Israeli forces attack annual “Land Day” protests

Palestinians take part in a rally marking Land Day in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip on 30 March 2013. (Photo: AFP - Mahmud Hams)

- By Ma’an, WAFA Israeli forces fired tear gas and rubber coated bullets at Palestinians marking the annual Land Day in towns across the West Bank and Gaza on Saturday, local media reported. Eyewitnesses told Ma’an News Agency that hundreds of Palestinians gathered in agricultural lands near the West Bank village of Jayyus to plant trees […]

Israeli Police Kidnap Two Children In Jerusalem

Deena And Her Brother Mohammad - Wadi Hilweh Information Center

- By IMEMC News Monday March 18, 2013, Two children identified as Deena Morad Jweiles, 14, and her brother Mohammad, 12, have been kidnapped by the Israeli Police after being attacked and harassed by an Israeli settler in Wadi Hilweh, in Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported. The center said […]

Palestinian hunger-striker Issawi “on the verge of death”

Palestinians hold placards depicting prisoner Samer al-Issawi, who has been on an intermittent hunger strike for 209 days, during a protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails in this February 17, 2013 file photo. (Photo: Reuters - Mohamad Torokman)

- By Al-Akhbar Palestinian hunger-striker Samer Issawi is on the verge of death according to a statement from his sister Shirine Issawi Thursday, a day after he decided to refuse both liquids and vitamins. The statement was given to the web magazine Palestine Online. Palestine’s prisoners’ rights group Addameer had reported Wednesday that Issawi was suffering from […]

Samer Issawi refuses to be exiled in exchange for his release

Samer Issawi

Al- Eesawy Refuses To Be Exiled In Exchange For His Release (IMEMC) – By Saed Bannoura, IMEMC & Agencies Lawyer Shireen Al-Eesawy, sister of hunger striking detainee Samer Al-Eesawy, from Al-Eesawiyya in occupied Jerusalem, stated that her brother refused an Israeli offer to force him into exile in exchange for his release. On her Facebook page, […]

Israeli forces tear gas Palestinian wedding procession

A woman holds up a sign that reads, "In Sickness and in health ... until Israel do us part," as Israeli soldiers prevent the progress of a wedding party towards the Israeli checkpoint of Hizma in the West Bank, on 9 March 2013. (Photo: AFP - Abbas Momani)

- By Ma’an, Al-Akhbar Israeli forces on Saturday broke up a wedding procession organized at a West Bank checkpoint to challenge Israeli laws preventing Palestinians in the occupied territories from living with their spouses in the Jewish state. The incident was one of a wave of attacks against Palestinians with Israeli citizenship which have recently made […]

Liberating Palestine, Baytul-Maqdis and its surroundings is a part of Aqeedah but many Muslims do not know

Jerusalem

- By Fazeem Zaneer, AlHittin.com Contributor “There will always be a group from my Ummah triumphant upon the truth, victorious over their enemies, there will be no harm from those who oppose them and they will not be harmed until the order of Allah comes and they will be like that (triumphant). The Sahabahs asked, “O RasulAllah, […]

Israeli forces raid Al Aqsa masjid, attack worshippers

Riot police storm Jerusalem's Aqsa mosque on 8 March 2013. (Photo: Twitter - @BDS4Justice)

Israeli forces raid Aqsa mosque, attack worshippers (Al-Akhbar) – By Al-Akhbar Israeli forces on Friday fired tear gas and stun grenades at hundreds of worshippers at Jerusalem’s Aqsa mosque, injuring some, activists said. Witnesses posted photos and videos online showing dozens of riot police storming the compound and attacking crowds. They wrote on Twitter that forces […]

Qur’an Desecration at Masjid Al Aqsa: Details emerge

Palestinian Girls at Masjid Al Aqsa

- By Ebrahim Moosa, Cii News Shocking details have emerged of an alleged desecration of the Holy Quraan by Israeli soldiers on the precincts of Masjidul Aqsa on Sunday. The Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage over the weekend published a statement describing how an Israeli police officer had attacked two Palestinian school girls near the Mughrabi […]

Samer Issawi: We are fighting for all Palestinians

Palestinian families gather in solidarity with hunger-striking prisoners at the Red Cross offices in East Jerusalem. Photograph: Mahmoud Illean/Demotix/Corbis

- By Samer Issawi, The Guardian My story is no different from that of many other Palestinian young people who were born and have lived their whole lives under Israeli occupation. At 17, I was arrested for the first time, and jailed for two years. I was arrested again in my early 20s, at the height of […]

Letter from brother Samer al-Issawi

An Israeli prison guard escorts Samer Issawi, a Palestinian political prisoner, out of his court hearing in Jerusalem’s civil court, Jan. 16, 2013. (Photo/OrenZiv)

The following letter (in Arabic) was published today on Samer’s sister Shirin Issawi’s Page in Facebook. Letter from prisoner Samer al-Issawi as it came from the Ministry of prisoners: I turn with admiration to the masses of our heroic Palestinian people, to our Palestinian leadership, to all forces, parties and national institutions. I salute them for standing […]

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