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Tag Archives: Boundaries & Borders
4th Friday in Ramadan 2010
This is the fourth — but perhaps not last — Friday in Ramadan.
UPDATE TWO: AFP reported that Israeli police put the number of worshippers [at what AFP called the heavily-guarded Al-Aqsa mosque] at 160,000 to 170,000, while Muslim authorities said it exceeded 200,000. In his Friday sermon Sheikh Yusef Abu Sneineh criticised the relaunch [...]
“It’s a tragedy”
Four Israeli settlers were ambushed, shot and killed — apparently at close range — Tuesday evening, while driving to their homes in the West Bank settlement of Beit Hagai, near the large and well-fortified settlement of Kiryat Arbaa, outside Hebron.
The deaths occurred on Road 60, just after 7:30 in the evening, at a time when [...]
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged Bani Naim, Hebron, Israel, Israeli settlements, Palestine & Palestinians, USA, West Bank Leave a comment
Quote of the day – (6th in our series)
Haaretz (with an input from Reuters) reported today that Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told journalists in Ramallah on Monday that it was important to know “What kind of state does Mr. Netanyahu have in mind when he says ‘Palestinian state? … I think this is a most fundamental question and I believe, without wishing [...]
Palestinians tell U.S. that East Jerusalem must be included in continued Israeli settlement freeze + more
Akiva Eldar reported in Haaretz overnight that the Palestinian negotiating team (meaning Sa’eb Erekat and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas) have “delivered to the Americans an opinion prepared by Israeli jurists. The Palestinians say this paper proves that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims that the government has no authority to freeze construction on private land are [...]
Israeli military court convicts organizer of Bil’in anti-Wall demonstrations
On Tuesday, the Israeli military court in Ofer Prison, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, decided to convict Abdallah Abu Rahma, coordinator since its founding in 2005 of the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bil’in.
He has been held in jail since last December. He will be sentenced in September.
The Stop the Wall campaign [...]
In East Jerusalem, 5,300 Palestinian children do not go to school
Two Israeli human rights organizations — the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Ir Amim — have issued a new study reporting that, “due to bias”, there is a “severe deficicit” of classrooms for Palestinian children in East Jerusalem — a state of affairs for which, the two groups said, Israeli [...]
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged ACRI, East Jerusalem, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Palestinians, schools Leave a comment
In other news today…
There is so much more to say, or to write, and so little time … These are just a few drops in the bucket:
On Monday, A Jerusalem court held the state responsible in a civil suit backed by Yesh Din for shooting, with a rubber bullet — and killing — a 10-year-old Palestinian girl walking [...]
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged Human Rights, IDF, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Palestinians Leave a comment
Al-Araqib village destroyed for 4th time today
Al-Araqib [or Al-Arakib] — an “unrecognized” village in Israel [meaning it has no regular electricity, water, sewage and other nice infrastructure] inhabited by Beduins with Israeli nationality — was destroyed by the IDF — for a fourth time — today.
Apparently, the demolition orders have been given because the land is slated to become a forest [...]
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged Al-Arakib, Al-Araqib, Human Rights, Israel, unrecognized Bedouin villages 1 Comment
Israeli Deputy FM says military-administered sanctions on Gaza were “ineffective”