Wednesday March 10, 2010 - 16:20, Palestinians organized a nonviolent protest Wednesday in central Gaza the Israeli built wall around the costal enclave.
Wednesday March 10, 2010 - 16:06, A group of armed Israeli settlers attack on Wednesday the village of Bureen northern West Bank and destroyed a car there.
Wednesday March 10, 2010 - 15:52, Israeli tanks opened fire on Wednesday afternoon at residents’ homes and farm lands located close to the eastern Gaza Strip boarders.
Wednesday March 10, 2010 - 15:10, The United Nation secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, condemned the latest Israeli decision to build 1,600 new settlers homes in East Jerusalem.
Wednesday March 10, 2010 - 13:09, Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that detainee Irena Sarahna from Ukraine, and married to a Palestinian from the Duheisha refugee camp in Bethlehem, was officially informed by the Israeli Authorities that she will be deported to her country within a month.
Wednesday March 10, 2010 - 12:43, Palestinian Legislator, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, called on the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank to void its approval for holding talks with the Israeli government on Benjamin Netanyahu.
3/9/2010 - International Solidarity Movement - International Solidarity Movement, 8 March - A group of Israeli settlers today destroyed a spring by the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan in the Salfit district. The settlers poured sand and cement into the spring, guarded by five armed members of the Israeli...
3/9/2010 - International Solidarity Movement - Tadamon! - February 25 - A call from Montreal artists to support the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israeli apartheid. Today, a broad spectrum of Montreal artists are standing in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and supporting the growing...
10 Mar 2010 - March 9, 2010 - In her 2002 book titled, "Water Wars," noted author, social activist, and ecologist Vandana Shiva called privatizing water: -- ecological terrorism; -- a global water crisis; -- along with overuse, waste and pollution, it...
10 Mar 2010 - March 9, 2010 - ...Some initial thoughts: voter turnout was 62 percent, according to initial reports from Iraq. That's down from about 75 percent in the 2005 election. In Baghdad, the key province with 70 seats in parliament...
10 Mar 2010 - March 9, 2010 - The killing of Palestinian activist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on January 19 was clearly a well-planned act, committed by Israeli assassins in the supposed safety of a sovereign country, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Yes,...
9 Mar 2010 - March 9, 2010 - A heavy-handed crack down on Israeli dissidents is drawing sharp criticism by human rights organizations and at least a mild judicial slap on the wrist for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. The authorities are...
9 Mar 2010 - March 9, 2010 – Israeli Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem David Harari attempted to forcibly enter the Sheikh Jarrah home of Rifqa Al-Kurd on Tuesday morning, but was halted by a number of Jerusalemites, Fatah's Jerusalem affairs chief Hatem...
9 Mar 2010 - March 9, 2010 - Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday began an effort to heal strained ties with Israel, pledging a total U.S. commitment to Israel's security and declaring that the bonds between the nations were "unbreakable." Opening...
9 Mar 2010 - March 9, 2010 - The 27th suspect wanted over the assassination of a Hamas leader in his luxury hotel room in Dubai earlier this year has been named by Interpol, which issued arrest notices yesterday for an additional...
9 Mar 2010 - March 9, 2010 - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Monday to discuss preparations for a major military offensive against Kandahar, the country’s second largest city. At a joint press conference in...
9 Mar 2010 - March 8, 2010 - ...Most people think that the siege of Gaza, the blockade, started in June 2007. But I would say that the blockade started in June 1967. The first Israeli military order after the Six-Day War...
9 Mar 2010 - March 9, 2010 - Here in the civilised West we hate suicide bombers with a passion. We’re taught that the proper way to blow fellow humans to smithereens is to do it from 40,000 feet. Or failing that,...
9 Mar 2010 - Monday, March 8, 2010. Chaos and violence continue, counting the votes continues, the US military continues to attempt to punish a soldier for the 'crime' of rapping, and more ... Omar Chatriwala (Voices From Iraq, Al Jazeera) offers video...
