Live Blog | Israel Attacks Syria

Continuous updates below the article – Last update Oct 9, 2013 Maan News Agency | May 4, 2013 WASHINGTON (AFP) — Israel conducted an airstrike in Syria overnight targeting a weapons shipment headed for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, US media reported. CNN said US and Western intelligence agencies were reviewing information suggesting Israel likely conducted […]

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Church of Scotland: Israel has no right to occupied Palestinian lands

General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland, Edinbugh PressTV | Sat May 4, 2013 5:58PM GMT The Church of Scotland says Israel has no right to the occupied Palestinian lands. In a new report titled “The Inheritance of Abraham? A Report on the ‘Promised Land’,” the church said Israel’s claim to the occupied territories […]

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Settlers attack man near Bethlehem

Maan News Agency | May 4, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Settlers attacked a man west of Bethlehem on Saturday, causing moderate injuries, locals said. A group of settlers threw stones at Ahmad al-Zaglool at a road junction near Betar Illit settlement, witnesses told Ma’an. Al-Zaglool, who is from the nearby village of Husan, was moderately […]

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Orthodox Christians celebrate Holy Saturday

Maan News Agency | May 4, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Thousands of people celebrated the start of Orthodox Easter in Jerusalem and Bethlehem on Saturday. Tens of thousands of worshipers visited the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem’s Old City to witness the Holy Fire ceremony, where a lamp is placed on the tomb […]

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PA security forces arrest 4 Hizb al-Tahrir members at Jenin rally

Maan News Agency | May 4, 2013 JENIN (Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority security forces arrested four members of the Hizb al-Tahrir party on Saturday during a rally in Jenin. The Islamist group held a rally in the northern West Bank city to protest the Arab League’s recent public backing for land swaps with Israel as […]

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Israeli court sentences Gazan to 32 years in jail for resisting occupation

[ PIC 04/05/2013 – 01:43 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– An Israeli court sentenced a Palestinian man from Gaza Strip to 32 years in jail for “resisting occupation”. Abdullah Qandil, the spokesman for the Waed society for prisoners, said on Friday that an Israeli court passed the sentence on Thursday against Zakaria Al-Samiri. He said that […]

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Resheq: Demolition of women’s prayer room in Al-Fateh Mosque racist crime

[ PIC 04/05/2013 – 03:25 PM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– Ezzat Resheq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, condemned an Israeli court decision to demolish the women’s prayer room in Mohamed Al-Fateh mosque in Ras al-Amud neighborhood, in the town of Silwan in occupied Jerusalem. Resheq considered this decision a flagrant attack on the Islamic Endowments’ […]

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Israel closed Karm Abu Salem 17 days in April

[ PIC 04/05/2013 – 03:26 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The popular committee against the siege has said that Israel had closed Gaza’s sole commercial crossing Karm Abu Salem for 17 days during the past month of April. The committee said in a statement on Saturday that the closures were either due to weekend holidays, Fridays […]

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Health condition of prisoner Sami Aridi deteriorates

[ PIC 04/05/2013 – 02:20 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies confirmed that the health condition of prisoner Sami Aridi, aged 33 from Arraba village south of Jenin, has recently deteriorated. Captive Sami’s brother Rami told the human rights center that one of the liberated detainees told them that his brother Sami […]

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Arab Sell-Out 2.0 | Haneyya: The Arabs should support the resistance rather than waiving our rights

[ PIC 04/05/2013 – 01:45 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya called for developing an Arab strategy protecting the resistance and the Palestinian people’s rights instead of making concessions to the Israeli occupation. In his Friday khutba (sermon), Haneyya reiterated his government’s rejection of the Arab peace initiative which accepted land swaps with […]

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Arab Sell-Out 2.0 | Analyst: Arab initiative does not meet minimum rights of Palestinian people

[ PIC 04/05/2013 – 02:06 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Political analyst Dr. Naji Batta said that Hamas movement had unequivocally rejected the Arab initiative, and said that “it does not meet the minimum rights of the Palestinian people.” Batta told PIC on Saturday that the Arab initiative and the idea of land swaps crossed red […]

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Arab Sell-Out 2.0 | Zahhar: The Palestinian people’s rights cannot be bargained

[ PIC 04/05/2013 – 02:24 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Zahhar said that the Palestinian people’s national constants and their right to their land and holy sites are inalienable and cannot be compromised. “Our constants do not change and our people’s right to their land, country and every inch of it cannot […]

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Israel to allocate $6m to enhance settlement in Jerusalem

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article [ PIC 04/05/2013 – 01:41 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– Hebrew press sources revealed that the Israeli government intends to approve the allocation of huge amounts of money to enhance settlement activity in the […]

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‘I have never heard an album quite like it’ – review of @docjazzmusic’s album INTIFADA

Musical Intifada | 04 May 2013 16:59 | By Dr. Tariq Shadid aka Doc Jazz Album review by Kevin Kearney – I bought this album through curiosity as a friend recommended it to me. I am a musician/producer and don’t buy too much music online as I hear it all day every day. I was […]

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Delegation of European Parliament calls for an end to Israeli violations

Al Qassam Website | 04-05-2013,07:52 A five-member cross-party delegation of the European Parliament to the occupied city of Jerusalem called for an end to the Israeli illegal policies against the Palestinian people. Emer Costello, Chairperson of the European Parliament’s Delegation, stated , in a press conference, that the delegation has documented a number of Israeli […]

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