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News From The Region: The Missing Headlines

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Below are news items largely going unreported by US media, which are consistently Israeli-centric in their coverage. The main bureaus for CNN, AP, Time, etc. are located in Israel and are often staffed by Israelis. Many US journalists have ties to Israel: the son of the NY Times bureau chief is in the Israeli army; "pundit" Jeffrey Goldberg served in the Israeli military; Wolf Blitzer worked for the Israel Lobby. For more information on media coverage see our Media Bias section.

Mondoweiss - For those who claim that Gaza is not occupied. From Haaretz: "Environment Minister: Israel should cut power supply to Gaza in case of shortage."
IMEMC - The Palestinian News Network, PNN, reports that a number of international organizations working in the Occupied Palestinian territories have stated that the Israeli military has demolished many of their European-funded development projects.
IMEMC - The commander of an elite Israeli undercover unit has admitted that soldiers dressed up as Palestinians and threw stones at Israeli soldiers during non-violent demonstrations beginning in 2005, in the village of Bil'in in the central West Bank.
FIDH - The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) on the occasion of its international board meeting in Paris on May 13th 2012, strongly denounces the situation of Palestinian prisoners in Israel, who have been on hunger strike since April 17th 2012 in protest against administrative detention, as well as living conditions and ill-treatment in the prisons.
Haaretz - On March 23, in the middle of the night, an undercover force of the Duvdevan special-ops unit entered the prosperous and serene Palestinian village of Kafr Ramun, reportedly as part of a training exercise. Three brothers woke up, alarmed, thinking the men outside were thieves, and tried to chase them away with sticks and kitchen knives on the street. Without identifying themselves - the members of this unit operate in the guise of Arabs - the special-ops force fired 11 bullets at the brothers, continuing to shoot even after they were injured. One of the brothers was killed and the other two were severely wounded. The soldiers also kicked one of the brothers, and for a long time prevented all of them from receiving medical attention.
972 Mag - After having their homes destroyed by the State over 30 times in the last two years, the residents of al-Arakib can do little else but watch as a forest is built on the ruins of their homes.
IMEMC - The Palestinian News Network, PNN, reports that the Israeli Supreme Court has decided to evict Palestinians Ghazi Zalloum and Ismail Wazwaz from their properties in the neighborhood of Alqurma in the Old City of Jerusalem in favor of Israeli settlers, giving as the reason that both properties belonged to Jews before 1948. Implementation of the eviction order may occur at any moment. 
AIC - In the afternoon of Sunday 6 May, a group of Israeli settlers from the Beit Hadassah outpost in downtown Hebron stoned two homes located on Al-Shuhada Street in the city. Israeli soldiers, instead of stopping the settler attack, arrested one of the home owners.
Haaretz - Undercover soldiers hurled stones in the "general direction" of IDF soldiers as part of their activity to counter weekly demonstrations in the Palestinian village of Bil'in, the commander of the Israeli Prison Service's elite "Masada" unit revealed during his recent testimony in the trial of MK Mohammed Barakeh (Hadash).
IMEMC - The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) unreservedly condemns the Israeli Military Attorney General’s decision to close the case of the Samouni family without initiating any prosecutions.
IMEMC - Israeli soldiers order Palestinian farmers to uproot 1400 olive trees in Wadi Qana area, near Dir Istiya, in the West Bank district of Salfit. On Wednesday, the army tried to uproot the trees but was repulsed by Palestinian, Israeli and International peace activists.
IMEMC - At dawn on Wednesday undercover forces of the Israeli army kidnapped two children, ages 14 and 10, in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied East Jerusalem. On Tuesday, the undercover forces kidnapped a 12-year-old child in Ath-Thoury neighborhood in Silwan.
BBC - The barrier Israel has been building in and around the West Bank is set to deprive a Christian community of its land, and appears to have caused an unholy row between some monks and nuns - who could now end up on opposite sides.
Huffington Post - Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is convinced that Iran is on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon. He believes that the Iranians cannot be deterred through diplomacy, and he views the Iranian threat as one that may bring about a second Jewish Holocaust.
IMEMC - A group of Israeli settlers raised Israeli flags on top of the fourth holiest site in Islam, the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. This is the first time ever since Hebron fell under Israeli occupation in 1967.
Al Jazeera - Israel has approved three settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said in a statement. At a meeting late on Monday, a ministerial committee "decided to formalise the status of three communities which were established in the 1990s following the decisions of past governments," the statement said on Tuesday.
EI - On April 18, during the night, about 200 Israeli occupation soldiers descended on the village of Burin, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, arresting 10 teenage boys. One of them is a 17 year-old Palestinian-Cuban high school senior called Qais Bilal Muhammad Omran. Although I’d heard about the raid from the International Solidarity Movement, Qais’ name caught my attention when Palestinian prisoners’ rights groupAddameer tweeted it earlier today:
Mondoweiss - Following last week's eviction of the Palestinian Natcheh family from their Beit Hanina home, Israeli Knesset members Michael Ben-Ari and Aryeh Eldad visited the house now inhabited by some eight settlers. To mark the occasion they posted a picture of themselves lounging on the Natcheh's sofa on Facebook.
IMEMC - In five separate demonstrations on Friday, Palestinians in the northern, central and southern West Bank marched and rallied in opposition to the Israeli Annexation Wall being built on their land. Each of the demonstrations was assaulted by Israeli forces, who fired tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at the demonstrators.
IMEMC - The Civil Coalition for Palestinian Rights In Jerusalem reported that the Israeli government decided to expand the illegal Nof Zion settlement outpost in Jabal Al-Mokabber, in occupied East Jerusalem, buy approving the construction of additional 217 units.
IMEMC - Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday, thirteen Palestinians in different parts of the West Bank, and took them to unknown destinations; at least three of the kidnapped were children.
PNN - Over two months ago, Israeli forces began raising land in Wadi al-Rababa in Silwan and constructing fake grave stones in an attempt to seize the area as a sacred space.
Haaretz - Some 20 homes that have been built in the Mitzpeh Cramim outpost during the past year could spark a similar coalition crisis to the one recently created by the Ulpana neighborhood in the settlement of Beit El, according to sources in the defense establishment.
PCHR - This short documentary addresses the issues of solitary confinement and other measures of inhuman and degrading treatment to which Palestinian prisoners are subjected in Israeli jails. The film further highlights the human rights violations related to family visits and the Israeli abuse of administrative detention.
Mondoweiss - and other news from today in Palestine: Land, property theft & destruction / Ethnic cleansing
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West Bank, Sept, 2011

Video from West Bank: Qalandia, the main Israeli occupation checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem. Sept. 21, 2011. More information
Boy shot by Israeli forces in the West Bank village of Asira Al-Qibliya, Sept 20, 2011.

Tears of Gaza

Documentary of Israel's "Cast Lead" assault on Gaza of Dec. 27, 2008 to Jan. 18, 2009. During this time Israeli forces killed approximately 1,400 Palestinians and Palestinians killed 9 Israelis (four more died in friendly fire). While most American reports claimed that Hamas initiated the violence, in reality Israel was the first to break the ceasefire. CNN was the only major US broadcaster to report this correctly when Rick Sanchez investigated the chronology and reported that CNN had erred in its earlier coverage.

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