• Israeli Occupation Forces arrest two village youth during night raid in Bil’in early Tuesday morning

    29 December 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces arrested two village youth from the small West Bank village of Bil’in early Tuesday morning during a night raid operation there around 2:30 am. Lookouts with the Bil’in Committee for Popular Resistance Against the Wall and Settlements spotted Israeli soldiers near the Southwest gates of the town as well as in the Western groves of olive trees around 1am Tuesday morning and quickly mobilized the rest of the night patrol…

  • This is not humane. We need our dignity

    Sami Abdel-Shafi | The Guardian 29 December 2009 On my way to visit a friend in the Abed Rabbo district, north of the Gaza Strip, the taxi driver handed me a small pack of biscuits for change. There are nearly no copper coins left here so cab drivers barter a half Israeli shekel for biscuits brought in from the tunnels between the southern city of Rafah and Egypt’s northern Sinai. Some Gazans, who once earned a…

  • Gaza massacre reflections

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 28 December 2009 The anniversary of the first day of Israel’s massacre of Gaza last winter passed yesterday. Palestinians still locked in Gaza couldn’t avoid thinking about that hell, recalling to others where they were when the first strikes hit…what they did, what they thought, what they saw and smelled and heard. At 11 am yesterday I’m in a meeting, but all of us are aware of the significance of the…

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