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The big Syria oil looting: Israel allows US company to explore for oil in Golan Heights (Updated)

Israel has controversially awarded a US energy company a license for oil exploration in the occupied Golan Heights. PressTV Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:13PM GMT Israel has taken advantage of the crisis in Syria and awarded a US energy company a license for oil exploration in the occupied Golan Heights in an attempt to entrench […]

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Prof. Em. Richard Falk: Boycott firms profiting from Israel settlements

Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories PressTV | Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:47AM The focus on business activities is partly an expression of frustration about…the ineffectiveness of the UN efforts to condemn settlement expansion.” Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the […]

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UNICEF insists on dealing with Israeli companies for its projects in Gaza

[ PIC 29/05/2012 – 10:22 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Jane Koch, representative of the UNICEF in the occupied Palestinian territories, insisted on accepting the tenders for Gaza projects offered by Israeli companies and threatened not to carry out these projects in the Gaza Strip if thy were boycotted by Palestinian contractors. This came in her […]

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Hamas calls for sanctions against French companies assisting occupation

[ PIC 25/04/2012 – 10:26 PM ] DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Hamas has considered the implementation of two French companies the Jerusalem Light Rail project that connects West Jerusalem with illegal settlements as collusion with the occupation and a violation to the international law and a clear contradiction to the French official position on Jewish settlements. Hamas […]

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How #Israel orders your Airline around: The Letter which bars #Airflotilla2 activist from boarding (Update!)

April 14, 2012 So you thought Israeli checkpoints only exist in West Bank of Palestine? Wrong! Below the letter Shmueli wrote to the airlines ordering and effectively moving Israeli checkpoints to most European and even Canadian spots. Based on Law of Entry 1952 which can be read here for anyone interested. Bypassing and transgressing international […]

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Presbyterians Consider Divesting From Select Companies In Israel

Jaweed Kaleem | Feb 17, 2012 02:26 PM EST | Huffington Post A major body within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted Friday to recommend that the church vote to stop investing in three companies “until they have ceased profiting from non-peaceful activities in Israel-Palestine.” The vote proposed by the General Assembly Mission Council on whether […]

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Population of Gaza fears Israeli invasion in midst of communication blackout

Related to  Latest Update on Gaza | #Gaza #GazaBlackOut Wednesday August 10, 2011 08:03 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News Late Tuesday night, residents throughout Gaza lost internet, cell phone and landline phone service, creating a communication blackout similar to one which occurred just before a massive Israeli invasion in 2008. The blackout sparked fear […]

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Members of Knesset Calling for Tighter Rules on Companies Who Do Not Recognize Israel as Jewish

  PNN – Palestine News Network – 13.06.11 – 09:29 Jerusalem-PNN-Victoria Delacroix- Two of the Knesset’s members, Uri Ariel and Zeev Elkin, both from the ruling Likud party have put forth two bills that would give registrars the ability to reject any sort of organization that does not agree or comply with the idea that […]

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Multinational companies mining occupied Palestinian land

Adri Nieuwhof The Electronic Intifada 17 May 2011 HeidelbergCement and Cemex, two building materials industries from Germany and Mexico, respectively, are involved in the operation of quarries in the occupied West Bank. The Electronic Intifada has obtained documentation showing loaded trucks leaving the illegal quarries and traveling into Israel. International law prohibits Israel’s exploitation of natural […]

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Israel supporting companies suffer loss

PressTV – Sat Apr 9, 2011 3:14PM Interview with Sarah Colborner, Director of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign. Palestinian Solidarity Campaign-Ireland Israeli companies Havah and Veolia, which both share complicity in illegal Israeli crimes and settlements, have been forced to close their doors after extensive protesting. Press TV interviewed the Director of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, […]

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MKs Call for Boycott of Israeli Rawabi Companies – International Middle East Media Center

Monday January 03, 2011 15:49 by Ane Irazabal – IMEMC & Agencies Forty-eight Knesset members have signed a petition calling for the boycott of Israeli companies involved in building the new Palestinian city of Rawabi, Israeli daily Haaretz reported. (Image from Mondoweiss) The petition also has called on the Israeli cabinet to boycott the 20 […]

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Israeli Companies to Build Palestinian City, Sign Pledge not to use Settlement Products

Tuesday, 28 December 2010 12:25 Alternative Information Center (AIC) Israeli army radio reported this morning (28 December) that some twenty Israeli companies signed contracts with the Palestinian Authority to build the planned city of Rawabi, while committing themselves not to use raw materials, products or services originating in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East […]

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IOF soldiers detain Palestinian MP

[ 18/10/2010 – 09:14 AM ]   AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) broke into the home of Palestinian MP Hatem Qufaisha south of Al-Khalil city before dawn Monday and took him away, his family said. The family members told the PIC reporter that an IOF unit encircled the home of Dr. Qufaisha at 0100 […]

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Palestinian business forum encourages projects in support of O. Jerusalem

[ 06/10/2010 – 02:54 PM ] ISTANBUL, (PIC)– The second conference of the Palestinian business forum held in Istanbul urged the Palestinian and Arab businessmen to actively adopt development projects in the occupied city of Jerusalem. The conference highlighted the importance of supporting the steadfastness of the Palestinians in Jerusalem in the face of Israel’s […]

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