by Rosa Schiano 15 March 2012 | il Blog di Oliva This morning we went to pay a visit to the wounded at the Shifa Hospital. Most of them have fractures and burns. Hani Al-Qanoo, 15 His mother, Reda, tells that ...
Read More »Why did Israel stop me from visiting the West Bank?
by Alistair George 15 March 2012 | The Electronic Intifada The standard line trotted out by Israeli politicians is that Israel is the only democracy among a sea of repressive Arab autocracies. Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz claimed recently that ...
Read More »Official Release: “The New Black” by The Mavrix
13 March 2012 | Palestine Solidarity Alliance and PACBI In a first ever musical collaboration between South Africa and Palestine, South African band, The Mavrix, and Palestinian Oud player, Mohammed Omar, have released a music video called “The New Black”. The ...
Read More »New military gate limits access to Beit Iksa land
12 March 2012 | WAFA News Agency A new military-controlled road gate the Israeli army had set up on Monday in the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of Jerusalem, raised concern of possible takeover of almost 2000 dunums of land as ...
Read More »International Women’s Day Marks Hana Shalabi’s 22nd Day of Hunger Strike
8 March 2012 | Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organizations We, the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organisations (PCHRO), would like to mark International Women’s Day by expressing our solidarity with administrative detainee Hana Shalabi. Hana is today beginning her ...
Read More »Israeli troops kill a Palestinian youth; Injures and arrest another
by Ghassan Bannoura 8 March 2012 | International Middle East Media Center Twenty-two years old Zakariay Abu Iram was killed while Mohamed Rashid, 18, was injured and arrested by Israeli troops as they attacked the southern West Bank village of ...
Read More »Gaza rally for Hana Shalabi on International Women’s Day
by Joe Catron 8 March 2012 | Mondoweiss Hundreds of Palestinian women filled the street outside Gaza’s International Committee of the Red Cross this morning, marking International Women’s Day by demanding the release of administrative detainee Hana Shalabi on the ...
Read More »Red flags over Gaza: Palestinian leftists rally for Hana Shalabi
by Joe Catron 5 March 2012 | Mondoweiss Hundreds of Palestinians, mainly from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Palestinian People’s Party (PPP), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and other leftist factions, ...
Read More »Make some noise: Malcolm X in Gaza
by Joe Catron 29 February 2012 | Alresalah Press At the end of the United States’ Black History Month, one week after the 47th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination in New York’s Audubon Ballroom, and another week shy of my first ...
Read More »Israel raids Ramallah TV stations
29 February 2012 | Ma’an News Israeli forces raided two Palestinian television networks early Wednesday in Ramallah and briefly detained four employees, journalists said.Soldiers confiscated computers used by editors and reporters in Watan TV’s newsroom and general offices as well ...
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