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Large numbers of students from different schools, Thursday morning, participated in a sit-in organized by the Ministry of Education in Gaza, to mark the Prisoners’ Day, on April 17.Director General…
A staggering 800,000 Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli forces since 1967. 5224 remain incarcerated today, including administrative, sick, female and children detainees. These numbers reflect one of the worst…
Several Palestinians were injured, on Thursday, during clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the Bethlehem village of Tuqu, locals said.Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas canisters…
[Thursday, April 17, 2014] Palestinian detainees, held by Israeli under arbitrary Administrative Detention order, without charges or trial, said they intend to launch an open-ended hunger strike, starting next Thursday,…
[Thursday, April 17, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, broke into homes and searched them, installed roadblocks and kidnapped at least eight young Palestinian…
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees in Ramallah issued a statement marking the twelfth anniversary of the kidnapping and imprisonment of Palestinian leader, legislator Marwan Barghouthi, who was sentenced by an…
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Spokesman for the Hamas movement Fawzi Barhoum, on Wednesday, called on all Arab and Muslim leaders to expel Israeli ambassadors in their countries in order to pressure Israel to end…
An Israeli court has agreed to lift beginning tomorrow the gag order on reporting anything related to the detention of the journalist Majd Kayyal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel. Originally…
Palestinian PM Ismail Haniyeh called on Egyptian authorities to open the border to the Gaza Strip around the clock for individuals and goods, and to allow the entry of all…
The Palestinian National Council called in a statement, on Wednesday, upon the Israeli authorities to treat the Palestinian prisoners as war prisoners, after the state of Palestine became a member…
Three people killed and five injured in a blast which hit the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday. The source of the blast is so…
As the Palestinian people mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day on April 17, more than 800,000 Palestinians, including children, have been kidnapped and imprisoned by Israel since 1967, while at least 5,000…
[Wednesday, April 15, 2014] Soldiers in several armored Israeli military jeeps invaded the town of Beit Ummar, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, kidnapping four Palestinians, including the…
[Wednesday Morning, April 16, 2014] At least 45 Palestinians have been injured, while several others have been kidnapped, after Israeli soldiers and settlers broke into the yards of the Al-Aqsa…
A Report By Radio Bethlehem 2000 — The Israeli occupation forces obstructed the Palestinians from marking Palm Sunday by preventing them from entering occupied Jerusalem, through a systematic policy that…
A number of extremist settlers threw, on Tuesday evening, stones at Palestinian cars driving near the Gush Etzion Israeli settlement, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.Palestinian security sources…
A governmental committee to break the siege in Gaza said that human right solidarity convoy ”Miles of Smiles 26” is to reach Gaza next Sunday, via Rafah crossing, in the…
Israeli forces, on Tuesday, fired an artillery shell toward residents’ homes in Juhr al-Deek area, to the southeast of Gaza, yet no injuries were reported, according to media sources.WAFA correspondence…
Palestinian Christians carried a bold message as part of the annual Palm Sunday procession from the Mount of Olives to the Old City in East Jerusalem, this year. The parishes…
Israeli police issued orders to deport six Jerusalemites from the al-Aqsa Mosque and their surrounding area for a period of minimum two weeks, and up to six months, with the…
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Israeli soldiers placed a full siege on the town of Ithna, west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and initiated a large-scale search campaign that targeted dozens of…
This week, Israel permitted Jewish settlers to take over the building of the Rajabi family in Hebron after a long legal dispute which Israeli courts decided in the settlers’ favor.Submitted…
Noha Qatamish, 40 years of age, died on Monday night at Bethlehem city hospital after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli troops. The local Radio Bethlehem 2000, reported that Qatamish…
Israeli forces closed down the village of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, erecting several flying checkpoints around it. Spokesman for the local resistance committee Mohammad Ayyad Awad said that dozens…
Palestinian gunmen have shot dead an Israeli settler and injured two others on board a car, in the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli media.WEST BANK, Al Ray — Hebrew…
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Israeli authorities, on Sunday, closed off the border crossings leading to the West Bank, in addition to Karm Abu Salem crossing, Gaza’s sole commercial crossing.According to WAFA, local sources said…
The Israeli military and a group of settlers attacked, Monday morning, Palestinian workers who were constructing agricultural roads in Burin village, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.Coordinator of…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) welcomes the State of Palestine’s accessions to 12 international conventions related to the international humanitarian law and human rights, but calls upon the…
Israeli forces raided Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem, late Sunday, where they shot and arrested a Palestinian youth, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society told Ma’an.The society quoted the family of 20-year-old…
This is a translation of an interview by the Al-Quds Newspaper with Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, regarding the issue of Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel, and the…
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon gave his approval to the establishment of a new Jewish-only settlement in the heart of the Palestinian city of Hebron, and several families moved in,…
