Muslim-Christian group: Israel demolishing entire neighborhoods
Ma’an news
| A panel of prominent Muslim and Christian leaders accused Israeli authorities on Sunday of “escalating their war against Jerusalem.” The group, Jerusalem’s Islamic-Christian Panel, called for Arab and international actors to “stand firm” against Israel and “rescue the holy city.” Panel Secretary-General Hassan Khater said Israel is “expanding its persecution against Jerusalemites by targeting entire neighborhoods” with land confiscation and home de molitions. He added that residents of the Al-Bustan neighborhood, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, “are now in real danger,” especially after the city’s Regional Committee for Planning and Construction cancelled a plan suggested by its residents…
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Palestinians taken from Gaza held in torturous conditions
PNN
| The fate of Palestinians arrested from the Gaza Strip during the recent major attacks is being slowly uncovered. Several were found after being taken out of Al Naqab Prison under false pretences. The Palestinians were being held, according to the Israelis, as “illegal combatants” and therefore, they said, did not require the attention of the Red Cross or attorneys. The Palestinian Prisoner Society has followed the case closely while issuing reports when new inf ormation becomes available….
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100 year-old man attacked by Israeli army dog
International Solidarity Movement
| In the early morning of February 20th at 2am, Israeli Forces invaded the town of Tamoun, located in the Tubas region of the northern occupied West Bank. Around 50 soldiers in seven jeeps surrounded two houses in the town, firing sound bombs and live ammunition before breaking into the residences. During the course of the invasion, an army attack dog mauled the face of Salem Fadel Bani Odeh, aged 100 while he lay helpless in his bed. Two men, Na’el Odeh Bani Odeh, aged 23, Muhamad Mustafa Bani Odeh, aged 25, were also arrested by Israeli Occupation Forces
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Out in the cold
Weeks after Israel curtailed its massive offensive on Gaza, thousands remain homeless, including children, sheltering in fragile tents in the brutal winter
Saleh Al-Naami
| When heavy rain poured into the tent and awakened her, 38-year-old Hanan Al-Attar rushed out in a state of hysteria with her three children. Her husband Ahmed pulled at the tent poles, trying to secure them after fierce winds had knocked them over, and her oldest son filled bags with sand, placing them along the sides of the te nt in a desperate attempt to keep it from collapsing. Hanan took refuge with her shivering children in the first house she came across…
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Palestinian Christians join Vatican in protest
Mustafa Sabri for PNN
| Palestinian Christians and the Vatican are protesting an Israeli program that is said to ridicule Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. Palestinian Christians who live within the Israeli boundaries demonstrated last night, while the Vatican issued a statement condemning the program. Protestors are calling for the dismissal of the Israeli Channel 10 program host who refused to apologize for the offending material. A direct apology is also demanded of the Isra eli President Shimon Peres…
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Four dead in Gaza tunnel collapse
AFP
| Four Palestinians were killed on Sunday when a tunnel used for smuggling between the Gaza Strip and Egypt collapsed on top of them, medics said. The victims were between the ages of 17 and 25, they said. The tunnels were thought to have collapsed after torrential downpours that hit the region over the last several days. Smuggling tunnels have mushroomed along the Gaza-Egypt border since June 2006, when Gaza militants seized an Israeli soldier in a deadly cross-border raid…
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Palestinian Christians urge Pope to call off May visit to Israel
Haaretz
| A group of Palestinian Christians has asked Pope Benedict XVI to call off his planned visit to Israel and the West Bank this coming May. The 40 community activists wrote to the pope that his visit would “help boost Israel’s image and inadvertently minimize Palestinian suffering under Israeli occupation.” The group urged the pope to link his visit to a series of Israeli measures, including improved access to Christian places of worship and halting tax ation of church properties…
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Al-Zaidi tortured daily
Roads to Iraq
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IOA knocks down tent of displaced Palestinian widow
Palestinian Information Center
| The Israeli occupation authority on Sunday knocked down the tent of Um Kamel (Fawzia Al-Kurd) in occupied Jerusalem for the fifth time. She had pitched her tent in the Sheikh Jarrah suburb after members of a Jewish fanatic group expelled her from her home in the same neighborhood. Israeli border policemen escorted the bulldozers that leveled the tent and assaulted a number of sympathizers including foreigners who tried to prevent the bulldo zers from finishing the job. Um Kamel said that the IOA bulldozers, escorted by Israeli police, sealed the entire area surrounding the tent before starting to bring it down…
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Gaza truce held hostage
| Last week Osama Salman, a teacher, signed a contract to build an extra storey to his house in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. Friends and colleagues were dumbstruck — Gaza ran out of building materials more than 18 months ago — but Salman was confident that once the truce came into effect border crossings with Israel would reopen. Now he realises his signing was a precipitous action…
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New path of apartheid wall gobbles up more fertile lands in Qalqilia
Palestinian Information Center
| The Israeli occupation authority has started recently to put marks across the lands of the Palestinian village of Wadi Al-Rasha, south of Qalqilia city, in preparation to modify the path of the apartheid, separation wall in the area. According to the IOA, the step comes in accordance with an order issued by the Israeli “Supreme Court” to “end the isolation of five Palestinian villages” namely: Ras Taira, Wadi Al-Rasha, Al-D haba’a, Arab Al-Rammadheen, and Arab Abu Fardah…
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Israel and Hamas holding indirect talks in Paris
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC
| Israeli sources reported Thursday that the real indirect prisoner-swap talks between Hamas and Israel are being held in the French Capital, Paris, and not in Egypt. The Israeli side is represented by Ofar Dekel, Israel’s Prime Minister Envoy, who ran indirect German-mediated talks with Hezbollah, while France is running Qatari-mediated talks with Hamas. Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, reported Friday that Qatar promised the French President, Nicolas Sarkoz y, to put pressure on Hamas in order to lower its demands…
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In a letter handed to Senator Kerry, Hamas asks Obama to deal fairly with the Palestinian cause
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC
| Ahmad Yousef, a senior Hamas political leader and an official of the Hamas-led government in Gaza, stated Saturday that Hamas handed U.S. Sen. John Kerry a letter to the US President, Barrack Obama, asking him to deal fairly with the Palestinian cause as the United States Foreign policy is known for being biased towards Israel…The Hamas official also said that he asked Obama to be open in dealing with Ha mas as the movement enjoys a broad support among the Palestinian people. Hamas spokesperson, Fawzi Barhoum, said that the letter was endorsed by the Hamas-led government in Gaza…
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A Gaza military court sentences a collaborator to death
Rami Almeghari – IMEMC
| A Gaza-based military court of the ruling Hamas party, sentenced to death a Palestinian resident on Sunday, accused of collaboration with the Israeli occupation. The Gaza high military court issued a verdict, sentencing Naser Abu Fraih to death after facing him with charges of collaboration with the Israeli occupation, advocates for the suspect said…
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