News From The Region: The Missing Headlines

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News From The Region

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.

Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:51

Palestinians in West Bank's Area C suffer in limbo

A car driven by a Palestinian is stuck by tear gas grenades fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes in February with Palestinian demonstrators at the Hawara checkpoint near Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

LA Times - In remote Palestinian villages of the northern Jordan Valley, children read by gas lamp, and water must be purchased from miles away, even when electricity lines and water pipes to Israeli settlements run directly past their homes.

Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:06

2400 Palestinians Stuck At Rafah Terminal Between Gaza and Egypt

IMEMC - Tuesday May 21, 2013; the Himaya Center for Journalists Defending Human Rights has reported that more than 2400 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are currently stuck at the Rafah Border Terminal between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, awaiting to be allowed through.

Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:00

Israeli forces assault families, demolish four Palestinian homes in Jerusalem

Dina (R), a nine-year-old girl, cries as her father puts his arms around her and her cousin Halla (L) during the demolition of their house in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina February 5, 2013

Ma'an News - Israeli forces demolished two residential buildings in the Jabal al-Mukabbir neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Tuesday, having earlier destroyed two Palestinian homes in al-Tur.

Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:56

Israeli forces shoot 13-year-old Palestinian boy walking with school friends

Ma'an News - Israeli forces on Tuesday shot and injured a Palestinian teenager in Jalazoun refugee camp near Ramallah, witnesses and the Israeli army said.

Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:54

Dozens of Palestinians Injured As Army Invades Budrus Village

IMEMC - Monday evening, May 20 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that several Palestinians have been treated for the effects of teargas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers invaded Bodrus village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Property damage and fires have also been reported.

Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:51

Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Two Palestinian Children In Jerusalem

IMEMC - Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, two Palestinian children in Abu Dis town, in occupied East Jerusalem, after breaking into their families' homes and violently searching them.

Monday, 20 May 2013 18:19

Israeli man sexually assaults 2 Palestinian boys in Jordan Valley

Ma'an News - A human rights group said Saturday that it was "deeply disturbed" by reports that an armed Israeli man dressed in a police uniform sexually assaulted two Palestinian boys in the Jordan Valley in April.

Monday, 20 May 2013 18:01

Israeli Army Uproots Palestinian Farmlands In Hebron, Destroys Irrigation Systems

IMEMC - Israeli soldiers uprooted, on Monday, more than four Dunams (0.98 Acres) of agricultural lands in Al-Baq'a village, east of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

Monday, 20 May 2013 17:58

Israeli Injures 17 Palestinians In Refugee Camp

IMEMC - Friday, May 17, 2013; Palestinian medical sources reported that 17 Palestinians have been injured by rubber-coated metal bullets and gas bombs fired by Israeli soldiers invading the Al-Arroub refugee camp, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

Monday, 20 May 2013 17:56

25 Palestinians Injured After Israel Attacks With Live Rounds

IMEMC - Friday evening, May 17 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that approximately 25 Palestinians have been injured, including twelve who were shot by live rounds, during clashes that took place when Israeli soldiers invaded the Al-Jalazoun refugee camp and Silwad town, east of the central West Bank city of…

Saturday, 18 May 2013 09:38

Catastrophic thinking: Did Ben-Gurion try to rewrite history?

Arab refugees from villages near Tulkarm. Most historians say Ben-Gurion knew in real time about the expulsion of Palestinians. Photo by Bettmann/CORBIS

The file in the state archives contains clear evidence that the researchers at the time did not paint the full picture of Israel's role in creating the Palestinian refugee problem.

Friday, 17 May 2013 16:59

85-year-old Egyptian priest attacked by Israeli forces during Easter will sue

Video shows a policeman put Orshalimi in a choke hold at minute

Times of Israel - An Egyptian Coptic cleric who was mistreated during Orthodox Easter services is threatening to sue. A video that emerged earlier this week shows Israeli police shoving Arsanios el-Orshalimi and putting him in a headlock. The incident took place during Orthodox Christian Holy Saturday in Jerusalem's Old…

Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:03

Israeli army injures Palestinian protesters marking 65th Nakba anniversary

IMEMC - Palestinian medical sources reported that several Palestinians have been injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers in Bab Al-‘Amoud area in occupied East Jerusalem, after the army attacked Palestinian protesters marking the 65th Nakba anniversary. Israel sources reported that three soldiers have also been injured.

