http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/
PCHR Weekly Report: 7 Palestinians injured, 32 abducted by Israeli forces; 2 dead due to occupation
In its weekly summary of Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of November 20-26, 2008, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights has reported a number of human rights violations. An elderly Palestinian man died of a heart attack when Israeli forces forced him from his home. A patient in Gaza died after being denied exit from the Gaza Strip for medical treatment, because he refused to act as an informant for the Israeli military.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Exceptions in the prosecution of Israeli occupation soldiers. Prosecution of IDF soldiers during and after the Second Intifada, 2000-2007 Full text.
http://www.yesh-din.org/sys/
Israeli troops wound three in Gaza: medics
Three Palestinians were wounded when Israeli troops backed by tanks mounted an incursion into the southern Gaza Strip on Friday, shelling suspected militants, medics and witnesses said. "The three wounded were evacuated," said Muawiya Hassanein, who heads the emergency services in Gaza.
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Four Palestinians injured at Ni'lin anti-wall demonstration
Four Palestinians were reportedly shot by Israeli forces at an anti-wall march in the West Bank village of Ni'lin, near Ramallah, on Friday. After Friday prayers, demonstrators gathered near lands threatened with confiscation, shouting slogans and demanding help for 120 families whose lands are to be confiscated. As protesters neared the construction site, Israeli forces opened fire "from close range" with tear-gas canisters "fired directly at protesters," as well as rubber-coated bullets, according to a statement received by Ma'an. Four injured Palestinians were taken to a hospital in Ramallah, the statement added. [end]
http://www.maannews.net/en/
International, local and Israeli activists tear-gassed in Bil'in demonstration
Israeli soldiers fired teargas, rubber-coated steel bullets and sound bombs at a group of Bil'in residents, Israeli and international activists on Friday as the group marched to the site of the separation wall in an anti-occupation protest. The protesters raised Palestinian flags and banners calling for the guarantee of Palestinian's right to Jerusalem, the right of return, Palestinian controlled borders, access to water, the release of all Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons and the removal of the separation wall and Israeli settlements from the West Bank and Gaza.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Two Palestinians injured by Israeli soldiers during Jayous anti-wall demonstration
Two Palestinians were injured with rubber-coated steel bullets shot by Israeli soldiers as they participated in the peaceful demonstration against the wall in the village of Jayous west of Qalqiliya on Friday. Those injured were identified as Muhamad Abdel Walid Salim and Muhamad Abdel Rahman Salim. Villagers demonstrated with activists and toured the streets of the village calling for the end of settlement construction. When the group reached what has been designated a military area Israeli troops prevented their progress and clashes ignited. [end]
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Israel attempts to avoid court challenge by returning stolen Palestinian fishing boats
Three Palestinian trawling vessels confiscated by Israeli naval forces were returned today almost immediately following yesterdays announcement that three Human Rights Groups had filed an appeal against Ehud Barak and the commander of the Israeli navy. The vessels were stolen from Gazan waters on 18th November while fishing in Palestinian territorial water.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
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Palestinian Journalists Bloc condemns PA arrest of reporter
The Palestinian Journalists Bloc condemned on Thursday the arrest by Palestinian security forces of Nae'l Nakhlah, a reporter for the Al-Quds newspaper in the West Bank town of Al-Bireh. The organization noted an "increase of the number of journalists arrested in the West Bank to nine in addition to three who were arrested in the Gaza Strip."
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Palestinian Water Authority pressed Israel to ship water purification chemicals to Gaza
The Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) said on Thursday that it succeeded in pressuring Israel to allow chemicals used to purify water into the blockaded Gaza Strip. The deputy director of the PWA, Rebhi Ash-Sheikh, said Israel had blocked delivery of 100 cubic meters of Chlorine and dozens of tons of acids used to purify water for over a year. He said the authority was concerned that shortages of these chemicals would threaten the health of Gaza residents.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Al-Khudari predicts Gaza power plant to shut down before midnight; fuel supplies exhausted
Gaza's power plant will shut-down again Friday night after the area exhausts the limited fuel transferred in on Wednesday. The black-out prediction was announced by Head of the popular committee against the siege in Gaza, Jamal Al-Khudari at a press conference in Gaza City.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Israeli administration continues to ban imports to Gaza Strip
ImageGaza /PNN – The occupying Israeli authority claims it they had intended to lift the ban on 45 trucks of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip on Thursday, but reneged because of the launch of two projectiles at Sderot. However, no armed resistance faction claimed responsibility for any such launching and no damages were reported. The truckloads were said to include chlorine to disinfect the water supply which is contaminated. The fuel necessary to run the power plant, which in turn feeds the water and sewage treatment facilities, is also banned.
