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[Tuesday, February 18, 2014] Hanan Khatib, one of the lawyers of the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, visited two wounded Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel who testified to her how…
Israeli occupation forces assaulted, on Saturday evening, photojournalist Yousef Shakarneh from Nahalin village, west of Bethlehem, who worked as a freelance photojournalist with a number of local and international news…
Five people were killed overnight in a gas explosion, in the northern Israeli city of Acre, Israeli media has reported.The three-story building in Acre’s Old City collapsed, just following the…
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The Ayyad family, owners of the Cliff Hotel, located in Abu Dis, to the southeast of Jerusalem, managed on Sunday to stop the construction of a stretch in the segregation…
Israeli forces, on Monday, bulldozed five steel structures belonging to a Palestinian community in the East Jerusalem town of al-Eizariya, according to locals.A large group of Israeli forces raided the…
Israeli television Channel 7 has announced that the Israeli occupation municipality in Jerusalem approved, on Friday, the construction of 350 housing units in the settlement of Talpiot, east Jerusalem.Originally translated…
In a meeting with nearly 170 Israeli college students, at his office in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that the Palestinian Authority does…
80 Palestinian prisoners, held in Nafha prison, have complained about the ill-conditioned ward No. 3, which houses bugs and mice. A lawyer for Prisoners’ Club society, recently delegated to the…
Israeli army and settlers prevented, on Sunday, Palestinian farmers in the village of Assakrah, east of Bethlehem, from entering their land to plant it under the pretext of it being…
Egyptian authorities have closed the Rafah crossing for five days in a row, now, says Director General of Borders and Crossings in Gaza Maher, Abu Sabha.He has called on Egypt…
Israeli authorities, Sunday, completely cut off the water supply of 14 houses in the old city of Jerusalem, under the pretext of accumulated debts, bringing the number of houses without…
Dozens of Israeli settlers, in recent months, have installed cameras on their vehicles’ license-plates in order to capture Palestinians and record the shooting and incidents of throwing stones or Molotov…
Israeli forces stormed three Jenin-area villages in the northern West Bank, early on Sunday, and detained a young Palestinian man, locals said.Locals informed Ma’an that Israeli military vehicles stormed the…
[Saturday, February 15, 2014] A young Palestinian woman was shot and wounded after Israeli soldiers opened fire at a Palestinian car close to a military roadblock, south of the northern…
[Saturday Evening, February 15, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a Palestinian cameraman was injured after being attacked by Israeli soldiers in Wad Fokkin village, southwest of the West…
Last week, some 300 Palestinian activists established the protest village of Ein Hijleh in a cluster of palm trees and abandoned houses, in the Jordan Valley, north of the Dead…
The Palestinian Interior Ministry has begun work to remove the religion section from Palestinian citizens’ identification cards. Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry Hassan Alawi stated that ‘the implementation to abolish…
Israeli forces prevented, Saturday, anti-settlement activists from planting olive saplings in the villages located to the east of Yatta, in the Hebron district, according to a local official. Activists from…
Israeli occupation forces, on Saturday at dawn, arrested two young men from Hebron and Jenin and summoned three others to an intelligence office, including two ex-prisoners. Local sources said that…
An Israeli tank, on Saturday, fired a shell at an open area in Gaza City, according to local residents.Witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli tanks were stationed along the border facing…
A 25-year-old Palestinian was shot in the leg and dozens, including an international activist, suffered from tear gas suffocation, Saturday, when Israeli soldiers cracked down on an anti-settlement demonstration to…
Israeli forces, on Thursday, arrested seven Palestinians, including three minors from Bethlehem and Nablus governorates.Israeli forces arrested Mustafa Ibrahim Abu Sror, 20, and Moath Tayseer Mashayekh, 21, after raiding their…
Israeli troops fired tear gas and live bullets at Palestinians who were throwing stones, Friday, near the border fence in northern Gaza, the army said, with Palestinian medics accounting for…
[Friday, February 14, 2014] Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlement in Hebron, Rateb Jabour, stated that Israeli soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian shepherd, east of Yatta city.…
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More than 120 Irish academics have signed a pledge to boycott Israeli institutions until Palestinian rights are respected, Academics for Palestine said in a press release, on Friday.It added that…
Surveillance CCTV cameras recorded a group of Jewish settlers stealing seedlings, along with a set of agriculture pottery from a nursery in Sawiya village, near the West Bank city of…
Japan announced, Thursday, a contribution of $30 million to the Palestinian budget, out of a total of $62.2 million to be donated.WAFA reports that Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah thanked Japan…
Thousands of young Israeli hardliners marched, on Thursday, to demand that the government build new settler homes in E1, a highly sensitive strip of West Bank land near Jerusalem. (AFP/Ma’an)…
Israeli forces arrested a number of youth, including children, on Wednesday, in the old city of Jerusalem, serving demolition orders to several citizens in Silwan town.Al Ray reports that the…
Two young Palestinian football players shot by Israeli forces, last month, have learned that they will never again be able to play sports, due to their injuries, say doctors. Doctors…
[Jerusalem – February 13 2014] Palestinian activists held a protest in front of the European Union office, in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, demanding an end to the illegitimate Israeli policies of…
