Month: January 2014

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AFP via PNN — Norway’s huge sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, blacklisted two Israeli companies involved in construction of settlements in East Jerusalem, the country’s finance ministry said Thursday.The…

Two Palestinian youth were shot and injured by Israeli forces, early Friday, at a checkpoint east of Jerusalem, in the West Bank, according to witnesses.Witnesses told Ma’an News Agency that…

[Friday, January 31, 2014] Several Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation in Methaloon village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, after dozens of soldiers invaded it…

[Friday at Dawn, January 31, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that seven Palestinians were injured after the Israeli Air Force fired missiles targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip.…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, for the week of 23-29 January, 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that,…

[Thursday Evening, January 30, 2014] The Israeli army demolished, on Thursday, at least 50 structures, including residences, displacing 13 families in the northern Jordan Valley, as a result , according…

“There is no other way to describe his murder, but as a crime, a coldblooded crime, they shot him dead, claimed he tried to attack them, and thought they had…

[Thursday, January 30, 2014] Three Palestinian detainees, held by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges, have been on hunger strike since March 9, and are determined to continue…

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Al Aqsa Foundations for Heritage and Waqf has warned against attempts by Israeli occupation forces to install surveillance cameras on al-Aqsa mosque’s northern wall, and this in addition to the…

Christian Peacemaker Teams is going to court to challenge the refusal to let them enter Palestine.CPT is a group devoted to help achieving peace, reports the Palestinian News Network (PNN).…

LONDON (AFP) via Ma’an News Agency — US actress Scarlett Johansson has quit as global ambassador for Oxfam after the aid group deemed the role ‘incompatible’ with her promotion of…

Israeli forces issued demolition orders to two Palestinian families in a southern West Bank village, on Thursday, according to a local official.Hashim Tmeizi, the mayor of the village of Idhna,…

[Thursday at Dawn, January 30, 2014] Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded Ein Shibli village, in the West Bank’s Central Plains, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, broke…

[Thursday at Dawn, January 30, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded several Palestinian communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank, searched them, and kidnapped five Palestinians near the northern West…

[Wednesday Evening, January 29, 2014] Eyewitnesses said that Israeli soldiers invaded the al-Isawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped seven Palestinians, including a young woman. Dozens of residents have…

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Jerusalemite Ubaida Asaid, age 16, has begun an open-ended hunger strike to protest against transferring him to Ofek criminal jail.The father of the boy said that the IPS transferred his…

Israeli settlers, on Wednesday, uprooted around 25 olive trees in the village of Madama, south of Nablus, according to a local activist.Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the north…

Israeli forces, on Tuesday evening, detained Ramallah and al-Bireh governor Laila Ghannam while she was on her way from Jericho to Ramallah.A statement from the governor’s office said that “Occupation…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young Palestinian man has been shot and killed by Israeli army fire near the Ein Senia area, north of the central West Bank…

Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and kidnaped 10 Palestinians, including seven in the West Bank district of Nablus.Local sources in Nablus…

[Tuesday Evening, January 28, 2014] Dozens of Israeli soldiers attempted to invade al-Azza refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and clashed with local youth. Palestinian kidnapped…

Israeli media sources reported Tuesday [January 28, 2014] that the Israeli Internal Security managed to uncover a “Hamas cell” in occupied East Jerusalem, and that its members planned attacks in…

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Israel’s Hayom newspaper reported, on Monday, that 134 out of 435 members of Congress have signed a letter criticizing the American Studies Association’s decision last month to boycott Israel’s academic…

Israeli soldiers manning a checkpoint at the northern entrance to Ramallah, Tuesday, stopped the convoy of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah for a security check, and kept him there for one…

Israeli forces detained on Monday, January 27, 2014 European Press Agency photographer Abed El-Hafiz Al-Hashlamoon and WAFA Agency photographer Ahmed Mizher, during their coverage of the clashes which erupted between…

Israeli forces, on Tuesday, erected an iron gate at the main entrance to the Bethlehem village of Nahhalin.Locals told Ma’an News Agency that, in 2001, Israeli forces blockaded a road…

[Tuesday, January 28, 2014] Palestinian sources have reported that Israeli soldiers invaded different parts of the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, and kidnapped at least 30 Palestinians. The army…

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[Monday Morning, January 27, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded Al-Isawiyya neighborhood and Beit Hanina town, in occupied Jerusalem, and demolished three Palestinian homes.Mohammad Abu al-Hummus, of the Follow-up Committee in al-Isawiyya,…

Palestinian nonviolent activists managed to document an attack carried out by Israeli extremists, on Sunday [January 24, 2014], against Palestinian children, at the entrance of Shuhada’ Street, in Hebron city,…

[Monday, January 27, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a Palestinian teenager was killed in an explosion which took place, on Sunday, in the al-Boeij refugee camp, in central…

