US Zionist Groups Voice Opposition To Israeli Anti Boycott Law
Both soft and hard line US Israeli supporters have come out against the new Israeli Boycott Law that came into effect on Monday when it gained a majority vote in…
PA: US Responsible For Israel’s Racist Policies
The Palestinian Authority has slammed the role of the US in Middle East talks in a statement on Monday. In a press release following a PA meeting to discuss the…
Army Attacks Gaza with Two Airstrikes, One Resident Injured
The Israeli Air Force carried out, on Wednesday at dawn, two air strikes targeting a blacksmith workshop in Gaza City, leading to excessive damage and one injury.Local sources reported that…
Palestinian Youth Killed By Army Fire In Nablus
Palestinian medical sources reported that a 19-year-old college student was shot and killed, on Wednesday at dawn, by Israeli military fire in Al Far’a refugee camp, north of the northern…
Israel Confiscates Palestinian Lands To Expand Efrat Settlement
The Israeli Army decided to expropriate large areas of Palestinians land in the Bethlehem district in order to expand the Efrat illegal settlement, built on lands illegally annexed from residents…
Dozens Protest Visit Of Greek President To Ramallah
As the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, welcomed the Greek president, Karolos Papoulias, in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, dozens of Palestinians protested the visit to express rejection to…
Over Two Thousand Jewish Americans And Canadians Make Aliyah This Summer
Twenty-five hundred Jewish Americans and Canadians are expected to immigrate to Israel this summer of 2011. The immigrants will be residing in areas with a largely Palestinian population, as part…
Palestine Today 07 12 2011
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Jordan Valley Villages Have Wells Destroyed
The Ma’an News Agency reports that the Israeli army has destroyed wells and water pumps in 3 Jordan Valley villages on Tuesday.The villages of al-Akrabanyah, an-Nasaryah and Beit Hassan all…
Knesset Set To Vote On Law Allowing Probing Of Israeli Leftist Groups
Just one day after the controversial Boycott Bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset the Yisrael Beiteinu faction has announced its intention to table a vote on a law setting…
Quartet Make No Progress On Talks. Palestinians On Course To Go Ahead With UN Bid
The Quartet on the Middle East made up of the EU, UN, US, and Russia have neglected to release a statement from Mondays meeting in Washington on a way out…
Youth Abducted In Husan
Maan news agency has reported pre dawn raids of the West Bank village of Husan near Bethlehem. Two youths, including a minor, were detained during the raid by Israeli military…
Gas Line From Egypt To Israel Attacked For The Fourth Time Since The Fall Of Mubarak
The pipeline transporting gas from Egypt to Israel has been targeted for the fourth time since the fall of the Egyptian Mubarak regime in February. The attacks are a response…
‘Boycott Bill’ Slammed By Israeli Civil Society Groups
Israeli opposition politicians and civil society have come out against new legislation passed Monday in the Knesset that outlaws the boycott of Israeli goods, including settlement goods, in the state…
Last witness testifies in Rachel Corrie case; family says Israel suppressed evidence
The last witness testified Sunday in an Israeli court case seeking justice for slain peace activist Rachel Corrie. Col. Pinhas (Pinky) Zuaretz claimed that Rachel’s death was her own fault…
Palestine Today 07 11 2011
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Knesset Set To Vote On Boycott Bill
The Israeli Knesset is Monday set to vote on a bill that will make illegal the boycott of Israeli goods, including Israeli settlement goods, in the state of Israel. The…
Army Invades Al Esawiyya Town, Clashes Reported
Israeli troops invaded, on Sunday evening, the Al Esawiyya town, in occupied Easy Jerusalem, and clashed with local youths who hurled stones and empty bottles at them. The army also…
Qaddafi Representatives Visit Israel
Military correspondent of Israel’s TV Channel 2, Roni Daniel, reported Sunday that Libyan envoys, representing president Moammar Qaddafi, arrived in Israel several days ago in order to hold a meeting…
Israel Deports 36 Activists, 82 Still Detained
The Israeli Immigration Agency reported Sunday evening that 36 pro-Palestine activists of the “Welcome To Palestine” campaign, who flew from Europe to Tel Aviv, were deported, while 82 activists are…
Palestinian Woman Wounded After Army Fired At Homes In Northern Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported on Saturday at night that Israeli soldiers, based near the northern Gaza border, opened automatic fire at a number of Palestinian homes wounding a young Palestinian…
Israeli Air Force Bombards Brick Factory In Gaza