9 Mar 2010 - March 9, 2010 - Self-proclaimed waterboarding fan Dick Cheney called it a no-brainer in a 2006 radio interview: Terror suspects should get a "a dunk in the water." But recently released internal documents reveal the controversial "enhanced interrogation"...
9 Mar 2010 - March 8, 2010 - The Palestinian people's oppression continues primarily due to the financial, diplomatic and military support that the Zionist state receives from the USA, and secondly the acquiescence of pro-Western states in the region. After the...
10 Mar 2010 - Brussels, March 10, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - The European Parliament on Wednesday urged its 27-member states to monitor the Israeli and Palestinian probes into alleged war crimes committed during last year's late-winter...
10 Mar 2010 - Jenin, March 10, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - Israeli occupation force detained today a Palestinian citizen from Rumana village west of Jenin. Security sources said to WAFA news agency that Israeli occupation force...
10 Mar 2010 - Ramallah, March 10, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit Ramallah today to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Biden is expected to discuss with Abbas on...
9 Mar 2010 - Israel, widely believed to have nuclear weapons and possessing no oil, said on Tuesday that it intended to develop civilian nuclear plants for energy.
9 Mar 2010 - The partial results of parliamentary elections will provide an incomplete picture of the vote that will nevertheless provide the broad outlines of the country’s political landscape.
9 Mar 2010 - The plan to build 1,600 new homes in Jerusalem is likely to complicate relations with the U.S. as Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. tours the region.
9 Mar 2010 - Plans to move more Israelis into Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem have been met with opposition from Israelis who favor the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in that part of the city.
9 Mar 2010 - Abbas Kiarostami, a celebrated Iranian filmmaker, published an open letter in a Tehran newspaper on Tuesday calling for the release two directors recently detained by the authorities. The filmmaker provided The Lede with an English translation of his letter.
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10 Mar 2010 - Saturday, 06 March 2010, The 14 year old boy was critically injured during a demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh against creeping land grab by the adjacent Jewish-only settlement of Halamish.
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10 Mar 2010 - Friday, 05 March 2010, The US-based Center for Constitutional Rights is petitioning various United Nations offices, of Palestinian families whose ancestors are buried in the Mamila Cemetery. The cemetery better known as Mamilla, has been a Muslim burial ground since the 7th century, when companions of...
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10 Mar 2010 - Friday, 05 March 2010, These are the conclusions of the Jury pertaining to the Barcelona session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. However, the contents are subject to the normal processes of editing and corrections before a definitive edition is made public.
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10 Mar 2010 - Thursday, 04 March 2010, On 11 March, the Swedish clothes and fashion chain, H&M, will be opening the first of six planned stores in Israel. The familiar red H&M sign will be viewed in the Malcha shopping center in Jeruslaem, a municipality which has to continuously...
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10 Mar 2010 - Notice how the mainstream press (Time Magazine) dissed the Israeli government and Bibi. This is new. Change that we can believe in (We hope): Guardian: It doesn’t seem to realise it, but Israel cannot afford to keep on behaving in this disobliging manner towards its friends....
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10 Mar 2010 - Astonishing interview of the Corrie family, mom Cindy, dad Craig, and sister Sarah Corrie Simpson, by Amy Goodman , just before they left for the civil suit trial that’s taking place in Israel this week. Baird portion is halfway down. Also Craig’s meeting with Obama in Iowa....
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10 Mar 2010 - People are talking excitedly about a big new paper on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, coming out of the "Global Forum on Anti-Semitism," a conference organized by the Israeli government . The paper is evidently authored by Israel lobbyists Mitchell Bard and Gil Troy, here it...
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10 Mar 2010 - Pesach is right around the corner. And while Israel will go through the motions of the holiday, it won’t reach the spirit of Passover. Why? Israel has lost its moral compass. I’m not talking about Gaza, the Occupation, or 1948, although the expulsion of the Palestinians...
3/9/2010 - Jerusalem - Ma'an -Israeli Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem David Harari attempted to forcibly enter the Sheikh Jarrah home of Rifqa Al-Kurd on Tuesday morning, but was halted by a number of Jerusalemites, Fatah's Jerusalem affairs chief Hatem Abdul Qader said. Reports from residents...
