29 November AIC articles
Alternative Information Center
Articles published Saturday 29 November on alternativenews.org, a news website maintained by the Alternative Information Center (AIC) and dedicated to the promotion of a joint Palestinian-Israeli-international struggle and opposition to actions that "normalise" Israel's occupation policies.
Source of Nakba: UN partition plan
By: Committee for a Secular, Democratic State
Sixty-seven years ago, on November 29, 1947, the United Nations' General Assembly decided on the division of Palestine into two states: a Jewish state and an Arab state. This unfair decision which was supported by the then two great powers - the Soviet Union and the United States - eliminated the possibility for coexistence of Jews and Arabs in democratic Palestine, and caused the outbreak of civil war that became an operation of ethnic cleansing. Most Palestinians became refugees and their land was divided between the Zionist state and Abdullah's Kingdom of Transjordan.
By: Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Palestinian political activist Abdul Alim Dana was arrested by Israeli forces on Thursday 27 November from his home in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Dana, who has previously spent some 16.5 years in Israeli prison, is a strong proponent of joint Palestinian-Israeli work as a necessary prerequite for lasting peace in the area. Dana was a driving force behind the May 2011 and January 2014 joint Palestinian-Israeli conferences
By: Esra Karakaya
“Hiraeth - (n). A homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past.” This was printed on a card, hung next to Palestinian artist Ruba Salameh's two paintings. On both paintings portraits of two women with sorrowful, yet restrained facial expressions which welcomed visitors to the Manam exhibition. Manam, part of the Qalandiya International Festival 2014, was an exhibition held in early November and organized by the Arab Culture Association in their newly acquired center in Haifa. The exhibition incorporated various Palestinian artists who worked on the concept of Palestinian dream (“manam”)
Palestinian children express life under occupation
By: Holger Hennies
“Our hope in life is not a crime. So expressing what occurred to me cannot be an atrocity“, writes 16-year old Hamza Abu Beh in a poem. He is one of 19 children from the Nablus area who participated in the third issue of the Voice of Kids magazine, a project organized by the Human Supporters Association in Nablus. In a 12 month long program, the association works with a group of traumatized kids to make them “go after their dreams again“.
Emergency declared in Gaza city
By: Alternative Information Center (AIC)
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, declared an emergency in Gaza City on November 28, following extreme weather and severe flooding over the past 48 hours. No casualties or injuries have been reported, however hundreds of residents in the flooded areas around the Sheikh Radwan storm water lagoon have evacuated their homes. One UNRWA school was affected by the rising waters.