“Zionism’s Exploitation Business”: Israel collects $11 million a year from occupied Palestinians in identity card fees

[ PIC 30/06/2013 – 02:58 PM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– A Palestinian study revealed that Israel collects 40 million shekels ($11 million) per year from Palestinians, in return for issuing Permits and Magnetic cards that allow them enter the occupied territories and work in the Israeli market. The Applied Research Institute ARIJ in the city of […]

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Farwana: Israel’s occupation forces kidnapped 1,070 Palestinians in three months

[ 02/04/2013 – 11:35 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Specialist in prisoners’ affairs Abdul Naser Farwana said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have kidnapped 1,070 Palestinians since the start of the current year. In a press release, Farwana stated that compared to the same period of last year, the first quarter of 2013 saw a […]

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PA sentences Anas Saad Awwad to 1 year in jail for writing an anti-Abbas comment on Facebook

Maan News Agency | Febr 7, 2013 NABLUS (Ma’an) — A Palestinian court has sentenced a man from the Nablus area to a year in prison for insulting President Mahmoud Abbas on Facebook, officials said Thursday. The Nablus magistrates court sentenced Anas Saad Awwad, 26, of Awarta village, in absentia to a year in prison […]

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2012: eventful year in (and for) Palestine ~ by Khalid Amayreh

[ PIC 21/12/2012 – 08:35 PM ] From Khalid Amayreh in Occupied Palestine 2012 has been quite an eventful year for the Palestinian question. The fourth quarter of the year witnessed some landmark events, including the eight-day- Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which killed and injured as many as a thousand Palestinians, mostly innocent […]

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2011: Year of Israeli Violence in Gaza Strip

Monday, 20 February 2012 10:59 Sergio Yahni, Alternative Information Center (AIC) According to data gathered by the Gaza City based human rights organization Al Mezan, during 2011 the Israeli army killed at least 114 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, of whom 15 were children and 2 women. During this same year, some 470 Palestinians were […]

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Family of Abulhaija denounces IOA for extending his isolation for one year

[ 26/01/2012 – 05:32 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Family members of Palestinian prisoner Sheikh Jamal Abhulhaija have denounced the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) for extending his solitary confinement for one more year. They told the PIC reporter that the Israeli Nafha prison administration handed the Sheikh the decision to extend his isolation for the ninth […]

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Israeli Court Renews Solitary Confinement Of Saadat For Additional Year

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category Friday October 28, 2011 04:07 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Ad-Dameer, stated that the Israeli District Court in Be’er Shiva ordered a one year extension of the solitary confinement of the detained […]

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75 year old woman shot in Johr al-Dik

16 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Selma Al Sawarka, or Um Ahmad, is an active woman, a mother of seven, and a grandmother of 35, who has never quit working.  August 10, 2011 dawned like most days do for her; she went out to graze her family’s goats.  She took her neighbor […]

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Sentencing of two young men deemed “unfair” by residents

Sunday, 7 August, 2011 | 03:29 |  Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Two young Palestinian men have been banished from Silwan district for a period of one year and one day by the Jerusalem Magistrates Court. The sentencing of Mazen Odeh, 26, who currently suffers injury caused by Israeli […]

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EWASH: One Year since Israel Announced Easing of Blockade Policy but Clean Water not Flowing Easily

PNN – Palestine News Network –  15.07.11 – 14:36 Gaza – PNN – The Water Sanitation and Hygiene Group (EWASH) issued a report saying that even though Israel announced last year that it will ease the blockade; Gaza Strip residents still don’t have clean water running from their taps as up to 95 percent of […]

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Palestinians mark third year of Gaza “buffer zone” protests

  Eva Bartlett |The Electronic Intifada|  Beit Hanoun | 12 July 2011 Marching towards Gaza-Israel boundary ( Eva Bartlett / Inter Press Service ) BEIT HANOUN, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) – It is another sweltering morning in Gaza. Despite the heat a tenacious group of women, men and children gathers near a bombed agricultural college in […]

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ICC: Israel spending more than a billion dollars a year to Judaize holy city

[ 30/05/2011 – 02:13 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Islamic Christian Commission in support of Jerusalem and the holy sites said that the Citadel of David mosque was not the first one that Israel converted into a Jewish site. The statement comes as Israelis celebrate the opening of a museum built on the ruins […]

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Palestinian Lawyer Released After A Year In Captivity – International Middle East Media Center

Friday April 22, 2011 09:38 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Israeli Prison Authority released on Thursday evening a Palestinian lawyer, along with her two brothers, after a year in detention on charges of “illegally” transferring money to Gaza Strip detainees, deprived form visitation since several years. Mobile Phone Photo Of Al Esaawy […]

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Geneva conference: 2011 a year for Palestinian women in Israeli jails

[ 13/03/2011 – 12:50 PM ]   GENEVA, (PIC)– 2011 was declared as the year of Palestinian female prisoners during the first international conference on the rights of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails which concluded its sessions in Geneva on Saturday evening. The conferees discussed in details on Friday and Saturday at the UN headquarters […]

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The village of Awarta face repression from soldiers after attack on settlers

Posted on: March 12, 2011 | ShareThis 12 March 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Today the village of Awarta, the Palestinian village located closest to the illegal settlement Itamar which witnessed the murder of an entire settler family this morning, was put under severe military restrictions. According to the village council, 19 people are still […]

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