3/9/2010 - Chicago - Ma'an - Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, said on Monday the Palestinian Authority (PA) urged him to step down after he criticized the PA's treatment of a UN war crimes report. Falk confirmed...
3/9/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - A Tel Aviv court will hold the first hearing of criminal charges against Palestinian member of the Knessent Mohammed Barakeh on Wednesday. Barakeh, the head of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) in the Israeli parliament, was indicted...
3/9/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - Hundreds of Palestinians and international solidarity activists joined the weekly challenge to the enforced no-go zone in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, walking out toward the border wall, which has a 150-700meter 'buffer' patrolled by the Israeli military...
3/9/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a report on indicators of woman's equality in Palestine on the occasion of International Woman's Day on Monday. The statistics were presented by Ola Awad, the acting president of PCBS, who spoke...
3/9/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - Israeli authorities opened the Kerem Shalom crossing on Tuesday, transferring two trucks of supplies for the Gaza Power Authority and one truck for PalTel, Palestinian liaison official Raed Fattouh said. Limited humanitarian aid and commercial goods will also enter Gaza...
3/9/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - Four Palestinians sustained serious burns before sunrise on Tuesday when a kerosene lamp exploded in a family home in the southern Gaza Strip. The lamp, lit to get the family ready for the day, was used because of continuous rolling...
3/9/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Israeli forces detained three teenagers early Tuesday morning from the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem. Eyewitnesses said the forces raided the village and detained Muntaser Muhammad Za'loul, 17, Hamza Abdullah Shosha, 19, and Laith Shosha, 19. An Israeli military...
3/9/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - Three prisoners affiliated with Hamas marked 18 years in Israeli detention on Tuesday, the Detainees Support Committee said. Ayman Ash-Shawwa, from Gaza City, was detained in 1993 and sentenced to life, said Riyadh Al-Ashqar, the committee's spokesman. He added that...
3/10/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Israel's plan to build 1,600 new housing units in occupied East Jerusalem is "dangerous" and has the potential to thwart US efforts to restart peace talks, the Office of the President said Tuesday. The Israeli Interior Ministry's announcement came one...
3/9/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - Israel plans to allow UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton into the besieged Gaza Stripon separate visits, a Monday announcement said. In a statement, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said the authorization came "in response to...
3/9/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - De facto Prime Minster Ismail Haniyeh and representatives of Gaza's resistance factions vowed on Monday to uphold opposition against US-brokered proximity talks with Israel. Alongside advisers and several party leaders in his Gaza City office, Haniyeh outlined ongoing efforts to...
3/9/2010 - Nablus - Ma'an- Israel has agreed to remove 77 former Palestinian fighters from its list of "wanted" men as a continuation of its amnesty program, Palestinian sources said. Palestinian Authority officials were handed a list on Monday night, naming the men who received...
3/9/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Three Iranians were caught holding stolen Israeli passports as they arrived in the an archipelago nation of Seychelles, northeast of Madagascar, the Israeli daily newspaper Ma'ariv reported on Tuesday. The three were reportedly detained at Seychelles International Airport and were...
3/9/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - A Palestinian lawmaker representing Fatah in Gaza proposed on Tuesday that Hamas head to Cairo and sign the Egyptian unity plan ahead of the Arab League summit in Tripoli. The trip, according to Ashraf Jum'a, would be the first of...
3/9/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - Humanitarian aid for Gaza civilians was transferred through the Rafah crossing with Egypt on Tuesday, the Union of Arab Doctors (UAD) said. The 18. 5 tons of aid, donated by the Relief and Emergency Committee of the UAD, includes winter...
3/9/2010 - Jericho - Ma'an - Saeb Erekat, the chief PLO negotiator, on Tuesday expressed reservations on the recently announced indirect negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel. "President Abbas wants certain answers to some inquiries he submitted to US Middle East envoy George Mitchell before...
