Palestine Today 05 31 2012
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International Middle East Media Center
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The General Union of Palestinian Workers in Gaza demanded that human rights organizations intervene immediately to stop attacks on Palestinian…
Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, suggested, Wednesday, that Israel might consider a “unilateral move” for establishing a Palestinian state with…
Palestinian medical sources reported that former political prisoner, Zoheir Lubbada, 38 years old, died on Thursday at the Intensive Care…
An Israeli citizen has been imprisoned for trying to drop his Israeli citizenship and replace it with Palestinian citizenship. He…
Minister of Civil Affairs in the Palestinian government in Ramallah, Hussein ash-Sheikh, reported that Israel handed the bodies of 91…
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that an Israeli citizen of Ethiopian origin was injured, on Wednesday evening, after being attacked by…
A number of armoured Israeli military vehicles invaded an area east of az-Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, and opened…
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Israeli journalist, Uri Blau, will be indicted for possession of classified Israeli military documents, by Israel’s Attorney General, Yahuda Weinstein,…
The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, briefed the UN Security Council in New York…
Israel opened the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing on Wednesday morning allowing approximately 270-280 trucks into the Gaza Strip…
The Israeli Navy abducted, on Wednesday, four Palestinian fishermen in Palestinian territorial waters off the coast of Beit Lahia town,…
The Jerusalem Municipality along with Israeli Ministry of Tourism are to jointly allocate 4 million NIS to fund the development…
Several neighborhoods in the city of Hebron were invaded on Wednesday morning by Israeli soldiers who then proceeded to take…
A meeting is scheduled between the new German President, Joachim Gauck and Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and his Prime Minister,…
Two Israeli oil companies have signed 2 year contracts which will supply all of the gasfuel requirements of the West…
Migros, one of Switzerland’s largest enterprises, has announced that it will start labeling all Israeli settlement products in 2013, following…
On Tuesday Israeli soldiers bulldozed more than 30 Dunams (7.4 Acres) of Palestinian farmlands in al-Baq’a area, east of the…
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that Israeli soldiers of the Nachshon Brigade attacked Palestinian political prisoners in sections…
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Six teenage Arab students of the at-Tur School in Jerusalem were injured, on Thursday, at the Menachem Begin Public Park…
Bassem Tamimi, a leading member of the grass roots movement against the Israeli Annexation Wall and settlement construction in the…
A fire started by Israeli settlers on Tuesday in Qaffin, near Tulkarem in the West Bank was put out by…
Internet security company Kaspersky Lab announced on Monday that it had uncovered a ‘cyber-espionage worm’ designed to collect and delete…
The Central Elections Commission (CEC) has been granted permission on Monday to begin working in Gaza by the Hamas led…
After years of rivalry, Hamas and Fatah are working together towards elections. Therefore the Central Elections Commission (CEC) has been…
A court in Istanbul has voted unanimously to approve an indictment against Israel’s former military chief Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi,…
The Tent of Nations, situated outside of Bethlehem, has become a symbol of self-sufficiency and self-sustainability for Palestine as the…
The current fuel crisis in Gaza, now in its fifth month, is causing extended power outages that severely disrupt the…
Egypt’s final presidential race will be between the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate, Mohammed Morsi of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party,…
The Palestinian Contractors Union has urged all Palestinian contractors and suppliers to boycott any bids offered by the UN Children’s…
The Jerusalem Municipality and the Israeli Ministry of Tourism will be allocating 4 million Israeli Shekels for a “sound and…
The Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage, in occupied East Jerusalem, stated that dozens of Israeli settlers and soldiers conducted…
Israeli soldiers invaded on Monday evening Kufr Qaddoum village, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and abducted a…
The Israeli Authorities ordered Sheikh Ra’fat Sameeh Najeeb, 30 years old, from al-Wad, in occupied East Jerusalem, from entering al-Aqsa…
A new bill introduced in the US Congress by Republican Representative Mark Kirk would call for the US government to…
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On Sunday, Israel’s high court on Sunday rejected an appeal to end the administrative detention of Palestinian legislator Hussam Khader.…
PNN has reported on Monday that the Ofer Military Court will deliver its sentence in the case of non-violent activist…
Youth activists in the Gaza Strip have suspended their demonstrations against the UN International Childrens Emergency Fund (UNICEF) which reportedly…
Palestine airlines are finally back to business in Jordan following seven years of being grounded. The carrier Palestine Airlines is…
An Israeli army spokesman as saying that several Palestinians were arrested in various Palestinian cities at dawn this morning, the…
PNN has reported Israeli sources as announcing that a resident of the Palestinian village of Urif near Nablus had been…
Reuters reported Sunday that the Shiite political party and militant group, Hezbollah, President Bashar Assad’s main Lebanese ally, said it…
B’Tselem reported that after armed settlers arrived in Asira al-Qibilya on Saturday two Palestinian men were injured. DFLP leader, Qais…
Ma’an News has reported a PA Ministry of Detainee Affairs warning from Sunday that a prisoner on hunger strike for…
Late on Sunday night Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and…
Beginning on Wednesday and continuing through Saturday night, mobs of right-wing Jewish Israelis have attacked the neighborhoods of African immigrants…