http://english.pnn.ps/index. php?option=com_content&task=
Israel resumes starvation of Gaza after rocket attack
Israel on Thursday again prevented the delivery of humanitarian aid to the impoverished Gaza Strip in what the Jewish state said was a response to a rocket attack by Palestinian militants. The rocket hit an empty field in southern Israel and caused no injuries or damage, police said.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Another Arab ship from Qatar to sail from Cyprus to Gaza in the coming days
Palestinian legislator, head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege, Jamal El Khodary, stated on Thursday that a new Arab ship from Qatar will sail from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip in the coming days.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Qatari relief vessel to sail to Gaza soon; Libyan vessel to arrive Gaza Monday
The chairman of the Popular Committee against the Siege on Gaza MP Jamal Al-Khudari has declared the start of the "vessel peaceful uprising" to break the unjust siege on Gaza.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Gaza's death throes, and no one's listening
Palestinians wait to fix their old portable "primus" stoves which burn diesel fuel at a shop in the Beach refugee camp in Gaza City, 25 November 2008. (Hatem Omar/MaanImages)
What kind of government in the 21st century can deny another people basic human rights--that is, the right to food, water, shelter, security and dignity? What kind of government imposes draconian sanctions on another people for democratically electing a government not to its liking? What kind of government seals a heavily populated territory of 1.5 million people so that no person can enter or leave without permission, fishermen cannot fish in their own waters, and world food aid cannot be delivered to the starving population?
http://electronicintifada.net/
Gaza: Salvation in a News Broadcast
When Gaza's electricity is in working order, most Palestinians in the impoverished and overcrowded Strip huddle around their television screens. It's neither "American Idol" nor "Dancing with the Stars" that brings them together. It's the news.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Gaza: A Human Tragedy under Siege
The Gaza Strip has been living under an Israeli 16-month-old despicable siege, which is now reaching its most harshly shocking pinnacle. In addition to blocking the flow of food, medical supplies, and basic needs, Israel has recently barred the fuel supplies from reaching the impoverished strip.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Hamas rips Arab League for backing Abbas
The Islamist Hamas movement which rules Gaza rejected Thursday a call by Arab states for Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas to stay in office until unity has been restored, insisting this is a decision for Palestinian voters. "Legitimacy does not flow from any outside party but comes from the ballot box in accordance with the law.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Hamas to Arab States: Keep Out of Row over Abbas
The Hamas movement rejected on Thursday a call by Arab states for Western-backed president Mahmud Abbas to stay in office until unity has been restored, insisting this is a decision for Palestinian voters. "Legitimacy does not flow from any outside party but comes from the ballot box in accordance with the law and with the constitution," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum said.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Abbas says Israeli should seize Arab world's rare peace offer
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The Palestinian president says Israel should seize the Arab world's peace initiative as a rare opportunity. The 2002 plan offers Israel full Arab recognition if it withdraws from all the lands it captured in the 1967 Mideast War, including east Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights.
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Israeli court rebukes state over illegal outposts
The Christian Science Monitor-An Israeli government effort to make good on a five-year-old commitment to the US and Palestinians to rein in settlement expansion in the West Bank is coming under legal fire at home.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/
Gaza dispute may cancel pilgrimage procedures
Egypt gave permission Thursday for Palestinians to exit the Gaza Strip into Egypt to perform the annual pilgrimage in Mecca but it was unclear whether they would be able to because of registration disputes between the rival Fatah and Hamas factions. The Palestinian embassy in Cairo said it was informed by the General Egyptian Intelligence (GEI) of the government's plans to open the Rafah crossing to allow pilgrims to enter Egypt, proceed to Jordan and finally enter Saudi Arabia.
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Egypt to reopen Rafah for Palestinian pilgrims
Egypt will reopen the Rafah border with the Gaza Strip for three days from Saturday to allow Palestinians to leave the blockaded territory for the Muslim hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca. "Egypt has announced the reopening of the Rafah border for three days from Saturday... to allow the passage of some 3,000 Palestinian pilgrims who hold visas for Saudi Arabia," the official said on Friday.
http://www.alarabiya.net/
Death of Annapolis Defines Bush Failure
The imminent departure of America's leader from the White House, signals the end of eight disastrous years under the Bush administration. As biographers and others prepare to document a comprehensive list of the failures of George W Bush, they certainly will not be able to ignore his Middle East policies.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
A new role for Mohamad Dahlan
"...a new role for Mohammad Dahlan, or his rehabilitation so that he enters the front lines of Fatah, after his exit from Gaza. Dahlan has fervent supporters, just as he has equally ardent opponents and rivals. There are Arab and non-Arab states that support him. He is bold and intelligent and personally I do not rule out Abbas getting angry one day and resigning, leaving a vacuum...."
http://friday-lunch-club.
