Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today that Sweden officially announced the decision to recognize a Palestinian state.  By that, Sweden will be the first Western country to recognize Palestine.
According to France Press, Margot Wallström, Swedish Foreign Affairs Minister and social democratic, said that the ministry will take the order into consideration today.
Wallstrom reiterated that recognition was a necessary step to confirm the "Palestinian right of self-determination."
On October 14 2014, 274 British MP's voted in favour of a Palestinian state recognition.
Doing that, Britain could joinn the countries that voted in favour of a Palestinian non-member observer state on 5 Dencember 2012, where 134 countries voted in favour of the resolution, 9 voted against, and 41 countries abstained.

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BOMBING SCHOOLS,JUST ISRAELI THINGS!

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A United Nations school converted to house families displaced by weeks of shelling in Gaza was hit by an Israeli air strike Thursday, killing at least 15 people ,most of them are childrens



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LIST OF 102 PALESTINIANS KILLED SINCE TUESDAY

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(List updated today 3:20pm)

Killed Friday 11/7

1. Anas Rizk Abu el-Kas, 33, was killed in a bombing in Gaza City.
2. Nour Marwan al-Najdi, 10, was killed in a bombing in Rafah.
3. Mohammed Mounir Ashour, 25, was killed in a bombing on the al-Ghanam family home in Rafah.
4. Ghalia Deeb Jabr al-Ghanam, 7, was killed in the same bombing.
5. Wasim Abd al-Rizk Hassan al-Ghanam, 23, was killed in the same bombing.

6. Mahmoud Abd al-Rizk Hassan al-Ghanam, 26, was killed in the same bombing.
7. Kifah Shahada Deeb al-Ghanam, 20, was killed in the same bombing.
8. Ra’ed Hani Abu Hani, 31, was killed in a bombing in Rafah.
9. Shahraman Ismail Abu el-Kas, 42, was killed in a bombing in al-Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza.
10. Mazen Mustafa Aslan, 63, was killed in the same bombing.
11. Shahd Helmi al-Qrynawi, 5, was killed in the same bombing.
12. Adnan al-Ashhab, died from his injuries after attack in Nuseirat a few days ago.
13. Mohammad Rabea Abu-Hmeedan, 65, killed in a bombing in Jabalia.

Killed Thursday 10/7

1. Salem Qandil, 27, Gaza City.
2. Amer al-Fayyoumi, 30, Gaza City.
3. Baha’ Abu al-Leil, 35, Gaza City.
4. Asma’ Mahmoud al-Hajj, Khan Younis.
5. Sa’ad Mahmoud al-Hajj, Khan Younis.
6. Najla’ Mahmoud al-Hajj, Khan Younis.
7. Tareq Sa’ad al-Hajj, Khan Younis.
8. Omar al-Hajj, Khan Younis.
9. Amna al-Hajj, Khan Younis.
10. Amna al-Hajj, Khan Younis
11. Basimah al-Hajj, 57, Khan Younis.
12. Ra’ed Shalat, 30, Nuseirat.
13. Wife of Ra'ed Shalat, Nuseirat.
14. Unidentified child of Ra'ed Shalat, Nuseirat.
15. Unidentified chil of Ra'ed Shalat, Nuseirat.
16. Ibrahim Khalil Qanan, 24, Khan Younis.
17. Mohammad Khalil Qanan, 25, Khan Younis.
18. Hamdi Kamil Sawali, Khan Younis
19. Suleiman al-Astal, 55, Khan Younis.
20. Ahmad al-Astal
21. Mousa al-Astal
22. Mohammad al-‘Aqqad, 24, Khan Younis.
23. Abdullah Ramadan, 5, Beit Lahiya
24. Ismail Abu-Jaame, 19.
25. Khalid Abu-Jaame, 75.
26. Mahmoud Waloud, Jabalia.
27. Hazen Balousheh, Jabalia.
28. Alaa Abdelnabi, Jabalia.
29. Ahmad Zaher Hamdan, 22,northern Gaza.
30. Yasmin Mohammed al-Mutawwaq, 4.
31. Mohammed Kamal al-Kahlout
32. Abdul Rahman Khattab, 8, Deir al-Balah
33. Abdullah Abu Majrouq, Deir al-Balah

Killed Wednesday 9/7

1. Hamed Shihab, Journalist – Gaza.
2. Salmiyya al-‘Arja, 53, Rafah.
3. Nariman Abdul-Ghafour, Khan Younis.
4. Rafiq al-Kafarna, 30.
5. Nayfa Farajallah, 80.
6. Abdul-Nasser Abu Kweik, 60.
7. Khaled Abu Kweik, 31.
8. Ameer Arif, 13.
9. Mohammad Malika, 18 months.
10. Amna Malika (Mohammad’s Mother), 27.
11. Hatem Abu Salem.
12. Mohammad Khaled an-Nimra, 22.
13. Sahar Hamdan (al-Masry), 40, Beit Hanoun.
14. Ibrahim al-Masry, 14, Beit Hanoun.
15. Amjad Hamdan, 23, Beit Hanoun.
16. Hani Saleh Hamad, 57, Beit Hanoun.
17. Ibrahim Hani Saleh Hamad, 20, Beit Hanoun.
18. Mohammad Khalaf Nawasra, 4, al-Maghazi.
19. Nidal Khalaf Nawasra, child, al-Maghazi.
20. Salah Awad Nawasra, al-Maghazi.
21. Somoud Nawasra, al-Maghazi.
22. Mahmoud Nahedh Nawasra, al-Maghazi.
23. Aisha Najm.
24. Amal Yousef Abdul-Ghafour.
25. Ranim Jouda Abdul-Ghafour.
26. Ibrahim Daoud al-Bal’aawy.
27. Abdul-Rahman Jamal az-Zamely.
28. Ibrahim Ahmad ‘Abdin.
29. Mustafa Abu Murr.
30. Khaled Abu Murr.
31. Mazin Al-Jarba.
32. Marwan Eslayyem.
33. Sami al-Arja, 65, Rafah.

Killed Tuesday 8/7

1. Mohammad Sha’ban, 24, Gaza.
2. Amjad Sha’ban, 30, Gaza.
3. Khader al-Basheeleqety, 45, Gaza.
4. Rashad Yassin, 27, Nusseirat.
5. Mohammad Ayman ‘Ashour, 15, Khan Younis.
6. Riyadh Mohammad Kaware’, 50, Khan Younis.
7. Bakr Mohammad Joudeh, 50, Khan Younis.
8. Ammar Mohammad Joudeh, 26, Khan Younis.
9. Hussein Yousef Kaware’, 13, Khan Younis.
10. Bassem Salem Kaware’, 10, Khan Younis.
11. Mohammad Ibrahim Kaware’, 50, Khan Younis.
12. Mohammad Habib, 22, Gaza.
13. Mousa Habib, 16, Gaza.
14. Saqr ‘Aayesh al-‘Ajjoury, 22, Jabalia.
15. Ahmad Nael Mahdi, 16, Gaza.
16. Hafeth Mohammad Hamad, 26, Beit Hanoun.
17. Ibrahim Mohammad Hamad, 26, Beit Hanoun.
18. Mahdi Mohammad Hamad, 46, Beit Hanoun.
19. Fawziyya Khalil Hamad, 62, Beit Hanoun.
20. Donia Mahdi Hamad, 16, Beit Hanoun.
21. Soha Hamad, 25, Beit Hanoun.
22. Suleiman Salam Abu Sawaween, 22, Khan Younis.
23. Siraj Eyad Abdul-‘Aal, 8, Khan Younis.
24. Abdul-Hadi Soufi, 24, Rafah.





