UN Declares 2014 Year Of Solidarity With The Palestinians

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28-11-2013,08:22 Gaza - The United Nations has declared the year 2014 as a “Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People”, after the resolution passed by 110 votes, with seven countries opposing and 54 abstaining.The UN said it will be working with various governments, organizations and civil society institutions, in 2014, to ensure the urgently needed support to the Palestinian people.In a message read on his behalf, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called on world countries to translate their solidarity with the Palestinian people by working together for justice and peace.The message of Ki-Moon stated that Israel’s occupation of the rest of historic Palestine in 1967 must end, and stressed on the importance of establishing a sovereign, independent and viable Palestinian State based on the 1967 borders.In November of 2012, the United Nations General Assembly voted in favor of granting Palestine an observer status, a move which indirectly resembled a UN recognition of Palestine as a state. The resolution passed by 138 votes, with nine including the US vote against, and 41 countries absenting.Israeli occupation and the United States were angered by the move, considering it “counterproductive”. Israeli occupation then stopped the transfer of tax money it collects on behalf of the Palestinians at border terminals, and the US froze its financial support.Israeli occupation and its allies are attempting to prevent the Palestinians from joining the International Criminal Court (ICC), as joining the ICC gives the Palestinian Authority the chance to sue Israeli occupation for war crimes against the Palestinian People

Russia: CNN Censorship of Churkin's Syria Interview 'Unprofessionalism'

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said censorship of Churkin’s interview by CNN is beyond understanding and beyond unprofessionalism."The principal comments made by the Russian permanent representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, on Syria in his interview on CNN were cut from the screened version of this interview. Actually it is hard to understand why one of the major news channels is not interested in presenting Russia’s position on the Syria crisis, especially regarding the upcoming conference Geneva II," Maria Zakharova told The Voice of Russia.CNN has edited out a part of an interview with Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin that focused on the situation in Syria. The final edition of Tuesday’s program, hosted by Christiane Amanpour, lacks his answers to some key questions relating to the settlement of the Syrian crisis.In particular, the CNN removed Churkin’s call for turning an attentive ear to the aspirations of the Syrian people, who mostly support President Assad.One of the questions cut by CNN journalists concerned President Bashar al Assad’s role after the start of the transition period. "This is something for Syrians to decide", Vitaly Churkin said in the full version of the interview posted on the Russian UN Embassy website.CNN also cut the Ambassador’s statements on the Syrian opposition, which he said is trying to hamper humanitarian activities in the country. Vitaly Churkin said, specifically, that a high-level working party is currently holding consultations in Geneva to deal with the humanitarian situation in Syria.Maria Zakharova, Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia gave official comment to The Voice of Russia:"The principal comments made by Russian permanent representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, on Syria in his interview on CNN were cut from the screened version of this interview. Actually it is hard to understand why one of the major news channels is not interested in presenting Russia’s position on Syria crisis, especially regarding the upcoming conference Geneva II. Unfortunately, it is not the first time when Russian diplomats and officials interviews have been censored in western media."The reasons that the CNN television network "edited" an interview with Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, is beyond understanding, Maria Zakharova said in statement on Facebook:"The fact that CNN cut a fundamental assessment on Syria out of the interview with V. Churkin is beyond unprofessionalism, and generally beyond understanding. This Western media’s practice of throwing away passages or assessments from an interview that is “unnecessary” for their audience became not the exception, but the norm, especially in relation to Russian representatives. But, unfortunately, this is not the pinnacle of cynicism. A couple of phrases were cut out, so what? You can always say that the broadcast time did not allow everything to be shown."Maria Zakharova pointed out that Russia’s essential views were not allowed on air at the crucial moment of negotiations ahead of the Geneva II peace conference:"Such situations, when a high-ranking Russian representative of a state or business structure is invited to the editorial office of this or that periodical, where ON THE RECORD he talks to journalists for about an hour and answers ALL questions seem inexplicable. As you may have guessed, the next day, to the delight of the press service, nothing is published either in the printed or electronic version of the periodical. The same zero result is repeated one day later, two days later, a week later. To your question “Why?” you receive an astounding answer: “Because he has not said anything interesting”. How about that? Here sits an iron man of Russian politics in a Manhattan office and answers questions for an hour nonstop and then it turns out that he's a boring, uninteresting person." 

Six mortar shells hit eastern border of Saudi Arabia

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Six mortar shells of unknown source hit an area on Saudi Arabia's eastern border with Iraq and Kuwait, causing no damage, Saudi Press Agency reported Thursday, quoting a military spokesman.Saudi authorities are contacting their two neighbors to inquire the source of the shells to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future, General Mohammed al-Ghamdi, the spokesman, said.Local residents were quoted by Al Arabia TV as saying some Saudi warplanes were seen flying over the area early on Thursday.Hafr al-Batin, a desert region near Iraq and Kuwait, hosted a U. S. army headquarters during Operation Desert Storm that prompted the pullout of Iraqi troops from Kuwait in 1991, the TV noted.Tension between Saudi Arabia and Iraq goes back to the first Gulf war in the early 1990s. There has been no Saudi ambassador sent to Iraq for years.

