PCHR
Report: 23 killed, 41 wounded by Israeli forces since Dec.
13th
According to the
Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Report, in the two week
period between the 13th and 26th of December, 2007, 23 Palestinians
were killed by Israeli forces, 41 were wounded, and 87 were abducted
by Israeli forces.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52131
Israeli
Aircrafts Wound 3 Citizens in Gaza Strip
Three
citizens were wounded on Friday morning in the Gaza Strip city of
Khanyounis, medical sources said. Witnesses said that Israeli
aircrafts bombarded a group of people in Abasan town, east Khanyounis
governorate and wounded three citizens. Medical sources said that
three citizens were hit with shrapnel missiles and their condition is
reported to be moderate.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=170
Two
Israelis, two Palestinians killed in West Bank
Palestinian
militants killed two off-duty Israeli soldiers who were hiking on
Friday near the West Bank city of Hebron, in a clash that left two of
the gunmen dead, Israeli and Palestinian security sources said.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said Palestinian gunmen opened fire at
the soldiers who live in a nearby Jewish settlement and were on leave
at the time of the incident. The Israelis shot back at the gunmen,
the spokeswoman said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28409300.htm
Five
Palestinian resistance fighters killed in attacks by Israel
occupation forces
Five Palestinian militants were killed
in two separate Israeli attacks late Thursday in the southern and
central Gaza
Strip.
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1383414.php
After
the meeting: IDF kills Qureia's bodyguard
PA reports
special IDF unit killed bodyguard of chief Palestinian negotiator
Ahmed Quriea only a few hours after a meeting with Olmert in
Jerusalem.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3487654,00.html
An
Israeli warplane strikes a target in central Gaza, kills a fighter
An Israeli warplane struck a target in central Gaza Strip
on Thursday evening, apparently, near the Gaza power
plant.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52130
Abbas
to get armoured vehicles but not with guns
RAMALLAH, West
Bank, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Armoured vehicles will be delivered to
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's security forces within the next
month, a Palestinian government minister said on Friday. Israel
agreed in November to allow the Palestinians to receive up to 50
lightly armoured vehicles but a dispute emerged over a Palestinian
demand that they have guns mounted on
them.
http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSL28335043
Petition:
Israel stalling on permits for terminally ill in Gaza
In a
petition delivered to the High Court of Justice Thursday, Physicians
for Human Rights claim that the state has refused entry to
Palestinians who require immediate medical treatment and is now
dragging its feet.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3487579,00.html
The
Israeli army attack school boys near Hebron
The Israeli
army invaded the village of Sourif located near the southern West
Bank city of Hebron on Thursday midday and clashed with local school
boys.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52126.html
One
Palestinian teen kidnapped as the army invades a village west of
Bethlehem
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli
army invaded the village of Bateer, located west of Bethlehem city in
the southern part of the West Bank.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52118.html
IDF
checking if Palestinian missile narrowly missed helicopter
Reuters
video published Thursday captures air force helicopter hovering over
Gaza when unidentified object flies by, emitting smoke
trail.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3487637,00.html
IDF:
Probes of suspected crimes against Palestinians up 36%
The
Israel Defense Forces launched 207 investigations into troops'
suspected crimes against Palestinians in 2007, up 36 percent from the
year before, the military said Thursday. A recent report by the
Israeli human rights group Yesh Din faulted the military for not
opening enough investigations into allegations of mistreatment of
Palestinians.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=939210
Two
International peace activists injured in Bil'in
On their
weekly anti Wall protest, the residents of the village of Bil'in west
of the central West Bank city of Ramallah were joined by Israeli and
International peace activists.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52136
Protest
Against Israeli Racism
Residents of a number of villages
in the Ramallah area organized a protest joined by a number of
International and Israeli peace activists at Highway 443, on Friday
after the noon prayer. Protesters carried anti-racism signs and
Palestinian flags, and demanded that the Israeli authorities allow
them to use this road that passes through the villagers' land.
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2007/12/27/protest-against-israeli-racism/
PM
to Abbas: Israel won't undermine final status talks
Israel
will not undermine negotiations toward a final-status agreement,
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting in Jerusalem on Thursday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=939269
Palestinians
'helped settlements'
A Palestinian parliamentary inquiry
has found that four Palestinian companies sold cement to Israeli
firms building Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The cement,
imported from Egypt, was to have been used to build houses for
homeless Palestinians. The matter will now be referred to the
Palestinian attorney-general, MP Hassan Khreisha told Reuters news
agency. He said there was no evidence any of the cement was used in
the construction of Israel's West Bank security barrier. The
Palestinian firms reportedly sent 420,000 tons of cement to Israel.
The cement had "gone to build Israeli houses - settlement
units," Mr Khreisha said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3794895.stm
Non-ID
Palestinian refugees want to live normal lives, but are told: you do
not exist
BEIRUT: In the maze of dirty streets that
spreads from Beirut's revamped Sport City to the shabby Halabi
quarters, 20,000 refugees are clustered in what is known as the Bourj
al-Barajneh Palestinian camp. In a town plagued by poverty, many
families live in complete destitution. These forgotten people,
known as non-ID Palestinians, have fallen through the cracks of
legality and belong nowhere.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=87683
Hamas
in the crosshairs
One November night in 2006 in his fourth
floor office in the western wing of the Israeli Ministry of Defence,
General Amos Gilad, head of the ministry's department of political
security, met with Elliot Abrams, American deputy national security
adviser. On the agenda of this meeting that Abrams had come specially
to Tel Aviv for was only one item: how to ensure the fall of Hamas
after it had grown clear that the siege on the West Bank and Gaza
Strip had not only failed to cause its collapse but had actually
increased support for Hamas among Palestinians.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/877/re92.htm
Barack
Obama backs Israel remaining a Jewish state
His key
statement was: "The Palestinians would have to reinterpret the
notion of right of return in a way that would preserve Israel as a
Jewish
state.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerBlog.jhtml?itemNo=939023
February
Olive Planting 2008
A program for Civil International
Solidarity with Palestinians: Invitation to the Olive Planting
Program 2008, 2nd - 11th February. Agricultural experts in the Holy
Land estimate that over a million olive trees have been uprooted and
destroyed by Israel since it was created in 1948. Almost half of
these olive trees were uprooted during the past 7 years after the
start of the 2nd Intifada (Palestinian uprising against the Israeli
Military Occupation).
http://www.jai-pal.org/content.php?page=645
Beware
of Barak
Israeli "Defense" Minister Ehud Barak
is definitely the most dangerous politician in the Middle East.
Ahmadinejad can only dream of having the powers – political and
military, conventional and non-conventional – that Barak already
possesses.
http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/?articleid=12110
'
Israel has megaton nuclear bombs'
A Washington-based
military think tank has revealed that Israel has produced nuclear
weapons with 'a yield of one
megaton'.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=36203§ionid=351020202
A
year of Palestinian disunity
2007 has not been an ordinary
year for Palestinians and their enduring cause. It witnessed a
mini-civil war between Fatah and Hamas, a short-lived government of
national unity, followed by a brief but bloody showdown in Gaza that
ended with Hamas taking over the coastal strip. For its part, Fatah
retaliated by establishing its own separate authority in Ramallah and
instigating a vindictive and widespread inquisition against Hamas
supporters and institutions in the West Bank.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/877/re91.htm
Twilight
Zone / Deer hunters
After a night of rain, the sun broke
through the clouds. Two brothers and their brother-in-law decided to
go for a hike in the wild, through the spectacular valley of olive
trees, west of Ramallah in the West Bank. Around midday they suddenly
noticed a herd of deer descending pell-mell into the valley. They
stood and watched, certain that in the wake of the frantically
fleeing animals, other people would appear. And, in fact, a few
minutes later they spotted a group of soldiers slowly making their
way into the valley.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=939083
Beware
of Barak
The person who destroyed the Oslo process and
initiated the second intifada, the person who demolished the Israeli
peace camp from within, by spreading legends about a "generous
offer" rejected by the Palestinians, by persuading the Israelis
that he "unmasked" Arafat and that there was no Palestinian
partner -- this person still calls himself "the leader of the
Israeli peace camp." That's one of Israeli "Defense"
Minister Ehud Barak's most dangerous traits: his inherent
untruthfulness, his presenting himself as the very opposite of what
he actually is.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9184.shtml
Miko
Peled: On Trust and Dialogue - My Personal Odyssey
For me,
the myths that we Israelis are taught regarding the war of 1948 and
the establishment of the Jewish State were indisputable historical
facts. They had to be so because my father fought and was wounded in
1948.
http://palestinechronicle.com/story-122707174113.htm
Vijay
Rajiva: First Steps towards Implementing Res. 181
from
Palestine Chronicle - Headlines
A Palestinian state already exists
under International Law requirements since the PLO Declaration of
Independence of
1988.
http://palestinechronicle.com/story-12280733909.htm
Nicola
Nasser: A Peace-killing Linkage, De-linkage
Whereas the
Fatah-Hamas bloody race for controlling the PA institutions is
self-evident, all indications refer to an emerging third power.
http://palestinechronicle.com/story-12280734052.htm
Letter
to Editor: On Israeli 'Apologists'
The PLO Declaration of
Independence in 1988 calls for the Partition Line. And despite Oslo
(1993), Arafat himself returned to that position from 1999
onwards.
http://palestinechronicle.com/story-12280733543.htm
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