Support the EDO Decommissioners 6 April 2009 On Jan 17th, while Israeli bombs were still raining down on the people of Gaza, six people gained entry to EDO MBM/ITT, a factory in Brighton manufacturing military equipment being used by the ...
Read More »Sheikh Jarrah residents organize in the face of mass house evictions
Electronic Intifada 7 April 2009 “We are like the roots of a tree. The Israelis may cut us in places, but we will never die. We will not be transplanted from Jerusalem. I will not leave this house,” Maher Hanun ...
Read More »Israeli police shoot motorist during house demolition
Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 7 April 2009 Israeli police today shot dead a Palestinian driver they said had tried to attack them during the demolition of a Palestinian home in Jerusalem. The driver was shot at a roadblock set ...
Read More »A harsh reality for Palestinians
Ahmad Tibi | The New York Times 6 April 2009 JERUSALEM — The right-wing coalition of the new Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, does not bode well for Palestinians in Israel. With the appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as foreign minister, ...
Read More »Israel created ‘terror without mercy’ in Gaza
Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 7 April 2009 The Israeli military attacked civilians and medics and delayed – sometimes for hours – the evacuation of the injured during the January war in Gaza, according to an independent fact-finding mission commissioned ...
Read More »Gaza wears a face of misery: interview with Philip Rizk
Adam Makary | Al Jazeera 4 April 2009 Philip Rizk, 27, a freelance journalist and blogger who has been reporting from Gaza since 2005, was arrested by Egyptian security forces after a pro-Palestinian rally in Cairo on February 6. He ...
Read More »Municipality of Jerusalem to ‘blow up’ houses
Tsipi Malkuv | Yediot Yerushaliyim 6 April 2009 English Translation: Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions THERE WILL BE AS BLAST [or a political blow-up; its a play on words in Hebrew] by Tsipi Malkuv [Subtitle] The policy of demolishing homes ...
Read More »Lost in the Buffer Zone
Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 6 April 2009 KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza – “They’re always shooting at us. Every day they shoot at us,” says Alaa Samour (19), pulling aside his shirt to show a scar on his shoulder. Samour ...
Read More »Thousands of dunums confiscated for Israeli settler road near Nablus
Ma’an News Agency 2 April 2009 Israeli authorities issued orders to confiscate more than one thousand dunums of Palestinian lands of the village of Qaryut south of Nablus, head of the villages and municipal affairs office in Nablus Ghassan Daghlas ...
Read More »Israeli exports hit by European boycotts after attacks on Gaza
Rachel Shabi | The Guardian 3 April 2009 Israeli companies are feeling the impact of boycott moves in Europe, according to surveys, amid growing concern within the Israeli business sector over organised campaigns following the recent attack on Gaza. Last ...
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