[ 14/11/2010 – 10:33 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) started building 1260 housing units in the West Bank settlements since the end of the freeze almost one month and a half ago, Israel’s Peace Now movement said. It added in a report on Sunday that the annual building average […]
Continue readingAnsar Al-Asra: The national division augmented Palestinian detainees’ suffering
[ 14/11/2010 – 10:05 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Ansar Al-Asra (advocates for prisoners) organization said that the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails suffered during the last four years much more than what they experienced over the past 40 years, attributing this deterioration to the inter-Palestinian division. This came during a symposium on the internal […]
Continue readingDetails on last talks between Hamas, Fatah in Damascus disclosed
[ 14/11/2010 – 09:55 AM ] DAMASCUS, (PIC)– An informed source told the Palestinian information center (PIC) some details about what happened in the last reconciliation meeting on Wednesday between Hamas and Fatah delegations in Damascus, which resulted in nothing because of Fatah’s intransigent attitude towards the security file. The source said that head […]
Continue readingGEDCO: Power failures expected in Eid
[ 14/11/2010 – 09:52 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Gaza Electricity Distribution Company (GEDCO) announced on Saturday that the sole power plant in Gaza Strip was suffering acute fuel shortage and would be forced to cut electricity supplies during Eid Al-Adha. GEDCO director general Suhail Skeik said in a press statement that the power […]
Continue readingNational campaign: 120 missing Palestinians held by Israel
[ 14/11/2010 – 09:52 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The national committee to restore the bodies of missing Palestinian martyrs announced that it documented 120 names of missing Palestinian bodies held by Israel. Nasha’at Al-Wahidi, the campaign’s spokesman, said in a press release on Saturday that some of those Palestinians were missing for more than […]
Continue readingIOF tanks fire shell, machineguns at Palestinian houses
[ 14/11/2010 – 10:03 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stationed at the borders of Gaza Strip fired a shell at a deserted area in Juhr Al-Deek northeast of Breij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on Sunday. Security sources said that the IOF tanks fired the shell then opened heavy machinegun […]
Continue readingJ’lem rights group: Israeli planners have begun isolating Issawiya from city
[ 13/11/2010 – 05:01 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A rights group in occupied Jerusalem warned Saturday that Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) have kicked off a new scheme aimed at isolating the city’s Arab district of Al-Issawiya from the rest of the city. Similar isolation patterns were already witnessed by the Zaeem, Ras Shahada, […]
Continue readingHamas detainees go on hunger strike in Abbas’s jails
[ 13/11/2010 – 04:30 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Hamas detainees in Jericho prison plan to go on hunger strike on the first day of Eid Al-Adha next Tuesday to protest the “criminal treatment” of PA security militias loyal to de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas despite court orders for their release. The Palestinian Independent […]
Continue readingMK proposes transfer of Palestinians
[ 13/11/2010 – 04:13 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– Likud MK Carmel Shama has proposed the transfer of the biggest possible number of Palestinians in 1948 occupied Palestine into the Palestinian state in the event of its establishment. Shama, addressing a seminar on Saturday, said that fanatic nationalism was growing in the midst of Arab […]
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