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February 20, 2014

Palestinian Legislative Council delegation tours several Arab countries

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESA delegation from the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) has returned to Gaza after a tour across several Arab countries. Lasting for more than a month, the tour and...

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February 20, 2014

Minister claims that 130 Palestinian detainees in Israel are serving 20+ year sentences

The Palestinian Authority’s Minister for Detainees’ Affairs has said that the number of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons serving sentences of 20 years or more has now reached 130....

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February 20, 2014

Judaization of Jerusalem includes "defacing walls of the Old City"

A leading Palestinian foundation has accused the Israeli occupation authorities of defacing the walls of the historic Old City with Jewish symbols, including stone reliefs of models of the...

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February 20, 2014

Google polls users over use of Israel or Palestine to describe occupied territories

Google has conducted an online poll asking its users whether the search engine should label the Occupied Palestinian Territories as “Palestine” or “Israel” on its website and other services....

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February 20, 2014

Israeli cabinet: settlement construction will continue in Jerusalem; there are no rifts with Washington over them

The Israeli government stated that plans for settlement construction and projects in Jerusalem are on-going and will continue, adding that this is in complete harmony with the policies of...

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February 20, 2014

UN report accuses Israel of violating the Convention on the Rights of the Child

In a statement to mark International Children’s Day, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said Israel is tangible breach of the UN Convention on the Rights of...

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February 20, 2014

Israeli soldiers have used more than 15 children as human shields

A human rights agency has criticised an Israeli court’s sentence passed on two soldiers who used a nine-year old Palestinian boy as a human shield in Gaza. Defence for...

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February 20, 2014

Knesset bill calls for referendum before withdrawal from Jerusalem or the Golan

The Israeli parliament looks likely to approve a bill which would require the government to hold a national referendum before any withdrawal could be made from occupied Jerusalem or...

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February 20, 2014

Israeli court defers hearing into the case of Jerusalem MP

An Israeli court yesterday deferred its hearing into the case of Shaikh Muhammad Abu Tayr, the elected member of the Palestinian legislature for Jerusalem. The next hearing will be...

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February 20, 2014

British clowns visit the Gaza Strip

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESA group of clowns from Britain have been on a tour of the Gaza Strip over the last few days in an effort to paint smiles on the...

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