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Canadian Free Press
| 1 year ago
America, the Russian Federation, the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN)...The Quartet reaffirmed its commitment, as expressed in its 23 September 2011 statement, to examine possible mechanisms it can actively support going forward,...
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j.
| 1 year ago
Follow j. on and At least 43 foreign pro-Palestinian activists who arrived in Israel for a fly-in protest April 15 were detained at Ben Gurion Airport. Two protesters, citizens of France and Italy, made it through security to Bethlehem. Thirty-one...
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Weekly Arham
| 1 year ago
On Tuesday, as many as 2300 inmates reportedly returned their meals as part of the hunger strike which coincides with "Prisoners' Day". There are as many as 4700 Palestinians languishing in Israeli jails, many of them purely political prisoners...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Five pro-Palestinian French women activists complained of "psychological violence," after being flown home from Israel early Thursday following their detention and expulsion. The five, who arrived in Nice, southern France, aboard and Air France plane,...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Medical staff transport Mawran Burkan to an ambulance after he was seriously injured when Israeli settlers beat him up at his home in the West Bank city of Hebron on April 17, 2012. As Palestinians gathered outside Burkan's house to protest after the...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 1 year ago
One of the terrorists, who was deported to Gaza, wrote guidelines for future abductions, including The captive should not be hidden in remote locations, caves, or woodland unless it's a dead body or the captive's head. He also tried to recruit young...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Israeli police on Wednesday evicted a Palestinian family from their home in East Jerusalem after Jewish settlers won a lengthy court battle over ownership, police and rights groups said. The eviction of the 14-member Natshe family from two houses in...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
Denounces Israel For Denying Entry To Peace Activitists This is a press release by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, based in Gaza, denouncing Israel for prevented dozens of solidarity activists from entering traveling to the occupied...
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Reuters
| 1 year ago
Topics Palestinians take part in a rally in the West Bank city of Ramallah, marking Palestinian Prisoners Day April 17, 2012. At least 1,200 Palestinians in Israeli jails launched an open-ended hunger strike on Tuesday, raising the stakes in a...
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Palestine Chronicle
| 1 year ago
27 04/17/2012 Ben Gurion Airport was thrown into chaos for the third annual Flytilla on Sunday. As starry-eyed tourists arrived to visit the Holy sites and beady-eyed new Israelis arrived to kick more Palestinians off their land in the name of the...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Palestinian hunger strike Palestinians carry photos of jailed relatives during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians being held in Israeli prisoners on Prisoners' Day in the biblical town of Bethlehem, West Bank, April 17, 2012. Some 1,200...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
Palestinian Woman Lamenting Destruction Of Her Olive Trees Palinfo Resident Fawzi Dar Bazar, stated that when he and his family went to their orchard, they found the olive trees chopped down, and added that this was not the first attack against his...
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War In Context
| 1 year ago
Now, says Abu Rami, the head of the village farmers' association, they cannot produce enough olive oil for their own families. The problem is the system Israel has set up for getting access to their land in the West Bank is on the other side of...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Reuters Pro-Palestinian activists organized a Welcome to Palestine protest to put a spotlight on what they charge are Israeli violations of civilian rights in the occupied West Bank. The protests were peaceful and far different in nature from the...
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War In Context
| 1 year ago
The 15 April incident, confirmed by an Air France official, may violate international and European law by subjecting prospective passengers to illegal religious discrimination. Over the past few days, Israeli authorities have reacted to an effort by...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Story continues below The statement said the Palestinians submitted a letter outlining their demands for resuming talks, and that Netanyahu had promised a response in two weeks. "Israel and the Palestinian Authority are committed to reaching peace,"...
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Haaretz
| 1 year ago
Haaretz.com People and Departments UI by Netcraft Design by Design Factory Accelerated by cotendo Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East. Haaretz.com provides extensive and in-...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad pulled out of a planned meeting with the Israeli leader on Tuesday, torpedoing what was set to be the highest-level talks between the sides in nearly two years. Fayyad and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
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Reuters
| 1 year ago
Topics Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad attends a meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, the donor support group for the Palestine, at the United Nations in New York September 18, 2011. A planned meeting on Tuesday between the Israeli and...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
Since 1979, Palestinians have commemorated this day, which marks the anniversary of the release of Palestinian prisoners in the first prisoner swap deal of 17 April 1974. This year, the Palestinian Prisoners Day comes at a time in which the suffering...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
For the first time in over a year, Israeli and Palestinian representatives sat down to the negotiating table in an attempt to resolve the Middle Eastern peace deadlock...Palestinian prisoners in Israel on hunger strike Published: 17 April, 2012, 16:...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
More than 1,200 Palestinian inmates held in Israeli jails have begun a hunger strike to protest against what they say are unfair prison conditions. Another 2,300 Palestinian detainees are refusing food for a day, the Israel Prisons Service (IPS) says.
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 1 year ago
49 am Pro- Palestinian fly-in' protest denied. Posted by Noga Gur-Arieh Follow JewishJournal.com on A pleased activist is being politely escorted out of the airport. This Sunday, a group of 1500 participants of Welcome to Palestine' fly-in protest...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Islamic Movement in Israel's northern branch leader greeted by MKs a-Sanaa, Zahalka after winning deportation appeal in Britain. Photo: Ben Hartman Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel landed at Ben-...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
It sometimes seems that Israel bends over backwards to give itself bad publicity, even when the decision rests with the Israeli decision makers whose job it is to improve, rather than worsen, the image of the country. What difference would it have...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
The end of the Israeli occupation would allow all our people, Christians and Muslims, to develop all our potential living side by side. Photo: Travelujah Based on our years as parish priests in Palestine, we were appalled by the false allegations...
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
One Canadian remains in detention in Israel after an international group of pro-Palestinian activists was barred from entering the country during a "flytilla" on Sunday night. The 19-year-old student is one of three Canadians of the 79 protesters who...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Text Size Demonstrators sit as around 100 pro-Palestinian activists stage a protest at Brussels national airport in Zaventem (Reuters) The list compiled by Israel i security service, the Shin Bet, to prevent pro-Palestinian activists from reaching...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
52 An Israeli soldier is seen hitting an activist in footage posted on YouTube An Israeli soldier has been suspended after video footage showed him hitting a foreign pro-Palestinian activist in the face with his gun during a bicyle rally in the...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
Palestinian Cartoon 470 Of Passengers Marked As Activists, Had Nothing To Do With Welcome To Palestine Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that 470 of the 1200 persons that Israel labeled as pro-Palestinian, part of the Welcome To Palestinian Flytilla,...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
In the video, Lt Col Shalom Eisner is seen smashing the Danish activist in the face with his M16 rifle. The military said on Monday that Eisner would be suspended while the incident is investigated. The assault was posted on the Internet and...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Palestinian Authority president decries continued settlement building in West Bank, says Israel uninterested in annexing West Bank. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday decried the continued settlement building in the West Bank,...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Israel's military suspended a senior officer who struck a pro-Palestinian protester in the face with a gun, an army spokesman said on Monday, after video of the incident was put on the Internet. The video showed Lieutenant-Colonel Shalom Eisner...
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Denver Post
| 1 year ago
Israeli police on Sunday detained 43 international activists who tried to enter the country as part of a pro-Palestinian demonstration that organizers billed as a "fly-in" to draw attention to the occupation of the West Bank. Most of the "Welcome to...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-04-16 11:56 AM Israeli authorities nabbed over 40 travelers and 9 Israeli activists at Ben Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv as they tried to break...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
Amid unrelenting rocket barrages from Gaza, tension is running high inside the Jewish state itself, with continuing mass protests by Israelis against the government's economic policies. Israel has refused entry to dozens of activists who arrived in...
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Haaretz
| 1 year ago
This information comes from a high-ranking Israeli source with knowledge of the blacklist, who added that the Shin Bet also had no solid grounds for believing that 470 of the 1,200 people whom Israel labeled as "pro-Palestinian activists" intended to...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
Israel detained dozens of international activists as they landed at its main airport on Sunday, preventing them from entering the country to participate in a planned solidarity mission with Palestinians in the West Bank. Israel said the activists,...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
Flytilla' activists banned from boarding planes Posted April 16, 2012 06:08:18 Israel barred 43 pro-Palestinian activists who tried to enter the country for a 'Welcome to Palestine' campaign, as hundreds more would-be protesters were stranded at...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Hundreds of Israeli police, many undercover, were deployed at the airport to block the arrival of pro-Palestinian activists taking part in a 'Welcome to Palestine' fly-in. Israel vowed to prevent entry of activists, warning foreign airlines they...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
West Bank Israel blocked or detained all but a handful of hundreds of pro-Palestinian foreign activists who planned to gather here Sunday, and the event appeared to be something of a bust...A media scrum stood alongside a phalanx of hundreds of...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Israeli police arrest an activist holding a banner saying 'Welcome to Palestine' at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images Dozens of international pro-Palestinian activists have been refused entry into Israel in a...
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Novinite
| 1 year ago
But in an almost exact replay of a similar attempt by foreign activists to reach Bethlehem last July, most appeared to have been stopped at their points of departure after Israel instructed foreign airlines not to allow them to board their flights.
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
April 15, 2012 Israel Blocks Fly-in' by Pro-Palestinian Activists Robert Berger Jerusalem Photo: Reuters Demonstrators sit as around 100 pro-Palestinian activists stage a protest at Brussels national airport in Zaventem, Israel, early April 15, 2012.
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CNN
| 1 year ago
Israeli authorities stepped up security at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport Sunday as hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists were due to arrive in the country in a "fly-in" campaign to protest Israel's policies in the West Bank. Some activists were...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Israeli police blocked activists who attempted to fly into the country to protest Israel's policies in the West Bank, officials said. Some 650 policemen were deployed at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday to arrest activists participating in the "...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Israel deployed hundreds of police Sunday at its main airport to detain activists flying in to protest the country's occupation of Palestinian areas in defiance of vigorous Israeli government efforts to block their arrival.
At mid-...
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Red Pepper
| 1 year ago
Libby Powell reports on how Israel has turned Palestine into a giant prison'with no visitors allowed Budget airline Jet2.com has refused to carry three British women bound for Palestine after being threatened with a fine by Israel. The airline...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
A pro-Palestinian fly-in to Tel Aviv got off to a slow start on Sunday after Israel scrambled to block activists from boarding flights in Europe. Four activists have been detained after arriving on an El Al flight from Paris and are being questioned...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Israel deployed hundreds of police Sunday at its main airport to detain activists flying in to protest the country's occupation of Palestinian areas, defying vigorous Israeli government efforts to block their arrival. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld...