The Israeli Air Force carried out, on Saturday at night, an air-strike targeting a brick factory, east of Gaza city; damage was reported, no injuries. Eyewitnesses reported that at least…
Activists Break Through Israeli Annexation Barrier Near Qalandya
“Welcome to Palestine” participants on Saturday took part in demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians protesting against Israel’s Annexation Wall in the West Bank city of Qalandya and the village of…
Despite Israeli arrests, threats and scare tactics, “Welcome to Palestine” tour begins
Less than 50 of the International Solidarity visitors managed to arrive in the West Bank as part of the Welcome to Palestine campaign, called for by at least 40 Palestinian…
Soldiers Kidnap Six Palestinians, Including Daughter Of Legislator
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Friday three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank including the daughter of a female legislator from the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Three more Palestinians…
Israeli troops attack non-violent protests in four West Bank villages
On Friday, Israeli troops attacked the weekly nonviolent protests in a number of West Bank villages. This week, protesters marched in solidarity with Freedom Flotilla 2 detained in Greece and…
Israel gives award to tank shell used against civilians in Gaza
The Israeli Defense Ministry awarded the “Israel Defense Prize” to the Calanit artillery tank shell, a new type of shell which has been deployed in tanks stationed along the Israel-Gaza…
This Week in Palestine week 27 2011
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Palestine Activists In Stand Off With Airline Company
Fifty pro-Palestinian activists refused to leave the terminal at the Charles De Gaulle airport after being denied to board the plane headed to Israel on July 8, 2011.Activists have refused…
PCHR Weekly Report: Three dead, one wounded by Israeli forces this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 30 June– 06 July 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found…
‘Welcome to Palestine’ tour organizers: “We are NOT an air flotilla”
The organizers of a 300-person tour of Palestine this week have condemned Israeli efforts to derail the program by calling it an “air flotilla” and pre-emptively blocking participants from entering…
Israel Confiscates Palestinian Land For Hayovel Settlement Outpost
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week approved the confiscation of private Palestinian land in the Palestinian village of Karyut in the Occupied West Bank for Israeli settlement activity. The…
UN Rapporteur Slams UN Report Backing Israeli Raid On Flotilla
Olivier De Schutter, Special United Nations Rapporteur on the Right to Food, voiced strong criticism of a highly anticipated UN report that is said to back Israel’s attack against the…
Palestine Today 07 07 2011
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Israel Instructs Air Lines To Cancel Tickets Of Passengers With “Welcome To Palestine’ Campaign
Israeli ministry of Interior has sent out directives to all air lines asking them to cancel reservation of passengers Israel believes they are part of the “Welcome to Palestine Campaign”.…
PA Government Ministers To Be Investigated For Corruption
Immunity from prosecution has been lifted from several PA government Ministers in order to allow investigations into charges they have been involved in instances of corruption according to Rafiq Natsheh,…
Majdal Shams Resident Imprisoned For Eight Months For Throwing Stones
A man from the Israeli Occupied Golan Heights has been sentenced to eight months in prison by an Israeli court for throwing rocks during the Naksa Day disturbances this year…
Final Witness To Testify In Rachel Corrie Case Sunday
Colonel Pinhas Zuaretz is scheduled to testify on Sunday July 10, 2011 as the final witness for the case involving the killing of Rachel Corrie. Rachel Corrie was an American…
US Reiterates Opposition To Palestinian Bid For Statehood
The US has once again set out its position against the PA seeking recognition of Palestinian statehood in September at the United Nations. The US’s standing envoy to the Middle…
Israel Prepares To Stop ‘Welcome To Palestine’ Activists
Israeli police have been briefed on the arrival of international activists, taking part in the ‘Welcome to Palestine’ programme, at Ben Gurian airport in Tel Aviv over the coming days.…
Spanish flotilla activists occupy embassy in Greece
A group of Spanish activists have occupied their country’s embassy in Greece, calling for the release of an aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip.The Greek government decided last week to…
Palestine Today 07 06 2011
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BT Selem Release Footage Of Settler Attack
