Growing Palestinian displacement in West Bank Area C – Palestine

Photo: Erica Silverman/IRIN Children of the Saed family playing in Khallet Zakariya near the Israeli settlement of Alon Shvut RAMALLAH, 17 August 2011 (IRIN) – Each year, hundreds of Palestinians in Area C have their homes demolished by the Israeli authorities because they are unable to obtain permits for their buildings, according to the UN […]

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Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades Mourn the death of Mujaheed Mahmoud Mohammed As-Safadi

انّا للہ و انّا الیه راجعون الله يرحم كل الشهداء 17-08-2011,14:02 -Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades Al Qassam website- Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades (E.Q.B) the military wing of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas, mourned on Wednesday morning, August 17th, 2011, the death of the Qassam member Mahmoud As-Safadi,26, from Ad-Daraj Neighborhood. The brigades confirmed in a press […]

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Egyptian Military Junta Complicit in Israeli Siege of Gaza ~ Cartoon by @CarlosLatuff

by Carlos Latuff |  August 17th, 2011 |  Dissident Voice Click on the image for high resolution – Cartoons of Carlos are free to ise without previous written permission Carlos Latuff is a Brazilian political cartoonist, unafraid to depict the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Read other articles by Carlos, or visit Carlos’s website. Source

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The PA Takes Off-air A Palestinian Political Satire

  Wednesday August 17, 2011 16:04 by IMEMC & Agencies The Attorney General of the Palestinian Authority decided on Wednesday to take off air, a Palestinian satire show for its strong criticism of Palestinian Authority leaders and figures. The show is called, “Watan ala Watar” and is broadcasted in the Palestine TV of the Palestinian […]

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The ‘untamed wildernesses’ of Israeli and American colonialism

by Paul Mutter on August 17, 2011 | Mondoweiss A June editorial in +972 Magazine examined the (non-)utility of the argument “Who started it in 1948?” One thing that struck me about the points of the argument regarding the disposition of land in the British Mandate of Palestine was how similar the Zionist claim that […]

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Daily Rogue State Israeli Lawlessness ~ by Stephen Lendman

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | http://www.sabbah.biz | Aug 17, 2011 It begs the question why Israelis put up with lawless governance harming them as well as Palestinians. When will weeks of social injustice outrage arouse them to embrace universal equity? Why haven’t Martin Luther King’s words hit home that, “Injustice anywhere is a […]

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Palestinian deliberately hit by Israel police jeep dies

Article in Arabic as posted on Aug 16, 2011 in “Al Quds”:  استشهاد مقدسي اثر دهسه بسيارة عسكرية اسرائيلية Maan News Agency | Aug 17, 2011 JERUSALEM (AFP) — A Palestinian pedestrian was killed overnight when an Israeli border police jeep hit him in an East Jerusalem suburb, the man’s family and a border police spokesman […]

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PA preventive security detains son of Hamas MP

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Art 20(2) “No one may be compelled to belong to an association.” [ 17/08/2011 - 01:52 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Elements of PA preventive security apparatus in the West Bank detained Mustafa the son of Hamas MP Mahmoud Musleh on Wednesday, eyewitnesses reported. They said that the security agents took […]

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Neve Daniel municipality secretly expanding settlement by night

[ 17/08/2011 - 01:41 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The municipal council of the Israeli Neve Daniel settlement west of Bethlehem has been taking advantage of the Ramadan season to expand the illegal settlement founded on the land of the nearby Palestinian village of Al-Khadr. As Palestinian Muslims break fast at sunset, the municipality brings […]

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Israeli troops deployed in Silwan to search for weapons, find nothing

[ 17/08/2011 - 01:48 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli troops and special forces backed by choppers stormed the Silwan town, south of occupied Jerusalem, on Wednesday and were deployed in Batn Al-Hawa and Ein Bir Ayub suburbs, local sources said. They said that tension ran high in the town as they feared a wave […]

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Israel launches arrest sweep, burns down farmland in Jenin vicinity

[ 17/08/2011 - 02:02 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces launched wide-ranging arrest sweeps around the West Bank city of Jenin, and burned dozens of dunams of farmland west of the city. Witnesses said several patrols raided Kafr Rai village south of Jenin and deployed throughout the streets. The home of 16-year-old Bilal Nabil […]

