PALESTINE NEWS | March 8, 2012

“Israel kills by deprivation of Healthcare” Facts tweeted earlier now storified آخر الأخبار والتحديثات March 8, 2012 | 23307 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1730 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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Israeli authorities raze Araqib village in Negev for 36th time

[ PIC 08/03/2012 – 09:32 AM ] NEGEV, (PIC)– The Israeli authorities continued their demolition streak in the Negev, occupied since 1948, and razed two houses in Laqiya village and the entire village of Araqib for the 36th time. Eyewitnesses said that Israeli occupation forces escorted the bulldozers in the destruction of the Araqib village, […]

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IOF soldiers serve demolition notices in Jordan Valley

[ PIC 08/03/2012 – 09:38 AM ] JORDAN VALLEY, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) served demolition notices to the owners of two houses in the Jordan Valley and told them they should evict their homes within three days because of their proximity to IOF barracks. The municipal council of Wadi Al-Maleh in the Valley denounced […]

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Janba and Bir Al-Ad villagers receive demolition orders

[ PIC 08/03/2012 – 03:07 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Wednesday evening stormed Janba and Bir Al-Ad villages south of Al-Khalil city and handed most of the Palestinian families there demolition notices issued against their homes and other buildings. This was the second time Palestinian citizens from these areas received […]

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Settlers “visit” West Bank tomb accompanied by 30 army vehicles

….While many Palestinians cannot even go for a prayer in occupied Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa…. Maan News Agency | March 8, 2012 SALFIT (Ma’an) — Settlers entered the West Bank town of Kifl Haris early Wednesday accompanied by the army, witnesses told Ma’an. Locals said that around 30 military vehicles entered the Salfit village at dawn […]

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The AIPAC Party

By As’ad AbuKhalil – Thu, 2012-03-08 21:03- Angry Corner – Al Akhbar AIPAC has annual affairs where thousands of Zionists from the US and around the world gather to celebrate Israel and its war crimes. All members of Congress are expected to attend at least some of the proceedings. At least half of the US […]

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Thaer Abed Al Hameed Mahdi, murdered by the Siege

by Nathan Stuckey | 8 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Thaer Abed Al Hameed Mahdi died on Saturday, March 3rd, 2012. He was 23 years old. A rope snapped and he plunged down a shaft to his death. He died instantly. His coworkers Jamal Kamel Mahdi and Raed Jaber Mahdi survived, they are […]

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Gaza rally for Hana Shalabi on International Women’s Day ~ by Joe Catron

by Joe Catron | ISM | 8 March 2012 | Mondoweiss Hundreds of Palestinian women filled the street outside Gaza’s International Committee of the Red Cross this morning, marking International Women’s Day by demanding the release of administrative detainee Hana Shalabi on the 22nd day of her open hunger strike. The rally contained Palestinian women […]

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Arab League Calls for an End to Imprisonment of Palestinian Women

Qatar News Agency | March 8, 2012 Cairo, March 08 (QNA) – The Arab League has highlighted the sacrifices and steadfastness of the Palestinian woman, calling for pooling and intensifying international efforts to end Israel’s detention of Palestinian female prisoners. “The Arab League in a statement issued here on Thursday marking the International Women’s Day, […]

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Al-Quds TV Resumes Broadcast

WAFA March 8, 2012   RAMALLAH, March 8, 2012 (WAFA) – Al-Quds Educational Television resumed on Thursday broadcast, a week after Israeli soldiers raided the Ramallah-based TV station and seized its transmitters and other equipment. The resumption of broadcast was done in the presence of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who praised the station for resuming […]

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IOF soldiers gun down Palestinian boy Zakariay Abu Iram and obstruct ambulances – Photography

[ PIC 08/03/2012 – 07:48 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) gunned down a Palestinian boy during confrontations in Yatta village, south of Al-Khalil, on Thursday when the soldiers were trying to arrest a liberated prisoner. Ziyad Abu Zahra, the manager of Al-Khalil government hospital, said that the 15-year-old boy Zakaria Abu Arram […]

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Israeli troops kill a Palestinian youth; Injures and arrest another

by Ghassan Bannoura 8 March 2012 | International Middle East Media Center Twenty-two years old Zakariay Abu Iram was killed while Mohamed Rashid, 18, was injured and arrested by Israeli troops as they attacked the southern West Bank village of Yatta on Thursday afternoon. Residents told IMEMC that Israeli troops stormed the village and tried […]

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Gaza health ministry: Hospital stock severely depleted

Related: Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives! Healthcare | Electricity | Water | Communication [PIC 08/03/2012 – 09:36 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian ministry of health warned that the pharmaceutical crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip has aggravated very badly threatening the lives of all patients, affirming that only 186 types of medicines and […]

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Women’s Day Protest at #Qalandia Mar 5, 2012 – video

by lalabitmyfinger on Mar 8, 2012 Related Non-violent demo of women at the Qalandia checkpoint to mark women’s day violently suppressed – Photography

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World VIPs unite for global march to Jerusalem

[ Palestine Information Center – 08/03/2012 – 01:31 PM ] AMMAN, (PIC)– The advisory board of “the global march to Jerusalem” reiterated its deep concern over Israel’s Judaization and ethnic cleansing activities against the Palestinian natives of the occupied city of Jerusalem and urged all humanity to take part in the march. This came in […]

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