Child arrested for throwing stones in East Jerusalem

since the beggining of 2010 , around 1000 Palestinian children were arrested

here photoes of one of them from 26 dec 2010

Child arrested for throwing stones in East Jerusalem

Katie Cannon writes:While the third picture below shows the young man who was arrested in the background, it's difficult to tell if he was engaged in thorwing stones from the instant that was captured. The young child on the scooter to his right does not make the read any easier. Guilty or not, it would be terribly hard to see a child in one's family be taken away by authorities.

Ammar Awad / Reuters

Palestinian Ahmad Daana, 12, looks out from a police vehicle, as his mother and brothers (reflected in the window) watch, after Israeli police detained him on suspicion of throwing stones during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Dec. 26.

Ammar Awad / Reuters

The uncle of 12-year-old Palestinian Ahmad Daana pulls his hand as Israeli police detain him on suspicion of throwing stones during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, Dec. 26.

Kobi Gideon / EPA

Palestinian youths hurl stones towards Israeli police in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, on Dec. 26, as Israel deploys more police and riot police near the Jewish settlement building of Beit Yonathan, in advance of the settlers being evicted.

Ammar Awad / Reuters

Israeli police detain 12-year-old Palestinian Ahmad Daana on suspicion of throwing stones during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Dec. 26.

بی پناهان غزه دو سال پس ازجنگ 22روزه+تصاویر

بی پناهان غزه دو سال پس ازجنگ 22روزه+تصاویر

1389/10/08

Gaza residents two years after zionists assault on Gaza live under tents on the ruins of their homes

به گزارش خبرگزاری قدس (قدسنا) دو سال از جنگ تحمیلی 22 روزه اسراییل به نوار غزه می گذرد و غزه همچنان تحت محاصره رژیم صهیونیستی به سر می برد. به دلیل محاصره کامل باریکه غزه ورود مصالح ساختمانی از سوی رژیم صهیونیستی به این منطقه ممنوع است و فلسطینیانی که طی تجاوز ارتش اسرائیل در جنگ 22 روزه (27 دسامبر 2008 الی 19 ژانویه 2009)منازلشان تخریب شده است همچنان در شرایط بدی زندگی می کنند. تصاویر زیر گوشه هایی اززندگی سخت ساکنین غزه را نشان می دهد: پس از جنگ 22 روزه دو سال بی خانه زندگی کردن در غزه پس از جنگ 22 روزه دو سال بی خانه زندگی کردن در غزه پس از جنگ 22 روزه دو سال بی خانه زندگی کردن در غزه پس از جنگ 22 روزه دو سال بی خانه زندگی کردن در غزه پس از جنگ 22 روزه دو سال بی خانه زندگی کردن در غزه پس از جنگ 22 روزه دو سال بی خانه زندگی کردن در غزه پس از جنگ 22 روزه دو سال بی خانه زندگی کردن در غزه

The surpise from the Santa Claus for a Palestinian child (qodsna.com)

هدیه بابانوئل به کودک مسیحی فلسطینی/کاریکاتور The surpise from the Santa Claus for a Palestinian child (qodsna.com)

1389/10/07

Gaza aid convoy heads for final stop

Gaza aid convoy heads for final stop
Sunday 26 December 2010 hour 4:36

"We really appreciate your effort to keep this momentum and to follow up your work," Abdullah said.

Laden with relief supplies, Asia to Gaza Solidarity Caravan of Asia 1 has left the Syrian capital of Damascus for the port city of Latakia in the northwest of the country.

The convoy, which currently has activists from 15 different nationalities onboard, began its journey from the Indian capital, New Delhi and traveled through Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and Lebanon.

The activists say they want to display solidarity with the Palestinian people in their resistance against Israel.

Tel Aviv has been enforcing an all-out land, aerial and naval blockade on the 1.5 million Palestinians in the enclave since mid-June 2007.

The mission has been welcomed by Khaled Meshaal, the political leader of the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas, as well as Ramadan Abdullah, the leader of the Palestinian group of Islamic Jihad. "We really appreciate your effort to keep this momentum and to follow up your work," Abdullah said.

A seven-member delegation of Iranian lawmakers joined the mission while it was in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

The convoy plans to enter Gaza later in December, which marks the anniversary of the launch of the three-week-long Israeli war on the enclave. The onslaught killed more than 1,400 Palestinians.

There are fears that the mission might be fiercely confronted by Israel's military, which killed nine Turkish activists aboard Freedom Flotilla, an Ankara-backed humanitarian convoy, on May 31.

