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Not the Bethlehem of our thoughts

Posted on: December 31, 2006

by Leila Sansour, December 29th

Christmas in Bethlehem this year was the most difficult in memory. This reality probably wouldn’t surprise most Americans who have a general sense of Middle East conflict. However, a survey we commissioned reveals that Americans are ignorant of many other basic facts about Bethlehem. Most Americans cannot identify our town’s location, its inhabitants, or the cause of Bethlehem’s demise according to most of its residents, Israeli military occupation.

Most Americans believe Bethlehem is an Israeli town inhabited by a mixture of Jews and Muslims, according to a nationwide survey by top U.S. pollsters Zogby International. Largely unaware … Continue reading


Updated on December 31, 2006
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Breakthrough for Palestinian Human Rights in Tel Rumeida

Posted on: December 30, 2006

1. Breakthrough for Palestinian Human Rights in Tel Rumeida
2. Announcements of Israeli Change of Policy Unfounded in Reality
3. Villagers Unite Against Apartheid Road
4. “Are you Fateh or Hamas?’ – “I am neither”
5. Transcript of BBC World Servce interview with Mary Baxter
6. IOF illegally detain international volunteers for four hours
7. Anarchists Against the Wall block Central Tel Aviv
8. Popular Committee Member shot in Bil’in

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1. Breakthrough for Palestinian Human Rights in Tel Rumeida

by Sam, December 29th

This morning at 10 a.m, three Palestinian residents of the Tel Rumeida District in Hebron accompanied by a handful of Israeli activists and media personnel as well … Continue reading


Updated on December 30, 2006
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Breakthrough for Palestinian Human Rights in Tel Rumeida

Posted on: December 29, 2006

by Sam, December 29th

This morning at 10 a.m, three Palestinian residents of the Tel Rumeida District in Hebron accompanied by a handful of Israeli activists and media personnel as well as international volunteers successfully crossed an area off limits to Palestinians for the last six years.

Tel Rumeida falls in the Occupation controlled H2 military zone of Hebron City and is illegally barricaded by the IOF even though there are many Palestinian residents within the area. Access is only available via a checkpoint and Palestinians are not allowed to drive their cars in the zone. The illegal Jewish settlers however, enjoy … Continue reading


Updated on December 29, 2006
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Popular Committee Member shot in Bil’in

Posted on: December 29, 2006
Popular Committee Member shot in Bil’in

by the ISM media team, December 29th

The IOF shot rubber-coated steel bullets at Bil’in Popular Committee Member Abdullah Abu Rahme, wounding him twice in different parts of the leg. The soldier took aim and fired the bullets from less than 50 metres away at Abu Rahme’s leg after today’s peaceful demo against the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in.

A larger than usual number of villagers participated in today’s protest on the eve of the Eid Al Adha feast. After marching to the gate in the wall, marchers passed between the gate and razor wire, which … Continue reading


Updated on December 29, 2006
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PALESTINIANS ARE INVISIBLE…in the US press

Posted on: December 28, 2006

American Hummus – CNNI: Extensive report on injured Israeli teen, no mention of Palestinian deaths

CNN International,

Israel to resume “pinpoint” targeting of militants in Gaza.

With dramatic footage of Israeli teenagers injured by a Palestinian rocket, Mathew Chance reports the current truce as a sham. We see footage of rockets being set up and fired while the Israeli government spokesperson talks about continuing Israeli restraint amid a constant barrage of rockets from the Palestinians.

Click here to view the ABC report

Since the truce began, these are the only Israelis to be injured by rockets or anything else from Palestinians.

However, left out … Continue reading


Updated on December 28, 2006
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Anarchists Against the Wall block Central Tel Aviv

Posted on: December 28, 2006
Anarchists Against the Wall block Central Tel Aviv

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Israeli activists have blocked central Tel Aviv with razor wire from the Apartheid Wall. The activists stretched the razor wire across Basel Street with a sign from the Wall that reads in Arabic, Hebrew and English: “Mortal Danger-Military Zone. Any person who passes or damages the fence endangers his life”.

The twenty activists from Anarchists Against the Wall, who attend the weekly Friday demonstrations against the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in, set up the blockade at around 2pm and started handing out flyers to passers by … Continue reading


Updated on December 28, 2006
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IOF illegally detain international volunteers for four hours

Posted on: December 27, 2006
IOF illegally detain international volunteers for four hours

by ISM Hebron, December 26th

Two international volunteers were illegally detained for over four hours this morning. They were performing a routine visit to Qurtuba School to accompany Palestinian schoolchildren, who face physical violence and harrassment from settler-colonists.

The two volunteers, from South Africa and Spain, were accused of entering a house that was a Closed Military Zone according to the soldiers, although they failed to produce the necessary documentation. The home, now deserted, was once occupied by a Palestinian family that has since left due to the constant and unbearable harassment and abuse by … Continue reading


Updated on December 27, 2006
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The New Refugees

Posted on: December 26, 2006

By Amira Hass for Haaretz

Until Enaya Samara, who has been living in forced exile for the past eight months returns to her village near Ramallah, and until Someida Abbas, who was banished from his home 10 months ago accompanies his children to kindergarten again, it will not be possible to believe the defense establishment’s promise to change its policy. So long as American, Brazilian and German citizens whose name is not Cohen but Abdullah, are refused entry at the borders, we will know that the policy is still in effect – the policy of causing tens of thousands of … Continue reading


Updated on December 26, 2006
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Haaretz: “IDF probing accusations troops destroyed Palestinian property”

Posted on: December 24, 2006

by Mijal Grinberg, December 24th

The Israel Defense Forces’ Investigations Military Police have opened a probe into claims that IDF troops committed a series of offensives against Palestinian residents of the Hebron area, including throwing stones, destruction of private property, damaging vehicles and unlawful detention.

The investigation was opened after a human rights group filed complaints on the Palestinians’ behalf.

The alleged incidents took place in the villages of Al-Carmel, Ma’ayan and Wa-Twana during the months of November and December.

A resident of Wa-Twana said that on December 12th soldiers broke the windows of his car and his neighbor’s house.

“They drove up quickly … Continue reading


Updated on December 24, 2006
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Transcript of BBC World Servce interview with Mary Baxter

Posted on: December 24, 2006

This BBC interview relates to Mary’s arrest in Tel Rumeida on December 17th

Mary: On this occasion some children who were going up at the very top of Tel Rumeida were being stopped from going home from school. For some reason at the top of the hill on private Palestinian land there were a whole lot of settlers having a picnic, a lot of them children. They were being guarded by a number of soldiers. The Palestinian children who were forced to use that way because they are not allowed to go up the street past the Tel Rumeida … Continue reading


Updated on January 10, 2009
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