As reactions varied to the speech of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, four patients died in Gaza due to the continued siege. Near Ramallah Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinian and international peace activists during the weekly non-violent protest against the Wall in Ni’lin village. Midnight Saturday, Israeli airforce launched a number of air-to-surface missiles near the Gaza-Egypt border in Palestinian neighborhoods. Local residents reported that four Palestinians were wounded in the attack. Also, this week the Israeli Jerusalem municipality handed out yet more demolition orders to Palestinian families in Al Bustan, an East Jerusalem neighborhood. These stories and more in this week’s update.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for June 19, 2009.
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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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This documentary was filmed in late 2005 and brings the viewer closer to the living conditions and unresolved problems of Palestinian refugees in the Lebanon camps. Viewers see the camps with a focus on the issues of health, unemployment, education and the cultural memory of this community of refugees expelled in 1948 and 1967 from their homes in historic Palestine.
This program was produced in 2005 by Red Hill Films for Alternative Focus.
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In the West Bank, invading Israeli forces kidnapped 22 Palestinians across the region. In the Gaza Strip meanwhile, the Israeli security cabinet has recommended that Gaza’s electricity be cut. These stories and more in today’s update.
Palestine Today for September 24, 2007 was brought to you by John Smith and Ghassan Bannoura for the International Middle East Media Center.
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The International Solidarity Movement issues update on Israeli invasion of Nablus.
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Last week the Israeli Army entered the Gaza strip and killed 13 Palestinians, including a 12 year old boy. It was the bloodiest fighting that Gaza has seen since its takeover by the Hamas party two weeks ago. While Hamas fighters were among the dead, the organization has reduced its attacks on Israel since the end of major fighting with the rival Fatah party. Tension between Hamas and Fateh resulted in an all-out civil war between the two groups in late 2006 and 2007. Hamas now has complete control of the Gaza strip while Fatah remains in charge of the West Bank. The context of this in-fighting is of course the on-going Israeli occupation.
Uprising Radio spoke recently with Dr. Mona El Farra, a physician who works and lives in Gaza. Dr. El Farra is currently in the United States at the US Social Forum and joined us for an interview.
This program was produced by Uprising Radio for July 2, 2007.
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This Week in Palestine talks to Yasmine Noor, who was born in Rafah but left at a young age. She returned to Palestine in the late nineties and went through high school in Ramallah (at a time when people could move from Gaza to the West Bank). She came to the US in Sep. 2000, two weeks before the second uprising, and was not able to return to Gaza until now. She holds a BA degree in Religion and an MA in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. She is also the co-founder of a grassroots relief organization called Save Gaza, which is what brought her back to Gaza. Ms. Noor returned to Gaza to implement a sustainable gardening project in an effort to allow local Gazan families to grow gardens using very few resources and not have to rely on relief handouts.
This program was produced by Sherif Fam for This Week In Palestine for June 24, 2007.
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Sherif Fam interviews the eminent Palestinian psychiatrist Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj, founder and Director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) and Commissioner-General of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights.
This program was produced by This Week In Palestine for WZBC radio on June 3, 2007.
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Flashpoints has a report from the occupied Gaza strip; also, a Palestinian health worker is arrested and threatened on his way from the Nahr el Bared refugee camp; and a new documentary by Norman Solomon, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for June 21, 2007.
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Hamas and Fatah trade accusations as the Palestinian president accuses Hamas of attempting to assassinate him, meanwhile Israel continue to close Gaza border crossings, as Abbas and Olmert prepare to meet. These stories and more in this weeks program.
This Week in Palestine for June 16 through June 22, 2007 was brought to you by the International Middle East Media Center.
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