The Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) issued an apology for United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, after several protestors in Gaza hurled shoes at his convoy upon entering the Gaza Strip on Thursday. ...
2/3/2012 - International Solidarity Movement - By Rosa Schiano, 31 January 2012 - il Blog di Oliva - Every Tuesday we demonstrate at the Erez border crossing, in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip. The demonstration started at about 11:00 AM. We headed for the No Go Zone. The...
2/3/2012 - International Solidarity Movement - 3 February 2012, International Middle East Media Center - During the weekly non-violent protest in the village of an-Nabi Saleh on Friday several injuries were reported including that of a French citizen who was struck in the neck by an Israeli projectile. The...
2/3/2012 - International Solidarity Movement - By Fransisco Reeves, 3 February 2012, International Solidarity Movement, West Bank - When your land is occupied by those who harbor hatred towards you emanating from a belief that they are inherently superior to you, each day brings with it a genuine threat...
2/3/2012 - International Solidarity Movement - 3 February 2012, Donor Opium - For twenty years now the international donor community has financially supported Palestinian institution-building, infrastructure development, the economy, public employees' salaries, health and education, social welfare, the police, electricity production, private credit guarantees, and the bigger part...
2/3/2012 - International Solidarity Movement - By Jonas Weber, 3 February 2012, International Solidarity Movement, West Bank - Burqin and Kufr Ad-Dik face daily obstructions in justice as nearby illegal Zionist settlements encroach on the livelihood of local Palestinians. The villages are surrounded by several hilltop illegal settlements and...
1/1/0001 - International Solidarity Movement - By Wedad Yassin, 30 January 2012, Sixteen Minutes to Palestine - Weeks ago, Wedad Yassin traveled back to Ein Yabrud, a village near Ramallah in the West Bank, to visit her family and to experience Palestine's rich cultural heritage. Her intention...
February 4, 2012 - Two years ago I wrote about Gaza's antiquities, many of which were destroyed in the 2008-2009 Israeli war on Gaza. But until a few months ago, I hadn't had the privilege of seeing one...
February 4, 2012 - Russia and China on Saturday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the Syrian government's deadly crackdown on protests for the second time. Thirteen countries voted for the resolution proposed by European and Arab...
February 4, 2012 - On the 24th January, the day President Obama delivered his last State of the Union speech to Congress before the election, citing the:"selflessness and teamwork of America's Armed Forces (their) focus on the mission...
February 4, 2012 - A former Libyan diplomat who went over to the opposition National Transitional Council last year was detained and then tortured to death by a militia force based in the town of Zintan, according to...
February 4, 2012 - On January 10, while I was visiting the US for events marking the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, the World Can't Wait, the campaigning organization responsible for my visit, hosted a screening...
February 3, 2012 - The presence of a few Palestinian members in the Knesset (MKs) is often touted as a sign of Israel's robust democracy. Yet elected representatives of the Palestinian community inside Israel face growing harassment by...
February 3, 2012 - Last night, a new friend of mine noticed that I try to highlight the issue of Palestinian political prisoners in my writings. That led to a long chat about my interest in bringing out...
February 3, 2012 - Homs: Relayed via al-Khaldieh resident: More than 200 martyrs have fallen and the toll is rising due to the constant bombardment of the town. The LCC are working on verifying these numbers. Homs: Security...
February 3, 2012 - When Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush on June 9, 2008, the 35 had been selected from drafts of nearly twice that many articles. President Obama has...
February 3, 2012 - Over the past two decades, Palestinians have sat around the "negotiating table" on numerous occasions with successive Israeli governments and with a stated view of achieving a negotiated resolution to the intractable Palestine-Israel conflict....
February 3, 2012 - Anonymous is on a rampage today. Just hours after leaking a confidential phone call between the FBI and Scotland yard, members have released a huge archive of emails and documents related to the 2005...
February 3, 2012 - When your land is occupied by those who harbor hatred towards you emanating from a belief that they are inherently superior to you, each day brings with it a genuine threat to the security...
February 3, 2012 - In a recent article, columnist Yaniv Halili described British author Ben White as 'anti-Semitic'. He also denounced Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi for writing a forward to White's latest book, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation,...
February 3, 2012. Chaos and violence continue, the attorneys representing the American soldier in the Haditha massacre find their computer systems hacked by Anonymous, the political crisis continues in Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani delves into the issue,...
February 3, 2012 - On January 3rd the Government of Israel published the memorandum of a bill named "Regulation of the Bedouin settlement in the Negev", which states the steps to be implemented in order to relocate the...
