Israel Starts Removing Mines Close To Border With Jordan, To Build Settlements

Note occpal: Removing deadly mines, personal and landmines, solely for the purpose of creating a ‘safe environment’ for illegal settlers. Settling in occupied territories is a war crime. As is the deliberate paving with landmines which goes on every day. While US is funding 30 Billion Military aid, volunteers from US fund and remove landmines. […]

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Palestinians call for UN Council visit to occupied territory

AFP FEB 28 2012 UNITED NATIONS — The Palestinian leadership on Tuesday called on the UN Security Council to visit the occupied territories to see the impact of Israel’s settlement campaign. The Palestinian UN envoy, Riyad Mansour, made the request as UN under … Read more at Palestinians call for UN Council visit to occupied […]

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Settlers try to rebuild illegal outpost in Hebron

MAAN NEWS AGENCY FEB 22 2012 Settlers try to rebuild illegal outpost in Hebron Published today (updated) 22/02/2012 09:04 HEBRON (Ma’an) – Israeli security on Tuesday prevented dozens of settlers from rebuilding an illegal outpost near Kiryat Arba east of Hebron in the southern West Bank. The outpost, Mitzpe Avihai was evacuated earlier in February. […]

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Israeli international law experts: the Supreme Court erred in permitting Israel to operate quarries in the occupied territories

Monday, January 30, 2012 | Yesh Din In an unusual legal move, leading Israeli international law scholars: Prof. Yuval Shany, Prof. Eyal Benvenisti, Prof. Barak Medina,Prof. Orna Ben-Naftali, Prof. Guy Harpaz, Dr. Amichai Cohen and Dr. Yael Ronen, have filed an amicus curiae brief claiming that the High Court, in its ruling in the quarries’ […]

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Mosque burning draws int’l anger as unrest rocks ‘48-occupied territories

Related: Radical Jewish terrorists torch Mosque in Tuba – in pictures [ 04/10/2011 – 06:39 PM ] JEDDAH, CAIRO, RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The arson of a mosque in the Upper Galilee Valley has drawn worldwide anger as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation has called on Israel to shoulder responsibilities as an occupying force and strikes and […]

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Landau: Israel should declare sovereignty over occupied territories

[ 31/08/2011 – 01:08 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– Israeli minister of infrastructure Uzi Landau said he believed that Israel should unilaterally declare its sovereignty over the Jordan Valley, major settlement blocs in the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip in response to the Palestinians’ intention to seek statehood recognition with the United Nations this […]

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On Ramadan’s eve, severe financial crunch hitting occupied territories

[ 30/07/2011 – 05:28 PM ] From Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah Muhammed and Sarah Sawabha live at a middle class Ramallah neighborhood, with their six children, including two college students. Muhammed has a Bachelor of Science and earns a monthly salary of about $800 US dollars as a teacher at a local school. His wife, […]

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UN: Jerusalem part of occupied Palestinian territories

Published today (updated) 15/07/2011 15:09 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization released a statement Friday confirming the occupied status of East Jerusalem. “UNESCO wishes to reiterate that, contrary to recent claims, there has been no change in UNESCO’s position on Jerusalem,” the statement said. “In line with overall UN policy, […]

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What Really Happened in Qalandia?

Al Jazeera – The Stream | June 9, 2011 Journalists are using Twitter to challenge the mainstream media’s narrative of protests in the West Bank. In a piece for Israeli web-magazine +972, Israeli-American journalist Joseph Dana writes about the effect that social media has had in covering the Palestinian Territories. Twitter is changing the nature […]

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Prof. Em. Richard Falk on the Golan clashes – video

  AlJazeera English | June 5, 2011 Prof. Em. Richard Falk is the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territories.     Source.

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PCHR Weekly Report: 1 fighter, 3 civilians killed; 17 wounded by Israeli forces this week

Friday February 25, 2011 11:05 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 17 – 23 February 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that 3 Palestinian civilians were killed by Israeli forces in the northern Gaza […]

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Report: last year, 218 violations of press freedom occurred in the Palestinian Territories

Friday, 18 February 2011 15:30 218 Incidents of aggression and violation of media freedom were recorded last year. A report issued on Thursday (17.02.2011) by the Palestinian Centre for Development and Media Freedom, Mada, has stated that over the course of 2010, there has been a perceptible escalation in the number of violations being carried […]

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Fayyad: “Blackwater Is Not Operating In The West Bank”

Monday January 17, 2011 09:51 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Faayyad, stated Sunday that the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is not dealing with American security company, Blackwater, and that the United States hired Blackwater to provide protection for senior American figures visting the West Bank and […]

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Hamas MPs: The place for Blackwater is the courts, not Palestine

[ 15/01/2011 – 09:19 AM ]   WEST BANK, (PIC)– Hamas MPs in the West Bank condemned the US for recently signing a security deal that would bring the Blackwater firm into the region, saying the place for the infamous security firm is the international criminal court in The Hague, and not Palestine. The US […]

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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (23 – 29 December. 2010)

  Thursday, 30 December 2010 00:00 IOF Attacks a Palestinian Child when Breaking into Selwan Village in Jerusalem. On the 2nd Anniversary of the Israeli Offensive on the Gaza Strip, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) · IOF killed two Palestinians shepherd in the […]

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