Date: July 7th 2008

Palestine : Development:

GAZA LOCKED IN DESPITE TRUCE
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani, The Electronic Intifada, 7 July 2008

CAIRO (IPS) - Despite a torrent of mutual recriminations,
the fragile truce between Israel and Palestinian
resistance faction Hamas survived into its third week.
Israel, however, has been slow to fulfill its pledge -- as
laid down in an Egypt-brokered ceasefire agreement -- to
allow desperately-needed humanitarian supplies into the
outdoor prison that is the Gaza Strip. "Repeated closures
of the border crossings [by Israel] ... are indicative of
Israel's lack of seriousness regarding the Egyptian
ceasefire agreement," Ismail Haniyeh told reporters Friday
on 4 July.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9674.shtml

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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

MY NEW BIRTHDAY
By Areej Ja'fari, Live from Palestine, 5 July 2008

I am a third generation of the Palestinian Nakba, the
forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland by
Zionist forces. I now feel that I am a very lucky person.
I never felt lucky before my new birthday: the day I
visited my destroyed original village of Deir Rafat, where
my grandfather and his family lived before they were
forced out in 1948. Areej Ja'fari writes from Deheisheh
refugee camp.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9662.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

REPORT: 348 PALESTINIANS EXTRA-JUDICIALLY EXECUTED SINCE SEPT. 2000
Report, PCHR, 4 July 2008

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights published a new
report entitled "Extra-judicial executions ... Official,
Declared Israeli Policy" covering Israeli extra-judicial
executions against Palestinians during the period from 1
August 2006 till 30 June 2008. The report is the ninth of
its kind in a special series.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9673.shtml

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Palestine : Opinion/Editorial:

UNITE TO NEGOTIATE A REAL TRUCE
By Dr. Eyad al-Sarraj, The Electronic Intifada, 4 July 2008

Five days into the long awaited Gaza ceasefire, Israel
allowed the entry of tissues and sanitary napkins into
Gaza as a form of "good will." Simultaneously, it carried
out an early morning raid against a student hostel in
Nablus, killing two Palestinians in their beds. Dr. Eyad
al-Sarraj comments on what it will take for a permanent
lifting of the siege and resisting of Israeli colonial
designs.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9672.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

CRITICS SEE VENDETTA IN AL-ARIAN'S LEGAL LIMBO
By Ali Gharib, The Electronic Intifada, 3 July 2008

WASHINGTON (IPS) - Palestinian activist and former
university professor Sami al-Arian was arraigned Monday in
US federal court on two counts of criminal contempt for
his refusal to testify in a grand jury investigation of a
Northern Virginia Muslim think-tank. The indictment is the
latest episode of a long, Kafka-esque process that has
violated nearly every tenet of al-Arian's plea agreement
following the end of his first trial in 2005, and kept
al-Arian in prison for over five years.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9670.shtml

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