Hunger striker Khader Adnan rushed for surgery

Published Monday, February 27, 2012 Al Akhbar Palestinian Khader Adnan was rushed into surgery on Monday evening despite giving up his 66-day hunger strike last week. Prisoners’ rights group Addameer, which has been dealing with Adnan’s case, tweeted on Monday evening that Adnan had been taken into surgery but added that it was not clear […]

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Press Release: Arrests and nonviolent actions in South Hebron Hills

PRESS RELEASE At-Tuwani – On February 25th Palestinian men and women, elders and children, together with Israeli and international activists gathered for two demonstrations organized by the South Hebron Hills Popular Committee. The first demonstration, attended by approximately ninety people, was planned in response to twenty-nine trees being cut down during the last four months […]

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#HanaShalabi – Palestinian hunger striker’s brother: she won’t eat until she is free

Published Monday, February 27, 2012 Al-Akhbar The brother of a female Palestinian hunger striker has warned she will not stop her protest until she is freed. Hana Shalabi has refused to eat since she was arrested in a violent raid and held without trial 12 days ago. Since beginning her strike she has kept in […]

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Report: Deal to move Migron outpost falters

MAAN NEWS AGENCY FEBR 27 2012 TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Settlers living in an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank have failed to sign an agreement with the Israeli government to move their homes, after a high court ruling ordered them to do so, Israeli media reported on Monday. Two weeks ago, the […]

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Cairo envoy: Reconciliation, energy crisis ‘need more time’

MAAN NEWS AGENCY FEB 27 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Authority Ambassador to Egypt said Monday that both Fatah and Hamas need more time to implement a reconciliation deal, and called for further meetings. Amb. Yasser Othman also said an electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip which has caused long blackouts will be solved […]

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#HanaShalabi – PCHR Calls upon the Int’l Community to Pressurize IOF to Release Palestinian Detainee Hana’ Shalabi on Hunger Strike

PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press Release Ref: 24/2012 Date: 27 February 2012 Time: 12:00 GMT The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is concerned for the life of Hana’ Shalabi, a detainee in Israeli jails who has been on hunger strike for approximately 2 weeks. PCHR calls upon the international community to […]

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Israeli Jets violate Gaza airspace

Israeli warplanes have flown low over the Gaza Strip, violating the territory’s airspace, Press TV reports Febr 27 2012

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#HanaShalabi – MP Mansour urges Egypt to swiftly intervene to save the life of Shalabi

[ PIC 27/02/2012 – 05:41 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– MP Mona Mansour has urged Egypt, in her capacity as the patron of the prisoners’ exchange deal between Hamas and Israel, to swiftly intervene and save the life of hunger striker Hana’a Shalabi. Mansour called on Cairo in a press release on Monday to pressure Israel […]

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IOF soldiers break into the home of liberated prisoner

[ PIC 27/02/2012 – 05:40 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) broke into the home of a liberated prisoner in Nablus at dawn Monday and searched it, relatives said. They said that the IOF soldiers stormed the house of Nidal Subhi without prior notice and forced his father out of his bed before […]

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Nablus village stoned, clashes with settlers

MAAN NEWS AGENCY FEB 27 2012 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Dozens of Israelis threw stones at a Palestinian house near an illegal settlement in the northern West Bank on Monday, witnesses told Ma’an. Umm Ayman Sufan said more than 40 residents of Yitzhar settlement pelted her house with stones and bottles, before cutting down olive trees […]

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IOF soldiers raid Al-Khalil, block entry of farmer to his land

[ PIC 27/02/2012 – 05:37 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided Al-Khalil province at dawn Monday and blocked entry of a Palestinian farmer into his land in Beit Ummar village, north of Al-Khalil, on Sunday. Security sources told Quds Press that the IOF search campaign in Al-Khalil villages started on Sunday night […]

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Report: Police sanction protest against Zoabi in Nazareth

MAAN NEWS AGENCY FEB 27 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli police have given permission for a right-wing march against a Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament in her home town of Nazareth, Israeli media reported Monday. Part of a campaign under the slogan “Expel Hanin Zoabi from the Knesset”, her fellow parliamentarian Michael Ben-Ari will […]

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Change and reform: PA arrest of MP son violates reconciliation

[ PIC 27/02/2012 – 05:38 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Hamas-affiliated change and reform parliamentary bloc has lashed out at the PA security in the West Bank for arresting the son of Hamas MP Omar Abdalrazek, who is held in Israeli administrative custody. The bloc said in a statement on Monday that the policy of […]

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Japanese Distributer Ends Contract With AHAVA

Monday February 27, 2012 13:55 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News DaitoCrea, Japanese agent of the Israeli cosmetics firm, AHAVA, announced on their Webpage that it has ended all sales of AHAVA products for what it attributed to “financial reasons”. Boycott movement said that decision is the outcome of direct action and protests. The company […]

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#KhaderAdnan – Dignity Triumphs over Tyranny

DISSIDENT VOICE FEB 27 2012 by Jamal Kanj / February 27th, 2012 On February 21, Sheikh Khader Adnan broke his 66-day hunger strike following a promise by Israeli authorities not to renew his administrative detention and to release him on April 17. The 33-year-old Master’s student in economics who works as a baker in the […]

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