OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in Jerusalem has said that the Israeli roadblocks in the West Bank had turned it into isolated pockets.

BETHLEHEM, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces at dawn Wednesday rounded up 16 Palestinians in various West Bank areas including one near Bethlehem who was wounded during the IOF incursion, locals reported.

The daughter of Mariam Ayyad, 60, tells the story of her mother’s last moments – she describes an argument that ensued when Israeli soldiers broke into her home in Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, and repeatedly hit the 60-year old woman and threw her on the ground until she dropped dead in front of her children and grandchildren. 

Monday September 22, 2008 03:39 by Maisa Abu Ghazala – Palestine News Network - Translated by; Saed Bannoura - IMEMC

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage revealed Sunday that the IOA will open soon a large synagogue 50 meters away from the Aqsa Mosque built on Islamically-endowed (Waqf) land in the Hammam Al-Ein area and near the Buraq wall.

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) regrets Paul McCartney's insistence on going ahead with his planned gig in Israel despite many appeals to him to cancel it due to Israel's crimes against the Palestinians, particularly its current brutally devastating siege of 1.5 million in Gaza. Not only will such a concert violate the Palestinian cultural boycott against Israel, it will convey a message that McCartney either condones or apathetically ignores Israel's reality as a colonial power and an apartheid state that oppresses the indigenous Palestinians and occupies Arab land. Just as in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, Palestinians are asking international artists to exercise their moral responsibility by staying away from Israel until freedom, justice, equality and human rights are respected for all.

Press Release, PACBI, 16 September 2008

Naheel Awni Abd al-Rahim Abu Rideh, 21, married with one child, is a homemaker and a resident of Qusra in Nablus district. Her testimony was given to Salma a-Deba'i on 8 September 2008 at the witness's home:
Report, B'Tselem, 17 September 2008

Haidar Ibrahim, secretary-general of the General Union of Palestinian workers, reported on Friday that Israeli forces kidnapped more than 200 Palestinian workers in Israel since the beginning of the Holy Muslim month of Ramadan. Dozens of workers were abused and were let go later on.

Saturday September 20, 2008 00:56 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC

A new report released by the World Bank Thursday revealed that the Palestinian economy is in a precipitous decline, due completely to the Israeli closure and occupation of all Palestinian land.

Saturday September 20, 2008 04:22 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News

Gaza, (PIC)-- Dr. Salah al-Badaweel, spokesman for the Hamas parliamentary block, said on Thursday that remarks made by Tzipi Livni, the new Kadima party leader, regarding Jerusalem being the eternal capital of Israel reflect the extremism of Zionist thought that does not believe in peace, but rather in hegemony and usurpation of land and holy places.

NAZARETH, (PIC)-- A Zionist committee issued during a conference held in the 1948 occupied lands racist statements against the Palestinians where it threatened that the 1948 Palestinians would be exiled to Arab countries if they refused to accept the existence of a purely Zionist state.