The Phyllis Bennis site provides for entry to her activities. Please take the time to visit and see if you wish to become part of the service she provides. Link http://www.ips-dc.org/staff/phyllis What follows is an email from her organisation you may find interesting. George Ikners ikners.com Palestinian Hunger Strikers and U.S. Veterans Returning [...]
The Samouni family narrated the horror they lived through in a short movie named ‘Samouni Street’ [AP] Chicago, IL - There is a determined international effort to ensure that Palestinians are shut out of every legal forum where they could pursue justice for Israel’s crimes against them. Nothing illustrates this better than the horrifying case of [...]
Many Injured, Anger Grows as Israel Cracks Down on Hunger Strike Solidarity ‘We will not accept our prisoners returning in coffins’ – Common Dreams staff Protests and rallies were held around the West Bank and Gaza this week in support of Palestinian hunger strikers currently held in Israeli prisons. As an increasing number of prisoners [...]
Israel often builds or relocates its most enviromentally harmful factories to the occupied West Bank [GALLO/GETTY] Ramallah, West Bank - Nowhere is the relationship between environmental protection and social justice displayed more clearly than between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT). The Israeli government takes great care to guarantee that its citizens enjoy the benefits [...]
Bassam Diab sits next to posters depicting his brother Palestinian prisoner Bilal Diab at his home in Kafr Rai near the West Bank town of Jenin on April 30, 2012. (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — After 63 days on hunger-strike, two Palestinian prisoners face severe health deterioration and are at risk of death, lawyers [...]
(MaanImages/File) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli military vehicles opened fire on a border area in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, trapping journalists at the scene, witnesses said. Ten military vehicles crossed several hundred meters into Gaza, east of Khan Younis, firing towards houses and farmlands, residents said. A crew of journalists took cover for [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli military vehicles crossed into the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, witnesses told Ma’an. Seven army vehicles including bulldozers entered Gaza north of Beit Hanoun and dug up lands in the border area, they said, adding that gunshots were heard in the area. Meanwhile, four Israeli vehicles crossed the border east [...]
Palestinian women attend a rally to show solidarity with Palestinians prisoners held in Israeli jails, in Gaza City, on April 30, 2012. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called on Monday for a new intifada to support Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, who started a mass hunger-strike two weeks ago. [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinian prisoners continued their hunger strike for the 11th consecutive day in protest of Israeli policy. A mass march went out in Gaza City, which was called by Hamas and Islamic Jihad to support the prisoners. Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh affirmed his government’s support of the prisoners. He added [...]
Collectively Punishing Palestinian Prisoners and Families By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 19 April 2012 Collectively Punishing Palestinian Prisoners and Families by Stephen Lendman William Blum once called the holocaust the worst thing ever to happen to Jews. The second worse thing, he said, “is the state of Israel.” [...]
By Daoud Kuttab I knew, separately, Suheir Ismael and Najeeb Farraj before they became a couple. I knew Najeeb as a colleague working with AFP and Al Quds daily, and an avid reader of the political scene in Palestine. I worked with Suheir when we produced the documentary Palestinian Diaries during the first Intifada. In [...]
Nobel Peace Laureate Rejects U.S. State Department – NATO – Chicago Agenda http://warisacrime.org/content/nobel-peace-laureate-rejects-us-state-department-nato-chicago-agenda FROM: MAIREAD MAGUIRE Dear Friends, I write to let you know that I have decided not to attend the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates on 23rd-25th April, 2012, in Chicago, USA. On 10th April, Sec. of State H. Clinton [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinians and international activists went out in a demonstration organized by a local initiative in Beit Hanoun north of Gaza to protest the buffer zone on Tuesday. Coordinator Saber Zaaneen said the demonstration arrived to the zone, which Israel imposed on the borders of Gaza. It prevent hundreds of farmers from [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers on Monday shot and injured a Palestinian construction worker in eastern Gaza, medics said. The 23-year-old man was taken to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, medical officials told Ma’an. An Israeli military spokeswoman did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Also Monday, witnesses said that dozens of [...]
Firefighters try to save bags of food aid at the United Nations headquarters in Gaza City after it was bombed by Israel on Jan. 15, 2009. (MaanImages/Mohamed Al-Zanon) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestine can still pursue an investigation into possible Israeli war crimes during the last offensive on Gaza at the International Criminal Court, PLO observer [...]
(MaanImages/file) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israel’s navy fired live ammunition at a fishing boat in the Gaza Strip on Monday, witnesses said. Several shells were fired into open areas off the Gaza coast, locals told Ma’an. An Israeli military spokeswoman said that a fishing boat had deviated from the designated fishing area, and after failing [...]
