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Electronic Intifada |
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Electronic Intifada
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The Electronic Intifada project is an online educational gateway to information about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, produced by a small network of activists.
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Some Palestinian refugees in Iraq to get special IDs
rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rBAGHDAD (IRIN) – The Iraqi government has launched a registration process for Palestinian refugees who arrived between 1948 and 1967—and their descendants—to help ensure they benefit from government aid programs. Those registered will be issued with ID cards which identify them as refugees, the Ministry of Displacement and Migration said on 26 August.
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The zoo on the road to Nablus
rr r r r rr r rr r rr r rr rr rrr rDr. Sami greeted the journalist at the ticket office. “Welcome,” he said. “Please come this way.” He began a tour of the zoo, first heading north up the zoo’s main avenue, past the dry fountain, the restaurant, and a dusty playground. At the top, he introduced Ruti, his prize giraffe. Read more of an excerpt from Amelia Thomas’ new book, The Zoo on the Road to Nablus
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Israel pushes ahead with settlement expansion
rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rJERUSALEM, 27 August (IPS) – Israel has published tenders for the construction of 1,761 illegal housing units for Israeli settlers in occupied East Jerusalem alone, according to the Israeli rights group Peace Now. The expansion plans come despite promises by the Israeli government at last year’s peace summit at Annapolis, Maryland to freeze all settlement growth.
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Sailing into Gaza
rr r r r rr r rr r rr r rr rr rrr rOn Saturday, after 32 hours on the high seas, I sailed into the port of Gaza City with 45 other citizens from around the world in defiance of Israel’s blockade. We traveled from Cyprus with humanitarian provisions for Palestinians living under siege. My family in Michigan was worried sick. They are not naive. Huwaida Arraf comments.
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Palestinian rights group commends international activists
rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rAs a Palestinian human rights organization, Al-Haq would like to send its warmest commendations to the human rights defenders involved in the feat of the SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty breaking the blockade of the Gaza Strip. The crews made the 370-kilometer voyage from Larnaca port, Cyprus, in a symbolic gesture to highlight the illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip.
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Egyptian kinship with Fatah hampers mediation
rr r r r rr r rr r rr r rr rr rrr rCAIRO (IPS) – Following renewed fighting between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas, Egypt has stepped up calls for dialogue and reconciliation. But critics say Cairo’s partiality to Fatah—which is backed, like the Egyptian regime itself, by the US —prevents it from mediating fairly in the crisis.
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Ramattan reporter reaches Gaza on board the Liberty
rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rTears filled the eyes of Ramattan News Agency’s Head of African Operations Hayyan Jubeh when he caught his first glimpse of the skyline on the coast of Gaza along the horizon of the Mediterranean Sea after a 37-hour voyage launched from Cyprus. Jubeh, 48, a Palestinian filmmaker from Jerusalem, is one of 44 international peace activists on board the ships. Sami Abu Salem writes from the Gaza Strip.
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Israel’s weapon of house demolitions
rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rThe four-story building in Beit Hanina, a Palestinian neighborhood a few miles north of East Jerusalem, was clearly home to wealth. As our carload of internationals pulled up the small street leading to Abu Majed Eisha’s house at around midnight I noticed several BMWs parked along the way. From what I had learned during my brief time in the West Bank, Palestine, I knew already that this was not going to be an ordinary house demolition. Jill Shaw writes from Beit Hanina.
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Palestinian political tensions impacting education sector
rr r r r rr r rr r rr r rr rr rrr rThe General Secretariat of General Union of Palestinian Teachers, which is aligned with the Fatah movement, declared a five-day strike at public schools throughout the Gaza Strip to be launched on 24 August, the first day of the new school year, in protest to what it described as “arbitrary decisions” taken by the Ministry of Education of the Gaza government.
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No justice for murdered journalist
rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rIn Gaza City, scores of journalists participated in a rally condemning an official Israeli statement clearing Israeli soldiers of wrongdoing in the killing of Palestinian journalist Fadel Shana’a. Protesters demanded an international probe and chanted slogans such as “we are keeping up on your path Fadel, as you lay in rest.” EI correspondent Rami Almeghari reports from the occupied Gaza Strip.
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