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Article of Interest at BBC News: Tears & Blame Amid Gaza Dead. Quoting: “My cousin Rami has a daughter of six months old. She was cut into pieces. They had to collect her body pieces and put them in a plastic bag. I couldn’t recognise her.”

Read my latest Global Voices round up of Palestinian & Pro-Palestinian blogs, and their reactions to the recent Beit Hanoun Massacre. The world has got to wake up!

An interesting piece in Reuters today outlines the historic role of the Hashemites in Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock and the future of that on going dynasty.

Global Voices: One week after the Israeli army brutally attacked a weekly non-violent legal demonstration against the wall in the village of Bilâ??in, August 18th saw yet another black and blue protest. ISM reports that this time the army showed a greater sense of preparation as they added water cannons to their arsenal of rubber bullets and sound grenades. The cannons fired blue colored water on the demonstrators resulting in burns and skin irritation, stirring questions of whether the water had been mixed with chemicals. [Read More]

Global Voices: August 11th saw another weekly non-violent protest in Bilâ??in take a wrong turn as the Israeli army attacked protesters with rubber bullets and sound grenades as they marched toward the Separation Wall. [continue reading]

Article of Interest: International and regional aid carried to Beirut through the Jordanian air force while the city’s field hospital has treated some 7,000 people. [LA Times]

Article of Interest: “You are a Christian?” a foreign tourist inquires with marked disbelief of a Palestinian tour guide in Bethlehem. “When did you convert?” This response by foreigners, Christian or not, is unfortunately not uncommon in Palestine. [continue]