Longest held administrative detainee arrested again

[ 11/08/2011 – 12:50 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The longest held Palestinian prisoner in administrative detention Ayed Dudin, 44, has once again been arrested just 40 days after being released. Prior to the incident, Dudin had been kept in administrative detention without an indictment for four years. He is considered the first case observed by […]

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AIPAC’s European cousin evades scrutiny

Jeff Haynes| Agence France Presse Submitted by david on Thu, 08/11/2011 – 07:07 I don’t envy the 81 members of the US Congress who are on an expenses-paid trip to Israel this week. Having to listen to Zionist claptrap throughout the junket’s packed schedule is not my idea of a fun vacation. But I was struck […]

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Turkey supports construction of new university hospital in Gaza

Thursday, 11 August 2011 13:48 | MEMO The new hospital, to be named the Palestinian-Turkish Friendship Hospital. The Islamic University in Gaza (IUG) held a ceremony yesterday to lay the foundation stone of a new university hospital in the liberated area formerly occupied by the Israeli Netzarim settlement south of Gaza city. The new hospital, […]

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Arabs to urge yes vote on Palestinian UN bid

Published today (updated) 11/08/2011 21:07 Palestinians carry their national flag towards Israel’s controversial separation near the West bank town of Tulkarem. [AFP/File Jaafar Ashtiyeh] RAMALLAH (AFP) — A delegation of Arab foreign ministers will urge permanent members of the Security Council next week to vote for Palestinian UN membership, a top Palestinian official said Thursday. […]

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Throwing rocks at the occupation — and Western prejudice too ~ by Linah Alsaafin

Linah Alsaafin | The Electronic Intifada | Nabi Saleh |11 August 2011 Is throwing rocks at an occupying force an act of violence? (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills) I had denied it for too long now but for a Palestinian, my rock throwing is abysmal. On one of the Fridays I spent in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, I […]

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Racist Comment of the “Jewess” Barbara Spectre – video

On September 28, 2010 Robert Lindsay posted this blogpost on his weblog about the video: Barbara Lerner Spectre Video: Lots of Comments, Little Sense ~ by Robert Lindsay An interview with Barbara Lerner Spectre, head of a Jewish society in Sweden, is getting a lot of airplay all over the Anti-Semitism Sphere on the Net. […]

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Israel prepares for clashes with Syria

PressTV – Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:57PM GMT Israeli soldiers (file photo) Israeli military forces are getting ready for a possible military engagement with Syria if the UN votes for an independent Palestinian state in September, a report says. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says such vote might lead to tensions with Syria, provoking the […]

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Jewish settlers seize Palestinian homes by force

[ 11/08/2011 – 01:44 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Jewish settlers forced their way into Palestinian homes in the Old City of Al-Khalil and expelled their inhabitants out at dawn Thursday, eyewitnesses said. They said that the settlers used digging tools to force their way into those homes overlooking the settlement outposts in the city. The […]

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Israel Occupation Authority flattens Palestinian home in occupied Jerusalem

[ 11/08/2011 – 01:36 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) razed the home of Majed Al-Rajabi in Baka’a area to the southwest of occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday due to the usual pretext of lack of construction permit. Rajabi said that the IOA glued a demolition order on his 60 square meter […]

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Ilana Hammerman: Soldiers’ testimonies on the occupied territories

  Israeli Occupation Archives | August 10, 2011 By Ilana Hammerman, Haaretz – 5 Aug 2011 Kibush Hashtahim – Occupation of the Territories: Israeli Soldier Testimonies 2000-2010.  Published by Breaking the Silence (Hebrew), 347 pages, NIS 50 English version to be available later this year; 430 pages. On the 50th anniversary of the death of […]

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Young make up one-third of Palestinian population

Maan News Agency | Aug 11, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics released a demographic study Thursday which showed that young people form one third of the Palestinian population. The results were published on the eve of International Youth Day and present statistics about the Palestinian population, above all about the […]

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UFree demands Israel to release Jazeera reporter Samer Allawi right away

[ 11/08/2011 – 10:18 AM ] OSLO, (PIC)– The European network to support the rights of Palestinian Prisoners-UFree demanded the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) to immediately release Palestinian journalist Samer Allawi. Allawi works as a reporter for Al-Jazeera satellite channel in Afghanistan and was detained on Tuesday on his way to Jordan after he visited […]

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Prisoner falls into coma amid medical neglect at Negev prison

[ 11/08/2011 – 10:34 AM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Zakariyya Dawud Issa, 43, from Khadar in Bethlehem governorate, has fallen into a coma after not being served the proper treatment by the Negev prison ward, sources among the prisoners have reported. They added that symptoms had been appearing on Issa for months without being given the […]

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Republican presidential candidate wants to destroy UN if it recognizes Palestine

Thursday, August 11 2011| Noam Sheizaf | +972 Magazine In an op-ed published on the pro-Netanyahu tabloid Yisrael Hayom, Republican Newt Gingrich calls upon the United States to stop supporting the United Nation if it votes for Palestinian independence. “We don’t need to fund a corrupt institution to beat up on our allies,” says Gingrich. […]

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Ministry of prisoners calls for ending Israel’s crimes against female detainees

[ 11/08/2011 – 11:24 AM ] GAZA, (PIC )– The Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ affairs in Gaza appealed to international organizations concerned with women’s issues to move to stop Israel’s crimes and violations against Palestinian women in its jails. The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) is still holding 33 Palestinian women in its jails after it […]

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