Archive | January 4, 2011

Palestinian Home Demolished In Jerusalem – International Middle East Media Center

Tuesday January 04, 2011 10:38 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli bulldozers demolished on Tuesday at dawn a Palestinian home in Beit Hanina, north of occupied East Jerusalem, the Maan News Agency reported. File, Image by Maan News The agency added that apprxamately at 4:30 at dawn, Israeli policemen and workers of the […]

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Israel begins 2011 al-Quds demolitions

PressTV – Tue Jan 4, 2011 8:17AM Palestinian men from the Siyam family carry away their belongings past the rubble of their demolished house in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East al-Quds, January 3, 2011. Israeli forces have razed a Palestinian home in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), the latest in the nonstop wave of Israeli demolitions […]

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ei: Israel further institutionalizes racism toward Palestinian citizens

Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 3 January 2011 Israelis protest racism in Bat Yam, December 2010. (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills) RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) – A number of recent incidents discriminating against Israel’s Palestinian minority has prompted Israeli Knesset (parliament) members to debate whether Israel is becoming increasingly racist. Ronit Sela from the Association for Civil […]

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‘World conscience defends Palestine’

PressTV –  Tue Jan 4, 2011 7:13AM Interview with Suhail al-Natour, member of Democratic Front for Liberation of Palestine, Mahmoud al-Hirthani, Director of Center of Political Studies in Gaza and Richard Millett, Israel connect Gaza war |It has been two years since Israel launched its war on the Gaza Strip and tensions are still high […]

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Israel to hold migrants in closed detention center, despite pledging otherwise

Tuesday 4th January, 2011 Source: Haaretz Despite statements to the contrary, the facility the government plans to build in the south for the purpose of housing asylum seekers will be a closed compound, a document prepared for the National Planning and Building Council and obtained by Haaretz reveals. After the government decided in November to […]

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Proposal to Establish Committee to Investigate Israelis who Collect Information about Israeli Soldiers

Tuesday, 04 January 2011 07:40 Connie Hackbarth, Alternative Information Center (AIC) Knesset Member Fania Kirshenbaum (Yisrael Beitenu) has proposed to establish a parliamentary investigative committee to examine the actions and finances of Israeli organizations and individuals who collect information about Israeli soldiers, reported the Hebrew language site nrg.co.il yesterday (3 January). According to MK Kirshenbaum, […]

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Anniversary of Christian Palestinians’ Word to the World | Kairos Palestine Document – video

  Kairos Palestine Document Source: Kairos Palestine This document is the Christian Palestinians’ word to the world about what is happening in Palestine. It is written at this time when we wanted to see the Glory of the grace of God in this land and in the sufferings of its people. In this spirit the […]

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Signposting the occupation

by Eleanor K on January 3, 2011 My senses let me down. On Friday 31 December – the day Jawaher Abu Rahmah was murdered by the Israeli army – I thought I smelt manure in the village of Bil’in, but it was the skunk truck (The Boesh), used by the Israeli military to crush peaceful […]

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Combined Systems Inc., stop providing equipment that Israel misuses to kill and maim unarmed protesters at PS.HADNEWS.COM

Posted by palestinesolidarity@gmail.com (ISM Palestine) on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 3:59 am. TO: Combined Systems, Inc. Jamestown, Pennsylvania FROM: Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel (adalahny.org) CodePink: Women for Peace (www.codepink4peace.org) Jewish Voice for Peace (www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org) The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (www.endtheoccupation.org) DATE: January 3, 2011 Dear […]

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Courts of Racial Rule: The Imprisonment of Nuri al-‘Oqbi

20:58 01/03/2011 Human rights defender Nuri al-‘Oqbi. (Info-palestine.net) By Nasser Rego ‘I think the fact that the defendant is an activist for Bedouin ‘diaspora’ rights only makes it harder for his situation. Because he cannot on one hand argue that there are rights violations or non-preservation of rights for a group that he belongs to, […]

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Palestinian property demolished in French Hill « Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem

Monday, 3 January, 2011 | 20:40 Frensh Hill – Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — The Jerusalem Municipality demolished a Palestinian property today in the French Hill area, north Jerusalem. 100 sq meters of the 125 sq meter home were bulldozed, leaving a single bedroom and adjoining bathroom standing. The original home built in the 1950s, with an […]

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Israel’s Genocidal Aggression on Gaza Revisited By Khalid Amayreh

By Khalid Amayreh Al-Jazeera, CCUN, January 3, 2011 The Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip two years ago, which lasted for three weeks, was pornographically criminal and graphically genocidal. Israel knowingly and deliberately targeted innocent civilians, including children, using state-of-the-art machines of death. Entire families were simply exterminated at the pretext that a member was […]

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