[ 09/06/2011 - 11:26 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Waed society catering for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails has called on human rights groups to visit those jails especially the Ramle prison hospital to see for themselves the medical neglect and the conditions of those who are permanently held there. Waed said in a statement […]
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Palestinian women stripped naked during provocative prison search
[ 09/06/2011 - 11:17 AM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– Four Palestinian women detained at the Israeli HaSharon prison were stripped naked during a humiliating and provocative cell search, those women told the Ahrar prisoner studies center. The names of the women held for alleged security reasons were left undisclosed. The search was conducted by ten […]
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Press Release – The Challenges of Delivering Assistance & Monthly Costs of $375.000 to get aid into Palestine – Report
AIDA – Press release & Report New report says Israeli restrictions increase costs, prevent aid from getting to those who need it most Every month, aid and development agencies in the OPT are spending $375,000 just to work around restrictions on movement and access. While the restrictions add up to an annual cost of […]
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Israel and Palestine: Here comes your non-violent resistance
May 17th 2011, 2:09 by M.S.| | The Economist FOR many years now, we’ve heard American commentators bemoan the violence of the Palestinian national movement. If only Palestinians had learned the lessons of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, we hear, they’d have had their state long ago. Surely no Israeli government would have violently suppressed […]
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IOF arrests 8 citizens in West Bank, Golan
[ 09/06/2011 - 11:19 AM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested eight citizens in various West Bank areas and in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights at dawn Thursday. Local sources said large numbers of IOF troops stormed the village of Taku south of Bethlehem and arrested a 55-year-old father and his three […]
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Palestinian Forum in Britain announces ready for Palestine Day early July
[ 09/06/2011 - 12:11 PM ] LONDON, (PIC)– The Palestinian Forum in Britain has announced completion of logistical and administrative arrangements ahead of Palestine Day scheduled for July 2 and 3 in the capital London and the second largest city Manchester. The major annual gathering comes to mark Nakba and Naksa Days, in memory of […]
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Israel Raids West Bank Towns Overnight | Abducts Men & Children
Thursday June 09, 2011 17:14 by Kevin Murphy – IMEMC and Agencies Maan news agency is reporting that five Palestinian men, including minors, were abducted over night during raids on West Bank towns and villages by the Israeli military. Israeli soldiers raided the towns of Tammun, Tuqu and Azzun overnight and detained five, damaged […]
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Gaza lurches towards health disaster
Thursday, 09 June 2011 17:00| MEMO Hundreds of Palestinians, including children are currently under high risk due to lack of essential medicines and medical facilities. The Ministry of Health in Gaza has highlighted the dire medical situation in the territory, announcing that hundreds of Palestinians, including children are currently under high risk due to lack […]
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“Lawfare” is the latest form of Israeli-AIPAC attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
By Ann Wright | Op-Ed News Israel is hard at work to stop international citizen activists groups from 22 countries that form the Gaza Freedom Flotilla from sailing in less than three weeks to bring international attention to Israel’s brutal siege on Gaza. As a part of Israeli government propaganda, the civil society to civil […]
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IOA moves detained MP & lecturer to Megiddo jail
[ 09/06/2011 - 12:08 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) moved detained Hamas MP Ahmed Al-Haj and Najah University lecture Mustafa Al-Shinar from Hawara detention center to Megiddo jail on Thursday. Ahmed Al-Tobasi, a lawyer with the Tadamun foundation for human rights, recalled that Haj and Shinar were taken from their homes […]
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Families of West Bank political prisoners stage Al-Khalil sit-in
[ 09/06/2011 - 11:49 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The committee of political prisoner families in the West Bank has called on the local and worldwide media to cover a sit-in the group has scheduled for noon Thursday at the Ibn Rushd Square in Al-Khalil. The committee said in a press statement on Monday that the […]
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Francis A. Boyle: Could Obama veto Palestine’s application to the United Nations?
9 June 2011 - — Israeli Occupation Archive By Francis A. Boyle, Information Clearing House – 8 June 2011 On November 15, 1988 the Palestine National Council (P.N.C.) meeting in Algiers proclaimed the Palestinian Declaration of Independence that created the independent state of Palestine. Today the State of Palestine is bilaterally recognized de jure […]
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Prison leader released after 4.5 years
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The detainees center in Gaza City reported Thursday the release from Israeli custody of 45 year-old Ayed Dudin from Durra village in Hebron following the end of a four-and-a-half-year prison term. Dudin has spent a total of 14 years in Israeli prison. He spent at least two years jailed without charge […]
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East Jerusalem: Sharing our house with settlers – video
June 9, 2011 | World news | guardian.co.uk – video Muna and Muhammed are 12-year-old twins living in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem. Settlers have taken over the front of their home, but the family continue to live in the rest of the house Watch the film in Arabic Watch the film in Hebrew […]
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Iran, Indonesia MPs plan Gaza convoy
PressTV - Thu Jun 9, 2011 1:52PM Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani (R) shakes hands with his Indonesian counterpart Marzuki Alie (file photo). Iran and Indonesia plan to organize a multi-national parliamentary mission in an effort to break the Israeli-imposed siege of Palestine’s impoverished Gaza Strip since 2007. Visiting Iranian Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali […]
Read moreJewish extremists drink wine in Al-Aqsa Mosque compound
Thursday, 09 June 2011 15:45| MEMO A large group of extremist Jews stormed into the occupied Old City and marched in the vicinity of the mosque’s gates. Palestinians in Jerusalem and Israel have denounced the desecration of the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa by Jewish extremists, who drank bottles of wine in the courtyard of […]
Read moreUncivilized Relations: Israel Confronts its Neighbours
by Brenda Heard | June 9th, 2011 | Dissident Voice The turmoil that has beleaguered the Middle East for decades has been described many ways. On the 5th of June, however, the terminology turned vulgar. This enduring conflict was publically characterised as a ‘war between the civilized man and the savage’. Boldly announced with […]
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UNRWA deeply distressed that Palestine refuges lost their lives in Syria
BEIRUT | iloubnan.info – June 09, 2011 In a statement issued on Thursday, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Filippo Grandi, said he was deeply distressed that “Palestine refugees in Syria have lost their lives and been injured in recent events, including in Yarmouk, which is home to a third of the Palestine refugee community in Syria. […]
Read moreJewish settlers set fire to agricultural land near Al-Khalil
[ 09/06/2011 - 10:47 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Jewish settlers from Kiryat Arba settlement started a big fire in Palestinian farms south of Al-Khalil city on Wednesday afternoon, local sources reported. They said that tens of settlers attacked the farmland located between their settlement and Bani Naim village, south of Al-Khalil city, setting vast areas […]
Read moreThe Activist’s Oath by Yasir M. Tineh
June 9, by Yasir M Tineh Dedicated to @earthtonadine There are in every person’s life certain moments that always incur change within one’s self. The stimulants are various; it can be words that you read off a page on some distant website in this worldwide web universe, a dramatic event you happen to eyewitness firsthand […]
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