Facts and Figures
Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons are one of the largest displaced populations in the world today. Approximately one in three refugees worldwide is Palestinian.

http://www.badil.org/Refugees/facts&figures.htm

Army demolishes two Palestinian homes near Ramallah and Jerusalem
Israeli army bulldozers demolished two Palestinian homes on Monday evening, one located in the village of Bier Nebala, south of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, the other is located in Anata village, east of Jerusalem city.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50235

Israel Court Orders Change in Wall's Route
In an embarrassing blow to Israel, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the state to redraw the route of its West Bank separation barrier near a Palestinian village that has come to symbolize opposition to the enclosure.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Israel-Barrier.html?ex=1346558400&en=691ce8f4b3e04b07&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Bilin Court Decision: Victory for both village and for non-violent struggle
Following popular non-violent resistance through joint struggle between Palestinian, Israeli and international activists, a court decision has been made in favor of the petition by Bilin village to change the current route of the Apartheid Wall. The court decision dictates that the military are obliged to plan and implement a new route for the wall. It has been ordered that the new path will allow for all Palestinian agricultural land to be on the Palestinian side. Furthermore, the court has ordered that the state should not take into consideration the area earmarked for Stage B of the planned expansion of Matityahu East.

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/09/04/bilin-court-decision-victory-for-both-village-and-for-non-violent-struggle/

Israeli pullout means ceding land to Iran's extensions - Netanyahu
Livni presents basic guidelines for peace talks with Abbas; Likud chairman tells fellow MKs establishment of Palestinian state would increase Israel's vulnerability to rocket attacks.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3445672,00.html

Landowner visits land for the first time in years

12 Palestinians and 3 Human Rights Workers (HRWs) went to visit land which is overlooked by an illegal Israeli settler colony and which has taken the old Palestinian name of Susya. Access to this land by its owners has been restricted since 1984 when the Palestinian residents of Susya were forcibly evicted by the Israelis to form a colony. The visit was the first time the owner had been able to access the land for 7 years. The problem here is that the Settlers interfere violently with the Palestinians when they visit their land even though they carry their legal papers which show their title to it in both Hebrew and Arabic. Apart from a few olive trees the land has reverted to scrub due to neglect. There is a well on the land which the settlers are using to water their sheep. Both the theft of the water and the grazing is depriving the Palestinian owners of income and livlihood. An elderly Palestinian woman dressed in the typical clothes of the region gathers za'atar from her ancestral lands which will be a precious memento of the day for her. Normally she can't freely gather the herbs from her own land.

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/09/03/landowner-visits-land-for-the-first-time-in-years/

ACRI: End Illegal "Debt Collection" Roadblocks in E. Jerusalem

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) today submitted a petition to Israel`s Supreme Court, demanding an immediate end to mobile police checkpoints set up to collect debts owed to the National Insurance Institute and the Tax Authority – almost exclusively in East Jerusalem. These "debt collection" roadblocks are illegal and discriminatory, and therefore the practice must be ceased. In addition, ACRI found that the abovementioned institutions employ the police officers as debt collectors and not for security purposes, as the police claim. Under Israeli law, such roadblocks are legal only when police officers are executing security checks.

http://www.acri.org.il/english-acri/engine/story.asp?id=394

Succesful Road Block Removal ends in Arrests

International and Israeli Human Rights Activists joined the people of Sarra village in another demonstration against a roadblock that for years has obstructed direct access into Nablus city.

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/09/03/succesful-road-block-removal-ends-in-arrests/

Elderly woman harrassed by settlers on quad bike night and day

At 9.30pm on 1st September an elderly Palestinian woman shouted in distress to the other tents of the village scattered across a hillside South of Hebron where the original inhabitants of Susya now live. She had been walking with a torch in the dark when some settlers drove up on a quad bike and grabbed her torch from her. She lives alone with her adult son in a tent alongside her flock of sheep and goats which they graze in the fields surrounding them.

