Tag Archives: 2010

Former Israeli navy commander questioned at a London airport

Being questioned while traveling in Europe has also been a concern for senior IDF officials Gaza, ALRAY | Oct 14, 2013 The British authorities have stopped and questioned former Israeli navy commander Eliezer Marom upon arriving London’s Heathrow Airport Monday, Ynetnews.com reported. Marom was commander of the Israeli navy when 13 Israeli commandos committed a […]

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ICC investigating Israel’s attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla | #MaviMarmara

An Israeli speedboat escorts the Mavi Marmara near the port of Ashdod on May 31, 2010. PressTV | Wed May 15, 2013 2:32AM GMT On May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos attacked the first Freedom Flotilla in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea, killing nine Turkish citizens, including a teenager with Turkish-US dual citizenship, on board […]

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Olive Harvest in Palestine 2010 – in pictures

1.2 Million Olive Trees have been destroyed, uprooted, torched even stolen or otherwise vanished from Palestinian lands. The Olive agriculture represents 25% of Palestine’s agricultural resources. In increasing speed, zionist occupation annexates lands and thus also olive fields of families making their living of the harvest of olives for food, export, to produce oil, soap […]

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OCHA: More Palestinians displaced this year than 2009, 2010

[ 01/08/2011 – 10:36 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The UN Organization for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories has issued a report documenting that home demolitions in Area C of the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem this year had nearly doubled when compared to the same period of last year. The […]

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Settler violence on the rise; violent incidents in 2011 may double those in 2010

  By Tom Perry – Thu Jul 14, 9:30 am ET | Reuters HUWARA, West Bank (Reuters) – Scorched hillsides and charred olive groves near Nablus pinpoint the latest acts of arson by hardline Jewish settlers against Palestinians who say they are ever more the victims of such attacks in the West Bank. “The olive tree is the only […]

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The Mavi Marmara Massacre – in pictures

█▌ UPDATE  Sept 2, 2011 The Palmer Committee Final Report – UN – DOWNLOAD PDF The Palmer Report: Another Attempt by Israel to Whitewash Murder? | PRESS RELEASE Why the UN’s Palmer-Uribe report on Israel’s flotilla attack is worthless | Analysis by Ali Abunimah Palmer Report’s Fatal Flaws | Palestine Chronicle All previous and news […]

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Report: More than 130 prison raids in 2010

[ 17/04/2011 – 05:36 PM ] VIENNA, (PIC)– A report by Vienna-based Friend of Humanity International documents that this year was ”not normal in the lives of Palestinian prisoners”, as the Israeli prison authority more than 130 cell raids on Palestinian prisoners this year alone. The report details human rights violations that took place in […]

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PCBS: Rate of Settlement Construction Quadrupled Last Year

29.03.11 – 13:58 The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics revealed today that the rate of settlement construction in the West Bank has quadrupled over the past year. (PNN Archive) In 2010 over 6,764 new housing units were added to existing settlements compared with 1,703 in 2009. According to the data the total number of settlements, […]

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