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“For Naomi it is a supremely fast and convenient route to a meeting with her workers. Palestinians, like Walid face a fine for even walking on or across it, let alone driving on it.” It runs straight through the heart of the occupied West Bank, but Palestinians are not permitted even to set foot on…

“In the State of Israel the Jewish mother is disappearing” Nurit Peled-Elhanan – Women in Black 28/12/2007  (Nurit Peled-Elhanan’s only daughter, 13 year old Smadar, was killed in a suicide bombing in 1997.  She is one of the founders of the Parents Circle-Families Forum, an organization of Israeli and Palestinian bereaved families.)    Friday, December 28,…

January 02, 2008    Saed Bannoura – International Middle East Media Centre (IMEMC) A group of Israeli settlers torched an historic mosque in the town of Al-Khader, near Bethlehem, on Tuesday.  The settlers used 20 beehives as fuel for the fire, after stealing the beehives from a Palestinian farm located near the mosque. Remains of burned…

  MK Said Nafa (Balad) on Thursday held Defense Minister Ehud Barak personally responsible for the death of Radi Alwahash, an 18-year-old Palestinian who died roughly six weeks ago at an Israel Defense Forces checkpoint. Full story of a ‘minor’ atrocity in Haaretz at Balad MK blames Barak for death of Palestinian at roadblock Alwahash…

12-year-old Ahmed Khatib lived in Jenin Refugee Camp: an Israeli soldier shot Ahmed in the head and body. On his tomb is written: I am Ahmed from Jenin. I was killed while playing His organs were transplanted into five Israeli children and a woman aged 58. The parents of the children have promised to try…

December 06, 2007 Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News Avi Dichter, the Israeli Public Security Minister, has cancelled a trip to Great Britain after the Israeli Foreign Ministry recommended that he do so. Dichter was head of the Shin Bet, the Israeli secret service, during some of the bloodiest years of the intifada, leading to the…