[Cross posted at Daily Kos]

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In a not-so-surprising newsreport, the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens Rights (PICCR) reported that Israeli occupation soldiers forced 68 pregnant women to give birth on road blocks after barring them from crossing as they were being transferred to hospitals and medical centers.

Quoting Saed Bannoura’s report on IMEMC:
http://imemc.org/article/47767

Also, the [...]

Another “must see” documentary today. This documentary Investigation video by If Americans Knew reveals one of the ’sick’ methods Israelis use to humiliate Palestinians (and others when they like) and Child abuse at Israel airports and Occupied Palestine Borders. Strip-Searching Children, Women and everyone they ‘like’. Strip-searching is nothing new. It is a “normal” practice [...]

This is one of the most bizarre video clips I’ve ever seen. Warning (PG): Parents, keep your kids away, trust me.
I have no clue where was this video clip taken. It is a classroom in one of our schools around the Arab world. The teacher’s accent sounds Syrian; however that doesn’t necessary [...]

Why I say ‘more’? Basically because this is nothing new.Following the ‘Hot Winter‘ operation on Nablus, the Israeli occupation forces is facing new allegations about the use of Human Shields in it’s illegal operations. Started with AP filming the IOF soldiers using locals as human shield during offensive on Nablus, more reports were published [...]

The US is holding a nine year old Canadian citizen without charges in a ‘Detention Center’ in a legal limbo. Call it international limbo. Detained by U.S. Customs officials after their flight to Toronto made an unscheduled stop on American soil nearly four weeks ago, Kevin and his Iranian parents, Majid and Masomeh, feel they [...]

See this brief clip on Gaza…

Listen carefully to the young girl…

Millions of Palestinian children are living under the same conditions if not worse in Gaza. If they escape the Israeli crimes and not get killed, they will lose an arm or a leg, or at best, they lose their right to live like YOUR kids. [...]

The attached is from our local Al-Quds newspaper on Nov 1, 2006. A story about a 2-yr old girl who was released from an Israeli prison near Ramallah. Her name is Aiysha, which in Arabic means “life.”

Aiysha’s mother gave birth to her while detained in an Israeli prison. Aiysha was released two days ago, her [...]

Many Palestinian children in Israeli Telmond Prison are being exploited by “forced labor in which they must work eight hours for a few shekels,” as reported by the Prisoners Information Center.

One of the children made a statement after his release. “The prison administration has forced all prisoners in Telmond Prison to work eight hours for [...]

A 14-year-old Egyptian boy faces execution in Saudi Arabia after a flawed trial in which he was convicted for the murder of another child, Human Rights Watch said today.

Following a seriously flawed trial, Ahmad al-D. was sentenced to death in July for the murder of three-year old Wala� `Adil `Abd al-Badi` in Dammam in April [...]