Archive | October 24, 2010

Ovenden: Lifeline 6 to be organized soon

[ 24/10/2010 – 04:56 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The delegates of the Lifeline 5 aid convoy left Gaza Strip afternoon Sunday after a three-day visit during which they delivered mainly medical assistance to the tune of five million dollars. Director of the convoy Kevin Ovenden told a press conference before leaving Gaza that Viva […]

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Palestinians wounded in explosion as report indicates escalation in IOF attacks

[ 24/10/2010 – 04:51 PM ]   NABLUS, (PIC)– Three Palestinian citizens were wounded afternoon Sunday as a result of the explosion of Israeli army ordnance in Nablus city, eyewitnesses reported. They said that the blast took place as a number of workers were removing the debris of one of the buildings shelled by Israeli […]

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Life in Palestinian Refugee Camps | Sabbah Report

by Stephen Lendman on October 24, 2010 By Stephen Lendman * | Sabbah Report | http://www.sabbah.biz 1948 Nakba, Palestinian Refugee Camp Besides mass slaughter and destruction, wars create refugees, millions at times, uprooted, displaced and homeless, on their own somehow to survive. Israel’s “War of Independence” was no different, dispossessing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, […]

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JCSER: Israel stepped up its crimes, killed three Jerusalemites last month

[ 24/10/2010 – 12:38 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Jerusalem center for social and economic rights (JCSER) said in its monthly report that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) stepped up its violations against the Jerusalemites’ political, social and religious rights and killed three of them including an infant during September. In a report issued […]

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Maan News Agency: Child hit by rubber bullet in latest Silwan clashes

    Published today (updated) 24/10/2010 13:51 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Clashes broke out Sunday in the flashpoint East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan as Israeli authorities stormed the Al-Bustan area to hand down demolition notices, locals said. Head of the committee defending Silwan homes Fakhri Abu Diab said a large force of Israeli border guards ransacked […]

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Palestinian prisoners in Negev complain of their incarceration conditions

[ 24/10/2010 – 11:14 AM ]   NEGEV, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli desert prison Negev have complained of their incarceration conditions after the Israeli prison administration tightened its repressive measures against them. In a message leaked out of jail on Saturday, the prisoners said that the administration serves them poor quantity meals and […]

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מגזין הכיבוש Channel 1 Correspondent Confirms Ilan as Shabak Director-DesignateNGO Forces IDF to Release Secret Memo Documenting Gaza Strangulation

Occupation magazine – Documents & Data Channel 1 Correspondent Confirms Ilan as Shabak Director-DesignateNGO Forces IDF to Release Secret Memo Documenting Gaza Strangulation Richard Silverstein Tikun Olam–Sunday, October 24, 2010–http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2010/10/24/ngo-forces-idf-to-release-infamous-memo-documenting-gaza-strangulation/– `Mathematical calculations` govern import of basic human necessities Thanks immensely to Ed Mad X for alerting me to the IDF’s release of a much sought […]

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Zionist settlers raze, annex Palestinian land

Zionist settlers raze, annex Palestinian land [ 24/10/2010 – 11:09 AM ]   AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Zionist settlers of the Karmi Tzur settlement established on Palestinian land near Beit Ummar village, north of Al-Khalil district, cut down almonds trees in Wadi Al-Wahadin area near the village on Saturday, eyewitnesses reported. They said that the settlers bulldozed […]

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PA security arrests preacher two weeks after release from Israel

[ 24/10/2010 – 09:58 AM ]   RAMALLAH, (PIC)– PA intelligence arrested Islamic preacher Majid Hassan “Abu Obeida” after interviewing him for the third time since his release two weeks back after serving three years in administrative detention in Israeli prisons. Abu Obeida was reportedly arrested by Israeli forces from his home in Ain Misbah […]

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Falk: Palestinian state is an illusion

[ 24/10/2010 – 10:01 AM ]   NEW YORK, (PIC)– The establishment of a Palestinian state is an “illusion” because it necessitates a root change in the Israeli settlement drive and the de facto political conditions, Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian land, said. Falk said in a […]

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Haneyya receives delegations from Algeria and Jordan

[ 24/10/2010 – 10:06 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya received delegations from Algeria and Jordan, participants in Lifeline convoy, at the cabinet headquarters in the Gaza Strip and hailed the efforts their countries always make in support of the Palestinian people and their national cause. During his meeting with the Algerian […]

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Isawi: Palestine is a Waqf land that could not be ceded

[ 24/10/2010 – 10:10 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian minister of culture in Gaza Osama Al-Isawi has castigated the Palestinian embassy in Ankara for distributing an official pamphlet delineating countries with borders with Palestine citing Israel as one along with Egypt and Jordan. Isawi, in a press release on Saturday, said that the pamphlet, […]

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Israeli military prevents UN from building new schools in Gaza; 40,000 students without schools – International Middle East Media Center

Sunday October 24, 2010 12:01 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News Nearly two years after the devastating Israeli invasion of Gaza that left 1400 dead and over 30,000 families without homes, many of the schools that were destroyed in the invasion have yet to be rebuilt. Now a United Nations effort to rebuild schools in […]

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Maan News Agency: Worker attacked by settlers in East Jerusalem

    Published today (updated) 24/10/2010 09:30   JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A young Palestinian man from the Old City of Jerusalem sustained wounds and bruises Sunday morning after a group of extremist settlers attacked him near the Ramot settlement in the occupied city, his employer told Ma’an. Anan Hijazi said his employee Muhammad Al-Beituni was […]

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