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Israeli Apartheid Week: Students
mobilize Across the West Bank
Latest News, Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid
Wall Campaign, February 5th, 2008. In Palestine,
students across the West Bank will mobilize from
February 10 – 13 against the Israeli apartheid
regime and the economic, social and environmental
devastation it has brought to Palestine. In al-Quds
University, students are organizing to strengthen
the growing movement towards the complete
academic boycott of Israel.
Israel kills five Hamas
members in Gaza strike
At least five Hamas members were killed
in an Israeli missile strike on a Hamas
security position in the southern Gaza
Strip on Tuesday, the Islamist group said.
The Israeli army confirmed the air strike.
At least six killed and 3 injured
due to an Israeli attack in southern Gaza
The sources said that Israeli jet fighters
fired several missiles at a Palestinian
police station in Khan Younis. Witnesses
reported hearing an additional three
explosions in another location of Khan Younis.
Palestinians: PRC leader killed
, 2 hurt in IAF strike on north Gaza
An Israel Air Force aircraft attacked a car
traveling in the northern Gaza Strip on
Monday, wounding three people, two of
them seriously, Palestinian medical officials said.
Several detainees, including patients,
barred from visitations, medications
The Israeli Prison Authorities continues its
violations against the Palestinian political
detainees and continued to bar several sick
detainees from their right to medical treatment,
in addition to barring dozens of detainees from
their visitation rights.
Israel is holding 365 Palestinian
children captive in its prisons
The Palestinian Center for Detainees'
Studies issued a press release on Monday
revealing that Israel is currently holding
more than 365 Palestinian children
captive in its prisons, including 100 children
who are 13-15 years old.
Israeli forces seize Palestinian
man in Qalqilia
The Israeli forces detained a Palestinian
from the northern West Bank city of
Qalqilia on Monday morning after raiding
the city and searching several houses.
Eyewitnesses told Ma'an's reporter that
the detainee was 28-year-old Amjad Khadir.
The Israeli army attack Palestinian
homes in Hebron city and kidnaps two civilians
On Tuesday morning Israeli forces attacked
a number of Palestinian homes located in the
old part of the southern West Bank city of
Hebron and kidnapped two civilians.
P.A security forces arrest nin
Hamas members
Sources in the Hamas movement reported on Monday that Palestinian Security Forces arrested on Sunday nine Hamas members and supporters in several areas in the West Bank.
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The Israeli army kills one Lebanese
civilian and kidnaps another at the
borders with Israel
Lebanese media sources reported on Monday
that the Israeli army shot and killed one Lebanese civilian and kidnapped another from a village at the southern
Lebanese Israeli borders on Sunday night.
Witnesses reported that an Israeli army post
located at the borders opened fire at a group
of farmers near the border village of Al Khiyam,
one man was killed and two others injured while
the Israeli forces kidnapped another civilian.
Report: Israeli fire wounds two
civilians in southern Lebanon
Beirut - Israeli troops fired late Sunday at
Lebanese civilians near the Ghajjar area in
southern Lebanon, wounding at least two
people, local media and Lebanese army
sources reported. Local radio reports quoting
Israeli media said Israeli soldiers exchanged
fire with Lebanese gunmen along the border.
DFLP's military wing clashes with
undercover Israeli forces in Gaza Strip
The military wing of the Democratic Front for
the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), the National
Resistance Brigades, claimed on Monday that
their fighters clashed with an undercover Israeli
force that invaded in the Gaza Strip near the
abandoned Gaza international airport and
surrounded a house belonging to one of the
group's fighters.
Torture in Israel
Based on official data, GSS agents interrogated
thousands of Palestinians per year during the
Intifada, and over 200 at any given moment.
In July 2002, the GSS related to the press that
90 Palestinians were defined as 'ticking bombs'
and were tortured (that is, were exposed to
'physical pressure'). Research by the Public
Committee Against Torture in Israel shows
that the number tortured is actually much
greater; and that GSS agents who interrogate
Palestinian detainees torture them, degrade
them, and otherwise ill-treat them routinely,
in blatant violation of the provisions of
international law, mainly in the following manners...
Jailed Hamas legislators call
for countering Israel's plan to dig
a tunnel near the Al Aqsa Mosque
Hams legislators, detained by Israel, called
on the Palestinian people to counter a new
Israeli plan to dig a new tunnel under the
Islamic Neighborhood, near the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Palestinian negotiator accuses
Hamas of destroying statehood essentials
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat,a long-time
confident of President Mahmoud Abbas, on
Monday claimed that Hamas destroyed the
basics of a future Palestinian statehood by
demanding the Gaza Strip economy to be
associated with Egypt and the West Bank
economy linked to Jordan.
Hamas armed wing says carried
out Israel bombing
Hamas's armed wing claimed responsibility
for a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed
a woman in southern Israel on Monday, the
first such attack inside Israel claimed by
Hamas since 2004, a Hamas source told Reuters.
