There were jubilant scenes at a Belfast court June 11 as six Derry anti-war protesters were unanimously acquitted of destroying property belonging to multinational arms company Raytheon. The six, including 65-year-old author and journalist Eamonn McCann, were each cleared of… Read moreUlster’s “Raytheon 6” cleared in Lebanon war protest action
Israeli forces again violently broke up a peaceful demonstration against the construction of the separation wall in the West Bank village of Nil’in June 8, shooting a foreign cameraman with a rubber-coated bullet. Three protesters were injured and three arrested,… Read moreWest Bank: Israeli forces again attack anti-wall protest
From the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, June 5: On May 29, 2008, three Palestinian Left organizations, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Palestine People’s Party,… Read morePFLP, DFLP announce initiative for united Palestinian left front
The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution to send an independent commission of inquiry to investigate "all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the context of large-scale civilian protests in the occupied Palestinian territory." The Council "condemned the disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force by the Israeli occupying forces against Palestinian civilians, including in the context of peaceful protests, particularly in the Gaza Strip." The US was one of only two countries out of 45 to vote against the resolution. (Image: Maan News Agency)
Israeli forces raided the village of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah, early May 29, storming houses and detaining four men. The mayor of Ni’lin, Aiman Nafe, said the incursion and detentions aimed to suppress activities scheduled for that day against construction… Read moreIsrael detains anti-wall protesters at Ni’lin
Breaking ranks with the loopiness of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his ilk, Bassem Naeem, health and information minister in the Hamas-led Palestinian administration in Gaza, explicitly acknowledges the historical fact of the Holocaust—while calling out Israel’s manipulation thereof. From The Guardian’s… Read moreHamas condemns Holocaust —Israel threatens a new one
Lebanon’s polarized politicians appealed to Qatar May 17 to come up with a proposal on the question of Hezbollah’s weapons during Arab-brokered talks in Doha. 65 people were killed in nearly a week of fighting, in which Hezbollah and its… Read moreLebanon: “civil war by any standard”
Israeli troops attacked a peaceful march commemorating the 60th year of the Nakba in the West Bank city of Tulkarm May 10, injuring ten, including a journalist who was hit with a bullet in his hand. Participants, including international activists,… Read morePalestinians get repression at Nakba commemoration
Clashes continues for a second day in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley May 8, pitting Hezbollah against the Sunni and pro-government Future Movement. Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah charged the government with crossing a “red line” by challenging the independence… Read moreLebanon: Hezbollah warns of “war”
On May 6, 480 Palestinian Authority police entered the city of Jenin to crack down on criminal gangs and Islamic Jihad cells, under the rubric of the Israeli-approved and fashionably euphemistic “Operation Smile and Hope.” Clashes with presumed Islamic militants… Read moreWest Bank: Israel re-occupies Jenin
Did anyone catch this one? Can you imagine the media frenzy if it’d been a Palestinian? From Haaretz, May 2: US envoy cuts short Hebron trip after clash with settlers The American bodyguards of a Bush administration envoy who was… Read moreIsraeli settlers attack US envoy’s convoy
