Greece: Covid-19 Case in Lesbos Spreads Fear Among Migrants
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-12
Greece's health authorities reported a first Covid-19 case on the Lesbos island where thousands of refugees are overcrowded in unsanitary conditions. | RELATED: | Turkey to Keep Its Border Open for Refugees to Go to the EU | The infected patient is a 40-year-old woman who had recently traveled to Israel and Egypt as a member of a pilgrimage group to the Holy Land. | Over the last week, more than 1,700 new ‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Ä…
telesurenglish.net/news/Greece-Covid-19-Case-in-Lesbos-Spreads-Fear-Among-Migrants-20200312-0012.html
Gaza: Murdering Children for Sport
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-12
Ayman Mohyeldin was an Egyptian reporter for al-Jazeera English who had covered dozens of major events in the Middle East for many American and other networks. His reputation was enormous, and his reporting on the Israeli assault on Gaza was …
globalresearch.ca/murdering-children-sport/5706188
Israeli prison isolated over coronavirus fears
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-12
The Israeli prison authority on Thursday isolated a prison in Jerusalem in order to curb the spread of coronavirus.The Israel Broadcasting Corporation said the decision was taken after a jailer said she was in contact with an infected patient.As a result, all entries and exits from the Moscovia Detention Centre were blocked pending test results.The prison will neither accept new detainees, nor take them to court.The inmates who are released will be kept in domestic quarantine.The coronavirus was first detected last December in Wuhan, China but has since spread to more than 114 countries.The global death toll from…
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Update: "Israeli Soldiers Kill One Child, Injure 112 Palestinians In Nablus"
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-03-11
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that Israeli soldiers killed, Thursday, one child, and injured at least 112 Palestinians, during the ongoing protest on the al-'Arma Mountain, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The Ministry said the child, Mohammad Abdul-Karim Hamayel, 15, was shot with an expanding …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-fire-at-palestinian-protesters-near-nablus-wounding-17/
Samidoun: Germany escalates attack on Khaled Barakat, Palestinian rights with four-year ban: Fight back against repression!
Staff | imemc.org | 2020-03-11
By Samidoun
US Army Cites Cybersecurity Concerns In Scrapping Planned Purchase of Israeli Military Tech
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-11
US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, a former lobbyist for Raytheon, may soon step in to reverse the decision following pressure from Israel, given that Raytheon co-develops the system with Israeli firms.
mintpressnews.com/us-army-cites-cybersecurity-concerns-scrapping-purchase-israel-iron-dome/265644/
Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Teenager in West Bank
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-11
On Wednesday, Israeli troops shot dead a 15-year-old Palestinian teenager during a demonstration in the northern West Bank province of Nablus. | RELATED: | Palestine Slams Pompeo's Support of Illegal Israeli Settlements | "Fifteen-year-old Muhamad Hamayel was fatally shot in the head while participating in the riots that had been shaking the province since the early hours of the day," the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported. | Today, Israeli forces in the territory also in…
telesurenglish.net/news/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-teenager-in-west-bank-20200311-0012.html
A Case Study of Corporate Media Disinformation
Stansfield Smith | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-11
Some alternative media have exposed the US government and its corporate media fake news reporting on Russian "election interference," on Venezuela, the war on Syria, China's Xinjiang and Hong Kong, Nicaragua, Palestine, among others. One of the longest running media disinformation campaigns has been directed at Cuba, well covered in Keith Bolender's Manufacturing the Enemy: …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/a-case-study-of-corporate-media-disinformation/
Soldiers Injure Two Palestinians Near Ramallah
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-03-11
Israeli soldiers injured, on Wednesday at night, two Palestinians near Deir Nitham village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Israeli sources claimed that the soldiers ambushed Palestinians on a road where Molotov cocktails are frequently hurled at army jeeps and colonialist settlers' cars, and opened fire at …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-injure-two-palestinians-near-ramallah/
Illegal Colonists Injure Two Palestinians Near Nablus
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-03-11
A number of fanatic illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Thursday at dawn, two young Palestinian men in Huwwara town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel's illegal colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said the colonists chased and assaulted …
imemc.org/article/illegal-colonists-injure-two-palestinians-near-nablus/
Illegal Israeli Colonists Attempt To Kidnap Two Palestinian Children Near Ramallah
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-03-11
Three fanatic Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands in direct violation of International Law, attempted to kidnap two children, Thursday, near Ramallah, in central West Bank. Eyewitnesses said the three colonists were driving their motorcycles in the meadow of Turmus Ayya town, northeast of Ramallah, before forcing a Palestinian …
imemc.org/article/illegal-israeli-colonists-attempt-to-kidnap-two-palestinian-children-near-ramallah/
US-Israel Predictably Behind Turkish Aggression in Syria
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-11
Turkey's ongoing fighting in northern Syria's Idlib governorate was
About that sticky question of "dual loyalties"
Rabbi Brant Rosen | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-11
It was recently reported that two players from Brooklyn College received harsh criticism for kneeling during the playing of the Israeli national anthem "Hatikvah" before a game against Yeshiva University. In a subsequent statement, the president of Yeshiva U angrily claimed that the players "disrespected Israel's national anthem." StopAntisemitism.org claimed (falsely) that the players also …
peoplesworld.org/article/about-that-sticky-question-of-dual-loyalties/
Israeli Troops Abduct 12 Palestinians Wednesday Morning Before Dawn
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-03-11
In their daily pre-dawn raids throughout the West Bank, Israeli forces abducted 12 Palestinian civilians. In Ramallah, Israeli forces abducted two boys after one of them was injured at the entrance to Deir Nizam village, northwest of Ramallah. Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces shot the two boys …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-abduct-12-palestinians-wednesday-morning-before-dawn/
Standing room only at Chicago International Women's Day celebration
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-03-10
Chicago, IL – 100 people attended the International Women's Day celebration sponsored by Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) in Chicago. The speakers, as well as the people in the room, were from the Black liberation movement – most notably the Chicago Alliance against Racist and Political Repression – labor unions, and anti-imperialist movements like the Filipino, Palestinian and Puerto Rican liberation movements, as well as electoral candidates and elected officials. | Christel Williams-Hayes, recording secretary of the Chicago Teachers Union, spoke on the important roles that women played in the 11-day…
fightbacknews.org/2020/3/10/standing-room-only-chicago-international-women-s-day-celebration
Abuse, Oppression and Murder: The PA Does Israel's Dirty Work in the West Bank
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-10
Arbitrary arrests, torture, and violence are regular occurrences in occupied Palestine. While Israel is responsible for the greater share of the violation of Palestinian human rights, the PA is part and parcel of that same Israeli strategy.
mintpressnews.com/abuse-oppression-and-murder-the-pa-does-israels-dirty-work-in-the-west-bank/265612/
400 Olive Tree Campaign trees, sponsored and planted by internationals, uprooted by Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem
Staff | imemc.org | 2020-03-10
Bethlehem, 9 March 2020
Four Hundred Olive Saplings Uprooted by Israeli Forces in the West Bank
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-03-10
Israeli forces, on Monday, uprooted hundreds of olive saplings in the Palestinian village of Wadi Fukin, west of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank, according to a local source. Nidal Manasra, a member of Wadi Fukin village council, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that Israeli soldiers invaded the village …
imemc.org/article/four-hundred-olive-saplings-uprooted-by-israeli-forces-in-the-west-bank/
Israel hits a brick wall
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-03-10
Elections are supposed to solve problems by reordering government, adopting new policies, and putting new people in control. But how many elections must Israel have before it realizes it can do none of those things because it's caught in an intractable constitutional bind? | Source…
mronline.org/2020/03/10/israel-hits-a-brick-wall/
Israeli Troops Abduct 14 Palestinians in Pre-Dawn Raids
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-03-10
Israeli forces abducted 14 Palestinians before dawn Tuesday in raids of various parts of the West Bank. In Nablus, Israeli troops abducted 10 Palestinians in the Nablus District. According to local source Wafa News Agency, Israeli troops invaded Beit Janoub, south of Nablus, and abducted eight youth, after raiding and …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-abduct-14-palestinians-in-pre-dawn-raids/
41 Palestinian Children Arrested by Israeli Forces in February
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-03-10
Israeli authorities, in February, arrested a total of 41 Palestinian children, imprisoning 20 of them in Ofer prison, according to the Committee of Prisoners and Former Prisoners. The Committee explained that, of the children arrested last month; 20 were kidnapped from their homes, 6 from the streets, 1 for not …
imemc.org/article/qnn-41-palestinian-children-arrested-by-israeli-forces-in-february/
Abuse, Oppression and Murder: The PA Does Israel's Dirty Work in the West Bank
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-09
Merely two weeks after Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, declared that the PA will suspend all 'security coordination' with Israel, Palestinian security forces in the West Bank killed unarmed teenager, Salah Zakareneh. Zakareneh is not the first and, sadly, will not be the last Palestinian to be killed by the PA security forces, which in …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/abuse-oppression-and-murder-the-pa-does-israels-dirty-work-in-the-west-bank/
Pipeline or a Pipedream
Ramzy Baroud | zcomm.org | 2020-03-02
Israel, Turkey Hydrocarbon Conflict is Brewing in the Mediterranean…
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