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J-Post: Shin Bet probes ‘settler rocket fire’ near Nablus

By Yaakov Katz and Tovah Lazaroff To view original article, published by the Jerusalem Post on 22nd July, click here The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) was looking into Palestinian claims on Monday that settlers from Har Bracha and Yitzhar in the West Bank fired two rockets into fields near Nablus. This burnt cylinder, which Palestinians claim is a homemade rocket, was found in a field near Nablus on Sunday. A picture of the “rocket” provided…

July 23, 2008

The National: West Bank construction challenged

By Brendan Howley To view original article, published by The National on 21st July, click here In an inventive legal action, two lawyers for the West Bank Palestinian village of Bi’ilin have filed a civil statement of claim against a pair of Jewish-owned Canadian construction companies building condominiums in the village for Israeli settlers. Damages of $2 million Canadian (Dh7.3m) are sought as compensation, the suit said, for “crimes against humanity” alleged to have been committed…

July 23, 2008

PSC: Ask Gordon Brown why he fails to condemn the occupation and ignores the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) on its 60th anniversary

Action alert To view the Palestine Solidarity Campaign website, click here Prime Minister Brown’s speech to the Knesset was a declaration of support for the Zionist project of dispossession and subjugation and a betrayal of the Palestinian people’s legitimate hopes for recognition of their human and national rights. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) is dismayed that he failed to mention the ethnic cleansing wreaked on the Palestinians, when 13,000 Palestinians were killed and 750,000 Palestinians forced…

July 22, 2008