[ 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 East peace process”. The Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Ukashević said in a statement that the decision to build [...]
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Qurei slams settlement expansion as ‘recklessness’
Maan News Agency | Aug 12, 2011 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli government’s “greed and recklessness” have reached a point that cannot be condoned or tolerated, senior PLO official Ahmed Qurei said Friday. Its plan to build 4,300 housing units “as an excuse” for solving the housing problems would expand illegal settlements in the West [...]
Israel Occupation Forces serves demolition notice to owner of water well
[ 11/08/2011 - 11:30 AM ] JERICHO, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) served a notice to a Palestinian citizen in Nuwaima village, Jericho province, that his water well would be razed because it was built without permit in area C of the West Bank. Local sources charged that the notice fell in line with the [...]
Hamas issues report on violations against historic Ma’manullah cemetery
[ 11/08/2011 - 10:57 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas has released a detailed report on the Jerusalem’s historic Ma’manullah cemetery, which has been for decades under attack in a bid by the Israelis to Judaize the holy city. The Islamic cemetery is one of the oldest in Palestine and even in the world. It contains [...]
They try to steal our history, not just our land – video
9 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The demonstrations in Nabi Saleh started the 21 of November 2009, after the illegal settlement of Halamish expanded, costing locals in land and their source of water for home and agricultural use, a spring declared holy by the settlers. Since the beginning of the demonstrations the village faced outstanding [...]
Israel ‘deploys drones’ over offshore gas fields
Published today (updated) 09/08/2011 16:36 The “Heron” drone is pictured at the Palmahim Airbase in central Israel [AFP/File Menahem Kahana] JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel has deployed drones to keep watch on gas fields off its northern coast, fearing attack by the Hezbollah militia from neighboring Lebanon, the Jerusalem Post daily reported on Tuesday. The fields [...]
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 Government of Japan does not recognize any act that prejudges the final status of the territories in the pre-1967 borders, and Israeli settlement [...]
Protesters face tear gas at West Bank demo
Published today 20:21| Maan News Agency BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Soldiers fired tear gas Friday at weekly demonstrations in the Palestinian village of Bilin, west of Ramallah, the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee said. Despite the heat and fasting of Ramadan, dozens of Palestinian, international and Israeli activists took part in the protests, which began after Friday [...]
Map of planned Har Homa Illegal Settlement Expansion (983 units) in East Jerusalem
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Jewish settlers confiscate hundreds of dunums in Sa’ir area
[ 28/07/2011 - 10:27 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Jewish settlers have released hounds on Palestinians who stepped foot on land that was taken from them to build the Asfar settlement on the Sa’ir area east of Al-Khalil city, Palestinian sources have said. The settlers have been carrying out excavations there on farmlands owned by the [...]
Israeli moves to legalize Judaization of Silwan district
[ 27/07/2011 - 02:36 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli government intends to legalize the seizure of public parks and yards in Silwan district in order to enable the right-wing settler society Elad to take them over and turn them into Talmudic gardens, according to a report published by Haaretz newspaper on Wednesday. The [...]
Knesset right-winger urges her gov’t to steal more Palestinian lands
[ 26/07/2011 - 08:54 AM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– A right-wing Knesset member urged the Israeli premier to escalate settlement expansion and to seize more Palestinian lands in the occupied territories in Jerusalem and the West Bank at the pretext of seeking solutions to what she claimed Israel’s housing crisis. According to Israel’s national news agency, [...]
Community Organizer to PNN: New Tunnel Under Silwan to the Western Wall
PNN – Palestine News Network - 26.07.11 – 13:06 Jerusalem – PNN Exclusive/Maysa Abu Ghazaleh – On Tuesday, Fakhri Abu Diyab from the committee to defend the Silwan neighborhood in East Jerusalem told PNN that the Jerusalem municipality had dug a new tunnel under Silwan all the way up to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and [...]
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 expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, in occupied East Jerusalem and the occupied Negev. [...]
The Murder of Non-jews and The Israeli Law Against Boycott
July 17, 2011 | Kawther Salam Some days ago the israeli knesset passed into law a bill sponsored by the extremists from the „Israeli Beitenu“ and „Likud“ factions, among them one Ze’ev Elkin and one David Rotem, which makes it „illegal“ to boycott israel and calls for a host of sanctions against anybody boycotting or [...]