Tag Archives: policy

Day after evacuation warning, Bedouin get demolition notes

March 28, 2011 TUBAS (Ma’an) — A third set of warnings was delivered to the Bedouin of Ein Al-Hilwa on Monday morning, notifying residents that their tent homes and animal shelters would be demolished. The herding community lives next to Al-Malih, a village whose nearest neighbor is a site declared as an Israeli military training […]

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UNRWA hobbled by unwieldy customs procedures on Gaza border

RAMALLAH, 28 March 2011 (IRIN) – Israeli trucker Nazar Zarro hoists himself up into the cab of his articulated lorry loaded with emergency flour supplies bound for UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) food distribution centres in the Gaza Strip. Zarro makes the 100km trip from Israel’s Ashdod port to Kerem Shalom crossing – where […]

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ei: Suspended in time, Lifta under threat

Jillian Kestler-D’Amours, The Electronic Intifada, 25 March 2011 Yacoub Odeh in Lifta (Jillian Kestler-D’Amours) A natural spring, countless olive trees, a mosque and virtually every stone used to build the village’s unmistakable houses — Yacoub Odeh remembers it all. “Here was where the water went down to the spring. Here was the root of the […]

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Israel bars Red Cross aid from homeless Bedouin [ VIDEO]

  Published yesterday (updated) 23/02/2011 20:25 Bedouin children stand near their tent in the Umm Al-Khair village near Hebron on March 3, 2010. The tents in the village are common housing structures for herding communities like the families in Amniyr. [MaanImages/Haytham Othman] HEBRON (Ma’an) — Residents of the tiny Bedouin hamlet of Amniyr crowded into […]

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Coming Home

  Date posted: January 12, 2011 By Joharah Baker for MIFTAH     At passport control at Washington DC’s Dulles Airport, the border officer took one look at my children’s and my US passports and stamped us through with a smile. We were, after all, technically “home” and countries normally treat their citizens with dignity […]

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Israeli house demolition policy “won’t discourage Palestinians from clinging to their land”

Thursday, 13 January 2011 11:56 The Islamic Resistance Movement has criticized Israel’s demolition of a school and seventeen houses belonging to Palestinians near Yatta in the Hebron region of the occupied West Bank. Hamas said that the destruction which took place on 12th January is intended to force the expulsion of Palestinians from the homes […]

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Hamas: IOA demolition policy would not weaken Palestinian determination

[ 12/01/2011 – 02:36 PM ]   AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday that the Israeli occupation authority’s (IOA) streak of demolition of Palestinian homes would not dissuade our people from defending their land. It denounced the IOA destruction of a school and 16 homes east of Yatta village, Al-Khalil district, charging […]

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The British Foreign Policy towards the Palestinian Issue with Special Reference to Resolution 242

palestinefreevoice: December 31, 2010 The British Foreign Policy towards the Palestinian Issue with Special Reference to Resolution 242 by John McHugo This document was presented by Mr. John McHugo at the Conference on “The Eurpean Foreign Policy towards the Palestinian Issue” that was held by Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations in Beirut, on 3-4/11/2010 […]

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OCHA Report: 54 Palestinians Driven from Homes Last Week

PNN – Palestine News Network – 28.12.10 – 11:07 Cairo – PNN – A report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Palestine revealed on Tuesday that Israeli authorities destroyed 16 Palestinian-owned buildings in East Jerusalem over the course of last week, driving 30 people out and 54 around […]

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ISRAHELL 2DAY: Arabs face discrimination in Israel « when beeing ANTI means being FOR human rights, coexistence and peace

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Antievil Discrimination faced by Palestinians living within Israel’s borders remains one of the key sticking points in Middle East peace talks. Umm al-Fahm is a town made up almost entirely of Palestinian Israelis – those who found themselves within the new border when Israel was created in 1948. Israel’s […]

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Factsheet | Israel’s Colonial Settlement Policy

Settlements (February 2010) The numbers of Israeli settlers in East Jerusalem and the West Bank was estimated in December 2005 as 438,088 it has undoubtedly now risen to more than 450,000. What is the history behind this? Who are the settlers and how do they relate to the Palestinians whose homes and land they are […]

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