A warning against Israeli attempts to create a buffer zone along the Gaza border

[ PIC 14/06/2012 – 06:57 PM ] GAZA,(PIC)– A Palestinian human rights organization warned against the disastrous effects of the Israeli attempts to declare a buffer zone north-east of the Gaza Strip, depriving the Palestinian farmers from their land and crops. The occupation forces broke into Southeast Salq Valley in central Gaza, on Tuesday, accompanied […]

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Distributor in Japan Drops Israeli Company due to its Illegal Practices‏ – #BDS

WAFA FEB 27 2012 RAMALLAH, February 27, 2012 (WAFA) – DaitoCrea, the general agent in Japan for Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories, announced on its website that they would no longer be distributing Ahava products manufactured in the Israeli illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem in the West Bank as of January 31, 2012, Monday said a […]

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Israeli bulldozers damage wheat fields in the Negev

[ PIC 22/02/2012 – 04:55 PM ] NEGEV, (PIC)– Bulldozers of the land of Israel department leveled Palestinian wheat and barley fields in the Negev region, the Israeli radio said on Wednesday. The radio said that the bulldozers destroyed hundreds of dunums under heavy police protection fearing angry reaction of Palestinian farmers. Ethnic Cleansing – […]

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Israel Re-Arrests Recently Released Prisoners

WAFA FEB 21 2012 QALQILYA, February 21, 2012 (WAFA) – The Israeli military authorities Tuesday arrested two Palestinian ex-detainees from the Qalqilya area, in the north of the West Bank, who were released in December in the Gilad Shalit prisoners swap, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club (PPC). Israeli soldiers arrested Yousef Ishtewi from his […]

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Hamas, Fateh, Met In Cairo, To Meet Again Soon

Palestine’s Prisoners – Worldwide Event | Pictures | Topic | Category Thursday October 13, 2011 10:11 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Officials of the Hamas and Fateh movements held on Wednesday at night a meeting in Cairo, and agreed to meet again soon in order to activate the reconciliation agreement between the two […]

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Israeli army detains citizens and increases checkpoints and presence in villages

PNN – Palestine News Network – 20.09.11 – 15:21 The Israeli army detained citizen Baha’ Jaser Abdel -Razaq from Deit Ballut, Salfit, on Tuesday morning. The army arrested Abdel-Razaq in an olive field near “Al Ze’if’ settlement while he was checking on the trees and preparing for picking season. Settlers attacked Kafur Hares, Salfit. According […]

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More than third of Palestinian prisoners denied visitation rights

[ 28/06/2011 – 06:49 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Prisoner affairs expert Abdul-Nasser Farwana has said that more than a third of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons have been denied the right to family visits. Prisoners from the Gaza Strip were denied visits as a “collective punishment” in mid-June of 2007 and others faced the same […]

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Israeli Troops Arrest Four Civilians During Morning Invasions Targeting West Bank Communities

09.05.11 – 14:05 Bethlehem – PNN – Four Palestinian civilians were arrested by Israeli soldiers, three from the same family, during morning invasions targeting West Bank communities. Israeli troops arresting a Palestinian man – Archive In Beit Sahour, a town in southern West Bank near Bethlehem, soldiers stormed and searched the house of Assi Kassis […]

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REMEMBERING FURKAN DOGAN | PHOTO ESSAY

Posted by desertpeace on Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 8:00 pm. Furkan’s Dad speaking about his martyred son…. Commentary by Chippy Dee, Photos © by Bud Korotzer   Late last week there was a meeting at The Commons on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn that few attending will ever forget.  Organized by Al-Awda, the Center for Constitutional […]

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PLO: Israeli Attacks Left 7 killed, Settlers Uproot 874 Trees in February

01.03.11 – 14:59 Ramallah – PNN – Israeli attacks left seven Palestinians dead and settlers uprooted 874 trees and build 374 homes in West Bank settlements, the International Relations department of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) said on Tuesday in its February monthly report. Archive Israeli attacks kill seven Palestinians The PLO report states that seven Palestinians were killed in […]

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Abu Sha’ar slams Israel’s plan to build 32 housing units in O. Jerusalem

[ 19/01/2011 – 02:30 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian minister of religious affairs Taleb Abu Sha’ar strongly denounced the declared Israeli plan to build 32 new housing units in Pisgat Ze’ev settlement, north of occupied Jerusalem. Abu Sha’ar in a statement on Tuesday said the Israeli occupation state is accelerating its settlement and Judaization […]

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