The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, a UK based movement, on Monday called for the British Government to ban the import of products made in Israeli West Bank settlements into the UK.

Hebron – Ma'an – Medics and eyewitnesses said on Monday that a Palestinian woman gave birth at a closed Israeli military checkpoint near the southern West Bank town of Beit Kahil north of Hebron.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Palestinian civil societies warned that the IOA issued demolition orders against hundreds of Palestinian homes in occupied Jerusalem at the pretext of unlicensed construction, calling for necessarily confronting this campaign publicly and legally because it is aimed at destroying the Palestinian presence and social fabric in the holy city.

GAZA, (PIC)-- Three more patients died in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours to bring the number of the Israeli siege victims to 218 all were in bad need of treatment abroad but were denied access by the Israeli occupation authority.

NEW YORK, (PIC)-- Ban Ki-Moon, the secretary-general of the UN, expressed deep concern about the Israeli intention to build 20 settlement units in the Aghwar area located in the northern flank of the West Bank.

HEBRON (IPS) - The Israeli military has erected three additional roadblocks, further blocking vehicular access on the road between the south Hebron village of al-Tuwani and the commercial hub of Yatta in the southern West Bank.
Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 23 July 2008

In an extravagant ceremony that featured acrobats, drummers, a children's choir, and speeches by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (in person) and the two top executives of chipmaker Intel Corp. (on giant video screens), the company this month dedicated a new, state-of-the-art chip-manufacturing plant in the south-central Israeli town of Kiryat Gat.

Henry Norr, The Electronic Intifada, 23 July 2008

When I and other Palestinian-Americans first knew Barack Obama in Chicago in the 1990s, he grasped the oppression faced by Palestinians under Israeli occupation. He understood that an honest broker cannot simultaneously be the main cheerleader, financier and arms supplier for one side in a conflict. He often attended Palestinian-American community events and heard about the Palestinian experience from perspectives stifled in mainstream discussion.

Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 24 July 2008

• The Guardian,
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The Israeli army invaded several villages in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday at dawn, kidnapping 11 Palestinians and shooting 3 others.
Thursday July 24, 2008 11:04 by Rula Shahwan - IMEMC News