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Israeli forces kill Palestinian youth in Yabad
3 October 2009 On Wednesday, 30 September 2009, the Israeli army murdered a Palestinian youth outside his school, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam high school in Yabad village, west of Jenin. This school had been closed from 2001-2006. Around 11:35am, a military jeep with the license plate number 655474 left the main road to turn into […]
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Palestinians cry ‘blackmail’ over Israel phone service threat
Ben Lynfield | The Independent 1 October 2009 Israel is threatening to kill off a crucial West Bank economic project unless the Palestinian Authority withdraws a request to the International Criminal Court to investigate alleged Israeli crimes during last winter’s Gaza war. Shalom Kital, an aide to defence minister Ehud Barak, said today that Israel […]
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Arabs mark October 2000 with general strike
Sharon Roffe – Ofir | YNet News 1 October 2009 The Arab sector on Thursday marked the ninth anniversary of the October riots by calling a general strike across Israel. The strike is lead by the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee under the banner: “For the martyrs that were killed in October 2000”. During the riots […]