The Voice of Palestine was pre-empted this week and there was no show scheduled.
Category: Show Summaries
Feb 16
This week …
News Highlights: Israeli military forces increase checkpoint measures between Nablus and Ramallah, and near Bethlehem. Israeli authorities issue demolition orders to Palestinian shops in occupied East Jerusalem. Suspected Israeli Mossad hit squad used British and other European passports to assassinate Hamas leader in Dubai. U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton recognizes “subsequent developments”, a move …
Feb 09
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News Highlights: Dozens of Palestinians, including journalists, are injured as clashes continue with Israeli forces in and around Shufat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem. Palestinian farmers and internationals try to challenge the Israeli “exclusion zone” in northern Gaza, and reclaim 300 metres of private farmland. Israeli courts free two foreign nationals nabbed by Israeli …
Feb 02
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News Highlights: Israeli attacks on Gaza last year have left a legacy of birth defects, possibly from exposure to white phosphorous according to doctors. Contrary to official Israeli denials, a huge bomb dropped by the Israeli airforce was defused at the Gaza flour mill last year as documented in the Goldstone Report. Israeli settler in …
Jan 26
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News Highlights: International delegations come to Nilin to learn more about the escalating Israeli arrest campaign against human rights activists. Israeli settlers, and then soldiers, attack Palestinian villagers near Nablus. Israeli government upgrades Ariel College to university status, which is located in an illegal settlement deep inside the occupied West Bank. EU says it will …
Jan 12
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News Highlights: Amnesty International calls on the Israeli government to release 3 leading Palestinian human rights activists or bring them to trial; the 3 are all being held without charge, and are prisoners of conscience. An international activist with the International Solidarity movement is seized by Israeli soldiers in Ramallah and deported. Some Gazan families …
Jan 05
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News Highlights: An Israeli court extends the detention of Palestinian human rights activist Jamal Juma despite no charges being brought against him after 20 days of incarceration. Egyptian authorities try to block the Viva Palestina aid convoy after stopping international delegates from going to the Gaza Freedom March the week prior. Protestors in Jordan hold …
Dec 29
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News Highlights: Egyptian government refuses to allow 1400 international delegates to leave Cairo and reach Gaza on the first anniversary of the Israeli assault; the delegates were all part of the Gaza Freedom March and are from 42 countries. On December 26th, Israeli forces killed 6 Palestinians in two separate attacks in the West Bank …
Dec 22
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News Highlights: Organizers of the Gaza Freedom March call on the Egyptian government to open the Rafah border crossing, which was recently closed, and allow the international march to go ahead on December 31st. Palestinian Christians in Gaza are refused permits by the Israeli government to visit Bethlehem for Christmas. Jamal Juma, coordinator of Stop …
Dec 15
This week …
News Highlights: Land Research Center of the Arab Studies Society in Jerusalem reported that Israeli authorities demolished 14 homes in November, rendering 122 Palestinians homeless, and issued demolition orders on another 170 homes. Palestinian officials condemn Israeli cabinet vote to pump millions of dollars into six West Bank settlements. Extremist settlers set fire to a …