The Shin Bet is refusing to allow a 21-year-old Rafiah man who is sick with cancer and in need of immediate medical care to come to Israel, even though he obtained permission from the Israeli Defense Forces’ Coordination and Liaison Administration.
BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army opened fire on Israeli warplanes flying low over South Lebanon on Thursday, in the first incident of its kind since the summer 2006 war. “Israeli warplanes were flying lower than usual over Lebanon and so we fired at them,” a senior army source told The Daily Star, confirming that gunners fired on intruding aircraft twice.
Please join us on opening night for a presentation by the artist. Stefan Christoff is traveling from Montreal to show us the photographs he took in Lebanon in 2005 and 2006.
BEIRUT: The Lebanese government must take concrete steps to end all forms of discrimination against Palestinian refugees and to fully protect and uphold their human rights, Amnesty International said in a new report expected to be launched at a news conference in Beirut on Wednesday.
The new report, “Exiled and Suffering: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon,” examines the wide range of restrictions that continue to impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees, as many as 60 years after they or their parents or grandparents fled to Lebanon during the Arab-Israeli wars of 1948 and 1967.
Dans le contexte de la campagne visant à contester la présence du Hezbollah sur la liste des “organisations terroristes” au Canada, Tadamon! Montréal a organisé le Mercredi 17 Octobre une importante conférence à l’Université McGill, dans le cadre de la série de conférences Culture Shock 2007.
Plus de 200 personnes se sont réunies pour entendre les présentations de Bilal Elamine, l’ancien rédacteur en chef du magazine Left Turn, qui habite à Beyrouth, et de Brian Aboud, sociologue et historien actif dans Tadamon! De plus, le documentaire de la cinéaste libanaise Carol Mansour “Un été à ne pas oublier”, sur l’attaque israélienne contre le Liban en 2006, a été projeté pour la première fois au Canada.
Officially, Mahmoud Jnaid does not exist. The 25-year-old Palestinian almost made that a reality earlier this month when he doused himself with petrol and tried to set himself alight.
Jnaid is one of about 54,000 displaced Palestinians who returned to Gaza and the West Bank from abroad after an interim peace accord in 1993, but still have no identity cards because Israel refuses to approve them. Following years of silence, they recently started holding weekly protests in Hamas-run Gaza to demand the documents, which they need to travel as well as for daily basics like opening a bank account or getting a driving licence.
In Canada, a state commission on “Reasonable Accommodation” regarding the rights of minorities and new immigrants in Quebec has created a storm of controversy. This edition of Radio Tadamon! features Indu Vashist, a community organizer in Montreal and May Hayder of Al-Hidaya Association presenting alternative perspectives on ‘Reasonable Accommodation’ to the government sponsored commission.
Un soir seulement! au Cinéma du Parc.
Cette soirée est organisée par Palestiniens et Juifs Unis PAJU.
A 60-year-old Palestinian will begin a case against the UK government in the High Court later when he will say that sales of arms to Israel are illegal.
Saleh Hassan, who lives on the West Bank, says his land was confiscated by Israel to make way for its barrier.
