Clashes as Bedouin homes taken down
29 March 2011
Ma'an- Seven Bedouin were beaten by Israeli border police Tuesday morning, as Israeli officials from the Civil Administration office carried out a demolition order on 12 tents in a...
Day after evacuation warning, Bedouin get demolition orders
28 March 2011
Ma'an-- A third set of warnings was delivered to the Bedouin of Ein Al-Hilwa on Monday morning, notifying residents that their tent homes and animal shelters would be demolished.
The...
5 dead, others injured as Israel shells Gaza
22 March 2011
Maan News - A child, teenager and three adults were killed and others injured by Israeli artillery fire which hit a home east of Gaza City on Tuesday afternoon,...
Workshop at Birzeit University
18 March 2011
(MAP) Underlying MAP's programme of projects in Lebanon and the OPT is a commitment to evidence-based best policy and practice, not only producing evidence by evaluating our projects but...
Referrals from Gaza - Update
14 March 2011
(WHO) 87% of all applications to cross Erez checkpoint were approved in February. The remaining 13% of patients had their applications denied or delayed and, subsequently, missed their hospital...
Cancer Care Crisis in Gaza
14 March 2011
(IRIN) The cancer started in Fatima Hassami's breast before spreading to her bones, leading to multiple fractures in her left leg and constant pain for the 70-year-old.
"I feel so...
Palestinians try to create 'Facebook revolution'
2 March 2011
AP) - The mass demonstrations sweeping the Middle East are touching the Palestinian territories, where West Bank and Gaza Strip activists are trying to organize their own "Facebook revolutions."
The...
The Israelis keep bulldozing their village, but still the Bedouin will not give up their land
1 March 2011
(Harriet Sherwood, Guardian) The tiny village of al-Arakib has been torn down by the Israeli authorities 18 times in seven months, but each time the Bedouin rebuild their homes.
The...
Rafah crossing open for second consecutive day
23 February 2011
Ma'an- Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah crossing for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, saying another 300 Palestinians from Gaza will be permitted to cross into the country.
On Tuesday,...
Rafah crossing open for second consecutive day
23 February 2011
Ma'an- Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah crossing for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, saying another 300 Palestinians from Gaza will be permitted to cross into the country.
On Tuesday,...
Rafah crossing open for second consecutive day
23 February 2011
Ma'an- Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah crossing for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, saying another 300 Palestinians from Gaza will be permitted to cross into the country.
On Tuesday,...
British Foreign Secretary statement on draft resolution on Israeli Settlements
23 February 2011
(FCO) Following today's vote on the draft Security Council Resolution on Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Foreign Secretary said:
"I have made clear my serious concern about...
Israeli bulldozers bury Bedouin village
22 February 2011
Maan - The five tents giving shelter to some 50 Bedouin residents of Amniyr, a tiny community north of Susiya in the south Hebron hills were torn down on...
Rallies over 'despicable' Obama UN veto
21 February 2011
AFP- Around 3,000 Palestinians gathered in the West Bank on Sunday to protest the US veto that nixed a Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements.
The crowd massed in Ramallah's...
Israel demolishes Bedouin village
17 February 2011
Maan - Israel demolished a Bedouin village on Wednesday, as protesters defied orders declaring it a closed zone.
Demonstrators and residents refused to leave a cemetery even as Israeli forces...
3 shot dead in northern Gaza
17 February 2011
Ma'an- Three Palestinians were shot dead in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Israeli military officials informed Gaza authorities.
The three were said to have been killed near the evacuated...
Screening - War Child
16 February 2011
(Frontline Club) Over 1,300 people were killed, many of them children, when the Israeli Defence Force unleashed its 22-day campaign against Hamas in December 2008.
War Child shows us some...
MP Delegation to West Bank
16 February 2011
(LFPME) Margaret Curran MP speaks to LFPME about her recent trip to the West Bank
What were your overall impressions of the situation in the West Bank?
The two big things...
Gaza’s Mubarak hospital to be renamed ‘Tahrir’
15 February 2011
AFP - GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories - A major Gaza hospital named after Hosni Mubarak is to be rebaptised "Tahrir" after the Cairo square at the centre of the...
Event: Izzeldin Abuelaish - 22nd February
11 February 2011
Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Palestinian doctor, three of whose children were killed during the Israeli incursion into Gaza in January 2009. His memoir, I Shall Not Hate (Bloomsbury, 7...
