the blocking of Palestinian pilgrims are "unacceptable". In an interview with the PIC correspondent in the Syrian capital Damascus, Resheq confirmed that Egypt can decide to allow those pilgrims travel back home in the Gaza Strip if she wished, urging Egypt not to be blackmailed by the USA and Israel.
Palestinians shave heads in solidarity with Fatah man in Gaza Strip
Prominent West Bank leaders of the Fatah movement shaved their heads Wednesday to demonstrate solidarity with an activist in Gaza who was shaven by Hamas men wanting to humiliate him.
Olmert, Bush and Abbas to hold three-way summit in J'lem
The leaders of Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the United States are expected to hold a joint meeting during President George W. Bush's visit here next week, in an effort to accelerate negotiations on the conflict's core issues - borders, refugees, and Jerusalem.
Diplomats: This is how Egypt will wreak diplomatic havoc
Damaged interests in Africa and having Livni declared persona non grata - hours after Egypt's foreign minister threatens to use diplomatic muscle against Israel, sources familiar with Israel-Egypt relations tell Ynet exactly what kind of an impact Jerusalem can expect.
Nasrallah set to go on TV to discuss kidnapped IDF soldiers
According to a preview on Lebanon television, an interview with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah will be aired Wednesday night during which Nasrallah is expected to talk about the two abducted Israel Defense Forces reserve soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.
Election power of the Israel lobby
As US presidential candidates battle it out to become the leader of the world's only superpower there is one subject on which they all, in public at least, agree - the US relationship with Israel. To leading politicians on both sides of the partisan divide the special relationship is sacrosanct, largely due, critics say, to the power of pro-Israel lobby groups. Those critics also say that pro-Israeli groups are set to a play a major role in the forthcoming election battle, both in terms of funding candidates and by publicly criticising any candidate critical of Israel or the US's relationship with it.
US universities woo Israeli students
US embassy in Israel aims to double number of Israeli students attending American institutions by offering more scholarships, facilitating visa procedures. Israelis are a 'desired commodity' due to their maturity, high learning skills, US envoy explains.
Rabbis urge Bush to cancel visit
The group also issued a religious ruling declaring that "the Olmert government, this evil government, has no right to exist; it must be abolished and disappear from this world."
Leader of US civil rights group travels to West Bank to promote Mideast peace efforts
The president of the civil rights group founded by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. left Tuesday for a trip to the West Bank to promote Arab-Israeli peace talks based on King's teachings. King had sought a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before his assassination in 1968, said Charles Steele Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
So who's responsible?
War report fails to identify culprits; Israelis may have no choice but to hit streets.
A Jerusalem square will be symbolically dedicated to Jonathan Pollard ahead of President Bush's visit to Israel
Mina Fenton, a Jerusalem city councilwoman, announced this week that the capital's Paris Square will be symbolically renamed "Pollard Square" in a ceremony on Jan. 7, two days before George W. Bush begins his first visit as U.S. president to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Jerusalem above all? Not at all
The sanctity of Jerusalem does not depend on who is sovereign in the city.
Gazans hook to Bollywood to forget their worries
Jerusalem (PTI): An Israeli closure tightening its noose, internecine factional fighting and warnings of an impending humanitarian disaster have had little effect on the appetite of Gaza population for Bollywood blockbusters, a popular medium which lets them forget their hardships.
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