3/9/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - No date has been set for the end of government investigations into the corruption and sex scandal allegations against former chief of staff Rafiq Al-Husseini, a presidential representative said Monday. Speaking for the office of the president, Rafiq An-Natsha said...
3/9/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Hamas-affiliated prisoners at Israel's Ofer detention center near Ramallah received Fatah detainees on Monday, following a request made by all factions in the prison last week. On 4 March, leaders of the Hamas and Fatah parties inside the prison signed...
3/9/2010 - MaanImages/Mouid Ashqar - A Palestinian security officer checks driver's licenses as part of a traffic campaign in the West Bank village of Atil, near Tulkarem, on 8 March 2010. [end...
3/9/2010 - Qalqiliya - Ma'an - Palestinian Authority police arrested two suspected drug dealers on Tuesday and confiscated forged international passports in the northern West Bank city of Qalqiliya. Local police said they received information on hashish dealers operating from a Qalqiliya home; the home was...
3/9/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - The Civil Servants Union in the Gaza Strip will bring suit against the West Bank-based insurance and salaries committee over allegedly unfair practices, the union's top executive said Tuesday. Aref Abu Jarad told Ma'an that the union held several meetings...
3/9/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - De facto Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh announced Tuesday that his government intends to appoint a female minister to head a Women's Affairs Ministry in the Gaza Strip. "The government is planning to appoint a number of female ministers to better...
3/9/2010 - Hebron - Ma'an - Finance Ministry customs officers seized 51 tons of plastic granules en route to Ramallah on Tuesday, officials said. The head of the customs department, Khaleb Diwan, said the move came after Palestinian Authority cabinet banned goods from Israeli settlements, which...
3/9/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Stocks rose on the Palestine Securities Exchange on Tuesday, with the Al-Quds Index standing at 528. 32, increasing by 0. 21 (0. 04%) at the close of trading. Trading volume was 1,060,399 for a total of US $1,312,841. 26, executed...
8 Mar 2010 - Trade organization says Israel is violating Oslo agreements. Israel's refusal to issue visas is the main obstacle to foreign investment in the West Bank...
8 Mar 2010 - In a reversal of policy which has prevented European leaders from having access to the Gaza Strip, Israel's administration will allow United Nations Secretary...
10 Mar 2010 - Intentional or not, the announcement of new settlements in East Jerusalem may push the US into a tougher stance towards Israel It's not the...
10 Mar 2010 - Growing Israeli and settler control has set Jerusalem on the same path as the West Bank's most divided city The recent escalation of tensions...
10 Mar 2010 - Visiting vice-president seeks to keep peace process on rails after Israel says it will expand East Jerusalem settlement The US vice-president, Joe Biden, has...
9 Mar 2010 - • 1,600 homes to be built in East Jerusalem settlement • Vice-president says the deal undermines trust Joe Biden, the US vice-president, condemned a...
10 Mar 2010 - Economic pressure is a powerful tool when it comes to Israel, and the OECD is undermining the EU's firm stance Despite all the diplomatic...
9 Mar 2010 - In talks with Binyamin Netanyahu, US vice-president stresses need to prevent Iran obtaining nuclear weapons The US vice-president, Joe Biden, promised the Israeli government...
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. [
10 Mar 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel on Tuesday approved the construction of 1,600 new settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem, announcing the move as US Vice President Joe Biden met top Israeli officials to boost renewed peace efforts. The move infuriated the Palestinians, who consider settlements to be a major hurdle in long-hobbled attempts
GAZA CITY Wednesday, March 10, 2010 (IRIN) - A half-finished two-story building in central Gaza City is one of the few places providing support to amputees, most of them civilian victims of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, as they try and come to terms with their injuries.
CAIRO Monday, March 08, 2010 (IRIN) - Egypt is moving to curb the spread of avian influenza (H5N1) after a recent upsurge in infections, the Egyptian Health Ministry says.
CAIRO Monday, March 08, 2010 (IRIN) - “It is a day I don’t want to remember. Whenever it comes to my mind, it sends shivers down my spine,” said Aya Abdel Aati, aged 17, recalling the painful experience of her circumcision at the age of 12. She says she bled for several days.
