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Nobel peace laureate Corrigan injured in anti-fence protest
Nobel Peace Prize Mairead Corrigan has been injured during confrontations between security forces and left-wing activists protesting the security fence route near Bilin, activists said. Corrigan, who won the prize in 1976 for her work in encouraging a peaceful solution to the Northern Ireland dispute, was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet and was transferred to a hospital for treatment. She was also said to have inhaled large quantities of teargas.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3390314,00.html
West Bank: giving entrepreneurs a boost in the shadow of the barrier
Most people in the village of Beit Sira no longer have access to jobs in Israel and Jerusalem and restriction on movement make working in Ramallah nearly impossible. The ICRC is helping 26 local businesses in the village under its Livelihood Support Programme.
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/palestine-stories-200407?opendocument
Israel-OPT: UN child rights expert criticises Palestinians and Israel
"I found the situation worse than I expected. I spent time with the children and I was struck by their sense of hopelessness and despair. I have been in other regions where the conflict has been terrible but the children were more resilient and playful. Here they were less so, particularly in the Palestinian refugee camps," she said. Some 1,045 children have been killed in the conflict since 2000, 927 of them Palestinian
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/AMMF-72FEDD?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
ICRC activities in Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories: March 2007
In Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) works towards ensuring the faithful application of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), and above all the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilians in times of armed conflict and occupation.
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/israel-update-310307?opendocument
Israel/Palestine - Palestine Kids
What’s it like growing up in a war zone? Five year old Diana lives in a cave in the West Bank. Mufida, 16, is struggling to complete her education with Israeli soldiers living on her roof. And Yassin, 7, just wants to move to Brazil. Dodging bullets, hiding from Israeli soldiers and losing their land to settlers is part of every day life for these children. Through their eyes, we gain a fresh perspective on everyday life for Palestinians.
http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=57231
Building Economic Independence in Palestine
How do we integrate a future Palestinian economy into a U.S.-dominated globalized world today, while yet still under foreign military occupation -- an occupation operating in the full view of the international community? Yes, I speak of those 3rd parties that are signatories to the 4th Geneva Convention that, for the last year, and the majority through today, have opted to apply economic and political boycotts and sanctions against the occupied people, driving us to a nation of poverty, crime and lawlessness.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6817.shtml
Israel to seal off West Bank and Gaza
The statement did not say how long the lockdown would last. Palestinians will be allowed to enter Israel only for humanitarian reasons, but international organisations, NGOs, medical personnel and journalists will not be affected.
http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=
070420160211.bo6nj7qj&cat=null
Western sources: PA funding plan may ease financial crunch
Western diplomats and analysts said opening the PLO's taps could be part of a shifting U.S. strategy to elevate non-Hamas members like Fayad within the unity government, and at the same time address Arab demands that Palestinian economic woes be eased as a condition for wider peace talks with Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/850996.html
Prime Minister Haniya: the newly-announced security plan won’t affect resistance
“The security plan would not harm the Palestinian resistance and the weapons of Palestinian factions. This plan is intended at putting an end to chaos, surrounding the resistance”, the PM pointed out.
http://www.imemc.org/article/47920
Palestinian President Abbas to visit Italy next week
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will pay an official visit to Italy next week as part of a Europe tour aimed at easing international isolation of the Palestinian administration. Abbas is visiting Italy and eight other European countries in a bid to get an international aid embargo lifted.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/20/content_6001407.htm
Defining the enemy - Azmi Bishara
"There is a decision to end our political stream and the unprecedented challenge it represents for them," he told Al-Ahram Weekly in a telephone interview from Doha. "The message is: Palestinian-Arabs who support us will be regarded as people working against Israel. And to do that they are targeting the head of the movement. They cannot tolerate an Arab Knesset member who refutes their claims of democratic practice and argues that Zionism defeats the notion of democracy."
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/841/re3.htm
Palestinian refugees: European Union contributes €66 million to UNRWA's general fund for 2007
Today's signing was the first instalment in an agreement made between the EU and UNRWA in which the EU pledged €264 million to support UNRWA's General Fund 2007-2010. The funds will pay salaries for UNRWA's teachers, doctors and social workers, enabling UNRWA to maintain delivery of essential services to Palestine refugees. The EU's continuing support to UNRWA is an essential element of the EU's strategy for the Middle East peace process.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/LSGZ-72FH28?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
Prime Minister: there is a limited time for blockade to continue before we consider other options
“We have taken major steps to untie the twisted siege...we concluded the Mecca agreement and formed a government of national unity...we have drafted a political program and now the ball is in the other court.”
