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IMEMC: Palestinians Prisoners day: 9750 Palestinians are imprisoned by Israel

Original article published by IMEMC, 17th April 2008, click here As Palestinians marked the Prisoners National Day on Thursday, official records showed that Israel still holds 9750 Palestinian political detainees. Since 1967, when Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops have taken a total of 750, 000 Palestinian political detainees, the equivalent to all Palestinians families having had one of their sons imprisoned once or twice. In a report issued by the…

April 17, 2008

The Guardian: Area C strikes fear into the heart of Palestinians as homes are destroyed

By Rory McCarthy Original article published in The Guardian on 15th April 2008, click here In the end it came down to a single-page letter, written in Hebrew and Arabic and hand-delivered by an Israeli army officer who knocked at the front door. The letter spelt the imminent destruction of the whitewashed three-storey home and small, tree-lined garden that Bassam Suleiman spent so long saving for and then built with his family a decade ago. It…

April 15, 2008

Palestinians, internationals and P.A. Minister gather in Al-Aqaba to protest Israeli demolition orders

Palestinian and international activists from Ramallah, Budrus, Bil’in, Al-Khader, Um Salamona and Jenin gathered in the village of Al-Aqaba in the Jordan Valley on Saturday to express solidarity with the villagers in their effort to maintain their presence in spite of Israel’s attempt to wipe their village off the face of the map. Also joining the gathering were Palestinian Minister of Tourism, Ms. Khuloud Daibis, representing the Palestinian Authority Cabinet of Ministers and the Governor of…

April 13, 2008