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Gaza gov’t: Israeli raids intentionally heighten tensions

[ 17/08/2011 - 12:43 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip has said that it was interested in maintaining calm in the Strip, charging Israel with deliberately escalating military attacks. The foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday evening that it exerted strenuous efforts and reached national consensus on maintaining […]

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Attoun: IOA crimes in Jerusalem “racial cleansing”

[ 17/08/2011 - 01:43 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Jerusalemite MP Ahmed Attoun has denounced the hit-and-run accident in which an Israeli military vehicle ran over and killed a Palestinian man in occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday. Attoun said in a statement on Wednesday that the killing of Amin Dabash fell in line with the Israeli […]

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Palestinian journalists hold rally in solidarity with Shevchenko

Wednesday, 17 August 2011 15:00| MEMO Palestinians called on the Russian government to ensure full protection for Mr Shevchenko who has reaffirmed his support for the Palestinian people. Palestinian journalists organised a rally yesterday, 16 August under the theme ‘Don’t silence the media’ in solidarity with Russian journalist, Maxim Shevchenko, following death threats against him […]

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PA condemns conference hosted by hard-line Rabbi Yitzshak Shapiro, co-author of “King’s Torah”

Maan News Agency | Aug 17, 2011 A Palestinian shows the damage to his family house which was firebombed by Jewish settlers in the West Bank village of Huwwara near Nablus. [AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh] BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Authority condemned the Israeli government on Wednesday for allowing a conference hosted by a hard-line Rabbi to […]

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Palestinian Refugees – Human Rights Denied – video

Source Special Topic | Israeli Massacres on Palestinians Special Topic | iRemember… The Martyrs of Occupation 2011 | الشهداء Special Topic | Ethnic Cleansing Quick Facts | 10 Facts about the Nakba Exclusive | Interactive map of Palestine villages destroyed during Nakba In pictures More pictures in the Gallery Images | الصور

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The Arab Spring: Tribute to People Who Value History

By Jamil Toubbeh In his review of Margaret MacMillan’s book, Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (2009), David Kennedy writes: humans live in history, a few write it, others read it; some are made or broken by it, most try to make use of it, “usually by ransacking the past for analogies to […]

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Camp attrocoties: Palestinians refugees caught up in Syrian conflict

For video and footage (warning: very graphic) go to the weblog of @zeinobia: The Syrian Revolution : Ramadan Massacre or rather Massacres “Graphic 18+ August 17, 2011 | Al Bawaba Syria came under sharp Arab and international condemnation on Tuesday after activists said gunboats pounded Latakia port, forcing thousands of Palestinians to flee a refugee […]

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World powers condemn Israeli settlement move

After 63 years of ethnic cleansing, over 77 massacres, an ongoing silenced genocide on Palestine, the real silent genocide and over 7 million refugees many of them still in camps: World powers finally condemn settlement construction activity. When will the World and the United Nations wake up from the myths, lies, propaganda & canards &  […]

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75 year old woman shot in Johr al-Dik

16 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Selma Al Sawarka, or Um Ahmad, is an active woman, a mother of seven, and a grandmother of 35, who has never quit working.  August 10, 2011 dawned like most days do for her; she went out to graze her family’s goats.  She took her neighbor […]

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Palestinians are sleepy but still occupied ~ by @samikishawi

By Sami Kishawi | Aug 15, 2011 | 16 Minutes to Palestine weblog The Boston Globe‘s The Big Picture news stories brilliantly depict the human side of life right outside our doorstep, thousands of miles away. On 15 August 2011, The Big Picture published a compilation of photographs of people sleeping, including Palestinians. Photo #12 was initially […]

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Fuel, medicine ‘crisis’ in Gaza hospitals cost human lives

Maan News Agency Aug 17, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Muhammad Al-Kashef, a health ministry official in Gaza, warned Tuesday of a crisis hitting the sector as medicine shortages have plagued the enclave for two months. Al-Kashef said the ministry of health in Ramallah is largely responsible for the crisis after excluding Gaza from its […]

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