News Highlights: The Greek government succumbs to apparent Israeli-U.S. pressure and refuses to let Freedom Flotilla 2 leave Greek ports to Gaza The Canadian ship, Tahrir, tries to defy the ban but is stopped 10 minutes out of the Crete port by armed Coast Guards. Israeli officials announce new plans to build more illegal settler …
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Jun 28
This week …
News Highlights: Freedom Flotilla 2 faces threats, intimidation and now actual sabotage of its boats as it prepares to sail to Gaza with humanitarian aid. Foreign Press Assoc. calls on Israel to withdraw its threat of a 10 year ban against journalists on board the flotilla. New statement by the Free Gaza Team, one of …
Jun 21
This week …
News Highlights: Palestinian reconciliation talks stall on who should be interim prime minister Italian activists do a boycott action outside Israel’s Agrexco headquarter on June 17, as Vancouver activists picket the Jewish National Fund Gala dinner the day before Chaos continues at the Rafah border crossing as only 400 travellers per day are allowed through …
Jun 14
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News Highlights: Israeli military bulldozes ten homes in the Palestinian Bedouin hamlet of Fasayil in the occupied Jordan Valley. UN Refugee Agency UNRWA marks 5 years of the siege on Gaza, which spokesman Chris Guinness says punishes “the poorest of the poor”. Israel hands out demolition orders to a mosque and school in the village …
Jun 07
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News Highlights: Israeli settlers torch and vandalize a mosque near Ramallah, the latest action of settler violence. UN Human Rights Commissioner criticizes Israel for the killing of protestors in the occupied Golan Heights on the June 5th anniversary of Israeli occupation. Protests all over Palestine are also met with Israeli military force, especially at the …
May 31
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News Highlights: Egypt relaxes crossing procedures at the Rafah border with Gaza, but only for the movement of persons, not goods. Israeli military raids the Palestinian village of al Tuwani and demands villagers stop their non-violent protests to protect their lands. Israeli Foreign Minister thanks Stephen Harper for objecting to any specific mention of 1967 …
May 24
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News Highlights: Israeli forces begin to install a barbed wire fence around a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, completely closing it off. Israeli forces detain a 70-year-old Palestinian woman, in what prisoner advocates say may be an attempt to pressure her activist son. Barak Obama rejects Palestinian statehood moves at the UN, in …
May 17
This week …
News Highlights: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon bury the victims of Israeli violence on Nakbe Day, where at least 15 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. UN agency says that Israel’s demolition policy of Palestinian homes has displaced 149 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank so far this year. Egyptian …
May 10
This week …
News Highlights: Freedom Flotilla 11 will set sail for Gaza in June, to once again try to break the Israeli siege on the Gazan population. Israeli military forces dispersed a protest in northern Gaza today against Israel’s unilaterally imposed no-go zone within Gaza that blocks cultivation of some of its most fertile farmland. Several Arab …
May 03
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News Highlights: Israeli settlers attack Palestinian construction workers in Hebron/AlKhalil, who were restoring a Palestinian home on Shuhuda St. which was previously closed due to settler violence. Israel’s Finance Minister says he will freeze transfers of Palestinian tax money that Israel collects, due to the national reconciliation agreement amongst Palestinian groups. Israeli forces continue to …