Palestinian children meet football star Messi in Qatar

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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Palestinian Ambassador Demands EU Boycott Nakba Activities ~ by @KawtherSalam

#NAKBA65  65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! Kawther Salam | May 21, 2013 سفيرة فلسطين في بروكسل تحث أعضاء في البرلمان الأوروبي على مقاطعة فعاليات النكبة مؤتمر فلسطينيي أوروبا ينهي أعماله بنجاح رغم الجهود المبذولة من أجل إفشاله غابت سفيرة فلسطين… وحضرت أجيال العودة PA President Mahmoud Abbas and his Ambassador to Brussels, Leila Shahid, conspired […]

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Settlers attack a Palestinian village in the Negev

[ PIC 21/05/2013 - 09:27 PM ] NEGEV, (PIC) — Palestinian sources in the Bedouin village of Bir Hadaj in the Negev, in the southern 1948 territories, said that Jewish extremists from Ratmim settlement attacked the village and its residents on Sunday evening. Salman Ibn Ehmid, head of the local committee in the village, told […]

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Israel hospitalizes hunger striker Ayman Abu Daoud

Maan News Agency | May 21, 2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israel on Tuesday hospitalized a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike, his lawyer said. Ayman Abu Daoud was transferred from Ramle prison clinic to the Haemek Medical Center in Afula, said Jawad Boulos, a lawyer for the Palestinian Prisoners Society. Abu Daoud has been on hunger […]

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Khamaisi: Israeli occupation aims to change the Jerusalemite demographic reality

[ PIC 21/05/2013 - 09:14 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Dr. Rasem Khamaisi, an urban-planning expert, said that the Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) continued its attempts to change the demographic reality of occupied Jerusalem by limiting the Palestinian population in the city. The occupation imposed restrictions on the Palestinian construction in the city while allowing […]

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10 political detainees in PA jails start hunger strike

[ PIC 21/05/2013 - 09:34 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Families of political prisoners committee in the West Bank announced that 10 political prisoners held in the Preventive apparatus’s prison in Bitounia, in the city of Ramallah, announced entering an open hunger strike until their release. Sources close to the families of a number of hunger […]

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Researcher: Israel cancels @UNESCO delegation’s visit to hide its crimes

[ PIC 21/05/2013 - 05:21 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Jerusalemite researcher Jamal Amr stated that canceling UNESCO delegation’s visit to Jerusalem by the occupation authorities aims to hide the Israeli violations. The UNESCO delegation came under Israeli conditions after international guarantees to Israel not to prosecute its violations, he stated. He told Quds press […]

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Human rights organizations call for re-opening Rafah crossing

[ 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 […]

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US, Turkey, Israel made strategic errors on assessments of Syria situation

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) greets US President Barack Obama at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on March 20. PressTV | Tue May 21, 2013 6:11AM GMT The Israeli military also has carried out three airstrikes against Syria so far this year. An Israeli website has said in an article that the US, Turkey, and […]

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

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 […]

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Letter From Palestinians In the Diaspora To Ki-moon

#NAKBA65  | 65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! Kawther Salam | May 20, 2013 ملاحظة: نص الرسالة في اللغة العربية منشور أدنى الرسالة في اللغة الأنجليزية Mr. The General Secretary of the United Nations Organization – United Nations Organization – New York In the name of our Palestinian People , living in the poor miserable refugees […]

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Army Kidnaps Two Palestinian Fishermen In Northern Gaza

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 […]

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Israeli forces issue demolition orders to Bedouins in Yatta

#NAKBA65  |65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! Maan News Agency | May 20, 2013   HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces issued demolition orders to seven Bedouin families in south Hebron on Monday, locals said. Israeli military vehicles raided an area east of Yatta and issued the orders to Bedouin families from the al-Hathalin tribe, witnesses told […]

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Villagers threatened with ethnic cleansing hold a sit in outside Beit Eil court

#NAKBA65  65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! [ PIC 20/05/2013 - 07:48 PM ] Al-Khalil, (PIC)– Dozens of Palestinian families from eight villages south of al-Khalil, held a sit-in outside the headquarters of the Israeli Civil Administration, in Beit Eil, on Sunday afternoon, during a Court hearing to look into the appeal made ​​by the villagers […]

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MP Khreisheh: IOA aims to deport all Palestinians from the Jordan Valley

#NAKBA65  65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! [ PIC 20/05/2013 - 07:17 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Hassan Khreisheh, Second Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council, said that the Israeli authorities seek to deport all Palestinian farmers and residents in the Jordan Valley in order to fully confiscate their lands. The Israeli occupation took advantage of the […]

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Sheikh Sabri issues fatwa prohibiting “land swap”

#NAKBA65  65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! [ PIC 20/05/2013 - 07:10 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Sheikh Dr. Ikrima Sabri, head of the Supreme Islamic Council and the Al Aqsa Mosque preacher, issued a Fatwa prohibiting Land Swaps with the occupation which was recently accepted by the PA and the Arab league. Palestine is the […]

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Palestinian historian: occupation seeks to blur the Palestinian identity

[ PIC 20/05/2013 - 06:59 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Prof. Mustafa Kabaha, Department of History and Philosophy at the Quds Open University, said that the Israeli occupation seeks to blur and thieve the Palestinian identity and history. In an exclusive interview with the PIC reporter, Kabaha said that The Israeli authorities started renaming the […]

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Reporter: Israeli forces abduct fishermen and confiscate their boat

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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Censorship from Churchill 1948 to Al Jazeera in 2013: “The Last of the Semites” ~ by Joseph Massad

May 20, 2013 – by occpal After @Newseum killed the commemoration of by Israel slain journalists, now also Al Jazeera falls for the zionist lobby which is pushing all buttons to silence all who even dare to speak or publish truth. Main stream media and it’s journos: prostituting it’s very essence, ethics and conscience in […]

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Israeli Army Demolishes Five Commercial Structures Near Jenin

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article Monday May 20, 2013 10:17 by IMEMC & Agencies Monday Morning, May 19 2013, Israeli soldiers invaded Barta’a Ash-Sharqiyya village, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, demolished five commercial buildings, and […]

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Palestinian prisoners’ issue discussed at the European Parliament

[ PIC 19/05/2013 - 07:47 PM ] BRUSSELS, (PIC)– UFree Network to defend the rights of Palestinian prisoners raised the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on the sidelines of a meeting held at the European Parliament in Brussels on Nakba anniversary, in coordination with Council for European Palestinian Relations. Mr. Mohammed Hamdan, head […]

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Kibbutz ‘residents’ attack Bedouin village in the Naqab

#NAKBA65  | 65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! Maan News Agency | May 19, 2013 NEGEV (Ma’an) — Israelis from a Negev kibbutz attacked a Bedouin village on Sunday, setting fire to a tent, a Ma’an reporter said. Residents from the Kibbutz of Retamim attacked the adjacent Bedouin village of Bir Hadaj and set fire to […]

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