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Aug 3: "Life in Occupied Palestine: An Eyewitness' Stories & Photos"
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Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 10:45pm PDT
Abbas says Palestinians want peaceful Israeli pullout
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Quartet Envoy to the Middle East, James Wolfensohn, stressed on Saturday the Israeli withdrawal should be carried out peacefully. During their meeting, in Gaza, Abbas said that the Palestinian Authority (PA) does the best to for assuring a quiet withdrawal from Gaza Strip and the northern parts of the West Bank....
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 3:05pm PDT
Palestinian health workers go on strike
Workers in the Palestinian health sector have started a strike that threatens to halt the provision of medical services in all government health clinics....
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 3:01pm PDT
6/27: ISM DIGEST: Israeli military targets leaders of nonviolent resisistance
1. Israeli military targeting Palestinian leaders of non-violent
resistance: update on three such leaders.
2. Crackdown on peace activists in West Bank
3. SWEDISH ACTIVIST APPREHENDED AT TEL AVIV AIRPORT
4. A West Bank village opts for peaceful protest to broach the Wall
5. Agricultural buildings in West Bank village demolished for Israel's illegal wall
6. SOS – Stop the Wall!
7. Trio of protests against the wall set for communities across the
West Bank
8. SWEDISH ACTIVIST APPREHEN...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 2:18pm PDT
Vatican: It isn't always possible to condemn anti-Israel terrorism
VATICAN CITY - Responding to Israeli criticism, the Vatican on Thursday said it hasn't condemned every strike by Palestinian militants against the Jewish state because Israel's military response to the attacks has sometimes violated international law....
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2005 6:14am PDT
Palestinians Slam New Jewish Homes in Al-Quds
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, July27 , 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Palestinians lambasted Wednesday, July27 , an Israeli decision to build 21 homes and a synagogue for Jews in the heart of the Muslim Quarter in Al-Quds’s Old City, saying it is a part of an Israeli scheme to judaize the entire city....
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 8:07am PDT
Six anti-fence protesters hurt in clashes with security forces
Six anti-fence protesters were lightly wounded Thursday during clashes between demonstrators and security forces near the West Bank villages of Bil'in and Budrus, west of Ramallah....
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 8:05am PDT
israeli War Crimes (audio/mpeg 4.9MB)
This is a summary of israeli war crimes committed in Palestine for the week ending 28 July 2005. 6mins, english...
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 8:03am PDT
Gaza to Remain Occupied After Pullout: Palestinians
GAZA CITY, July26 , 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – As long as Israel keeps control over the crossings and the airspace of the Gaza Strip after its planned "pullout", the area will remain an occupied territory, Palestinians officials and human rights activists have said....
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 6:55am PDT
Palestinian forces 'in disarray'
An independent study of the Palestinian security forces in Gaza and the West Bank has concluded that they are weak, ill-equipped and divided....
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 8:23am PDT
7/28-8/14: Presentations on Life in Occupied Palestine by Anna
Anna recently returned from Palestine. She worked
with International Womens Peace Service(IWPS) which
is a 3-month commitment in Hares, a village in the
Salfit Governorate of Occupied Palestine's West Bank.
Here is the URL for her website:...
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2005 9:45am PDT
Peace caravan prevented from entering Palestine
Fifty members of a European caravan of peace activists who were trying to enter occupied Palestine in order to show their solidarity with the Palestinians and to demonstrate against the Zionist regime’s apartheid wall were prevented by Israeli authorities from crossing from Jordan into the West Bank on Thursday....
Posted: Sun, Jul 24, 2005 12:54pm PDT
A truce or a fig leaf?
The world has suddenly noticed the renewed violence between Israelis and Palestinians, but not because Israel stepped-up extrajudicial executions and other attacks on Palestinians in recent weeks. Only when several Palestinian resistance groups responded by firing crude mortars and rockets against Israeli targets inside the occupied territories and within Israel, and one of the armed groups claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in Netanya which killed five people, did the matter ri...
Posted: Sun, Jul 24, 2005 11:46am PDT
US may sell up to $600 million to Israeli Air Force,
This week, the United States said it may sell up to $600 million in equipment and services to Israel for maintenance of the engines on the Israeli Air Force's F-15 and F-16 figher planes. The sale would cover support for Pratt and Whitney F-100 engines, spare and repair parts, testing, training, and other services for 10 years, the U.S. Defense Department said in a notice to the American Congress....
Posted: Sun, Jul 24, 2005 11:37am PDT
Rice praises Abbas' efforts to clamp down on militants
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday praised Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' efforts to ensure security ahead of Israel's Gaza withdrawal and said both sides were coordinating efforts, but more needed to be done....
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2005 7:41am PDT
Israel's " Gaza pullout " and evacuation of the Gaza settlers
Photos of Israel's internal struggle about the Gaza pullout (disengagement)...
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2005 3:11am PDT
Jobless in Gaza
If you would like to know what the Israeli occupation and life under it looks like, go to its “employment office,” several hundred meters past the Erez checkpoint, on the outskirts of the large prison of Gaza, from which Israel is supposed to disengage in a few weeks. Maybe you will also see here where the next wave of terror is growing....
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2005 12:20am PDT
Israel raids Jenin amid Rice visit
Two Palestinians have been injured in clashes with Israeli troops who entered Jenin....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 6:40pm PDT