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Palestine : Art, Music & Culture:
IN GAZA, SANTA IS INSOLVENT By Mohammed Omer, The Electronic Intifada, 25 December 2007
GAZA CITY, December 24 (IPS) – “Santa Claus is empty handed this year … insolvent,” says Father Manuel Musallam, head of the Holy Family School in Gaza City. “All forms of celebration are absent,” he says, raising his empty palms skywards. “We Christians and Muslims all live in fear and instability. The Israeli tanks, bulldozers and warplanes have laid siege on us all.” His school, which has both Muslim and Christian students, likes to celebrate including all; this year few celebrations were planned, for fewer children.
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Palestine : Human Rights:
ISRAELI FORCES KILL 20 IN GAZA DURING EID ATTACKS Report, Al Mezan, 23 December 2007
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have escalated their aggression on the Gaza Strip since the Eid al-Adha eve, killing twenty Palestinians and injuring 27 others, including four critically. The casualties resulted from acts of assassination and bombardment, and an incursion in central Gaza during which eight were killed on 20 December 2007. IOF also leveled sixty dunums (one dunam equals 1,000 square meters) of agricultural land and partially destroyed twelve homes in the area.
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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:
REFUSING TO ACCEPT APARTHEID IN BEIT JALA By Adri Nieuwhof and Amer Madi, Live from Palestine, 22 December 2007
Last night the rains finally arrived in Beit Jala, a small town in the West Bank, one kilometer west of Bethlehem and about eight kilometers south of Jerusalem. Its alluring hills are covered with olive trees, vineyards and apricots. In 1967 Israel confiscated 22 percent of Beit Jala’s land. Now, the construction of Israel’s separation wall is in full swing and will cut off another 45 percent of Beit Jala’s land. We went to visit the area to feel the impact of the wall and listen to the stories of the farmers who didn’t sell their land and choose to resist the its confiscation. Adri Nieuwhof and Amer Madi report from Beit Jala.
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Palestine : Human Rights:
PALESTINIAN SHEPHERDS FORCED TO MOVE ON Report, The Electronic Intifada, 22 December 2007
IDHNA, SOUTHERN WEST BANK, 19 December (IRIN) – “The best thing about Khirbet Qassa was the grazing land. We had open spaces. Now we’ve become dependent on other people and their land,” said Abdel Halim Nattah, a shepherd in the southern West Bank. Several weeks earlier he and all his fellow villagers, 37 families numbering 272 people, were evacuated by the Israeli military from Qassa and told to find a new home somewhere else. The Israel Civil Administration said the land the Palestinians were living on was an archaeological site under state auspices, and the villagers had been given warnings about the impending evacuation.
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Palestine : Development:
EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT, NOT PEOPLE, RECOGNIZE ISRAEL By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani, The Electronic Intifada, 21 December 2007
CAIRO, 19 December (IPS) – Thirty years after late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s historic trip to Israel, Egyptian diplomatic relations with the Hebrew state remain cordial. On a popular level, however, the relationship — buttressed by the 1979 Camp David peace agreement — still represents a major source of contention. “The so-called peace between Egypt and Israel continues to lack popular approval,” Ahmed Thabet, professor of political science at Cairo University told IPS. “Meanwhile, Israel has exploited the situation to maintain racist, expansionist policies.”
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