Archive | July, 2013

Palestine News | July 31, 2013

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات July 31,  2015 | 24253 Days Since Al-Nakba – Gaza is under siege for 2241 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Ramadan Kareem! | !رمضان كريم Ramadan Kareem | رمضان كريم Ramadan in Palestine – In Photos Second Ramadan in […]

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#StopPrawerPlan | Human chain against Prawer Plan in Haifa

[ PIC 31/07/2013 – 03:08 PM ] HAIFA, (PIC)– Hundreds have organized a human chain Tuesday evening in the northern city of Haifa in Palestinian territories occupied in 1948 in protest against Prawer plan. The protest was organized by Haifa popular committee against Prawer. The protesters closed Ben-Gurion Street for half an hour before heading […]

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Palestinian NGOs reject negotiations with Israeli occupation

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article Middle East Monitor | July 31, 2013 The Palestinian NGO Network has declared that the Ramallah Palestinian Authority’s decision to resume negotiations with Israel based on the recommendations of US Secretary of State […]

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Al-Aqsa Brigades exhibit their strength and reject negotiations

Middle East Monitor | July 31, 2013   Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, affiliated with Fatah, insists that an armed struggle against Israel is the only way to liberate PalestineThe armed wing of Fatah, Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, has exhibited its arsenal of guns, rockets and missiles in the Gaza Strip. This, reported Israel’s Channel 2, illustrates the […]

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Palestine: Dividing Land, Erasing Identity in Qalandiya

Visitors walk past a giant photograph showing the “Apartheid Wall” at the West Bank at the “Wall on Wall” exhibition by German photographer Kai Wiedenhoefer, displayed on a remaining section of the Berlin wall 26 July 2013. (Photo: AFP – John Macdougall) Al Akhbar English | Malik Samara | Wednesday, July 31, 2013 Qalandiya, a […]

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Israel: Huge Liability on US FP Balance Sheet – Indyk-AIPAC Secret Theft From US Industry Reaches $100 Billion

Grant F. Smith | Global research | July 31, 2013 There are many reasons why naming Martin Indyk the special envoy to mediate between Israel and Palestine is a bad idea. Marinated in Israeli-American media mogul Haim Saban’s largess at Brookings Institute, many observers have noted Indyk’sprevious failures as a diplomat for the U.S. It is assumed that Indyk will again function as “Israel’s lawyer” and Palestinians will get […]

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Netanyahu uses settlement pledge to get coalition support for prisoner release

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article MEMO | July 31, 2013 Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to continue settlement building in return for support from coalition partners for the prisoner release deal. […]

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Hamas criticises Abbas’ demand for reintroduction of 2005 border agreement

Middle East Monitor | July 31, 2013 Mahmoud Abbas demands Egypt to reactivate the 2005 Crossings Agreement at the Rafah borderThe Islamic Resistance Movement has criticised the demand made by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for Egypt to reactivate the 2005 Crossings Agreement at the Rafah border. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu-Suhri pointed out that Abbas’s […]

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Reviving the Israel-Palestine Negotiations: The Indyk Appointment ~ by Richard Falks (@rfalk13)

Prof. Em. Richard Falk | Global Research | July 31, 2013 Appointing Martin Indyk as Special Envoy to the upcoming peace talks was to be expected. It was signaled in advance. And yet it is revealing and distressing. The only other candidates considered for the job were equally known as Israeli partisans: Daniel Kurtzer, former ambassador to Israel […]

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Awad, 19, wounded by Israeli fire while gathering firewood ~ Report and photos by @Rosa_Schiano

31st July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On Thursday afternoon, July 25, 2013, a 19 year old, Rafat Awad Abdel Aty was injured while working in an area called “Jamarik” near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. Awad Abdel Aty (Photo by Rosa Schiano) Awad, who was admitted […]

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VIDEO | Palestinians feel betrayed as PA dragged into talks with Israel ~ by @PressTV

  Still live in fairy-tale-land about Israel? Time to wake up: The Map of the “Greater Israel” even is hammered on the currency: All facts at Storify continuously updated. Read what Israeli ‘leaders’ have said and done even before (peace) talks and how their actions contradict the reality and ugly facts which they try to […]

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Israeli occupation refuses to release sick administrative detainee

[ PIC 31/07/2013 – 05:27 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) refused to release the oldest serving detainee Sheikh Nazih Abu Oun despite his ill health. The Palestine center for prisoners’ studies said in a statement on Wednesday that Abu Oun, 51, was arrested on 5/7/2011 and was held since then in […]

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Ending the division more important than resumption of talks, says MP Abu Baker

[ PIC 31/07/2013 – 05:10 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– MP Najat Abu Baker, affiliated with the Fatah movement, stated that ending the division and achieving the national construction is more important than negotiation option. MP Baker told Quds Press that the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations had never been stopped, pointing out that the PA came as a […]

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Israeli plan to build new Jewish neighborhood near Aqsa Mosque

[ PIC 31/07/2013 – 05:36 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage said that the Israeli government intends to build a settlement outpost and a synagogue to the northeast of the Aqsa Mosque. The Aqsa foundation stated on Tuesday that the Israeli plan includes the building of a Jewish neighborhood […]

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