Hamas claims Dimona attack,
says bombers came from Hebron
Hamas' armed wing claimed responsibility
for a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed
a woman in Dimona on Monday, the first
such attack inside Israel claimed by
Hamas since 2004, a Hamas source told
Reuters. Both the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Bridgade
and the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine claimed responsibility for the
attack earlier in the day.
Fatah offshoot claims responsibility
for suicide attack in Israel
A violent offshoot of Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement claimed
responsibility Monday for the suicide attack
in the southern Israeli town of Dimona.
Fatah Group Claims Dimona Bombing
With an estimated population of around 40,000,
the town is just eight miles from the top-secret
desert facility where Israel has developed the
region's sole if undeclared nuclear arsenal.
Fatah: Bombers infiltrated
Israel through Egypt
(VIDEO) In Gaza press conference,
members of Fatah's military wing, PFLP
say suicide bombers who carried out Dimona
attack entered Sinai from Strip. 'Attack has
been planned for a month, but was only made
possible due to breach in border,' says al-Aqsa
Brigades spokesman. Meanwhile, Egypt detains
Palestinian carrying explosives in Rafah.
'No repeat' of Gaza breakout,
says Egypt's Mubarak
MADRID (AFP) - Egypt will not allow its
border with Gaza to be breached again by
militants seeking to escape an Israeli blockade,
President Hosni Mubarak said Tuesday in an
interview published in Spain.
Report: Egypt reopens border
after clashes with Gazans
The border crossing between Egypt and the
Gaza Strip was reopened Monday evening
and Egyptian troops are allowing free passage,
Palestinian sources told Haaretz. A Palestinian
man was killed and at least 44 Gazans and
Egyptians were wounded Monday in an
exchange of fire that erupted between masked
Palestinian gunmen and Egyptian forces at
Gaza's border with Egypt, Palestinian medical
officials said.
Hamas regrets Egypt's action
in deadly border clash
Hamas said on Tuesday it regretted the
use of force by Egyptian security forces during
a clash at the resealed Gaza-Egypt border that
left one Palestinian dead. One Palestinian was
shot dead on Monday during a demonstration
against the closure of the border between the
Hamas-run territory and Egypt following a
nearly two-week breach.
Foreign Min. backs Egyptian request
to double its forces on Gaza border
The Foreign Ministry is recommending that
Israel allow Egypt to double the number of
soldiers it has stationed along its borders
with Israel and Gaza - something that
Cairo has long wanted to do, but that
Jerusalem has hitherto vetoed.
Solana: 'open Rafah crossing
with EU supervision'
Javier Solana, the European Union's High
Representative for the Common Foreign
and Security Policy, reaffirmed the EU's
commitment to its monitoring role at the
Rafah border crossing between Egypt and
the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
Minister Yishai: Halt negotiations
with Palestinians
Following Dimona terror attack, Shas minister
calls on prime minister to consider reoccupying
Philadelphi route. Right-wing MKs says
bombing is terrorists' response to Olmert's
decision to relax criteria for release of terrorists
'with blood on their hands'.
Dimona signals Palestinian defiance
Moral judgments not withstanding, the suicide
bombing in Dimona on Monday is another chink
in the siege imposed on all Palestinians in the
occupied territories and it represents a continuity
of the Palestinian rebellion that breached the
wall between Gaza and Egypt last week. The
fact that two fighters succeeded in reaching
Dimona in the south of Israel after crossing
over to Egypt last week and then returning
to conduct the operation is a blow to Tel Aviv's
claims that its siege of Hamas supporters is working.
Hamas: Dimona attack a 'heroic act'
Sources in Strip confirm two bombers
who carried out attack in southern Israeli
city came from Gaza. Palestinian President
Abbas condemns 'Israeli military operation in
Qabatiya just as he condemns operation that
took place in Dimona'
Palestinian information minister:
Dimona attack is not a security breach
The Dimona suicide attack does not constitute a
security breach from the Palestinian side even though
the attackers came from the Gaza Strip,
the Information Minister of the Palestinian
caretaker government, Riyad Al Maalki,
stated on Monday evening.
Hamas resistance fighters from
Nablus give up their weapons
A group of Hamas resistance fighters
from the northern West Bank city of
Nablus gave up their weapons on Tuesday
in a bid to end the state of internal division in the city.
Hamas leaders in West Bank
slam Gaza takeover
A number of Hamas leaders in the West
Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday slammed
their movement's takeover of the Gaza Strip
after fighting against security forces of President
Mahmoud Abbas of rival Fatah.
"We condemn the military settlement that
Hamas staged in Gaza Strip and other things that
happened in June 2007," Moussa al-Kharaz,
a senior Hamas leader in Nablus, told a news
conference. Two more leaders, Zuhiar Lubada
and Ramez Salha, also spoke in the news conference
in addition to other Hamas members whom
the pro-Abbas security forces released from their prisons.