[Monday Morning, January 27, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a Palestinian farmer was shot and seriously wounded by Israeli military fire in the Abu Al-‘Ajeen area, southeast of…

[Monday at Dawn, January 27, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, violently searching homes after invading them, and…

[Sunday Evening, January 26, 2013] Israeli soldiers kidnapped five Palestinians, in three separate incidents, in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, media sources in Hebron have reported.The sources said…

[Sunday Evening, January 26, 2014] Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the town of Ya’bod, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, detained several Palestinians and kidnapped three. Clashes…

A recent poll, conducted by the University of Haifa, has revealed that the number of Druze refusing to serve in the Israeli army is increasing. It also shows that a…

[Sunday, January 26, 2014] Israeli police have shot a Palestinian man, aged 41, while he was in Israel for work, according to medical sources.Director of the Red Crescent in Jenin,…

In the framework of the Palestinian reconciliation talks, and just days after a Fatah delegation arrived to the Gaza Strip to meet Hamas leaders, Hamas issued a statement, on Saturday,…

Bethlehem – [Sunday, January 26, 2014] After dozens of settlers uprooted Palestinian trees and farmlands near Wad Rahhal village, south of Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers kidnapped coordinator of the Popular Committee…

[Sunday, January 26, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, conducted military searches of homes and property, and kidnapped three Palestinians. Local sources in Bethlehem…

[Saturday Evening, January 26, 2014] Palestinian sources have reported that several Israelis hurled stones at Palestinian cars driving on Road 1, in occupied Jerusalem; injuries have been reported.The sources stated…

Left-wing groups and parties held marches in several parts of the West Bank on Saturday, challenging the negotiations currently taking place between the Palestinian Authority and Israeli officials, governed by…

Shulamit Aloni, founder of leftist Meretz party, former minister of education and the legendary mother of the Israeli civil rights movement, died Friday at the age of 86. Aloni served…

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that Tel Aviv would not remove a single Israeli settlement in the occupied territories, and that any ideas proposed now to advance peace talks,…

[Saturday at Dawn, November 25 2014] Israeli soldiers fired several shells and rounds of live ammunition into Palestinian farmlands east of Al-Qarara town, northeast of Khan Younis in the southern…

The German government is continuing grants to Israeli high-tech companies, as well as renewing a scientific cooperation agreement, on the inclusion of a territorial clause stating that Israeli entities located…

[Friday, January 24, 2014] Israeli forces shot dead one Palestinian and injured another, on Friday, during a protest east of Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip. Spokesman for the Gaza…

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[Friday, January 24, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded Palestinian communities in Bethlehem and Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, broke into homes and searched them, kidnapping two Palestinians.Local sources have reported…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) issued its weekly report on Israeli violations in the occupied territories, for the period between January 16 – 22, 2014, and said that…

[Thursday Evening, January 23, 2014] A number of Israeli military vehicles, stationed across the border fence with Gaza, fired dozens of rounds of live ammunition into Palestinian agricultural lands and…

[Thursday Evening, January 23, 2014] Israeli soldiers installed a sudden roadblock at the entrance of Kufur Qaddoum village, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and kidnapped one…

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Israeli Minister of Housing and Construction, Uri Ariel, of the ‘Jewish Home’ fundamentalist party, a senior member of Israel’s settler-led government, has called for the ‘rebuilding’ of what he calls…

Israeli police have ordered Khalid al-Zir, a resident of Silwan neighborhood in East Jerusalem, to remove a tent which he and other Jerusalem residents had set up the night before…

[Thursday, January 23, 2014] In a Wednesday press release, the Ministry of Higher Education denounced the Israeli army attack against Al-Quds University, for desecrating the sanctity of the institution, obstructing…

The Israeli Defence Ministry, this week, approved plans to build 381 new homes in the Givat Ze’ev settlement, north of Jerusalem. This is the third such announcement in three weeks.…

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A group of Israeli settlers, on Wednesday, uprooted 800 olive saplings planted by Palestinian farmers, in the village of Sinjel. The trees had been donated by the International Committee of…

The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees has reported that seven Palestinian detainees are currently holding open-ended hunger strikes in Israeli detention facilities, and that some of them are facing very serious…

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[Thursday, January 23, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded the West Bank districts of Hebron and Bethlehem, kidnapping eight Palestinians after breaking into their homes and violently searching them.Local sources in Hebron,…

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Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday [January 22, 2014], the town of Beit Forik, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and clashed with local youth, wounding two Palestinians.The…

[Wednesday, January 22, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that dozens of students have been injured at Al-Quds University, in Abu Dis town of occupied East Jerusalem, after dozens of…

[Wednesday, January 22, 2014] Dozens of Israeli soldiers have invaded a Palestinian community northeast of Tubas, in the central West Bank, demolishing agricultural and residential structures.The Palestinian News & Info…

[Wednesday, January 22, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that that a Palestinian child suffered serious injuries after a bomb, dropped by Israeli soldiers during training, exploded in his hands,…

[Wednesday, January 22, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank, broke into and searched homes, and kidnapped several Palestinians, including children.The Wadi…

[Tuesday Evening, January 21, 2014] Palestinian Presidency spokesperson Nabil Abu Rodeina denounced a recent Israeli plan to build an additional 381 units of illegal Jewish settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.Abu…

[Tuesday Evening, January 21, 2014] Israeli soldiers shot and injured a young Palestinian man in the Aida refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, medical sources said.The…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that Israeli soldiers assassinated two Palestinian fighters on Tuesday night, after midnight, in Beit Hanoun town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.The sources…

[Tuesday Evening, January 21, 2014] Israeli soldiers kidnapped two Palestinians at a military roadblock, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and one near the central West Bank city…

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[Monday, January 20, 2014] An Israeli force raided former prisoner Samer al-Issawi’s home in the Issawiyeh District of occupied east Jerusalem, local media said. Shireen al-Issawi, Samer’s sister, said that…

[Tuesday, January 21, 2014] Israeli forces and settlers, on Tuesday, prevented two Palestinian farmers from Husan, west of Bethlehem, from accessing their farmland located in the middle of the illegal…

At least one rocket struck the outskirts of Israel’s southern Red Sea resort of Eilat, on Monday, according to a security source, Ma’an News Agency has reported.’At least one rocket…

[Tuesday, January 21, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various districts in the occupied West Bank, broke into dozens of homes, searched them, and kidnapped several Palestinians.Local sources in Bethlehem have reported…

[Tuesday, January 21, 2014] An explosive charge detonated nearly 200 meters east of the Gaza border fence, on a border road used by the Israeli military, east of Khan Younis,…

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[Monday, January 20, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various districts in the occupied West Bank, violently broke into and searched Palestinian homes, kidnapping eleven Palestinians.Palestinian security sources said that the army…

[Monday Morning, January 20, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various areas in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, demolished Palestinian property, including shops, and kidnapped two Palestinians. Local sources have…

Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, strongly denounced statements made by Australian FM, Julie Bishop, who criticized what she called “European pressure…

[Sunday, January 19, 2014] Officials of the Jerusalem City Council, accompanied by dozens of soldiers and police officers, invaded Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and handed out orders targeting…

Israeli Deputy Defense Minister, Danni Dannon, stated Sunday that American Secretary of State John Kerry intends to travel to the region Monday for new rounds of talks with Israeli and…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, PCHR, issued a statement Sunday condemning an extra-judicial execution attempt, on Sunday morning, 19 January 2014.In the assassination attempt, an Israeli drone fired a…

On the 6th anniversary of Operation Cast Lead, carried out by the Israeli military in 2008, over 500 hundred people gathered, opposite the Israeli embassy in London, to protest against…

Hundreds of Israeli settlers, escorted and protected by soldiers, stormed the eastern area of Nablus and performed religious rituals in Joseph’s Tomb.Eyewitnesses said that around 10 buses carrying settlers and…

[Sunday Morning, January 19, 2014] Israeli gunboats opened fire, Sunday morning, on Palestinian fishermen off the Gaza coast near al-Sodania area, to the north of Gaza.Al Ray reports that the…

Israeli municipality workers, on Sunday, distributed orders for the demolition of eight buildings in East Jerusalem, witnesses and residents told Ma’an News Agency. Notices were issued in the neighborhoods of…

[Sunday, January 19, 2014] Israeli soldiers kidnapped twelve Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Bethlehem, Hebron and Nablus. The army also kidnapped a recently released veteran Palestinian political prisoner…

[Sunday at Dawn, January 19, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that at least two Palestinians, including a child, have been injured after the Israeli army bombarded an area in…

[Saturday, January 18, 2014] Israel will return the remains of 36 Palestinians currently held in Israeli ‘numbered graves’, a Palestinian committee spokesman told Ma’an News Agency.The remains of one Palestinian…

[Saturday, January 18, 2014] Egyptian border guards demolished eight smuggling tunnels underneath the Egypt-Gaza border in Rafah, on Saturday, according to Egyptian army sources.A military source told Ma’an News Agency…

Five Palestinians were arrested in Jenin and in Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp, at dawn on Thursday.According to Aida residents, Israeli soldiers stormed the camp amidst heavy shooting and firing of…

Clashes between Palestinian youth and Israeli forces spilled over onto Bethlehem’s Manger Street, on Friday, after two weeks of daily confrontations in the nearby Aida refugee camp.Local activist Salah Ajarma…

Four Israeli artillery vehicles crossed briefly, on Friday evening, into the Shuhada Cemetery lying east of Jabalya, in the northern Gaza Strip.A reporter from Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency said…