Juliano Mer-Khamis murdered

انّا للہ و انّا الیه راجعون Editor Palestine Monitor 4 April 2011 Juliano Mer-Khamis, the 54-year old founder of The Freedom Theater in Jenin, was murdered today by unknown assailants. Shot five times in the theater he founded with former Al Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade military leader Zakariya Zubeidi. Mer-Khamis was in Ramallah last night at […]

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Islamic Jihad: Israel may use Goldstone’s last remarks to wage new war on Gaza

04/04/2011 – 02:46 PM GAZA, (PIC)– The Islamic Jihad Movement said Richard Goldstone’s backtracking on what came in his report might be exploited by Israel to wage a new war and commit massacres in Gaza. Islamic Jihad official Ahmed Mudalal stated on Sunday that what was shockingly said by Goldstone recently resulted from pressures by […]

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Israel warns UN over Palestinian state

PressTV – Mon Apr 4, 2011 2:13PM Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has warned the United Nations against the international recognition of an independent Palestinian state. “It will destroy everything we have accomplished to date,” Lieberman said on Monday without giving further details about the achievements between the two sides. […]

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UN: Judge hasn’t asked Gaza report to be nixed

GENEVA — The U.N.’s top human rights body says it is standing by a report about Israel’s 2009 incursion into Gaza even though the lead author has backtracked from some of the report’s most damning allegations against Israel. Israel has called for the report to be withdrawn after Richard Goldstone, a former South African judge and […]

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Hamas has started reconciliation talks with Fatah, says leader

MENA | Al-Masry Al-Youm Mon, 04/04/2011 – 16:45   Photographed by Mohamed Hesham 1 Hamas has initiated talks with Fatah regarding a potential Palestinian reconciliation, Hamas leadership member Mahmoud al-Zahar said on Monday. State-run news agency MENA reported al-Zahar said the talks began in Gaza on Sunday. “We’re determined to reconcile. We want reconciliation so […]

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Israel charges kidnapped Palestinian

PressTV – Mon Apr 4, 2011 2:56PM Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu Sisi An Israeli court has charged a Palestinian engineer kidnapped by Mossad in Ukraine with developing rockets for the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas. The southern district prosecution filed an indictment against Dirar Abu Sisi on Monday, Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported. “Abu Sisi was […]

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PCHR highlight key issues relating to report of UN fact-finding mission on Gaza conflict (the ‘Goldstone Report’)

4th July 2011 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights |  International Solidarity Movement In light of the media debate and confusion triggered by Justice Richard Goldstone’s 1 April opinion piece in the Washington Post, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) wishes to highlight a few key issues regarding the current status of the UN […]

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ei: Goldstone’s shameful U-turn

Ilan Pappe, The Electronic Intifada, 4 April 2011 Judge Richard Goldstone in the Gaza Strip, June 2009. (UN Photo) “If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone report would have been a different document.” Thus opens Judge Richard Goldstone’s much-discussed op-ed in The Washington Post. I have a strong feeling that the […]

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ISRAEL CONNING THE WORLD AGAIN

by Desertpeace | April 4, 2011 The video that was removed by YouTube that is miraculously still online…. funny how zionists themselves are allowed to break Copyright Laws U.S. Boat to Gaza Leaders Challenge Netanyahu Threat to Impending Flotilla Human rights activists who are preparing to sail a U.S. ship in a 22-nation flotilla to Gaza at the […]

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MI5: Zionists ‘plotted to kill Churchill’

Jewish extremist proposed assassinating Britain’s WWII leader while Nazis planned to poison sausages, secret files show. Last Modified: 04 Apr 2011 | AlJazeera MI5 were worried about British ministers being targeted by armed Jewish extremists [GALLO GETTY] A Jewish extremist group proposed assassinating Winston Churchill, Britain’s war-time leader, declassified files from Britain’s spy agency have revealed, along […]

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Israel to build more al-Quds settlements

PressTV –  Mon Apr 4, 2011 9:31AM Israeli settlement activities across the Palestinian land continue. (file photo) Israel has planned to construct more houses in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), as the longtime illegal settlement activities across the Palestinian land increase. Israeli officials said on Monday that a committee was going to discuss plans for another 948 […]

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International activists target of Bil’in raid

April 4, 2011 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli forces entered the central West Bank village of Bil’in on Monday morning, searching homes and harassing residents, reportedly in search of international solidarity activists who often remain in the area to document rights violations. A spokesperson for the local popular committee said the raid began at 1:30 a.m. […]

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More settlement homes in works

April 4, 2011 TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — The construction of another 124 apartment units in the occupied West Bank were approved by the Jerusalem District Planning and Construction Committee, which was set to convene Monday for a discussion on the approval of an additional 942 units, Israeli media reported. The daily news site Ynet […]

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Palestinian man sustains fractures after attacked by settlers

[ 04/04/2011 – 11:58 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– A Palestinian man sustained fractures in his shin and arm after Jewish settlers brutally assaulted him Sunday night near the Maale Ephraim settlement east of Nablus city. The victim Emad Hosni Salahat, 47, was transported to the Rafidya Hospital in Nablus following the attack. Separately, other settlers […]

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Israeli court to indict Abu Sisi

[ 04/04/2011 – 12:01 PM ] BEER SHEBA, (PIC)– The central court in Beer Sheba is slated on Monday to table an indictment list against Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu Sisi, 42, who was kidnapped from the Ukraine and brought against his will to Israel. Abu Sisi, a father of six children and married to a […]

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