Monday March 17,
2008
Addendum to: The Oldest
Profession(s)
Palestinian children 'in crisis'
Alarmed by the recent Israeli incursion into Gaza and the continuing
socio-economic deterioration of the occupied territories, several NGOs
have launched crisis intervention programmes for traumatised
Palestinian children. Marwan Diab, a psychologist from the Gaza
Community Health Programme (GCHP), says the youngest generation of
Palestinians is in need of immediate assistance.
PLO:
Israel killed 274 residents, including 50 children, 18 women, since the
beginning of 2008
The National and International Department of the Palestinian Liberation
Organization (PLO) reported that the Israeli army killed 274
Palestinians, including 50 children and 18 women since the beginning of
2008.
A letter from a mother in Gaza to a mother in Sderot
PCHR Weekly Report: 9 Palestinians killed, 17 wounded by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly
Report, during the week of 6 - 12 Mar. 2008, 9 Palestinians were killed
by Israeli forces. 4 of the victims were extra-judicially executed by
Israeli forces in Bethlehem. 3 of the victims bled to death, and
another Palestinian died from a previous wound. 17 Palestinians,
including 7 children and a woman, were wounded by Israeli forces.
When charity ends at home, By Gideon Levy
The ovens have been brought downstairs, into hiding. The two bagel and
cake bakeries have already been closed by army order. The Israel
Defense Forces confiscated the ovens in one of them, but the employees
in the other bakery managed to rescue and hide theirs. The popular
clothing shop Pretty Woman, in the heart of the bustling mall in
Hebron, and its neighbor, Mama Care, the high-end shop for baby
clothes, are about to close. The same is true of the new and spacious
supermarket, the modern physical-therapy institute, the beauty salon,
the barbershop and the library: Everything will be closed by order of
the GOC Central Command. Local food and clothing warehouses were also
emptied out by the IDF last week, with an inventory worth about NIS
750,000, designated for the impressive orphanages of the Islamic
Charity Movement. The goods were loaded onto trucks and confiscated.
Wave
of Demolitions in the West Bank leave 75 people homeless
Occupation forces carried out a widespread demolition operation across
the West Bank. Communities in the Jordan Valley were the hardest hit,
although people in the Qalqilya district were also affected.
Demonstration takes place on playground near
Qalqiliya, two days before it is due to be demolished
A large protest took place today in the West Bank town of Azzoun
against the planned demolition of the children's playground in the
town. 450 protesters came from the local area, the village womens
development association and the Palestinian Agricultural Relief
Committees (PARC), who celebrated their 25 year anniversary at the
demonstration.
"One-State or Two-State?" - A Sterile Debate on False Alternatives
In a review article a few years ago, Daniel Lazare argued that an
honest discussion of Zionism is no longer off limits. Lazare
wrote, "a longstanding taboo has finally begun to fall. ... Where
before it was all but impossible to have an honest conversation about
Zionism, it is now becoming impossible not to" (The Nation, November 3,
2003). This was perhaps a little too optimistic, or at least overlooked
the many occasions when a little opening of the debate was blocked by a
massive counter-attack.
Forbidden fruit
Every year, at exactly this time, in the brief month between the last
rains and the beginning of spring, Samia and her girlfriends in the
northern Galilee village used to rent a minivan and leave in the middle
of the night for the uncultivated fields in search of the young
thistles of the aqub (gundelia). Ten women crowded onto the benches of
the special taxi at 3 A.M., made their way to the fields in the south,
the north or in the direction of the territories, following a tradition
that began at the time of their mothers' mothers and will end, they
always assumed, in eternity.
Stop
Israeli Apartheid
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