Six Palestinians kidnapped in West Bank raids, Six citizens from Hamas taken prisoners by W. Bank militias

[ 18/04/2011 - 02:17 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped at dawn Monday six Palestinians from different West Bank areas. The Hebrew radio said the Israeli army stormed at an earlier hour the cities of Al-Khalil, Bethlehem, Nablus and Ramallah and ransacked homes before detaining six Palestinians claimed to be [...]

Wikileaks: The STATE Department ‘secretly financed Syrian opposition groups’

US Secretly Backed ‘Syrian Opposition’  Also Via FLC [Link to the Original Wikileaks Cable, here, and here] The State Department has secretly financed Syrian political opposition groups and related projects, including a satellite TV channel that beams anti-government programming into the country, according to previously undisclosed diplomatic cables. The London-based satellite channel, Barada TV, began broadcasting in April 2009 [...]

Arabi fully prepared to allow aid into Gaza

[ 18/04/2011 - 01:54 PM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– Egyptian FM Nabil al-Arabi has confirmed during a visit by the Egyptian-international coalition to end the Gaza siege that Egypt is fully prepared to help bring humanitarian aid and construction supplies into the Gaza Strip, said Manha Bakhoum spokeswoman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry. The FM had [...]

Remembering Vittorio Arrigoni

April 18, 2011 by occupiedpalestine by Stephen Lendman | April 18th, 2011 | Dissident VoiceOn April 15, International Solidarity Movement (ISM) members grieved for one of their own, their press release headlining, “Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank unite in mourning of slain activist Vittorio Arrigoni,” saying: “People will gather in Al Manara square [...]

Arabi fully prepared to allow aid into Gaza

[ 18/04/2011 - 01:54 PM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– Egyptian FM Nabil al-Arabi has confirmed during a visit by the Egyptian-international coalition to end the Gaza siege that Egypt is fully prepared to help bring humanitarian aid and construction supplies into the Gaza Strip, said Manha Bakhoum spokeswoman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry. The FM had [...]

Arabi fully prepared to allow aid into Gaza

[ 18/04/2011 - 01:54 PM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– Egyptian FM Nabil al-Arabi has confirmed during a visit by the Egyptian-international coalition to end the Gaza siege that Egypt is fully prepared to help bring humanitarian aid and construction supplies into the Gaza Strip, said Manha Bakhoum spokeswoman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry. The FM had [...]

Dweik slams international double standards towards issue of prisoners

[ 18/04/2011 - 01:47 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Speaker of the Palestinian legislative council Dr. Aziz Dweik strongly denounced the international double standards and hypocrisy towards the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Dr. Dweik made his remarks in a sit-in organized by families of prisoners on Sunday outside the Red Cross headquarters in [...]

Gaza police: one of Arrigoni’s killers is Jordanian – Arrigoni military funeral to be held in Gaza Strip noon Monday

[ 18/04/2011 - 02:30 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian police in Gaza said one of the men accused of killing Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni is a Jordanian national. The Gaza police released pictures of the killers including the Jordanian citizen and described them as the most wanted men in the Strip. The wanted men, [...]

Doves and Hawks

By Nahida the Exiled Palestinian Doves and hawks It is perplexing to observe the “soft-zionist” or the upholders of “post-zionism”, the “doves” of the “peace camp”, exerting tremendous effort to “teach” Palestinians the ethics of “non-violent resistance”: How to “resist” sadistic soldiers with peaceful smiles How to silence machineguns with intelligent argument How to face [...]

Forensic reports show white phosphorus use in Gaza attacks

[ 18/04/2011 - 01:33 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Ihab Kahil, who was appointed director of the Gaza Ministry of Justice forensic medicine department, said the bodies retrieved in Israel’s recent attack on the Gaza Strip have been examined to identify the weapons used in the onslaught. ”We are preparing appropriate medical reports, because the crimes [...]