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Scoop
| 1 year ago
The crisis produced by these strikes made this year's observance of Nakba Day a moral imperative for all those concerned with attaining justice and peace for the long oppressed Palestinian people whether they be living under occupation or in exile.
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
May 18, 2012 For decades now, Muslims around the world have been unoffically boycotting Islam's third holiest site, the Al-Aqsa mosque Jerusalem. Many Muslims believe that visiting legitimizes Israel's claim to the site, which also sits atop the...
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Salem News
| 1 year ago
I say this because Israel has reached a historic crossroads, and times of crisis call for dramatic measures. I say this as a Jew who has chosen to raise his children in Israel, who has been a member of the Israeli peace camp for almost 30 years and...
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Palestine Chronicle
| 1 year ago
20 05/18/2012 Throughout contemporary history, movement of people outside their own countries for long or short intervals has occurred for various reasons: education, work, marriage, family ties, fleeing hardships, and so on. Foreigners exist in...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Israeli troops on Friday rearrested a Palestinian who was freed under terms of a prisoner swap deal between Israel and the Hamas movement, Palestinian security sources said. Arref Fakhuri, an officer in the Palestinian intelligence services, was...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 1 year ago
Surrounded by aides, including one whose only task seems to be light his cigarettes, Mahmoud Abbas sits in a vast presidential office and speaks of his ambition to create a Palestinian state...From Ramallah to the sacred city of Jerusalem 20 km (12...
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j.
| 1 year ago
The penalty for such a meeting is expulsion from the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, Khaled Abu Toameh reported in the Jerusalem Post. The ban came after Israeli and Palestinian journalists met in Oslo, Norway on May 3, World Free Press Day. They...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Ben Hartman It was inconceivable that Tel Aviv University, part of whose budget is covered by the State of Israel, would permit the observance of Nakba Day The Day of the Catastrophe on campus. It was unbelievable that Arab students who are Israeli...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 1 year ago
In the new government, Fayyad relinquished his Finance Minister portfolio to another political independent, former university president Nabil Qassis, according to the Palestinian Ma'an news service. The new 21-memebr Cabinet includes nine new members...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The Israeli army fired into the Gaza Strip on Thursday, injuring seven Palestinians in an incident that broke a relative lull in the coastal enclave, Palestinian and Israeli sources said. Palestinian medics said two of the wounded were in a critical...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Zuhri slammed the PA for forming a new cabinet because it falls outside of the Doha agreement , signed by Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in the Qatari capital in February, which called for the formation of a "national consensus government to...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
The army continued to use excessive force against nonviolent protesters. Israeli soldiers carried out 41 invasions into Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped thirteen Palestinians, including three children. Israeli soldiers...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
Israel has released a joint statement saying it and Palestine are "committed to achieving peace." But the Palestinian Authority (PA) dismissed the Israeli PM's written missive to its president, saying Netanyahu gave no reason to resume negotiations.
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
West Bank, 21 December Israeli tanks and armored vehicles rumbled back into two Palestinian-ruled cities after withdrawing briefly yesterday, sparking a fresh gunbattle in the West Bank. The latest violence erupted on the same day President Yasser...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
Quds Press Ghassan Douglas, a Palestinian official in charge of Settlement File in the northern part of the West Bank, reported that the settlers came from Yitzhar nearby illegal settlement, and added that the burnt car belongs to resident Zeid...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
January 2007 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas' supreme leader Khaled Meshaal will meet tomorrow for the first time in years to try to clinch an elusive agreement on forming a national unity government, aides to both men said yesterday.
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The Australian Jewish News
| 1 year ago
AT the eleventh hour, just prior to Palestinians marking the angriest day of their year, Israel managed to quell explosive tensions with security prisoners and end a mass hunger strike. An estimated 1500 Palestinian prisoners had been refusing food...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
Generations of Jabareens, a Palestinian family, were born in the cave hewn into the rugged hillside just a few miles from the Green Line delineating the occupied West Bank from Israel. Over the decades, the cave has acquired a few comforts, including...
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Associated Press
| 1 year ago
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad replaced almost half of his West Bank-based Cabinet on Wednesday, a clear sign that efforts to end the Palestinian political split are stuck. A unity deal reached in February was to have ended five years of...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
A new Palestinian government in the West Bank featuring 11 new faces was sworn in on Wednesday at a ceremony in Ramallah, in a move which angered the Hamas government in Gaza. Ministers, including returning prime minister Salam Fayyad, took the oath...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
West Bank Palestinian officials say Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is replacing almost half of his West Bank-based Cabinet. The reshuffle is a clear sign that efforts to end the Palestinian political split and blend separate governments in the West...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
September Eight people, including a Palestinian baby and an Israeli officer, were killed in the Palestinian territories yesterday, as Israel said it eliminated a top leader of the Hamas resistance group. Israel's siege of Palestinian President Yasser...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
A reshuffled Palestinian cabinet in the West Bank with seven new faces is to be sworn in on Wednesday, Palestinian Labor Minister Ahmad Majdalani told AFP. "The government will be sworn in at [President Mahmoud] Abbas's office at 6 pm," he said. The...
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SF Gate
| 1 year ago
After years of neglect, the Palestinians are going green. In a society preoccupied with the struggle for independence from Israel, protecting the environment has often been sidelined as evidenced by the ubiquitous sight of burning trash and piles of...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
31 Several dozen Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli security forces as they commemorated Nakba Day [EPA] Israeli forces faced off with Palestinian stone-throwers in the West Bank during the annual Nakba Day protests over the "...
