#GazaUnderAttack | #Egypt turns back Tunisian plane loaded with medical supplies for #Gaza

TUNIS, (PIC)– Head of Tunisia’s al-Nahda party Rashid al-Ghannoushi revealed on Monday night that Egypt has refused to receive a Tunisian plane bound for Gaza loaded with medicines and medical supplies.

Al-Ghannoushi told Al-Jazeera TV network that the Egyptian authorities had refused to allow the plane to land at the airport nearest to the Gaza Strip, pointing out that it was carrying medical supplies badly needed in the beleaguered Strip.

The plane was supposed to fly back injured people who sustained serious wounds during the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza to receive treatment in Tunisia, he explained.

Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki had declared a week ago his country’s intention to send a plane carrying medicines and medical supplies for Gaza Strip.

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#GazaUnderAttack #Chechen leader blasts Israel’s ‘unjustified cruelty’ towards Palestinians

Head of Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov (RIA Novosti / Said Tzarnaev)

Ramzan Kadyrov has expressed condolences to the victims of Israeli attacks on Palestinians and emphasized that the USA and Europe were turning a blind eye on this policy of “state terrorism.”

The head of the Chechen Republic published an extensive statement on latest political events on his social media of choice – the Instagram. Kadyrov spoke out after Israel stepped up its ‘Protective Edge’ ground operation in Gaza Strip on Sunday.

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Businesses strike in Israel over Gaza - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

Businesses strike in Israel over Gaza - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

#GazaUnderAttack | #Lebanon TV channels unite in support of Gaza | #LB4Gaza

To salute people of Gaza, and its children

BEIRUT – All of Lebanon’s main television channels are to broadcast simultaneously on Monday a bulletin in support of Gazans in the face of an Israeli military offensive that has killed hundreds.

The unusual protest named “Palestine… You are not alone” brings together networks with radically different views, including the official TeleLiban, Hezbollah’s Al-Manar, LBC, MTV and NBN.

They will broadcast at 8:10 pm (1710 GMT) an identical report on the humanitarian dimension of Israel’s two-week assault on the Gaza Strip, which has cost the lives of more than 500 Palestinians.

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#Pray4Gaza #GazaUnderAttack | Al-Qarni: Supporting Palestinian resistance is a ‘religious duty’

Any of the Arabs who conspire against the Strip will go down in history as being a disgrace’

Saudi preacher Sheikh Aidh Al-Qarni emphasised the importance of supporting the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the resistance, stressing that it is a religious duty.Speaking to Palestinian newspaper Al-Resalah Net, Al-Qarni said whoever constricts the resistance is a “sinner” from a religious point of view. He called upon Egypt and all the Arabs to immediately open the Rafah Crossing as a “religious and humanitarian duty”.

He stressed that the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip will be victorious and it would change the equation of the whole region. “Any of the Arabs who conspire against the Strip will go down in history as being a disgrace,” he said.

Al-Qarni said that all the nations in the region stand with the Palestinian issue.

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#IDF Ground Offenzive in #Gaza, July 2014 / #GazaUnderAttack

A farmer in #Gaza stands where his vegetable greenhouse used to be. Totally destroyed in an airstrike

Israeli sniper killing wounded civilian

20/7/14: International and Palestinian volunteers accompanied Civil Defense and other rescue crews, as well as family members, into Shujaya, in an attempt to locate survivors of overnight and ongoing shelling by the Israeli army. A young Palestinian man, in a green t-shirt, who hoped to reach his family's home, was shot by an Israeli soldier while crossing an alley between buildings. Two additional rounds struck him as he lay injured on the ground.

Gaza doctor to Obama: Do you have a heart?

Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor who volunteers at the overburdened Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip, has written a letter addressing US president Barack Obama.

World Bulletin / News Desk

Dearest friends,

The last night was extreme. The "ground invasion" of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying - all sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all innocent.

The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza's hospitals are working 12-24 hour shifts, grey from fatigue and inhuman workloads (without payment all in Shifa for the last 4 months), they care, triage, try to understand the incomprehensible chaos of bodies, sizes, limbs, walking, not walking, breathing, not breathing, bleeding, not bleeding humans. HUMANS!

Now, once more treated like animals by "the most moral army in the world" (sic!).

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#GazaUnderAttack #BDS Stop Israeli #Apartheid! #Boycott, Embargo and Indictments

We are Israeli citizens who know full well that Israel is an apartheid state. We have been active for years against our government's racist and oppressive policies of colonization, occupation and apartheid, including the inhumane siege of Gaza. As Israel rains terror, destruction and death over 1.5 million people in the besieged Gaza, we would like to remind the world that this policy can be brought to an end if we all target those who are responsible for it.

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#BDS #Palestine Soda Stream in the occupied West Bank fired 60 Palestinian employees in an act of collective punishment

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WAC-MAAN

 – JULY 20, 2014POSTED IN: HOMESLIDER, PALESTINIAN WORKERS, PRESS RELEASE

WAC-MAAN has written an urgent letter to SodaStream CEO, Mr. Daniel Birnbaum, demanding immediate return of the employees to their posts!

