Archive | January 17, 2011

Man Injured by Israeli Police Gunfire, Homemade Shell Hits Negev

PNN – Palestine News Network -17.01.11 – 13:59 Negev – PNN – A Palestinian worker was injured when an Israeli police officer opened fire on him at the northern Israeli city of Naharya. Homemade Qassam shells – Archive The young man comes from the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank. Israeli police said that […]

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No More Censorship! | In Defense Of Uruknet

January 17, 2011 at 11:57 | By Sofia Smith On January 11, 2011 we made a post titled ‘In Defense of Uruknet’. This blog post was made in the hope of getting enough people to sign onto Uruknets group page on Facebook to apply pressure to reinstate Uruknet’s profile page, which had been deactivated/revoked by […]

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Two years since the Gaza War, Palestinians braced for another conflict

ReliefWeb  | Source: Islamic Relief (IR) | Date: 17 Jan 2011 Increased military operations have led Palestinians to prepare for a potential outbreak of conflict, just two years after the 22-day war. During the War, 1,300 people died and more than 5,000 were injured during Operation Cast Lead. 40,000 people were displaced from their homes […]

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The Mayor of Bethlehem, a US Citizen under Siege

PNN – Palestine News Network – 17.01.11 – 12:14 Fadi Abu Saada &Ghassan Bannoura – PNN – Dr. Victor Batarseh, mayor of Bethlehem, accused of close ties to the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine  (PFLP) and the Islamic Hamas movement, has been boycotted by visiting American and European officials. Dr. Victor Batarseh […]

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Shepherd Hotel destruction put on hold after appeals are made

[ 17/01/2011 – 11:12 AM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Jerusalem’s Planning and Construction Committee has issued an injunction order temporarily freezing demolition and rebuilding works on the site of the Arab-owned Shepherd Hotel in Sheikh Jarrah, until the legitimacy of the permit to build there can be decided. The hotel compound was acquired by […]

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UNRWA directors leaving Gaza, West Bank – UPI.com

Published: Jan. 17, 2011 at 6:26 AM RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jan. 17 (UPI) — The directors of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in the Gaza Strip and West Bank are leaving their posts, agency representative Chris Gunness said. John Ging, the Gaza director for the agency, will take a senior position in the […]

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Hamas Criticizes PA Over US Consulate Blackwater Contract

PNN – Palestine News Network – 17.01.11 – 10:50 Bethlehem – PNN – The Islamic movement Hamas expressed its objection to the American hiring of the infamous Blackwater contracting firm, now under the name Xe Services Worldwide, for security services in the West Bank. Hamas called the move “a suspicious step” to protect Israeli and Fatah security agencies […]

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Peres Slams Investigation Of NGO’s Funding

Monday January 17, 2011 10:34 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli President, Shimon Peres, stated during an interview with Israel’s daily, Haaretz, that the formation of a parliamentarian committee to investigate the sources of funding sent to non-governmental Organizations harms democracy in the country. Israeli President – Shimon Peres – Wikipedia He called […]

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Middle East Christians on the Cross

PNN – Palestine News Network – 17.01.11 – 10:01 By Yusef Daher – Two massacres, one in Baghdad ending 2010 and another one in Alexandria to start 2011, were enough to ring the alarm again on Middle East Christians. In the International community but mainly in the Arab world, governments, writers, and political parties started dealing […]

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When Christians Become Targets

PNN – Palestine News Network – 17.01.11 – 09:55 By Simon Azazian- Christians have been living in the Middle East seven decades prior to the arrival of Islam, and for 14 other decades as part of, or under, the law of Islam. Never has the situation of Christians reached such a difficult, unstable situation as […]

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Fayyad: “Blackwater Is Not Operating In The West Bank”

Monday January 17, 2011 09:51 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Faayyad, stated Sunday that the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is not dealing with American security company, Blackwater, and that the United States hired Blackwater to provide protection for senior American figures visting the West Bank and […]

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Haniyya: “Egypt Interested In Inviting Palestinian Factions To Meet In Cairo” – International Middle East Media Center

Monday January 17, 2011 08:05 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Prime Minister of the dissolved Hamas-led government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyya, stated Sunday that the Egyptian Authorities are interested in inviting Palestinian factions, mainly the rival Fateh and Hamas movements, to meet in Cairo, once again, in an attempt to end the internal […]

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Israel halts construction at hotel site

PressTV – Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:2AM Israeli bulldozers demolished the old building of the Shepherd Hotel in Sheikh Jarrah to build 20 new settler units. Following an emergency complaint against Israel’s illegal construction at the site of a recently demolished hotel in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), Tel Aviv says it has put a temporary halt […]

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Arrest Warrant Issued Against Israeli National Believed To Be Involved In Dubai Assassination – International Middle East Media Center

Monday January 17, 2011 07:30 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Nearly a year after a number of Israeli Mossad Agents assassinated a senior Hamas member, at a hotel in Dubai, the German Authorities issued an arrest warrant against an Israeli national believed to have used a forged German passport to enter Dubai. Mahmoud […]

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Palestinians slam Israeli Jewish site

PressTV – Mon Jan 17, 2011 4:9AM Palestinians have strongly condemned Israel’s opening of a new prayer site in the heart of the Muslim quarter of East al-Quds (Jerusalem). Israeli municipal officials recently ordered the removal of the scaffolding that used to support an archway beneath Palestinian homes. The clearance will make it possible for […]

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