September 2008 archive

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This show includes two members of Jews for a Just Peace (JJP) who were in-studio, in what will be a regular and recurring segment on Voice of Palestine by JJP. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Sept30_2008_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Sept30_2008_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)

This week …

News Highlights: U.N. report says Israeli roadblocks and checkpoints in the West Bank have increased in the last 6 months; total closure for the Jewish New Year has placed even further restrictions on Palestinians right at the end of Ramadan, when family visits are important. Attacks by extremist Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank …

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News Highlights: 60-year-old Palestinian woman dies in East Jerusalem after being pushed to the ground by Israeli soldiers; Palestinian medical officials say she suffered a skull fracture. Free Gaza movement prepares to send another boat to Gaza from Cyprus. Palestinian authorities in Gaza say Egyptian border guards are treating Palestinians shamefully at the Rafah crossing …

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News Highlights: Human rights group in Gaza reports on the Israeli siege and the assaults against Gazan fishermen, both violations of the announced ceasefire. Israeli police claim to have launched an investigation into a settler rampage against a Palestinian village, but make no arrests and collect no testimony, despite documentation by news and human rights …

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News Highlights: Israeli PM Ehud Olmert to be indicted in a corruption investigation, as his deputy and possible successor Shaul Mofaz is accused of war crimes by an Israeli law professor. Coalition of Palestinian and international NGOs calls the water shortage in the West Bank a “humanitarian crisis”. Over a million Palestinian students return to …

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News Highlights: Two Gazan fishermen injured when Israeli vessels fire on their fishing boats, in a violation of recent ceasefire; Free Gaza activists will be present on the fishing boats and monitoring all Israeli attacks. Protests in Palestinian village of Nilin against the apartheid wall continue, as Israeli forces injure a baby and a 9-year-old …

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