@BBC denies reality of how siege hurts healthcare in Gaza

Amena Saleem | 11/22/2013 – 19:08 | Electronic Intifada In April this year, the BBC’s Director-General Tony Hall gave assurances to members of Parliament about the BBC’s impartiality when covering Palestine. He also told MPs that the BBC’s complaints process, headed by the BBC Trust, provides adequate checks and balances. However, some of the BBC’s […]

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Army Kidnaps 25 Social Media Activists In Jerusalem

 Thursday November 07, 2013 13:15 by IMEMC & Agencies Occupied Jerusalem – Israeli soldiers and police officers kidnapped on Wednesday evening [November 6 2013] 25 young Palestinian men and women, active in social network sites, exposing Israeli violations. Israeli Soldiers – File Milad News Head of the Jerusalem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society Nasser […]

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Israeli forces commit 13 violations against Palestinian journalists in October

Al Ray Agencies | Nov 3, 2013 Gaza, ALRAY – Israeli occupation forces committed 13 violations against Palestinian journalists during last October , Government Media Office(GMO) reported. According to the monthly report of the GMO, the Israeli troops arrested seven journalists and cameramen in the West Bank. In addition to that the Israeli court confirmed […]

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Israel holds journalist Mohamed Mouna in administrative detention | cc @pressfreedom @RSF_RWB

[ PIC 30/10/2013 – 11:37 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– An Israeli court has ordered the administrative detention of Palestinian journalist Mohamed Mouna, the Quds Press News correspondent, for six months rejecting his appeal for release. Ofer Military Court has approved the administrative detention of Journalist Mouna without charge or trial till February 2014, refusing his […]

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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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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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French Press Agency (@AFP) Posts Defamatory and False Info-Graphic About Palestine ~ by @sallyidwedar

Originally posted on Sally Idwedar: A Life in Gaza:
Agence France-Presse has recently posted a info-graphic on discrimination against women. The info-graphic caption: In 15 countries, women can’t get a job without their husband’s permission. Wow- how horrible is it that a woman must get her husband’s permission to work! Included in the 15 countries…

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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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Conversations on Palestine: The role and failure of journalism ~ Frank Barat talks to John Pilger

OpEdNews | Sept 21, 2013  As part of an ongoing series of interviews for the radio show “Le Mur a Des Oreilles; conversations for Palestine,” Frank Barat talks to John Pilger, one of the most influencial journalist of the last few decades, about the war in Syria, the colonization of Palestine, the relationship between the corporate media […]

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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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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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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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(Updated) No white hat-reward for Palestinian @khalilshreateh who ‘hacked’ Zuckerberg Facebook page? | #HireKhalil ;)

Ma’an News Agency | Aug 20, 2013 (Developments are updated below this post) SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — A researcher who hacked into Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg’s profile to expose a security flaw won’t get the customary reward payment from the social network. While Facebook offers rewards for those who find security holes, it seems that […]

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Israeli PR Head issued warnings over racist, offensive Facebook postings

 Monday August 19, 2013 00:28 by Celine Hagbard – IMEMC News Danny Seaman, who recently became the head of Israel’s ‘Internet Hasbara (Hebrew for Propaganda)’ branch of the government, has been issued a warning by the Netanyahu administration for a series of racist and offensive postings against Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims and Japanese people on his […]

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