gulfnews : Gaza children labour to help families

Young people are driven by poverty to work long hours at the expense of their education. By Nasser Najjar, Correspondent Published: 00:00 December 19, 2010 Poverty and deprivation is what drives families to push their children to abandon their schooling and force them to work after school if given the chance. According to the ministry […]

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Dec 18, 2010 | GAZA PALESTINE | TODAY NEWS LINKS| Gaza has been under a siege for 1284 days | Spread-Share-Link- Tweet the News!

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Every day updating all news, sources and actual information about Gaza – Palestine, check also earlier notes since June 1th, 2010 with all news from worldwide newspapers and sources. وسلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته *************************************************************************************** The Electronic Intifada Campaign: Help keep our reporting strong in 2011 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11662.shtml *************************************************************************************** No blockade […]

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The Interview Ha’aretz Doesn’t Want You To See « P U L S E

The Interview Ha’aretz Doesn’t Want You To See Ali Abunimah Rehaviya Berman conducted an interview with Ali Abunimah, for Ha’aretz, a few weeks ago. The Interview was never published. Berman decided to publish it on his blog [Hebrew] and I decided to translate it, for your reading pleasure: Exclusive: One On One with the Leader of […]

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Haneyya: We are committed to liberating prisoners

[ 18/12/2010 – 04:54 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya said on Saturday that his government was insistent on trekking all means to liberate Palestinian prisoners from Israeli occupation jails. Haneyya, during a visit to one of the recently liberated prisoners in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, said that his […]

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Gaza’s gas crisis returns as Israel downsizes on imports to the region

[ 18/12/2010 – 04:41 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The large majority of Gaza Strip’s propane refill stations have shut their doors this week after having run out of propane as Israeli authorities dangerously reduce the quantity of gas supplied to the region. “The continuing reduction in the amount of gas permitted into the Gaza […]

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PA security arrests elected mayor of Beit Ummar

[ 18/12/2010 – 04:11 PM ]   AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Palestinian Authority security agencies arrested Saturday Beit Ummar’s elected mayor Farhan Moussa Alqam after raiding and searching his home and confiscating his personal computer. The mayor was abducted on two previous occasions but was let go and rearrested by Israeli authorities, spending a year and a […]

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Maan News Agency: Farmer: Settlers burned my sheep alive

Published today 15:48   NABLUS (Ma’an) — A farmer said he watched a group of settlers in the northern West Bank gather his sheep and set them on fire Saturday afternoon. When he returned to the area, he told officials, he found 12 sheep burned alive, five with severe burns and two others that were […]

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Bahar to Fatah: Stop betting on US illusions

[ 18/12/2010 – 10:24 AM ]   SANA’A, (PIC)– Ahmed Bahar, first deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), addressing the faithful during Friday prayers at the president’s mosque in Sana’a, Yemen, said the US Congress’s stand on the PA turning to the UN Security Council for support in establishing an independent Palestinian state […]

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Hamas castigates UNRWA for taking students to sightsee holocaust centers

[ 18/12/2010 – 10:06 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas’s refugees department strongly denounced the UN’s Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for staging trips for Palestinian students to the US, Europe, and South Africa to sightsee Jewish holocaust museums, calling the trips “suspicious”. The department said UNRWA selected ninth grade honor students for a tour […]

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PA militias kidnap 18 Palestinians from Hamas in West Bank

[ 18/12/2010 – 02:12 PM ]   WEST BANK, (PIC)– The Palestinian Authority’s security militias kidnapped during its latest arrest campaigns 18 Palestinian citizens affiliated with Hamas Movement in different West Bank areas, according to local sources on Saturday. The arrest raids took place in the cities of Nablus, Salfit, Qalqiliya, Al-Khalil, Bethlehem, Jenin, Tulkarem, […]

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Aqsa preacher calls for Arab and Islamic conference to save holy city and Mosque

[ 18/12/2010 – 02:21 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Preacher of the Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Mohamed Salim called on Friday on the Arab and Islamic worlds to organiza a conference and a summit meeting in support of the occupied city of Jerusalem and the holy Aqsa Mosque. Sheikh Salim said it is time for […]

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3,000 Jewish settlers intrude on Palestinian town to visit alleged holy sites

[ 18/12/2010 – 02:15 PM ]   SALIT, (PIC)– A 3,000-man mob of Jewish settlers guarded by Israeli troops raided Friday morning the town of Kifl Haris near Salfit for a regular visit to shrines alleged to be located there, eyewitnesses reported. Jewish settlers claim the village is the site of three religious shrines, one […]

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Issawi demands int’l institutions to highlight miseries of Palestinians

[ 18/12/2010 – 03:02 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian minister of culture Osama Al-Issawi called on the international organizations operating in Palestine, especially the UNRWA, to necessarily take into account the real suffering and pains which the Palestinian people have been afflicted with because of the Israeli occupation. In a press release on Saturday, […]

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UN: Israel demolished 47 Palestinian structures in one week

[ 18/12/2010 – 03:14 PM ]   CAIRO, (PIC)– OCHA, the UN’s  Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, issued a report Saturday documenting 47 Palestinian-owned structures that were ripped down in the West Bank’s Area C in one week for allegedly missing building permits. 43 of those structures destroyed in the period Dec. 8 […]

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KABOBfest: The Time for Solidarity is Always Now

By Sarakenos 3Share                   Amjad, a young, secular, Christian, Lebanese hotel manager, near the American University of Beirut (AUB) in Al-Hamra, had a massive portrait of Hezbollah’s secretary general, Hasan Nasrallah, hanging on his bedroom wall. Anyone who knows Lebanon and the Middle East well enough would […]

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