Israeli soldiers vandalise Hebron home and arrest a student

  by Team Khalil | 6 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Israeli occupation forces in Hebron raided a home, arrested a Palestinian and smashed his family’s belongings in the early hours of the morning. Thirteen soldiers who came with two dogs broke down the door, arrested Ahmed Sharabati, 22, and vandalised the […]

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Note to Artists: Say No to The Israeli Visa ~ by @LinahAlSaafin

By: Linah Alsaafin | Al Akhbar English | Sunday, January 6, 2013 On 7 December 2012, a six-member Jordanian band, Autostrad, played a concert for a mostly Palestinian audience in Nazareth. Autostrad’s Facebook page defines the band as a “Jordanian world latin-reggae-funk-rock band,” with previous gigs in the West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Ramallah. […]

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Qusra settler attack, two hospitalised

6 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Qusra, Occupied Palestine At around 2 p.m. seven settlers attacked a farm on the outskirts of Qusra. The farm belongs to Abu Nasser and his wife Nedda who are both in their sixties. Nedda confronted the settlers after seeing them on their property cutting olive trees, warning them […]

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Qusra Villagers confront Jewish settlers’ attack

[ PIC 06/01/2013 – 11:17 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Villagers engaged attacking Jewish settlers in Qasra village, south of Nablus, on Saturday evening and foiled their attack. Ghassan Daghlas, head of the committee monitoring settlement activity north of the West Bank, said that dozens of Jewish settlers attacked the southern areas of the village. He […]

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B’Tselem: Israel persists in violating the rights of young detainees

[ PIC 06/01/2013 – 11:28 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli army and police still persist in violating the rights of the Palestinian children enshrined in international laws and conventions, human rights group B’Tselem said. B’Tselem affirmed on its website that Israel violates the international law through arbitrarily kidnapping Palestinian children and minors from their […]

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Plain-clothes agents kidnap young men and minors from Silwan streets

[ PIC 06/01/2013 – 10:21 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– An armed group of Israeli undercover agents kidnapped on Saturday evening many young men and kids in Silwan district south of the Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem. The Israeli occupation forces also intensified their presence in Silwan streets and neighborhoods and helped in the kidnapping […]

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Noam Chomsky: Israel grave threat to global peace

Renowned American academician Noam Chomsky has slammed the West’s allegations against Iran’s nuclear energy program while it turns a blind eye to Israel’s ‘grave threat to the global peace.’ PressTV | Jan 6, 2013 “The ‘Iranian threat’ is overwhelmingly a Western obsession, shared by Arab dictators, though not Arab populations,” Chomsky wrote in a Friday […]

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VIDEO | Israeli Occupation Spraying waste water on citizens houses at Al-Nabi Saleh village

Published on Jan 4, 2013 Israeli Occupation Spraying waste water on citizens houses at Al-Nabi Saleh village   Still live in fairy-tale-land about Israel? Time to wake up: The Map of the “Greater Israel” even is hammered on the currency: All facts at Storify continuously updated. Read what Israeli ‘leaders’ have said and done even […]

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48th Anniversary of Fatah – in pictures

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The Gatekeepers: Exposing Israel’s Dark Side ~ by Stephen Lendman

Stephen Lendman | Jan 5, 2013 | Sabbah Report The Gatekeepers: A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets. The six men interviewed have decades of blood on their hands. Reflection perhaps seeks redemption. Dror Moreh is one […]

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VIDEO | Israel-Syria wall: Safeguard or ‘apartheid’?

Published on Jan 4, 2013 The walls around Israel are growing as the country’s army builds a new physical barrier, this time on its border with Syria. The wall will reportedly begin in the southern part of the occupied Golan Heights, extending north from there. READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/cpo2mh RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday […]

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VIDEO | ‘State of Palestine’ torn in two by Gaza & West Bank policies

Published on Jan 5, 2013 President Mahmud Abbas has officially changed the name of the Palestinian administration to the ‘State of Palestine’. But despite this, and a recent status upgrade by the UN, the nation still remains all but united. As RT’s Paula Slier reports, thousands of families are torn in two by Israeli borders. […]

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VIDEO | Gaza celebrates Fatah anniversary

Published on Jan 5, 2013 Tens of thousands of joyful Fatah loyalists thronged the center of Gaza city to celebrate Fatah’s 48th anniversary. The theme of the rally was unity between Palestinians who have suffered immensely due to the rift between Fatah and the democratically elected Hamas government. The mass rally of Fatah supporters in […]

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VIDEO | Israel seeks split among Palestinians

Published on Jan 5, 2013 A political analyst tells Press TV that the US and Israel are creating divisions and fueling tensions among the Palestinian groups, says Richard Becker. The comments came after acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas called on rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, to end their five-year-long dispute and unite. Press […]

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#PalHunger | Sit-in in London in solidarity with hunger strikers and MPs in Israeli jails

[ PIC 05/01/2013 – 02:12 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Ahrar center for prisoner studies and human rights organized a sit-in in solidarity with the five Palestinian hunger strikers and the lawmakers detained in Israeli jails outside the British parliament in London. The sit-in was held in cooperation with the Islamic center for human rights in […]

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