Archive | May 16, 2011

Center: Tortured detainee needs psychological treatment

May  16, 2011 TUBAS (Ma’an) — A Palestinian detainee needs psychological treatment after being tortured and held for long periods in solitary confinement by Israeli forces, a detainees’ center said, The center in Tubas said Israeli authorities tortured Rafat Odeh with boiling oil. Odeh did not suffer any psychological problems until he was detained by […]

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Nakba marchers met with Israeli fire

Mel Frykberg | The Electronic Intifada | Qalandiya checkpoint |16 May 2011 Demonstrators are treated by medical personnel after inhaling tear gas at a Nakba protest at Qalandiya checkpoint, 15 May 2011. ( Oren Ziv / ActiveStills ) QALANDIYA occupied West Bank (IPS) – Israeli confidence that Nakba day, marked on 15 May in the occupied West […]

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IOF soldiers arrest 120 Jerusalemites during Nakba anniversary

[ 16/05/2011 – 05:27 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation police arrested 120 Jerusalemites including a number of children for participating in marches to commemorate the Nakba. The Israeli radio said that police would ask on Monday for extending the detention of some them in preparation for charging them. It claimed that 25 Israeli […]

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Nakba Day: Islamic Awakening part II

Mon May 16, 2011 6:3PM The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili says Palestinians marked the second chapter of Islamic Awakening on the Day of Nakba (catastrophe). Jalili said the uprising of Palestinian refugees in neighboring countries paved the road for the return […]

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PRESS RELEASE | Condemnation of Aggression of Israeli Naval Forces directed against Gaza Humanitarian Mission

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1359 (Jordan Time)  16 May 2011 The Perdana Global Peace Foundation (PGPF) condemned in the strongest possible terms the act of aggression by the Israeli Naval Forces when they fired on the humanitarian mission bound for the Gaza Strip. The Spirit of Rachel Corrie ship, a humanitarian cargo vessel, officially known as […]

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UN: Israel displaced 149 Palestinian children in 2011

Published 16/05/2011 Ready to demolish a Palestinian home, Israeli soldiers and bulldozers surround Samir Muhammad Hasan Younis’ home in the West Bank village of Azzun Atma near Qalqilia, January 11, 2011. [MaanImages/Khaleel Reash] JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israel’s policy of demolishing Palestinian homes has displaced 149 children in the West Bank so far this year, figures […]

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Sponsor a Child with Cancer from Deir El Balah Camp

PCRF  MareeOhlin | Monday, 16 May 2011 Cancer in children is relatively rare, in most western nations the rate of diagnosis each year is in the range of 140 – 150 cases per million children.  In the developed world over 70% of children who suffer from cancer are cured. However the situation is not so […]

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Resisting Voices

by Stay Human Convoy / May 16th, 2011 | Dissident Voice Getting to know Gaza In the north-eastern zone of the city, Palestinian youths tell us stories about those infamous days in December 2008, when the Israeli army began its Operation ‘Cast Lead’. The landscape in front of us bears witness to the devastation the […]

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Interviewing a Legend: Robert Fisk

Written by Sabine Saade | 16 May 2011 Fisk is “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain”. Photography: Mohamed Nanabhay 14th of April, Down Town Beirut. Sitting next him, I am very aware that I am currently interviewing a legend; the rest of the clients at Paul café are too. They are looking at […]

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Round up on Palestinian affairs, Arab affairs & international affairs

Round up: Nakba, Gaza, Rafah border, Egypt, Beyonce & More Gaza, May 16, Ofcourse, I will start by rounding up Nakba historical events yesterday. Palestinians, Arabs and internationals marched in masses yesterday in many countries commemorating the Palestinian that happened 63 years ago. Nakba day is when nearly 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes […]

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Erased and written over: How Nakba villages sunk into Israeli landscape

Monday, May 16 2011|  +972blog Noga Kadman’s landmark book,Erased from Space and Consciousness (Hebrew, November Books, 2008), tracks a key element of the history of the Nakba: The absorption of the remains of over 400 Palestinian villages scattered across historic Palestine into the Israeli geographical and emotional landscape. She shares with us two excerpts from […]

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Lebanon’s Palestinians bury victims of Israeli cross-border shooting

Lebanon’s Palestinians bury victims of Israeli cross-border shooting Published today (updated) 16/05/2011 17:13 Palestinian women mourn during a funeral procession in the refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh, near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon. Thousands of bereaved Palestinians in the camps have laid to rest victims of a cross-border Israeli shooting, while shops and […]

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Palestinians mourn Nakba Day victims

PressTV – Mon May 16, 2011 8:47AM Israeli forces reportedly killed at least 10 Palestinian protesters marking the historic Nakba Day in southern Lebanon. (file photo) Palestinians in Lebanon have declared a day of mourning for those who were killed when Israeli troops opened fire on protesters marking the historic Nakba Day. Funerals will be […]

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Remembering Naji Al-Ali: The timeless conscience of Palestine

As the 63rd year of the Palestinian Nakba is marked this week, one Palestinian artist, a symbol of Al Nakba, comes to mind: Naji Al-Ali, the creator of ten-year-old Handala Menna Taher, Monday 16 May 2011 One of the most important Palestinian cartoonists, Naji Al-Ali was evicted from Palestine with his family in 1948 at […]

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Bloody Nakba Day; 16 killed, 400 Injured as Israeli Troops Attack Protesters

PNN – Palestine News Network – 16.05.11 – 10:35 Ramallah – PNN – As protests commemorating Nakba ended on Sunday night sources confirmed that Israeli military attacks on those protests left 16 killed and 400 injured. Israeli troops attacked Nakab protests in several parts of the West Bank, Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, in addition to […]

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