Gaza children stressed, desperate and in danger

(AFP) 19 April 2011, 7:52 PM PARIS — Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip has left the isolated Palestinian territory’s children stressed, desperate and in poverty, forcing some to do dangerous and deadly work, UNICEF said Tuesday. While there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Israel’s blockade means there is extensive poverty, endemic unemployment and […]

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Demolition Orders Handed To 10 East Jerusalem Families

PNN – Palestine News Network  | Apr 19, 2011 | 16:39 Jerusalem – PNN – A group of radical settlers handed over eviction orders to ten Palestinian families living in Sheikh Jarah neighborhood in East Jerusalem on Tuesday. Residents said that a group of settlers from settler organizations Moskovich and Chibi Ali went around the […]

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US lobbied to block Gaza War report

PressTV – Tue Apr 19, 2011 1:34PM US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice The US administration of President Barack Obama has reportedly made efforts to block an independent UN investigation into Israel’s war against the Gaza Strip. US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice was behind the move to prevent a more thorough UN […]

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Prisoners’ Day

PNN – Palestine News Network |  19.04.11 – 14:19 By Mazin Qumsiyeh – The olive and citrus trees were blooming all over Palestine on Prisoners’ Day.  Pink irises, red puppies, and yellow flowers weave intricate patterns among the endless green carpet underneath the fruiting almonds, fig, and loquet trees. Green almonds are eaten with a […]

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IOF seizes Palestinian homes for military use

[ 19/04/2011 – 11:07 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation force (IOF) has transformed several Palestinian homes in Al-Khalil province in the south West Bank into military posts and observation points. The IOF turned the home of Palestinian man Issa al-Farroukh located on the intersection of Beit Anoun and Saeer overlooking Highway 60 into […]

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MP Mansour: World should follow footsteps of foreign solidarity activists

[ 19/04/2011 – 11:03 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Hamas MP in Nablus Mona Mansour highly appreciated the Italian solidarity activists for their insistence on supporting the besieged Gaza Strip. She said in a statement that the Italian supporters including the family of slain activist Vittorio Arrigoni said that they came to break the siege on […]

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Salah said IOF soldiers used ‘stupid and racist behavior’ during Allenby arrest

[ 19/04/2011 – 11:01 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Leader of the Islamic Movement in 1948-occupied Palestine Raed Salah said that Israeli occupation forces soldiers used ”stupid and racist behavior” when they arrested him and his wife at the Allenby Bridge border crossing after they refused to comply with a provocative strip search targeting his […]

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The “Jewish state” and us

April 19, 2011 | MEMO Sheikh Raed Salah – Leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel A study published in “The Jewish state and the Palestinians inside” – the Centre for Contemporary Studies Israel was founded as a political entity on the basis of Zionism; it was not originally predicated upon the principle of a […]

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Nabi Saleh: A tiny village’s struggle againt the occupation

Tuesday, April 19 2011| +972blog In just over one year of unarmed demonstrations in Nabi Saleh, a small Palestinian community in the West Bank, 155 of the village’s 500 residents  were wounded (about 60 of them children); 35 homes were damaged and dozens of the village’s people were detained. Yet even after the protest’s leader […]

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Jewish settlers storm Aqsa plazas

[ 19/04/2011 – 10:47 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Jewish settlers escorted by Israeli occupation police stormed the holy Aqsa Mosque on Monday and strolled in its plazas. Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli policemen allowed entry of Jews in big numbers and provided protection for them while imposing restrictions on movement of Muslim worshipers. Thousands […]

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The Hives and Honey of Palestine – in pictures

Written and photographed by EB 19 April 2011 | Palestine Monitor | April 19, 2011 Beekeeping is a Palestinian tradition nearly seven millenia old – the oldest archaeological remnants shows mud beekeeping in the Canaanite era in the Babb El Wad area, now called West Jerusalem. In the modern century, two Christian brothers from Bethlehem, […]

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Views from the Jordan Valley

19 April 2011| Jack Curry | International Solidarity Movement The cluster of Jordan Valley villages located around Fasayil offer a twisted microcosm of the fickle barbarity of Israel’s illegal occupation. Families who seemingly share land, live side by side with no separation except the invisible borders enshrined in Israel’s military law. Yet, as you tread […]

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Relatives of prisoners appeal for allowing visits

[ 19/04/2011 – 05:14 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Relatives of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails staged a sit-in before the UN offices in Gaza on Tuesday demanding their right to visit their next of kin before their death. The relatives, mostly elderly or sick, expressed hope that they could see their relatives before they […]

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Miles for Smiles 3 convoy geared to bring aid to Gaza

[ 19/04/2011 – 05:12 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Several international human rights organizations coordinating with health and humanitarian institutions in the Palestinian territories are ”working togething to give Gaza children life”, as preparations are underway for the third Miles for Smiles convoy. ”After the first and second miles for smiles missions culminated in success and […]

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Israeli prison administration forces women prisoners to wear orange costume

[ 19/04/2011 – 02:53 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli administraiton of Hasharon jail forced Palestinian women prisoners to wear orange uniforms while heading to courts and confiscated food and covers in their possession. The Palestinian prisoner association said in a statement on Tuesday that the prison administration also prevented the prisoners from taking any […]

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