#PALESTINE NEWS | Aug 4, 2012

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Aug 4, 2012 | 23895 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1879 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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IOF storm 60-year-old Abu Hadid’s house few hours after his release

[ PIC 04/08/2012 – 03:30 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided the house of liberated prisoner Haj Hussein Abu Hadid, 60, in Al-Khalil, after less than six hours from his release from the Israeli prisons after serving five months in administrative detention. Abu Hadid’s Family told the PIC that shortly after the […]

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ESCWA: Perpetuation of Israeli occupation not acceptable

[ PIC 04/08/2012 – 03:05 PM ] NEW YORK, (PIC)– The United Nations has said that the Israeli violations and aggression in the occupied Palestinian territories do not serve the peace process. The international organization pointed out, in its yearly report on the economic and social effects of the Israeli occupation, that the continued occupation […]

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Several injuries in peaceful marches against settlement in W. Bank

[ PIC 04/08/2012 – 12:34 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Dozens of Palestinians sustained injuries on Friday when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked their peaceful marches against the segregation wall and settlement expansion. In Ramallah, IOF quelled, after Friday prayers, the weekly anti-wall march in Nabi Saleh village that started from the Martyrs’ Square and […]

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Israel plans to build settlement units in Jerusalem

[ PIC 04/08/2012 – 02:06 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli media sources revealed a scheme to build 232 new housing units in three settlements in occupied Jerusalem. Urshalim Hebrew newspaper stated that the Israel Land Administration had published last week results of four tenders to build in Galot Eilot neighborhood in Givat Ze’ev settlement, […]

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European network calls for pressuring IOA to release two Palestinian sportsmen

[ PIC 04/08/2012 – 02:12 PM ] OSLO, (PIC)– The European Network expressed its grave concern at the Israeli detention of the Palestinian olympic team goalkeeper Omar Khaled and national team player Muhammad Saadi Nimer from the West Bank. The network said in a statement that arresting Palestinian sportsmen with no charge represents a flagrant […]

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#VIDEO | Sami abu Rmaila attack in shuhada street Hebron | الاعتداء على شاب في شارع الشهداء

Aug 3, 2012 by Human1Rights1Press اعتقلت قوات الاحتلال الشاب سامي ابو رميلة عند المدخل المؤدي لباب الزاوية من شارع الشهداء بعد ان اعتدت عليه بصورة عنيفة جدا اثناء محاولة احدى المستوطنات اعاقته و استفزازه IOF arrested sami abu rumaila after they attacked him violently to satisfy one the settlers who was provoking him Israel Arms […]

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Palestinians hospitalized in Jewish settlers attack on bus

[ PIC 04/08/2012 – 09:31 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Jewish settlers threw rocks on a Palestinian bus while passing along the Ramallah-Nablus road on Saturday morning, local sources said. They told the PIC reporter that eight of the passengers were injured in the attack and that some of them were taken to hospital. Jewish settlers […]

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EU urges Israel to re-open closed Jerusalemite institutions

[ PIC 04/08/2012 – 09:36 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Diplomatic missions of the European Union in Jerusalem and Ramallah have expressed disappointment at the Israeli decision to renew closure of Palestinian institutions in occupied eastern Jerusalem especially the chamber of commerce and the Orient House. A statement for those missions said that the Palestinian […]

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#Yarmouk Massacre | Syrian army resumes shelling Yarmouk camp

Maan News Agency | Aug 4, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – The Syrian army has started bombarding the outskirts of the Yarmouk refugee camp early Saturday, according to sources in the camp. The sources told Ma’an that the camp was being attacked with mortar shells, artillery shells, and heavy machine guns. A mortar shell landed on […]

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Quds institution warns of serious Israeli intent to control Aqsa Mosque

[ PIC 04/08/2012 – 07:39 AM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– The international Quds institution warned of serious Israeli tendencies to seize and divide the Aqsa Mosque starting with declaring the Mosque’s courtyards public places. The Aqsa institution said on Friday that the Israeli intent to turn the Mosque’s courtyards into public places was essential part of […]

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Haneyya deplores mortar attack on Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus

[ PIC 04/08/2012 – 08:48 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya strongly denounced the mortar attack on Al-Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria on Thursday which claimed the lives of 20 Palestinians and rendered more than 65 others wounded. Following the Friday prayers in Al-Abbas Mosque in Gaza, Haneyya called for necessarily sparing the […]

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Thousands march in Gaza in support of Aqsa Mosque

[ 04/08/2012 – 08:18 AM ] JABALIYA, (PIC)– Thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip participated in the march called for by Hamas Movement on Friday to protest the Israeli decision to consider the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards public places. The protestors gathered from all mosques of northern Gaza and chanted slogans calling for defending the […]

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8 injured as settlers stone bus carrying Palestinian worshipers

Maan News Agency | Aug 4, 2012   NABLUS (Ma’an) — Eight Palestinians sustained injuries after midnight Friday when Jewish settlers pelted a bus with stones on the main road between Ramallah and Nablus, a Palestinian official said. Ghassan Daghlas, a PA official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that […]

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Murder of Arafat: How the Israeli Quintet Indicted Itself ~ by Sam Bahour

By Sam Bahour | Palestine Chronicle | Aug 4, 2012 ‘We have to get rid of Arafat.’ — Israeli defense Minister Shaul Mofaz to Prime Minister Sharon caught on an open mic. (Source: Haaretz, Hebrew) “We operated against Ahmed Yassin and Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi [two Palestinian leaders extrajudicially assassinated by Israel] when we thought the time […]

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