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Hugh Jackman's Down Under “Real Steel” Premiere

Hugh Jackman's Down Under “Real Steel” Premiere
Showing some love to his hometown crowd, Hugh Jackman was spotted at the premiere of “Real Steel” in Sydney, Australia today (September 28).

The “X Men” stud donned a black suit and greeted fans and press at the Event Cinemas before heading inside for the screening.

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Alessandra Ambrosio: LaChapelle Exhibition Lady

Taking in an evening of culture, Alessandra Ambrosio was spotted at the David LaChapelle exhibition in West Hollywood last night (September 27).

Joined by her beau Jamie Mazur, the Victoria’s Secret stunner looked slick in a black jacket with shiny copper-colored trousers.

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Miss World Philippines 2011 Update - The Top 5 Revealed!

The much awaited pageant of the first ever Miss World Philippines 2011 has come and the Top 5  finalists has been revealed after the presentation of the top 12 candidates in their Evening Gown.

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Miss World Philippines 2011 Most Photogenic - Miss Samantha Nerville Purvor (Quezon City)

The Miss World Philippines 2011 pageant has been aired live from Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) on GMA-7 at 10 p.m.. Miss Samantha Nerville Purvor of Quezon City won the Most Photogenic Award.

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Miss World Philippines 2011 Update - The Top 12 Revealed!

The much awaited pageant of the first ever Miss World Philippines 2011 has come and the Top 12  finalists has been revealed after the Swim Suit competition and as expected Loucelle De Jesus of Angeles City, Pampanga who got the highest vote is the Text Vote Winner.

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Miss World Philippines 2011 Best in Swim Suit - Miss Gwendolyn Ruais (Muntinlupa City)

The Miss World Philippines 2011 pageant has been aired live from Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) on GMA-7 at 10 p.m.. Miss Gwendolyn Ruais of Muntinlupa City won the Best in Swim Suit award.

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Miss World Philippines 2011 Best in Evening Gown - Ma. Paula Bianca Paz (Nueva Ecija)

The Miss World Philippines 2011 pageant has been aired live from Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) on GMA-7 at 10 p.m.. Miss Ma. Paula Bianca Paz of Nueva Ecija won the Best in Evening Gown.
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Eat Bulaga (EB Universe 2011) - Trends in Twitter Worlwide on Satuday and Sunday

Eat Bulaga, the longest running noontime variety show in Philippines conducted its first ever EB Universe 2011 on Saturday, September 17, 2011 which according to its host, the most prestigious, ambitious, and fastest beauty pageant in the universe. Funny isn't it?

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Miss World Philippines 2011 Update

The first-ever Miss World Philippines 2011 which offers the biggest prizes in the history of beauty pageants in the Philippines is happening tonight, September 18, 2011 live on GMA-7 at 10:00 PM. It will be held in the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) at the CCP complex in Pasay City.
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Jennylyn Mercado Covers Fashion Exchange October-November 2011 Catalog

Jennylyn Mercado, the Kapuso actress, a singer and now, the Reality Strands Host of the most star-studded Reality-Talent Search "The Protégé" is the cover of  F/X Fashion Exchange October-November 2011 Catalog .

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Abbas to Address the Nation

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RAMALLAH, September 16, 2011 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to make what has been described as a very important speech at 6:00 p.m. Friday, according to official sources.

They said the speech will focus on the Palestinian bid to ask the United Nations to grant Palestine full membership of the international body. It comes a couple of days before Abbas is expected to travel to New York to attend the annual UN General Assembly meetings and submit Palestine’s application for membership.
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Protestors March Against Wall, Palestinians Arrest Settlers, Israel Calls Up Reinforcements

One week before Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is due to present the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations Security Council, Palestinians around the West Bank marched against the Israeli wall. The Israeli army brought in reinforcements to deal with increases in protests, but a source in the army said it would not call up its reserves yet.

Protest marches without incident were reported in the West Bank villages of Bil’in, Ni’lin, al-Nabi Saleh, al-Walajeh, and al-Ma’sara. In a rare event in the village of Qusra near Nablus in the northern West Bank, Palestinians arrested a group of nine Israeli settlers who they claim were trying to infiltrate the village.

