Israel Denies Electricity to Palestinians: Orders Removal of EU-funded Solar Cells

Global Research, March 19, 2013 AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) ordered the removal of solar cell panels providing a Palestinian community east of Yatta town in Al-Khalil with electric power. Local sources reported that the occupation civil administration handed on Friday notices to the residents of Umm Al-Kharouba area near Yatta stating that […]

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Israel orders removal of EU-funded solar cells in Al-Khalil

[ PIC 16/03/2013 – 02:09 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) ordered the removal of solar cell panels providing a Palestinian community east of Yatta town in Al-Khalil with electric power. Local sources reported that the occupation civil administration handed on Friday notices to the residents of Umm Al-Kharouba area near Yatta […]

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Resheq: Medical and food supplies are still denied access to Yarmouk camp

[ PIC 02/01/2013 – 01:04 PM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– Member of Hamas’s political bureau Ezzat Al-Resheq said the Syrian regime forces still prevent for the 10th day the access of medical and food supplies the Palestinian refugee camp Al-Yarmouk in Damascus. In a press statement to Quds Press on Tuesday, Resheq affirmed that Al-Yarmouk refugee […]

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Israeli aggression against Palestinians continues: Homes and Solar power installations demolished

MEMO | Nov 5, 2012 Israeli forces have demolished a number of houses and solar-power units in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces have demolished a number of houses and solar-power units in the occupied West Bank and thirteen Palestinians have been detained, most of them minors. In Gaza, yet another Palestinian has been shot […]

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Gaza’s Impoverishment Leading to Desperation

PNN English | September 25, 2012 On Tuesday 25th September, Oxfam said in a press release that the self-immolation of 18-year-old Ihab Abu Nader at the end of August shocked the Gaza Strip, now in its sixth year under Israeli blockade, shedding light once again on the poverty aggravated by the protracted closure. The teenage […]

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Gazans Pay One-third of Income for Clean Water

Gazans Pay One-third of Income for Clean Water Al Qassam Website 12-08-2012,14:03 Gaza Strip – Gaza’s population is increasing, and the water supply is not keeping pace according to Oxfam, the British human rights organization. In a new report, the group asserts that Gazans are spending as much as one-third of their household income on […]

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Gaza Tunnels: Closing the Lifelines

The closure of smuggling tunnels has led to the increase of prices of goods and merchandise, most notably building materials. Petrol began disappearing from stations. (Photo: Shuaib Abu Jahal)  Qais Safadi  | Al Akhbar English | August 12, 2012 Gaza – For the past six days, more than one and a half million people in […]

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Gaza Power Outages Continue

Monday August 06, 2012 15:06 by Kelly Joiner – IMEMC & Agencies The people in Gaza continue to suffer from rolling blackouts as its lone power plant is unable to meet the demands of residents and the Israeli occupation blocks access to help. Gazans protest continual power outages by candelight. Source: Time.com Current supplies of […]

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Attili: Israeli settlers draining Palestinian water supply

Maan News Agency | July 29, 2012 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israel allocates 70 times more water to each settler than to the average Palestinian in the West Bank, the head of the Palestinian Water Authority said Sunday. At a press conference in Ramallah, Shaddad Attili said Palestinians received 105 million cubic meters of water, less […]

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OIC: Gaza suffers acute shortage in drinking water

[ PIC 23/06/2012 – 05:38 PM ] Jeddah, (PIC)– The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) stated that the Gaza Strip is suffering an acute shortage in potable water, because of its reliance on groundwater, which is plagued by pollution and high salinity. The OIC said in its monthly report, which monitors the humanitarian conditions in […]

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Israel orders demolition of homes, solar panel near Hebron

Maan News Agency | June 19, 2012   HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities handed demolition orders on Monday for four homes and a solar panel in a south Hebron village, official media said. Popular committee spokesman Rateb Jabour to PA news agency Wafa that the orders were given to four members of the Abu Jundiya […]

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#IsraelKills by deprivation – Gaza baby dies as power cut shuts breathing aid – Video

Maan News Agency | March 24, 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A seven-month-old baby in Gaza died on Friday evening after medical equipment he was connected to switched off as a result of a power cut, a Hamas-affiliated TV channel said. Gaza medical spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya confirmed the incident, adding that the infant was […]

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Gaza supplied with 450 litres of industrial diesel to run the power station

[ PIC 23/03/2012 – 07:01 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Ahmad Abu al-Amrain, head of the information office at the Energy and Natural Resources Authority in Gaza said that they have received confirmation of the start of delivery of 450 thousand litres of industrial diesel imported for the Israeli occupation through the Karm Abu Salem crossing. […]

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New UN report on takeover of Palestinian water springs by Jewish settlers

[ PIC 20/03/2012 – 09:35 AM ] NEW YORK, (PIC)– The UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said the Jewish settlers in the West Bank has significantly impaired Palestinian access to and use of a growing number of water springs. In a recent report issued by OCHA, it is clearly stated that […]

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Palestinians prepare to lose the solar panels that provide a lifeline

Israel is planning to demolish ‘illegal’ solar panels that are the only source of electricity for Palestinians in West Bank villages Phoebe Greenwood in Tel Aviv| guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 14 March 2012 A Palestinian man looks at a solar panel in the southern West Bank village of Imneizil. Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images Two large solar panels […]

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