#GazaIsDying – Ambulances, bakeries hit by Gaza fuel crisis

Maan News Agency | March 21, 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Half of Gaza’s ambulances and fire trucks are out of service due to the fuel crisis, officials said Wednesday. Emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said no ambulances will be operating if the crisis is not resolved quickly. At a news conference in Shifa […]

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Two million protesters expected to participate in the Global March to Jerusalem

[ PIC 21/03/2012 – 08:17 PM ] AMMAN, (pic) — The organizing committee of the Global March to Jerusalem expects the participation of more than two million people in the march which will be started from the surrounding countries of Palestine, the Palestinian territories, and some other capitals on March 30, 2012. “Several international personalities […]

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Gaza inventor defies power outage with home-made electric system

A handicapped man in Gaza has become more mobile thanks to his new wheelchair created by Mahmoud Shaheen. (Al Arabiya)  By Yusuf Sadek  |Arabiya Gaza | March 21, 2012 Power outage is one of the main problems facing residents of Gaza since Israel bombed the power generators that provide the strip with electricity five years […]

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Absence of accountability encourages Israeli soldiers to kill Palestinians

MEMO – March 21, 2012 An Israeli human rights group has concluded that the absence of accountability “encourages soldiers to kill Palestinian civilians”. In its annual report published this week, the Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, B’Tselem, said, “From the start of the second intifada in the year 2000 […]

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Israeli gunboats fire (again) at Palestinian fishing boats

[ PIC 21/03/2012 – 03:46 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli gunboats opened heavy machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Gaza city on Wednesday morning, local sources said. They told Quds Press that the gunboats at sea fired at the fishing boats which were off the Shati refugee camp shore. The sources […]

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IOA decides to exile 8 Beit Ummar children

[ PIC 21/03/2012 – 03:48 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli military court in Ofer has decided to banish eight Palestinian children from their hometown of Beit Ummar, north of Al-Khalil. Yousef Abu Mariya, the coordinator of the popular committee in the village, told Quds Press that the court ordered the banishment of the eight […]

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Hamas renews its adherence to resistance as option to liberate Palestine

[ PIC 21/03/2012 – 03:56 PM ] DAMASCUS, (PIC)– The Hamas Movement on Wednesday renewed its oath of adherence to the option of resistance until the liberation of all Palestine. In a press release on the anniversary of martyr week, Hamas highlighted that Israel’s assassination and killing policy against the Palestinian people and their leaders […]

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Medics: #HanaShalabi returned to prison after tests

Maan News Agency | March 21, 2012 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A representative of Physicians for Human Rights said Wednesday hunger-striking prisoner Hana Shalabi returned to jail after undergoing medical tests in an Israeli hospital. Amani Al Dayef, who visited Shalabi in the ward, told Voice of Palestine radio she underwent a CT scan, and was […]

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Israeli Court Extends Arrest of Injured Minor

WAFA News Agency | March 21, 2012 RAMALLAH, March 21, 2012 (WAFA) – An Israeli court extended Wednesday the arrest of injured Palestinian minor Mohammad Rashid for a week under the pretext of preparing his file to be submitted to the prosecution, the Ministry of Prisoners said on Tuesday. Attorney Kareem Ajwa said Rashid, 16, […]

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Palestinian worker suffers ruptures and looses his spleen in savage Israeli police attack

[ PIC 21/03/2012 – 09:44 AM ] HAIFA, (PIC)– A Palestinian worker from Jenin lost his spleen in a violent Israeli police attack on the place where he was working in Haifa, local sources said. They said that a special police force attacked the grapevine yard where Rami Wishahi, 26, was working and savagely beat […]

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Ir Amim: Israel to seize 1, 235 dunums of Walja village for its ‘Jewish gardens’

[ PIC 21/03/2012 – 01:14 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Ir Amim society reported that the Israeli district committee for planning and building approved a plan to annex 1, 235 dunums of Palestinian land in Walja village south of occupied Jerusalem to turn them into Jewish gardens. Senior official from Ir Amim Ahmed Sab-Laban said […]

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51-year old Palestinian prisoner Kifah Hattab on hunger strike for 22 days

[ PIC 21/03/2012 – 09:38 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The family of Palestinian prisoner Kifah Hattab has said that he has been on hunger strike for 22 days in Israeli occupation jails but the media and human rights groups were ignoring him. The family told the PIC reporter on Tuesday that 51-year-old Hattab was detained […]

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IOF soldiers rearrest senior Jihad leader Jaafar Ezzuddin in arrestcampaign against activists

[ PIC 21/03/2012 – 12:11 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a senior Islamic Jihad leader from his home in Arrabe village, south of Jenin, in a pre-dawn raid on Wednesday. Local sources said that Jaafar Ezzuddin, 40, was previously held in administrative detention and was recently released from Israeli custody. They […]

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Int’l child group: Israel systematically abuses Palestinian children

[ PIC 21/03/2012 – 12:06 PM ] LONDON, (PIC)– The international organization for defending children said Tuesday that Israel and its forces systematically maltreat and humiliate Palestinian children in the occupied territory. In a report, the organization stated that the Israeli occupation forces deliberately carry out arrests against children at night hours and take them […]

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Human rights group: The crisis of fuel in Gaza paralyzed civilian life

[ PIC 21/03/2012 – 01:12 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian center for human rights said the crisis of fuel and electricity has paralyzed the daily life in the besieged Gaza Strip and made the lives of citizens much worse than before. “The towns of Gaza have become like ghost towns because of the power […]

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