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Thursday, April 05, 2007
04-04-07 - Israeli troops kill gunman at Gaza border
04-04-07 - Israelis kill gunman in Gaza raid Five military vehicles penetrated 500 metres into farmland, sparking sporadic gunfights, Palestinian sources said.
04-04-07 - Israeli Army Kills a Palestinian Resident in Northern Gaza Witnesses told IMEMC that those hit by the Israeli army were local Palestinian farmers, who have been bending down in labor in their farmland.
04-04-07 - Israeli Army opens fire at civilians near Nablus and injuries one resident Israeli soldiers opened fire at a Palestinian civilian car crossing the checkpoint critically wounding the driver Shawki Al Rojbi, eyewitnesses reported.
04-04-07 - Freedom of movement disrupted further by closure of East Jerusalem street The Israeli administration announced its intention to close Jerusalem-Jericho Street in East Jerusalem's Al 'Eizariya. The Director General of the Ministry of Local Governance in the Jerusalem Governorate, Hassan Abed Rabbo, said the Israeli plan is to expand the Wall in the area, creating a bypass to Anata.
04-04-07 - Arab League sees mixed messages from Israel
04-04-07 - Palestinian foreign minister: government programme meets demands Amr accused the Israeli government of not being interested in serious negotiations.
04-04-07 - Army invades Jenin and abducts one civilian
04-04-07 - Banana production struggling under occupation in world's oldest city
04-04-07 - Correction: Palestinians Economy Story
04-04-07 - Palestinians' new foreign minister in Austria for talks on EU, Middle East
04-04-07 - Palestinian human rights organizations & journalists call on PA to expand search for BBC reporter
04-04-07 - IDF soldier moderately injured in Jenin
04-04-07 - BBC users urge reporter's release Reports said there were scuffles outside the parliament building in Gaza as security personnel attempted to move the journalists aside. Protesters also gathered at the parliament building in Ramallah, in the West Bank.
04-04-07 - Gunmen take over a municipality building in Gaza Strip
04-04-07 - Israel: Gaza is no longer occupied, but it still exerts much control But the United Nations says Gaza remains occupied, arguing that Israel retains control over the crossings and that Gaza and the West Bank constitute one unit. Since the West Bank is still occupied, the U.N. says, so is the rest.
04-04-07 - Unknown Gunmen attack an Internet Café in Northern Gaza The attack at the Internet café is the third during this week, amidst continued chaos and lawlessness in the unruly coastal strip.
04-04-07 - Troops abducted 6000 children since the beginning of the Intifada, 390 currently detained
04-04-07 - Christians retrace Jesus' steps Thousands of Palestinian Christians from nearly Bethlehem also come to Jerusalem during Holy Week. Inaam Qumseyh, visiting with her daughter-in-law, said she was lucky to receive one of the visitor permits the Israeli government distributed to Bethlehem churches. Two of her sons, aged 30 and 32, were not so fortunate, she said.
04-04-07 - Palestinian Christians and the effects of Israeli Apartheid As hordes of tourists flocked to the holy sites of Jerusalem to carry Palm leaves through the Old City, hundreds of Palestinian Christians were prevented from passing through the Bethlehem terminal.
04-04-07 - Hamas achieves slight victory over Fateh in Bir Zeit University elections
04-04-07 - Artist dies in Bethlehem One of Bethlehem's prominent artists has died after a battle with cancer. Painter and sculptor Adnan Al Zubaidi will be buried in the south-central West Bank city after noon prayers on Thursday.
04-04-07 - AL chief urges for clear Israeli stance towards Arab peace initiative Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa on Wednesday called on Israel to take a clear stance towards an Arab peace initiative that was reactivated at Arab summit in Saudi capital Riyadh last week, Egypt's official news agency MENA reported.
04-04-07 - Putting an American face on Palestinian aspirations Of course the play does not tell both sides. Neither did the 1960 movie "Exodus," which I saw as a kid. It told the Israeli side only, and in Paul Newman, put an American face on that side. For years, it was the only side Americans could see.
04-04-07 - Hamilton lectures on Israel
04-04-07 - Construction of Israeli settlement under way in Jordan Valley
04-04-07 - Gift of sight for Gaza girl Ahlam arrived in the United States last week. She told Whis nant she couldn't believe how quiet it is here. No bombing. No blasts.
04-04-07 - Opposition MPs meet Palestinian minister Barghouti, meanwhile, told the Globe and Mail, ?we think the Canadian position is either too slow or too much influenced by the Israelis? My message is for the Canadian government to look at our platform with your own Canadian eyes and not with Israeli glasses on. I think it?s the [Canadian] government that should feel isolated in its position.?
04-04-07 - An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle... you know in all probability that you will awake tomorrow. And tomorrow , you will open your eyes, step into your bathroom and you will find running water . You will fix yourself a coffee and you will find electricity, you will open your kitchen cupboard and you will find food
04-04-07 - Students protest Israel ad at Senate "When I was asked to sign this petition, it was stated to me that the petition was to send home the troops in Iraq," Sen. Courtney Stephenson said. "I'm very upset that my name appears on a petition that has nothing to do with sending home American troops from overseas."
