IRAQ: Juveniles languish for months in US-run prisons in Iraq – HRW
IRIN News
…”I was apprehended with seven others by American troops on suspicion of plotting the attack with insurgents and spent nearly six months in two prisons in Baghdad and Basra,” Mohammed, 13, told IRIN in Baghdad. He was accused of cooperating with the insurgents by notifying them about the convoy in the 2006 attack, a charge the US military could not prove and they released him….Since March 2003, the US army has detained 2,400 Iraqi children, some as young as 10, according to the New York-based Human Rights Watch….

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Rabid Dogs.
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
“Kick ass! – he quotes the president as saying – If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff, this is not even close. It is a mind-set…There is a series of moments and this is one of them. Our will is being tested, but we are resolute. We have a better way. Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be confident! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out! We are not blinking!” These are the words of your president to Sanchez, general Sanchez, another rabid dog… Some websites called it a “shocking pep talk.” But that was no pep talk and it was not shocking coming from you lot. We’ve always affirmed it, you are nothing but a bunch of rabid dogs. I am not shocked at all. I can even tell you that I am 100% sure that not only your president but you too, think, say and act along the same lines as your president, politics or no politics…

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“I pour water into my baby’s formula to make it last longer” – The daily struggle of an ordinary refugee family from Iraq
European Commission – Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO)
“To go back? It’s not an option for us. I would be scared to death for my children. It was hard to leave, but we couldn’t stay there any longer. And surely we do not want to return to Iraq”. For Inas A. (her last name is not revealed for security reasons), as for many others, the choices are limited. But instead of facing life in Baghdad again, she’d rather keep her shabby one-room place in Saideh Zeinab, shared with her three children and her invalid husband. The family arrived in Syria in May 2005. The decision to leave was taken out of desperation: Inas’ two brothers in laws had been killed, and her husband – who had been injured during the Iran-Iraq war – was threatened…

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Iraqi children: sexual abuse, addiction and imprisonment
Niqash – Muhammad al-Tamimi (Baghdad)
Independent and government reports have confirmed an increase in the number of orphaned and sexually abused children, as well as a rise in the number dropping out of school. And as the security situation has worsened of late, nongovernmental organizations warn against the impact of deteriorating security conditions on Iraqi children. Government statistics indicate that up to five million children live in difficult social conditions. Some 760,000 children were not able to resume primary school in 2008 and up to 25,000 children are leaving their homes – either to elsewhere in Iraq or abroad – each month. Humanitarian organizations report that the number of Iraqi orphans has increased to half a million and according to Save the Children, one in eight Iraqi children, now live on the street…

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Al-Maliki to visit Iran next week, will discuss security issues with leaders
TOP MARKET NEWS
Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will visit Iran next week to strengthen political and economic ties between the two countries, Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Iraqi ambassador to Iran Abu Heidar al-Sheikh as saying on Tuesday. Al-Maliki would discuss with Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the security pact between Iraq and the U.S., al-Sheikh told reporters. The U.S. and Iraq have not yet reached an agreement on how long the U.S. military will remain in Iraq and what role it will play in the country’s security…

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Is Colonialism in Israel Untouchable?
Iqbal Jassat
Since the pages have turned in commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Nakba, do new headlines and reports covering stories other than Palestine suggest that its business as usual in Israel? Indeed it would be an injustice to confine solidarity activism to calendar events such as “birthdays” for this will overlook other dimensions underpinning the creation and support of Israel by Western colonial powers. One such intriguing chapter in the narrative of the Nakba is the forgotten role of Israeli involvement in opposing anti-colonial struggles in the region….

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Mosul followup
badger, Arablinks
…And in another report that doesn’t seem to square with the official story, the Iraqi-resistance site yaqen.net says there was quite a large demonstration by armed resistance groups in Mosul—over 1000 people with light and medium weapons and vehicles, their correspondent said—the first such show of force since the “Mother of the two Springs”, nee “The Lion’s roar in justified Assault” operation was begun some three weeks ago. The Yaqen report in effect taunts the American/Iraqi/Peshmerga forces….

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McClellan Missile: Media Crimes As War Crimes
Danny Schechter.
When Will U.S. “Journalism” Be Held Accountable for Promoting War? Duh: The Bush Administration deployed a dishonest but very effective propaganda campaign to sell the Iraq War to the American people on virtually every media outfit. Their “Culture of Deception” is now acknowledged. How do we know? Scotty McClellan told us so. It’s all in the former Press Secretary’s new book. And, happily, it’s all over the news….

