Archive | October 13, 2011

PRC armed wing releases list of Palestinian prisoners (Updated)

Palestine’s Prisoners – Worldwide Event | Pictures | Topic | Category Maan News Agency | Oct 13, 2011 | UPDATED BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A list of prisoners Israel is expected to free as part of an initial exchange deal for a captured soldier, provided by a member of the PRC’s armed wing. Several lists are […]

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Settlers Attack Qurtuba School Students Studying On Israeli Roads

Related: Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures Thursday October 13, 2011 14:00 by Majd Qumsieh – IMEMC and Agencies A group of settlers again attacked students of Qurtuba School in Hebron on Thursday, October 13, the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported. For the third day in row, students and their teachers faced problems reaching […]

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Freedom for Over 1000 Palestinian Prisoners But Not Saadat or Barghouti

Palestine’s Prisoners – Worldwide Event | Pictures | Topic | Category Palestinians demonstrate in support of Palestinian prisoners held in the Israeli jails, on 13 October 2011 in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Israel and Hamas have reached a deal that would see the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for […]

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Rally in Gaza in Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners – in pictures

Palestine’s Prisoners – Worldwide Event | Pictures | Topic | Category A rally in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in Gaza City October 13, 2011. Photos by Jehan Alfarra, Mohammed Salem & Mohammed Abed

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PCHR: Gaza blockade must be lift after Shalit swap deal done

Palestine’s Prisoners – Worldwide Event | Pictures | Topic | Category Thursday October 13, 2011 22:19 by Alaa Ashkar – IMEMC & Agencies The Palestinian Center for Human Right (PCHR) confirmed Thursday morning that once the Shalit’s exchange deal is done, the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip must be removed, adding that the collective […]

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Nablus enters sixth day of hunger strike as concern for exile looms

Palestine’s Prisoners – Worldwide Event | Pictures | Topic | Category 13 October 2011  | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Six protesters in Nablus completed their fifth day on open hunger strike today in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. Palestinian prisoners in several Israeli jails began open hunger strikes, taking […]

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Mishaal to meet Abbas after release of prisoners

Palestine’s Prisoners – Worldwide Event | Pictures | Topic | Category Palestinian Information Center | October 13, 2011 CAIRO, (PIC)– Preparations are underway for a meeting between political bureau chairman of Hamas Khaled Mishaal and PA chief and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas, a senior Hamas official revealed on Thursday. The official, who wished to remain […]

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The Myth of American Exceptionalism 

The idea that the United States is uniquely virtuous may be comforting to Americans. Too bad it’s not true. BY STEPHEN M. WALT | Information Clearing House | Oct 12, 2011 “FP” — Over the last two centuries, prominent Americans have described the United States as an “empire of liberty,” a “shining city on a […]

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Jewish settlers burn 300 olive trees near Salfit

Related: Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures [ 13/10/2011 – 06:04 PM ] SALFIT, (PIC)– Jewish settlers started fire in tens of Palestinian farmland west of Salfit city on Thursday leading to the destruction of 300 olive trees, eyewitnesses reported. They said that the group of settlers came from Brukhin settlement established on the […]

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Transfer of freed Palestinian prisoners ‘begins Tuesday’

Palestine’s Prisoners – Worldwide Event | Pictures | Topic | Category Maan News Agency | October 13, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — One of the groups involved in the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit said Thursday that the transfer of some 450 Palestinian prisoners will begin Tuesday. Spokesman Abu Mujahed of the Popular Resistance Committees […]

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Hebron school demonstrates for third day: “Without teachers there is no school” – video

A Million Stories about the Zionist Rape of This World – in pictures 13 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank For the third morning children and teachers from Qordoba Scool gathered on the H1 side of Checkpoint 56 at 7.30am. The children, with the support of their teachers and the Director of Education […]

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PNN Obtains Names of 341 Palestinian Prisoners to be Freed

Palestine’s Prisoners – Worldwide Event | Pictures | Topic | Category PNN – Palestine News Network – 14.10.11 – 08:06 PNN – On Thursday, the Hamas-affiliated Palestinian Information Center released a partial and unofficial list of Palestinian prisoners to be released as part of the recently signed Gilad Shalit deal. The final number of Palestinian […]

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The Most Important Prisoner in the Whole Wide World

Palestine’s Prisoners – Worldwide Event | Pictures | Topic | Category  Jaime Omar Yassin | Oct 13, 2011 | Electronic Intifada Its possible that there is a name more well-known than Gilad Shalit this week, but not likely. For the last two days, media of all kinds have been tripping over themselves trying to describe, […]

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@docjazzmusic receives a music blog award!

█▌Note from OccupiedPalestine: Mabrook ya Doc!  May you receive many more awards & rewards for Dunya wa ‘l Akheera! Ameen ya Rabbil ‘Alameen! Thursday, 13 October 2011 14:55 | Musical Intifada | by Dr. Tariq Shadid Doc Jazz has some great news to share this time: a music blog award from Clickitticket.com ! Clickitticket is […]

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Preliminary list of names of the first batch prisoners in exchange deal | قائمة أولية بأسماء أسرى الدفعة الأولى من صفقة التبادل

October 13, 2011 | Maan News Agency بيت لحم- معا- نشرت المواقع الالكترونية التابعة لحركة حماس قوائم بأسماء لأسرى قالت إنهم ضمن صفقة التبادل التي من المقرر أن تنفذ خلال ايام مقابل الافراج عن الجندي الإسرائيلي الأسير جلعاد شاليط. ومن أبرز القيادات الذين شملتهم صفقة التبادل عميد الاسرى الفلسطينيين وأقدم أسير في العالم نائل البرغوثي، […]

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