Australian City Faces Attacks for Supporting BDS

PNN – Palestine News Network | 16.04.11 – 20:00 By Tania Kepler – The city of Marrickville is the first municipality in Australia to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. The city is now under attack, following the publication of a report saying that support for BDS could end up costing taxpayers $4 […]

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Mother of Slain Italian Activist to Sail to Gaza, Flotilla Change Name in Honor of Vittorio

PNN – Palestine News Network – 16.04.11 – 20:34 Gaza-PNN – Agidea Prata, the mother of Vittorio Arrigoni, the Italian activist and journalist killed in Gaza on Friday, said that she will be sailing to Gaza on May with the Free Gaza flotilla. Vittorio sailing to Gaza – ISM Photo Prata on Saturday told Italian […]

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Jerusalem aid committee announced in Washington

[ 16/04/2011 – 01:57 PM ] WASHINGTON, (PIC)– The establishment of an international campaign designed to curb the Israeli Judaization of Jerusalem was announced in United States capital Washington, DC on Friday. The campaign will include a group of international figures as well as political and media events from across the world. The campaign said […]

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IOF troops detain 845 Palestinians in three months including 105 children

[ 16/04/2011 – 03:09 PM GAZA, (PIC)– A statistics report by the Ansar Al-Asra society said on Saturday that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained 845 Palestinians in the first three months of 2011. The statement added that among those were 105 children and three members of the Palestinian legislative council. It noted that the IOF […]

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Israel thanks US for taxpayer dollars

Sat Apr 16, 2011 3:11PM | PressTV Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Getty Images The Israeli Prime Minister has thanked Washington for approving new military aid to Tal Aviv at a time when Americans are protesting at the US government’s military spending. Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that the move is further evidence of the […]

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Hamas holds 4 suspects over Italian’s murder

GAZA CITY (AFP) — The Hamas government said Saturday it has arrested two more suspects in connection with the murder of an Italian activist, hanged hours after his abduction. The interior ministry “managed to arrest two suspects” in the murder on Friday of pro-Palestinian activist Vittorio Arrigoni, in addition to two other suspects previously taken […]

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Operation Cast Lead II

Yisrael Beiteinu promotes another invasion Editor Palestine Monitor|16 April 2011 Scrapping Hamas’ offered cease-fire, influential Yisrael Beiteinu politicians are promoting another invasion of Palestine’s worn-torn, besieged land of Gaza. Photo by Gaurdian.co.uk While President Benajim Netanyahu thanked in Washington, DC for another US$205 million for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister […]

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Gaza Mourning for Vittorio Arrigoni – in pictures

Photography by Magdi Soliman Gaza | April 1,6 2011 More Pictures Gaza’s Candle Light Vigil for Vittorio Arrigoni – in pictures Palestine’s Symbolic Funeral for Vittorio Arrigoni – in pictures Related Special topic | Vik: a Friend, a Brother, a Humanist

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Peaceful demonstration in Sheikh Jarrah

Saturday, 16 April, 2011 | 14:45 |  Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Dozens of Palestinian citizens marched alongside Israeli and international left-wing activists in the weekly demonstration in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem yesterday. While the march is generally under tight control of Israeli forces, yesterday witnessed a quiet […]

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Israeli TV shows Palestinian torture

Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:54AM | PressTV Palestinian prisoners are forced to strip to their underwear in front of cameras by Israeli soldiers. (File photo) Israel’s Channel 2 TV station has released video footage showing Palestinian detainees being tortured by Israeli troops in the regime’s desert prison of Naqab (Negev) back in 2008. The footage […]

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Popular committee planning march to occupied Palestine borders

[ 16/04/2011 – 09:59 AM ] AMMAN, (PIC)– The Jordanian popular committee to commemorate the Nakba (catastrophe) announced it was planning a march to the Jordanian borders with occupied Palestine on the 64th anniversary of the Nabka on 15th May. Tawfik Abu Ershaid, the committee’s spokesman, said on Friday that the march would pose as […]

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Gazans angered over Arrigoni hit

[ 16/04/2011 – 10:32 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Sadness and anger prevailed the Gaza Strip after the murder of Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni on Friday after he was kidnapped by a Salafi-linked group on Thursday. Arrigoni was found hung in a Gaza Strip home Friday morning just a few hours after a video of him […]

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Attacks continue on Palestinians, foreign activists in Friday marches

[ 16/04/2011 – 10:36 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Dozens of Palestinian citizens and foreign activists in the villages of Bil’in, Ni’lin, Masara, Nabi Saleh, and Silwan district were either wounded or suffered tear gas suffocation when Israeli troops attacked them during their weekly marches. Dozens of Palestinians and foreign activists suffered suffocation from tear gas […]

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Israel’s ‘fantasy island’ off Gaza’s coast

April 16, 2011 | Maan | Suhail Khalilieh Israel’s Channel 2 has revealed an Israeli government plan to set up an artificial “man-made” island off the coast of the Gaza Strip, to be under the control of the Palestinian Authority. The plan, as reported, was formulated and schemed by the Israeli Minster of Transportation Yaakov […]

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Israel asks UN to help stop Freedom Flotilla 2

[ 16/04/2011 – 07:50 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli government addressed messages to many countries and to the UN to help stop the Freedom Flotilla 2 slated to set sail to the Gaza Strip next month carrying humanitarian aid. The Hebrew radio said on Friday that Israel’s ambassador to the UN Meron Reuben […]

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