#PALESTINE NEWS | Oct 5, 2011

CONTINUOUS UPDATES Photography by Ahmad Mesleh آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Oct 4, 2011 | Gaza has been under siege for 1574 days | Spread the News! ▣ Make A Dream Come True : Just Once, Please – for Nader K. ▣ Settler Violence – in pictures ▣ REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video ▣ FAQ […]

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Washington’s “pure, unadulterated hypocrisy at its most naked”

GET SOME #FACTS HILLARY! “Palestine Has to Be More Flexible…” By  Alan Hart | Redress | 6 October 2011 Alan Hart argues that the USA’s denunciation of Russia’s and China’s vetoing of the draft UN Security Council resolution condemning the Syrian regime’s brutal suppression of protesters while declaring its intention to veto Palestinian statehood and […]

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Palestine now PACE ‘partner’

October 5, 2011 | PARIS – STRASBOURG | Hurriyet Daily News The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, or PACE, granted “partner for democracy” status to Palestine in a decision Tuesday. Following the decision, Salim al-Za’noon, speaker of the Palestinian National Council, said it was a historic step bringing Palestine closer to its goal […]

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Hamas: Crackdowns on hunger strikes will increase prisoners’ will

Related: Palestinian Prisoners – Special Topic | Prisoners of Palestine Action Alert Worldwide Event: Support Prisoners of Palestine [ 05/10/2011 – 08:57 PM ] GAZA, WEST BANK, (PIC)– Hamas has said crackdowns in the face of a mass hunger strike rocking the Israeli prisons would only bolster the determination of the Palestinian captives as solidarity […]

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Youth arrested in Hebron over cereal

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video 2 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On 2 October in Al Khalil (Hebron), the Israeli army and police arrested 2 Palestinian children based on petty, unfounded accusations whilst allowing settlers to employ violence with complete impunity. 13 year old Khaled Abu Snaeneh and 15 year […]

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Palestinian injured in surge in vehicular attacks by settlers

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video [ 05/10/2011 – 06:20 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– A Jewish settler crashed his vehicle into a 20-year-old Palestinian native of the West Bank village of Furoush Bayt Dajan in the second hit-and-run incident involving a Jewish settler in the last 24 hours. The collision occurred as Nasser Mahmoud […]

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Israeli court decides to release parliamentarian “on condition that he is deported”

Related: Palestinian Prisoners – Special Topic | Prisoners of Palestine Action Alert Worldwide Event: Support Prisoners of Palestine Wednesday, 05 October 2011 12:15| MEMO Israeli forces lured Mr Atoun from the International Red Cross compound in Jerusalem and abducted him. An Israeli court has decided to release Jerusalem parliamentarian Ahmed Abu Atoun on condition that […]

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Rocket lands in Ashkelon as Israel bolsters forces in south

[ 05/10/2011 – 10:58 AM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– A rocket-propelled grenade landed Tuesday evening in the coastal city of Ashkelon in the 1948-occupied territories as Israel has decided to boost troops in the southern 1948-occupied territories. The grenade was fired from the Gaza Strip, Israeli Radio said. It landed in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council […]

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20 Palestinians arrested in protests following mosque arson

Special Topic Settler Violence | All posts on Settler Violence Radical Jewish terrorists torch Mosque in Tuba – in pictures [ 05/10/2011 – 11:54 AM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– Israeli occupation police arrested at dawn Wednesday 20 Palestinians following a day of rage over the burning of a mosque in the Upper Galilee area of the […]

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Arab League condemns attacks by Israeli settlers

▣ Related: Special Topic Settler Violence | All posts on Settler Violence Wednesday, 05 October 2011 13:00 | MEMO The Arab League has condemned the attacks by Israeli settlers on mosques in Occupied Palestine, the latest of which was an attack on Al Noor Al Kabir Mosque in the Upper Galilee village of Tuba-Zangaria. Unlike […]

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Gaza: Planting in something dead

Related: Palestinian Prisoners – Special Topic | Prisoners of Palestine Action Alert Worldwide Event: Support Prisoners of Palestine 5 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza  Around Gaza is a 300 meter “buffer zone,” a no go zone, a land of death.  Gaza is not just a prison, it is a shrinking prison.  Every time […]

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Seeking Asylum in Norway: Never Easy for Palestinians

MIFTAH | October 05, 2011 | By Julie Holm for MIFTAH Many Palestinians I meet here in Ramallah ask me where my interest in Palestine and the Palestinians comes from. Proudly, I answer that in Norway numerous organizations and political parties are concerned with their situation. Further we have a large Palestinian community of engaged, […]

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4-Year-Old Bedouin Girl in al-Hadidya, Palestine

Related : Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category Oct 4 2011 |  Lois Farrow Parshley | International – The Atlantic Somoud and her family have faced eviction, Israeli bulldozers, and now U.S. Congressmen that want to cut funding to the Palestinian Authority Somoud, from al Hadidya / Reuters Somoud is four years […]

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Eyes in Gaza ~ by Dr. Mads Gilbert & Prof. Dr. Erik Fosse

5 October 2011 | Irsaeli Occupation Archive By Ellen Cantarow, Israeli Occupation Archive – 4 Oct 2011 Review of Eyes in Gaza, by Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse, translated from Norwegian by Guy Puzey and Frank Stewart, Quartet Books: London, 2010. During Israel’s 23-day war on Gaza (December, 2008 through January, 2009), an Israeli plane […]

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The Crime of Making Americans Aware of Their Own History

The Anti-Empire Report by William Blum |  October 5th, 2011 | Dissident Voice Is history getting too close for comfort for the fragile little American heart and mind? Their schools and their favorite media have done an excellent job of keeping them ignorant of what their favorite country has done to the rest of the […]

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