#PalHunger | Sarsak and Rikhawi continue their hunger strike

[ PIC 26/05/2012 - 03:43 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Two Palestinian prisoners, held by the Israeli occupation, are still refusing food despite the deal to end a mass prisoner hunger strike, the prisoners’ center for studies reported. The center said, in its statement on Saturday, that the family of captive Mahmoud Sarsak (25 years), who [...]

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Israeli undercover units deployed in Sheikh Jarrah

[ PIC 26/05/2012 - 02:49 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities have deployed undercover policemen in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem to arrest young Palestinians. The Jerusalem district police chief had led a tour last week with representatives of Zionist fanatic groups in Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied Jerusalem where the [...]

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IOF soldiers arrest Palestinian child, Jerusalemites

[ PIC 26/05/2012 - 02:15 PM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested on Saturday a child from the Dhohsheh refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, while other forces raided several towns in Al-Khalil on Friday night and set up roadblocks on their entrances. Local sources stated that IOF soldiers arrested Iyad Said Alian, 16, [...]

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#PalHunger | Hamas administrative detainees threaten to resume hunger strike

[ 26/05/2012 - 02:52 PM ] NEGEV, (PIC)– The Palestinian administrative detainees from Hamas Movement in Negev prison said they are seriously mulling over going on gradual hunger strike if the Israeli prison authority violated its agreement with them and extended their detention. According to a leaked letter posted on the website Ahrar Wledna (we [...]

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Report: Israel issued 13,000 demolition orders against Palestinian real estate

[ 26/05/2012 - 10:54 AM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– Haaretz newspaper said the Israeli civil administration issued 13,000 demolition warnings against Palestinians accused of unlicensed construction in Area C of the West Bank. The newspaper stated in a report that Israel intensified its construction restrictions on the Palestinian citizens in the villages and towns of [...]

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#GazaUnderAttack | IOF troops open fire at southern Gaza

[ 26/05/2012 - 07:43 AM ] KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened heavy machinegun fire at the eastern outskirts of Khan Younis, to the south of Gaza Strip, on Saturday morning, local sources said. They told the PIC reporter that the IOF troops stationed to the east of Khan Younis fired at Qarara, [...]

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Israeli occupation authority blocks travel for medical aid of liberated prisoner

[ PIC 26/05/2012 - 07:32 AM ] JENIN, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has blocked on Friday the travel of liberated prisoner Thawra Hamur to Jordan for treatment. Local sources said that Thawra, from Jaba’a village south of Jenin city, had presented medical reports to the IOA proving she was in dire need of [...]

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#MaviMaramara | Turkey rejects Israeli offer to compensate Freedom Flotilla victims

[ 26/05/2012 - 08:21 AM ] ISTANBUL, (PIC)– Hebrew press reported that the Turkish government has rejected an Israeli offer of financial compensation to victims of the Freedom Flotilla raid two years ago. The offer was made through a European country. Haaretz confirmed, on its website on Friday, that Israel had offered to pay six [...]

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Marches against wall and settlement continue in West Bank

[ 26/05/2012 - 08:34 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) persisted in attacking the weekly peaceful marches against the segregation wall and settlement expansion and many Palestinians and foreign activists were reportedly injured on Friday afternoon. The Israeli troops, who are still blocking the main road of Kafr Qaddum village, fired a [...]

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Israeli military order expels Palestinian family from its land

[ PIC 26/05/2012 - 09:14 AM ] ” width=”300″ height=”234″ class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-93127″ /> AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) expelled on Friday a Palestinian family from an area south of Al-Khalil, claiming that it is a closed military zone in which Palestinians are not allowed to live. Jibril Al-Adrah told a PIC reporter [...]

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Al-Ma’sara Village Holds Its Weekly Nonviolent Protest

 Saturday May 26, 2012 05:59 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News The popular Committee Against the Wall in Bethlehem, and the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Al-Ma’sara village, near Bethlehem, held their weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall and Israel’s illegal settlements. Archive Photo The protesters marched in the village’s street [...]

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Hebrew Language in Gaza’s Schools

Al Qassam Website 26-05-2012,08:11 Al Qassam website (Agencies)- The Ministry of Education in the Gaza strip, headed by Hamas, decided to launch a course to teach Hebrew language in several schools in Gaza at the beginning of the new academic year. The son of Ismail Haniyeh said in an interview with Israel’s channel 10 “because [...]

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Dweik’s office denies he had received an offer to be released to exile

[ PIC 25/05/2012 - 10:24 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The office of the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Dr Aziz Duwaik, denied news reports concerning an occupation proposal to deport him outside the country for two years. The office confirmed that the news is completely false, and that what happened is that Duwaik’s [...]

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Abu Zuhri: statements of Rih on intifada reflect collusion with occupation

[ PIC 24/05/2012 - 10:00 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri, considered the statements of the head of Preventive Security Apparatus in West Bank, Ziad Hab Al-Rih, in which he stressed on the role of the security services -in cooperation with the occupier- to prevent a third intifada; as a conclusive evidence [...]

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#PalHunger | Continuing Palestinian Hunger Strikes ~ by Stephen Lendman

SteveLendman blog | May 26, 2012 Israel mocks democratic freedoms. Force-fed occupation injustice reveals its true face. It rivals the world’s worst tyrannies. Scoundrel media cover-ups can’t change facts. Mass Palestinian prisoner hunger strikes persisted for weeks. Some lasted over two months. Miraculously no one died. Victories remain elusive. Negotiations produced Israeli promises to ease [...]

