Israeli Arms Exports Hit High of $7.2 Billion

  20.06.11 – 14:37 Tel Aviv – PNN – The Israeli defense industry reached a high in 2010 of $7.2 billion in exports, up from the $6.9 billion it had achieved in 2009, thus placing the country among the world’s top four arms exporters. Israel’s Iron Dome System “We recognize the challenges but we’re working […]

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Israeli Military Destroys Homes Near Hebron

  PNN – Palestine News Network – 20.06.11 – 15:08 Hebron – PNN – On Monday, the Israeli military leveled houses and farm lands that belonged to Bier Al-Ad village near the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Local sources said that Israeli border police stormed the village early this morning and leveled seven houses, […]

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The new Israeli “Hitlist” available online

On May 20 2011 Hasbara Tabloid nr 1 published a “Call to Duty” for the birthright recruits in the world, to defends Israel’s myth and literally stating the responsibility of all to influence worlds opinion, aka, a desperate attempt to keep us all stupid. They even hand out instant made for blind followers without a […]

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Bedouin community homes demolished

Published today (updated) 20/06/2011 18:38 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli bulldozers destroyed several tin homes and animal shelters Monday, in the Bedouin herding hamlet of Khirbet Bir Al-Idd. The demolitions, which left 60 men, women and children displaced, were said by Israel’s Civil Administration to be “routine implementation of the law concerning illegal building,” with a […]

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Humans against Strangulation of Gaza

by Jane Hirschmann | June 20th, 2011 | Dissident Voice People often ask me why I am part of a team to organize a U.S. Boat to Gaza that will be sailing this month with the next International Flotilla to break the siege of Gaza. They often make clear they are asking because I am […]

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Official report confirms 4.8 million Palestinian refugees living in poverty and unemployment

Monday, 20 June 2011 16:15| MEMO On Sunday, June 19th, The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) issued a report stating that, scattered across dozens of camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian territories (the West Bank and Gaza Strip), the minimum number of Palestinian refugees registered with the UN Relief and Works Agency […]

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Shortages of drugs and medical disposables in Ministery of Health’s Gaza – WHO – Report (20 June 2011)

SUMMARY Essential Medications: – Of the 480 medications on the essential drug list, 178 (37%) were reported at zero stock levels in the Ministry of Health’s Gaza Central Drug Store (CDS) at end of May 2011. The CDS supplies the Ministry’s 13 hospitals and 54 primary health care clinics in Gaza. – While the shortage […]

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Interview: Chris Gunness, UNRWA Spokesman, on Palestinian refugees

Monday, June 20 2011| Roee Ruttenberg | +972 Magazine There is no doubt in my mind that you can have a just and durable peace unless 4.8 million refugees are brought out of their 63-year exile, statelessness and dispossession. – Chris Gunness, UNRWA Spokesman, 20 June 2011 Roee Ruttenberg: Can you tell us a little […]

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14 Year Old Palestinian Boy Detained By Israeli Military In Husan

  Monday June 20, 2011 12:53 by Kevin Murphy – IMEMC & Agencies Wafa news site reports that Israeli soldiers have abducted a Palestinian minor from the town of Hasan near Bethlehem. Israel soldiers detained 14 year old Muhammad Hamamrah after entering his home and searching the house. The town of Husan near Bethlehem in […]

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Expansion of Settlement homes in East Jerusalem approved by Jerusalem Municipality Sunday

  Monday June 20, 2011 12:19 by Katie Child – 1 of International Middle East Media Center Editorial Group The Jerusalem municipality agreed to the expansion of 2,000 Settlement homes in Ramat Shlomo in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday. The plan allows for each Settlement household to add an additional room, according to a council […]

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Medical Care in Gaza Under Siege – Part II – by Stephen Lendman

By Stephen Lendman | June 20, 2011 | OpEdNews   On March 25, 2008, Time magazine writer Tim McGirk headlined “Israelis Blocking Medical Care in Gaza,” saying: “Since Gaza is denied (most everything under siege), many complicated surgeries are no longer done there.” Those permitted abroad for them, like Bassam al-Wahedi, endure a gauntlet through […]

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Israel calls Palestinian state ‘mistake’

PressTV – Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:46AM Israeli President Shimon Peres The Israeli president has called for an “urgent” deal with the Palestinian Authority (PA), threatening Palestinians not to make the “mistake” of declaring independence outside what he claimed as a “peace deal.” “It is very urgent. I think neither side has much time. We […]

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Israeli intelligence elements break the hand of a Jerusalemite boy

19/06/2011 11:08 | pls48.net | The boy -Ahmed Dawood Siyam (14)- from Silwan village suffered from bruises in his right hand, leg and eye, after being attacked by members of the Israeli intelligence, who arrested him while he was standing in front of his uncle’s shop, in Bir Ayub in Jerusalem. It is reported that […]

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Gisha Appeals Court Decision That Violates Muslim Freedom of Worship

  PNN – Palestine News Network – 20.06.11 – 12:41 Gaza – PNN – Gisha, the Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, has today appealed a court judgement which does not allow Muslims from Gaza the worship freely at Jerusalem’s holy sites.                 The State of Israel allows […]

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The Treatment & Rehabilitation Center: a Case Study about victims of Torture committed by Israel

PNN – Palestine News Network – 20.06.11 – 13:16 By Alessandra Bajec – The idea of having an organization designed to offer appropriate and comprehensive assistance to victims of torture in the Palestinian territories is crucially necessary in the context of the ongoing violations committed by Israel under the Occupation. This is particularly true where […]

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