Archive | January 21, 2011

PCHR Weekly Report: 1 Palestinian Civilian Killed, 8 Wounded By Israeli Troops This Week

Friday January 21, 2011 02:23 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 13-19 January 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded 4 others in the Gaza Strip. […]

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Gas shortage in Gaza

Friday, 21 January 2011 00:40 Palestinians are in need of the urgent intervention of the international community to call on the Israelis to allow them to live their lives at a basic minimum standard as required under international law. Fuel companies in the Gaza Strip have confirmed that most of the cooking gas filling stations […]

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Israeli troops in Gaza naval raid likely to be exonerated

  The Irish Times – Friday, January 21, 2011 | MARK WEISS in Jerusalem   THE ISRAELI investigation into the naval raid on ships bringing aid to Gaza is expected to conclude that the troops were not guilty of war crimes and that Israel acted according to international law. The Jerusalem Post yesterday quoted an […]

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Clinton: “Washington Opposes Security Council Move Against Israeli Settlement Activities” – International Middle East Media Center

Friday January 21, 2011 03:28 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News & Agencies U.S Secretary Of State, Hilary Clinton stated Thursday that the White House rejects the proposal that was submitted by the Palestinian Authority to the United Nations in an attempt to condemn Israel’s settlement activities in the occupied territories. Hilary Clinton – Maan […]

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ei: Boycott roundup: Ahava products off the shelves, for now

Report, The Electronic Intifada, 20 January 2011 Boycott activists protest the sale of Ahava products at a US store (Steve Rhodes). Canadian and United Kingdom solidarity activists have scored recent victories towards deshelving cosmetics made in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. Canadians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East (CPJME) […]

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Vigil pays tribute to thousands killed on Gaza Strip

By Amy Rowe Correspondent | Daily Targum – News Published: Friday, January 21, 2011 Scott Tsai / Staff Photographer Students light candles and share a moment of silence on the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus last night to remember the lives lost during the Gaza massacres. Several attendees wore traditional scarves […]

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US slams PA efforts against Israel

PressTV – Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:56AM US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has criticized the Palestinian Authority (PA) for trying to condemn Israeli settlement projects at the UN Security Council. “The only way that there will be a resolution of the conflict… is through a negotiated settlement,” she […]

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Palestinian Fighter Killed In Clashes With Israeli Soldiers In Jenin – International Middle East Media Center

Friday January 21, 2011 08:57 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News The Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, reported that one of its fighters was killed on Thursday afternoon during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank. Salem Sammoudi The brigades identified the fighter […]

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Angry protestors block French FM’s convoy in Gaza

English.news.cn 2011-01-21 16:49:01 FeedbackPrintRSS GAZA, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) — Families of Palestinian prisoners, protesting near Gaza’s northern borders with Israel, intercepted French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot Marie’s convoy when it entered Gaza Friday. Some 40 protestors, most of them women, are outraged because the minister met the family of Gilad Shalit, a captive Israeli soldier […]

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