Jan 16, 2011 | GAZA PALESTINE | TODAY NEWS LINKS| Gaza has been under siege for 1313 days | Spread-Share-Link or Tweet the News!

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Fayyad dismisses Blackwater allegations

Published today 22:15 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Sunday dismissed allegations the PA was colluding with US security group Blackwater. Fayyad told Ma’an that the US hired the private security firm to protect senior American figures in the West Bank and Israel. He said the contract was assigned by the […]

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Rabbis call Palestinian presence in ’48-occupied territory “a terrorist act”

[ 16/01/2011 – 07:06 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Rabbi Zalman Melamed, a prominent Jewish religious leader in Israel, called Palestinian keenness to reside in “Jewish cities” in occupied Palestine a “terrorist attempt to crush two thousand year old Jewish dreams” and a stab at Arabizing Jewish neighborhoods. Dozens of rabbis, touring northern Palestine, […]

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Silwan teenager re-arrested

Sunday, 16 January, 2011 | 17:13 Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Israeli forces re-arrest Silwan resident Musab Shyoukhi, 18, while he was already serving a house arrest sentence. Shyoukhi was taken by police from his home, on the charge of breaking the terms of his house arrest. The accusation was based on photos allegedly taken by […]

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Israeli court sentences Jerusalemite child to one year behind bars

[ 16/01/2011 – 06:43 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– An Israeli court on Sunday sentenced a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in occupied Jerusalem to one year imprisonment for throwing stones at Israeli occupation police. Local sources said that the Magistrate Court in Maskobeh turned down a request by lawyer of the child Motez Al-Rajabi, from […]

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Jewish settlers desecrate Yaffa mosque under police protection

[ 16/01/2011 – 06:51 PM ]   YAFFA, (PIC)– Jewish settlers desecrated a Yaffa mosque Saturday evening during an aggressive march that was apparently coordinated with police. The settlers crowded round and stoned the Nuzha mosque after roaming the occupied city’s streets waving Israeli flags and shouting “Death to Arabs”, Palestinian sources said. Israeli police […]

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Volunteer group helping Palestinian children – The National

Manal Ismail Last Updated: Jan 17, 2011   DUBAI // Khalil al Jedaili lost his legs during Israel’s attack on Gaza in 2009, when he and 10 other family members ran to his grandmother’s house for shelter. One of his brothers was killed and Khalil was buried under the rubble of the house. However, Khalil […]

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The struggle for democracy in words and action

Sunday, January 16 2011|+972blog     by Libby Lenkinski UPDATE: Since this post was filed, the village of Al-Araqib has been demolished again – for the 9th time in a row. Reports speak of escalation in police and army violence, and information as yet unconfirmed even mentions rubber bullets fired at Israeli civilians.  We will […]

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Clashes in Silwan as police up the stakes in Baten al-Hawa land grab

Sunday, 16 January, 2011 | 20:36 Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Violent clashes erupted in Baten al-Hawa district today following a large Israeli police raid on a residential home. The home of Yahya Silwadi and his family has stormed by police and plainclothes officers, who told residents that they needed to inspect the home for “illegal” […]

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Hamas praises Tunisian uprising

[ 16/01/2011 – 06:31 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Hamas resistance group praised the recent Tunisian uprising, calling it a “milestone in contemporary Arab history”, and asserting that injustice can only be countered with sacrifice. “We believe this uprising is a milestone in contemporary Arab history, an assurance of their aspirations for freedom and […]

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Dozens Injured as al-Araqib Village Destroyed for Ninth Time, Including Knesset Minister’s Office

PNN – Palestine News Network – 16.01.11 – 14:41 Negev – PNN – On Sunday, eyewitnesses in the southern Israeli Bedouin village of al-Araqib reported violent clashes between village residents and Israeli police, including live fire, during the ninth recorded demolition of the village. A scene from a previous demolition (PNN Archive). At least five […]

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Israel destroys Araqeeb village for 9th time, displaces its natives

[ 16/01/2011 – 04:32 PM ]   NEGEV, (PIC)– The Israeli police displaced Sunday morning 300 Palestinians, mostly children and women, and left them in the cold after their bulldozers demolished, for the ninth consecutive time, all the homes of Araqeeb village located between the towns of Rahat and Beersheba in Negev region. Local sources […]

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Israeli planners may approve largest beyond Green Line settlement project yet

[ 16/01/2011 – 04:13 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Jerusalem Planning and Construction Committee will discuss next week approval of the largest yet settlement project outside the Green Line in East Jerusalem. The project, expanding the Gilo settlement’s borders toward the West Bank, will include the construction of more than 1,400 residential units, […]

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The Hasbara Buster: Close encounters of a nasty kind

Thursday, January 13, 2011 Israel provides free medical care to Palestinians. Every year, [fill in with number] Palestinians are treated in Israeli hospitals, getting world-class attention, which proves Israel is no cruel occupier.You will have heard this Zionist claim a fairly large number of times. For some reason, certain people seem to believe that you […]

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Violent Clashes in Silwan

Sunday, 16 January, 2011 | 17:00 | « Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem   Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Violent clashes in the heart of Silwan village, eyewitnesses reported that calshes between Israeli forces and Palestinians strated  after civil dressed men with cameras tried to break into Silwady family house. Violent Clashes in Silwan […]

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