Lies that Stick, Struggles that Sell. The Media Broke Out the Silence

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Marivel Guzman   Palestine Youth Broke the Silence! Not after the Tunisia Revolution and certainly not after the Egyptian Revolution. “Palestinian youth have been inspired by uprisings in Arab countries, Pushing for a Palestinian Tahrir” Aljazeera Channel I don’t think so, Palestinians youth have plenty of inspiration to uprise in […]

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Der Spiegel: Israel kidnapped Abu Sisi to question him on Shalit

30/03/2011 – 01:12 PM BERLIN, (PIC)– A German newspaper said on Wednesday that the Israeli intelligence kidnapped Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu Sisi from the Ukraine believing that he has information on the whereabouts of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in Gaza. Der Spiegel said that Ukraine intelligence agents kidnapped Abu Sisi at the behest of […]

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Hamas: Knesset’s citizenship revocation law targets the Palestinian presence

30/03/2011 – 01:14 PM GAZA, (PIC)– The Hamas Movement strongly denounced the Israeli Knesset for approving a draft law enabling the government to revoke the citizenship of any Palestinian living inside the 1948 occupied lands. In a press release, Hamas said this law is part of an Israeli racist campaign aimed at enacting laws able […]

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Hospitalized Sayyid to continue hunger strike until all demands are met

30/03/2011 – 01:02 PM WEST BANK, (PIC)– Abbas al-Sayyid will continue his hunger strike until all his demands are met, Sayyid wrote in a letter he wrote from the Israeli Ramle prison. He has been transferred to the prison hospital after his health deteriorated during his fourth week of hunger strike. His blood-sugar level has […]

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Palestinian prisoners intend to escalate their protest steps

30/03/2011 – 01:07 PM RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Advocates for prisoners organization said the Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons plan to take a number of protest steps earlier next April as a result of the arbitrary measures pursued against them by Israeli jailers. The organization added that the prisoners coordinated with each other to start during the […]

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Palestinians commemorate Land Day

March 30, 2011 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Five hundred students were chased and beaten by government security forces during a Land Day protest in Gaza City on Wednesday, an organizer affiliated with the March 15 coalition told Ma’an. Officers were said to have dispersed the gathered young people, who were calling for unity and a return […]

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Tel Aviv threatens unilateral action if Palestinian state is recognized

Wednesday, 30 March 2011 14:13 Tel Aviv has threatened to take a series of unilateral steps if a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders gains official recognition in September which is the deadline given by the Middle East Quartet for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks. The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, reported on Tuesday, March 29, that […]

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Ban Ki-moon: “The Occupation that Started in 1967 is Morally and Politically Unsustainable”

30.03.11 – 12:58- PNN – Palestine News Network Uruguay – PNN/UN Media Center – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a halt to Israel’s settlement building in the Palestinian territories, an end to all expressions of violence and the punishment of those perpetrating it, adding that Israel’s occupation is morally and politically unsustainable. “Time is […]

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Twana Village: Living in Settler Hell

30.03.11 – 12:35- PNN – Palestine News Network Muhannad al-Adm – Hebron – PNN/Exclusive – The al-Ra’bi family lives in the village of Twana, south of Hebron in the southern West Bank, in a lasting state of panic induced by the settlers in the nearby outpost of Ma’oun, built on Twana’s land. The Twana villagers […]

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Child exiled from home for stone throwing

March 20, 2011 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A 14-year-old Jerusalem boy was banned from his neighborhood by a district court, his family said Wednesday. The child is prohibited from entering his home district for 60 days, after being convicted of stone throwing, relatives said. Salim Bader Ash-Sha’ar will have to live with relatives and stop attending […]

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Awarta police officer detained in night raid

Published today (updated) 30/03/2011 14:02   NABLUS (Ma’an) — A 40-year-old policeman was detained by Israeli forces from the village of Awarta overnight Tuesday, a day after dozens were rounded up in connection to a murder investigation involving a settler family from the adjacent Itamar settlement. In the early days of the investigation, two security […]

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Hamas meets with new Egyptian FM in Cairo

30/03/2011 – 08:25 AM CAIRO, (PIC)– A delegation from Hamas met Tuesday with the new Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Arabi to discuss Egypt’s role in Palestinian issues following the ouster of the former regime that ruled for more than thirty years. Hamas has praised Arabi’s positions warning of the fresh Israeli attacks on Gaza and […]

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Israel Seeks To Stop Palestine Bid For International Recognition

Written by: KUNA | Eurasia Review Israels efforts to rally countries against Palestinian Authority’s plans to ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 lines are hindered by the fact that Israel has not presented any plan of its own, according to the Jerusalem Post. Israel has stepped up these efforts […]

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Lafta inhabitants reject Israeli plans to sell their land

[ 30/03/2011 – 08:29 AM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Inhabitants of the Lafta village to the northwest of occupied Jerusalem have declared their rejection of the Israeli occupation authority’s plan to sell 700 dunums of their land to Jewish contractors. A number of those inhabitants told a press conference at the Ambassador hotel in […]

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A Palestinian man killed, another badly injured in brutal air raid on Rafah area

30/03/2011 – 08:33 AM RAFAH, (PIC)– One Palestinian man was killed, another was critically wounded and a tunnel was destroyed following two Israeli aerial attacks at dawn Wednesday on Rafah area, south of the Gaza Strip. Spokesman for the ambulance and emergency committee Adham Abu Salmiya told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that an Israeli […]

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