Maan News Agency | Sept 7, 2011 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The release of alegal opinion by one of the world’s top authorities on international refugee law has highlighted possible legal dangers in the September initiative at the United Nations. Guy Goodwin-Gill’s opinion sparked a public debate amongst Palestinians at home and in the Diaspora, amid [...]
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Condemnation abounds after new U.S. ambassador reiterates commitments to Israel
[ 14/08/2011 - 02:42 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Condemnation has abounded among Palestinians after the U.S.’s new ambassador to Israel confirmed his country’s commitment to Israel’s security during a recent visit to the occupied territories. Where is the Palestinians’ entitlement to security from the life- and security-threatening Zionist machine? the Gaza Ministry of Justice wondered [...]
Is it a new measure to kill the besieged Gaza Strip ?
Related to Latest Update on Gaza | #Gaza #GazaBlackOut 2011-08-13 | Reports Gaza,(Alresalah.ps) On Tuesday night, residents throughout Gaza lost internet, cell phone and landline phone service, creating a communication blackout similar to one which occurred just before a massive Israeli invasion in 2008. The blackout sparked fear among Gaza residents that an Israeli invasion [...]
EU slams new Israeli settlement plan
PressTV – Sat Aug 6, 2011 1:56PM GMT Israel’s illegal settlement units being constructed south of al-Quds, file photo EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton condemns Tel Aviv’s decision to build 900 settlement units in the neighborhood of Har Homa in East al-Quds (Jerusalem). “I am profoundly disappointed,” AFP reported Ashton saying on Friday. “The [...]
Knesset approves new restrictions on Palestinian prisoners
[ 03/08/2011 - 01:04 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Israeli Knesset has approved in its first reading a law empowering all prison administrations with the right to prevent Palestinian prisoners from meeting with their lawyers for three days. Right group sources say the move comes to pressure prisoner bodies into meeting the demands of the [...]
[HumanRights] New Israeli Weapon used in Al-Walaja, Ramadan kareem and more
Ramadan kareem to all Muslims! Items for today include a story about the demonstration yesterday in Al-Walaja where Israeli occupation forces apparently used an experimental weapon, links to CNN videos exposing the money grubbing fake “terrorism expert” Walid Shoebat (who was disavowed by his family in my village of Beit Sahour), and a request for [...]
Ufree condemns new indictment filed against mayor’s daughter
[ 30/07/2011 - 04:57 PM ] OSLO, (PIC)– The European network to support the Palestinian prisoners (Ufree) has condemned Israel’s continued detention of the 17-year-old daughter of the mayor of Al-Beira near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The statement comes as the Israeli military prosecutor has placed new charges against her and signs of [...]
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 [...]
Israel To Construct More Units In Two Settlements In East Jerusalem
Sunday July 24, 2011 06:42 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli sources reported that the Israeli government intends to construct dozens of units in Jabal Abu Ghneim (Har Homa) and Pisgat Zeev illegal settlements built on Palestinian lands in occupied East Jerusalem. Archive Photo The first project includes the construction of nearly 97 [...]
OIC condemns new Israeli settlement plan, Dignite attack
[ 20/07/2011 - 05:23 PM ] JEDDAH, (PIC)– Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations, strongly condemned Israel’s recent decision approving 336 housing units in the West Bank, emphasizing that they were banned by international law. In a fresh statement released Wednesday, [...]
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid Issues Press Release Condemning New “Boycott Law”
PNN – Palestine News Network – 20.07.11 – 14:38 Bethlehem – PNN – The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid has issued a press release explaining the consequences of the new boycott law passed in the Israeli Knesset last week. PNN Archives “The law defines public boycott as a new type of ‘civil wrong’ or tort. It [...]
A new Israeli law criminalizes support to Palestinian civil society campaigns.
PNN – Palestine News Network - 15.07.11 – 16:50 Ramallah – PNN - A repressive law criminalizing support for the Palestinian civil society campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel was approved last night by the Israeli parliament (Knesset). The new legislation will punish both Israeli people and organisations active in any kind [...]
New Rafah travel mechanisms from next week
Published 24/06/2011 Palestinians wait to pass into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on March 1, 2010. [MaanImages/Hatem Omar] GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — New travel mechanisms will be implemented at the Rafah crossing at the start of the week, Gaza Cabinet head Mohammad A’zqul said Thursday. The Ministerial Council secretary [...]