Of Sycophants and Stenographers: Carrying Water for Israel’s Fraudulent Version of Eilat Terror Attack ~by Richard Silverstein

Related: Gaza Under Attack – in pictures Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place | Aug 23, 2011 | Richard Silverstein Of ships and shoes and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings. –Jabberwocky The journalists which Israeli military-intelligence circles are employing to cover their sins involving the Eilat terror attack and its aftermath […]

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Qassam member Shaheed Mithqal Issa died in during treatment

Related: Gaza Under Attack – in pictures انّا للہ و انّا الیه راجعون الله يرحم كل الشهداء 24-08-2011,21:32 | Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades Al Qassam website – Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades (E.Q.B) the military wing of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas, mourned on Wednesday morning, August 24th, 2011, the death of the Qassam member Mithqal Issa,32, […]

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Israeli court extends detention of Jazeera reporter Allawi

[ 24/08/2011 – 11:04 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Israeli occupation’s Salem military court on Monday extended arbitrarily the detention of Al-Jazeera reporter in Afghanistan Samer Allawi for eight more days. Allawi’s family said that he was brought to the court under heavy military guard and barred from shaking hands or talking with any member of […]

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Two Palestinians wounded in Israeli raid

Related: Gaza Under Attack – in pictures 24-08-2011,21:06 | – Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades Al Qassam website – Two Palestinians were injured at an early hour on Wednesday when Israeli warplanes targeted a motorbike they were riding in central Gaza, medical sources said. Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for the medical services, told the PIC reporter […]

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Farmer: Settlers uproot trees in Beit Ummar

Maan News Agency | Aug 24, 2011 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Settlers from the illegal Bat Ayin settlement, northwest of Hebron, have uprooted olive, plum and grape trees belonging to a local farmer in Beit Ummar. Hamad Abdul Hamid Sleiby told Ma’an that settlers attacked his land in Beit Ummar for the fifth time on Tuesday. […]

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63-year-old Palestinian found dead following raids

Related: Gaza Under Attack – in pictures Military and Security 8/24/2011 6:02:00 PM GAZA, Aug 24 (KUNA) — Body of an old Palestinian who died in Israeli air attacks early on Wednesday was found near the refugee camp of Al-Buraij in the center of Gaza Strip later in the day. Adham Abu Silimeh, spokesman of […]

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Gaza truce under fire after Israeli strike kills militant

Related: Gaza Under Attack – in pictures 24 August 2011 | Khaleej Times GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Israeli air strikes on Wednesday killed at least one Palestinian, prompting mortar fire into southern Israel just days after armed groups agreed to a temporary truce. The exchange of fire across the Gaza border raised fears of […]

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Two Palestinians wounded in Israeli raid

Related: Gaza Under Attack – in pictures [ 24/08/2011 – 01:25 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Two Palestinians were injured at an early hour on Wednesday when Israeli warplanes targeted a motorbike they were riding in central Gaza, medical sources said. Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for the medical services, told the PIC reporter that one […]

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Gaza gov’t launches fundraising campaign for Somalia

[ 24/08/2011 – 01:26 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian government in Gaza has launched a fundraising campaign to collect money to extend relief material to drought-stricken Somalia. The ministry of endowment launched the two-week campaign on 12/8 and collected around 132000 dollars. It asked preachers to call for donations to help save the people […]

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Supreme Court ruling turns village into open-air prison

Wednesday, August 24 2011|Dimi Reider | +972Magazine The Supreme Court gave the state a green light to continue walling in a village split between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, blocking the villagers on all four sides Demonstration against the wall in Walaje, August 2011. Photo: Activestills.org The Supreme Court turned down yesterday a petition against […]

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Az-Zahhar: Eilat attack ‘used as pretext to attack Gaza’

Related: Gaza Under Attack – in pictures Maan News Agency | Aug 24, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The series of shooting attacks in southern Israel on Thursday were part of an “ambiguous operation” used as a pretext to attack the Gaza Strip, senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Az-Zahhar said Wednesday. Israel said militants from Gaza were […]

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Jewish settlers cut off Palestinian olive trees

[ 24/08/2011 – 11:42 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Jewish settlers cut off olive and fruit trees in the cultivated land lots of Beit Ummar village north of Al-Khalil province on Wednesday, a local source reported. Mohammed Awad, the spokesman for the popular committee against the wall and settlement, said that the settlers came from Beit […]

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Aid alone won’t help the desperate Palestinians

Jonathan Glennie | Wednesday 24 August 2011 |  guardian.co.uk A UN reports links all of the Palestinian economy’s dire problems to the Israeli occupation and associated constraints. Aid from the EU and others is merely a sop for political failure A wall shows shadows of an Israeli border police officer and Palestinian women crossing into […]

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Israel Occupation Forces raise alert in vicinity of the Gaza Strip

Related: Gaza Under Attack – in pictures [ 24/08/2011 – 12:41 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces command raised state of alert along the borders of the Gaza Strip and its environs on Wednesday after Israeli warplanes killed a commander of the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad movement, earlier today. […]

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20 Palestinians arrested in continued mass sweep in Al-Khalil

Related : Silwan in Pictures [ 24/08/2011 – 12:19 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– 20 Palestinians in the West Bank city of Al-Khalil city were arrested Wednesday morning as Israeli occupation forces continue in the widest military campaign in the city since 2003. In an operation that lasted several hours, a large force raided several neighborhoods […]

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