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PCHR Weekly Report: Nearly 1300 Palestinians killed in 3-week long Israeli assault

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PCHR Weekly Report: 18 killed, 25 wounded, 35 abducted by Israeli forces

Largest Dutch trade union will increase pressure on Israel

George Bisharat: Boycott movement targets Israel

A Palestinian action plan to combat Israeli racism

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Report: Palestinian children in Israeli detention abused, tortured

Economic Situation in Palestinian Territories deteriorates: 291,372 Palestinians Unemployed

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Argentina case threatens to criminalize criticism of Israel

In what Nobel Peace laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel has termed "a witch hunt and an attack on democratic freedoms," nine pro-Palestinian protesters in Argentina have been detained following a demonstration at an event celebrating Israel's 61st anniversary. The activists have been vilified as violent anti-Semites by politicians and the television and print media, and now face up to 12 years in prison for "ideological arrogance," under revived Juan Peron-era anti-terrorism legislation of dubious constitutionality.

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Report finds Israel still torturing Palestinians

RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel has accused the Israeli security forces of deliberately shackling Palestinian prisoners in a painful and dangerous manner, amounting to a form of torture.

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Netanyahu's "brilliant" peace plan

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a peace plan so ingenious it is a wonder that for six decades of bloodshed no one thought of it. Some people might have missed the true brilliance of his ideas presented in a speech at Bar Ilan University on 14 June, so we are pleased to offer this analysis.

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Israel Guilty of War Crimes; Palestinians Winning the Legitimacy War:

Professor Richard Falk is the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He is world-renowned as an authority on international law and has authored and co-authored 20 books. Recently, Professor Falk has focused much of his attention on the Israeli massacres in Gaza, alleging that Israel's actions are constitutive of both violations of the laws of war and indicative of crimes against humanity. This is the transcript of a phone interview with him from his home in Santa Barbara, California.

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Israel's efforts to suppress Palestinian activities in Jerusalem

Israel is currently using provisions in the lengthy documents of the Oslo accords as the legal basis for intensifying efforts to suppress activities in Jerusalem that the state says are linked to the Palestinian Authority (PA). The Oslo accords were interim agreements that were signed by the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and from which the PA was created.

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A Two-State Scam?

So, here we are. One of the most right-wing governments has taken over Olmert's Apartheid duties in Israel; Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm of what can only be deemed as a fascist and openly racist administration with the likes of Avigdor Lieberman and Co. forming the majority in a coalition government. Back in 2003, when holding the post of Transportation Minister under Sharon’s reign, Lieberman declared to the Knesset that all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails should be drowned. I suppose the Israeli people have spoken.

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In the News

Israeli authorities threaten demolition of 500 church buildings in Jerusalem

More Palestinian lands annexed for settlement construction

Free Gaza boat convoy delayed in Cyprus

Sixth round of internal Palestinian talks Sunday

Adalah: Israeli illegally selling Palestinian Refugee Property

7-year old from Gaza is prevented by Israel to see his only parent living in the West Bank

PCHR Weekly Report: 2 Palestinians die of earlier wounds, 5 injured by Israeli settlers this week

Life Under Occupation

In Gaza, women filmmakers find strength behind the camera

"My career has always been a challenge for me -- simply 'to be or not to be' -- especially under such very difficult circumstances," says Etimad Wshah. Wshah lives in the Jabaliya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, and is one of a small number of women filmmakers in Gaza. Since 1994 she has trained other women filmmakers at the Palestinian Women's Affairs Center in Gaza City.

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I'll fly away

My phone will not stop ringing. Earlier today I stood in the sun on a farm just 700 meters from Israel's border with Gaza, photographing young Palestinians flying kites high above the armored Israeli trucks patrolling the barbed wire fence in the distance. As I attempted to leave the farm and young folk tried to pull me into their homes to meet their moms and peaked under my head scarve to see the color of my hair, I gave my mobile number to some new friends. We have no common language, but still they repeatedly send a digital signal out into space, to be bounced back down to these borders and into my phone. They burn precious credit on their mobiles just to be heard, to feel a connection to someone who knows a world beyond the barbed wire and ships and trucks and bullets and bombs.

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Films

Documentary: Occupation 101, Voices of the Silenced Majority

A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions. more...

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Archbishop Theodosios Atallah Hanna

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Long Live Gaza by Khaled Nusseibeh

Book release: "Poets for Palestine"

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One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse

As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rages on with relatively new leadership on both sides, we are led to ask what has become a perennial yet only more urgent question -- will this conflict ever be resolved in a way that will finally bring peace to the region? more...

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