VTJP Palestine/Israel
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 May 2012: Nuclear Israel: Image of Apocalyptic Horror
11 May 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center New UNRWA Upgrade Plan To Improve Dheisheh Refugee CampIMEMC – Dheisheh, the oldest refugee camp in the West Bank, is set to receive a facelift under a new UNWRA upgrade plan. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), is launching a new program… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 May 2012: Israeli government announces plan to forcibly remove 2300 Bedouins
10 May 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Court Injunction Delays Demolitions of Jerusalem Area Bedouin HomesIMEMC – The Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center obtained on Wednesday an injunction order for Khan al-Ahmar Kurshan community. This temporary injunction prevents the demolition of homes of the eight families that received 24-hour eviction notices… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 May 2012: Ads Warn Jewish Parents – Keep Daughters Away from Arabs
9 May 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Negev Prison Refuses To Admit Jailed MP Due To Health ConditionIMEMC – Detained elected Palestinian Legislator, Mohammad Abu Jheisha, was moved from the Ofer Israeli prison to the Negev detention camp, in the Negev desert, but the administration there refused to admit him due to his… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 May 2012: No closure in killing of 21 Gaza family members
8 May 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Supreme Court Decides to Remove Palestinians Their Homes In JerusalemIMEMC – The Palestinian News Network, PNN, reported that the Israeli Supreme Court has decided to remove the families of Ghazi Zalloum and Ismail Wazwaz from their homes in the neighborhood of Alqurma in the occupied Old… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 April 2012:
22 April 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel To Build New 217 Units In JerusalemIMEMC – The Civil Coalition for Palestinian Rights In Jerusalem reported that the Israeli government decided to expand the illegal Nof Zion settlement outpost in Jabal Al-Mokabber, in occupied East Jerusalem, buy approving the construction of additional 217 units.… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 March 2012: Germany Brings Cold War to Middle East
27 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli border patrol kill two men along Egypt borderIMEMC – Just after Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu toured the route of a border fence under construction between Israel and Egypt Tuesday, Israeli border patrol agents shot and killed two men on the border. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 March 2012: Hospital ‘may consider force-feeding’ Shalabi
26 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Ashrawi Condemns Israeli Threats of Cutting Tax RevenueIMEMC – On Monday Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, member of the PLO executive committee, slammed the Israeli government threats to cut tax revenue as part of Israeli response to the last week UN council for Human Rights decision to investigate… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 March 2012: Ayalon: “We Will Not Allow UN Committee Members Into The Country”
25 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Female Detainee On Hunger Strike Since TuesdayIMEMC – Lawyer of the Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Firas Sabbah, stated that he managed, last Thursday, to visit detainee Amani Al-Khandaqji, at the Asqalan Israeli prison, and that she told him that she started an open-ended… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 March 2012: Ambassadors Of Portugal, South Africa, Teargased Near Ramallah
24 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Attack Detainees, Conduct Forced DNA TestsIMEMC – The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported Saturday that Palestinian political prisoners in Nafha, Majiddo, Galboa’, and Ramon Israeli prisons, returned their meals on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday morning, in protest to forced DNA tests conducted on them by,… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 March 2012: Israel’s Nuclear Triggers
23 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Detains A Child At Roadblock Near JeninIMEMC – Israeli soldiers detained, on Thursday evening, a 12-year-old Palestinian child at a roadblock close to an illegal Israeli settlement, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 March 2012: Israel’s Willing Executioners: AIPAC Invades Washington
22 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center PCHR Weekly: “Army Conducts 56 Invasions Into W. Bank, 1 In Gaza”IMEMC – The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, published its weekly report on Israeli violations against the Palestinians in the occupied territory for the period between March 15-21, 2012, revealing that… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 March 2012: A Planned Escalation: Israel Prepares for War
21 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Kidnap 11 year old Child From His ClassroomIMEMC – A report by the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, revealed that on Monday Israeli soldiers kidnapped an 11-year-old Palestinian child while he sat behind his desk at an elementary school in Rad Al-Amoud neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 March 2012: UK Voices ‘Concern’ Over Israeli Settlement Building
20 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Court Upholds Appeal To End Discrimination In “Feast Meals”IMEMC – For the first time in Israel’s history, the Israeli District Court upheld an appeal filed on behalf a Palestinian political prisoner from the northern West Bank city of Jenin demanding an end to discrimination in… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 March 2012: UN: Settlers grab Palestinian water springs
19 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 23 Detainees Holding Hunger-StrikeIMEMC – The Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association reported, Monday, that there are 23 detainees who are currently on hunger-strike protesting the illegal policies of Administrative Detention used by Israel to keep hundreds of detainees behind bars without charges. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 March 2012: Israel: “P.A Not Ready For Statehood”
18 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSettlers Attack Homes In HebronIMEMC – A group of armed extremist Israeli settlers of the Ramat Yishai illegal settlement outpost, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, attacked on Sunday at night several Palestinian homes in Tal Romedia neighborhood, and chased the children around while… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 March 2012: In Memory of Rachel Corrie 2012
17 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Broke Into Detention Camps 6 Times Last WeekIMEMC – Palestinian Researcher specialized in detainees’ affair, Riyadh Al-Ashqar, stated that Israeli soldiers broke into prisons and detention centers six times last week, attacked and violated the rights of the Palestinian detainees, and wounded eleven. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 15 March 2012: Shalabi’s hunger strike tests Israeli jailing policy
15 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center PCHR Weekly Report: “24 Palestinians Killed, 74 Wounded”IMEMC – The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, published its weekly report on Israeli violations in the occupied territories in the period between March 8 and 14, 2012, and stated that Israeli soldiers killed… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 March 2012: “I can’t take part in these crimes”: Israeli refusenik interviewed
14 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Gaza: Boy Dies of Wounds Sustained on Monday; Jetfighters Bomb Gaza CityIMEMC – Seven year-old, Baraka Al Mughrabi, died, on Wednesday midday, after succumbing to wounds he sustained during an Israeli air raid targeting Gaza City on Monday. His death brings the death toll due… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 13 March 2012: Haniyeh confirms ceasefire, says Israel agreed to stop assassinations
13 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center France Grants P.A. €10 MillionIMEMC – The French Foreign Ministry stated that it will be granting the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) in the West Bank €10 Million in direct financial aid to help it deal with and overcome the current financial crisis, the AFP reported. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 12 March 2012: Airstrike Kills Child, Wounds Six In Northern Gaza, Death Toll 21
12 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 11 Detainees Wounded, One seriously, In Asqalan PrisonIMEMC – Israeli soldiers broke, on Monday at dawn, into Asqalan prison, and attacked dozens of Palestinian political prisoners, wounding eleven, one seriously. The soldiers tried to force several detainees to submit to naked body search. … Continue reading