#PALESTINE NEWS | Aug 2, 2012

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Aug 2, 2012 | 23893 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1877 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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Eichel prisoners punished by shackling their hands during lawyers’ visits

[ PIC 02/08/2012 – 12:24 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Eichel prison administration in Be’er Sheva started shackling the prisoners’ hands during their meeting with lawyers as an imposed punishment. Lawyer Rami Alami, who visited Eichel prison on Wednesday, said that he met prisoner Amjad Izzat Kabha, 43, sentenced to 18 years, who told him that […]

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#PalHunger | Hunger strikers Samer al-Barq and Hassan Safadi severely assaulted by Israeli prison authorities

Maan News Agency | Aug 2, 2012 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli prison authorities on Wednesday assaulted two prisoners on hunger strike, a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoners Society said. Jawad Boulos said that hunger strikers Samer al-Barq and Hassan Safadi had both been severely assaulted, after a visit to Ramle prison clinic on Wednesday. “At […]

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The Islamic Conference calls for the protection of Jerusalem

[ PIC 02/08/2012 – 12:19 PM ] AMMAN, (PIC)– The Islamic Conference for Jerusalem called on the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to take effective steps at the international level to activate the UN resolutions on Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem. The executive body of the conference said at the end of […]

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Haneyya gov’t warns against persisting in attacks on Aqsa Mosque

[ 02/08/2012 – 12:34 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian government in Gaza has called on all Arab, Islamic, and international organizations to check the Israeli occupation authority’s tampering with the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem. The foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday that the Israeli decision declaring all Aqsa courtyards as […]

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Barghouti calls for review of Paris Economic Agreement

MEMO | Aug 2, 2012 The current Israeli-imposed taxation regime causes great suffering for Palestinians. A leading member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Barghouti, has called for a review of the Paris Economic Agreement. The agreement was signed 17 years ago to establish economic relations […]

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Jordanian minister speaks out to defend Al-Aqsa Mosque

MEMO | Aug 2, 2012 The Jordanian Minister of Religious Endowments has affirmed that Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem is “part of the Islamic faith” and accused Israeli soldiers and settlers of “defiling” the sacred mosque with their incursions. Abdus-Salam Al-Abadi was reacting to Israeli claims that the courtyard of the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa […]

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Israel releases latest plan for Wall around Bethlehem-area village of al Walaja

Wednesday, 01 August 2012 09:03 Thayer Hastings for the Alternative Information Center (AIC) The Palestinian village of al Walaja sits on a beautiful hillside. Along with its endowed landscape, al Walaja is targeted by the Israeli authorities for impeding the dream of an ethnically monogamous ‘greater Jerusalem’. Since 1971 the Gilo and Har Gilo colonies adjacent […]

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Israeli military kidnap a disabled Palestinian youth from Beit Ummar

Thursday August 02, 2012 18:45 by George Rishmawi – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli military kidnapped a disabled Palestinian youth form Beit Ummar, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on Thursday afternoon. Military tower and checkpoint at Beit Ummar Entrance Local sources reported that Ahmad Awad, 25, was on his way home when […]

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IOF soldiers arrest son of Hamas leader while at work in a shop

[ PIC 02/08/2012 – 11:44 AM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested the son of Yehya Zayud, a Hamas leader in Seelat al-Harthiya village in Jenin, at dawn Thursday. Local sources said that the soldiers stormed the central market in Barta’a Al-Sharqiya village and burst into the shop where Hamza Yehya Zayud is […]

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Number of settlers doubled 40 times in the West Bank in four decades

[ PIC 02/08/2012 – 11:28 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics stated, in a press release about Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territory, that the number of settlers in the West Bank had doubled 40 times in four decades. Data indicate that the number of settlers in the West Bank in […]

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Hamas: IOA plans to build tourist hotels in settlements serious escalation

[ PIC 02/08/2012 – 11:33 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas Movement warned the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) over its plan to grant donations for establishing hotels and tourism facilities in settlements in the occupied West Bank. The movement described, in a statement released on Wednesday, such provocative move as a flagrant violation of international laws […]

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#PalHunger | Israeli soldiers assault & beat up detained hunger striker Safadi

[ PIC 02/08/2012 – 11:00 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Israeli soldiers of the Nahshon unit broke into the jail cell of hunger striker Hassan Safadi on Wednesday and beat him up. Safadi’s family said that the soldiers burst into the room of their son and beat him without any reason, noting that Safadi was held […]

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Property Demolished for Illegal Settlement Expansion

Thursday August 02, 2012 12:23 by Craig Harrington – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli forces closed a road near Bethlehem in preparation for the demolition of Palestinian property. The Har Homa settlement, less than one mile from Bethlehem, sits on what was once a protected forest The Israeli military frequently confiscates land in the West Bank […]

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Settlers vandalize property in Ramallah village

Maan News Agency | Aug 2, 2012   NABLUS (Ma’an) — Settlers vandalized Palestinian property in the Ramallah village of Sinjil on Wednesday, a local official told Ma’an. A group of settlers from Givat Ariel outpost wrote “Palestinians should die,” and “Stay away from our lands,” on a wall in the village, Sinjil mayor Ayoub […]

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