10 Mar 2010 - During joint Ramallah press conference with Abbas, American vice president says Israel's east Jerusalem construction plan 'undermines trust needed for negotiations'; calls on both sides to refrain from 'inflaming' tensions. Yishai apologizes for 'real embarrassment' caused to Biden
10 Mar 2010 - Parents of Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by IDF bulldozer while trying to block demolition of Palestinian homes in 2003, seek $324,000 in damages. 'The truth will not wound Israel,' father says
10 Mar 2010 - Unprecedented coalition emerges to keep work immigrants' children in Israel. Advocates include educational institutions, youth movements, academics, student unions and social groups. Inter-ministerial committee to decide on matter by end of March
10 Mar 2010 - Five people died in car accidents throughout Israel on Wednesday, including an eight-year-old boy who was hit by a car in Jisr az-Zarqa. Around the same time, a tractor overturned in an olive grove in Jadeidi-Makr, killing the driver. ...
10 Mar 2010 - An Israeli supermarket is looking to cash in on the infamous surveillance video of an assassination team suspected of killing a Hamas commander in Dubai with a new commercial inspired by the footage. ...
10 Mar 2010 - The Israeli left does not have an agenda. It has Arabs. The more hallucinatory the Arab spokesman, the more extreme he is and the more he hates Jews, the greater the enthusiasm with which leftists will adopt his words. Every youngster who hurls stones stands before the cameras and gives the speech of his life, which immediately, in a cut-and-paste process, becomes the moral purists' next slogan. ...
10 Mar 2010 - Thousands of Israeli children are prescribed Ritalin for attention disorders, but actually have undiagnosed psychological problems that necessitate different treatment, according to a study released this month. ...
10 Mar 2010 - Hamas MPs in Nablus on Wednesday appealed to human rights groups and official institutions to immediately intervene to save the life of Tarek Al-Asy, who is held in IOA jails.
10 Mar 2010 - Israeli minister of infrastructure Uzi Landau is to announce during an energy forum in Paris this week his government's plan to establish a new nuclear reactor, media sources revealed.
10 Mar 2010 - Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya said that the Arab decision endorsing resumption of negotiations between the PA in Ramallah and the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) was wrong.
10 Mar 2010 - Yousuf Salama warned that Makkah and Medina holy sites would not be immune from the Zionist danger if the Muslim Nation persisted in its passivity towards Israel’s moves to Judaize Palestine mosques.
10 Mar 2010 - The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has decided to deport detainee Irina Sarahne, who is serving a 20-year jail term, to her original country the Ukraine.
10 Mar 2010 - The families of Palestinian prisoners in Egyptian jails on Wednesday held the government in Cairo fully responsible for the lives of their sons and called for releasing them immediately.
10 Mar 2010 - Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu warned of the serious consequences of the declared Israeli intention to turn the Aqsa Mosque from a holy site for Muslims into a Jewish shrine.
10 Mar 2010 - Israeli occupation police have been escalating arrests in lines of Palestinian minors in the Silwan suburb in occupied Jerusalem on suspicion of throwing stones at settlers' vehicles and houses.
10 Mar 2010 - Hamas said that Israel’s approval of a plan to build 1,600 new settlement units is the fruit of the decision taken by the Arab follow-up committee and the PA to resume the peace negotiations.
10 Mar 2010 - Informed sources revealed an Israeli scheme aimed to change the Arab landmarks of the occupied holy city of Jerusalem especially its main entrance extending from Bab Al-Amud Gate to Bab Al-Khalil.
9 Mar 2010 - The regime cared about the Hamas commander and others of his ilk who are key to keeping the arms flowing, so that resources can be in place should Iran be hobbled by sanctions or even attacked.
9 Mar 2010 - US VP meets Peres, says "since our administration came to power Iran is more isolated"; stresses "absolutely no space between Israel and US" where Israel's security is concerned.
8 Mar 2010 - Despite Iranian influence and pressure on Assad, current assessments in Israel are that both Hizbullah and Syria are deterred from war, each for its own reasons.
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