News Highlights:
- The Palestinians in Bilin held their weekly anti-wall protest on May 29th, and remembered Bassem Abu Rahme killed 40 days ago by Israeli soldiers.
- Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, in a day of settler violence aimed to counter the Israeli government’s dismantling of any settler outposts.
- Hamas leaders are ready to cooperate with the UN inquiry panel which arrived in Gaza, as Israeli officials refuse such cooperation.
- UN agencies say that Israel’s “buffer zone” on the border with Gaza swallows 30% of Gaza’s arable land.
- Several Palestinian factions call for national unity after 6 Palestinians are killed in Qalqilya, after an attempted arrest raid by Palestinian Authority security forces.
Feature:
A live interview from Montreal with Emily Schaeffer, an Israeli lawyer representing the village of Bilin, who is currently on a cross-Canada tour. Emily explained about the lawsuit against two Canadian companies being heard in Montreal at the end of June, for their part in helping build illegal Israeli settlements on Bilin village land. She is touring Canada all this month to help inform people about the lawsuit and the situation of the Palestinian families who have lost their land and is speaking in Vancouver on June 7th and 8th as well as in Victoria.
Focus on Zionism:
Highlights of a May 30th, 2009 “Open Letter from Gaza” calling on the Spanish people and government to not restrict universal jurisdiction in Spain, with regards to breaches of international humanitarian law.