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Israeli military announces plan to uproot 440 olive trees from Naalin village
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News
In a town that has become the forefront of the Palestinian non-violent resistance to the Israeli annexation Wall, the Palestinian residents of Naalin received notice today that the Israeli military plans to uproot hundreds of olive trees – the only source of revenue for most villagers. Israeli officials say the trees will be relocated – but Palestinian farmers say that replanting of centuries-old olive trees is impossible, and the trees will most certainly die. The Palestinian farmers in the village depend on these trees for the yearly harvest of olives, which they press into olive oil. This is an age-old Palestinian tradition, that has been passed on by generations through the centuries….

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Israeli soldiers who beat, tortured Palestinian teens receive light sentence, no demotion
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC
An Israeli military court ruled Tuesday that three Israeli soldiers who beat, humiliated and attached electrodes to the faces of two 17-year old Palestinian detainees would not be demoted to the rank of private. The two will receive a sentence of 5 months in jail, and will retain their army rank of staff sergeant when they are released….

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IRAQ: Military operations hamper power repairs
Jumaa Suhail, Azzaman
Several Iraqi cities have plunged into total darkness with Electricity Ministry blaming ongoing military operations for failure to carry out necessary repairs. There has been no electricity in Baghdad for the past 48 hours and power conditions in other major cities are said to be worse. In a statement, the ministry said its engineers and technicians have failed to bring major power plants on stream and on time because of mounting insecurity. It cited recent military operations in the southern city of Basra, in Sadr City of Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul….

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Gaza patient dies due to Israeli siege, death toll hits 172
Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC News Report
Palestinian medical sources said that a Palestinian woman died on Tuesday suffering from a chronic disease that could have been treated had the medicine been available in Gaza. Saousan Al Sultan, 28, had acute Rheumatism and her Doctors reported that Sultan died because essential medicine was unavailable in the Gaza Strip due to the siege….

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The sectarian blocs reject sectarism
Roads to Iraq
Anti-sectarism is the magic word used by all politicians to prepare for the coming provincial election, and they give us good examples by establishing sectarian parties and political blocs. As Al-Akhbar reported about the new party formed by Al Ja’afri saying: Ja’afari’s new born bloc: Nothing new except the name…

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US offensive displaces thousands of civilians in Afghanistan
James Cogan, WSWS
A major US offensive targeting alleged Taliban guerillas around the city of Garmser in the southern province of Helmand has displaced over 4,000 families, according to the provincial governor Gulab Mangal. He told UN relief agencies that most are living in squalid conditions on the outskirts of the provincial capital, Lashkargah, and had not received any food or non-food assistance. Ahmad Shah, a 43-year-old peasant farmer, told the IRIN newsagency on the weekend: “Now my family and I live almost 10 kilometres from Lashkargah city. I have made a shelter from blanket pieces to live under, in an open area. I left my home with four children and my wife three weeks ago because of fighting. Now I need a tent, I need food. My children may die under the hot burning sun of Lashkargah.”…

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UPDATES ON THE HaARETZ ‘PURGE’ SAGA
Desertpeace
The following was received as a comment on THIS post today… it bring us up to date on the misinformation regarding the ‘purge’ at HaAretz… To date, there has not been a word muttered by Ed Corrigan, the author of the original report…. but, he’s a lawyer…. need I say more? Again, thanks to Sol Salbe for the updated information…

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Palestinians Trapped at Crossroads
Nicola Nasser, thepeoplesvoice.org
Firing home-made primitive rockets at Israeli targets from the Gaza Strip, the mass sweeping through the Palestinian – Egyptian border crossing of Rafah in January and the series of ongoing peaceful demonstrations at Gaza’s crossing points with Israel are not an aggressive demonstration of self-confidence, but more a show of defensive despair and weakness against the tight Israeli military siege, as much as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ threats to resign are passive defensive reaction to the political siege imposed on him by the United States and Israel, who so far fail to deliver on their promises to bring about an agreement to create a Palestinian state by the end of 2008….

