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 …
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Sep 30
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …
Aug 19
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News Highlights: Israel will release 199 Palestinian prisoners on August 25 as a “goodwill gesture” to Mahmoud Abbas, including two long-serving political detainees. Palestinian officials note, however, that just since the Annapolis conference last year, Israel has arrested over 4 times the number of prisoners it has released. Patients continue to die in Gaza due …
Aug 12
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News Highlights: Palestinians plan state funeral for Mahmoud Darwish, the famous Palestinian poet who passed away on August 9th, 2008 following heart surgery. Israeli military raids the West Bank village of Yabad, near Jenin, and stops work on water reservoirs; the village is currently not connected to either the water or electricity networks and suffers …
Aug 05
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News Highlights: International activists are crossing from Cyprus to Gaza in two vessels to try and break the Israeli blockade. Nilin villagers bury 17-year-old Palestinian killed by Israeli troops, but funeral is attacked by Palestinian Authority security in Ramallah for displaying Hamas flags. Israel transfers 88 Fateh supporters to Jericho, after they fled clashes with …