Israel has arrested and placed in incommunicado detention the journalist and researcher Majd Kayyal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel.Originally submitted by Ali Abunimah to the Electronic Intifada on Sunday, 04/13/2014…
Israeli forces, on Sunday, kidnapped four people in the Hebron district, summoning one for interrogation, as well as storming a village in Jenin, according to reports by local and security…
Several military occupation bulldozers, Sunday afternoon, broke into the eastern outskirts of al-Qarara town in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. A correspondent from Al Ray said that four bulldozers moved…
In the wake of the American Studies Association’s December 2013 endorsement of the Palestinian civil society call for an academic boycott of Israel – and as two efforts to legislate…
On Thursday, April 10, 2014, the Israeli military escort failed to accompany the Palestinian children from the South Hebron Hills villages of Tuba and Maghayir Al Abeed as they returned…
Dozens of Israeli settlers assaulted three Palestinian youths late Friday in an East Jerusalem settlement, family members told Ma’an.Abdullah Jibrin, 21, Eyab Jibrin, 20, and 20-year-old Ghalib al-Waari sustained injuries…
Israeli Minister of Defense, Moshe Ya’alon, announced on Sunday that works began for the largest project of expanding the settlement bloc of Gush Etzion, in the south of the West…
The human rights situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory has continued to be a source of serious concern, a human rights and democracy report on the Palestinian territories…
The Israeli Central Court, on Thursday, extended the detention of the prisoner Shireen al-Isawiand her brother Medhat, as well as the detention of the lawyer Amjad al-Safadi, until the 29th…
Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday morning, attacking worshipers with stun grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets, as Muslim worshipers braced for raids by right-wing Jewish groups, as…
[Saturday, April 12, 2014] Israeli soldiers closed all entrances of the Nabi Saleh village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and declared the village a closed military zone;…
The chief Palestinian negotiator in current Mideast peace talks called Israel’s decision to stop tax money transfers ‘piracy’, Al Ray reports from Gaza.Saeb Erekat said, Friday, ‘The Israeli decision to…
[Saturday, April 12, 2014] According to reports by Israeli military sources, the army kidnapped three Palestinians, allegedly after they crossed the border fence, in the northern part of the Gaza…
Israeli forces have launched a campaign of ‘sweeps’ against Palestinians without permits, between Northern Gaza and the West Bank, in the lead-up to the Passover and Easter holidays.According to Ma’an,…
Via Hebew radio, Israeli Minister of Environmental Protection, Amir Peretz, strongly criticized, on Saturday evening, the right-wing ‘Jewish Home’ party, describing it as ‘the party of national hypocrisy’, with accusations…
Two Palestinians were injured, Saturday, during clashes between local youth and Israeli forces in Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem.A local source said that two young men were shot by…
Armed Israeli settlers attacked, on Saturday, Palestinian farmers and shepherds in lands to the east of Yatta in Hebron district, according to a local activist.Protected by Israeli forces, heavily armed…
Israeli forces late Friday began to confiscate tax clearance certificates from Palestinian merchants at the main commercial crossing between Israel and the West Bank, according to Palestinian security sources.The sources…
Israeli settlers burned down a number of olive trees at dawn, this morning [Saturday, April 12, 2014]. Activist Ghassan Njagerh told Radio Bethlehem 2000 that the settlers burned about 27…
Israel has demolished several European Union-funded humanitarian housing shelters in a highly sensitive strip of West Bank land near Jerusalem, an EU official said Friday.(AFP/Al Ray) ‘On April 9, three…
Three civilians were injured and seven were kidnapped, on Friday, as Israeli soldiers attacked the non-violent protests organized in West Bank villages. Protests were organized, Friday, in the village of…
In a short video produced by the human rights organization Al-Haq, 28-year-old Osamah Nayef al-Shawamreh describes in harrowing detail the torture he endured for three days in a Palestinian Authority…
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An internationally renowned expert on torture says that evidence confirms a young Palestinian has died of injuries he sustained in Israeli custody due to torture.Arafat Jaradat, a 33-year-old father of…
Nine Palestinians were targeted, on Friday afternoon, with tear gas fired by the Israeli military stationed east of the northern Gaza town of Jabalya.Spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Dr…
More than 3,000 runners from around the world took part in the second annual Palestine Marathon on Friday, passing the Israeli separation wall and curbing around checkpoints on the 42-kilometer…
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague launched, Thursday, the Human Rights and Democracy Report 2013 at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, said a press release issued by the Foreign…
The Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, has made a call to the international community to boycott products from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.During a meeting…
Palestine and Jordan submitted a resolution to the Executive Board of the United Nations Security Council, to send a fact-finding commission to investigate the situation of heritage sites in Jerusalem…
Minister of Local Government Mohammed al-Farra said that the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, since 2007, disrupted 21 projects in the fields of water and sanitation.The projects were negatively…
The Palestinian Authority has signed up formally to the Geneva Conventions, which set down the rules of warfare and humanitarian operations in conflict zones, the treaties’ guardian Switzerland confirmed Friday.GENEVA…
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) based in Gaza published its weekly report on Israeli violations against the Palestinian people in the period between April 3 and April 9,…