Human rights organisation BT Selem has released footage of Israeli settlers from the Yitzhar settlement in the West Bank setting fire to fields near olive orchards belonging to Palestinians in…
Israeli Human Rights Org’s Express Support For Flotilla
A group of Israeli human rights organisations have signed a letter supporting the Freedom Flotilla 2 and calling on the Greek and Israeli governments to allow it safe passage to…
UN Report Critical Of Israel’s Actions During Nakba Day
The UN report into this years Nakba Day events along the Lebanese-Israeli borders has criticized Israels use of disproportionate force against protesters seeking to cross into Israeli held territory. The…
Organizers Of “welcome To Palestine” Campaign Deny Alleged Intention Of Airplane Take Over
The organizers of “Welcome to Palestine” campaign issued a press statement nullifying allegations of plans to take over airplanes on July 8 in Ben Gurion airports.The statement said, “The organizers…
Palestinian Authority Disperse Demonstration By Use of Violence
On Saturday July 2, 2011 Palestinian police and the Palestinian National Security Service injured over 20 peaceful Palestinian demonstrators in Hebron, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. Many…
Troops Kidnap Six Palestinians In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Wednesday at dawn six Palestinians in several parts of the occupied West Bank. Two Palestinians were kidnapped on Tuesday at night.Israeli army Radio claimed that the…
Three Injured As Army Bombards Gaza
Israeli Air Force bombarded, late on Tuesday at night, an area east Gaza city causing damage to several structures and mildly wounding three residents.Local sources reported an F-16 Israeli fighter-jet…
French boat sets sail to Gaza
As the Greek government prevents the departure of a number of Gaza-bound aid boats, one of the boats with the Freedom Flotilla, which was not docked in Greece, has managed…
Palestine Today 07052011
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Two Palestinians Killed, One Injured, As Army Bombards Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Tuesday evening that two residents were killed, and one was injured, after the army bombarded Al Masdar village, in the central…
Israeli Military Notes Increase In Clashes With Settlers. Fears For September
There has been an increase in clashes among Palestinian villagers and Israeli settlers according to Israeli military commanders. Military leaders, speaking to Haaretz, have expressed fears that hostility will increase…
PA Adviser: Gilo Expansion Shatters Peace
Spokesman for PA President Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, has strongly condemned the plans to expand the Jewish only settlement of Gilo in East Jerusalem. The plan to extend the…
Israel Decides To Build 900 Units In Gilo Settlement
The “Construction and Planning Committee” of the Jerusalem Municipality decided Tuesday to build 700 units for Israeli settlers in the Gilo illegal settlement, in occupied East Jerusalem. Member of the…
Tahrir Prevented From Departing To Gaza
The Canadian ship participating in the Freedom Flotilla 2 has been turned back to port after it attempted to depart from Gaza from the Greek port of Agios on Monday…
Soldiers Demolish A Home Near Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers invaded Khirbit Zakariyya area, surrounded by the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and demolish one Palestinian home.Local sources reported that the…
Army Kidnaps Hamas leader, Two Residents, Near Jenin
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Tuesday at dawn a Hamas political leader in Jaba’ town, near the northern Western Bank city of Jenin, along with two other residents, and took them…
Palestinian workers at Salit Quarries make history
Israeli employers, Palestinian workers and an Arab-Jewish union: Workers at Salit Quarries demand basic, fair employment terms, but the quarry management says their claims are childish. The first organized labor…
Deal to transfer remains of 84 dead Palestinian fighters blocked by Israeli Minister
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barack has prevented the transfer of 84 bodies of Palestinians killed since 1967, then buried in unmarked graves in Israel. Barack made his decision after a…
Palestinian woman, child run over by Israeli settlers in separate incidents
An Israeli settler driving near Nablus ran over a 40-year old Palestinian woman Sunday, then tried to flee the scene. Separately, an Israeli-plated vehicle ran over a 14-year old boy…
Palestine Today 07042011
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PA Salaries Cut due to Funding Shortfall
The Palestinian Authority will pay only half the salaries due to its government employees this month due to a shortfall in funding from donor nations, according to PA Prime Minister…
