65TH ANNIVERSARY OF NAKBA COMMEMORATED
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. | Nearly 500 Palestinians marched with the posters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
President Abbas addressed the nation on the Occasion of Nakba. Abbas who said that they |
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. | Nearly 500 Palestinians marched with the posters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
President Abbas addressed the nation on the Occasion of Nakba. Abbas who said that they |
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. | An Israeli air strike has killed a Palestinian man and wounded another in the Gaza Strip, medics said, in what appeared to be the first such attack since a ceasefire ended an eight-day war last November.
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. | Israel pressed Hamas on Wednesday to rein in rocket-firing militants in the Gaza Strip after the most serious outbreak of cross-border hostilities since the ceasefire that ended an eight-day war in November.
The flare-up, sparked by anger in Gaza over the death from cancer of a Palestinian held by Israel, included Israel’s first air strike on the Hamas-run coastal enclave since |
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. | Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to visit Gaza in mid-April, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on the same day Israel apologized to Turkey for killing nine Turkish citizens in a 2010 naval raid on a Gaza-bound ship.
Haniyeh made the announcement |
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. | Unknown assailants have set fire to two buses which Israel began operating as Palestinians-only lines to be used by Palestinian labourers travelling between the West Bank and Israel.
“Two buses were apparently set on fire but we are looking into all possibilities,” police spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP news agency on Tuesday, saying the incident took |
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. | segregation of Jews in Germany, and blacks in the US has been condemned by every country, but, it seems that every one is turning blind eye on Israel’s racist actions for decades! |
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. | Scores of Palestinian students forced the British consul general to make a hasty departure from a West Bank university campus on Tuesday, witnesses and an AFP correspondent said.
Consul General |
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. | Israeli settlements in the occupied territories violate Palestinians’ human rights in ways designed to drive them off the land, a UN report states.
The report says settlements displace Palestinians, destroy their crops and property, and subject them to violence. Israel refused to |
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. | Israel is using lethal force on unarmed Palestinian protesters in the West Bank, according to the latest report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem. It says 56 people were killed in the clashes, with an average age of 18.
In the 31-page report, B’Tselem |
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. | Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal ended decades of exile on Friday with a triumphal first ever visit to the Gaza Strip that underscored the Islamist group’s growing confidence following its latest conflict with Israel.
After passing through the Egyptian border crossing, Meshaal knelt and touched the ground with his forehead, offering up a prayer of thanks. He was then greeted in the warm December |
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. | Israeli ambassadors to the UK, France, Sweden, Spain and Denmark were summoned to hear condemnation of plans to develop a highly sensitive expanse of land east of Jerusalem. The move signalled a widening gulf not just between Israel and Europe but also between Europe and the United States.
Despite growing international |
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. | Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday said that it was high time to establish permanent peace in the region.
Delivering the opening remarks at the Fifth Meeting of the Turkish-Arab Cooperation Forum at the level of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Istanbul, Ahmet Davutoglu stated that the preliminary condition for a permanent peace in the region was to help the Palestinians reach their rights and the establishment of an independent |
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. | Spain has pledged to support Palestine’s bid for non-member observer status at the UN as the best way to “advance towards peace,” as EU countries continue to voice their position ahead of the UN vote.
Spanish Foreign Minister |
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. | Overnight, thousands of Gaza residents poured on to the streets to celebrate, waving flags and setting off fireworks.
The UN Security Council |
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. | Fighting raged on both sides of Gaza’s borders Wednesday despite intensified efforts across the region to thrash out the truce to end a week of violence that has cost 136 Palestinian and five Israeli lives.
Davutoglu left Gaza and crossed |