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Ess: Why Hamas Won
Znet Article, January, 31 2006
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First of all the Israelis withdrew from the center of the Gaza Strip. This was a move to use it as a trade to keep the West Bank, and also to protect Jewish settlers from resistance activities and make it easier for the Israelis to attack by air w...
Ess: Israelis Hinder East Jerusalem Elections
Znet Article, January, 10 2005
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9 January 2005 Israeli police cars and military jeeps parked in crossroads near the Salah Adiin Street post office in East Jerusalem Sunday morning. Israeli soldiers with rifles slung over their shoulders stood next to Israeli police who watched ...
Ess: Bethlehem Celebrates Christmas, Rafah Counts The Dead
Znet Article, December, 24 2003
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Israeli occupation forces left the center of Rafah, although as is normal the Israelis remain at the border they have created. The Wall the Israelis are building with armoured machines is overshadowed only by its many sniper posts. Israeli sold...
Ess: Israel Dismisses UN Condemnation
Znet Article, November, 30 2003
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Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, stated in a report yesterday that Israel is, once again, clearly in direct violation of international law. On 21 October 2003, the UN General Assembly demanded Israel cease construction of its C...
Ess: Un Resolution 1515 To Back Roadmap
Znet Article, November, 21 2003
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"More resolutions is not the solution," said Israel's deputy UN ambassador Aryeh Mekel. They must not be for Israel, considering its history of not honoring them. Since 1967 and the passing of Resolution 242, the UN has passed 130 resolutions agai...
Ess: When Will Reality Become Newsworthy?
Znet Article, November, 18 2003
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Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 14 year old boy Saturday night, 15 November 2003 at 7 pm. IOF were invading the boy's village, Beit Forik, near Nablus. As is common in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers were randomly firing througho...
Ess: The First Friday Of Ramadan
Znet Article, October, 31 2003
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It is the first Friday of Ramadan. Upwards of 400 elderly Palestinians left their homes in Bethlehem this morning to travel the short distance to pray in the Al-Aqsa Mosque in east Jerusalem. This journey to the most significant mosque in Palestin...
Ess: IOF Continues Brutal Attack on Rafah
Znet Article, October, 13 2003
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For over 36 hours now IOF have ceaselessly attacked the southern Gaza Strip city and camp of Rafah. The number of dead is around eight or nine known, the number of injured, according to Dr. Ali Mousa, director of Rafah's Abu Yousef Najjar Hospital...
Ess: 4,200 Palestinians On Hunger Strike
Znet Article, August, 02 2003
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Over 4,000 Palestinian political prisoners have just begun a hunger strike in Israeli jails including Shutah, Askalan, Majido, Ofer, and Nefah. A man being held without charge called yesterday from Nefah saying, "The Israeli Administration is trea...
Ess: The Stage Is Set For Ethnic Cleansing
Znet Article, July, 26 2003
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It seems that for Abu Mazen, talking to George Bush is like trying to nail jello to a tree. Real dialogue is certainly not going to happen, nor does anyone expect it to, this week in Washington, or anywhere else for that matter. Why would Bush, th...
Ess: All In A Days Work For A Mythical Democracy
Znet Article, July, 22 2003
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In the mid-Gaza Strip, an old man dressed in white sits on a wooden box, watching an Israeli driven bulldozer destroy his land. The tree leaves are deep green and are crushed and caught in the pusher. This is making the trunks more mangled. He wat...
Ess: The IOF Keeps On Killing
Znet Article, June, 23 2003
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The IOF Keeps On Killing
Ess: Israeli Military Continues To Kill
Znet Article, June, 10 2003
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On Aljazeera George Bush is telling us, "The average Palestinian must understand that they need responsible leaders to fight off Palestinian terror attacks." Since no Palestinian has fought back against the illegal Israeli Occupation in any way re...
Ess: This Is The Israeli 'Cease Fire'
Znet Article, June, 06 2003
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The Palestinian Authority and the Israeli military government have agreed to a 'cease-fire.' The terminology is, of course, misleading. It suggests that there are two equal sides at war. The Israeli government, receiving more than 12 million dolla...
Ess: Israeli Government Ignores Yet Another International Law
Znet Article, April, 09 2003
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At 8 o'clock last night Israeli flown, US made, F16s swept over Gaza City, shooting more than 40 flares into the night sky as a diversion, while three US donated Apache helicopters fired three missiles into a car, killing Said Arabeed and Ashraf a...