February 3, 2012 - Four people were killed in Egypt Thursday night during ongoing clashes with Central Security Forces (CSF) after demonstrations were staged across the country earlier in the day against the military regime. Two protesters were...
February 3, 2012 - Omar Barghouti, who was smeared in Professor Ruben Gur's outrageous broadside against the Penn BDS conference, has been given a chance to reply. He shows that while Israel's defenders will stoop to slurs, lies...
February 3, 2012 - AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE (AFP) WAS RECENTLY ACCUSED IN BLOGS AND IN A LETTER SENT BY THE ISRAELI EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON TO PROMINENT US NEWSPAPERS OF FILING A PICTURE TAKEN ON JANUARY 25 IN AL-DIRAT, WEST...
February 3, 2012 - .... Several people have died after being tortured by militias in Libyan detention centres, human rights group Amnesty International has said. It claimed to have seen patients in Tripoli, Misrata and Gheryan with open wounds...
February 3, 2012 - Business before animosity: Three Iranian businessmen are expected to attend Agritech Israel 2012, where they will buy advanced agricultural equipment, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Wednesday. Set for mid May, Agritech - the 18th International Agricultural...
February 3, 2012 - In a barrage of shelling, Syrian forces killed 200 people and wounded hundreds early Saturday in Homs in an offensive that appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said....
February 3, 2012 - On a winter's morning in the hills east of Hebron, a young Palestinian man works on the ruined engine of a burnt-out car, his hands black with grease. In front of him stands a...
February 3, 2012 - In Nabi Saleh on Friday a French citizen-in the village for her first time-was struck in the back of the head by a high-velocity teargas canister fired by an Israeli soldier. The woman was...
3 Feb 2012 - Palestine, (Pal Telegraph) - The General Secretariat of the Palestinians in Europe Conference, The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) and the Palestinian Forum in Denmark announced that this year the 10th Palestinians in...
3 Feb 2012 - Police in several Egyptian cities battled Thursday night and Friday with thousands of protesters angry at the government’s failure to prevent deaths at a soccer riot.
3 Feb 2012 - Gunmen stormed a bus in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Friday, kidnapping two American tourists and an Egyptian tour guide, Egyptian officials said.
3 Feb 2012 - Russia said it still had a “number of concerns” over a tentative plan by the United Nations Security Council aimed at stemming the bloodshed in Syria.
3 Feb 2012 - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the United States in particular would face severe damage to its interests if any strike were carried out against Iran’s nuclear sites.
3 Feb 2012 - A senior official tried to make the point that the Iranian nuclear program is not a threat only to Israel but, as he put it, “a nightmare for the free world.”
3 Feb 2012 - Iran invited young activists to Tehran for a conference on the “Islamic Awakening,” but the fact that no one from Syria’s opposition was invited disrupted the whole script.
4 Feb 2012 - Top military intelligence commander deserts army in highest-level defection yet; enraged Syrians storm regime’s embassies in Europe, Mideast.
4 Feb 2012 - State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss should conduct himself impartially, not try to score popularity points by broadcasting his own sentiments.
4 Feb 2012 - Washington's UN envoy warns: Further bloodshed "will be on your hands"; Obama decries "unspeakable" violence, says regime that "massacres its people does not deserve to govern."
3 Feb 2012 - Security council diplomats say vote on Syria's PM Assad scheduled; Russia's position on vote remains unclear as Moscow fails to submit promised revisions to Arab League draft proposal.
BBC 4 Feb 2012 - Russia and China veto an Arab and Western-backed UN resolution condemning the violent crackdown in Syria, hours after scores are killed in Homs.
Mondoweiss 4 Feb 2012 - @import "http://embed.tweetizen.com/embed.css"; Phil, Alex and Annie are in Philadelphia for the Penn BDS conference , and while we wait for their first report we thought we'd bring you up to speed on the story to this point. Here was our reporting in the lead up to the...
Mondoweiss 4 Feb 2012 - New York Police Chief, Ray Kelly How is it possible that New York police chief Ray Kelly still has a job? Days after news broke that Kelly gamely sat for an interview for The Third Jihad , the anti-Muslim agitprop-cum-police training video, the Associated Press (bless its...
Mondoweiss 4 Feb 2012 - As Alan Dershowitz forcefully inserts himself into the BDS debate, it is helpful to recall Dershowtiz’s own insight into who should and should not be accepted as a “serious” thinker on peace in the Middle East. In his 2005 volume The Case For Peace , Dershowitz offers...
