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Israel raids eastern Khan Younis for third time in 24 hours

May 25, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 25/05/2013 - 09:50 AM ] KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided areas to the east of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, on Friday for the third time in less than 24 hours. The PIC reporter said that IOF soldiers in six armored vehicles including bulldozers advanced 200 meters east […]

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Abu Zuhri: Egyptian media campaign against Hamas serves foreign parties

May 25, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 25/05/2013 - 09:03 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for Hamas movement, charged that remnants of the former Egyptian regime were behind the media campaign against the movement that only serves foreign parties in an attempt to distort the Palestinian resistance. The continued smear media campaign against Hamas is sheer […]

Morsi urged to revise Israel accords

May 25, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh PRESSTV | Sat May 25, 2013 9:2AM GMT The Camp David Accords were signed by then Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and then-Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following 13 days of secret negotiations at Camp David in Washington D.C. Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has called […]

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Bardawil calls for an end to spreading lies against Gaza

May 24, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 23/05/2013 - 09:23 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Hamas leader Dr. Salah Bardawil called on the Egyptian leadership and parties’ leaders to work ending the fabrication of lies against Gaza and the Palestinian people. He stressed that his movement is sure that Gaza had nothing to do with the incident of the kidnapping […]

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Limited Israeli incursion into southern Gaza

May 24, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[PIC 24/05/2013 - 06:57 PM ] KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)– Israeli military vehicles crossed the border line with the Gaza Strip east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, early Thursday. A field observer told Quds Press that several tanks and Israeli bulldozers raided east of Qarara village, northeast of Khan Younis, and bulldozed agricultural […]

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Israeli soldiers shoot at Palestinian citizen northern Gaza Strip

May 24, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 24/05/2013 - 07:03 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A Palestinian young man was injured on Thursday afternoon by Israeli fire to the east of Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip, medics told PIC’s correspondent. The sources said that the citizen, in his twenties, was moderately wounded in his foot, near a cemetery east of […]

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Arab and Turkish businessmen visit Gaza

May 24, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 24/05/2013 - 05:44 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A delegation of Arab and Turkish businessmen arrived on Thursday in the Gaza Strip on a solidarity trip. The delegation, which includes thirty-nine businessmen, was received at the Rafah crossing by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of National Economy Hatem Owaida and a number of Palestinian […]

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Amnesty: Israeli restrictions on movement of Palestinians collective punishment

May 24, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 24/05/2013 - 12:24 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli stringent restrictions imposed on the movement of Palestinians serve as a “collective punishment” of the population of Gaza and the West Bank in flagrant violation of the international law, an international human rights organization said. Amnesty International stated in its yearly report that more […]

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Haniyeh: Sinai security an integral part of Palestinian national security

May 23, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 23/05/2013 - 09:40 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday evening phoned Al-Arish Governor Abdul Fattah Harhour, and congratulated him on the liberation of the kidnapped soldiers and their safe return. Haniyeh thanked Harhour for the hospitality he has shown to the Palestinians; who were obliged to stay on […]

Al-Resheq calls for an end to Egyptian media campaign against Hamas

May 23, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 23/05/2013 - 09:45 AM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– Member of Hamas’s Political Bureau Ezzat Al-Resheq congratulated the Egyptian president, government and people for the release of the 7 abducted soldiers. He called, in a press statement, on the Egyptian media to stop its unjustified campaign against the Palestinian people. He also called on the […]

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Finland’s foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja visits Gaza, pledges more funds for UNRWA

May 22, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 22/05/2013 - 09:38 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Finnish foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja on Tuesday paid a brief visit to the besieged Gaza Strip and pledged a €1.5 million increase in his country’s support for the UNRWA’s relief activities. Tuomioja arrived in Gaza through Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing to the north of Gaza and […]

Palestinian children meet football star Messi in Qatar

May 22, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

Maan News Agency | May 21, 2013 DOHA, Qatar (Ma’an) — Two Palestinian children had the chance to meet international soccer star Lionel Messi in the Qatari capital of Doha on Monday. Messi visited Doha as the global brand ambassador of the Qatari telecommunications company Ooredoo. Thanks to a partnership between Ooredoo and Palestine’s Wataniya […]

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Human rights organizations call for re-opening Rafah crossing

May 21, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 21/05/2013 - 05:16 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian human rights institutions called on Egyptian authorities to re-open the Rafah crossing in both directions immediately. A Number of Egyptian police and army conscripts closed the crossing in both directions on Friday morning protesting the abduction of a number of their colleagues in Sinai by […]

Egyptian Siege on Gaza Day 5: 2400 Palestinians Stuck At The Rafah Terminal

May 21, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

Tuesday May 21, 2013 08:14 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Tuesday May 21, 2013; the Himaya Center for Journalists Defending Human Rights has reported that more than 2400 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are currently stuck at the Rafah Border Terminal between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, awaiting to be allowed through. In […]

Army Kidnaps Two Palestinian Fishermen In Northern Gaza

May 20, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

Monday May 20, 2013 23:41 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, has reported that the Israeli Navy kidnapped, on Sunday at night, two Palestinian fishermen near the coast of Beit Lahia city, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. File – Palestinian Fishermen Attacked […]

Reporter: Israeli forces abduct fishermen and confiscate their boat

May 20, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

Maan News Agency | May 20, 2013 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) – Israeli forces detained two Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, a Ma’an correspondent said. Mahmoud and Khaled Zayed were taken to an unknown location and their boat was confiscated. An Israeli military spokeswoman did not immediately return […]

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Abu Zuhri: Closure of Rafah crossing is an unjustifiable action

May 19, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 19/05/2013 - 07:56 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas movement called on the Egyptian authorities to immediately re-open the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip, closed for the second day. Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, spokesman for the movement, considered in a written statement the closure of the Rafah crossing “an unjustified act” that harms […]

The Egyptian Siege on Gaza continues: Egypt closes Gaza crossing for third day

May 19, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

Maan News Agency | May 19, 2013 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Egyptian police at Rafah are closing the crossing for a third day in a row Sudnay after the kidnappings of Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai, officials said. They are preventing all Palestinians from traveling through the crossing or leaving the Gaza Strip, the […]

Risheq denies claims that Hamas has cells in US

May 18, 2013 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments

[ PIC 18/05/2013 - 06:42 PM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– Hamas Politburo member Izzat al-Risheq denied New York authorities’ claims concerning the arrest of 15 elements affiliated to Hamas movement for smuggling untaxed cigarettes. These allegations are failed attempts to tarnish the Palestinian people’s struggle and just cause, he said on Friday. New York authorities have […]

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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 […]

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#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 […]