Clashes break out in West Bank, East Jerusalem on Land Day
Mar 30, 2012, 13:31 GMT Jerusalem – Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers and police in the West Bank and East Jerusalem on Friday, and one person was reported killed, during protests to mark Land Day, an annual commemoration of the 1976 shooting of six Arab-Israelis.
March 30, 2012
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Israeli forces clash with Palestinians on Land Day
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli security forces fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades to break up groups of Palestinian stone-throwers on Friday as annual Land Day rallies turned violent.
March 30, 2012
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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Palestinians Clash with Israeli Forces on Land Day
RAMALLAH, March 30, 2012 (WAFA) Palestinians clashed Friday with Israeli forces at Qalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah following a march to mark Land Day. Young Palestinians threw rocks at Israeli soldiers and border guards manning the checkpoint when the Israeli forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the participants in the march that was supposed to commemorate 36 years since Israeli security forces killed six Palestinians protesting Israeli land grab in Arab towns inside Israel
March 30, 2012
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Israel closes off West Bank ahead of 'Land Day' protests
DIAA HADID Jerusalem The Associated Press Published Friday, Mar.
March 30, 2012
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Ampal-American Israel Corporation Reports 2011 Year End Results
TEL AVIV, Israel, March 30, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ampal-American Israel Corporation (Nasdaq:AMPL – News), a holding company with experience in acquiring interests in various businesses with emphasis in recent years on energy and related fields, today reported its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2011.
March 30, 2012
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Israel police, army on alert for mass Land Day demos
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli police and the army were on high alert on Friday ahead of a raft of demonstrations and marches planned in Israel and the Palestinian territories to mark Land Day, officials said.
March 30, 2012
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Israel ups security for protests by Palestinian and Arabs marking 'Land Day'
Israel has heightened security ahead of planned Arab protests on Friday, deploying thousands of troops and police across the country, as well as to the West Bank and Gaza, in anticipation of violence. Israeli Arabs and Palestinians plan to mark “Land Day” on the anniversary of the 1976 death of six Israeli Arabs,the Associated Press reported
March 30, 2012
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Israel prepares for Arab Land Day protests
Israeli Arabs and Palestinians are marking an annual protest against what they say are discriminatory Israeli land policies.
March 30, 2012
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Palestinian held by Israel ends fast, eyes Gaza exile
A Palestinian woman holds a placard depicting Palestinian prisoner Hana Shalabi during a rally in support of her hunger strike as well as calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in front of Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City, March 24, 2012. Reuters pic Hana Shalabi, a member of the Islamic Jihad militant group, stopped taking food after Israeli troops seized her in the occupied West Bank on Feb 16.
March 30, 2012
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GMJ Commemorating Land Day in Palestine Begins
Palestine Human Rights Campaign www.palestine.org.nz Media Release March 30th 2012 Global March to Jerusalem commemorating Land Day in Palestine begins in Aotearoa-New Zealand March 30 is Land Day in Palestine and commemorates the events of 1976, when Israel seized massive quantities of Palestinian land and then killed and injured dozens of those who protested against the theft. This year on Land Day, March 30, people from around Palestine and the world will gather to form a Global March to Jerusalem to protest the theft in progress today: the isolation and ethnic cleansing taking place throughout occupied Palestine through illegal settlement activity.
March 29, 2012
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Israelis Suspect Obama Media Leaks to Prevent Strike on Iran
JERUSALEM – Two reports today about Iran’s nuclear program and the possibility of an Israeli military strike have analysts in Israel accusing the Obama administration leaking information to pressure Israel not to bomb Iran and for Iran to reach a compromise in upcoming nuclear talks….
March 29, 2012
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Ad watchdog rules against Israel Golan Heights map
By Joseph Millis – Thursday 29th March 2012 The Israel Government Tourist Office in London has been forced to amend maps showing the Golan Heights after complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority. The ASA ordered the cancellation of IGTO’s promotion of a new book on northern Israel, saying the advert, first published in British newspapers in November 2011, did not properly demarcate the 1967 borders on the Golan Heights and the West Bank.
March 29, 2012
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Bank of Israel: More devout Jews, Arabs must work
More Israeli Arabs and ultra-Orthodox Jews must join the work force to spur economic growth, Israel's central bank chief said Wednesday.
