Palestine | News & Headlines – Aug 18, 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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STATEMENT OF PFLP | PFLP to help rebuild Gaza

By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | August 18, 2014 Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Aug. 17 statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP): PFLP vows to work to rebuild homes as delegation visits Khuza’a and Shuja’iya A leadership delegation of the Popular Front for the […]

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Gruesome Tales Surface of Israeli Massacres Against Families in Gaza Neighborhood ~ by @MaxBlumenthal

Visiting what remains of Shujaiya yields evidence of massacres and stories of impossible courage. August 17, 2014  |  by Max Blumenthal | Alternet As the five-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold on August 15, residents of Shujaiya returned to the shattered remains of their homes. They pitched tents and erected signs asserting their […]

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#Gaza | Israel: profiting from both the destruction and aid of Gaza

PACBI | Aug 18, 2014 In the past month, a plethora of emergency aid responses, organisational position statements and NGO campaigns have been launched in response to the catastrophic Israeli assault on Gaza. Unfortunately, these have been of mixed quality, with most of them making strong comments on the level of destruction in Gaza yet, […]

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#Gaza | More than 200,000 labourers in Gaza now unemployed

MEMO | Monday, 18 August 2014 10:46 According to the statement, 30,000 workers lost their jobs due to the latest Israeli war on the Strip, as a large number of factories, shops and economic firms have been destroyed. The number of workers who are out of work because of the ongoing siege is 170,000. The […]

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Israel bans Amnesty, HRW from entering Gaza Strip

  PressTV | Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:17PM GMT Israel has banned Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) representatives from entering the besieged Gaza Strip in order to launch their investigations into the Israeli onslaught on the coastal enclave. Media reports said on Monday that both human rights organizations have been trying to obtain […]

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10 New Prisoners Placed Under (Arbitrary) Israeli Administrative Detention

 Monday August 18, 2014 07:23 by IMEMC News & Agencies Israel announces expansion of Gaza fishing zone as a ‘goodwill gesture’ Israel has placed 10 new Palestinian prisoners under arbitrary administrative detention, a procedure which allows the military to hold individuals indefinitely, without charge or trial and, often, under severe conditions which the rest of […]

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Six Palestinians Kidnapped In West Bank

 Monday August 18, 2014 10:05 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, dozens of Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, ransacking homes while interrogating families, and kidnapping at least six Palestinians. File – Image By Hebron Defense Committee Local sources said dozens of soldiers […]

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Israel’s Real Target is Not Hamas

By Dan Glazebrook | Global Research, August 18, 2014 All colonial settler states are based on the violent dispossession of the native peoples – and as a result, their fundamental and overriding aim has always been to keep those native peoples as weak as possible. Israel’s aim for the Palestinians is no different. Palestinian statehood […]

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Incitement to Genocide “Incredibly Common in Israeli Political Discourse”

Deputy Speaker of Israeli Knesset Called for Expulsion and Jewish Reoccupation of Gaza By Max Blumenthal and Paul Jay | Global Research, August 18, 2014 PAUL JAY: In Israel’s attacks on Gaza, it’s now more than 1,900 people that are dead, more than 460 of which our children. And the debate within Israel perhaps gets […]

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Only Medicine Company in Gaza Targeted by Israel Occupation Air Strikes

Originally posted on Occupied: Headlines From Palestine:
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The only medicine company in the Gaza Strip was targeted during the Israeli offensive, causing the company half a million dollars in losses, executives said Monday. The general manager of Middle East Pharmaceutical and Cosmetics Laboratories, or Megapharm, told Ma’an that the company lost…

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#GazaUnderAttack | JI holds Gaza ‘Million March’ in Karachi

[ PIC 18/08/2014 – 06:32 PM ] KARACHI, (PIC)– Demanding an end to Gaza massacre, thousands of people led by Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq on Sunday joined Gaza Million March to express solidarity with the Palestinians. People belonging to different walks of life including women and children and senior citizens participated in the mammoth […]

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Israel terrorizing Al-Aqsa Mosque and worshipers – In Photos

Aug 18, 2014 Below a compilation of photos by @Silwanic of the continuous desecration and harassment of worshipers to Al-Aqsa. While Muslims are mostly not even allowed to pray at Al-Aqsa, Zionist right wing walks around accompanied by police and/or army:   Feiglin breaks into Al-Aqsa and practices his religious rituals in its courtyards and […]

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No Rockets in West-Bank: But Israel’s Army Detonates Two Homes In Hebron, Seals One With Concrete Blocs

  Monday August 18, 2014 11:13 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli soldiers wired and detonated two Palestinian homes in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and sealed the home of a third Palestinian with concrete. A Palestinian home was also demolished in occupied East Jerusalem. File – […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Crime Against Humanity: What Makes Israel is an Apartheid Regime

 By Kourosh Ziabari | Global Research, August 18, 2014 When talking of apartheid, people spontaneously visualize the period between 1948 and 1999 when the strict rules of racial segregation were in place in South Africa. “Apartheid” is an Afrikaans word, which means the state of being apart. Apartheid laws were abolished following the general elections […]

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