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More death due to the Israeli siege on Gaza: 26 year old Mousa Ghunaim killed in tunnel collapse

May 18, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

Maan News Agency | May 18, 2013 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A man was killed on Saturday when a smuggling tunnel in Rafah collapsed, a Gaza medical official said. Ashraf al-Qidra told Ma’an that Mousa Ghunaim, 26, was pronounced dead on arrival at a Gaza hospital after a tunnel collapsed while he was working. In […]

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Under Zionist pressure @Newseum drops 2 Palestinian journalists from honors list

May 16, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 16/05/2013 - 05:01 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) expressed its disappointment and astonishment with Newseum decision to revoke its decision to honor the Palestinian Journalists Mohamed Salama and Hussam Al Koumi, who were killed by Israeli Occupation Forces during their coverage of the Israeli aggression […]

Farmers are reaping their wheat from the fields adjacent to the border with Israel.

#GazaUnderAttack | Israelis fire at Palestinian farmers in eastern Gaza Strip

May 16, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

MEMO | May 16, 2013 Israeli forces have opened fire on Palestinian farmers working to the east of Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip. The incident took place on Thursday morning.Witnesses said that farmers fled from their land due to the severity of the attack by Israeli soldiers stationed at the Kisuffim […]

ICC investigating Israel’s attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla | #MaviMarmara

May 15, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

An Israeli speedboat escorts the Mavi Marmara near the port of Ashdod on May 31, 2010. PressTV | Wed May 15, 2013 2:32AM GMT On May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos attacked the first Freedom Flotilla in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea, killing nine Turkish citizens, including a teenager with Turkish-US dual citizenship, on board […]

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Israelis kidnap scrap collecting man and boy in the Gaza Strip | #Nakba65

May 14, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

MEMO | May 14, 2013 In the occupied West Bank the Israelis arrested four Palestinians from different cities Israeli occupation forces have kidnapped two Palestinian workers in Johr Al-Deik in the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Obaid, 27, and his cousin Ra’ouf Obaid, 17, were taken on Tuesday morning while they were […]

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Collective punisment of 1.7 Million people to celebrate a Jewish feast: IOA closes Karm Abu Salem for two days

May 14, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 14/05/2013 - 12:58 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) decided on Tuesday to close Karm Abu Salem, the only commercial crossing in Gaza Strip, for two days to celebrate Jewish feasts. Raed Fattuh, the head of the committee entrusted with entry of goods into Gaza, told Quds Press that the […]

Israel tanks, bulldozers invade northeast Gaza Strip | #Palestine4Palestinians

May 13, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

ACTION ALERT | #PALESTINE4PALESTINIANS An Israeli tank (file photo) PressTV | Mon May 13, 2013 3:32PM According to Israeli Walla website, the Israeli army is preparing to launch Operation Pillar of Defense II against the Gaza Strip in a bid to eliminate Hamas resistance movement. Israeli tanks and bulldozers have carried out an incursion into […]

Haneyya: The wounded in Gaza will continue to hold the resistance banner

May 11, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 11/05/2013 - 03:04 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya said that the wounded in Gaza insist on carrying the banner of resistance and steadfastness despite the limbs or eyesight they have lost. Haneyya made his remarks during a ceremony held to inaugurate a forum for the wounded as part of the […]

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Resheq slams PA attitude against granting Sheikh Qaradawi Palestinian passport

May 11, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 11/05/2013 - 06:47 AM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– Member of Hamas’s political bureau Ezzat Al-Resheq criticized the Palestinian Authority and its de facto interior ministry for its objection to giving Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradawi a Palestinian passport in honor of his role in supporting the Palestinian cause. Resheq said that such attitude by the PA […]

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Yousuf al-Qaradawi (L) in Gaza City on May 9. (AFP/Mohammed Abed

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Influential Muslim cleric Yousuf al-Qaradawi on Friday called on the Palestinian resistance to hold onto its arms in a sermon at a Gaza City mosque.

"I advise all the people of Gaza to be patient and continue to build their country, and continue resistance," the sheikh told worshipers at al-Omari Mosque.

"We will not give up on the resistance, and we will not give up our arms," he added.

