Settlers destroy natural spring used by Palestinians for farming near Salfit

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Prisoner Abu Jalala from Jabalia Camp Gaza & Wasfi Qabaha, former minister of prisoners

GAZA, (PIC)– The prisoners’ center for studies has appealed to human rights groups and institutions concerned with prisoners’ affairs to accord more attention to the issue of Mohammed Abu Jalala, who is suffering waning health conditions in Israeli captivity. Ra’fat Hamdona, the center’s director, said in a statement on Saturday that Abu Jalala was serving four [...]

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Print Email Israeli occupation bar worshipers from reaching the Aqsa Mosque

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– IOF troops closed on Friday the gates leading to the Aqsa Mosque in the occupied city of Jerusalem, allowing through only men over 50 years of age. Only a few hundred out of around 30,000 worshipers managed to reach the Aqsa Mosque for the Friday noon prayers, this is not taking account [...]

Promoting the Dome of the Rock as Jewish heritage

MOSCOW, (PIC)– A Russian website published a long report entitled “Israelisation of Islamic heritage, but this time in Russia” in which the author linked between a tourism advertisement in Moscow and the announcement by the Israeli government to include the two mosques on the list of Jewish heritage. The website Islam.ru reported that a tourist [...]

IOF violent quelling of Aqsa protests wounded 20 Jerusalemites

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The violent quelling by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) of the protest demonstrations in occupied Jerusalem left 20 Palestinians wounded and 11 detained. The Quds center for social and economic rights said that the 11 Jerusalemites were kidnapped in the vicinity of the Aqsa Mosque during the clashes between the unarmed protestors [...]

British FM: British passports of Mabhouh’s killers forged

LONDON, (PIC)– The British foreign ministry announced on Wednesday that the British passports used by six assassins of the Hamas leader in Dubai city were fake, adding they were coordinating with the authorities in Dubai regarding the matter. “We know that there were six names using British passports, but we believe that those passports were [...]

Gaza Trilogy – Filmed & Directed by Palestinian Children

Gaza Trilogy – Filmed & Directed by Palestinian Children Gaza Trilogy One year after the Israeli military offensive Operation Cast Lead rained down bombs on the people of Gaza, Save the Children wanted to find out what affect this had on the children. We worked with 7 young people in the northern town of Beit [...]

Israel is accused of waging covert war across the Middle East

Sheera Frenkel in Jerusalem Israel is waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East in an effort to stop its key enemies co-ordinating their activities. Israeli agents have been targeting meetings between members of Hamas and the leadership of the militant Hezbollah group, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. They are also suspected of recent [...]

Sheikh Salah: I am not afraid of the prison sentence issued against me

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Sheikh Ra’ed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied lands, said Sunday that he does not care for the imprisonment sentence issued by the Israeli occupation against him and stressed that the Palestinians in occupied territories are ready to defend their right without hesitation. “We are staying her [...]

Al-Quds center warns of Israeli plan to banish 20,000 Jerusalemites

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Al-Quds center for legal rights warned of an Israeli plan to expel more than 20,000 Palestinian citizens from their homes in the occupied city of Jerusalem at the pretext of unlicensed residence, which would speed up the process of Judaizing the holy city. The center said that the family of Mari Radayda [...]

Rocky sediments hamper Egypt’s steel wall along Gaza borders

CAIRO, (PIC)– The team that is building the Egyptian steel wall along the borders with the Gaza Strip affirmed Monday that rocky sediments caused by the heavy rains and floods that hit the region few weeks ago have hampered the work in the wall. “The sediments have indeed changed the geology of the soil where [...]

Number of cancer patients in Gaza on the rise

GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian health ministry in the Gaza Strip has announced that the number of cancer patients in the beleaguered Strip had increased to 1899 including 770 women and 220 children. The ministry said in a statement on Monday on occasion of the international day for cancer patients that 850 of those suffer blood [...]

Aqsa foundation: Aqsa walls cracked

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage that caters for Muslim holy shrines in Palestine disclosed that big cracks were seen in the northern wall of the Aqsa Mosque. According to a press release issued by the foundation and published by the Quds Press on Tuesday, the cracks were expanding day after [...]

Agha: Israel created Gaza valley flood to cause environmental disaster

GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian minister of agriculture Dr. Ramadan Agha, said Wednesday that the flooding in Gaza valley was deliberately created by Israel in order to cause an environmental catastrophe and destroy the agricultural life in the areas of the valley, Johr Al-Deek and AL-Maghraqa. During a symposium on Gaza valley flood organized by the ministry, [...]

RRejoub: Washington threatened Fatah with siege if reconciliation reached

TUNIS, (PIC)– The US administration threatened Fatah faction that it would face a siege if it signed a reconciliation agreement with the Hamas Movement, Jibril Al-Rejoub, the deputy Fatah central committee secretary, revealed. He told Tunisian daily Al-Sabah published on Tuesday that the American threats were voiced during the national dialog sessions. Palestinian premier and [...]

The PA in Ramallah instruct imams to assail Sheikh Qardawi

RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The ministry of awkaf and religious affairs in Ramallah distributed a Friday sermon to Imams around the West Bank. The sermon launches a scathing attack on Sheikh Yusuf al-Qardawi. Media outlets associated with the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah has been attacking Sheikh Qardawi, who heads the International Association of Islamic Scholars, since [...]

Print Email 35 Palestinians wounded by Egyptian security forces near Salahuddin terminal

GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian medical sources have reported that 35 Palestinian citizens were wounded by Egyptian gunfire Wednesday evening when dozens of them rallied near Salahuddin terminal in Rafah area in protest at the Egyptian authorities’ attack on Viva Palestina convoy activists. The sources told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that five citizens, who were transferred [...]