Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated his call for Palestinian national unity this week while the Bil’in conference on popular resistance ends with a nonviolent protest against the separation wall. These stories and more in this week’s update.
This Week in Palestine for June 1 through June 6, 2008 was brought to you by the International Middle East Media Center.
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Efforts to negotiate a truce between Israel and the Islamic militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip have hit a snag. As Robert Berger reports from VOA’s Jerusalem bureau, a deadly Palestinian attack has reinforced Israeli concerns.
This program was produced by Voice of America for April 25, 2008.
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On January 26, 2008, thousands of people converged in front of the British Prime Minister’s residence at 10 Downing street in London, England to call for an end to the crippling Israeli siege of Gaza. The demonstration was called by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) in the UK, which is also active in the global campaign to boycott Israeli apartheid.
This report also focuses on the voices of Palestinian children living in the UK as they express their concern for people their age living in the Gaza Strip.
This program was produced by CKUT Radio for January 26, 2008.
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photos.cmaq.net/v/europe-gaza (photo gallery)
In the face of ongoing Israeli military actions directed at the Gaza Strip, which have taken the lives of over one-hundred Palestinians within the past week — including multiple children — a popular committee has formed in Gaza, which has been coordinating a series of popular direct actions and appealing for protests lead by social justice movements throughout the world.
On Monday, February 25th, the Popular Committee Against the Siege in Gaza, organize a major protest, bringing tens-of-thousands of Palestinians on the streets of Gaza, to protest the ongoing Israeli closure enforced on Gaza, which has left the 1.5 million Palestinians of Gaza without basic supplies, without regular electricity and often without clean water. The protest aimed to highlight the realities of the ongoing Israeli siege on Gaza, which Amnesty International recently deemed a violation of international law.
This interview with organizer Sam Hadeeb provides a direct perspective on popular, or grassroots organizing taking place in Gaza in opposition to the ongoing Israeli siege on Gaza, which has been maintained in the context of ongoing Israeli military operations throughout the Gaza Strip, that have drawn international condemnation, including from the Secretary General of the U.N.
This program was produced by Stefan Christoff for Radio Tadamon! on March 10, 2008.
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Mike Cannon speaks with Beck Wolf of the Palestine Solidarity Project. At 27, this former NY high school teacher just returned from a year long stay Beit Ommar, Palestine where she worked with grassroots organizations and communities nonviolently resisting the Israeli Occupation.
This program was produced by The Mike Cannon Show for WNRB-LP on February 26, 2008.
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Residents of Bil’in village, together with international and Israeli activists, chain themselves to olive trees that are to be uprooted to make way for the Israeli Apartheid Wall. The wall is currently being constructed in many areas of Palestine. For Bil’in it will result in the annexation of 2,400 dunums of land - over 50% of the land belonging to the village. This will facilitate massive Israeli settlement expansion east of the Green Line.
Bil’in has carried out a series of non-violent protests against this land theft, and demonstrations are held at least once a week, usually more. The Israeli military has used excessive force against the demonstrators, regularly firing tear gas, rubber coated metal bullets, sound bombs and live ammunition at unarmed civilians peacefully protesting. Many people have been injured and arrested. In other areas of Palestine people have been killed because they have protested against the wall, including two children who were shot dead on the same day that this video was filmed, a short distance away in Beit Liqya.
This program was produced by Lena Green on May 4, 2005.
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Break The Silence Mural Project report
13 killed as the Gaza strip this week saw the Israeli army intensify their attacks, while the Palestinians commemorate the eight-year anniversary of the second Intifada this week. These stories and more in this weeks program.
This Week in Palestine for September 22 through September 28, 2007 was brought to you by the International Middle East Media Center.
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The Israeli army kills two in the Gaza strip and invades cities and attacks Palestinian homes in the West Bank. These stories and more in today’s update.
Palestine Today for September 27, 2007 was brought to you by Louisa White and Ghassan Bannoura for the International Middle East Media Center.
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Crossing The Line host Christopher Brown speaks with attorney and activist Huwaida Arraf. Arraf, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement, speaks about the victory for the residents of Bil’in village. The Israeli high court on 4 September ruled that the apartheid wall must be rerouted near the town. Every Friday for the past two years residents of Bil’in, as well as Israeli and international peace activists, have staged nonviolent protests against the wall. The Israeli occupation forces almost always used rubber-coated steel bullets, sound grenades and teargas against the crowd. Brown speaks with Arraf about the use of non-violent resistance in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Later, Brown speaks with Caoimhe Butterly, a journalist and activist who has documented the events in Lebanon since the fighting in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp began in May. Butterly speaks with Brown from Baddawi refugee camp about the current living conditions of the displaced Palestinians and how the Lebanese and other governments are addressing the issue.
As always, Crossing the Line begins with “This week in Palestine,” a service provided by The International Middle East Media Center.
This program was produced by Crossing The Line for September 14, 2007.
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The Israeli government declared the Gaza Strip an “enemy entity,” while the army kill eight Palestinians this week. These stories and more in this weeks program.
This Week in Palestine for September 15 through September 21, 2007 was brought to you by the International Middle East Media Center.
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