News from Palestine 23.01.2012

I made some tea seconds ago & Israel decided 2 reward me with some bombs with my tea! AS USUAL! #Gaza Breaking: Tweeps in Gaza are reporting F16′s raiding #Gaza now #Terrorism At least 3 explosions heard in northern Gaza. Israeli #F16s in the air. For updates, follow @Solarah @imNadZ @Omar_Gaza@Yasmine_Gaza #BREAKING #GAZA | Jan 24, 2012 0:43 | Another explosion reported by @SarahSalibi F16′s attacking N. Gaza [...]

Medicines in Gaza are hostage to political rivalry that puts lives at risk

Political divisions and Israel’s siege have put lives in limbo. Ahmad Dahman, 60, is one of hundreds of patients who come to Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital to receive life-saving kidney dialysis treatment each week. And like other patients, he is worried that his health and even his life are at risk because of persistent shortages in medicines and [...]

Dubai distributes Halal food info for travelling Muslims

With a Halal food leaflet, Muslims can now travel abroad armed with information about some of the more obscure ways they could inadvertently break Islamic food requirements while on holiday. In western shops and on menus, pork and alcohol products may not be labelled as carefully as in the UAE, and Muslims carefully avoiding bacon [...]

Nederlandse kinderen gedwongen met vader naar Afghanistan terug te gaan

Minister Leers. De twee pubers van Abdul Momand uit Afghanistan moeten noodgedwongen Nederland verlaten, ondanks het feit dat ze de Nederlandse nationaliteit hebben. De vader kreeg vorige week te horen van de Immigratie- en Naturalisatie Dienst dat hij weg moet, hoewel hij tot drie keer toe van rechters te horen kreeg dat hij mocht blijven. [...]

Abbas to RT: We want to co-exist with Israel – independently

Despite pressure from the US and Israel, the Palestinian Authority has refused to accept the Israeli vision of the Middle East peace process and will continue to petition for UN membership status, the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, has told RT. America, the only member of the UN Security Council that has not supported Palestine’s bid [...]

Masked Settlers Launch “Price Tag” Attack on Palestinian Village

There is a constant threat of violence facing Palestinians who live close to Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law. In total, seven incidents of settler violence were documented by Al-Haq’s field researchers in different areas across the West Bank last week. (For more information seeAl-Haq’s interactive map on settler violence) In one incident, [...]

IOF soldiers detain 9 Palestinians, attack sportsmen, activists

RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained nine Palestinian citizens in various West Bank areas at dawn Monday, Hebrew press reported. The website of Hebrew daily Yediot Ahronot quoted army sources as saying that the Palestinians were “wanted”. Dozens of IOF soldiers had stormed the house of a Palestinian in Bir Al-Basha village, to the [...]

Hamas: Elections commission can reopen Gaza offices ‘anytime’

A security officer casts his vote in parliamentary elections in Gaza City on Jan. 21 2006. GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas on Monday rejected criticism that it had failed to open the Central Election Commission’s headquarters in Gaza. CEC chairman Hanna Nasir said Monday that the Hamas-run government had not reopened elections offices in the Gaza [...]

Israel detains 2 more lawmakers

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Monday detained two Palestinian MPs during a raid on the Jerusalem headquarters of the International Red Cross. Mohammad Tawtah and former Jerusalem affairs’ minister Khalid Abu Arafa are being questioned by Israeli police on suspicion of conducting “Hamas activities inside Jerusalem,” Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Ma’an. The [...]

Hebron`s diminishing factory life

Artistic glass products, hand-made ceramics and Palestine’s one and only producer of the Keffiyeh, the traditional Palestinian scarf, Hebron’s factory district used to be flourishing. Times have changed, however, amid an increase in settler violence, the economic crisis and a flood of cheaper-made Chinese products. The city’s old, family-run factories are struggling to survive. Here’s [...]