Following is a report sent today from Robin, whom we interviewed on the Voice of Palestine on Tue. Mar. 21, 2006, Robin is a member of ISM-Vancouver, and this is his second trip to Palestine. Destruction and Defiance in the Shadow of Bethlehem: Unable to enter the al-Walaja village, I waited for close to an …
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Mar 14
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News Highlights: Israel invades Jericho and raids a Palestinian prison compound, kidnapping the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; Ahmed Saadat was being guarded by British and American monitors who left the prison just before the Israeli raid. Palestinian official Saab Erekat says Western donors never gave money directly to the …
Mar 07
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News Highlights: March 6th – International human rights groups and UN officials call for Israel to stop its assassinations of Palestinians. UNICEF says 5 Palestinians kids killed on Monday, two of them bystanders to an Israeli extra-judicial assassination. New Palestinian parliament votes to revoke the last-minute legislation giving extra presidential powers, passed by the previous …
Feb 28
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News Highlights: Feb. 27th – Israel continues its siege on the Balata refugee camp near Nablus, hindering the movement of ambulances and emergency medical staff; Israeli troops have killed 9 Palestinians during the siege, including 2 children, and wounded 55, including journalists and one doctor. The final section of the Israeli apartheid wall around Bethlehem …
Feb 21
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News Highlights Feb. 19th – Palestinian was shot in the chest while at home during Israel’s latest assault on the Balata refugee camp near Nablus; ambulances being blocked from doing medical emergency work and all entrances to the camp are closed. Palestinian president meets with new prime minister designate Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza. Hamas is …
Feb 14
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News Highlights: Feb. 13th – Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian woman next to her home in Gaza; second Palestinian civilian killed near the border area in less than two weeks. Palestinian teen shot in the face by an Israeli soldier while on his school bus near Bethlehem. U.S. and Israel discussing ways to destabilize …
Feb 07
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News Highlights: Israeli Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel must separate itself from the Palestinians and draw permanent borders, which would include holding on to all the major settlement blocs and keeping control over the Jordan Valley settlements. Palestinian Muslim and Christians demonstrate in Bethlehem against the offensive cartoons of Prophet Muhammed. A top …
Jan 31
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News Highlights: Fateh members pressure their group’s leadership to resign after the Hamas victory in the Palestinian legislative elections. Qalqilya municipal councillor is arrested along with many other activists, as Israel conducts arrest raids in the West Bank; Mustafa Sabri calls on human rights groups to protest the inhumane conditions of their incarceration. Israeli officials …
Jan 24
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News Highlights: Marwan al-Bargouthi, the jailed Palestinian leader, calls for all Palestinian parties to join in a national coalition following the Jan. 25th legislative elections; Bargouthi is one of 30 Palestinian candidates currently in Israeli prisons. Jan. 23th – Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian boy on a West Bank road. Jan. 22nd – Palestinian …
Jan 17
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News Highlights: Jan. 15th – Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinians, a mother and son; meanwhile, settlers in Hebron/AlKhalil riot over plans to evacuate settler squatters from the Palestinian vegetable market. Jan. 15th – Israel’s cabinet votes to “allow” Palestinians in Jerusalem to vote, but with conditions on who can campaign and be a candidate. …