Archive | December 5, 2011

The US and Israel: An Increasingly Uneasy Alliance

Israel’s Defence Minister Ehud Barak (L) sits across from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem 4 December 2011. (Photo: REUTERS – Gali Tibbon) By: Ali Rizk | Published Monday, December 5, 2011| Al Akhbar As developments continue to unfold in the Middle East, one thing seems to be increasing […]

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UNRWA: Israel’s displacement of Palestinians ‘doubles’

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures Maan News Agency | Dec 5, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The number of Palestinians displaced by Israeli demolitions this year has already more than doubled that of 2010, UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said Monday. Research by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees found that […]

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Jewish settlers burn Palestinian farmland, abduct old shepherd

Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures | New: Interactive Map [ 05/12/2011 – 08:54 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Jewish settlers burnt Palestinian farmland in the location of the evacuated settlement of Homesh south of Jenin city and tried to attack nearby Palestinian homes, local sources said. Eyewitnesses said that the settlers blocked the road […]

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IOA razes Palestinian home in Beit Hanina

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures [ 05/12/2011 – 08:58 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Bulldozers of the Israeli municipality of occupied Jerusalem razed a Palestinian home in Beit Hanina, north of the holy city, on Monday the second in a single day. Large numbers of policemen, special forces, and […]

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Israeli jailers deny Palestinian prisoner medical treatment

Related: Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives! Healthcare | Electricity| Water | Communication [ 05/12/2011 – 12:13 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– The family of Palestinian prisoner Safi Houshiya, sentenced to 35 years in jail, said the prison administration refuses to provide him with medical treatment and held it fully responsible for his life. The Palestinian […]

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IOF soldiers arrest 3 Palestinian boys (15 yr old) while harvesting olives

A Million Stories about the Zionist Rape of This World – in pictures [ 04/12/2011 – 08:29 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested three Palestinian boys in Laban al-Sharqiya village to the south of Nablus on Sunday evening while harvesting olives, local sources said. They said that the three kids, all 15 […]

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IOA blocks travel of UNESCO employee, relatives of deported prisoners

A Million Stories about the Zionist Rape of This World – in pictures [ 04/12/2011 – 12:01 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities blocked the travel of a Palestinian employee working with UNESCO who was on his way to attend the annual regional conference for the international organization in Jordan. Palestinian sources said […]

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Gaza power authority: The coastal line broke down and the power deficit rose

Related: Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives! Healthcare | Electricity| Water | Communication [ 04/12/2011 – 11:42 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Spokesman for the authority of power and natural resources Ahmed Abul Amrin said the coastal electric line broke down raising the existing deficit in power supply in the besieged Gaza Strip. Abul Amarin told […]

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Israeli military court, for first time, admits use of torture against prisoner

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category [ 05/12/2011 – 12:46 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli military court of Ofer admitted that Israeli officers from the Shin Bet and the police tortured a Palestinian detainee to force him to make fake confessions to charges he had nothing […]

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Settlers kidnap shepherd near Nablus

Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures | New: Interactive Map Maan News Agency | Dec 5, 2011 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Monday kidnapped a 60-year-old shepherd after attacking him in Orif village south of Nablus, officials said. Village council head Fawzi Shehadeh said six residents of Yitzhar settlement attacked Salim Jamil Shehadeh […]

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Israeli forces destroy stone-cutting facility in Qalqiliya

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures Maan News Agency | Dec 5, 2011 QALQILIYA (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Monday demolished a manufacturing facility used to cut stone in Qalqiliya. Witnesses told Ma’an that various military vehicles and bulldozers arrived at the village of Azzun and destroyed the structure, claiming […]

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Israeli Court Drops Charges Against Tortured Detainee

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category Monday December 05, 2011 04:16 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Israeli Military Court at the Ofer Prison admitted Sunday that the Israeli interrogators are using brutal methods in interrogating the Palestinian detainees, the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported (PPS). […]

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#PALESTINE NEWS | Dec 5, 2011

Don’t buy Lies, Get Facts! – The Occupation of Palestine Financial & Human Cost CONTINUOUS UPDATES Photography by Ahmad Mesleh آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Dec 5, 2011 | 23213 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1635 days | Spread the News! Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives! Healthcare | Electricity| Water | […]

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