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War criminals must fear punishment. That’s why I went for John Bolton
George Monbiot
I realise now that I didn’t have a hope. I had almost reached the stage when two of the biggest gorillas I have ever seen swept me up and carried me out of the tent. It was humiliating, but it could have been worse. The guard on the other side of the stage, half hidden in the curtains, had spent the lecture touching something under his left armpit. Perhaps he had bubos. I had no intention of arresting John Bolton, the former under-secretary of state at the US state department, when I arrived at the Hay festival. But during a panel discussion about the Iraq war, I remarked that the greatest crime of the 21st century had become so normalised that one of its authors was due to visit the festival to promote his book…

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Palestinians give up on legal building route – UN
IRIN News
Palestinians living in Area C of the West Bank, under Israeli control, have given up on obtaining construction permits from the authorities and instead build without them, leaving 3,000 structures in the territory under constant threat of demolition, according to a UN report. “Over 94 percent of [Palestinian] applications for building permits in Area C, submitted to the Israeli authorities by Palestinians between January 2000 and September 2007, were denied,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) report, ‘Lack of Permit’ Demolitions and Resultant Displacement in Area C, stated…

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Mosul operation: The comic framework
badger, Arablinks
…When the American and the Iraqi armies entered Mosul, and with them the Peshmerga forces within the city, there was not a single shot fired! And what happened then to cover this scandalous situation? They arrested former Baath officers on the pretext of conducting investigations, and government sources said they arrested up to 1500 people! And they wanted to show some kind of victory so they talked about saboteurs and gangs and so on, and all those expressions that Iraqis have grown so fed-up with….And now, says Ali Al-Hamdani, the Americans are starting to build a dirt wall around Mosul, cutting off the three roads to the outside world, one to the Syrian border, the other to Baghdad and the third to Irbil…

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Soldiers Discuss Using “Drop Weapons” To Cover Up Killing Innocent Iraqi Civilians
ANP
Several soldiers who have returned from combat zones talk with the American News Project about what they say is the widespread practice of using “drop weapons” to cover up the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. We feature five veterans and current members of Iraq Veterans Against the War, plus retired Lieutenant Colonel Gary Solis, a Vietnam War veteran and legal scholar who taught “Law of War” at West Point. Watch the video from ANP below…

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Narratives Under Siege (13): “We are Still Waiting to Visit Our Sons and Daughters in Jail”
PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Every Monday morning a crowd of women gather in the courtyard of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza city. Most of the women arrive carrying a framed photograph of one or two men. When journalists start to arrive at around 10am, the women ask them to take pictures, and to film the vigil. “Some of us have been waiting more than six years to visit our sons in Israeli prisons” says one woman, “and we have all been forbidden to visit the prisoners in Israel for a year now. So we want our jailed husbands, sons and daughters to see us in newspapers and on television. They will then know that we haven’t given up.” …

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IRAQ: Death Toll ‘Above Highest Estimates’
Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail*
The real number of the dead is far higher than even the highest declared in death tolls, many Iraqis say. A study by doctors from the Johns Hopkins School of Health in conjunction with Iraqi doctors from al-Mustanceriya University in Baghdad, published in the British medical journal The Lancet in October 2006, estimated the number of excess deaths as a result of the occupation at above 655,000. Just Foreign Policy, an independent organisation “dedicated to reforming U.S. foreign policy” offered an updated total of 1,213,716 at the time of this writing. On Sep. 14, 2007, Opinion Research Business (ORB), an independent polling agency located in London, produced a figure of 1,220,580 deaths as a result of the invasion. These estimates are above any official figures from Iraq, but they do consider the reported official figures. Iraqis believe that the authorities are hiding these figures…The report published in The Lancet did not take into account many circumstances of death, say residents in Baquba, capital of Diyala province 40km north of capital Baghdad. “All people know that a large number of bodies are dropped into the Diyala river,” said a local resident. “I was kidnapped and taken to a village called Huwaider, which is completely Shia and located on the Diyala River. Sunnis there are killed and dropped in the river by militiamen, but I was freed by the U.S Army….

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Mass grave in Mosul/Nineveh in the areas vacated by the Peshmerga
Fatihoun News Agency
Joint Iraqi forces found a mass grave in Mosul in areas taken over by them soon after the withdrawal of the Peshmerga (The Kurdish Militia) from these areas. Tens of bodies were reported by our correspondence to have been found at the headquarters of the Peshmerga in Al-Tanak district of Mosul situated near the Electricity Department. Mosul people rushed to the mass grave seeking help from the Iraqi forces finding the bodies of missing sons and families…

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Iraqi resistance rally in Mosul
Roads to Iraq
Reported by Yaqen today, Challenging Maliki’s military “lion Roar” campaign Iraqi, eyewitness reported that more than 1000 fighter from the resistance and armed factions rallied today in the streets of Mosul with their weapons and cars…