Lebanon to establish ties with 'Palestine'
Lebanon has decided for the first time to establish diplomatic relations with the "state of Palestine," and has approved the opening of an embassy in Beirut. "The cabinet has approved the establishment of diplomatic relations with the state of Palestine," Information Minister Tarek Mitri said following a cabinet meeting late on Thursday.
http://www.google.com/
Norwegian ex-premier counters anti-Semitism accusations, slams Israel
Ex-Norwegian prime minister Kåre Willoch spoke out Thursday against Israel and a group of Israeli scholars who earlier this week held a symposium in Jerusalem devoted to accusing the Scandinavian countries of racism, anti-Semitism and Israel-hatred. "It's a traditional deflection tactic aimed at diverting attention from the real problem, which is Israel's well-documented and incontestable abuse of Palestinians," Willoch, who presided as Norway's prime minister in the 1980s, told a Norwegian daily. Willoch, a long-time critic of Israel, was reacting to accusations leveled at an event hosted on Tuesday by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, which, as reported by Haaretz, is described by the organizers as "probably Israel's first comprehensive discussion into Scandinavia's approach to the Jewish people and state."
http://haaretz.com/hasen/
Trapped in Gaza with a Fulbright scholarship
University students in the Gaza Strip who want to study abroad have been facing severe restrictions since Israel imposed a blockade on the territory two years ago. Israel took the measure after the militant Hamas movement won elections in Gaza and took over control of the territory. Listen to the storyEvery year, one thousand or so Gazan students are accepted by foreign universities. But since the blockade was imposed, fewer than half of them have been able to go study abroad. One of them is Zohair Abu Shahan. This is his story.
http://www.radionetherlands. nl/thestatewerein/otherstates/
For Gazans, one abundant resource: ingenuity
Coping with lengthy power cuts has become one of the biggest challenges for 1.4 million Gaza residents as Israel's tight blockade of the territory enters its fourth week. The closure, imposed Nov. 5 to force Gaza's Hamas rulers to halt rocket fire on Israeli border communities, comes after 19 months of sharply restricted access to the territory. The isolation has taken its toll, causing rolling blackouts and shortages of fuel and cooking gas.
http://www.google.com/
Olive harvest suffers under the blockade
Oxfam's Mohammed Ali Abu Najela reports on the impact of Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip on the territory's olive oil industry.
The agricultural sector in Gaza has been severely affected by the ongoing conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Since the outbreak of the Palestinian Intifada in 2000, 112,000 olive trees have been destroyed in the Gaza Strip by the conflict and Israeli military incursions. Also, one third of agricultural land-thousands of dunums (1 dunum=.25 acre) along the border with Israel-has been inaccessible to Palestinian farmers since Israeli settlements were dismantled in 2005. Israel then carved out a security zone that included valuable Gazan farming land. Farmers have been killed and injured trying to access and cultivate these lands.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/
Gaza is Having it, its Way
In apparent shift in strategy, the Israeli government today issued two permits for new franchises in the Gaza Strip. Some are questioning whether this indicates the end of Israel's crushing embargo, or is just another generous humanitarian move by Israel. In response to greater international calls for more aid and assistance to Gazans, many of whom suffer from mal nutrition, Israel granted two popular food chains, Krispy Kreme doughnuts (KKD) and Burger King (BKC), permission to open franchises in the Gaza Strip. This move was warmly received by the teenagers, prospective Big and Tall shop owners, cardiologists and dermatologists of Gaza. On the same day, the Israelis denied three trucks of fresh produce at the Rafah crossing. An Israeli statement linked the two as acts of solidarity with Gaza's children.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/
Zionism in Leeds University Campus
Leeds University Union to vote on a motion to referendum which will label anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism and silence pro-Palestinian groups on campus. For immediate release: Leeds University Union agreed last week, by a vote of 12 to 11, to send a motion to referendum which will label anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism and silence pro-Palestinian groups on campus. The motion, shrouded in the language of combating anti-Semitism, is a reversal of a motion passed 2 years ago which gave Palestinian activists at Leeds University the rights enjoyed by their counterparts throughout the country. If passed, organisations which have an anti-Zionist platform, such as the Socialist Workers Party and the Palestine Solidarity Group will be prevented from receiving funding from the union and prevented from holding many of their events.
