PALESTINE NEWS | April 21, 2013

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات April 21, 2013 | 24153 Days Since Al-Nakba – Gaza is under siege for 2139 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuous updates.. Occupation deprives Awni Kamil from completing high education – @AlQassambrigade website http://www.qassam.ps/news-6897-Occupation_deprives_Awni_Kamil_from_completing_high_education.html Jerusalemite bodies warn of Israeli […]

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Hamas denounces Kerry call to delay Erdogan visit

Maan News Agency | April 22, 2013 GAZA CITY (AFP) — The Hamas rulers of Gaza on Sunday slammed US Secretary of State John Kerry for urging the Turkish prime minister to delay a visit to the coastal territory. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri accused Kerry and president Mahmoud Abbas — who met in Istanbul […]

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Arrest and abuse of ill 16-year old in Urif

21st April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Urif, Occupied Palestine By Team Nablus An innocent 16-year-old boy was abused and arrested on Tuesday April 16th in Urif, despite his grandfather and uncle rushing to show documents that he is seeking medical attention for a possible cancer diagnosis. He was wrongfully accused of stone-throwing as he […]

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Hamas! Don’t drink the poisoned chalice ~ by Khalid Amayreh

[ PIC 21/04/2013 – 09:54 PM ] By Khalid Amayreh I hope Hamas will be sufficiently vigilant these days and not be duped into drinking the poisoned chalice being prepared for it under the misleading rubric of holding general elections in the West Bank. Last night, Israeli occupation troops raided the homes and dorms of […]

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Islamic bloc: Arrests boost our determination to challenge and contest elections

[PIC 21/04/2013 – 09:15 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The head of the Islamic bloc in Gaza Hani Mukbel said that the wave of Israeli arrests in lines of the bloc in the West Bank targets influencing the results of the students’ elections in Najah university. Mukbel denounced in a statement on Sunday the collusion between […]

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Abu Zuhri: Israel’s threats reflect its criminal nature

[ PIC 21/04/2013 – 09:13 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said that Israel’s threats to invade the Gaza Strip reflected the criminal nature of its new coalition government. The spokesman told Quds Press on Sunday that the threats against Gaza reflected that new government’s program of escalation […]

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Jordanians jailed in Israel to launch hunger strike in May

Maan News Agency | April 22, 2013 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Jordanian prisoners being held in Israeli jails will go on hunger strike on May 1 to pressure Israeli authorities to release them, Fatah officials in Gaza said Sunday. Fatah’s commission for prisoners said it received a letter from the Jordanian detainees confirming that 20 […]

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#PalHunger | Israel military court to hold ‘urgent’ hearing for Issawi

Maan News Agency | April 21, 2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israel’s Ofer military court will hold an “urgent” hearing for Samer Issawi on Monday after he decided to stop taking vitamin supplements, his lawyer said Sunday. Palestinian Prisoner Society lawyer Jawad Boulos told Ma’an that Issawi stopped taking supplements on Thursday to protest dissatisfaction with […]

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Jerusalemite bodies warn of Israeli calls for storming Al-Aqsa Mosque

[ PIC 21/04/2013 – 08:52 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Supreme Muslim Council and the Council of Endowments and Islamic Affairs in Jerusalem warned of the aggressive irresponsible statements made by members of Knesset and other Jewish officials concerning Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Supreme Muslim Council and the Council of Endowments denounced in a joint […]

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Israeli army storms, tear gasses and shoots inside Ashkelon prison and impose tough sanctions on prisoners

[ PIC 21/04/2013 – 08:42 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli prisons administration imposed on Sunday extremely strict procedures on all prisoners in Ashkelon Prison; after captive Mahmoud Zahran, aged 32 from the village of Deir Abu Meshal near Ramallah, assaulted an Israeli jailer in the prison. Ashkelon prison prisoner-representative said that three jailers who were […]

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Palestinians in the Netherlands commemorate the Palestinian Prisoners Day

[ PIC 21/04/2013 – 07:57 PM ] AMSTERDAM, (PIC)– Palestinians in the Netherlands commemorated on Saturday the thirty-ninth anniversary of the Palestinian Prisoners Day, and hosted during the events the liberated prisoner Mahmoud Sarsak. During the event, the organizers wrote the names of the Palestinian prisoners on balloons carrying the colors of the Palestinian flag, […]

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Palestinian youth shot dead by Israeli policeman

[ PIC 21/04/2013 – 06:55 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC) — A 20-year-old Palestinian young man from the town of Tayeba in the occupied territories died on Sunday from wounds he sustained after being shot by Israeli police last night. The Hebrew “Walla” news website reported that an Israeli police patrol claimed seeing two Palestinian youths […]

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Rizqa: Erdogan is determined to visit Gaza

[ PIC 21/04/2013 – 06:46 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Political advisor to the Palestinian premier Yousuf Rizqa said that Turkish premier Recep Erdogan is determined to visit the Gaza Strip and no one can dissuade him from his decision. Rizqa ruled out in a press statement to the Palestinian information center (PIC) on Tuesday that […]

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Lawyer: Sick prisoner Ahmad Saed al-Damouni from Gaza stops taking medication

Maan News Agency | April 21, 2013   RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A sick prisoner on Sunday stopped taking medication in protest against Israeli medical negligence, according to a lawyer from the Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ affairs. Ahmad Saed al-Damouni, 43, from the Gaza Strip, has been held in Ashkelon jail since 1994. He is sentenced […]

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VIDEO | World becoming sick of Israeli crimes

PressTV | Published on Apr 21, 2013 An analyst says 60 years of Israeli crimes against human rights with no accountability has produced an entity of supremacists and racists that the world is getting very sick of. In the background of this a video has surfaced of armed Israeli soldiers firing shots as they walk […]

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