Action Alert ▶ Protest against Deaths, Injuries from US Tear Gas in Palestine, Middle East & Oakland

Related: Israel’s Weapons a Crime on Humanity January 15, 2012 – US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and Nonlethal Technologies, continues to be used by governments including Egypt, Israel, Yemen, Bahrain and the United States to repress popular protest movements for social justice. In response, human rights advocates […]

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UAE evades Israel boycott in stalled arms deal

An unarmed U.S. “Shadow” drone is pictured in flight in this undated file photograph, released on 5 January 2011. (Photo: REUTERS – AAI Corporation – Handout – Files) Published Sunday, January 15, 2012 | Al Akhbar A UAE attempt to buy Israeli drones is “shameful”, a leading BDS activist told Al-Akhbar. “The UAE establishment was […]

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Action Alert ▶ #op344 – Call to release 344 balloons in honour of the slained Children of Gaza

Action Alert A call to release 344 balloons on January 18, 2012 in front of every Israeli Embassy in the world, in memory of the 344 slained children of Gaza who lost their lives in the Cast Lead Massacre 2008-2009 The Official Manifesto – Google doc Official Facebookpage for #Op344 A poster as used in […]

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Action Alert ▶ A call from Gaza fishermen

Gaza Under Attack – Timeline | In pictures Aug-Sept 2011 | Oct-Nov 2011 | Dec2011  15 January 2012 | Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine |ISM Photo: Rosa Schiano, Civil Peace Service Gaza (CPSGAZA) Do not forget Palestinian fishermen who are prevented from fishing beyond the unilaterally imposed Israeli limit of 3 nautical miles and whose life […]

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722,000 Israelis Live Beyond Green Line ~ by @richards1052

 Richard Silverstein – Jan 15, 2012 – Tikun Olam Yisrael HaYom published today one of the more stark and telling statistics about the ‘success’ of the Occupation: in 2011, 722,000 Israelis lived beyond the Green Line, including in settlements and East Jerusalem. This was a 5% increase over 2010. That means that 1 in every […]

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Israel Accelerates Work to Judaize the Old City of Jerusalem

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures WAFA NEWS AGENCY | Jan 15, 2012 JERUSALEM, (WAFA) – Israeli bulldozers Sunday increased its work speed to establish Talmudic gardens between Damascus Gate and Herod’s Gate (Bab el-Amoud and Bab al-Sahira in Arabic, respectively), two of the most famous gates of the Old […]

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Hamas: PA arrested over 800 members in 2011

Related: The Eagle of Palestine | Masked in Gaza – The Untold Story Maan News Agency | Jan 15, 2012   GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas said Sunday that Palestinian Authority security services in the West Bank had detained 805 members from the Islamic movement in 2011. A report by the party said that 350 […]

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New Israeli plan to build 204 housing units in French Hill

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures [ 15/01/2012 – 12:57 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Baka’a center for planning and building warned of an Israeli plan prepared by the Hebrew university in occupied Jerusalem to build 204 housing units in the French Hill settlement in place of the existing student […]

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Human rights group calls for ending ban on visits to Gaza prisoners

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category [ 15/01/2012 – 01:13 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Ansar Al-Asra human rights group has urged the Red Cross and international institutions to pressure the Israeli government into allowing family visits to the Gaza prisoners. It said in a statement on […]

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Israeli higher court refuses reunion of Jerusalem families

Related: All Attacks on Palestinians – Timeline – Category [ 15/01/2012 – 12:54 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Jerusalem center for social and economic rights warned the Israel higher court’s decision to reject the reunion petitions filed since 1993 by Jerusalemite families would open the way for the displacement of thousands of natives from the […]

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Ban Calls on Israel to End Occupation of Arab, Palestinian Territories

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures WAFA NEWS AGENCY | Jan 15, 2012 BEIRUT, January 15, 2012 (WAFA) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Sunday called on Israel to end its occupation of Arab and Palestinian territories, during a press conference in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. “Israel must end […]

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Israel keeps targeting the Abu Rahma Family – Anti-Wall Activist Ashraf Abu Rahma Sentenced to over 6 Months in Jail

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category Date : 15/1/2012 | WAFA NEWS AGENCY RAMALLAH, January 15, 2012 (WAFA) – The Israeli military court of Ofer Sunday sentenced Anti-Wall and settlements activist, Ashraf Abu Rahma from Bilin village, west of Ramallah, to six and half months under the […]

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Israel jails worse than Nazi camps

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category Palestinian Minister for Captives Affairs Ataollah Abu Sabah says Israel jails are more horrific than Nazi camps. PressTV – Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:9PM GMT A Palestinian official says Palestinian prisoners are subjected to the most inhumane treatment and are tortured […]

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OIC: Gaza needs 100000 housing units

Gaza Under Attack – Timeline | In pictures Aug-Sept 2011 | Oct-Nov 2011 | Dec2011 [ 15/01/2012 – 01:16 PM ] JEDDAH, (PIC)– The Gaza Strip is in need of 100000 new housing units following the Israeli war on the coastal enclave, the organization of Islamic cooperation (OIC) said in its monthly report on the […]

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Israel ‘disappointed’ with Obama on Iran

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. By Dan Williams | Maan News Agency | Jan 15, 2012   JERUSALEM (Reuters) — A senior Israeli official voiced disappointment in the Obama administration on Sunday, saying “election-year considerations” lay behind its caution over tough Iran sanctions sought by US legislators. While Washington has […]

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