Archive | March 7, 2012

Prisoner to Continue with Hunger Strike, says Group

WAFA MARCH 6 2012 RAMALLAH, March 6, 2012 (WAFA) – Hana Shalabi, the Palestinian prisoner held in administrative detention in Israel, is continuing with the hunger strike she has started following her arrest on February 16 in spite of a military court ruling reducing her six-month sentence by two months, a statement by the Palestinian […]

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Israeli tanks conduct limited incursion north of Gaza Strip

Al Qassam website- 07-03-2012,11:02 Gaza- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) conducted on Wednesday morning, 7/3, a limited incursion in north of the Gaza Strip near the Beit Hanoun crossing, eyewitnesses said that IOF forces  supported with at least ten tanks and bulldozers have invaded the north areas of the Gaza Strip. Locals said that the Israeli […]

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Settlers Attack Palestinian Village Near Ramallah

Wednesday March 07, 2012 08:08author by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies A group of armed Israeli settlers invaded, on Tuesday evening, Qarawat Bani Zeid village, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and attacked several residents causing one injury. Local sources reported that the armed settlers were aiming at occupying a spring […]

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The man who would not sing the national anthem

Arab justice’s ‘Hatikva’ silence was a song of protest The refusal of Justice Salim Joubran, the first Arab to win a permanent appointment to the Supreme Court, to sing ‘Hatikva’ was an instructive lesson in Israeli democracy. By Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz 01.03.12 It was so moving on Tuesday at the President’s Residence and so stately; […]

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Craven Lib Dems dump human rights champion Jenny Tonge

PRESS TV Tue Mar 6, 2012 7:24PM GMT “Jenny’s motivation in speaking up for the rights of the oppressed is anger at injustice when others, who have the duty to speak out, pass by silently on the other side of the street. It is also an attempt to make Jenny the story, and to detract […]

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Settlers Try To Install Outpost In Place Of Evacuated Settlement

Tuesday March 06, 2012 20:37 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies A group of armed extremist settlers, attacked on Tuesday afternoon, the location of the former Homesh settlement, in the northern part of the West Bank, and installed an outpost before stopping and searching several Palestinian vehicles. Archive Photo Local sources reported that the […]

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Israeli company commercialises Judaisation policies

MEMO MARCH 6 2012 In what is being seen as an extension of the commercialisation of Israel’s formal Judaisation policies, an Israeli company has sparked wide condemnation for marketing a new lighter which has the Israeli flag superimposed on a picture of the Dome of the Rock in occupied Jerusalem’s Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa. “Israel” […]

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Hana Shalabi: 20 Days on Hunger Strike – Joint Statement

Joint Statement, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel  Addameer March 6 2012 Ramallah-Jaffa, 6 March 2012− Notwithstanding the Israeli Military Court decision on 4 March to shorten her administrative detention order from six months to four months, Hana Shalabi expressed her undeterred intention to continue her hunger strike, now […]

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Youths arrested in Jerusalem

MAAN NEWS AGENCY MARCH 6 2012 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces have arrested several youths in Jerusalem in recent days, particularly in Silwan, locals said Tuesday. Israeli forces raided Silwan on Monday and detained five youths who were identified as Islam Al-Awar, Shadad Al-Awar, Suheib Al-Awar, Elias Al-Awar, and Ahmad Salah. Locals said the arrests […]

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Gaza: The Politics of Darkness

The local power plant – shut down twice in the past two years – was operated again using a limited daily supply of fuel smuggled through the tunnels. (Photo: Shuaib Abou-Jahl) By: Doha Shams Published Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Al Akhbar From the window overlooking the pier of Gaza’s humble port, you can see nothing […]

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Palestine issue ignored in US

PAKISTAN OBSERVER MARCH 7 2012 ramallah (west bank)—A Palestinian peace negotiator says the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is too big to ignore, even though it was sidelined in a meeting between Israel’s prime minister and U.S. President Barack Obama. Saeb Erekat told reporters Tuesday that in the Middle East, “No issue is above the Palestinian issue.” He […]

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Students Walk-out Protesting IDF Soldier – University of Minnesota – VIDEO

by SJPUMN on Feb 16, 2012 On February 13th a student group at the University of MN invited an IDF solider to speak, justifying Israel’s recent atrocities in the Middle East. Students collectively engaged in a silent walk-out in memory and in solidarity with all of the silenced Palestinian children that were killed by the […]

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Britons to mark Palestinian Land Day

PressTV Wed Mar 7, 2012 3:31AM GMT British campaigners and human rights activists will hold a rally outside the Israeli regime’s embassy in London on 30 March as part of an international event to voice solidarity with Palestinians. The international solidarity act, entitled “Global March to Jerusalem (al-Quds),” will take place on Friday 30 March […]

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Israeli soldiers shot during demonstration at Erez border in Beit Hanoun, Gaza – video by @rosa_schiano

by rosaingaza on Mar 6, 2012 Israeli soldiers shot against peaceful demonstrators and international activists in Beit Hanoun, Gaza 06/03/2012    

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Occupy AIPAC 2012 – Photography by @Resistance48

Photography by the one and only real Abbas ISRAEL’S WEB WAR DECLARATION: HASBARA GOES WWW! Dangerous social media games – When a state must pay citizens to fight its online public relations wars, it has already lost. | Jilian Cork | Al Jazeera | Jan 13, 2012 Israel’s student debate champions: “hasbara” (propaganda) agents for […]

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