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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As Palestinians mark the 41st anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israeli military attacks leave a child and a man killed.

This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for June 5, 2008.

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A United States envoy has launched a new peace mission to the Middle East. As Robert Berger reports from VOA’s Jerusalem bureau, he was critical of both Israel and the Palestinians.

This program was produced by Voice Of America for March 14, 2008.

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On January 25, 2002 a remarkable group of 52 soldiers and officers of the Israeli army reserves published a quarter-page letter which appeared in the Israeli daily newspaper Ha’aretz. In this letter, they called on their comrades-in-arms to join their act of refusal to serve in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza. In a manifesto published in a book in 2003 entitled “Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” they further declared: “we shall not continue to fight beyond the 1967 borders in order to dominate, expel, starve, and humiliate an entire people.”

Sherif Fam speaks to Oded Na’aman, a 26 year-old former crew commander in the artillery corps of the Israeli Defense Forces, who spent a year as a soldier and commander in checkpoints all over the West Bank, then became a member of “Breaking the Silence.”

This program was produced by This Week In Palestine for WZBC radio on March 3, 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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Israel kills one resistance fighter in Gaza and one civilian in the West Bank, while resistance group kills an Israeli soldier in the coastal region, these stories and more in Palestine Today from IMEMC.

This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for March 6, 2008.

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Dale Stuepfert interviews Mohammad Otman, a young Palestinian man from Jayyous, Palestine. Mohammad speaks about life under Israeli occupation.

This program was produced in April, 2005.

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On July 17, 2007, volunteers at the Summer Rebuilding Camp sponsored by ICAHD-USA witnessed the Israeli government demolish a nearby Palestinian family’s house. Every year the Israeli government demolishes around 300 Palestinian houses in order to expand illegal Israeli settlement construction. This policy of settlement expansion, land confiscation, and demolition of Palestinian houses forms the biggest obstacle to peace. ICAHD-USA is working to end these policies.

This program was produced by ICAHD-USA.

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Israel continues its policy of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and barring internationals from documenting Israeli human rights violations, Sam Bahour will join us to talk more about this ongoing policy.

Then, a Palestinian mother of seven dies at the border as yet another casualty of Israel’s border closure of the Gaza Strip, where more than a dozen critically ill patients have died as a result of collective punishment. Electronic Intifada frequent contributor and Crossing The Line correspondent, Rami Almeghari will speak more on this story.

Plus, masked Palestinian resistance fighters take over a classroom in Gaza, but they haven’t come to violate international laws, they’ve come to learn about them, Iyad Nasr - spokesperson for the International Committee of The Red Cross will join us to explain.

This program was produced by Crossing The Line for November 23, 2007.

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Personal stories of Palestinians and Israeli settlers frame this 1993 account of Israel’s race to build permanent settlements in the West Bank and Gaza strip, in an effort to cement the occupation of Palestinian lands. The decisive role of U.S. aid and the impact of massive Soviet immigration are reflected in everyday life on both sides. Eyewitness testimony and analysis underscore the political stakes as the settlements become “facts on the ground.”

Produced by Anata Video in cooperation with Palestine Solidarity Committee and Tami Gold.

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icahd.org (Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions)