Jerusalem Child Sentenced To 19 Months
Thursday February 28, 2013, The Ofer Israeli Military Court sentenced a Palestinian child to 19-months imprisonment allegedly for throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in Hebron, in the southern part of…
Palestine Today 02 28 2013
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Hunger Striking Detainees Sharawna And Al-Eesawy Moved To Hospital
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) reported on Wednesday evening that both hunger-striking detainees Samer Al-Eesawy and Ayman Al-Sharawna were moved to hospital suffering serious health complications.Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa…
Clashes Reported In Different Parts of Occupied West Bank
Wednesday February 27 2013; clashes have been reported between Palestinian youths and Israeli in different parts of the occupied West Bank leading to several injuries. Ongoing clashes started after a…
Two Detainees Suspend Their Strike Until March 6
The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported Wednesday that detainees Ja’far Ez-Eddeen and Tareq Qa’daan, have suspended their hunger strike until March 6, the date set by the Ofer military court to…
‘I hope I will be buried in my home, Isdod’
Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed Tuman (85) was 19 years old when, on 20 December 1948, he and his family were forced to flee their home in Isdod, now known as Ashdod.…
Palestine Today 02 27 2013
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Five Palestinians Kidnapped In Bethlehem District
Local sources reported that Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Aida refugee camp, and the towns of Beit Fajjar and Husan, near Bethlehem, and Wadi Ma’aly area in the…
Two Palestinians Kidnapped Near Hebron
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Beit Kahel town, north west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped two Palestinians.Local sources reported that the army broke…
Army Kidnaps Three In Jerusalem, Injures One Woman
Wednesday February 27, 2013; Israeli soldiers invaded Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped three Palestinians, including a woman. Another woman was injured…
Egyptian Court Calls On Morsi To Close All Border Tunnels
An Egyptian court ruled Tuesday that all border tunnels between the Gaza Strip and Egypt “must be closed and demolished, as they are draining the Egyptian economy and resources, in…
Army: “West Bank Violence Far From Over”
Tuesday February 26, 2013; An Israeli military source stated that, what he called, the “cycle of violence” in the occupied West Bank is far from being over despite relative clam…
Clashes Reported In Bani Neim, Near Hebron
Tuesday February 26 2013; Local sources in Bani Neim town, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, reported that Israeli soldiers placed concrete blocks and sands hills at…
Palestinian Boy Allegedly Used As Human Shield Near Ofer
Ramallah, 26 February 2013—Israeli soldiers forced a young Palestinian boy at gunpoint to walk among them while they confronted Palestinian demonstrators near Ofer prison outside Ramallah on February 17, Defence…
Fundamentalist Jewish Women Attack Palestinian Woman In Jerusalem
Tuesday February 26, 2013, A Palestinian woman from occupied Jerusalem was attacked, on Monday afternoon, by a number of extremist Jewish women who tried to remove her hijab, as she…
U.S. Vice President To Speak At Upcoming AIPAC Conference
Tuesday February 26 2013; Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden, will be speaking at the conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) during its…
Hunger Strikes Escalate 12 Detainees On Hunger Strike
Occupied Ramallah, 26 February 2013 – Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Organization’s Documentation Unit confirmed that the number of prisoners on hunger strike in the Occupation’s jails has increased…
Palestine Today 02 26 2013
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Israel Claims that Palestinian Grad Rocket Was Fired Into Ashkelon
Israel sources reported on Tuesday, that a Grad missile was fired from Gaza into an area close to the industrial zone in the city of Ashkelon (Aaqalan); damage was reported…
Israel Transfer 350 M. NIS To P.A.
Israeli media sources reported Monday that Israel has officially transferred 350 Million New Israeli Shekels (NIS) to the Palestinians Authority. The money is Palestinian Tax money Israel collects on border…
Palestine Today 02 25 2013
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Army Attacks, Kidnaps, Several Palestinians In Jerusalem
Monday February 25, 2013, the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf (Endowment) and Heritage, reported that dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the yards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem, violently…
Child Seriously Injured By Israeli Army Fire In Bethlehem
Monday February 25, 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian child was seriously injured by Israeli military fire during clashes that took place near the Aida Refugee Camp, north…
PCHR Calls For Investigating The Circumstances Of Palestinian Detainee’s Death In Megiddo Prison
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) calls for an immediate and independent investigation into the circumstances of the death of a Palestinian detainee in Megiddo Prison in Israel following…
Jaradat Was Tortured To Death, Autopsy Concludes
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, reported on Sunday evening that the autopsy report of detainee Arafat Jardat, who died Saturday at an Israeli interrogation facility, revealed that the detainee…
Three Palestinians Injured By Army Fire Near Ramallah
Sunday February 24, 2013; Three Palestinians have been injured by rounds of live ammunition, fired by Israeli soldiers at protesters near the Ofer Israeli prison, west of the central West…
Palestinian Youth Injured After Being rammed By Military Jeep
Sunday Evening January 24, 2013; A Palestinian youth man suffered a fracture in his led after being rammed by an Israeli military jeep during clashes that took place between the…
Four Injured, Two Seriously, In Aboud Village
Saturday February 23, 2013; Four Palestinians have been injured, two serious, by Israeli soldiers’ fire invaded the village of Aboud, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, the…
Lawyer: “Prior To His Death, Detainee Complained Of Pain Due To Ongoing Interrogation”
Attorney Kamil Sabbagh, who represented detainee Arafat Jaradat, who died Saturday at an Israeli interrogation facility, stated that Jaradat complained to him of sharp pain due to ongoing and extensive…
Seven Palestinians Injured By Soldiers, Settlers, Fire South Of Nablus
Saturday February 23, 2013; Palestinian medical sources reported that two Palestinians have been injured by rounds of live ammunition fired by Israeli soldiers invading Qasra village, south of the northern…
Palestinian Detainee Dies In Israeli Prison
Saturday February 23, 2013; Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that a Palestinian detainee held under interrogation at an Israeli detention and interrogation facility, died Saturday after being tortured…
Settlers Install New Outpost Near Nablus
On Friday at dawn, a group of armed extremist Israeli settlers installed a new illegal settlement outpost in Ras Hazem Mountain that belongs to the residents of Salem village, east…
Two Palestinians Injured By Army Fire In Jabalia
Palestinian medical sources reported that two Palestinian have been injured after Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinian agricultural lands east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.…
Including 2 Children, Army Kidnaps 5 Palestinians In Jerusalem
Friday evening – February 22 2013; Israeli soldiers and undercover units invaded Al-Isawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped five Palestinians before taking them to an unknown destination. Cashes…
Child Injured In Bil’in Weekly Protests, Dozens Treated For Effects Of Teargas Inhalation
Friday January 22 2013; Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and settlement, and shot one child in the head, while dozens of protesters have been treated…
Soldiers Attack Nabi Saleh Weekly Protest, Detain Wounded Child
Friday, February 22, 2013; Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and settlements, in Nabi Saleh village, near the central West bank city of Ramallah, leading…
This Week in Palestine week 8 2012
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Army Attacks Worshipers In Al-Aqsa Mosque, After Holding Protest In Support Of Detainees
Friday February 22, 2013; Hundreds of Palestinian worshipers held a protest, following the Friday noon prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, in support of the Palestinian political…
El-Eesawy Sentenced To Eight Months, His Hunger Strike Continues
Hunger striking Palestinian detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy, was sentenced Thursday by the Israeli District Court in Jerusalem to 8 months imprisonment starting from the date of his arrest on July 7,…
Palestine Today 02 21 2013
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Dozens Injured As Army Attacks Nonviolent Protesters In Hebron
Thursday February 20; The Radio Bethlehem 2000 has reported that dozens of residents have been injured after Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest demanding the army to reopen a…
Immediate action needed to ensure Israel respects hunger-strikers’ rights
Ramallah-Jaffa, 20 February 2013 – Addameer, Al-Haq and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel) express their grave concern for the health of four Palestinian hunger-strikers and outrage at the continued use…
Fisherman Injured and Fishing Boat Damaged
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Israeli Navy’s attacks against Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip and expresses its deep concern for such escalation, which resulted in…
Settlers Invade Qasra Village Near Nablus
Thursday February 21; a group of armed extremist Israeli settlers invaded, shortly after midnight, the village of Qarsa, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, broke into several…
Soldiers Kidnap Two Children In Silwan
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center, in Silwan town in occupied East Jerusalem, reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday evening and on Thursday at dawn, two Palestinian children in the…
Palestinian Injured, Two Kidnapped, Near Jenin
Wednesday evening, February 20; Israel soldiers invaded the town of Borqeen, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and clashed with local youths wounding one and kidnapping two…
Eight Injured In Clashes With The Army Near Nablus
Palestinian medical sources in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, reported that eight Palestinians have been injured, on Wednesday evening, during clashes invaded Qasra village, south…
Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Shepherds In Nablus, Hebron
Wednesday February 20; several extremist Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian shepherds in Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and in Hebron, in the southern part of…
Soldiers Kidnapped 19 Children In Two Weeks
Wednesday February 20; The Children’s Media Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Information reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped 19 Palestinian children, and wounded dozens of children, in the first half…
Palestine Today 02 20 2013
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Israeli soldiers publish disturbing photos of Palestinians on Internet
An image of a Palestinian child in the crosshairs of a sniper rifle has gone viral on social media after being published by an Israeli soldier on Instagram last week.In…
P.A Said To Be Holding Indirect Talks With Israel On Detainees Issues
The Maan News Agency reported that the Palestinian Authority (P.A) in the West Bank is holding indirect talks with Tel Aviv in an attempt to resolve the crisis of Palestinian…
Several College Students Injured By Army Fire Near Ramallah
Ramallah – Tuesday February 19; Palestinian medical sources reported that several students of the Birzeit University, near Ramallah, were mildly injured after Israeli soldiers attacked a nonviolent protest held in…
Soldiers Kidnap Two Palestinians In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers and Policemen attacked, on Tuesday evening, dozens of Palestinians holding a nonviolent protest, in occupied East Jerusalem, in solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel,…
Israeli Court Refuses To Release Al-Eesawy, on 210th day of hunger strike
On Tuesday February 19, head of the Legal Unit of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Lawyer Jawad Boulos, reported that the Israeli District Court in Jerusalem rejected an appeal for…
PCHR Condemns the Israeli Forces’ Assaults on Palestinian Fishermen in Gaza Waters
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Israeli Navy’s escalation of attacks against Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip and expresses its deep concern for such escalation, which…
Palestine Today 02 19 2013
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Two Fishermen Injured By Army Fire
Palestinian medical sources reported, on Monday evening, that two fishermen have been moderately injured by Israeli Navy fire on the Gaza shore, in As-Sudaniyya, in the northern part of the…
Egyptian Mediators To Visit Tel Aviv
Egyptian officials are planning to visit Tel Aviv to hold talks on maintaining the ceasefire with the Hamas movement, and other resistance factions in the Gaza Strip, and Israel’s siege…
Twenty Palestinians Injured In Hebron Clashes
Hebron – Monday Evening, February 18; Palestinian medical sources reported that at least twenty Palestinians have been injured during clashes that took place with Israeli soldiers who attacked a protest…
P.A To Ask U.S. For Peace Initiative
The Palestinian Authority (P.A.) in the West Bank intends to ask the United States to present a new peace initiative that could end the current stalemate in peace talks between…
Israel Admits Using Private Palestinian Lands In Kibbutz Meirav
The so-called “Israel’s Lands Administration” acknowledged that privately-owned Palestinian lands in the West Bank’s Northern Plains have been used for the expansion of the Kibbutz Meirav, located within the Green…
Palestinians block entrance to UN office in Ramallah to call for action on hunger-striking prisoners
Palestinian demonstrators today blocked the entrance of the UN headquarters in Ramallah in protest against its silence on the issue of the hunger-strikers in the Israeli jails.The protesters tried to…
Youth Injured After Being Rammed By Settler’s Vehicle In Bethlehem
Monday evening February 18; In another hit and run incident, a Palestinian youth was injured after being rammed by a settler’s vehicle in Wad Fookin, west of the West Bank…
209 days On Hunger Strike; Letter from Palestinian Prisoner Samer al-Isawi
Letter from prisoner Samer Al-Isawi; as it came from the Ministry of prisoners: I turn with admiration to the masses of our heroic Palestinian people, to our Palestinian leadership, to…
Palestine Today 02 18 2013
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Several Injured As Army Attacks Solidarity Protest In Al-Khader
Morning February 18; Palestinian Medical sources in Bethlehem reported that Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs, rubber-coated metal bullets and concussion grenades at a group of Palestinians who marched at the…
Soldiers Order To Bethlehem Villagers To Evict Their Lands
Monday Feb 18; Israeli soldiers handed two Palestinians from Nahhalin village, west of Bethlehem, military warrants ordering them to leave their own lands as the Israeli army intends to take…
Israel Fortifies Military Bases, Settlements, Close To Gaza Border
Last Wednesday February 13, the Israeli army started work meant to secure and fortify military bases, and settlements, located on the eastern part of the Gaza Strip.Military sources that the…
Sharawna Moved To Soroka Hospital
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, reported Sunday that hunger striking detainee, Ayman Sharawna, was moved to the Soroka Israel hospital in Be’er As-Sabe’ (Beersheba), due to a serious deterioration…
‘Anonymous’ hacks 600,000 Israeli email accounts
In the latest action targeting Israel, the international computer hacking network known as ‘Anonymous’ has claimed credit for publishing the personal information, including encrypted passwords, of over 600,000 Israelis as…
40 Injured In Biddu Village Near Jerusalem
Saturday February 16; Palestinian sources reported that 40 Palestinians have been injured during clashes that took place when the army attacked Palestinians hold a protest in solidarity with hunger striking…
Israeli settlers pump sewage into ancient Palestinian village
The Israeli settlement of Shafi Shamron, in the northern part of the West Bank, has routed its sewage pipes to dump directly into the historic village of Sabastiya, home to…
Soldiers Kidnap 26 Palestinians, Mainly Children, In West Bank, 2 In Gaza
Palestinian media sources in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday evening and on Saturday at dawn, twenty-four Palestinians, most of them children,…
Army Kidnaps A Wounded Palestinian Youth Near Jenin
Friday November 14; Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian youth was injured after he was rammed by an Israeli military vehicle during clashes that took place between the residents…
Soldiers Attack Nonviolent Protesters Near Hebron
Friday afternoon February 15, Israeli soldiers attacked nonviolent protesters holding their weekly protest demanding the army to reopen the main road that links Hebron city with the nearby towns of…
Eight Injured After Army Invades Al-Isawiyya
Friday Evening, February 15; Palestinian medical sources reported that eight Palestinians have been injured after Israeli soldiers invaded the Al-Isawiyya area in occupied East Jerusalem, and attacked dozens of nonviolent…
Army Attacks Palestinians Holding Protest In Front Of Ofer Prison
Friday February 15; Palestinian medical sources reported that dozens of Palestinians have been treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation after the Israeli army attacked protesters as they were…
Dozens Injured As Army Attacks Nonviolent Protests In West Bank
Dozens of Palestinians have been treated for the effects of tear-gas inhalation during the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and settlements in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank…
This Week in Palestine week 7 2012
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Seven Palestinians Kidnapped In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday evening, seven Palestinians during clashes that took place after the army invaded Be’er Ayyoub neighborhood, in Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East…
Two Arab MK’s Receive Death Threats
Two Arab members of Israeli Knesset (MK) received death threats sent in a form of a letter that was sent to the Al-Shams Radio. The letter says that MK’s Jamal…
PCHR Weekly Report: 7 civilians wounded, 80 abducted by Israeli troops this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 07- 13 February 2013, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
HRW: “Israel Violated International Law During Gaza War”
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that Israel’s airstrikes against the Gaza Strip in the most recent war on Gaza in November of last year violated International laws of war, as…
Israeli government gives convicted murderer 1.3 million for illegal takeover of Palestinian land
An Israeli settler who was released early from a life sentence for killing 3 Palestinians in 1983 has received compensation of 1.3 million NIS (around $250,000) from the Israeli Tax…
Palestine Today 02 14 2013
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Gaza: Palestinian Boy dies; Three More Injured Due to Israeli Ordnance
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday that one boy was pronounced dead and three others injured in two separate incidents of Israeli army un-exploded ordnance detonated near…
Army Kidnaps 10 Palestinians In Jerusalem
Wednesday February 13; Israeli soldiers invaded Beit Duqqu village, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem, broke into and searched several homes and kidnapped ten Palestinians.Local sources reported that dozens of Israeli…
‘My family has been separated’
The Gaza Strip has often been called an “open air prison” in light of the illegal closure imposed on it by the Israeli authorities. However, the territory became a prison…
360 Detainees To Hold Solidarity Hunger Strike
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported Wednesday that 360 Palestinian detainees will be holding a one-day hunger strike in solidarity with the hunger striking detainees.The strike will be conducted on…
Palestine Today 02 13 2012
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Army Kidnaps Fourteen Palestinians In West Bank
Wednesday at dawn, February 13, Israeli soldiers invaded several areas in the occupied West Bank, mainly in East Jerusalem, broke into and searched several homes and kidnapped at least fifteen…
Abu Rudeina: “Settlements Are Main Obstacle To Peace”
Palestinian Presidency Spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rudeina, stated Monday that the Israeli government must change Israel’s policies regarding the peace process.He added that Israel’s settlement construction and expansion activities in the…
Airstrip Established In Illegal West Bank Settlement
Despite its illegality, the Israeli Army and the Aviation Department do not seem bothered by an illegal small airstrip established by a former Air Force pilot who lives in the…
Palestine Today 02 12 2013
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Five Jerusalem Youths Ordered Under House Arrest
The Jerusalem District Court ordered five Palestinian youth from the Beit Safafa town, in occupied East Jerusalem, under house arrest for five days.The five have been identified as Bara’ Ibrahim…
Child Injured After Being Rammed By Settler’s Vehicle In Hebron
Monday February 11 – Palestinian medical sources in Hebron reported that a Palestinian child was injured after being rammed by a settler’s vehicle in the southern West Bank city of…
Israel To Build 90 Units In Bet El Settlement
The Israeli government decided to build additional 90 units in the Bet El illegal settlement, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, as part of a prior agreement…
Tension Mounts In Gilboa’ Prison
The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights reported Monday that tension is mounting at the Eshil Israeli detention center after Israeli soldiers broke into the detainees’ rooms and…
Palestine Today 02 11 2013
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