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Oct 21
This week …
News Highlights: As olive harvest continues, Israeli military and settlers attack Palestinian farmers in village of Kafr Qadum. British environmentalist jailed by Israeli forces after being seized on the sidelines of settler rally in Beit Sahour near Bethlehem. UNRWA director calls for immediate end to Israeli blockade on Gaza. Egypt hands over draft plan for …
Oct 14
This week …
News Highlights: Palestinian teen shot dead by Israeli troops near Ramallah, and several others injured. A majority of Palestinians believe the Oslo accords harmed Palestinian national interests, according to a new poll. Palestinian olive harvest begins, under increasingly difficult conditions as settler attacks and the wall push farmers off their land. Palestinian Israeli legislators criticize …
Oct 07
This week …
News Highlights: Palestinians begin annual olive harvest under difficult conditions, including violent attacks by Israeli soldiers and settlers. International Solidarity Movement re-establishes its presence in Gaza, and will be based in Rafah to assist Palestinian fishermen and farmers. In the past 8 years, Israeli forces have killed 5526 Palestinians including 1010 children under 18 and …
Sep 30
Downloads
This show includes two members of Jews for a Just Peace (JJP) who were in-studio, in what will be a regular and recurring segment on Voice of Palestine by JJP. Download an audio file of today’s entire show to listen at home on your computer: VOP_Sept30_2008_8kbps.mp3 (8 kbps encoding, ~3.5MB) VOP_Sept30_2008_16kbps.mp3 (16 kbps encoding, ~7.0MB)
Sep 30
This week …
News Highlights: U.N. report says Israeli roadblocks and checkpoints in the West Bank have increased in the last 6 months; total closure for the Jewish New Year has placed even further restrictions on Palestinians right at the end of Ramadan, when family visits are important. Attacks by extremist Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank …
Sep 23
This week …
News Highlights: 60-year-old Palestinian woman dies in East Jerusalem after being pushed to the ground by Israeli soldiers; Palestinian medical officials say she suffered a skull fracture. Free Gaza movement prepares to send another boat to Gaza from Cyprus. Palestinian authorities in Gaza say Egyptian border guards are treating Palestinians shamefully at the Rafah crossing …
Sep 16
This week …
News Highlights: Human rights group in Gaza reports on the Israeli siege and the assaults against Gazan fishermen, both violations of the announced ceasefire. Israeli police claim to have launched an investigation into a settler rampage against a Palestinian village, but make no arrests and collect no testimony, despite documentation by news and human rights …
Sep 09
This week …
News Highlights: Israeli PM Ehud Olmert to be indicted in a corruption investigation, as his deputy and possible successor Shaul Mofaz is accused of war crimes by an Israeli law professor. Coalition of Palestinian and international NGOs calls the water shortage in the West Bank a “humanitarian crisis”. Over a million Palestinian students return to …
Sep 02
This week …
News Highlights: Two Gazan fishermen injured when Israeli vessels fire on their fishing boats, in a violation of recent ceasefire; Free Gaza activists will be present on the fishing boats and monitoring all Israeli attacks. Protests in Palestinian village of Nilin against the apartheid wall continue, as Israeli forces injure a baby and a 9-year-old …
Aug 26
This week …
News Highlights: Israeli border police severely beat a young Palestinian from Nilin and seal off the village that has been the focus of anti-apartheid wall protests. Two small boats successfully land in Gaza after sailing from Cyprus with international volunteers and challenging the Israeli blockade. Longest-held Palestinian prisoner, Said Al Atabeh, returns home to Nablus …