| As a Form of Collective Punishment, IOF Continued to Arrest and Harass Mothers of Allegedly Wanted Palestinians
As a means to exert pressure on allegedly wanted Palestinians to surrender, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have recently started to arrest, interrogate and harass mothers of a number of these Palestinians.
http://pchrgaza.org/files/PressR/English/2006/46-2006.htm
Five-year old boy detained by Israeli (OCCUPATION) forces
The soldiers then dragged Motaz from his father, shouting at the boy who started screaming and begging his father to help him. Samer tried to hold onto and protect Motaz, but his efforts only angered the soldiers further. They turned and beat Samer, separating him from Motaz whom they slapped and yelled at. The soldiers bound Samer's hands and blindfolded him before pushing him into the jeep, shoving Motaz in after him.
http://www.dci-pal.org/english/display.cfm?DocId=486&CategoryId=1
Soldiers abuse a handicapped child at a military checkpoint near Jenin
Israeli troops attacked a handicapped child at a military checkpoint near the West Bank city of Jenin, on Tuesday. The people at the checkpoint tried to tell the soldiers that Mohamed was unable to hear and that he is a minor so does not have an ID card, but the soldiers did not listen and attacked him regardless , eyewitnesses reported.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/18413/1/
Army attacks a medical center in Beit Sahour [Looking for body parts?]
Soldiers forced entry to Greek Catholic Medical Center and detained the night guard, then started to smash down doors and search the clinic. D.Rao'of Azar the director of the center stated that the clinic was attacked by the soldiers who destroyed doors and urinated in the surgery room, also the night guard was attacked by the soldiers.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/18412/1/
Army continues to prevent the farmers of Kafer Qaddoum from accessing their lands
Soldiers attacked the farmers and evicted them from their land as they attempted to harvest their crops. The fields are only few meters from their homes and the army claimed the farmers did not have the necessary passes to be allowed onto their own land, local sources reported.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/18417/1/
Associated Press Omissions
At one point, after most of the vehicles had driven away, an Israeli soldier stuck his gun out of his armored vehicle, aimed at a young boy nearby, and pulled the trigger. We discovered that an AP cameraperson had filmed the entire incident. He had then followed what apparently is the usual routine—he sent his video to the AP control bureau in Israel. Did AP place the video in safe-keeping, available for an investigation of this crime? According to the camera- person, the AP erased it.
http://zmagsite.zmag.org/May2006/weir0506.html
Plan to pay Palestinian wages faces US objections
Diplomats said U.S. pressure on banks could scuttle plans by the Cairo-based Arab League to sidestep U.S. restrictions by making direct deposits into the accounts of Authority workers. The United States could also use its clout in the Quartet of Middle East mediators to block a proposal by France to set up a trust that would pay salaries and be overseen by the World Bank.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01694173.htm
Mourning a West Bank wife
Outside one of Tulkarm's mosques, as the people of this impoverished West Bank town prayed, I spoke to Eitas Zalat's husband. Yousef Zalat is an English teacher. He is still - I think, as we speak - in shock. "I feel just like an ordinary man who lost his partner," he tells me. "We were sitting next to each other and the Jews shot her while we were speaking together.... Why they do this? Why?"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4963598.stm
Israeli Arabs to remember Nakba with traditional procession
The Nakba, which means catastrophe in Arabic, will be commemorated with a traditional procession organized by the committee for the uprooted villagers on the land of Um Alzinat, a Mount Carmel village abandoned in 1948. They (PALESTINIAN REFUGEES) were never allowed to return, and their land was seized by the government and given to Jewish immigrants. 530 lost villages:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/711957.html
Palestine refugees on 56 years of UNRWA
Hanya El Kurdi, 67 years old, a refugee from Ashdod, considers that UNRWA's assistance was better in the past than at the time of writing. "Imagine", she begins, "we were receiving rations every 15 days, which was enough for us, and we lacked nothing, but now we only receive coupons every few months." Haja Hanya reveals that she and her son recently went with no food for 15 days, before receiving help from other people.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SODA-6PE57W?OpenDocument
Palestine twinning campaign
When the conference happened in Bethlehem on 13 April, the new government was in place and Britain, Europe and the US were punishing the Palestinian people for exercising their democratic rights. They were cutting the aid that the occupied people depended on.
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=8767
Hamas becomes more cautious about paying overdue gov't salaries
"I am afraid that these banks will not be able to ignore or tolerate the American pressure; then that will lead to a delay," Odwan told Reuters. "The United States ... wants to bring down the government." Western diplomats said the United States was now trying to block Arab and European proposals to pay salaries directly into workers' accounts.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/712077.html
Swedish MPs to meet Hamas representatives
Representatives of the Hamas government are to meet Swedish members of parliament in Stockholm. The organisers of the meeting are the Green Party's Yvonne Ruwaida and the Social Democrats' Mariam Osman Sherifay. "The situation in Gaza and the West Bank has never been so bad as it is now," she said, arguing that a dialogue is needed, not a boycott.
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3702&date=20060502
Quartet to hold key talks on fate of its Mideast peacemaking role
Heads of the international Quartet will convene at the office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday to discuss the future role of the U.S.-UN-EU-Russian grouping in the Middle East conflict, with the talks centering on the possibility of backing away from the road map peace plan and ending Quartet mediation in the Mideast conflict.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=711766
Israel's population over 7 million
The figure amounts to 80% of the total population and includes 5. 33 million Jews and an additional 306,000 non-Jewish immigrants - 4% of the total population - and their families. Israel's Arab population is nearing 1. 39 million and amounts to 20% of the total population. Israel's population rose by 118,000 in its 57th year of independence and the number of births reached 138,000.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000087547&fid=942
Brandeis Shuts Down a Show of Palestinian Art
The show of pictures from kids in a refugee camp in Bethlehem was (shockingly) an effort by Halperin to bring the humanity of the victims of Israel's occupation to the American Jewish community. "If we are going to find a partner for peace, we have to listen to the other side," Halperin says. "These are voices who are longing for a land and longing for a home, we have to respect that."
http://mondoweiss.observer.com/2006/05/brandeis-shuts-down-a-show-of-palestinian-art.html
Those heady days in May
The last week of the British Mandate in Eretz Yisrael/Palestine began on Sunday, May 9, 1948. The Jewish population, and especially its military force, the Haganah, had seen a number of significant successes in the previous weeks. The Arabs of Eretz Yisrael, the Palestinians, were fleeing en masse from their cities and villages.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/712000.html |
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