Israeli Air Force Carries Out Seven Airstrikes Against Gaza

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Israeli war jets carried out seven air strikes targeting different areas in the northern and the southern parts of the Gaza Strip.Local sources in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, have reported that the army fired missiles targeting two chicken farms that belong to the Esleih family in the Al-Manara neighborhood in Khan Younis. The chicken farms were completely destroyed, and around 4000 chicks and some sheep were killed. No human casualties have been reported. The Israeli Air Force also fired a missile into an area, nearly 250 meters from the border fence, east of Khan Younis. The attacked area is where three members of the Al-Qassam Brigades martyred and four Israeli soldiers were injured, during a recent Israeli invasion into the area. Another Air Strike targeted a vacant chicken farm in the Az-Zanna area, in Bani Soheila, east of Khan Younis; damage was reported but no injuries. Furthermore, at least one missile was fired into a training center used by Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, north of Beit Lahia in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Leader of Syrian Muslim Brotherhood killed

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Syrian law enforcers have killed Abdul Qader as-Saleh, leader of the Al-Tawhid Brigade (a unit of the Syrian Islamic Liberation Front and an organization closely connected with the Muslim Brotherhood), RIA Novosti reports.As-Saleh was wounded by an air raid of the regime’s forces of Aleppo last week. He was hospitalized in Turkey, where he has died.Abdul Aziz Salameh has become the new leader of the Al-Tawhid Brigade.Syrian law enforcers have killed Abdul Qader as-Saleh, leader of the Al-Tawhid Brigade (a unit of the Syrian Islamic Liberation Front and an organization closely connected with the Muslim Brotherhood), RIA Novosti reports.As-Saleh was wounded by an air raid of the regime’s forces of Aleppo last week. He was hospitalized in Turkey, where he has died.Abdul Aziz Salameh has become the new leader of the Al-Tawhid Brigade.

Facebook closes some Hamas-affiliated page

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Al Qassam website- Gaza- The facebook administration arbitrarily closed on Friday a number of pages linked to the Hamas Movement, including the page of Ajnad news agency.The facebook pages of senior Hamas official Husam Badran and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as well as the page of the Islamic bloc at Al-Khalil university were also shut down.For his part, Badran strongly denounced on his new facebook page such a measure and described it as arbitrary and unethical.He added that the facebook behavior reflected its double standard policy, unprofessionalism and its bias against Palestine and the legitimate rights of its occupied people.The Hamas official affirmed that the closure of his facebook account would never muzzle his voice and prevent him from communicating with others.Ajnad news agency also deplored the measure and said that the facebook administration unveiled its double face and its suppression of the Palestinian people's right to use the cyberspace to express their views.

NATO allies back keeping Patriot missiles in Turkey

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NATO allies backed keeping Patriot missiles in Turkey on Wednesday, agreeing that threats to the NATO member remained serious, a NATO official said, Reuters reported.Turkey earlier asked NATO to extend the deployment of Patriot missile batteries sent early this year to defend the country from a possible attack from neighboring Syria. The missile batteries had been expected to stay there for a year.NATO ambassadors concluded at a meeting on Wednesday that instability on Turkey's border "requires ... the extension of the deployment of the Patriot missiles," the NATO official said.

Senior PFLP-GC leader killed in Yarmouk refugee camp

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DAMASCUS (Ma'an) -- A senior commander of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command was killed in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus on Tuesday, the group said.Major General Nur Addin Ibrahim, nicknamed As-Sabi or 'beast of prey', was killed during a routine tour after a truce had been announced in an attempt to end a months-long crisis in the Palestinian camp.The PFLP-GC said Ibrahim was murdered by a "terrorist group," claiming that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a group fighting the Syrian government, planted an explosive device in Ibrahim's car and detonated it from a distance.On Monday, PLO leader Zakariya al-Agha said that armed men and weapons would leave the Damascus camp and workers would begin to rebuild Yarmouk to allow refugees to return.The Syrian army has imposed a blockade on Yarmouk refugee camp for over 80 days and there has been no electricity or fuel in the camp for months, locals say.The PFLP-GC is aligned with embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad.At least 1,500 Palestinians have been killed in the ongoing Syria conflict.Some 250,000 Palestinian refugees have been forced to leave their refugee camps in Syria due to violence in the country.

