Archive | April 5, 2011

Israel to Prevent Solidarity Fleet from Reaching Gaza

JERUSALEM, APRIL 4, 2011 (WAFA) – While humanitarian organizations are preparing Freedom Flotilla 2 to sail to Gaza later in May in order to break the four year long Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, Israel prepares to prevent it from reaching Gaza. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said Monday that Israel will call on […]

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Israeli peace activist Juliano Mer Khamis shot dead in Jenin

Witnesses say actor – who ran a drama project in a Palestinian refugee camp – was shot five times by masked men Conal Urquhart in Jerusalem | guardian.co.uk, Monday 4 April 2011 18.38 BST Mer Khamis had received death threats for his work in Jenin. Photograph: Saif Dahlah/AFP/Getty Images  An Israeli actor and peace activist […]

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Israel releases Palestinian teen ill with cancer

Apr 4, 2011 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities on Monday released a teenage Palestinian detainee diagnosed with cancer, Palestinian Authority officials said. Mustafa Shehab Abdul Wahhad, 16, was detained by Israeli forces in February. Medics said malignant tumors in his chest grew during his detention in Ofer prison, in a military base near Ramallah. Abdul […]

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Canada – Israel’s new best mate

Why Canada has made itself Israel’s new friend on the block- | Jews for Justice for Palestinians Lia Tarachansky for JNews Blog, 30 March, 2011 Lia Tarachansky is an Israeli-Canadian journalist and the director of the upcoming documentary, Seven Deadly Myths. Most recently she worked as a Middle East correspondent with The Real News Network. Her […]

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ei: Another war on Gaza?

Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 4 April 2011 Israel’s assault on Gaza in the winter of 2008-09 killed more than 1,400 Palestinians and injured thousands more. (Hatem Omar/MaanImages) In recent weeks an escalation in violence between Israel and Palestinian resistance factions in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip has claimed the lives of more than a dozen […]

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Founder Juliano Mer-Khamis shot dead outside Jenin theater

Palestinian security inspect the car which Arab-Jewish actor and director Juliano Mer-Khamis, 52, was driving when he was shot dead by unknown gunmen inside the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. Masked gunmen shot dead the well-known actor and director in Jenin, Palestinian police and medics said. (AFP/Saif Dahlah) April 4, 2011 JENIN (Ma’an) […]

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Canadian Boat to Gaza: Federal Parties Must Respond to Death Threat Against Canadian Citizens by Israel’s Prime Minister

Canadian Boat to Gaza Apr 04, 2011 12:04 ET   MONTREAL, QUEBEC–(Marketwire – April 4, 2011) – As the Canadian federal election campaign enters week two, the government of Israel has launched a campaign to slander, disrupt, and possibly attack the upcoming Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, which will have many Canadians aboard the Canadian Boat […]

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Other stories from Palestine

A group of young activists are taking action without taking to the streets, with an event called TEDxRamallah. Joanna Blundell Last Modified: 04 Apr 2011 15:07 | AlJazeera English Young activists are telling alternative stories from Palestine [GALLO/GETTY] Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi set himself and his nation on fire, Wael Ghonim created a Facebook page in […]

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Palestinian engineer accused of missile murder plot

Power station chief denies trying to develop weapons to kill hundreds of Israelis Reuters in Beersheba  | guardian.co.uk, Monday 4 April 2011 16.14 BST Dirar Abu Sisi has been accused of developing rockets for Hamas. Photograph: Tsafrir Abayov/AP A Palestinian engineer has been charged with hundreds of counts of attempted murder and accused of developing […]

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Activist, actor, director Juliano Mer Khamis assassinated in West Bank

Monday, April 4 2011| Dimi Reider | +972 Magazine News just broke that Juliano Mer Khamis, who has established and run the Freedom Theater in Jenin, has been assassinated by  masked gunmen in the refugee camp near the theatre.  Mer Khamis, son of a Palestinian father and a Jewish mother, has faced threats since forever: From […]

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GOLDSTONE ALTERS HIS VERDICT

— AN ANALYSIS BY DR. LAWRENCE DAVIDSON | Intifada Palestine | Apr 4, 2011 Judge Richard Goldstone Dr. Lawrence Davidson It will be recalled that after the September, 2009 issuance of the Goldstone Report suggesting that Israel might be guilty of war crimes, Judge Richard Goldstone was barred from attending grandson’s bar mitzvah. That is […]

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