PHOTOS | Bil’in residents inaugurate a flower garden with a difference

[ PIC 03/10/2013 – 10:36 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Residents of Bil’in town have created a large rose garden using Israeli tear gas shells for planting seedlings. The tear gas bombs were fired by Israeli soldiers along the past years during protests against the Apartheid Wall. The garden was made in the same place where […]

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Intifada Youth Coalition stages sit-in outside UN headquarters in Gaza

[ PIC 03/10/2013 – 01:09 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Dozens of Palestinian youths staged a sit-in in front of the UN headquarters on Wednesday afternoon in Gaza City to demand the United Nations to shoulder its responsibilities vis-à-vis the suffering of the Palestinian people. Intifada Youth Coalition handed a letter directed to the UN to […]

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Solar power project in Gaza schools

[ PIC 03/10/2013 – 01:01 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Gaza has inaugurated, in collaboration with Islamic Relief, the first solar power project to generate electricity in Gaza schools in a new challenge to the Gaza siege. Solar energy equipment has been already installed, at Ihsan School in Khan […]

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Settling. Still a warcrime by law but Israeli approves scheme to expand settlement in Jerusalem

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article [ PIC 03/10/2013 – 04:56 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli authorities have approved the construction of 32 additional housing units, in Beit Orot in occupied Jerusalem after the establishment of 28 […]

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Stop Talking Abbas. Now. | Israeli minister: West Bank ‘will be under Israeli control forever’

Middle East Monitor | Oct 3, 2013 Ariel says “All the area located to the west of the Jordan River is owned by Israel and it will continue to be under Israeli control forever,” Israeli housing minister, Uri Ariel, has said that the West Bank will be under Israeli control forever. Ariel was addressing settlers […]

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PA security sent a force to Jenin to intimidate the citizens

[ PIC 03/10/2013 – 04:26 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– PA security leadership sent on Wednesday 800 security elements to the city of Jenin, to prove that the PA is able to suppress any moves against it, after the recent events in the city following the killing of Islam Toubasi. Jenin city and its refugee camp […]

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Settlers destroy 50 olive trees south of Hebron

While true Judaism teaches….: “When you lay siege to a city and wage war against it a long time to capture it, do not destroy its trees, wielding an ax against any food-producing tree. Is a tree of the field a man who will come against you in the siege?” (Deuteronomy 20:19) “Take from nature […]

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PFLP (@PFLP_ps_): Security coordination with the occupation prevents a third Intifada

[ PIC 03/10/2013 – 11:05 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Khalida Jarrar, a leading figure in Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), said that security coordination between the Palestinian Authority and the occupation represents one of the key factors that hinders the outbreak of a third popular uprising in the West Bank. Jarrar noted […]

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Childhood Denied ~ by @YousefMunayyer

Thursday October 03, 2013 13:19 by Yousef Munayyer – IMEMC.News – Intifada Palestine Childhood is a beautiful and strange thing. Before we truly learn how precious it is, it is already over. For many Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation childhood ends even earlier than you’d think. The commonplace elements of a child’s life in […]

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#Palestine News | Oct 3, 2013

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Oct 3,  2013 | 24322 Days Since Al-Nakba – Gaza under siege for 2306 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Today’s News & Headlines Continuously updated   #GazaUnderAttack | Sept 24, 2013 | Full List of 233 Documented Israeli Cease […]

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Special forces storm prison sections at Remon jail (again)

[ PIC 03/10/2013 – 10:31 AM ] Gaza, (PIC)– The Palestinian Prisoners Studies Center said that a special force working for the Israeli Prison Service stormed on Wednesday night a number of sections at Remon prison, ransacked them, broke some of the Prisoners’ belongings and transferred a prisoner hailing from al-Khalil to another prison. Spokeswoman […]

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Two, Including A 14-Year Old Child, Kidnapped In Bethlehem

Thursday October 03, 2013 11:14 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn [October 3, 2013] the Al-Khader town, and Husan village, in the Bethlehem district, and kidnapped a youth and a child. File – Wadi Hilweh Information Center Palestinian sources said that dozens of soldiers invaded the Old […]

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237th Israeli cease fire violation: Army Carries Out Limited Invasion Into Gaza

Thursday October 03, 2013 11:43 by IMEMC & Agencies A number of armored Israeli military vehicles invaded, in Thursday morning, an area east of Khoza’a town, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and in the Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza Strip, and uprooted Palestinian lands. FIle – Safa News The […]

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Israel’s Politics of Deflection ~ by Richard Falk (@rfalk13)

Richard Falk | Richard Falk Weblog | Sept 30, 2013 General Observations   During my period as the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Palestine on behalf of the Human Rights Council I have been struck by the persistent efforts of Israel and its strong civil society adjuncts to divert attention from the substance […]

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The answers you will NOT get if you #askIDF

October 3, 2013 by occpal Duly noted. In it’s latest hasbara effort the IOF wasted (again) a lot of Israel’s and US tax-money to dish you lies under the pretext of answering all your questions with the campaign #askIDF! This is… unless the questions came from activists! It has been quite hilarious to see the […]

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