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Tutu’s Trip to Gaza Censored by the US Media
Mike Whitney, ICH
Why was Desmond Tutu’s trip to Gaza censored by the US media? When Nobel Laureate and world renowned peacemaker Desmond Tutu goes to Gaza to visit the site of an Israeli massacre; that’s news, right? So why is it impossible to find any account of his trip in America’s leading newspapers? Is it because any information that is incompatible with the territorial ambitions of the Israeli leadership is simply “disappeared” into the media-ether?…

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Shameless in Ramallah
Khalid Amayreh
In order to obtain a certificate of good conduct from Israel and her guardian-ally, the United States, the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) is betraying the very people it claims to represent and its enduring national cause in ways unprecedented in living memory. This scandalous betrayal assumes many forms, including brazen “security coordination” with the occupation army, arresting and torturing political opponents on Israel’s behalf and tacitly encouraging Israel to close down or seize Islamic-oriented orphanages and boarding schools in Hebron….

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Winter Soldiers Hit the Streets
Dahr Jamail
In a clear change of strategy to energise public anti-war sentiment, Iraq veterans led a determined demonstration of hundreds through the streets of downtown Seattle last Saturday, following regional Winter Soldier hearings at the Seattle Town Hall. A larger Winter Soldier event occurred at the National Labour College in Silver Spring, Maryland from Mar. 13 to Mar. 16 earlier this year. But the strategy for those hearings appeared to be based on keeping the event from being directly affiliated with any demonstrations or anti-war activities in an attempt to reach a broader audience. Those hearings were closed to the public, and no demonstrations or other overtly public actions were tied to the event….

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Haaretz.com promotes websites advocating genocide and terrorism
Sabbah’s blog
Haaretz.com, the website of the Israeli newspaper often cited as an example of Israel’s liberal, critical media carries paid advertisements from a website openly advocating the total destruction of the Palestinian people, the murder of large numbers of Muslim civilians, the assassination of the family members of Arab rulers, and the use of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons against dozens of countries….

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Israel: Why a Cultural Boycott is Necessary
Remi Kanazi
At what point does rhetoric stop and effective action begin? For Palestinians, decades of dialogue and supposed peace overtures have proved fruitless, only serving to protect the status quo: sixty years of continual dispossession, forty years of occupation, and a systematic repudiation of international and humanitarian law. The situation for Palestinians will not improve without constructive movement forward—which rejects collusion with the Israeli government by exercising boycott, divestment and sanctions (known as BDS)….

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PCIR Denounces the So-Called Long-Term Security Treaty
Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI)
The Political Council of the Iraqi Resistance (PCIR) evaluated the so-called long-term security treaty with the U.S. occupation forces as replacing only the name of the occupation to a new name that still steals the Iraqi wealth, humiliates the people and homeland. PCIR also evaluated such treaty as an attempt to legitimize the occupation in the press statement rejecting this treaty to be signed between the Government of Maliki and U.S. occupation forces, counting an illegal step of an illegitimate government…

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Anti-poverty coalition: Palestinian people are starving due to occupation
Palestinian Information Center
The national coalition for fighting poverty in Palestine has urged the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to immediately mobilize to rescue the Palestinian people in Gaza. The coalition also sent an open message to the FAO that was hosting a conference on the climate changes and bio energy in the Italian capital Rome, in which they warned that 58% of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank were living under the poverty line…

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Washington Planning to “Checkmate” Chavez
Stephen Lendman
So says Heinz Dieterich Steffan – German sociologist, economist, political analyst and Hugo Chavez consultant who claims he coined the phrase “21st century socialism” in the mid-1990s. He currently teaches at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City and writes often on Latin American issues. In a May 21, 2008 Kaosenlared.net article and follow-up Montevideo, Uruguay debate, Dieterich was blunt. He said “Washington does not want to lose (Latin America) in competition with India, China and Europe.” He called the situation “life or death” and that a military attack against Venezuela from Colombia is possible. Maybe likely, and Ecuador and Bolivia are also targeted….

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Food prices fuel Iraq inflation, Central Bank says
Fawzi al-Hindawi, Azzaman
Inflation in Iraq hit 16 percent in April due mainly to high food prices, the Central Bank said in a statement. It is the highest inflation rate reported this year. The surge, despite unprecedented hard cash earnings from oil sales, has angered civil servants who rely on salaried income which is not pecked to inflation. Iraq’s inflation index relies heavily on foodstuffs which make two thirds of items included in it….