Wednesday, 15 May 2013 16:34

Nakba survivor: "If you wanted to live, you left"

Ma'an News - Ghatheyya Mifleh al-Khawalda was 15 years old when she fled her home during the Nakba of 1948.Now 80, Ghatheyya was once a carefree teenager who used to live with her mother and sister in the village of al-Qastina, northeast of Gaza.

Wednesday, 15 May 2013 16:12

Thousands of Palestinians Mark The Nakba In Bethlehem

IMEMC - Thousands of Palestinians marked, on Tuesday evening, the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, and participated in a huge procession organized by the Badil Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugees Rights, reaffirming the legitimate Palestinian Right of Return to their homeland, homes and towns.

Tuesday, 14 May 2013 15:28

Israeli Army Kidnaps Several Palestinians In West Bank

IMEMC - Tuesday at dawn, April 14 2013, Israeli soldiers invaded different parts of the West Bank, searched homes and property, and kidnapped several Palestinians, including university students, before taking them to unknown destinations.

Tuesday, 14 May 2013 12:10

Israeli Settlers Burn Palestinian Agricultural Lands Near Nablus

IMEMC - Monday evening, May 13 2013; a group of extremist Israeli settlers set ablaze Palestinian olive orchards and farmlands that belong the villages of Qaryout, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Monday, 13 May 2013 12:06

Jewish settlers attack Palestinian property, graves, write racist graffiti

A Muslim man walks past a tomb vandalised with spray paint with a graffiti reading in Hebrew: "Mohammed (prophet) is Dead" at the Mamun Allah cemetery, an old Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem on February 14, 2013.

IMEMC - Monday morning, May 13 2013; Palestinian sources reported that a group of extremist Israeli settlers attacked and destroyed Palestinian property, destroyed graves and wrote racist graffiti in As-Swiya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Monday, 13 May 2013 12:00

Israel soldiers fire gas bombs at Palestinian schoolchildren, injure 7

Schoolchildren harassed , Oct 11 2011, Al-Khalil (Hebron)

IMEMC - Saturday, May 11 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that seven Palestinian children have been injured by gas bombs and concussion grenades fired by Israel soldiers at elementary schoolchildren in At-Tour town, in occupied East Jerusalem.

Monday, 13 May 2013 11:52

Holy Land church leaders say clergy mistreated by Israeli police

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Metropolitan Theophilos (C) leads Easter service in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City May 5, 2013.

The Daily Star - The heads of Jerusalem's Orthodox churches on Sunday spoke out against the "brutal treatment" meted out by Israeli police to both priests and pilgrims during an ancient Easter ritual in the Old City.

Monday, 13 May 2013 11:37

Israeli interrogator accused of torture and sexual assault says "anything goes"

Mustafa Dirani undergoing interrogation. One of the figures facing away from the camera is "Captain George."

Haaretz - The Israeli interrogator known as "Captain George," whom a Lebanese militiaman accused of torture and rape, explained in his first television interview, on Friday: terror suspects being grilled have to feel that anything could happen.

Friday, 10 May 2013 20:57

Israel approves 296 West Bank settler homes

Ma'an News - Israel has given the go-ahead to build nearly 300 homes in the settlement of Beit El near Ramallah, a spokesman said, in a move likely to spark tensions as Washington seeks to rekindle peace talks.

Friday, 10 May 2013 20:53

Israel Forces Palestinian To Demolish His Home In Jerusalem

IMEMC - Tuesday May 7 2013, A Palestinian man from occupied East Jerusalem had to demolish his own home in order to avoid high fines and expenses after an Israeli court decided to demolish his property under the pretest that it was built without a construction permit.

