Sunday, June 10

Today in Palestine! ~ Headlines June 10, 2007

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Israeli troops carry a large-scale offensive in Qabatia
Israeli soldiers carried on Friday night after midnight and on Saturday at dawn a large-scale military offensive into Qabatia town, near the northern west Bank city of Jenin and broke into several houses, including the house of two fighters, members of the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad.


Detainees in Al Jalama on hunger strike

Palestinian detainees in Al Jalama Israeli detention facility carried a hunger strike in protest to their continued detention and confinement to solitary under very difficult conditions, and repeated attacks.


Information Minister slams Israeli invasion to Rafah

Palestinian Information Minister, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, slammed on Saturday the Israeli invasion into Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and considered it an additional Israeli response to the truce proposal by the Palestinian factions.


Parents of detainees in Gabloa', Shatta, face illegal naked body searches

The Palestinian Popular Committee issued a statement on Saturday slamming the illegal Israeli policies of forcing parents of the detainees to go through naked body searches before they visiting their detained family members in Gabloa' and Shatta Israeli prisons.


US, Israel launch military exercise

Dozens of aircrafts are taking part in the exercises in the southern Negev desert, the Israeli Army Radio said on Sunday.
75 Prisoners Died as a Result of Deliberately Killing and 70 by Torture

A new report issued by the Statistics Department in the Ministry of Prisoner Affairs explained that the total number of martyrs who were killed in Israeli prisons and detention camps since the year 1976 and until March of this year, has reached 188 prisoners, as a result of numerous violations by the Israeli occupation authorities in prisons and detention camps.
Israeli settlers desecrate graveyard in West Bank village
Tel Aviv - Israeli settlers have vandalized a Muslim cemetery in the northern West Bank, an Israeli newspaper reported Sunday.


Poll Finds Depression Among Palestinians

A poll conducted by a West Bank consulting group has found 92 percent of participating Palestinians are depressed by the region's ongoing violence.


Jerusalem: Endorsing the Right of Conquest

n a flagrant attack on the longstanding international legal principle that it is illegitimate for any country to expand its territory by military means, the U.S. House of Representatives, by an overwhelming bipartisan majority, passed House Concurrent Resolution 152 congratulating Israel for its forcible "reunification of Jerusalem" and its victory in the June 1967 war.


Pressure mounts on Israel's architects

Just days before 5 June's 40th anniversary of the start of the June 1967 war, some of the biggest names in British architecture signed a petition calling on Israeli architects and their fellow professionals to stop participating in the creation of "facts on the ground", which obliterate the idea of a viable future Palestinian state.

General who helped redraw the borders of Israel
says road map to peace is a lie
The man who commanded Gaza and the West Bank from the last day of the Six Day War talks to Donald Macintyre in Tel Aviv


Why Israel does not engage with the Saudi initiative

Israeli public discourse and national consciousness have never come to terms with the idea, accepted by historians of all venues today, that Israel actively drove 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1947/8 and hence has at least partial responsibility for the Palestinian Nakba.

1967: A birth in prison
I was three months pregnant with Nour when the soldiers came to our house in Tulkarem refugee camp. There must have been 50 of them, all heavily armed. My three children were ordered out of the house. Ihab was nine and my daughter Nivine was six. While I was trying to shield and protect little Majid, they started beating me.


Bush Is Losing Credibility On Democracy, Activists Say
The White House pushed harder than either Israel or the Palestinians for new Palestinian Authority elections last year, only to cut off aid and contact once the militant organization Hamas won, said Robert Malley, director of the International Crisis Group's Middle East program. "The outcome has not been to disavow democracy," he said, "but to undermine the democratically elected government."
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Fadlallah accuses US of trying to ruin Lebanon
Senior Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah lashed out at the US Sunday, accusing it of trying to ruin Lebanon politically and sow instability in the country.See Here
London sees biggest ever Palestine protest
Thousands marched through central London this afternoon in the capital's biggest ever pro-Palestinian protest, given particular topicality in view of the 40th anniversary of the 1967 war. Not that you'd know it from the BBC, which seems to have completely blanked the protest. It was a very much bigger march than the two previous ones I've been on. The organisers put the turn-out at 20,000 and I'm prepared to believe this is not an exaggeration, having watched the entire procession go past.

Lial: Bush to blame if there's war with Syria
Former Foreign Ministry director general tells Ynet that Syria willing to abandon Iran camp in favor of alliance with moderate Arab nations – but only if supported by the US. Bush meanwhile refuses to talk to Damascus
UN warns of five million Iraqi refugees
Half of displaced people have no access to food aid
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