Month: March 2008

Life in the ‘open prison’ of Gaza by Aleem Maqbool BBC News, Gaza This is a tiny strip of land and its life is being drained out of it. For years, the spirit of those […]

Militant’s death unites Bethlehem Stalled peace process fuels support for Hizbollah Toni O’Loughlin in Bethlehem The Observer, Sunday March 16 2008 Outside Betlehem’s Nativity Church, Christians yesterday queued not to celebrate the birth they believe […]

HAIFA ZANGANA interviewed by Ian Sinclair for the Morning Star Iraqi exile HAIFA ZANGANA talks about the right to fight against US and British troops and why the media insists on using the word ‘insurgency.’ […]

Press Release, March 13, 2008 Gush Shalom: Assassinations in Bethlehem and Tulkarm – grave provocation The government does not want a ceasefire, but a new flareup Those who sent the assassins to carry out “liquidations” […]

The Trade Union of Palestinian Journalists organized in Bethlehem a sit-in on Wednesday morning to protest at the kidnapping of a Palestinian journalist from Bethlehem on Monday by the Israeli army. Journalists Protest in Bethlehem […]

Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad   Thursday, 13 March 2008 Um Saad, a middle-aged woman living in the Sunni district of Khadra in west Baghdad, blames the Americans for the death of her husband and two of […]

The situation for 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is worse now than it has ever been The current situation in Gaza is man-made, completely avoidable Gaza has suffered from a long-term pattern of […]

Hundreds of Israeli occupation troops stormed a Palestinian orphanage and a boarding school in the southern West Bank City of Hebron early Thursday, looting large amounts of frozen food, dairy products, clothes, shoes, refrigerators and […]