Egypt loses LE 100 billion from gas exports to Israel since 2005

Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:30| MEMO Over the past six years, Egypt supplying natural gas to Israeli is to be more than one hundred billion Egyptian pounds. Egyptian petroleum experts have estimated that the country’s losses over the past six years from supplying natural gas to Israeli to be more than one hundred billion Egyptian […]

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Ramallah: Protesters suspend hunger strike

March 17, 2011 21:59 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A core group of protesters from the March 15 coalition decided Thursday morning to put their hunger strike on hold as Fatah and Hamas leaders prepared to meet in Gaza. Around 10 protesters began a hunger strike in Ramallah’s Manara square on Sunday, demanding elections for the Palestinian […]

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Mar 17, 2011 PALESTINE HEADLINES

Mar 17, 2011 | GAZA PALESTINE | TODAY NEWS LINKS| Gaza has been under siege for 1373 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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March 15 coalition launches petition

March 17, 2011 21:24 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The March 15 coalition has launched an initiative to gather a million signatures to end the division, the coordinator of the coalition Yousef Nouri told Ma’an. “This campaign will be house-to-house, street-to-street, city-to-city in the West Bank and Gaza demanding an end to division,” Nouri said. The document […]

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UNRWA trying to resolve crisis

March 17, 2011 21:30 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness says the Palestinian refugee agency is trying to resolve a dispute at their building in Gaza City, but it is concerned about the safety of demonstrators. “Around 20 people are carrying out a sit-in in front of the UNRWA building. It increased to hundreds […]

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Ill youth from Gaza, who for 16 days was denied entry to Israel to receive treatment, dies in East Jerusalem hospital

B’Tselem, March 17, 2011 On 4 December 2010, Mahmoud a-Najar, 15, from Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, was diagnosed as having leukemia. Physicians at a-Shifaa Hospital, in Gaza City, referred him to Augusta Victoria Hospital, in East Jerusalem, where he was given an appointment for 28 December. Mahmoud a-Najar in a-Shifaa hospital in […]

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Settler vandals continue to do damage

Mar 17, 2011 NABLUS (Ma’an) — At least 100 olive trees were ripped out and four water tankers ruined Thursday afternoon, by what witnesses said was a mob of at least a dozen settlers. On a hilltop between the Nablus-district villages of Beita and Aquraba, some four kilometers south of the Israeli settlement of Itamar, […]

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IDF displays advanced weapons for Gaza it says seized on Turkish cargo ship

Posted by gazasolidarity at PS.HADNEWS.COM on Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 12:53 pm. The IDF showed off photos of what it claimed were weapons bound for Gaza seized on a Turkish cargo ship. The IDF says anti-ship missiles were included in the consignment. Israeli naval commandos intercepted and commandeered on Tuesday a cargo vessel en […]

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Israel says trees planted on ‘state land’

March 17, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A spokesman for Israel’s Civil Administration told Ma’an on Thursday that nearly 100 olive trees bulldozed near Beit Dajan the day before were planted on land that did not belong to Jamal Abu Kanaan. The spokesman said the land in question was “state land,” and said all documents necessary […]

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Israel’s cruel punishment of the very ill in Gaza | Jews for Justice for Palestinians

Ilana Hammerman, 11 March 2011 After many delays, a diabetes patient from the Gaza Strip was finally allowed to travel to a Ramallah hospital for surgery. A fraught journey through the land of the checkpoints. Driving south past the Ashkelon intersection on Highway 4 that Thursday morning, I began to notice a few of the […]

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ei: The Palestine Papers and the “Gaza coup”

Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 27 January 2011 Palestinians demonstrate in support of national unity in Gaza City, July 2009. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages) It has long been known that following Hamas’ victory in Palestinian Authority legislative elections in January 2006, Israel and its allies, particularly the United States, worked to undermine the Hamas-led government. Their aim […]

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Sami Is Saved From Death In A Settlers Attack

Thursday March 17, 2011 19:06 by Jeany Massad – IMEMC and agencies While Sami was working in a settlement between Ramallah and Nablus, he was surprised by eight settlers who attacked him and beat him aggressively. Sami is 31 years old from a village called Ytima. He was moved to a hospital in Ramallah because […]

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MADA: Palestinian Police and Israeli Troops Attacked Journalists this Week

17.03.11 – 17:04| PNN – Palestine News Network Ramallah – MADA To PNN – the Palestinians Center for Development and Media Freedoms MADA announced on Thursday that Palestinians journalists were attacked in Gaza and Jerusalem. Archive On Thursday a group of journalists were detained by members of the Israeli border guard unit following their participation […]

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Palestinian unity movement’s goal strikes at heart of Israeli occupation strategy of divide and conquer

by Alex Kane on March 17, 2011 | MondoWeiss The slogans are simple enough: “the people want an end to the division,” tens of thousands of young protesters in Gaza and the West Bank chanted as their protest movement demanding Palestinian political unity kicked off March 14. But beneath the simple slogan is an audacious […]

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Young Gazan fisherman shot in abdomen

17 March 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Yasser’s bullet wound A young curly-haired boy snores solemnly in a hot room in Al-Shifa hospital in central Gaza City. He lays wrapped in a blanket and is connected to a drip. His brothers and cousins sit around his bed on yet another hospital visit. “This is […]

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