News Highlights: Israeli soldiers kill two Palestinians, including a 70-year-old man, in Nablus. U.N. official, John Dugard, says the UN should pull out of the Quartet if the group doesn’t start to take Palestinian human rights seriously; this is the second high-ranking UN official to take this position. Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmer as the …
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Oct 09
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News Highlights: Israel will expropriate more Palestinian land near East Jerusalem, from four Palestinian villages; experts say the move advances Israel’s plan to join Jerusalem with the settlement of Maaleh Adumim, effectively cutting the West Bank into two and severing the northern and southern regions. Israeli forces overrun Al Bureij refugee camp in Gaza; earlier, …
Oct 02
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News Highlights: Israel releases 29 Palestinian prisoners from Gaza, a day after releasing 57 from the West Bank; Israeli soldiers shoot and wound a teen and a Reuters photographer when they fire at the crowd waiting to greet the released detainees. New report shows that Israel has changed the route of its apartheid wall to …
Sep 25
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News Highlights: U.N. leader warns Israel that its decision to declare all of Gaza as an “enemy entity” and cut off vital utility supplies violates international law; the Israeli move is backed by the U.S. and was announced just hours following a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Rice. Palestinian prisoners group says Israel has …
Sep 18
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News Highlights: Israeli forces launch military invasion into Nablus refugee camps, resulting in one Palestinian and one Israeli soldier being killed. Israeli forces kill 16-year-old in Ramallah and leave him to bleed to death, refusing him medical aid. Mahmoud Abbas says he will not attend the regional November summit unless there will be an Agreement …
Sep 11
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News Highlights: Sept. 9th – partial strike in Gaza as Fateh-Hamas differences continue to escalate after Hamas security forces clash with demonstrators on Sept. 7th. Fateh security forces in Hebron break up student rally protesting tuition hikes. Israeli Foreign Minister claims Hamas is ultimately responsible for rocket attack on Israeli military base that wounds 69 …
Sep 04
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Voice of Palestine 20th Anniversary News Highlights: Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis leaves five civilians injured; in 2 weeks, 12 Palestinians including 6 children have been killed in such attacks. Mahmoud Abbas revises Palestinian election laws to eliminate district voting, in which Hamas won a large majority in the last elections. Bilin village wins a …
Aug 28
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News Highlights: Gaza human rights organization warns of imminent collapse of Gaza economy and says 80% of population is living below the poverty line; calls on international community to force Israel to lift the siege. Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in Gaza in two days. Appointed Palestinian PM, Salam Fayyad, orders the closure of 103 …
Aug 21
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News Highlights: Gaza’s only power plant has completely shut down after Israel’s four day closure of the border through which fuel crosses and the freezing of fuel payments by the EU. The effects of lack of electricity, especially in the heat of summer, are devastating for the health sector. 11 primary health clinics in Bedouin …
Aug 14
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News Highlights: Israel wages large-scale incursion into southern Gaza, killing at least 4 Palestinians, including a 70-year-old woman who was trying to help her injured son. Human rights groups in Gaza call on the international community to provide protection for the Palestinian people in Gaza from the Israeli army. U.N. official says Gaza risks becoming …