From PressTV
The US-based media website Al-Monitor reported the development earlier in the month, quoting Siruwan al-Mosuli, an otolaryngologist.
“He (al-Mosuli) said that lately he noticed unusual movement within medical facilities in Mosul. Arab and foreign surgeons were hired, but prohibited from mixing with local doctors,” the website wrote.
“Information then leaked about organ selling. Surgeries take place within a hospital and organs are quickly transported through networks specialized in trafficking human organs,” it noted.
“Mosuli said that the organs come from fallen fighters who were quickly transported to the hospital, injured people who were abandoned or individuals who were kidnapped.”
From PressTV
Israel attacks dangerous escalation: Hamas
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called recent Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip a “dangerous escalation.”
The attacks targeted a Hamas military site in the early morning hours of Saturday in violation of an August ceasefire that ended Tel Aviv’s 51-day-long bloody summer war on the Palestinian enclave.
Later in the day, the movement’s spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri warned Palestinians in a statement of another “foolish” Israeli act, calling upon the international community to carry out its responsibilities toward renewed Israeli aggression.
Several Palestinian political parties have slammed Israel for violating the truce.
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From PressTV
Jordanians rally to slam gas deal with Israel
Angry Jordanian protesters have poured out into the streets to condemn the government’s plan to sign a multi-billion-dollar gas deal with Israel.
Members of various political groups as well as ordinary citizens took part in the Friday protest rallies.
The protesters called the plan a deal of shame, saying the government is contributing to Israeli crimes against Palestinians.
They also accused Prime Minister Abdullah al-Nassour of “stealing the reserves of Palestinians.”
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From the Jewish Telegrapic Agency
From the Archive: Cuban Jews under the embargo
The U.S. embargo was imposed at the height of the Cold War and a year after Fidel Castro’s Communist 26th of July Movement dethroned Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
While the revolution, particularly Castro’s alliance with the Soviet Union, had a catastrophic effect on Cuba’s once friendly relationship with the U.S., its impact on the island’s Jewish population was less clear, at least at first.
On Jan. 4, 1959, JTA reported that over 100 Jewish stores were damaged during the riots that took place in Havana after Batista’s government collapsed. A report from a few days earlier described the tension:
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From the Jewish Daily Forward
Harvard President Plans Probe of SodaStream Ban
Dining Services Won’t Buy Israeli Firm’s Equipment
Harvard University’s president has requested an investigation into the decision by the university’s dining service to stop buying SodaStream equipment.
Drew Faust asked for an investigation into the decision, Provost Alan Garber told The Harvard Crimson student newspaper on Wednesday night.
The request came following an article written earlier in the day by the newspaper reporting that the university’s dining service agreed in April to halt buying the equipment following protests by Palestinian students and their supporters.
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