Critical mass bycicle ride through Tel Aviv Tuesday 11 Jan 11

  YouTube – Critical mass bycicle ride through Tel Aviv Tuesday 11 Jan 11.

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Hamas calls US-Blackwater deal political ‘fall’ for Fatah

[ 12/01/2011 – 04:08 PM ]   DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Hamas expressed its utmost objection to the US’s hiring of the infamous Blackwater firm for security services in the West Bank, calling the move a suspicious step to protect Israel and Fatah security agencies and persecute resistance fighters. “We emphasize that our Palestinian land is not […]

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Army demolishes 17 structures in South Hebron Hills – humanitarian crisis looming

    Wednesday, January 12 2011|Mairav Zonszein Seventeen structures, including a school and a bathroom facility, were demolished by the army this morning in Al-Daqeqa, a Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills. The Civil Administration of the IDF carried out the demolitions, citing that the structures were illegally built. A few weeks ago the Civil […]

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Christian Organizations Build Jerusalem Residential Projects to Combat Exodus

PNN – Palestine News Network – 12.01.11 – 14:16 Jerusalem – PNN – In an unprecedented step to combat the exodus of Palestinian Christians, the Latin Patriarchate and the Franciscan Institute to Protect the Holy Land have teamed up to build new residential units in East Jerusalem and rebuild derelict ones in the Old City. […]

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Israeli Government Allocates $100M to Birthright, Educational Zionist Trip – International Middle East Media Center

Wednesday January 12, 2011 16:59 by Ramona M. – IMEMC and Agencies Israel increases funding for Birthright, a 10-day free educational trip to Israel, which aims to bring 51,000 Jewish young adults to Israel annually by 2013 Birthright Trip Photo: Forward.com According to Ynetnews, last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the government has […]

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Fatah MP visits Gaza prison to ensure there are no Fatah hunger strikers

Wednesday, 12 January 2011 12:50 Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council representing Fatah and Hamas, Sharaf Juma’a and Ismail Al-Ashqar respectively, made a visit to Gaza Central Prison on Monday evening (10.01.2011) where they met with inmates who confirmed that they were not being detained on political grounds and that they were not on hunger […]

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Israeli ambulances refuse to enter ‘unrecognized’ Palestinian villages

Wednesday, 12 January 2011 11:45 Medical crews from the Israeli ambulance organisation, the Red Shield of David, routinely refuse to enter Palestinian villages. Palestinian rights organizations working in Israel have stated that medical crews from the Israeli ambulance organisation, the Red Shield of David, routinely refuse to enter Palestinian villages ‘unrecognized’ by the state and […]

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Silwan Palestinian Activist Updates – International Middle East Media Center

Wednesday January 12, 2011 15:40 by Ramona M. – IMEMC and Agencies Adnan Ghaith, from Silwan, East Jerusalem, moved to Ramallah today after he received a deportation order from Israeli authorities. The order stipulates that he be barred from entering Jerusalem for four months starting today. The Israeli order is clearly politically motivated, as Ghaith […]

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Hezbollah, allies to topple Lebanon govt

    Emirates 24/7 Published Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Ministers from Hezbollah and its allies will resign and bring down the Lebanese government of Prime Minister Saad al Hariri on Wednesday ahead of indictments against the Shi’ite group over the killing of Hariri’s father. “The resignation statement has been written and will be announced at […]

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Zahhar: Israeli threats to test resistance’s reaction

[ 12/01/2011 – 03:21 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, a political bureau member of Hamas, has opined that the Israeli threats to invade the Gaza Strip were meant to test the reaction of resistance. He said in a press release on Wednesday that the threats also aim at reassuring the Israeli settlers […]

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Christian Arabs’ Plight: Foreign “Protection” Counterproductive

PNN – Palestine News Network – 12.01.11 – 15:21 By Nicola Nasser – Suddenly, the U. S. – European alliance is acting to protect the “existence” of the Christian Arab minority against the Muslim Arab majority whose very existence is besieged and threatened by this same alliance, drawing on a wide spread Islamophobia while at […]

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If You Were a Refugee…

  PNN – Palestine News Network -12.01.11 – 15:31 By Maria Winther – What are refugees, really? We hear this term so often in the media, but seldom understand what it really means. To illustrate this, let’s put the situation of the Palestinian refugees into a Western perspective. For many Western people, the most recent occupation […]

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PA militias kidnap husband of MP Halaiqa

[ 12/01/2011 – 02:27 PM ]   AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Security militias from the Palestinian Authority (PA) kidnapped on Tuesday evening the husband of Hamas lawmaker Samira Halaiqa after he was summoned for interrogation. MP Halaiqa said that the PA preventive security kidnapped her husband Mohamed Halaiqa after his return from a court hearing held by […]

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Hamas: IOA demolition policy would not weaken Palestinian determination

[ 12/01/2011 – 02:36 PM ]   AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday that the Israeli occupation authority’s (IOA) streak of demolition of Palestinian homes would not dissuade our people from defending their land. It denounced the IOA destruction of a school and 16 homes east of Yatta village, Al-Khalil district, charging […]

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Palestinian businessmen slam intended closure of Al-Mintar crossing

[ 12/01/2011 – 01:52 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The independent coalition of Palestinian businessmen and economists stated that Israel’s decision to close Al-Mintar commercial crossing and retain Karam Abu Salem terminal as the only passage between the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied territories is part of the economic strangulation policy pursued by Israel […]

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