Archive | June 18, 2011

France prosecutes Palestinian activist – video

  PressTV – Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:30AM One of the leaders of a pro-Palestinian group in Paris has been sued for racial hatred after she called for a boycott of Israeli products from the occupied Arab land.         On Friday, Olivia Zemor of the CAPJPO-EuroPalestine group was taken to court by […]

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Beaten child transferred to hospital

  Saturday, 18 June, 2011 | 15:23 | « Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — A child attacked by Israeli forces in Issawiya, north Jerusalem has been transferred to Hadassah Hospital. Ahmed Dahoud Siyam was beaten severely by Israeli security and undercover forces and was found by doctors to have […]

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Rezqa: Gazans can no longer bear humiliation at Rafah crossing

[ 18/06/2011 – 02:52 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinians can no longer bear the humiliation received at the Rafah border crossing, said Yousef Rezqa, advisor to Gaza prime minister Ismail Haneyya. On Thursday, Egyptian authorities turned back six buses on a fleet of eight buses seeking to cross the border to Egypt. “This was […]

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Aid? When will the UN bring Human Rights to Palestine?

Related: Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives! Healthcare | Electricity| Water | Communication By occpal June 18, 2011 ” Annual UN-backed Summer Games to give Gaza’s children ‘a chance to be kids’  ” This is the headline of an article posted on the News section of the United Nations on 16 June 2011:  The United […]

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Thabit warns: Relinquishing right of return might be price for Palestinian state

[ 18/06/2011 – 11:03 AM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– The Beirut-based Thabit organization for the Palestinian refugees’ right of return warned Friday that the Palestinian Authority’s attempt to seek statehood with the UN risks relinquishing the Palestinian refugees’ right of return for good. The statement came Friday after PA president Mahmoud Abbas called on European nations […]

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Protesting refugees close UNRWA offices

[ 18/06/2011 – 11:00 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian refugees closed UNRWA offices in Gaza and north of the West Bank on Saturday morning protesting the agency’s delay in implementing promises to build destroyed homes and to stop reducing services. Iyad Barhoum, a member of the committee of owners of destroyed homes in Rafah and […]

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Palestinian Children Targeted as Israel Crushes Unrest

by Mel Frykberg, June 17, 2011| Antiwar.com SILWAN, Palestine – “Father please help me! Don’t let them take me away,” screamed 12-year-old Ahmed Siyam as approximately 50 heavily armed Israeli soldiers and police dragged the handcuffed and blindfolded boy away. Last month Ahmed was pulled out of his bed at 4am by Israeli security forces […]

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Gaza: Where Freelance Means Abandoned by Mohammed Omer

by Mohammed Omer, June 18, 2011| Antiwar.com GAZA CITY — Sitting by the hospital bed of freelance photographer Mohammed Othman, Ashraf Abu Amrah knows that nobody owns a freelance journalist from Gaza who gets injured, or dies. “When a news agency crew is injured, the world reacts with anger, and human rights groups send letters […]

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Dozens injured during West Bank rallies on Friday

[ 18/06/2011 – 07:16 AM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– Dozens sustained breathing difficulties and bruises after Palestinians held Friday weekly demonstrations against Israeli settlement construction and the apartheid wall in the West Bank. Three protesters were reported injured and tens suffered the effects of breathing tear gas as clashes broke out in Bil’in village near […]

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12,000 Gazans registered to cross Rafah Border. Egypt allows 300 – 400 to cross each day

Published June 18, 2011 10:53 Rafah crossing opens for limited numbers GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Egypt will allow limited numbers of Palestinians to cross the Rafah border on Saturday, crossings officials in Gaza said. On Thursday, Egyptian authorities turned back six buses of Palestinians at the terminal. They will be the first to cross on […]

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Death hangs over 25 captives in Ramlah prison

[ 17/06/2011 – 09:54 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Families of sick Palestinian captives in the Ramlah prison have called for bringing their issue to the fore, especially that occupation prison authorities deliberately neglects their medical needs. The families said after a visit to the captives in the Ramlah prison hospital that the health condition of […]

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Netanyahu: “No Peace With The Palestinians Without Recognizing Jewish State” – International Middle East Media Center

  Saturday June 18, 2011 04:56 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli paper, Haaretz, reported Friday that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, believes that there can be no peace agreement with the Palestinians unless they recognize Israel as a state for the Jewish people. The paper said that, during his recent trip to […]

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Abbas asks EU to recognize Palestine

Sat Jun 18, 2011 3:34AM Acting PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas shakes hands with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in the West Bank, Jan. 6, 2011. Acting Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas has called on the European Union to recognize Palestine as an independent state based on the 1967 borders. “We are calling on […]

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June 18, 2011 PALESTINE HEADLINES

SPECIAL TOPIC آخر الأخبار والتحديثات June 18, 2011 | GAZA PALESTINE | TODAY NEWS LINKS| Gaza has been under siege for 1466 days | Spread-Share-Link or Tweet the News! █ Live updates from Last Friday’s Non Violent Demos in Palestine | June 10, 2011 | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 █ NEW: […]

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