News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 54
MIDEAST: Bureaucracy Limits Rights of Palestinian Women
- Inter Press Service
As Hamas cracks down on the rights of Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip, their sisters in the occupied West Bank are slowly gaining ground. But a bureaucracy, that is sometimes supported by foreign aid, is crippling these advances.
MIDEAST: 'McCarthyism' Rises in Israel
- Inter Press Service
Rightwing Israeli groups financially supported by Jewish and fundamentalist Christian groups from abroad are on a campaign to undermine free thought in Israeli universities. Collaterally, a move is under way by right-wing parties in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, to limit the freedom of action of civil and human rights-minded NGOs.
MIDEAST: This Math Class May Figure Out Israel
- Inter Press Service
In a bright and spacious classroom, with plants overflowing in the courtyard outside, six students lean forward at their desks looking at the 10-digit addition they are asked to make. One student stands before the numbers on the chalkboard and a red and yellow-beaded abacus. But her attention is on the abacus she visualises in her mind.
MIDEAST: Palestinian Patients Suffer From Political Rivalry
- Inter Press Service
Cancer patient Ahmed Abu Fuad needs chemotherapy to survive. Muhammad Subeh needs an eye-transplant while paramedic Alaa Sarhan desperately needs surgery to remove shrapnel from his body. But these Gazans are unable to leave the area to seek the required medical treatment elsewhere, and it is not because of the Israeli siege.
MIDEAST: Darkness Dawns at Ramadan
- Inter Press Service
'It's been days without electricity and water. We can't do anything, and it's unbearably hot now.' Abu Fouad, 83, speaks of the power cuts plaguing all of the Gaza Strip.
U.N. Treads Cautiously in Probe of Border Firefight: ISRAEL-LEBANON
- Inter Press Service
Three weeks after a fatal exchange of fire between Israel and Lebanon along the U.N.-demarcated Blue Line, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has yet to make recommendations on easing tension at the border.
MIDEAST: Stitching Together a Living, Somehow
- Inter Press Service
Just off Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, Gaza City's main thoroughfare, in a narrow, sandy alley way is a little second-hand clothing shop. In the dimly lit store, with only intermittent electricity for some hours a day at best, sits a single battered and aging sewing machine.
New Book Assembles Eyewitness Accounts from Mavi Marmara
- Inter Press Service
A growing number of activists is contradicting the claims of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) regarding the Gaza Freedom Flotilla debacle in May, including a large faction of both Israeli and U.S. Jews.
MIDEAST: Barriers Rise Between Ramadan Gatherings
- Inter Press Service
For seven years Majda Abdul Qader Sheikh, 38, has not been allowed to visit the home of her parents, just a few hundred metres from her house.
MIDEAST: Uprooted Villagers Hold Fast During Ramadan
- Inter Press Service
On the eve of the start of Ramadan last week, Israeli police demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev desert. It was the third time within two weeks that the village had been razed.
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