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PALESTINE NEWS | May 28, 2012

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات May 28, 2012 | 23828 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1811 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuous updates.. Netanyahu, Barak condemn carnage in Houla http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4234682,00.html Israeli arrested in human organ trafficking: Reuters/Maan http://ow.ly/bajdg #PalHunger [...]

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#PalHunger | Abu Sisi threatens to resume hunger strike

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 07:31 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Dhirar Abu Sisi has threatened to resume his open hunger strike if the Israeli prison service (IPS) refused to end his solitary confinement. The IPS had ended the isolation of all Palestinian prisoners as part of a deal to end the prisoners’ month long hunger strike [...]

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Risheq: Obama’s honoring of Shimon Peres reflects America’s bias to occupation

[ PIC 26/05/2012 - 10:11 PM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– Izzat Risheq, member of Hamas’s politburo, condemned the decision of US President Barack Obama to give the Presidential “Medal of Freedom,” to the Israeli President, Shimon Peres. Risheq stressed, in statements on Sunday, on his denunciation of this decision that he considered a proof of America’s [...]

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IOF soldiers fire at young woman, arrest her

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 08:00 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at a Palestinian young woman, claiming she tried to storm a Jewish settlement near Beit Awa, south west of Al-Khalil, on Sunday. Local sources told the PIC that the soldiers fired at Arwa Salame, a university student, but did not hit [...]

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Settlers attack mosque Imam, IOF arrest a boy

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 08:08 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A number of Jewish settlers attacked on Saturday the imam of Ain Silwan mosque in Silwan town in Jerusalem after storming the neighboring area. Jerusalemite sources stated that the settlers attacked the seventy-year-old imam of Ain Silwan mosque, Adam Samreen, under the pretext of enabling tourists [...]

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Bethlehem: 18 year old Palestinian stabbed by Israeli settlers

27 May 2012 | Richard Frank and Dan Langley | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank 18 year old Saleh al-Zoghayer, who was recently stabbed by Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem, has been at the centre of the media recently. Several contradicting and false reports surfaced along with a shocking photograph of Saleh following the stabbing. The [...]

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Condemnation after videos show settlers burning Palestinian olive groves

Al Akhbar English Published Sunday, May 27, 2012 A leading Israeli rights group has condemned new footage showing extremist Jewish settlers, some wearing masks, setting fire to Palestinian olive groves as Israeli soldiers watch. Dozens of Israelis from the Yitzhar settlement attacked Palestinians in the Urif area, throwing stones before burning wheat fields and olive [...]

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A Statement from the #PalHunger Leadership in the Occupation Prisons

PFLP 2012-05-27 مشاهدات : 304 We Are Still Raising Our Motto: We Will Live With Dignity A Statement from the Strike’ Higher Leadership Committee in the Occupation Prisons To our loyal Palestinian nation, to our people.. About two weeks after the end of dignity strike “Victory or Death”, we had to keep you updated: The [...]

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PALESTINE NEWS | May 27, 2012

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات May 27, 2012 | 23827 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1810 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuous updates.. US escalates war talk against Iran to stave off danger of Obama losing any Zionist fanatic [...]

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“Israel Prison Service” reduces meals to detained minors

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 06:25 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian children detained in Israeli occupation jails have said that the Israeli prison authority (IPS) had reduced meals offered to them daily. They charged the IPS with “starving them”, adding that the IPS serves them only two meals daily. The prisoners said that the administration of [...]

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A must read: “Israel is a crime against humanity” ~ by Khalid Amayreh

[ PIC 25/05/2012 - 11:08 PM ] Comment by Khalid Amayreh Thanks to the fact that much of the western media deliberately avoids exposing Israeli criminality, probably for fear of being accused of anti-Semitism, much of the brutal ugliness of the Jewish state remains unknown to millions of Europeans and North Americans. This is the [...]

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Zionist occupation forces soldiers break into, search school

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 04:34 PM ] QALQILIA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) broke into a high school in Kufr Qaddoum village to the east of Qalqilia and prevented students and teachers from entering it, local sources said. Murad Eshtiwe, the coordinator of the village’s weekly march, said that the soldiers searched the school provoking [...]

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#AlAqsa | IOA bans entry of Imam to Aqsa mosque imposing a NIS 10K fine

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 04:36 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has banned the entry of Sheikh Ra’fat Najib into the Aqsa mosque for four months. The IOA intelligence broke into the home of the Sheikh, 30, in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem at dawn Friday and took him to [...]

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DFLP leader calls for settler watch groups

Maan News Agency | May 27, 2012   RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinians must respond to settler attacks by reactivating popular watch groups, a leader from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said Sunday. Qais Abed al-Karim stressed the importance of forming popular watch committees to protect Palestinians and their property from increasing settler [...]

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#BDS | Anti-Israeli BDS movement boosted in UK

PressTV Sun May 27, 2012 1:27PM GMT The Palestinian-led global movement for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) of Israel has received a boost after a discussion was called at the Israeli regime’s parliament, the Knesset, over Britain. The Knesset Sub-Committee for Israel-World Jewish Community Relations described Britain as “the European and even world centre [...]

