IOF soldiers open indiscriminate fire at Husan homes

BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) mounting six armored vehicles on Tuesday afternoon stormed the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem, and fired rubber-coated bullets and gas bombs at citizens’ homes. Locals said that the soldiers broke into many houses in the village, which are adjacent to the main road trekked by Jewish settlers, and [...]

Report: 99 per cent of separation wall built on ’67 occupied land

CAIRO, (PIC)– The Arab League warned that the separation wall built by Israel will devour fertile farmland in the West Bank province of Qalqiliya, within the framework of a systematic plan to take control of Palestine’s most fertile and strategically important lands. The report, issued by the Arab League’s Palestine department, confirmed that Israel is [...]

IAEA: Iran Plant Conforms to Agency’s Safeguards, US: No Problem with Bushehr

Al Manar 27/10/2010 The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency says the activities at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran all conform with IAEA safeguards. “Preparations, activities at Bushehr are going on under IAEA safeguards,” Yukiya Amano was quoted by Reuters as saying.   His remarks came as Iran started loading [...]

OECD and ‘Israel’s’ “tourist” colonization of Syria’s Golan

by Charlotte Silver, The Electronic Intifada On 20 and 21 October, the 86th session of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) tourism committee was held in Jerusalem. Leading up to the conference, there was conjecture on how the member countries in attendance would handle Israel’s tourism policies regarding the occupied territories: the West [...]

New Scandal Rocks Zionist Federation

by Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria, source The latest scandal to hit a self-confessed pro-Israeli organization in South Africa, the SA Zionist Federation, [SAZF] is likely to invigorate the ‘Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions’ [BDS] campaign against Israel and its affiliates. This remarkable turn of events involves a Johannesburg-based bag manufacturing company, Saley’s Travel Goods, who refused to [...]

Palestinians Have the Right to Resist Occupation

by Agustin Velloso, source (A contribution to Ramzy Baroud’s The Violence Debate.) As a Western supporter (non Muslim/Arab) of the Palestinian cause, I have always find it rather difficult to talk (let alone to advocate) about how best Palestinians can resist occupation, especially when this occupation is usually extremely violent and genocidal at times. Ramzy [...]

IOF soldiers burn two copies of the holy Quran, wound man, order demolition of homes in Bethlehem, and arrest 4 in Silwan

IOF soldiers burn two copies of the holy Quran WEST BANK, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) burnt two copies of the holy Quran after arresting a Palestinian man in his home in Jayus village, north of the West Bank, the man’s wife said. Sahar Beida, 40, said that the soldiers detained her and her daughter [...]

Man and his pregnant wife injured in deliberate settler hit and run accident

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– An Israeli settler deliberately ran into a Palestinian car near Halhul village, Al-Khalil district, on Monday night injuring the driver and his pregnant wife, eyewitnesses reported. They said that the Israeli settler was driving opposite the traffic and intentionally hit the Palestinian car. The witnesses added that the car skidded into a nearby [...]

The systemic Israeli attacks on Palestinians’ olive groves continue: sewage and denying access

Israeli Settler Sewage Ruins Palestinian Olive Grove Al Manar 26/10/2010 Thousands of olive trees in a northern West Bank village have been ruined after being flooded with sewage from a nearby Israeli settlement, residents told AFP on Tuesday. The discovery was made when villagers from Deir al-Hatab just west of Nablus, went to harvest their [...]

Iran Loads Fuel into Bushehr Nuclear Plant

Al Manar 26/10/2010 Iran has started injecting fuel on Tuesday morning into the core of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr which is the country’s first nuclear reactor, the Iranian Press TV reported.   The power plant will become operational once all 163 fuel rods are injected to its [...]

Israeli cabinet endorses law making judaizing Jerusalem a national priority and distribution of new demolition orders in Silwan

Israeli cabinet endorses law making judaizing Jerusalem a national priority OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli ministerial committee on legislative affairs has approved a bill on Sunday, defining Jerusalem as a national priority area of the first order in the housing, employment and education sectors, which practically means giving a boost to Judaization efforts. Hebrew media [...]

Israeli military prevents UN from building new schools in Gaza; 40,000 students without schools

by Saed Bannoura, IMEMC Nearly two years after the devastating Israeli invasion of Gaza that left 1400 dead and over 30,000 families without homes, many of the schools that were destroyed in the invasion have yet to be rebuilt. Now a United Nations effort to rebuild schools in Gaza has been cut short by the Israeli [...]

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Ashkenazi: Navy fired 308 projectiles at Freedom Flotilla activists

NAZARETH, (PIC)– Israeli Military Chief of Staff Gaby Ashkenazi, testifying Sunday for the second time before Israel’s Turkel committee, reiterated his full support for his soldiers’ deadly massacre against a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in late May. “It was completely in line, without any reservations, with the method of taking control of the Mavi Marmara ship,” [...]

New photos of Israeli soldiers humiliating Palestinian detainees disclosed

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A Hebrew website unveiled on Sunday new photos showing sadist Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip humiliating and scoffing at blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian prisoners, while Al-Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies revealed a picture for a little girl being surrounded by another group of soldiers. The website Walla said that the images [...]