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International Action Day for Palestinian Prisoners Hunger Strike on 14 May

Submitted by Linah Alsaafin on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 22:27

10 million Palestinians worldwide. At 9 am GMT, 12 pm Palestine time, every Palestinian and their supporters are invited to step outside their stores, homes, schools, workplaces for ten minutes on the 28th day of the Palestinian prisoners’ mass hunger strike.

Watch: The Great Book Robbery, Israel's 1948 looting of Palestine's cultural heritage

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 16:30

Watch a film that tells the story of Israel’s systematic looting of tens of thousands of books and other cultural treasures during the Nakba, the 1948 expulsion of the Palestinian people.

Thaer Halahleh's letter to his daughter: "My Beloved Lamar...Forgive me"

Submitted by Linah Alsaafin on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 11:21
On his 75th day of hunger strike, Thaer Halahleh sends a heartbreaking message to his 2 year old daughter Lamar: “Lamar my love: I know that you are not to be blamed and that you don’t yet understand why your father is going through this battle of the hunger strike for the 75th day, but when you grow up you will understand that the battle of freedom is the battle of going back to you.”

"I have never lived a settled life": Church of the Nativity deportees mark 10 years of exile

Submitted by Shahd Abusalama on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 01:28
Yesterday marked Deported Palestinians’ Day, commemorating the anniversary of the siege of the Church of the Nativity 10 years ago.

Why the Palestinian Authority is afraid of the "intifada in Israeli jails"

Submitted by Linah Alsaafin on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 20:30
Palestinian Authority police once again showed their true colors by repressing a protest of Mahmoud Abbas’s empty gesture toward the families of hunger striking political prisoners.

Palestinian, Dutch groups tell The Hague: don't give contract to Israel settlement profiteer Veolia

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 16:31
Palestinian and Dutch rights organizations call on the urban region of The Hague, to end its business with Veolia.

The Electronic Intifada Weekly Podcast - 10 May 2012

Submitted by nora on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 19:12

This week on The Electronic Intifada podcast: Up-to-date coverage of the ongoing hunger strike protests by thousands of Palestinian prisoners; Linah Alsaafin and Asa Winstanley report from the West Bank on prisoner solidarity actions; and much more.

UNRWA mysteriously removes top official's statement on Israel’s treatment of hunger strikers

Submitted by Benjamin Doherty on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 17:03

A widely reported statement by UNRWA Commissioner General Filippo Grandi that merely noted the health conditions of hunger striking prisoners and the validity of their demands has been removed from UNRWA’s web site without explanation.

Thaer Halahleh told he "could die any moment," as hunger strikers' condition increasingly urgent

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 16:18

Thaer Halahleh has been told he “could die any moment,” by an Israeli prison doctor, as the gravely ill Palestinian who is held without charge or trial by Israel, completed his 73rd day of hunger strike.

Elderly Gaza man on hunger strike in solidarity with "only son left"

Submitted by Shahd Abusalama on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 14:25
A 66-year-old hunger striker at Gaza’s sit-in tent used to have three children; two of them were killed and one is locked behind Israel’s bars.

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