Saturday, May 3, 2014, former political prisoner, head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, stated that, by the end of last month, April 2014, the number of detainees, held by Israel, arrived to 5100.
Ferwana stated that %84.5 of the detainees are from the West Bank, while the rest are from Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and historic Palestine.
The detainees are held in 17 prisons and detention centers, mainly in Nafha, Ramon, Asqalan, Glaboa', Shatta, ar-Ramla, ad-Damoun, HaSharon, Hadarim, the Negev Detention camp, Ofer and Majeddo.
He added that 477 detainees are serving a minimum of one life term, 439 serving terms of at least 20 years, and 1047 detainees have been sentenced to 10-20 years.
Ferwana further stated that Israel is also holding captive 18 female detainees, 207 children, 192 Administrative Detainees (without charges or trial), 11 legislators, and one former minister.
"The Palestinians are still awaiting the release of the 30 remaining veteran detainees, held since before the first Oslo agreement, including the oldest serving detainee Karim Younis, who was taken prisoner by Israel more than 31 years ago", Ferwana added.
The detainees were supposed to be released as part of a deal mediated by the United States to ensure the release of all veteran detainees on four stages as part of direct Palestinian-Israel talks, but Israel implemented three stages and unilaterally put a hold on the fourth.
"Right now, at least 1400 detainees are suffering with various medical conditions, including 17 permanently staying at the Ramla Prison Clinic that lacks basic supplies and specialized physicians", the official added, "Some of them are paralyzed, more than 80 suffer with chronic conditions, 25 have cancer".
Dozens of detainees have physical or mental conditions, but are not provided with the urgently needed specialized medical attention and treatment.
As for detainees who died after their arrest, Ferwana stated that 205 detainees have died since 1967.
The causes of death range from excessive torture during interrogation to the lack of adequate medical treatment, and the excessive use of force. Some of them were executed by the arresting officers.
Ferwana further said that seven Palestinian detainees were killed by live rounds fired at them while in prison; this includes As'ad ash-Shawwa, Ali Sammoudi and Mohammad al-Ashqar.
Hundreds of detainees died after their release due to various diseases and conditions they contracted while in prison.
The conditions that were largely left untreated include cancer, liver and heart diseases.
"Detainees Fayez Zeidat, Ashraf Abu Threi', Morad Abu Sakout, and Hayel Abu Zeid are just a few examples of Israel's atrocities against the detainees", Ferwana added.
Dozens of detainees are currently holding an open-ended hunger strike; most of them started their strike at least 10 days ago, protesting their imprisonment under illegitimate Administrative Detention orders.
"Many detainees even started their strike more than two months ago", Ferwana said, "We need to support those detainees, we need to expose the Israeli violations against the, locally, regionally and internationally, we need to close this file and ensure the release of all detainees".

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US assassination drone kills nearly 20 Yemenis

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A Yemeni security official confirmed on Saturday that the terror drone targeted a vehicle travelling towards the southern province of Shabwa on Saturday.
The United States is the only country that operates assassination drones in Yemen as part of its official targeted-killing program in Muslim countries.
Over the past years, Washington has regularly used unmanned aerial vehicles for attacks and spying in several Muslim countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.
The drone strikes have escalated significantly over the past months, which have resulted in a hike in anti-US sentiments in the targeted countries, with people holding numerous protests against the deadly aerial attacks.
The airstrikes were initiated under former US president, George W. Bush, and have been stepped up under the administration of President Barack Obama.
Washington claims the attacks target anti-US militants, but evidence on the ground shows that civilians are the main victims of such attacks.
The United Nations says the assassination drone strikes pose a growing challenge to the rule of international law.
The world body and several human rights organizations have already identified the United States as the world’s number one user of “targeted killings” largely due to its drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The US terror drone operations reached its fifth anniversary in January having tallied up an estimated death toll of at least 2,400 people, and the massacre continues despite international criticisms.