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/
Cartoon: Gaza Ghetto by Carlos Latuff
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Thursday: 8 Iraqis Killed; 43 Wounded
Excerpt: Updated at 6:55 p.m. EST, Nov. 27, 2008 Parliament today approved a contentious U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that will allow U.S. troops to stay in the country for three more years. Meanwhile, at least eight Iraqis were killed and 43 more were wounded in the latest violence. Also, the European Union has promised to take-in 10,000 Iraqis. No Coaltion deaths were reported, but a U.S. soldier who deserted his unit has applied for asylum in Germany. He had served in Iraq but refused to return, calling the war illegal.
http://www.antiwar.com/
Suicide bomber kills 12 in Iraqi Shi'ite mosque
A suicide bomber wearing an explosives-packed vest killed 12 people and wounded 17 others inside a Shi'ite mosque south of Baghdad at prayer time on Friday, police said. The U.S. military said initial reports indicated a suicide bomber killed seven worshippers and wounded 30. The attack took place a day after Iraq's parliament passed a security pact with Washington that allows U.S. troops to remain for another three years and puts them under the control of the Baghdad government from 2009.
http://www.alertnet.org/
Iraqi Parliament approves 'historic' security pact with US
Iraq's Parliament on Thursday approved a landmark military pact that will see all US troops withdraw by the end of 2011, eight years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein and plunged the country into chaos. After 11 months of negotiations with Washington and a flurry of domestic political horse-trading leading up to the vote.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
US hails approval of Iraq accord, but referendum looms
AFP-The United States on Thursday hailed the Iraqi parliament's approval of a landmark accord for US troops to leave the country in three years, but a referendum on the deal next year could complicate withdrawal plans for the next US president.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
With Iraqi parliament approving pact, Maliki's stature grows
BAGHDAD _ In a country where agreements are hard to reach, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki built a broad political coalition to muscle through a divisive U.S.-Iraq security pact that could set his place in his nation's history as the man who ended the American occupation.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/
We respect those who opposed the pact – PM
BAGHDAD /Aswat al-Iraq: The Iraqi Premier Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday said that he respects those who opposed the Iraqi-U.S. security pact, passed earlier today by Iraq's Parliament, noting that the pact is a step on the way to giving sovereignty back to Iraq. "We respect those who opposed the pact on a [...]
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Iraq: from SOFA to resistance
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Sofa so disastrous
The status of forces agreement has been hailed as the end of the neocon dream in Iraq. If only that were true.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Iraq: Cleric al-Sadr calls for peaceful protests
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr has called for peaceful protests after the passage of a security pact that will let U.S. forces stay in Iraq through 2011. The cleric's spokesman says al-Sadr also wants his followers to close his offices and affiliated institutions for three days "to show the tragedy that has befallen us."
http://www.iht.com/articles/
Sadr orders to raise black flags in mourning for signing agreement
NAJAF /Aswat al-Iraq: Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday ordered his followers to raise black flags of mourning and to close his offices for three days throughout Iraq because of approving the U.S. troop withdrawal agreement, two Sadrist officials said. Sheikh Muhanad al-Gharawi said at a press conference, attended by Lewaa Smiesim, "Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr [...]
http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=
Security agreement puts 16,000 Iraqi detainees at risk of torture
Thousands of Iraqis detained by US forces are at risk of torture or even execution, following the ratification of a security agreement between the US and Iraqi governments. Under the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), which will take effect on 31 December, around 16,000 prisoners held by the US will be transferred to Iraqi custody. Those at particular risk include former Ba'ath party officials or those who held posts under Saddam Hussain's government.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/
-risk-torture-20081128
EU countries to accept 10,000 Iraqi refugees
In Brussels, German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble said European Union countries agreed to accept 10,000 Iraqi refugees of whom Berlin was ready to accept 2,500. On the sidelines of European Union Interior Ministers meeting, the German Minister said no conditions will be imposed on European countries in this concern. "This has to be done on a voluntary basis and in light of the reception capacities of member states," he said. The decision has been made by EU interior ministers on Thursday and includes Iraqis inside the Union's countries.
http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/
Winter Soldier on the Hill: War Vets Testify Before Congress
War veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan came to Capitol Hill earlier this year to testify before Congress and give an eyewitness account about the horrors of war. Like the Winter Soldier hearings in March, when more than 200 service members gathered for four days in Silver Spring, Maryland to give their eyewitness accounts of the injustices occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan, "Winter Soldier on the Hill" was designed to drive home the human cost of the war and occupation—this time, to the very people in charge of doing something about it. [includes rush transcript]
http://www.democracynow.org/
US Jews urge Obama to move embassy to Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (AFP) — A group of American Jews urged president-elect Barack Obama on Thursday to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which the international community does not recognise as the capital of the Jewish state.
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