Palestine Today 04 30 2013
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Settler Stabbed To Death Near Nablus
Israeli sources reported that an Israeli settler of the Yitzhar illegal settlement, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, was stabbed to death by a Palestinian man near the…
Army Assassinates A Palestinian In Gaza
Tuesday April 30 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian man was assassinated by an Israeli missile northwest of Gaza city; two Palestinians have been injured in the attack.The…
Al-Eesawy Slowly Recovering Following His 9-Month Hunger Strike
Monday April 29 2013, Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that Palestinian detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy was moved from the Kapalan Israeli hospital to the Al-Ramla prison clinic, adding that…
Israel Approves 120 Units In Givat Ze’ev Settlement
Monday April 29 2013, Israeli “News One” news website reported that the “Lands Authority” of the Israeli Housing Ministry approved the construction of additional 120 units in the Givat Ze’ev…
Israel Removes Dozens Of Bedouin Families In The Jordan Valley
The Al-Maleh and the Bedouin Tribes Village Council in the Jordan Valley reported that Israeli soldiers started, on Monday evening, the eviction of dozens of Bedouin families in the area…
Palestine Today 04 29 2013
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Explosive Detonates In Front Of Home Of Fateh Official In Rafah
Monday at dawn, April 29, 2013, an explosive charge was placed and detonated, in front of the home of a Fateh official, in the Rafah district, in the southern part…
Army Demolishes Three Homes In Occupied Jerusalem
Monday morning, April 29, 2013, Israeli soldiers demolished three Palestinian homes in the At-Tour area, in occupied East Jerusalem, rendering at least 30 Palestinians homeless.Mohammad Abu Al-Hummus, coordinator of the…
Settlers Attack A Palestinian Man In Hebron
Sunday April 28, 2013, a number of extremist Israeli settlers violently attacked a Palestinian man, 60, in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Israeli Soldiers…
Army Kidnaps A Disabled Palestinian At The Al-Karama Crossing
Sunday evening April 28, 2013, Israeli Soldiers kidnapped a disabled Palestinian young man from Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, as he was crossing the Al-Karama terminal…
Israel Delays Eviction Of Illegal Outpost
Sunday April 28, 2013, the Israeli High Court accepted an appeal filed by the Israeli government regarding delaying the eviction of an illegal settlement outpost near the central West Bank…
Settlers Burn Greek Orthodox Church Land In Jerusalem
Sunday evening April 28, 2013, a group of extremist Israeli settlers burnt a land that belongs to the Greek Orthodox Church in Wadi Hilweh, in Silwan town, in occupied East…
Israel: “Escalation In Gaza Likely To Continue”
The Israeli TV reported that a number of senior Israeli military and security analysts believe that the escalation in the Gaza Strip will not stop and will likely lead to…
Army Bombards Southern Gaza
Sunday at dawn, April 28, 2013, the Israeli Air Force bombarded two areas west of Khan Younis, and west of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip; damage…
Settlers Burn Cars, Home, Trees In Jerusalem
A group of extremist settlers torched, late on Saturday at night April 27, nine cars that belong to the United Nations in its headquarters in Jabal Al-Mokabbir, south of occupied…
Israeli Committee Rejects Appeals Against Path of Wall in Beit Jala
WAFA – The Israeli Special Appeals Committee for land seizure under emergency law rejected last week two appeals against the route of the Annexation Wall Israel is building in the…
Israeli Committee Rejects Appeals Against Path of Wall in Beit Jala
WAFA – The Israeli Special Appeals Committee for land seizure under emergency law rejected last week after seven years of proceedings two appeals against the route of the Annexation Wall…
Dozens Injured In Bil’in’s Weekly Protest
Friday April 26 2013; Palestinian medical sources in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, reported that dozens of local resident, Israeli and international protesters have been…
This Week in Palestine Week 17 2013
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Amry Attacks Nabi Saleh Nonviolent Protest
Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday afternoon, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall and settlements, in Nabi Saleh village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. This…
Seven Kidnapped In Silwad, Dozens Injured
Friday April 26, 2013, media sources reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped at least seven Palestinians, while dozens of residents have been treated for the effects of teargas inhalation, after the…
Army Invades Hebron, Kidnaps Three Palestinians
Thursday evening, April 25, 2013, Israeli soldiers invaded the Bab Az-Zawiya area, in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped three…
PCHR Weekly Report: 8 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 18- 24 April 2013, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
Israel Uproots Trees To Prepare For New Settlement In Bethlehem
Thursday April 25, 2013, Israeli bulldozers uprooted dozens of trees on a hill close to the Jabal Abu Ghneim (Har Homa) illegal settlement, east of the West Bank city of…
Soldiers Uproot 700 Olive Trees Near Jenin
Thursday April 25, 2013; Israeli soldiers uprooted more than 700 olive trees in Arraba area, close to the Dotan illegal Israeli settlement, near Arraba village, south of the northern West…
