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palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Prisoners Day is marked every year in solidarity with the more than 6,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/palestinians-clash-israeli-troops-prisoners-day-150417163532396.html

Palestinian prisoners languish in Mideast stalemate

Hadi al-Fakhri was 26 the first time he hugged his father, one of thousands of Palestinians serving time in Israeli prisons for alleged militant activity in the occupied West Bank.

A decade later, more than 30 years into a life sentence, Fakhri's father was freed when more than 1,000 prisoners were swapped for an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas for five years.

The landmark 2011 deal to free Gilad Shalit sparked hope for thousands being held in Israeli prisons.

But more than three years on, with the peace process in tatters and ties with Israel severely strained, Palestinian hopes of seeing their prisoners released look more remote than ever.

http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=760544

Hundreds pray in front of UN office on Prisoner's Day

Hundreds of Palestinians performed Friday prayers in front of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Gaza to mark Palestinian Prisoner's Day.

Protesters demanded the release of the over 6,000 prisoners including men, women, elderly and minors being held by Israeli authorities.

http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=760531

Israeli forces detain nearly 40 from West Bank, Jerusalem in 2 days

Israeli forces detained 18 Palestinians, including two minors, from across the West Bank overnight Tuesday, a prisoners' rights group said.

The detentions come a day after 19 others were arrested in detention raids across the West Bank and in East Jerusalem on Monday.

The Palestinian Prisoners' Center for Studies said that on Tuesday Israeli forces detained seven Palestinians from Ramallah, identified as brothers Muhammad and Hassan Tamim al-Rimawi, brothers Humam and Majdi Munir al-Rimawi, Abd al-Qader al-Barghouthi, Jamal Samih al-Rimawi and Taha Jaber al-Rimawi.

http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=760464

PHOTOS! Prisoner solidarity in Hebron

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/special-reports/hebron/682-photos-prisoner-solidarity-in-hebron

Factions condemn Israeli jail conditions for Palestinian prisoners

Palestinian political factions on Thursday condemned "aggressive policies" against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, a week after the death of Jaafar Ibrahim Awad, 22.

Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Palestinian Prisoners' Society said in a joint statement that conditions within Israeli jails are growing increasingly difficult for Palestinian detainees, noting growing numbers of sick prisoners due to medical negligence by the Israeli Prison Service.

http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=760510

Palestinian Prisoners Day: 'My little brothers are missing my dad'

More than most villages in the occupied West Bank, residents of Beit Ummar know the meaning of Prisoners Day - in a population where 44 percent of men have been imprisoned at some point in their lives.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/small-palestinian-village-and-consequences-imprisonment-815377754

In Pictures: Palestinian Prisoners’ Day protest in Dublin

http://www.ipsc.ie/press-releases/in-pictures-palestinian-prisoners-day-protest-in-dublin

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Arson and looting incidents in Tikrit after the Iraqi army recaptured the city last week from fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have highlighted the deep divisions between the Sunni tribes that supported ISIL and the Sunni tribes that opposed it, local and federal security officials said.

Those divisions threaten to tear apart the Sunni community in the areas still under ISIL control, Iraqi officials said.

Hundreds of homes and stores were set ablaze after they were looted by unidentified people last week in Tikrit, one of the biggest Iraqi cities dominated by a Sunni Muslim population. It was seized by ISIL last summer.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/happened-tikrit-isil-fled-150406114857518.html

Im Fadenkreuz des Islamischen Staates - Eine Reise durch den Irak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPwm5jGEiDA

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12th Anniversary Of Illegal Iraq Invasion – 2.7 Million Iraqi Dead From Violence Or War-imposed Deprivation