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Islamic-Christian front: Jerusalem is exposed to a serious Judaization attack
Palestinian Information Center
The Islamic-Christian front for the defence of Jerusalem and the holy shrines warned Monday that occupied Jerusalem is exposed to a dangerous Judaization attack and dozens of historical buildings adjacent to the Aqsa Mosque threatened with collapse. In a press statement, Dr. Hasan Khater, the secretary-general for the front, added the ongoing Israeli excavations and settlement expansion aim to wipe out the old city in order to deport its Palestinian population and to rebuild it in the same pattern of the Jewish neighborhood in the city, warning that if this happened it would be the last link in the chain of Judaizing Jerusalem…

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Video: The child workers of Afghanistan – 02 Jun 08
AlJazeeraEnglish
Thousands of children as young as four are being forced to work in brick factories in Afghanistan. Some of them work up to 12 hours a day, to help pay off debts owed by their families. Al Jazeera’ s Teresa Bo went to the town of Sokhrod to meet some of the children, who are losing their childhood to pay off their families’ debts….

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Hijacked Gaza Summer
Ola Attallah, IOL Correspondent
Hossam’s dream of a fun summer after a long, tiring school year is gone with the wind. The 9-year-old was counting the days to hold his father to his promise of a swimming and playing vacation on Gaza beach. The father wanted to keep his word, but Israel had other plans for Hossam and his younger brothers and sisters. “We just received warnings from health and legal groups that the Gaza beach is off-limit,” Hossam’s father told IslamOnline.net…

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East Sawahreh and the Apartheid Wall
Reham Alhelsi, Palestine Think Tank
Last week I got my new “Palestinian Passport”. Palestinians need to renew their passports every three years, and it was time for me to renew mine. Living in Germany the next step for me would be to get my “residency permit” transferred from my old to my new passport. As I prepared the documents I need, I checked my registry confirmation document and my eyes immediately went to the “Staatenlos” – stateless stated in the field designated for nationality. This is how we Palestinians are defined here. Actually, as far as I know it comes in various forms; stateless to undefined to unknown. It seems to me every human being is defined in Europe, except the Palestinians; they are undefined. Most probably Martians would have been more welcome here than us Palestinians….

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Maliki to raise Iran’s role in Iraq in Tehran talks
Wisam Mohammed, Reuters
Iraq wants to discuss evidence of Iranian intervention in Iraq and the two countries’ overall relationship during a visit to Tehran this week by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a government spokesman said on Monday. It will be Maliki’s second visit to Tehran after he travelled to Iran in August last year and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a visit to Baghdad in March. Government officials would not confirm the date of the visit, but local media in Iraq and Iran said it would be on Saturday…

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Report: the Israeli Siege on Gaza leaves 32 patients dead during the month of May
Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC News
The European Campaign to end the Siege on Gaza issued a report on Monday stating that the Israeli 11 months longs siege on the Gaza Strip have left 32 patients dead during the month of May 2008. The report added that with the May death toll, the over all patients who died in Gaza due to the Israeli siege that started in June 2007, now stands at 171….

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June 1, 2008: 1 US Soldier, 7 Iraqis Killed, 29 Iraqis Wounded
Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com
1 US Soldier and at least 7 Iraqis were killed and 29 Iraqis were wounded in the latest attacks, which largely centered around Baghdad and Diyala Province. The US Army reported that an explosively formed penetrator killed a US soldier in northeastern Baghdad. Also, two US soldiers were wounded in a helicopter crash south of Baghdad: an investigation is said to be underway. In Central Baghdad, a car bomb exploded in a parking lot across the street from the Iranian Embassy, killing 2 and wounding 5 others…

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PHASE TWO OF THE NAKBA ~~ 41 YEARS LATER
Desertpeace
Today, June 2nd, marks the 41st anniversary of the Occupation of the Palestinian Territories. Known in Israel as ‘Jerusalem Day’, it is actually Phase Two of the Nakba… Recent developments have been; *To date, more than 3,000 Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank have pending demolition orders, which can be immediately executed without prior warning. At least ten small communities throughout the West Bank at risk of being almost entirely displaced due to the large number of pending demolitions orders…

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June 2, 2008: 1 US Soldier, 18 Iraqis Killed, 60 Iraqis Wounded
Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com
1 US Soldier and at least 18 Iraqis were killed and 60 were wounded in the latest attacks. The US army reported that one of its soldiers died in a non-combat incident. US forces also killed two militants of unknown nationality northwest of Tikrit during anti-al-Qaeda operations….

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