Wednesday, November 22, 2006

LAND THEFT Guardian: "The top UN human rights official said yesterday Palestinians living in the Gaza strip had suffered massive human rights violations." Yahoo: "Almost 40 percent of land held by Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank is privately owned by Palestinians, a left-wing Israeli group that monitors and opposes settlement-building said in a new report on Tuesday. Israel has long maintained that Jewish settlements, which are illegal under international law, were built on state lands, or areas not registered in anyone's name, and that no private property were being seized for settlement building. 'This report is a harsh indictment against the whole settlements enterprise and the role all Israeli governments played in it,' Peace Now said on its Web site. 'The report shows that Israel has effectively stolen privately-owned Palestinian land for the purpose of constructing settlements and in violation of Israel's own laws regarding activities in the West Bank,' the movement said." eIntifada: "A 19-year old Swedish human rights worker had her cheekbone broken by a Jewish extremist in Hebron. Earlier the same day at least five Palestinians, including a 3-year-old child, were injured by the settler-supporting extremists, who rampaged through Tel Rumeida hurling stones and bottles at local residents. Palestinian schoolchildren on their way home were also attacked. The Israeli army, which was intensively deployed in the area, did not intervene to stop the attacks." eI: "Last Saturday activists of the Flemish Palestine Solidarity Committee (VPK) campaigned for a boycott of Israeli products, in front of several supermarkets." 11:24:01 AM

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