Qaradawi urges Palestinian resistance to ‘hold onto arms’

May 10, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

Maan News Agency | May 10, 2013 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Influential Muslim cleric Yousuf al-Qaradawi on Friday called on the Palestinian resistance to hold onto its arms in a sermon at a Gaza City mosque. “I advise all the people of Gaza to be patient and continue to build their country, and continue resistance,” […]

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Egyptian MP calls for supporting Palestinian resistance

May 10, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 10/05/2013 - 11:04 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Egyptian member of the Shura Council, Sheikh Safwat Abdel Ghani, called on the Arab and Islamic world to support Palestinian resistance against the occupier. In an interview with the PIC reporter, Abdel Ghani stressed the need to confront the Israeli Judaization schemes in Jerusalem city […]

VIDEO | Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (Full Speech English Voice-Over) – May 9, 2013

May 10, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

Published on May 9, 2013 Full English Voice-over of the speech of the secretary general of Hizbullah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah(HA) delivered on May 9, 2013 on the 25th Anniversary of the al-Nour Radio Station. Syria is to supply Hizbullah with game-changing weapons despite Israel’s air strikes reportedly aimed at cutting off the flow of arms, […]

Israel won’t pursue criminal charges despite damning Gaza report

May 9, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

Maan News Agency | May 9, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli army said Wednesday it has found no incidents warranting criminal investigations into the conduct of its soldiers during Operation Pillars of Defense, despite a report suggesting its inquiry was lacking. The army’s comments follow reports by Israeli rights group B’Tselem that the army […]

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Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi, welcome to Palestine ~ by Khalid Amayreh

May 9, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 09/05/2013 - 09:33 PM ] By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi is indisputably one of the most venerable and knowledgeable sages of Islam in our times. He is also one of the most respectable and honorable Alim (religious scholar) under the sun. The 86-year-old philosopher and theologian has spent the […]

Israeli forces breached humanitarian law during recent war on Gaza

May 9, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

MEMO | May 9, 2013 80 per cent of those killed by Israeli forces killed during the last four days of the war waged on the Gaza Strip in November were uninvolved civilians, Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem said on Thursday. “After several months of field research and crosschecking data, human rights organization B’Tselem published […]

Israeli vehicles enter border area in northern Gaza

May 8, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

Maan News Agency | May 8, 2013 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli military vehicles entered a border area in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, locals said. Witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli bulldozers and military vehicles penetrated over 400 meters into an area east of Beit Hanoun and dug up agricultural lands. An Israeli […]

Abu Marzouq: Hamas may stay out of any Israeli-Arab war

May 8, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

Maan News Agency | May 8, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Hamas will not necessarily get involved in any war between Israel and an Arab state, but Syria should respond to Israeli airstrikes on Damascus, a senior Hamas leader said Tuesday. “Hamas is not a state,” Moussa Abu Marzouq told Ma’an. “The occupation (Israel) repeatedly attacks […]

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The outcome of the Israeli threats against Gaza

May 7, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

MEMO | May 7, 2013 150 days after Israel’s last war on the Gaza Strip, security tension has resurfaced without warning. It comes amid preoccupation with pressing regional issues beginning with the enflamed Syria and Lebanon as it heads toward an eruption. Matters will not end with Iran, which will have to deal with the […]

Israeli army installs cellphone spying devices east of Gaza

May 7, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 07/05/2013 - 09:49 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A technical unit of the Israeli army started very recently to install special large-scale radio transmitters used to jam and eavesdrop on cellular phone calls, according to a field observer. He told Quds Press that this unit started last Thursday to install these transmitters along the […]

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Israeli occupation forces arrest a Palestinian citizen accompanying his sick wife at Erez crossing

May 7, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 07/05/2013 - 09:29 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a Palestinian citizen from Gaza at Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing, in the northern Gaza Strip, while he was accompanying his sick wife to undergo surgery at St. John’s Hospital in Jerusalem. Prisoners’ Center for Studies quoted the family of businessman […]

Egyptian intelligence blocks travel of two Palestinians MPs

May 5, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 05/05/2013 - 09:51 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Egyptian intelligence apparatus refused to allow two Palestinian lawmakers to travel via the Rafah border crossing on Sunday. Hamas denounced the measure in a terse statement, adding that coordination for the travel of MPs Salah Al-Bardawil and Ismail Al-Ashqar was made last Friday. Hamas condemned […]

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Israeli medical error causes a child from Gaza to lose his four limbs

May 5, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 05/05/2013 - 09:36 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian citizen from the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip revealed that due to a medical error committed by one of the Israeli hospitals, his child has lost his hands and feet. Abu Ahed Farra, 37, told PIC’s reporter that their suffering has […]