Israeli DCL stops granting entry permits till Eid al-Fitr

Al Ray News Agency | July 23, 2013 Gaza, Alray – Israeli District Coordination Liason Office (DCL) announced on Monday the stop of granting West Bank Palestinians entry permits to Jerusalem from July 22 till Eid al-Fitr ( Feast of Breaking the Fast). DCL office informed the Palestinian side of the decision without giving reasons. […]

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Israel closed Karm Abu Salem 17 days in April

[ PIC 04/05/2013 – 03:26 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The popular committee against the siege has said that Israel had closed Gaza’s sole commercial crossing Karm Abu Salem for 17 days during the past month of April. The committee said in a statement on Saturday that the closures were either due to weekend holidays, Fridays […]

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Israel closes Nablus checkpoints while settlers set fire to olive fields in ‘Awarta

All Israeli Attacks – Timeline | All Israeli cease Fire Violations – Timeline Maan News Agency | April 30, 2013 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces closed down the Huwara and Zatara checkpoints Tuesday, after hundreds of settlers wreaked havoc in the area, a Ma’an reporter said. Hundreds of settlers marched toward Zaatara checkpoint where a […]

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Khudari: Israeli closure of Gaza crossing is mass punishment

[ PIC 28/04/2013 – 11:27 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular committee against siege, denounced the Israeli occupation authorities’ closure of the Karm Abu Salem commercial crossing with the Gaza Strip on Sunday. He said in a press release that the repeated closure of the sole commercial crossing for […]

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IOF soldiers serve summons in Bethlehem village, close main road in Al-Khalil

[ PIC 20/04/2013 – 03:26 PM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) served a summons to a young man in Husan village, Bethlehem province, on Saturday after storming and searching his family home. Local sources said that IOF soldiers broke into the home of 19-year-old Daoud Al-Shaer’s family home and ordered him to appear […]

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Israel’s occupation forces declares Kufr Qaddoum village closed military zone

[ PIC 20/04/2013 – 11:03 AM ] QALQILIA, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) declared Kufr Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia city, a closed military zone on Saturday morning and prohibited entry into it. Eyewitnesses said that IOF troops converged on the village since the early morning hours and set up a roadblock at the […]

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Israel imposes hermetic closure on West Bank

Al Qassam website | 15-04-2013,08:01 The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) imposed a hermetic closure on the West Bank as of today Sunday. Hebrew daily Maariv said that the closure would be on the occasion of the so-called “Independence Day” (the usurpation of Palestine). The paper said that Israeli police forces would be deployed in all […]

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1.7 Million people suffer collective punishment: Israel closes Abu Salem crossing for 4 days

[ PIC 29/03/2013 – 01:03 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) re-closed Karam Abu Salem crossing southern Gaza strip for 4 days after opening it for only one day, the Popular Committee Against the Siege said. The Palestinian follow-up committee of crossings sated on Thursday that the crossing continued to be closed […]

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Collective Punishment: Israel closes Abu Salem crossing for the 7th consecutive day

[ PIC 27/03/2013 – 09:39 PM ] RAFAH,(PIC)– The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) continued to close Karam Abu Salem crossing near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip for the seventh consecutive day. Karam Abu Salem is the only commercial crossing in the Gaza Strip and through which goods, fuel and aid allowed by IOA to […]

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Ashrawi slams lack of permits for Christians on Palm Sunday

Maan News Agency | March 24, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — PLO official Hanan Ashrawi on Sunday criticized a reported shortage of Israeli-issued permits for Christian communities in the West Bank to visit holy sites in Jerusalem, a statement said. Parishes in Bethlehem and Ramallah only received 30 to 40 percent of requested permits to visit […]

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Obama in the West Bank: Map of Palestine Removed From Entrance of Jesus Place of Birth

Kawther Salam | March 22, 2013 The Palestinian Authority has spent thousands of the donation dollars meant for poor Palestinians to raise US flags and impose new repressive measures in Ramallah and Bethlehem, were the centres of the cities were closed and restrictive controls were imposed on the movement of all Palestinians. Several thousands of […]

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Israel to withhold Palestinian funds until March, at least

Maan News Agency | Dec 12, 2012 JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israel will withhold tax revenues from President Mahmoud Abbas’s administration until March at least in response to his statehood campaign at the United Nations, Israel’s foreign minister said. Under interim peace deals, Israel collects some $100 million a month in duties on behalf of the […]

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#Christianity under Attack | #Israel seizes financial accounts of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem

[ PIC 12/11/2012 – 09:51 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The head of the Board of Directors of the Jerusalem District Electricity company, Yousef Al Dajani, called for an urgent processing of the file of the crisis of the company’s accumulated debt for the Israeli occupation. This came after the Israeli water company implemented a […]

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#VIDEO | Welcome to Bir Nabala: Transformed into a Ghost-Town due to the Israeli Apartheid Wall

Nov 5, 2012 by btselem The town of Bir Nabala, next to Jerusalem, is trapped in an enclave of the Separation Barrier. A residential suburb of East Jerusalem since the 1970s, Bir Nabala enjoyed relative prosperity in the 1990s thanks to its central location and easy access to Ramallah and East Jerusalem, and from there […]

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Collective Punishment: Israeli soldiers delay passage of thousands of citizens at Container barrier

[ PIC 31/10/2012 – 01:17 PM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) closed the Container roadblock on Wednesday morning practically isolating the northern West Bank from its southern areas. Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that the IOF soldiers blocked hundreds of cars and thoroughly searched each one and each and every passenger boarding them. […]

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