Palestine Today 02 22 2010
IMEMC Audio | 22.02.2010 20:46 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Palestine | World
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday, February 22nd, 2010.
The Jerusalem Municipality plans to construct 550 new homes for settlers in the occupied East side of the City, and clashes erupt in Hebron, southern West Bank.
The News Cast
An Israeli settler's organization announced, Monday, a plan by the Israeli controlled Jerusalem Municipality to construct 550 new settler's homes in Jerusalem’s east city.
This new plan follows a number of plans issued last year to construct 2,327 settlement homes in the city.
In the West Bank, five Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops, on Monday, in morning invasions. The attacks targeted a number of West Bank communities.
The Israeli army radio announced that all were moved to military camps for questioning. They added that all were on their “wanted list.”
In other news, one Palestinian youth sustained moderate wounds in Hebron City, southern West Bank, and dozens suffered from the effects of tear gas inhalation during clashes that erupted between local residents and Israeli soldiers.
The demonstration began Monday morning, with residents protesting Israel’s decision to list the Ibrahimi Mosque as a Jewish heritage site.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli settlers threw stones at Palestinian cars near Nablus, breaking several windshields and wounding a Palestinian doctor on Sunday.
According to local news sources, the incident took place on the Nablus-Jenin road in the northern West Bank, and is part of a pattern of attacks by settlers against Palestinians in that area that has significantly increased in recent weeks.
In the Gaza Strip, Palestinian fighters from the al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades clashed with Israeli forces, on Monday at midday, at the Northern borders with Israel.
The Brigades issued a press release stating that the attack today comes as part of the group's efforts to prevent the daily invasion into Northern Gaza by Israel.
Conclusion
Thank you for joining us from occupied Bethlehem, you have been listening to Palestine Today from the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org. This report has been brought to you, by Walter Jones.
The News Cast
An Israeli settler's organization announced, Monday, a plan by the Israeli controlled Jerusalem Municipality to construct 550 new settler's homes in Jerusalem’s east city.
This new plan follows a number of plans issued last year to construct 2,327 settlement homes in the city.
In the West Bank, five Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops, on Monday, in morning invasions. The attacks targeted a number of West Bank communities.
The Israeli army radio announced that all were moved to military camps for questioning. They added that all were on their “wanted list.”
In other news, one Palestinian youth sustained moderate wounds in Hebron City, southern West Bank, and dozens suffered from the effects of tear gas inhalation during clashes that erupted between local residents and Israeli soldiers.
The demonstration began Monday morning, with residents protesting Israel’s decision to list the Ibrahimi Mosque as a Jewish heritage site.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli settlers threw stones at Palestinian cars near Nablus, breaking several windshields and wounding a Palestinian doctor on Sunday.
According to local news sources, the incident took place on the Nablus-Jenin road in the northern West Bank, and is part of a pattern of attacks by settlers against Palestinians in that area that has significantly increased in recent weeks.
In the Gaza Strip, Palestinian fighters from the al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades clashed with Israeli forces, on Monday at midday, at the Northern borders with Israel.
The Brigades issued a press release stating that the attack today comes as part of the group's efforts to prevent the daily invasion into Northern Gaza by Israel.
Conclusion
Thank you for joining us from occupied Bethlehem, you have been listening to Palestine Today from the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org. This report has been brought to you, by Walter Jones.
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What really happened in "Palestine" today.
23.02.2010 13:04
ByYAAKOV LAPPIN
23/02/2010 03:59
Palestinian security forces handed weapon over to the IDF two weeks ago.
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Evidence of rocket production efforts by Hamas terror cells in the West Bank emerged last month when Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces recovered a homemade rocket from a Palestinian village situated just three kilometers from Modi’in during a security raid, The Jerusalem Post learned Monday.
The rocket was a primitive projectile not yet ready for launch, but it nevertheless served as a reminder of ongoing Hamas rocket armament efforts in the West Bank.
Shortly after it was seized two weeks ago, PA security forces handed the rocket over to the IDF.
The forces raided the village of Beit Likya, near Ramallah, arresting five Hamas members and two additional suspects. The rocket was subsequently found during a second raid by PA forces in the Palestinian village of Beit Zera, situated just three kilometers from the town of Modi’in.
According to reports, the Hamas cell was headed by a man named Musa Nuaman Asi, a former Palestinian prisoner who served time in an Israeli jail. Asi became a wanted man by the Palestinian Authority after being released from prison.
A Palestinian source told Ma’ariv that the rocket “was in an advanced stage of production, but was not completely ready for use. The warhead was filled with explosives, and it had the words ‘There is no God but Allah’ written down the side.”
The transfer of the rocket to Israel is seen as being part of fruitful cooperation between Israeli and PA security forces.
In the recent past, other weapons such as shoulder-held missile launchers and mortars, seized during PA raids on Hamas cells, have been handed over to Israel.
The relationship has also resulted in the swift extraction of Israeli citizens who have illegally entered Palestinian cities, and their transferral into IDF custody
Haw-Haw watch
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