Palestine | News & Headlines – Aug 19, 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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#WatchIsrael | Israel resumes airstrikes on Gaza in new violation of 24-hour truce mediated in Cairo

[ PIC 19/08/2014 – 05:13 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli warplanes bombed on Tuesday evening different targets in Gaza Strip in a new violation of the 24-hour truce mediated last night by Cairo. Local sources said that Israeli airstrikes targeted agricultural lands east of Badawiya village north of Gaza Strip, the Zaytun neighborhood in Gaza […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Five injured as Israel resumes air attacks on Gaza Strip

 Smoke billows following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the south of Gaza Strip, on August 19, 2014. PRESSTV | Tue Aug 19, 2014 4:46PM GMT At least five Palestinians, including two children, have been injured in the Gaza Strip as Israel resumes pounding the besieged sliver. The renewed Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday hit several […]

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Shin Bet prevents thousands of Palestinians from traveling to Jordan

UDHR Art 13:2: “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country” [ PIC 19/08/2014 – 12:11 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli Shin Bet security service prevented thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank from entering Jordan through al- Karama border crossing since last month without […]

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Jewish settlers physically assault Jerusalemite young man

[ PIC 19/08/2014 – 02:47 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A Jerusalemite young man was brutally beaten a few days ago by dozens of Jewish settlers during his work at Al-Baz gas station in Bab Al-Wad area in west Jerusalem. Shadi Al-Tamimi, who is suffering from bruises on his body, explained that he was with […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Israel uses internationally banned flechette shells in Gaza

[ PIC 19/08/2014 – 02:55 PM ] KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)– The 24-year-old Mahmoud Abu Rock was asleep in his house in Khuzaa town east of Khan Younis when shrapnel of an Israeli flechette shell hit him over a month ago. During an interview with the PIC reporter, Abu Rock has brought a dart with a […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | @Amnesty and @HRW say Israel and Egypt bar their entry to Gaza

[ PIC 19/08/2014 – 02:56 PM ] WASHINGTON, (PIC)– Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the Israeli and Egyptian authorities obstruct their efforts to investigate allegations of war crimes and human rights violations in the Gaza Strip. Representatives from the two organizations have failed to get official permissions to enter Gaza from Israel […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Hamas holds Israel responsible for talks faltering

[ PIC 19/08/2014 – 04:15 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas Movement held Israel fully responsible for faltering truce talks in Cairo due to its continued prevarication in reaching a long-term ceasefire agreement. In a brief statement issued on Tuesday evening, spokesman for the Movement Sami Abu Zuhri called on Israel to stop wasting chances for […]

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Hamas: Netanyahu’s threats are only to support Israelis psychologically

Spokesperson of Hamas, Sami Abu Zohri  Al Ray Agencies | Aug 19, 2014 Gaza, ALRAY – Spokesperson of Hamas, Sami Abu Zohri considered on Monday evening Netanyahu’s threats to violently attack and destroy Gaza if the Palestinians launch rockets on Israel as valueless. “Netanyahu’s threats to attack Gaza are valueless and aim to raise the […]

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Israeli settlement project aims at gulping down 85% of historical Palestine

[ PIC 19/08/2014 – 09:00 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli settlement plans put into effect in the West Bank are an episode in a long-chained series broadcast since the end of the 19th century so as to hold sway over 85% of the overall area of historical Palestine, specialized Palestinian studies revealed. The study, […]

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#PalestineUnderAttack | Israeli forces, settlers’ attacks reported in Nahalin village

[ PIC 19/08/2014 – 09:24 AM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Israeli settlers threw stones at Palestinian vehicles in Nahalin village, east of Bethlehem, on Tuesday morning. Local sources reported that a group of settlers from Beitar Illit settlement, built on lands of Nahalin, Houssan, and Wadi Fuqan villages, attacked Palestinian vehicles while passing by the main […]

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#PalestineUnderAttack | Israeli settler gangs led by fanatic Yehuda Glick defile al-Aqsa Mosque

[ PIC 19/08/2014 – 09:27 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A flock of Israeli settler gangs, led by fanatic rabbi Yehuda Glick and escorted by dozens of Israeli occupation police, vandalized holy al-Aqsa Mosque early Tuesday morning. Eye-witnesses said the occupation police officers, cordoning off al-Aqsa gates, have come down heavily on the peaceful Palestinian […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | 100 int’l groups sign petition in support of Palestinian truce demands

[ PIC 19/08/2014 – 11:40 AM ] PARIS, (PIC)– 100 international organizations signed a petition supporting the justice of the Palestinian demands being tabled in Cairo truce talks, especially with regard to ending Israel’s land and sea blockade on the Gaza Strip. “We support the demands of the Palestinian delegation to Cairo, and emphasize that […]

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Hasbara Update | Yedioth Ahronoth: The US and Israel agreed secretly to ease Gaza siege

[ PIC 19/08/2014 – 09:06 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper claimed on Tuesday that the US and Israel agreed in camera on steps to end the blockade on the Gaza Strip gradually by opening crossings. The newspaper quoted Israeli official sources in occupied Jerusalem as saying that US secretary of state John […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | LIVE BLOG | To Lift or Not to Lift the Siege, Should Not Even Be a Question!

Aug 19, 2014 – by @occpal | Continuous Updates After an over 30 day long Israeli carnage in Gaza, costing 2017 lives of which 540 children, over 10.000 wounded, 500,000 people displaced, ceasefires have been agreed upon and violated. The destruction is unprecedented. Extended and violated again. For an overview of recent Israeli ceasefire violations […]

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