Jewish Rabbi allows using Palestinians as human shields

[ 21/10/2010 – 06:18 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A Jewish rabbi has allowed the use of unarmed Palestinian civilians as human shields even if they were killed in the process. Yitzhak Shapira, a director of a Jewish school in the occupied West Bank, told Haaretz daily published on Thursday that anything could be […]

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Peace Now: Settlers started building 600 housing units at end of freeze

[ 21/10/2010 – 06:13 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli anti settlement organization “Peace Now” announced that Israeli settlers had started to build more than 600 housing units in the West Bank since the end of the settlement freeze last September 26. Hagit Ofran, the director of Peace Now’s Settlement Watch, said that […]

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Viva Palestina convoy reaches Gaza – Middle East – Al Jazeera English

Pro-Palestinian activists enter Gaza through Rafah crossing with $5m of aid for residents of Israeli-blockaded strip. Last Modified: 21 Oct 2010 17:26 GMT Hundreds of peace activists have arrived in Gaza carrying humanitarian supplies [Reuters] Pro-Palestinian activists in more than 100 cars and trucks have crossed into the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip through Egypt’s Rafah crossing with aid worth nearly $5m. The […]

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Sheikh Raed Salah banned from having Qur’an – Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades

21-10-2010,13:55 Al Qassam/Agencies– Occupied Jerusalem-The Israeli prison authorities and prison administration in “Ayalon” prison in Ramle city Exercises arbitrarily books ban on Sheikh Raed Salah- head ofhte Islamic movement inside the Palestinian territories of 1948, who spends five month sentence term in Ayalon prison in Ramle city. The books ban included the Holy Qur’an. The […]

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PNN – Palestine News Network – Israel Reveals Documents Related To The Gaza Closure Policy

21.10.10 – 18:27 Gisha – PNN – on Thursday and after one and a half years in which Israel at first denied their existence and then claimed that revealing them would harm “state security”, the State of Israel today released three documents that outline its policy for permitting transfer of goods into the Gaza Strip […]

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Israeli court adjourns hearing into the case of Mamanullah cemetery

[ 21/10/2010 – 11:35 AM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The so-called Magistrate court in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday decided to adjourn hearings into the Israeli municipality’s demand of destroying 220 graves in Mamunallah cemetery for three weeks. Tens of Palestinians of the 1948 occupied Palestine demonstrated in front of the court during the three-hour […]

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Israeli troops kidnap 3 Najah university students in Nablus

[ 21/10/2010 – 11:29 AM ]   NABLUS, (PIC)– The international Tadamun (solidarity) foundation for human rights said the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped at dawn Thursday three Palestinian students from Al-Najah national university after raids on their homes in Nablus city. Jounrlist Nawwaf Al-Amer, the father of student Ibrahim, told the foundation that the […]

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Lifeline 5 lands in El Arish en route to Gaza

[ 21/10/2010 – 11:26 AM ]   EL ARISH, (PIC)– The first batch of activists on the Lifeline 5 convoy arrived Wednesday night at the El Arish airport in Egypt in their last stop before heading out to the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid. MENA news agency reported Wednesday that the first group of […]

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Netanyahu: No return to 1967 borders, OJ to remain under Israeli sovereignty

[ 21/10/2010 – 11:19 AM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated his rejection of Palestinian demands for a lasting peaceful settlement mainly a Palestinian state on 1967 land with Jerusalem as its capital. Netanyahu, speaking on the 15th anniversary of the assassination of former premier Yitzhak Rabin on Wednesday night, […]

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Fatah prisoner in IOA jails on hunger strike over cousin’s detention in PA jails

[ 21/10/2010 – 11:08 AM ]   RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The longest serving Fatah prisoner in Israeli occupation authority (IOA) jails Fakhri Al-Barghouthi and his son Shadi, who is serving a 29-year sentence, have gone on hunger strike in protest over the detention of their cousin Omar Al-Barghouthi in PA jails. Fakhri said that he would […]

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IOA blocks travel of Palestinian MP

[ 21/10/2010 – 11:14 AM ]   AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– MP Dr. Samir Al-Qadi has said that he was barred from traveling to Turkey to attend a medical conference by the Israeli occupation authority (IOA). Qadi said on Thursday that he went to the bridge linking the occupied West Bank with Jordan on Wednesday after receiving […]

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Ministry of detainees: Israel uses Arab prisoners as political hostages

[ 21/10/2010 – 11:05 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ affairs said that Israel uses Arab detainees in its jails as political hostages at the pretext that their countries do not want them and called on the Arab governments to work on their release. In a statement on Wednesday marking the […]

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South Africa offers initiative to end Palestinian split

[ 21/10/2010 – 11:10 AM ]   RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The state of South Africa proposed an initiative to end internal division in Palestine and achieve reconciliation based on the country’s experiences. Former deputy chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee Alexander Boraine announced the launch of a campaign with Hamas and Fatah to introduce […]

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Hindi: Palestinians on verge of new round of conflict

[ 21/10/2010 – 10:30 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Islamic Jihad Movement said it is not intimidated by recent Israeli threats of a new war against the Gaza Strip, adding that the group does anticipate a new round of conflicts. Jihad politburo member Dr Mohammed Hindi said Wednesday in a press conference in Gaza: […]

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Jewish edict prohibits renting houses in Safad to Palestinians

[ 21/10/2010 – 09:17 AM ]   NAZARETH, (PIC)– Jewish rabbis in the city of Safad, north of Palestine occupied in 1948, have issued an edict prohibiting renting houses to Arabs (non-Jews) in the city. The edict said that anyone renting a house or a shop to Arabs should be boycotted, claiming that the Arabs […]

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