In this regard, an Indian activist on the mission told Press TV, “We are completely non-violent. We do not have weapons.”

In case of an attack, “We will face it with non-violence. We'll face it with a prayer in our hearts,” he added.

zionists attack Palestinia santa claus

zionists attack Palestinia santa claus (http://www.qodsna.com)

1389/10/04

Israeli forces assault Spanish group in Beit Lahm

Israeli forces assault Spanish group in Beit Lahm

2010/12/25

Israeli forces assaulted a group of Spanish tourists on Thursday afternoon as they tried to enter the southern West Bank city of Beit Lahm (‘Bethlehem’) through its northern entrance to participate in the Christmas festivities. Local sources said that the forces manning the roadblock at the northern entrance of the city near Rahil’s dome assaulted the group with truncheons injuring a number of them. The group was surprised at the treatment meted to them and said that they had a taste of what it was like for Palestinians crossing roadblocks.

Ecuador recognizes state of Palestine

Ecuador recognizes state of Palestine

2010/12/25

Ecuador has become the fifth South American country to formally recognize an independent Palestinian state. President Rafael Correa on Friday signed "the Ecuadoran government's official recognition of Palestine as a free and independent state with 1967 borders," Ecuador's Foreign Ministry said in a statement, according to AFP. The statement said Ecuador's decision to recognize a Palestinian state "vindicates the valid and legitimate desire of the Palestinian people for a free and independent state" and will be a contributing factor to a peaceful coexistence in the Middle East. The border mention refers to the boundaries that existed before 'Israel' captured East of al-Quds ('East Jerusalem'), the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Six-Day War. Earlier this month, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay recognized Palestine as an independent state. Their move drew harsh condemnation from Israel and was opposed by the US House of Representatives as well. The House on December 15 unanimously approved a resolution opposing unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state. The resolution urged the White House to "deny recognition to any unilaterally declared Palestinian state and veto any resolution by the United Nations Security Council to establish or recognize a Palestinian state outside of an agreement negotiated by the two parties.”

Zimbabwe's Mugabe: Why not indict Bush and Blair?

• Fri, Nov 26 2010

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe speaks during the Millennium Development Goals Summit at the U.N. headquarters in New York September 21, 2010.

Credit: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton

TRIPOLI | Tue Nov 30, 2010 1:31pm EST

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Tuesday asked why the International Criminal Court (ICC) is not indicting Tony Blair and George W. Bush for war crimes instead of prosecuting Sudan's leader.

Mugabe, speaking at a joint summit of the European Union and African states, said the ICC was applying a double standard by indicting Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and genocide.

Sudan's government has said it was boycotting the EU-Africa summit in protest at EU pressure for Bashir to stay away.

"Why does this court not do the same with Tony Blair and George W. Bush, both of whom occupied Iraq and killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people?" Mugabe said in a speech to the summit in Libya's capital.

As U.S. president, George W. Bush called Mugabe's rule "tyrannical," while Blair, the former British prime minister, accused Mugabe of human rights abuses and running down what was once one of Africa's most prosperous economies.

Mugabe, in power since independence in 1980, denies those accusations and says the West, and especially Zimbabwe's former colonial ruler Britain, is trying to sabotage his country.

"Bashir is not with us now. Why? Because some European countries said if he comes, they will not attend the summit," Mugabe said in his speech.

"They are wrong because they shouldn't take this decision before we know if he is guilty or innocent ... Only a court in his own country can decide if he is guilty or not."

The Rahbar’s fatwa of respect, and unity

The Rahbar’s fatwa of respect, and unity

Early last month, Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Rahbar (Leader) of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, issued a fatwa of far-reaching importance for the unity and solidarity of the Ummah. It was immediately welcomed by leading scholars in the Muslim world, including the Rector of Al-Azhar University in Egypt. In his fatwa, the Rahbar said disrespect or insult to the Sahabah (Companions), or wives of the noble Messenger (pbuh) is haram (forbidden).

