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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 30 April 2013: PHOTOS: The face of Israel’s discriminatory home demolition policy
30 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSeveral Palestinians Injured near NablusIMEMC – Tuesday April 30 2013; Palestinian medical sources reported that several Palestinians have been injured after a group of extremist Israeli settlers hurled stones at their vehicles close to various roadblocks, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 29 April 2013: Bedouins await Israel’s forcible relocation plan
29 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterAl-Eesawy Slowly Recovering Following His 9-Month Hunger StrikeIMEMC – Monday April 29 2013, Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that Palestinian detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy was moved from the Kapalan Israeli hospital to the Al-Ramla prison clinic, adding that the detainee is slowly recovery from his Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 23 April 2013: Apologists for Israel take top posts at BBC
23 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPolice Arrests Two Israeli Teenage Settlers For Torching Palestinian CarsIMEMC – The Israeli Police announced on Tuesday evening that it apprehended two Israeli teenage setters living in an illegal settlement outpost near Dir Jareer village, north east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, as they Continue reading
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Growing Voices Among Palestinians Calling for a Single Democratic Secular State
With negotiations for a two state solution going nowhere, more Palestinians are calling for a single state solution Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 16 April 2013: Israeli occupation: You have to see it to believe it
16 April 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Official: 3 men attacked by settlers near Nablus4/16/2013 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Three men were injured late Monday after being attacked by settlers near Nablus, a PA official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that a group of settlers from Homesh attacked Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 15 April 2013: Israel destroys West Bank community center, arrests 20
15 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterFor The First Time Since 1990, Palestinian Embassy Opens in KuwaitIMEMC – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, conducts his first visit to Kuwait for the first time since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and officially participates in the official ceremony to open a new Palestinian embassy in Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 11 April 2013: PHOTOS: Israeli troops shoot Palestinian photographer in the face
11 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterProminent youth activist abducted by Israeli troops in HebronIMEMC – The coordinator of the non-violent group called ‘Youth Against Settlements’ was abducted Wednesday by Israeli troops when he responded to a summons to appear at the police station at the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 10 April 2013
10 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Invade, Uproot, Farmlands in Khan YounisIMEMC – Wednesday morning April 10, 2013, several armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers invaded Palestinian farmland east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 9 April 2013
9 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinians mark 65th anniversary of Deir Yassin massacreIMEMC – In Palestine and around the world on Tuesday, Palestinians and their supporters held vigils and events to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the massacre of over one hundred Palestinian civilians in Deir Yassin village, in what is now Israel. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 4 April 2013: Palestinian Amer Nassar, Aged Seventeen: A Last Poem
4 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center PCHR: “In Light Of Ongoing Violations, Palestine Must Join The ICC”IMEMC – PCHR urges President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership to follow through on recent statements they have made, in which they have pledged to sign and ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 14 March 2013
14 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settler Woman, Her Children, Injured In The West BankIMEMC – Israeli Ynet News reported Thursday that a settler woman and her 3-year-old toddler have been injured after a number of Palestinians hurled stones at settlers vehicles driving on Route 5 that connects Tel Aviv with the Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 24 February 2013
24 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Ma’an News Over 4,000 prisoners launch hunger strike in Israeli jails2/24/2013 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Some 4,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails launched hunger-strike action on Sunday to protest the death of Arafat Jaradat, who died in Israel’s Megido jail a day earlier. A spokeswoman for Continue reading
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Palestinians Disqualify U.S. as Peace Broker By Nicola Nasser
The “unbreakable alliance,” which will be confirmed by the upcoming visit of President Barak Obama to Israel , will disqualify the United States as an honest broker of peace in the Arab – Israeli conflict in Palestine , a Palestinian veteran peace negotiator says. Continue reading
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NYT Rewrites a (formerly) Accurate Occupation Headline By Peter Hart
Non-violent protesters came up with a novel way to protest Israeli plans to build more settlement colonies in the occupied West Bank: They occupied the land themselves. The Bab Al Shams tents went up on Friday on privately owned Palestinian land in what Israel designates as the E1 part of the West Bank. Israel’s announcement… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 16 February 2013: Soldiers Kidnap 26 Palestinians, Mainly Children, In West Bank, 2 In Gaza
16 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli settlers pump sewage into ancient Palestinian villageIMEMC – The Israeli settlement of Shafi Shamron, in the northern part of the West Bank, has routed its sewage pipes to dump directly into the historic village of Sabastiya, home to several thousand Palestinian families. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 11 February 2013
11 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Five Jerusalem Youths Ordered Under House ArrestIMEMC – The Jerusalem District Court ordered five Palestinian youth from the Beit Safafa town, in occupied East Jerusalem, under house arrest for five days. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 9 February 2013
9 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Injuries Reported As Army Attacks Bil’in’s Weekly ProtestIMEMC – Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday afternoon, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and settlements, in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah; dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation. Similar attacks Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 5 February 2013
5 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlers Torch Two Palestinian Cars Near RamallahIMEMC – Tuesday February 5 2013, a number of extremist Israeli settlers torched two Palestinian vehicles in the Dir Jareer village, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and wrote racist graffiti on the walls of a number Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 22 January 2013: On Israeli elections, the PA and disappearing Palestinians
22 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Former Detainee Dies Due To Medical Neglect While In PrisonIMEMC – The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported, Monday evening, that a former Palestinian political prisoner from Hebron, died at a hospital in Jerusalem after falling into a coma 50 days ago due to a serious Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 19 January 2013: Revolution in resistance
19 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Attack Kufur Qaddoum Weekly ProtestIMEMC – Friday, January 18, Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and Settlements, and against the continued closure of the main road leading to the Kufur Qaddoum village, that was blockaded by the army ten years Continue reading
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