Several people were injured and 26 arrested on Saturday in the West Bank village of Saffa near Hebron. Israeli soldiers blocked peace activists accompanying Palestinians to their agricultural fields near the Jewish settlement of Bat Ein.
This program was produced by Joseph Dana for June 27, 2009.
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Prior to the weekly nonviolent demonstration in Bil’in, a press conference took place where a representative of the village’s popular committee, a member of the Palestinian Boycott National Committee, and world renowned Canadian journalist and author Naomi Klein spoke of the local struggle, the village’s new court case in Canada against Canadian companies building the new neighborhoods on Bil’in land, the boycott movement, and the inability to detach art and politics.
This program was produced in Bil’in for June 26, 2009.
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Caryl Churchill wrote Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza as a response to Israel’s 22 day siege of the Gaza Strip in January. GRITtv recently invited a number of actors into the studio, including Kathleen Chalfant, to read the play. Chalfant then discusses her work, Churchill’s play, and the role of politics in theater.
This program was produced by GRITtv for May 11, 2009.
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Sharon Lock discusses the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza.
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As the situation in Gaza worsens, the International Solidarity Movement is one of the only international organizations with volunteers on the ground.
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Eva Bartlett, an activist with the International Solidarity Movement, discusses the situation in Gaza.
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One of the key parts of Israel’s well-planned media narrative in Gaza is that they are carefully targeting attacks and that there is no humanitarian crisis there which isn’t attributable to the mis-management of the elected Hamas government. President Shimon Peres repeated the claim this Sunday on ABC News “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”.
John Ging, the head of the UN relief agency in Gaza, described the situation there as “inhuman”.
We have a catastrophe unfolding in Gaza for the civilian population,” he said. “The people of Gaza City and the north now have no water. That comes on top of having no electricity. They’re trapped, they’re traumatised, they’re terrorised by this situation.
They’re in their homes. They’re not safe. They’re being killed and injured in large numbers, and they have no end in sight. The inhumanity of this situation, the lack of action to bring this to an end, is bewildering to them.
The whole infrastructure of the future state of Palestine is being destroyed. Blowing up the parliament building. That’s the parliament of Palestine. That’s not a Hamas building. The president’s compound is for the president of Palestine. Schools, mosques.
This program was produced by Crooks & Liars for January 4, 2009.
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The fighting between Israel and Hamas intensified on Monday. Lubna Hammad, a member of the Coalition for Justice in the Middle East, spoke about the violence on Good Day NY.
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Providing a summary of the events of the past week from the West Bank and Israel, Jesse Rosenfeld, freelance journalist based in Ramallah and Tel Aviv speaks to the Gaza attack. He connects the upcoming Israeli election to the motivation behind the bombing of Gaza which in the past week killed 420 and injured over 1300. Rosenfeld says Ehud Barak decided to carry out Operation Cast Lead, the name given to the attack, at this time to boost his votes for the February 10th election. During election years, politicians known to take the most hard-line position against Palestinians tend to gain more seats in the Israeli Knesset. Operation Cast Lead now threatens escalate into a ground invasion as Israel amasses its troops and tanks at the Gaza border.
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As the fifth day of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip begins, Rafah and Gaza City, the two main targets, have witnessed hundreds of deaths. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blames Hamas, the ruling party in Gaza, for inciting Israel’s attack. Hamas, vows to keep shelling Southern Israel with rockets fired from the Gaza Strip. Lia Tarachansky spoke to Fida Qishta in Rafah, located in Southern Gaza. Qishta reports one of the first targets of the Israeli bombardment were the tunnels dug by Palestinians under the wall, which separates Rafah in two, half in Palestine and half in Egypt. These tunnels, says Qishta, have been used since the beginning of the siege to smuggle food, and according to Israel, weapons. Qishta also reports of the wall being breached by Palestinians desperate to escape to Egypt. Though unsuccessful, this is the fifth attempt since the beginning of the second Intifadah to breach it.
This program was produced by The Real News for January 1, 2009.
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