Army Invades Khan Younis, Uproots Farmlands
Thursday April 25, 2013; several armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers invaded an area east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and uprooted Palestinian farmlands…
Palestine Today 04 25 2013
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Israel Downs A Drone Over Haifa Shore
Thursday April 25, 2013, Israeli military sources that the Israeli Air Force intercepted and downed a drone believed to have been flown by Hezbollah party in southern Lebanon, and added…
Soldiers Invade Bil’in Village Near Ramallah
Wednesday evening, April 24, 2013, dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the Western Area of the Bil’in village, and took photos of the lands especially where a military monitoring tower was…
Palestine Today 04 24 2013
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Three Palestinian Apartments Demolished In Jerusalem
Wednesday April 24, 2013, Israeli bulldozers of the Jerusalem City Council, accompanied by Israeli soldiers and police officers, demolished three vacant brand new apartments in Al-Hardoub neighborhood in the At-Tour…
Israeli Navy Opens Fire At Palestinian Fishermen In Gaza
Wednesday morning April 24, 2013, Israeli Navy boats opened fire at a number of Palestinian fishing boats at the Gaza coast, an issue that forced them back to the shore…
Two Injured By Israeli Army Fire Near Jenin
Wednesday evening, April 24, 2013, Israeli sources reported the army shot and wounded two Palestinian youths near a “security fence” close to Jenin city, in the northern part of the…
Police Arrests Two Israeli Teenage Settlers For Torching Palestinian Cars
The Israeli Police announced on Tuesday evening that it apprehended two Israeli teenage setters living in an illegal settlement outpost near Dir Jareer village, north east of the central West…
Army Demolishes Structures, Tents, In The Northern Plains
Tuesday April 23, 2013, Israeli soldiers demolished several of agricultural structures and tents used by Palestinian shepherds in the northern plains area, east of the occupied West Bank.Local sources in…
Al-Eesawy Ends His Hunger Strike, To Be Released In 8 Months
Palestinian political prisoner Samer Al-Eesawy signed an agreement with the Israeli prosecution for him to be released to his hometown in occupied East Jerusalem. The agreement was in return for…
Palestine Today 04 23 2013
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Settlers Burn 10 Cars Near Ramallah
Tuesday April 23, 2013, a number of armed extremist Israeli settlers invaded the Dir Jareer village, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and torched 10 Palestinian cars…
Army Cuts 600 Trees Near Hebron
Tuesday April 23, 2013, the Radio Bethlehem 2000 has reported that Israeli soldiers cut more than 600 Palestinian Olive and Almond trees and removed a tent in Um Neer area,…
Israeli Soldiers Uproot 1300 Olive Trees
Israeli forces uprooted over 1300 olive trees near Hebron. A demolition crew implemented over 26 outstanding demolition orders, that entailed to destroying over 1300 trees in Susiya village. Israeli settlers…
Settlers burn villagers cars near Ramallah
Dozens of Israeli settlers raided a village near Ramallah Monday night and burned 10 cars.Witnesses reported that settlers from Ofra settlement attacked the positions of villagers, including 10 cars that…
Palestinians Injured As Army Attacks Nonviolent Protest In Jerusalem
Monday April 22, 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian youth was shot and injured in the face after Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinians holding a nonviolent protest in solidarity…
Palestine Today 04 22 2013
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Israel Crafts Image Separate From Awful Reality
As a faithful apologist, Craig Weinerman (guest viewpoint, April 16) provides us a proud résumé of Israel. Of course, every competent job applicant knows how to craft a résumé. In…
Palestinian Short Film to Compete at Cannes Film Festival
RAMALLAH, April 22, 2013 (WAFA) – A Palestinian short film was one of nine films selected from among 3500 short films from 132 countries to compete at the Cannes Film…
PPS: “No Official Proposal To End The Case Of Eesawy”
Lawyer Jawad Boulos of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) stated Monday that Israel did not present any substantial offer to end the crisis of hunger striking Palestinian detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy,…
Lawyer: “Eesawy Conditionally Agrees To End His Hunger Strike”
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, reported that hunger striking Palestinian detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy, expressed a conditional acceptance of an Israeli officer to end his strike in exchange for his…
Egypt: “We Captured Israeli Spy Cell”
Egyptian sources reported, Sunday, that the Egyptian police and security forces uncovered a cell that operated on behalf of Israel in the Sinai area in Egypt. The sources said that…
Settlers Occupy Monastery, Raise Israeli Flag
On Friday, April 19, a group of extremist Israeli settlers occupied a Christian Monastery in a Palestinian village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and raised an Israeli…
This Week in Palestine Week 16 2013
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Israel detain a man near Bethlehem
Israeli forces on Friday detained a man from Battir village, west of Bethlehem. Forces detained Haidar Muammar,47, during after raiding his home at dawn.
Israeli settlers attack a Monastry near Ramallah
Israeli settlers on Friday raised an Israeli flag over a monastery and chapel in a village near Ramallah after overtaking the building.Priest Aziz Raey said that Israeli settlers broke into…
UC Berkeley student senate votes to divest from companies that profit from Israeli Occupation
After a ten hour debate that began Wednesday evening and continued through the night, the Student Senate at the University of California – Berkeley voted to divest University funds from…
Activists remove section of Israeli Wall in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners
This Palestinian Prisoners Day, April 17th 2013, Palestinian and international activists cut down a fenced section of the Israeli apartheid wall in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli occupation…
Palestine Today 04 18 2013
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Child from New Orleans sentenced to serve in adult prison in Israel
A 14-year old boy from New Orleans, Louisiana was sentenced on Wednesday to a two-week term in an Israeli prison, after having been abducted on April 5th by Israeli forces…
Palestine Today 04 17 2013
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Army Opens Fire At Palestinian Ambulance In Bethlehem
Wednesday evening, April 17, 2013, Israeli soldiers opened fire at a Palestinian Red Crescent Ambulance while trying to provide medical care to family members, including an infant, injured by gas…
39 Palestinians Injured By Army Fire In Hebron
Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian youth was shot by a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head during clashes with the army in Beit Ummar…
Soldiers Kidnap Two Palestinians Near Jerusalem
Wednesday evening, April 17, 2013, Israeli soldiers kidnapped two Palestinians at the Container Roadblock, near occupied East Jerusalem, and took them to the Police station in Maale Adumim. A Third…
Fayyad: To Go To General Elections
Ramallah- the outgoing Prime Minister Salam Fayyad called for a return to the people and for holding general elections in order to rebuild the Palestinian political system.In his first interview…
Palestine Today 04 16 2013
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For The First Time Since 1990, Palestinian Embassy Opens in Kuwait
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, conducts his first visit to Kuwait for the first time since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and officially participates in the official ceremony to…
Palestine Today 04 15 2013
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Israeli Journalist Accuses Army Of Executing Two Palestinians
A report written by Israeli Journalist, Gideon Levi, and published by Haaretz Hebrew Language daily, accuses the Israeli military of deliberately executing two Palestinians, who were recently shot by the…
Israeli Officer Writes Racist, Anti-Arab Comments On His Facebook Page
An Israeli military officer published racist jokes against Arabs on his Facebook page on the day Israel marks what it calls “Memorial Day”, in which it marks the memory of…
Turkish PM To Visit Gaza In May
Turkish Prime Minister, Receb Tayyip Erdogan, stated that he intends to visit the Gaza Strip by the end of this coming May following his trip to the United States. Erdogan…
Israel Extends Family Unification Ban For Additional Year
The Israeli government decided, during its Sunday session, to extend the ban on Palestinian family unification requests for an additional year.The ban affects families in which one of the parents…
Israeli troops attack non-violent protests in six Palestinian villages
On Friday, non-violent protests against the Israeli Wall and settlements were organized in the villages of al Nabi Saleh, Bil’in, Nil’in and Silwad in central West Bank, in addition to…
This Week in Palestine Week 15 2013
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Israel offer Isawiexile
Israel offered hunger striker Samer Isawia deal to exile him to a UN member or European country country.A spokesman to the Israeli prime minister said that an offer was presented…
Israeli settlers uproot dozens of trees near Hebron
Israeli settlers uprooted dozens of trees from near the village of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, a local activist said. Settlers uprooted 47 olive trees and 55 grape vines in…
Israel detain 2 Palestinians in Aboud village
Israeli forces detained on Friday two Palestinians at in Aboud village north of Ramallah. Israeli forces erected a checkpoint at the entrance of the village, and arrested 23-year-old Mahmoud al-Barghouthi…
PCHR Weekly Report: 11 civilians wounded, 59 abducted; 350 trees cut by Israeli troops this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 04- 10 April 2013, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
Prominent youth activist abducted by Israeli troops in Hebron
The coordinator of the non-violent group called ‘Youth Against Settlements’ was abducted Wednesday by Israeli troops when he responded to a summons to appear at the police station at the…