Friday, 10 May 2013 20:50

Israeli Man Stabs A Palestinian Cab Driver In Jerusalem

IMEMC - Tuesday at dawn, May 7 2013; Israeli Police spokesperson, Luba Samri, reported that an Israeli man stabbed a Palestinian taxi driver, south of Jerusalem, and added that initial investigations indicate that the motive of the attack is a “dispute over the fare”.

Friday, 10 May 2013 20:48

Israeli Settlers Burn 20 Dunams Of Palestinian Farmland Near Nablus

IMEMC - A group of extremist Israeli settlers burnt, late on Monday at night, twenty Dunams of Palestinian agricultural lands that belong to residents of Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Friday, 10 May 2013 20:45

Israeli court rules to allow mosque demolition in Jerusalem

Palestinians trying to get access to Al Aqsa mosque

IMEMC - An Israeli court in Jerusalem has decided to allow the Israeli government to demolish part of a mosque, despite appeals from the mosque's imam and several Palestinian members of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament).

Friday, 10 May 2013 20:32

Non-violent protester shot in head by Israeli soldiers; 4 others wounded

IMEMC - 21-year old Ibrahim Awad was shot in the head at close range by a plastic-coated steel bullet fired by Israeli forces at a protest in Beit Ummar, in the southern part of the West Bank. A journalist was wounded in Bil’in and three were injured by pepper spray…

Thursday, 09 May 2013 15:19

Israeli Army Demolishes 12 Palestinian Shops Near Jenin

Israeli army tractors demolish a Palestinian home on Nov. 24, 2011

IMEMC - Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday morning, the Barta’a village, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, declared the village a closed military zone, and demolished 12 shops.

Monday, 06 May 2013 08:57

IDF allows Israeli settlers to renovate abandoned base in Gush Etzion

The abandoned army base in Gush Etzion: A 'closed military zone,' open to settlers who wish to renovate the structure.

Haaretz - IDF officials have allowed settlers to renovate buildings on an abandoned West Bank army base in Gush Etzion, on land coveted by both settlers and Palestinians. The land, on a hilltop about half a kilometer from the Palestinian village of Beit Sahur in the Bethlehem district, housed an…

Monday, 06 May 2013 08:54

Israel Razes Land, Demolishes Wells west of Hebron

WAFA - Israeli forces Monday razed tens of dunums adjacent to the Apartheid Wall west of Hebron, demolished two wells and destroyed the power network, said local sources.

Monday, 06 May 2013 08:53

Clashes as Israelis visit Nablus holy site

Ma'an News - More than 1,000 Israeli rightists on Sunday night visited Joseph's Tomb near Balata refugee camp east of Nablus guarded by Israeli forces, locals said.

Monday, 06 May 2013 08:51

Israeli court rules to allow mosque demolition in Jerusalem

Friday, 03 May 2013 08:16

Dozens of Journalists Protest in Ramallah

PNN - On Thursday 2nd May, dozens of Palestinian journalists gathered in front of Bet El checkpoint near Ramallah to protest against the restrictions imposed by Israeli occupation on the Media freedom in the Palestinian territories. The journalists marched toward the soldiers who were stationed at the checkpoint and they…

Friday, 03 May 2013 08:11

Israeli forces burn 40 olive trees in Qaliqilya

A Palestinian woman reacts next to the damaged olive trees in her orchard.

IMEMC - Israeli forces burned over 40 olive trees in a field in Kafr Qaddum village near Qalqilia.

Friday, 03 May 2013 08:08

PCHR Weekly Report: 1 Palestinian killed, 8 wounded by Israeli forces this week

Home demolition in al-Tour neighborhood in Jerusalem

IMEMC - In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 25 April- 01 May 2013, the Palestinian Cdenter for Human Rights (PCHR) found that Israeli forces extra-judicially executed a member of a Salafi-Jihadist group in the Gaza Strip.

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National Summit to Reassess the US-Israel "Special Relationship"

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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.