For the past year, a team from the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence (ICSR) has been looking how social media has played a role in leading to increasing numbers of foreign militants from Western Europe and Australia who have decided to go to Syria and join the foreign-charged war which has been ripping Syria apart for three years.
The report found by sifting through and analyzing tweets and Facebook posts from 190 profiles, two clerics had proved to be particularly influential.
Ahmad Musa Jibril, who is from America and is followed on Twitter by 60 percent of foreign militants in Syria, and Australian Musa Cerantonio have managed to gain large followings after speaking about the conflict in Syria.
“There is no evidence to suggest that either of them are physically involved in facilitating the flow of foreign fighters to Syria, but the data shows they have become important sources of religious and political support and motivation,” the report states.
They have had success due to their ability to target new audiences, with their posts in English, rather than in Arabic.
They have been able to become figureheads for Western-born militants looking for guidance and inspiration.
Previously, sympathizers tended to use official web pages from radical organizations as their sources of information.
However, Twitter and Facebook have helped to evolve these supporters access to information.
They are now able to see the latest from the battlefield in instantly, as well as being given links to new videos, photographs and official statements.
Of course radical followers have had access to information supporting a cause in the past. In the mid-1990s, videotapes from Bosnia and Chechnya were distributed. However, it took time for the tapes to be distributed and access to the latest information was difficult.
Twitter and Facebook have also been influential as it has allowed supporters to interact with the preachers.
Ahmad Musa Jibril has 145,000 ‘likes’ on his Facebook fan page and spends considerable time interacting with his followers.
The report stated how a number of British militants from the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Levant had mentioned how they had watched Jibril’s lecture series online before embarking on war.
Many preachers may have been influenced by Younis Tsouli, according to the report.
He became a prominent online activist during the Iraq War. He would distribute footage, before redistributing it on forums, all from his flat in London.
According to the ICSR, Twitter has allowed radicals much greater freedom of expression. Previously sympathizers would have to resort to using internet forums to discuss their beliefs and could be blocked if their views were deemed too radical. However, Twitter has helped to break down these barriers and they are able to engage in completely unregulated conversations wherever they please.
Just last week, Britain’s MI5 said, “Radicalized UK citizens returning from Syria are the biggest threat to national security,” which could lead them to carry out attacks on home soil.
Last year, the director-general of the MI5, Andrew Parker, told Parliament that the Syrian conflict has become a magnet for British nationals looking to engage in holy war, many of whom come into contact with Al-Qaeda-linked groups.
Security services in the UK are continuing to monitor around 250 radicals who have returned home from Syria and the impact that social media is having on attracting new supporters and fighters will only help to increase their fears.

