IOF soldiers ransack village, fire tear gas inside homes in Al -Khalil http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2BcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2Bi1s7%2B6vLe0L42Yt5UZQetXtlsLp8uYFRI9nSJlAIzUzsPSfu5YnPdUzwlPhS3xF%2FH%2FcGs4PePSemF5ZhWEao62OiyozbEJ07AHloOlnTz%2BTSi6o%3D

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired teargas into citizens homes in the Old City of Al-Khalil on Saturday night and earlier wreaked havoc in a nearby village. Witnesses said that Jewish settlers during a march in the Old City threw stones at Palestinian homes and burnt Palestinian flags and banners while shouting racial slurs. They said that soldiers escorting the march fired teargas and sonic bombs at the Palestinians who retaliated to the settlers’ provocations. The locals said that Palestinian ambulance vehicles carried 8 Palestinians to local clinics to be treated for gas inhalation including four children.

Meanwhile, an Israeli border police patrol stormed the village of Qalqas southeast of Al-Khalil city escorting an officer of the civil administration and military bulldozers. They closed the main road in the village and blocked hundreds from heading to their fields. Local sources said that the soldiers demolished a sheep pen at the entrance of the village at the pretext of being built without permit and ploughed and destroyed ten dunums of cultivated land

Thousands refused passports in Gaza http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=389935

 Demonstrators gathered in Gaza City on Saturday to protest the Palestinian Authority's refusal to grant passports to 30,000 Gaza residents. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have have been unable to get passports issued by the Fatah-led PA, residents say, because of factional tensions, despite the recent reconciliation agreement signed between Fatah and Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip. ...

Patients needing medical care abroad, students and hajj pilgrims are among the rejected applicants. Osama Fuad Abu Askar, of Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, joined Saturday's protest in Gaza City's Unknown Soldier square. He has been trying to get a passport for four years. "I lost my legs in 2004 during Israeli shelling and since 2007 I have been trying to get a passport so I can travel abroad and get prosthetic limbs. As a disabled man, how can I be a threat?" he asked.

Israel army suppresses peaceful demonstration in ‘Iraq Burin (photos)  http://palsolidarity.org/2011/05/18465/

Around 80 Palestinians and international activists held a peaceful demonstration today in the village of ‘Iraq Burin to protest the theft of village land for settlement construction ... They were immediately met with a barrage of tear gas from the Israeli forces. ...

‘Iraq Burin is a small village 8 km southwest of Nablus. The illegal settlement of Bracha is located about one mile southeast of the village, and is situated on around 100 dunams (25 acres) of village land, as well as more land from surrounding villages. As with other settlements, it is not just the actual land of the settlement that is a problem, but also the land near it There is a swathe of “off-limits” land around the village that farmers are often prevented from using due to its close proximity to the settlement, leaving them with less land to graze sheep on or harvest from.

MV Finch still stranded, water supply running out http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=588259

VIDEO - Khaled Al Sabawi: Keeping Palestine cool: a different kind of underground movement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fD2bMavK8Y&feature=share

What is za purpose of your visit to Izrael?" This is the welcoming question that is asked by Israeli border security to anyone that travels to the Palestinian territories. For this Palestinian, it is to bring green energy to Palestine. Recognizing Palestine's grave energy crisis, Khaled Al Sabawi takes you on his quest to "keep Palestine cool" using geothermal energy.