Palestinian protesters dressed as jailed Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan gesture as they take part in a weekly demonstration against Israel’s separation wall, in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Feb. 17, 2012. (REUTERS/Ammar Awad) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli prison authorities transferred a Palestinian detainee on hunger strike to Ramla hospital on [...]
(MaanImages) By Daoud Kuttab The end of Hana Shalabi’s 45-day hunger strike has produced mixed results, and has pointed out another under-reported issue, the separation and difficulty of movement between Gaza and the West Bank.Shalabi, like Khader Adnan before her, has done a great service to fellow Palestinians by exposing the undemocratic nature of administrative [...]
Hana Shalabi is being compared by some to Winnie Mandela who was also exiled for her activism [EPA] Santa Barbara, CA - As with Khader Adnan, Israel supposedly compromised with Hana Shalabi on day 43 of her hunger strike in protest against administrative detentionand her abysmal treatment. But Israel’s concept of “compromise”, if considered, becomes indistinguishable from [...]
On this Land Day, I was at Erez Crossing. Several hundred youth had managed to find their way around the Hamas policemen blocking the roads leading to Erez. They Shoot the Youth Don’t They? By Johnny Barber (about the author) Become a Fan — Page 1 of 1 page(s) opednews.com On March 30, 1976, the Palestinian people declared a general [...]
A family rushes from the scene of an Israeli missile strike on a building in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Dec. 28, 2008. (MaanImages/Hatem Omar) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The International Criminal Court will not investigate Israel’s conduct during its December 2008 offensive on Gaza because Palestine is not a state, the world prosecutor [...]
The Bradford Spring: Atoning for Invasion by Abby Zimet An upset victory in a U.K. special election has gone to George Galloway, a fierce critic of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who has led aid convoys to Gaza and who blasted the mainstream parties as “three cheeks of the same backside. They support the same things, the same wars, [...]
A woman holds a placard depicting prisoner Hana Shalabi during a rally in support of her hunger strike as well as calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in front of Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City March 24, 2012. (REUTERS/Ammar Awad) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian who was deported [...]
Palestinians mourn next to the body of 20-year-old Mahmoud Zakot during his funeral in the northern Gaza Strip March 30. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli fire killed one young Palestinian man and injured over 30 others in clashes at two sites in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian medical official said Friday evening. Adham [...]
Israel to Deport Hunger Striker to Gaza Strip Over a Month Into Strike, Shalabi ‘Sentenced‘ to Three Years in Gaza by Jason Ditz, March 29, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Detainee Hana Shalabi’s five [...]
Bibi: First We’ll Take Tehran, Then We’ll Take Istanbul By Richard Silverstein March 29, 2012 “Tikun Olam” – Yesterday, brought ominous news regarding yet another aggressive Israeli projection of its military power in the Mideast. Since 1967, with but [...]
Double Speak from Benjamin Netanyahu By Philip Giraldi March 28, 2012 “The Passionate Attachment” — The New York Times’ Isabel Kershner reporting from Jerusalem on March 20th described Israeli government rage at a comment made by the European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton relating to the killing of three Jewish children [...]
By REUTERS ‘Iron Dome allotment can’t offer full protection’ By JPOST.COM STAFF link http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=263208 03/24/2012 17:13 Former defense minister Amir Peretz warns Israel will need double the number of planned batteries for full protection Former defense minister Amir Peretz said on Saturday that the number of Iron Dome rocket-defense batteries Israel plans to [...]
Death in war is simply murder no matter who commits the acts. Deaths related to a war are the same. That children can be slain as a part of any cause is the ultimate act of a coward or cowards. There is just no escaping [...]
We Must Weep for All Children 25 March 2012 The month of March has been steeped in the blood of innocent children. In Gaza, three children were among twenty-six Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes on their homes – and twenty-seven more were seriously wounded. These killings, according to the western press, [...]
A fuel tanker arrives at a power plant in the central Gaza Strip, March 23, 2012. Gaza’s sole power station shut down on Sunday morning after two days of electricity production. (REUTERS/ Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza’s sole power station shut down on Sunday morning after two days of electricity production, as [...]
A boy holds a flag during a rally calling on Egyptian authorities to supply the Gaza Strip with fuel and electricity in Khan Younis on the southern Gaza Strip March 23, 2012. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A senior leader of Hamas criticized the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority for being an ally of Israel [...]
One-page article Israel’s ‘self-defence’ argument to justify strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities does not hold water Hardly a day goes by without the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, threatening to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in what, he says, would be an act of self-defence, wrote Abdelbari Atwan, editor of the [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Protesters on Wednesday held a rally in Gaza City against Mahmoud Abbas, accusing the president of neglecting his responsibilities to the Gaza Strip. They carried posters urging the president to resign if he could not fulfill his duties, and reminding Abbas that he presides over all Palestinian people and not just [...]
(MaanImages/Moti Milrod, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces killed 115 Palestinians last year, including 18 minors, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem.The death toll of 2011 shows a marked increase on 2010, when Israeli forces killed 68 Palestinians in Gaza and 12 in the West Bank. Further, [...]
Statements made by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak led analysts to say that the assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisi was not about direct prevention [AFP] Beer-Sheva, Israel - In response to the recent assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisi, the Secretary General of the Popular Resistance Committees in the Gaza Strip, along with another fighter, Palestinians fired rockets at [...]
Senior Hamas official in Gaza Mahmoud Zahhar (MaanImages/File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar said on Monday he does not expect an Israeli strike on Iran due to Israel’s international isolation. The senior official in Gaza told Ma’an that Iran continues to support the Palestinian cause and the Hamas movement, but denied Israeli media [...]
Palestinians endured 6 decades of dispossession, occupation. (Julie Webb) By Roger Sheety The recent killing of 25 Palestinians in Gaza and the wounding of at least 80 more within four days—March 9-12—requires some context as the majority of western mainstream media outlets are either unwilling or unable to provide any. More often than not these [...]
Palestinian children fly kites to show their solidarity with the Japanese people near a Japanese-funded housing project in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, March 18, 2012. The event was organized by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to mark the first anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set [...]
Israel is using the the Gaza Strip as a testing ground for a possible military strike on its arch foe Iran, the head of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas said on Monday. “Israel is warming up the region for a possible war against Iran,”Khaled Meshaal said in an interview with Turkey’s Anatolia news agency. Accusing Israel of pursuing “state terrorism” [...]
Nine Years Out of Government and Pinning Hopes on Those Who Challenge it!! By davidswanson - Posted on 19 March 2012 By Ann Wright Nine years ago, on March 19, 2003, I resigned from the U.S. Department of State in opposition to President Bush’s war on Iraq. A lot of water has gone under [...]
Wounded Palestinian children (background) receive medical atttention at a hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on March 12, 2012, following an Israeli air raid. China is concerned about the escalation of the situation in Gaza.” Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Weimin China has called on Israel to put an [...]
In March 2003, the news was full of talk of war with Iraq – a preemptive war to protect the west, particularly the U.S. and Israel, from the weapons of mass destruction then alleged to have been amassed by Saddam Hussein. When Rachel traveled to Gaza that year, the world was not [...]
Palestinians take part in a rally calling on Egyptian authorities to end the power crisis, near the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 18, 2012. (Reuters/ Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Dozens of Palestinians gathered at the Rafah crossing into Egypt on Saturday, to protest continuing fuel shortages in [...]
Gaza. Everything as usual. (Al Jazeera) By Uri Avnery ‘What have you learned in school today, my son?’ ‘There was no school today. There is an emergency!’ ‘And what have you learned from that, my son?’ Actually, quite a lot. This week’s “round”, as the army likes to call it, followed a well-established pattern, as [...]
Gaza power plant stops due to smuggled fuel shortage By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA | Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:17pm EST Feb 14 (Reuters) – The Gaza Strip’s only power station, which supplies the Palestinian enclave with up to two-thirds of its energy needs, was shut down on Tuesday because of a [...]
We ask you to arm Gaza too MARCH 14, 2012 BY OCCUPIEDPALESTINE 0 COMMENTS Aren’t the Arabs supposed to be as one body? Isn’t it forbidden for anyone to shed Arab blood, especially the Israelis? MEMO | March 14, 2012 News about Israel’s latest killing spree against the people of the Gaza Strip has only occupied a [...]
Why did Israel decide to attack Gaza again? (PalInfo) By Ramzy Baroud The first Israeli missile sped down to its target, scorching the Gaza earth and everything in between. Palestinians collected the body parts of two new martyrs, while Israeli media celebrated the demise of two terrorists. Zuhair Qasis was the head of the Popular [...]
A Farewell to a Purity of Arms By Richard Lightbown In response to the recent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip Hillary Clinton repeated the political mantra “Israel has the right to self-defence”. The statement is absolutely true of course, but that right does not allow Israel to commit offensive strikes [...]
Israel‘s Latest Ritual Slaughter By Stephen Lendman March 14, 2012 “Information Clearing House” —Four days of Israeli terror bombing left at least 25 Palestinians dead and dozens injured, some seriously. Human rights groups expressed outrage. So did Arab League states, Iran, Turkey, and Malaysia. Israel’s UN envoy Ron Prosor [...]