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Scoop
| 1 year ago
Tuesday 15 May, 2012 First a Palestinian minister announced that a deal had been reached with Israel to end a weeks-long hunger strike by hundreds of prisoners. Then, various activists countered assertions of the reported deal, claiming the...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
Soldiers Kidnapping A Child - Palinfo Local sources reported that the child, identified as Hmeidan Ahmad Abu Maria, 16, was held by the soldiers at the entrance of Beit Ummar, before they started kicking and punching him, and tossing him around. Also...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Palestinians and their supporters peacefully commemorated the 64th anniversary of Nakba, or the catastrophe, Tuesday with a series of protests across the country, in stark contrast to the deadly events of last year. In Ain al-Hilweh, a series of...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Thousands of Palestinians throughout the Middle East and the Arab world observed Nakba Day -- literally translated as the "Day of Catastrophe" -- Tuesday to commemorate their mass displacement 64 years ago from lands that now constitute the State of...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
This was the harshest and most brutal ethnic cleansing in the world, and included systematic and deliberate killings and displacement. This was culminated by a declaration of the State of Israel on the debris of Palestinian cities and villages. In...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
ments Palestinians mark Nakba Day with slingshots, despite calls for calm Nakba Day, translated to 'catastrophe day,' marks the day the state of Israel was created and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced. By Rebecca Collard, ...
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Haaretz
| 1 year ago
A few conclusions could be drawn from the hunger strike by the Palestinian security prisoners, which ended on Monday: Israel's gain : Israel had an interest in ending the hunger strike for two reasons. The first one was that a hunger strike could...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Darren Whiteside One soldier, three Border Policemen and 270 Palestinians were lightly injured in clashes in the West Bank and east Jerusalem Tuesday, as Palestinians marked their 64th Nakba Day in which they mourn their loss to Israel in 1948. The...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Clashes broke out near Ramallah on Tuesday as around a thousand Palestinians gathered to mark the "catastrophe" which befell them when Israel was founded in 1948. The clashes at Beitunia checkpoint near Ofer military prison began as people gathered...
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Palestine Chronicle
| 1 year ago
03 05/15/2012 The Israelis are anything but stupid. However their cleverness and innovation in perfecting the technological, logistical and financial dimensions of the military occupation and colonisation of Palestinian land make the situation nearly...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Israel has set up a mechanism to funnel aid to the Palestinians in the event of an earthquake, though its emergency relief services would not deploy throughout their territory, Israeli officials said on Tuesday. A 5.5-magnitude quake rattled Israel...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Mohammed Salem Rather than demonstrating against Israel, the Palestinians should be directing their anger over "Nakba Day" at the extremist Palestinian leadership which 64 years ago rejected any accommodation, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's...
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Ynet News
| 1 year ago
Nakba Day' 'Nakba Day' in Umm al-Fahm Photo: George Ginsburg Thousands of Arab-Israelis mark 'Nakba Day' near Umm al-Fahm, call for right of return. 'Denial of Nakba is as much a crime as Nakba itself,' MK Talab El-Sana says Hassan Shaalan...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Thousands of Palestinians Mark Nakba Day but Clashes with IDF Reported Thousands of Palestinians have attended demonstrations to commemorate "Nakba day" The "Nakba", which translate into "catastrophe", marks the exodus of hundreds of thousands of...
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Salem News
| 1 year ago
Tuesday May 15, 2012 Search About Salem-News.com is the premiere Independent Online Newsgroup in the United States...Today, every Palestinian around the globe remembers the day we were all made homeless...Much has been said and written about the so-...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
Dozens are said to be injured. Up to 80 Palestinians have been injured in Ramallah, where the most violent clashes are reported on a day which marks establishment of Israel 64 years ago, but also reminds Palestinians of their ensuing exodus. Sixty-...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
After a mass rally in Ramallah's clock square, protesters headed to Israel's Ofer Detention Center and the Qalandiya checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem to commemorate the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the founding...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Palestinians mark 64th anniversary of establishment of Israel with rallies in West Bank, Gaza; rioters throw stones, firebombs at Israeli civilians, IDF forces; none injured. Palestinians threw stones at Israeli civilians and IDF forces in the West...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Israeli riot and undercover policemen arrest a Palestinian protester during clashes in the east Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Issawiya, May 15, 2012. VOA News May 15, 2012 Palestinians and Arab Israelis are commemorating "Nakba" day to mark the...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 1 year ago
Palestinian refugees are still hoping to return to their homeland, but they are still living in very difficult conditions in dozens of refugee camps in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Arab world. Earlier on Tuesday, Israel said it intends to...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
Hezbollah urged the Syrian opposition to engage in dialogue with Assad's regime, but they refused. There will be no positive developments on the Israel-Palestine track under the current Israeli cabinet. The coalition is the most right-wing and anti-...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
Many Palestinians remember and reference Al-Nakba, also known as the Catastrophe, on May 15 every year. The event marks the expulsion of nearly a million Palestinians, while their villages were destroyed. The destruction of Palestine in 1947-48...
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Ynet News
| 1 year ago
Yaron Brener Palestinians, supporters in Arab countries to mark 'catastrophe' of Israel's inception with rallies, marches. Palestinian Authority declares general strike; IDF on high alert Elior Levy Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Bank, Palestinians to commemorate Nakba," or Day of Catastrophe (64th anniversary of establishing Israel), with Ramallah rally. Photo: Sharif Karim / Reuters Palestinians are preparing to mark Nakba Day, or the Day of Catastrophe (the 64th...
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Haaretz
| 1 year ago
The agreement that brought the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike to an end on Monday, alongside a decision to return 100 bodies of Palestinian terrorists buried in Israel, as a gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, show less of an...
