Renewed barrier construction threatens Palestinian heritage

Source: IRIN | Aug 9, 2012 Photo: Andreas Hackl/IRIN The village of Battir is perched over a terrace farming system that is unique in the OPT RAMALLAH, 9 August 2012 (IRIN) – Palestinian communities in the West Bank have expressed alarm at widely reported news that Israel will resume the construction of its “separation wall” […]

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Journalists advocate group CPJ raps closure of Palestinian TV stations

Al Watan TV staff members look at the damage caused by Israeli troop during a raid on the station in Ramallah. Press TV Thu Mar 1, 2012 5:59PM GMT The non-profit Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Israel’s move to shut down two Palestinian TV stations in the West Bank city of Ramallah. About […]

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Israeli forces ‘seal off Jenin village’

Related: All Attacks on Palestinians – Timeline – Category Maan News Agency | Jan 8, 2012 JENIN (Ma’an) — Israeli forces set up a temporary checkpoint sealing a Jenin-district village for several hours on Sunday morning, witnesses said. Soldiers set up the military checkpoint after clashes Saturday evening when forces deployed to Yabad village, residents […]

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Eight Soldiers assault taxi driver at West Bank crossing & kept back the ambulance

Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures | New: Interactive Map Maan News Agency | Dec 10, 2011 JENIN (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers manning a West Bank crossing to the Jenin village of Barta assaulted a taxi driver on Saturday. Haitham Ibrahim Kabha, 37, is in al-Razi hospital suffering from bruising on his neck and […]

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Collective Penalties Against Palestinian Prisoners – in English & German

Palestine’s Prisoners – Worldwide Event Oct 12,2011 | Pictures | Topic | Category Kawther Salam | Oct 10, 2011 Für Deutsch: Die Kollektivstrafen gegen Palästinensische Häftlinge in Israelischen Gefängnissen The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns collective punishment measures being taken by the Israeli prison authorities against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails who […]

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PCHR Condemns Collective Penalties against Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Support Prisoners of Palestine – Action Alert Worldwide Event October 06, 2011 13:51|  PCHR |  International Middle East Media Center The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns collective punishment measures being taken by the Israeli prison authorities against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails who have organized a hunger strike in protest to their […]

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Dr. Erakat: “The Nakba is the Defining Event in our History and Collective Struggle”

PNN – Palestine News Network –  15.05.11 – 18:12 Ramallah – PNN – Chief Palestinian Negotiator Dr. Saeb Erakat retreated today, the 63 anniversary of Nakba, in a press release sent to media that Palestine Liberation Organization will continue to work for the Palestinian people rights. Chief Palestinian Negotiator Dr. Saeb Erakat “The Nakba is […]

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Why are the security forces detaining hundreds in Awarta?

  Tuesday, April 12 2011|Yossi Gurvitz | +972 Magazine Former IDF Chief Rabbi calls for collective punishment of Palestinian villages in the West Bank In 1990, I was serving as an operations sergeant in the Dir El Balah – a town in the Gaza Strip – in the so-called Civil Administration. On Rosh Hashana of that year, a reservist […]

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14 year old girl taken in the latest wave of Awarta arrests

11 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement   Halaa aged 6, kicked by soldiers as they raided her home On Saturday night the Israeli army once again raided Awarta, putting the village under curfew for the fifth time since the murder in the illegal settlement of Itamar on 11th March. Awarta is situated next to […]

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Israel’s cruel punishment of the very ill in Gaza | Jews for Justice for Palestinians

Ilana Hammerman, 11 March 2011 After many delays, a diabetes patient from the Gaza Strip was finally allowed to travel to a Ramallah hospital for surgery. A fraught journey through the land of the checkpoints. Driving south past the Ashkelon intersection on Highway 4 that Thursday morning, I began to notice a few of the […]

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Shalom calls for reinstating capital punishment against Palestinians

15/03/2011 – 10:08 AM NAZARETH, (PIC)– Israel’s deputy foreign minister Sylvan Shalom has called for considering the re-imposition of the capital punishment against Palestinians who kill Israelis in resistance attacks. The minister in a statement on Monday evening in Eilat said that upheavals in the Arab world necessitate preserving the security of Israelis including the […]

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AN EXPERIMENT IN PROVOCATION

Posted by desertpeace at PS.HADNEWS.COM on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 7:38 am. Just one of the many reasons for Israel’s NON POPULARITY….. Stealing Gaza By BRIAN ENO* It’s a tragedy that the Israelis – a people who must understand better than almost anybody the horrors of oppression – are now acting as oppressors. As […]

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HEBRON: A MASSACRE REMEMBERED: WE WILL NEVER FORGIVE OR FORGET

February 27, 2011 at 19:34 | DesertPeace Eugenio Merino’s sculpture “Starway to Heaven” Seventeen years ago this past Friday, 30 Muslim worshippers were slaughtered while at prayer. 270 were severely injured. This took place in one of the holiest sites in Palestine, a site revered by both Jews and Muslims. It is the resting place of […]

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NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND …. UNLESS IT’S A PALESTINIAN CHILD

Posted by desertpeace at PS.HADNEWS.COM on Monday, February 21, 2011 at 10:25 am. The Israeli Forces attacked and shot rubber bullets and sound bombs at the children so they could not run away, and then proceeded to arrest 13 of them. Several army vehicles came into the area for support, attacking houses and cars to […]

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ZIOGEIST

Posted by desertpeace on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 12:01 pm. The State of the Union Israel is gearing up to celebrate its 63rd year of existence. Palestine will be mourning the 63rd anniversary of its destruction. Israeli sirens will sound in two months time in memory of those who perished in the Holocaust. Palestine […]

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