Israel’s Zionist Push Harming Palestinian Education

Palestinian students surround an installation shaped as the map of historical Palestine, made of grapes produced in the West Bank city of Hebron, during a grape festival at Hebron University, on 3 October 2011. (Photo: AFP – Hazem Bader) By: Ryan Brownell | Al Akhbar | April 9, 2012 Published Monday, April 9, 2012 The […]

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IOF soldiers arrest 86 Palestinians in one week including 20 children

[ 09/04/2012 – 10:26 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested 86 Palestinian citizens in the past week including 20 children and six ex-prisoners, who were held in PA jails. Hamas movement said in a weekly report said that the children are 14 to 18 years old; adding that among the detainees was […]

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A Palestinian Christian Eyewitness Remembers the Israeli Military Siege of the Church of the Nativity

Dissident Voice | by Sharat G. Lin / April 9th, 2012 Ten years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in response to a rapid succession of suicide bombings by Palestinians inside Israel and against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, vowed revenge, calling for “an uncompromising war to uproot these savages.” Calling Palestinian leader Yasir […]

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Day of the Child: Houses overturned, 20 arrested by “American style” Israeli military – Photography

by Lydia | 8 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Houses overturned during night raids – For more pictures click here April 5th marked a day to celebrate the children of Palestine. This year the Israeli military decided to contribute to the special day of the children of Kufr Qaddoum by invading the […]

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Palestinian worker wounded in IOF shooting

[ 09/04/2012 – 05:54 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A Palestinian young man was shot and wounded to the east of Gaza city on Monday at the hands of Israeli occupation forces (IOF), medical sources said. Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for ambulance and emergency, said the youth was collecting gravel when the IOF troops shot […]

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Israeli authorities turn Islamic cemetery into car park

[ PIC 09/04/2012 – 05:41 PM ] ASKALAN, (PIC)– The Israeli municipality of Askalan, south of Palestine occupied in 1948, has turned an Islamic cemetery in the city into a car park, Hebrew press indicated. Ma’ariv newspaper reported on Monday that the municipality used the graveyard as a car park to serve shoppers in a […]

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Resheq: Arabs, Muslims should protect Aqsa mosque

[ PIC 09/04/2012 – 06:14 PM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– Political bureau member of Hamas Ezzet Al-Resheq has called on Arabs and Muslims to protect the Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem. Resheq lashed out at the repeated Jewish settlers’ storming of the Aqsa mosque in a statement on his Facebook page on Monday. He described the […]

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IOF soldiers tear down solidarity tent in Nablus

[ PIC 09/04/2012 – 05:50 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed a tent in the Old City of Nablus pitched in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoner Hassan Safadi who has been on hunger strike for 36 days in Israeli jails. Sources close to the Safadi family said that the soldiers broke into […]

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Fadi Abu Zeitoun, killed as settlers attacked farmers

by Rana H. | 9 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Israeli settlers attacked and chased a group of Palestinian farmers last Thursday, causing a tractor to flip over during the chase, causing the death of the Palestinian driver. On Thursday, April 5th, armed settlers from the illegal Israeli colony of Itamar attacked […]

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IOF soldiers arrest 9 Palestinians including 12-year-old

[ PIC 09/04/2012 – 09:18 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested nine Palestinian citizens in Al-Khalil and Jenin at dawn Monday including a 12-year-old child, local sources said. The sources said that IOF soldiers detained four Palestinians at a roadblock near Halhoul town to the north of Al-Khalil. IOF soldiers also arrested […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | IOF artillery shells Juhr Al-Deek

[ PIC 09/04/2012 – 09:57 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired two artillery shells at Juhr Al-Deek area to the south east of Gaza city at a late Sunday night hour. Eyewitnesses said that IOF armored vehicles stationed to the east of Juhr Al-Deek then opened heavy machinegun fire at residential quarters […]

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Settlements eat up 65% of Al-Khalil territory

[ PIC 08/04/2012 – 11:09 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Zionists occupation filled it with settlements, stole its land, killed its children, surrounded its Mosque and dismembered the city to control more than 65% of its area. That is how the land of the district of al-Khalil was divided between Jewish settlements and occupation military […]

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The Occupation Authority Closes Ibrahimi Mosque for Two Days so Settlers can enter

[ PIC 09/04/2012 – 12:32 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil in the West Bank to Muslims and only allowed Jewish settlers to enter it to celebrate the passover Jewish holiday, preventing Muslims from calling for prayer for two days. Zeid Al-Jabari,the director of Al-Khalil Waqf, said […]

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Occupation threatens military operations in the Sinai

[ PIC 08/04/2012 – 11:52 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC) — Israeli occupation threatened Egypt’s ruling military council to launch operations in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on the pretext of preventing attacks against Zionist targets. According to “Haaretz”, in its edition of Sunday (8/4) “Israel sent a resolute “and even threatening” message to the Egyptian Military Council […]

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Detained journalist Abu Arafa boycotts the Zionist military court

[ 09/04/2012 – 12:28 AM ] AL-KHALIL,(PIC)– Detained journalist Amir Abdul Halim Abu Arafeh, 28, who is held in administrative detention at the Negev Desert prison, refused to appear before the Zionist military court last Thursday in accordance with the administrative detainees’ decision to boycott these courts which try to give legitimacy to administrative detention. […]

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