To understand the significance of the fatwa, a brief detour into history is necessary. Based on differences of opinion over leadership after the Prophet (pbuh), Muslims have been divided into two camps — Sunnis and Shi‘is. The Sunnis believe that the process of succession was agreed by the consensus of the community while the Shi‘is are of the view that the Prophet (pbuh) had designated his cousin and son-in-law, Imam ‘Ali as his successor. Based on these differences, followers of the two opinions became so rigidly entrenched that they started to denounce each other. During Mu‘awiyah’s reign (when the system of khilafah was subverted into hereditary monarchy), it was official policy to denounce Imam ‘Ali during the Jumu‘ah khutbah. Umar ibn ‘Abdul ‘Aziz ended this un-Islamic practice during his rule. He was a man committed to the character and practice of the Prophet (pbuh) but his rule did not last long. His own family members poisoned him. They were unhappy with his restoration of Islamic principles to the practice of governance.

In reaction to such un-Islamic practices by the Umayyads (family of Mu‘awiyah), the Shi‘is resorted to their own denunciations. They condemned not only Mu‘awiyah and his drunkard son Yazid — whose army martyred Imam Husayn at Karbala, perpetrating the most heinous crime in Islamic history — but all the Sahabah that had not supported Imam Ali’s position for leadership. These Shi‘is went further; they cursed ‘A’ishah, the wife of the noble Messenger (pbuh), as well. In turn, some Sunnis started to hurl allegations of takfir against the Shi‘is.

Naturally such mutual denunciations have poisoned the atmosphere among Muslims and prevented genuine unity from taking root. Not only ordinary Muslims unaware of the details of Islamic history but also those knowledgeable about it have used such differences to stoke conflict and discord. It must be said that while there are sholarly positions on both sides that want to end such differences because they understand that history cannot be reversed and mutual recriminations do not serve the larger interests of the Ummah, there are others that want to stick to their entrenched positions. Imam Khamenei’s fatwa bridges this gap considerably. While it provides guidance to the Shi‘is to show more respect to the Companions and the wives of the Prophat (pbuh), it also reassures the Sunnis that their sensitivities are being respected. At the same time, it deprives those that want to stoke sectarian differences of a major argument.

The quality of true Islamic leadership is that it is able to lead all the Muslims regardless of their schools of thought (madhhabs). Imam Khamenei’s fatwa does just that. The Ummah must thank him for his sincerity and taqwa.

Mass anti-govt. rallies held in Germany

Mass anti-govt. rallies held in Germany

Sat Nov 13, 2010 7:31PM

Protests against the German government's austerity measures on June 17, 2010

Tens of thousands demonstrate in cities across Germany against government policies and social inequalities ahead of the ruling party's national meeting.

A day before Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats party (CDU) meeting, nearly 100,000 Germans marched across the country in Stuttgart, Dortmund, Nuremberg and Erfurt.

"We don't want a republic in which powerful interest groups decide the guidelines of politics with their money, their power and their influence," Berthold Huber, head of Germany's largest trade union IG Metall, told a crowd of protesters in Stuttgart.

The rallies were organized by the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB), which is demanding higher wages for workers and a mandatory minimum wage.

Demonstrators also protested at the introduction of the new pension age of 67, AFP reported.

During the annual CDU meeting, held between November 14-16 in Karlsruhe, delegates will most likely re-elect Merkel as the head of the party.

The coalition government currently shares power with the Free Democrats and has passed austerity measures and spending cuts during the country's economic crisis.

Merkel's government is now trailing behind the center-left Social Democrats and Greens in opinion polls, Reuters reported.

Last week, tens of thousands of environmental activists protested at the transport of radioactive waste from France to Germany in conjunction with the government's recent decision to extend the life spans of Germany's 17 nuclear power plants.

'George, I'm asking you to bomb the compound,'

'George, I'm asking you to bomb the compound,' Olmert told Bush according to former U.S. president's memoirs;

'Israel hogging Gaza water sources'

'Israel hogging Gaza water sources'

Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:14AM

More than 1.5 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip lack access to basic humanitarian supplies such as shortage of water resources.

Many Palestinians are forced to purchase bottled water for their daily needs, as water coming from their taps has run dry, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday.

The Gaza aquifer is the only source of water for residents of Gaza. Reports show that 90 percent of its water is not suitable for human consumption due to high levels of nitrate and salinity.

In an interview with Press TV, public health coordinator Tracey Wise said, "Because of such limited amounts of water in Gaza that's acceptable for human consumption, mostly this is the shallow, coastal aquifer, and this aquifer is being over-pumped, so much water is being taken out to supply the needs of Gazans, that you have much more intrusion of sea water."

"And then also you have upwelling of this very, very old water that has high salinity and high concentrations of other pollutants," she added.

Meanwhile, Israel has installed huge pumping stations all along the shared border, diverting water before it reaches the aquifer of Gaza.