BBC 4 Feb 2012 - Syrian government forces have bombarded the city of Homs with artillery shells and mortars, killing at least 55 people, according to opposition groups.
Mondoweiss 4 Feb 2012 - From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee : Border Police Shoot French Woman in the Neck During Nabi Saleh Demo The woman was hit in the back of her neck with a tear-gas projectile shot directly at her by a group of Border Police officers during the weekly...
BBC 4 Feb 2012 - The Middle East's experts on maritime security are meeting in Abu Dhabi this week and talk of Iran's threats of closing the Strait of Hormuz will feature prominently.
Mondoweiss 4 Feb 2012 - Video streaming by Ustream U Stream of BDS proposal at Occupy Oakland, starts at 13:20. (Video: Spencer Mills / OakFoSho ) Last Wednesday at the amphitheatre in front of Oakland’s city hall, occupiers endorsed Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the state of Israel in a 135-to-one vote....
Tikun Olam 4 Feb 2012 - Coming soon to a synagogue or embassy near you...the IRG bogeyman (AFP/Getty) ABC News today publishes a leaked (from whom?) memo drafted by Israeli intelligence sources warning of terror threats against Israeli government sites in this country and American Jewish communal facilities from the dreaded “Iran...
BBC 3 Feb 2012 - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has warned that any attempt to attack his country's nuclear programme will meet a forceful response.
Tikun Olam 3 Feb 2012 - Over the past day or so, a fierce fight has erupted between Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan and New York Jewish author, Paul Auster. The controversy began when Auster, whose new book was recently published in Turkey, announced to an opposition newspaper that he refused to...
WSWS 2 Feb 2012 - Iran has repeatedly denied plans to build a nuclear weapon, but that has not stopped the barrage of unsubstantiated allegations in the media.
WSWS 2 Feb 2012 - The New York Times on Sunday published a lengthy article in its weekly magazine that sympathetically and clinically lays out the arguments of Israeli policy makers in favor of a military attack on Iran sometime this year.
WSWS 2 Feb 2012 - Provocative testimony by US intelligence agencies has become the focus of a hysterical media campaign accusing Iran of posing a terrorist threat to the US.
WSWS 2 Feb 2012 - Iraq’s refusal to allow a permanent US military presence was a setback for the Obama administration as it prepared for a confrontation with Iran.
Tikun Olam 2 Feb 2012 - David Ignatius published an alarming story in today’s Washington Post , in which he quotes Leon Panetta predicting an Israeli attack on Iran in “April, May or June.” Buried deeper within the article is an even more chilling passage: Administration officials caution that Tehran shouldn’t misunderstand: The...
The Magnes Zionist 2 Feb 2012 - Students at the University of Pennsylvania are hosting this weekend the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) Movement’s National Convention . May I take this occasion to wish the speakers and organizers a good conference, with a healthy debate on issues surrounding BDS. This is a wonderful opportunity...
Sabbah report 4 Feb 2012 - The Republican candidates, except Ron Paul, all go overboard in their attempts to prove to the supporters in America that they will serve the interests of Israel at any cost.
Sabbah report 4 Feb 2012 - "I was in a very bad psychological state, so I decided to confess. I confessed to throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at army jeeps," even though he was innocent.
Sabbah report 4 Feb 2012 - In the past Hamas has shown great respect for the Christian tradition of Christmas and, I hear, Hamas officials in Bethlehem used to dress up as Santa Claus to distribute gifts to Christian children. So the question remains: has Hamas really become such a Scrooge* as...
Sabbah report 4 Feb 2012 - Is it a pre-condition to recognize Israel in order to govern? This is not possible, no matter what the circumstances are. We don't recognize Israel at all. It is a criminal occupier.
US Campaign to End the Occupation 4 Feb 2012 - The Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel has been endorsed by two US delegations recently returned from fact finding missions to occupied Palestine and Israel. US Campaign member group US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) organized a...
US Campaign to End the Occupation 4 Feb 2012 - Posted today by the Institute for Middle East Understanding... This weekend, the first national conference bringing together American supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement takes place at the University of Pennsylvania. We discuss the conference, the controversy surrounding it, and the growing international...
US Campaign to End the Occupation 4 Feb 2012 - Noura Erakat, a former US Campaign National Organizer and Legal Advocate, published today an important policy brief--" Beyond Sterile Negotiations: Looking for a Leadership with a Strategy "--examining alternatives for both rights-based and political program-based strategies for achieving Palestinian human rights and national liberation. Although the...
US Campaign to End the Occupation 4 Feb 2012 - When it comes to the so-called Israeli-Palestinian "peace process," the State Department daily press briefings have truly degenerated into a farce in which the mainstream media refuses to believe any longer. Take, for example, yesterday's briefing , during which a succession of members of the media poked...
2/3/2012 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces injured 13 people in the village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, during a Friday demonstration against Israeli land confiscation, witnesses said. A French national sustained an injury from a tear-gas canister, activists said. She was taken...
2/3/2012 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- A 20-year-old Palestinian shepherd was injured on Friday after being attacked by Israelis in the northern West Bank, medics said. Red Crescent medics told Ma'an that Mahdi Daraghma was beaten by Israelis from the Mehola...
2/3/2012 - JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- An Israeli soldier stranded after a raid in occupied territory was escorted to safety by a Palestinian man in the same village the troops had targeted, witnesses and media reports said. The Israeli military said Friday a batallion commander had...
2/3/2012 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The health minister in Gaza, Basem Naim, warned Thursday of a health and environmental crisis due to an increase of power cuts and their dangerous implications. Naim said hospitals and health facilities, subjected to 10-hour power...
2/3/2012 - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- For the second time in two weeks, settlers made a tour of Beit Ummar north of Hebron, according to a spokesman for the town's popular committee. Muhammad Ayyad Awad said that more than 100 Kfar Etzion...
2/3/2012 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a growing possibility Israel will attack Iran as early as April to stop Tehran from building a nuclear bomb, US media reported on Thursday. The Washington Post first reported that Panetta was...
2/3/2012 - QALQILIYA (Ma'an) -- Israeli military forces clamped down on a weekly non-violent demonstration on Friday in the Qalqiliya village of Kafr Qaddum. The demonstration started after traditional Friday prayers and included hundreds of locals, internationals and Israeli peace activists, Murad Eshterwi...
2/3/2012 - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- The PA Minister of Prisoners Affairs said Friday that detainees in Israeli jails have launched a disobedience campaign to support detained hunger-striking Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan. Issa Qaraqe said Palestinian detainees are returning food, and refusing outdoor...
2/3/2012 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- World Bank President Robert Zoellick met PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in Ramallah on Wednesday, and stressed the importance of Palestine moving on from a donor-driven economy." World Bank research shows that the economic growth in West Bank...
2/3/2012 - TEHRAN (Reuters) -- Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday the Islamic Republic would not yield to international pressure to abandon its nuclear course, threatening retaliation for sanctions aimed at Iran's oil exports. Khamenei's defiant...
2/3/2012 - TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- PLO official Wasel Abu Yousef said Thursday that the diplomatic Quartet has proposed a series of measures to ease Israeli restrictions on Palestinians in order to restart stalled peace talks, according to news reports. The plan...
2/3/2012 - MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) -- Iran "will blink" if sanctions aimed at deterring it from building a nuclear bomb are imposed rapidly, meaning outside powers may never need to decide on possible armed action, an Israeli minister said Friday. Speaking on the sidelines of...
2/3/2012 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Palestinian Authority security services arrested a journalist for the government's official news agency in Ramallah on Tuesday after he criticized PLO officials, a media rights group said. Rami Samara, a journalist for the PA's...
2/3/2012 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A military court in Gaza on Thursday upheld a death sentence issued last year to a man convicted of treason, a Palestinian rights group said. The High Military Court confirmed the sentence of death by hanging against a...
2/3/2012 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- A 40-year-old woman and her young son died of suffocation from a firewood heater on Thursday in the Nablus village of al-Naqura, police said. The heater sucked all the oxygen from the room as the windows and...
2/3/2012 - By Ramzy Baroud - In a recent article, columnist Yaniv Halili described British author Ben White as 'anti-Semitic'. He also denounced Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi for writing a forward to White's latest book, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination...
2/3/2012 - By Marwa Awad and Tom PerryCAIRO (Reuters) -- Protesters hurled rocks through clouds of tear gas and riot police fired live rounds on a second day of fighting around Egypt's Interior Ministry triggered by the deaths of 74 people in the...
2/3/2012 - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -- Arab and Western drafters of a UN Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Syria's bloody upheaval revised their text on Thursday in a last-ditch effort to avoid a Russian veto, though the new draft includes language Moscow...
2/3/2012 - CAIRO (Reuters) -- Gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula kidnapped two American women on Friday in an apparent attempt to hold them for ransom, security sources said. Security in the isolated desert region has deteriorated since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak...
2/3/2012 - BEIRUT (Reuters) -- Syrian forces shot dead one person in the city of Hama on Friday as they broke up a protest marking the anniversary of a 1982 massacre by troops loyal to President Bashar Assad's father, activists said. The opposition...
4 Feb 2012 - Revolutionary Guards exercises follow threats by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei against US and Israel Iran's Revolutionary Guards are carrying out military exercises amid...
3 Feb 2012 - 'Victimhood is something that happens but when you turn it into an identity you're psychically and politically finished' One day, Jacqueline Rose came across...
3 Feb 2012 - Supreme leader affirms Iran has helped militant groups attack Israel before and will continue nuclear programme Iran will help any nation or group that...
3 Feb 2012 - Elected representatives of the Palestinian community in Israel face growing harassment by the state, fellow MKs and the media The presence of a few...
3 Feb 2012 - Head of Shin Bet says three attempted attacks by Iran have been thwarted in the past year Iranian agents are attempting to attack Israeli...
3 Feb 2012 - Tewfik Mishlawi, who has died aged 76, was a father-figure and guru to at least three generations of journalists who went to the Middle...
November 25th, 2009 --, On 23 November 2009, after 61 days of detention for the purpose of interrogation by Israeli Security Agency officers, human rights defender Mohammad Othman received his first administrative detention order. The administrative detention order is set for a three month period, during which time Mohammad will be held without charge or trial. The judicial review of the order is scheduled to take place on 25 November at the Military Court of Administrative Detainees in Ofer Military Base. [
November 24th, 2009 --, Military incursions into Jayyus continued this past week, as many as three times daily. Clashes and curfews have characterized village life, and undercover units have attempted to trap local youth. Although there has of yet been no serious injuries among the villagers, a group of young men were arrested several days ago. [
4 Feb 2012 Foreign Secretary William Hague Saturday condemned as "chilling" violence in the Syrian city of Homs, accusing President Bashar Assad of "cold-blooded cynicism."
4 Feb 2012 President Barack Obama is telling the Syrian people that the U.S. stands with them following a brutal attack that Syrian activists say killed at least 200 people.
4 Feb 2012 U.S. Senator John McCain warned China's Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun on Saturday that "the Arab Spring is coming to China" and highlighted the number of Tibetans burning themeselves to death in his country.
4 Feb 2012 During a farewell visit to Beirut, chief prosecutor for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon Daniel Bellemare had a secret meeting with former Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, Al-Akhbar newspaper reported.
4 Feb 2012 Employees at Tele Liban television station are threatening an unspecified "escalation" if their demand for timely payment of wages remains unmet, reported The National News Agency.
4 Feb 2012 Iranian naval ships docked on Saturday in the Saudi port city of Jeddah on a mission to project the Islamic republic's "power on the open seas."
4 Feb 2012 Politicians, diplomats and religious leaders of different affiliations gathered together Saturday to pay their respects to former MP Nassiab Lahoud, who died Thursday at age 68 after a long battle with illness.
4 Feb 2012 Indiana's top elections official was convicted of multiple voter fraud-related charges on Saturday, leaving in flux the fate of one of the state's most powerful positions.
4 Feb 2012 Abu Hamza was in a crowd of thousands in the Syrian border town of Qusair, shouting for President Bashar Assad to leave power, when a sniper's bullet tore through his leg.
4 Feb 2012 The Zafar missile, as it is dubbed in the report, "is a short-range, anti-ship cruise missile capable of destroying small- and medium-sized targets with high precision."
4 Feb 2012 Former President Amin Gemayel has criticized Interior Minister Marwan Charbel for dismissing his concerns over an assassination plot targeting his son, the National News Agency reported.
4 Feb 2012 Militants attacked a Yemeni army base in the country's south, a local official said on Saturday, highlighting a security breakdown just weeks ahead of a presidential election
3 Feb 2012 - Source: UN Department of Public Information , UN Security Council Country: Syrian Arab Republic (the) , Guinea , Haiti , Libya , occupied Palestinian territory , Senegal While it was currently seized with the ongoing situation in Syria and a range of issues around the world,...
3 Feb 2012 - Source: Voice of America Country: Somalia , Afghanistan , Niger (the) , occupied Palestinian territory , Sudan (the) Joe DeCapua The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders works in many of the world’s hot spots, including Somalia, Afghanistan and the Palestinian Territories. However, humanitarian...
