Palestine Media Center (PMC) – www.palestine-pmc.com RAMALLAH, West Bank – President Yaser Arafat took part in morning prayers early Thursday while he braced for a thorough medical examination by teams of senior Palestinian, Jordanian, Egyptian and Tunisian doctors, as a large crowd of Palestinians kept a silent vigil outside his besieged compound amid wider popular [...]
Michael Dahan, Ramallah Online Columnist Much has been written in support of and against Sharon’s planned disengagement from the Gaza Strip, to include the dismantling of the settlements in the Gaza Strip, isolated settlements in the northern part of the West Bank, and the redeployment of the Israeli army within the Gaza Strip, yet one [...]
B. Michael, Yediot Aharonot October, 2004 (This article was translated from Hebrew by The Other Israel) Between Sept 29 and Oct 15, fifteen days in all, I killed thirty children. Two children per day.
Uri Avnery, Ramallah Online Columnist What really is important is not what he said or why he said it, but the world-view that animates him. By now, everybody has had a go at analyzing the interview with Dov (“Dubby”) Weisglass, Ariel Sharon’s most intimate confidant. But there is precious little to analyze. His statement is [...]
Ramzy Baroud, PalestineChronicle.com A 17-day Israeli onslaught in northern Gaza left in its wake nearly 140 dead, one-third of them children. The newest tragedy to visit the impoverished strip, was neither the first, nor will it be the last. But, in many ways, it was reminiscent of the invasion of Jenin in April 2002. There [...]
Genevieve Cora Fraser, Ramallah Online Columnist Like a carrier pigeon landing on my windowsill, Fadi Madi suddenly appeared in my in-box bearing an urgent message with the subject heading: “Struggle with Fadi Madi”.
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, No. 40/2004 07- 13 October 2004 IOF have more violations of human rights against Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), especially in the Gaza Strip. They have expanded the military campaign against the northern Gaza Strip, causing more casualties among Palestinian civilians. This week, 33 Palestinians, 23 of [...]
Human Rights Watch, 18 October 2004 Over the past four years, the Israeli military has demolished over 2,500 Palestinian houses in the occupied Gaza Strip. [1] Nearly two-thirds of these homes were in Rafah, a densely populated refugee camp and city at the southern end of the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt. Sixteen [...]
Jennifer Loewenstein, human rights activist On Sept. 29th Members of the militant wing of Hamas fired a Qassam rocket across the Gaza border into the Israeli town of Sederot killing two small children. This is not the first time Hamas members have fired rockets into Israel, though it is one of the only times such [...]
By Genevieve Cora Fraser Grey rolled into light grey against dark grey Clouds flew the turkey vultures circling round Down gliding onto the black tarp of the landfill Liner secured to a safety mat of impervious Clay covered with the daily refuse of life In these United States as the suicide bombers Transgressed the green [...]
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