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/09/03/elderly-woman-harrassed-by-settlers-on-quad-bike-night-and-day/

OPT: Humanitarian aid to the Palestinians - walking the tightrope

Recent concerns that Hamas might profit from revenues of the Gaza power company prompted the European Union (EU) to cut funding to the plant. Parts of Gaza were plunged into the dark for several days until the EU agreed to resume its fuel payments. Heavily reliant on foreign aid for basic services, the Gazan economy continues to plumb new depths.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74067

Israel Says May Cut Gaza Water

The Israeli occupying regime's Deputy Prime Minister threatened Tuesday to increase the burden on the Gaza City by cutting electricity, water and fuel supplies to the area.

http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=041030120070904133350

Troubled by crisis in  Gaza

IT'S scandalous that Israel, the US and Britain are trying to starve the democratically elected Palestinian government of Hamas in Gaza into submission, and scandalous that we have come to accept the situation. The relentless bombing and killing of Palestinians in Gaza continues without a peep of protest from the West.

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/southwalesecho/tm_headline=troubled-by-crisis-in-gaza&method=full&objectid=19731244&siteid=50082-name_page.html

Underage detainees in Israeli prisons facing abuse, medical negligence

One of the lawyers of the Palestinian Prisoner Society met recently with a number of underage Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel in Ha-Sharon prison, and reported that the detainees are facing abuse and deprived from their medication rights.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50223

14year old boy detained for trying to steal a landmine

A temporary checkpoint was erected in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, complete with a landmine placed on the road. Human Rights Workers noticed a young boy being detained. HRW's approached the boy to enquire over what was going on. It was established that he was 14 years old and therefore too young to have an ID card. When asked, the soldiers said he had been trying to steal the landmine.

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/09/03/14year-old-boy-detained-for-trying-to-steal-a-landmine/

PCHR statement: "Arrests against Hamas Supporters Continue in the West Bank"

This is a statement by the Palestinian Center For Human Rights, based in Gaza, on arrests carried by Palestinian Security Forces in the West Bank against members and supporters of Hamas.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50218

Hamas: "Our organization has been exposed to more than 1000 attacks in the last 80 days"

An extensive report from the Hamas movement has suggested that the movement has been attacked by Fatah-allied security forces more than 1000 times in the previous 80 days.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50234

Gov`t source: Israel plans to release 100 Fatah prisoners for Ramadan

Israel intends to release from prison 100 members of Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction as part of U.S.-backed efforts to bolster him, an Israeli government source said on Tuesday.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=900714&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

Hamas: "Israeli Prison Authorities attack detained Hamas leader and 16 other detainees"

The Media Office of Hamas movement issued a press release on Monday stating that the Israeli Prison Authorities, and soldiers, in Majiddo Israeli Prison, attacked the detained member of Hamas political Bureau, Adnan Asfour, 43, and sixteen other detainees, mainly supporters of the movement.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50221

U.N.: Gaza students lack textbooks because of shortages from crossing closures

Three days into the new school year, Gaza students have to make do without 30 percent of their new academic textbooks because of the closure of commercial crossings, a U.N. official said Monday.  John Ging, head of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, said restrictions on importing raw materials into the territory have held up paper, ink, and binding materials.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/03/africa/ME-GEN-Gaza-Textbooks.php

Palestinian government: one Million USD for university students

The appointed Palestinian government headed by Dr. Salam Fayyad met in the central West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday to discuss developments in Gaza, the financial situation and the ongoing strike by Palestinian teachers.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50241

A delicate balance

It is no secret that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority leadership are participating in the boycott of Gaza, in the hope that this will turn the population against Hamas. A recent declaration by President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) gives an idea about the general drift. Local newspapers quoted him as saying that he is for opening the Rafah border crossing to Egypt, provided it is not under the control of Hamas.

http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/pal2.php

Gideon Levy : Children of war

 Five children killed in Gaza in eight days. The public indifference to their killing - the last three, for example, were accorded only a short item on the margins of page 11 in Yedioth Ahronoth, a sickening matter in itself - cannot blur the fact that the IDF is waging a war against children.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/899694.html

Life in the West Bank: The Sorrows of Occupation

Our experience in the West Bank this summer gave us a view seldom seen by Americans of Palestinian life under Israeli military occupation.

http://www.counterpunch.org/longstreth09012007.html

Illegal dumping

Walid Hassan used to eke out a miserable living working a dry and unyielding piece of land he inherited from his father. Now, he and other West Bank Palestinians desperate for cash are inviting Israelis to dump thousands of tons of garbage in their fields — rogue operations that could have dire public health and environmental consequences.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070903.wpalestinian0903/BNStory/International/home

Behind the Wall: 'Medical Conditions caused by Political Decisions'

On Christmas Eve in 1952, a Swiss priest called Father Schnydrig was on his way to Mass at the Church of the Nativity. He had come to Palestine to celebrate in the birthplace of Jesus. He walked past a huge area filled with tents and saw a man attempting to bury a child. This was Dehaishah Refugee Camp. The man was digging in the mud to create a makeshift grave for his own son. His son had literally frozen to death. Father Schnydrig began to question his own place in Bethlehem and wondered how he could be in the city to celebrate the birthplace of Jesus whilst children were suffering so much within a kilometer of the church. Upon returning to Europe he began to fundraise and soon opened Caritas Children's Hospital in Bethlehem.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18303.htm

"How will I care for my children?"

