Strategic plan to link settlement to occupied Jerusalem

[ 21/04/2011 – 11:26 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli Ministry of Housing has laid down plans to build a new neighborhood including 800 houses in the Givat Ze’ev settlement northwest of occupied Jerusalem, Israeli Army Radio reported on Thursday. What makes the neighborhood special is its strategic geographical placement, as it is designed […]

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IOF bulldozers raze factories east of Gaza

[ 21/04/2011 – 09:43 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) crossed into eastern Gaza city on Thursday morning escorting huge bulldozers that destroyed Palestinian factories in the industrial area near the Mintar crossing. Local sources said that the IOF soldiers also bulldozed agricultural land lots and destroyed electricity transformer stations. They pointed out […]

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Palestinian gov’t urges Cairo to enhance travel through Rafah crossing

[ 21/04/2011 – 09:39 AM ] RAFAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian government headed by premier Ismail Haneyya demanded the ruling military council and the government in Egypt to improve the conditions and mechanisms of travel through the Rafah border crossing. In a press release on Wednesday, the government hailed the Egyptian positions in support of the […]

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QII warns of unprecedented Judaization steps in OJ

[ 21/04/2011 – 10:00 AM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– The Quds International Institution has warned of unprecedented Israeli steps to Judaize occupied Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque in the wake of Arab preoccupation with internal upheavals. The QII, in a press release on Thursday, stressed that the Arab countries’ preoccupation with their internal turmoil might encourage […]

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Israeli troops raid Hebron school

HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces surrounded the Tareq Ben Ziyad Secondary School for boys in Hebron’s city center on Thursday morning, then entered the building deploying sound grenades, witnesses said. School was in progress when the soldiers arrived at approximately 10 a.m., entering the school and classrooms. No detentions were reported, and troops withdrew to […]

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Foreign Ministry clarifies Arrigoni murder stance in diplomatic campaign

[ 21/04/2011 – 09:33 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Foreign Ministry of the Palestinian government in Gaza has organized a diplomatic campaign to clarify its position on the murder of Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni by armed men in the Gaza Strip. A fresh statement by the ministry says the men involved in the crime are […]

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US weapons give-a-way to Israel used to kill 735 Palestinian children in past decade

Posted by gazasolidarity on Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 9:19 am. From Mondoweiss It is well-known that Israel is the largest recipient of U.S. military aid and that U.S. weapons provided to Israel make the United States intricately, deeply, and comprehensively complicit in Israel’s human rights abuses of Palestinians. However, until now, the extent of […]

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UN Coordinator calls for protection of rights of Palestinians detained by Israel

Mr Gaylard noted that the process for detaining Palestinians in Israel is contrary to the Geneva conventions. The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory has called for protection of the rights of the Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons, especially women and children. In a press statement, Maxwell Gaylard stressed that due legal […]

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Overnight Clashes in East Jerusalem Leave Palestinians Injured

21.04.11 – 12:57 Jerusalem – PNN – A number of Palestinian youths were injured when they clashed with Israeli troops and settlers in Silwan neighborhood in east Jerusalem on Wednesday night. injured in Jerusalem clashes – Archive The clashed ended on Thursday at dawn. Local sources said that the clashes erupted near a protest tent […]

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New Settlement near Awarta, Northern West Bank

21.04.11 – 13:33 | PNN Nablus – PNN- Israeli settlers announced on Wednesday night a new settlement to be built on lands owned by the villagers of Awarta, located near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Awarta village – Archive Radical settler leader, Daniela Fays, told Israeli media that the new settlement will be […]

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What Future for the Goldstone Report? Beyond the Name «

20 April 2011 | Prof. Em. Richard Falk  Ever since it first struck the raw nerve of Israeli political consciousness I thought it misleading to associate the Goldstone Report so exclusively with its chair, Judge Richard Goldstone. After all, despite his deserved prominence as an international jurist, he was the least qualified substantively of the […]

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New Jewish Settlement on Awarta Land

NABLUS, April 21, 2011 (WAFA) – Jewish settlers Wednesday night began building a new settlement on land belonging to Awarta, a village southeast of Nablus, according to local sources. Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian Authority official monitoring settlers’ activity in the northern West Bank, confirmed that about five hundred settlers gathered on the hills facing the […]

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Israel Isolates Palestinian Demanding to be Treated as ‘Prisoner of War’

RAMALLAH, April 21, 2011 (WAFA) – Ministry of Detainees and Ex-detainees’ Affairs Thursday said in press release, that Nafha prison administration isolated a Palestinian prisoner in solitary confinement after he demanded to be treated as a ‘prisoner of war’. Mohammad al-Hattab, who was arrested in 2003, announced his complete refusal to be dealt with except as […]

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Amsterdam Vigil for Vittorio Arrigoni – in pictures

April 20, 2011 More pictures at Anja Meulenbelt’s Weblog

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Heartbreaking Letter from the Mother of Vittorio Arrigoni

Posted by desertpeace on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 6:20 am. Remembering Vittorio: “Don’t cry for me if I die, do what I was doing and I will live on in you.”  – Che Guevara A letter from Vittorio’s mother One has to die to become a hero, to hit the headlines and to have […]

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