#PALESTINE NEWS | July 24, 2012

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات July 24, 2012 | 23884 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1868 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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Destruction of Muslims’ graves targets wiping out Islamic landmarks

[ PIC 24/07/2012 – 03:39 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority is still pursuing a policy of destruction when dealing with the Muslims’ graveyards and tombs in order to change the Islamic landmarks in Palestine, Tadamon Foundation for Human Rights said. The lawyer and researcher at Tadamon Foundation, Ahmad Tubasi, said that the […]

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Save Susya campaign: Over 12,000 faxes annoy Defense Ministry

Reblog from +972 Magazine | July 24 2012| Mairav Zonszein The Defense Ministry and Civil Administration complained Tuesday that the thousands of faxes calling on the government to cancel the demolition of the Palestinian village are disrupting their work and threatened to get the police to stop the campaign. Susya, West Bank (photo: Activestills) Over 300 […]

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Israel attempts to Judaize areas adjacent to the Dead Sea

[ PIC 24/07/2012 – 03:41 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities’ decision to demolish eight Palestinian villages and expel their people southern West Bank is aimed to confiscate fifty thousand acres of Palestinian lands, Abdul Hadi Hantash, an expert in settlement affairs, said. The Israeli decision came to complement an Israeli scheme to […]

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Jewish settlers storm Aqsa, policemen arrest student

[ PIC 24/07/2012 – 03:44 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation policemen, escorting Jewish settlers, arrested on Tuesday a Palestinian inside the Aqsa mosque. The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage (AFEH) said that the policemen were protecting dozens of Jewish settlers when they arrested the Palestinian student Ghassan Younis. AFEH said that 30 […]

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Jenin Man Injured by Israeli UXO

Tuesday July 24, 2012 16:01 by Jack Muir – IMEMC & agencies A Palestinian man was seriously injured in the Bardalah district of Jenin after approaching unexploded ordnance left by the Israeli military. The injured man was transferred to Rafidia hospital source:ma’an Police officer Luba al-Smari reported that a Palestinian amn, aged 20, from Jenin […]

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EU refuses Israeli request to blacklist Hezbollah

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman looks on during a press conference with the Cypriot Foreign Affairs Minister, the European Union Commissioner for Enlargement, and the European Neighborhood Policy adviser, on 24 July 2012, at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. (Photo: AFP – Georges Gobet) Published Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | Al Akhbar The European Union […]

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Royal committee of Jordan calls for protecting Aqsa Mosque

[ PIC 24/07/2012 – 11:24 AM ] AMMAN, (PIC)– The royal committee for Jerusalem affairs in Jordan appealed to the international community to intervene to protect the Aqsa Mosque against Israel’s violations. In a statement to the Jordanian news agency, secretary-general of the royal committee Abdullah Kanaan said his committee is following up with great […]

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#PalHunger | Prisoner Rikhawi shelves his hunger strike following deal

[ PIC 24/07/2012 – 09:15 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoner Akram Al-Rikhawi suspended his hunger strike which lasted more than 100 days after the Israeli prison authority agreed to reduce his prison term to six months. Rikhawi, 40, went on hunger for 104 days in protest at his arbitrary detention without guilt. The jailers, […]

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Jewish teens rip up Koran in West Bank mosque

Ma’an News Agency | July 24, 2012 TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Israeli police have failed to arrest two Jewish teenage girls who tore copies of the Koran in Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque, the Israeli news site Ynet reported Tuesday. In March, the girls were caught on security camera tearing up the Muslim holy books and […]

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Deliberate Medical Neglect by Israel: Prisoner Ahmad Orabi Lahham suffering difficult heath condition

[ PIC 24/07/2012 – 02:31 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Captive Ahmad Orabi Lahham from the Gaza Strip is suffering from deteriorated health conditions as a result of being shot during his arrest. Ahmed Beitawi, a researcher at the Tadamun Foundation for Human Rights, said that Lahham was shot by eight bullets during his arrest on […]

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More settler land grabs in North Jordan Valley and south West Bank

[ PIC 24/07/2012 – 02:40 PM ] JORDAN VALLEY, (PIC)– The residents of the Buqei’a settlement in the North Jordan Valley seized Palestinian land on Monday morning as part of their continued illegal expansion. The land, 50 dunums, was promptly fenced and barricaded by the settlers who prevented the Palestinian owners from entering it. Local […]

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Israel classifies (democratically elected) Hamas parliamentary bloc as banned group

[ PIC 24/07/2012 – 02:44 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The international Tadamun (solidarity) society for human rights said the Israeli occupation authority issued lately a military decision classifying Hamas lawmakers in the West Bank as a banned group. Spokesman for the society Ahmed Al-Beitawi stated that commander of the Israeli army Avi Mizrahi issued a […]

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Two isolated prisoners: Dhirar Abu Sisi and Awad Al-Saeedi ask for Egyptian intervention

[ PIC 24/07/2012 – 08:20 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Two Palestinian prisoners held in solitary confinement in Israeli jails have appealed to the Egyptian president to intervene and demand an end to their solitary confinement. Dhirar Abu Sisi, held in Askalan prison, and Awad Al-Saeedi, held in Rimon jail, said that the Israeli government had […]

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Israeli court turns down appeal for release of Palestinian journalist

[ PIC 24/07/2012 – 08:16 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli higher court in Tel Aviv has turned down an appeal by lawyer of journalist Amer Abu Arafa from Al-Khalil for his release. The lawyer, Mahmoud Jabarin, said that the court rejected the appeal on Monday without giving any reason except presence of secret files […]

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