Tension running high in Occupied Jerusalem as health status of Palestinian child (shot in head) worsens

[ PIC 01/09/2014 – 08:09 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A state of swelling tension has flared up on the peripheries of Jerusalem’s Old City, particularly across Wadi al-Jouz neighborhood, following the exacerbation of the health status of Palestinian 16-year-old child, Abdul Majid Sunkqrat, shot in the head by the Israeli police on Sunday evening. […]

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Qatari Emir: Qatari reconstruction efforts to kick off in Gaza

[ PIC 01/09/2014 – 08:52 AM ] GAZA,(PIC)– Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad confirmed Sunday during a phone conversation with deputy chief of Hamas political bureau Ismail Haneyya that his country has already started preparations for the reconstruction of Gaza. He assured Haneyya that Qatar is simply undertaking its humanitarian responsibility towards Gaza which […]

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Israeli fire on Rafah raises war crimes claim – Video

    Published on Aug 31, 2014 Palestinian human rights groups are trying to initiate an international investigation into the treatment of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli military during the Gaza war that could amount to war crimes. On August the first, and only two hours into a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire, Israel sealed off Gaza’s […]

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Israeli NGO says scope of new land grab unprecedented since 1980s – Video

    Published on Aug 31, 2014 Palestinians slam the Israeli army’s announcement of new land grabs in the occupied West Bank, calling for international action against Tel Aviv.     THE LEGAL RIGHT OF RESISTANCE Is Resisting Genocide a Human Right? 81 Notre Dame Law Review1275 (2006). Conducting an in-depth study of the genocide […]

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Israel seizes PA tax revenues, official says

Ma’an News Agency | (updated) 01/09/2014 12:17 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israel has seized some 200 million shekels ($55 million) from monthly tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, a senior Palestinian official told Ma’an on Monday. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Israel took a cut of 90 […]

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Israeli forces detain 7 Palestinians in Nablus refugee camp

Ma’an News Agency | (updated) 01/09/2014 11:03 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces raided the al-Fara refugee camp in Nablus overnight and detained seven Palestinians, locals said. Witnesses told Ma’an that 15 military jeeps and armored personnel carriers raided the camp from several directions and broke into dozens of houses. The home of a senior official […]

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Watch: US broadcaster Mike Malloy wipes the floor with Israel apologists

 Redress | Aug 31, 2014 Reasoning with a Zionist is an oxymoron. It is as self-contradictory as saying something is falsely true. This, we have no doubt, is the conclusion everyone who has tried to have a rational, fact-based debate with Zionists would have drawn. If that is also your experience – or if you […]

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#PalestineUnderAttack | First Scientific Studies Highlight Environmental Catastrophe due to Israeli Occupation

By Global Research News | Global Research, August 31, 2014 | Bethlehem University Over the last 40 years occupied Palestine has witnessed a catastrophic decline in biodiversity.  Loss of habitat, desertification and pollution of water sources have all been linked to the occupation by Israeli forces. This summer scientific research led by Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Israel keeping Gaza siege despite deal: Official

MEMO | Sunday, 31 August 2014 13:32   Israel has not begun to implement a lift on a years-long siege on the Gaza Strip, a senior Palestinian border official saidSunday, despite a recent cease-fire agreement that entailed opening all border crossings between Israel and the embattled enclave.“Commercial activity at Kerem Shalom crossing remains the same […]

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Lawyer: 2 minors being held in Israeli prison beaten with rifles

Ma’an News Agency | (updated) 31/08/2014 20:22 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Two Palestinian youths being held in Israel’s Etzion detention center south of Bethlehem have been beaten by Israeli officers, a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Sunday. Jacklin Fararja recently visited Badri Abu Zalata, 14, and Kazhim al-Najjar, 16, and said they told her […]

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“Truce Negotiations”? Netanyahu warns of reoccupation of Gaza again – Video

Published on Aug 31, 2014 Less than a week after Tel Aviv’s 50-day war on the Gaza Strip came to an end, the Israeli prime minister is once again warning about the occupation of the besieged region. Benjamin Netanyahu has defended Tel Aviv’s devastating war on Gaza, adding that toppling Hamas still tops the agenda. […]

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Tel Aviv to expropriate 400 hectares of Palestinian land in West Bank – VIDEO

      Published on Aug 31, 2014 The military says 400 hectares of land at the settlement of Gevaot in the southern city of Bethlehem are declared as Israeli land. The settlement’s council has welcomed the plan, expressing hope that it will pave the way for the expansion of the Gevaot settlement and for […]

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South African medical team arrives in Gaza

Ma’an News Agency | Aug 31, 2014 | 17:33 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A South African medical team arrived in Gaza on Sunday to assist in the treatment of thousands of Palestinians injured in Israel’s 51-day assault on the Strip. In a news conference at al-Shifa hospital, the director of the Gift of the Givers […]

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Israel fiasco in Gaza spurs US sanctions: Iranian MP

PressTV | Sun Aug 31, 2014 2:3PM GMT The failures suffered by the United States and the Israeli regime are the main reason behind a new round of sanctions against the Islamic Republic, a senior Iranian lawmaker says. “The US and Israel are trying to make up for their failures by imposing new sanctions [on […]

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Ceasefire in Gaza. So Israeli occupation regime confiscates four thousands dunums in West Bank

[ PIC 31/08/2014 – 02:19 PM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Israeli Occupation Authoriteis (IOA) decided to confiscate around four thousand dunums of Palestinian lands, which surround the Israeli settlement of Gush Etzion, south of Bethlehem. The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Yoav Mordechai, told the Israeli Channel 7, on Sunday morning, that the confiscation […]

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