Archive | April 22, 2011

No Fly Zone over Palestine! Children’s Human Chain Gaza – in pictures

Photography by Gaza News Agency | Gaza News Agency at Twitter Human Chain with Samouni Children – April 21, 2011 Gaza by Ken O’Keefe on Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 1:00am We shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza, including the Samouni children, so as to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER […]

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NAM urges Israel to abide by law

Fri Apr 22, 2011 3:53AM A general view of Israel’s illegal settlement projects in the West Bank The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has called on Israel to abide by its responsibilities under international law after Tel Aviv ignored to stop illegal expansion of settlement activities. In a statement on Thursday, Egyptian Ambassador to the UN Maged […]

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Posted by Vittorio November 9, 2010 – A revolutionary Palestinian song: UNADIKUM

A revolutionary Palestinian song: UNADIKUM! Vittorio’s Facebook Page Here is a rough translation of ‘Unadikum’: ‘I call to you all: I take your hand and hold it tightly. I kiss the ground on which you place your feet. I know that for you I would give my life. My life I would give for you. […]

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Israel Plans More Settlement Construction In Jerusalem

  Friday April 22, 2011 05:29 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli Army Radio reported Thursday that the Israeli Housing Ministry started new plans to build more settler homes in Givat Zeev, north west of occupied Jerusalem. Jerusalem Settlement – manbaralrai.com The plans calls for constructing 800 new units for Jewish settlers; its […]

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France urges Palestinian statehood

Fri Apr 22, 2011 2:3AM French Ambassador to the UN Gerard Araud A French envoy says that the country and its European partners are considering giving formal recognition to a Palestinian state. French Ambassador to the UN Gerard Araud told a UN Security Council debate on the Middle East on Thursday that “recognition of the […]

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Israeli Excavations Continue Under The Al Aqsa Mosque

Friday April 22, 2011 04:43 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Al Aqsa Foundation for Islamic Endowment (Waqf) and Heritage reported Thursday that the Israeli Authorities are ongoing with their excavations under the Al Aqsa Mosque as they are ongoing with creating a network of tunnels under the mosque and around it. In […]

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Army Bulldozers Raze Factories In Gaza

Friday April 22, 2011 04:15 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli soldiers driving, armored vehicles and armored bulldozers, invaded on Thursday an area east of the Gaza Strip and demolished Palestinian factories in the industrial zone near the Al Mintar(Karni) Crossing. Israeli soldiers driving, armored vehicles and armored bulldozers, invaded on Thursday an […]

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Palestinian Farmer Wounded By Army Fire In Northern Gaza

Friday April 22, 2011 03:53 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday evening that a Palestinian farmer was shot and wounded by Israeli army fire, north of Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Image by Palestine-Info The 45-year-old farmer suffered moderate […]

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Subaru Car Ad In Israel Shows “Power” By Running Over Palestinian Children

Related: All Attacks on Palestinians – Timeline – Category Friday April 22, 2011 03:38 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies A new advertisement in Israel, meant to show the “power and durability” of the Japanese Subaru car, caused outrage after showing a Subaru driven by a Jewish settler striking two Palestinian children in occupied […]

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Gilmore says Israeli blockade of Gaza ‘absolutely unacceptable’

The Irish Times – Friday, April 22, 2011 | MARIE O’HALLORAN IRELAND WANTS the EU to take a more active and urgent interest in the situation in Gaza, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has told the Dáil. The Minister for Foreign Affairs said he had made this “clear to my colleagues and the European Union foreign affairs […]

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Ex-Peace Process: And Palestine’s Big Chance

By Stuart Littlewood In an article Mobilizing for September? Jeff Halper, Director of The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), shares his thoughts on the collective action that must be taken between now and when the window of opportunity for applying for statehood opens in September. As he rightly says, the Palestinian Authority over the years […]

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Report: Clashes at Israel rally for Palestinian state

April 21, 2011 TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Left-wing Israeli cultural leaders, including several Israel Prize laureates, were verbally accosted Thursday during a rally in support of an independent Palestinian state, reports said. The rally was disrupted by right-wing activists equipped with bullhorns, who called out: “leftist professors, it will all blow up in your […]

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Israel issues demolition orders for Jerusalem school

The Electronic Intifada |21 April 2011 Malak, eight, is in her last year at al-Nabi Samwil School, occupied East Jerusalem. (Phoebe Greenwood/IRIN) JERUSALEM (IRIN) – The one-room school building in the Palestinian village of al-Nabi Samwil, near Jerusalem, serves as a classroom for eight pupils, a staff room, storeroom and the principal’s office. During the winter […]

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TEDx Ramallah reminds the world of creation under occupation

Thursday, April 21 2011| Joseph Dana | +972 Magazine Walking into the sleek Bethlehem convention centre last Saturday morning to a crowd full of young people on smartphones and MacBook computers, I forgot that I was in Palestine. But it only lasted for a moment as my eye caught a glimpse of a massive Israeli […]

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Health-related quality of life of Palestinian preschoolers in the Gaza Strip

A cross-sectional study Research on children’s responses to wartime trauma has mostly addressed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). However, PTSD is only one aspect of a complex set of responses. This study proposes to expand knowledge of well-being in children exposed to political violence through widening the conceptualization of well-being beyond PTSD, morbidity, and mortality by […]

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