[ 13/08/2011 - 09:29 AM ] MOSCOW, (PIC)– Russia criticized on Friday the Israeli government’s endorsement of building 1600 new settlement units in occupied Jerusalem, warning that it would lead to worsening the already “explosive Middle E…
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Area C (which is 60% of the West Bank ) feels the effects of Israel’s power
John Lyons, Middle East correspondent | From: The Australian | August 13, 2011 12:00AM Palestinian children scramble for food rations during Ramadan in the West Bank city of Hebron. Picture: AP Source: AP ONLY 5km separates the offices of two…
Egyptian FM: Building new housing units in OJ “big crime”
[ 13/08/2011 - 12:16 PM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– Egyptian foreign minister Mohammed Kamel Amr said that what Israel was doing in occupied Jerusalem was provoking the feelings not only of Palestinians but of all Arabs and Muslims. He said, in a press state…
A different kind of housing crisis
Posted on August 3, 2011 | Gaza Gateway Tent cities have sprung up around the country, as people frustrated with the high cost of housing in Israel and inspired by campers on the tony Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv are sleeping outside and block…
Envoy: World must act against ‘colonization campaign’
Maan News Agency | Aug 12, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour on Friday urged the international community to compel Israel to end its colonization campaign if it really believes in the two-state sol…
The American ambassador’s Twitter diplomacy
Wednesday, August 10 2011| Noam Sheizaf | +972 Magazine The new American ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, has a Twitter account. What does he tweet? For example, a message on his visit to a missile battery (in both Hebrew and English). @Amb…
Turkey supports construction of new university hospital in Gaza
Thursday, 11 August 2011 13:48 | MEMO The new hospital, to be named the Palestinian-Turkish Friendship Hospital. The Islamic University in Gaza (IUG) held a ceremony yesterday to lay the foundation stone of a new university hospital in the liberat…
Israel approves 1,600 Jerusalem settler homes
█▌ Important – Israel does not seek peace nor an end to stop the building of settlements, and thus ethnic cleansing of Palestine. On Aug 30, 2010 (this was before the peacetalks in that year, Netanyahu vowed to make NO CONCESSIONS on eretz …
Japan condemns Israeli settlement plans
Published today (updated) 08/08/2011 17:21 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Japanese government expressed its “disappointment” on Monday at recent Israeli plans to build 900 homes in Har Homa settlement, a statement said. “The Gove…
Construction of 7,000 new settlement units in Jerusalem under way
[ 06/08/2011 - 11:04 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities are planning on carrying out plans to build 7,000 new settlement units in Jerusalem, Israeli media outlets have reported. Underway construction plans in the o…
Masri: Unleashing resistance forces best response against Jewish settlement
[ 06/08/2011 - 12:11 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Senior Hamas official Mushir al-Masri said that unleashing the West Bank resistance forces and ending security coordination is the best response against Israeli settlement. The statement came after the Jerus…
Likud MK Calls For More Settlements In the West Bank, Jerusalem, The Negev
Tuesday July 26, 2011 02:50 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Tzipi Hotovely, Israeli member of Knesset of the Likud party headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, called on the Israeli government to escalate the construction and expans…
Israel to approve expansion of illegal Itamar settlement
[ 14/07/2011 - 01:43 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Israeli security sources say the Israeli government will push for a construction plan in the illegal Itamar settlement, south of the West Bank city of Nablus. Within the next few days, the plans should be …
Ihsanoglu strongly condemns the building of more housing units in OJ
[ 07/07/2011 - 09:19 AM ] JEDDAH, (PIC)– Ekmeluddin Ihsanoglu, the secretary general of the Organization for the Islamic conference, has strongly condemned the Israeli occupation authority’s endorsement of building 900 new housing units in occu…
PA Adviser: Gilo Expansion Shatters Peace
Tuesday July 05, 2011 12:55 by Kevin Murphy – IMEMC and Agencies Spokesman for PA President Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, has strongly condemned the plans to expand the Jewish only settlement of Gilo in East Jerusalem. The plan to extend the…