Archive | March 12, 2012

Why Israel Attacked Gaza: Bibi Stirring Trouble ~ by Ramzy Baroud

Israel air raids on Gaza Strip have killed 21 Palestinians over the past three days, Monday, March 12, 2012. PressTV Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:56AM GMT By Ramzy Baroud The first Israeli missile sped down to its target, scorching the Gaza earth and everything in between. Palestinians collected the body parts of two new martyrs, […]

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Settlers Uproot Trees in Hebron area

Wafa News Agency | March 12, 2012 HEBRON, March 12, 2012, (WAFA) – A number of Israeli settlers from Beit Ain, an illegal settlement built on land belonging to the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, Monday uprooted dozens of trees in an area north of the town, said a local activist. He said […]

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New Military Gate Limits Access to Beit Iksa Land

WAFA | March 12, 2012 JERUSALEM, March 12, 2012 (WAFA) –A new military-controlled road gate the Israeli army had set up on Monday in the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of Jerusalem, raised concern of possible takeover of almost 2000 dunums of land as it limits access to agricultural land, according to residents. The soldiers […]

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Israeli Forces Arrest Five Palestinians of which 3 children in West Bank

WAFA | March 12, 2012 RAMALLAH, March 12, 2012, (WAFA) – Israeli forces arrested five Palestinians from the West Bank, four of them from the Hebron area in the south of the West Bank, a local activist and security sources said Monday. Mohammad Awad, an activist with the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements […]

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PLO envoy at the UN condemns Israeli ‘terrorism’

Maan News Agency | March 12, 2012   BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The PLO ambassador at the UN on Sunday sent a letter to UN officials to update them on the current round of violence in the Gaza Strip. Riyad Mansour condemned Israel’s “violence and terrorism against the Palestinian people,” saying the latest escalation threatens stability […]

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3 killed, 46 injured in fourth day of Gaza airstrikes

Maan News Agency | March 12, 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli airstrikes killed two Islamic Jihad militants and a 17-year-old boy on Monday, bringing the death toll since Friday to 21 people. Raafat Abu Eid, 24, was killed in Khan Younis when an airstrike targeted a vehicle he was traveling in. Two other militants […]

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Israeli airstrike kills Palestinian child in Gaza

PRESS TV March 12, 2012   A Palestinian child has been killed in a new Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll from the attacks over the past three days to 21. (Note occupiedpalestine: Name of shaheed  Nayef Garmout | 17 years old ) For who does not understand the need or […]

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Jordan condemns ‘barbaric’ Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

Relatives of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy killed in Israeli airstrikes grieve during his funeral in the northern Gaza Strip, March 11, 2012. PressTV Mon Mar 12, 2012 4:13AM GMT The Jordanian government has condemned the “barbaric aggression” of the Tel Aviv regime in its latest airstrikes on the impoverished Gaza Strip, leaving scores of Palestinians […]

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New Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 2, raise toll to 20

March 12, 2012 Khaleej Times 12 March 2012 GAZA CITY — Two Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes near the Gaza town of Khan Yunis on Monday morning, bringing the toll in three days of violence to 20, medics said. A first man, named as 24-year-old Suleiman Abu Mutlaq, was killed in a raid […]

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Gazans need to be armed to defend themselves ~ By Khalid Amayreh

Palestinian Information Center | March 11, 2012 | By Khalid Amayreh The ongoing pornographic killings in the Gaza Strip at Israel’s criminal hands underscore the urgent need for arming these proud and oppressed Gazans with the necessary means to defend themselves and their children. The latest brutal killings, which claimed dozens of casualties, are totally […]

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