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Israeli attacks demolish historical sites in Gaza Strip – Video

PressTV | Published on Sep 1, 2014 Israel’s aerial and ground assaults on the Gaza Strip have wreaked destruction on the blockaded area, Press TV reports. According to the report, the Tel Aviv regime demolished many archaeological and historical sites some dating back to over a thousand years ago in its merciless onslaught on the […]

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Hamas: We will not Relinquish or Give up an Inch of the Historical Land of Palestine

DRAH – March 30, 2013 GAZA, (PIC)– The Hamas Movement stressed that the resistance of the Israeli occupation would remain the strategic option for the Palestinian people in their struggle to restore their usurped rights and liberate their land. “Wagering on any strategy other than the resistance is like chasing a mirage and our people […]

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#PHOTOS | Qatar’s Sheikh Hamad in Gaza on landmark visit (Updated)

[ PIC 23/10/2012 – 10:29 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani has arrived in the Gaza Strip along with his wife Sheikha Mozah Al Missned on a landmark visit for one day during which he will lay the foundation stones of vital projects. The visit is considered the […]

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What Happened to Palestine’s Railways? ~ by Stuart Littlewood

B12 passing Weybourne windmill. (Supplied) By Stuart Littlewood | Palestine Chronicle | March 13, 2012 Not all is doom and gloom here in the UK. The North Norfolk Railway (Poppy Line) put on its Spring Steam Gala last weekend and a good time was had by young and old. Their cute little J15 was celebrating […]

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The Promised Land ~ by @jadmk

A Covenant of GOD that lead to a genocide & an ongoing extermination of a civilization … By Jad Khairallah | October 27, 2011 It all began with a promise, a covenant… A promise of eternal continuity, of divine right, of immortality,immortality for a nation, a selected group…a few out of many … a promise sent out […]

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Israeli Authorities block foundation’s use of historical East Jerusalem building for school

  Tuesday, 6 September, 2011 | 11:54 |  Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Israeli forces have closed off the historical Ahmad Sameh al-Khaldi buildings in Abu Tur district adjacent to Silwan to the public for one month. The buildings were leased by the local Abbasi family to a foundation […]

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The Arab Spring: Tribute to People Who Value History

By Jamil Toubbeh In his review of Margaret MacMillan’s book, Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (2009), David Kennedy writes: humans live in history, a few write it, others read it; some are made or broken by it, most try to make use of it, “usually by ransacking the past for analogies to […]

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AF: IOA wants to wipe historical Mamanullah cemetery from memory

[ 08/07/2011 – 03:18 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Aqsa Foundation that caters for Muslim holy shrines in occupied Palestine, has warned Thursday that the Israeli plan to put a fence on what remained of Mamanullah cemetery was meant to wipe the historical cemetery from memory. In a statement it issued on this regard, […]

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Israeli occupation to build a hotel on the ruins of the Qashala cemetery

[ 14/01/2011 – 06:17 PM ]   NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage (AFEH) said that the Israeli occupation has started building a hotel on the ruins of the historical Qashala cemetery next to the Grand Mosque in the occupied city of Yaffa. Dozens of graves have been bulldozed after the Israeli […]

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