Month: July 2014

Yesterday, in the village of Deir Istiya, two young boys, Hasim Abu Zeed (13) and Hathem Yaser Abu Zeed (9) were attacked by Israeli settlers.15th July 2014 | ISM, Nablus…

An Israeli civilian was killed by rocket fire coming from Gaza, on Tuesday, according to the Israeli army. This is the first Israeli death reported during the eight days of…

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The Israeli security cabinet reportedly agreed to a ceasefire agreement proposed by the Egyptian government,on Tuesday, but leaders with the Palestinian resistance said that no one had contacted them to…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and kidnapped one legislator, and three other Palestinians.Several Israeli military vehicles invaded the Aida refugee camp, in…

The US House of Representatives voted unanimously to support a non-binding resolution to reaffirm full U.S. support for Israel’s “defense of its citizens” and condemning Palestinian “unprovoked rocket fire”. The…

Palestinian medial sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that an additional ten Palestinian have been killed, Monday, in ongoing Israeli shelling and bombardment of various civilian areas in the…

According to Egyptian officials, a top US diplomat is scheduled to visit the region, in a joint effort to end a week of deadly violence in Gaza. He comes with…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said via press statement, that the escalating violence in the Gaza Strip and Israel threatens devastating harm for children on all sides, urging…

Prize winning Israeli defense and aerospace engineering expert Dr. Moti Shefer stated, during a recent interview with Radio 103, that the infamous Israeli ‘Iron Dome’ security system was one of…

The war is now in its seventh day, the death toll is rising briskly, 17,000 people have fled Beit Lahia in the north after the threat of a land invasion,…

At least 23 Palestinians were abducted by Israeli forces, during overnight raids throughout the West Bank, including several Members of Parliament. Further confrontations near Rachel’s Tomb have been reported at…

Three Israelis are to now be indicted with the murder of Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir, as it appears their initial intent was, in fact, to kill an eight-year-old child.…

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Several Israeli military jeeps invaded, on Monday morning, the Sammoua’ town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, seriously shot a young Palestinian man, then prevented medics from…

Several Palestinian civil society groups have called for an independent investigation into the Israeli bombing of the al-Mabarra Center for the Disabled in Jabalia which killed two residents and wounded…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, different Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped 11 legislators, and several other Palestinians.The Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies and Human…

Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, has reported that two Palestinians have been shot and injured by Israeli military fire, at the…

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian in Khan Younis, on Monday at dawn, and continued the bombardment of civilian homes and property in the coastal region. Another Palestinian was killed later…

Palestinians in Gaza have noted a brief pause in the constant barrage of bombs, Sunday night, while the World Cup final game was in progress. F16 fighters continued to circle…

As Israel’s war against the Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza continued, Sunday, the sixth day of this aggression, Israeli missiles and shells have killed three more Palestinians, and dozens…

Thousands of Palestinians sought refuge at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian schools, Sunday, after Israeli forces ordered them to evacuate their homes in northern Gaza,…

Yesterday, Saturday, 12th July, Jews Against Genocide (JAG) held a memorial service for Palestinian children killed by Israel in its current attack on Gaza. JAG set aflame to a pile…

The Municipality of Gaza says that the Israel’s targeting of its facilities and staff is a willful crime. Gaza hospitals are straining under the pressure inflicted by Israel’s current string…

Israeli troops initiated their first ground assault on Gaza, early Sunday, in further escalation of the current offensive, now 7 days in progress, and just hours after the UN Security…

Israeli airstrikes bombed a major water line and sewage plant, west of Gaza City, which provides water to tens of thousands of citizens and is regarded as the main water…

A Norwegian doctor working at Shifa hospital, in Gaza City, told reporters that some of the injuries that wounded and killed Palestinians have experienced are consistent with the use of…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that two more Palestinians have been killed, and dozens injured, in the ongoing Israeli escalation against the Palestinian people in the besieged and impoverished Gaza…

Residents of several towns in the northern Gaza Strip received airdrops of leaflets on Sunday morning, July 13th, warning them to leave their homes by noon, or risk being bombed.…

As the Israeli army continues and escalates its aggression on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip for the sixth consecutive day, Israeli soldiers killed three more Palestinians in the…

Hundreds of protests were held in cities around the world, on Friday and Saturday, calling for an end to the Israeli assault on Gaza, which has lasted five days and…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that four more Palestinians, including an infant, have been killed in a fresh wave of Israeli strikes targeting civilian homes in different parts of the…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that three Palestinians, including a 73-year-old woman, were killed on Sunday at dawn, in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s war on the Palestinians in the…

