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Violation Report Against Palestinian
Red Crescent Medical Teams for
January and February
Violations include firing on ambulances, preventing
ambulances from reaching injured civilians,
preventing the EMTs from going with the ambulance,
firing tear gas canisters into ambulances, stopping
ambulances and detaining the wounded from inside
the vehicle, and holding the IDs of medical crews.
Israeli sniper bullet takes 12-year-old girl's life
"I put my hand on her chest to stop the streaming blood.
She told me that she could not breathe, her body
trembled and she closed her eyes," said Ra'd Abu Saif
of his 12-year-old daughter Safa's last moments after
she was shot by an Israeli sniper last Saturday. Safa
was shot in the left side of her chest while she was
inside her home in Jabaliya, northern Gaza. An
ambulance tried to reach her but Israeli soldiers
opened fire at it, wounding a paramedic and causing
the tires to lose air, and so she bled to death three
hours after she was wounded.
Three Palestinians wounded as Israeli army
fires at houses in S Gaza
Three Palestinians were wounded at noon on Sunday
when Israeli forces, positioned on the border in
southeast Gaza Strip, opened fire at their houses,
Palestinian witnesses said. They said that Israeli
army based at Kissufim commercial crossing, east of
southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, showered
the heavy machinegun fire mainly at a house of a
Palestinian fighter who was killed in the area three
days ago.
Israel arrests 30 Palestinians in
West Bank incursion
Israeli troops arrested 30 Palestinians in the West Bank,
mostly in the town of Nablus, during an overnight
incursion, local sources and witnesses said on Monday.
In Nablus and its refugee camps, Israel arrested
29 Palestinians who were either members of Islamic
Hamas movement or of the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Hamas sources said.
ISRAEL-OPT: Barrier turns Nu'man
village into virtual enclave
"With the Wall's route like this we can't go anywhere,"
said Yousef al-Darawi, as he drew a map of Israel's
Barrier which blocks Nu'man village off from both
East Jerusalem and the West Bank and leaves
it a virtual enclave.
Erekat: Israel's construction
plans humiliate Abbas
Chief Palestinian negotiator strongly condemns Israeli
plans to build hundreds of homes in the West Bank
and disputed east Jerusalem, says appealed to US to
pressure Israeli into halting the projects.
Palestinians concerned over expected
Israeli settlement activities
Senior Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Eriqat, cast
doubts on Sunday over Israel's intentions towards
peace with the Palestinians.
Jerusalem plans 400 new homes for
Jews in eastern part of capital
The Jerusalem municipality plans to build 400 new
homes in the eastern part of the city, a spokesman
for the municipality said Monday. "The plan has
been completed and is waiting the final approval
of a regional planning committee before construction
can begin in the neighborhood of Neve Yaakov," said
Ariela Smilinski Deri, a spokeswoman for the
Jerusalem municipality. She did not know when
construction might begin.
Olmert Reverses Freeze
on Settlement Expansions
Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, has approved
plans to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied
West Bank, in a move likely to complicate
US-brokered talks with the Palestinians. Israeli
officials said new housing units will be erected in the
settlement of Givat Ze'ev, which is 8km from
central Jerusalem.
Israeli hardliners plan
West Bank settlements
Israeli hardliners plan to build a series of new
settlements across the West Bank in retaliation for the
terrorist attack that killed eight students at a Jewish
religious college. Their warning came yesterday as
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, approved
the expansion of a settlement near Jerusalem, which
will see the construction of 750 new homes.
Fatah: Al-Jazeera is a mouthpiece for Hamas
Several Fatah officials in the West Bank have called on
the Palestinian Authority to boycott Al-Jazeera under
the pretext that the TV network is serving as a
mouthpiece for Hamas. The officials also accused
Al-Jazeera of incitement against their party and
the PA leadership in Ramallah.
Cairo official: Gaza Strip
conflict serves Syrian interests
An unnamed senior Egyptian official on Saturday said
that the possibility that Syria is influencing Palestinian
factions Hamas and Islamic Jihad to reject Egyptian
offers to mediate a cease-fire between them and Israel,
the London-based Arabic language newspaper
Al-Hayat reported.
Hamas: Abbas's return to negotiations
no lesser crime than IOF crimes
The Hamas Movement on Sunday expressed utter
dismay at PA chief Mahmoud Abbas's decision to
resume negotiations with the Israeli occupation
authority after "all those crimes", describing the
decision as a "crime against the Palestinian people
that is no less than occupation's crimes".
Barghouthi: Return to negotiations wrong step
Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, the head of the national
Mubadara (Initiative) party, has described PA chief
Mahmoud Abbas's decision to resume negotiations
with the Hebrew state as "wrong" and provides a
political cover for Israel's aggression on the
Palestinian people.
Rocket Men, Al Jazeera Video Report
Paul Martin gains unique access to a Qassam rocket
launching team in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli
helicopter pilots charged with hunting them down.
'New rules of the game' put restraint on
Israeli army actions against Gaza
Israeli media reports said Monday that 'new
rules of the game', have put restraint on Israeli
army actions against the Gaza Strip, however,
there has been no agreement with the ruling
Hamas over there.
Israeli army, Gaza militants in uneasy lull
Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip
have been holding off from violence that could
jeopardise Egyptian efforts to mediate a ceasefire,
sources from both sides said on Monday. A truce
deal may be key to U.S.-brokered peace efforts
and also benefit Hamas Islamists who control the
Gaza Strip and oppose the statehood negotiations
between Israel and Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas of the secular Fatah group.