3 Feb 2012 - Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Country: Lebanon , Denmark , occupied Palestinian territory Beirut, Lebanon The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced today a new...
3 Feb 2012 - Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Country: Lebanon , occupied Palestinian territory , Turkey Beirut, Lebanon The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced today a new...
3 Feb 2012 - Source: World Health Organization Country: occupied Palestinian territory , Norway Jerusalem: The Head of the WHO West Bank and Gaza Office, Mr. Anthony Laurance, signed a funding agreement today with the Head of Development Section of the Norwegian Representative Office, Mr....
3 Feb 2012 - Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: occupied Palestinian territory Key issues Israeli restrictions on Palestinian access to areas near the fence separating Israel and the Gaza Strip continue, resulting in the injury of one Palestinian civilian...
2 Feb 2012 - Source: Kuwait News Agency Country: occupied Palestinian territory , Kuwait GAZA, Feb 2 (KUNA) -- The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) has supported Palestinian housing projects with USD 90 million, said Mohammad Ashtyeh, member of the Fatah movement's Central...
2 Feb 2012 - Source: UN News Service Country: occupied Palestinian territory 2 February 2012 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled today to the Gaza Strip, where he underlined his commitment to continue working for peace and stability in the Middle East, and voiced his...
2 Feb 2012 - Source: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Country: occupied Palestinian territory Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) * A Palestinian civilian was wounded by IOF in Gaza City. - IOF...
2 Feb 2012 - Source: Government of Germany Country: occupied Palestinian territory , Germany In 2012 Germany will provide a total of 11 million euro to support Palestinian refugees. Commenting on this, Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle issued the following statement in Ramallah today (1...
4 Feb 2012 - Confidential memo shows Israeli security officials' concern that Jewish sites could become target of Iranian terror attack, ABC reports ....
3 Feb 2012 - Alain Juppe says France 'doing everything' to bring Zeituni's killers to justice; stresses Israel must file official motion to enable France to start legal proceedings against two suspects ....
3 Feb 2012 - Government aims to dismantle municipal unions, subject Fire Department to Public Security Ministry. Officials say reform will pass despite objections ....
The Jerusalem occupation municipality announced a plan to build a new shopping centre with a car park on a piece of land that is owned by the Armenian Church in the old city.
Hamas said that the refusal of UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, to meet with the families of Palestinian victims of the Israeli occupation exposed his double standards and bias to occupation.
The Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haneyya, visited on Friday evening Sheikh Yousuf al-Qardawi at his residence in Doha and discussed with him the situation in Palestine..
Israeli settlers on Friday established a new settlement outpost in the southern part of al-Khalil district. They invaded the village of Karmel to the east of Yatta ..
Islamic Jihad captives in the Negev desert prison threatened to go on hunger strike to express solidarity with Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan who has been on hunger strike for 48 days.
Hamas expressed deep sorrow and solidarity with the Egyptian people following the regrettable incidents in Port Said city that led to the death of more than 70 people on Wednesday night.
Palestinian health minister Dr. Basim Naim has warned of a health tragedy in the Gaza Strip in the event the power outages in the besieged enclave continued.
Palestinian lawmaker Mohamed Totah and former minister Khaled Abu Arafa refused to see Red Cross delegates who tried on Monday to visit them in Al-Maskobiyeh interrogation center.
RAMALLAH 01 February 2012 (IRIN) - Israel’s High Court of Justice has ordered Israeli settlers in the Migron settlement outpost in the West Bank to leave by 31 March in response to a 2006 petition filed by seven Palestinian landowners and Israeli pressure group Peace Now.
by Jonathan Azaziah Intifada-Palestine.com NATO supporter and Zionist warmonger Uri Avnery; seen here as a young ethnic cleanser in the 'Israeli' occupation army. Prelude: In the first part of this series, Uri Avnery was lambasted for his crimes against the... more
DAMASCUS , ( SANA )_ The ongoing distortion, falsification and instigation media campaigns by some satellite channels are but to cover the crimes and aggressions of the armed terrorist groups in Syria, an information source underscored. Some satellite channels earlier Saturday aired... more
by Paul Balles The real safeguard of democracy is education. –Franklin D. Roosevelt After a few hours of following the current debates between the Republican candidates for the presidency in America, I couldn’t resist the thought that “democracy” had become... more
Dr. Ismail Salami The simmering tensions over the Malvinas Islands or Falkland Islands (off the coast of Argentina in the South Atlantic) as called by the British occupiers have become a matter of great concern as the UK decided to... more
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