Rachel Corrie
Today in History - March 16 Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American in Gaza to protest Israel operations, was killed when she was run over by a bulldozer while trying to block troops from demolishing a Palestinian home.
Israeli activists storm Jerusalem Arab area Dozens of right-wing Jewish activists have stormed the Arab neighbourhood in East Jerusalem of a Palestinian gunman who killed eight Israelis at a Jewish seminary earlier this month, police and witnesses said. Dozens of protesters broke through police barriers and hurled stones at cars and houses in the neighbourhood of Jabal Mukaber, where the family of the seminary attacker lives.
Member: Abbas' delegation to Yemen not to talk with Hamas
Hebron Update: 15-21 February 2008
Life in the 'open prison' of Gaza I went to talk about his case with a spokesman for the Israeli government who pointed out that the border closures were for security reasons.
And when we got on to the subject of seriously ill patients being allowed out of Gaza for treatment, he told me that, while some patients had been let out, it was his view that terminally ill ones posed a potential danger to Israel. They had nothing to live for, he suggested, so they might blow themselves up and become suicide bombers.
Cynical scum to the end in Israel.
Rightists riot in yeshiva gunman's district Chanting "death to the Arabs," hundreds of young rightists flocked to Jabal Mukaber, an Arab district of east Jerusalem, late Sunday to stage a demonstration calling for the demolition of the home of Ala Abu Dhaim, who massacred eight students at Mercaz HaRav before being shot dead.
U.S. gov't asks Congress to okay plan to boost funds for PA police
Ereikat: Egypt is making great efforts to negotiate a truce between Palestinians and Israel
The Israeli military invades a village in the northern West Bank, attempts to kidnap a child Hey, Israel, leave them kids alone.
Israeli siege claims the lives of two more Palestinian civilians The sources said that Ahmad Al Nurri, 60, died of cancer, while nine month old Sabeel Tubasi, died from a lung infection. Doctors stated that both were prevented from leaving the Gaza Strip for medical care by the Israeli military. Including those killed today, 120 Palestinian medical patients have died due to the ongoing Israeli siege on Gaza.
One Palestinian teen injured by Israeli army fire in Tubass
Israel killed 100 Hamas policemen since June
Woman wounded from gunfire in suspected 'honor killing' attempt A woman sustained light wounds after unidentified men opened fire at her on Sunday in the Jawarish neighborhood of Ramle, in what police suspect to be another attempted "honor killing" within the Abu-Ghanem family.
Iran high on Cheney's Mideast agenda No kidding? Whodda thunk it!
Militant groups resume rockets attacks on Israel "The rocket's attack is retaliatory to the Israeli occupation's crimes against our people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and a reiteration to the fact that resistance against the occupation would never stop," the group said.
Life behind the wire in occupied Palestine MEP Jill Evans is a member of the European delegation for relations with the Palestine authority. This is an account of her recent visit to the strife-torn and occupied state
Israelis try to destroy attacker's house
Ariel building project to be unfrozen Ariel Mayor Ron Nachman has waited for two weeks for the Defense Ministry to make good on its verbal promise to him that a project of 48 homes for his settlement city - frozen in November - would be allowed to proceed. Israel is interested in peace alright - more like PIECE - as in, ANOTHER PIECE of Palestine.
Papers detail settlers' West Bank land grab The land-takeover method was developed in Kedumim and neighboring settlements during the mid-1990s, after the Oslo Accords, and continues to this day. And before that, it was the IDF that took it.
Hamas leader calls on rival Fatah for dialogue A top leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza Mahmoud al-Zahar called Saturday on rival Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas for unconditioned dialogue.
Palestinian government will rebuild dead militant's destroyed home
Palestinian militant groups reject truce deal under Israeli strikes
Israeli Jews, Palestinians, Americans join traditional Jerusalem Palm Sunday procession
Two Palestinian passersby wounded by Israeli gunboats Two Palestinian passersby have been reportedly wounded by Israeli gunboats along the northern Gaza coast.
Hamas'armed wing: Israeli military escalation will deteriorate situation Ezz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said on Sunday that any military escalation by Israel will deteriorate the situation "and turn the balance over."
U.S.-Europe ties on hold apart from fire-fighting In a telling flash of European frustration with President George W. Bush, Solana said he hoped the next administration would be ready to work quickly with the EU on issues from Iran and Israeli-Palestinian peace to dealing with Russia and fighting global warming.
In photos: 'Jerusalem Palm Sunday'
Peace in the Holy Land We saw numerous settlements, all on West Bank land that had been confiscated from Palestinian residents. The settlements are startlingly large developments and invariably on very desirable land on the top of a hill. In many cases the evicted Palestinians are rendered homeless or separated from where they work by the private roads that link the settlements to Israel. Firsthand account by an American citizen of the reality of Palestinian life.
Top classifiers to testify for AIPAC staffers The two most recent U.S. classification czars will testify for the defense in a case against two former AIPAC staffers.
Report: Syria is seeking 'public' peace talks Syria has recently relayed a message to Israel conveying the country's interest in peace talks with Israel, but on the condition that talks be held openly and not under fire, Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported yesterday.
Groups protest Germany's support of Israel Demonstrator Iris Hefets, 43, who moved to Germany from Israel six years ago "because of the political situation," said she hoped the demonstration would show Germans "that it is OK to criticize Israel. It has nothing to do with anti-Semitism." Uh, not according to the US State Department's new definition of 'anti-Semitism'.
Obama's denounced pastor quits campaign In a sermon delivered following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Wright said, ?We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards."
Bomb scare forces Paris fair's evacuation A bomb scare forced the evacuation of the Paris Book Fair, which was being held amid boycott calls for honoring Israeli writers.
US official: Return of Palestinian refugees will 'help' Lebanon
EU's Solana urges pressure on Syria over Lebanon
PA not immune from Israel justice system The Jerusalem District Court will now be able to hear 55 lawsuits filed by victims of terror against the Palestinian Authority, after the Foreign Ministry issued certificates in every case declaring that the PA did not enjoy judicial immunity. But the Palestinians are barred from taking the same action against the Israeli government (according to Israeli law and US court actions).
Israeli ambassador cancels Edinburgh lecture Mr Prosor was also due to speak in Glasgow on Monday 10 March at a fundraising event for the Jewish National Fund - a major Israeli landowning organisation, described as "racist" by the SPSC because of it?s practice of retaining land for Jewish-only settlement.
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