News Highlights:
- July 26th – Israeli settlers take over an “unauthorized outpost” near Hebron/AlKhalil, chanting racist slogans.
- July 26th – Israeli soldiers take over a rooftop in Beit Awwa near Hebron/AlKhalil injuring a Palestinian child.
- July 25th – A 13-year old Palestinian girl is killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza as she was playing soccer with friends. A 50-year old Palestinian woman is also shot dead in southern Gaza in a separate incident.
- July 25th – 6 Palestinians are assassinated in Tulkarem by Israeli undercover unit.
- July 24th – The Israeli army prevented over 1000 peaceful Palestinian and international protestors from entering ar-Ram enroute to a Jerusalem Day demo.
- The protest had been organized by International Solidarity Movement as part of their Summer Campaign which will conclude with a 21-day march along the route of the apartheid wall.
Feature:
An in studio discussion about the increasing chaos in Gaza, and the possible consequences and outcomes. Panelists explained how the unrest was mainly the result of an increasing split within Fateh, the largest Palestinian group, although popular unrest and dissatisfaction with the Palestinian Authority was also a factor. Israeli analysts have noted that the Israeli, American and Egyptian governments are all supporting one of the factions within Fateh. Uri Avnery, the progressive Israeli author, commented – “The strategy of Sharon and his generals is simple and brutal: to destroy the Palestinian Authority…disintegrate Palestinian society and drive the survivors from the country…in a slow, continuous, creeping process”.
Focus on Zionism:
Highlights of an article by the Israeli journalist, Amira Hass, entitled Living Beside the Checkpoints. She details the daily grind and humiliation undergone by Palestinians – elderly, children, the ill – at the checkpoints around Nablus.