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Alert! Mass demonstration against the apartheid highway 443 and the
apartheid road system in the occupied territories
This
Friday, January 4th, Human Rights activists will meet at a mass
demonstration against the system of Israeli Apartheid being imposed
upon the Palestinian people. They will protest the network of
apartheid roads which dissect the West Bank and which Palestinians
themselves are blocked from using.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/12/31/action-alert-mass-demonstration-against-
the-apartheid-highway-443-and-the-apartheid-road-system-in-the-occupied-territories/
Three
Palestinians killed in Gaza violence
At least three
Palestinians were killed and 30 others wounded as rival factions
exchanged fire in the Gaza Strip on Monday, medical officials said.
One Fatah supporter, a teenager, and two Hamas members were shot dead
at a demonstration commemorating Fatah's 43rd anniversary in the
southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, the medical workers said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L31493537.htm
Palestinians:
IDF kills Gazan woman, hurts 4 others en route from hajj
At
least one Palestinian was killed and four others were wounded by
gunfire while crossing from Israel into the Gaza Strip on Sunday
after completing the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Palestinian
medics said. The medical workers said the pilgrims had been hit
by Israel Defense Forces gunfire at the Erez crossing on the northern
Gaza border. Witnesses said soldiers first fired into the air and
then at the crowd of pilgrims.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/939761.html
Gaza
Strip and West Bank: Eight Palestinians killed by Israeli fire
Eight
Palestinian activists, one of them a senior commander, have been
killed and 16 other people wounded in the Gaza Strip in four Israeli
raids carried out since late Thursday. In the first raid three men --
two of them from the Islamic Jihad and a third from the armed wing of
Hamas -- died in the southern town of Khan Younis. Six people were
hurt in this incident.
http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/220373
Palestinian
dies in Israeli detention
Palestinian prisoner Fadi Abd
al-Latif Abu al-Rob (21) from the town of Qabatia near Jenin died in
the Israeli prison of Jalbou' on the evening of 28 December 2007. The
prisoner was a member of Islamic Jihad detained on 29 June 2007.
According to information gathered by PCHR, Fadi suffered an illness
on the morning of the day he died. He was transferred to the prison
clinic. However, his condition deteriorated and the Israeli Prisons
Authority announced his death in the evening without specifying the
cause.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9186.shtml
Israeli
troops invade a village near Jenin and open fire at civilians
A
Palestinian family, from the village of Kufer Dan near Jenin city in
the northern part of the West Bank, escaped an almost certain death
on Monday morning when Israeli troops invading the village opened
fire at them.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52158
Hamas
member remains in critical condition after stabbing in Tyre
TYRE:
A Hamas member was fighting for his life after he was stabbed in the
head on Saturday at the Rashidieh refugee camp in Lebanon in an
attack which the Palestinian Islamist group blamed on rivals Fatah.
"When Bassel al-Ashkar, 30, returned home, he was attacked by
four members of Fatah who stabbed him in the head and back, then
opened fire on his house to terrorize him family," said Hamas
official Abu Khaled Jihad.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&
article_id=87747
PHCR
calls for investigation into shooting and abduction in Gaza
Gaza – Ma'an – A Palestinian man named Samir Al-Halawni was
injured and a relative of his was abducted last week by unidentified
gunmen east of Gaza city, says the Palestinian Center for Human
Rights (PCHR).
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=26953
Youngest
Palestinian prisoner released from Israeli detention centre
On
Sunday night Israeli forces freed a Palestinian boy named Majed
Jaradat from Sa'eer village near the southern West Bank city of
Hebron. Jaradat ,13 was considered to be the youngest Palestinian
prisoner inside an Israeli detention centre as he was sentenced by
the Israeli court for two months in Ofer detention center, near the
West Bank city of Ramallah.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52153
Four
Palestinians kidnapped in Hebron during Israeli Invasion
Israeli
forces kidnapped at least four Palestinians from different areas of
the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Monday morning. The
ransacking operation affected a countless number of civilian homes.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52156
193
detainees died in Israeli prisons since 1967
Abdul-Nasser
Farawna, head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of
Detainees, specialized researcher in the issue of detainees, stated
on Saturday that 193 Palestinian detainees died in Israeli prisons
and detention facilities since 1967.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52152
B'Tselem:
131 Palestinians civilians killed by Israeli army fire in year 2007
B'Tselem today released its year-end report. According to
B'Tselem data, the number of Israelis and Palestinians killed in
clashes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has
dropped.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52159
Palestinian
pilgrims stuck in Egypt refuse to be moved to camps
EL-ARISH,
Egypt (AFP) - Over 1,000 Palestinian pilgrims stuck in Egypt refused
Sunday to be moved into camps until they are given clearance to
return to Gaza without going through Israel, a security source said.
"They are refusing to get off the buses and the situation is
very tense," the source told AFP.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071230/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpalestinianjordanegypthajj_
071230220206
Israel's
Olmert issues West Bank housing directive
Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert has issued a directive requiring his approval for new
Israeli housing construction in the West Bank, his spokesman said
Sunday, after recent disclosures of building plans sidetracked
renewed peace negotiations with the Palestinians and drew criticism
from the Bush administration.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-mideastdec31,1,4715435.story
Stranded
Palestinian refugees at Iraqi borders to resettle in Sudan within
days
Khartoum : The Sudanese government has declared that
all preparations were finalized on the resettlement of 2,000
Palestinians refugees in the outskirts of the capital, Khartoum,
within the few coming
days.
http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2007/dec/30/stranded_palestinian_refugees_iraqi_borders
_resettle_sudan_within_days.html
ISRAEL-OPT:
Aida refugee camp residents say Barrier harming their
livelihoods
Source: IRIN Behind a luxurious five-star
hotel and close to Bethlehem, yet unknown to most visitors who
converged on nearby Manger Square for the recent Christmas mass,
residents of Aida refugee camp - home to nearly 5,000 people - say
their lives have been adversely affected by the Israeli restrictions
on movement, in particular the Barrier built around the city.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/324486140528d13d766c8398929878e0.htm
Peace
talks cannot go on unless settlements stop: Abbas
Revived
Middle East peace talks cannot continue unless Israel halts
settlement activity in occupied Palestinian territories, president
Mahmud Abbas said on Monday. "The continuation of settlements
and the construction of the racist separation barrier compromise the
creation of a Palestinian state and the two-state vision supported by
the international community," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071231/wl_afp/mideastdiplomacysettler_071231165510
PA
foreign minister condemns West Bank terror attack
Palestinian
Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki strongly condemned Friday's
shooting attack near Hebron which claimed the lives of two Israelis.
"The group that carried out the attack seeks to sabotage peace
negotiations and the Palestinian Authority's plan to increase
security in the Palestinian territories," he was quoted as
saying by Israel Radio on Saturday.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1198517235931&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle
%2FShowFull
Palestinians
Arrested in Israeli Deaths
The Palestinian prime minister
said Saturday his security forces had arrested a number of suspects
in the killings of two off-duty Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and
had given Israeli authorities weapons taken from the dead men by
their
attackers.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jD4YSkDPlclqd9dHvg2f0Ij18zEgD8TRCQBO0
Abbas
urges Hamas to agree to early elections
Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas urged Hamas Islamists on Monday to agree to
early elections and to open a "new page" by ceding control
of the Gaza Strip and holding reconciliation talks with his Fatah
faction.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L31438689.htm
Abbas
govt says thwarts Hamas suicide attack
Palestinian
security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas have arrested Hamas
militants who were plotting a suicide bombing, Abbas's foreign and
information minister said on
Monday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L31451525.htm
Gaza
journalists warned away from Fatah event
Reporters
receive anonymous phone calls advising them to stay away from 43rd
anniversary of the Fatah movement. "No one will prevent us from
commemorating this anniversary," Fatah leader
says.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3488800,00.html
Stranded
Palestinian pilgrims protest in camps in north Sinai
Palestinian
pilgrims protested Monday, breaking windows and burning some
mattresses and blankets, angered by Egypt's decision to house them in
temporary camps until a dispute over how they will return to the Gaza
Strip is resolved.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=940172
Report:
Prisoner swap deal for Shalit to be set in next 2 weeks
A
prisoner exchange deal for missing Israel Defense Forces soldier
Gilad Shalit will be resolved over the next two weeks, according to a
report on Monday in the Palestinian daily Al-Ayam.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=940233
Olmert
warns Palestinians on security after attack
Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert urged the Palestinians on Sunday to rein in
militants after an attack killed two Israelis, calling it a condition
for Israel relaxing its grip on the West Bank.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30725482.htm
Israeli
Premier: no advancement at peace until PA meets its security
obligations
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said on
Sunday that Israel would not advance peace with the Palestinians
until the Palestinian Authority meets its security
obligations.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52150
We
won't win in Gaza
IDF hasn't won a war in 30 years; notion
that Gaza reoccupation will lead to victory false. IDF Chief of Staff
Gabi Ashkenazi declared recently that should the IDF enter the Gaza
Strip in full force, in the framework of an Israeli military
operation, he has no doubt that this time around the army and the
entire State of Israel will be triumphant. Several commentators were
quick to explain that this declaration was an attempt to highlight
the great defeat suffered by his predecessor, Dan Halutz, and to
promise to the people that under Ashkenazi's leadership the army will
not suffer another defeat such as the Second Lebanon War failure.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3488559,00.html
Knesset
war report: IDF failed to eliminate Hizbullah rocket threat
Knesset's
Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee reveals findings of independent
probe into Second Lebanon War, but refrains from making personal
recommendations, citing 'that's what the Winograd Commission is for'.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3488547,00.html
Matter
of life and death in Gaza
REGARDING the worsening
situation in Gaza (International, December 16), Israel has kept
Gaza's borders sealed since June, leaving more than 1.5 million
people in a 140 square mile 'prison'. The sewage system has
collapsed, there's no power to pump sewage out and no chemicals to
clean it. Garbage is piling up in the streets and there is no fuel
for the trucks to come to haul it away.
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Matter-of-life-and-death.3628229.jp
Arab
pupils lag behind Jewish peers in reading comprehension
Israeli
Arab pupils seriously lag behind their Jewish peers in reading
competency, according to the Progress in International Reading
Literacy Study (PIRLS).
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=939857
Egypt
warns Israel not to undermine Cairo-U.S ties
Egypt's
foreign minister warned Israel that Cairo could use its diplomatic
influence against Israel which he said was trying to undermine
Cairo's ties to Washington, state news agency MENA said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=940225
Lenni
Brenner: Rice Compares Israeli Occupation to US Segregation
If
a Jewish state is legitimate in principle, how and why did "the
only democracy in the Middle East," end up looking like
apartheid South Africa and the segregated American south.
http://palestinechronicle.com/story-123007162104.htm
Ha'aretz:
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.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/12/30/haaretz-twilight-zone-deer-hunters/
Democracy:
An existential threat?
As two of the authors of a recent
document advocating a one-state solution to the Arab-Israeli colonial
conflict we emphatically intended to generate debate. Predictably,
Zionists decried the proclamation as yet another proof of the
unwavering devotion of Palestinian -- and some radical Israeli --
intellectuals to the "destruction of Israel." Some
pro-Palestinian activists accused us of forsaking immediate and
critical Palestinian rights in the quest of a "utopian"
dream. Ali Abunimah and Omar Barghouti comment.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9187.shtml
Nakba
is now
Only by understanding the Nakba as a unified
continuing strategy can we hope to reverse it, writes Serene Assir.
Jamila Moussa was 19 when she and her husband fled Kfur Yassin, her
village in Akka, north Palestine. They had just had their first
child, Nicolas, who now has children of his own. Fearing for his
safety they fled, hoping they would return within a matter of weeks.
Since that day, Moussa has witnessed several wars -- though none of
them in Palestine. In interview with Al-Ahram Weekly this spring,
from her home in Dbayye refugee camp, Lebanon, she recalled that the
force of their expulsion was "a violence like I have never seen
since, or had witnessed before. The British used to burn homes, yes,
but the Jews, they were flattening our houses, so they no longer
existed."
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/877/re82.htm
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