Israel prevents Abbas from entering Gaza 3 days before signing of Palestinian reconciliation agreement

His political advisor confirms Abbas is to go to Gaza before month’s end, but Israel puts a wrench, blocking Fatah’s envoy from crossing into Gaza three days before the reconciliation agreement is to be signed in Egypt Saleh Naami , Sunday 1 May 2011 | Ahram Online Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas Abbas’s personal envoy for […]

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Palestinian unity threat to Israel

Sun May 1, 2011 3:44PM Iran’s Ambassador to Syria Ahmad Mousavi A top advisor to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Palestinian unity is the most serious threat for the Zionist regime of Israel. “Palestinian unity is the biggest weapon and danger threatening the Zionists,” Ahmad Mousavi, who is also Iran’s ambassador to Syria, told Mehr […]

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Violent clashes erupt anew in Silwan

[ 01/05/2011 – 03:56 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Violent clashes erupted anew in Silwan town, south of the Aqsa Mosque, on Sunday during which citizens threw a firebomb at an Israeli military point in Bustan suburb, according to an Israeli radio broadcast. Witnesses reported clashes in six suburbs in Silwan between young Palestinians and […]

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THE ‘ZIO SKUNKS’ IN OUR MIDST

Posted by desertpeace on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 2:34 pm. In the past year, the ‘Skunk’ has become a mainstay of West Bank demonstrations against the Separation Wall and Occupation. A non-lethal alternative to high velocity tear gas canisters and rubber coated steel bullets which still extracts a heavy price on Palestinians who resist […]

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Border policewoman charged over mock execution of Palestinian teen

Sunday, May 1 2011| Dimi Reider | +972 Magazine Here is a report that so far didn’t get that much traction on Israeli news sites, except for YNET (which didn’t bother to report whether the accused deny the charges, but I’ll update as soon as I find out.) “The Justice Ministry’s department for the investigation […]

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Israel pressures UN to stop Flotilla

PressTV -Sun May 1, 2011 11:41AM Interview with Janet Kobren, Activist and Co-Founder of the Free Palestine Movement. Activist Janet Kobren explains that Israel is pressuring the UN to stop the Flotilla while trying to persuade Goldstone to retract his UN report. Press TV interviewed the Activist, Socialist and Co-Founder of the Free Palestine Movement […]

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Israeli soldiers injure Palestinian worker

May 1, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers on Sunday assaulted two Palestinian workers trying to enter Jerusalem near the Zayem checkpoint, at the eastern entrance to Jerusalem. Mahmoud Abu Sarhan, 25, said he lost consciousness and fell from a cliff after an Israeli forces officer threw a rock at his head. The Bethlehem resident […]

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60-year-old American woman injured in protest

May 1, 2011 QALQILIYA (Ma’an) — Israeli forces injured an American activist and detained three other foreign nationals Sunday, as they attempted to stop Israeli bulldozers from razing Palestinian agricultural land east of Qalqiliya, witnesses said. International solidarity activists gathered in Izbat At-Tabib in the northern West Bank on privately-owned Palestinian property, which Israel seeks […]

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Khater calls for comprehensive national plan for Jerusalem after reconciliation

[ 01/05/2011 – 12:20 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Dr. Hassan Khater, the secretary general of the Islamic Christian society for the support of Jerusalem, hoped that the Palestinian national reconciliation would boost concern with the issue of Jerusalem. Khater said in a press release on Sunday that Jerusalem paid a heavy price as a […]

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Slander vs. Sanity « Ken O’Keefe

Ken O’Keefe | May 1, 2011 The last week and a half has been increasingly entertaining, albeit in a seriously dangerous way.  First I had the head of an Irish charity send me a message threatening to expose me as a fraudster and extortionist.  My plan, apparently, involved producing a video of a poor and […]

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Heated clashes erupt in several West Bank towns

[ 01/05/2011 – 12:17 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– Intense clashes flared in the West Bank districts of Al-Khalil and Nablus on Sunday morning, but no injuries have been reported. Locals reported that Jewish settlers seeped into the Iraq and Burin villages southwest of Nablus city in northern West Bank in a bid to provoke […]

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Egypt warns Israel against meddling

Sun May 1, 2011 12:58PM Rafah border crossing point Egyptian military rulers have warned Israel against interfering with its plan to permanently open the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip. Egypt’s Chief of Staff of armed forces Sami Anan says the opening of Rafah is not a matter of Tel Aviv’s concern. “Israel does […]

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ME awakening yields Palestine unity

PressTV – Sun May 1, 2011 10:26AM Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei A senior Iranian official says the recent unity agreement between the two Palestinian main factions, Fatah and Hamas, is the result of Islamic awakening in the Arab world. “Unity between the two Palestinian movements, Fatah and Hamas, to achieve national reconciliation […]

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ISRAELI OCCUPATION REMAINS THE MAIN OBSTACLE TO PALESTINIAN UNITY

Posted by desertpeace at PS.HADNEWS.COM  on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 10:40 am. Occupation remains the obstacle to Palestinian unity Posted by Joseph Dana Put simply, Palestinian unity strikes fear in the hearts of Israeli strategists and military planners. A unified Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza which adopts nonviolent resistance tactics has […]

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Israel’s Weapons: A Crime on Humanity

References, resources, related news and updates below this article In an article of March 4, Richard Lightbown argues that Israel’s use of depleted uranium, white phosphorus and other toxic metals in its war on the people of the Gaza Strip has put the whole of the Strip’s population and its environment – air, soil, groundwater […]

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