Jerusalem man forced to level home attachment

[ 20/02/2011 – 06:08 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A Palestinian man from the Suwar Bahir village east of Jerusalem was forced to tear down part of his own home on Sunday. Israeli authorities ordered Ramzi Attoun to demolish two rooms on his residence, locals said. They claimed the 80 square meter attachment built […]

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Female prisoner Abeer enters 11th year in Israeli jails

[ 20/02/2011 – 05:34 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian ministry of detainees’ affairs said that female prisoner Abeer Amro, 33, from Dura village in Al-Khalil city, has entered Sunday her 11th year in Israeli jails. Information director of the ministry Riyadh Al-Ashqar explained that prisoner Amro was kidnapped on February 20, 2001 and […]

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Israelis chop down 220 olive trees envisioning settlement expansion

[ 20/02/2011 – 05:39 PM ]   NABLUS, (PIC)– Jewish settlers in the West Bank were certainly encouraged after the U.S. struck down a resolution that would have thwarted settlement activity for good. In Nablus, Yash Adam settlers attacked a Palestinian-owned farm noon Sunday, chopping down hundreds of olive trees. Other settlers beat up the […]

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IOF troops bulldoze Khirbat Tana for fifth time

[ 20/02/2011 – 05:25 PM ]   NABLUS, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) escorted huge military bulldozers that razed the Palestinian Khirbat Tana village east of Nablus city for the fifth consecutive time, locals reported. They said that the IOF bulldozers started at an early morning hour on Sunday in destroying tents, tin houses, and […]

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Hamad: Rafah crossing will be open for departure next Tuesday

[ 20/02/2011 – 05:14 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Head of the Palestinian authority of crossings and borders Ghazi Hamad said that the Rafah border crossing would be reopened before passengers who need to leave Gaza for Egypt next Tuesday. In a press release, Hamad added that an average of 300 passengers everyday would be […]

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Citizen injured, homes damaged after savage attack by settlers in Al-Khalil

[ 20/02/2011 – 04:53 PM ]   AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Armed Jewish settlers last night attacked Palestinian homes in the old city of Al-Khalil, which led to the injury of one citizen and caused material damage in some houses. Eyewitness told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that dozens of armed Jewish savages brutally attacked a Palestinian […]

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Israeli soldiers kidnap student at Hawara checkpoint

[ 20/02/2011 – 04:55 PM ]   NABLUS, (PIC)– The international Tadamun (solidarity) foundation for Human Rights said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped Sunday morning a student of Al-Najah national university at Hawara checkpoint. Ahmed Al-Betawi, a researcher for the foundation, stated that the troops at this checkpoint, southeast of Nablus city, stopped […]

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Abbas keen on relations with the US despite its bias in favor of Israel

[ 20/02/2011 – 11:27 AM ]   RAMALLAH, (PIC)– De facto president Mahmoud Abbas insisted on his relations with the US despite the blow dealt to him by Washington last night, when the latter used the right of veto over a UN security council’s resolution against Israel’s settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian lands. Abbas […]

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IOF photographs minors amid night raids to identify stone-throwers

[ 20/02/2011 – 11:19 AM ]   NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Israeli occupational forces (IOF) raided several homes in the village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah since the year’s onset with the sole intent of waking minors living there and filming them, the Israeli B’Tselem organization said. “Israeli forces enter the village’s homes at night to […]

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Ten citizens suffer breathing difficulties in clashes with IOF soldiers

[ 20/02/2011 – 10:55 AM ]   TUL:AREM, (PIC)– Ten Palestinian citizens suffered breathing problems in Deir Al-Ghusun village, north of Tulkarem city, when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at them teargas canisters. Witnesses reported that clashes broke out on Saturday after the IOF soldiers attacked an anti wall march in the village using rubber […]

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Settlers uproot 220 olive trees near Nablus

Published today (updated) 20/02/2011 13:34 NABLUS (Ma’an) — A mob of extremist settlers stormed Palestinian farmland and uprooted olive trees near Nablus in the northern West Bank, Palestinian officials said.  Residents of an an illegal outpost “waged war on olive trees uprooting 220 using chainsaws and other means,” in Duma and Qusra villages, said Ghassan […]

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The final moments of the martyred Husam Rwidy « Wadi Hilweh Information Center Silwan, Jerusalem

Sunday, 20 February, 2011 | 12:33 Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Murad Khader Joulani has recalled the last moments of his friend, Husam Rwidy’s life, when they were assaulted by a group of right-wing Israeli extremist youths in West Jerusalem on 11 February. The knife attack resulted in the death of Rwidy and severe injury of […]

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Helen Thomas shows no regret over anti-Israel comments

[ 20/02/2011 – 10:30 AM ]   WASHINGTON, (PIC)– Helen Thomas, a former senior media correspondent for the White House, refused to take back comments condemning Jews occupying Palestinian land and demanding they return to their homelands. Helen displayed unparalleled courage during a recent interview with CNN that would have tried to elicit regret over […]

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Witnesses: Israel demolishes tents in West Bank village

Published today (updated) 20/02/2011 15:18     NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces bulldozed dozens of tents on Sunday, donated by the Palestinian Authority to the residents of Tana, a village east of the West Bank city of Nablus, locals said. Atif Hanini — mayor of nearby town Beit Furik — said six Israeli army jeeps […]

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OIC slams US veto of UN resolution

PressTV – Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:16AM UN Security Council The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has slammed the US for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution condemning illegal settlement activities by Israel on occupied Palestinian territories. “It is a devastating blow to the credibility of international efforts to resume the peace process,” OIC […]

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