Those with consciences recently marked the 12th anniversary on 19 March 2015 of the illegal and war criminal US, UK and Australian invasion of Iraq in 2003 that was based on false assertions of Iraqi possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction, was conducted in the absence of UN sanction or Iraqi threat to the invading nations, and led to 2.7 million Iraqi deaths from violence (1.5 million) or from violently-imposed deprivation (1.2 million). The West has now commenced its Seventh Iraq War since 1914 in over a century of Western violence in which Iraqi deaths from violence or violently-imposed deprivation have totalled 9 million. However Western Mainstream media have resolutely ignored the carnage, this tragically illustrating the adage “History ignored yields history repeated”

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230315.htm

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Dozens of women took part in a sit-in protest on Monday in front of UNRWA's headquarters in Gaza to demand that the international community accelerate the reconstruction of Gaza.

The protest was organized by the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO) and also called for an end to the eight-year Israeli blockade on the coastal territory.

http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=759803

Israeli forces respond to Women's Day march with violence

More than 30 Palestinians, mostly women, were injured as Israeli troops forcibly dispersed a peaceful march marking International Women's Day at Qalandiya checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah on Friday.

Israeli soldiers fired tear-gas canisters, stun grenades, rubber-coated bullets, and pepper spray at hundreds of women to prevent them from reaching the checkpoint. Fourteen of the 30 injured were evacuated to hospitals.

http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=759782

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Execution of Saddam Hussein wasn’t about justice, but about US profits ‘

The way the execution of Saddam Hussein was carried out, in a way that was meant to foment sectarian violence. It was an execution; it was staged in a formal way. It almost resembled the lynching with people from hostile ethnic groups shouting at him. And the fact that the rope is now on sale is just a further confirmation of the fact that the execution of Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with justice rather it was about profits.

Iraq was invaded because it had a state-owned oil company that was in competition with Wall Street banks and oil companies. And Saddam Hussein was executed not because of atrocities that he committed during the Iraq- Iran war, or any other atrocities he committed. He was executed for standing up to Wall Street and standing up to the forces that are really ruling the world, the forces of money and power.

http://rt.com/op-edge/230579-saddam-hussein-execution-rope-auction/

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Recently, Israel stole one of the symbols of Iraqi Jewish heritage, a rare ancient copy of the Torah. The incident went smoothly and quietly, with blatant collusion between Israel, the United States, the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq, and the Jordanian authorities, amid suspicious silence from the Iraqi federal authorities and the Iraqi cultural scene, save for a few objections.

http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/great-israeli-theft-iraqi-jewish-heritage

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Baghdad's decade-old curfew to be lifted

Announcement on restrictions imposed on the Iraqi capital 10 years ago coincides with three deadly explosions.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/baghdad-decade-curfew-lifted-150205083427385.html

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"The thing was ideal when IS was advancing on Baghdad because Sunnis were killing Shias. That's exactly what we need. - Our best hope right now is to get the Sunnis and Shias fighting each other and let them bleed each other white."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40777.htm

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In a recent report, Amnesty International detailed dozens of tragic stories of women and girls choosing suicide to escape the brutality of the Islamic State group (IS, formerly ISIS), as they rampaged through large swathes of Iraq, capturing women and children, especially from religious minorities, and selling them on for forced marriage and slavery.

http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/features/032c6783-7aa1-414e-906a-16f834868c92

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I served in the Parachute Regiment and the Special Air Service for eight years. I have spoken out about the reality of the war in Iraq on numerous occasions since I left the army but only recently have I learned about another of its cruel legacies; chemically toxic and radioactive depleted uranium (DU).

I was not surprised last week when I heard the UK and US had voted against a United Nations General Assembly Resolution that asked states to provide help to Iraq in dealing with DU contamination and for UN agencies to carry out more research into its potential negative effects on public health and the environment.

https://www.change.org/p/john-kerry-secretary-of-state-sign-the-united-nations-resolution-on-depleted-uranium-weapons

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Chemical warfare manufacturing equipment – came from Germany, France and Holland. The feed stock for the germ weapons came from a US laboratory in Maryland –approved by the US government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40011.htm