Palestinian official news wire Wafa reported on Friday afternoon that settlers first opened fire on the Qusra villagers, wounding one, before they were captured. The wounded man, Fathullah Abu Rayda, was taken to a Nablus-area hospital.

As of press time, the status of the nine captured settlers was unknown. Israeli forces, including 15 vehicles, had blocked the road from the village of Qusra to Jaloud, a village to the southwest. Immediately to the northeast of Qusra is the settlement of Migdalim.

The Qusra mosque was torched and spray painted in an apparent “price tag” attack two weeks ago, after the Israeli army destroyed part of the illegal settlement of Migron. Settlers often vandalize and destroy Palestinian buildings to protest Israeli demolitions, calling the attacks “price tags” of a settlement policy they deem too moderate. EU High Representative Catherine Ashton condemned the attack, in which “Muhammad was a pig” was sprayed on the side of the mosque.

Both Palestinian and Israeli governments say they are trying to avoid an escalation of events leading up to September 23, when the Palestinian statehood bid will come before the UN. After its announcement of reinforcements, the Israeli army said it believed Palestinian security forces could contain escalations, but it was taking precautions.

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Palestinians March in Bilin in Support of UN Bid

RAMALLAH, September 16, 2011 (WAFA) – Bilin residents marched in the Ramallah-area village in the weekly anti-fence, anti-settlements protest on Friday carrying and chanting slogans in support of Palestine’s bid to seek membership in the United Nations.

Local residents said the protesters, along with their Israeli and international supporters, marched to the fence Israel is erecting on their land to divide it from nearby settlements.

Israeli soldiers stationed on the other side of the fence fired tear gas canisters at the protesters causing several people to suffer from gas inhalation, said the residents.

Similar protests took part in several other West Bank villages where residents hold weekly demonstrations against the barrier Israel is building on their land.

The protests took place in Nilin and Nabi Saleh, in the Ramallah area, and in Masara, in the Bethlehem area.

A number of protesters were hurt in the various incidents.



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Israeli Soldiers Raid West Bank Village after Settlers Attack

NABLUS, September 16, 2011 (WAFA) – Israeli soldiers raided the West Bank village of Qusra, near Nablus, on Friday shortly after Jewish settlers broke into the village and were confronted by local residents, according to witnesses.

They said settlers attempted to enter the village to damage property when local watch groups noticed them.

The village watch group apprehended the settlers for some time before letting them go, but one of them opened fire at the village residents shooting one resident in the arm.

An Israeli army force raided the village shortly after this incident and clashed with residents, said the sources.

The soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the village residents and journalists covering the event.

At least 11 Palestinians were hurt by the army crackdown, four of them photojournalists, one of them hit by a tear gas in his hand.

The tear gas canisters caused fire to the fields, said the local residents.

Palestinians have started to form watch groups in the Nablus area villages to protect the villages and their residents following a sharp rise in settler attacks on the villages.



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China press warns US against Palestinian UN veto | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين

Maan News Agency | Sept 16, 2011

BEIJING (AFP) — A Chinese state-run newspaper on Friday warned of a spike in tensions in the Middle East if the United States vetoed the Palestinian bid for membership of the United Nations next week.

As peace talks with Israel stall, President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to formally submit a request for UN membership next Friday, despite strong objections from Washington that the move would be “counter-productive.”

“If the US chooses to fly in the face of world opinion and block the Palestine UN bid next week, not only will Israel become more isolated but tensions in the region will be heightened even more,” said the China Daily.

“The majority of the international community deems an independent state as the inalienable right of the Palestinians,” the English-language daily said in an editorial, echoing Beijing’s official position on the issue.

The planned request by the Palestinians for UN membership comes almost a year after direct peace talks with Israel ran aground due to a dispute over Israel’s construction of settlements on occupied Palestinian land.

But the US has threatened to veto the move if it is made within the UN Security Council, saying it would harm prospects for peace talks and that a Palestinian state can only result from negotiations with Israel.

