News Highlights:
- 3 Palestinians are killed by Israeli forces during peaceful protest against the wall –
British parliamentarians call on Israel to remove the wall. - Israel’s court orders one-week halt to construction of apartheid wall, due to petition submitted by Palestinian villagers and Popular Committee.
- Attorney Mohammed Dakhka says the villagers will be imprisoned in their towns and all will have to pass through one gate.
- Israeli Defense Minister says construction of the separation wall should be speeded up by “working three shifts day and night”.
- Prominent Palestinian journalist, Khalil al Zaben, shot dead in Gaza; his murder the latest in a string of attacks on Palestinian reporters and media outlets.
- Israeli army captain convicted of killing Palestinian youth, first conviction of its kind during second intifada.
Feature:
An in-studio interview with Stefan Christoff, a member of International Solidarity Movement – Montreal, about his recent trip to the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon. Stefan explained he had first tried to visit the West Bank but was denied entry by Israeli officials. He then went to Jordan and Lebanon and saw the conditions and life of the Palestinians in the refugee camps there. Stefan noted how the conditions in the camps in Lebanon are particularly harsh, and how the discrimination against Palestinians there is institutionalized and severe.
Focus on Zionism:
Excerpts of an article by Gideon Levy, an Israeli writer, about the Israeli military checkpoints in the West Bank. The humiliation and pointless harassment of Palestinians at the checkpoints is poignantly detailed in the article, as well as the arbitrary nature of the actions of the Israeli soldiers.
Here is an audio file of this show: