Archive | May 21, 2011

State of Palestine Stamps your Passport! – video

Watch the video! How to get the Stamp! Go here for more info and ask for stamping your passport: Source

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Ufree urges for further action after WHO condemns Israel

[ 21/05/2011 – 04:49 PM ] OSLO, (PIC)– The European network to support Palestinian prisoners (Ufree), based in Oslo, has called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to take a step further after it condemned the treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli jails. The WHO adopted a resolution denouncing Israel’s foul effects on the health […]

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Obama changes tune over Palestine

Sat May 21, 2011 5:34PM Interview with Prof. Syed Ali Wasif, Trinity University, Washington : Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rebuffed US President Barack Obama over his call for using the 1967 borders as the starting point for talks on a future Palestinian state. Netanyahu told Obama that Tel Aviv will not go back […]

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Nakba Day just a small sample of upcoming Naksa Day events

[ 21/05/2011 – 05:25 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A new statement calls for marches progressing towards Palestinian borders on Thursday June 5, Naksa Day, just a few weeks after thousands of Palestinian refugees and Arabs made similar protests on Nakba Day. The statement was issued by the preparatory committee for the marches of return to […]

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Israel wants benefit from own crimes – video

PressTV – Sat May 21, 2011 8:14AM Interview with Daoud Khairallah, Professor of Georgetown University Israel has rejected a call by US President Barack Obama for negotiations with Palestinians based on pre-1967 borders. Click here to watch the video

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Ni’lin marks 3rd anniversary of non-violent protests

Published today  21/05/2011 14:50 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The West Bank village of Ni’lin on Friday marked its third anniversary of weekly non-violent demonstrations against Israel’s wall. Since 2008, Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians demonstrating in Ni’lin to protest Israel’s confiscation of one third of the village’s land. Hundreds have been injured and detained from […]

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UNRWA: Palestinian refugees’ health still at risk

Published May 21, 2011 | 13:56 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The UN agency for Palestinian refugees faces “paramount and overwhelming” challenges in providing health care services, according to its annual report released Saturday. Despite progress in key areas — including a reduction in infant mortality — Palestinian refugees face increasing health risks including a rise in […]

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Emperor Obama Vs the Arab people

Despite calling for change in some parts of the Middle East, the US president reaffirmed the status quo where it counts. Joseph Massad | 21 May 2011 13:17 | – Opinion – Al Jazeera English By giving Israel his unflinching support, Obama has alienated much of the Arab world [GALLO/GETTY] In 1960, British Prime Minister Harold […]

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Israel kills Palestinian in Gaza

PressTV –  Sat May 21, 2011 1:30PM Israeli forces firing tear gas canisters at Palestinian protesters on May 20, 2011. Israeli forces have shot and killed another Palestinian in the Gaza Strip less than a day after launching a violent attack on anti-Tel Aviv protesters there. The Palestinian was killed on Saturday in the east […]

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Turkey threatens Israel with retaliation

Sat May 21, 2011 2:52PM Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu Turkey pledges to take ‘necessary’ action against Israel if Tel Aviv repeats its 2010 bloodshed of Gaza-bound activists against an aid convoy, which is to head to the impoverished enclave. On Saturday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, “It should be known that Turkey will […]

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OIC calls for opening Rafah crossing before goods

[ 21/05/2011 – 03:29 PM ] JEDDAH, (PIC)– The Organization of Islamic Conference has called on the Egyptian authorities to open the Rafah border terminal with the Gaza Strip before movement of goods. The call came in the monthly report for April issued by the OIC humanitarian affairs department, part of which was allocated for […]

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Settlement Activity in the Old City of Hebron | الاستيطان في الخليل – video

Settlement Activity in the Old City of Hebron الاستيطان في الخليل Source Special Topic | Ethnic Cleansing Quick Facts | 10 Facts about the Nakba Exclusive | Interactive map of Palestine villages destroyed during Nakba In Pictures Album Ethnic Cleansing of Negev Bedouin Album House Demolitions Settlement Construction Not only Muslims Palestinians are subjected to […]

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Israel plans to seize 140,000 dunums of Dead Sea land

[ 21/05/2011 – 12:28 PM | PIC ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation authorities have declared a new project aimed at seizing 140,000 dunums of land in the receding Dead Sea to be used for the interest of Jewish settlers. Israel’s government property official has submitted 12 petitions for land along the Dead Sea, some […]

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Hunger strikers form decision-making body

[ 21/05/2011 – 12:14 PM | PIC ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinians jailed in Israeli prisons have formed a joint committee to manage a wide-ranging hunger strike, the Gaza prisoner affairs ministry reports. The move was made so that decisions are strong and unified, and so the prison administration would not be able to influence decisions […]

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IOF uses violence against fresh West Bank protests

[ 21/05/2011 – 12:38 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– Two Palestinians were injured and dozens sustained breathing difficulties after Israeli occupation forces IOF) suppressed a weekly anti-separation wall march in Bil’in village west of Ramallah. The soldiers fired a barrage of stun grenades, rubber-coated bullets, and gas canisters at the marchers, injuring Ibrahim Abdul-Fattah Barnat, […]

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