Hunger strike by detainee with untreated brain tumor enters second week

  Friday June 10, 2011 20:23 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News A Palestinian man being held in an Israeli prison has entered the second week of hunger strike after Israeli authorities refused to allow him to receive treatment for a recently-diagnosed brain tumor. Akram Mansour (image from occupiedpalestine blog) According to the Palestinian Minister […]

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The Occupation is Israel’s deadly tumor

  Wednesday, April 6 2011| +972blog | By Louis Frankenthaler   All too often life meets fiction.  We live our lives in the “realities” that TV producers decide to construct for us.  As long as we remain confined in the flat screen hanging on our walls we can ignore reality, deny human interaction and proceed […]

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IPS refuses to remove Palestinian prisoner’s tumor

27/03/2011 – 04:38 PM GAZA, (PIC)– The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) has refused to remove a cancerous growth from a Palestinian man held in the Gilboa prison, the Tadhamon international rights group has reported. Tariq al-Aasi from the Balata refugee camp east of Nablus was diagnosed with colon cancer two years ago and has since […]

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IOF soldiers detain head of charity committee

[ 04/01/2011 – 07:46 PM ]   JENIN, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) broke into and ransacked the home of Sheikh Ahmed Salatna, the director of the Zakat (Alms) committee in Jenin district, before taking him away. Eyewitnesses said that dozens of IOF armored vehicles surrounded the home of the Sheikh in Jaba village, south […]

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