Date: July 9th 2008

Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

PUTTING A NAME TO GAZA'S INJURED
By Eva Bartlett, Live from Palestine, 9 July 2008

Bedridden but painfully conscious, nearly paralyzed with
no feeling from the waist down, 16-year-old Abdul Rahman
is one of the hundreds who were injured by intense Israeli
shelling and firing on Gaza between 27 February - 3 March
2008, during an operation dubbed "Hot Winter" by the
Israeli army. Eva Bartlett reports on this aspect of
Israel's siege on Gaza.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9669.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

PALESTINIAN VILLAGE TAKES ON ISRAELI MILITARY
By Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 8 July 2008

RAMALLAH (IPS) - Ambulances were again prevented Monday
from entering the central West Bank village of Ni'ilin,
near Ramallah, to evacuate the ill and the wounded.
Supplies of medicines were running low, as confrontations
continued with youths defying a four-day-old curfew
imposed by the Israeli military.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9678.shtml

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Palestine : Human Rights:

ISRAELI ARMY RANSACKS, SHUTS DOWN NABLUS ORGANIZATIONS
Report, PCHR, 8 July 2008

PCHR strongly condemns Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) for
closing several charities and humanitarian organizations
in Nablus over the past two days. The Centre calls upon
the international community to intervene to put an end to
these measures.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9679.shtml

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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

SHADES OF CHECKPOINT CHARLIE AT RAFAH CROSSING
By Haidar Eid, Live from Palestine, 8 July 2008

On Monday 30 June, Gaza was abuzz with the sudden
announcement that Egypt would open Rafah Crossing -- the
only gateway for 1.5 million Palestinians who have been
imprisoned here for almost two years -- for three short
days. Haider Eid writes of his attempt to break out of the
prison called Gaza.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9677.shtml

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Palestine : Art, Music & Culture:

HIP-HOP FOR PALESTINE REPRESENTS IN NEW ORLEANS
By Mai Bader, The Electronic Intifada, 7 July 2008

On 14 June 2008, a wide coalition of grassroots
organizations held a historic event called "Liberation
Hip-Hop," which commemorated the 60th year of the Nakba,
the dispossession of the Palestinian people. Speakers and
audience members from around the US and across the world
got together to link the Palestine and New Orleans
struggles and build an alliance against the injustice they
all face. Mai Bader reports.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9676.shtml

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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:

A CONSTANT NAKBA FOR PALESTINE'S BEDOUIN
By Ida Audeh, Live from Palestine, 7 July 2008

"We [Bedouin] are the [Native Americans] of Palestine," is
how 60-year-old Mohammad Ahmad Abu Dahook introduced the
author and a colleague to Beit Iksa, located on land
targeted by Israel for expanding Ma'ale Adumim settlement.
Abu Dahook is one of the approximately 50,000 Bedouin
whose traditions and lifestyle have been nearly destroyed
by Israeli colonization. Ida Audeh reports from Beit Iksa.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9665.shtml

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