Palestine News | Sept 21, 2013

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Sept 21,  2013 | 24305 Days Since Al-Nakba – Gaza is under siege for 2293 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuously updated Today’s News Headlines WE REMEMBER: SEPT 16, 1982 – THE SABRA & SHATILA MASSACRE #GazaUnderAttack | Sept […]

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Political Arrests: PA security escalates targeting of Hamas supporters

[ PIC 21/09/2013 – 04:18 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian Authority security apparatuses arrested five Hamas supporters, summoned another, and extended the detention of five others in the occupied West Bank during the past 48 hours. In Ramallah, the General Intelligence Service (GIS) arrested a student at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of […]

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Rizqa: Abbas kept Palestinian people in the dark

[ PIC 21/09/2013 – 03:14 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Yousef Rizqa, political adviser to the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya, has warned of Abbas’s policy of misinformation regarding the negotiations with Israel, calling for revealing what’s going on in the backstage. PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas has ignored the Palestinian public opinion towards the ongoing […]

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Israeli settlers rally at the entrance to Aroub camp in al-Khalil

[ PIC 21/09/2013 – 01:56 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A number of settlers gathered on Friday at the entrance to Aroub refugee camp in the north of the city of al-Khalil under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces. Eyewitnesses told PIC that a group of settlers, protected by Israeli soldiers, arrived to the entrance […]

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Hamad: Our sole enemy is the occupation

[ PIC 21/09/2013 – 04:18 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian deputy minister of foreign affairs Ghazi Hamad said that the Palestinian government in Gaza had never interfered in the Egyptian affairs or issued a statement against any party in Egypt. Hamad made his remarks during a political symposium held on Thursday by the interior ministry’s […]

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#PalHunger | Halahleh threatens to declare hunger strike against the Israeli deliberate medical negligence

[ PIC 21/09/2013 – 10:41 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoner Thaer Halahleh, 34, has threatened to go on hunger strike and to stop taking medicines in protest against the Israeli deliberate medical negligence. Halahleh, jailed in Eshel prison, had contracted hepatitis after his arrest in April. The prisoner told the Palestinian prisoner society […]

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Political Prisoners: Israel renews administrative detention of Hamas leader Abdulkhalek Natshe

[ PIC 21/09/2013 – 04:15 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) renewed the administrative detention of the Hamas leader Abdulkhalek Natshe for six months. IOA arrested Natshe on the 27 of March 2013 and held him in administrative detention for six months. He was informed about the extension of his detention on Friday […]

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Public health sector in Gaza faces disaster under tightened siege

Intensive care medical units such as this one at the Al-Emarati Hospital in Gaza face significant cuts to their power and medical supplies Middle East Monitor | Sept 21, 2013 The Minister of Health in Gaza has urged the international community to put pressure on Israel and Egypt to lift the siege and allow medicines, […]

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Israel to confiscate hundreds of dunums in al-Khalil

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article [ PIC 21/09/2013 – 10:25 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) plan the confiscation of hundreds of dunums in Kharas village west of al-Khalil. The IOA issued notifications for the […]

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When Cars Become Weapons: Palestinian Wounded After Being Hit By Settler’s Car

 Saturday September 21, 2013 14:47 by IMEMC & Agencies Silwan – Occupied Jerusalem, Palestinian medical sources have reported Saturday [September 20, 2013] that a Palestinian man was injured in what appears to be a hit-and-run accident with an Israeli settler who fled the scene, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan has reported. File – […]

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Khudari: 100 million dollars losses of private sector in Gaza due to the siege

[ PIC 21/09/2013 – 02:01 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– MP Jamal Khudari, head of the popular committee against the siege, said the losses caused by the disruption of the projects in Gaza due to the Israeli siege reached one hundred million dollars. Khudari stressed in a press statement on Saturday that the Israeli promises to […]

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Coming soon: Gaza youth music video ‘Al Jeel Al Jadeed’ ~ by @docjazzmusic

Musical Intifada | 21 September 2013 | by Dr. Tariq Shadid aka Doc Jazz Palestinian artist Doc Jazz’s new Arabic song ‘Al Jeel Al Jadeed’ (‘The New Generation’), which has not been released to the public yet, has a music video in the making that was filmed in Gaza with the participation of many youths […]

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Adwan Calls for a Crisis Committee to be Formed to Manage the Gaza Strip

DRAH – Gaza – Sept 21, 2013 Gaza,(DRAH.ps)— In an article published in  the newspaper of ” Palestine ” Wednesday, Issam Adwan, the chairman of division refugees affairs in hams DRAH, called on leaders of the Palestinian people , government,  factions as well as national forces  in the Gaza Strip to from a higher  committee […]

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Egyptian authorities close Rafah crossing until further notice | #OpenRafahBorder Now!

[ PIC 21/09/2013 – 08:49 AM ] RAFAH, (PIC)– The Egyptian authorities decided to close the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip as of Saturday until further notice. Director of borders and crossings in Gaza Maher Abu Sabha told the PIC reporter that the Egyptian authorities notified the Gazan side with the decision on […]

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Refugees of Palestine – in pictures

SPECIAL TOPIC Related News and Resources Category Refugees | For Related News Palestinian Refugees | Factsheet Right to Return | Factsheet Whereabouts of Palestinians | Report Ethnic Cleansing | Special Topic Internal Displacement in Palestine Life in Refugee Camps Palestinian Refugee Camps Refugee & IDP Rights Sands of Sorrow |  video Study proves living conditions […]

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