[Thursday, February 13, 2014] Several Israeli military vehicles invaded the Deir Nitham village, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and kidnapped one Palestinian. Dozens of residents suffered…
[Thursday Evening, February 13, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that one Palestinian was killed, and another wounded by Israeli military fire in the al-Mintar area, east of the Ash-Shujaeyya…
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[Thursday Morning, February 13, 2014] Israeli soldiers attacked and fired gas bombs at dozens of schoolchildren in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, leading to dozens of injuries, Wadi Hilweh…
[Thursday, February 13, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian districts in the occupied West Bank, kidnapping twelve Palestinians before moving them to interrogation facilities.The Israeli military claimed that the twelve…
The Israeli Government of Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that Tel Aviv does not agree to the Turkish demand to lift the siege on the Gaza Strip in exchange for…
Israeli military and security sources claimed the army managed to uncover and arrest members of a cell that planned attacks against Israeli targets, in the occupied West Bank.The sources said…
[Wednesday Evening, February 12, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that four Palestinians have been injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading an area close to Shuhada Junction, in Qabatia,…
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A group of Israeli colonial settlers, on Tuesday, cut down 150 grape trees in the region of Ayn Alqisis, to the south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.’The aggressive…
The Israeli army stormed, on Monday, the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, raiding a Palestinian-owned house overlooking the city and, then, turning it into a military outpost,…
Israeli forces, on Wednesday, demolished tents set up by Palestinian residents in the Jordan Valley after their village was completely destroyed by Israel in January, according to an Israeli rights…
[Wednesday at Dawn, February 11, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded a Palestinian home in the neighborhood of al-Bustan, in Silwan town, occupied Jerusalem, kidnapped a father and his son, and injured…
[Tuesday Evening, February 11, 2014] Local sources in occupied Jerusalem have reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped five Palestinian children in different areas of occupied East Jerusalem.The sources said that the…
[Tuesday Evening, February 11, 2014] Several Palestinians have been injured after dozens of soldiers attacked a funeral procession of a Palestinian in Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West…
Ramallah – Tuesday, February 11, 2014, Israeli soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian from the al-Jalazonerefugee camp. The kidnapped Palestinian is the brother of a young man who was shot, and killed,…
[Tuesday Evening, February 11, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded the Nabi Saleh village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, clashed with local residents, and kidnapped a Palestinian cameraman.Eyewitnesses…
[Tuesday Evening, February 11, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a Palestinian man was moderately wounded by Israeli army fire after dozens of soldiers invaded Beit Ummar town, north…
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The Government of Japan has decided to extend approximately USD 62 million to the people of Palestine. The Palestinian News Network (PNN) reports that the contribution is a part of…
Israel has agreed to allow a shipment of goods to enter the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official said Tuesday.Hussein al-Sheikh, the head of the Palestinian Authority’s civil affairs department, told…
US Secretary of State John Kerry has approved that the drafted framework peace agreement, to be signed between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel, will include Palestinian recognition of the…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Washington on March 2, where he is to discuss Iran and the peace process with US President Barack Obama, his office said Monday.…
Israeli soldiers have arrested two Palestinians in the town of Ni’lin, West of Ramallah in Palestine.Both were political leaders of the Hamas movement. According to the Palestinian News Network (PNN),…
[Tuesday at Dawn, February 11, 2014] The Israeli air force fired several missiles into two areas in the besieged Gaza Strip, causing property damage but no casualties, the Palestine News…
[Tuesday at Dawn, February 11, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded Palestinian communities in the Nablus and Jenin districts, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, kidnapping seven Palestinians.Local sources…
[Tuesday Morning, February 11, 2014] Israeli Navy ships attacked Palestinian fishing boats in Palestinian territorial waters, near Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, and kidnapped three fishermen.Local sources have reported that…
[Tuesday, February 11, 2014] Several extremist settlers invaded Palestinian lands and orchards in al-Khader town, south of the West bank city of Bethlehem, uprooting 150 olive trees and illegally occupying…
90 families of Gaza prisoners left the coastal enclave, on Monday at dawn, to visit their sons in Nafha prison via Erez crossing to the north of Gaza city.Director of…
The Israeli West Jerusalem municipality, on Monday, destroyed a mobile caravan used as a storage belonging to a Palestinian in the neighborhood of al-Tur, East Jerusalem, under the pretext that…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with three of his top ministers to discuss ways to deal with the threat of economic boycotts against Israel, media reported Monday.(Ma’an/AFP) The meeting…
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[Monday Morning, February 10, 2014] Local sources have reported that the Israeli police demolished two Palestinian homes in Silwan and Jabal al-Mokabber, in occupied East Jerusalem.Resident Mohammad Hasan Sawahra, 38,…
[Monday at Dawn, February 10, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, violently broke into and searched dozens of homes, and kidnapped several Palestinians.Local sources…
