[ 04/07/2011 – 03:05 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained 300 Palestinians and foreign activists in the West Bank over the past month of June including 36 children, the ministry of prisoners in Gaza said on Monday. Riyadh Al-Ashqar, the ministry’s spokesman, said that among the detained were four women, four […]
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Greece is under Israel’s occupation – video
PressTV Mon Jul 4, 2011 3:39PM Greece’s decision to prevent a Gaza-bound aid flotilla from leaving its coast means Greece is under Israel’s occupation, says a co-founder of Free Palestine Movement. “They [the Greek government] have said openly that it was the United States that pressured them to do that [prevent the aid flotilla […]
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Palestinian woman, child run over by Israeli settlers in separate incidents
Monday July 04, 2011 21:16 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News An Israeli settler driving near Nablus ran over a 40-year old Palestinian woman Sunday, then tried to flee the scene. Separately, an Israeli-plated vehicle ran over a 14-year old boy in Qalqilia and then drove away. Palestinian ambulance at hospital (image by Ma’an) In […]
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Game Not Yet Over: Flotilla Considers Next Moves
Spectre of Israeli PR disaster may not yet be over. (Via Press TV) By Richard Lightbown In order to set the context I would like to begin by stating a few facts about Gaza: – The UNRWA annual report for 2010 found that the unemployment rate in Gaza is 45.2 per cent, which is believed […]
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The real preachers of hate: Britain arrests respected Palestinian leader
by Jonathan Cook on July 4, 2011 | Mondoweiss He is an Islamic “preacher of hate” whose views reflect “virulent anti-Semitism” and who has funded Hamas terror operations, according to much of the British media. The furore last week over Sheikh Raed Salah, described by the Daily Mail newspaper as a “vile militant extremist”, […]
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US Needs a Declaration of Independence – from Israel
July 4, 2011 Palestine Chronicle Passengers issued their call from the decks of US-flagged boat. By Henry Norr – Athens, Greece 235 years after the American colonies declared independence from Britain, the passenegers on the U.S. Boat to Gaza call for a new American Declaration of Independence, this time from Israel. The passengers issued […]
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Double standards over Salah’s arrest
guardian.co.uk, Monday 4 July 2011 21.00 BST | guardian | Letters I was deeply disturbed to learn Sheikh Raed Salah is under threat of deportation on grounds that this action would be “conducive to the public good” (Inquiry after banned Palestinian enters UK, 30 June). On the contrary, it would be very harmful to the […]
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The Tahrir, Canada’s boat to Gaza: Two arrested, other activists remain on board to avoid arrest
By Cathryn Atkinson | July 4, 2011 | Rabble.ca Canadian activist Dylan Penner describes what has happened to The Tahrir, its crew, and international activists since it made a dash to leave Greece early Monday. Cathryn Atkinson: Where are you? Dylan Penner: At port. I am below deck. The Tahrir has been damaged by […]
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Israeli Freedom Flotilla II Terrorism – by Stephen Lendman
By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | http://www.sabbah.biz | July 5, 2011 Daily, Israel keeps proving its lawless rogue credentials, notably by blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza. As a result, it finds new ways to show contempt for human rights, rule of law standards, civility, fundamental Judaic tenets, and its very legitimacy as a […]
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Protest after Israel police quiz rabbis on racist book
Published yesterday (updated) 05/07/2011 02:40 By Michael Blum< JERUSALEM (AFP) — Some 2,000 religious Jews demonstrated outside Israel's Supreme Court on Monday, protesting against the recent arrest of two leading rabbis who allegedly endorsed a racist book. In the past week, police have detained, questioned and released the two rabbis as part of an ongoing […]
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’30 captains’ on intercepted Canadian boat
Published yesterday (updated) 04/07/2011 21:46 Palestinians ride on boats at the port of Gaza City during a rally in support ofthe Gaza-bound flotillas [AFP/Mahmud Hams, File] By Ella Ide ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — Thirty pro-Palestinian activists on a Canadian boat bound for Gaza that was stopped out of a Greek port Monday for breaking a […]
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Preparations made to receive martyrs held in Israeli Cemetery of Numbers
[ 04/07/2011 – 09:23 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinians are fully prepared to receive 84 of the country’s martyrs buried at Israel’s secret Cemetery of Numbers, the national campaign to retrieve the bodies of the martyrs has announced. Negotiations with Israel have led to an initial agreement to release 84 of the 334 Palestinians held […]
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Ministry: Israel name change initiative aimed at erasing Palestine’s identity
[ 04/07/2011 – 09:18 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Gaza Ministry of Justice has said the Israel initiative to convert the names of Arab cities into Hebrew names is derived from a series of steps to erase the Arab identity of the region. Israel has been working under the premise that “the old will die, […]
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Israel blocks Adhan broadcasting
PressTV – Jul 4, 2011 9:12AM The holy Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank Israel has blocked the broadcast of Adhan (the Islamic call to prayers) from the holy Ibrahimi (Abrahamic) Mosque in the occupied West Bank. Zaid al-Jabari, director of the Muslim Waqf (endowment) in the West Bank […]
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