News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 63
Killings Could Boomerang on Israel
- Inter Press Service
What exactly happened on the high seas off the Gaza-Israel coast remains in murky waters.
MIDEAST: Israeli Navy Storms Humanitarian Flotilla, Kill 16
- Inter Press Service
Israeli naval commandos shot dead 16 people and wounded over 30 on Monday morning, as they attacked an unarmed humanitarian and civilian flotilla - in international waters - trying to bring desperately needed aid to Gaza.
Difficult Times Call for Dangerous Jobs
- Inter Press Service
Life can be hard working in these tunnels, and it is always at risk. But many have no choice but to work in them, particularly since mid-2007, when Israel and Egypt, with the help of the international community, imposed a siege of staggering severity on the 1.5 million humans in the Gaza Strip.
And Not a Drop to Drink for Palestinians
- Inter Press Service
A new desalination facility has come up here on Israel's Mediterranean seashore, to soothe Israel's chronic fresh water shortage. An elaborate network of pipes beneath the beach reaches westward far into the sea. Eastward, it links up with the national water system.
RIGHTS: 'G20 Must Lead on Justice'
- Inter Press Service
Amnesty International is calling on the G20 to lead the world out of a crisis in justice, after the band of major industrialised and emerging nations has led a fair bit of the world out of economic recession, to some extent.
MIDEAST: Hamas' Turn to Demolish Palestinian Homes
- Inter Press Service
On Sunday approximately 150 Palestinians from 20 families were driven out of their homes in Rafah, in the southern Gaza strip, by heavily armed police and soldiers who menaced them with clubs.
ISRAEL: Settlement Policy Wrong Say European Jews
- Inter Press Service
Prominent Jewish intellectuals living in Europe have begun denouncing the Israeli policy of allowing settlements to come up on Palestinian territories as 'morally and politically wrong.’’
MIDEAST: US Funds Apartheid Roads on West Bank
- Inter Press Service
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is helping Israel to construct an apartheid road infrastructure in the occupied Palestinian West Bank by financing nearly a quarter of the segregated road system primarily for the benefit of Israeli settlers.
MIDEAST: May Is About Memories
- Inter Press Service
This is the month for Palestinians to remember their Nakba, or 'catastrophe', in which more than 700,000 women, men and children were pushed off their land and rendered homeless refugees by the Zionist attacks before, during and after the founding of Israel in 1948.
MIDEAST: Where Commemorations Are Split
- Inter Press Service
In Israel and Palestine memory is a split matter, depending on which side of the map you come from. Especially this May, as Israeli and Palestinian leaders restart negotiating a border acceptable to their peoples.
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