PALESTINE NEWS | May 16, 2013

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات May 16, 2013 | 24178 Days Since Al-Nakba – Gaza is under siege for 2164 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuous updates.. A Settler assaults and hits the youth Omar Alqaq http://silwanic.net/?p=38354 2 injured at military training site in […]

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Meshaal renews rejection of a two-state solution

All Israeli Attacks – Timeline | All Israeli cease Fire Violations – Timeline [ PIC 16/05/2013 – 09:32 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Khaled Mashaal, head of the political bureau of Hamas movement, confirmed his movement’s adherence to resistance in confronting the occupation and liberating Palestine. Meshaal’s remarks came during an exclusive interview with the American […]

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Arab Sell-Out 2.0 | Captive Abbas Sayyed: Arab Peace Initiative is worse than Balfour Declaration

All Israeli Attacks – Timeline | All Israeli cease Fire Violations – Timeline [ PIC 16/05/2013 – 09:37 PM ] (PIC) — Captive leader Abbas Al-Sayyed, head of the leadership of Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails, stressed that the prisoners are in permanent conflict with the Israeli occupation inside its jails. In an interview with […]

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Baraka: Resolving Palestinian issue is to achieve reinstate all rights

[ PIC 16/05/2013 – 09:46 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Ali Baraka, Hamas representative in Lebanon, stressed that the only just solution to the Palestinian issue is represented in achieving all the Palestinian national aspirations. Baraka’s remarks came during a political literary meeting organized by the Association of Palestinian writers at its headquarters in central Gaza […]

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Israel closes al-Aqsa Mosque

Maan News Agency | May 16, 2013 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) – Israeli police on Thursday closed the Al-Aqsa Mosque, banning non-Muslim visitors from the compound in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Ma’an the mosque was closed to visitors at 10 a.m. “to prevent incidents” following a security assessment over the last 24 […]

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Under Zionist pressure @Newseum drops 2 Palestinian journalists from honors list

[ PIC 16/05/2013 – 05:01 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) expressed its disappointment and astonishment with Newseum decision to revoke its decision to honor the Palestinian Journalists Mohamed Salama and Hussam Al Koumi, who were killed by Israeli Occupation Forces during their coverage of the Israeli aggression […]

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Israeli ambassador to Amman officially expelled

MEMO | May 16, 2013 Jordan’s Minister for Information and Communication, Mohammed al-Momani, last Thursday officially announced the departure of the Israeli ambassador to Amman, Daniel Nevo. In a press conference held on Wednesday evening, Al-Momani said that the acting Foreign Minister, Hussein al-Majali, had summoned Nevo last Thursday. Al-Majali passed on information on the […]

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Bedouin KristallNacht has begun: Israeli forces demolish Bedouin homes in Negev | #Nakba65

#NAKBA65  | 65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! Maan News Agency | May 16, 2013   NEGEV, Israel (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Thursday demolished homes in a Bedouin village in the Negev. Israeli authorities destroyed the homes in Um al-Hayran after a court in Beersheba ruled they were built illegally, a Ma’an reporter said. They […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Israelis fire at Palestinian farmers in eastern Gaza Strip

MEMO | May 16, 2013 Israeli forces have opened fire on Palestinian farmers working to the east of Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip. The incident took place on Thursday morning.Witnesses said that farmers fled from their land due to the severity of the attack by Israeli soldiers stationed at the Kisuffim […]

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West Bankers stage rallies on Nakba day, Israeli soldiers use violence | #Nakba65

#NAKBA65  | 65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! [ PIC 16/05/2013 – 10:47 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Different West Bank areas on Wednesday saw massive marches and events on the 65th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe). In Ramallah city, large crowds of people spearheaded by scouts went across several streets before rallying in the Mugtarebin […]

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Israeli occupation forces bulldoze cultivated Palestinian land lot near Nablus

#NAKBA65  |65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! [ PIC 16/05/2013 – 11:59 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) bulldozed Palestinian cultivated land lot in Aqraba village near Nablus claiming that it was “state owned”. Hamza Direiya, a member of the committee in defense of Aqraba land, said that the soldiers destroyed the 25-dunum land […]

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Nakba survivor: ‘If you wanted to live, you left’

#NAKBA65  | 65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! Maan News Agency | May 16, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Ghatheyya Mifleh al-Khawalda was 15 years old when she fled her home during the Nakba of 1948. Now 80, Ghatheyya was once a carefree teenager who used to live with her mother and sister in the village of […]

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Extremist rabbi Yisrael Ariel accompanies Jewish settlers on storming of Aqsa

[ PIC 16/05/2013 – 11:06 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Extremist rabbi Yisrael Ariel stormed the holy Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Thursday at the head of a group of Jewish settlers. Jerusalemite sources said that groups of Jewish settlers stormed the Aqsa mosque via the Maghareba gate and strolled inside it under heavy […]

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14 Jerusalemites detained on Nakba Day including a journalist

#NAKBA65  | 65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! [ PIC 16/05/2013 – 11:04 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoner’s society said that 14 Jerusalemites were detained by Israeli occupation forces after quelling a march on the Nakba Day in Ras Al-Amod neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday. The society said in a statement on […]

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Israeli occupation extends detention of 66-year-old administrative detainee

[ PIC 16/05/2013 – 10:49 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities renewed administrative detention of 66-year-old Sheikh Adel Shanyur, a Hamas leader, for four more months. Shanyur’s wife said that the Negev prison administration informed the Sheikh of the renewal of his administrative detention, without trial or charge, for the second time. She […]

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