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#GazaUnderAttack | Medics: Israel war causes human catastrophe in Gaza

A wounded Palestinian boy, who was injured in an Israeli airstrike, is wheeled into a hospital in Gaza City. PressTV | July 19, 2014 Palestinian doctors have warned of a catastrophic situation in the besieged Gaza Strip due to shortage of basic healthcare facilities and medical supplies. Medical officials in Gaza told a Press TV […]

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Khodari: Gaza situation amounted to a humanitarian catastrophe

MP al-Khodari during the press release (MEMO Images) Al Ray Agencies | Nov 9, 2013 Gaza, ALRAY – “The situation in the Gaza Strip amounted to a humanitarian catastrophe due to the Israeli siege and the water and electricity crises,” Independent MP Jamal al-Khodari said Friday. Khodari, who heads the Popular Committee against the Siege, […]

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Richard Falk (@rfalk13) : Situation in Gaza is almost catastrophic

Al Ray Agencies | Nov 3, 2013 An independent United Nations human rights expert on Wednesday held a press conference and warned that developments in the Middle East region, “particularly in Egypt, have made the situation in Gaza one that is a point of near catastrophe.” Addressing journalists at UN Headquarters, the Special Rapporteur on […]

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Gaza municipalities warn fuel shortage would cause real catastrophe

[ PIC 03/07/2013 – 08:13 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The municipalities of the Gaza Strip warned that the continuation of the fuel crisis would provoke an imminent real catastrophe represented in the disruption of the work of key and vital sectors. The spokesman for Gaza Municipalities Union said during a news conference held on Wednesday […]

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PCBS: 5.3 million Palestinian refugees since 1948

[ PIC 20/06/2013 – 07:52 PM ] Refugee child holds the key to the house his grandfather was uprooted from RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian official sources confirmed that two-thirds of Palestinians people were displaced from historic Palestine on the eve of the 1948 war, while UNRWA records registered 5.3 million Palestinian refugees. On the eve of […]

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Doc Jazz in the Netherlands: Performance and Interviews – video and written

Musical Intifada | Sunday, 16 June 2013 | By Dr. Tariq Shadid As was announced earlier on this website, Doc Jazz recently concluded a trip to the Netherlands, where he gave a lecture at Erasmus University in Rotterdam about emigration (May 27), performed at the manifestation ‘NAKBA 65’ in Rotterdam (June 1), and was featured […]

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VIDEO | @DocJazzMusic about the Nakba: “A thief always has a story” – with English subs

Published on Jun 16, 2013 On June 4, 2013, Doc Jazz was interviewed in the program OBA Live during his visit to the Netherlands. Most of the questions were related to the Palestinian cause, and these parts of the conversation have been compiled in this video. The interview is in Dutch, but English subtitles have […]

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Mass graves of Palestinians discovered

MEMO | May 28, 2013 Mass graves have been discovered in the historical cemetery of Al-Kazakhana in Jaffa, Al-Aqsa Foundation for Islamic Endowments and Heritage announced on Monday. The graves contain the remains of Palestinians killed by Jewish militias in 1948 during the Nakba (Catastrophe). According to the Foundation, they were discovered during routine maintenance […]

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Mural in Khan marking the Palestinian Nakba

#NAKBA65  65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! [ PIC 23/05/2013 – 09:19 PM ] KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)– Four Palestinian artists painted a huge mural, 60 meters long in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip highlighting the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) and the Palestinian right of return. The mural included the Dome of Rock, a key symbolizing […]

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With photos… Demolition of 7 residential houses in Jerusalem and 57 individuals are homeless

#NAKBA65  65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! Silwanic | Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | 15:13 Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) —Wadi Hilweh Information Center’s camera spotted the demolition process that occurred in the city of Jerusalem yesterday where 7 residential houses in Al-Tur and Jabal Al-Mukabber with 57 people living in them were demolished, under the pretext of […]

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Palestinian Ambassador Demands EU Boycott Nakba Activities ~ by @KawtherSalam

#NAKBA65  65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! Kawther Salam | May 21, 2013 سفيرة فلسطين في بروكسل تحث أعضاء في البرلمان الأوروبي على مقاطعة فعاليات النكبة مؤتمر فلسطينيي أوروبا ينهي أعماله بنجاح رغم الجهود المبذولة من أجل إفشاله غابت سفيرة فلسطين… وحضرت أجيال العودة PA President Mahmoud Abbas and his Ambassador to Brussels, Leila Shahid, conspired […]

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Photos | Prelude to land theft: a livelihood trashed in Aqraba ~ by @ISMPalestine

#NAKBA65  65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! 21st May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Aqraba, Occupied Palestine Seven hundred olive trees were uprooted first thing in the morning of 16th May while a bulldozer got to work destroying the farmer’s concrete water storage facility and surrounding dry stone walls and fences in Aqraba. […]

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Letter From Palestinians In the Diaspora To Ki-moon

#NAKBA65  | 65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! Kawther Salam | May 20, 2013 ملاحظة: نص الرسالة في اللغة العربية منشور أدنى الرسالة في اللغة الأنجليزية Mr. The General Secretary of the United Nations Organization – United Nations Organization – New York In the name of our Palestinian People , living in the poor miserable refugees […]

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Israeli forces issue demolition orders to Bedouins in Yatta

#NAKBA65  |65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! Maan News Agency | May 20, 2013   HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces issued demolition orders to seven Bedouin families in south Hebron on Monday, locals said. Israeli military vehicles raided an area east of Yatta and issued the orders to Bedouin families from the al-Hathalin tribe, witnesses told […]

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