The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) issued a report revealing that 32 Palestinian detainees imprisoned in Al Ramla Israeli prison are hospitalized in the prison hospital which lacks the fundamental resources and tools.

Detainee Isam Abu Jandal, imprisoned since 1986,and hospitalized in the prison hospital, stated that tension is a continuous event as the detainees demand the improvement health services.

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Ma très chère Janet: Aujourd’hui est un très beau jour d’automne, ici, à Beyrouth. Il y a 25 ans cette semaine, avait lieu, du 15 au 18 septembre, le massacre des camps de réfugiés palestiniens de Sabra et Shatila. Un ciel d’un bleu lumineux et une brise d’automne. En fait, il a plu la nuit dernière.

Assez pour nous débarrasser d’une partie de l’humidité et de la poussière. Heureusement, pas assez pour être de ces pluies habituelles qui forment les marécages d’eaux usées et d’immondices dans la rue Sabra ou inondent le cimetière, sans plus guère de pelouse, de la fosse commune, (les habitants du camp l’appellent le carré des Martyrs, il est l’un des mémoriaux qu’on appelle ainsi maintenant au Liban) ; c’est là que tu m’as dit autrefois que le dimanche 19 septembre 1982, tu avais regardé, écoeurée, les victimes massacrées et criblées de balles de ces 48 heures de tueries, entassées par les familles et les secouristes du Croissant Rouge, formant une montagne dans la fosse. Certains de ces corps avaient des membres ou la tête tranchés, des garçons avaient été castrés, des corps portaient des lacérations en forme de croix.

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Photo: A l’entrée du camp de Chatila, 1982.

SAMEDI, 22 SEPTEMBRE, 13H
Librairie Indigo
Coin Sainte-Catherine et McGill College
métro McGill
Montréal, Canada

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Activists demanding a better fate for Palestinians have chosen a potent accusation—the new apartheid—to rally support for the growing anti-Israel boycott. Their belief: what forced change in South Africa can provoke change in the Middle East. But it may not be that easy-or that simple

Imagination. Creativity. Inspiration. Three words to stir the soul crown the towering windows of Toronto’s flagship Indigo bookstore. At ground level, shoppers pass in and out of wood-framed glass doors, navigating planters and benches intended to create a friendly, front-porch sort of welcome. They take little notice as, on the sidewalk beyond, two women unfurl an off-white canvas banner. Printed on one side are another three words, less poetic perhaps than the store’s motto, but the intended effect is just as moving: Boycott Chapters/ Indigo.

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Middle East Report. by Muhammad Ali Khalidi and Diane Riskedahl

How long will the state erect military checkpoints in residential areas, treating them as though they were camps sheltering wanted people and gunmen, while all the Palestinian camps, which shelter criminals and wanted people, enjoy freedom of movement, politically, militarily and in terms of security, as though they were security islands independent of Lebanon politically, militarily and in terms of security?

—Jibran Tuwayni, al-Nahar (July 18th, 2002)

The view expressed by assassinated Lebanese Member of Parliament and editorialist Jibran Tuwayni has become depressingly familiar among Lebanese politicians since the end of the Lebanese civil war. Though Tuwayni was a firebrand of what is now the loyalist camp in Lebanese politics, his perspective is also shared by elements of the current opposition, particularly members of the parliamentary bloc loyal to former Gen. Michel Aoun. There may be more than a grain of truth in the saying that the only thing that unites the Lebanese political factions today is antipathy for the Palestinians living in their midst.

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This edition of Radio Tadamon! brings you to the streets, from the ongoing demonstrations throughout Canada calling for a boycott of Indigo/Chapters bookstores due to their support for Israel, to the major demonstrations in Montabello, Quebec surrounding the North American trilateral summit in August 2007.

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In its strongest condemnation of Israel since last summer’s war, Human Rights Watch said yesterday that most Lebanese civilian casualties were caused by “indiscriminate Israeli air strikes”.

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AMMAN – A leading U.S. human rights group said on Friday beatings of inmates in Jordanian jails were rampant and many of the country’s top Islamist detainees were denied justice.

Christoph Wilcke, Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) Jordan specialist, speaking after a two-week tour of jails across the country, said detainees had cited serious abuses and beatings and told the group two prisoners died under torture since May.

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Daily Star, Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Photo: Masser. A bombing by Israel in the Bekaa valley. Lebanon, July 2006

BEIRUT: Israeli surveillance drones cut through Lebanese skies on Monday and hovered above Southern as well as Bekaa regions. The Lebanese Army reported that an Israeli surveillance drone soared above the Southern village of Alma al-Shaab at 9:30 a.m. Monday and headed north toward the Bekaa regions of Riyaq and Baalbek. The plane left Lebanese skies at around 4 p.m.

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Vendredi 7 Septembre, 20h
La Sala Rosa
4848 St. Laurent
Montréal
Entrée: $10-20

Avant première du dernier film de Brett Story, avec une musique au piano composée par Stefan Christoff. Un voyage cinématographique à travers les routes de l’occupation et de la résistance de Cisjordanie en Palestine.

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