Palestine News | Aug 16, 2013

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Aug 16,  2013 | 24269 Days Since Al-Nakba – Gaza is under siege for 2257 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuously updated Today’s News Army Admits Alleged “Gaza Mall” Is In Malaysia http://www.imemc.org/article/65977 Japan Denounces Israeli Decision To Build […]

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Poll: 80% of Israeli Jews say peace impossible

Ma’an News Agency | Aug 16, 2013 JERUSALEM (AFP) — Almost 80 percent of Israeli Jews believe a peace deal with the Palestinians is impossible, an opinion poll found on Friday, two days after the resumption of negotiations in Jerusalem. Asked whether “this time, we will reach a final agreement that will put an end […]

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Activists: Israeli forces assault journalist at Bethlehem protest

Maan News Agency | Aug 16, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces assaulted a journalist on Friday at a protest in al-Masara, a local popular committee said. Soldiers brutally beat Abed al-Rahman Younis Ibedat, a reporter for the news site Al-Quds, and briefly detained him, committee coordinator Hassan Barjeya told Ma’an. Israeli forces fired tear […]

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Chomsky: Israel’s West Bank plans will leave Palestinians very little

Al Ray Agencies – Aug 16, 2013 Noam Chomsky The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks beginning in Jerusalem proceed within a framework of assumptions that merit careful thought. One prevailing assumption is that there are two options: either a two-state settlement will be reached, or there will be a “shift to a nearly inevitable outcome of the […]

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Palestinian football chief demands Israel expulsion

Maan News Agency | (Updated) Aug 16, 2013 RAMALLAH (AFP) — The Palestinian Football Association on Thursday urged FIFA to expel Israel from the international federation, saying it had refused to allow several Arab youth teams into the Palestinian territories. “We ask (FIFA) for a red card, because the yellow card has been raised now […]

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A demonstration at al-Aqsa to protest massacres in Egypt

[ PIC 16/08/2013 – 04:52 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Thousands of worshipers demonstrated after the Friday prayers at the Aqsa mosque to protest the massacres committed by the Egyptian army against peaceful protesters in Cairo. Participants in the demonstration raised the Egyptian flag and pictures of the elected president of Egypt Muhammad Morsi and […]

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#PalHunger | Deterioration in health of a Palestinian captive Husam Matar

[ PIC 16/08/2013 – 04:31 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) reported that the health of Palestinian captive Husam Matar, who enters his 76th day of open-ended hunger strike, has seriously deteriorated. In a statement on Friday, the PPS said that Matar was taken from Ramlah prison hospital to Tel Hashomer […]

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Israeli occupation forces arrest 3 Palestinian women

[ PIC 16/08/2013 – 02:21 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli authorities arrested three Palestinian women while they were visiting liberated captive Wourud al-Qassem in the town of Kafr Kassem in the 1948 occupied territories on Thursday evening. Activist in the Popular Front Shaher Shashtari said the occupation forces arrested the three activists from the house […]

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Occupation destroys Bedouin village al-Araqib for 54th time

[ PIC 16/08/2013 – 01:52 PM ] BEERSHEBA (PIC)– Israeli authorities on Thursday demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib, in the Negev in the southern 1948 occupied territories, for the 54th time. Palestinian sources in the Negev said that the Israeli soldiers accompanied by military bulldozers abruptly raided the village and started to demolish and […]

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35 settlers accompanied by Israeli intelligence and police storm Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday

[ PIC 16/08/2013 – 01:05 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, RAMALLAH, (PIC)– About 35 settlers and 6 Israeli intelligence elements stormed on Thursday morning the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the Mughrabi Gate under the protection of the occupation police. Mahmoud Abu Atta, media coordinator for Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage, said in press statements that 20 […]

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Hamas condemns the explosion in Beirut

[ PIC 16/08/2013 – 11:36 AM ] Hamas Movement strongly condemned the explosion which targeted southern Beirut neighborhood on Thursday. “We condemn this criminal attack against our brothers in Beirut,” Hamas’s statement said, expressing its solidarity with all the Lebanese people. Hamas expressed its rejection of any crime that targets the Lebanese society in favor […]

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Media Forum condemns the killing of 7 journalists in Egypt

[ PIC 16/08/2013 – 11:23 AM ] Muhammad Zaki, Aljazeera cameraman who was wounded during coverage of Rabia al-Adaweyya events GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian Media Forum has condemned the killing of seven journalists during the suppression of peaceful sit-ins in support of the Egyptian elected President Mohamed Morsi. The forum stated that seven Journalists were […]

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