West Bank woman denied ambulance dies 15 Feb 2008 Reuters, by Muin Shadid TULKARM, West Bank, Feb 14 (Reuters) – A Palestinian woman who was refused access to an ambulance at an Israeli military checkpoint died in her village in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, a Palestinian doctor and relatives said…the husband of Fawziya…
Salam Fayyad admits there are no peace prospects Khaled Amayreh reports for Al Ahram from the West Bank Israel’s “lack of will” to reach a genuine final-status settlement Israel reneging on commitments to the roadmap continuing Israeli settlement building particularly in East Jerusalem continued presence of hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints in the West Bank…
Bringing Down The New Berlin Walls – John Pilger The recent breakout of the people of Gaza provided a heroic spectacle unlike any other since the Warsaw ghetto uprising and the smashing down of the Berlin Wall. Whereas on the occupied West Bank, Ariel Sharon’s master plan of walling in the population and stealing their…
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“The next logical step” for the Israeli government “will have to be a decision whether to target the top political leadership” of Hamas. So said an Israeli official quoted in The Jerusalem Post. Tzahi Hanegbi, a senior member of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Kadima party and chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee,…
The Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak stated on Monday that he ordered the Israeli army to start preparing for the wide scale offensive against the Gaza Strip. Barak said that this possible attack comes to stop the home-made shells fired by the Palestinian resistance at the nearby Israeli towns. He told the Knesset’s Foreign…
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Bethlehem – Ma’an – About 500 Palestinian demonstrators, joined by a handful of Israeli and international supporters, marched towards the construction site of Israel’s separation wall in the village of Al-Khadr on Friday, in what organizers say is one of the largest weekly demonstrations in the West Bank. At least 30 heavily armed Israeli…
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