Family of 20; women and children, locked up for 11 hours without food or water in latest Awarta raid

13 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement In the latest military raid in the village of Awarta, south of Nablus, 20 members of the Awwad family were forced to sit outside in the cold for four hours, guarded by soldiers, before they all were locked inside one room for another seven hours. During the whole […]

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Health ministry calls for protecting medical crews

>[ 13/04/2011 – 04:21 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian minister of health in Gaza Dr. Basem Naim has urged the world community to protect ambulance and medical crews in face of repeated Israeli targeting. He told a joint workshop with the Red Cross on Wednesday that the Palestinian medical crews were frequently targeted by the […]

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PA prisoners’ families call for their release

[ 13/04/2011 – 04:01 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– With Palestinian Prisoner Day coming next Sunday, the families of Palestinians held by the Palestinian Authority security agencies in the West Bank have renewed calls for the freedom of their relatives and to turn the pages of the past. The PA currently holds more than 500 of […]

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Israeli warplanes launch mock raids on Gaza

[ 13/04/2011 – 03:25 PM GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli warplanes launched a series of mock raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. The mock raids spread fears among the populace especially after the Israeli massacres that killed 19 people and injured dozens a few days ago. In another context, Israeli occupation forces stormed […]

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Palestinian MPs sentenced to extra six months without indictment

[ 13/04/2011 – 03:16 PM ]   NABLUS, (PIC)– Israel extended Tuesday night the prison terms of Palestinian lawmakers Hatem Qufeisha and Omar al-Barghouti by six months to be served in administrative detention without an indictment, the Tadhamon human rights group in the West Bank reported. Hatem Qufeisha, who represents Al-Khalil in the Palestinian Legislative […]

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Israel Steps up Jerusalem Expulsions

Even Tony Blair can’t save Palestinian bookseller to the stars by Jonathan Cook | April 13th, 2011 | Dissident Voice Munther Fahmi is known as the “bookseller of Jerusalem”. Among his customers are to be found Tony Blair, Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter and Hollywood actress Uma Thurman. In a city riven by political and social […]

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No point listening to UN on Palestinians, says Supreme Court Judge

Wednesday, April 13 2011| Noam Sheizaf | +972 Magazine – The Best Magzine in 972 Justice Elyakim Rubinstein The Supreme Court had a nice verdict today, deeming as illegal the Interior Ministry’s policy of deporting anyforeign worker who had a child three months after she gave birth. Retiring Justice Ayala Procaccia, sitting on her last […]

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Confession of Israeli female soldiers To see if I’m smiling – video

A bare glimpse into the experience of an Israeli Defense Force soldier, and their encounters with “the others.” There is no lack of incriminating evidence against the apartheid state of Israel of its horrendous daily human right violation crimes against a defenseless population. Palestinians are treated as toys of entertainment by a state that has […]

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IOF arrests 14 including children, settler runs over girl in West Bank

[ 13/04/2011 – 09:00 AM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested 14 Palestinians including minors during raids sweeping the West Bank Wednesday morning. The majority of those arrests took place in Jerusalem province, where the IOF arrested five Palestinians, among them two children and a minor, sources said. Arrests were also […]

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We left Gaza city early …

13 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza We left Gaza city early; we were going to Faraheen, a small village near the buffer zone to help farmers plant peppers. Israel has declared a 300 meter “buffer zone” along the entire border with Gaza. What does the buffer zone mean? Simply, that Israel will shoot […]

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Swiss Court Upholds Right of Palestine Solidarity Action to Hang Posters in Train Stations

Wednesday, 13 April 2011 11:29 Tania Kepler for the Alternative Information Center (AIC) The Swiss Federal Administrative Court has ruled that SBB, the national rail service, violated freedom of speech of the Palestine Solidarity Action group when it refused to allow the group to hang posters. Main train station in Zurich, where a Swiss court […]

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Palestine refugee women bring human face of conflict to Brussels

Palestine refugees share personal stories of repercussions of Israeli blockade on life in Gaza. Middle East Online | By Miriam Aced – BRUSSELS ‘Keep the human approach’ “They say Gaza people can cope with everything. But why do we have to? We just want to lead a normal life.” Medical doctor Ghada Al-Jadba is one […]

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Abducted Engineer Sent to Solitary

13.04.11 – 13:19 Gaza City – PNN – Dirar Abu Sisi, the Gazan engineer kidnapped in Ukraine in February and transferred to an Israeli prison, has been moved to solitary confinement on Wednesday, according to a statement from the Gaza Ministry of Prisoners Affairs. The Israeli central court in Beersheba has charged Dirar Abu Sisi […]

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Children and youth under fire in Gaza: two killed and more than ten injured

13 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza WARNING: Contains image some may find disturbing Jaber Abu el-Kaass (12) On Friday April 8th at approximately 5.30 pm a drone dropped a bomb on a group of children and young people who were playing football next to a school in the Al-Shijaija neighborhood, east of Gaza […]

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Unity protesters plan to recruit thousands

April 13, 2011 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Leaders of the March 15 unity movement said Tuesday they would recruit thousands for a sit-in protest in Ramallah, after their “demands fell on deaf ears.” Pro-unity protestors have been on hunger strike in Ramallah’s central square since March 26, and two of the movement, Ma’ath Musleh and Iyas […]

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