Israel is also opposed to the move, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he too will address the UN next Friday to set out his country’s objections.

Envoys from the United States and the European Union are currently holding talks with Palestinian and Israeli leaders in an effort to get them back into direct peace talks.



China press warns US against Palestinian UN veto | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين
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Bulldozer invading Nabi Saleh

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September 2011 Sanitary Engineer Licensure Examination Results

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces on Friday, September 16, 2011 that 57 out of 105 passed the Sanitary Engineer Licensure Examination given by the Board of Sanitary Engineering in Manila this September 2011.

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#Palestine Latest update from Nabi Saleh - The youth (Ladies and men) stopped the bulldozer from entering the town

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Now my friend this what i call a boldozer getting overwhelmed with stones... Tried to run the kids over.
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Bulldozer driven away Humdullilah!
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Th youth (Ladies and men) stopped the bulldozer from entering the town,
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Ashraf Abu Rahmah, brother of the 2 Bil'in martyrs, was arrested in Nabi Saleh
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The bulldozer waiting at the barrier
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alot of as was shot at peaceful protesters
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Israeli forces storm Nablus village after settler assault -
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Youth of is ready for whatever! You should know that whatever will try, will never die
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First time I have ever made it to the junction without being gassed
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Sabra & Shatila Massacre – in pictures | Occupied Palestine | فلسطين

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Israeli forces storm Nablus village after settler assault

Villagers in Qusra have set up guarding committees to fend off increasing
Israeli settler attacks [MaanImages, File]

NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers assaulted a Nablus village Friday morning, leading to clashes with Israeli forces injuring 11 Palestinians.

After the settlers were removed by Israeli police, Israeli forces raided Qusra village injuring six villagers with rubber bullets, a Ma'an correspondent said.

Forces surrounded a house sheltering European press agency cameraman Alaa Bedarneh was filming the earlier settler attack, the correspondent reported.

Three children inside the house suffered tear gas inhalation during the military raid, and Bedarneh was injured in the hand, he said.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said the journalist's agency had requested the army remove him from the village, and he was taken to safety.

Around 20 people were hurling rocks at forces, and the border police were operating in the village, she said, without giving further details.

Settler attack

PA official monitoring settlement activity Ghassan Doughlas told Ma'an that earlier in the day around ten settlers from neighboring settlement Migdalim came into Qusra village south of Nablus.

Fathallah Abu Rida, 25, was injured when settlers shot him in the leg, Doughlas said.

Village guard units established in recent weeks held the settlers at the scene for 30 minutes, before Israeli police arrived and removed settlers from the village, he added.

Israel police say settler wounded in knifing

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Ma'an a settler was injured after an argument broke out between two settlers and a 50-year-old Palestinian in an open area near Qusra.

"The Palestinian pulled out a knife and the settler reacted by shooting the Palestinian in the leg," he said.

The injured settler and Palestinian were taken to hospitals, he added, saying police who arrived on the scene had opened an investigation into the incident.

Settler assaults increasing in West Bank

Palestinian Authority spokesman Ghassan Khatib warned on Thursday that a serious increase in settler violence towards West Bank Palestinians threatened escalation of the situation ahead of the Palestinians' bid for membership of the UN.

News reports said two weeks ago that Israeli forces were arming settlers with tear-gas canisters, stun grenades and even trained dogs to counter potential attacks by the Palestinians.

On Sept. 5 settlers broke into Qusra village mosque, smashing windows, burning tires inside the building, and spray-painting walls with offensive slogans.

Village council head Hani Ismail told Ma’an on Tuesday that young men volunteered to guard the entrances to the village after the attacks, and had blocked further groups of armed settlers from entering the village.


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WATCH LIVE (in 10mins) : from Nabi Saleh Demo- IOF bulldozers and soilders for peaceful demo

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Undercover units continue their brutal campaign against Silwan’s children

Undercover units continue their brutal campaign against Silwan’s children

Friday, 16 September, 2011 | 00:51
Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) --
While Silwan has experienced a period of relative calm in recent months, Israeli forces have continued their campaign of child arrests in the region. Children, deemed easier targets than adults, have been taken in their dozens by undercover agents.
Undercover Israeli units fired a sound bomb (when? Please specify) in Bir Ayyub neighborhood, spreading panic amongst the community. The situation escalated to clashes between local youth and Israeli forces, who then broke into several local Palestinian homes in search of wanted people.

Undercover units in Silwan use Israeli settlements as strategic bases for intelligence and the launching of such operations. The occupied home of local resident Dawood Hussein in Wadi Hilweh is a well-known such base.

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State of recognition - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

CLICK HERE: Whether the UN grants the PA status as a state or refuses to do so, either outcome will be in Israel's interest.
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Settler shoots Palestinian in West Bank

A Palestinian was seriously wounded on Friday after a settler shot him in clashes that occurred near the Palestinian village of Kusra in the West Bank. According to initial reports, a settler was also wounded in the incident. Police and military forces are en route to the scene.

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Israel moves to retroactively okay settlement homes built on Palestinian land

Israel announced on Thursday the initiation of a municipal plan that would retroactively legitimize structures in one of the largest West Bank settlements, and which were built on private Palestinian land.

There are three kinds of land in Ofra, the West Bank's largest settlement: The settlement's original tract of land; land expropriated by the Jordanians; and land expropriated by Israel, which designated exclusively for the construction of public structures.

Over 58% of Ofra's structures are built on private Palestinian land, a fact which has delayed potential construction plans.

However, in an attempt to allow further construction in Ofra, the state told the High Court of Justice on Thursday that it was drafting a jurisdiction plan for Ofra, the legal significance of which would be the retroactive approval of past construction plans, even on private Palestinian land.

The plan has another objective, which is the following of a 2005 state report, according to which constructions plans would be approved in settlements only if they possess a defined jurisdiction.

Israel's announcement came during a High Court hearing of an appeal made by the residents of nearby Palestinian villages against any new construction in the lands originally appropriated by Jordan.

In response, the state said that the building would indeed be approved, but that any construction would cease for the time being.

Dror Etkes, who has been aiding the Palestinian families in their legal battle against further construction on private lands, said that the move "at once cleared the smoke screen that the settlers and the state have been trying to keep for years in regards to the land on which Ofra was founded."

"It's clear that out of the thousands of dunams the settlers took control of, only a few dozen were actually purchased. The rest was just looted from their owners," Etkes added.


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This week in Palestine -51 incursions into Palestinian communities, IOF arrested 23 Palestinians, incl. 10 children.

Israeli settlers from "Yesh Koudesh" settlement uprooting fruitful trees in Palestinian farms in Qasra village in Nablus.

