Jewish settlers assault villagers east of Yatta

28/03/2011 – 07:04 PM AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Dozens of Jewish settlers assaulted farmers and shepherds and vandalized farmland as Israeli soldiers paved the way for their entry into the Buwaib area east of Yatta, Al-Khalil province on Monday morning. The ”barbaric” attack instilled terror and fear in the hearts of locals, said Ratib al-Jabour, the coordinator […]

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Settler vandalism, harassment reported in south

March 28, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Villagers said ultra-orthodox settlers chopped down dozens of fruit trees in fields belonging to a Palestinian farmer from the southern West Bank village of Husan, in the latest incident of apparent settler vandalism. Jabir Taha Hamamra told Ma’an that he was surprised Monday morning when he walked into his […]

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Israel builds town to ensure “the Arabs won’t rear their heads”

  Monday, March 28 2011| Roi Maor | +972 Magazine The State of Israel is building a town in the country’s north. Its purpose: to make sure “the Arabs won’t rear their heads” and to “put them in proportion.” Anybody objecting to this goal should “go live with the Palestinians” and is “harming Israel’s security.” […]

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On Land Day, 30 March 2011, join international efforts to stop the Jewish National Fund

28 March 2011— Israeli Occupation Archive By the Stop the JNF campaign– 22 March 2011 The Palestinian BDS National Committee has called for a Global Day of Action to commemorate Palestinian Land Day. On March 30, 2011, join the international campaign to Stop the Jewish National Fund Palestinian Land Day is the annual commemoration of […]

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Al Arakib: Is Nuri el-Okbi a Bedouin version of Australia’s indigenous land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo?

28 March 2011 By Amos Roberts, SBS Dateline Report – 27 March 2011 http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/about/id/601031/n/Israel-s-Mabo Professor John Sheehan, an Australian authority on native title compensation, certainly thinks he could be. He’s currently helping Nuri in his struggle to reclaim land taken from his family by the Israeli authorities 60 years ago. Despite living in the Negev […]

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Palestinians Start Hunger Strike in Israeli Prisons

28.03.11 – 16:32 Palestinian detainees in five Israeli jails started hunger strikes on Monday in protest against their inhuman treatment and in solidarity with Hamas leaders Ahmed Saadat and Abbas al-Sayyad.   (PNN Archive) The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club stated that prisoners at Nafha, Ramon, Eichel and Ashkelon prisons and some parts of the Negev prison […]

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ei: Palestinian rights don’t factor into Israel-Azerbaijan relations

Jimmy Johnson, The Electronic Intifada, 28 March 2011 A remarkable and damning January 2009 diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks paints an ugly picture of crude pragmatism in Israeli-Azerbaijani relations (“Azerbaijan’s discreet symbiosis with Israel,” Wikileaks cable). The cable is based on the interactions of the US and Israeli embassies in Baku with officials in the […]

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US surgeons land in the Gaza Strip for charity work

28/03/2011 – 04:26 PM GAZA, (PIC)– The Shuhada al-Aqsa hospital in Gaza has received a delegation of American surgical specialists from the University of California in a bid to cover some of the medical deficit in the besieged Gaza Strip. The urologists are scheduled to remain in the Strip to carry out advanced surgical operations […]

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ei: Interview: Mapping the disappearance of a nation

Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 28 March 2011 Malkit Shoshan (Dirk Jan Visser) Malkit Shoshan’s The Atlas of the Conflict — Israel-Palestine won the annual book design competition in the “Best Books from all over the World” category at the Leipzig Book Fair in Germany on 18 March. To produce the book, Shoshan, an Israeli […]

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Richard Silverstein: I delegitimize Occupation

27 March 2011 I Deligitimize Occupation (Graphic: Michael Levin and Richard Silverstein) IOA Editor: To view larger size, visit the IOA Image Gallery By Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam – 25 March 2011 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/03/25/i-delegitimize-occupation/ After the IDF’s intelligence unit, Aman, came up with the bright idea to create a special unit to investigate, monitor and spy […]

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Palestinians mark Day of Land in Spain

PressTV | Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:14AM A pro-Palestinian protest in Madrid The Palestinian community has gathered in the Spanish capital city of Madrid to remember the Day of Land, which is commemorated annually to mark Israel’s illegal land grab of the 1976. The day marks the anniversary of six Palestinian deaths by the Israeli […]

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Activists Trying To Rebuild Gaza Strip

Monday, 28 March 2011 A group of activists have traveled from Egypt to the Gaza border with the aim of supplying cement to help Gazans rebuild their homes. The group, which is made up of 14 Egyptians and an American, include engineers and lawyers who intend to assess the situation in the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip, […]

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Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails go on hunger strike

28/03/2011 – 08:21 AM GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation jails decided to go on hunger strike on Monday in solidarity with PFLP and Hamas leaders Ahmed Saadat and Abbas Al-Sayyed. Abdulnasser Farwana, a specialist in prisoners affairs, said in a press release that Palestinian prisoners in Nafha and Negev desert prisons would […]

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Day after evacuation warning, Bedouin get demolition notes

March 28, 2011 TUBAS (Ma’an) — A third set of warnings was delivered to the Bedouin of Ein Al-Hilwa on Monday morning, notifying residents that their tent homes and animal shelters would be demolished. The herding community lives next to Al-Malih, a village whose nearest neighbor is a site declared as an Israeli military training […]

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Palestinian home demolished by Israeli troops in Jordan Valley

Monday March 28, 2011 14:10 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News The Israeli military invaded the Palestinian village of Ein al Hilwe in the eastern part of the West Bank known as the Jordan Valley, an area subject to numerous recent attacks by Israeli settlers, and demolished the home of the Nabel Daraghmeh family over […]

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