04-04-07 - Texas Judge Rules To Free Palestinian Family A judge has found that there is not enough evidence to hold a Palestinian family at a detention center in Haskell, TX.
04-04-07 - Colombia seeks Israelis' arrests Yair Klein, Melnik Ferry and Tzedaka Abraham are accused of giving military training in the 1990s to landowners' and drug-traffickers' private armies. Prosecutors say those trained went on to carry out some of the country's most notorious political assassinations.
04-04-07 - Palestinians? right of return endorsed
04-04-07 - Pelosi challenges Bush policy by visiting Syria Israel plays down peace message to Damascus
04-04-07 - Palestinian FM accuse AFP of miss-quoting his statements
04-04-07 - Subterranean soapbox Anti-'occupation' ads coming to Metro stations Beginning May 13, some 20 downtown Metro stations will be emblazoned with posters advertising a June 10 rally and march in Washington protesting "Israel's illegal military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem."
04-04-07 - Ibtisam Barakat: Writer, poet and educator
04-04-07 - Activists set up a mock Israeli checkpoint Campus police stopped the demonstration after a student complained
04-04-07 - Torture: Read it in the Israeli press
04-04-07 - Guest Editorial: Now is Time for Peace and Justice in the Holy Land I?m an American Jew who has spent extensive time in the Holy Land, and I have witnessed first-hand Israel?s systemic oppression of the Palestinian population and theft of their farmlands. It is with deep sadness that I must report that President Carter?s charge of Apartheid in the occupied territories is correct
04-04-07 - Collierville resident agrees to leave US immediately A Palestinian-born man who has been living in Collierville has admitted he threw Molotov cocktails at Israeli civilians and soldiers 17 years ago.
04-04-07 - Dutch rapper Ali B. in Middle East Ali B. began his visit with a concert in the Palestinian town of Bethlehem where he rapped in the Aïda refugee camp. The camp lies next to the metres-high separation barrier, which has been erected around the whole city.
04-04-07 - ND announces this year's honorary degree recipients Archbishop Elias Chacour (doctor of laws) -- A three-time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, Chacour is a Melkite priest who was appointed archbishop of Galilee in 2006.
04-04-07 - Security quartet formed to address issue of arms smuggling into Gaza, Abbas receives 5,500 new weapons
04-04-07 - 'Palestinians are imprisoned in their own land'
04-04-07 - Palestinian uses comedy to cope with family's past Although raised in the West Bank town of Ramallah as a Quaker Palestinian Arab, Emily Shihadeh today follows multiple religions.
04-04-07 - Palestinians didn?t ?leave? Palestinians did not ?leave.? They were forcibly expelled, often massacred, according to Plan Dalet (Plan D) of Israel?s leaders in 1948
04-04-07 - Christian Aid Partner Assists in Wake of Gaza 'Sewage Tsunami'
04-04-07 - Syria must stop supporting terror: Israel
04-04-07 - Furor Over Norm Finkelstein
04-04-07 - Film to show Lebanon's "civil resistance" in war "Obstacles in terms of getting our films to large audiences. Even Jimmy Carter is facing obstacles." The former U.S. president has faced sharp criticism by Jewish groups in the United States over his book "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid".
Masri said: "That's the kind of obstacle I'm talking about -- the obstacle of reaching mainstream audiences when you portray Arabs or Palestinians in a positive way. There are many powerful machines that don't want that image to come across."
04-04-07 - We reject Israel?s violations of international law As Jews and South Africans, we have noted with deep concern the report of John Dugard, the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967. The report, published on January 29 2007, is currently under discussion within the United Nations Human Rights Council. It reveals substantial rights abuses by the Israeli government that we find abhorrent, particularly in the light of the painful past of both the South African and Jewish people.
04-04-07 - Terror suspect's control order overturned Lawyers for Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a Palestinian refugee, argued that the severe restrictions placed on his daily life by the order were affecting his mental health and were ?inhuman and degrading?.
04-04-07 - Two Easters in one the food traditions, many going back to ancient times, are the same for both groups of Palestinian Christians, no matter the date of the observance.
04-04-07 - Palestine Day Engages Students "We believe that it is important to have a balance of views and opinions on campus and the Palestinian side of the story seems to be constantly silenced and ignored on this campus. [SJP] is a club that seeks to actually talk about the severity of the oppression against the Palestinian people, raise awareness about the issue on campus, and take action to end the injustices occurring daily against the Palestinians."
04-04-07 - Advocate who tirelessly provided help for disabled, women and minorities dies For years, the Norleys spent their vacations volunteering where help was needed: in Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps, the Dominican Republic, the Mississippi Delta and the Watts area of Los Angeles after the 1965 riots.
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