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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 February 2012: Khader Adnan: A selfless Palestinian hero
23 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Open letter from North American organizationsIMEMC – Batsheva, Take a strong, unequivocal stance against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians New York, NY, February 21 2012 – More than 20 organizations representing human rights activists and artists around the United States and Canada are calling on the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 February 2012: Court gives Israel “licence to pillage” West Bank, say rights groups
22 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Troops kidnap A Former Detainee, His Wife And DaughterIMEMC – Palestinian security sources reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at night, former political prisoner, Majdi Al-Ajouly, in addition to his wife and underage daughter, in Foqeen village, near the northern West Bank city of… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 February 2012:
21 February 2012 — — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 66-day hunger strike ends after Israel agrees to free Khader Adnan IMEMC – Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan agreed to end his 66-day hunger strike on Tuesday after meeting with Israeli officials who pledged to release him in April. Khader had been near death,… Continue reading
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Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
This press conference concludes a 10 day visit to the region, carried out within the framework of my mandate as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. I have had meetings with representatives of Governments, intergovernmental organizations, and civil society actors, as well as with… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 February 2012:
20 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Court To Look Into Adnan’s Appeal Tuesday IMEMC – Lawyer of detainee, Khader Adnan, who has been on hunger strike since 65 days, stated that the Israeli Supreme Court decided to hold a session to look into Adnan’s case on Tuesday. The court also… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 February 2012: Palestinians Foil Settlers Attack On Al-Aqsa Mosque
19 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center PCHR Calls upon the International Community to Save the Life of the Detainee Khader Adnan IMEMC – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is concerned for the life of Khader Adnan, a detainee in Israeli jails, who has been on hunger strike for… Continue reading
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Gaza nearing total blackout, Oxfam quote and Gaza Weekly Update
The Gaza Strip is inching towards a total collapse of essential services as fuel supplies from the tunnels beneath the border between Gaza and Egypt have reportedly ground to a halt. With the blockaded enclave’s only power plant shut down for long hours daily, the 1.6 million Palestinians in Gaza are being affected across the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 February 2012: Saving Khader Adnan’s life is saving our own soul
18 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Two Injured After Army Bombarded Gaza IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that two residents were wounded, on Saturday evening, when the Israeli Air Force bombarded a blacksmith workshop in Az-Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City. … Continue reading
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YOU CAN’T GET THERE FROM HERE: THE NEED FOR “COLLAPSE WITH AGENCY” IN PALESTINE By Jeff Halper
Even as I write this, the bulldozers have been busy throughout that one indivisible country known by the bifurcated term Israel/Palestine. Palestinian homes, community centers, livestock pens and other “structures” (as the Israel authorities dispassionately call them) have been demolished in the Old City, Silwan and various parts of “Area C” in the West Bank,… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 February 2012: Adnan Still On Hunger-Strike At Galilee Hospital
17 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Detainees In Ramon Punished For Protesting Abuse IMEMC – The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported Friday that Palestinian political detainees held at the Ramon Israeli prison, are being punished for protesting abuse against their families, who are being ordered to undergo humiliation and strip… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 16 February 2012: Standing in solidarity with Khader Adnan
16 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Extremists On Facebook Celebrate Death of Palestinian Children Killed In Traffic Accident IMEMC – Earlier on Thursday morning, 9 Palestinian children and one adult were killed, and 42 were wounded in a tragic traffic accident between a school bus and a truck, near… Continue reading
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PCHR E-NARRATIVES: Sniper Fire in the ‘Buffer Zone’
Munther enjoys hunting goldfinches and canaries with his green net and a small wooden cage. Four days a week for the last seven years, he has taken his bicycle to go hunting in the neighbouring areas of Gaza city. In the Gaza Strip, however, such a simple hobby has put his life at risk. On… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 15 February 2012: Dozens of Palestinians declare Hunger Strike as Fasting prisoner Khader Adnan is on day 60
15 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Despite domestic cuts, US aid to Israel up by $25 million in proposed budget IMEMC – An examination of the proposed US budget submitted by President Barack Obama to the US Congress this week shows that although billions of dollars will be cut from… Continue reading
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Gaza Is on the Brink of Health and Environmental Catastrophe Due to Power Outages and Lack of Fuel
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is gravely concerned over the current power crisis in the Gaza Strip. The Gaza power plant stopped working yesterday as the fuel required for it operation ran out completely, which has caused long periods of outages throughout the Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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PCHR Holds Urgent Consultative Meeting Addressing the Case of Palestinian Detainee in Israeli Jails, Khader Adnan, Who Is on Hunger Strike
Adnan, Who Is on Hunger Strike In the context of its efforts to follow up the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and its interest in the their detention conditions, on Tuesday afternoon, 14 February 2012, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) held an urgent consultative meeting in its Head Office in Gaza… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 February 2012: Take Action to Oppose Ever-Greater Amounts of Military Aid to Israel
14 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center UN Envoy Tours Palestinian Territories To Assess Settler Violence IMEMC – After a recent increase in Israeli settler attacks against Palestinian civilians, property and holy sites, the UN envoy Richard Falk arrived in the West Bank this weekend to begin an eleven-day tour of… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 13 February 2012: Israeli Court Forbids Nablus Mosque from Using Loudspeakers
13 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Court Confirms Sentencing Of Ailing Hunger-Striking Detainee IMEMC – An Israeli Military Court rejected on Monday evening the appeal that was filed by the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) against a military order confining ailing detainee, Adnan Khader, who has been on hunger-strike since 59… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 12 February 2012: Syria 2011-2012, a rematch of Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon
12 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Troops Detain 5 Residents At A Settlement Near Jenin IMEMC – Israeli soldiers kidnapped, On Sunday evening, five Palestinian residents from Ya’bod village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and held them for several hours at the Mabo Dothan settlement, in… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 February 2012: Hebron: At least 10 children arrested by Israeli military in one week
11 February 2012 — VTJP News Ma’an News Hunger-striking prisoner not backing down 2/11/2012 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Islamic Jihad prisoner Khader Adnan, who has been on hunger strike for 56 days, asserted Saturday that he would continue with his strike because he is defending his dignity and not fasting in vain. In a letter… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 February 2012: Ethnic Cleansing in a Zionist Fairyland
10 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Two Injured In Beit Lahia Blast IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported, on Friday at night, that two Palestinians were wounded in an explosion that took place in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. … Continue reading
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