Archive | April 11, 2013

PALESTINE NEWS | April 11, 2013

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات April 11, 2013 | 24143 Days Since Al-Nakba – Gaza is under siege for 2129 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuous updates.. Gaza: ‘Collaborator’ Murders Go Unpunished – Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/11/gaza-collaborator-murders-go-unpunished ‘Palestinian inmate dies in Israeli jail’ http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/11/297644/palestinian-inmate-dies-in-israel-jail/ […]

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Israel medics endanger Palestinian prisoners’ lives: Rights group

Palestinians demonstrate in support of hunger strikers in Israeli prisons on April 09, 2013. PressTV | Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:33PM GMT According to Palestinian sources, over 4,500 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli prisons, many of them without charge or trial, and are subject to human rights violations such as the use of torture […]

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South Africa requires labels on goods from Palestine

Maan News Agency | April 11, 2013 JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South Africa has imposed new rules requiring goods imported from occupied Palestine display special labels, a government official said Thursday. “We have all agreed that goods must be labelled from where they are coming from, so that consumers can make informed choice,” Sidwell Medupe, spokesman […]

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Israeli occupation shoots paralysed Palestinian during detention raid

MEMO | April 11, 2013 Israeli occupation forces have shot and wounded a Palestinian man as they arrested him from his home during a pre-dawn raid on Thursday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club has revealed. Motaz Abeedo, 32, a disabled former prisoner from Hebron who suffers from incontinence and cannot walk, was shot by an Israeli […]

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Israel slammed for appropriating Palestinian water supplies

Palestinian children fill jars and bottles from a pipe transporting water from a village spring in a village near the West Bank city of Nablus. (File photo) PressTV | Thu Apr 11, 2013 2:11PM GMT A report by a Palestinian NGO says Israel has been practicing “water apartheid” against Palestinians, depriving them of their “rightful […]

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Prominent youth activist Issa Amro abducted by Israeli troops in Hebron (Again)

Thursday April 11, 2013 20:10 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News The coordinator of the non-violent group called ‘Youth Against Settlements’ was abducted Wednesday by Israeli troops when he responded to a summons to appear at the police station at the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba.   Issa Amro is being charged with ‘incitement […]

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Israel grabs last remaining Muslim area near the Al-Buraq Mosque

MEMO | April 11, 2013 Israel has accelerated its digging and destruction around the Al-Magharbeh Gates, which is an essential part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Islamic Endowments and Heritage said in a statement on Thursday. “Dozens of workers are working on a daily basis to clear the underground ways connecting Israeli […]

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Israeli occupation troops storm Aroub refugee camp, clash with protestors

[ PIC 11/04/2013 – 04:17 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the Aroub refugee camp, north of Al-Khalil, on Thursday and clashed with protesting youths. Local sources said that the soldiers burst into a number of homes near to the camp’s entrance and into nearby suburbs in Al-Khalil city. They said that […]

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In memory of Tom Hurndall, shot in the head by Israeli sniper 10 years ago today

11th April 2013 | Occupied Palestine | ISM Palestine The International Solidarity Movement today remember Tom Hurndall, ISM volunteer who 10 years ago on 11th April 2003 was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper. The Israeli army were invading the city of Rafah, in the Gaza Strip when Tom and other ISM volunteers […]

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Another Israeli Cease Fire violation: Smoke bombs fired in IOF incursion in southern Gaza

Special Topic | Full list of all documented Israeli violations since cease-fire [ PIC 11/04/2013 – 04:08 PM ] KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced a few hundred yards in southern Gaza Strip on Thursday afternoon amidst firing of smoke bombs. A field observer told Quds Press that IOF soldiers mounting a number […]

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Israel’s occupation forces arrests young man on his return from Jordan

[ PIC 11/04/2013 – 03:42 PM ] SALFIT, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) manning the Karame crossing between the West Bank and Jordan arrested a young man from Eskaka village, Salfit province, on his return from Jordan. Local sources said that the soldiers detained Ahmed Harb at the crossing afternoon Thursday for hours at the […]

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Old Jerusalemite lady arrested for trying to enter Aqsa mosque

[ PIC 11/04/2013 – 03:40 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli police in occupied Jerusalem arrested an old Jerusalemite lady on Wednesday after trying to enter the holy Aqsa mosque. The Wadi Hilwa information center said on Thursday that the 57-year-old woman Aida Al-Sayadi was blocked from entry by policemen near the Qatanin gate, adding […]

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Israeli occupation soldiers bulldoze fertile farmland in Jenin

[ PIC 11/04/2013 – 03:40 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) bulldozed Palestinian fertile farmland between two villages in Jenin province to pave the way for construction of a new street. Local sources said that IOF soldiers were deployed in the land between Fakua and Arbuna villages and guarded the bulldozers. They pointed […]

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UFree (@UFreeNetwork) condemns the re-arrest of Thaer Halahela

#FreeSamer | Global action to save the life of Hunger striker Samer Issawi [ PIC 11/04/2013 – 02:28 PM ] OSLO/AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– European Network for the Defense of the Palestinian prisoners’ rights (UFree) condemned the re-arrest of the liberated prisoner Thaer Halahela on Wednesday from his home in the city of Ramallah in the West […]

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