News Highlights:
- Oct. 21st – surgery rooms in Gazan hospitals are closed due to lack of anaesthetic as a result of Israeli restrictions; Palestinian human rights groups call on international community to pressure Israel to allow medicine and medical supplies into Gaza.
- Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails go on one-day hunger strike after Israeli authorities kill one prisoner and wound 30 others in the infamous Ketziot “Ansar” prison.
- 8-year-old Palestinian girl dies from wounds sustained during an Israeli attack on Tulkarem.
- PLO official Yasser Abed Rabbo says indirect talks have started between Hamas and Israel and calls for a specific agenda for the upcoming U.S. sponsored summit.
- Arab Israeli MK launches campaign to counter racist bill that will allow the Jewish National Fund to continue to allocate land to Jews only and exclude Arab Israeli citizens.
Feature:
A live interview from Palestine with Huweida Araf, a long-time activist and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. Huweida first talked about the grassroots group “Another Voice” that had been part of the opposition to the One Voice program. OneVoice (which included settler parties) had been attempting to organize public concerts in Jericho and TelAviv to supposedly promote “moderate” trends. Huweida explained that it was basically another whitewash of the realities of occupation, and that Palestinians did not need any more simplistic high-profile events that produce nothing. She also updated us on the work of ISM, particularly in regards to the olive harvest now underway.
Focus on Zionism:
Due to the length of the feature and Coop Radio’s fall marathon, Focus was not carried this week.
Here is an audio file of this show: