IOF soldiers detain a young woman at Qalandia checkpoint

[ PIC 21/11/2013 – 08:43 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) manning the Qalandia checkpoint detained a young woman after claiming she was carrying a knife. The IOF said that the Palestinian young woman, who was not identified, was taken for interrogation. Meanwhile, Israeli police arrested four Jerusalemites for the alleged charge […]

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Hamas (@hamasinfo) appoints Israa Al-Mudallal, 1st female English spokesperson

Ma’an News Agency |  04/11/2013 18:12 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The government in the Gaza Strip appointed a woman as their first English-language spokeswoman on Sunday, offering the Hamas-led authority a fresh new face to represent itself on the world stage.Israa Al-Mudallal, 23, a journalist who spent years as a child in the United Kingdom, […]

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VIDEO | NO WOMAN NO DRIVE! ~ by @HishamFageeh | #Women2Drive

Oct 26, 2013 by occpal Saudi women are about to crack the ban on driving cars. Beware all you fellow social activists as well! For supporting this protest online will bring you in trouble too! Under the ridiculous pretext for this ban is the alleged damage to ovaries when a woman would drive a car. […]

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Palestinian old woman injured in Egyptian shelling near borders

[ PIC 13/10/2013 – 08:25 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– An old Palestinian woman was injured when Egyptian forces shelled the tunnels area on the borders with the Gaza Strip on Saturday night. Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, the health ministry spokesman, said that 63-year-old Asmahan Abu Taha was slightly injured in her head and taken to hospital […]

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Israeli soldiers beat women resisting home demolition

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article Al Akhbar English | Monday, September 2, 2013 Israeli soldiers used rifle butts to beat five Palestinian women who refused orders to leave their West Bank home ahead of a demolition on Monday, […]

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Woman, Sanaa Malayta kidnapped in Nablus

Maan News Agency | July 10, 2013 Update July 11, 2013 Sanaa Malayta released unharmed in Nablus – More at Ma’an NABLUS (Ma’an) — A woman was kidnapped in Salfit in the northern West Bank on Wednesday, relatives and police said. Sanaa Malayta was walking to a shop near her home, with her 9-year-old sister-in-law, […]

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It is time for this world to act!: Muslim woman assaulted for wearing a veil looses her unborn child

June 18, 2013 | by occpal “The Local France” which covers French news in English today covers the ‘story’ of a muslim woman who lost her unborn child due to a violent extremist attack which took place on  June 13, 2013. The sister was attacked by two men in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil. She […]

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PHOTOS | Israeli “man” assaults 2 Palestinian women in Jerusalem

Maan News Agency | June 16, 2013 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Two Palestinian women are pressing charges against an Israeli man after being assaulted in Jerusalem on Friday. Layali al-Sayyad, 23, and Anwar Abu Rmooz, 21, told Ma’an that they were attacked by an Israeli man in his twenties while buying a ticket for the Jerusalem […]

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VIDEO | Hebron woman taken by Israeli forces whilst helping son with homework

18th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Khalil | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Zleikha Muhtaseb being arrested from her home Israeli forces tonight,18th May, abducted 51 year old Zleikha Muhtaseb from her home on Shuhada Street, in the old city of Hebron. Zleikha was helping her son complete his homework when a squad of Israeli […]

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Israeli occupation forces arrest a Palestinian citizen accompanying his sick wife at Erez crossing

[ PIC 07/05/2013 – 09:29 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a Palestinian citizen from Gaza at Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing, in the northern Gaza Strip, while he was accompanying his sick wife to undergo surgery at St. John’s Hospital in Jerusalem. Prisoners’ Center for Studies quoted the family of businessman […]

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VIDEO | 82-year-old Hebron woman Umm Salah challenges Israeli settlers, troops. Alone.

Maan News Agency | April 27, 2013 HEBRON (Ma’an) — In the heart of the old city of Hebron, an elderly woman insists on staying in her old house despite provocative practices by both settlers and Israeli troops. Um Salah, 82, told Ma’an TV on Thursday she had been living in her house for 70 […]

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Four citizens including old lady wounded in confrontations with Israeli occupation soldiers

[ PIC 20/04/2013 – 07:55 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Four Palestinians, including an old lady in her seventies, were wounded in confrontations with Israeli occupation forces (IOF) near Ramallah afternoon Friday. Eyewitnesses told the PIC in a telephone contact that IOF soldiers arrested ten demonstrators, who sought refuge in a building after it was stormed […]

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Leena Jerboni enters her 12th year in Israeli jail suffers medical neglect by Israel

[ PIC 13/04/2013 – 04:57 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestine Prisoners Center for Studies reported that captive Leena Jerboni from the village of Arraba, in the 1948-occupied territories, will enter in few days her twelfth year in the Israeli jails. Researcher Riad al-Ashqar, Media Director of the center, noted that the captive Jerboni is considered […]

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Gaza woman dies after self immolation

Maan News Agency | April 13, 2013 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A 22-year-old woman died on Saturday after setting herself on fire last week, a medical official said. Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra told Ma’an that the woman, whose identity remained hidden, suffered burns to 80 percent of her body after pouring gasoline over […]

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Old Jerusalemite lady arrested for trying to enter Aqsa mosque

[ PIC 11/04/2013 – 03:40 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli police in occupied Jerusalem arrested an old Jerusalemite lady on Wednesday after trying to enter the holy Aqsa mosque. The Wadi Hilwa information center said on Thursday that the 57-year-old woman Aida Al-Sayadi was blocked from entry by policemen near the Qatanin gate, adding […]

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