News Highlights:
- Another Palestinian child dies in Gaza due to lack of medical treatment caused by the Israeli siege.
- UN watchdog on torture criticizes Israel for refusing to allow inspections at a secret prison.
- Barak Obama says Israel should stop construction of West Bank settlements, after meeting Israeli PM Netanyahu; news had leaked out just hours before the meeting that Israel is establishing a new West Bank settlement for the first time in 26 years.
- Mahmoud Abbas appoints new caretaker government, over the protests of even his own party’s parliamentary bloc.
- 2 Israeli peace groups say the Israeli government is extending its control over occupied East Jerusalem in alliance with extremist settlers.
Feature:
The feature was an Eyewitness Palestine – Al Nakba Continues, and featured two reports on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. The first report was from the Palestinian NGO Al Haq, which has special consultative status with the U.N., and dealt with the continuing colonization of Palestinian land. The report was actually the summary of an intensive study by a team of scholars from 5 countries that were examining former UN rapporteur John Dugard’s comments that elements of the Israeli occupation constitute colonialism. The second segment was excerpts of a story from the Brisbane Times about the daily living conditions in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
Focus on Zionism:
Highlights of a May 15th, 2009 report released by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, dealing with the 313 Palestinian children under 18 killed by Israeli forces during their assault on Gaza earlier this year.
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