Palestinian child shot in West Bank by Israeli troops

albawaba - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Israeli forces have seriously wounded a child in the West Bank. AFP Photo Israeli troops shot and seriously wounded a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who was walking with his friends in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Palestinian security and medical officials told AFP.They said that Atta Mohammed Sharadeh was hit during one of what have become almost daily attacks against Palestinian youths by ...

West Bank pledges $1 billion to aid peace in Africas Great Lakes

The Star - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

KINSHASA (Reuters) - The World Bank on Wednesday announced $1 billion in development funding for Africa's Great Lakes region, where renewed fighting this week between the government and rebels in eastern Congo has raised fears once again of an escalation in conflict. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim unveiled the proposed aid financing for one of Africa's most intractable conflict ...

Young objector challenges Israeli army on ideological grounds citing occupation of West Bank

Canada.com - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Left wing activists hold signs during a protest calling for the release of Israeli conscientious objector Natan Blanc from military prison, in front of the ministry of defense office in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The Israeli military has jailed Blanc for six months because of his opposition to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, in one of the most protracted cases by a ...

West Bank Businesses Seek Growth Amid Uncertainty

NPR - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

heads back to Israel and the West Bank Thursday for more talks on restarting peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. When he was there last month, he walked away with at least one agreement - to improve the West Bank economy. ...

Israel-Syria Border War Heats Up

Middle East Newsline - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

NICOSIA [MENL] -- Israel and Syria have been engaged in an increasinglybitter border war. Western diplomatic sources said Israeli and Syrian forces were battlingon a nearly daily basis along the Golan Heights. They said the fighting oftenbegan with Syrian Army or proxy attacks on Israel Army outposts and ...

Israel warns Assad over action in Golan Heights

Ya Libnan - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Israel's army chief said that Bashar al-Assad would suffer heavy consequences if he destabilised the Golan Heights, in one of the most explicit warnings yet to the Syrian leader by a public official. The comments came after a night that saw Israel fire into Syria following an attack on one of its military ...

Greater resources needed to improve health of Palestinian refugees UN

New Kerala - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

New York, May 22 : Health programmes carried out by the United Nations agency tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees has helped to improve their lives, but greater efforts and more resources are needed to effectively tackle health challenges, particularly during times of conflict, says a new ...

11 Palestinians died under PA Hamas detention

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Eleven Palestinians have died in Palestinian Authority and Hamas detention centers during 2012, according to a report released Tuesday by the Palestinian Independent Commission For Human Rights.Two of the Palestinians died in PA detention centers in the West Bank, while the nine others died in Hamas custody in the Gaza ...

Israel US threatens war with Syria as sectarian fighting spreads across region

wsws.org - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Israeli and Syrian forces exchanged fire across the cease-fire line in the Golan Heights yesterday, amid rising US and Israeli threats of intervention in the US-led sectarian proxy war in Syria, which is rapidly spreading throughout the region. Fighting in the Golan Heights started overnight when Syrian forces fired at an Israeli vehicle that allegedly crossed into Syrian territory. Israeli ...

Jordanian prisoners in Israel continue hunger strike in bid for better treatment

albawaba - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Jordanian prisoners in Israel have been on hunger strike for 20 days, campaigning for better treatment and family visits, among other things. Getty image, for illustrative purposes only. Five Jordanians imprisoned in Israel have entered their 20th day on open hunger strike, a prisoner rights groups said Tuesday."Five of around 30 Jordanian prisoners in Israeli jails are currently ...

Israel warns Syria of ‘consequences’ if Golan fire continues

The Globe and Mail - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

An Israeli soldier from the Golani Brigade sleeps as others, seen through a black netting, pray close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, in this May 7, 2013 file picture. The Israeli military denied on May 21, 2013 a claim by Syria that its armed forces destroyed an Israeli vehicle on the Golan Heights. (BAZ ...

Fatah Hamas to renew reconciliation dialogue in Cairo on Tuesday

SINA - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

RAMALLAH, May 11 (Xinhua) -- A senior Palestinian official revealed on Saturday that leaders of Fatah and Hamas, two rival Palestinian groups, will meet in Cairo on Tuesday to resume their reconciliation dialogue. Azzam el-Ahmed, head of Fatah's delegation to the dialogue, told Xinhua that the meeting will focus on forming the transitional unity government that they have previously agreed ...

UN investigates use of sarin gas as Israel attacks Syria

Pravda - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

A UN special commission will investigate the use of chemical weapons in the Arab nation. The Syrian Government had filed an official complaint with President of the Security Council and to the general secretary after the Israeli ...

Hamas textbooks to teach about liberation plans

Jerusalem Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Hamas has begun preparing new school textbooks that teach children about "plans to liberate Palestine and the legitimacy and various forms of resistance [against Israel]." Jamal Abu Hashem, advisor to the Hamas-controlled education ministry, said new books would be introduced as part of National Education Studies for grades 8-10.Abu Hashem was speaking during a workshop in Gaza ...

Music Avishai Cohen — ‘Umray’

War in Context - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Perhaps it’s just me, but when I listen to Mr. Cohen play, it seems the music has dark overtones. Perhaps it because of where he ...

UNICEF donates school kits to Palestinian refugees

The Daily Star - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Toulkarem School in the Palestinian camp of Burj al-Barajneh, in the presence of students, parents and teaching staff. "Education is a priority for both UNRWA and the Palestinian refugee community and this will remain so, despite the ongoing humanitarian crisis of Palestinian refugees from Syria," said Roger Davies, the deputy director of UNRWA affairs in Lebanon. Davies thanked ...

Damascus claims it destroyed Israeli military vehicle on joint border

Irish Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade take part in an exercise near the border with Syria at the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty ...

Prisoners who starved for art honored by Gaza show

Electronic Intifada - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Artwork by Palestinians in Israeli prisons is on display in Gaza governmental offices. For former Palestinian detainee Abdelfattah Abu Jahil, prison art is a victory. "At the beginning, it was really hard," he said of painting, embroidery and sculpture during his first detention by Israeli forces in 1983. "It wasn’t allowed. We had to keep it hidden from the guards. And we ...

SF Officials Demand City Donate Money From Anti-Israel Bus Ads

CBS 5 - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) – Several San Francisco supervisors want the city transit agency to donate revenue from an anti-Israel bus ad campaign to the city's Human Rights Commission after the agency did the same for an ad campaign that targeted Muslims. The city's Municipal Transportation Agency donated revenue made ...

Without much effort imagine the world reaction if Jews were in the situation of the Palestinians with them having a large army building a wall of shame and forcing the people to live in ghettos Thus the boycott of Israel is valid and I agree with it

Pravda - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

As for the Jewish people, who are always on the lookout for any news that is broadcast on international media whose intent is critical to their behavior on this sensitive issue with Palestine, they deserve to be reprimanded, yes. Without much effort, imagine the world reaction if Jews were in the situation of the Palestinians, with them having a large army, building a wall of shame, and forcing ...

Syria Israel Trade Shots in Golan Heights

Hispanic Business Magazine - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The Israeli army on Tuesday fired at a target in Syria after one of its military vehicles was hit by cross-border fire in the Golan Heights. The Syrian Army said it destroyed an Israeli military vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan, which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed. It was the first time since Syria's uprising erupted more than two ...

Israel - Restrictions on movement are biggest hurdle for journalists in Israel Palestine

IFEX - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The International Press Institute (IPI) has called for an end to restrictions on freedom of movement for journalists working in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.In a report released by IPI today, the lack of free movement for journalists emerges as the single greatest challenge to local reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most Palestinian journalists are unable to enter Israel, and are ...