From Occupied Palestine

Israelis keep a fishy watch
JON ELMER
Inter Press Service, 14 February 2007

Gaza City, Feb 14 (IPS) -- In the driving rain, Suhail el-Amoudi stands on the wharf of the Gaza City port looking out over the aged and weathered fishing boats as they bob perilously amid the swells of a Mediterranean winter storm.

But for el-Amoudi, a 30-year veteran fisher of Gaza's waters, it is not the waves or the wind that concerns him. Rather, it is the Israeli naval vessel on the horizon, clearly visible despite the storm.

War enters the classroom
JON ELMER
Inter Press Service, 6 February 2007

Gaza City (IPS) - The United Nations has indefinitely suspended elementary school classes for tens of thousands of Gaza City's children following a weekend of unprecedented factional violence, which turned this isolated enclave into a war zone and left at least 27 dead and 250 wounded.

U.S. Backing for Fatah stirs new conflict
JON ELMER and NORA BARROWS-FRIEDMAN
Inter Press Service, 2 February 2007

GAZA CITY, Feb 2 (IPS) - Explosions, fierce gunfights and ambulance sirens ripped through the Gaza strip again Thursday, only two days after a ceasefire ended a bloody week of factional fighting that left more than 30 Palestinians dead.

Peter MacKay in Israel and Palestine
JON ELMER
The Dominion, 25 January 2007

Bil'in: The ongoing protests against the wall
JON ELMER and KAREN MACKINTOSH
CFRO Red Eye, 11 March 2006

In a thirteen-minute in-studio interview, Jon Elmer and Karen Mackintosh discuss the ongoing protests against Israel's barrier in the West Bank village of Bil'in and the politics of the occupation on Co-op Radio 102.7 FM in Vancouver.

Hanan Ashrawi Interview
JON ELMER
The Progressive vol 70 no 4 (April 2006): p. 31-34

Hanan Ashrawi is a Palestinian legislator, academic, and intellectual who was reelected to the Palestinian Legislative Council in January's national elections. Ashrawi's party is the Third Way, a newly created political faction that won two seats in the 132-seat council.

Journalist brings reports of Gaza to campus\
ANNA MEHLER
Queen's Journal vol 133 no 34, 17 February 2006

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario -- Jon Elmer's take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that of someone who has experienced the struggle up close.

In 2003, the Toronto-born Elmer spent four months in Jenin, in the West Bank, and six months in the Gaza Strip from June to December 2005. He was there as a freelance journalist, doing print, radio and photography, which has appeared in a range of publications including the Journal for Palestine Studies, The Progressive and The NewStandard.

Good night Battle of Britain, Good morning, Gaza
JON ELMER
Briarpatch Magazine, December 2005

An historic development, but not peace
An interview with Mustafa Barghouthi
By JON ELMER
Z Magazine vol 18 no 12 (December 2005): pp. 45-46

[ed. a shorter version of this interview appeared in print]

Dr Mustafa Barghouthi is a leading Palestinian grassroots activist. He is a co-founder, with Edward Said and Haider Adbel-Shafi, of the Palestinian National Initiative of which he serves as General-Secretary. He finished as runner-up in the most recent Palestinian presidential elections. I spoke with him in his Ramallah office on 17 August 2005.

Israeli High Court rules Army use of human shields illegal
JON ELMER
The NewStandard, 10 October 2005

Gaza City -- After delaying a decision for over three years, Israel's High Court of Justice has ruled that the military's use of Palestinian "human shields" in the Occupied Territories is illegal and a violation of international law.