Around a hundred demonstrators gathered today at Jalameh (Kishon) prison near Haifa to show their solidarity with Palestinians arrested over the last few weeks in Israel. Hundreds of Palestinians who live in Israel have been singled out for arrest because they dared to take part in protests against the War on Gaza and at least 27 are being held for the durations of their trials.

Such protests have been occurring on a daily basis across ’1948 Israel’, attended by Palestinians but also by Israeli Jews who take offence at their country’s collective punishment of Gaza. However, it is the Palestinian participants who bear the brunt of the Israeli security forces’ response.

It is thought that more than 750 young Palestinians, mainly teenagers, … Continue reading

From Ma’an News Agency www.maannews.net on Tue 13.1.09:

Hebron – Ma’an – A young man was killed by Israeli bullets near the Tarqumiya checkpoint north west of Hebron Tuesday afternoon.

Eyewitness said the man was killed while holding his child, working on a farm. Four Israeli soldiers allegedly arrived on foot soon after, speaking to the man before beginning to beat him, covered his eyes with a cloth and took him away in a military jeep.

Out of the view of the media, the man was then killed, according to witnesses.

Israeli police disputed that report, claiming the man was attempting to steal a soldier’s weapon. He was shot and wounded seriously, but died en route to Hebron Hospital.

He was identified as … Continue reading

From Ma’an News Agency

Gaza – Ma’an – Everything was on fire; houses, sheds, trees.

Bombs, too, were everywhere, and with them came the white clouds. White phosphorous, the doctors are now saying, but that’s disputed in Israel.

But for sure it was a night of terror. We were terrified. We thought we were going to burn to death.

Bombs were everywhere. That’s what 27-year-old Fadia Al-Najjar kept saying. She’s from Khaza’a; she was telling us what kind of horrific night she and her family had just gone through.

While explaining what had happened, Fadia stood next to her paramedic husband Ghanem, now surrounded by other medics, desperately struggling to save his life after he was caught in an airstrike unlike he had ever … Continue reading

From New York, to Tshwane, South Africa; London to Nairobi, Stockholm to Kuala Lumpur; hundreds of thousands of people have marched, chanted sat-in, died-in, rioted and sang all in a collective, desperate attempt to end the attacks on Gaza by the Israeli Occupation Forces. In Toronto and Montreal, Canada activists, including a contingent of Jewish women, occupied the Israeli consulates. In one, they served the consulate with an eviction order. The Jewish women’s contigent informed the consulate that they would occupy it “as long as Gaza is occupied”. London’s demonstrations have been the largest in the western world, with approximately 100,000 people marching through the center of … Continue reading

From Maan News Agency

Twenty three Gazans have been killed since midnight Sunday morning and dozens injured by new weapons that ensure the incineration of buildings and people hit by the explosives.

The Israeli Phosphoric bombs have not yet been used in the Gaza offensive.

The total for the 16 days of Israeli strikes and ground fire is now 875 killed, 3,620 injured and 411 seriously wounded.

Sunday dawned with six more Palestinians confirmed dead in Gaza, mainly from Khuza’a village east of Khan Younis.

Overnight Israeli warplanes shifted their sights to civilian homes in southern Gaza, then after dawn strikes began in the north. Ground troops advanced towards Gaza City during the night. One contingent withdrew northward at dawn, while a … Continue reading