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Israeli forces detain Palestine TV team

Ma’an news Agency | 11/10/2013 16:15 The director of Palestine TV accuses Israeli forces of targeting the PA-run news source. QALQILIYA (Ma’an) — Israeli forces Friday prevented a Palestinian news team from entering the northern West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum to cover the weekly protest, a Palestine TV director said. Ezzat Oba, director of […]

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Double Standard Victims of Israel’s War on Palestine ~ by @StephenLendman

by Stephen Lendman | Stephen Lendman Blog | Oct 9, 2013 Brutalizing Palestinians is longstanding. Crimes of war, against humanity, and slow-motion genocide reflect it. So do colonization, apartheid and daily state terror. Militarized occupation is lawless and brutal. Previous articles explained. Torture, inhumane and degrading treatment reflect official Israeli policy. Children are treated like […]

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Israeli forces detain local committee activist near Hebron

Maan News Agency | Sept 28, 2013  16:13 Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinians during military operation in the West Bank city of Nablus, January 7, 2007. (MaanImages/Rami Swidan) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Saturday detained Ratib al-Jubour, coordinator of a popular committee against Israel’s separation wall and settlement activities in south Hebron area. According to […]

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Report: occupation has arrested 80 thousand Palestinians since Al-Aqsa Intifada

[ PIC 27/09/2013 – 09:23 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– A Palestinian official report stated that the Israeli forces arrested tens of thousands of Palestinians during the last thirteen years that followed the Al-Aqsa Intifada of September 2000. The Department of Statistics in the Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs said in a report released on Friday, […]

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Israel police arrests journalists at Jerusalem

Al Ray Agencies | Sept 24, 2013 Gaza, ALRAY – Israel police arrested on Tuesday at dawn journalist Mahmoud Abu Attah , the director of Media department at the Al-Aqsa foundation for Islamic Heritage and took him to Al-Muskubīya interrogation center, Al-Aqsa foundation reported. The foundation reported that arresting   Abu Attah  at Al-Aqsa mosque reflected […]

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Zatara checkpoint soldiers beat three young men, detain one of them

[ PIC 19/09/2013 – 02:26 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) physically assaulted three young men and kidnapped one of them after intercepting them at Zatara checkpoint, south of Nablus city. The Palestinian prisoner society said that the IOF at Zatara checkpoint brutally beat Wajdi Shalabi, 21, and two of his friends […]

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Cristina Paterno’s Book Review of “Understanding Palestine”, Essays by Tariq Shadid (@docjazzmusic)

Saturday, 14 September 2013 | Musical Intifada By Cristina Paterno – Why a review now of a book that was published in 2007? Because regardless of the publishing time, the moment I saw the title I immediately thought: this is the book for me. What I really need is a clear understanding of what is […]

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1948 Palestinians commemorate 56th anniversary of Sandala village massacre

[ PIC 14/09/2013 – 03:33 PM ] Victims of the Sandala village massacre poses for a picture in 1957 NAZARETH, (PIC)– Hundreds of Palestinian natives from the 1948 occupied lands participated on Friday in a rally commemorating the 56th anniversary of the Israeli massacre in Sandala village that had claimed the lives of 15 students […]

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MADA: PA coerces detained journalists to reveal their emails

[ PIC 07/09/2013 – 11:14 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) accused the PA forces of forcing detained journalists to reveal their emails and social profiles passwords during investigation. MADA monitored during the past 20 months attacks on journalists for expressing their opinion on Facebook, and some journalists […]

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Israeli TV broadcasts operetta that hails Egyptian military coup

Middle East Monitor | Sept 2, 2013 Israeli mass media broadcast on Monday morning the operetta “Blessed are the Hands” to hail the Egyptian military forces that carried out the coup in Egypt last month.   Israel’s Channel 2 TV broadcast the operetta after Egyptian military bulldozers razed residential houses in the Egyptian Rafah in […]

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Daily zionist pogrom update – Sept 2, 2013: Israeli Assaults and Arrests in West Bank Palestine

[ PIC 02/09/2013 – 10:04 AM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up 15 Palestinians in various West Bank cities, villages and refugee camps in violent dawn raids on Monday. Local sources said that the soldiers broke into homes and beat up inhabitants before taking away those “wanted” for interrogation. The sources […]

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Social Activist Kidnapped By The Army At Erez Terminal

 Tuesday August 27, 2013 10:12 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday morning [August 27, 2013], a Palestinian social activist, head of the Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation (PYALARA) after heading to the Erez Israeli terminal in an attempt to obtain a permit to head to the […]

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Israeli occupation blocks travel of 30 Palestinians in one week

[ PIC 25/08/2013 – 09:58 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) blocked the travel of 30 Palestinian citizens in the West Bank via the Karame crossing leading to Jordan over the past week. A report by the Karame police station on Saturday said that the IOA told 30 citizens they were not […]

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Family of kidnapped Palestinian journalist appeals for help | @Pressfreedom @RSF_RWB

Ma’an News Agency | Aug 25, 2013   JENIN (Ma’an) — The family of a Palestinian journalist who was kidnapped 16 months ago in the Philippines on Friday appealed to rights organizations to do more for his release. Baker Atyani, Al-Arabiya’s TV bureau chief for Southeast Asia, was kidnapped in June 2012 by the Abu […]

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