March 28, 2012
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Cleantech Investing in Israel, the "Start-Up Nation"
Israel is the “Start-Up Nation.” ??The tiny country has more scientists, engineers, and start-ups, per capita, than any other nation in the world.?? Numerous Israeli firms have been acquired by leading multinationals including??,??, and HP.?
March 28, 2012
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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Tax Collectors Raid Silwan Shops, Clash with Residents
JERUSALEM, March 28, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli tax collectors backed by a large police force raided shops in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan Wednesday and seized goods from several stores on the pretext the owners did not pay their taxes, according to a local activist.
March 28, 2012
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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Attorney Says Health of Striking Prisoner Deteriorated
RAMALLAH, March 27, 2012 (WAFA) – Attorney Jawad Boulus, who represents striking prisoner in Israeli jails, Hana Shalabi, said Tuesday that Shalabi’s health has deteriorated and that she was bleeding from the nose and mouth.
March 27, 2012
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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Jerusalem Permits for West Bank Ambulance Drivers Cancelled
JERUSALEM, March 27, 2012 (WAFA) – The Israeli civil administration, a department in the Israeli West Bank military government, cancelled all permits issued to ambulance drivers from the West Bank who work in Jerusalem, Mohammed Gharableh, head of ambulance services union in occupied East Jerusalem, said on Tuesday.
March 27, 2012
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Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Elderly Social Figure Arrested in Hebron
HEBRON, March 27, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Tuesday arrested an elderly Palestinian social figure from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to the Palestinian Prisoner's Club (PPC).
March 27, 2012
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Israel suspends ties with U.N. Human Rights Council
From Kareem Khadder, CNN updated 4:49 PM EDT, Mon March 26, 2012 Tear gas on Friday scatters Palestinians protesting the seizure of land for a Jewish settlement near Ramallah in the West Bank. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel has decided to suspend all working ties with the U.N
March 26, 2012
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Israel Cuts Ties With UN Human Rights Council Over Probe Of Occupation
Israelsevered ties Monday with the United Nations Human Rights Council afterit voted to initiate an investigation into human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman accused the councilof harboring an anti-Israel bias, and instructedhis ambassador to the Geneva-based body to stop all contact with High Commissioner Navi Pillay
March 26, 2012
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Israel to bar UN fact-finding team from entering country for investigation into Jewish settlements
JERUSALEM Israel cut working relations with the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday and will bar a U.N. team from entering Israel or the West Bank for a planned investigation of Jewish settlements, the Foreign Ministry said. Israel accuses the council of having a pronounced anti-Israel bias because of what it says is its disproportionate focus on Israeli policy toward the Palestinians.
March 26, 2012
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French gunman visited occupied West Bank in 2010
Suspect in the killing of 3 paratroopers, 3 jew children and a rabbi in recent days, Mohamed Merah AP French gunman visited occupied West Bank in 2010 Today at 19:48 | ReutersJERUSALEM – The French gunman who went on a killing spree in a Jewish school in France last week travelled from Jordan to the Israel-occupied West Bank in 2010, an Israeli security official said. The official did not say why Mohamed Merah had made the trip or whether he had also visited Israel, which is next to the West Bank.
March 26, 2012
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Israel cuts contact with UN rights council: spokesman
The Israeli foreign ministry decided on Monday to cut contact with the United Nations Human Rights Council after it said last week it would investigate Israeli settlements, a spokesman said.
March 26, 2012
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Israel to bar U.N. team from settlement areas
(AP) JERUSALEM – Israel cut working relations with the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday and will bar a U.N. team from entering Israel or the West Bank for a planned investigation of Jewish settlements, the Foreign Ministry said. Israel accuses the council of having a pronounced anti-Israel bias because of what it says is its disproportionate focus on Israeli policy toward the Palestinians.
March 26, 2012
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Palestinian Authority beset by economic woes and public disapproval
RAMALLAH, West Bank Even as attempts to end the Israeli occupation have idled in recent years, Palestinians and their international backers have hailed the West Banks expanding economy as one critical step on the path to statehood. Now the Palestinian Authority is mired in financial crisis, and there is a growing sentiment here that economic development efforts intended to lay the groundwork for independence have backfired.
March 26, 2012
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