News Highlights:
- International activists are crossing from Cyprus to Gaza in two vessels to try and break the Israeli blockade.
- Nilin villagers bury 17-year-old Palestinian killed by Israeli troops, but funeral is attacked by Palestinian Authority security in Ramallah for displaying Hamas flags.
- Israel transfers 88 Fateh supporters to Jericho, after they fled clashes with Hamas in Gaza.
- Israel’s Shin Bet security service is coercing ill Palestinians to become informants in exchange for medical treatment, reports Israeli Physicians for Human Rights.
Feature:
The feature was a special tribute to the poetry of the late Tawfiq Zayyad (1929-1994), who was also the mayor of Nazareth. We talked with Naila Zayyad, the widow of Tawfiq and herself a long-time activist in Nazareth. She read some of Tawfiq’s poems in Arabic which were then presented in English along with musical adaptations of the poetry. Naila explained about the Tawfiq Zayyad Foundation in Nazareth (http://www.zayyad.com (Arabic) and gave the email [email protected] for people to get more information in English.
Focus on Zionism:
Excerpts of an August 3rd, 2008 report from the International Solidarity Movement about settler violence against Palestinian children and families in Al-Khalil (Hebron) and a successful protest action.
Here is an audio file of this show: