PNN – Palestine News Network – 21.02.11 – 14:25 Gaza – PNN – A Palestinian worker was injured on Monday when Israeli troops stationed east of Gaza City opened fire on him. Archive Palestinian sources said that a group of workers were collecting construction materials near Gaza City’s eastern border with Israel when troops stationed […]
Continue readingBil’in marks six years of struggle with mass demonstration (video) — Israeli Occupation Archive
21 February 2011 Six years have passed since residents of Bil’in, together with their Israeli and international supporters, started regularly demonstrating against the Wall and the confiscation of more than half their land by it. It has been more than three years since the Israeli High Court ruled that the path of the Wall must […]
Continue readingSettlers Destroy Olive Trees
Monday February 21, 2011 14:13 by David Steele – IMEMC & Agencies The Ma’an News Agency reported, on Monday, that a group of settlers uprooted olive trees and damaged Palestinian farmland near Nablus. File – Olive trees destroyed and uprooted by the army, Ni’ilin – Active Stills The settlers destroyed 270 olive trees using chainsaws […]
Continue readingHome Gardens Blossom in Gaza
21.02.11 – 13:50| PNN – Palestine News Network ANERA/Gaza – PNN – The ground outside may not be ready for planting yet but inside Hanna El-Mosader’s greenhouse, lettuce, cucumbers and peppers are already blooming. Her tomatoes, melons and eggplants should be ready for harvesting in another month or so. Hanna’s children “Before I received the […]
Continue readingObama’s Veto Is On the Wrong Side of History
PNN – Palestine News Network – 21.02.11 – 12:05 By Daoud Kuttab – President Obama was on the right side of history when he supported the young nonviolent protestors in Egypt. The Obama administration was on the wrong side of history when Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the UN raised her hand vetoing a […]
Continue readingNO CHILD LEFT BEHIND …. UNLESS IT’S A PALESTINIAN CHILD
Posted by desertpeace at PS.HADNEWS.COM on Monday, February 21, 2011 at 10:25 am. The Israeli Forces attacked and shot rubber bullets and sound bombs at the children so they could not run away, and then proceeded to arrest 13 of them. Several army vehicles came into the area for support, attacking houses and cars to […]
Continue readingBECAUSE ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS …. THE CONNECTIONS « Desertpeace
February 21, 2011 at 09:24 Egyptian revolution is just the beginning Prepared by Antony Loewenstein What a start to 2011. After decades of US and Israeli backed repression, countless Arab peoples are rising up and asking for freedom; freedom from us and our meddling. From Egypt to Yemen and Bahrain to Jordan, the status-quo is […]
Continue readingThousands of Palestinians Protest U.S. Veto of Settlement Resolution
Monday February 21, 2011 11:23by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News An estimated 3,000 Palestinians marched through downtown Ramallah, in the central West Bank, on Sunday afternoon to protest the U.S. government’s veto of a United Nations Security Council Resolution condemning Israeli settlements as an ‘obstacle to peace’. The protest was led by members of the […]
Continue readingSelf-demolition in Beit Suhur « Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem
Sunday, 20 February, 2011 | 23:25 Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — A resident of Beit Suhur village south of Jerusalem was forced to demolish his own home under orders of the Jerusalem Municipality yesterday, 19 February. Ramzi Shehadeh Attun demolished his 70 square meter home after he was threatened by the Jerusalem Municipality with a fine […]
Continue readingHouse of mourning dedicated to martyr Husam Rwidy consecrated in Al-Bustan « Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem
Sunday, 20 February, 2011 | 22:02 Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Residents of Silwan constructed a house of mourning dedicated to local martyr Husam Hussein Rwidy yesterday, 19 February, in the Al-Bustan protest tent. The ceremony was attended by a number of representatives of various popular committees and civil society institutions of Silwan village, as well […]
Continue readingHousing Minister condemns large-scale settlement construction plan in OJ
[ 21/02/2011 – 11:38 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Gaza Minister of Public Works and Housing Yousef al-Mansi condemned approved plans to erect 3,300 homes for Jewish settlers in Jerusalem as announced by Israeli occupation. He emphatically stressed the need to address the plans ”designed to Judaize the holy city.” “The occupation government continues at […]
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