Shopping in Nablus an act of resistance

Here follow the July 11, 2008, press picks from what was published recently by different sources - posted by TOI-staff on Occupation Magazine. (We did the updating today but OM is updated daily, each day of the week by a different editor. For earlier articles use the powerfull search function & view the sections.) 

 High Court ruling keeps Palestinian village in limbo
By Dan Izenberg - Jerusalem Post/Ma`an - The 200 Palestinians living in El-Nu`man, a village in the extreme southeast corner of Jerusalem, will continue to live in their never-never land, trapped without status between the West Bank and Jerusalem, in the wake of a High Court of Justice decision handed down earlier this week. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27911

 Bili`n council head slams proposed route for West Bank fence
Akiva Eldar - Haaretz - Yassin says that the alternate routes proposed by the state have belittled the Supreme Court`s decision, "out of the belief that justices will not press the state an additional time to help Bili`n farmers (...) in the meantime, the state is allowing building developers to create facts on the ground. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27910

 “There is nobody at home, you can check yourselves.`
Reuters/Ma`an - Israeli troops demolished a house in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday without giving the Palestinian family who lived there an explanation why, one of the family members said. An Israeli army spokesman described the demolition, which destroyed the home of two brothers and their families, as a `military operation` but declined to comment further.  
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27908

 Fayyad calls upon Nablus residents: defy closure of `terrorist` mall
Ma`an News Agency/Turkish Weekly - The massive Israeli army crackdown on supposed Hamas insitutions in Nablus continues tio arouse protests and outrage, even from Palestinians politcally far from Hamas - particularly with PM Fayyad, often praised as "a moderate" by Israelis and Americans, issuing a call to Nablus residents to defy the Israeli closure order for the city`s shopping mall and the threat of five years` imprisonment for anyine entering it. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27907

 ...and the day after, Nablus awoke at yet another shock
A Letter from Nablus - we all belong to the israeli army.... our lands, our olive trees, our bodies, the water we drink, the air we breathe, the food we get from the super market, our family members who are in jail, our beds and chairs..... what is left for us? our brains??????maybe
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27909
 
 Irish FM visits Aida Refugee Camp, voices concern on Wall
Mary Fitzgerald - The Irish Times - The first Middle East visit by Irish Foreign Minister Miche?l Martin coincides with the fourth anniversary of an International Court of Justice ruling declaring Israel`s "Security Barrier" illegal. After viewing sections of it during a visit to Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, the visiting minister raised with his Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni concerns about the barrier`s impact on Palestinian economic and social development. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27905

 South African tour of Hebron curtailed by police
Asaf Shalev - Jerusalem Post - Three left-wing activists who led a South African human rights delegation including two judges and a member of parliament on a tour of Hebron, were detained for several hours by police Wednesday. Danny Poleg, a police spokesperson, said the tour was cut short because "the group had entered a closed military zone without prior coordination with security forces".
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27900 
 
 After midnight, the army comes back into Jenin
Ilene R. Prusher - Christian Science Monitor - Palestinian Authority police, recently returned from US-sponsored training in Jordan, have fanned out around Jenin. While uniformed Palestinian police may look as if they`re in control by day, when the clock strikes midnight, the Israeli army comes out to arrest and sometimes assassinate militants on its wanted list. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27902

 Paralyzed Palestinian girl fights to stay in Israel
Reuters - Ynet - Paralyzed from the neck down in an Israeli strike on the Islamic Jihad in Gaza, six-year-old Palestinian Maria Amin is fighting an order to move her from a rehabilitation centre in Israel to the West Bank (...) the Rammalah Abu Raya Rehabilitation Centre lacking adequate equipment to attend to her special needs. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27913

 `Dutch Jimmy Carter` accuses Israel of terrorism in new book
Cnaan Liphshiz - Haaretz - Saddam Hussein was attacked after four resolutions, but Israel got 39 and nobody talks about applying even the slightest pressure on Israel to comply with them,` former Dutch PM Andries Van Agt complains. 
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27912
 
also recommended:
 Fareed Taamallah: A Thirst for West Bank Water Environment 
Fareed Taamallah - The Nation - Under Olmert`s plan, Israel aims to keep the two main Palestinian West Bank aquifers: the lower Jordan River basin in the east, and the eastern mountain aquifer, trapped behind Israel`s wall in the west. This will force Palestinians to depend on Israel for water, preserving the status quo, a dramatically unjust division of water resources.
 http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=27876