New resource tracks Israeli arms exports / Adam Horowitz http://mondoweiss.net/2011/02/new-resource-tracks-and-analyzes-israeli-arms-exports.html

UAVs are a key export of Israel’s arms industry. A number of Israeli firms export drones, most prominently Aeronautics Defense Systems, Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries. UAVs are commonly used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and targeting missions. More recently some models have begun to carry armed payloads.  

Israeli bulldozers raze Palestinian home in Negev village/NEGEV http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bc

(PIC) Israeli municipality teams bulldozed on Sunday morning a Palestinian home in Z'rura village in the Negev, occupied since 1948, in line with a campaign of demolitions in that village, local sources said.

 

Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem's visa revoked Jerusalem http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Anglican-Bishop-of-Jerusalem %E2%80%99s-visa-revoked-20875.html 

Israel’s Interior Ministry has revoked the permit for the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, The Rt Revd Suheil Dawani, to live in Jerusalem, and has refused requests to reinstate it, in spite of protests by Anglican authorities in the West specifically the United States. The Bishop is a native of the Holy Land and has spent most of his life and ministry here, but cannot obtain either citizenship or legal residence in Israel, since he was born in Nablus ... Since the Bishop has of course remained at his post, in Jerusalem, without the permit, he could be arrested at any moment, be put on trial for being in Israel illegally, be sentenced to a prison term – or simply be forcibly removed from Jerusalem.

 

Khater: Coming tourism conference marks Israeli success in Judaizing Jerusalem/OCCUPIED JERUSALEM http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bc  

(PIC)Secretary-General of the Islamic-Christian Commission Dr. Hassan Khater has said an Israeli tourism conference to be held in Jerusalem the coming month marks Israel's success in promoting the holy city as a capital for all Jews. Israel will stage a conference running from February 29 until March 31 that promotes Jewish tourism in Jerusalem. It is also behind a virtual reality website that shows Jerusalem without its Arab features.  

N. Jordan Valley sit-in highlights education dilemma under occupation/JORDAN VALLEY  http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bc

PIC) Palestinian activists sat in at the Ain al-Halwa school in the northern Jordan Valley on Saturday with hopes to raise awareness on the Israeli occupation which has rendered meeting the educational needs of Area C impossible. The "save the Jordan Valley" campaign, one of the sit-in organizers, said Israeli policies have hampered the building of schools, and military checkpoints have restricted movement of teachers and students. Israeli authorities have pursued a policy of destruction of private and public facilities including schools, said Wahba Usfour, a sit-in coordinator, citing as an example what happened in Khirbet Tana, a village east of the city of Nablus with a population of about 300.  

Ein il Hilwe opening day  http://www.jordanvalleysolidarity.org/index.php?option=com_content& view=article&id=174:ein-il-hilwe-opening-day&catid=15:2010&Itemid=21  

[Photos] Palestinian and international organizations and activists shared our opening day of Ein Il Hilwe tent school. Although the occupation army threatened the Ein Il Hilwe community of demolition the night before, the community was very happy to celebrate the opening of their tent school last Saturday ... The Bedouin community of Ein Il Hilwe is located in the north of the Jordan Valley. The children from this community as well as from the neighboring communities used to attend school in Tayasir for which they had to travel through the difficult Tayasir checkpoint. On a daily basis the children were facing harassment from the soldiers when trying to get to and from school. Some days children were forced off the bus and were left to walk the 13 km back home on the dangerous main road. 

Hebron girl hit by settler car/HEBRON  http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=363952

(Ma‘an)Medical officials in Hebron said an 11-year-old girl from the city was transferred to Hadassa Hospital in Israel on Sunday, after she was struck down by a settler car at the Beit Ainun junction. The girl, identified as Amani Al-Mutawer, was said to have been walking to school when she was hit. Her condition was described as moderate. 

Israel's own people increasingly targeted by Jewish state / Tim King http://www.salem-news.com/articles/february262011/sahar-vardi-tk.php

One of Israel's activists for humanity takes a soldier's rifle butt to the cheek [in Hebron rally]; is it time now for the People's Revolution of Israel? ... Today we're talking about 20-year old Israeli activist Sahar Vardi; whose appearance was marred on this occasion by the actions of an Israeli soldier, who drove the butt of the rifle into her face ... As Ha'aretz relates, Sahar Vardi was dubbed a traitor and the daughter of a traitor by far-right groups in Israel. Her father is Amiel Vardi, a researcher and lecturer in classics at the Hebrew University. He is one of the founders of Ta'ayush, an Arab and Jewish political activist group that demonstrates on the issue of mass detentions of Palestinians that also engages in humanitarian aid activity. His reward for trying to help Palestinian farmers reach their vineyards during the grape harvest was a bullet from an Israeli settler.  

Waterborne diseases likely to erupt in the Mediterranean  http://www.salem-news.com/articles/february262011/gaza-water.php

The quality of water in Gaza is deteriorating rapidly, and until another source of water is found, the population in Gaza remains at risk as there is little that can be done as long as the Israel policy of closure continues. Ninety percent of the water available in Gaza coming from the coastal aquifer is undrinkable ... The treatment of Gaza’s waste water cannot progress as long as Israel restricts basic building materials and adequate levels of fuel and electricity, and, with a rising population over-burdening the capacity of the current facilities. Now it looks like the closure will imperil Israel as the bacteria infested untreated waste water dumped into the sea off Gaza will inevitably flow to Israeli beaches and further up north and beyond.