PHOTOS | Beautiful Palestine covered by Snow – March 2012

MARCH 2, 2012 FOR 2013 FOOTAGE CLICK HERE Related Woman gives birth in ambulance amid snow block  Maan News Agency Bethlehem University classes canceled  Maan News Agency Snow falls in Jerusalem as stormy weather in Israel continues Ethnic cleansing & Denial of Palestinian identity – Special Topic Israel’s Likud threatens to invade Al-Aqsa Mosque – […]

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Israel legalizes unsanctioned settler enclave in West Bank

The file photo shows the Jewish settlement of Shvut Rachel (Left) in occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank. PRESSTV Fri Mar 2, 2012 3:9AM GMT The Israeli regime has legalized an old settler enclave in the West Bank, stepping up efforts to Judaize occupied Palestinian territories. The Shvut Rachel settlement, which hosts 95 Israeli […]

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PCHR Weekly Report: One civilian killed, 6 wounded by Israeli troops this week

 Friday March 02, 2012 09:05 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 23 – 29 Feb. 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that a Palestinian civilian was killed in a peaceful demonstration in al-Ram village, north […]

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Shalabi supporter hospitalized after solidarity strike

MAAN NEWS AGENCIES MARCH 2 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A prisoner on hunger strike in solidarity with Hana Shalabi has been transferred to hospital after he was released from jail, a detainees center said Friday. Suheil Akram Al-Masri, 26, has refused food for 13 days to support the female detainee. Shalabi started a hunger […]

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Flooding damages 8 homes in north Gaza

MARCH 2 2012 MAAN NEWS AGENCIES GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Heavy rainfall and icy temperatures have damaged eight homes in the northern Gaza Strip since Thursday, a civil defense spokesman told Ma’an. Six homes in Jabalia city were flooded with water on Friday morning, and two others were under water in Gaza City, Muhammad Yousef […]

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Occupation threatens to uproot 120 Palestinians near Tubas

[ PIC 02/03/2012 – 09:45 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– The Land Research Centre said that 120 Palestinians are threatened with being uprooted from their land after being handed notices to stop building in the hamlet of Khirbet Ibzik to the north of Tubas in the northern West Bank. The centre said in a press release […]

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Occupation forces raid Tarqumya village near al-Khalil

[ PIC 02/03/2012 – 09:51 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– IOF troops on Friday entered the village of Tarqumya to the north west of al-Khalil in the southern West Bank and raided two homes belonging to the Haltam family to the south of the village. Local sources told PIC that IOF troops forced occupants of the […]

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Occupation Authority Releases Palestinian Prisoner

QATAR NEWS AGENCY MARCH 2 2012 Ramallah, March 02 (QNA) – The Israeli occupation authorities has released Naji Al-Tamimi, an activist leader from the Popular Palestinian Popular Resistance Movement (Uprising) after nearly a year of prison. Al-Tamimi was sentenced to a one year prison term and a ten thousand shekels a financial fine after being […]

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Preporters without Borders: Israeli troops force two Palestinian TV stations to close

Reporters without Borders Friday 2 March 2012. Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by the raids that Israeli troops carried out on two Palestinian TV stations in the West Bank in the early hours of 29 February, seizing equipment and thereby forcing the stations to close. “These arbitrary and illegal operations served yet again to […]

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Occupation authorities move Ibrahim Hamed from isolation to an unknown place

[ PIC 02/03/2012 – 09:46 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Asma’ Hamed, the wifer of Ibarahim Hamed, a Hamas leader who is imprisoned in occupation jails said that the occupation prison authority has moved her husband on Wednesday from his isolation cell in Hasharon prison in northern Palestine to another occupation jail that the family does […]

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Israeli Troops use Gas to Suppress Anti-Wall Protests

Friday March 02, 2012 17:40 by Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC News On Friday many were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation as soldiers suppressed anti wall protests organized in a number of West Bank villages. The protests were in solidarity with political detainee in Israeli Jails Hana Ash-Shalabi, who is on hunger strike […]

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New book deconstructs myth that the Zionist left wants peace

Jimmy Johnson | The Electronic Intifada |2 March 2012 Anti-Zionist scholar, writer and longtime activist Tikva Honig-Parnass’s new book False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine critically analyzes Israel’s left. Often called Labor Zionism or left Zionism, liberal Zionism is a concept applying to the Labor and Meretz parties, the Histradrut […]

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Going to Palestine After a Lifetime of Longing

A Palestinian boy collects materials salvaged from the debris of a damaged smuggling tunnel after it was targeted in an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip 3 February 2012. (Photo: REUTERS – Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) By: Doha Shams Published Friday, March 2, 2012 The road to Rafah is reminiscent of the […]

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Amnesty: Release prisoner of conscience Bassem Tamimi

MAAN NEWS AGENCY MARCH 2 2012   BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Anti-wall protest organizer Bassem Tamimi is a prisoner of conscience and should be released immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International reiterated Friday. Tamimi was arrested in March and charged with “incitement and support of a hostile organization, organizing and participating in unauthorized processions, incitement to throwing […]

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US, France seek answers after Israel raids TV stations

MAAN NEWS AGENCY MAR 2 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli raids on two Palestinian television stations on Wednesday has drawn international concern from media freedom groups and foreign governments who have contributed to the channels. The US is trying to establish the reason for the raids, US State Dept. spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters Thursday. […]

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