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)
IOF continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.
Two fishermen were wounded.
IOF arrested and interrogated 8 fishermen, including two children, but released later.
IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
Dozens of demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation.
IOF conducted 51 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
IOF arrested 23 Palestinians, including 10 children.
IOF arrested and interrogated 3 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip, but released them later.
Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
IOF arrested at least 3 Palestinian civilians at military checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank.
IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
IOF demolished an under-construction house and shop of car parts in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron.
IOF handed notices to 8 Palestinian families ordering them to evacuate their farms in Hebron.
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian civilian vehicles traveling on the main roads, and a Palestinian civilian was injured.
Israeli settlers uprooted 222 trees.
Israeli settlers attempted to burn two cars in Burqa village, east of Ramallah.
Summary
Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (08 – 14 September 2011):
Shooting:
During the reporting period, IOF wounded two Palestinian fishermen and arrested them together with another 6 fishermen in the Gaza Strip, but released them later.
On 11 September 2011, two Israeli gunboats surrounded two Palestinian fishing boats, on board of which were 8 Palestinian fishermen, including two children, opposite to Beit Lahia beach in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli naval troops opened fire at the boats wounding two fishermen lightly. Israeli naval troop then arrested the eight fishermen, but released them several hours later.
During the reporting period, Israeli gunboats fired at Palestinian fishing boats in the northern Gaza Strip, but no casualties were reported.
IOF positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel opened fire at Palestinian civilian communities, but no casualties were reported.
On 10 September 2011, IOF arrested 3 Palestinian children from the Gaza Strip who attempted to infiltrate into Israel to search for jobs. They interrogated the children and released them several hours later.
During the reporting period, IOF used excessive force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to Israeli settlement activities and the construction of the annexation wall in the West Bank. As a result, dozens of Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders suffered from tear gas inhalation.
Incursions:
During the reporting period, IOF conducted at least 51 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, during which they arrested 23 Palestinian civilians, including 10 children and two members of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Restrictions on Movement:
Israel had continued to impose a tightened siege on the OPT and imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.
Gaza Strip
Israel has continuously closed all border crossings to the Gaza Strip for over three years. The illegal Israeli-imposed closure of the Gaza Strip, which has steadily tightened since June 2007, has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the Gaza Strip.
IOF have tightened the closure of the Gaza Strip and practically made Karm Abu Salem crossing as the sole commercial crossing of the Gaza Strip although it is not proper for commercial purposes in terms of its distance and operational capacity.
IOF have continued to apply their policy aimed at tightening the strangulation of the commercial movement in the Gaza Strip, including imposing total control over the flow of imports and exports.
The total closure of al-Mentar "Karni" crossing on 02 March 2011 has created a bitter situation that has seriously affected the Gaza Strip. Following this closure, all the economic and commercial establishments in Gaza Commercial Zone were shut off. It should be noted that al-Mentar crossing is the biggest crossing in the Gaza Strip in terms of its operational capacity to absorb the flow of imports and exports. The decision of al-Mentar crossing was the culmination of a series of decisions to totally close Soafa crossing, east of the Gaza Strip, in the beginning of 2009, and Nahal Oz crossing, east of Gaza City, which was dedicated for the delivery of fuel and cooking gas to the Gaza Strip, in the beginning of 2010.

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Protests in Northern Gaza | International Solidarity Movement

The Palmer Report, recently released by the United Nations, was a moral travesty. It asserted that the naval blockade of Gaza was somehow separate from the land siege of Gaza. The Palmer Report was an attempt to break up the oppression of Gaza into bite size morsels so that it could be consumed without causing one to choke on the injustice of the occupation, of the siege.

Last week, we planted a Palestinian flag in the buffer zone, it stands alone, everything else has been destroyed by Israel. We did not leave it alone; we painted another flag on a large piece of rubble. We moved the flag even farther into the buffer zone, about 30 meters from the wall encircles Gaza.

On Tuesday, September 13, the Local Initiative of Beit Hanoun, fisherman from Beit Lahia, and activists from the International Solidarity Movement gave their response to the Palmer Report. They gathered on the beach near Beit Lahia and marched north, into the buffer zone, land that has been stolen from the people of Gaza and depleted of any fecundity. Across from the buffer zone is the land of the refugees in Gaza from which they were ethnically cleansed 63 years ago.

The buffer zone doesn’t stop on the land, as the Palmer Report may suggest, yet it extends onto the sea. Israel’s disregard for Oslos allotment of 20 miles of sea access to Palestinians has been defamed to a restricted area of three miles off the shore for fisherman to access.

The buffer zone has extended beyond the last grain of Gaza’s beach sand and continues into the waters under the misnomer of “buffer zone.” Scrap collectors shot to death, farmers murdered, families left without land to support themselves, it is a death zone. After the balloons popped, the flags survived, just as the Palestinian people have survived all of the Israeli violence directed at them.

We gathered at Waha, a hotel complex destroyed by Israeli bombs, at 8 AM and marched north along the beach, towards the wall that marks the northern boundary of the open air prison that is referred to as Gaza. We looked out over the sea that marks the western wall of the prison that is Gaza–the sea where earlier this week the Israeli Navy kidnapped eight fishermen, and then destroyed their boats with gunfire.

