Archive | February 20, 2012

Employees at public universities, colleges on strike

MAAN NEWS AGENCY FEBR 20 2012 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Employees in public universities and colleges in the West Bank and Gaza Strip went on strike on Monday, an employee’s union spokesman said. Abdul-Muhsin Qawasmi said the current semester may be canceled since the education ministry has not responded to their demands. The main demand was […]

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UFree: Israeli doctors conceal torture incidents in Israeli jails

[ PIC 20/02/2012 – 11:13 AM ] GENEVA, (PIC)– The Oslo-based European Network to support the rights of Palestinian Prisoners-UFree said many Israeli doctors covered up torture incidents that happened to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. According to a report by UFree based on testimonies from prisoners, the doctors inside Israeli jails did not report […]

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Hunger Strike Day 66, Adnan’s Life at Stake in Struggle for Justice

Monday, 20 February 2012 12:13 Elena Viola for the Alternative Information Center (AIC) As Palestinian administrative detainee Khader Adnan enters his 66th day of hunger strike, his very life is at stake in the struggle for justice. A profile of individual and collective struggle.     The Israeli High Court has scheduled a petitions’ hearing […]

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IOF soldiers killed 21 Palestinians in West Bank in 2011 including 4 children

[ PIC 20/02/2012 – 11:05 AM ]   RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The international Tadamun (solidarity) foundation for human rights has said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) killed 21 Palestinians in the West Bank in the course of 2011 including four children and a woman. It said that among those were farmers who were killed while […]

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PRC military wing says ready to confront Israel

Maan News Agency Febr 20 2012   GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees in the Gaza Strip said Monday that the group is ready to confront Israel if they attack. “The Israeli military escalation is increasing day after day and the price it will pay will be huge for […]

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Jewish settlers burn 8 cars, damage Mosque in 1948 occupied lands

[ PIC 20/02/2012 – 10:09 AM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Hebrew media said Jewish settlers from the “price tag” gang torched eight Palestinian cars at dawn Sunday in Musmus town, Wadi Ara area, in the 1948 occupied lands, and sabotaged the only Mosque there. The Israeli police failed to arrest the assailants as it always […]

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2011: Year of Israeli Violence in Gaza Strip

Monday, 20 February 2012 10:59 Sergio Yahni, Alternative Information Center (AIC) According to data gathered by the Gaza City based human rights organization Al Mezan, during 2011 the Israeli army killed at least 114 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, of whom 15 were children and 2 women. During this same year, some 470 Palestinians were […]

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Barghouthi: Israel responsible for Adnan’s life

Maan News Agency Febr 20 2012 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouthi said Monday that Israel is responsible for Khader Adnan’s life. “We are in an international campaign to stand by detainee Adnan and impose more pressure on Israel,” he said in a statement. Barghouthi praised Adnan for his […]

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Newspapers Review: Clashes at Al-Aqsa Compound Focus of Dailies

FEBR 20 2012 WAFA RAMALLAH, February 20, 2012 (WAFA) – The three Palestinian Arabic dailies Monday focused on the clashes between Israeli police and worshippers at al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem following attempts by extremist Jews to carry out provocative rituals at the Muslim holy site. The main headline in Al-Ayyam […]

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Haneyya in Egypt to discuss power crisis

[PIC 20/02/2012 – 10:41 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya leaves for Egypt later on Monday on a few days visit to discuss Gaza’s power crisis with Egyptian officials. Dr. Yousef Rizka, the political advisor to Haneyya, told Safa news agency that Haneyya would cross the Rafah border terminal on a visit to […]

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Extremists Vandalize Church in Jerusalem – Photography

WAFA FEBR 20 2012 JERUSALEM, February 20, 2012 (WAFA) – Extremist Israelis vandalized late Sunday night a church in West Jerusalem in a suspected “price tag” attack, according to official sources. They said the vandals wrote anti-Christianity slogans on the walls of Baptist Church and punctured tires of three church cars. Attacks by extremist Jews […]

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Today, I join Khader Adnan’s hunger strike – will you?

Monday, February 20 2012|Aziz Abu Sarah 972Magazine As Khader Adnan enters his 65th day of hunger strike, he is receiving increasing and substantial support among the Palestinian communities in Palestine and abroad. The Palestinian factions have called for a general strike in solidarity with Adnan on Tuesday. Despite initial frustrations of the delayed attention where […]

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Arab League: Israel’s moves against the Aqsa Mosque threaten the world’s peace

[ PIC 20/02/2012 – 09:26 AM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– The Arab League warned that the escalating Judaization measures in the occupied city of Jerusalem threaten the stability in the region and the whole world, and appealed to the international parties to protect the Aqsa Mosque against Israel’s threats. In a statement read during a meeting […]

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Israeli Settlers Vandalize Jerusalem

Qatar News Agency Article Date: 11:57 2012/02/20 Article ID: 0030 Occupied Jerusalem, February 20 (QNA) – Israeli extremist settlers have vandalized church walls in occupied Jerusalem writing anti-Christianity slogans, while others drove caravans into Al-Khalil to attack Palestinians. According to the Israeli daily (Yediot Ahronoth), the settlers drew racist slogans against Christianity on three vehicles […]

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‘Death to Christianity’ written on Jerusalem church

Maan News Agency Febr 20 2012 JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Vandals daubed “Death to Christianity” on a Jerusalem church on Monday in the second such attack in the holy city this month, police said. The words “Price Tag”, a slogan used by ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers, were also scrawled on the walls of the Baptist Narkis Street […]

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