As the Palestinian people mark Palestinian Prisoners' Day on April 17, more than 800,000 Palestinians, including children, have been kidnapped and imprisoned by Israel since 1967, while at least 5,000 Palestinians are currently held by Israel, a report by the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees has revealed.
The Ministry said that Israel is ongoing with its daily invasions, assaults and arrests against the Palestinians in different parts of occupied Palestine, targeting both men and women, adults and minors of varying ages.
It said that since Israel, in 1967, occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, until the end of 2013, the army had kidnapped more than 800,000 Palestinians, including 15,000 women and thousands of children, and that the arrests are still ongoing.
"There isn't single family that did not experience arrest, some numerous times", the report said. "Israel turned every corner in occupied Palestine into a prison, detention camp and interrogation facility."
After the second Palestinian Intifada, the al-Aqsa Intifada, which began in late September of 2000, Israeli soldiers have kidnapped more than 80,000 Palestinians, including around 10,000 children and more than 60 elected legislators and ministers.
Israeli authorities also issued more than 24,000 arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, detaining thousands without charges or trial, and imprisoning more than a 1,000 Palestinian women since then.
Arrests And Brutality Targeting Everybody
The arrests did not target any certain demographic or age group; instead, they targeted all sectors of the Palestinian society, including children, seniors, women, men, officials, ministers, legislators, political leaders, union leaders, disabled Palestinians, students, intellectuals, poets and artists...
Arrests take place every day, and there has not been one in which the army has not kidnapped someone. Most of the individuals abducted had nothing to do with "security threats", to use Israel's terminology, yet, imprisonment and torture became part of daily life for Palestinians.
According to the report, the real danger is that the vast majority of these arrests, and accompanying violations, are direct violations of International Humanitarian Law; "The detainees are extremely tortured and abused... face the most cruel methods of torture, physical and psychological. They are imprisoned under inhumane conditions, are humiliated, and even their families are humiliated and assaulted".
Israel, its security devices and interrogators, continuously violate the rights of the detainees as it imprisons, intimidates and tortures children, women and even detainees with special needs.
Detainees In Numbers
5,000 Palestinians are still behind bars, imprisoned in different prisons and detention centers. Most of them are from the occupied West Bank. Around 576 of them have been sentenced to at least one life term.
There are 19 Palestinian women and 200 children who are still imprisoned by Israel, in addition to hundreds of children who grew up and became adults while in prison.
Israel is also still holding captive 185 Palestinians under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charge, eleven elected legislators and dozens of political officials.
The detainees are held in around 22 prisons, detention and interrogation camps, mainly in Ramon, Nafha, Asqalan, Be'er As-Sabe', Hadarim, Galboa', Shatta, Ramla, Damoun, HaSharon, Ofer, Majeddo, and the Negev Detention camp.
Female Detainees
Detained Palestinian women, including children, face humiliation, torture, degradation, and are also tortured and beaten, in addition to the threats and harsh treatment they receive while being transferred. They also face repeated threat of sexual abuse.
Their suffering continues in solitary confinement, while the army also denies them family visits, denies them access to education, and proper medical treatment. Many of the detained women have husbands who are also imprisoned.
Ailing Detainees
More than 1,400 Palestinians need medical attention but are, instead, denied the needed medical treatments, and are suffering from deteriorating medical conditions. Sixteen of them are continually living at Ramla Prison Clinic, which lacks basic supplies and specialized physicians.
Some of the detainees are paralyzed and/or amputees, with dozens struggling with major life-threatening conditions. They need special attention and surgeries, while only prison doctors are allowed to examine them.
80 of the ailing detainees suffer from chronic conditions, including 15 who have different types of cancer, while dozens of others suffer various other physical and/or mental conditions.
Most of the detainees who fall ill, or develop psychological conditions, were completely healthy before they were kidnapped and imprisoned.
Prisons lack appropriate sanitation, are filled with bugs and insects. Cells and rooms have high humidity and are overcrowded.
Dozens of Palestinians were taken prisoner after they were shot by the army, and were tortured and interrogated, beaten on their wounds and cuts.
Many detainees, while in prison, developed skin conditions, ulcer, tumors, kidney failure, eyesight deterioration, slipped discs, diabetes, oral conditions, tooth loss and various sorts of psychological conditions, are still abused, with their bodies being used for testing by pharmaceutical companies.
Administrative Detainees
Administrative Detention is the "unknown enemy" which the detainees face, as it is a punishment without a charge, without an indictment. Administrative detainees are held without trial. Neither they or their lawyers are allowed to defend themselves, simply because they face what Israel calls a "secret file" that no one is allowed to see.
Each arbitrary Administrative Detention order is usually 1 to 6 months, issued by military commanders in the occupied Palestinian territories. Such orders target both men and women of different ages, young and old, including physicians, engineers, professors, teachers, journalists and elected legislators and officials.
Such orders are repeatedly renewed and, in many cases, just as the detainees are about to step out of prison, they are informed of a new order, often spending months and years under such orders without even knowing when, or if, they will ever be freed.
Veteran Detainees
Following the resumption of direct Palestinian-Israeli talks in late July of 2013, and after years of stalemate, Israel was still holding captive 104 veteran detainees, held since before the First Oslo Agreement of 1993.
Under American mediation, Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank reached an agreement for the release of all 104 veteran detainees, in four stages.
In return, the Palestinian Authority vowed not to file any new application to join the different UN and other international institutions which, as a result, would allow them to gain international recognition, during the nine months of direct talks.
Israel implemented the first three stages of release, and backed down on the fourth, which supposed to be implemented by March 28, 2014. 30 veteran detainees were supposed to be freed, but Israel voided the deal.
The release was supposed to contribute to stability in the region, a part of the ongoing talks, free of violations and invasions, but Israel blatantly continued with its ongoing assaults, arrests, invasions and assassinations.
The United States, the mediator of these talks, along with the International Community, need to act, putting pressure on Israel to halt its violations, to respect its commitment and to release the detainees, if it is seriously willing to resume peace talks and reach a final status agreement.
Tragic Conditions
The living conditions which detainees face in Israeli occupation prisons are tough, extremely harsh, especially in the face of such a wide range of violations and abuses which include but are not limited to torture, medical neglect and solitary confinement – this all in addition to repeated denial of family visits, malnutrition and blackmail, most often by way of children.
This is happening in addition to repeated attacks against the detainees in their rooms, night raids and searches, high fines, all different sorts of violations. Simply put, Israel is violating all international conventions and is denying them the most basic of human and prisoner rights.
According to detailed and documented reports by the Ministry of Detainees and various human rights groups, 205 Palestinian detainees died after being arrested since the year 1967.
Seventy-three of them died due to extreme torture; the latest casualty was Arafat Jaradat from Sa'ir town, near Hebron, who died less than two weeks after being kidnapped and repeatedly tortured by Israeli interrogators.
Fifty-three Palestinian detainees died due to lack of medical attention; the latest casualty being one Hasan Toraby from the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Seventy-two Palestinians were executed after the soldiers kidnapped them, and seven were shot and killed while in prison.
These violations, and the unacceptable conditions which detainees face in Israeli prisons, require every Palestinian in the country, and around the world, to act in highlighting the suffering of the detainees, and to engage in solidarity acts which expose the serious violations and crimes perpetrated on them by the Israeli government.
Activists around the world, including all international institutions, in defense of both human and prisoner rights, are also called upon to act, in order to oblige Israel to respect those human and civil rights, to respect International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention and all related treaties.