At 10:30 we gathered in Beit Hanoun to march north into the same buffer zone. For three years the people of Beit Hanoun have demonstrated weekly against the occupation and against the buffer zone. Participants marched north chanting and playing music over the megaphone into the buffer zone. They carried Palestinian flags attached to balloons. As the balloons floated over the buffer zone trailing their flags, they occasionally fell to earth and popped on the thorn bushes which are the only thing to survive the regular Israeli bulldozing of the buffer zone.

Sabur Zaaneen, from the Local Initiative spoke on the need for a Palestinian state, he urged Palestinian leaders to continue the struggle this September, he urged them not to forget their duty to their people, not to forget the right of the refugees to return, the right of their people to justice. The farmers of Beit Hanoun stand with the fisherman of Beit Lahia, with the people of Bil’in, with the people of Nil’in, we all carry the flag of popular resistance to the occupation. None of us will give up. We will be back next week, together, united in one cause, ending the occupation and justice for the Palestinian people.

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Palestine UN bid backing refused

LONDON, Sept 15 (KUNA) -- Recognition of a Palestinian state should come as the result of negotiations with Israel, the UK Government said Thursday as ministers refused to commit to backing a bid for United Nations membership.
Foreign Office minister responsible for the Mideast Alistair Burt said no decision would be taken until the Palestinian Authority had published its proposal for membership of the international organization.
But he told MPs that "the Government have always been clear about its recognition of a Palestinian state at the conclusion of a process of negotiation between the parties in which mutual security has been guaranteed.
"We see no reason to move from that position because anything else would threaten the compromise and the security position we are all looking to achieve." The Palestinians will submit a bid for full UN membership at the UN Security Council on September 23, a move which is likely to be vetoed by the United States.
Veteran Labour MP Sir Gerald Kaufman whose question on the UK's voting intentions forced Burt to come to the dispatch box, warned that a failed bid by the Palestinians would spell the end of the 20 year-long peace process.
Burt said: "The Palestinian leadership has yet to submit any application to the United Nations.
If and when an application is received, we will make a decision how to respond. "Without knowing the content of any such application, it would be premature to speculate on what the Government's response might be." Burt added there was "no alternative to negotiations" as he restated the UK's view that borders should be drawn along the 1967 lines with agreed swaps of land and a shared Jerusalem.
He acknowledged that a unilateral move by the Palestinians at the United Nations this month was looking "increasingly likely." "We are working closely with partners to build consensus on a way forward that recognizes the progress the Palestinians have made on their state-building efforts, that meets Israel's legitimate security concern and that avoids confrontation at the United Nations.
"Whatever action is taken in New York, it is important that this increases the prospects for a return to negotiations.
"It is also important to remember that action in the UN is not an end in itself, September is not the closing date for the resolution of this conflict.
What happens next is vital. which is why our goal remains to ensure that steps taken now pave the way for significant conclusive talks.
"It is vital that any action in the UN does nothing to endanger the prospect of talks." Sir Gerald warned that a rejection of the Palestinians' application would be treated as a triumph by the Israelis and derail peace talks.
He said that "it would be totally inconsistent to support freedom for the people of Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Syria and not actively support, by this country's United Nations votes, comparable independence for the people of Palestine who have been waiting 64 years for United Nations decisions to be fulfilled and implemented." He told Burt a Palestinian success would "transform the situation in the Middle East" but that if they failed at the UN "the Israelis will regard this as a triumph and it will be an end of the 20-year peace process." He asked: "Will this Government stand up and put its hand up for the Palestinian people at the United Nations?" Burt said: "It would be a disaster if, in New York, one side proclaims triumph and the other side reacts to a disaster.
"We are working very hard with all partners to try and make sure that, whatever comes out of the UN, it is in the spirit of both sides feeling that something has been gained and we have a situation which moves towards those negotiations which need to succeed.
"We are all well aware of how success or disaster could be viewed and what the consequences would be." For his part, Opposition Labour Shadow foreign minister Stephen Twigg said Labour had "long-supported" a two-state solution.
"There is widespread frustration and disappointment at the failure to make any progress in recent years," he said.
"We seek an immediate return to meaningful negotiations between the parties and that the basis for those negotiations should be the 1967 borders with land swaps.
"The Palestinians' path to independent statehood will require recognition at the United Nations and Labour supports that goal." He told Burt "however we believe, contrary to what you have said today, that the options before the international community are now clear." Twigg asked the minister to detail how the UK would vote at the UN if the Security Council is asked to decide whether Palestine should be given full recognition, or there are votes at the General Assembly advocating full recognition or enhanced observer status.
But Burt refused to state the Government's position as a decision about what votes would take place were "still live" and yet to be decided.
He added: "We want to make sure that nothing that comes forward and is agreed next week does damage to the prospect of peace between the parties which we believe will come through a negotiated settlement and as soon as possible." MPs were split across party lines on what the Government's position should be if there is a vote next week at the UN.
Other MPs said the Government must take the position adopted by the US and veto any proposal for a recognition of a Palestinian state.

