Global IssuesNews headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 23
ISRAEL: Children Facing Deportation Find Friends
- Inter Press Service
After Israel’s Interior Ministry attempted to deport the first migrant workers’ child educated in the Israeli school system, human rights groups are calling on the Israeli government to develop a clear immigration policy and an official protocol that will minimise the psychological impact of detaining and deporting young children.
EGYPT: After Mubarak, Military Trials on the Rise
- Inter Press Service
Amr El-Beheiry’s trial in a military court lasted just five minutes. The 33-year- old Egyptian was arrested on Feb. 26 and sentenced to five years in prison for breaking curfew and assaulting a public official during a demonstration in Cairo.
Hariri Bombing Indictment Based on Flawed Premise
- Inter Press Service
The indictment of four men linked to Hezbollah in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri made public by the Special Tribunal on Lebanon Aug. 17 is questionable not because it is based on 'circumstantial evidence', but because that evidence is based on a flawed premise.
LIBYA: When Caught in the Crossfire
- Inter Press Service
Thousands have been caught in the Libyan fighting — people neither with Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, or with the rebels. Ayman Agamy Abdelgawad, an Egyptian released from Tripoli’s Abdu Selim prison, shares his experiences with IPS. He narrates his experience below:
Palestinians Thirsting for Justice in Water-Starved Occupied Territories
- Inter Press Service
In the strife-stricken Middle East, oil has always been in the realm of politics. But in the Israeli-occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank, oil has been supplanted by water.
Concern Grows Over Prospects for Middle East Disarmament Meeting
- Inter Press Service
Four months before 2012 - the year a conference is slated to be held on freeing the Middle East region of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) - no date, facilitator, or host country has been named.
Refugees Tossed Between Iraq and Syria
- Inter Press Service
At the height of Iraq’s sectarian war in 2006, 30-year-old Samer escaped his Baghdad neighbourhood to join a flood of refugees arriving in Syria. A young man of military age, he was at high risk of being targeted by armed forces that roamed the capital’s streets.
EGYPT: People-Funded TV Challenges Big Business
- Inter Press Service
Egypt’s most organised political group, the Muslim Brotherhood, is tapping crowds as a new financing method for its nascent TV station and media outlets to be able to compete with well-oiled challengers in corporate and government- run media.
LIBYA: Dreaming of a Future After Gaddafi
- Inter Press Service
'We grabbed all these weapons from Gaddafi's compound just before NATO shelled the whole place,' says rebel fighter Massud Askar in downtown Nalut. The 50-year-old rebel displays an Italian light semi-automatic rifle in his right hand and a hand grenade in the other.
Libyans Find Historic Hope
- Inter Press Service
'I’m 60 years old and I never thought I'd see this moment with my own eyes,' Najib Taghuz tells IPS from the Tunisian-Libyan border. The engineer from the recently liberated town Gehryan is headed for Tunisia - his wife needs surgery on the left hand. But he hopes to return to a new Libya.
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