PALESTINE NEWS | June 26, 2012

Israel’s Deliberate  Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives in Palestine! Healthcare | Electricity | Water | Communication آخر الأخبار والتحديثات June 26, 2012 | 23857 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1840 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuous […]

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Occupation jails six minors between 5 and 12 years

[ PIC 26/06/2012 – 05:45 PM ] QALQILYA, (PIC)– Israeli court issued harsh verdicts against six Palestinian children from the town of Azzun east of Qalqilya in the West Bank, in addition to heavy fines against each of them. Hassan Shebeita, the responsible for the Israeli attacks file in Azzun, told Quds press that Salem […]

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Russia denounces Israel settlement expansion

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas (R) and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin shake hands at a joint news conference in the West Bank Biblical town of Bethlehem on June 26, 2012. PRESSTV | Tue Jun 26, 2012 1:35PM GM Russian President Vladimir Putin has criticized Israel over its continued illegal settlement expansions in the occupied Palestinian […]

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Dozens of Jewish settlers barge into Aqsa mosque

[ PIC 26/06/2012 – 09:34 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Dozens of Jewish settlers entered the Aqsa mosque on Tuesday morning escorted by special police forces, local sources said. They said that the settlers and foreign tourists entered the Aqsa in groups via the Maghareba gate, walked in its plazas, hoisted the Israeli flag, and […]

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Abu Marzouk: The US renewed its veto on the Palestinian reconciliation

[ 26/06/2012 – 09:32 AM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– Deputy head of Hamas’s political bureau Musa Abu Marzouk said his Movement received confirmed information that the US administration recently renewed its veto against the Palestinian reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah factions. On his facebook page, Abu Marzouk affirmed that the Palestinian authority was informed lately that […]

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Putin arrives in West Bank for talks with Mahmoud Abbas

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) arrives in the West Bank to hold a meeting with acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas (L), June 26, 2012. PressTV Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:2AM GMT Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in the West Bank on a rare visit to the occupied Palestinian territories. Putin arrived in Bethlehem […]

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Rabbi who called for slaughter of a million Palestinians is to supervise Israel’s ‘Red Cross’

Ali Abunimah | June 26, 2012 | Electronic Intifada A notoriously racist rabbi who once called on Israel to slaughter a million Palestinian civilians has been appointed to head a supervisory committee for Magen David Adom (MDA) – Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. Haaretz reported that under pressure from ultra-Orthodox Jewish […]

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Originally posted on Desertpeace:
* A notoriously racist rabbi who once called on Israel to slaughter a million Palestinian civilians has been appointed to head a supervisory committee for Magen David Adom (MDA) – Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. * Rabbi who called for slaughter of a million Palestinians is to…

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Jordanian awqaf ministry slams Israel’s violations against Aqsa Mosque

[ 26/06/2012 – 07:05 AM ] AMMAN, (PIC)– The Jordanian ministry of Islamic affairs and holy sites strongly denounced the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) for facilitating the entry of Israeli soldiers and extremist Jewish figures into the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyard on Monday and described it as a provocative act. About 60 Israeli soldiers from the […]

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“ON TORTURE” | New Publication 26 June 2012 – Int’l Day against Torture

Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights | June 26, 2012 A journal published by Adalah, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights “On Torture” is an edited volume of essays by Palestinian, Israeli and international legal and medical experts and practitioners based on presentations that they gave during a workshop held […]

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How Gaza’s Children Are Paying the Price

The Trippli Post | June 26, 2012   Gaza children the victims of Israeli aggression By Karen Dabrowska (The Tripoli Post correspondent in London) For over five years more than 1.6 million people in Gaza, more than half of whom are children, have been under blockade, in violation of international law. A report by Save […]

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Ignore Palestinian refugees in Lebanon at your own peril ~ by Ramzy Baroud

Palestinians run for cover as clashes between rival factions break out in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Helweh, near the southern coastal city of Sidon. (Aug. 2011) PressTV Tue Jun 26, 2012 |By Ramzy Baroud The Palestinian refugees’ predicament in Lebanon must be handled with decidedness and urgency. It is a responsibility that […]

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Human rights center: Palestinian prisoners are locked up with criminals

[ PIC 25/06/2012 – 09:54 PM ] GAZA,(PIC)– The Palestinian Center for Prisoners’ Studies held occupation authorities and prison service fully responsible for the Palestinian female prisoners’ lives in Hasharon prison after one of them was subjected to an attack by an Israeli female criminal. The center information officer, Riad Ashkar, confirmed that an Israeli […]

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Israel uses water as a weapon against the indigenous population

[ 25/06/2012 – 08:54 PM ] NAZARETH,(PIC)– A local Palestinian official in the Negev desert, south of Palestine occupied in 1948, accused the occupation of using water as a weapon in order to displace people of Negev aiming to take control of their lands. The head of Regional Council for Unrecognized Villages (RCUV), Ibrahim Alwakili, […]

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Zionist occupation forces launch large-scale demolition spree of Bedouin homes

[ 25/06/2012 – 10:04 PM ] JORDAN VALLEY, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) went on a demolition spree of Bedouin homes in Khirbat Al-Mayta area in Wadi Al-Maleh in the northern Jordan Valley. Locals said that the IOF soldiers also continued to confiscate water tanks to force the inhabitants to abandon the area. They said […]

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