PALESTINE NEWS | March 12, 2013

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات March 12, 2013 | 24114 Days Since Al-Nakba – Gaza is under siege for 2098 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuous updates.. Featured Music Video | HUNGRY! | by @DocJazzMusic Live Blog | Buses: “Nur für Palestinenzer” (Only for […]

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#PalHunger | Doctors: Issawi facing death any moment

#FreeSamer | Global action to save the life of Hunger striker Samer Issawi Al Qassam Website | 12-03-2013,08:24NAZARETH – Doctors in the Israeli Kaplan hospital have warned of the serious health condition of detained hunger striker Samer Issawi and said he could die any moment. A statement for the Palestinian prisoner’s society on Monday quoted […]

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Israel confiscates money from Palestinian travellers

MEMO | March 12, 2013 Israel confiscates money from Palestinian travellers coming from abroad through al-Karameh crossing between the Palestinian territories and Jordan, the Tadamon Organisation for Human Rights said on Tuesday. Al-Tadamon’s field researcher, Ahmed Al-Betawi, has said that the amount of money being confiscation has increased sharply in recent times. Besides undergoing derogatory […]

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#PalHunger | Lawyer: Issawi stops drinking water

#FreeSamer | Global action to save the life of Hunger striker Samer Issawi Maan News Agency | March 12, 2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Hunger striking detainee Samer Issawi has stopped drinking water in an escalation of his 223-day protest, his lawyer said Tuesday. Jawad Bulous told Ma’an that Issawi started refusing all liquid on Monday […]

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Medics: Israeli forces shoot, injure 2 in clashes near Hebron

All Israeli Attacks – Timeline | All Israeli cease Fire Violations – Timeline Maan News Agency | March 12, 2013 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Two Palestinians were injured by live bullets on Tuesday during clashes with Israeli forces at a refugee camp near Hebron, a medical official said. Israeli soldiers shot Mahmoud Shadfan in the stomach […]

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French town of Bezons grants honorary citizenship to prisoner Rimawi

#FreeSamer | Global action to save the life of Hunger striker Samer Issawi [ PIC 12/03/2013 – 09:17 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– The French town of Bezons granted “honorary citizenship” to Majdi Rimawi, who was jailed by Israel for his alleged role in the 2001 assassination of the then-tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi in Jerusalem. The […]

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Israeli occupation notifies 15 families to evacuate their land east of Seir

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article   [ PIC 12/03/2013 – 09:27 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces notified on Tuesday, the residents of Khirbet al-Kanoub east of the town of Seir, north of al-Khalil, to evacuate their […]

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Islamic-Christian Committee warns of manipulating definition of refugees – Including Album with Photography

[ PIC 12/03/2013 – 09:33 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Dr. Hanna Issa, Secretary General of Islamic-Christian Committee to support Jerusalem and holy sites, warned of Israeli tireless efforts to change the legal formula that defines “Palestinian refugees”, in order to strip Palestinians who have been displaced from their land in 1948 of this status. […]

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#PalHunger | Ofer prison isolates three hunger strikers

#FreeSamer | Global action to save the life of Hunger striker Samer Issawi [ PIC 12/03/2013 – 09:22 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Ofer military prison administration, near Ramallah, has transferred three hunger striking prisoners to the solitary confinement. Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said in a press statement on Tuesday that the isolated prisoners are: Mohammed […]

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Funding and Denouncing Israeli Occupation – Hypocritical EU Must Make a Stand ~ by Ramzy Baroud

All Israeli Attacks – Timeline | All Israeli cease Fire Violations – Timeline Ramzy Baroud | March 12th, 2013 | Dissident Voice More bad news emerged from Israel in recent weeks. Indeed, good news is seldom associated with Israel and its military occupation and institutionalized discrimination and mistreatment of Palestinians. But now even those international […]

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Israeli settlers uproot olive trees in Nablus

Maan News Agency | March 12, 2013 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Tuesday uprooted over 100 olive trees in a village south of Nablus, a Palestinian Authority official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said residents of Rechalim settlement destroyed around 121 trees in Qaryut village. Daghlas told […]

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Zahhar: No one can change the Palestinian refugees’ right to return

[ PIC 12/03/2013 – 04:15 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Member of Hamas’s political bureau Mahmoud Al-Zahhar said that Israel’s attempts to end the UN classification of the Palestinian refugees would be doomed to failure because the sense of belonging to Palestine is deeply rooted in the hearts and minds of its generations. “The Palestinian refugee […]

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Dozens of Jewish settlers desecrate Aqsa mosque

[ PIC 12/03/2013 – 11:10 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Dozens of Jewish settlers burst into the holy Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday morning and roamed in its plazas. Islamic Awqaf sources said that around 50 settlers barged into the Aqsa plazas in groups under heavy police escort. The sources noted that the […]

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Israeli occupation forces search homes of Palestinian detainees in their presence

All Israeli Attacks – Timeline | All Israeli cease Fire Violations – Timeline [ PIC 12/03/2013 – 11:06 AM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the town of Qabatiya, east of Jenin, on Tuesday and broke into the homes of two Palestinian detainees who were arrested yesterday. Local sources said that IOF troops […]

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When Cars Become Weapons: Jewish settler runs over 8 year old Palestinian girl then speeds away

[ PIC 12/03/2013 – 10:55 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A Jewish settler ran over a Jerusalemite child in the main street of Tur suburb in occupied Jerusalem on Monday then sped away. Eyewitnesses said that 8-year-old Nadi Juwailes was taken to Makased hospital where her injuries were described as light. The locals said that […]

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