PALESTINE NEWS | April 26, 2012

ACTIONALERT & LIVE BLOG ▶ 3000 PALESTINIANS ON HUNGER STRIKE | #PalHunger آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Apr 26, 2012 | 23357 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1779 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter Continuous updates.. #PalHunger – 3000 Palestinians fight for Human Rights […]

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Zionists call for burning “Arab students” at the Hebrew University

[ PIC 26/04/2012 - 01:44 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– A Zionist racist movement has called for the killing of Arab students at Hebrew University in Jerusalem after participation in Tuesday’s protest in solidarity with the prisoners in occupation prisons. The Zionist movement “Im Tirtzu” published, on Wednesday (25/4), on its website pictures of the Arab […]

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VIDEO | Israel Celebrates Independence Day, Arrests Activists

Apr 26, 2012 Video  by TheRealNews While hundreds of thousands celebrated, the police arrested three activists for trying to question the history of this day. More at http://therealnews.com Related Israel celebrates 64th Independance Day by arresting people for reading names of ethnic cleansed villages – incl Footage

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Abu Zuhri: Awarding Israeli soldier a medal for killing Palestinian youth racist

[ PIC 26/04/2012 - 05:04 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, has charged that the Israeli army’s award to an Israeli soldier for killing a Palestinian youth posed as another proof of its racism. Abu Zuhri said in a statement on Thursday that the Israeli army’s decoration of […]

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#PalHunger | Solidarity sit-in to be staged outside 10 Downing Street on Saturday

[ PIC 26/04/2012 - 05:13 PM ] LONDON, (PIC)– Three non-governmental organizations in the UK have called for a sit-in to be staged outside 10 Downing Street in London on Saturday in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails. The Palestinian forum called on the Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic communities in London along with […]

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#PalHunger | Dozens treated for teargas suffocation in IOF quelling of Ofer sit-in

Palestine Information Center | Apr 26, 2012 RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired tear gas canisters at Palestinian citizens, who staged a sit-in at the Ofer prison, near Ramallah, in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. Local sources said that a big number of IOF troops attacked the peaceful sit-in with teargas, adding that many were […]

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#PalHunger | IPS stages summary trials for dozens of hunger strikers

[ PIC 26/04/2012 - 05:20 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Israeli prison service (IPS) has organized summary trials for dozens of Palestinian prisoners as a penal measure for going on hunger strike, prisoners told the PIC on Thursday. They said that many prisoners were punished by visit deprivation, fines, and canteen denial in those trials, […]

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Israeli Settlers attack village, block Nablus road

Maan News Agency | April 26, 2011 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Settlers in the northern West Bank set up a roadblock and attacked a Nablus village on Thursday, a PA official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settler activity in the northern West Bank, said that settlers blocked a main road that links the West Bank town […]

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FROM A DEFENDER OF ZIONIST TERROR TO A DEFENDER OF CHILD SEX ABUSE

Reblogged from Desertpeace:   * So are people that defend it … * * Alan Dershowitz cannot go any lower than he has gone in recent days… Aside from the witch hunts he orchestrates on US Universities, the hatred that he spews out on a daily basis in defense of zion, he is now the […]

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DON’T “GLUE” IF YOU’RE NOT A “JEW”!

April 26, 2012 ~ by occpal Last night in Jaffa, peace activists of Zochrot were besieged for reading names of villages which were ethnic cleansed by Israel in an attempt to commemorate the Nakba of Palestine. They got detained. Like him.  More photos and the video of the event can be seen here Today…. Today […]

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Action: Call Airlines to stop being sub-contractors to Fascist Israel | #Airflotilla2

PalestineJN | April 26, 2012 Dear All, Many peaceful supporters to the successful Palestinian campaign “Welcome to Palestine 2012″ were denied access to their flights going to Tel-Aviv. As a result I have decided to boycott those airlines that yielded to the pressure coming from the Israeli apartheid regime. Thus I urge each one of […]

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Scottish TUC delegates join Palestine freedom struggle – unanimously! | #PalHunger