Ess: Myriad Forms Of Ethnic Cleansing
Znet Article, March, 27 2003
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There are reports that US soldiers have joined the Israelis in terrorizing the people of Jenin. A woman working in Gaza City says, "They think there will be street fighting when they invade Baghdad, so they want to practice on Jenin." The woman w...
Ess: Israeli Army Continues Killing Spree
Znet Article, March, 10 2003
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At 8 this morning Gaza City shook. One man just told me, "I was coming up the stairs to work. I thought the whole building was going down." Neighbors stuck their heads from windows to see what was happening. Four US donated Apache helicopters hung...
Ess: Attack on Gaza
Znet Article, March, 08 2003
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Gaza Strip hospitals are urgently requesting blood and medical supplies that under constant Israeli closure they are unable to get. They have run out of space for all of the dying Palestinians. Israeli occupation forces have injured 100s of Palest...
Ess: Thousands of Palestinians Rendered Homeless
Znet Article, February, 14 2003
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Last night 30 invading Israeli soliders tore through a house on the edge of a Bethlehem refugee camp. Arriving in 12 heavily armoured jeeps with blue lights flashing at midnight, they took measurements of the house, home to several units of the sa...
Ess: Israeli Goverment Talks About "The Solution"
Znet Article, February, 12 2003
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Kids are gathered round a burned out car in Manger Square. There is no school today, their town under curfew. A Palestinian ambulance is stopped and searched in the rain. It's another day under Israeli military occupation. For weeks Israeli soldi...
Ess: Occupied Palestine
Znet Article, February, 08 2003
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How can Palestinians resist the brutality of the Israeli military government. How can they survive it? One Palestinian journalist, a friend for the past year told me, "We chose non-violence and they occupied our kitchens." There are about 9,000 P...
Ess: Occupied Palestine
Znet Article, January, 27 2003
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At 9 o'clock yesterday morning the Israeli military destroyed all of the bridges the lead in and out of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip. Israeli tanks and helicopters then shelled the town for 18 hours. Night before last Israeli occupa...
Ess: Rafah: South Gaza Strip
Znet Article, January, 06 2003
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Staying home for Palestinians in Rafah is not only a necessity, it has become a prime act of resistance. Last night Israeli Apache helicopters shot missiles into Rafah. This is a city that the Israeli's have demolished nearly 700 homes in. ...
Ess: Bethlehem To Rafah
Znet Article, December, 26 2002
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At the last minute, at the end of the day before Christmas Eve, the Israeli government announced it would lift its curfew of Bethlehem. This was another move in the endless game of Israeli propaganda, and one that was expected. Thousands of eyes w...
Ess: Report From Gaza
Znet Article, December, 19 2002
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Block O is almost empty now. Most of the people have gone. The sewage flood is knee deep in places. One old man is walking around the muddy edges. His house is flooded. The 8 meter high, 10 meter deep prison wall the Israeli military government is...
Ess: The End Of Ramadan
Znet Article, December, 04 2002
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On this, the final day of Ramadan 2002, Israel continues its decades old illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians in the West Bank city of Khalil (Hebron), under effective curfew for years. Apache miss...
Ess: This Morning In Aida Refugee Camp
Znet Article, November, 27 2002
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The Israeli military still holds Bethlehem under curfew. Soldiers went round to houses inside Aida Camp demanding names of all children in the families to add to their lists. Here in the camp all children are suspected of the crime of throwing sto...
Ess: Reinvaded Bethlehem
Znet Article, November, 26 2002
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The occupying Israeli army forces Palestinians to sit in their homes, trapped for days on end. Here in Bethelehem it has only been five days. In Nablus it has been months. Schools, shops, everything, is closed. A woman went to Ramallah for school ...
Ess: Israel's Daily Destruction of Gaza
Znet Article, October, 29 2002
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In this prison it matters less every day whether or not Israel drops another bomb on Rafah or Khan Younis. Israel has military control of 42% of the Gaza Strip in order to "protect" its 6,000 illegal Israeli settlers. Many of the settlers are arme...
Ess: Report from Gaza
Znet Article, April, 17 2002
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The Israelis have a political term that isn't applied as much as it should be to the current conflict. 'Tahalikh Medini," means "settling state affairs." Wipe away all of the humanitarian masking on this topic and you are left with Israeli pragmat...
