Palestine | News & Headlines – Aug 12, 2014

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات | Daily News Overview Follow on Twitter for more live updates     WANT TO HELP #GAZAUNDERATTACK? Follow tweeps tweeting live from under fire and help them disseminate the real news! https://twitter.com/occpal/lists/gazaunderattack   Is Resisting Genocide a Human Right? 81 Notre Dame Law Review1275(2006). Conducting an in-depth study of the genocide in […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | UN probe will lay bare Israel crimes

PRESSTV | Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:26PM GMT   Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki says Israel’s war crimes in Gaza will be proven after investigations by a commission appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Palestinian foreign minister said in an interview in the Venezuelan capital Caracas on Tuesday that he was confident […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Hashtag Genocide: Why Gaza Fought Back ~ by Ramzy Baroud

  Dissident Voice / by Ramzy Baroud / August 12th, 2014 My old family house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza was recently rebuilt by its new owner, into a beautiful three-story building with large windows adorned by red frames. In Israel’s most recent and deadliest war on Gaza, the house sustained significant damage. […]

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Video | Israeli soldiers celebrate shooting an 18-year-old

12th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On August 9th in Hebron, Israeli soldiers celebrated shooting an 18-year-old Palestinian youth in the leg with live ammunition. The Canadian volunteer, Vern, who witnessed the soldier firing, stated, “After the soldiers left the roof, I went to confront them about why they had […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | OIC censures Israel for ‘war crimes’ against Gaza

Palestinians inspect the remains of a house after it was hit by an Israeli military strike in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on August 9, 2014.   PressTV Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:59PM GMT The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has decried the Israeli regime’s “war crimes” against Palestinians of the […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Radwan: Discussion of Palestinian demands cannot be postponed

[ PIC 12/08/2014 – 01:21 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Leader in Hamas Movement Ismail Radwan denied Israeli claims saying that Palestinian factions agreed to postpone the discussion on the establishment of a seaport and an airport in Gaza and the release of Palestinian detainees. He stressed his Movement’s adherence to all Palestinian people’s declared demands […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Authorities declare Beit Hanoun in Gaza disaster area

[ PIC 12/08/2014 – 02:00 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian authorities declared Beit Hanoun town to the north of the Gaza Strip a disaster area that needs urgent relief efforts after the Israeli occupation army destroyed all its houses and infrastructure. “We declare Beit Hanoun town a disaster area in every sense of the […]

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Hanna Issa warns of edicts of Jewish rabbis allowing the murder of “Goyim”

[ PIC 12/08/2014 – 12:46 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Secretary General of the Islamic-Christian Committee to Support Occupied Jerusalem and holy sites, Dr. Hanna Issa, has warned on Monday of the mounting violence by Israeli settler bunches against Palestinian youths and drew attention to the risks laid by edicts of Jewish rabbis allowing the […]

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Israeli settlers storm al-Aqsa Mosque under police protection

[ PIC 12/08/2014 – 12:34 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed on Tuesday morning al-Aqsa Mosque under Israeli police protection. Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that Israeli forces continued to close the Mosque’s gates, banning Palestinian worshipers’ access to its courtyards. Women of all ages and men under the age of […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Al-Qassam: Names of collaborators in exchange for information about soldiers

[ PIC 12/08/2014 – 01:16 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said it would reveal the fate of the Israeli soldiers who were captured recently by its fighters if Israel gave it a name list of all its informers and collaborators in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, according […]

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Israeli occupation nabs 15 Palestinians, including minors, wheel-chaired youngster

[ PIC 12/08/2014 – 04:38 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up at dawn Tuesday five Jerusalemites from the Shufa’at refugee camp and Beit Hanina, along with 10 West Bankers, including minors and a disabled youth. Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement the IOF arrested Palestinian minors Muhammad Zakaria Abu […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Gaza’ education crisis: 141 schools destroyed by the Israeli offensive

[ PIC 12/08/2014 – 04:43 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A remarkable education crisis has rocked the besieged Gaza Strip as more than 141 schools have been damaged throughout the Israeli offensive launched since July 7, the Ministry of Education estimated in a statement on Monday. The ministry reported the murder of 19 members of its […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Israeli violates truce, fires at Gaza fishermen

[ PIC 12/08/2014 – 05:03 PM ] RAFAH, (PIC)– Israeli warships on Tuesday opened fire off Rafah shores southern Gaza Strip in total violation of the three-day humanitarian ceasefire. Eyewitnesses told Quds Press that a number of Israeli warships approached from the shores and opened fire at fishermen and civilian homes. No injuries were reported. […]

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Palestinian prisoners falling prey to Israeli hounding

[ PIC 12/08/2014 – 05:10 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Palestinian human sources raised on Tuesday alarm bells over the unbearable detention circumstances endured by Palestinian prisoners inside of the Israeli Ramon and Nafha lock-ups. Prisoners told the PIC an Israeli special Dror unit broke into Ramon prison on Tuesday and carried out arbitrary search-campaigns targeting […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Ministry of prisoners: Israeli soldiers abused Gaza detainees during the war

[ PIC 12/08/2014 – 05:11 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ affairs said on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation forces abused and severally beat Palestinian civilians they had detained during the military aggression against the Gaza Strip. Lawyer of the ministry Kareem Ajwa, who visited some prisoners in Ashkelon jail on Monday, […]

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