Scottish PSC | April 25, 2012   The delegates to the Annual Conference of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), the umbrella group for every trade union in Scotland, today voted unanimously and repeatedly against Israeli apartheid. The 450 delegates voted to: campaign to expose the role of the racist JNF (Jewish National Fund) in […]

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’60 Minutes’ report on Palestinian Christians gets it wrong

Palestinian Christians are no different than other Palestinians. We all suffer the same. Thursday, April 26 2012| Omar Rahman | 972 Magazine There have already been a number of articles written in response to CBS’s 60 Minutes report about Christians in the Holy Land. The sexy story in all this appears to be Michael Oren’s […]

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Palestinian Hunger Striker Enters 58th Day, Loses Immunity System | #PalHunger

Al Manar | April 26, 2012 34-year-old Palestinian detainee Thaer Halahla, who has been on a hunger strike for 58 days now said that a recent liver and kidney scan revealed that his body was unable to function and that his doctors had informed him that he has lost his immunity system, Palestine Today reported […]

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Russia concerned over legalization of Israeli settlement outposts

An illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank (file photo) PressTV | Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:2AM GMT Russia has expressed concern over a recent Israeli decision to legalize three settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank. Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday, saying Moscow is “treating this information with serious concern.” […]

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#PalHunger | Palestinian prisoners on 10th day of hunger strike despite Israeli attempts

[ PIC 26/04/2012 - 09:42 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails have continued their hunger strike for the tenth day on Thursday despite Israeli attempts to break the strike. The Israeli prison services (IPS) did not stop trying to dissuade the prisoners away from continuing in their strike starting with savage […]

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Jewish settlers pelt Palestinian cars near Jenin

[ PIC 26/04/2012 - 09:49 AM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Jewish settlers threw stones on passing Palestinian vehicles along the Jenin-Nablus road on Wednesday night and damaged a number of them, locals said. One of the drivers, Mohammed Naji, told the PIC that settlers, who were gathering near the evacuated Homesh settlement, threw rocks at passing […]

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#PalHunger | PCHR Calls upon the International Community to Save Lives of Bilal Diab and Tha’er Halahla Who Initiated Hunger Strike

PCHR | Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:30 Ref: 49/2012  The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is concerned over the lives of two administrative detainees, Bilal Diab and Tha’er Halahla, who have been on hunger strike for two months.  PCHR holds the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for their lives and calls upon the international […]

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Fatah’s disingenuous college election victories ~ by Khalid Amayreh

26-04-2012,08:29 | Al Qassam Website By Khalid Amayreh Fatah leaders in the West Bank are quite euphoric about a series of college election victories the movement’s student arm, the Shabiba, or Youths, has scored recently. Fatah’s media outlets interpreted these victories as a real transformation in the popularity of the ruling party in Ramallah. Some […]

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The right to water: Water cistern demolitions in Hebron area

Joseph | 23 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Monday April 23, 2012, the Israeli occupation forces destroyed four water cisterns outside of the city of al-Khalil (Hebron). Two of the destroyed cisterns were located in the Abweire area, a small agricultural neighborhood of 400-500 residents northeast of al-Khalil. The other two […]

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VIDEO | It’s time to harvest the crop: Accompanying farmers in Gaza under Israeli fire ~ by @Rosa_Schiano

by Rosa Schiano Translation by Claudia Saba 23 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva Renad Salem Qdeeh Israeli soldiers have already started shooting onto the land along the border of the Gaza Strip. Two injured just in the first two days of the harvest. Renad Salem Qdeeh, 33, was collecting he crop from her […]

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Haniyeh calls on Arab nation to consolidate the steadfastness of Palestinians

[ PIC 25/04/2012 - 09:54 PM ] KHAN YOUNIS (PIC) — Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian prime minister, urged the Arab Muslim nation to support Palestinians and strengthen their steadfastness and persistence on the Palestinian land. Haniyeh said in statements, after inspecting the examinations of applicants for teaching positions in Gaza that the siege imposed on […]

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