Amnesty International has called for a UN-mandated investigation into international violations committed during the ongoing Israeli air strikes across Gaza, including the continuing volley of ‘indiscriminate rocket fire’ from Palestinian…

A Bethlehem family received treatment for suffocation, Saturday, after an Israeli tear gas canister landed in their home, according to local and media reports. Five Palestinians were kidnapped in the…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that 53 Palestinians have been killed on the fifth day of Israel’s aggression on the Gaza Strip. The dead include an entire extended family of…

Israel’s army fired four ‘warning’ missiles at the roof of El-Wafa rehabilitation hospital in Gaza City, Gaza. International volunteers now staying in the hospital in solidarity, have said they, “can…

In the West Bank, fierce clashes broke out late Friday and early Saturday, between Israeli troops and young Palestinian men who had been protesting the military offensive in Gaza.In Ramallah,…

Egyptian authorities at Rafah border crossing, on Saturday, refused entry into Gaza to a European medical team. The Euro-Mid Observer for Human Rights has affirmed that Israeli attacks across the…

Two young disabled girls were killed on Saturday in an Israeli air strike that targeted a center for the disabled in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza.The three girls have not…

The Kerry initiative may have ended with a whimper instead of a bang, but its impact on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was significant and fundamental nonetheless. The end of the political…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that six more Palestinians were killed in a number of airstrikes late Friday night and early Saturday morning, and that at least three of the…

Nine young Palestinians were injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers near Rachel’s Tomb, during the night on Thursday. In Jerusalem, restrictions were placed again on worshippers at al-Aqsa mosque. Tariq…

Israeli forces have dramatically escalated the scope of its aerial offensive in Gaza on Thursday, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, as five civilian facilities across Gaza have now…

14 Palestinians have been killed this morning, in Gaza, including two children. Dozens have been injured in the ongoing Israeli airstrikes. 10 of the injured are in serious condition, the…

Rafah crossing with Gaza was closed again by Egyptian authorities, on Friday. The passage had been opened for one day to allow injured Palestinians to seek treatment.’We received orders from…

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It was supposed to be an evening of entertainment in Gaza, watching the World Cup semi-final at a cafe, a welcome break from 48 hours of Israeli air strikes. But…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that a Palestinian man died of wounds suffered after the Israeli army fired missiles into an area south of Gaza city.The sources said Adnan…

Head of the Censure Department at the Palestinian Ministry Of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, has stated that Israeli soldiers kidnapped more than 1,000 Palestinians since the three Israeli settlers went missing…

Thawra Abu Khdeir never thought that she would live to see someone from her own family, her own flesh and blood as she puts it, burned to death in a…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that five family members have been killed, and fifteen more Palestinians injured, when Israeli missiles struck homes in Yebna refugee camp and the Nahda neighborhood,…

Palestinian medical sources reported, Friday, that a Palestinian child and a young man have been killed in Rafah and in Gaza city. Dozens of Palestinians have been injured on ongoing…

A controversial Israeli organization that is representing the six men recently arrested in the recent revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager is receiving thousands of dollars in tax-deductible support from…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that 14 Palestinians have been shot and wounded by Israeli army fire in different villages and towns, in the central West Bank district of Ramallah,…

Israeli military sources has reported that an Israeli settler was killed, and another was wounded, allegedly after an a Palestinian car struck them, near the Za’tara Israeli military roadblock, south…

Tuesday night, Suha Hamad, 25 years old, sacrificed her own life to save those of her four children. Suha took her last breath saving their lives, according to Ma’an News…

The director of UNRWA Operations in Gaza, Robert Turner, decalred Thursday that the people of Gaza are again suffering due to Israeli bombardment. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the…

Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat urged the international community, Thursday, to uphold its role in forcing Israel to end its aggression against the Palestinian people, as agreed upon in November…

Addressing the UN Security Council, Ban Ki-moon appealed, on Thursday, for a ceasefire between Israelis and Palestinians. He additionally called on the aid of the international community in halting the…

In the course of the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip that has been ongoing for the third consecutive day, Israeli warplanes and gunboats launched intensive attacks throughout the Gaza…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is strongly concerned by Israel’s conduct of its offensive on the Gaza Strip, and in particular by the widespread punitive targeting of homes…

The entrance to the harbour was yesterday blocked for cars and other vehicles, but it was no problem to enter by foot. No one tried to stop me; there was…