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September 2011 Electrical Engineer Licensure Examination Results

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 that 1,519 out of 2,618 Registered Electrical Engineers and 742 out of 1,905 Registered Master Electricians successfully passed the Electrical Engineer Licensure Examinations given by the Board of Electrical Engineering in Manila, Baguio, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi and Zamboanga this September 2011.
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IOF troops round up minors in Silwan, others in Nablus


OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a 15-year-old boy in Silwan town in occupied Jerusalem on Thursday less than three months after his release from Israeli custody, local sources reported.

They said that special units, intelligence agents accompanied the IOF unit that captured the boy Ali Abu Diyab under the command of the area's commanding officer.

They recalled that Abu Diyab was released on bail by the Jerusalem Magistrate court on 27/6/2011 after ordering him to house arrest for 14 days along with a fine.

The sources noted that the IOF soldiers arrested three other minors in the same age category with no reasons known so far.

Confrontations took place in Ras Al-Amud suburb in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday night after young men threw stones at a vehicle for Israeli police.

Locals reported violent clashes in which Israeli security forces used stun grenades and fired many teargas canisters into the densely populated area.

Meanwhile, IOF soldiers arrested three Palestinians, including a university student, in Nablus after wreaking havoc on their homes.

In Al-Khalil, the soldiers detained a Palestinian citizen south of the city and broke into many homes in a further escalation of the recent targeting of the city and its environs.

The IOF troops at dawn Thursday launched a large-scale operation in Jenin and its villages, storming homes, and searching them, and combing nearby valleys.

Local sources said that in one such operation the soldiers broke into the home of Fawzi Sharqawi in Zababde village, east of Jenin, and ordered four of his sons to report to the intelligence headquarters in Salem.



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Hebron road renamed "Apartheid Street"

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Israeli border policemen stand guard near a temporary road block during a
protest against the continued closure by Israel of Shuhada street in the West
Bank city of Hebron September 14, 2011. [Reuters/Ammar Awad]
HEBRON (Reuters) -- Palestinians changed the name of Hebron's Shuhada street to Apartheid Street on Wednesday, to protest the prevailing conditions in areas of the West Bank town which are controlled by Israeli troops.

Aide to Hebron's Governor, Rafiq al-Jabari, said the name change would remain in effect until what he described as apartheid-like conditions had been eradicated in Hebron.

"At the entrance of Shuhada Street, we announce the temporary change of the name of the street to Apartheid Street, until the end of the Apartheid segregation that is enforced by the settlers under the protection of occupation soldiers," he said.

The road has often been a focus of friction between Hebron's Palestinian majority and the small group of Jewish settlers living in the town.

The road was first closed in 1994, after a settler killed 29 Palestinians in the mosque marking the burial place of biblical patriarch Abraham, revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims.

An Israeli checkpoint which was built in the entrance of the street dates back to the September 2000 Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Israeli restrictions on movement and access, many of them dating back to the uprising, have turned parts of the old city into a ghost town. Poverty has risen in a city that was traditionally an engine of the Palestinian economy.

