http://www.imemc.org/article/
Forty-five Palestinian homes and farms issued demolition orders in Idhna, West of Hebron
On November 3rd, 25 Palestinian homes and five farms in Idhna were issued demolition orders of their homes for the 23rd of November. The order claims that the homes were "built without permission" of the Israeli authorities.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
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In direct violation of the Road Map, Barak approves settlement construction in the W. Bank
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported on Friday morning that Israel's Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, approved in recent months plans for the construction and marketing of hundreds of units in illegal West Bank settlements.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Israel's Barak approved settlement construction: report
AFP - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak approved dozens of construction projects in Jewish settlements in the West Bank in recent months despite international commitments to freeze such activity, the Haaretz daily said on Friday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Palestinian PM: Peace process endangered by settlements
Salam Fayyad says during visit to France 'efficient international action needed to change status quo, put pressure on Israel to respect its obligations in accordance with Road Map for peace initiative'.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Israeli forces kill four Gazans on seventh day of total closure
On Wednesday, 12 November 2008, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) carried out an incursion into al-Qarara town and killed four Palestinians. IOF continues to seal the Gaza Strip's borders and impede entry of food, medical supplies and fuel for the seventh day in a row. According to Al Mezan investigations, at around 10am on Wednesday, 12 November 2008, Israeli troops infiltrated nearly 300 meters inside agricultural lands in the al-Wad area to the northeast of Khan Younis city.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Testimony: Israeli navy shoots and wounds fisherman off Gaza coast
I live in the Sultan neighborhood in Rafah with my parents, three brothers, and three sisters. In 2006, I began to work as a fisherman. My father taught me the trade and I worked with him for about two months. Then I went to work with Omar al-Bardawil. Omar has two boats, one a motorboat and the other a rowboat. When gas is available in the Strip, we use the motorboat, and when there isn't gas, we use the rowboat.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Israeli settlers assault Palestinians and peace activists near Hebron
At least ten Israeli settlers from the illegal settlements built atop southern Mount Hebron assaulted a number of Palestinians and peace activists on Saturday.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Demonstration held against Homesh settlement
Palestinians held a demonstration against the return of settlers to the Homesh settlement, between Jenin and Nablus. The settlement, evacuated during Sharon's "disengagement", is set to be repopulated by Jewish settlers. The demonstration was organized by a committee comprising representatives from the villages of Burqa, Bizzariya, Silat ad-Dhahr, Sabastiya, and Beit Imrin. These villages, all located in the area of Homesh, will be affected by the resettlement and closures, confiscations, and expansions that will inevitably ensue.
http://stopthewall.org/
Ramallah villages rally in protest of road closures
Palestinians living near the northern West Bank city of Ramallah marched on Friday in response to calls by a local council to protest checkpoints that obstruct movement in the surrounding villages. The residents, along with Israeli and other international peace activists assembled between the villages of Ras Karker and Dir Ibzeegh on a road used by 14 villages that are populated by about 35,000 Palestinians.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Two wounded in a nonviolent demonstration at an evacuated settlement
Two Palestinian civilians were wounded as they tried to enter the evacuated Israeli settlement of Homesh near Nablus.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Israeli troops attack nonviolent protestors in Bethlehem
Israeli troops assaulted nonviolent anti-wall protest in the West Bank village of Al-Ma'asara near Bethlehem.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Three nonviolent protestors wounded in Nilin demo
At least three civilians have been wounded, one in the head, during an anti-wall protest in the West Bank town of Nilin near Ramallah.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Israeli troops wound four nonviolent protestors in Bilin
At least four nonviolent protestors were wounded in the weekly nonviolent protest in Bilin west of the West Bank city of Ramallah.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Nine residents of Ni'lin arrested for particpation in popular resistance against the apartheid wall
Eight people have been arrested during Israeli invasions of Ni'lin on the nights of November 10th and 11th. Another resident of Ni'lin also decided to turn himself in to Israeli authorities after his home had been invaded by the army for several consecutive nights while his wife and children were harassed by the soldiers looking for him.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
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PA forces beat, detain fans at football match; fire into crowd
Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces fired on football fans Friday night at a match in progress at the Askar Refugee Camp, witnesses told Ma'an. The match was being played between the Askar Youth team and the Tulkarem Youth Center in Jenin when PA security forces unexpectedly attacked people in the crowd at the amphitheater, reportedly beating several Palestinians with batons and detaining dozens of youths.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Hebron man sentenced to death by firing squad, PCHR appeals to Abbas
A Bethlehem military court sentenced a Palestinian to death on Wednesday after convicting him of treason. Ayman Ahmed Awwad Daghamgha from the Al-Arroub refugee camp north of Hebron and member of the Palestinian General Intelligence Service (PGIS) was found guilty of having collaborated with Israel since 1999.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
UN on Gaza: "People are going to start getting hungry"
The situation in the Gaza Strip is shifting from "collective punishment to genocide," said Jamal Al-Khudari, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and head of the popular committee against the siege in Gaza. The trickle of humanitarian aid previously allowed into Gaza, on which 80 percent of the population depended, has now been stopped for nine days by the Israeli army. The delivery of medical supplies and industrial fuel donated by the EU has also been blocked. The fuel was needed to power Gaza's sole power plant, which has now shut down, leading to rolling blackouts throughout Gaza.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Chronic malnutrition in Gaza blamed on Israel
The Israeli blockade of Gaza has led to a steady rise in chronic malnutrition among the 1.5 million people living in the strip, according to a leaked report from the Red Cross.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
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U.N. Shuts Down Gaza Food Distribution Program
The United Nations has shut down a food distribution program that feeds 750,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip after U.N. officials said their warehouses were empty and could not be restocked because of an Israeli blockade.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
world/mideast
Al-Jazeera Video: Inside Story - Gaza humanitarian crisis - Nov 14
http://palestinianpundit.
Ging appeals for world intervention to save Gaza from imminent disaster
John Ging, the director of UNRWA operations in the Gaza Strip, on Saturday called on the world officials to pressure Israel into ending its collective punishment of the Gaza Strip inhabitants.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Gaza closure concerns EU commissioner
An European Union (EU) official said Friday he was "profoundly concerned" with the effect Israel's decision to close all Gaza border crossings may have on the area's population. "I am profoundly concerned about the consequences for the Gazan population of the complete closure of all Gaza crossings for deliveries of fuel and basic humanitarian assistance," Bentita Ferrero-Waldner, commissioner for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy, said in a statement..
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Blockaded Gaza 'faces disaster'
The UK-based aid agency Oxfam has warned of catastrophe for Gaza and nearby areas of Israel if a truce agreed last June is not maintained.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories: Israeli blockade causes worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/
Israeli army blocks deliveries to Gaza
The Israeli army has completely blocked the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian aid and medical supplies to the Gaza Strip for more than a week. Very little fuel has been allowed in. Amnesty International urged the Israeli authorities on Friday to allow their immediate passage. "This latest tightening of the Israeli blockade has made an already dire humanitarian situation markedly worse. It is nothing short of collective punishment on Gaza's civilian population and it must stop immediately," said Philip Luther, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Programme.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/
VIDEO:IOF soldiers reveal how to brutally repress Palestinian civilians
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Army to court martial soldiers who filmed themselves while humiliating a bound Palestinian
Israeli sources reported that the army decided to court martial Israeli soldiers who filmed themselves humiliating and abusing a bound Palestinian man at a roadblock in the occupied West Bank.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Hamas protest in Gaza over West Bank arrests
AFP - Thousands of Hamas supporters rallied in Gaza City on Friday to denounce what the Islamists says is the arrest of hundreds of its members by Palestinian authorities in the West Bank.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Hamas supporters protest against Abbas' Fatah movement
Hamas supporters demonstrate against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement in Gaza city, November 14, 2008. The security forces of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday arrested 17 Hamas members across the West Bank. Hamas boycotted an Egyptian-led efforts to reconcile it with Fatah due to the West Bank crackdown. (Xinhua Photo)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Hamas accuses Abbas of cutting lines of national dialogue after arresting Naseef
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has accused PA chief Mahmoud Abbas of cutting all lines of national dialogue, and held him responsible for the arrest of the Hamas leader Rafat Naseef.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Hamas rallies against "criminal" PA security services, Israeli army
Hamas leaders rallied against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority (PA)'s security services in a televised media offensive in Gaza City on Friday afternoon. Hamas spokesperson Mushir Al-Masri described President Abbas as the "leader of a gang" during the rally held outside Gaza's parliament building.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Bahar calls for exposing crimes of Abbas's security apparatuses
Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the acting PLC speaker, has called on the Arab masses to organize marches to denounce the crimes committed by the PA chief Mahmoud Abbas's security apparatuses in the West Bank.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Sources: Hamas looking to postpone national dialogue in order to avoid extending Abbas' term
Informed Palestinian sources disclosed today that Hamas wants to delay the comprehensive Palestinian dialogue in Cairo until after the ninth of January 2009 when Mahmoud Abbas presidential term ends.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
MIDEAST: Palestinian Factions Torture Opponents
Unity talks between the two main Palestinian political factions Hamas and Fatah failed before they even began this week following Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas's refusal to release 400 Hamas prisoners held in PA jails in the West Bank.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.
Abbas to meet Olmert despite IOF escalation in Gaza
PA chief Mahmoud Abbas is to meet with Israeli premier Ehud Olmert on Monday to discuss the settlement process, Saeb Uraikat, who is in charge with the PLO's negotiation, said on Saturday.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Gov't source: Gaza truce can still be resumed
Top government official says it's not too late to resume ceasefire with Gaza Strip. Nonetheless, 'if Hamas completely violates the truce, it will a hefty price '. Source says Israel not afraid to break truce.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Hamas not to renew ceasefire
Hamas to demand new conditions for any ceasefire talks, including prior opening of crossings; Islamic Jihad member warns of imminent suicide attacks.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Hamas: Israelis won't live in peace unless Palestinians do
The Islamic Hamas movement on Saturday vowed not to allow the Israelis to live in peace unless residents of the Gaza Strip enjoy it.
"The Israelis will not enjoy quietness while the Palestinian people live in bloodshed," said Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
In 2006 letter to Bush, Haniyeh offered compromise with Israel
In the second paragraph, Haniyeh laid out the political platform he maintains to this day. "We are so concerned about stability and security in the area that we don't mind having a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders and offering a truce for many years," he wrote. Haniyeh called on Bush to launch a dialogue with the Hamas government.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
EU parliamentarian: "Hamas is fighting an occupation"
The assault on Chris Davies, Liberal Democrat party spokesman for the environment for the north west of Britain and a member of the European Union's parliamentary delegation to the Palestinian Legislative Council, has delivered a firm political message to the European parliament..
http://electronicintifada.net/
French, Palestinians call US Mideast role crucial
AP - French and Palestinian officials are calling on the administration of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to quickly take a leading role in the Middle East peace process.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
Switzerland leans on Israel to stop home demolitions in Jerusalem
Switzerland on Friday condemned the destruction of Palestinian homes in Occupied Jerusalem and said it had made representations to the Israeli Foreign Ministry on the issue. The Swiss Foreign Ministry said it was "deeply worried" and called on "the Israeli government to put an immediate end to operations of destruction carried out under the name of 'administrative demolitions.'"
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Foreign Reporters Furious over Gaza Ban
Foreign journalists are furious that the Israeli Defense Ministry's closure of Gaza Strip crossings has barred them from entering. They were given no formal notice of the ban. Instead, reporters found out the hard way last week that they could not get into the Strip, either by phone or at the Erez crossing to northern Gaza, according to Conny Mus, a reporter for the Dutch television station RTL.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Mind your own business, settler leader tells Rudd
NADIA Matar, the leader of the Israeli settler movement Women in Green, has a message for Kevin Rudd. "The incredible audacity of you!" she shouted from her home in Efrat, a Jewish settlement of 7700 people in the West Bank. Last weekend, the Rudd Government reversed Howard-era policy and voted in support of a United Nations resolution calling on Israel to stop building settlements in the occupied West Bank.
