#Palestine News | Oct 15, 2013

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Oct 15,  2013 | 24334 Days Since Al-Nakba – Gaza under siege for 2318 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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Bahar: Resistance weapon will only be used against the occupation

“The entire enter­prise of a Jew­ish state in Palestine is built upon an express rejec­tion of interna­tional law.” ~ Brayer [ PIC 15/10/2013 – 06:52 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Ahmed Bahar, First Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, stressed that the Palestinian resistance weapons will only be used against the occupation, to liberate Jerusalem […]

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Institutionalized discrimination against non-Jews in Israel ~ by Khalid Amayreh

[ 14/10/2013 – 09:55 PM ] By Khalid Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem A recent decision by the Israeli Supreme Court which asserted “Jewish nationality” over “Israeli nationality” has further alienated Israel’s large Arab minority and rekindled the old question of whether it is possible to really reconcile parochial Jewish laws with broad democratic principles.. […]

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ACT: Gaza to run out of drinking water ~ by @Thirsty4Justice

Written by http://www.thirstingforjustice.org at AIC News | Oct 15, 2013 Gaza’s population of 1.6 million Palestinians are without clean drinking water. Sign the petition Gaza’s population of 1.6 million Palestinians are without clean drinking water. The only source of water they can access—the underground water aquifer—is being over-utilized and is now highly polluted with sea […]

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Israel Escalates Gaza Blockade, Following Discovery of Underground Tunnels

  Tuesday October 15, 2013 11:18 by Palestine News Network – PNN Israeli officials froze the delivery of construction materials into the Gaza Strip following the army’s discovery of a 1.7 km long tunnel connecting Gaza to Israel. Israeli military official, Guy Invar, sites ‘security reasons’ to justify the recent freeze construction materials. The army […]

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Israel revises children’s arrest tactics, but violations continue – UNICEF

Israeli border policemen detain a Palestinian boy in the east Jerusalem Shuafat refugee camp. (AFP Photo / Jonathan Nackstrand) RT.com | October 15, 2013 03:30 Israel’s army is introducing reforms to how it arrests Palestinian children in the West Bank, the UN Children’s Fund said. The move comes amid international criticism after revelations of widespread […]

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IOF arrests 16 citizens in West Bank

[ 14/10/2013 – 07:33 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Monday arrested more than 16 citizens in different parts in the West Bank. An Israeli infantry unit and a number of military patrols raided neighborhoods in the Aroub refugee camp north of al-Khalil and arrested a 19-year-old youth. In the […]

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Gaza govt. calls for an international investigation into Palestinian refugees’ sinking

[ PIC 14/10/2013 – 08:15 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian government in Gaza Strip has called for an international investigation into the sinking and death of hundreds of Palestinian refugees in incidents that took place recently in the Mediterranean sea. The government expressed its deep concern over the tragic incidents to dozens of Palestinian […]

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UFree calls on international community to protect Palestinian refugees

[ PIC 14/10/2013 – 08:40 PM ] OSLO, (PIC)– UFree Network to defend the rights of Palestinian prisoners and detainees expressed its deep concern over the tragic incident that befell dozens of Palestinian and Syrian refugees in the Mediterranean Sea. It said in a statement on Sunday that the refugees were fleeing the persistent shelling […]

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