Archive | July 10, 2011

#Airflotilla | Israel is out to thwart foreign Gaza activists

Tel Aviv has gone to great levels to prevent vessels sailing from international harbours Gulf News |  Published July 11, 2011 There is no end to the arrogance of Israel. Authorities in the Jewish state have arrested more than 100 citizens of foreign countries at its airport simply because those foreigners hold beliefs which are […]

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#Airflotilla | Facebook and Twitter used by Israel to bar pro-Palestine protest groups

July 10, 2011 | Metro.co.uk Israel has used Facebook and Twitter to prevent pro-Palestine activists entering the country to protest (Pic: AFP) Authorities used the social media websites to compile a ‘black list’ of 340 protesters before asking European airlines to bar them from flights bound for Tel Aviv. Many were stopped en route at […]

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IOF continues to crack down on West Bank protests

[ 10/07/2011 – 06:06 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces cracked down Sunday on peaceful demonstrations welcoming foreign pro-Palestinian activists near the Dome Barrier outside of Bethlehem. The troops fired tear gas and bullets into the crowd of around 200, causing breathing difficulties to dozens. The organizers, a Bethlehem resistance campaign, said the march […]

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#Airflotilla | CENSORED NEWS | Censored by Facebook: Facebook helped governments spy on and arrest Flytilla activists

Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Alexander Higgins’ online report about how Facebook helped spy on and arrest fly-in supporters to Palestine this week, could not be posted on Facebook today, as seen in this screen capture. Facebook is not only helping governments to spy on, and arrest peace activists, but it is censoring a news article on what happened to the […]

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Rachel Corrie murder case kept under wraps

Sun Jul 10, 2011 5:47PM Rachel Corrie, the US activist killed by Israel in 2003 The father of Rachel Corrie, the US activist who was run over by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003, says his daughter’s death has been kept under a cloud of non-clarity. On Sunday, an Israeli court listened to its […]

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Hamas: Service decline signals intent behind UNRWA name change

[ 10/07/2011 – 05:32 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas’s refugees’ affairs department has said the recent decline in UNRWA’s services confirms the body’s “evil objectives” behind the recent name change, which excluded the term “relief works”. The Hamas department said in a statement on Sunday that officials from the UN Palestinian refugees agency should explain […]

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Detainee in Ramallah goes on hunger strike

[ 10/07/2011 – 05:46 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Mohammed Naim Al-Aruri went on hunger strike in a Ramallah jail on Saturday to protest being held in jail for three months after completing his sentence. Relatives of Aruri, 24, told the PIC that he was adamant on pursuing his hunger strike until the Ramallah authorities order […]

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Lies and Israel’s war crimes ~ by Ben White

  Ben White |The Electronic Intifada |28 July 2009 A Palestinian UN worker inspects debris after an Israeli air strike on a UN school in Gaza where civilians were seeking refuge, 17 January 2009. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages) This month marked six months since the “official” conclusion to Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, “Operation Cast Lead.” […]

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A Palestinian State Redeems the U.N.’s Historic Nakba (Catastrophe)

  By Mohamed Khodr* | Sabbah Report | http://www.sabbah.biz | July 10, 2011 The Honorable President of the United States Barak Obama The Honorable Secretary of State Hilary Clinton The Honorable Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon The Honorable President of the General Assembly Joseph Deiss The Honorable Special Coordinator for the Middle […]

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What is the Israeli response to Palestinian non-violence? – video

+972 Magazine | by Joseph Dana     One day after the “air flotilla” landed in Tel Aviv, Palestinian and Israeli activists held a demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh just west of Ramallah. The village’s agricultural spring was taken over by Jewish settlers in the nearby settlement of Halamish over two […]

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#Airflotilla | July 10, 2011 | Activists begin hunger strike in Israeli jail

10 July 2011 | Welcome to Palestine | International Solidarity Movement Israeli authorities set stringent conditions for release of “Welcome to Palestine” prisoners. The large majority of international visitors are still incarcerated under brutal conditions, begin a hunger strike in Israeli jail Bethlehem, July 10, 2011. Over 120 internationals attempting to visit Palestine are still being […]

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IOF raids several locations in West Bank

[ 10/07/2011 – 12:17 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces raided several locations in the West Bank and set up road blocks on Sunday morning arresting at least one Palestinian man. Locals said dozens of Israeli soldiers raided Tammoun near Jenin and arrested Moahmmed Abdul-Aziz Basharat, 25, after surrounding and raiding his home. Sources […]

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#Airflotilla | July 10, 2011 | Israel to expel ‘flytilla’ activists

  PressTV – Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:6AM Israeli police officers remove a pro-Palestinian Israeli activist during a small demonstration at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on July 8, 2011. Israeli officials say they hope to expel within 72 hours 118 pro-Palestinian activists that were arrested and denied entry upon their arrival at […]

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#Airflotilla | July 10, 2011 | Israeli regime arrests 12 Britons

PressTV –  Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:10AM Zionist regime authorities have arrested 12 Britons on their way to visit Beit-ul-Lahm in the occupied West Bank, according to campaigners. The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which was coordinating the British arm of the visit, said its chairman Mick Napier, 64, a university teacher, was amongst four Scots […]

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Thousands of Palestinians demonstrate demanding freedom for Sheikh Salah

[ 10/07/2011 – 10:10 AM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– Thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in the streets of Nazareth to the north of 1948 occupied Palestine demanding the immediate release of Sheikh Raed Salah from his UK jail. The demonstration organized by the Islamic movement in 1948 to protest the continued detention of its leader Sheikh Salah […]

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