PRESS RELEASE | ‘Welcome to Palestine’ campaign responds to Israel’s denial of entrance to international visitors who support human rights

PRESS RELEASE Bethlehem and Jerusalem, July 7, 2011 – The Israeli authorities are escalating attacks on anyone they suspect of participating in the peaceful events of the ‘Welcome to Palestine’ campaign. Israeli authorities sent hundreds of names to airline companies telling them to deny travel to individuals on the list. Several people on the list […]

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There’s more to Gaza than broken slabs of concrete

  Sami Kishawi |The Electronic Intifada |Gaza City |7 July 2011 A Palestinian boy in Khan Younis refugee camp, Gaza Strip (Sami Kishawi) Many of the people I’ve spoken to in Gaza City don’t object to foreign coverage of the Gaza Strip in the slightest. In fact, Gazans consider that media attention gives them an opportunity […]

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#Airflotilla : Israel Instructs Air Lines To Cancel Reservation Of Passengers Said To Be Related To “Welcome To Palestine

  Thursday July 07, 2011 20:17 by George Rishmawi – IMEMC News Israeli ministry of Interior has sent out directives to all air lines asking them to cancel reservation of passengers Israel believes they are part of the “Welcome to Palestine Campaign”. The Israeli Authorities sent out a list of names to the airlines saying […]

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Report: The number of children kidnapped this year markedly rose

[ 07/07/2011 – 03:27 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Ansar Al-Asra (advocates for prisoners) society said it documented the detention of 1,552 Palestinian citizens in the first half of this year, including 215 children. According a report released by the society on Thursday, there was a marked increase in the kidnapping of Palestinian minors this year […]

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More than a half million settlers in West Bank, East Jerusalem

[ 07/07/2011 – 03:22 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli Population Registry said Thursday that there are more than 334,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank. According to Israeli media outlets, data suggests that the greatest hike in settler population was recorded in Kiryat Sever. But the figure does not include settlements surrounding occupied […]

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#RaedSalah | Rabbi Meir Hirsh: The idea of Sheikh Raed Salah being charged in the United Kingdom with anti-Semitism is astounding

Thursday, 07 July 2011 13:00| MEMO The good Shaykh has consistently expressed his friendship and brotherhood for the Jewish People and publicly embraced myself and my Jewish brethren countless times. Rabbi Meir Hirsh, Jerusalem – Arrest of Shaykh Raed Salah in London There are very few people in Jerusalem who have not heard of or […]

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#Airflotilla | Adam Keller, Gush Shalom, letter to the Minister of Internal Security, Yitzhak Aharonowitz

PNN – Palestine News Network –  07.07.11 – 14:32  Dear Sir, According to reports in the media, the Prime Minister has entrusted you with handling what is known as the “Fly-In,” i.e. hundreds of peace activists from abroad who are scheduled to land at Ben-Gurion Airport this Friday. Adam Keller You have been quoted as […]

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Egypt to increase passenger numbers at Rafah crossing

Published today (updated) 07/07/2011 17:25 GAZA (Ma’an) — The Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Gaza Strip Mohammad Awad said Thursday that the government has received assurances from Egyptian officials that the country will begin increasing the volume of passengers using the Rafah crossing. “The problem of the crossing was presented to more than one […]

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“Air Flotilla” successful in exposing Israeli blockade of West Bank

Thursday, July 7 2011| Noam Sheizaf | +972 Magazine Israeli authorities deployed hundreds of police officers to arrest and deport pro-Palestinian visitors. The Minister of Tourism announced that “good tourists” will be greeted with flowers Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv (photo: N i c o_) Panic. There is no other way to describe the […]

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Starving Gaza is not cricket

Neither is stopping the aid flotilla sailing Palestinian children fly Palestinian and Turkish flags to show their support for the flotilla attempting to reach the Gaza Strip, in the port of Gaza City Saturday, July 2, 2011. AP / Hatem Moussa By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | http://www.sabbah.biz Setting sail with the Gaza Flotilla […]

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Ihsanoglu strongly condemns the building of more housing units in OJ

[ 07/07/2011 – 09:19 AM ] JEDDAH, (PIC)– Ekmeluddin Ihsanoglu, the secretary general of the Organization for the Islamic conference, has strongly condemned the Israeli occupation authority’s endorsement of building 900 new housing units in occupied Jerusalem and 400 in West Bank settlements. He said in a press release on Wednesday that the IOA escalation […]

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£349m to Tackle Poverty in Occupied Palestine

7th July 2011 | From Asian Image Britain has set out how it plans to tackle poverty in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) over the next four years, International Development Minister Alan Duncan has announced. Of the approximately four million people living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, a quarter currently live below […]

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Israel still callous on flotilla killing

  PressTV Thu Jul 7, 2011 10:33AM Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman says Tel Aviv will never apologize to Turkey for its 2010 attack on a Gaza-bound international aid flotilla that killed nine Turkish nationals and injured 50 others. “As far as we are concerned, there is no reason to […]

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Medical aid convoy lands in Gaza

[ 07/07/2011 – 09:36 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A medical aid convoy sent by the Arab Medical Union has delivered some five tons of aid to the Gaza Strip after landing on Wednesday. The convoy, headed by the AMU emergency committee secretary-general Ibrahim al-Za’faraani, entered through Rafah crossing on the Strip’s border with Egypt. On […]

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Israeli military court sends MP Zeidan to administrative detention

[ 07/07/2011 – 09:25 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– An Israeli military court on Wednesday transferred Palestinian lawmaker from Hamas Abdulrahman Zeidan to administrative detention for six months. The family of Zeidan told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that Salem court in the northern West Bank sentenced MP Zeidan to six months in administrative detention. The […]

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