Al-Qaeda Teaches on Twitter How to ‘Kindly’ Cut off Human Head

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Al-Qaeda which is getting super-active using the charged insurgency in Syria is now teaching followers how to ‘kindly’ cut a human’s head as it teaches followers how to be like them, media reports said.An article in Lebanese daily As-Safir has taken a look into al-Qaeda’s increasing use of social media networks and media technology in spreading its ideology and even teaching people how to kill with kindness.Malak Hamoud, the writer of the article, says al-Qaeda’s active offshoot in Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), which was previously just Islamic State of Iraq during the years of wars in Iraq is gaining more power in the social media, silencing almost every strong voice that is raised against them, Al-Alam reported.The author says it is surprising that how al-Qaeda has come to get this much power; “Do it destroy them and make them invisible?”The ISIL which is called “Daesh” in Arabic, is forcing itself in all types of media, reports, TV programs and now it is raising up in the internet space.The group’s unique and unprecedented way of extremism, along with its media boosts, have made a unique image of this terrorist group for the viewers.“Daesh has made it possible for everyone to follow its acts and behaviors and this is very dangerous, especially if the follower has some sense of extremism him/herself.”Daesh writes in its Twitter account that, “The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant is stable and will remain firm with the help of God, Divine rules will be implemented by it and violated rights of Muslims will be regained”. Daesh considers anyone who rejects this, even Muslims, as enemies and a killing target.These “new invaders”, as the writer describes, try to show themselves as traditional and committed to Sunnat (traditional way of life), but they are moving forward with the modern life and benefit from every new technology.They have several Twitter accounts with different names, each with a different mission; “Lions of the Islamic State”, “Falcons of the Islamic State”, Companions of the Islamic State”, and “Shaam State” are among the most famous ones.They have different missions, but they share the same goal: Establishing Khilafa.Daesh official account has 60,000 followers and they are campaigning to attract more.According to Daesh rules, having facebook pages is illegal and there are just a couple of pages which their followers do not exceed from several hundred.The group leadership has also banned follower from using the name “Daesh” and anyone who uses this name in his account will be lashed 70 times.They have an advertising ministry-like setup which issues statements on different subjects such as, Do not wear jeans, Do not use makeup, Do not shave your face, etc, and they get their statements from their clerics.Most recently the advertisement ministry is training its followers how to “kindly cut human’s head” because they don’t want to seem violent. They teach followers how they started their war, and justify their acts and lead people to their other pages and groups to join them.The war in Syria started in March 2011, when pro-reform protests turned into a massive insurgency following the intervention of western and regional states.Since the start of the war al-Qaeda affiliated groups have been emerging under different names in Syria, fighting at the side of the US-backed opposition which is leading one of the bloodiest conflicts in recent history.According to the United Nations, more than 100,000 people have been killed and millions displaced due to the turmoil that has gripped Syria for over two years. 

Army Kidnaps 25 Social Media Activists In Jerusalem

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Israeli soldiers and police officers kidnapped on Wednesday evening [November 6 2013] 25 young Palestinian men and women, active in social network sites, exposing Israeli violations.Israeli Soldiers - File Milad NewsHead of the Jerusalem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society Nasser Qous said that the soldiers invaded a large number of internet coffee shops, and computer stores in the occupied city, searched them and kidnapped the 25 Palestinians. Abu Qous added that seven young women were among the kidnapped, and that the soldiers released 15 of the kidnapped later on. The Police in the occupied city claims the kidnapped Palestinians conducted “incitement” against the army.The remaining ten Palestinians will be sent to the District Court in Jerusalem

Turkey seizes 1,200 rocket warheads near Syrian border

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English.news.cn   2013-11-07 19:36:22             ISTANBUL/ANKARA, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Turkey seized a total of 1, 200 rocket warheads near the Syrian border, private Dogan news agency reported on Thursday.Dogan quoted Gov. Huseyin Avni Cos as saying that a cargo truck filled with rocket heads, bazookas, missiles, bombs and guns was seized in Turkey's southern province of Adana near the Syrian border.The report said that Adana police teams discovered the weapons after pursuing the truck initially on the suspicion that it was carrying drugs.Police used detection dogs to search for narcotics in the truck, said the report, adding that when the police opened the doors of the vehicle, they found the truck filled with weapons and explosives.Escorted by bomb disposal specialists, anti-terror teams brought the truck to a police station in the city. The truck was confiscated.The driver of the truck has been detained, and an investigation has been launched.

Turkey intercepts chemical shipment from Syria

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Turkish authorities have seized a large quantity of chemicals from a convoy trying to illegally enter the country from Syria, which "could be transformed into weapons," the army said Sunday.The convoy of three vehicles refused to stop as it attempted to illegally cross the border on Saturday near the southeastern town Turkish town of Reyhanli, the army said in a statement.Para-military police were forced to shoot out the tires of the vehicles to stop them, and three drivers jumped out and fled in the direction of Syria.One of them was arrested, the army said without specifying his nationality.The haul of sulfur and another unidentified substance will be examined by a team of army specialists, the statement said.The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) reported on Thursday that Syria's entire declared stock of chemical weapons has been placed under seal.This included 1,000 tons of chemical agents, which can be used to make weapons, and 290 tons of chemical weapons.A UN Security Council resolution stating that the arsenal must be destroyed by mid-2014, was agreed by the United States and Russia to avert military strikes on Syria after deadly chemical weapons attacks near Damascus in August.The West blamed those attacks, which killed hundreds of people, on the Syrian government, which denied all responsibility, instead blaming the attack on rebels.(AFP)