UN: Israel’s demolitions of Palestinian homes hit record high

April 3, 2011 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israel’s demolitions of Palestinian homes and buildings reached a record high in March for the third consecutive month, according to figures from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. The UN Relief and Works Agency recorded 76 demolitions of Palestinian buildings in March, forcibly displacing 158 Palestinians including 64 children. […]

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Four days of settler violence in Burin and the Nablus area

03 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Construction of Zeid Amran’s house On Friday afternoon at around 4.30 pm, three young men from the village of Burin, south of Nablus, were attacked by two settlers while picking “akoob” (a plant used in cooking) in the mountains. The men were around 200 meters away from the […]

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On Peace And Critics: Interview With Ilan Pappé – OpEd

By Emanuel Stoakes | Eurasiareview | Apr 3, 2011 (Emanuel Stoakes talks to the Israeli historian Ilan Pappé about the prospect of a peace settlement in the Middle East, the plight of the Palestinian refugees, and his response to his numerous critics.) After attending the Inaugural Lecture for the European Centre for Palestine Studies at […]

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“The army crossed another red line:” Report from Beit Ummar

Sunday, April 3 2011|Joseph Dana | 972 Magazine The Israeli army arrested 19 Jewish peace activists who held a demonstration outside of the West Bank village of Beit Ummar on Saturday. One of the activists who was arrested and beaten shares his recollection of the day’s events. An Israeli peace activist in Beit Ummar yesterday. […]

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Settlers attack Palestinian man in Nablus

NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Sunday attacked a Palestinian man south of Nablus and destroyed water pipes in the area, officials said. Imad Husni Salahat, 47, was severely beaten by settlers in Kawkab Salah near Ma’ale Efrayim, said Palestinian Authority settlement affairs official Ghassan Doughlas. Doughlas said Salahat was taken to the Rafadea Hospital […]

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Israeli forces continue to surround Beit Ummar

April 3, 2011 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained a teenager in Beit Ummar on Sunday as the army’s siege on the West Bank town continues, local officials said. Popular committee spokesman Mohammad Ayad Awwad said Israeli troops had surrounded Beit Ummar for 13 days, since the army blocking all entrances to the town with […]

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Israel plans to turn Issawiyya, Tur land into national park

03/04/2011 – 04:04 PM OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israel’s Jerusalem municipality and nature authority have devised a plan to turn land in the city’s Issawiyya and Tur districts into a national park, a Palestinian lecturer and researcher disclosed. The move came after claims that the area contains Jewish ”valueables” that belong to the second alleged temple. […]

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Hamas slams Goldstone for changing his mind

03/04/2011 – 04:10 PM GAZA, (PIC)– The Hamas Movement expressed its dismay at international judge Richard Goldstone for backing away from part of his report on Israeli war crimes and accepting the Israeli side of the story.Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri in a press release on Sunday said Goldstone made a mistake when he changed […]

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16 Palestinians killed by Israel last month

03/04/2011 – 04:12 PM NABLUS, (PIC)– 16 Palestinians, all of them from Gaza, were killed last March either during artillery or aerial attacks on different areas of the densely-populates Strip, according to a report published today by the Palestinian information center (PIC). The Israeli occupation forces also kidnapped during the reporting month more than 380 […]

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Jewish fanatics assault Jerusalemite youth

03/04/2011 – 04:20 PM OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Jewish fanatics beat up a Palestinian youth west of occupied Jerusalem on Sunday morning. Mother of Saeed Al-Maghribi said that her son was the victim of a “brutal, racial” battering at the hands of a group of Jewish fanatics. She quoted her son as saying that while on […]

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Arabi: Egypt will not remain ‘strategic treasure’ to Israel

03/04/2011 – 04:18 PM CAIRO, (PIC)– The new Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Arabi has criticized the Egyptian position as Israel launches a new aggression on the Gaza Strip, saying a national security council consisting of foreign ministers and experts should have been created to deal with the position in Gaza. He said that Egypt requires […]

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Palestinian injured, three arrested during march in Nabi Saleh

03/04/2011 – 12:00 PM RAMALLAH, (PIC)– A Palestinian man was injured and three others including children were arrested after Israeli soldiers attacked a festival and march marking Land Day in the village of Nabi Saleh north west of Ramallah. A young man was hit in the back by a tear gas canister fired by the Israeli […]

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Israel asks its citizens to leave Sinai immediately

03/04/2011 – 12:03 PM NAZARETH, (PIC)– Israeli security apparatuses warned Israelis against travelling to the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, to which they enter without visas, citing warnings of possible abduction of citizens to trade them for Palestinian or Arab prisoners. The Hebrew radio on Saturday quoted a security source as saying that it was dangerous to […]

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Hamas: Goldstone does not own UN report

April 3, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas on Sunday urged the UN to confirm its report on Israel’s 2008-2009 offensive on the Gaza Strip, after the report’s author said its conclusions would have been different had Israel cooperated in the investigation. South African jurist Richard Goldstone’s fact-finding mission into Operation Cast Lead found that […]

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What the Goldstone op-ed doesn’t say

by Yaniv Reich on April 2, 2011 | Mondoweiss   Israel is “vindicated”, claims FM Lieberman about Richard Goldstone’s latest op-ed in the Washington Post, adding that “we knew the truth and we had no doubt it would eventually come out.”  Netanyahu has gone so far as to demand the Goldstone report be retracted from the UN.  Among […]

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