The SodaStream factory at the Israeli settlement of Mishor Adumim in the occupied West Bank employs hundreds of Palestinians. In early July it fired 60 of them, all from the night-shift. The employees have told WAC-MAAN that the lay-offs followed an argument on Wednesday, July 2, after they realized that the company had supplied insufficient food for the breaking of the Ramadan fast. The company allows only kosher food on its premises, so employees are not permitted to bring their own to work. Sixty were left hungry after 16 hours of fasting.

The night-shift workers approached management’s representatives, saying that without something to eat they would find it hard to continue. They added that operating large machinery while hungry and weak could be a safety risk.

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Palestinian resistance kidnapped an Israeli soldier

Shaul Aron, No 6092065

#Gaza #Pray4Gaza All family in Jannah in sha ALLAH!

Sajy and Kenan, their father and their pregnant mother were killed today after IOF targeted their home! 

Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un...

#FreePalestine Selena #Gomez Posts #PrayforGaza But Doesn't Delete it, Unlike Rihanna

Selena Gomez has defended her decision in speaking out about the Israeli-Palestine conflict.

The 21-year-old star posted an image on Instagram which stated "It's About Humanity. Pray for Gaza."

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Rihanna Provokes Controversy with #FreePalestine Tweet

Israelis gather on hillsides to watch and cheer as military drops bombs on #Gaza

People drink, snack and pose for selfies against a background of explosions as Palestinian death toll mounts in ongoing offensive

Harriet Sherwood in Sderot

theguardian.com/, 20.07.2014

Israeli man watches the bombardment as he sits on an old sofa left on a hillside in Sderot. Photograph: UPI/Landov/Barcroft Media

Israelis sit on a hill to watch air strikes on Gaza, some bring drinks and snacks as they cheer the explosions a few miles away. Photograph: UPI/Landov/Barcroft Media

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Sayed Kashua: why I have to leave #Israel

Sayed Kashua in Jerusalem. ‘I wanted to tell the Israelis a story, the Palestinian story. Surely when they read it they will understand.’ Photograph: Ziv Koren/Polaris /eyevine

Quite soon I am going away from here. In a few days we'll be leaving Jerusalem, leaving the country. Yesterday we bought little suitcases for the kids. No need to take a lot of clothes, we'll leave our winter clothes; in any event they won't be warm enough given the cold of southern Illinois, USA. We'll just need a few things until we get settled. Perhaps the kids should take some books, two or three in Arabic, and another few in Hebrew, so they don't forget the languages. But I'm already not sure what I want my kids to remember of this place, so beloved and so cursed.

The original plan was to leave in a month for a year's sabbatical. But last week I understood that I can't stay here any longer, and I asked the travel agent to get us out of here as fast as possible, "and please make them one-way tickets". In a few days we'll land in Chicago, and I don't even know where we'll be for the first month, but we'll figure it out.

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Boycott WORKS!!! - Israeli trade down 40% following military operation on Gaza

There has been a 40 per cent reduction in trade in Israeli cities since Israel began its military operation in Gaza, Israel's Channel Two said today.

Since July 7, Israel has waged raids across the Gaza Strip in a military operation it calls "Operation Protective Edge".

Channel Two reported officials at the Israeli Export Institute saying that there has been a noticeable decline in import and export operations between Israeli cities, especially in the cities of central and southern Israel, which have become an easy target for rockets by Palestinian factions in Gaza.

An Anadolu reporter described southern Israel as being famous for its agricultural land, which is irrigated, in addition to farming for livestock, some dairy plants and factories for packaging and canning crops, in order to be exported to markets in Israel, or to foreign markets.

A few days ago the news site published remarks by the Chairman of the Histadrut (General Organisation of Workers in the Land of Israel) Avi Nissenkorn in which he asked Finance Minister Yair Lapid to issue directives immediately to compensate the owners of factories and shops in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip for indirect losses caused as a result of the security situation.

Israel's current offensive has led to the death of 260 Palestinians and wounded 1,980 others, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

source: Middle east monitor

#GazaUnderAttack #Turkey #Erdogan: Israel will sink in the blood it sheds

Turkish presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Israel will "sink in the blood it is shedding in the Gaza Strip and all parts of Palestine sooner or later," Anadolu news agency reported.

Speaking after an Iftar gathering in the presence of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Erdogan said that the Israeli occupation indiscriminately launches shells and rockets towards men, women, children, the elderly and young people in Gaza.

"A black stigma will be stamped on the forehead of those who remain silent over the oppression Israel is carrying out in Gaza," he added.

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#GazaUnderAttack | Worldwide Protests against Israel – In Photos

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Hundreds of Jews in New York protest against the Zionist state of Israel.

Hundreds of Jews in New York protest against the Zionist state of Israel.