PALESTINE NEWS | April 19, 2013

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات April 19, 2013 | 24151 Days Since Al-Nakba – Gaza is under siege for 2137 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuous updates.. Lebanon backs Iran nuclear energy right http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/19/299057/lebanon-backs-iran-nuclear-energy-right/ Afro-Asian community must fight for Palestine – Jakarta Post http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/04/19/afro-asian-community-must-fight-palestine.html […]

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After a series of failures, Mossad campaign to recruit new agents

MEMO | April, 19, 2013 Yediot Aharonot newspaper said today that Israel’s national intelligence service Mossad has launched an extensive recruitment campaign on the Internet that urges Israelis “to join its ranks.” The campaign comes in the wake of the scandal of prisoner X, Ben Zygier, who was Jewish, of Australian origin; the media exposed […]

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US unveils major arms deal with Israel, Saudi, UAE

By Dan de Luce | Maan News Agency | April 19, 2013 WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States unveiled plans Friday to sell $10 billion worth of advanced missiles and aircraft to Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in a bid to counter the threat posed by Iran. It was highly unusual for […]

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The West is working on prolonging the occupation

MEMO | April 19, 2013 Maariv newspaper reported on its website that it has obtained an unusual letter written to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European Union, Catherine Ashton, in which a number of European politicians demand radical change in the political process between Israel and […]

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Zionism and the United States Congress ~ by William James Martin

By William James Martin | Dissident Voice |  April 19th, 2013 The ideology, or political project, of Zionism which underlies the creation of the State of Israel had, in fact, a Christian origin rather than a Jewish one, as writings can be found dating from the 1500’s, written by Christian clergymen in England advocating the […]

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Israel’s occupation forces targets medic and injures 17 in clashes in Beit Ummar

Maan News Agency | April 19, 2013 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Seventeen Palestinians were injured with rubber coated steel bullets in clashes in Beit Ummar village near Hebron, a local official said. A spokesman of the popular committee against the wall and settlements told Ma’an that the injured are aged between 15 and 22, and one […]

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More zionist crimes against Christianity: Settlers raise Israeli flag over West Bank church

Maan News Agency | April 19, 2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Friday took over a monastery in a village near Ramallah and raised an Israeli flag over the building. Priest Aziz Raei told Ma’an that Israeli settlers used force to occupy the monastery and its adjacent chapel in al-Taybeh, a Christian village in […]

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Russian newspaper: Israel injects Palestinian prisoners with dangerous viruses

[ PIC 19/04/2013 – 08:22 PM ] MOSCOW, (PIC)– Russian press sources revealed that the Israeli authorities inject Palestinian prisoners in its detention centers with “dangerous viruses” that lead to death in the long term. The Russian Pravda newspaper said in its Friday edition that “the Tel Aviv regime injects prisoners with dangerous viruses before […]

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2 prisoners join solidarity hunger strike for Issawi

Maan News Agency | April 19, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Two Palestinians in Israel’s Negev prison on Friday announced an open hunger strike in solidarity with Samer Issawi. Issawi, 33, is in a critical condition in Israel’s Kaplan Medical Center after nearly nine months on hunger strike. He has lost half his body weight and […]

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Resheq calls for confronting plans to displace Bedouins from Jerusalem

[ PIC 19/04/2013 – 08:07 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Ezzat Resheq, member of the Hamas political bureau, condemned the occupation new plan to deport the Bedouin communities from Khan al-Ahmar, in eastern Jerusalem, to Nowayma village near Jericho in the Jordan Valley. “We in Hamas strongly condemn and reject the Israeli schemes that target the […]

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Warning of Israeli plan to deport the Bedouins in the Khan al-Ahmar

[ PIC 19/04/2013 – 07:45 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Bedouin communities in Khan al-Ahmar held press conference on Thursday to explain the dimensions of the occupation authorities’ scheme that aims to expel them to Nowayma village near the city of Jericho. Eid Abu Dahuk, official in school assembly in Khan al-Ahmar, said during the […]

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International solidarity with Palestine: Personal observations by @MariamBarghouti at @docjazzmusic’s Musical Intifada

Musical Intifada | 19 April 2013 | by Dr. Tariq Shadid aka Doc Jazz As regular readers of the Musical Intifada know, this website usually only published original material. Sometimes, however, a piece is written which is considered to be having such particular value, quality and importance, that an exception is made. Such is the […]

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Israeli occupation prevents Jerusalem Shopping Spring Festival

[ PIC 19/04/2013 – 03:44 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM,(PIC)– The so-called Israeli Homeland Security Secretary issued on Thursday a decision to prevent Jerusalem Shopping Spring Festival under the pretext of being held under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority. The Festival was planned to be held in “Islamic Orphanage School,” and “the Jerusalemite Children Club,” […]

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On the anniversary of Rantisi’s martyrdom, Hamas renews commitment to resistance

[ PIC 19/04/2013 – 01:40 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas renewed its pledge to the martyrs’ blood, and its commitment to the resistance option to liberate and defend the Palestinian people’s rights and national constants. On the 9th anniversary of Abdel Aziz Rantisi’s martyrdom, Hamas stressed to continue Rantisi’s approach to […]

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Hamas warns the occupation of complicity with the settlers’ crimes

[ PIC 19/04/2013 – 07:51 PM ] Hamas movement has warned the Israeli authorities of the consequences of protecting the Jewish extremists in their violations and crimes against the Islamic and Christian holy sites in the Palestinian occupied territories. This came after Israeli settlers took over a monastery and its adjacent chapel in al-Taybeh, a […]

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