Families of political prisoners hold a sit-in in al-Khalil

[ 15/07/2011 – 06:34 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Families of political prisoners in PA jails have renewed their protests on Thursday and held a sit-in at the Ibn Rushd Square in the centre of the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil. The protesters called on the PA and its security agencies to release the political […]

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Where are the Palestinians?

  Mairav Zonszein |The Electronic Intifada |Tel Aviv |15 July 2011 Have international solidarity mobilizations drowned out Palestinian voices? (Anne Paq /ActiveStills) Over the last few weeks, media in this region was filled with images of people from all over the Western world holding up Palestinian flags and chanting “Free Palestine.” We’ve heard from the likes […]

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Resheq: Those who insist on Fayyad responsible for scuppering reconciliation

[ 15/07/2011 – 05:01 PM ] DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Ezzat Al-Resheq, member of Hamas’s political bureau, said Thursday that the insistence of Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas on naming Salam Fayyad as the next prime minister was scuppering the national reconciliation process. In an interview with the Kuwaiti KUNA news agency, Resheq regretted the statements of Abbas […]

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#Airflotilla | ‪Flytilla Swansea women return‬‏ – including hidden footage – video

ITV news report on the women from Swansea returning from Israeli prison. http://www.swanseapalestine.org     via ‪Flytilla Swansea women return‬‏ – YouTube.

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Enough Jihad by Email: When Will We March for Palestine

“No greater sense of narcissistic and paranoid entitlement topped with a heaped sense of superiority and supremacy exists in today’s world than in Israel and its shadow political and economic elites in western capitols.” 15  Jul, 2011 | Intifada Palestine | Mohammed Khodr “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal […]

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Settlers Torch Olive Orchards Near Nablus

“Do not corrupt or destroy My world. For if you destroy it, there will be no one to restore it after you…“ (Kohelet Raba 7:19) Friday July 15, 2011 16:35 by IMEMC News & Agencies A group of fundamentalist Israeli settlers torched on Friday Palestinian olive orchards in Jabal Suleiman area, near Burin village, south […]

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Detained Sheikh Raed Salah freed on bail

Politics  7/15/2011 6:44:00 PM | KUNA LONDON, July 15 (KUNA) — A Palestinian activist detained on the orders of UK Home Secretary Theresa May after flying into Britain to speak to politicians, was Friday freed on bail by a High Court judge pending the outcome of legal challenges. Sheikh Raed Salah, 52, is challenging the […]

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EWASH: One Year since Israel Announced Easing of Blockade Policy but Clean Water not Flowing Easily

PNN – Palestine News Network –  15.07.11 – 14:36 Gaza – PNN – The Water Sanitation and Hygiene Group (EWASH) issued a report saying that even though Israel announced last year that it will ease the blockade; Gaza Strip residents still don’t have clean water running from their taps as up to 95 percent of […]

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Israel and the Flotillas

  By ERIC WALBERG | Counterpunch | July 15, 2011 The efforts by Israel to prevent Freedom Flotilla II from leaving Greece have been largely successful. Of the original 10 ships, only the French ship Al-Karama (dignity) with 10 activists including French politicians, which sailed from the French Corsica two weeks ago, and the sabotaged-and-repaired […]

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Over 3,000 Join Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity March

  PNN – Palestine News Network –  15.07.11 – 14:59 PNN – Jerusalem – Official estimates said over 3,000 protestors joined a solidarity march from Jerusalem’s Old City to the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Two groups of about 10 counter-protestors waved Israeli flags and shouted at the protestors participating in the march. PNN archives […]

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UN: Jerusalem part of occupied Palestinian territories

Published today (updated) 15/07/2011 15:09 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization released a statement Friday confirming the occupied status of East Jerusalem. “UNESCO wishes to reiterate that, contrary to recent claims, there has been no change in UNESCO’s position on Jerusalem,” the statement said. “In line with overall UN policy, […]

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Settlers torch Palestinian land near Nablus

Published today (updated) 15/07/2011 17:27 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Yizhar set fire to Palestinian land on Friday near the village of Burin, south of Nablus. “A group of settlers from Yizhar had set fire to dozens of Dunams in that area,” a member of Burin’s agricultural committee, Belal Eid, […]

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Children of Gaza captives send message to fathers via flying bottles

[ 15/07/2011 – 11:17 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Hundreds of children in Gaza Strip have gathered Thursday at Gaza Sea to send  a letter of love to their fathers who are incarcerated in Israeli jails for years now, alarming the entire world that they also have the right to live in peace with their fathers […]

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Algerian Red Crescent donates 2.5 million dollars to Gaza

[ 15/07/2011 – 11:10 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Algerian Red Crescent has donated Thursday 2.5 million dollars to the victims of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip in 2009 that left 1500 Palestinian martyrs and nearly 5000 wounded in addition to destroying the Strip’s infrastructure. Haj Hammo Bin Zughair, the president of the […]

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A new Israeli law criminalizes support to Palestinian civil society campaigns.

  PNN – Palestine News Network –  15.07.11 – 16:50 Ramallah – PNN – A repressive law criminalizing support for the Palestinian civil society campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel was approved last night by the Israeli parliament (Knesset). The new legislation will punish both Israeli people and organisations active in any kind […]

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