Archive | March 24, 2011

Mar 24, 2011 PALESTINE HEADLINES

Mar 24, 2011 | GAZA PALESTINE | TODAY NEWS LINKS| Gaza has been under siege for 1380 days | Spread-Share-Link or Tweet the News! آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Gaza Under Israeli Attacks | Overview of Attacks and Related News http://wp.me/p16sn9-4Ey ♻Palestine Unity Protests March 15: http://wp.me/p16sn9-3P1 #Palestine #Gaza #Mar15 ♻ All daily news & Sources about […]

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Hamas: Israel escalates military strikes for political purposes

March 24, 2011 – People’s Daily Online   Islamic Hamas movement, which controls Gaza, said Wednesday that the Israeli military escalation in the coastal enclave was motivated politically. “The systematic escalation aims to achieve political goals but will not terrify Hamas or the Palestinian people,” Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, told Xinhua. Abu Zuhri’s […]

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Palestinians in Gaza face humanitarian disaster due to water pollution

15:10, March 24, 2011 Increases the bookmark twitter facebook digg Google Windowslive Delicious buzz friendfeed Linkedin diigo reddit stumbleupon The Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had on Wednesday expressed fear that a humanitarian disaster is pending due to the lack of underground water and the increasing pollution of drinking water, as Israel prevented them from […]

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2nd wave of strikes injures 1 in Gaza

March 24, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The second strike of the morning hit a group men beside a gas station in the northern Gaza Strip, around 8:30 a.m., hours after a wave of strikes targeted sites across the coastal enclave, causing damage but no injuries. Spokesman of the higher committee of ambulance and emergency […]

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♻ Gaza Under Attack | March 24, 2011 | Continuous Updates

In Media   Northern Gaza Strip Airstrikes Injure Three; Escalation Increases | PNN | Mar 24, 2011 Iran slams brutal Israeli Gaza hit | PressTV | Mar 24, 2011 Tensions on rise in Gaza | Irish Times | Mar 24, 2011 Hamas: Israel escalates military strikes for political purposes | People’s Daily Online | Mar […]

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Israeli occupation killed 10 Palestinians and wounded 43 since Sunday

[ 23/03/2011 – 10:55 PM GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation force launched more than 17 airstrikes and fired more than sixty artillery missiles between Sunday 20 March to Wednesday 23 March killing ten Palestinians and wounded 43 others. Palestinian medical sources in Gaza confirmed these figure and added that the number of martyrs is likely to […]

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Swiss President announces plans to break Gaza siege

23/03/2011 – 11:51 PM GAZA, (PIC)– Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey has announced her country is developing a project to open up all crossings to the Gaza Strip, which has been suffocating for the last five years from an Israeli blockade. She also said if Egypt would agree to open the Rafah crossing to bring in […]

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Airstrikes reported across Gaza

Published today (updated) 24/03/2011 02:20 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli aircraft opened fire on several areas in the Gaza Strip early Thursday, witnesses said. Aircraft targeted a tunnel in the south and a site connected to Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades west of Gaza City, onlookers said. Jets also struck a power station causing blackouts in Gaza […]

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Palestinians in Dubai airport asylum appeal

Wafa Issa | The National AE|  Mar 24, 2011 Some of the eight Palestinians that have been stranded at Dubai International Airport for more than 45 days. They will be allowed to stay in Dubai until their situation is resolved.   Jaime Puebla / The National next photo previous photo Go to photo 0 next […]

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Gaza bleeds again…

24 March 2011 | Khaleej Times As far as Palestinians are concerned, it’s déjà vu. Two more military strikes inside the besieged Gaza strip is a reminder of unending aggressive designs on the part of the Jewish state, and the bitter fact that the Palestinian-Israeli imbroglio is far from resolved.   Though hardly anybody bothers […]

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ei: Palestine and the Egyptian revolution: a view from Gaza

Haidar Eid, The Electronic Intifada, 23 March 2011 Palestinian children stand atop the remains of the border wall between Gaza and Egypt after it was destroyed in January 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages) When I was asked by a solidarity activist about the impact of the end of the Mubarak regime on the Gaza Strip, my immediate […]

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Palestine’s Youth Revolt

In the West Bank and Gaza, young Palestinian activists are taking to the streets to demand change from their feuding political leaders. BY NOUR ODEH | MARCH 23, 2011 RAMALLAH —The youth of occupied Palestine, like their compatriots across the Middle East, are starting to demand changes from their divided and unresponsive leadership. They call […]

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ei: Settlers attack Palestinians on “day of rage”

Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 23 March 2011 Israeli forces close a West Bank road after Israeli settlers set fire to two Palestinian cars at the entrance of the Qadumim settlement, 17 March 2011. (Khaleel Reash/MaanImages) RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) – Israeli settlers observed their own “Day of Rage” last Thursday, launching reprisal attacks […]

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Israeli warplanes attack Gaza Strip

Thu Mar 24, 2011 12:14AM Israeli fighter jets have carried out three air strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight, but no casualties have been reported, Palestinian sources said. Two of the strikes hit the city of Gaza and the third targeted a tunnel near the Egyptian border at Rafah, the witnesses said early Thursday, AFP […]

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One settler killed and 39 others injured in an explosion in Jerusalem

23/03/2011 – 09:54 PM OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– One Israeli settler was killed and 39 others were injured as a result of the explosion that took place on Wednesday evening at a bus station in occupied Jerusalem, according to Israeli occupation sources. Israeli occupation medical sources said that about half of those injured are in moderate […]

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