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July 3, 2017

Volunteers take to Algeria’s beaches in clean-up operation

Algerian volunteers spent the weekend clean the beaches to the east of Algiers in a campaign to make the country cleaner. Using diving equipment and armed with gloves, men,...

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July 3, 2017

Jordanian calls to stop sale of church land in Jerusalem to Israel

Jordanian MPs yesterday called on their government to stop a deal which will see Palestinian land owned by the Eastern Greek Orthodox Patriarchate being sold to an Israeli investment...

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July 3, 2017

Yemen: Drone strike kills 2 Al-Qaeda leaders

Two suspected Al-Qaeda fighters were killed in a drone strike in southern Yemen on Saturday according to Al Arabiya. The men were travelling on a motorbike near the town...

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July 3, 2017

BDS campaign costs Israeli bus company $216m

A few weeks ago Egged Bus Systems, Israel’s largest public transportation company, lost a tender worth €190 million ($216 million) to the public transport department in northern Holland. Activists...

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July 3, 2017

Egypt destroys ‘main’ tunnel to Gaza

Egypt destroyed a “main” tunnel linking it with the Gaza Strip, the army announced yesterday. In a statement, army spokesman, Colonel Tamer Al-Rifai, said: “The law enforcement forces of...

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July 3, 2017

Spain recognises right to join BDS

Spain has officially recognised activists’ right to “promote the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns”. The International Cooperation Committee of the Congress of Deputies approved the initiative proposed by the...

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July 3, 2017

Turkish official killed outside his house

An official of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party was kidnapped and shot dead in Van late on Saturday, the party’s provincial chairman told the Anadolu Agency. In...

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July 3, 2017

Egypt issues 20 death sentences over Rabaa events

Twenty people have been sentenced to death for taking part in violence following the Egyptian security forces’ breakup of two sit-in in Cairo in August 2013, a judicial source...

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July 3, 2017

Gaza’s newborns fight for their lives as PA suspends referrals

Mohamed Al-Hadidi is fighting a battle to keep his only child, Rashid, alive at Al-Nusser hospital. Health officials were unable to diagnose Rashid because at the time the Palestinian...

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July 3, 2017

‘International solidarity was instrumental in bringing freedom to South Africa, as it will be in freeing Palestine’

Seven years after the bloody assault by Israeli commandos on the MV Mavi Marmara and the Freedom Flotilla in May 2010, MEMO contacted David Segarra, director of the documentary...

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