One resident of the street, Palestinian Issa Amr, says life among the Israeli soldiers and settlers, who first arrived on his street in 1984, has become almost unbearable.

"We want to change the name Shuhada Street to Apartheid Street, to show that Palestinians suffer in this street. We are suffering from the theft of our rights and attacks against our properties, our children and our elders.

"In a street where we live, we are not allowed to walk in it or drive in it, we are not allowed to walk with animals in it. This is racist segregation," said Amr, an organizer of the Palestinian grassroots group Youth Against Settlements.

Around 800 Jewish settlers live among 30,000 Palestinians in the parts of the ancient city that are under Israeli control.

Reports of physical violence and stone-throwing from both sides signal deep hostility between the settlers and the Palestinians.

Hebron, dotted with Jewish settlements and divided into zones of Israeli and Palestinian control, is a microcosm of the occupied West Bank, where the Palestinians have self-rule over islands of territory surrounded by areas of Israeli control.

Hebron was split into areas of Palestinian and Israeli control by agreement in 1997.

The Israeli-controlled "H2" area includes the settlements and the mosque and synagogue housed at Abraham's burial site, referred to as Tomb of the Patriarchs by Israelis and the Ibrahami Mosque by Palestinians. The Palestinian area of control, where another 170,000 Palestinians live, is called "H1".

Israeli restrictions on movement and access, many of them dating back to the Palestinian uprising at the start of the decade, have turned parts of H2 into a ghost town. Poverty has risen in a city that was traditionally an engine of the Palestinian economy.

Israel has said the Hebron settlements would be among those it would seek to keep in any peace deal, suggesting that more remote enclaves could be evacuated and that it would cede other land to the Palestinians in compensation.


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In an unusually broad series of raids ending on Thursday morning, the Israeli army carried out at least seven arrests and demolished several buildings in the West Bank.

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Israeli troops arrested 21-year-old Islam Za’el Khalf, from the village of al-Shawawra near Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, after raiding his home on Thursday morning.

Official Palestinian news wire Wafa reported an Israeli military raid in Hebron, resulting in the arrest of Ahmed Abdulkarim al-Awiwi, 28, and Abduljabar al-Karki, 47. In the nearby village of al-Samu’, soldiers also arrested 22-year-old Ahmed Mohammed al-Daghameen. All three were taken to an unknown location.

Hebron locals also told Wafa that a settler had hit 7-year-old Ahmed Shukri Jaber in the al-Baq’a neighborhood, in the east of the city near Kiryat Arba settlement.

In the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Israeli forces arrested three Palestinians: Imad al-Tanbour, 24, Munir Najeh al-Masri, age unknown, and Abdullah Dweikat, a 22-year-old student at the Engineering College at al-Najah University.

In a clash at the entrance to the refugee camp of al-Arroub, between Bethlehem and Hebron, eyewitnesses told Wafa that settlers opened fire on Palestinians, wounding 15-year-old Ahmed Yusef Abu Ghazi in his right foot.

Clashes were also reported in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, where Israeli forces raided a number of homes. Both tear gas canisters and sound bombs were used, according to local sources reporting to PNN correspondent Maysa Abu Ghazala.

The Wadi Helwa Information Center reported that Israeli troops set up checkpoints around Silwan and the neighboring area of Ras al-Amoud that evening.

Confrontations between settlers, soldiers, and Palestinians were also reported in Sheikh Jarrah, resulting in one wounded Palestinian.

Israeli bulldozers destroyed houses in the village of al-Aqba in the northern Jordan Valley and dug up some of the village’s streets, including the western entrance and a street near the demolished house named Peace Street.

Witnesses say that bulldozers destroyed the houses of Khalid Subeih after troops surrounded the area to prevent people and journalists from getting closer.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad condemned the demolitions in al-Aqba.

"Our people are determined to live on their land," said Fayyad. "We are resilient and we will survive."

Israeli soldiers also raided houses in Shu’fat refugee camp, al-Dahyeh and Ras al-Khamis in the center of East Jerusalem. The raids came after a shooting incident near the Israeli army checkpoint at the camp entrance.



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