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#PalHunger | Qassam fighter Abdullah Aker starts hunger strike in PA jail

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 01:26 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoner Abdullah Al-Aker, a fighter from Al-Qassam Brigades, went on open hunger strike on Sunday to protest his detention without guilt in a Palestinian authority jail. His family affirmed that Aker told the PA administration of Al-Juneid prison that he started his hunger strike today [...]

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Photos | Extremist Israeli Settlers set olive trees on fire and shoot a Palestinian man in ‘Urif – May 26, 2012

May 27, 2012 Not a week after a group of settlers, under “supervison” and passive agreement of the zionist army already shot a young man, May 26, 2012 zionist settlers again attacked and shot a man in the abdomen. While no justice has done so far concerning last weeks attack, undisturbed Israel’s army glows of [...]

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Photos | Weekly Demo’s against the Occupation & Apartheid – May 25, 2012

Below an impression of the weekly demos against the occupation of Palestine and the  apartheid wall in Nabi Saleh. Below the photography links to albums of other villages were non violent demos were kept and violently suppressed (as usual) by the Israeli militant occupation. Photography by Ahmad Mesleh, Issam Rimawi, Carlos van As, Abbas Momani [...]

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EMOHR slams Israel for systematic targeting of Gaza fishing sector

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 01:14 PM ] GENEVA, (PIC)– The Euro-Mediterranean Observer for Human Rights (EMOHR) said Israel systematically and deliberately targets the fishing sector in the Gaza Strip. In a report on Sunday, the observatory warned that the systematic Israeli targeting of the fishing sector in the besieged Gaza Strip led to the depletion [...]

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#PalHunger | Israel rejects appeal to free administrative detained Fatah MP

Maan News Agency | May 27, 2012 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israel’s high court on Sunday rejected an appeal to end the administrative detention of Palestinian MP Hussam Khader, his lawyer said. Khader has been detained without charge or trial since June 2011. He was due to be released on June 1 but an Israeli military [...]

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#PalHunger | As-Sarsak’s health deteriorating after 70 days on hunger strike

Maan News Agency | May 27, 2012 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A prisoner on hunger strike for 70 days is suffering deteriorating health, the PA Ministry of Detainee Affairs warned Sunday. Mahmoud al-Sarsak, a 25-year-old soccer player in Palestine’s national team, has been on hunger strike since March 19 in protest at his detention without charge. [...]

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Two workers injured in tunnel fall including one seriously

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 08:50 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Two Palestinian workers fell in a tunnel while working inside it in Rafah, to the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, on Saturday. Local sources said that the two workers are in their twenties and were taken to hospital. Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for ambulance [...]

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#PalHunger | Again Israel violates agreements: IOA renews administrative detention of Haj

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 08:43 AM ] JENIN, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has renewed the administrative detention of Hamas leader Abdulbaset Al-Haj in violation of the agreement with the prisoners. Family of Haj, 42, told the PIC reporter in his village of Jalkamus, east of Jenin, that the six-month renewal was the third [...]

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Israel ‘still exhuming remains’ of Palestinians

Maan News Agency | May 27, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities are still exhuming the bodies of 100 Palestinians to be returned to their families, the spokesman of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday. Ofir Gendelman told Ma’an the process takes time and a final date to return the bodies has not been [...]

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UN Committee 2012 Session Concludes Israeli System Tantamount to Apartheid

[The following was originally published in BADIL's al-Majdal.] Al-Jadaliyya | May 27, 2012 Between mid-February and early March 2012, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination held its 80th session, in which it evaluated the compliance of several states with the 1966 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). [...]

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Massacres Never Again; We Will Not Silence

Reblogged from greatersyria: This is going to be short and concise. My people are being slaughtered and I have lost everything in my city, Homs. But Homs’s suburbs is currently being exterminated along with its children, women, men, and elderly. If the world thinks we have forgotten Karm Al Zytoun, Karm Al Loz, Bab Amr, [...]

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PALESTINE NEWS | May 26, 2012

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات May 26, 2012 | 23826 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1809 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuous updates.. Intelligent Aboriginal Radyo Podcast – Witnessing AfriKristallnacht with @davidsheen (mp3) http://ow.ly/baM2g #PalHunger | Abu Kweik to [...]

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#PalHunger | Abu Kweik to resume hunger strike after his administrative detention extended

[ PIC 26/05/2012 - 09:58 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Hamas official Hussein Abu Kweik said he would go on open hunger strike once again to protest the Israeli ourt order to extend his administrative detention for three months. Quds Press quoted his wife as saying that the Israeli occupation extended the administrative detention of her [...]

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VIDEO | Settlers setting fire to Palestinian olive groves, ‘Urif, 26.5.2012, Raw footage

May 26, 2012 Video by btselem Settlers from Yitzhar setting fire to olive groves belonging to residents of the village ‘Urif. 00190.MTS   Israel Arms & Trains Illegal Settlers for Rampage in Occupied Palestine – in pictures Leaked document “Operation Summer Seeds”: Israeli forces train & arm settlers to attack Palestinian protesters MP Barghouthi warns [...]

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(Again) Israeli settler shoots Palestinian in West Bank

Maan News Agency | May 26, 2012 NABLUS (Reuters) — An Israeli settler shot and wounded a Palestinian man on Saturday in a clash that began when a group of settlers set fire to fields belonging to a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, officials said. Residents said about 25 settlers, some of them [...]

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