The Associated Press | Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:43:00 CST GENEVA – A U.N.-appointed expert panel has reported little progress by either Israel or the Palestinians in investigating if war crimes occurred in 2009 in Gaza. A panel chaired by former New York Supreme Court Judge Mary McGowan Davis on Friday said Israeli authorities “significantly […]
Continue readingPhotographer hospitalized for suffocation during clashes
Friday, 18 March, 2011 | 14:03 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — News photographer Mahfouz Abu Turk was transferred to Al Maqased Hospital in Jerusalem today after suffering severe suffocation effects due to tear gas inhalation during violent confrontations today in Silwan. Abu Turk today. Abu Turk in […]
Continue readingNo yellow no green on March 15
by Fidaa Abu Assi on March 18, 2011 | Mondoweiss Yes, we have some issues with colors. Although I hate neither Yellow nor Green, the last thing I’d be needing these days is to be dressed in either color; or else, I’d be accused of being either pro-Fatah or pro-Hamas, for we, sometimes, seem to […]
Continue readingFrance tries four over Israel boycott | video
PressTV – Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:16PM Four French pro-Palestinian activists have stood trial over their call for a boycott of all Israeli products manufactured in the occupied Palestinian territories. The trials are the latest measure taken against those who dare criticize Israel, including members of the long-running Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. […]
Continue readingIsrael court decides to turn Rahma graveyard into Jewish garden
[ 18/03/2011 – 10:32 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– An Israeli court decided to convert part of the Palestinian graveyard, Bab Al-Rahma, in occupied Jerusalem into a biblical garden and prevent the Muslim Palestinians from burying their dead there. This decision was taken after an extremist Jewish settler called Arie King filed a petition […]
Continue readingFive locals injured in Bil’in’s weekly demonstration
18 March 2011 | Friends of Freedom and Justice, Bil’in The slogan of this week’s peaceful demonstration in Bil’in was to ‘End the Division and Occupation.’ Many international and Israeli activists participated alongside local residents of Bil’in and neighboring villages. Joining them were also the hunger strikers of the 15/March movement currently staying in Al- […]
Continue readingIsraeli Military Withdraws From Awarta. Damage, Theft, Assaults Reported
Thursday March 17, 2011 12:16 by Circarre Parrhesia – IMEMC & Agencies The Israeli military withdrew, on Wednesday, from the village of Awarta, near Nablus following it’s imposition of four days of curfew. The military’s action were in response to the murder of five members of the Fogel family, a family of Israeli settlers in […]
Continue readingThis is Zionism: Eden Abergil: ‘I’m B-A-C-K’
Eden Abergil: ‘I’m B-A-C-K’ Eden Abergil’s homicidal Facebook rants: ‘Fuck you, stinking Arabs’ Just like a bad penny or Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator, Eden Abergil is back to wreak havoc once more. Several months ago she found notoriety by proudly uploading to her Facebook account pictures of her simpering as an IDF soldier next to […]
Continue readingThousands of Jerusalemites halt claim to taxes as a prelude to being separated from the city
Friday, 18 March 2011 15:49 Jerusalem Centre for Social and Economic Rights Thursday 17th The Jerusalem Human Rights Centre has said that authorities of the Israeli occupation have recently begun the implementation of a new policy affecting Jerusalemite inhabitants living in districts that have been cut off by the Apartheid Wall surrounding the occupied city. […]
Continue readingPCHR: Two Palestinians Killed; Three Injured by Israeli Attacks this Week
18.03.11 – 17:24 Gaza – PNN/PCHR –Two Palestinians were killed and three other injured as the Israeli continued to target Palestinian communities in both the West Bank and Gaza, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights said in its weekly report. The report, which documents daily human rights violations in the Palestinian territories, covers the period […]
Continue readingIsrael To Demolish Six Homes In East Jerusalem For Wall Construction
Friday March 18, 2011 19:06 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Israeli Authorities handed down orders to six Bedouin families, from Al Saray’a tribe, in occupied East Jerusalem, informing them the the Jerusalem Municipality intends to demolish their homes. File The new orders came following nine similar orders that were handed down to […]
Continue readingSix Injured, Two Kidnapped As Troops Attack West Bank Anti-wall Protests
Friday March 18, 2011 19:31 by IMEMC & PNN Six civilians were injured and two were kidnapped when the Israeli army attacked the weekly anti-wall protests organized on Friday in the villages of Bil’in, Nil’in and an-Nabi Saleh, in the central West Bank, as well as al-Ma’sara in the south. Bilin – Image bilin-ffj.org In […]
Continue readingClashes Takes Place In Silwan
Friday March 18, 2011 21:32 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Clashes took place on Friday between dozens of Palestinian residents on Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem. Several residents and one Israeli officer, were injured. file Image silwannews.com Israeli sources reported that the Border Guard Policemen (Israel’s Military Police” suffered body injuries during […]
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