Hamas affirms offices would remain in Syria

[ 12/09/2011 – 02:59 PM ] DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Hamas movement has affirmed that its offices would not be moved out of Syria denying press reports to that effect. Hamas issued a press release on Monday denying the media speculations that claimed the move was at the request of Syrian security apparatuses, describing them as completely […]

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Jerusalem man ordered to tear down own home

[ 12/09/2011 – 02:39 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A Palestinian man in Jerusalem was ordered on Sunday to tear his own home in order to avoid paying NIS 20,000 in fines. The demolished home is a 70 square meter second floor attachment that includes a bedroom, a balcony, a living room, and other accessories, […]

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Over 30 Palestinians held beyond sentence in Negev prison

[ 12/09/2011 – 05:52 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Over 30 Palestinians are being held two to four months beyond their sentences in the Israeli Negev prison, the Palestinian Prison Committee said Monday. The committee said that those prisoners were being kept in detention under a policy to stop a law passed by the Israeli […]

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Broken wrists and arrests by Israeli military as farmers cultivate Beit Ummar – in pictures

10 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Supporting Palestinian farmers in Beit Ummar, international activists joined the weekly Saturday activities–clearing the land for cultivation despite the harrassment of Israeli military and illegal settlers, which resulted in the injury of a Palestinian man and the arrest of a British national, Jude Wells. At 9 […]

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Children of Qalandiya: Occupation Starts Here

Ali Hasan Khalifa, another martyr, another victim. (Tamar Fleishman) By Tamar Fleishman – The West Bank | Palestine Chronicle | Sept 11, 2011 I wanted to write about Mahmud, the thirteen year old boy that ever since his return from Ofer prison is the first of the children who hurry to greet me on my […]

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See the drawings that terrified the the San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council and the Jewish Federation of the East Bay

by Seham on September 12, 2011 | Mondoweiss To view the rest of the images, visit MECA’s Facebook page. Click here to let MOCHA know what you think about their censorship of Palestinian children’s voices by sending them a letter. Here’s the the Jewish Federation of the East Bay gloating over the cancelled exhibit on […]

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MADA: New Setbacks for Media Freedoms Last Month

PNN – Palestine News Network – Sept 12, 2011 According to a report by the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA), freedom of expression in Palestine faced a new setback in August when Israeli occupation forces arrested, detained and attacked journalists to prevent media coverage. The report says these incidents are major threats […]

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Egyptians Break Down the Wall around the Israeli Embassy

Related: A Nice Friday to Tear Down an Israeli Wall – in pictures A security wall erected around the Israeli embassy, a strong reminder of the West Bank barrier, was totally unacceptable in Cairo. by Ashraf Ezzat | September 12th, 2011 | Dissident Voice Last week, in the wake of  public anger over the killing of […]

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Focusing on Zionist Myths | Book Review

by Kim Petersen | September 12th, 2011 |  Dissident Voice I first met Greg Felton during the Halifax Symposium on Media and Disinformation in 2004 where he was one of the featured speakers. Armed with a plethora of facts and knowledge surrounding the Zionist Jew’s dispossession of the Palestinian people, his presentation was informative and […]

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Settlers Burn Protest Tent in Sheikh Jarrah

Related: Category Settler Violence PNN – Palestine News Network –  12.09.11 – 14:41 | by Maysa Abu-Ghazaleh Sheikh Jarrah resident Rifqa al-Kurd accused settlers of setting fire to a protest tent in her yard at dawn on Monday. According to al-Kurd, her son Nabil woke to sounds in the yard of the house at around 2:30 […]

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Looming Statehood Vote Divides Palestinian Intellectuals, Refugees, Politicians

▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid PNN | 12.09.11 – 15:41 |  Brendan Work With shortly over a week before the UN General Assembly convenes in New York to discuss the Palestinian statehood bid, skeptics in the West Bank are questioning the consequences of the move while politicians rush to reassure them. At issue is […]

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IOF soldiers open fire at Palestinian houses in central Gaza

Gaza Under Attack – in pictures [ 12/09/2011 – 09:19 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stationed to the east of the Gaza Strip opened machine gunfire at Palestinian homes in Juhr Al-Dik in central Gaza on Monday morning with no casualties reported, eyewitnesses said. They said that the soldiers suddenly opened fire […]

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MP Rawya Shawa to Abbas: Tell Palestinians what to expect in September

▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid [ 12/09/2011 – 10:06 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– MP Rawya Shawa has called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to explain to the Palestinians in detail what exactly he would request from the United Nations in September. She added that Abbas must consult with all Palestinian forces and communities […]

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Jewish settlers cut off Palestinian grapevines

Zionism does not care about Real Judaism which teaches: “Not only the trees, rather whoever breaks vessels and rents garments, destroys a building and obstructs a wellspring, or wastes food in a destructive way transgresses the mitzvah of “Bal Tashchit” (“don’t destroy”)…” (Rambam, Mishna Torah, Hilchot Melachim 6:10) [ 12/09/2011 – 10:25 AM ] AL-KHALIL, […]

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Islamic-Christian Front: Israel to blame over West Bank settler attacks

[ 12/09/2011 – 10:23 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Hassan Khatir, secretary-general of the Islamic-Christian Front in Jerusalem, accused Jewish settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories of organizing a long running campaign of terror against Palestinian natives, assigning blame to the Jewish rabbis and criticizing the Muslims over their silence. In the past week, Jewish […]

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