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Mishaal-Carter meeting focusses on Palestine cause developments

[ PIC 26/05/2012 - 07:21 AM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– Political bureau chairman of Hamas Khaled Mishaal discussed with former US president Jimmy Carter in Cairo on Friday evening Palestine cause developments. Political bureau member of Hamas Ezzet Al-Resheq said that other Hamas leaders were present in the meeting along with members of Carter’s delegation. He [...]

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CFI on U of Chicago SJP's mock wall: 'Palestine doesn't exist because there is no "P" in Arabic'

Reblogged from Sixteen Minutes to Palestine: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Chicago erected a mock wall on campus early Thursday morning. Chicago Friends of Israel (CFI) immediately protested the wall on the grounds that it is entirely in accordance with international law. SJP’s wall is modeled after Israel’s barrier wall [...]

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PALESTINE NEWS | May 25, 2012

LIVE BLOG ▶ PALESTINIANS ON HUNGER STRIKE | #PalHunger LIVE BLOG ▶ Commemorating 64 Years of Catastrophe in Palestine | #Nakba64 LIVE BLOG ▶ Israel Attacks Gaza May 17, 2012 & lies about it | #GazaUnderAttack continuous updated آخر الأخبار والتحديثات May 25, 2012 | 23825 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege [...]

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HATRED AND MURDER OF 'GOYIM' LEGALISED IN ISRAEL

Reblogged from Desertpeace: * Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement, wrote in his book “The King’s Torah” that even babies and children can be killed if they pose a threat to the nation. Shapiro based the majority of his teachings on passages quoted from the Bible, to [...]

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Occupation forces Palestinian to demolish his house adjacent to Al-Aqsa

[ PIC 25/05/2012 - 11:18 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Jerusalemite citizen, Azzam Afifi, demolished his house, on Wednesday, to avoid his arrest or pay fine, in context of the occupation’s continuing restriction policy against Jerusalemites. The Israeli Municipal Court in Occupied Jerusalem has ordered the demolition of Afifi’s house under the pretext of being [...]

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PMF: PA uses Judiciary to intimidate journalists

[ PIC 25/05/2012 - 10:06 AM ] GAZA,(PIC)– The Palestinian Media Forum (PMF) has strongly condemned the PA judicial and executive authorities’ decision to try the director of Radio Bethlehem 2000, George Canawati, because of comments on his facebook page. The forum said, in a statement on Thursday, that Magistrate Court of Bethlehem City has [...]

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Amnesty International raps Tel Aviv violating Palestinian rights

Amnesty International condemns the Israeli violation of Palestinians’ rights. (File photo) PressTV | Fri May 25, 2012 10:25AM GMT Amnesty International has, in a detailed report, exposed Israel’s violation of human rights and denounced Tel Aviv’s policies on Palestinians. In its rights report for 2012, Amnesty International condemned Israel for its use of torture, restriction [...]

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With cancer inflicted administrative detainee Lubada arrives to Watani hospital in Nablus

[ PIC 25/05/2012 - 10:10 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Ahrar Center for Prisoners’ Studies and Human Rights stated that detainee Zuhair Lubada arrived at the Watani hospital in the city of Nablus, suffering seriously deteriorated health condition. Fouad Khuffash, the director of the center, said that captive Lubada, who suffers from liver cirrhosis and kidney [...]

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#PalHunger | Occupation extends administrative detention of two brothers from al-Khalil

[ PIC 25/05/2012 - 10:45 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities extended, on Thursday, the administrative detention of two brothers from the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil for the third time running. Sources from the family of Adeeb and Shafiq Qawasmeh, who are detained in the Negev desert prison, told PIC that [...]

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PCHR Weekly Report: 6 wounded, 30 abducted in 90 Israeli incursions this week

Friday May 25, 2012 01:59 by IMEMC Staff In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 17– 23 May 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that 4 non-violent protesters were wounded, and 30 Palestinians were abducted, including 12 children, by Israeli forces [...]

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Jewish settlers close main West Bank road

[ PIC 24/05/2012 - 10:49 AM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Jewish settlers from Tikwa and nearby settlements to the east of Bethlehem attacked Palestinian commuters and closed the main road linking north of the West Bank to its southern areas on Wednesday evening. Eyewitnesses said that dozens of Jewish settlers carrying machineguns and batons closed the [...]

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PA: Settlers torch farmland near Nablus

Maan News Agency | May 23, 2012 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Thursday torched farmland near Nablus in the northern West Bank, a PA official said. Ghassan Doughlas told Ma’an that residents of Yitzhar settlement set fire to large swathes of agricultural land in Madma village. Witnesses told Ma’an that villagers clashed with the [...]

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PALESTINE NEWS | May 24, 2012

LIVE BLOG ▶ PALESTINIANS ON HUNGER STRIKE | #PalHunger LIVE BLOG ▶ Commemorating 64 Years of Catastrophe in Palestine | #Nakba64 LIVE BLOG ▶ Israel Attacks Gaza May 17, 2012 & lies about it | #GazaUnderAttack continuous updated آخر الأخبار والتحديثات May 24, 2012 | 23824 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege [...]

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Jordanian prisoner exposed to attempted killing last month

[ 24/05/2012 - 09:29 AM ] AMMAN, (PIC)– The mother of Jordanian prisoner Merei Abu Sa’aida said the Israeli jailers in Nafha prison tried to assassinate her son on 24 April. The mother told a reporter for the Palestinian information center (PIC) in Amman on Wednesday that she has reliable information that her son is [...]

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German poll: “Israel” is an aggressive state

[ 24/05/2012 - 05:00 PM ] BERLIN,(PIC)– A poll in weekly Stern magazine, conducted by Forsa pollsters, finds that majority of Germans think that Israel is an aggressive state. The survey came in contrast with the German government’s supportive position to Israel. The poll was conducted shortly before President Joachim Gauck’s visit to Israel and [...]

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