Archive | June 7, 2011

Jewish settlers burn Palestinian farmland

[ 07/06/2011 – 07:01 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Jewish settlers from the settlement of Karmi Tzur built on Palestinian land in Halhul and Beit Ummar villages in Al-Khalil on Tuesday set Palestinian farmland on fire. Local sources said that the settlers burnt three dunums of land cultivated with wheat and sprayed chemicals on grape vines. […]

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Hamas: Burning mosques racist policy

[ 07/06/2011 – 06:57 PM ] DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Hamas strongly condemned the Israeli settlers’ burning of a mosque in Mughyir village to the northeast of Ramallah on Tuesday as a racist act and a flagrant violation of heavenly religions. It said that burning the mosque and writing racist slurs on its walls had violated international […]

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Palestinian teenager injured near Gaza border

7 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Mohammed Kafarna 19-year-old Mohammed Kafarna was hit in the neck by bullet shrapnel during a weekly non-violent demonstration in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip. According to the doctor treating him, there were three pieces of metal lodged in his neck, thigh and abdomen. Mohammed is in a stable condition, […]

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One Missile, One Playground: The Will of Gaza – By Ramzy Baroud

07/06/2011 By Ramzi Baroud A ‘Hamas commander’ drove a beat-up grey van in northern Gaza and theatrically spoke on his walky-talky as I sat in the passenger seat. The van was almost barren, save for the most basic equipment propelling it to move forward over the bumpy roads of an overcrowded refugee camp.‘Iyad’ was not […]

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Gaza calls on Egypt to restore transit agreement

[ 07/06/2011 – 10:21 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian government in Gaza has called on Egypt to reinstate measures to ease movement on the Rafah border crossing. The call comes as the crossing has been closed for the third consecutive day. “We call on [our] brothers in the Egyptian leadership, headed by the Supreme […]

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PEDAL activists reach Turkey en route to Palestine – video

Tue Jun 7, 2011 4:34PM Jody Sabral, Press TV, Istanbul Cycling for Palestinian rights, that’s the message these peace activists are spreading as they cycle thousands of miles across mountainous terrain. Their mission “to raise public awareness on the Palestinian issue”. We caught up with them in Istanbul. The twenty activists began their journey in […]

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Journalist and activist Gideon Spiro arrested for “incitement”

Tuesday, June 7 2011|Yossi Gurvitz | +972 Magazine Gideon Spiro, 76, was arrested and released on Monday for what the police considered, apparently groundlessly, to be incitement. A Tel Aviv Police investigator arrested Monday Gideon Spiro, a veteran leftist activist aged 76, for suspected incitement relating to an article he had written. Spiro was discharged […]

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Islamic Council warns against new licences for Jewish museum in Muslim cemetery

  Tuesday, 07 June 2011 12:15 | MEMO The legal advisor of the Supreme Islamic Council in occupied Palestine has warned the Israeli occupation authorities about building a Jewish museum in the historic Ma’man Allah Islamic cemetery in the occupied city of Jerusalem. According to Mr Qais Nasser, the Municipality of occupied Jerusalem is considering […]

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Abu sisi: Israeli detectives threaten to kill my family

2011-06-07 | News  Alresalah News Gaza,(Alresalah.ps)–Engineer ,Dirar Mousa Abu Sisi, who was kidnapped in Ukraine by Israeli Mossad , stated that he was severely tortured by Israeli jailers , adding that Israeli detectives threatened him they will kill his wife and family. Abu sisi stated he was kidnapped while traveling in train in Ukraine by […]

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THE ZIONISTS THINK PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD IS A BIG JOKE

Well, it’s NOT! We are damn serious about it and have been waiting way too long for it to become a reality.  * The pompous attitudes displayed in zionist circles are reaching out to the entire world for this never to happen. Total denial of the crimes committed against the Palestinians are unfortunately taken as […]

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Huge demand for hearing aids

  Photo: Shabtai Gold/IRIN No one knows how many deaf children and adults live in the West Bank, but the problem is believed to be common (file photo) IRIN Middle East | OPT TULKAREM, WEST BANK, 7 June 2011 (IRIN) – Hearing impairments are common among Palestinians mainly due to inherited genetic mutations and lack […]

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Settlers torch mosque in Al-Mughayyir village near Ramallah

[ 07/06/2011 – 01:58 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Jewish settlers torched a mosque in Al-Mughayyir village near Ramallah on Monday, causing serious damage to the entire structure. Settlers from nearby settlement outpost Alei Ayin crept into the village which lies 12 miles northeast of Ramallah at 3am and set fire to car tires and threw […]

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Israel raids offices of Nablus PLC members

[ 07/06/2011 – 02:17 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Israeli forces raided Tuesday morning the offices of Palestinian Legislative Council members from the Hamas bloc in Nablus, confiscating computers and other property. PLC member Mona Mansour told the PIC that Israeli patrols surrounded the building where the offices are situated in the Rafadia district of the West […]

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Arab League General Secretariat: Jerusalem an Occupied City, Its Annexation by Israel a Unilateral Act Rejected on Arab & International Levels

  Jun 07, 2011| – SANA, Syria     CAIRO, (SANA) – The General Secretariat of the Arab League affirmed on Tuesday that Jerusalem is an occupied city, and that Israel annexation of the city is a unilateral act that is rejected on Arab and international levels. The Arab League’s Assistant Secretary General for Palestine […]

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Another “Price-Tag-Attack”: Settlers burn down al-Mughir village mosque in revenge attack

█  Note occupiedpalestine: “Price Tag Attacks” are attacks extremist illegal settlers undertake at Palestinians, while they themselves have been punished or cleared out of the illegal settlement posts by Israeli Army. The Palestinians pay in these cases the price tage. MEMO | June 7 , 2011Hebrew graffiti was also found scrawled on the mosques external […]

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