ei: Education in Palestine in world spotlight

Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada, 2 November 2010 The impact of the Israeli occupation on Palestinians’ right to education has previously not received enough attention. (Khaleel Reash/MaanImages) GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) – The focus on people’s movements in Palestine continues to gain momentum with growing nonviolent demonstrations in Gaza, the occupied West Bank […]

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Palestinian gov’t demands Britain to apologize for Balfour declaration

[ 02/11/2010 – 05:11 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian government headed by premier Ismail Haneyya demanded Britain once again to declare publicly its responsibility for Balfour declaration, apologize to the Palestinian people and atone for its historical crime against Palestine. In a statement issued Tuesday on the 93rd anniversary of this catastrophic declaration, […]

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ei: Israeli colonies expand, Palestinians face home demolitions

Report, The Electronic Intifada, 2 November 2010 A Palestinian home demolished in Beit Hanina, occupied East Jerusalem, July 2009. (Silan Dallal/ActiveStills) Bulldozers, backed by Israeli soldiers and police forces, razed a Bedouin Palestinian encampment in Isawiya, a village northeast of Jerusalem on Wednesday, 27 October. Israeli forces destroyed tents and other structures that were home […]

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IOF release child after 38 days in several jails

[ 02/11/2010 – 04:56 PM ]   Al-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) released a 13-year old child called Sayel Abu Qwaider after he spent 38 days in different Israeli jails. The Palestinian prisoner society said that the Israeli court was very strict with the child and ordered him to pay a fine of […]

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Islamic Jihad: The preventive security sill tortures wounded resistance fighter

[ 02/11/2010 – 11:00 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Islamic Jihad Movement said that the Palestinian authority’s preventive security continues to torture a wounded Palestinian resistance fighter called Mohamed Mor’eb in its jails in the West Bank. In a statement on Monday, Islamic Jihad added that Mor’eb’s health condition is deteriorating badly as a […]

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Israeli Soldiers Shot a Citizen in Gaza Strip – International Middle East Media Center

Tuesday November 02, 2010 14:10 by Sandy Khair – IMEMC & Agencies On Tuesday afternoon, a Palestinian citizen was shot by Israeli soldiers in the east of al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, while he was collecting plastic from a garbage dump. Medical sources reported to the Palestine News Agency, WAFA, that the […]

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Israeli Rights Group Report Indicates Abuse in Israeli Detention – International Middle East Media Center

Tuesday November 02, 2010 13:41 by Alessandra Bajec – IMEMC & Agencies According to a report released on Tuesday by the Israeli rights groups B’Tselem and Hamoked, Palestinians detained for questioning by Tel Aviv’s security services Shin Bet are held in unsatisfactory conditions, and often suffer abuse. (photo from Press TV) Ha’aretz reported that the […]

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Cut Through the Denial About Israel’s Violence

Tuesday, November 2, 2010 Cut Through the Denial About Israel’s Violence   Cut Through the Denial About Israeli’s Violence: “Israeli commandos gunned down 9 unarmed civilians who were bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza. American Zionists gunned down White House reporter Helen Thomas for telling the truth. Violence and denial characterize Zionism. This show cuts through […]

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90% of Palestinians would no longer back the peace process if West Bank settlement building restarted

49% of Palestinians believe the peace process will continue even if West Bank settlement building restarts   53% of Palestinians believe Mahmoud Abbas is the legitimate voice of the Palestinian people   57% of Palestinians believe Hamas should be involved in the peace talks   Dubai, 01 November 2010. These are the first published survey […]

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PFLP group survives IOF shelling

[ 02/11/2010 – 11:01 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine, said that a group of its cadres survived shelling by Israeli occupation forces in central Gaza Strip at dawn Tuesday. The armed wing said in a communiqué that the […]

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MPs Borini and Mansour take part in sit-in of UNRWA staff

[ 02/11/2010 – 09:45 AM ]   NABLUS, (PIC)– Hamas lawmakers Hasan Al-Borini and Yasser Mansour from Nablus city participated in the sit-in staged in Fara refugee camp by employees working for the UNRWA in protest at the retrenchment policy pursued by the agency against its junior staff. The lawmakers expressed their solidarity with the […]

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Washington proposes leasing JV, ponders replacing Mitchell

[ 02/11/2010 – 09:49 AM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The US administration has proposed to Israel leasing the Jordan Valley from the Palestinians for seven years after signing a peace agreement, the Israeli army radio said on Monday. The broadcast quoted unidentified Israeli officials as saying that premier Benjamin Netanyahu did not turn down […]

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Israel’s deputy PM calls off visit to Britain fearing arrest

[ 02/11/2010 – 09:32 AM ]   RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Dan Meridor, the deputy premier of Israel, has cancelled a scheduled visit to Britain this week after the British justice ministry warned him that he could be arrested on arrival. Hebrew media reported on Tuesday that the ministry told him pro-Palestinian organizations might file lawsuits against […]

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Khatib expects failure of reconciliation

[ 02/11/2010 – 09:34 AM ]   NAZARETH, (PIC)– Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib, the deputy head of the Islamic movement in 1948 occupied Palestine, has predicted that the internal Palestinian reconciliation would fail soon after its accomplishment. He told Al-Quds TV satellite channel on Monday night that certain persons had linked their interest to that of […]

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Falk: UNHRC should not drop Article VII

[ 02/11/2010 – 09:28 AM ]   DOHA, (PIC)– Richard Falk, the UNHRC Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, has accused the United States of blindly backing Israel and of striving hard to drop Article VII of the UNHRC charter that would make conditions in occupied Palestine more complicated. In a televised interview with Al-Jazeera […]

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