Gaza students stage sit-in at Rafah crossing | #OpenRafahBorder Now!

[ PIC 16/09/2013 – 04:07 PM ] RAFAH, (PIC)– Dozens of Gaza students staged a sit-in at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Monday demanding opening the terminal in order to allow them to join their universities. The Egyptian authorities have been closing the Rafah border terminal since last Wednesday, which exacerbated the suffering […]

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#PalHunger | In solidarity with hunger strikers, activists break Ramadan fast with briny water

  Al Ray Agencies | Aug 7, 2013 Gaza, Alray – A number of young activists staged a sit-in on Tuesday evening before the main office of the International Red Cross in the Gaza Strip in solidarity with the prisoners on hunger strike. The participants decided to break their fast on Ramadan 28th with briny […]

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Israelis stage music festival near Al Aqsa Mosque disturbing worshipers

[ PIC 09/05/2013 – 06:56 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Al Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage said that Jewish youths organized on Wednesday a march, on the 46th anniversary of the occupation of Jerusalem, during which they chanted racist slogans against Al Aqsa, the Arabs and Islam. Thousands of Jewish marchers attacked the Jerusalemite […]

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#PalHunger | Ahrar: Hunger strikers Sharawna and Issawi reached a life-threatening stage

[ PIC 05/12/2012 – 09:37 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Ahrar center for prisoner studies and human rights said the health condition of hunger strikers Ayman Sharawna and Samer Issawi is deteriorating very badly, describing it as extremely serious and delicate. In a press release, director of the center Fouad Al-Khafsh stated that the two prisoners […]

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Barhoum: Abbas must not give cover to the aggression by meeting with Mofaz

[ PIC 18/06/2012 – 08:41 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Fawzi Barhoum, Hamas spokesman, said that the Zionist unjustified escalation against Gaza is a violation of the truce understandings and a disregard to the effort made by Egypt to stop the aggression and assassinations. Barhoum confirmed in a written statement on Monday that this escalation comes […]

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Jerusalemites stage sit-in in solidarity with prisoners

[ PIC 25/03/2012 – 10:40 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The committee of relatives of Jerusalemite prisoners in Israeli jails and the Palestinian prisoner’s society organized a sit-in on Saturday in solidarity with their next of kin. The participants called for the release of hunger striker Hana’a Shalabi and all prisoners who suffer harsh conditions […]

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Palestinians stage sit-in before Egyptian consulate in Gaza

[ PIC 03/03/2012 – 03:01 PM ] Gaza, (PIC)– Dozens of Gazans staged a sit-in before the Egyptian consulate in Gaza on Saturday protesting the continued power crisis in the coastal enclave and urging Cairo to expedite supplying Gaza with necessary fuel to operate the power generation station. The protestors decried the fact that Egyptian […]

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Detainees: Israel worsens treatment ahead of next swap stage

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category Maan News Agency | Dec 1, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinian detainees in Israel’s Nafha prison said Thursday that they have been mistreated by prison authorities in an attempt to stir up tension before the second phase of a prisoner […]

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Relatives of political detainees stage sit-in

[ 29/06/2011 – 08:28 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Relatives of political detainees in the prisons of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah are to stage a sit-in in Al-Khalil at noon Wednesday to protest political detention and military trials of detainees. They said in a statement on Tuesday the protest was an attempt to declare absolute […]

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Relatives of political detainees stage sit-in

[ 19/06/2011 – 09:14 AM ] Nablus, (PIC)– A committee of relatives of political detainees in the West Bank said that a sit-in would be staged on Monday in each of Nablus and Al-Khalil to demand release of their relatives in PA jails. It said in a press release that the rallies would be staged […]

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Families of West Bank political prisoners stage Al-Khalil sit-in

[ 09/06/2011 – 11:49 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The committee of political prisoner families in the West Bank has called on the local and worldwide media to cover a sit-in the group has scheduled for noon Thursday at the Ibn Rushd Square in Al-Khalil. The committee said in a press statement on Monday that the […]

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Masri: Blood of Naksa Day protesters marks beginning of new stage for Palestine

[ 08/06/2011 – 07:00 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Mushir al-Masri, who heads the Hamas bloc on the Palestinian Legislative Council, has said that the spilled blood of those killed by the Israeli occupation forces on borders with Lebanon and Syria during Naksa Day marks the beginning of a new phase in ending the Israeli occupation. […]

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Analysis: June 5 rallies will set the stage for return

Published today (updated) 01/06/2011 17:40 Image of the Nakba Day protest in Beit Hanoun [MaanImages/Joe Carton] By Joe Catron | at Ma’an News Network   I gasped as the first bullet struck a young man standing a few paces ahead of me. I watched him crumple to the ground on May 15, when Palestinians mark […]

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Resistance factions stage Gaza sit-in to protest West Bank political arrests

[ 02/01/2011 – 05:08 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian resistance movement factions have staged a sit-in on the Legislative Council’s courtyard in Gaza city to reiterate their opposition to the unjustified spree of political arrests the PA is responsible for in the West Bank. Hamas issued a statistical report to mark the new year […]

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Palestinians fear more serious stage of Egyptian steel wall

[ 21/10/2010 – 09:00 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– A giant crane in Egypt near the Salahuddin Gate on the Gaza-Egypt border is steadily embedding giant steel plates into the earth, even though Palestinians can penetrate the plates. But authorities have a hidden agenda behind the massive sheets. The Egyptian steel wall project funded by […]

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