http://www.theage.com.au/
Settlers Who Long to Leave the West Bank
I get threatening phone calls telling me I am going to be killed," he said. "Today, I carry a gun because I am afraid of the Jews, not the Arabs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/
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Palestinian refugees in the Arab world: the right to have a right
The borders between states in the Arab East were historically porous so that refugees were able to move quite easily. Waves of refugees were able to be managed with tremendous tolerance: 800,000 Palestinians, 1 million Iraqis in the 1990s and 2.4 million Iraqis since 2003, 1 million Sudanese since the 1990s.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Friday: The day in photos
Israeli soldiers scuffle with an Israeli activist today during a demonstration against construction of a barrier near the West Bank village of Maasarah, near Bethlehem. Israel says the barrier, aimed at sealing off the Jewish state from the West Bank, is necessary for security; Palestinians see the move as a unilateral redrawing of the border.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
Eviction in battle for East Jerusalem
Fawzia al-Kurd, 52, raises her black cloak to show the bottoms of the pyjamas she is still wearing several days after she and her wheelchair-bound husband were forced from the home he had lived for five decades.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
SJP Statement on violent anti-Palestinian attack on campus
According to dozens of witnesses on the scene, three organizers for the "Zionist Freedom Alliance" attacked one male and two female Arab students who stood nearby the event holding a Palestinian flag. The assailants were identified by the Daily Californian to include current ASUC student senator John Moghtader, Cal alumnus Gabe Weiner, and performer Yehuda De sa. The paper also reported that all three had been cited by the UC Police Department on several counts of battery.
http://calsjp.org/2008/11/14/
Tell Oxford not to create lecture series in Peres' honor
Oxford University's Balliol College has decided to honor Shimon Peres and the apartheid state of Israel by inviting him to speak in Oxford, and by planning to establish a lecture series in his name. Peres will deliver his lecture on Tuesday, 18 November 2008 under the title "The Globalization of Peace."
http://electronicintifada.net/
UN social responsibility member company tied to settlements
A company that is a member of the UN Global Compact for corporate social responsibility has ties to production in an Israeli settlement on the West Bank considered illegal by the United Nations. A spokesperson for the company, Vileda said he was unaware of the contract with a manufacturer in the West Bank. However, a representative of Plasto confirmed that the company was a subcontractor for Vileda.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Israel Tightens Chokehold on Village of Entrepreneurs
Excerpt: The sun is sinking fast behind the trees of an olive grove on the outskirts of the West Bank village of Nilin. After a day of confrontations between the Israeli army and the Palestinian villagers over Israel's building of its separation wall on Nilin's land, the soldiers appear finally to have gone.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/
Palestinian children draw anti-siege paintings in Gaza
Palestinian children draw anti-siege paintings in Gaza, November 14, 2008, as Gaza plunges into darkness after its main power plant shut down due to Israel's embargo. (Xinhua Photo)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Mending the broken wing
Thousands of hectares of land have been confiscated, hundreds of olive trees were uprooted and tens of thousands of trees were burned at the hands of Israeli occupying forces. In Palestinian villages, where social and economic development is sustained from the land, the villagers are left asking: What's left for next generations?! Abdallah Mesleh reflects on the significance of the harvest to his besieged village of Nilin.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Video: "Nahr al-Bared: Transitions"
More than a year after their homes were destroyed during the battle between the Lebanese army and the militant Islamist group Fatah al-Islam, the majority of the Palestinian refugees from the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon find themselves in a difficult situation. Not able to return to their homes, stuck in pre-fabricated housing units and mostly unemployed, many feel frustrated and hopeless that things will improve.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Gilad Atzmon - Sabra, Shatila and Collective Amnesia
Waltz With Bashir is a breath-taking new Israeli film, an animated documentary directed by Ari Folman. In 1982, Folman was a 19-year-old IDF infantry soldier. Twenty four years later, in 2006, Folman is surprised to find out that he does not remember a thing from that war or the massacres in Sabra and Shatila. The film is a journey into Folman's lost past.
http://palestinethinktank.com/
Palestine is the Key to World Peace
Dear Mr Obama, Salaam, I am not sure if this will ever pass your eyes. At a time when the whole world is excited about your landmark election and everybody who is somebody is talking about your meteoric rise, this is likely to be dismissed as just another outpouring of emotions from the Middle East. But write I must. And I hope to God it does find its way to your table. Even if it doesn't, I'll at least have the consolation of having tried to persuade you what the world, especially the Middle East, expects from you and what a great opportunity you have of changing it for the better.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Meet the Palestinian Seinfeld. Who knew?
