Matt Kennard and Wilson Dizard | The Guardian 27 May 2009 Ramallah is tired. The feeling you get walking around the streets here is that the Palestinians are weary of the struggle against the incremental destruction of their homeland, happening ...
Read More »UN: Little change in problems with Palestinian movement in West Bank
Tovah Lazaroff | The Jerusalem Post 26 May 2009 The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said little had been done in the past nine months to ease movement and access for the Palestinians in the West ...
Read More »Codepink delegations allowed into Gaza
Codepink | Rabble We have some great news to report!!! The day started out with a 3am call from one of our delegations in Al Arish saying that secret police had contacted them at 2pm to intimidate them and say ...
Read More »A recipe for resentment
Ahmad Samih Khalidi | The Guardian 26 May 2009 The Obama administration is gearing up for its impending and possibly decisive moves towards relaunching the Middle East peace process, with a series of consultations with Arab leaders, including the Palestinian ...
Read More »Why Palestinians are calling for a boycott of Israeli universities
Amjad Barham | The Guardian 26 May 2009 Palestinian academics have been heartened by the outpouring of solidarity with our people on the part of British academics and students – the latter attested to by the creative “student occupation movement” ...
Read More »La Carrau cancels Israeli sponsored visit to Acre
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) 22 May 2009 After having talks with the platforms promoting the boycott of Israel and with representatives of Catalan institutions and gathering as much information as possible about the ...
Read More »Israeli planes drop warning pamphlets over Gaza
Ha’aretz 25 May 2009 Israel Air Force aircraft have scattered pamphlets over the Gaza Strip warning residents to stay away from the border, The Associated Press reported Monday. The heavily guarded border is the scene of sporadic fighting between militants ...
Read More »Palestinians displaced by Operation Cast Lead living in tents
B’Tselem 21 May 2009 According to the UN, Israel destroyed 3,500 homes in the Gaza Strip during Operation Cast Lead. Some of the displaced persons now live in tents, in harsh conditions. Participants in B’Tselem’s video project documented life in ...
Read More »Israel destroying Gaza’s farmlands
Eva Bartlett | Electronic Intifada 22 May 2009 On the morning of 4 May 2009, Israeli troops set fire to Palestinian crops along Gaza’s eastern border with Israel. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) reported that 200,000 square meters ...
Read More »Armed soldiers, police, attempt to shut down Palestine Festival of Literature opening night
Ma’an News Agency 23 May 2009 Israeli police and armed border officials shut down the Palestinian National Theater in East Jerusalem on Saturday, in an effort to quash the Palestine Festival of Literature and prevent international writer and poets from ...
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