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IOA confiscates 322 dunums of Palestinian lands in Bethlehem BETHLEHEM, (PIC)-- IOA has confiscated 322 dunums of Palestinian lands in the villages of Khader and Artas in the Bethlehem district, southern West Bank, at the pretext of building portions of the apartheid wall south of occupied Jerusalem. Current News Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Read More...

OCHA Fact Sheet: Increasing need, decreasing access: Humanitarian access to the West Bank UN agencies have been informed by Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials that all crossings into the occupied Palestinian territory will be standardized by the end of 2007 by which time much of the construction of the Barrier will be completed. Current News Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Read More...

A double standard on academic freedom in the Middle East Two hundred thousand Palestinian children began school in the Gaza Strip this month without a full complement of textbooks. Why? Because Israel, which maintains a stranglehold over this small strip of land along the Mediterranean even after withdrawing its settlers from there in 2005, considers paper, ink and binding materials not to be "fundamental humanitarian needs." Current News Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Read More...

Legal proceedings highlight abuse of Palestinians by Israeli border guards Four Israeli border guard officers appeared in court on Sunday to answer charged related to abuse of power and the aggravated assault of two Palestinian civilians in 2006. Current News Monday, September 17, 2007 Read More...

The Sabra and Shatila Massacre (16-18 September 1982) For 40 hours in September 1982, members of the Israeli-allied Lebanese Phalangist militia raped, killed, and injured a large number of unarmed civilians, mostly children, women and elderly people inside the encircled and sealed Sabra and Shatila camps. The estimate of victims varies between 700 (the official Israeli figure) to 3,500. Current News Monday, September 17, 2007 Read More...

Israel’s cost to the Arabs - By Ghada Karmi After nearly 60 years, Israel is still not at peace with most of its neighbours. The Saudi peace plan, first proposed in 2002, is the latest in a series of Arab overtures aiming to end this situation. It offers Israel full normalisation of relations in return for withdrawal from the territories it conquered in 1967, and a negotiated agreement on the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Current News Monday, September 17, 2007 Read More...

Tamimi condemns Israeli arbitrary measures against Palestinian worshipers AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Sheikh Tayseer Al-Tamimi, the chief Justice of Palestine and chairman of the Supreme Judicial council, has strongly condemned the closure of Jerusalem by the IOA beofre Palestinians which turned its streets into military posts and took unprecedented arbitrary measures against the Palestinian worshipers who wanted to pray in the Aqsa Mosque. Current News Saturday, September 15, 2007 Read More...

IOF troops deny Palestinians access to Aqsa Mosque during Ramadhan OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Reneging on earlier pledges it made to allow Palestinians in the West Bank reach and pray in the Aqsa Mosque, the Israeli occupation government sealed off roads leading to the sacred Muslim site and denied Muslims access to it. Current News Saturday, September 15, 2007 Read More...

Battle for resources in Hebron Conflict between Palestinians and settlers over water and land is all too apparent in the hills to the south of the West Bank city of Hebron. Settlements often disconnect Palestinians from their land, limit their movement and restrict access to water supplies. Current News Saturday, September 15, 2007 Read More...

Israeli forces invade northern Gaza – four kidnapped Israeli military forces launched an invasion of the Beit Hanoun and Jabalia areas of northern Gaza in the early hours of Saturday morning, razing large tracts of Palestinian land and carrying out a series of abductions. Current News Saturday, September 15, 2007 Read More...

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