World Palestine Newswire Archive

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday March 11th, 2008.

The horrific shooting of eight young people at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem last Thursday was followed by saturation media coverage. International statesmen lined up with condemnations of the attack and condolences for the victims and their families.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday March 10th, 2008.

"This weeks Indy Global Report was edited in a 600 year old Turkish bath in the West bank city of Nablus. Amidst shisha pipes and steam,and men watching football, awaiting massage, concentration proved tough but not as tough as the guests on this week's Indy Global Reports.

Camera man Carlos Handal describes about covering Thursday's house demolition In Bethlehem, from under the green lazer sights of Israeli Snipers, he still managed to come away with the footage.

Reuters camera man, Nablus-ite, Hassan Teeti, talks about his work as a war camera man in Palestine and Baghdad.

This week in Palestine from IMEMC.org, brings you a general round up of news from across the West Bank and Gaza.

Indy Global Reports on Resonance fm104.4 from 23.00 until midnight, every Monday, inshallah!"

Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai’s much publicised remark last week about Gaza facing a “shoah” -- the Hebrew word for the Holocaust -- was widely assumed to be unpleasant hyperbole about the army’s plans for an imminent full-scale invasion of the Strip.

More significantly, however, his comment offers a disturbing indication of the Israeli army’s longer-term strategy towards the Palestinians in the occupied territories.

10th March 2008

Smash EDO Press Release

Anti-Arms Trade Campaigners on trial for singing 'We are the Champions'

For more info contact Andrew Beckett or Chloe Marsh

tel 07875708873 or email  smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk

This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for March 1st through to March 7th, 2008.

Press release
06/03/2008

Smash EDO protesters prevent delivery companies supporting war crimes in Iraq.

For more info contact Andrew Beckett or Chloe Marsh:

tel 07875708873 or email  smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk

On Thursday 5th March, The University College London Students’ Union (UCLU) voted overwhelmingly to twin UCL Union with the Unions of Al-Quds and Al-Azhar Secular Secular Universities in the West Bank and Gaza respectively with immediate effect.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday March 6th, 2008.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday March 5th, 2008.

Week 2 of Boomchucka Circus 2 Iraq's antics....

Following are some photos of the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign vigil for Gaza held outside Sheffield Town Hall on Saturday 1st March 2008.

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights documented its extra-judicial executions from September 29, 2000 through December 2007 and updates it weekly on its web site - pchrgaza.org.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday March 4th, 2008.

On Sunday, March 2, about 100 people gathered at the Hermannplatz in Berlin to protest against the ongoing Israeli offensive in the Gaza strip. Since last Wednesday, more than 100 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army, including several children. We are dealing with the biggest Israeli operation in Gaza since the year 2000.

Children of the West Bank take to the streets, leading a wave of solidarity protests against Israel's attacks on Gaza.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday march 3rd, 2008.

IndyGlobal Reports from occupied Bethlehem, features Ghassan Banora of IMEMC.org, offering analysis on the situation in Gaza, and the subsequence protests across the West Bank in the wake of the 120 deaths since last wednesday.

For the last two months the residents of al-Khader have demonstrated every week against the illegal construction of the Israeli wall on their land. The demonstrations are organized by the al-Khader Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, with the support of al-Khader institutions, residents as well as Israeli and international activists.