PALESTINE NEWS | March 14, 2012

“Israel kills by deprivation of Healthcare” Facts tweeted earlier now storified آخر الأخبار والتحديثات March 14, 2012 | 23313 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1736 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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#HanaShalabi In Serious Danger to Health on Day 28 of Hunger Strike in Israeli Jail

Serious Danger to Health of Administrative Detainee Hana Shalabi, on Day 27 of Her Hunger Strike Addameer | March 13, 2012 Joint Statement, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel Ramallah-Jaffa, 13 March 2012− A Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel) doctor visited Ms. Hana Shalabi for the second time yesterday, 12 March […]

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We ask you to arm Gaza too

MEMO | March 14, 2012 News about Israel’s latest killing spree against the people of the Gaza Strip has only occupied a small amount of airtime in the news bulletins of Arab TV stations. This is a source of great anger, especially when those channels are in Arab Spring countries seeking to restore dignity and […]

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IOF soldiers arrest liberated prisoner, five brothers

[ PIC 14/03/2012 – 11:14 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a Palestinian youth at Jaba’a roadblock on his way back from Ramallah to his home in Al-Khalil on Tuesday night. The PIC reporter in Al-Khalil said that the IOF soldiers intercepted a car that was carrying Ezzuddin Abu Snene and took […]

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IOA refuses to allow travel for treatment for MP Beitawi

[ PIC 14/03/2012 – 11:17 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has refused to allow the travel of MP Hamed Al-Beitawi to Jordan for badly needed medical treatment, local sources said. The sources told the PIC reporter that Beitawi, 70, was in need of urgent open heart surgery and could not do […]

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Haneyya invites Clinton to Gaza to witness Israel’s atrocities

[ PIC 14/03/2012 – 11:27 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya called on US secretary of state Hillary Clinton to visit the Gaza Strip to see the enormity of Israel’s war crimes. Haneyya made his remarks during a visit on a Tuesday to Al-Shifa hospital where he met with victims of the Israeli […]

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300 captives in Nafha desert prison on hunger strike for second day

[ PIC 14/03/2012 – 12:11 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Palestinian sources said on Wednesday afternoon that 300 Palestinian captives in the Nafha desert prison are on hunger strike for the second day running. According to the sources the open-ended strike started on Tuesday and is lead by 300 Palestinian captives to protest the solitary confinement […]

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Child dies of injures suffered from Israeli military attack

[ PIC 14/03/2012 – 12:15 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A Palestinian child on Wednesday morning was proclaimed dead of serious wounds he sustained during the recent Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip. A spokesman for the ambulance and emergency service in Gaza said a seven-year old boy called Baraka Al-Maghribi died this morning of injuries […]

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#GazaUnderAttack – Israeli artillery shelling targets central Gaza

[ PIC 14/03/2012 – 12:49 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday night fired a number of artillery shells into the central Gaza Strip, but no casualties were reported, according to local sources. The PIC correspondent said that occupation tanks fired a number of artillery shells and opened machinegun fire towards the […]

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Settlers Attack and injures a Palestinian near Jenin

Wednesday March 14, 2012 15:36 by Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Group of Israeli settlers attacked, on Wednesday, a Palestinian man from the village of Yabod near the northern West Bank city of Jenin. armed Israeli settlers in the West Bank Local sources said that the, Suliman Al Kilani, 26, was driving his car […]

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Jerusalem Mufti calls for an end to ‘Israeli terrorism’ against religious sanctuaries

MEMO | March 14, 2012 The Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, has drawn attention to Israel’s continued violation of freedom of worship in Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories. Sheikh Hussein asserted that the Israeli government’s recent announcement that it would be closing the Ibrahimi Mosque to Muslim worshippers for two days next month […]

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Wheelchair-bound photographer takes on Gaza – video

Wednesday, 14 March 2012 | By Noora Faraj | Al Arabiya with Agencies Twenty three-year-old Moumen Qaragi roves the streets of Gaza covering stories as a freelance photographer — all while being confined to his wheelchair. Qaragi is a self-taught photographer who picked up skills when he was a teenager and went on to develop […]

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A Farewell to a Purity of Arms

By Richard Lightbown | Palestine Chronicle | March 14, 2012 In response to the recent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip Hillary Clinton repeated the political mantra “Israel has the right to self-defence”. The statement is absolutely true of course, but that right does not allow Israel to commit offensive strikes on its neighbours or […]

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Study: Israeli ‘state land’ illegally taken from West Bank

Maan News Agency | March 14, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel has designated some 900,000 dunams of the occupied West Bank as Israeli state land, using procedures that break local and international laws, an Israeli human rights group said Wednesday. “Large swaths of land have been classified state land and designated for use by settlements, […]

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Power authority: We transferred $2m to Egypt but no fuel arrived

[ PIC 14/03/2012 – 04:39 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The power and natural resources authority in Gaza Strip said on Wednesday that it had transferred the sum of two million dollars to Egypt as a payment in advance in return for fuel supplies but nothing arrived in the Strip yet. It said in a press […]

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