News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 52
MIDEAST: Hungry in Gaza, More and More
- Inter Press Service
'Sometimes, for a day or two we don't even have bread, nor flour to make bread. There's a store nearby that, when we are truly desperate, lets us take a bag of bread or something simple, on credit. I owe them a lot of money for the food I've brought from them, but I still can't pay them.'
Europe Offers Tax Benefits for Illegal Settlements
- Inter Press Service
Organisations raising funds to benefit the Israeli army and illegal settlements in the West Bank enjoy tax-exempt status in Europe, an IPS investigation has shown.
FBI Raids Seen as Political Retribution
- Inter Press Service
Recent raids by federal agents on the homes and offices of peace activists are being viewed by civil libertarians and civil society groups as further proof that the U.S. is morphing into a 'surveillance state' where the right to privacy and other constitutional protections are being quietly whittled away.
MIDEAST: Riots Grip East Jerusalem
- Inter Press Service
Tension, the twisted carcasses of gutted vehicles, buses with smashed windows, smouldering dumpsters, streets riddled with rubber-coated steel bullets and empty cartridge cases, teargas, and air thickened with black soot from burning tyres marked the beginning of the fifth day Monday of continuous rioting in East Jerusalem.
MIDEAST: Homeless Bedouin Take On the State
- Inter Press Service
The pukk...pukk ...pukk of a generator wired into the engine of a small truck punctures the silence of the desert. A man folds the bottom of his long yellow galabiya robe, tucking it into his blue jeans. He takes a plank of wood from the back of the truck and carries it over to a younger man who is sawing other planks.
MIDEAST: Some Killing More 'Moral' Than Other
- Inter Press Service
Controversy is building up over a 91-year-old man, his 17-year-old grandson and a 20-year-old neighbour, all farmers, who were killed by Israeli shelling and gunfire as they tried to tend their land 700 metres from northern Gaza's border with Israel.
MIDEAST: Dreaming of Fish, and Flowers
- Inter Press Service
As the many colours of the fish and flowers slowly disappear from the Gaza landscape, the already grim prospects of the besieged residents begins to look even bleaker.
MIDEAST: Divided We Educate
- Inter Press Service
A thin Palestinian boy, no older than ten, darts between the piles of garbage and the congested lines of traffic which converge at the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem.
MIDEAST: A Circle Not Easily Squared
- Inter Press Service
Security first or borders first: security says Israel, borders retort the Palestinians.
LEBANON: Twin Visions, Twin Enemies Tearing the Country Apart
- Inter Press Service
Last month's bloody gun battle in the streets of a heavily populated Beirut neighbourhood may have been triggered by an individual incident; its sectarian dimension, however, has once again highlighted the underlying battle of two currents — two visions of Lebanon that have been tearing the country apart for the last four years.
Powered by