PNN has reported that Australia has offered the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) 90 million dollars…
Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmad Davutoglu, stated Sunday that there can be no peace and stability in the Middle East without…
The World Health Organization (WHO) adopted a resolution submitted by Arab member countries condemning the Israeli siege on Gaza, calling…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Sunday evening, four Palestinian children, in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in occupied East Jerusalem,…
Local sources in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank reported Saturday that a group of armed Israeli…
The popular Committee Against the Wall in Bethlehem, and the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Al-Ma’sara village, near Bethlehem,…
The Friends of Freedom and Justice Committee in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, reported Friday…
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With South Africa taking the lead in banning all products from the Occupied Territories labeled as Israeli products, and now…
The Al-Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement, stated that all of its military branches will be united under…
The office of the detained democratically-elected head of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Dr. Aziz Dweik, denied reports claiming that…
Fuad al-Khoffash, head of the Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies, stated that Palestinian detainee, Zuheir Lubbada, was admitted to the…
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 17– 23…
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The WAFA News Agency reported today a UK Foreign Office statement issued on Wednesday. British Foreign Secretary William Hague told…
In a PNN report today, the Al-Ahrar Centre for Prisoners’ Studies and Human Rights stated that on Wednesday, May 23rd,…
The PNN reported that the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called for the release of Bahaa Khairi Moussa, Director…
Ma’an news agency reported earlier today that prisoners in Huwarra prison have taken part in an open hunger strike for…
Haaretz reported today that the Amnesty International 2012 Annual Report for 2011 was released on Wednesday, and detailed violations of…
Reports from PNN have stated that the 18 year old Palestinian, Salah Zghair, is not dead.The Palestinian Prisoners Society has…
Ma’an News Agency reported today that in an attempt to develop the Palestinian economy, Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad is…
Despite an Israeli High Court ruling that the Ulpana settlement neighborhood must be vacated and demolished because it is illegal,…
Palestinian sources reported that on Wednesday evening dozens of Israeli settlers closed the main road near Tiqua’ town, east of…
The Kol Hai (Live Sound) Israeli Radio reported that on Wednesday morning the Rabbinical Branch of the Israeli Military started…
According to the Palestine Press News Agency (Palpress) the Palestinian Contractors Union has stated that two Israeli companies have won…
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The WAFA News Agency reported a statement issued by the spokesperson of the EU’s High Representative Catherine Ashton yesterday that…
The WAFA News Agency reported a press release by the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) today that hotel occupancy…
This opinion piece was first published by PNN on 17 May 2012. It raises serious questions about what if any…
Givat HaMatos or “Airplane Hill”, so named for the military plane shot down during the six day war in 1967,…
Ma’an News Agency reported today on a Christian family whose four sons have all been imprisoned by the Israeli Military.…
The Palestinian News Network, PNN, reported that Israeli forces invaded an area east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza…
The Palestinian News Network, PNN, and Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, reported that Israeli forces invaded several areas of the West…
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In the UK, the Jewish National Fund and more than 280 ‘concerned’ Jews, including the religious head of the Reform…
Haaretz reported today that from the start of the second intifada in September 2000 through December 2011, the human rights…
Calls for Israel to be held responsible by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court for its settlement…
Haaretz reported Monday that hundreds of Jewish youths participating in the Jerusalem Day flag procession Sunday shouted anti-Muslim slogans like…
The water crisis in the West Bank is a consequence of Israel’s control and use of water resources, PA Prime…
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Elections should be held in approximately 6 months to form a new power sharing deal between rivals Fatah and Hamas…
A recent court case, from May 8 2012, reported by Haartez has highlighted how The Absentee Property Law together with…
A recent decision by the minister for trade and industry in South Africa to remove “Made in Israel” tags on…
The Israeli Association for Civil Rights stated in a report published on Sunday that 84% percent of the Palestinian children…
The Maan News Agency reported that on Sunday the Israeli Ofer Israeli Military Court postponed its verdict announcement in the…
Ma’an News Agency has reported on Monday that Dr. Nabil Shaath, a member of the Central Committee of Fatah, met…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated Sunday that he will never accept any peace agreement that ‘divides Jerusalem’, adding that…
Press Release By B’Tselem; On Saturday, 19.5.2012, around four thirty in the afternoon, a large group of settlers descended on…
Israeli soldiers and policemen abducted, on Sunday evening, nine Palestinian youths, including a woman and a medic, during a protest…
Palestinian medical sources reported Sunday that a Palestinian youth was injured near the Israeli settlement of Etzion, between Bethlehem and…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Saturday, a nonviolent protest held in solidarity with the secretary of the National and Popular Committee in…