PALESTINE NEWS | June 18, 2013

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات June 18,  2013 | 24212 Days Since Al-Nakba – Gaza is under siege for 2198 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuously updated MESSAGE FROM THE ADMIN This Blog is (Still) Censored by Google – Content Control to Mute News […]

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Divide and Conquer Games: Local and foreign parties target the Palestinian presence in Lebanon

[ PIC 18/06/2013 – 09:53 PM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– Director of Hamas information office in Lebanon Ra’fat Murra said that local, regional and international parties have involved themselves in a media campaign targeting the Palestinian presence in Lebanon. “We have been watching for weeks an incitement campaign against the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon led by […]

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#PalHunger | Health conditions of two Jordanian prisoners deteriorate

[PIC 18/06/2013 – 09:51 PM ] GAZA, RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli occupation authorities transferred on Tuesday two Jordanian hunger striking prisoners from Ramle prison clinic to an Israeli hospital due to the deterioration of their health condition. The Jordanian prisoners in Israeli jails have announced on 2 May an open-ended hunger strike; in protest at the […]

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UFree: The occupation seeks to legitimize administrative detention

[ PIC 18/06/2013 – 09:48 PM ] LONDON, (PIC)– The European Network for the defense of Palestinian prisoners’ rights (UFree) expressed concern about the “Terrorism Law” that was recently proposed by the Israeli government. UFree considered in a statement that the new law represents an alternative to the state of emergency and contributes, according to […]

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Violent confrontations erupt in Fawwar camp after Israeli settlers protected by army attacked Palestinians

[ PIC 18/06/2013 – 09:38 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Clashes erupted near the Fawwar refugee camp south of al-Khalil on Monday, after Israeli settlers and soldiers attacked Palestinian civilians. Eyewitnesses told PIC that the settlers, guarded by the occupation forces, raided the entrance to the camp and started throwing stones at the citizens, which led […]

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Israeli soldiers who abused disabled Palestinian get four months community service

MEMO | June 18, 2013   The Jerusalem District Court has sentenced four former Israeli soldiers to only four months of community service after they were indicted for abusing a disabled Palestinian detainee in 2009, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said on Tuesday. The newspaper said that the indictment was filed against the former soldiers […]

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Israel renews the leader Abu Aoun’s administrative detention | @Ufreenetwork @Amnesty

[ PIC 18/06/2013 – 09:24 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) renewed the administrative detention of the leader in Hamas movement Nazih Abu Aoun, who spent 17 years in Israeli jails on aggregate, Palestinian human rights sources revealed. Tadamun Foundation for Human Rights confirmed that the administrative detention of Abu Aoun was renewed […]

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Israeli plan to dig artesian well in Wadi Rababa neighborhood in Jerusalem

[ PIC 18/06/2013 – 12:48 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israel’s national water company Mekorot and the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) declared a plan on Monday to dig an artesian well in Wadi Rababa neighborhood in Silwan district. The information center of Wadi Hilwa-Silwan said that the IOA plans to turn a public place (national […]

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Zionist settlers puncture 28 Palestinian cars in Occupied Jerusalem

[ PIC 18/06/2013 – 12:52 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A group of fanatic Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian cars in Abu Gush area west of occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday and sprayed racist graffiti on walls. A statement for the Israeli police spokeswoman said that unknown assailants punctured the tires of 28 cars owned by Arabs […]

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B’Tselem condemns dog attacks

Maan News Agency | June 18, 2013 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli rights group B’tselem on Tuesday condemned Israel’s use of dogs to attack unarmed Palestinians. “The use of dogs to attack citizens in unacceptable and immoral,” B’Tselem’s executive director said in a letter to the legal consultant of the Israeli army in the West […]

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Israeli court renews detention of al-Aqsa chief guard

MEMO | June 18, 2013 An Israeli Magistrate Court on Monday extended the detention of chief guard of al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Najeh Bkeerat, for the second time. The court said that more time is needed to investigate Bkeerat on the grounds of allegations that he belongs to the Palestinian Islamic movement, Hamas. Bkeerat’s family have […]

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FCC calls for addressing settlers’ assaults

[ PIC 18/06/2013 – 06:19 PM ] Settlers attack Palestinian farmers NABLUS, (PIC)– The Factional Coordination Committee (FCC) in Nablus called to escalate resistance in the city in order to address the settlers’ continued assaults against Palestinians and their properties. The committee also called for broad participation in solidarity events in support of Palestinian prisoners […]

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Arrests and demolition orders in Jerusalem

[ PIC 18/06/2013 – 06:53 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli police and municipal crews have carried out raid campaign at dawn on Monday in Beit Hanina, Salam and Shufat refugee camp near the city of Jerusalem. A number of arrests were reported. The Israeli police broke into a Palestinian building in Tel al-Foul […]

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Israeli settlers threaten to occupy Palestinian village of Azzun

Maan News Agency | June 18, 2013   QALQILIYA (Ma’an) — Extremist Israeli settlers posted a sign threatening to occupy the village of Azzun in the northern West Bank district of Qaliqiliya on Tuesday. Writing in Arabic at the village entrance, settlers hanged a banner reading “On Tuesday the village will become ours.” The banner […]

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It is time for this world to act!: Muslim woman assaulted for wearing a veil looses her unborn child

June 18, 2013 | by occpal “The Local France” which covers French news in English today covers the ‘story’ of a muslim woman who lost her unborn child due to a violent extremist attack which took place on  June 13, 2013. The sister was attacked by two men in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil. She […]

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