"May God close the eyes of anyone who attempts to shut down the al-Salah charitable society that provides us our living." So said Halima Abu 'Isa, a 45-year-old widow and mother of two in reaction to the decision of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah to close down 103 Palestinian charities.  The monthly allowance of 900 shekels (US $230) that Abu 'Isa receives from al-Salah, an Islamic charity with links to Hamas, is the only thing that stands between her and destitution. She lives in a rented house in the central Gaza Strip town of Deir al-Balah and is the sole caretaker of two children since her husband died eleven years ago in a road accident.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8971.shtml

Ben White: Dying to Live

Every death from the thousands of Palestinians killed by the Israeli occupation has been a despicable crime. Yet some of them acquire a symbolic significance in the way that the personal horror speaks to something more fundamental in Israel's colonial policies. The murder of Nizar al-Adeeb is one such case. Nizar was shot dead by Israeli soldiers as he approached the border separating the occupied Gaza Strip from Israel. He was 22 years old and a resid ent of Nusseriat refugee camp. His death was recorded by the Associated Press in the following way...
http://palestinechronicle.com/story-090307160129.htm

Open door to boycott debate and uphold academic freedom

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) welcomes the historic resolutions passed by the UK's University and College Union (UCU) at its first Annual Congress in May 2007. In particular, PACBI applauds the Congress for passing resolutions deploring the denial of educational rights for Palestinians; condemning the complicity of Israeli academia in the occupation; noting that in these circumstances passivity or neutrality is unacceptable; recognizing that criticism of Israel cannot be construed as anti-semitic; calling for the circulation of the full text of the PACBI Call for Boycott for information and discussion; and encouraging members to consider the moral implications of existing and proposed links with Israeli academic institutions.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8972.shtml

Call to halt EU trade with Israel

Trade between the European Union and Israel should be halted in protest at human rights violations in the Palestinian territories, a United Nations conference has heard.   Under a so-called association agreement, Israel currently enjoys free trade in industrial goods, and preferential treatment of farm produce entering the European Union.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8974.shtml

The Dead Lie in Familiar Shapes, Qana, Derry

It was the sudden eruption at the back of the room upstairs at Sandino's which brought us eventually to the burial ground at Qana.  At the edge of the village, pictures of each of the 28 victims were displayed on a wall around the canopied space where the graves are laid out in precise, neat pattern by the place where the building which they were crushed under once stood.

http://www.counterpunch.org/mccann09032007.html

Open Letter To Dr. Norman Finklestein

By all means, do what you feel is necessary to regain your post but first and foremost look after your health because without you, the cause for which you would sacrifice so much will have a diminished force behind it and your sacrifice will have been in vain.

http://palestinechronicle.com/story-09040755119.htm

The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
Five years ago, Atlantic Monthly commissioned two academics, John Mearsheimer of Chicago University and Stephen Walt of Harvard, to write a significant article about the influence of the Israeli lobby on American foreign policy. When the piece was at last completed, the magazine declined to publish, deeming it too hot for delicate American palates. It eventually appeared in 2005, in the London Review of Books, provoking one of the most bitter media and academic rows of recent times. The authors were accused of antisemitism, and attacked with stunning venom by some prominent US commentators. Mearsheimer and Walt obviously like a fight, however, for they have now expanded their thesis into a book.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article2348741.ece

Holy Land federal witnesses go uncalled

The Justice Department's decision not to call additional witnesses in its prosecution of an Islamic charity for alleged ties to terrorism suggests it is resting its case on the strength of contested documents and the testimony of FBI agents and Israeli security officials. The U.S. District Court trial resumes Tuesday in Dallas with the defense beginning presentation of its evidence.

http://www.latimes.com/services/site/premium/access-registered.intercept