La flambée des prix alimentaires aggrave la situation des Palestiniens
La Presse. Jooneed Khan.
Photo: la bande de Gaza.
Les Palestiniens, qui subissent les privations quotidiennes dues au siège de l’armée israélienne, sont très durement frappés par la flambée des prix des aliments, qu’ils doivent importer en grande partie.
UN clears cluster bombs from areas of south Lebanon
June 2008: AFP.
Photo: Qana Memorial, Southern Lebanon.
Tyre, Lebanon (AFP): Almost half of the areas in southern Lebanon contaminated with cluster bombs dropped by Israel in 2006 have been cleared, a UN official said on Wednesday.
“Forty three percent of the areas affected by the cluster bombs dropped during the July 2006 war have been cleared”, UN [...]
Lebanon: Qatar Negotiations | U.S. on Hezbollah
Broadcasts from Beirut IV: An interview with journalist Anthony Shadid.
Photo: Lebanese soldiers patrol Beirut.
A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…
Movie addresses Israel’s role in Sabra-Shatila massacre
Agence France Presse (AFP). Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Photo: Stefan Christoff. Shatila refugee camp in Beirut.
Palestinians march to Israeli border to denounce 60 years of dispossession
Tuesday, May 15th. Agence France Presse (AFP)
Photo: Palestinian youth flash victory sign in southern Lebanon.
Marwahin: Hundreds of Palestinian refugees headed to Lebanon’s southern border with Israel on Wednesday marking 60 years since the creation of the Jewish state and exile from what was once Palestine. “We want to return to our country. We desperately miss [...]
Egypt police shoot two Africans trying to cross into Israel
Haaretz. April 20th, 2008.
Photo: Egypt/’Israel’ border.
Egyptian police shot and wounded two Africans, from Mali and Kenya, who tried to slip over Egypt’s desert frontier into Israel on Sunday, security sources said.
Lebanon: Nearly 300 people killed or wounded since 2006
Daily Star by By Anthony Elghossain. Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Photo: Beirut 2006.
BEIRUT: Nearly 300 people have been killed or injured in South Lebanon by unexploded ordnance dropped by Israel just before the cease-fire that halted the 2006 summer war, and more than half of the areas originally contaminated by cluster bomblets have yet to be [...]
A different vision for Israel
Toronto Star. Apr 12, 2008. by Stuart Laidlaw.
Photo: Graffiti on the Apartheid wall in Palestine.
Diana Ralph grew up in a progressive Jewish family in postwar America. Her father’s work as a lawyer at the Nuremberg war crime trials, when she was still an infant, cemented his support for the state of Israel.
But when his daughter, [...]
Le Devoir: Des activistes troublent la conférence de l’ambassadeur d’Israël au Canada
Le Devoir. Claude Lévesque. Jeudi 10 avril 2008
Photo: Ion Etxebarria.
Lebanon: Labor calls strike for May 7 to press Beirut for higher wage
Daily Star, by Michael Bluhm. Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Photo: Aerial of Beirut, Lebanon.
The General Labor Confederation (GLC) on Monday called a one-day general strike in Lebanon for May 7 because of the government’s refusal to raise the minimum wage from LL300,000 to LL960,000 per month. While an economist labeled the minimum wage “atrocious,” the GLC’s [...]
Tadamon! répondu à La Presse
Tadamon! répondu à La Presse.
L’article de La Presse, paru samedi, le 8 mars 2008, page A24, sur la situation à Gaza, contient une affirmation erronée qu’il est nécessaire de corriger. A la fin de l’article, le collectif montréalais Tadamon! est qualifié par M. Elharrar, porte-parole du Comité Québec-Israël, de “groupe pro-Hezbollah”. A deux reprises, il [...]
Gaza’s suffering children
Al-Ahram, by Saleh Al-Naami.
Photo: Boy holds a Palestinian flag atop a destroyed building in Gaza.
Every once in a while Ibrahim Hawash, 42, calls his wife Noha from his nightshift job to make sure that she has followed the treatment course prescribed by their family doctor for the involuntary urination of their four children, who are [...]
Civilian death toll in Iraq may have surpassed 1 million
Daily Star, Tuesday, March 25, 2008.
Photo: Displaced woman carries humanitarian aid from the Iraqi Red Crescent.
BAGHDAD: While the number of US troops killed in Iraq since the 2003 invasion stands at 4,000, up to three times as many Iraqi soldiers have died - and the number of civilians killed runs into tens and probably hundreds [...]
Shifting towards Israel?
Toronto Star, by Oakland Ross. March 17th, 2008.
Photo: Israeli military near the Gaza Strip.
JERUSALEM: A United Nations panel voted overwhelmingly this month to condemn Israel for a recent armed incursion in the Gaza Strip that claimed more than 120 lives, many of them civilian.
Thirty-three member countries of the 47-seat UN Human Rights Council endorsed the [...]
Des petits Canadiens prisonniers dans Gaza.
La Presse: jeudi 13 mars, 2008
Photo: Marouane Aboudraz
Quand il a quitté Montréal, en avril 2007, pour aller passer quelque temps chez sa mère, dans la bande de Gaza, Marouane Aboudraz croyait faire un voyage de trois ou quatre mois, question de présenter ses deux derniers-nés à leur grand-mère.
Mais ce voyage s’est transformé en cauchemar. En [...]