Bilin Weekly Demo 20.05.2011 | By haithmkatib@gmail.com – video

20.05.2011….Today in Bil’in, the Israeli Occupation Forces shot several rounds of tear gas and these sound bombs – which have a different color than the usual ones – at the protesters and at the fields. Due to the heat, several dunums of land caught fire. While protesters were trying to put out the spreading fires, […]

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Because of his support for Palestinians, his facebook page is deleted

[ 20/05/2011 – 07:20 PM ] MADRID, (PIC)– The management of the social networking website facebook has deleted the official page of Brazilian footballer Marcelo Vieira da Silva Júnior, who plays for the Spanish club Real Madrid only days after expressing his support for the Palestinians and criticism of Israel’s violence towards Palestinian children.He wrote […]

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Israeli settlers plan to build three settlements near O. Jerusalem

[ 20/05/2011 – 03:36 PM | PIC ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Hebrew yedioth Ahronoth newspaper has unveiled Thursday that a group of rightist Israelis announced they would build three new settlements near occupied Jerusalem. According to the paper, the group that calls itself “Youth for the sake of Yehuda and Samria” decided to carryout the […]

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Gaza embargo, not flotilla, source of problem, says Davutoğlu

20 May 2011, Friday / EMİNE KART, KONYA Ahmet Davutoğlu While only 10 days are left until the bitter anniversary of the May 31, 2010 Israeli attack on a humanitarian aid flotilla, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has cautioned both international figures and the United Nations to display a consistent stance while approaching the issue […]

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Boycott Israel: Flash mob in Rome, Italy against Agrexco – video

Rome, Italy, Flash Mob for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Global Day of Action and Palestinian Land Day. Musical incursions in produce markets and supermarkets in Rome. http://www.stopagrexcoitalia.org Source

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TO GAZA WITH LOVE – THE AUDACITY OF HOPE – video

The Audacity of Hope will sail as a human rights mission to help end the illegal Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. ustogaza1 | May 18, 2011 U.S. BOAT TO GAZA The U.S. Boat to Gaza Campaign is collecting thousands of personal letters to the people of Gaza from people like you in the U.S., in […]

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Palestinian Protests on Israel’s Borders – in pictures

May 17, 2011 |- Alan Taylor | In Focus – The Atlantic On Sunday, Palestinians and their supporters marked the 63rd anniversary of what they call the “Nakba,” or catastrophe, that befell them as hundreds of thousands fled or were pushed out of their homes following Israel’s establishment in 1948. They observed the anniversary this […]

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UNSC urged to act on Nakba killings – video

UN Ambassadors Nawaf Salaam of Lebanon and Riyad Monsour of the Palestinian Observer Mission are trying to get the UN Security Council to do its job. The Council — whose main mission is to maintain international peace and security — has done nothing to address last Sunday’s border killings of unarmed Palestinians by Israeli troops. […]

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Activists: 6 detained at Bethlehem anti-wall rally – in pictures

Published May 20, 2011 |  21:21 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained six protesters at a rally Friday in Al-Mas’ara near Bethlehem, activists said. Soldiers detained local popular committee member Jum’a Yousef Zawahra, 40, committee spokesman Muhammad Hasan Barejieh, 35, Karim Yousef Zawahra, 29, two Israeli activist and a French protester, the committee said. A […]

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To whom can we complain? – Israeli settlers attack Palestinian Farmers [Testimonies] – video

“Palestinians describe the May 16 midnight settler invasion of Tuba village in the South Hebron Hills, and show damages from the settlers’ vandalism.” Palestinian testimonies about settler attack in Tuba village “AtTuwaniProject on May 19, 2011 Palestinians describe the May 16 midnight settler invasion of Tuba village in the South Hebron Hills, and show damages […]

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UNRWA staff on strike over working conditions, dignity, not pay raise – video

UNRWA staff on strike over working conditions Press TV Report by Ashraf Shannon, Gaza Wed May 18, 2011 10:48PM | Ashraf Shannon | Press TV | Gaza Facilities of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees UNRWA in the Gaza strip were paralyzed following an all-out strike by eleven thousand employees; the strike […]

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Israeli Demolition of Palestinian Homes – Stop Israel, Stop Caterpillar! – video

STOP CATERPILLAR! “SocialTV on May 19, 2011 הדחפורים של חברת Caterpillar משרתים את צה’ל להריסות בתים, עקירת עצים בשטחים ואפילו להרג – פעילת השלום האמריקאית רייצ’ל קורי (24) נהרגה מפגיעת דחפור בעת שהשתתפה בהפגנת שלום כנגד הריסת בתי פלסטינים. הסרט מציג פעולה ישירה נגד הדחפורים של חברת Caterpillar. The bulldozers of Caterpillar are used by […]

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Israel shuts down Golan over protest fears

Published today May 20, 2011 20:18 Israeli soldiers take a break while on patrol along the border fence between theIsraeli-occupied Golan Heights and Syria next to the Druze village of Majdal Shams on May 20, 2011. Israel boosted security in the Golan Heights on Friday, sending troops and police to the northern region and denying […]

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Obama and the Arab Spring

PNN – Palestine News Network – 20.05.11 – 18:55 By Fadi Abu Sa’da – “Events of the past six months show us that strategies of repression and strategies of diversion will not work anymore.” US President Barak Obama said in his speech, for sure he forgot to notice that the Palestinian people have been enduring […]

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New Gaza flotilla to set sail with 1,500 activists in 15 ships, says İHH

20 May 2011, Friday | TODAYSZAMAN.COM Humanitarian Aid Foundation (İHH) President Bülent Yıldırım (C) A Turkish charity that owned a ship raided by Israeli commandoes last year said on Friday that a new flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza is set to set sail next month with more than 1,500 activists in 15 ships. Humanitarian […]

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