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#GazaCrisis | Transport ministry: The fuel crisis rendered thousands of taxi drivers jobless

[ PIC 07/09/2013 – 02:32 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian ministry of transport in Gaza warned that the acute fuel shortage in Gaza rendered thousands of taxi drivers unemployed after their vehicles became out of service. According to Palestinian officials in Gaza, the current fuel crisis is mainly attributed to Egypt’s destruction of most […]

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PHOTOS | Thousands of Palestinians stranded on both sides as Rafah border restrictions remain

Al Ray Agencies | Aug 27, 2013   Memo – The ongoing political crisis in Egypt has had a major influence on the people of the besieged Gaza Strip. The Rafah border crossing has been the Palestinians’ only route into and out of the territory since Israel imposed its siege in 2006. Restrictions put in […]

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VIDEO | Thousands of Muslims pray at al-Aqsa on Quds Day

Quds day is an annual event that takes places on the last Friday of Ramadan and is marked by millions rallying in different countries throughout the world. Aug 3, 2013 | Video by PressTV       Ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian & Islamic identity Al Quds, Jerusalem is the main target of the ethnic […]

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Israel uproots trees to prepare for new settlement of 3000 illegal settler homes In Bethlehem

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article Friday April 26, 2013 03:41 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Thursday April 25, 2013, Israeli bulldozers uprooted dozens of trees on a hill close to the Jabal Abu Ghneim (Har Homa) […]

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#PalHunger | Thousands rally for hunger strikers across Palestine

#FreeSamer | Global action to save the life of Hunger striker Samer Issawi Israeli border police detain a Palestinian demonstrators during a protest in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in the city of Nablus on February 22, 2013. Palestinians demanding the release of hunger-striking prisoners clashed with Israelis in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, […]

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Collective Punishment: Israeli soldiers delay passage of thousands of citizens at Container barrier

[ PIC 31/10/2012 – 01:17 PM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) closed the Container roadblock on Wednesday morning practically isolating the northern West Bank from its southern areas. Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that the IOF soldiers blocked hundreds of cars and thoroughly searched each one and each and every passenger boarding them. […]

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Foundation: Thousands pray in Al-Aqsa for Laylat al-Qadr

Maan News Agency | Aug 15, 2012 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Thousands of worshipers from the West Bank, Jerusalem and Israel headed to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday to celebrate Laylat al-Qadr, one of Ramadan’s holiest nights. Director of the Jerusalem office of the Islamic Waqf told Ma’an that the number of worshipers exceeded 400,000. The […]

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Thousands pray in Al-Aqsa on penultimate Ramadan Friday

Maan News Agency | Aug 10, 2012 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Thousands of worshipers headed to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque for the fourth Friday of the holy month of Ramadan. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said 250,000 people prayed in the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old […]

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Thousands march in Gaza in support of Aqsa Mosque

[ 04/08/2012 – 08:18 AM ] JABALIYA, (PIC)– Thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip participated in the march called for by Hamas Movement on Friday to protest the Israeli decision to consider the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards public places. The protestors gathered from all mosques of northern Gaza and chanted slogans calling for defending the […]

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Tens of thousands pray in al-Aqsa Mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan

Tuesday, 24 July, 2012 | Silwanic | 02:07 Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Around 70,000 prayers gathered in al- Aqsa mosque to pray on the first Friday of Ramadan. Most of them were from Jerusalem, the Palestinians of the 48, and a few were from the West Bank. The area was full of Israeli forces. They […]

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IOA confiscates thousands of square meters of land

[ PIC 13/06/2012 – 08:53 AM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has confiscated five thousand square meters (five dunums) of Palestinian land in Khader village, south of Bethlehem. Ahmed Salah, the coordinator of the popular committee in the village, told Quds Press on Tuesday that the IOA left a notification in the […]

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19 Prisoners in solitary confinement, thousands demonstrate in solidarity

[ PIC 18/04/2012 – 10:40 PM ] NABLUS, GAZA, (PIC)– There are still nineteen Palestinian prisoners in solitary confinement, in the Israeli occupation prisons, according to Tadamun International. Ahmed Al-Betawi, researcher at Tadamun International for Human Rights, said in a statement to Quds Press Agency that “the end of the solitary confinement is one of […]

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Thousands of Jewish settlers storm Qalqilia village to perform rituals

[ PIC 18/04/2012 – 05:00 PM ] QALQILIA, (PIC)– Thousands of Jewish settlers stormed the village of Kufl Hares, south east of Qalqilia, on Tuesday night and offered Talmudic rituals at a shrine under Israeli occupation forces’ protection. Mamun Buziye, a member of the village’s municipal council, told Quds Press on Wednesday that IOF soldiers […]

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Tens of thousands participate in funeral of Abu Arram assassinated by Israel

[ PIC 09/03/2012 – 09:30 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Tens of thousands of Palestinians on Friday participated in the funeral of the Palestinian boy who was killed Thursday evening by the IOF in Yatta to the south of al-Khalil. They held the Friday prayers on a football pitch then carried the martyr to his final […]

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Tens of thousands demonstrate in support of al-Aqsa Mosque

[PIC 24/02/2012 – 07:33 PM ] KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)– Tens of thousands of Palestinians participated in the demonstration which Hamas called for in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis after the Friday prayers in support of the Aqsa Mosque. Tens of thousands of people marched after the Friday prayers from six mosques in […]

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