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PCHR: Sharawna deportation violates Geneva Conventions

Live Blog | Palestinian hunger striker Ayman Sharawna exiled to Gaza Maan News Agency | March 18, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The deportation to Gaza of hunger-striking prisoner Ayman Sharawna is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, a Palestinian rights group said Monday. Sharawna arrived in the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening after signing a […]

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CPJ’s Letter to Netanyahu: Israel must explain targeting of journalists in Gaza

Commitee to Protect Journalists | Dec 2, 2012 December 2, 2012 Hon. Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Israel 3 Kaplan St. P.O.B. 187 Kiryat Ben-Gurion Jerusalem 91919 Israel Via email: pm_eng@pmo.gov.il Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu, The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned that Israeli airstrikes targeted individual journalists and media facilities in the Gaza […]

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Netanyahu Pledges Continued Lawlessness ~ by @StephenLendman

Stephen Lendman | Indybay | Oct 27, 2012 What else can be expected from Israel’s worst ever leader. He’s a serial lawbreaker. He deplores democratic values. His contempt for non-Jews is palpable. He calls Palestinians sub-humans. It shows in how he treats them. Under international law, Israeli settlements are illegal. Fourth Geneva’s Article 49 states, […]

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#Estelle Ship to Gaza | PCHR Calls For The Immediate Release Of ‘Estelle’ International Activists

 Tuesday October 23, 2012 00:33 by Palestinian Centre For Human Rights – PCHR The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the interception by Israeli naval forces of the Swedish ship, the ‘Estelle’, on Sunday, 21 October 2012, while it was in international waters. The Estelle, before leaving Sweden (image from the Freedom Flotilla coalition) […]

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Netanyahu: No limits on Jerusalem construction

News Yahoo.com | Oct 21, 2012 JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to continue building in east Jerusalem, over the objection of Palestinians who claim the territory as capital of their hoped-for state. Netanyahu spoke Sunday after the European Union’s foreign policy chief criticized plans to build 800 new apartments and a […]

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IOF to use white phosphorus bombs in any future Gaza war

Gaza Under Attack – Timeline | Pictures Aug 2011 | Oct 2011 | Dec 2011| Jan 2012 [ 26/01/2012 – 05:36 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli army is to use the internationally-banned white phosphorus bombs in any future aggression on the Gaza Strip, Israeli press said. The English-language Israeli paper Jerusalem Post said […]

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Ten More Families To Be Evicted In Sheikh Jarrah

Wednesday April 20, 2011 16:45 by David Steele – 1 of International Middle East Media Center Editorial Group The Palestine News Network reports that extremist settlers handed out eviction notices to a further 10 families living in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem on Tuesday. A group of settlers from the Moskovich and Chibi Ali organizations […]

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Sawasya: Karam Abu Salim closure a crime against humanity

[ 12/04/2011 – 06:29 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Sawasya center for human rights in Palestine has called for the formation of a commission of border specialists to assess the impossible circumstances of life in the Gaza Strip seven days after Israel closed the Karam Abu Salim border crossing. The group called the terminal’s closure ”a […]

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Netanyahu approves building in Itamar settlement in WB

[ 12/04/2011 – 05:34 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu has approved construction plans of buildings in Itamar settlement north of the occupied West Bank, Hebrew media reported on Tuesday. Yediot Ahronot said that Netanyahu and his war minister Ehud Barak had agreed to the step, which would also allow development of buildings […]

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Islamic-Christian commission warns of serious Judaization plan in J’lem

[ 12/04/2011 – 05:38 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Islamic-Christian commission for the support of Jerusalem and holy sites revealed a comprehensive Israeli plan to Judaize the entire old city of occupied Jerusalem. Secretary-general of the commission Hasan Khater told a news conference on Monday that this Judaization plan is real and has been […]

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Israeli escalation in Gaza is a “cover-up for settlement activity”

Tuesday, 12 April 2011 12:10 Azzam El Ahmad called on the international community to shoulder its responsibility for recognizing the Palestinian state. A senior figure in Fatah has accused the Israeli government of escalating military activity against Gaza as a cover-up of continued illegal settlement expansion and building. Azzam El Ahmad said that Israel’s objective […]

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Armed Settlers supported by Israeli army attack Palestinian village

Posted by palestinesolidarity@gmail.com (ISM Palestine) at PS.HADNEWS.COM  on Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 8:19 am. 10 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement At 8.30am yesterday morning around fifty settlers, some masked and armed with guns, descended from Yitzhar settlement onto the Palestinian village of Assira Al Qibliya. International observers from the UK and Ireland witnessed […]

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Naim discusses health needs with int’l agencies in Gaza

[ 10/04/2011 – 07:50 PM GAZA, (PIC)– Minister of Health in Gaza Dr. Basem Naim discussed on Sunday with representatives of international agencies in the Strip the impact of the Israeli aggression and siege on the health sector. He warned of the repercussions of the Israeli military escalation in light of the acute shortage in […]

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Goldstone’s Rethink: Cleansing Israel’s War Crimes

By Jonathan Cook  | Sabbah Report | http://www.sabbah.biz | Apr 9, 2011 Israeli leaders have barely hidden their jubilation at an opinion article in last Friday’s Washington Post by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone reconsidering the findings of his United Nations-appointed inquiry into Israel’s attack on Gaza in winter 2008. For the past 18 […]

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Ihsanoglu condemns settlements activity in OJ

[ 07/04/2011 – 09:54 AM ] JEDDAH, (PIC)– Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the secretary general of the organization of Islamic conference (OIC), has condemned the recent Israeli decision to build 942 new housing units in occupied Jerusalem. He charged that the continued Israeli settlement expansion in the holy city constituted an “open war on the Palestinians […]

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