ISRAELI WATER THEFT: Mohammed Abbas is sick, with chronic diarrhoea. Not for the first time.

He and his family live in a Palestinian village with no running water, no sewage system, and no prospect of getting either any time soon.
Watching her son, eyes closed, clutching his stomach on a mattress on the floor, his mother, Sunna, told me she is desperate.
Water tanker, Faqua village, West Bank
Faqua residents complain they have [...]

Israel ‘using tourist sites to assert control over East Jerusalem’

Peace groups say government’s secret plans with settler groups could prevent two-state solution
Israel is quietly extending its control over East Jerusalem in alliance with rightwing Jewish settler groups, by developing parks and tourist sites that would bring a “drastic change of the status quo in the city”, according to two Israeli groups.
Ir Amin, a group [...]

Border Policeman gets 8 years for killing Palestinian in 2002

Two former Border Police officers were sentenced to prison Monday for their role in killing a Palestinian teen in Hebron in 2002.
Shachar Butbika and Dennis al-Hazub were convicted of manslaughter and accessory to manslaughter, respectively, and sentenced to prison terms of eight and a half years and five and half years, respectively, by the Jerusalem [...]

Palestinian brothers: Israel used us as human shields in Gaza war

Human shield allegations Link to this video
Israel has been accused of using Palestinian human shields during its invasion of Gaza, a breach of the Geneva conventions that prohibit intentionally putting civilian lives at risk.The Guardian has interviewed three Gazan brothers who described how they were taken from their home at gunpoint, made to kneel in [...]

Israel stops Jerusalem celebrations

Israeli police have prevented Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem from holding events to mark the city’s designation as “capital of Arab culture” for 2009.
About 20 Palestinians were detained in and around East Jerusalem on Saturday, but there were no reports of violence, Shmulik Ben-Ruby, a police spokesman, said.
Police reinforcements were deployed around the city and [...]

Jewish groups slam ‘hideously anti-Semitic’ cartoon on Gaza (hers the cartoon that the Nazi hunter want to stop)

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the group founded by a famed Nazi hunter which has more than 400,000 members in the United States, says the cartoon denigrates and demonizes Israel and mimics the Nazi propaganda.
It called on The New York Times and other media groups to remove the cartoon from their Web sites.
“Pat Oliphant’s outlandish and [...]

FIGHT ISRAHELL: Viva Palestine in Gaza

Viva Palestina Email Alert
19.00 (GMT) Tuesday 11th March
THE ‘ANGELS’ ARE IN TOWN
Gaza woke up this morning not to the sounds of F16s and the awful smells and white smoke of phosphorous bombs, but to the amazing sights of those ‘angels’ who have defied the odds to be with them in this time of great need.
Today [...]

It is not a crime – The long march of folly that began in 1967

it is not a crime
to force people
into a house
and shell it
to bomb mosques
and schools
not a crime
to shoot doctors
trying to reach
children
covered in blood
near slaughtered parents
when the seeds planted
by bullets shells bombs
flower and
produce pods
incandescent as phosphorus
when they explode
roaring defiance
that will be the crime
By Amin Kassam

Gush Katif evacuees implore gov’t to let them resettle Gaza (Israeli biznez as usall)

A group of former residents of the Gush Katif settlement bloc on Sunday implored the government to allow them to resettle Gaza, amid Israel’s ongoing offensive against Hamas in the coastal territory.
“Let us return home. We are ready at a day’s notice to set up tents in the area, until permanent construction,” the group said [...]

If Hamas Did Not Exist – Israel Has No Intention of Granting a Palestinian State (A MUUST READ!!!)

Let us get one thing perfectly straight. If the wholesale mutilation and degradation of the Gaza Strip is going to continue; if Israel’s will is at one with that of the United States; if the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and all the international legal agencies and organizations spread across the globe are going [...]