News Highlights:
- Palestinian Prisoners Society issues a report on Prisoners Day (April 17), saying 186 political prisoners have died in Israeli jails since 1967, including 12 since Sept/2000.
- Report also says that 20% of the Palestinian population has been imprisoned by Israel.
- April 17, Israeli shelling kills Palestinian teen in Gaza; in Nablus, Israeli soldiers injure a 13-year-old boy in a raid following a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
- Israeli PM Ehud Olmert blames Hamas for the bombing, even though Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility and Hamas has been observing a ceasefire; as a response, Israel revoked the Jerusalem residency rights of 4 Palestinian legislators.
Feature:
An interview with Issam al Yamani from Ontario, who is currently facing a deportation order from Canada. Issam explained how he had moved here over 20 years ago as a landed immigrant and has raised his family here. He is being targeted because he is a Palestinian activist and community leader and people are being asked to write to the federal government to protest this attempted deportation.
Focus on Zionism:
April 18th, 2006 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Israeli massacre at Qana, south Lebanon where 102 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed. Excerpts of an eyewitness report filed by Robert Fisk the day after the massacre were read.
Here is an audio file of this show: