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As our Arabic proverb says: “The straw that broke the camel’s [...]
Behind closed doors, police admit ‘turning a blind eye’ to settler violence
Not unlike the NYT, Washington Post, ABC, CNN, Buzzflash, Raw Story, der Spiegel Int’l., and other media whose editors and readership condone occupation and violence against CERTAIN people…but are oh, so self righteous when it comes to other “injustices” -and just [...]
Israeli Army clears troops in Reuters cameraman’s death
Military advocate general closes investigation into death of Gaza cameraman in April, determines conduct of tank crew that mistakenly identified Fadel Shana as gunman was reasonable.
The 23-year-old Palestinian employed by the British news agency was killed by tank fire while filming Israeli troops on a heavy day of [...]
Here are two stories from two very bright young ladies from Gaza, Occupied Palestine.
The first one is a moving clip taken from an Arabic TV show where she tells her story.
Watching it made me and my family cry, so I decided to translate it and share it with you. (Hat tip: Rasheed)
Code for embedding this [...]
Two eight year old girls have been killed by the IOF in the Gaza Strip in less than a week.
Aya Hamdan Al-Najjar (right) was killed by a rocket fired from an Israeli helicopter.
On June 11, eight year old Hadeel Al-Sumairi was killed when her home in south eastern Gaza was shelled by the Israeli Occupation [...]
Last week, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released video clips showing masked Jewish settlers ganging up on and severely beating elderly Palestinian peasants near the town of Yatta, southwest of Hebron. At least three Palestinians were wounded in the unprovoked assault, including a man and his wife, both in their early sixties.
The latest act [...]
Warning: Parental Guidance Suggested!
June 13 2008 - A young man from Bilin was shot with live rounds during the weekly Bilin Protest. Ibrahim Burnat who was shot in his right thigh was taken directly to Sheik Zaid Hospital in Ramallah and was described by doctors as being in critical condition. Ibrahim posed no threat to [...]
UPDATED (See end of post for new version of the same incident)
Warning: Parental Guidance Suggested!
Spread the video. Get the code from here:
http://blip.tv/file/990007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bukTxWZJsN0 (YouTube Zionist censorship removed the video. Check update below!)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5rktn_jewish-settlers-attack-elderly-shep_news
As reported by BBC:
‘Jewish settler attack’ on film
By Tim Franks - BBC
Footage from a video camera handed out by an Israeli human rights group [...]
Above: A map showing the area of Silwan threatened with demolition and settlement expansion, including an indicator of the area in which settlements already exist. As highlighted on the map, Silwan as well as the adjacent villages of Tur and Ras Al Amud will be on the western side of the Wall, as Jerusalem is [...]
PRESS RELEASE
BY
LUISA MORGANTINI
Vice President of the European Parliament
(GUE/NGL)
ITALIAN JUDGE INJURED BY ISRAELI ARMY IN PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE WALL, IN BIL’IN (WEST BANK)
Bil’in, (West Bank) 6th June 2008
A demonstration against the wall in Bil’in, a Palestinian village close to Ramallah, just concluded the Third Annual Conference (2nd-4th June) organized by the Bil’in Popular Committee for [...]
By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Each American claim to moral authority becomes a foul excretion in light of U.S. complicity in Israel’s barbaric and illegal treatment of the Palestinians. Washington deploys its superpower apparatus to smother dissent against its Middle East policy in Europe and elsewhere, leaving former president Jimmy Carter and Nobel [...]
US Soldiers Discuss Using ‘Drop Weapons’ To Kill Innocent Iraqi.
Several soldiers who have returned from combat zones talk with the American News Project about what they say is the widespread practice of using “drop weapons” to cover up the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Note: Checkpoints are under 100% Israeli surveillance. After you read the story ask yourself: Why aren’t the surveillance camera tapes being shown to the public? I guess it’s obvious.
May the killers never sleep a full night again as they see Fahmi in their nightmares!
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Murder at huwara checkpoint
By Aya Kaniuk, Vivi Sury, Tamar Goldschmidt. Huwara Checkpoint, [...]
Palestinian youths, men, women, elders and foreigner supporters against the coward Israeli Terrorist Forces, protesting building part of the Apartheid Wall on Na’alin – near Ramallah, Occupied Palestine.
Update:
On 27th May 2008, Robert Birch, an Australian retiree from Pacific Palms, was shot in the lower-back by a rubber-coated steel bullet while participating in a non-violent demonstration [...]
In a speech at a literary festival in Hay-on-Wye, in Wales, the 83-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner said: “There is no reason to treat these people this way,” referring to the blockade, in place since the Islamist Hamas movement seized Gaza in June 2007.
While president from 1977 to 1981, Carter was the architect of the [...]
By Sami Jamil Jadallah
Before there was the Israel Defense Forces “IDF” there were the Jewish terrorist groups in Mandated Palestine. Before there was state terrorism committed by an army of the state, IDF, there was Jewish terrorism and terrorists committing crimes and murder against Arabs, British and even Jews.
Before the State of Israel became an [...]
The Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children runs a school for 275 non-hearing children, but the classrooms have been empty for almost 6 weeks, because there isn’t enough fuel to transport the pupils to school.
The Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children runs a school for 275 non-hearing children, but the classrooms have been empty for almost 6 [...]
Britain obstructs global ban on use of cluster bombs
The British Government is accused of being the chief obstacle to the signing of a treaty to ban cluster bombs, which have maimed and killed thousands of civilians worldwide.
Countries that have suffered the impact of the bombs, humanitarian groups and former commanders of British forces have called [...]
In a report this week, 39 soldiers give eyewitness accounts from their patrols in and around the West Bank city of Hebron.
by Ilene R. Prusher
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - Doron Efrati was assigned to the Kfir Brigade, part of an infantry battalion that was especially created to serve in the West Bank following the outbreak of [...]
“This morning we saw pictures of the Warsaw ghetto at Yad Vashem and this evening we are going to the Ramallah ghetto.”
German Bishop Gregor Maria Franz Hanke during a visit to Ramallah in March 2007.
Basking in their usual insolence and self-absorbedness, Israeli leaders have been visibly irate over the highlighted commemoration of the 60th anniversary [...]
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