PALESTINE NEWS | March 6, 2012

“Israel kills by deprivation of Healthcare” Facts tweeted earlier now storified آخر الأخبار والتحديثات March 6, 2012 | 23305 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1728 days For news of previous news days Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter NEW PAGES ON THIS BLOG —— OVERVIEWS CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED █▌ CHILD ARRESTS […]

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End Cornell University Collaboration with Technion

Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman looks through a microscope in the Technion Institute of Technology in the northern port city of Haifa on 5 October 2011. (Photo: AFP – Jack Guez) By: PACBI Published Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Al Akhbar The Palestinian academic community was deeply disturbed by the recently revealed plan […]

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Israel renews administrative detention order against Secretary of Palestinian legislature

MEMO MARCH 6 2012 The Israeli occupation authorities have renewed the administrative detention order against the Secretary of the Palestinian Legislative Council. Mahmoud Ramahi MP, from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, will be kept in detention for a further four months. According to human rights workers, this is the fourth time in a row […]

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Power to the people: Gaza and its generators

The Media Line Staff | Gandaily | March 6 2012 Gaza City, Palestinian Territory Omar Ghraieb / The Media – When Ahmed Ashour finished high school two years ago he knew where his future lay. He decided to not apply to any university, even though his family could easily afford it, and instead went in […]

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Abbas congratulates Putin, Russia affirms support

MAAN NEWS AGENCY MARCH 6 2012 MOSCOW (Ma’an) — President Mahmoud Abbas sent a message of congratulations to Russian President Vladmir Putin, as delegates met over cooperation between the countries Tuesday. Putin secured almost 64 percent of the votes in his country’s presidential contest on Sunday, but international monitors said the vote was clearly skewed […]

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Ashrawi Deplores US Sole Negative Vote at UNESCO

WAFA NEWS AGENCY MARCH 6 2012 RAMALLAH, March 6, 2012 (WAFA) – PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi Tuesday deplored the United States sole negative vote cast at five resolutions adopted by UNESCO Executive Board. “It is reprehensible that out of 58 countries, the United States alone cast negative votes and managed to isolate itself […]

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Palestinian prisoner Ala Salah sends will to his family

MAAN NEWS AGENCY MARCH 6 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A 39-year-old Palestinian detainee who says Israeli prison guards poisoned his food has written his will, relatives said Tuesday. Ala Salah sent his will, his Quran and a comb to his family via released prisoner Rafat Abu Shaluf. In the document, Salah says he has […]

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Journalists Syndicate Denounces Plans to hold Separate Elections in Gaza

MARCH 6 2012 WAFA NEWS AGENCY RAMALLAH, March 6, 2012 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) Tuesday denounced an attempt by a group of Hamas journalists in Gaza to hold separate elections from the one the PJS is planning for this weekend. It said in a statement that while it was agreed to hold […]

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Option of dissolving Palestinian authority discussed in Cairo conference

[ PIC 06/03/2012 – 02:42 PM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– At the invitation of the Egyptian syndicate of journalists, an intellectual political conference discussing “the option of dissolving the Palestinian authority” was held on Monday in Cairo in the presence of a galaxy of Palestinian and Egyptian journalists, thinkers and scholars. The conferees explored this option […]

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IOF soldiers round up 13 Palestinians in West Bank

[ PIC 06/03/2012 – 02:38 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up 13 Palestinians in various West Bank areas at dawn Tuesday in line with its routine arrests of Palestinian civilians alleging they were planning resistance attacks. Local sources told PIC reporter in Al-Khalil that IOF soldiers arrested three citizens in Beit […]

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Israeli apartheid week kicks off in South Africa

[ PIC 06/03/2012 – 05:41 PM ] CAPE TOWN, (PIC)– The cultural week against the Israeli apartheid regime in occupied Palestine were launched in more than 13 South African cities in the context of global activities and events taking place in about 90 cities around the world. These events include university seminars, lectures, documentaries movies, […]

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Israeli settlement sewage spewing into Palestinian villages

Published Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Sewage from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank is seeping into nearby Palestinian towns and causing serious diseases, a health ministry official said on Tuesday. At an environmental conference in the town of Salfit, the head of the health ministry described the situation as “intolerable” for communities near the […]

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Hamdan: Hamas does not plan changing into political party

[ PIC 06/03/2012 – 05:46 PM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– Osama Hamdan, a senior leader of Hamas, has ruled out that his movement was planning to dissolve itself and turn into a political party. He renewed assertion in a statement to Quds Press that his movement’s program was based on liberation and return and there would […]

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Court Bans Activist from Participating in Protests

WAFA MARCH 6 2012 RAMALLAH, March 6, 2012 (WAFA) – An Israeli military court Tuesday ruled that activist Ibrahim Bernat will not be allowed to participate in the weekly non-violent protests in the West Bank village of Bilin for three years, according to a statement by village activists. If Bernat does not obey the rule, […]

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Hamas MPs demand international intervention in favor of Palestinian prisoners

[ PIC 06/03/2012 – 05:50 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Hamas MPs in the West Bank took part in a rally in front of the Red Cross offices in El-Bireh city demanding greater solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails especially the hunger striker Hana’a Shalabi. They demanded more political action on the international level to […]

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