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Stay Human convoy enters Gaza
12 May 2011 | Vik2Gaza After leaving Cairo this morning at dawn, the 80 activists of the ‘Restiamo Umani’ convoy have entered Gaza at 4pm after crossing five Egyptian check-points. The convoy will remain in the Gaza strip until the 17 of May to meet the Palestinian people who day by day are trying to resist the Israeli military occupation. The convoy will also join the commemorations for the thirtieth day of Vittorio’s death and for…
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Dr. Erakat deems Israeli’s canceling residency of Palestinians as ” war crime”
11 May 2011 | Palestine News Network Member of the PLO Executive Committee and Chief Palestinian Negotiator Dr. Saeb Erakat was reacting to a report appearing today in the Israeli online Haaretz confirming that Israel stripped almost 140,000 West Bank Palestinians of their residency rights upon their departure from the occupied Palestinian territories between 1967 and 1994. This represents 5.5% of today’s Palestinian population living in the West Bank . It also excluded around 20.000 Palestinian…
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BDS victory: German company pulls out of illegal Israeli railway project
10 May 2011 | Electronic Intifada In a substantial victory for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, a major German rail transportation company — Deutsche Bahn, or DB — has pulled out of the $550 million illegal A1 train project, which is designed to connect Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The projected route of the rail project cuts more than 6 kilometers through the occupied West Bank in two places, and construction work has already been…