Palestine Today 04 11 2013
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Protests in Gaza and 40 European cities urge end to trade with Israeli agriculture firms
Palestinian farming organisations and campaigners in more than 40 European cities held demonstrations Tuesday calling for governments and supermarkets to end trade with Israeli agricultural export companies over their role…
Army Kidnaps A Wounded Disabled Palestinian In Hebron
Israeli soldiers kidnapped former political prisoner, Mo’taz Obeido, 32, from Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Obeido suffered a disability after being shot by the…
Palestine Today 04 10 2013
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Soldiers Invade, Uproot, Farmlands in Khan Younis
Wednesday morning April 10, 2013, several armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers invaded Palestinian farmland east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.Local sources reported that…
Army Kidnaps 23 Palestinians In the West Bank
On Wednesday April 10, 2013, Israeli soldiers kidnapped 23 Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, after breaking into their homes and searching them. One of the kidnapped…
Palestinians mark 65th anniversary of Deir Yassin massacre
In Palestine and around the world on Tuesday, Palestinians and their supporters held vigils and events to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the massacre of over one hundred Palestinian civilians…
Palestine Today 04 09 2013
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Palestinian Cameraman Shot In The Face In Bethlehem
Bethlehem, Monday April 8, 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian cameraman was shot in the face, on Monday evening, by a rubber-coated metal bullet, in the Aida refugee…
Palestine Today 04 08 2013
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Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike facing heart slowdown; possible brain damage
Samer al-Essawy, who has been on hunger strike over 250 days, may die at any moment, according to his doctors. After examining Essawy on Sunday, the doctors reported that his…
PLO Calls For Prosecuting Settlers In International Courts
Monday April 8, 2013, the Media and Education Department at the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) called for conducting all needed arrangements to file lawsuits against Israeli settlers, and Israeli political…
Israel Claims Arresting A “Hamas Cell” In Jerusalem
The Israeli “Internal Security Services” revealed Monday that the army arrested, last month, several Palestinians who allegedly “formed a cell for the Hamas movement in the Shu’fat refugee camp, in…
Palestinian village succeeds in campaign to stop Israeli sewage dumping on their land
Residents of the village Sabastiya near Nablus have confirmed that the pipe which pumps raw sewage onto their land from nearby illegal settlement Shave Shomron has been shut off. The…
Hacker group ‘Anonymous’ takes down hundreds of Israeli websites
Late Saturday night, hackers affiliated with the worldwide network known as ‘Anonymous’ attacked hundreds of Israeli websites as part of a campaign targeting Israel for their occupation of Palestinian land…
Four Palestinians, Including A child, Kidnapped In West Bank
Saturday April 6, 2013; Israeli soldiers kidnapped three Palestinians, including a 10-year-old child, in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and one Palestinian in the West…
Dozens Injured In East Jerusalem Clashes
Jerusalem – Saturday April 6, 2013; Palestinian medical sources reported that dozens of Palestinians have been injured by rubber-coated metal bullets and due to the effects of teargas inhalation during…
39 Palestinians Injured By Army Fire In Hebron
Friday April 5, 2013, Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank reported that 39 Palestinians have been injured by rubber-coated metal bullets fired…
Autopsy of Abu Hamdiyeh to be announced in 24 hours
The Palestinian ministry of justice announced on their website on Friday that the results of Abu Hamdiyeh’s autopsy will be revealed in the coming 24 hours. The ministry’s undersecretary said…
Israeli forces detain a Palestinian near Nablus
Israeli forces detained a Palestinian at Huwwara military checkpoint near Nablus on thursday.They claimed that the 35-year-old Palestinian from Balaa village was holding a sharp object at the checkpoint. Meanwhile,…
This Week in Palestine – Week 14 2013
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Dozenz injured in clashes near Bethlehem
Dozens of Palestinians were injured on Friday in clashes that erupted between protesters and Israeli forces in al-Khader village near Bethlehem. The coordinator of a committee against settlements and the…
PCHR Weekly Report: 2 civilians killed, 6 wounded, 41 abducted by Israeli troops this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 28 Mar. to 03 Apr. 2013, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights…
Palestine Today 04 04 2013
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