Israel has imposed a blockade on the region since June 2007, preventing the entry of hundreds of items, including essential industrial materials needed to repair the water infrastructure.

During the Gaza war, bombs completely destroyed three water wells and much of the water system infrastructure in Gaza.

The Coastal Municipal Water Utility (CMWU) has reported Israel's daily water consumption per capita at around 320 liters while the consumption of Palestinians in Gaza is less than 90 liters.

"We need to start to think about unconventional water sources, [such as] the sea, along with other solutions," said CMWU Director Munzer Shuplaq.

According to recent statistics conducted by CMWU, residents of the coastal enclave will not find healthy water to drink by the year 2015.

Viva Palestina's convoy reaches Gaza

Viva Palestina's convoy reaches Gaza

Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:46PM

Activists with the Viva Palestina-organized convoy chant slogans before their departure from Istanbul, Turkey on September 28, 2010.

Lifeline 5, the fifth aid convoy organized by the UK-based charity Viva Palestina, has crossed Rafah, the border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

On Thursday, the aid mission of 150 vehicles entered the coastal sliver, carrying around $5 million in food, medicine and basic supplies.

The move signified disruption of Tel Aviv's siege of Gaza, which has been depriving its 1.5-million population of food, fuel and other necessities for more than three years.

Headed by former British lawmaker George Galloway, the convoy departed from London on September 18. It crossed France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria and Egypt on its way to the enclave.

The trip was made despite the likelihood that the activists come under the attack of the Israeli military, which had killed nine activists in May during an assault on Freedom Flotilla, a convoy of the same mission.

Israeli paper The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday that the Israeli forces were awaiting the arrival of the activists.

Citing a source with Israel's military, the paper wrote, "The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) is prepared" for the convoy.

There, however, has been no news yet of Tel Aviv-ordered aggression on the activists.

The convoy was also fearful of confrontation by the Egyptian authorities. In January 2010, the Egyptian riot police injured 55 people in the port of El Arish during clashes with the Viva Palestina's previous aid convoy.

Speaking to a Press TV correspondent, however, Lifeline 5's spokesman, Zaher Birawi, said that the Egyptians had refrained from imposing any conditions on the mission's entry into the sliver.

"The Egyptians are facilitating and making easy and smooth the entrance to Gaza," Birawi said.

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"We must stand united to defeat, to destroy, to dismantle Israel

US professor reaffirms Israel must be dismantled

2010/10/22

A Lincoln University professor who in a recent rally in the US called for dismantling of Israel said Thursday that he stood by those words and would not back down from detractors out to "threaten academic freedom." Kaukab Siddique, 67, an associate professor of English and literature, said that he had the support of his faculty and students and that he would continue to speak his mind, despite pressure from those who have referred to him as an "anti-Semite." Siddique is a tenured professor who has taught at the university since 1985. A vocal critic of Israel's record of human-rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, he said "I am against Israel - not against Jews." Seddique, speaking on Labor Day, said: "We must stand united to defeat, to destroy, to dismantle Israel - if possible by peaceful means." Backed by a crowd of cheering protesters, he continued: "Dear brothers and sisters, unite and rise up against this hydra-headed monster which calls itself Zionism." Siddique said Thursday that he was under pressure for his remarks. "It has become so abusive even my wife is beginning to be worried," he said. "If I were not tenured I might be under some pressure to leave." But he said he would continue to speak out in his free time, no matter how others might feel about those statements. "I don't believe in laying low," he said.

Anti-wall campaigner sentenced to 18 months in jail

Anti-wall campaigner sentenced to 18 months in jail

2010/10/22

Adeeb Abu Rahmah, a protest leader from Bil'in, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment Thursday for his involvement in organizing demonstrations, local activists said. The decision aggravates the 1-year sentence originally imposed in the first instance. "Today the court of appeals has shown that it is serving as one more instance of political repression not as an actual court where justice is served. The court admitted what we all knew – that the entire system is trying to make an example of Adeeb in order to silence the entire Popular Struggle movement against Israel's occupation," defense attorney Gaby Lasky said. Abu Rahmah's sentence is the first to be handed by the Military Court of Appeals in a series of trials against anti-wall organizers. The decision is likely to affect other cases, most notably that of Abdallah Abu Rahmah, the Bil'in organizer declared human rights defender by the EU who was recently sentenced to a year in jail by the first instance of the military court. The sentence "highlights the lack of equality before the law between Israelis and Palestinians, who are tried before two different legal systems. For instance, in a case of a Jewish settler convicted of incitement to murder, the court only imposedan eight months suspended sentence," the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee said.