Hamas in Gaza dismisses statements
by its senior members in W Bank
A Gaza-based Hamas spokesman on Tuesday
rejected statements made by some of the
Islamic movement's senior members in the
West Bank town of Nablus, which condemned
Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip in mid-
June of 2007.A number of Hamas leaders
in Nablus had earlier slammed the Hamas
takeover of Gaza, which happened last June
after Hamas militants routed security forces
loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of rival
Fatah movement.
Gov't shuts down E. J'lem religious
center, calls it Hamas front
Israel has shut down a religious and educational
center in East Jerusalem, saying Tuesday it
served as a front for the violently anti-Israel
Islamic Hamas group. According to a police
statement Tuesday, the Education Club in
the Zur Baher village is run by Hamas
activists, financed by the Islamic group,
and actively recruits people to its ranks.
Israeli PM appoints panel on
2002 killing of Hamas chief
Committee to probe whether bombing
which killed 14 Gazans, mostly children, was justified.
U.S. consulate in J'lem to relocate
in bid to speed up birth registration
The American Consulate in Jerusalem will
relocate from East Jerusalem to the
neighborhood of Arnona later this year,
a move expected to improve services and
slightly decrease the long waiting times to
register births of American citizens.
Mufti condemns Israeli decision
to demolish historic mosque
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad
Hussein has condemned a decision by Israeli authorities
to demolish the Al-Omari mosque in the village
of Umm Tuba near Jerusalem under the pretext
that the building had been built without a license:
The mosque was built more than 700 years go,
and it was last restored in 1963. It is the only mosque
in Umm Tuba.
Government moves to recognize Jewish
town in Wadi Ara region
The government decided Sunday to formally
recognize a controversial 35-family Jewish
town in the largely Arab Wadi Ara region;
environmentalists and two cabinet ministers
are against the move. Environment Minister
Gideon Ezra and the Society for the Protection
of Nature (SPNI) oppose the existence of Ein
Iron, which was unofficially established by
religious Zionist families three years ago,
saying it was built on protected land with
unique environmental attributes.
Israeli lawmaker urges
killing of Hamas leaders
A senior member of Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert's party urged the Israeli government
on Tuesday to order the assassination of
Hamas political leaders in response to a
bombing in Israel claimed by the Islamist
group. Despite the suicide attack in the
southern town of Dimona on Monday,
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators held
talks hours later, in a reaffirmation of
U.S.-backed efforts to achieve a statehood deal.
Non-Zionist Jews blast Israel's chief
rabbi for racist remarks
Haredi sect brands Chief Rabbi
Metzger 'Zionist stooge,' wicked
The strongly anti-Zionist Neturei Karta
sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews has attacked
Ashkennazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger as a
"very well paid Zionist stooge" and a "a
wicked emissary of evil" who should be
expelled from Israel, following Metzger's
reported comments proposing that poor
Gazans be moved to a Palestinian state
established in the Sinai.
Walk With Your People
President Abbas, your people tore down the
Israeli wall that confined you along with them.
Now is the time for you to walk with your
people, to show that you are their president,
not their jailer, says Rami Khouri.
Eugene Bird: Gaza Redux;
Third Time Around
Another interesting question one could ask is: where is the international pressure that originally forced Israel to withdraw in 1957?
Joharah Baker: In Remembrance,
We Salute you
Born in Lydda in 1925, Habash became a de
facto refugee in 1948 while studying in Beirut.
His family all fled their homes during the fierce
fighting and subsequent exodus that would
later become the Palestinians' most widescale
tragedy – Al Nakba.
Let's end the siege, and talk
There is no way out of this nightmare until negotiations
begin between all sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) celebrates its first
year with its eyes on Gaza, demanding an end to the
Israeli blockade and, on the uneven playing field of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an end to human rights
abuses on both sides.
As Israeli Arabs become more modern,
they care less for the elderly
The higher the level of modernization and urbanization
in Israeli Arab locales, the less devotion there is to
caring for elderly parents, according to a research
study carried out by Rabia Halaila, a doctoral
student at Hebrew University.
World Bank: Education in the Arab
world is 'lagging behind'
The World Bank has described the education
system in Arab countries as "lagging behind"
other regions in the developing world, in a
report released on Monday.
US says no one too young for
Guantanamo court
A Canadian accused of killing a U.S. soldier in
Afghanistan should not be tried as a war criminal
because he was a child soldier for al Qaeda,
too young to voluntarily join its forces, his
military defense lawyer told a U.S. war court on
Monday. Navy Lt. William Kuebler asked a
military judge to throw out the charges against
Canadian defendant Omar Khadr, who was shot
and captured at age 15 in a firefight at a
suspected al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan in
2002. "He is a victim of al Qaeda, not a member of
al Qaeda," Kuebler said.
True or false: Obama is pro-Palestinian,
McCain will appoint James Baker
A couple of days before Super Tuesday, we sent
The Israel Factor panel another set of questions
dealing with just four candidates: Democrats Clinton
and Obama, and Republicans McCain and Romney.
We will publish and analyze the panel's responses in
two or three installments over the coming days.
Obama good for Israel
Democratic candidate better for Jewish State than the more pro-Israeli McCain.
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