April 24, 2014 /
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Around 5,000 Palestinians languish in some 22 Israeli prisons and detentions. reposted from World Bulletin / News Desk Two hundred Palestinian prisoners started on Thursday an indefinite hunger strike to protest Israel’s administrative detention policy, a rights lawyer said. “Detainees refused food on Thursday and declared a hunger strike,” Jawab Boules, a lawyer with the…
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April 24, 2014 /
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Powerful Israeli settler group set to take charge of projects around the most important Islamic holy site in Jerusalem. by Jonathan Cook | reposted from Al Jazeera Jerusalem – A right-wing Israeli settlement group has been put in charge of two controversial new projects to develop the area around al-Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, the compound of holy sites…
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April 23, 2014 /
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reposted from Russia Today Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas must choose either peace with Israel or an alliance with Hamas, but he cannot have both, Israel’s PM has said. His comments come after the Palestinian Authority restarted talks on a unity government with Hamas.
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April 21, 2014 /
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By DANIEL ESTRIN and JOSEF FEDERMAN | reposted from Associated Press BEIT UMAR, West Bank (AP) — The boys were both 15, with the crackly voices and awkward peach fuzz of adolescence. They lived just a few minutes away from one another in the West Bank. And both were accused of throwing stones at vehicles,…
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April 17, 2014 /
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by Juan Cole | reposted from Informed Comment One of the common assertions one finds in Zionist propaganda is that there “was never any Palestine.” This odd allegation is simply not true. Palestine has been used for a very long time to refer to the geographical area south of Sidon and north of the Sinai….
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April 13, 2014 /
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by Chris Carlson | reposted from IMEMC The chief Palestinian negotiator in current Mideast peace talks called Israel’s decision to stop tax money transfers “piracy”, Al Ray reports from Gaza. Saeb Erekat said, Friday, “The Israeli decision to withhold these funds is piracy… it cannot be maintained,” according to a report by the Associated Press (AP).
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April 13, 2014 /
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Local News
Support Commitment to Abide by International Law reposted from Human Rights Watch (Jerusalem) – The US government should support rather than oppose Palestinian actions to join international treaties that promote respect for human rights.
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April 5, 2014 /
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Local News, News from Palestine
Friday, April 4 2014 – In response to the call from the Popular Committees of Palestine, protests against US military aid to the Israeli occupation will be held in cities across the US and around the world on America’s Tax Day: Tuesday, April 15th.
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April 1, 2014 /
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News from Palestine
By Nir Hasson and Barak Ravid | reposted from Ha’aretz The Israel Lands Authority published a tender for 708 residential units in Gilo on Tuesday, just hours after reports that a deal with the U.S. on a settlement freeze for spy Jonathan Pollard’s release was close to being sealed.
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