Maan News Agency | June 15, 2013 NABLUS (Ma’an) — A group of settlers set fire to over 300 olive trees on Saturday in a Nablus village, a Palestinian Authority official said. Ghassan Daghlas, a PA official who monitors settlement activities, told Ma’an that settlers from the illegal outpost of Havat Gilad set fire […]
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Fires break out across West Bank
Maan News Agency | May 31, 2013 | Updated RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Some 90 fires broke out on farmland across the West Bank on Friday, a civil defense report said. The report said that dozens of kilometers of land and trees caught fire. Firefighters were attempting to control the fires to prevent them from spreading […]
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Abandoned in Jerusalem
Yehudit Oppenheimer/ previously published at Haaretz | PNN MARCH 4 2012 The horrifying accident that took place near the Adam roadblock north of Jerusalem last month, in which six Palestinian children and their teacher were killed, and dozens of other children were injured, raises a great many questions. The racist remarks and the schadenfreude that […]
Continue readingIOF hampers fire rescue mission in Jenin
10/04/2011 – 09:41 AM JENIN, (PIC)– The Israel occupation forces (IOF) hampered efforts to put out a fire at a commercial center in East Barta’a west of Jenin as losses mounted to more than $1.5m. A fierce fire broke out at an East Barta’a shopping center that includes 12 stores, but rescue teams were hassled […]
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