Gas Pipeline Explosion On The Northern Sinai Peninsula
A controversial gas pipeline in Nagah, the Bir Abdu region, has been blown up for the third time since February on Monday, July 4, 2011. The pipeline that connected gas…
Israel To Return Bodies Of 84 Palestinian Fighters Buried In Israel
Israel is to return the bodies of 84 Palestinian fighters killed in Israel since 1967. The deal, reached following extensive negotiations between Israel and Palestinian leaders, was announced by Palestinian…
US Flotilla Passengers Stage Hunger Strike Outside US Embassy In Athens
Activists set to sail to Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla 2 movement, but prevented by the Greek navy and coastguard, have begun a hunger strike outside the US…
Israel Issues Bids For Settlement Construction In Bethlehem, Nablus
The Israeli TV reported that Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, issued direct orders allowing Jewish settlers to build hundreds of units in colonies near the West Bank cities of Bethlehem…
The blockade on Gaza began long before Hamas came to power
The gradual closure of Gaza began in 1991, when Israel canceled the general exit permit that allowed most Palestinians to move freely through Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Since…
200 additional activists may join Freedom Flotilla
A Jordanian union leader told Agence France Presse that a boat has been purchased for $800,000 in Greece to carry construction materials, medical supplies, and 200 additional passengers to join…
Netanyahu Dubs Land-swap A “Joke”
An Israeli official close to Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that Netanyahu fully opposes any Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 border, and believes that the proposal of land-swap is…
Palestinian President: “We recognize Israel, it is time for Israel to recognize Palestine”
In an address to the Dutch Parliament, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that the Palestinian Authority has repeatedly recognized Israel’s right to exist, and now it is necessary for Israel…
Hundreds of Internationals and Hundreds of Palestinians Gear-up for July 8-16 activities
Civil Society organizations finalizing preparations for welcoming hundreds of International activists coming to the Palestinian territories in a campaign defined by the organizers as ‘Welcome to Palestine’. The organizing groups,…
Greek authorities arrest US Flotilla boat captain for attempting to sail without permission
One of the ten boats scheduled to travel to Gaza to bring much-needed humanitarian aid and support has had its captain arrested by Greek authorities after attempting to leave port…
The Day of Victory: Bil’in Celebrates the Removal of the Wall
Press Release; Friday 1-7-2011- For the first time after nearly seven years of resistance and struggle by the residents of Bil’in, the people of the village and a large number…
Freedom Flotilla activists: “Gaza blockade has been extended to Greece”
With the US boat escorted by military commandos back to a Greek port, the Canadian boat boarded by Greek police, and two other Flotilla boats sabotaged by unknown professional divers,…
Greek cabinet votes to stop Flotilla as US Boat to Gaza forced back to port
After having been delayed a week from the original departure date, facing sabotage of two boats and a complaint against the US Boat by the Israel Law Center that activists…
This Week in Palestine week 26 2011
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Unity Talks Between Hamas and Fatah Postponed To September
On Wednesday, Maan News reported that Fatah and Hamas have agreed to post-pone reconciliation efforts until after the UN bid for Palestinian statehood.Hamas’ Prime Minister Haniyeh said the two parties…
Palestinian Adviser Nimir Hamed: ‘Palestinians Will Defer September Bid Given A Return To Talks’
In an interview with Maan news agency advisor to Mahmoud Abbas, Nimir Hammad, has stated that Palestinians are willing to delay going to the UN in a bid for statehood…
Netanyahu: Israel Has The Right To Operate Against Efforts To Break Siege
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that Israel has a right to work against Freedom Flotilla from breaking siege on Gaza, according to Haaretz. His comments came as Irish…
Israel Plans To Double Settlement Area In Jordan Valley
Israel has announced a plan to double the size of its settlements in the strategic Jordan Valley area in the West Bank. The move was announced in Haaretz daily financial…
PCHR Weekly Report: 35 civilians abducted in 31 Israeli incursions this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 23– 29 June 2011, Israeli forces continued to use force against peaceful…
Palestine Today 06 30 2011
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