#PALESTINE NEWS | July 15, 2012

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات July 15, 2012 | 23875 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1859 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates NEW REPORT Published by Adalah, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights | June […]

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Israeli plan to build 1,000 housing units in Modi’in settlement

[ PIC 15/07/2012 – 01:04 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A Hebrew newspaper Kol He said Friday that the Israeli district committee for planning and building approved a plan to build about 1,000 housing units for Jewish secular and religious nationalists in Modi’in settlement. According to the newspaper, the new units will be established on […]

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#Israel’s Child Abusers: Hasharon jail administration forces minors to stand in the sun heat and strip

[ PIC 15/07/2012 – 11:27 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The administration of the Israeli Hasharon jail has forced Palestinian minors to stand in the sun heat for three hours at the pretext of searching their rooms. Amjad Siraj, who is representing those minors, told a lawyer for the Palestinian prisoner’s society that the incident took […]

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Palestinian prisoners in Ofer threaten to escalate protests

Qassam Website 15-07-2012,09:11 RAMALLAH – Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Ofer jail have threatened to refuse visits because of the Israeli humiliating treatment of their relatives wishing to visit them. Local sources in Ramallah told the PIC reporter on Saturday that that relatives of those prisoners are forced to start their trek to the Israeli […]

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IOA bans entry of liberated Jerusalemite into Aqsa

[ PIC 15/07/2012 – 09:29 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has ordered a liberated Jerusalemite prisoner not to enter the Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilwa information center said on Saturday that the Israeli police summoned Misbah Abu Subaih to the Maskobeh interrogation center and told him he […]

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Strategic dialog meeting between US and Israel highlight Arab changes

[ PIC 15/07/2012 – 11:10 AM ] WASHINGTON, (PIC)– The US state department and Israeli officials held last Thursday their semi-annual strategic dialogue at Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs in occupied Jerusalem and mainly discussed the issue of the Arab revolutions and the consequent threats facing Israel. The meeting highlighted Iran’s suspected nuclear weapon program, […]

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New Settlement Plans in WB and Jerusalem Revealed

QNA | July 15, 2012 Occupied Jerusalem, July 15 (QNA) – The Israeli occupation authorities have recently approved new settlement plans in the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem, Israeli press sources have revealed. The Israeli weekly (Kol Ha’ir) newspaper reported on Sunday that the Israeli District Committee for Planning and Building in Jerusalem has recently […]

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Mandela prisoners foundation urges inquiry into prisons

Maan News Agency | July 15, 2012 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Nelson Mandela Foundation for Political Prisoners called on Saturday for an international inquiry into the situation in Israeli prisons and for an international conference about prisoners. Speaking in Amman, Jordan in testimony to a UN committee to investigate Israeli violations of human rights in […]

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Student hunger strikers demand PA release prisoners

Maan News Agency | July 15, 2012 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Thirteen Palestinian students who have held a sit-in in Hebron University for over three weeks warned Sunday they would scale up their protest if the Palestinian Authority does not release three fellow students. Eight of the protesters have been on hunger strike for 13 days. […]

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Israel still holding European activists

Al Akhbar English | July 14, 2012 Israel was still holding five foreign female activists on Saturday who were arrested in the West Bank after a demonstration a day earlier, a police spokeswoman said. “Five European activists arrested on Friday during a demonstration in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) remain in detention,” Luba Samri told […]

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