PALESTINE NEWS | April 13, 2013

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات April 13, 2013 | 24145 Days Since Al-Nakba – Gaza is under siege for 2131 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuous updates.. New report: Israeli prison medical staff violate medical ethics, endanger prisoners http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/features/updates/6269-new-report-israeli-prison-medical-staff-violate-medical-ethics-endanger-prisoners-.html Palestinians condemn Canada FM visit […]

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3 teens injured in Beit Ummar clashes

Maan News Agency | April 13, 2013 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Three teenagers were injured during clashes in Beit Ummar on Saturday, a local official said. Committee spokesman Muhammad Ayad Awad told Ma’an that Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets during clashes with locals, injuring three teenagers aged 15, 16 and 17. […]

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Peres: Canada will play a Key Role to Resolve the Issue of Palestinian Refugees

Overview | The Genocide on Palestinian Refugees in Syria DRAH | April 13, 2013 Gaza, (DRAH.ps) — The Canadian Foreign Minister, John Baird, concluded a visit to “Israel”, meeting Israeli President Shimon Peres where they discussed the role that Canada could play in the settlement between Israel and PA, particularly the issue of refugees. Settling […]

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Hamas denounces statements of Canadian FM John Baird over Palestinian refugees

Overview | The Genocide on Palestinian Refugees in Syria DRAH | April 13, 2013 Gaza, (DRAH.ps) – the Islamic Resistance Movement of Hamas stressed that the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their towns and villages, from where they were displaced by Israeli occupation, is a holy right that cannot be toppled by time. […]

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Israeli forces prevent visit to Samer Issawi

Maan News Agency | April 13, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Israeli forces on Saturday refused to let 12 Israeli leftist visit hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi at Israel’s Kaplan Medical Center. Israeli media said two female activists were briefly detained after they tried to break into Issawi’s room. Earlier Israel rejected appeals to release the […]

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VIDEO | Israeli military invades houses during settler tour of Hebron

13th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine By Team Khalil Israeli soldiers invaded at least four Palestinian houses in the city of Hebron on Saturday 13th April, prior to and during the settler tour, intimidating children and families. During the tour, around fifty settlers and Jewish tourists occupied the Palestinian souq (market), […]

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PA minister: Israel to allow foreign press to visit Ofer prison

Maan News Agency | April 13, 2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israel will allow foreign journalists to visit Ofer detention center near Ramallah on Sunday, a Palestinian Authority official said. Issa Qaraqe, PA minister of detainee affairs, said during a press conference Saturday that the unprecedented visit is an attempt to alter the truth about conditions […]

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Israel spy agency Mossad threatens to assassinate Hamas officials

Members of Hamas security forces march during a graduation ceremony for new recruits in Gaza (file photo). PressTV | Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:20PM Israeli regime’s spy agency, Mossad, has threatened to assassinate officials of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas. Israel Radio quoted a Hamas spokesman as saying that Israel’s spy agency, Mossad, has sent […]

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Abu Marzouk: Hamas did not ask for postponing government consultations

[ PIC 13/04/2013 – 04:59 PM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, member of Hamas’s political bureau, said that his movement did not ask for postponement of consultation on the national unity government formation. Amin Makbul, Fatah revolutionary council’s secretary, claimed in a statement that Hamas had asked for a two-week postponement of those […]

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Leena Jerboni enters her 12th year in Israeli jail suffers medical neglect by Israel

[ PIC 13/04/2013 – 04:57 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestine Prisoners Center for Studies reported that captive Leena Jerboni from the village of Arraba, in the 1948-occupied territories, will enter in few days her twelfth year in the Israeli jails. Researcher Riad al-Ashqar, Media Director of the center, noted that the captive Jerboni is considered […]

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Activities in Jenin in solidarity with hunger striking prisoner Issawi

[ PIC 13/04/2013 – 04:53 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– The traffic was stopped for few minutes in Jenin on Saturday in solidarity with the hunger striking prisoners, especially the captive Samer al-Issawi, who entered the stage of extreme danger. Ragheb Abu Diak, coordinator of the Popular Committee for the release of prisoners in Jenin, held […]

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Gaza woman dies after self immolation

Maan News Agency | April 13, 2013 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A 22-year-old woman died on Saturday after setting herself on fire last week, a medical official said. Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra told Ma’an that the woman, whose identity remained hidden, suffered burns to 80 percent of her body after pouring gasoline over […]

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PHR warns of disaster in Israeli jails due to medical neglect

[ PIC 13/04/2013 – 02:44 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) in the occupied Palestinian territories accused the Israeli medical system inside the prisons of abusing the Palestinian hunger striking prisoners and exercising pressures on them to stop their strike. The human rights organization pointed out in a report issued on Friday […]

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Prisoner Abu Daoud to go on hunger strike in protest at his re-arrest

[ PIC 13/04/2013 – 02:42 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian liberated prisoner Ayman Abu Daoud, from the city of al-Khalil southern the West Bank, decided to launch an open hunger strike to protest his re-arrest by the Israeli occupation. Ahrar center for Prisoners’ Studies and Human Rights said in a statement on Saturday that captive […]

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Rafati: Israel’s closure of Karam Abu Salem crossing causes huge losses

[ PIC 13/04/2013 – 02:07 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian minister of economy in Gaza Ala Al-Rafati said that Israel’s closure of Karam Abu Salem crossing in southern Gaza causes direct losses amounting to half a million dollars every day. In a statement to the Palestinian information center (PIC), Rafati explained that the indirect losses […]

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