"I'm totally secular, but I'm scared like hell of God." Sayed Kashua says this with the kind of neurotic, biting humor that has led many people - critics, fans and others - to compare him to Woody Allen. A Palestinian Woody Allen?
http://www.sfgate..com/cgi-
Saturday: 2 US GIs, 12 Iraqis Killed; 42 Iraqis Wounded; US Copter Crash
Excerpt: At least 12 Iraqis were killed and 42 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. Two U.S. servicemembers died in separate incidents, but the casualty figures, if any, from a U.S. helicopter crash in Mosul were unknown.
http://www.antiwar.com/
Iraqi prime minister now backs U.S. security accord
Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki has informed Iraq's presidency council that he now supports a security agreement with the United States, a Shiite Muslim legislator who's close to the premier said Friday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/
Iraq's al-Sadr renews threats to attack US
Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday renewed threats to resume attacks on U.S. forces, and the country's top Shiite cleric was quoted as saying he would intervene if a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact infringed on Iraqi sovereignty.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Counting the dead gets more complicated in Iraq
AP - This much is agreed — a double bombing in Baghdad struck a school bus and those responding to the first blast. But the difference in casualty figures was stark. Iraqi officials said 31 people died; the U.S. military put the death toll at five..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
Last Iraqi refugees leave Saudi Arabia
The Rafah Refugee Camp in Saudi Arabia is now empty of its Iraqi refugees who had fled there during the 1991 Gulf War. The camp was established mainly to receive Iraqi army personnel who laid down their guns and surrendered to U.S. troops and Iraqi opponents who rose against the rule of Saddam Hussein in the uprising that took place in southern Iraq.
http://www.azzaman.com/
U.S. May Buy 10,000 All-Terrain, Blast-Proof Trucks
The U.S. military will seek to buy as many as 10,000 all-terrain, blast-proof trucks in an ``urgent'' competition to begin by Dec. 1. The trucks will be called MRAP All-Terrain Vehicles, or M-ATV.
http://www..bloomberg.com/
Rise of sexual terrorism in Iraq
Abu Ghraib. Haditha. Guantanamo. These are words that shame our country. Now, add to them Mahmudiya, a town 20 miles south of Baghdad. There, this March, a group of five American soldiers allegedly were involved in the rape and murder of Abeer Qassim Hamza, a young Iraqi girl. Her body was then set on fire to cover up their crimes, her father, mother, and sister murdered. The rape of this one girl, if proven true, is probably not simply an isolated incident. But how would we know? In Iraq, rape is a taboo subject. Shamed by the rape, relatives of this girl wouldn't even hold a public funeral and were reluctant to reveal where she is buried.
http://www.alternet.org/
How the Iraq war humiliated the British
The fact that we're hanging around there still today (over 4,100 soldiers) is a testimony to President Bush's desire not to lose the fig leaf of his biggest partner in the entire endeavour. Only now, with Obama preparing to move into the White House, can the British finally leave – a reality that Maliki confirmed in October when he sealed the humiliation, tersely informing the British that "their services were no longer required".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Israeli PM Candidate's Website Looks A Lot Like Obama's... (PHOTO)
JERUSALEM -- Click on the Russian-language version of the campaign Web site of Benjamin Netanyahu, the conservative Likud leader running for prime minister of Israel, and up pops a picture of the candidate with Barack Obama. On the Hebrew version, Mr. Obama is not pictured. But he is, in fact, everywhere.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
School District Nixes Arabic Classes
Students in two Chicago's west suburban high school districts won't get a chance to study Arabic next year, despite interest from local families. Two districts recently decided they won't add Arabic classes, disappointing many in the local Muslim community. They're not the only ones who think Arabic is a smart choice for American kids.
http://www.chicagopublicradio.
Nasrallah: Don't pin your hopes on Obama
Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has cautioned the Arab world against expecting a change in US foreign policy with Obama.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.
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