[Monday at Dawn, February 10, 2014] A number of Israeli settlers invaded the Wad Yasoul area in Silwan town, occupied East Jerusalem, punctured tires of 30 Palestinian vehicles, and sprayed…
[Monday at Dawn, February 9, 2014] Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded Ni’lin town, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and kidnapped two political leaders of the Hamas…
A report published by the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees in Ramallah, on February 8, revealed that several ailing detainees currently imprisoned by Israel, including cancer patients, are suffering serious deterioration…
Sunday Evening [February 9, 2014] Israeli sources have reported that a hareidi (conservative orthodox) Jewish man was stabbed near the Damascus Gate, in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem.Israeli…
A number of right-wing Israeli settlers were caught on tape, Saturday, attacking an Israeli peace activist accompanying Palestinian shepherds and farmers through Palestinian lands at Shweika village, south of the…
Israel has rejected a proposal by the Palestinian Authority to place a NATO force in the Jordan Valley.(Al Ray/Press TV) The Washington Post, on Saturday quoted US Secretary of State…
Israeli forces arrested two West Bank Palestinians, Sunday, including an elderly, in addition to two others from the Jerusalem area, according to local sources.They said that forces arrested a Palestinian…
Israeli warplanes targeted a motorcycle in the central Gaza Strip, early Sunday, injuring two young Palestinian men, according to a medical official.Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesman for Gaza’s Ministry of Health, told…
Israeli settlers uprooted at dawn, today [Sunday, February 9, 2013], 800 olive seedlings in Singel village, north of Ramallah.Singel Mayor Ayoub Sweden told the Palestinian News Network (PNN) that this…
MP Jamal al-Khudari has stated that 80% of the factories in Gaza were fully or partially closed due to the continued siege. Khudari, who is Head of the Popular Committee…
Jerusalem – A video, captured by Rami Alarya of the Alqods Independent Media Center, showed a number of Israeli soldiers assaulting a Palestinian child, on Friday evening [February 4 2014],…
Five Palestinians were wounded by Israeli army gunfire near the separation barrier in the northern Gaza Strip, on Friday, according to Palestinian medical sources.(Ma’an/AFP) Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesman for the…
An Israeli was killed after a car bomb exploded on Saturday evening, in south Tel Aviv.Israeli sources reported that the explosion targeted a car on Sheshet Hayamim (Six Days) street,…
Israel forces raided several towns in the Jenin district, on Saturday, provoking clashes with residents, according to security sources.Confrontations erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces following an army raid on…
A rocket from Gaza fell in the Western Negev region on Saturday evening, causing no damage, according to an Israeli military spokesman. The spokesman said that the rocket fell in…
Palestinian medical sources have reported that two Palestinian fighters were killed on Friday night, [February 7, 2014], in two separate incidents, in the besieged coastal region.Spokesperson of the Ministry of…
[Friday at night, February 7, 2014] Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, Rateb Jabour, has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped two Palestinians in Beit Ummar town,…
[Friday, February 07, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a Palestinian child was moderately injured, when an explosive dropped by Israeli soldiers exploded near him, in Khirbit Sha’b al-Batm,…
Israeli forces uprooted, on Thursday, around 120 palm trees in Al-Zubeidat, a town located to the north of Jericho, according to local sources. Hasan Al-Jarmi, the land owner, said that…
An Israeli settler ran over a Palestinian citizen near Yitzhar West Bank settlement junction, Friday, in eastern Nablus.Al Ray reports that Bassem Omran, the victim’s brother, said that Taiseer Omran,…
Forty-one activists have been injured, during a raid on Ein Hejleh protest village, in the Jordan Valley. Activists told the Palestinian News Network (PNN) that 41 activists suffered injuries from…
At least 18 Palestinians were injured when Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian worshipers after prayers, in the al-Aqsa compound, on Friday.Dozens of Israeli soldiers raided the compound, firing tear gas…
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The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) issued its weekly reports on Israeli violations in the occupied territories for the period between January 30 to February 5, 2014.The PCHR stated…
[Thursday Evening, February 6, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young Palestinian man was shot and injured by Israeli military fire in the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, in Hebron.…
The number of cancer patients in the besieged Gaza Strip is on the rise, as Israel uses weapons containing carcinogenic agents against Palestinians, medical sources have reported. (Press TV/Al Ray)…
Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has brokered an agreement between Palestinian employees of UNRWA and the agency’s administration, ending a two-month strike.Officials privy to the details told Ma’an News Agency on…
The Israeli army has evicted 35 Palestinian families from their homes in the northern Jordan. The families reside in the areas of al-Burj, al-Mayteh and al-Hammamat.The Israeli press reported, on…
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Israeli soldiers invaded on Thursday, at dawn [February 5, 2014], the villages of Huwwara and Beita, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, kidnapping eight Palestinians, and caused…
[Thursday Morning, February 5, 2014] A number of armored Israeli military vehicles carried out a limited invasion into an area east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the…
[Thursday, February 5, 2014] Palestinian media sources have reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, four Palestinians in Qalqilia, Hebron, and occupied Jerusalem. The sources said that several Israeli military jeeps invaded…
[Wednesday, February 5, 2014] Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, strongly denounced Israel’s approval of an additional 349 units of Jewish settlements…