Skip Nav | Home | Mobile | Editorial Guidelines | Mission Statement | About Us | Contact | Help | Security | Support Us

World

Palestine Today 040809

Audio Dept. | 08.04.2009 14:54 | Palestine | World


Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Wednesday April 8th, 2009.


Israeli settlers injure 27 Palestinian villagers in the West Bank, while the army kidnaps another seven; these stories and more coming up; stay tuned.

The News Cast

12 residents were shot and wounded by Israeli gunfire and 15 others were treated for gas inhalation after a group of extremist Israeli settlers attacked Safa village, near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Wednesday.

When villagers from the nearby Beit Ummar and Surif rushed to the area to help stopping the settlers attack, soldiers intervened to stop the settlers and ordered them to return to their illegal outposts of Beit Ayin, local sources reported.

Israel's military said Palestinians began throwing stones as settlers marked a Jewish blessing on a nearby hilltop. However, villagers say the settlers stormed the village and attacked them first, leading to the clashes.

One teenage settler was killed and another injured when a Palestinian man attacked Israeli settlers in the illegal settlement of Bat Ayin last Thursday. The attacker was not caught and villager of Safa told reporters they had nothing to do with last week's attack.

Elsewhere seven Palestinian civilians were kidnapped at dawn on Wednesday during an Israeli military invasion targeting the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Palestinian sources said that Israeli military vehicles stormed the old part of the city and nearby Balata and Askar refugee camps. Witnesses reported that troops searched and ransacked a number of homes before taking the seven men to unknown detention camps.

In Gaza, The Irish Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams visited the Strip on Wednesday to tour areas that were attacked by the Israeli military during January's Cast Lead operation.

Adams told reporters that what happened in Gaza was wrong, adding that Gazans have the right to live in harmony and security. Regarding the ongoing siege on the Gaza strip imposed since June 2007, Adams called upon Israel to open all crossings; allow all supplies into Gaza; facilitate patients' travel and end the siege.

Since June 2007, Israel has allowed only limited amount of supplies into the costal region. UNRWA and other aid agencies operating in Gaza say that these are not enough to cover the needs of the 1.5 million Palestinian living in Gaza. In related news, the Israeli military today allowed food supplies to enter Gaza via Karen A crossing, but announced that no more supplies will be allowed in till next week.

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 Mary Arthur and Ghassan Bannoura.

Audio Dept.
- e-mail: info@imemc.org
- Homepage: http://www.imemc.org

Publish

Publish your news

Do you need help with publishing?

/regional publish include --> /regional search include -->

World Topics

Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

Server Appeal Radio Page Video Page Indymedia Cinema Offline Newsheet

secure Encrypted Page

You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.

If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

IMCs


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech