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The World Food Program aid to Gaza
The World Food Program is appealing for
funding to aid a major portion of Gaza's
population. The agency says it will take up to
2 million dollars a month to feed those in need.
WFP spokesperson Kirstie Campbell says 70
percent of the population has to choose between
putting food on the table or a roof over their heads.
Palestinians: IDF strike kills two
civilians in northern Gaza Strip
An Israel Air Force strike near a residential building
in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday killed a
Palestinian man and woman, both of them civilians,
witnesses and medical officials said.
Israeli strike kill one Gaza militant
-medics
An Israeli missile strike killed at least one
Palestinian militant and wounded four others
in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday,
militants and medical officials said.
IOF troops kidnap two Hamas leaders hours
after Abbas's security released them
IOF troops kidnapped two Hamas leaders in the West
Bank city of Ramallah in a pre dawn raid on Tuesday
only two days after PA chief Mahmoud Abbas's security
apparatuses released them.
Woman Gives Birth in Street at 3am As
Soldiers Closed Checkpoint
At 3am on Monday January 7th, Ahmad Sider was born in
the street ten metres from an Israeli checkpoint in Hebron,
after Israeli soldiers prevented his mother from passing for
25 minutes. She went into labour during the night and shortly
before 3am attempted to pass the checkpoint with her husband
. They live in Tel Rumeida, in H2, the area of Hebron controlled
by Israel under the Hebron protocols.
Hamas: PA seizes four journalists in Tulkarem
The Palestinian Authority arrested four journalists in the
West Bank City of Tulkarem on Tuesday, the Hamas
movement said.
Arab Israeli doctors enter Gaza for first
time since Hamas takeover
For the first time since the Hamas takeover,
three Arab Israeli doctors from the rights group
"Physicians for Human Rights" entered Gaza
Wednesday in order to administer medical
treatment to Gazan residents.
Israel foiling Palestinian security
effort-minister
Palestinian Interior Minister Abdel-Razak
al-Yahya accused Israel on Tuesday of hampering
efforts to keep order in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian forces began last year executing a plan
devised by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's
Western-backed government to impose law
and order and crack down on armed militias.
PA security official:
Al Aqsa Brigade has dismantled
A dozen Palestinian gunmen surrendered to
Palestinian forces on Tuesday, and the top
Palestinian security official said this means a violent
West Bank militia, is now defunct. However, Israeli
officials are skeptical of such claims, and say gunmen
still pose a threat to Israel.
Settlers build structures in Hebron while
Police standby and watch
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Today, January 9th,
settlers are building structures in Hebron on
Palestinian land while police standby and watch.
Early this morning at 4am, settlers from the occupied
house Beit HaShalom and Kiryat Arba began putting up
structures on Palestinian land beloging to the Jabri family,
across the way from them.
A senior Hamas leader calls on
Palestinians to boycott Bush's visit
Senior Hamas leader in Gaza, Mahmoud aL-Zahar,
called Tuesday on the Palestinian side to boycott
American President Gorge W. Bush, who will be
visiting the region on Wednesday.
Barghouthi: Bush-
backed negotiations a false hope
Bethlehem – Ma'an – With US President
George W. Bush scheduled to arrive in the
region Wednesday, former Palestinian
Information Minister Mustafa Barghouthi, also the
head of the Palestinian National Initiative, says that
Palestinians have little reason to hope that conditions
will improve for Palestinians.
Gaza buisnessmen concerned over
continued Gaza closure
A number of businessmen in the Gaza Strip
wondered as to how U.S President Gorge W. Bush,
promises the Palestinians with a Palestinian state,
with all Gaza's travel and commercial crossings closed.
Jewish nationalists form human
chain around Jerusalem walls
Thousands of Israeli nationalists formed a human
chain around Jerusalem's Old City on Tuesday to
protest at peace talks with the Palestinians ahead of a
visit by US President George W. Bush.
Right wing activists on Tuesday evening have
set up two new outposts ahead of Bush visit
According to Israel Radio, The outposts were established
near Efrat and Psagot. The activists said they planned to
expand ten more existing outposts.
Jerusalem: Right-wing activists arrested for
incendiary Bush posters
Extreme right-wing activists, including several teens,
arrested for putting up posters depicting Peres, Olmert
and Bush wearing kaffiyah. Youth were paid to
put up posters.
Rabbi Yosef calls on Shas to
shun peace talks
As US President George W. Bush was making his
way to the region Wednesday morning to promote
the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Shas spiritual
leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef called on the party's
chairman, Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai, not
to take part in the negotiations "since
(Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas)
has lost control over the territory."
Gazans Expect Nothing From Bush
Ahead of Clinton's visit in December 1998,
Abu Diyyeh sold thousands of American flags
and other trinkets from his shop in Gaza City.