The Israeli army closed a main agricultural road that leads to thousands of Dunams of Palestinian farmlands, east of Beit Ummar town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.…
In another measure meant to “punish” the Palestinian Authority (P.A) in the West Bank for signing 15 international treaties, the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu decided to enforce various sanctions,…
[Thursday, April 10, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a home was burnt, and two Palestinians were wounded, after Israeli soldiers, invading the Aida refugee camp north of Bethlehem,…
[Thursday, April 10, 2014] The Israeli Police ordered seven Palestinians away from the al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, for seven days, in exchange for their release. The seven were kidnapped…
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In this video, members of the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Rabbinical Council call for divestment from occupation profiteer Hewlett-Packard. The video plays on the phrase “Next year in Jerusalem”…
Israeli forces, on Thursday, tore down and confiscated several tents that the Palestinian Red Crescent had erected, east of Nablus, in order to house families whose houses were demolished by…
Al-Aqsa Foundation of Heritage and Islamic Waqf said, on Wednesday, that the so-called ‘Temple Mount’ organizations have announced a set of activities to be held in al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards and…
Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, sent identical letters to the UN Secretary General, President of the UN Security Council and President of the UN General Assembly…
Israeli sources have claimed that the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to extend negotiations past the deadline of April 29.The sources said that the President agreed to extend the negotiations,…
Israeli occupation forces, on Thursday afternoon, fired on Qararah village, east of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, with three artillery shells.According to Al Ray, Israeli sources claimed Israeli force,…
Israeli authorities, on Thursday morning, announced a decision to confiscate about 1,000 dunams (250 acres) of private Palestinian land in the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem.Deputy mayor of al-Khader…
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Hamas said today [Wednesday, April 9, 2014] that Palestinians in the West Bank should ‘give full rein’ to resistance against the Israeli occupation and end security cooperation with Israel. (Ma’an/AFP)…
Israeli forces, stationed on the borders with the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, opened fire on a residential area adjacent to the borders near Khan Yunes, according to media sources.A WAFA…
April 9 is the anniversary of the 1948 massacre of Deir Yassin. Published on 09 April 2014 Written by Nassar Ibrahim, AIC & OPGAI The place looks so quiet here…
A group of Christians from East Jerusalem, on Sunday, said that Israel’s restrictions on Palestinian mobility has resulted in violations of religious freedoms. The statement, signed ‘Palestinian Christian Organizations in…
Hebron, April 8, 2014 – After just three weeks in their new home, the Slemiah family from the village of Ithna have received a demolition order from the Israeli army.The…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Wednesday, instructed all Israeli government ministries to refrain from meeting their Palestinian Authority counterparts, and to cease civilian and economic cooperation with the Palestinian…
Israeli forces, early Wednesday, fired tear gas at a university campus in the central West Bank, administrators said.Officials at the Salfit branch of al-Quds Open University told Ma’an News Agency…
Israeli Minister of Economy and head of the Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett, denounced statements by US Secretary of State, John Kerry, which criticized Israel’s settlement construction and expansion activities.On…
[Tuesday, April 8, 2014] A number of Israeli settlers from the Efrat settlement, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, flooded Palestinian farmlands in al-Khader town with sewage.Coordinator of…
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem have been without running water for more than a month, victims of a decrepit and overwhelmed infrastructure and caught in a…
The Prisoners’ Club Society said, Tuesday, that Israeli occupation forces, armed with tear gas and batons, raided Cell 10 of Section 1, in Jalbou’ prison, after forcing the prisoners out.The…
Occupation forces abducted seventeen people from the West Bank, Tuesday, according to reports by local and security sources.Early Tuesday, the Israeli army invaded Silwad, a town located to the northeast…
Israeli bulldozers, early Tuesday, demolished agricultural structures and leveled fields in northwest Hebron, locals told Ma’an News Agency.Witnesses said bulldozers, escorted by Israeli troops, entered private Palestinian fields in the…
[Tuesday at Dawn, April 8, 2014] Local sources in the Northern West Bank district of Nablus have reported that several armoured Israeli military jeeps invaded the Tal and Osarin villages…
[Late, on Monday Evening, April 7, 2014] Several Israeli military jeeps invaded the al-Walaja village, northwest of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and served two residents with military notices…
Israeli military sources have reported that, for the third time since Sunday, a number of young Israeli settlers of the Yitzhar illegal settlement, south of the northern West Bank city…
[Tuesday at Dawn, April 8, 2014] Israeli soldiers have invaded the town of Ithna, west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, kidnapping a lawyer and his sister-in-law. The…
[Tuesday Morning, April 8, 2014] Israeli Navy boats opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats in Palestinian territorial waters, near Gaza city, causing excessive damage.One of the fishermen reported the navy…
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The Bethlehem marathon will host hundreds of runners from around the world in the ancient West Bank city next Friday, with one omission: The Palestinian Authority’s top runner, who happens…