Jenny Tonge’s Victory over the Lobby ~ by Ramzy Baroud

By Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle | April 18, 2012 ‘My Lords, I was in Gaza six weeks ago,’ began Baroness Tonge, when she spoke at the House of Lords in January 2009. ‘Now, as a result of the impotence of the international community, not just in Gaza, but…over 40 years of occupation of Palestine […]

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Israeli authorities deport 9 French activists on arrival at airport | #Airflotilla2

[ PIC 18/04/2012 – 04:56 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli authorities at Lod airport deported nine French activists on arrival at the airport on Tuesday as part of “Welcome to Palestine” event. A spokesperson for the Israeli immigration department said that the activists instigated violence and confusion aboard the plane they took from […]

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Record administrative detainee Ahmad Saqer freed after hunger strike for 22 days

Maan News Agency | April 18, 2012 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israel on Wednesday released a Palestinian who had been imprisoned over his lifetime for 12 years, the head of the Prisoners’ Society said. Qadura Fares told Ma’an that Ahmad Saqer spent 12 years in jail, and had been held in administrative detention since 2008. He […]

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IOF soldiers arrest Palestinian university student from her house

[ PIC 18/04/2012 – 04:53 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested Islam Hassan Al-Bashiti from her family home in Beit Ola village to the west of Al-Khalil at dawn Wednesday, local sources told the PIC reporter. They said that IOF soldiers searched the home of her father before taking her away handcuffed […]

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Moshe Nissim on Home Demolitions & Jenin Refugee Camp ~ by @YasirTineh

Yasir M Tineh Weblog | April 18, 2012 To better understand Zionist Terrorism; Look at their own actions and words. “I found joy with every house that came down, because I knew they didn’t mind dying, but they cared for their homes. If you knocked down a house, you buried 40 or 50 people for […]

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UN envoy condemns Israel’s eviction of Palestinian family

Maan News Agency | April 18, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A senior UN official on Wednesday condemned Israel’s eviction of Palestinians from homes in Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem. “Evictions of Palestinians from their homes and properties in occupied territory contravene international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, and should cease,” said UN humanitarian coordinator […]

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PCHR Denounces Israel For Denying Entry To Peace Activists | #Airflotilla2

Wednesday April 18, 2012 04:46 by PCHR – Press Release This is a press release by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, based in Gaza, denouncing Israel for preventing solidarity activists from across Europe traveling to the occupied Palestinian territories. Still From Welcome To Palestine Video PCHR Condemns Banning of Dozens of European Solidarity Activists […]

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Thousands of Jewish settlers storm Qalqilia village to perform rituals

[ PIC 18/04/2012 – 05:00 PM ] QALQILIA, (PIC)– Thousands of Jewish settlers stormed the village of Kufl Hares, south east of Qalqilia, on Tuesday night and offered Talmudic rituals at a shrine under Israeli occupation forces’ protection. Mamun Buziye, a member of the village’s municipal council, told Quds Press on Wednesday that IOF soldiers […]

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Palestine Prisoners Day – Apr 17, 2012 – Photography

April 17, 2012 Report via IMEMC Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, the Palestinian Central Census Bureau and the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees issued a joint release revealing that 201 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons since 1967 due to torture, medical negligence, and by use of live ammunition. More than a third of this number have […]

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Originally posted on Desertpeace:
* If not, you must be a pro-Palestinian anti-Semite! * At Israel’s behest, woman removed from Air France flight for not being Jewish Submitted by Ali Abunimah Air France demanded to know the religion of a passenger on a flight from Nice to Tel Aviv and removed her because she is…

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Eviction in Beit Hanina: New site of East Jerusalem settlement

A family in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina has now joined the story of the families in Sheikh Jarrah, evicted from their home with the same legal tactics, in order to make way for a new Jewish settlement. By Moriel Rothman | 972 Magazine  | April 18, 2012 Beit Hanina – Wednesday morning, […]

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IOA bars Sheikh Ekrema Sabri from entering Aqsa for two months

[ PIC 18/04/2012 – 04:45 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The commander of the Israeli central command has imposed a ban on the entry of Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, Aqsa preacher and head of the higher Islamic authority, into the Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem for two months. Sheikh Ekrema described the decision as “racist, arbitrary, […]

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Hundreds hoist photos of detained MPs before European parliament

[ PIC 18/04/2012 – 04:48 PM ] BRUSSELS, (PIC)– Hundreds of European activists staged a sit-in before the European parliament in Brussels on Tuesday to mark the Palestinian prisoner’s day. The European activists were protesting the Israeli administrative detention policy against Palestinian citizens and hoisted photos of the detained Palestinian MPs. Participants in the rally, […]

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Shin Bet threatens to assassinate & arrest 40 prisoners

15-04-2012,11:48Al Qassam website – The Israeli newspaper “Yediot Ahronot” announced on 14-04-2012 that the Israeli forces marked the names of 40 prisoners, who were liberated within the exchange deal with Israel, the Zionist internal intelligence service (Shin Bet) claimed that they returned to their activity in the resistance. The website published a report monitors the […]

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Israel will have to go, sooner or later ~ by Khalid Amayreh

16-04-2012,08:36 By Khalid Amayreh | Al Qassam Website Israel is undoubtedly a powerful state, which also controls the governments of even more powerful states. Israel is a nuclear state that is armed to the teeth, which enables the apartheid entity to threaten other states, near and distant. Thus, one could argue that the German poet […]

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