News Highlights:
- Israel approves more settlement construction in occupied East Jerusalem.
- The weekly anti-wall protest in Al Masara near Bethlehem also called for national unity and an end to futile negotiations.
- National Council of Churches Australia calls for boycotting goods from Israeli settlements.
- Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanese movement Hezbollah, said they will not stand by if Israel attacks the Lebanese army again; his speech came hours after a clash between the Israeli and Lebanese armies that left 4 Lebanese and one Israeli officer dead, and also marked 4 years since the end of Israel’s 2006 aggression on Lebanon.
Feature:
A special Eyewitness Palestine highlighting what has been termed the slow-motion ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians by the Israeli state. The feature included excerpts of two reports, the first from Human Rights Watch about recent Israeli demolitions of Palestinian Bedouin homes in the Negev, which resulted in the destruction of the whole village of Al Araqib. The second report was from British writer Ben White about his return visit to the Nassar family near Bethlehem, who are living under the threat of demolition orders issued by the Israeli occupation authorities, whilst illegal Israeli outposts expand around them.
Focus on Zionism:
Highlights of an August 2nd, 2010 report about the video footage being shown around the world of a 4-year-old Palestinian boy pleading with Israeli forces to release his dad who was being detained for protecting his farmland.
Here is an audio file of this show: