Mustafa Tamimi murdered by a tear gas canister to the head
So far, there were three people who had suffocated from the tear gas, and three people injured by rubber bullets. I saw gas, and so assumed that it was another…
Protests Held In Jerusalem Against Plans Targeting Bedouin Villages
Thousands of Palestinians from the 1948 territories held a protest on Sunday in front of the Jerusalem office of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to protest the so-called “Brawer-Begin Plan”…
Egypt Denies Claims Of Hamas Training Centers In Sinai
Egyptian security officials denied claimed reported by the Israeli “Jerusalem Post” in which it said that the Hamas movement established basis and missile manufacturing facilities in the Sinai Peninsula as…
Israel Arrests Three Brothers In Nazareth, One Of Them Paralyzed
The Arabs48 news website reported Saturday that the Israeli District Court in Nazareth ordered an extension on the remand of Mohammad Sa’id, 19, for additional ten days. On Wednesday, his…
Report: “19 Children Killed, 200 Injured, By Israeli Shells In 2011”
Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesperson of the Higher Committee for Medical and Emergency Services In Gaza, reported that, in 2011, Israeli soldiers killed 19 children, and injured more than 200, in…
Palestinian Group Marks 63rd Anniversary Of UN Resolution Calling For Right Of Return Of Refugees
On the 63rd anniversary of UN General Assembly Resolution 194, the BADIL Resource Center for Residency and Refugee Rights issued a statement to bring the attention of the international community…
Palestinian taxi driver hospitalized after assault by Israeli soldiers at checkpoint
Israeli troops beat a Palestinian taxi driver with their fists, feet and rifle butts, fracturing his back, on Saturday afternoon at the Barta checkpoint, near Jenin in the northern West…
Army Bombards Sheep and Chicken Farm In Beit Hanoun
On Saturday, Israeli soldiers fired artillery shells targeting a chicken and sheep farm in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip — dozens of livestock died in…
Fayyad: “Gingrich’s Statements Cheap And Disgraceful”
Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, stated Saturday that the statements of U.S. Republican Presidential Candidate, Newt Gingrich, are cheap and disgraceful. The statements of Fayyad came after Gingrich stated…
Palestinian dies of wounds sustained in anti-wall protest
A Palestinian young man died of wounds sustained on Friday during an anti-wall and settlement protest in the village of Nabi Saleh near the West Bank city of Ramallah.Mustafa Tamimi,…
UN General Assembly Passes Nine Resolutions On Israel-Palestine
On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly passed nine resolutions related to Palestine as part of a set of 24 resolutions and two texts related to human rights and decolonization.The…
Army Bombards Qassam Center In Rafah
The Israeli Air Force bombarded, on Saturday at dawn, a training center that belongs to the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, west of Rafah, in the…
Child, 12, Dies Of Wounds Suffered During Israeli Shelling On Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a child identified as Ramadan Bahjat Az-Za’lan, 12, died of wounds he suffered when the army bombarded his family’s’ home on…
This Week in Palestine week 49 2011
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Egypt Holds Israel Responsible For Escalation
The Egyptian Ambassador to Palestine, Yasser Othman, held the Israeli government responsible for the latest escalation against the Gaza Strip that led to the death and injury of several Palestinians,…
Israel Holds Hamas Responsible For Latest Escalation
The Israeli Army and the Defense Ministry held the Hamas movement in Gaza responsible for the death of a Palestinian father, on Friday, and the injury of 17 residents, including…
PCHR Weekly Report: 2 Palestinians killed, 7 wounded, 52 abducted by Israeli forces this week
In its Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 01- 07 December 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that…
Hamas Interior Ministry Calls On Israeli Military To Stop Escalation In Gaza
The Hamas Ministry of Interior stated on Friday morning that the Israeli air strike, which targeted a civilian car in central Gaza on Thursday afternoon, is a result of ongoing…
Hamas: “We Affirm Our Right To All Forms Of Resistance”
Marking the twenty-fourth anniversary of the first Palestinian Intifada, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, issued a press release affirming that it will continue all forms of resistance against the Israeli…
Palestinian Killed, Seventeen Injured As Army Bombarded Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported that the Israeli Air Forces carried out a Friday dawn airstrike, targeting the Gaza Strip. One Palestinian has been killed, and seventeen have been wounded; most…
PCHR Condemns the Prevention of Medical Delegation From Leaving Gaza
PCHR Condemns Prevention of Medical Delegation from Traveling via Beit Hanoun (Erez) Crossing by Ministry of Health in Gaza.The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights condemns the prevention of a medical…
Army Demands More Leverage For Palestinian Authority In West Bank
Senior Israeli military officials have demanded that the Israeli Government increase the Palestinian Authority’s control in the West Bank in order to enable it to prevent the Hamas Movement from…
Palestine Today 12 08 2011
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Settlers Open Fire At Palestinian Shepherds Near Nablus
A group of extremist Israeli settlers opened fired, on Thursday, at a group of Palestinian shepherds tending their sheep in the eastern hills of the northern West Bank city of…
Jerusalem Municipality Orders Closure Of Al Magharba Gate Bridge
Head of the City Council in Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, ordered the closure of the historic Al Magharba Gate Bridge, in occupied East Jerusalem, under the pretext that the bridge is…
Zionist Rabbi Faces Sexual Charges In Israel
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that a prominent Zionist Rabbi was sent to the Magistrates Court in Jerusalem, on Wednesday, facing charges of sexual assaults against two students who sought his…
Two Killed Several Injured As Army Air Strikes Gaza
The Palestine News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported Thursday that one Palestinian was killed and several others, including school students, were wounded, when the Israeli Air Force fired a missile…
Israel can never steal our heritage
We Palestinians have nothing to cherish more than our roots and ancestral identity. To us, olive trees and the shade in which our grandparents rested or lovers used to secretly…
Palestine Today 12 07 2011
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Israeli Troops Break Into The House Of Imemc’s Board Member
Israeli soldiers broke into the house of Saher Al-Sous, in Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem. Al-Sous is a board member of the Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement between People, the founding organization…
Former Israeli President Starts A 7-Year Prison Term
Former Israeli Prime Minister, Moshe Katsav, started Wednesday a 7-year prison term for two counts of rape, and several other sexual offenses. On Thursday, November 10th, the Israeli Supreme Court…
Settlers Burn Entrance To Mosque Near Salfit
On Wednesday at dawn, Israeli settlers set fire to the main entrance of the Broqeen Mosque, and a number of Palestinian cars parked nearby, at a village near the West…
Palestinian Authority: Bid for statehood is continuing
Representatives of the Palestinian Authority have announced that they will continue with their attempt to achieve recognition as a state by the United Nations, despite the Security Council’s inability to…
Troops Demolish Another Home In East Jerusalem
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli soldiers demolished, on Tuesday morning, a Palestinian home in the Al Khalayla neighborhood, north of occupied East Jerusalem. The home was the third to be…
Fighter Killed In Israeli Strike In Gaza
The Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, reported that one of its fighters was killed on Tuesday evening, when the Israeli army shelled fighters who had…
Palestine Today 12 06 2011
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || 3 m 32s || 3.23 MB || Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,…
Settler Sentenced To Three Months Public Service For Repeatedly Ramming Palestinian
The Israeli District Court in Jerusalem sentenced a settler, who rammed and repeatedly drove over a wounded Palestinian with his car, to three months “Public Service”.The Palestinian has been identified…
New Jerusalem Park To Be Built Mainly On Arab Land
The so-called Regional Construction and Planning Committee at the Jerusalem Municipality prepared a plan for the construction of a new “National Park” in Al Masharef Mountain (Mount Scopus area). Activists…
Israeli Government To Relocate 2,300 Bedouin In Order To Expand Settlement
Israeli officials have announced a plan to displace twenty Bedouin Arab communities from their homes in the West Bank between Jerusalem and Jericho, and move the residents to a site…
Troops Kidnap Four Palestinians Near Qalqilia
Israeli troops invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Kufr Qaddoum village, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, broke into several homes, and kidnapped three residents.Eyewitnesses reported that the army…
Army Invades Beit Hanoun
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, an area east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and opened fire at random, media sources in Gaza…
Nine Palestinians Arrested Across the West Bank
On Monday, the Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) reported the detention of nine Palestinians across the West Bank by the Israeli military.The arrests took place in the regions of…
Palestine Today 12 05 2011
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Israeli Court Drops Charges Against Tortured Detainee
The Military Court at the Ofer Prison admitted Sunday that Israeli interrogators are using brutal methods to interrogate Palestinian detainees, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported.PPS stated that the court…
Fatah And Hamas Seek To Reassure That They Are Implementing National Unity
In the wake of a meeting held between the leaders of the Hamas and Fatah movements in Gaza on Sunday evening, they reconfirmed the implementation of the articles of the…
Army Arrests Three Children Near Eli’ Settlement
The Israeli military detained three Palestinian Children near the settlement of Eli’, built on Palestinian land near the village of al-Lubban ash-Sharqiyah, by the northern West Bank city of Nablus,…
Hamas and Fatah Meet in Gaza to Discuss Outstanding Issues
Leaders of Hamas and Fatah will be holding a meeting on Sunday evening in Gaza to discuss the outstanding issues separating the two movements, the Ma’an News Agency reported Sunday…
Turkey To Grant Hamas $300 Million
Turkish sources reported that Prime Minister of Turkey, Receb Tayyip Erdogan, sent a confidential letter to Ismail Haniyya, Prime Minister of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, inviting him…
Israel Approves 650 Units In Pisgat Ze’ev Settlement
At the Jerusalem Municipality, the Israeli Regional Construction and Planning Committee has approved a plan to construct 650 housing units in the settlement of Pisgat Ze’ev. The settlement, first constructed…
Israeli Occupation Closes Western Entrance to Nabe Saleh
Israeli forces closed the western entrance of An-Nabi Saleh village, North West of the West Bank city of Ramallah, and prevented citizens from entering or leaving the village, the Palestine…
Latin Church In Beit Jala Holds Prayers On Lands Threatened By Wall, Settlements
As part of the weekly nonviolent protests against the occupation, settlements, the Wall, and the illegal Israeli attempts to annex lands that belong to the Cremisan Christian Monastery In Beit…
This Week in Palestine week 48 2011
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PCHR Weekly Report: 2 Palestinians wounded, 23 abducted by Israeli troops this week
In its Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 24- 30 Nov. 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that…
Troops Arrest Three Residents In Balata
Israeli soldiers arrested, on Friday at dawn, three Palestinians in the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus city in the northern part of the West Bank, the Palestine News Network…
Israel Prevents Thirty Farmers From Entering Their Lands
The Israeli Authorities prevented on Thursday thirty Palestinian farmers from Anin village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, from entering their lands and orchards isolated behind the…
Netanyahu Unhappy By Abbas-Livni Meeting
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rebuked Israeli opposition leader, Tzipi Livni, for holding a meeting with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, in Jordanian capital, Amman.Livni phoned Netanyahu to inform him on…
Egyptian Embassy To Reopen Its Gaza Office
An Egyptian source reported Thursday that the Egyptian Embassy in Gaza will be reopened in the near future, following the implementation of the Palestinian Unity Agreement, and due to what…
Soldiers Attack Detainees In Nafha Prison
Israeli soldiers attacked on Thursday several detainees held in the Nafha detention camp, in the Negev Desert. In a letter sent to Husam Society, the detainees said that they have…
Palestine Today 12 01 2011
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || 3 m 12s || 2.93 MB || Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,…
Abbas- Livni Meet In Amman
The Israeli Radio reported that Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, held a meeting in Amman on Wednesday with Israeli opposition leader of the Kadima Party, Tzipi Livni.The Radio said that Livni…
Forty Disabled Palestinians Are Imprisoned By Israel
Abdul-Nasser Farwana, a Palestinian researcher and former detainee who specializes in detainees affairs, stated that the Israeli occupation is still holding captive more than forty disabled Palestinians.Farawna issued a report…
Israel To Release Palestinian Tax Money
The Israeli government announced Wednesday that it will be releasing $100 Million of Palestinian Tax and Customs revenue. The decision came amidst international pressure from the United States, the European…
Yousef: “Adopting Nonviolent Resistance, A Wise Move”
Dr. Ahmad Yousef, one of the senior political leaders of the Hamas movement, stated Thursday that the recent meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas Political Bureau Chief, Khaled Mashal,…