Barak: Gaza operations to continue
Responding to recent reports about truce between
Israel and armed Palestinian factions in Gaza,
defense minister stresses that IDF activity in
Strip set to carry on, says 'important trials are
still ahead'.
PM: There's no cease-fire
agreement with Hamas
IDF ordered to exercise restraint in the Strip;
Barak: IDF will continue to operate against Hamas.
Heads to the right
Some of the praise of the yeshiva is certainly well
deserved, and nothing, of course, can justify the
horrible killing of young boys in a library. Still, it
would be appropriate to recall, even at this difficult
hour, what this yeshiva has brought forth. Mercaz
Harav is the flagship of the last group in Israeli
society still operating in the realm of ideas.
Religious Zionists are the only group, aside from
the ultra-Orthodox population, whose members
are willing to lay down their lives for the collective
and its worldview. It is a group that responds
faithfully to its leaders - a group that even has
leaders - and idolizes them. It is also a fairly
homogenous group in terms of its thinking: Some
80 percent of its members define themselves as
right-wingers. None of this is true of Israel's complacent,
individualist secular public. And so we end up with a
minority, 12 to 15 percent of the population, whose
influence in certain areas is crucial and far exceeds its
own relative size.
Feature: Palestinian women pay higher
price in face of Israeli actions
Um Yehia Dardouna, 34, of Jabalia town in
northern Gaza Strip, divides her time between
Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where her son Yehia
lays, and her house which is close to the border
between Israel and northeast Gaza Strip. Um
Yehia said she doesn't care about the
International Women's Day which falls on
Saturday, adding that her only concern is Yehia,
her nine-year-old boy who survived an Israeli
airstrike near herhouse on Feb. 28.
Israeli foreign minister dismisses creation
of a Palestinian state for the time being
Israeli foreign minister, Tzibi Livni, dismissed Sunday
possibility for creation of a Palestinian state for the
time being, citing what she called ' continued attacks
on Israelis and the situation in Gaza'.
Poll: 51% of Israelis want separate secular,
religious neighborhoods
Gesher-Ynet survey shows majority of Israeli
public feels religious, secular Jews ought to live
separately, with only a third of Israelis endorsing
'mixed' neighborhoods.
The Silent Violence of Gaza's Suffering,
That Candidates and Congress Ignore,
by Ralph Nader
The world's largest prison—Gaza prison with
1.5 million inmates, many of them starving, sick
and penniless—is receiving more sympathy and
protest by Israeli citizens, of widely impressive
backgrounds, than is reported in the U.S. press.
How Israel Taught Hamas All It Knows
'Why doesn't Hamas join the peace talks and end
its armed resistance as a method of liberating the
Palestinian territories occupied by Israel?'
The World As It Is, By Chris Hedges
War creates a world without empathy. Those who have
empathy cannot, as did Palestinian gunman Alaa Hisham
Abu Dheim, coldly murder students in a Jerusalem library.
Those who have empathy cannot drop tons of iron
fragmentation bombs on crowded Palestinian
refugee camps in Gaza, killing more than 120
Palestinians in a week, of whom one in five were
children and more than half were civilians. Those
who have empathy do not, as Israeli Deputy Defense
Minister Matan Vilnai did, thunder at the Palestinians
that they face a shoah, meaning catastrophe or holocaust.
Those with empathy are unable to rejoice, as many
leaders of Hamas did, over slaughter, as if the
murder of the other's innocents is justified by the
murder of your innocents.
The Nakba generation
This year, it will sixty years since the Nakba, the
catastrophe of expulsion of Palestinians from historic
Palestine. Generations have been born, have grown up,
and have died in refugee camps, but the international
community still continues to ignore the political rights
of the Palestinian refugees. What makes it sad for me
as a refugee -- one who was born and grew up in a
refugee camp, and struggling not to die in a refugee
camp -- is that the Nakba generation is dying.
Ziad Abbas writes.
Hegemony through free trade:
Interview with Daoud Hamoudi
Italian solidarity with Palestinian
filmmaker on trial in Israel
At the end of last November, filmmaker Mohammad
Bakri furiously left a press conference organizaed at
the Library of the Auditorium of Rome. He was
present because of the performance of the opera
Al Kamandjati based on the story of Palestinian
musician Ramzi Aburedwan and his music school
in Ramallah. The reason for his anger was that not a
single journalist asked him any questions when he
announced that he would soon be tried in Israel
because of his 2002 film Jenin Jenin.
One day last fall, a young Israeli woman named Sharon
went with her fiancé to the Tel Aviv Rabbinate to
register to marry. They are not religious, but there
is no civil marriage in Israel. The rabbinate, a
government bureaucracy, has a monopoly on tying
the knot between Jews. The last thing Sharon expected
to be told that morning was that she would have to prove
— before a rabbinic court, no less — that she was Jewish.
It made as much sense as someone doubting she was
Sharon, telling her that the name written in her blue
government-issue ID card was irrelevant, asking her to
prove that she was she.
In show of modesty, Haredi women
make up in private
In Bnei Brak there is a woman who wears too much
makeup. Bright red lipstick that can be seen from a
distance, eyes emphasized with dark eye shadow.
For years they've been gossiping about her as she
walks down the street.
Imad Mughniyah - The Movie
Weeks of media articles on the assassination of
Imad Mughniyah left the public without
authoritative information of the assassins and
the murdered man's relevance in world terrorism.
The reports of the assassination of Imad Mughniya in
Damascus exposed media ineptness and inconsistency.
Adding the dubious writings of "intelligence experts"
and "reporters" to the controversial media reports
provokes a demand for more accurate reporting and
rigorous definitions for terrorism, terrorist and
terrorist activities that will clarify the violence
that confronts the world.
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