PHOTOS & VIDEO | Extreme Weather causes Damage and Death in Palestine

BREAKING | DON’T LET ISRAEL ETHNIC CLEANSE Bab Al-Shams Village | Established by Palestinians IN Palestine Today! | LIVE BLOG Related news beneath the images | Last updates Jan 11, 2013 Click on the thumbnails for a full scale slide show Related News Jan 8, 2013 | Rainwater cause material damage to the citizens’ properties […]

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#PALESTINE NEWS | Jan 8, 2013

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Jan 8, 2013 | 24051 Days Since Al-Nakba – Gaza is under siege for 2036 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuous updates.. LIVE BLOG | Israeli soldier Nofar Mizrahi assassinated Mohammed Salayma on his 17th birthday (Updated) http://wp.me/p16sn9-uks LIVE […]

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Gaza’s archaeological treasures at risk from war and neglect

Quds Media Center – BBS –  Jan 8, 2013 Years of conflict have exacted a heavy toll on centuries of history in the Gaza Strip. While traces of its rich past remain, the race to preserve what is left beneath the surface of this battle-scarred land is fraught with problems, as Ruqaya Izzidien reports. Settled […]

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Sheikh Khatib denies Israeli claims about razing antiquities in Aqsa Mosque

[ PIC 08/01/2013 – 04:04 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib, director of the Islamic waqf in occupied Jerusalem, categorically denied Israeli media claims that the Islamic waqf authority destroys the antiquities in the courtyards of the Aqsa Mosque. In a press release on Tuesday, Sheikh Khatib affirmed that the waqf authority managed, […]

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Ahmad al-Akhras, Journalist: My failure in finding employment is not because I am incapable

PCHR Gaza – Narratives – 08 January 2012 The closure imposed on the Gaza Strip, which entered its 6th year, has prevented a vast majority of Palestinians living in the strip from maintaining their livelihoods and realizing their right to an adequate standard of living. This closure bans imports of goods and materials in the […]

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#PalHunger | Prisoners in Ramle jail threaten to go on hunger strike

[ PIC 08/01/2013 – 04:03 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Ramle jail have threatened to go on hunger strike en masse in view of deterioration of their incarceration conditions. Lawyers of the Palestinian prisoner’s association quoted those prisoners as demanding a solid backing of their position. The prisoners were quoted as […]

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Future of Gaza tabled in conference yesterday

[ PIC 08/01/2013 – 03:30 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Representatives of Palestinian factions and the UNRWA participated on Monday in a conference titled “the future of Gaza in the midst of agendas” that was organized by Atlas center for Israeli studies. In his speech, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said that the achievement of the […]

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#PalHunger | Issawi’s mother deplores preventing her from meeting Abbas

[ PIC 08/01/2013 – 04:10 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The mother of hunger striker Samer al-Issawi condemned preventing her from meeting PA President Mahmoud Abbas, and holding her in al-Muqataa in Ramallah. Issawi’s mother told Filastin TV channel yesterday evening, that she went to the Muqataa headquarters to meet President Abbas and tell him about […]

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Ethnic Cleansing: Israel demolishes home in Silwan despite stormy weather

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article [ PIC 08/01/2013 – 03:12 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) razed a Palestinian home in Suweih suburb in Silwan town to the south of the Aqsa mosque in occupied […]

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#WestBankUnderAttack | Israeli Forces Raid Al Khalil, Assault Citizens

08-01-2013,09:38West Bank – on Monday night 7th January, Israeli occupation forces raided Jabal al-Rahma neighborhood near “Ramat Yishai” settlement outpost in central Al Khalil, broke into several houses, searched them and assaulted some of the Palestinian citizens. The citizen, Um Karram Bayoud , who lives in Jabl al-Rahma neighborhood told Palestinian official news agency, WAFA, […]

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Teacher kidnapped in Salfit

Maan News Agency | Jan 8, 2012 Palestinian security forces. (MaanImages/file) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A school teacher was kidnapped on Tuesday in the West Bank city of Salfit, locals said. Jihad Hamid Salim was abducted by unknown assailants at 7 a.m. while on his way to work in the Salfit village of Deir Ballut, witnesses […]

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Schools called off in West Bank due to extreme weather conditions

[ PIC 08/01/2013 – 09:42 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The ministry of education in the West Bank has called off school classes for preliminary stages on Tuesday and Wednesday due to extreme weather conditions. Dr. Mohammed Abu Zeid, the education undersecretary, announced on Monday that all schools for kindergartens and up to fourth grade would […]

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VIDEO | Israeli forces arrest man in Palestinian-controlled area of H1, Hebron

Team Khalil | 8 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A Palestinian man was arrested in Tel Rumeida, Hebron. Soldiers invaded homes without permission, indiscriminately beating men and children and forcing the residents out onto the streets. At around 22:30 pm on Monday 7 January Israeli occupation forces entered the Palestinian-controlled H1 area […]

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Extreme right-winger says Israelis can’t have peace with Palestinians

MEMO | Jan 8, 2013 The leader of the extreme right-wing Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett, has claimed that Israelis “cannot have peace with the Palestinians”, who he called “the enemy”. Bennett was speaking as he attacked what he called “the Left’s obsession” with “relinquishing” land to the Palestinians. Criticising Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for […]

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Three Palestinians killed in Yarmouk refugee camp

[ PIC 08/01/2013 – 10:59 AM ] DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Three Palestinian refugees were killed in Yarmouk refugee camp in the Syrian capital on Monday including two at the hands of a sniper. Eyewitnesses inside the besieged camp told the PIC on Tuesday that Rami Majdalawi and Ahmed Al-Kusi were killed when a sniper targeted them […]

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