AlQaeda Beheads Jesus, Churches vandalised as NATO's proxy AlQaeda raids Syrian christian town Kassab with the help of Erdogan

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LEAKED TURKISH WAR PLANS AGAINST SYRIA

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT_uS2yTtDE
English translation of recorded conversation between Turkish Foreign Minister, Chief of Intelligence, Deputy Chief of General Staff, and Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs about massive military aid to jihadist terrorists in Syria, black ops, and war plans to invade Syria, as well as the general disarray and goofiness in Erdogan's Islamic dictatorship.

Erdogan and his corralled media have branded all those who distribute this video as traitors. That we are, traitors to his phenomenally profitable bribes and corruption business fueled by Gulf money that he reels in thanks to the heads he has chopped off in Syria.


Posted on 5:51 PM

Can The Jews Stop Putin?

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Posted on 7:43 AM

New Rockets from Gaza Hit Southern Israel

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Red alerts for rocket fire sounded in the towns of Yavne, Rehovot, Ashdod and Ashkelon on Thursday morning.
Yediot Ahranoth reported that several rockets were fired at these areas, while one rocket was neutralized by the Iron Dome missile defense system.
IOF confirmed that four new rockets fired from Gaza hit the Negev region in southern Israel Thursday morning.
The number of rockets fired from Gaza since Wednesday afternoon has increased to 60 rockets.
Saraya al-Quds Brigades, military wing of the Islamic Jihad, have fired more than 130 rockets Wednesday night, in response to the Israeli attacks.
It's worth mentioning that the IOF on Wednesday launched a series of strikes in Gaza, hitting more than 30 Islamic Jihad and Hamas targets all across the Strip. Palestinian sources said IAF planes hit two Islamic Jihad bases, one of them in the town Rafah, on the Egyptian border.
Official Palestienian News Agency (WAFA) reports of five people injured on thursday in a series of Israeli air strikes targeted at the tunnels that run underthe Palestinian-Egyptian borders near the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah.
F16 jet fighters hit the area with three air strikes from the early morning hours. The five injured were transferred to a hospital.
Warplanes also targeted a warehouse in the area of Masbah near Rafah but no injuries were reported thus far.