Archive | February 22, 2012

Settlers try to rebuild illegal outpost in Hebron

MAAN NEWS AGENCY FEB 22 2012 Settlers try to rebuild illegal outpost in Hebron Published today (updated) 22/02/2012 09:04 HEBRON (Ma’an) – Israeli security on Tuesday prevented dozens of settlers from rebuilding an illegal outpost near Kiryat Arba east of Hebron in the southern West Bank. The outpost, Mitzpe Avihai was evacuated earlier in February. […]

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Amnesty urges Israel to immediately free Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan

Palestinians hold pictures of Khader Adnan during a demonstration in solidarity with Adnan, in the Gaza City, on PRESS TV February 21, 2012.Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:42AM GMT Amnesty International has urged Israel to immediately release Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan who is in critical condition due to his 66-day-long hunger strike. The UK-based rights group […]

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Army Invades Al-Khader, Clashes reported

Wednesday February 22, 2012 09:23 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli troops invaded, on Tuesday afternoon, Al-Khader town, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and fired rubber-coated metal bullets and gas bombs at dozens of youth who hurled stones and empty bottles at them. File – Image By Palestine News Network […]

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Hamas demands dismissal of UNRWA chief Grandi from his post

[ PIC 22/02/2012 – 07:40 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Hamas Movement’s department of refugee affairs called for removing Filippo Grandi from his post as the commissioner-general of the UNRWA after he announced that the agency would shrink important relief services in the impoverished Gaza Strip. The Hamas department of refugee affairs said Grandi miserably […]

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Gaza Gripped by Crisis – by Stephen Lendman

INDYBAY FEB 22 2012Punishing years under siege, Cast Lead’s devastation, and regular IDF air, land and sea attacks took a terrible toll on Gazans physically, economically and emotionally. In 2010, Doctors Without Borders (Medicine Sans Frontiers) said over half of children under age 12 need mental health help. Moreover, one-third of cases are severe. Gaza […]

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Israel plans to construct 500 new settlement units on occupied lands

An Israeli settlement in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) is seen on August 11, 2011. PRESS TV Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:58AM GMT The Israel regime says it plans to construct hundreds of new settlement units in the occupied West Bank despite international opposition. An Israeli committee is set to give the go-ahead for the constructions in […]

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Gaza fisherman drowns off coast

MAAN NEWS AGENCY FEB 22 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Civil defense in the Gaza Strip reported Wednesday that a Palestinian fisherman drowned while working off the coast. Ghanem Abu Jarad, 62, from Khan Younis was rescued by other colleagues but he died of his injuries, civil defense reported.

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Haneyya: Radical steps to be taken to solve Gaza power crisis

[ PIC 22/02/2012 – 01:15 PM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya said the problem of electricity in Gaza would be solved radically through certain mechanisms agreed upon with the Egyptian side. Premier Haneyya also discussed on Tuesday over the phone with head of the Islamic development bank some important issues especially with regard […]

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Khader Adnan Solidarity Grows Even More

Al Bawaba Febr 22 2012 Like a tattoo, Khader Adnan is marked onto the pages of Palestinian history. (Image source: “electronicintifada.net”)   Solidarity with Khader Adnan – February 21 2012 – Photography The situation of Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan was definitely one that was hard to digest. But his people- and then some- stood […]

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Under-reported Palestinian political prisoners: an urgent matter for peace

PALESTINE TELEGRAPH FEB 22 2012 Palestine, (Pal Telegraph) – The situation of Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails gets very little coverage in the mainstream media, in contrast to political prisoners in other parts of the Middle East and beyond. The reported arrests of Palestinian MPs, Mohammed Totah, Khaled Abu Arafeh, Aziz Dweik, or […]

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Israeli forces detain 3 during clashes in Al-Aqsa

Maan News Agency Published Feb 21, 2012 Updated Feb 22, 2012 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained three Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Tuesday, after clashes broke out when two groups of Israelis toured the holy site. Witnesses told Ma’an that eight Israelis and a group of tourists were escorted by more than […]

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66-day hunger strike ends after Israel agrees to free Khader Adnan

Wednesday February 22, 2012 00:37 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan agreed to end his 66-day hunger strike on Tuesday after meeting with Israeli officials who pledged to release him in April. Khader had been near death, facing possible organ failure, for the last week in an Israeli prison hospital. Rally […]

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Israel demolishes West Bank villages as Jewish outposts remains untouched

21 February 2012 ISRAELI OCCUPATION ARCHIVES By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz – 21 Feb 2012 http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/israel-demolishes-west-bank-villages-as-jewish-outposts-remains-untouched-1.413875 Israel’s eagerness to demolish renewable energy installations in a West Bank village is seen as an ugly riposte to the European Union It is doubtful whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has expressed great concern over the fate of Migron’s […]

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Student council starts strike at university in Hebron

FEB 21 2012 MAAN NEWS AGENCY HEBRON (Ma’an) — The Palestine Polytechnic University student council said Tuesday they had called a strike of all classes until further notice. The students said in a statement that the Hebron-district university had failed to take their demands seriously and were stalling on solutions.

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Israelis attack LSE pro-Palestine demo in London

PRESS TV FEB 21 2011 Israel society members at the London School of Economics (LSE) have attacked the LSESU Palestine Society protesters, who were re-enacting an Israeli checkpoint to show the daily suffering of the Palestinians. Launching Israeli Apartheid Week, the Palestine Society held a peaceful “mock checkpoint” outside St. Clements House on Houghton Street […]

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