As US President George W. Bush starts on
Wednesday, January 9, a much-publicized visit
to Israel and the occupied West Bank, besieged
Gazans are watching from the sidelines, expecting
nothing but another photo opportunity.
Bush arrives in Israel and renews his
commitment to the Jewish State
The President of the United States of America,
George Bush, arrived in Israel on Wednesday.
His visit to Israel is the first since he took office
seven years ago. Bush landed in the Israeli Ben-Gurion
International Airport, where he was met by the Israeli
President Shimon Peres and his Prime Minister Ehod Olmert.
Thousands of Palestinians protest
Bush's visit in Gaza
The Hamas movement which controls the
Gaza Strip organized a protest on Wednesday
afternoon against Bush's visit to Israel and
Palestine that started today.
Bush quizzes Shas chief over
Yishai threat to quit government
During his welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion
Airport Wednesday, U.S. President Bush quizzed
Shas party head Eli Yishai over his threat to quit the government.
Rice lowers expectations shortly before
Bush's arrival to Palestine and Israel
In an interview with the BBC World Service,
US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice,
lowered expectations in terms of likely
outcomes of President George W. Bush's
visit to the region on Wednesday.
Israeli-American Nobel l
aureate to form hawkish party
Prof. Israel Aumann, Nobel prize
winner for economics in 2005, to
help MK Effie Eitam establish new
political party, which will serve as
umbrella for several small hardline parties.
Sanhedrin to Bush: Declare that
Israel belongs to Jews
Right-wing rabbis pass on small letter to be
delivered to US president on his upcoming visit
which asks leader to free convicted spy Jonathan
Pollard, declare Israel belongs to Jews, urge American
Jews to make aliyah.
Rabbi: Segregate male and female teachers
Beit El's rabbi, Shlomo Aviner, calls for segregation
of sexes at work orientations, seminars; explains,
'We must behave as we teach our children to behave'.
Beirut to complain to UN after Israel
kidnaps shepherd
Lebanon is to complain to the UN Security Council,
accusing Israel of kidnapping a shepherd from inside
Lebanese territory, the prime minister's office
said on Tuesday.
Israel planned 1991 strike on
NKorea-Syria ship: report
Israeli agents prepared to strike a ship
suspected of smuggling missiles from
North Korea to Syria in 1991 but cancelled it at the
11th hour under US pressure, a Japanese newspaper
reported Wednesday.
US president to say in King David Hotel,
previously blown up by Jewish terrorist Irgun militia
JERUSALEM - Jerusalem's famed King
David Hotel, which will host US President George W. Bush
on his landmark visit this week to Israel and the
Palestinian territories, is pulling out all the stops.
An American President and
the outposts of Zion
This week US President George W. Bush
embarks on a tour of some of the US' Middle East allies,
including his first visit while in office to Israel.
The trip has been presaged by a lot of media guesswork
about what exactly Bush and Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert will discuss, and one of the likely topics
will apparently be the so-called "illegal outposts."
EI contributor Ben White finds that the recent focus
on so-called "illegal outposts" risks clouding far more
crucial issues that go to the heart of the conflict.
Leviev buys most expensive new
British property for $70M
Israeli diamond billionaire Lev Leviev,
who immigrated to Israel from Uzbekistan in 1971,
has bought the most expensive new property ever sold
in Britain -a $70 million home with a bullet-proof
front door costing $100,000,
British real estate dealers said on Tuesday.
Crossing the Line features a
speech by Michel Shehadeh
This week on Crossing The Line: host
Christopher Brown airs a speech given by
Palestinian activist Michel Shehadeh. Shehadeh
was a member of what the media dubbed, the
Los Angeles Eight (LA8), who were a group of
individuals accused of aiding a member group of the
Palestinian Liberation Organization which the
US government considers a terrorist organization.
Shehadeh spoke on 29 November 2007 --
the international day of solidarity with Palestine --
in San Francisco about the Palestinian struggle for liberation.
Double standard on divestment
Today, two movements for the promotion of
human rights in Sudan and Palestine seek to
emulate the successful role played by boycotts,
divestment, and sanctions in achieving democracy
and equality in South Africa. The two movements,
however, have received radically different receptions
on Capitol Hill. This double standard testifies to official
Washington's selectivity when it comes to promoting
human rights around the globe and its tendency to
overlook the faults of its allies while using human
rights as a pretext to punish its adversaries.
Babies Up Against the Occupation
'My first daughter is in no man's land even though
she is legally an American citizen, she cannot leave
Bethlehem, because she hasn't got permission yet from Israel.'
The Real Freiers
But this psyche and cowardice of inaccurately
being called a freier explains why the
Palestine-Israel conflict is viewed as
complicated when the situation is pretty straightforward.
Iqbal Jassat: To Give or Not to Give
As Levy explains, the question of whether
ending the occupation would threaten or strengthen
Israel's security is irrelevant. There are not, and cannot be,
any preconditions for restoring justice.
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