#PalHunger | Dameer: Detainee Barq in very serious health condition

[ PIC 28/06/2012 – 09:28 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Detainee Samer Al-Barq is in a very serious health condition and is suffering from irregular heartbeats, the lawyer of the Dameer foundation for human rights said. She said in a statement on Wednesday that she visited him in the Israeli Ramle prison clinic and found him […]

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Israeli military training in Al ‘Aqaba village, West Bank | #PHOTOS & #VIDEOS

June 28, 2012 Last night Israeli soldiers entered the village of Al A’qaba in Area C of West Bank, to carry out military training. Soldiers fired rifle ammunition and launching rockets into the air in between people’s homes in the middle of the night, for more than three hours. It is not yet clarified whether […]

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#PalHunger | Mass hunger strike lingers, another looms as Rikhawi family asks help ~ by @jncatron

by Joe Catron, June 28, 2012 at Mondoweiss As several Palestinians detainees continue the Karameh (“Dignity”) hunger strike, which began April 17 and officially ended with a May 14 agreement, the family of one hunger-striking prisoner, Akram Rikhawi, has appealed for public support, while thousands more plan to launch another mass action inside Israel’s prisons […]

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#PalHunger | Tessa Jowell British MP response in regards to UFree’s Mahmoud Sarsak’s letter campaign

UFRee | June 28, 2012 a Reply from Tessa Jowell British MP in regards to UFree’s Mahmoud Sarsak’s letter campaign to MPs, please read the letter from British Foreign Office: Thank you for contacting me in connection with Mahmoud Sarsak. I am sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I raised Mr Sarsak’s […]

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#PalHunger | Tale of Israeli Soldier and Palestinian Hunger Strikers

Palestine Chronicle | June 28, 2012 | Dallas Darling When Israeli poet and author Naomi Shihab Nye wrote: ‘A man crosses the street in rain, stepping gently/looking two times north and south, because his son is asleep on his shoulder;’ right now, in this ‘moment of madness,’ it could be used as a metaphor, a […]

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#PalHunger | Update on situation of current hunger strikers

Addameer | June 28, 2012 Ramallah, 28 June 2012 – Three Palestinian political prisoners remain on hunger strike in Israeli detention. Addameer lawyer Mona Neddaf visited administrative detainee Samer Al-Barq in Ramleh prison medical clinic on 25 June. Samer is currently on his 38th day of hunger strike and his health is deteriorating. After launching […]

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#VIDEO | Confessions Of Collaborators | فيلم العملاء

June 28, 2012 Video about collaborators with Israel in Gaza ( Arabic ) published by internal security service of Hamas Article covered by IMEMC Gaza’s Interior Ministry Publishes Confessions Of Collaborators Friday June 29, 2012 09:39 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News The Ministry of Interior and National Security of the Hamas-led government in Gaza […]

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Hamas slams Israeli closure of Salfit MPs’ office

[ PIC 28/06/2012 – 09:27 AM ] SALFIT, (PIC)– The Hamas Movement strongly denounced the Israeli occupation regime for closing the office of Palestinian lawmakers in Salfit city and described it as a racist act and a violation of the international norms and conventions. In a press release on Wednesday, Hamas underscored that such Israeli […]

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Hamas condemns the murder of its cadre Nizar Abu Mujahid in Syria

[ PIC 28/06/2012 – 09:26 AM ] DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Hamas mourned on Wednesday one of its cadres who was murdered in his home in the Syrian capital, saying that it was investigating the case. Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday that it was greatly saddened and prayed for the soul of Kamal Husni Ghanaja […]

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Funeral of assassinated Hamas leader Nizar Abu Mujahed to be held in Jordan

Maan News Agency | June 28, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The funeral of a Hamas member assassinated in Syria will be held in Jordan, Hamas officials said Thursday. Kamal Ghanaja, known as Nizar Abu Mujahed, was killed in his Damascus home on Wednesday. Ghanaja’s family are heading to Jordan to attend his funeral, which will […]

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Israel’s military training in Al-Aqaba northern Jordan Valley

[ 28/06/2012 – 03:39 PM ] JORDAN VALLEY,(PIC)– Al-Aqaba’s villagers complained against the storming of their village and its surrounding areas by the IOF on Thursday following military training maneuvers over the past several days in the nearby mountain slopes. The citizens of the small village, most of the houses of which are threatened with […]

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IOF soldiers round up four Palestinians in a new sweep of arrests

[ 28/06/2012 – 03:56 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up four Palestinians at dawn Thursday, two in occupied Jerusalem and two in Al-Khalil. Hebrew sources said that IOF soldiers arrested two Jerusalemites in Aisawiye to the north east of occupied Jerusalem on the alleged charge of starting fire in a […]

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#PalHunger | Families of political detainees protest outside Bethlehem intelligence prison

[ PIC 28/06/2012 – 03:53 PM ] BETHLEHEM,(PIC)– Political prisoners’ families have gathered, on Wednesday afternoon, outside Bethlehem intelligence prison in the south western West Bank, demanding the release of their sons. Local sources told PIC that the families came on buses from AL-Khalil city to the city of Bethlehem protesting against the continued detention […]

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Barhoum: Abbas-Mofaz meeting ominous

[ 28/06/2012 – 04:00 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, has described the expected meeting between PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli deputy premier Shauf Mofaz as “ominous”. He said that the meeting is in the interest of the “Israeli enemy”, adding that Mofaz is a war criminal and is wanted for […]

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Abbas meets Mofaz on Sunday

[ 28/06/2012 – 03:33 PM ] RAMALLAH,(PIC)– Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet with Israeli Vice Premier Shaul Mofaz on Sunday, a Palestinian official said, on Wednesday, pointing out that the meeting has nothing to do with the negotiations which broke down in 2010. Nimer Hammad, the political adviser to President Abbas, said in […]

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