Israeli fire injures 2 workers in northern Gaza

Israeli fire injures 2 workers in northern Gaza

2010/10/22

Israeli forces fired live ammunition injuring two Gaza residents near the Strip's northern border on Thursday morning, medics reported. Medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmieh said the injured men were collecting rubble near Beit Lahiya, and were taken to Kamal Adwan hospital for treatment. Palestinian workers were collecting rubble and gravel in the area along the border fence to make cement. In a recent report, Defence for Children International said "Due to a severe lack of job opportunities and a shortage of construction material entering Gaza from Israel, hundreds of men and boys scavenge for building gravel amongst the destroyed buildings close to the border fence." DCI documented 12 incidents in which children were shot by Israeli forces in northern Gaza over the summer. The organization said reports indicated that soldiers also shot and killed the donkeys used by workers, as well as targeting the workers themselves. Israel places severe restriction on the import of gravel into the Strip. At the current rate that Israel is allowing cement aggregates into Gaza, it would take 75 years for the UN to implement its reconstruction plan for Gaza, the report said.

DAY 33: Thursday 21st October

DAY 33: Thursday 21st October

VIVA PALESTINA CONVOY BREAKS SIEGE AND ENTERS GAZA TO JUBILANT CROWDS

The Viva Palestina convoy of almost 150 vehicles, 370 people from 30 different countries and $5 million of aid has entered Gaza.

Amidst scenes of jubilation from thousands of Palestinians there to greet the convoy, Kevin Ovenden, the convoy director, expressed his joy at being in Gaza once again. "We have driven more than 3,000 miles to bring this essential aid and to break this illegal siege of Gaza. We have been joined by supporters from Morocco and Algeria and from the Gulf States and Jordan, to make this the biggest convoy ever to break the siege of Gaza. We are absolutely overjoyed to be here and to bring with us the soil from the graves of those who were massacred on the Mavi Marmara which will be used to plant trees as a memorial to their sacrifice."

The convoy set out four weeks and five days ago from London. It travelled through France, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Syria. Everywhere the reception was fantastic and the generosity of well-wishers unsurpassed. Towards the end there was a frustrating delay in Syria whilst negotiations at the highest levels were conducted with the Egyptian authorities. In the end it was all worth it as the Egyptian authorities decided to allow passage of the whole convoy, sadly excluding just 17 members of the convoy including George Galloway.

The convoy will be handed over in its entirety to the relevant bodies tomorrow and the members of the convoy then expect to leave Gaza and return home in the next 48 hours after celebrations and formal thanks are given.

Convoy reaches Gaza - News report on Press TV

Do you still remember Palestinian in Gaza

We are still under siege!

To get water we have to walk so far.....

We still fear daily hunger...

And when we have no choice...

Medicine is like rare diamonds.... .

Are dying every day in their beds.....

Due to the lack of Medication.. .

And others...

Have just tears to shed.....


Do you still...

Remember us?!

There was No place...

To hide!

Do you still remember us?!

It was a genocide...
It was Murder...

It was a vicious crime...

It was a CRUEL action...

An act of a MONSTER...

The manners of a COWARD...

It was the silence of a friend...

It is the dirty true FACE of Politics!
It is a FACT!

It's incomprehensible!

IT'S A PERMANENT SHAME!

It was BETRAYAL!

It is some how believable!

But this is Incredible!!!

Double standards!!


It is the continuous AID...


Made by...

The true forces...

Of Evil! .. SAME


Do you still remember us?!
The dead...

Were everywhere...

That sometimes we had no place...

To make even Our prayer.....

Do you still...

Remember us!

At that time...

Some watched...


From afar...

Some were happy...


And joyful...

Some said: "NO..."

To the massacre!

And the torture...


Do you still remember us!

Many watched us...
Many carried...

The SHAME!

Many did not DARE!!

Others said i truly care...

But now we hear from them very..very.. very..rare!

Are you sure you still remember us?!

Now we have nothing...


But pain.....

And daily...

Sadness..... .

Do you really...

Still remember us?!

At least in your prayer???!

Gaza children and people implore you!

They are dying...

Due to the continues blockade!

There is growing humanitarian crisis...

Happening...

In Gaza.....
There is an EXTREME...

Restricted access to food...

Water...

And Medicine!

Please send it to entire world