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2226
PM Olmert invites Jordan's King Abdullah II to visit Israel
"His Majesty is ready to engage in any effort that helps to bring about the success of the Arab initiative and the setting up of a Palestinian state," a source in the Jordanian royal palace in Amman told Reuters.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/850494.html
Diplomacy on the horizon
Fact: On the day after the meeting, intra-Palestinian agreement was achieved for the suspension of the shooting of Qassam rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel, and by Wednesday only four mortar shell hits were registered. Fact: Olmert has for the first time agreed to discuss "the diplomatic horizon" with Abbas and to start talks on the security and economic arrangements that will prevail between Israel and the future Palestinian state. Fact: The Arab League has appointed, for the first time in its history, a delegation to advance its peace initiative with Israel. Fact: The Karni crossing point for goods, the main artery of Gaza's economic life, reopened this week in an expanded format.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/850661.html
A state of all its citizens
Bishara, a Christian Palestinian citizen of Israel, established the National Democratic Assembly (Balad) in 1995, and became a Knesset member in 1996. Since then he has been interrogated several times by the security agency and has been charged - and cleared - twice: in connection with helping Israeli Arabs visit family members in Syria; and for speeches praising Hizbullah's resistance in southern Lebanon and Palestinian opposition in the occupied territories.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2061785,00.html
Jordan's Abdullah tells Israel: We share same enemies
Jordan's King Abdullah II yesterday told a delegation of Knesset members that "we are in the same boat, we have the same problem. We have the same enemies." The king reiterated the comments a number of times, which those at the meeting said referred to Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/850702.html
Edward to be first U.K. royal to visit Israel
Just a year ago the British ambassador stated there would be no official state visit by a member of the British royal family until there was peace, but if reports in last week's Jewish Chronicle are true, Prince Edward is not risking the wait.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/850689.html
Film Review: "It's Not a Gun"
What role can music play in confronting the Israeli occupation? This is the question posed yet not definitively answered in Helena Cotinier and Pierre-Nicolas Durand's documentary It's Not a Gun , which follows Palestinian musician Ramzi Aburedwan as he realizes his dream of establishing a music education school in Palestine as part of his al-Kamandjati (meaning "the violinist") project.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6819.shtml
Double Jeopardy Entraps Palestinians
A lready condemned to a life of imprisonment by the Israeli Government for just being a Palestinian in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, every Palestinian lives in fear of being arrested and imprisoned in Israel for wanting to be free. And, international law and conventions are no source of comfort to Palestinians seeking a way out of this double jeopardy. The world has repeatedly shown that it is not prepared to hold Israel to account.
http://www.counterpunch.org/karkar04202007.html
A Picture of Palestine
Given the fact that the Israeli-Palestinian debate in America is usually so one-sided against Palestinians, the support within the Harvard community for Picture Balata was surprising. It is rare in this country, where criticizing Israeli policies is easily demonized as being “anti-Semitic,” that a forum for an unequivocally pro-Palestinian viewpoint receives much attention. Hopefully, this turnout is not merely indicative of a chance to hear about the conflict first-hand, but rather of a new willingness to hear the “other side” in the Middle East conflict.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=518384
Bulgaria Plans Permanent Diplomatic Mission in Palestine
Bulgaria will open a permanent diplomatic mission in Ramallah in the West Bank to strengthen relations with the Palestine Authority, Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov said on Friday. "Bulgaria has always recognized the Palestinians right to have their own state," Parvanov said
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=79595
Why is the Peace Movement Silent About AIPAC?
"AIPAC!" was the forceful one-word answer of Congressman Michael Capuano when we asked him, "Why was the Iran clause forbidding war on Iran without Congressional approval taken out of the recent supplemental for the Iraq war funding?" I nearly fell out of my chair at his reply - not because this was news but because of who had just said it.
http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh04172007.html
Hezbollah slams UN over report of arms smuggling from Syria
Hezbollah MP Hussein Hajj Hassan stressed that the UN report was "definitely inaccurate and unrealistic for merely political desires to distort the truth in favour of some states." "The resistance does not need to smuggle arms, it has supplies to carry out required missions," Hajj Hassan said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/851001.html
Gates says U.S. to sell smart bombs to Saudis
According to the head of the Kuwait Center for Strategic Studies, Dr. Sami al-Faraj, various countries in the Gulf have armed themselves as a deterrent against Iran, but while Israel has a great interest in creating focuses of deterance against Iran, it expresses automatic opposition when other countries seek to obtain these weapons.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/850691.html
The victory won't be American
The assumption that there will be no American victory in Iraq is growing stronger. On the other hand, a Shi'ite victory over the Sunnis seems likely. If there is such a victory, it will have a profound effect on the region, Israel included. It is important to understand that there is another war going on in Iraq - a civil war between the Shi'ites and the Sunnis, who have been in power for hundreds of years. Of late, a crushing Shi'ite victory looks imminent.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/850713.html
Months of change ahead
The only question worth asking today is the date of withdrawal of occupation forces. Will it be in September 2008, or before or afterwards? The Democrats are trying to end the US occupation of Iraq before naming their candidate for the presidential elections of November 2008. Understandably, the Democrats prefer to focus on their own electoral programme, rather than be burdened with Iraq. President George W Bush, however, is aiming to get the Democrats bogged down in Iraq just as the Republicans are.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/841/op3.htm
Qatari university welcomes Israeli students
“Our university is open to students of all races, nationalities and sexes; we accept people based on their individual capabilities and are looking for students from all over the world – including Israel,” said Dr James Reardon-Anderson, dean of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3390208,00.html
US builds Baghdad wall to keep Sunnis and Shias apart
US soldiers are building a three-mile wall to separate one of Baghdad's Sunni enclaves from surrounding Shia neighbourhoods, it emerged today. The move is part of a contentious security plan that has fuelled fears of the Iraqi capital's Balkanisation. When the barrier is finished, the minority Sunni community of Adamiya, on the eastern side of the River Tigris, will be completely gated. Traffic control points manned by Iraqi soldiers will provide the only access, the US military said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2062023,00.html
IRAQ: Doctors warn of summer dehydration among children and the elderly
Doctors are warning of a possible increase in diseases among children and the elderly as Iraq's hot summer months begin. Dehydration, cholera and bacterial infections are of the greatest concern, they say. "The sewage and electrical systems in Iraq have completely deteriorated, worsening the situation, especially for children, as summer begins,"
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/9d1ae754a67b28f8d34e77bbd1c2dd25.htm
Two more British soldiers killed in Iraq, three injured
Two British soldiers were killed in Iraq and three others injured Thursday, the latest casualties in the violence-scarred country, the Ministry of Defence in London said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070419/wl_uk_afp/iraqunrestbritaintoll_070419175424 |
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