PALESTINE NEWS | March 31, 2013

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات March 31, 2013 | 24133 Days Since Al-Nakba – Gaza is under siege for 2118 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuous updates.. Hamas: Fatah militant responsible for attack on Fatah leader http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=580691 Land grab: Israel gave less than 1% […]

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Israeli settler attack lands 80-year old farmer in hospital. No one got arrested for the crime

Sunday March 31, 2013 23:39 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News A Palestinian elderly farmer who was attacked by a group of settlers while working his lands near Tulkarem Friday remains in the hospital and will likely require surgery, according to medical sources. Injured farmer in hospital (image by Ma’an) Hasan Barhoush, age 80, was […]

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7 injured as Israeli settlers attack Palestinian school buses

Maan News Agency | March 31, 2013 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Settlers threw rocks at a two Palestinian school busese south of Nablus on Sunday, injuring seven children, a Palestinian Authority official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said settlers smashed the windshield of two buses returning from a school […]

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Israeli occupation forces arrest 6 citizens including a child, in Jerusalem and Bethlehem

[ PIC 31/03/2013 – 09:00 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested on Sunday three Palestinian youths from the city of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank. Taha Hamamreh, member of the municipal council in Husan town near Bethlehem, said that the Israeli military forces arrested on Sunday morning, two young men […]

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Over 1000 prisoners with serious illnesses – Suffering medical neglect by Israel as well

[ PIC 31/03/2013 – 09:39 PM ] OSLO, (PIC)– More than one thousand Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails are suffering from serious illnesses such as heart, cancer, and kidney failure, a human rights report said on Saturday. The European network for the defense of Palestinian prisoners UFree has condemned in its report the inhuman […]

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PA security forces kidnap three Hamas members, summon others

[ PIC 31/03/2013 – 09:35 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– The Palestinian authority security forces kidnapped three Palestinians affiliated with Hamas and summoned for interrogation three others in the West Bank. Local sources said that the PA preventive security apparatus re-detained Islamboli Riyadh after he was released by the PA intelligence agency. Riyadh was an […]

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Abu Hamdiya receives cancer treatment at hospital shackled to bed

[ PIC 31/03/2013 – 09:27 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– Informed human rights sources said that the Palestinian prisoner Maysara Abu Hamdiya who is receiving chemotherapy at Soroka Hospital for his cancer, is suffering from very serious health condition. Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said in a press statement on Sunday that the prisoner Abu Hamdiya is receiving […]

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Gaza: National Security Conference calls for activating resistance

[ PIC 31/03/2013 – 09:24 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Experts and specialists, who have participated in the Palestinian National Security Conference, called for activating and supporting the armed resistance to confront the Israeli occupation. Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, head of the National Initiative, stressed during his speech at the conference on the need to change the […]

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280 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque causing state of tension

[ PIC 31/03/2013 – 09:12 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli police arrested on Saturday Palestinian worshipers and students at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem after settlers broke into the mosque courtyards. Eyewitnesses reported that 280 Israeli settlers raided and desecrated the Al-Aqsa Mosque from al-Magharbeh gate, in the morning hours, which provoked the Muslim […]

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First conference on Palestine’s national security opens in Gaza

[ PIC 31/03/2013 – 09:24 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The first conference on the Palestinian national security kicked off on Saturday under the auspices of the management and politics academy for postgraduate studies and with the participation of Arab figures. “We have come today to debate about the new fait accompli in our region and […]

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Israeli forces assault worshipers, arrest 10 inside Aqsa

[ PIC 31/03/2013 – 10:27 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Tension prevailed in the holy Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Sunday after Israeli occupation forces assaulted worshipers. Local sources told the PIC that the Israeli soldiers escorted 250 Jewish settlers into the holy site and engaged worshipers in fistfights. They said that the soldiers […]

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Hundreds of settlers storm ancient pools in Bethlehem

[ PIC 31/03/2013 – 09:42 AM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Hundreds of Jewish settlers stormed the ancient Solomon Pools located between Artas and Al-Khader village, south of Bethlehem, on Sunday. Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that hundreds of settlers from Etzion settlement arrived to the site on foot under heavy Israeli military protection. They said that […]

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Premier Haneyya leaves for Cairo discussing Israeli violations of the truce

Al Qassam Website | March 31, 2013 Al Qassam website- Gaza- Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh headed to Cairo on Saturday to discuss number of issues with Egyptian officials. Hamas spokesman Taher al-Nunu said Haniyeh would be discussing “Israeli violations of the truce,” which ended eight days of deadly violence in and around […]

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Demonstration in commemoration of Land Day ~ by @IsmPalestine

30th March 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Burin, Occupied Palestine By Team Nablus On the 30th March 1976, Palestinian citizens of Israel instigated demonstrations in protest at Israeli government plans to confiscate large amounts of Palestinian land in the Galilee region for new Israeli settlements. The thousands of people who took part in non-violent general […]

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VIDEO | O-blah-blah-ma: ‘US offers endless talks’ to kill clock for Israel against Palestine? ~ Feat. @AbirKopty

March 30, 2013 President Obama’s Middle East tour has resulted in mixed feelings both in Israel and Palestine – with no tangible results despite his calls for peace. Palestinians, who greeted the US leader with protests, were disappointed by his show of unwavering allegiance to Israel and lack of pressure over the issue of settlements. […]

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