Archive | January 19, 2011

IOA serves demolition notifications to owners of five tents

[ 19/01/2011 – 02:48 PM ]   AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Wednesday delivered demolition notices to five Palestinian families living in tents east of Yatta town, south of Al-Khalil city, local sources reported. They said that the tents are pitched in an area opposite to the Jewish settlement outpost known as […]

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PA militias kidnap four citizens including three school students in W. Bank

[ 19/01/2011 – 02:22 PM ]   WEST BANK, (PIC)– The Fatah-controlled Palestinian authority (PA) relentlessly continues kidnapping and summoning Palestinian citizens in the West Bank, where its security militias detained four of them lately because of their affiliation with Hamas Movement in the occupied territories of Jerusalem and Salfit. According to local sources on […]

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IOF kidnap 18 Palestinians in W. Bank

[ 19/01/2011 – 02:15 PM ]   NABLUS, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped at dawn Wednesday 18 Palestinian citizens in the West Bank, most of them from Nablus city, during violent raids on their homes. The Hebrew radio reported that 18 wanted Palestinians were taken to interrogation centers after a wide military operation […]

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Bardawil: Israel is trying again to incite against Gaza with its Qaeda claims

[ 19/01/2011 – 02:25 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Senior Hamas official and lawmaker Salah Al-Bardawil strongly denounced the Israeli occupation state for renewing its claims about the presence of Qaeda members in the besieged Gaza Strip, stressing that Israel is trying once again to incite the west against Hamas and Gaza people. In a […]

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Abu Sha’ar slams Israel’s plan to build 32 housing units in O. Jerusalem

[ 19/01/2011 – 02:30 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian minister of religious affairs Taleb Abu Sha’ar strongly denounced the declared Israeli plan to build 32 new housing units in Pisgat Ze’ev settlement, north of occupied Jerusalem. Abu Sha’ar in a statement on Tuesday said the Israeli occupation state is accelerating its settlement and Judaization […]

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UN rights board calls for complete halt on Israeli settlement activity

[ 19/01/2011 – 02:37 PM ]   NEW YORK, (PIC)– A UN human rights board called Tuesday on world powers to force Israel to put a dead-end on peace-impeding settlement plans, and expressed sorrow over the world’s lack of political will. The board, which is interested in preserving the “inalienable rights of the Palestinians”, said […]

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Palestinian worker hit in IOF shooting

[ 19/01/2011 – 02:43 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– A Palestinian worker collecting gravel in east of Jabalia town, to the north of the Gaza Strip, was hit with Israeli army bullets on Wednesday, medical sources reported. Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for medical services, said that a 22-year-old youth was injured in his foot […]

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Soldiers Kidnap 14 Members Of Fateh, PFLP

Wednesday January 19, 2011 11:48|  by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Wednesday at dawn more than 14 Palestinian youths, all under the age of 21, apparently for their affiliation with the Fateh movement of President Mahmoud Abbas, and the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Image – […]

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Abbas: East Jerusalem is Our Capital and We Will Not Negotiate for It

PNN – Palestine News Network -19.01.11 – 11:09 Jericho – PNN – After what he called a “historic” meeting with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told a group of Jericho army cadets, “Jerusalem is our capital and we will not negotiate for it.” Abbas addresses a group of military cadets in […]

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Israel uproots Bedouin communities in drive to undermine their way of life

Posted by gazasolidarity on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 10:28 am. Report from the Alternative Information Center on the ongoing destruction of Bedouin communities in the Negev. The latest village to be destroyed is El Araqib – for the ninth time. There have also been battles in Jordan between the Bedouin and the state. This […]

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Racism In Jewish Schools; “A Dead Arab Is A Good Arab”

Wednesday January 19, 2011 11:21 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies A number of teachers working in Jewish Schools in Israel stated that more instances of racism are reaching alarming levels as more students are expressing their views that exceeded their hatred to Arabs to the level of advocating for killing them. Death To […]

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What Do you Mean We are Undermining the Government?

Wednesday, 19 January 2011 09:51 Marinus Verweij, ICCO Last Thursday, ICCO discussed its funding of the news site The Electronic Intifada with Uri Rosenthal, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands. It was a tough and straightforward talk, but ICCO sees no reason to change its policy. International law is the main guideline for […]

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Hasbara / Israel: Al Qaeda behind recent Gaza rocket attacks | Al Bawaba

Published Jan 19, 2011 Rocket attack Yuval Diskin, head of the Israeli internal security agency (Shabak), conveyed that groups affiliated to al Qaeda were behind the firing of rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Israeli towns and settlements near the Gaza Strip. Diskin, who spoke before the Committee for Foreign Affairs and Defense in the […]

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Israeli Forces Arrest 18 in West Bank, Including 15 in One Village

PNN – Palestine News Network – 19.01.11 – 10:14 Nablus – PNN – In a series of overnight raids around the occupied West Bank ending on Wednesday morning, Israeli troops arrested 18 civilians, including 15 in the village of Barqeh, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. (PNN Archive) Ghassan Douglas, the Palestinian Authority […]

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New Israeli laws targeting human rights groups

    Palestine Monitor, 18 January 2011 It all started last year, in late January/early Febuary 2010, when the ultra-nationalist group Im Tirzu launched an attack on the New Israel Fund (NIF) – a philanthropic fund set up to support Israeli non-profit, civil society organizations – claiming that 90% of the information used in the […]

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