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Remembering Farouk Abdel-Muhti: One Year Anniversary of Death of Palestinian Activist
A vigil is being held today in New York to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Palestinian human rights activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti. He was jailed for two years without charge. He died last summer just three months after being released. We play an excerpt of the documentary, "Farouk Abdel-Muhti: Political Prisoner....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 7:12am PDT
israeli war crimes (audio/mpeg 5.2MB)
This is a summary of israeli war crimes committed in Palestine for the week ending 21 July 2005. 6mins, english...
Posted: Thu, Jul 21, 2005 8:41am PDT
Gaza: When Will it End?
Laila M. El-Haddad writing from Gaza City, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 18 July 2005...
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2005 6:33am PDT
Palestine: A truce or a fig leaf?
Hasan Abu Nimah, The Electronic Intifada, 20 July 2005...
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2005 6:31am PDT
Hamas-Fatah Clashes…"Risky Power Struggle"
GAZA, July20 , 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – At least seven Palestinians were injured Wednesday, July20 , in fresh clashes between Palestinian security forces and Hamas members despite an agreement between the two sides to end their escalating in-fighting....
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2005 6:27am PDT
What May Come After the Evacuation of Jewish Settlers from the Gaza Strip
What May Come After the Evacuation of Jewish Settlers from the Gaza Strip: A Warning from Israel...
Posted: Tue, Jul 19, 2005 7:28pm PDT
Lawyers Challenge EU and UK over Inaction on Palestine
Lawyers acting for campaigns group War on Want will today (Monday 18 July) send letters to President José Manuel Barroso of the European Commission and UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw challenging them to provide evidence of any action they have taken to curtail human rights abuses against Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation...
Posted: Tue, Jul 19, 2005 7:23pm PDT
Israeli Police Confine Marchers to Village
Israeli police encircled thousands of Gaza withdrawal opponents Tuesday, confining them to a fenced-in farming village to prevent them from marching to the nearby Gaza Strip in protest....
Posted: Tue, Jul 19, 2005 8:36am PDT
Hamas vows to observe truce accord
Hamas has confirmed its commitment to a truce agreed to in Egypt but has reserved the right to retaliate against any Israeli attacks....
Posted: Mon, Jul 18, 2005 9:41pm PDT
Israel: 2 religious soldiers suspected of placing J'lem fake bomb
Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers from an infantry regiment of ultra-Orthodox troops were arrested on suspicion of placing a fake bomb at the Jerusalem central bus station last week, it emerged on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Jul 18, 2005 6:55am PDT
Three Women, Palestinian Christian, Muslim and Israeli Jew on Life Under Occupation
As Israel prepares for a possible ground offensive in Gaza and Hamas says it will halt attacks, we speak with three women: Dr. Jumana Odeh, a Muslim Palestinian who lives in Jerusalem and is the Director of the Palestinian Happy Child Center; Michal Sagi, a Jewish Israeli who is active with Checkpoint Watch, a women's human rights monitoring group and Rana Khoury, a Christian Palestinian who is Deputy General Director of the International Center of Bethlehem....
Posted: Mon, Jul 18, 2005 6:49am PDT
Israeli-Palestinian tit-for-tat continues
Israeli occupation forces have raided the West Bank towns of Ram Allah and Tulkarim while Palestinian resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip have kept up rocket and mortar fire on Israeli targets....
Posted: Mon, Jul 18, 2005 6:12am PDT
Protests mark 1-year of ruling on Israeli wall
Protests rocked several Palestinian villages and towns July 9 to mark the first anniversary of the World Court ruling that Israel’s “separation barrier” is illegal and should be dismantled. At least one Palestinian, a 15-year-old boy, was shot dead by Israeli troops, and many more were injured....
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 11:30am PDT
Israel-Palestine: The right to marriage
Israel's immigration policy will be decided, so it appears, by a panel of jurists appointed by Interior Minister Ophir Pines-Paz with the view to determining transparent regulations that will put an end to the maltreatment faced by any non-Jew wishing to live in Israel. But extremist opinions that prevail in the government could give rise to a draconian immigration law that would undermine the rights of Israeli citizens who wish to marry a non-Jew....
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 11:23am PDT
PA declares state of emergency in Gaza
The Palestinian Authority declared a state of emergency in the Gaza Strip last night, hours after an Israeli woman was killed when a Qassam rocket slammed into her home on Moshav Netiv Ha'asara north of the Strip....
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 11:20am PDT
8 rockets land in Sderot area; IDF readies for Gaza raid
Palestinian militants fired eight Qassam rockets towards the western Negev on Saturday. Four rockets were fired in the morning, one of which landed in the yard of a private home in Sderot. Residents were treated for shock and there was damage to property, but there were no injuries....
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 11:16am PDT
Palestine: Why kill Nino?
"Ayyesh" writing from Nablus, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 15 July 2005...
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 11:00am PDT
From Montreal to Ein el-Hilweh: Deportation, Destitution & Dignity
Stefan Christoff, The Electronic Intifada, 13 July 2005...
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 10:58am PDT
Hamas blames PA as two Palestinians killed in Gaza Strip clashes
Palestinian police and Hamas men clashed in fierce gun battles on Friday morning in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City. Gaza Strip fireTwo passers-by were reportedly killed and some 25 were wounded. Earlier in the morning, PA police wounded six Hamas members making their way to launch rockets at Israeli targets....
Posted: Fri, Jul 15, 2005 6:13am PDT
Israeli Disengagement Plans Include The Use Of Deadly Force Against Protestors
In the event of violence on the part of anti-disengagement protestors during the planned Gaza pullout of Israeli settlers, an Israeli team of high-ranking military officers and academics has recommended the use of deadly force against them....
Posted: Fri, Jul 15, 2005 5:43am PDT