The Occupation has confiscated 180 dunums of agricultural land from the villages of Deir Sharaf and Qusin, northwest of Nablus, for use as a trash dump – the official sanctioning of a practice that has caused extensive damage to the agriculture and health of the villagers. Occupation confiscates 180 dunums for trash dump on Full…
“It is not taught in Israeli schools but most of the early Zionist leaders, including David Ben Gurion [Israel’s first prime minister], believed that the Palestinians were the descendants of the area’s original Jews. They believed the Jews had later converted to Islam.” Israel’s surprising best seller contradicts founding ideology Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada,…
Israel’s strategy following 2006 defeat by Hezbollah – devastation of civilian areas, terror bombing
The general promised “disproportionate” force to destroy entire villages identified as sources of Hizbullah rocket fire, the reasoning being that they are “not civilian villages” but rather “military bases” – the kind of reasoning that can land you in a war crimes tribunal. Israel: wedded to war? Ben White guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 07 …On Friday,…
Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: ‘The shocking truth is that Israeli soldiers kill civilians in Gaza with near-total impunity, week in week out. Tom Hurndall’s family have fought hard to achieve justice over his tragic death…” Hurndall case: Israeli military forces still kill civilians with ‘near-total impunity’ Posted: 07 October 2008 Ahead of…
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Israel bars Canadian from seeing dying father A Canadian woman and her two teenage daughters are surviving on handouts and sleeping on the floor of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque because Israeli authorities won’t let them enter Gaza to visit the woman’s ailing father. “I want them to give us mercy,” Saadiya Joha, 34, told the Star…
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Siboni: Destroy Lebanon in Case of New War Israeli reserve Brigadier General Gabriel Siboni called for striking Lebanon’s infrastructure in case of a new war. In an article published on the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies’ internet site, Siboni said that the “current predicament facing Israel involves two major challenges. Full report at Al…