GROUNDBREAKING REPORT | How Europe helps sustain illegal Israeli settlements

The Rights Forum | Dec 4, 2012 (Translation from original Dutch resource at The Rights Forum) End of october 2012, 22 European social organisations presented the report “Trading Peace Away- How Europe helps sustain illegal Israeli settlements” The preamble of this groundbreaking report was written by Hans Van Den Broek,  former Minister of Foreign Affairs […]

Continue reading →

#PALESTINE NEWS | Dec 4, 2012

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Dec 4, 2012 | 24017 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 2001 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates More photography by Ahmad A. Mesleh at his Facebook Fanpage Eye on Palestine Continuous updates.. Israel’s ‘denied’ nuke […]

Continue reading →

#WestBankUnderAttack | Israeli Settlement Construction Fallout ~ by @StephenLendman

Stephen Lendman | Global Research, December 04, 2012 Netanyahu’s E1 Ma’aleh Adumin settlement construction announcement drew considerable flack. What it means remains to be seen. Palestinian rights have been spurned for decades. Expect little change now. At issue is separating the West Bank from Jerusalem, Judaizing the entire city, surrounding Palestinian urban areas with encroaching […]

Continue reading →

Israel imposes six months administrative detention on MP Yasser Mansour

[ 04/12/2012 – 09:56 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities clamped six months of administrative detention on MP Yasser Mansour from Nablus city on Tuesday. The change and reform bloc said that its member Mansour was held in administrative custody at the pretext that he posed “danger” on security of Israel. The Israeli […]

Continue reading →

#StopAD | Palestinian prisoners seeking to win POW status

[ PIC 04/12/2012 – 09:58 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails have launched a campaign to win recognition as prisoners of war after Palestine was admitted as a non-member observer at the UN. The prisoners in a statement published on Tuesday demanded their treatment as POWs and as freedom fighters, who […]

Continue reading →

#PalHunger | Ad-Dameer Expresses Concern Regarding Lives Of Hunger Striking Detainees

Wednesday December 05, 2012 00:18 by IMEMC & Agencies The Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (Ad-Dameer) said that it is deeply concerned regarding the lives of Palestinian detainees who are conducting extended hunger strikes in Israeli prisons, especially due to sharp deterioration in their health conditions. Ad-Dameer lawyer, Fares Zayyad, visited on Monday December […]

Continue reading →

INFOGRAPHIC | The demographic success of Israel’s settlement project

The numbers suggest that President Mahmoud Abbas’s bid to the United Nations General Assembly was too little, too late. By Neve Gordon and Yinon Cohen | Sabbah Report | Dec 4, 2012 The United Nations General Assembly recognised Palestine as a “nonmember state”. But it may very well be that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas […]

Continue reading →

#WestBankUnderAttack | Family denies ‘axe attack’ pretext for deadly shooting

Maan News Agency | Dec 4, 2012 JENIN (Ma’an) — A Palestinian man who was shot dead by Israeli security agents outside Nablus on Monday did not attack them before they opened fire, his family maintains. Hatem Shadid of the Illar village was driving when his car collided with an Israeli jeep near the Beit […]

Continue reading →

PRESS STATEMENT PCHR | Israel Defies International Law by Approving More Settlement Projects in Occupied Jerusalem

Tuesday December 04, 2012 20:01 by The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights – PCHR In violation of international law, Israel is continuing its policy of settlement expansion in the West Bank in general, and occupied East Jerusalem in particular. The Office of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the construction of 3,600 additional […]

Continue reading →

Israeli army demolishes mosque in al Mufaqarah, South Hebron Hills – In Pictures

December 2012 | Operation Dove | ISM Palestine At-Tuwani – On Tuesday 4 December at 6.30 am, two bulldozers together with a Border Police vehicle, four District Coordination Office (DCO) vehicles and five Israeli army vehicles arrived to the Palestinian village of al Mufaqarah, and demolished the mosque. The mosque was already demolished by the […]

Continue reading →

Zaza: Egypt promises to demand Israel to stop breaching the truce

Note occpal | List violations since cease-fire [ PIC 04/12/2012 – 07:14 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister in Gaza strip, Ziad al-Zaza revealed that the Egyptian side intends to demand the Israeli occupation to stop breaching the truce, stressing that the situation on the field bears no more tension. The Deputy Prime […]

Continue reading →

International Law Legal Intifada by Palestinians Against Israel (Must Read)

Why the US Threatened to Cut Off Aid to the Palestinians if They Pursued and Were Granted Observer Status at the UN An Interview With Professor Francis Boyle By Dennis Bernstein | Sabbah Report | Dec 4, 2012 Francis A. Boyle meeting with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat at the Presidential Compound in Gaza in December […]

Continue reading →

#WestBankUnderAttack | Israeli arrest and raid campaigns in the West Bank

[ PIC 04/12/2012 – 07:42 PM ] OCCUPIED WB, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) escalated its military operations in the occupied West Bank, as it launched dozens of raids and arrested 30 Palestinians on Tuesday morning. Eyewitnesses told PIC correspondents in West Bank districts that the IOF raided a number of Palestinian houses in West […]

Continue reading →

Report: Israel killed 3 journalists, wounded 30 in the recent war on Gaza

[ PIC 04/12/2012 – 09:45 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A statistical report issued by Doha center for media freedom said that three Palestinian journalists had been killed and 30 others wounded during Israel’s eight-day war on Gaza. The report added that 30 media offices and institutions sustained damage during the war, not to mention the […]

Continue reading →

#WestBankUnderAttack | demolish houses in Jerusalem and facilities in Nablus

[ PIC 04/12/2012 – 08:28 PM ] OCCUPIED WB, (PIC)– Israeli occupation bulldozers demolished, on Tuesday morning, a house in the Tur neighborhood, in occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of being built without a permit, and beat a Jerusalemite photographer while covering the events. Local sources told PIC correspondent in the holy city that bulldozers […]

Continue reading →