Eid Al-Fitr in Gaza – in pictures
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011Filed under: Gaza, Islam, Muslims, Palestine, Photography Occupied Palestine | فلسطين
Filed under: Gaza, Islam, Muslims, Palestine, Photography Occupied Palestine | فلسطين
By Stuart Grudgings | Maan News Agency | Aug 29, 2011 RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – His cartoons are edgy, bold, and a thorn in the side of the Arab world’s tottering authoritarians — a gift to protesters from the unlikely setting of an apartment in beach-side Rio de Janeiro. Carlos Latuff, a 42-year-old leftist [...]
Related: Special Topic Palestinian Prisoners Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:50| MEMO PCDD: Israeli prisons lack specialist doctors and Palestinian detainees are given nothing but pain killers. A Palestinian rights centre has called for an investigation into the high incidence of illness and disease among Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails. A significant number die very soon [...]
Maan News Agency | Aug 29, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A teenager in Gaza died on Monday after being seriously injured in an Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahiya 10 days earlier, medics said. Haitham Marouf, 14, died in the intensive care unit of Ash-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, medical officials said. Shortly after midnight [...]
Friday Protests Soldiers Attack Nonviolent Weekly Protest In Nil’in Several injuries were reported in Nil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, as Israeli soldiers fired a barrage of gas bombs at the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and Settlements. link to www.imemc.org Six Protesters Wounded in Kafr Qaddoum Israeli troops attacked [...]
[ 28/08/2011 - 10:46 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– De facto president Mahmoud Abbas declared his willingness to listen to any international proposal that can convince him to resume peace talks with Israelis and refrain from resorting to the UN to extract an acknowledgement of a Palestinian state. Abbas made his remarks on Saturday in a [...]
Ali Khalifa Mu’tasem Udwan On Monday, August 1st, 2011, at dawn, the Occupation soldiers murdered Mu’tasem Udwan and Ali Khalifa and seriously wounded Ma’amun Awad. It was the first morning of Ramadan. Murder is always shocking. And because afterwards there is nothing. But what shocked me in particular was how Mu’tasem’s mother saw him very [...]
Related to: Al Quds Day World Wide – in pictures PressTV -Sat Aug 27, 2011 1:22PM GMT Interview with Saeb Shaath, Author and Middle East Affairs expert. Designated by the founder of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini back in 1979, the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan marks the International Al-Quds Day. For [...]
Palestine Chronicle | Aug 26, 2011 Some pundits see the recognition of Palestine as a political tsunami. (Aljazeera) By Dr. Ismail Salami and Kourosh Ziabari The plight of the Palestinian people is no closed book to anyone in the world; a subjugated nation which has been unjustifiably subjected to discrimination and violence for the past [...]
Gaza Under Attack- in pictures | Part 1 | Part 2 | 26 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Ismail Nimr Ammoum worked his whole life as a farm laborer. He did not have land of his own, he worked for others, planting, watering, weeding, whatever needed done. He was a strong man, and [...]