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Netanyahu orders building a security fence in Jordan Valley

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Moti Milrod/MaanImages) Al Ray Agencies | Nov 3, 2013 Gaza, ALRAY – The head of the Israeli government Benyamin Netanyahu ordered the construction of a security fence in the Jordan Valley, due to the impasse in negotiations with the Palestinian Authority over the military control of area. According to a […]

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PHOTOS | Israel locks-down neighbourhood after Palestinians make hole in Apartheid Wall

MEMO | Thursday, 24 October 2013 15:26 Eyewitnesses described a ‘massive’ number of Israeli security forces tracking down dozens of Palestinian youth responsible for making the hole IMAGES The Israeli occupation authorities have imposed a complete closure of Kabsa neighbourhood in Abu-Dis on the outskirts of the holy city of Jerusalem in response to activists […]

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Palestine: Dividing Land, Erasing Identity in Qalandiya

Visitors walk past a giant photograph showing the “Apartheid Wall” at the West Bank at the “Wall on Wall” exhibition by German photographer Kai Wiedenhoefer, displayed on a remaining section of the Berlin wall 26 July 2013. (Photo: AFP – John Macdougall) Al Akhbar English | Malik Samara | Wednesday, July 31, 2013 Qalandiya, a […]

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Israel prevents tractors entering to lands behind the Apartheid Wall

[ PIC 19/06/2013 – 09:16 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– Palestinian farmers called for pressuring the Israeli authorities to cancel its decision to prevent tractors entering to agricultural lands behind the Apartheid Wall. The Israeli recent decision aims to destroy the Palestinian agricultural lands located behind the apartheid wall, the farmer Walid Qabaha said. He […]

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Palestinian Christians urge pope (@pontifex) to oppose wall

Maan News Agency | April 29, 2013 JERUSALEM (AFP) — Palestinian Christians near Bethlehem on Monday urged Pope Francis to speak up against an Israeli decision to build its controversial separation barrier on a route they say would cut off their community. “We cry to your Holiness with a feeling of despair and urgency in […]

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Khudari: Continuation of building the wall intensifies isolation of West Bank

[ PIC 27/04/2013 – 02:48 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– MP Jamal Khudari, head of the Popular Committee against the Siege, condemned the decision of the Israeli judiciary to continue construction of the apartheid wall near Bethlehem. Khudari stressed in a press statement on Saturday that the Israeli resolution contradicts the resolution of the International Court […]

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Ahrar: Israeli racist decision to separate between Palestinian prisoners

[ PIC 22/04/2013 – 07:56 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Fouad Khuffash, director of Ahrar Center for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights, stated that the Israeli Prison Service’s decision to separate between prisoners from Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza prisoners in Gilboa prison exposes the Israeli racist face. Khuffash pointed out to the Israeli double standard […]

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Palestinian Couples Separated by Israel’s Racist Laws

An Israeli soldier checks Palestinians as they cross an Israeli checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron to go to the Ibrahimi Mosque or the Tomb of the Patriarch on 25 March 2013. (Photo: AFP – Hazem Bader) Al Akhbar English| Malik Samara | April 21, 2013 The law renders residents of Gaza […]

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Amnesty International: The separation wall is an ongoing violation of international law

[ PIC 23/03/2013 – 02:25 PM ] LONDON, (PIC)– Amnesty International considered that the Israeli apartheid wall built on Palestinian lands in occupied West Bank represents an ongoing violation of international law because “it is cutting off Palestinians from their farmland.” The organization said in a report: “Palestinian farmers in the northern West Bank village […]

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How and when the separation policy was conceived

Posted on February 24, 2013 | Gaza Gateway Erez Crossing. Photo: Olly Lambert, Flickr. CC BY 2.0 Every year the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) publishes the “Strategic Survey for Israel”, a collection of analytical essays about the political and security dilemmas Israel is likely to confront in the coming year. This year’s edition […]

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‘My family has been separated’

Wednesday February 13, 2013 20:00 by Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR – IMEMC The Gaza Strip has often been called an “open air prison” in light of the illegal closure imposed on it by the Israeli authorities. However, the territory became a prison for many Palestinians long before the closure came into effect. […]

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Catholic bishops slam Israel separation barrier

A group of eight Roman Catholic bishops from Europe and North America have promised to press their governments to take position against Israel’s separation barrier in the Israel-occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank. PressTV | Jan 11, 2012 “In the Cremisan Valley we heard about legal struggles to protect local people’s lands and religious […]

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Israel to build an electrified fence on occupied Golan Heights

MEMO | Jan 7, 2012 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that his country is to build an electrified fence on the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The aim, he claims, is to prevent any violence in Syria spilling over into the occupied territory. Israel practically, though not legally, annexed the Golan Heights in 1981, […]

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VIDEO | Israel-Syria wall: Safeguard or ‘apartheid’?

Published on Jan 4, 2013 The walls around Israel are growing as the country’s army builds a new physical barrier, this time on its border with Syria. The wall will reportedly begin in the southern part of the occupied Golan Heights, extending north from there. READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/cpo2mh RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday […]

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VIDEO | ‘State of Palestine’ torn in two by Gaza & West Bank policies

Published on Jan 5, 2013 President Mahmud Abbas has officially changed the name of the Palestinian administration to the ‘State of Palestine’. But despite this, and a recent status upgrade by the UN, the nation still remains all but united. As RT’s Paula Slier reports, thousands of families are torn in two by Israeli borders. […]

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