Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org for Thursday July 27th, 2006

Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli military helicopter fire in Gaza City as the Israel army maintains its attacks in both the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank. At the same time, the Israeli air bombardment of Southern Lebanon continues Thursday. Meanwhile the Israeli cabinet made it clear that air attacks on Lebanon are going to intensify.

These stories and more coming up.

Gaza Update

This is a summary of israeli war crimes committed in Palestine for the week ending 26 July 2006, 2mins, english

PCHR
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

http://www.pchrgaza.org

Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
No. 29/2006

20- 26 July 2006

from RTÉ Radio

mp3 links to be posted at

Not Guilty. The Pitstop Ploughshares All Acquitted on All Charges
http://indymedia.ie/article/77460

audio recorded from
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/liveline/

1) Sinn Fein proposes Ploughshares be given 'Freedom of the City' of Dublin
2) Ploughshares Damien Moran debates idiot Pastor about the War
3) US Vet Joshua explains what he did in Abu Ghreib

An interview with Ibrahim Issa Abu Skror. Ibrahim lives in Aida Refugee Camp, in Occupied Bethlehem. He is the projects coordinator, of Al-Rowwad Cultural & Theatre Training Center. Ibrahim has been here for most of his life.

A four day workshop session sponsored by Free Radio Berkeley to teach you how to build FM broadcast transmitters.

Summer Radio Camp - Build an FM Transmitter

A four day workshop session sponsored by Free Radio Berkeley to teach you how to build FM broadcast transmitters (and other related items such as antennas) and set up a low power (15-100 watt) community radio station capable of covering a broadcast radius between 5 and 15 miles depending on power, terrain and antenna height.

From Beirut was written during the invasion and bombing of Lebanon by the Israeli Army in the summer of 1982. The author, Mahmoud Darwish, is a palestinian refugee who lived through this war which is not unlike todays war on Lebanon. His voice in these times is not only relevant but critical.

The Senate just passed a bill to make it a Federal offense punishable by a year in prison to assist an underage woman in crossign state lines to get an abortion in defiance of parental consent laws.

Of course, this law will be widely defied. Unlike laws regulating what a doctor can do, this is an attempt to deer people who are NOT licensed by a threat of prosecution, an dwill not be complied with.