Thousands in East Jerusalem lost residency rights
2 December 2009
Maan - Israel's Interior Ministry stripped 4,577 Palestinians of their right to live in East Jerusalem last year, an all time record in 42 years of occupation.
The Israeli newspaper...
Two Gaza crossings sealed; no fuel delivered
1 December 2009
Maan News - Israeli authorities opened the Kerem Shalom border crossing into Gaza on Tuesday, while the Karni and Nahal Oz crossings remained closed on Tuesday.
Palestinian crossings official, Raed...
No easy settlement for West Bank tensions
30 November 2009
BBC - Alan Johnston makes his first visit to the Palestinian territories since his kidnap two years ago, and finds that the building of Israeli settlements on the West...
Gaza: 141 types of medicines and medical items out of stock
30 November 2009
Palestinian Information Centre -
The department of pharmaceutics at the health ministry in the Gaza Strip has announced that a big number of medications and medical items were out of...
Ambulances Prevented from Entering E.Jerusalem
23 November 2009
PRESS RELEASE: Ambulances Prevented from Entering Palestinian Neighborhoods in East Jerusalem without Prior Approval or Police Escort
19 November 2009
• Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulances may not enter Palestinian neighborhoods...
Surgery okay delayed, Gaza patient dies
19 November 2009
Samir al-Nadim, 25, a cardiac patient, scheduled to undergo surgery in Nablus month ago. He even had opinion from Israeli doctor indicating severity of his case. Authorization delayed, Al-Nadim...
Help us to end the pain of Gaza’s children.
19 November 2009
Through our psychosocial care programme, MAP is helping the children of Gaza to recover from their psychological wounds, to be children again.
The drawings in this pamphlet, just some of...
Israel steps up Gaza Siege
19 November 2009
Al Mezen -
The Israeli siege and collective punishment of the Gaza Strip have continued, causing more deterioration to the human rights and humanitarian conditions. The severe restrictions on imports...
Israeli settlement plan denounced
18 November 2009
BBC - The US and UN have criticised Israel's approval of 900 extra housing units at a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs and UN Secretary...
Israel approves 900 settler homes
17 November 2009
BBC - Israel's interior ministry has authorised the construction of 900 new housing units at a Jewish settlement to the south of Jerusalem.
The planning and construction committee approved the...
MAP Surgeons Enter Gaza
17 November 2009
MAP - Sir Terence English and Dr John Beavis have led a MAP team of seven primary care surgeons into Gaza to provide much needed specialist training to Palestinian...
MAP Event - Dr Mads Gilbert
16 November 2009
URUKNET - "We heard the shelling, we heard the bombing-they [injured patients] came in by the hundreds, walking and running, in private cars and ambulances, and it went on...
Israeli ministers threaten to annex West Bank
16 November 2009
Ma'an - Israeli ministers continued threatening to take unilateral steps of its own if the Palestinian Authority declares a state absent a negotiated peace agreement.
According to Israeli sources, Benjamin...
Israeli Security Agency exploits illness of Gazan
13 November 2009
Testimony: Israeli Security Agency exploits illness of Gazan to try and force him to become a collaborator, September 2009
B'Tselem: In the summer of 2007, Israel instated a new procedure...
Life in hell along the Gaza-Israel border
9 November 2009
Ma'an - Residents of the Gaza Strip's borders live in a state of fear, particularly those who own agricultural lands near the eastern borders and cannot access them from...
Stop East Jerusalem home demolitions
9 November 2009
HRW - Israeli authorities in East Jerusalem should immediately stop demolishing Palestinian homes in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch said today.
In the week beginning October 27, 2009,...
WHO health supplies barred from delivery to Gaza hospitals
30 October 2009
Ma'an - Israeli crossings authorities refused for the fourth time, to allow the transport of equipments and medical supplies to Hospitals in the Gaza Strip, asource at the World...
UN Secretary General - we see no progress on (Gaza) reconstruction
29 October 2009
Meanwhile, ten months after hostilities ended in Gaza, we see no progress on reconstruction or the re-opening of borders. At the donors' conference in Egypt, we raised .5 billion...
Jerusalem must be capital of both Israel and Palestine, Ban says
29 October 2009
UN - Jerusalem must be the capital of two States - Israel and Palestine - living side-by-side in peace and security, with arrangements for the holy sites acceptable to...
UN calls for halt to house demolitions in East Jerusalem
28 October 2009
In light of today's events in East Jerusalem, in which Israeli authorities demolished the homes of six Palestinian families, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reiterated...
