Archive | March 16, 2011

Isreal to displace 13 Arab families from their homes in 1948 occupied lands

16/03/2011 – 03:05 PM NAZARETH, (PIC)– An Israeli court approved a petition filed by the Israeli land authority demanding the displacement of 13 Palestinian families from their homes in Dahmash village in the 1949 occupied lands. Press sources said that the Israeli court issued a decision to demolish the homes of Abu Kishk family, composed […]

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UN: Assistance to the Palestinian People – GA resolution 03/03/2011: A/RES/65/134 of 3 March 2011

UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/65/134 3 March 2011 Sixty-fifth session Agenda item 69 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/65/L.46 and Add.1)] 65/134. Assistance to the Palestinian people The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 64/125 of 16 December 2009, as well as its previous resolutions […]

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Startling new threats to children’s welfare emerge in Silwan | Palestine

Tuesday, 15 March, 2011 | 15:52 Mohammed Ashwah,11. Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — In a serious development in children’s welfare in Silwan, 11 year old resident Mohammed Ashwah has revealed to Silwanic a new attempt at exploitation of the village’s youth. Mohammad, together with his father Nimer Ashwah, have decided to tell the story in order […]

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Mar 16, 2011 PALESTINE HEADLINES

Mar 16, 2011 | GAZA PALESTINE | TODAY NEWS LINKS| Gaza has been under siege for 1372 days | Spread-Share-Link or Tweet the News! آخر الأخبار والتحديثات ♻Palestine Unity Protests March 15: http://wp.me/p16sn9-3P1 #Palestine #Gaza #Mar15 ************************************************************* ♻ All daily news & Sources about Palestine : http://www.occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com ************************************************************* ♻ All about Gaza Cast Lead War […]

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What about Israel’s Savage Actions?

Date posted: March 16, 2011 | By Ramzy Baroud | MIFTAH When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet announced the addition of several hundred units to four major colony blocks, news reports dutifully linked the decision to the stabbings of five members of a family in a remote colony in the West Bank. Whatever the […]

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Small unity protest in Gaza attacked

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The administration of Gaza’s Al-Azhar University said government security forces attacked students carrying out a demonstration Wednesday inside the university campus. Students told Ma’an that a group of men wearing civilian clothing surrounded the university entrances and prevented protesters from leaving the campus. When they insisted on exiting witnesses said the […]

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Three Arrested in Hebron, Troops Cut Down Olive Trees, Pile Waste near Bethlehem

16.03.11 – 15:01PNN – Palestine News Network Hebron – PNN – On Wednesday morning, dawn raids conducted by the Israeli army ended with the arrests of three Palestinians, as settler attacks escalated and Israeli soldiers near Nablus cut down and confiscated Palestinian olive trees. An Israeli bulldozer clearing Palestinian land (PNN Archive).       […]

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PAVLOVIAN RACISM

March 16, 2011 at 12:39  by desertpeace Why is it that Israel refuses to even investigate the possibility that the horrendous murder of an Israeli family of settlers might have been done by a NON Palestinian? It was reported yesterday on an Arab news site that the suspect in the killing was a disgruntled Asian worker. […]

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Story of Chile’s Palestinian Refugee Community, Past and Present

Al Tanf refugee camp. (MAP) By Douglas Smith| Palestine Chronicle | March 16, 2011 From the outset, Chile is probably one of the last countries one would consider when trying to understand the effects of the Nakba and the depth of the ongoing Palestinian refugee crisis. Geopolitically, it could not be any farther away from […]

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The Palestinian Factions and the Bollywood Soap Opera to End Division

16.03.11 – 13:38 PNN – Palestine News Network Fadi Abu Sa’ada – PNN Editor-in-Chief – It looks like everyone’s trying to escape their responsibilities as usual. As soon as the Palestinian youth announced their intentions to mobilize a stalled Palestine and end internal divisions, all the political groups tried to ride the wave. We’re ashamed […]

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Thabit organization criticizes Israel’s media campaign against UNRWA

16/03/2011 – 11:47 AM BEIRUT, (PIC)– Thabit organization for the right of return in Lebanon strongly denounced the Israeli media campaigns aimed at obliterating the Palestinian refugees’ right to return to their homes and delegitimizing the UNRWA. “The fierce campaign against the UNRWA is only a failed attempt to perpetuate a fait accompli through imposing […]

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Two Palestinians found dead after tunnel exploded south of Rafah

16/03/2011 – 11:38 AM GAZA, (PIC)– Medics recovered Wednesday morning the bodies of two workers who died after a gas pipe exploded in a tunnel south of the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt. Asaad al-Qudra, 58, of Khan Younis and Mohammed Lashin, 45, from the northern Gaza Strip were found dead after the explosion that […]

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Israeli forces assault elderly couple during arrest in Beit Ummar

16/03/2011 – 10:57 AM AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli forces assaulted Wednesday morning an elderly couple during an arrest operation in Beit Ummar north of the West Bank city of Al-Khalil. Israeli soldiers assaulted the Abu Marya family while they were working on their farm near the Karmi Tsur settlement. They arrested Waseem Abu Marya, 19, after […]

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Fatah militias attack women’s march in Al-Khalil

16/03/2011 – 10:52 AM AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Members of the Fatah militias tried to disrupt a women’s march in the West Bank city of Al-Khalil on Tuesday, Palestinian journalist Lama Khater has said. The marches were designed to demand an end to the national split and the release of political prisoners detained in the West Bank. […]

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Two Palestinians killed in Gaza blitz

PressTV –  Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:55AM At least two Palestinians have been killed and another injured as Israeli war planes launched an airstrike on the Hamas-controlled and blockaded Gaza Strip Israeli fighter jets fired several rockets at a building near the former Jewish settlement of Nitzarim on Wednesday. Two people were killed and another […]

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