PALESTINE NEWS | March 19, 2013

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات March 19, 2013 | 24121 Days Since Al-Nakba – Gaza is under siege for 2106 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuous updates.. Israeli settlers’s main road to be ‘blockaded’ during Obama visit http://haaretz.feedsportal.com/c/34191/f/620531/s/29bd6520/l/0L0Shaaretz0N0Cnews0Cnational0Cisraeli0Esettlers0Emain0Eroad0Eto0Ebe0Eblockaded0Eduring0Eobama0Evisit0Bpremium0E10B510A4430DlocalLinksEnabled0Ffalse/story01.htm Arabs press UN to adopt settlement […]

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#Potus2Palestine | Mustafa Barghouti: Palestinians are unenthusiastic about passive US President Obama‘s visit

19 March 2013 | IOA Mustafa Barghouthi at an Obama-visit press conference – 19 March 2013 (Image: Lazar Simenov) By Palestine Monitor – 19 March 2013 http://palestinemonitor.org/details.php?id=3si3dla3192ystwsc0iee At a press conference held today at the Palestinian Medical Relief Society in Al-Bireh, secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative Dr Mustafa Barghouti stated two factors about […]

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Remembering Rachel Corrie (Includes Fact Sheet)

19th March 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus , Occupied Palestine Team Nablus On March 16th 2013, the International Solidarity Movement was joined by the International Women’s Peace Service and the Tanweer Center in commemorating the death of Rachel Corrie – an American peace activist and former member of the ISM. Tree planting with Rachel […]

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#Potus2Palestine | Palestinians Protest Obama’s Visit

The Daily Beast | by Anna Lekas Miller | Mar 19, 2013 President Barack Obama doesn’t arrive in Ramallah until Thursday, but Palestinians are already taking to the streets to demonstrate against his visit. Today’s protest was organized by a group known as Palestinians for Dignity. It was meant to reject Obama’s visit to the […]

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IOF installs new monitoring cameras in Al-Khalil

All Israeli Attacks – Timeline | All Israeli cease Fire Violations – Timeline [ PIC 19/03/2013 – 09:57 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) installed new monitoring cameras in the Old City of Al-Khalil and Shuhada street. Eyewitnesses told the PIC on Tuesday that the IOF renewed the old cameras to monitor movement […]

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UNHRC votes on Friday on draft resolution to halt settlement activity

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article [ PIC 19/03/2013 – 09:49 PM ] GENEVA, (PIC)– Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights said that the Arab and Islamic blocs in the UN Human Rights Council are calling for a draft resolution […]

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Analysis: New Israeli government may wage military operation on Gaza

[ PIC 19/03/2013 – 09:46 PM ] KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)– The director of Al-Mustaqbal Research Center in Gaza, writer and political analyst Ibrahim al-Madhoun affirmed that Israel intends to step up its operations against the Gaza Strip. “Israeli Ministers have never accepted the existence of Hamas and its rule in Gaza. They consider that Hamas […]

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Fuel crisis in Gaza

[ PIC 19/03/2013 – 09:43 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Fuel is in acute shortage in the Gaza Strip as fuel stations have almost completely ran out of fuel, Mohammed Al-Abadla, board member of the society for owners of fuel stations in Gaza, said on Tuesday. Abadla told Quds Press that the crisis surfaced over the […]

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Aqsa guards: 80 Israeli soldiers and settlers storm into Aqsa mosque

[ PIC 19/03/2013 – 09:42 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Aqsa mosque guards said that around 80 Israeli soldiers and settlers stormed into the holy site on Tuesday morning. They said that the Israeli soldiers and settlers entered the Aqsa plazas under the pretext of foreign tourism and were heavily guarded. The guards said that […]

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Official: Settlers smash 18 cars in West Bank rampage

Maan News Agency | March 19, 2013 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Tuesday smashed the windscreens of 18 Palestinian cars and a bus in Nablus, a Palestinian Authority official said. The settlers started rioting after Israeli forces evacuated two illegal outposts in Nablus, said Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement building in the northern West […]

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Most of the recent Israeli arrests were carried out by undercover units

All Israeli Attacks – Timeline | All Israeli cease Fire Violations – Timeline [ PIC 19/03/2013 – 05:38 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Most of the Israeli arrest campaigns against Palestinian youths were carried out by Israeli undercover units, a Palestinian Human Rights organization revealed. Ahrar Center for Prisoners’ Studies and Human Rights, confirmed in a […]

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PA security services arrest 2 Hamas supporters

[ PIC 19/03/2013 – 05:41 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– PA security services arrested two Hamas supporters in al-Khalil and Jerusalem, and banned a family from visiting their son in PA jails. PA preventive security arrested the liberated prisoner Kedar Ghaith after storming and searching his house in al-Khalil, and confiscating his mobile phone and […]

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#Potus2Palestine | Obama’s itinerary skirts settlements but not symbolism

Maan News Agency | March 19, 2013 JERUSALEM (Reuters) — US President Barack Obama will embrace Jewish history while skirting the morass of West Bank settlements when he visits Israel this week – a selective itinerary laden with diplomatic signals. The tour, running from Wednesday to Friday, is meant to warm Israelis to the cool-tempered, […]

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VIDEO | The Obama Rap Song! | أغنية اوباما راب

PNN English | March 18, 2013  Hebron Youth Composed a Rap Song to Welcome President Obama On Wednesday 13th March, the American Consulate General in Jerusalem released “The Obama Rap Song” in honor of President Obama’s upcoming visit to the Middle East. The 75-second rap song was composed by the youth of Hebron; the video […]

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Statement by Samer Issawi on ‘deportation deals’ – English and Arabic

Musical Intifada | 18 March 2013 | by Dr. Tariq Shadid aka Doc Jazz The Zionist occupation on occasion offers ‘deportation deals’ to Palestinian political prisoners, enabling them to sign up for temporary or permanent banishment in exchange for their release from prison. Yesterday, such a blackmail offer was accepted – under severe duress – […]

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