IOF serves demolition notices to Palestinian families in Al-Khalil

[ PIC 08/05/2012 – 02:45 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) informed a number of families in three hamlets to the south of Al-Khalil on Tuesday that their installations would be razed. One of the citizens told the PIC reporter that a joint force of the IOF and the civil administration told Mahmoud […]

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IOF digs tunnel along Gaza border

[ PIC 08/05/2012 – 09:32 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) are digging a big tunnel along the Gaza eastern and northern borders with Palestine occupied in 1948, the Quds Press reported. The agency said that the tunnel allows the passage of armored vehicles and armed personnel carriers, adding that the tunnel was […]

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#PalHunger | ICRC urges hospitalization of six Palestinian hunger strikers

Palestinians hold pictures of imprisoned relatives during a rally in the West Bank on May 8, 2012. PressTV – Tue May 8, 2012 3:25PM GMT We urge the detaining authorities to transfer all six detainees without delay to a suitable hospital so that their condition can be continuously monitored.” Juan Pedro Schaerer, the head of […]

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#PalHunger | The Red Cross is worried about the striking prisoners’ health conditions

[ PIC 08/05/2012 – 09:44 AM ] GAZA (PIC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross expressed, on Monday, its worry about the health conditions of the hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in occupation jails, especially those striking since twenty-one days. Ayman Shihabi, the spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in the […]

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UN official: Gaza does not receive the required attention

[ PIC 08/05/2012 – 04:44 PM ] GAZA (PIC) — The new Director of operations of Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees “UNRWA”, Robert Turner, said he will launch a campaign to draw attention to the difficult conditions in the Gaza Strip. This was revealed on Monday, during a visit by Turner and his […]

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#Nakba64 | 1948 Arabs to stage events and general strike on 64th Nakba Anniversary

[ PIC 08/05/2012 – 03:55 PM ] Palestinians fleeing their homes in 1948 UMM AL-FAHM, (PIC)– The Arab political parties and popular committees in the 1948 occupied lands decided to form a committee to make outstanding preparations for the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian nakba. In a meeting held Tuesday morning in Umm Al-Fahm city, […]

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#PalHunger | Empty Stomach Warriors (IV): Thaer Halahleh All in The Name ~ by @LinahAlsaafin

Israeli Arab protesters hold posters depicting Palestinian hunger strikers Thaer Halahla and Bilal Thiab who are in administrative detention during a protest outside Israel’s Supreme Court in Jerusalem on 3 May 2012. (Photo: AFP – Gali Tibbon) By: Linah Alsaafin Published Tuesday, May 8, 2012 On Monday May 7, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected the […]

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#PalHunger | Long-term hunger striker not backing down

Maan News Agency | May 8, 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian hunger striker who has gone without food for 70 days said Tuesday he had no plans to back down despite suffering severe medical complications. Thaer Halahla, 33, from Hebron, wrote in a letter published by a prisoner rights group that he was […]

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#PalHunger | 3rd letter from Assayed: Health conditions of hunger strikers worsening

[ PIC 08/05/2012 – 02:49 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– In a third letter leaked from his cell, senior Hamas official Abbas Assayed said that some of his fellow hunger strikers in Gilboa jail suffered serious health deterioration. The letter which Assayed sent exclusively to the Palestinian information center (PIC) said that over the past […]

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#PalHunger | Palestinian delegation hands Blair a letter about Prisoners’ Strike

[ PIC 08/05/2012 – 04:59 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A delegation of prisoners’ families committee, Palestinian Islamic and national forces representatives, and the Palestinian Prisoners Society in Jerusalem handed, on Monday, a letter to the official envoy of the Quartet, Tony Blair about the prisoners’ strike in occupation prisons. The delegation handed Bair’s office […]

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Gaza Health crisis worsening

[ PIC 08/05/2012 – 04:18 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Dr Ashraf Kodra, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman, warned of the serious health situation in Gaza due to lack of medicines in the ministry’s warehouses, pointing out that 202 types of medicines considered essential are currently out of stock in the Gaza Strip such as drug protocols […]

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#PalHunger | Palestinian Prisoners in Hunger Strike II ~ Cartoon by @CarlosLatuff

Source and more cartoons by Carlos Latuff ACTIONALERT & LIVE BLOG ▶ 3000 PALESTINIANS ON HUNGER STRIKE | #PalHunger Palestinian Prisoners Palestine’s Prisoners – Pictures Palestinian Prisoners Special Topic Palestinian Prisoners –Category The History of Israeli Torture – Topic Child Arrests – Topic All posts about Torture – Category Hana Shalabi Hana’ Yayha Ash-Shalabi – […]

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#PalHunger | Palestinian prisoners on Hungerstrike ~ Cartoon by @CarlosLatuff

Source and more cartoons by Carlos Latuff ACTIONALERT & LIVE BLOG ▶ 3000 PALESTINIANS ON HUNGER STRIKE | #PalHunger Palestinian Prisoners Palestine’s Prisoners – Pictures Palestinian Prisoners Special Topic Palestinian Prisoners –Category The History of Israeli Torture – Topic Child Arrests – Topic All posts about Torture – Category Hana Shalabi Hana’ Yayha Ash-Shalabi – […]

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Tens of businessmen denied access to Gaza, detained in Egyptian hotel

[ PIC 08/05/2012 – 09:15 AM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– A galaxy of Arab businessmen deplored the Egyptian security authorities for detaining them inside a hotel in Ismailia city and barring them from leaving it to anywhere. The Egyptian security authorities confined the businessmen to a hotel after it had prevented them from entering the Gaza […]

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#PalHunger | Halahle refrains from drinking water after 70 days of hunger strike

[ PIC 08/05/2012 – 09:17 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The family of Palestinian detainee Thaer Halahle said that their son had refrained from drinking water and taking medicine after 70 days of his hunger strike. They said that Thaer decided to start this new stage of his hunger strike after the Israeli higher court turned […]

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