#PalestineUnderAttack | Daily roundups: Soldiers Ransack Homes and Kidnap 17 Palestinians In Jenin

  Tuesday September 02, 2014 10:54 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, ‘Anza village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, broke into and ransacked several homes, and kidnapped 17 Palestinians. Soldiers also invaded a flea market near Nablus, and closed it. File […]

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250 Palestinian minors locked up behind Israeli bars

[ PIC 01/09/2014 – 06:46 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– At least 250 Palestinian children, below the age of 18, are incarcerated in Israeli jails and have been subjected to acts of violence that stand in sharp in contrast with all international children rights conventions, the Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners and ex-Prisoners Affairs said in a […]

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Palestinian ex-detainee dies, another suffers serious health problems after deliberate medical neglect by Israel

[ PIC 31/08/2014 – 02:08 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Palestinian ex-detainee Sufiyan Iskafi, 31, was proclaimed dead after he lost his battle with cancer, while the health condition of ex-detainee Naim Shawamreh seriously declined, the Palestinian prisoner society said on Saturday. Director of the society in Al-Khalil Amjad Annajar said that Iskafi was jailed by […]

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Wheelchair bound Palestinian 24 days in Israeli detention center denied right to lawyer visits and medical check-ups

[ PIC 31/08/2014 – 02:25 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli prison authority has been holding disabled Palestinian detainee Shadi Daraghma, who is confined to a wheelchair, in al-Mascoubiya detention center for 24 uninterrupted days, denying him the right to lawyer visits and to urgent medical check-ups , the Palestinian Prisoner Society revealed on Sunday. […]

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Lessons from the Gaza War

Originally posted on Free Haifa:
There are many reasons why I didn’t write any political analysis at the time of this bloody war. One reason is that I only wanted the war to be over, to stop the bloodshed, while I knew that the longer Gaza can stand in the face of the Israeli genocidal…

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The Sphinx & Sisi

Originally posted on Words Reign Supreme:
Of the 7 billion inhabitants of planet earth there are few who know not of the silence of the Sphinx. Silent for thousands of years he threatens to speak: such has been the magic of Sisi. Consider the facts, in last week alone: – Mentally challenged young woman, reportedly,…

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Ceasefire. So Israel performs major crackdown in West Bank and extends detention of 51 Palestinian prisoners

Ma’an news Agency | Aug 27, 2014 | 21:38 (MaanImages/file) JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities have recently extended the detention of 51 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails, a rights group said on Wednesday. The extensions come amid a major Israeli crackdown on Palestinian dissent across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, where […]

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Egypt Cries Today

Originally posted on Words Reign Supreme:
There is much that is wrong with Egypt . Many people simply look at her and say I love you but can not fix what ails you or I simply dont know how. There are rare souls who give everything they are and were to a beloved nation. Today…

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Deliberate medical neglect: 40 Palestinians in Megiddo jail suffer extremely tragic conditions

Prisoner Mahmoud Hussein is paralysed and needs special medical care [ PIC 26/08/2014 – 03:26 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoner society said 40 prisoners detained in section 10 of Megiddo jail suffer from very tragic incarceration conditions. The lawyer of the society revealed, following a visit to the prison, that the Megiddo jailers […]

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The Gandhi Principle & The Middle East

Originally posted on Words Reign Supreme:
“The function of a civil resistor is to invoke a response’, one of the wisest men once said.  The notion that ‘ 100,000 Englishmen simply can not control 350,000,000 Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate.’ amazed me at a young age. Those were great words. That was among…

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Souls Lost. Souls remembered

Originally posted on Words Reign Supreme:
The idea forced its way to the surface: whether one person reads this, or 1 million, the soul I mourn must be remembered. Regardless of your beliefs two facts are universal: we are born and at some point in our journey we perish. Sometimes, in the all too often…

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The boy who clung to the paramedic: the story behind the photo

Originally posted on Epiphanies !:
This photo of a boy injured in an Israeli strike clinging to a medic at al-Shifa hospital went viral on the Internet. (Ezz al-Zanoun / APA images) Thursday night, 17 July, was the heaviest yet since Israel’s bombardment of Gaza began almost two weeks ago. Dozens of people arrived to Gaza…

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Names of the 2,090 Murdered by Israeli Attacks on Gaza: 22-Aug-2014

Originally posted on Occupied: Headlines From Palestine:
Tuesday, July 8: 1. Mohammed Sha’aban, 24, was killed in a bombing of his car in Gaza City. 2. Ahmad Sha’aban, 30, died in the same bombing. 3. Khadir al-Bashiliki, 45, died in the same bombing. 4. Rashad Yaseen, 27, was killed in a bombing of the Nusseirat…

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In Gaza havens are far, heavens are closer

Originally posted on Epiphanies !:
Palestinian medics carry a casualty as they run past a burning building in Gaza City’s Shijaiyah neighborhood, Sunday, July 20, 2014. (Photo: AP/Lefteris Pitarakis) Israel bombed the ice vendor. The blazing summer, made worse by the absence of electricity, drove dozens of people to gather around a small store which used…

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Look @ the Birdy: Egyptian style

Originally posted on Words Reign Supreme:
‘Look at the birdy‘ is a phrase few childhoods, the world over, are free of. But, whereas, those languid memories bring smiles and pleasure as children when we encounter the same dynamic, as adults, only trouble is our partner. Egypt, historically, has provided a perfect example of this and…

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