Third day of curfew in Nablus, with the army rampaging
Ma`an News Agency - The old city of Nablus has been under curfew since the start of the Israeli invasion at dawn on Thursday. Israeli forces extended the curfew to the whole of the city on Friday. The invading forces used explosives to blast their way into shops in An-Nasr street, the Onion market and the Blacksmiths market in the old city. [[NB: In the upcoming visit of President Bush, Olmert will reportedly insist upon Israel`s "right" to continue conducting such operation concurrently with his negotiations with Abu Mazen. Ed.]] 
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 Israeli warplane fires missiles at home of assassinated fighter
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - The family of Karim Dadouh, who was extrajudicially assassinated by Israeli forces several months ago, has been made homeless by the Israeli airforce, which fired a targeted missile at the family home Thursday, destroying most of the home.
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 A son’s spleen, a mother’s lungs
Eva Bartlett - ISM - The family`s 16 year old son returned to his often-invaded home village of Azzoun without his spleen, which had to be removed after he was shot by soldiers. His mother, with her severe lung disease, depends for survival on oxygen tanks, and her life hangs on a thin thread. Cutting off of the arrival of new oxygen supply - a likely possibility given the army frequent invasions and curfews of the West Bank village - could result in her immediate death. 
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 Midnight detentions, curfew, shootings, mayor`s home invaded
Nisreen Qumsieh/Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC - None of these events will go down in history - routine acts of daily oppression, unnoticed by the world but highly noticeable for those at the receiving end. [Ed.] 
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 `They want us to leave - we are going to stay!`
Richard Boudreaux - Los Angeles Times - A Palestinian fights in court for a hill his family has held since 1916. But Israeli settlers nearby say the farm should be theirs.
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 Two Cancer patients die within 24 hours due to Gaza siege
Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC - Aisha Al Jamal, 73, had lung cancer but the army refused to allow her to leave the Gaza Strip to get treatment in Israel or the West Bank. Another Palestinian cancer patient, Mohamed Abu Taha, 45, died late on Friday night; he also was not allowed by the Israeli army to leave the Strip. 
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 Israeli Human Rights Violations, 27 Dec. 2007 - 02 Jan. 2008
PCHR Weekly Report - In the past week 18 Palestinians, including a pilgrim returning from Mecca, were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Five of the victims were extra-judicially executed by IOF. 25 Palestinians, including 4 children and 2 women, were wounded by the IOF gunfire. IOF conducted 30 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and 4 into the Gaza Strip. IOF arrested 35 Palestinian 
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 Palestinian Cinema – An Example for the Region?
Omar Al-Qattan - Vertigo Magazine/This Week in Palestine - A work of art can momentarily lift us out of the trap, briefly allowing us to understand our past and present and glimpse what could potentially happen in the future. But what if the reference points are fading? (...) The project includes a major training programme in the arts of filmmaking designed and headed by the Palestinian director Michel Khleifi.
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 Vilnai: I`d support freeing Barghouti for Gilad Shalit
Associated Press (quoting Israel Radio) - Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai became the latest high-ranking Israeli official to publicly support the release of Marwan Barghouti: "I am willing to do much to free a soldier like Gilad Shalit so he can return home. Marwan Barghouti apparently will be on the list of prisoners whose release the Palestinians would demand in exchange for Shalit. If necessary, we should release him, too." 
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 Here`s to the `67 borders, the new middle of the road
Bradley Burston - Haaretz - There was a time that the mere mention of the 1967 borders was seen by many in the Jewish community as an expression of disloyalty, of sacrilege, of foolhardy risk, almost of profanity. Gradually there are signs that the route of the middle of the road has shifted. At this point, for many on the Israeli side and, in fact, on the Palestinian side as well, the middle of the road passes very, very close to the Green Line, the post-1948 war, pre-1967 war boundary between the West Bank and Israel.
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