Egyptian authorities have opened Rafah crossing, early this morning, to allow hundreds of injured Palestinians to receive medical treatment after Israel’s latest string of assaults on the Gaza Strip.Iyad al-Buzm,…

Hebrew newspaper M’areev reported, on Wednesday, that Israeli police have released the three settlers accused of torturing and burning to death Palestinian teen Muhammad Abu Khdeir. According to Al Ray…

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Palestinian medical sources have reported that Israeli airstrikes Thursday morning killed 19 Palestinians, including three children, 77 Palestinians have been killed (at least 20 of whom are children) in ongoing…

In contrast to the Israeli attack on Gaza, which escalated on Tuesday and has resulted in 79 Palestinians killed and over 500 injured, including entire families wiped out while sleeping…

As Israeli airstrikes on southern and central Gaza continue Thursday for the third straight day, killing 79 people so far, the UN Security Council is to hold an emergency meeting…

Japan, Egypt and Jordan have issued statements condeming the latest series of Israeli assaults on the Palestinian community. PLO member Saeb Erekat has described the ongoing Israeli offensive against Gaza…

Scottish officials have declared the country ready to receive Gaza civilians who have been injured in the current Israeli military aggression on the region, according to a press release by…

Five Palestinians have been killed on Wednesday evening, during Israel’s ongoing airstrikes on northern and southern Gaza, bringing the total number of deaths in Gaza to 53.Ma’an News Agency has…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that two Palestinian women and two children have been killed on Wednesday evening, when Israeli soldiers fired missiles into Rafah and Khan Younis, in southern…

The Israeli army continued its aggression against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least twenty-one Palestinians, including children and women, and wounding dozens of residents.The Israeli air…

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Palestinian medical sources have reported that one Palestinian was killed, on Wednesday morning, and another resident was injured, when the Israeli army fired a missile into Beit Lahia, in the…

The Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies and Human Rights strongly denounced the abduction of several political Hamas leaders in the occupied West Bank, as Israel’s war on the Palestinians in…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip has reported that 24 Palestinians, including children and family members, have been killed Tuesday in the ongoing Israeli war on the Palestinian people…

Britain’s largest trade union, ‘Unite’, has condemned Israeli crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories and stepped up to join the international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.…

17 European governments recently published online guidance warning their citizens and businesses about risks involved in trade and other economic links with illegal Israeli settlements. Measures are welcome but Israel’s…

50,000 government employees in the Gaza Strip held a strike, today, in protest against salaries not yet received. The Head of Personnel Union in Gaza, Mohamed Seyam, said, according to…

Palestinian fighters attempted to infiltrate into a military base, across the border with Gaza, and exchanged fire with Israeli soldiers who, according to Israeli sources, killed four. The Arabs48 News…

Israeli authorities, today, declared their military ready to deploy 40,000 reserve soldiers for a possible assault on Gaza.’Following a directive of the chief of staff the general staff… and the…

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Palestinian medical sources have reported that a father and his child have been killed in new Israeli air airstrikes targeting Gaza City. Sixteen Palestinians killed by Israeli missiles Tuesday.The sources…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that the number of Palestinians, killed by Israeli missiles in Gaza since morning hours, Tuesday, has arrived to 14, including children, while around a 100…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday evening, former hunger-striking detainee, Adnan Khader, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, his family stated. Khader’s family said the soldiers stopped him at…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that seven Palestinian civilians have been killed, and at least 25 have been injured, after the Israeli Air Force fired a missile into a Palestinian…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that one Palestinian was killed, and around thirty Palestinians, including women and children, have been injured, some seriously, as the Israeli army continues its escalation…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that dozens of soldiers invaded, late on Monday at night and Tuesday at dawn, different areas in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, leading…

As the Israeli aggression on Gaza intensifies, Palestinian medical sources have reported that at least 16 Palestinians, including children, have been injured in different parts of the coastal region, as…

Over the past week, since the bodies of three Israeli settlers were found by police near Hebron, the streets of Jerusalem and areas near Israeli settlements in the West Bank…

After Israeli airstrikes, Monday morning, killed nine Palestinians in Gaza, the Israeli military stepped up the attacks on Gaza, Tuesday morning, dropping more than 50 bombs on the besieged coastal…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, 31 Palestinians, including children, in different neighborhoods in occupied Jerusalem, and various surrounding nearby Palestinian communities.Local sources said hundreds of soldiers invaded Sur…

Several armed Israel settlers have attempted to kidnap a Palestinian child, after chasing him for more than a kilometer along a road near Hebron. A similar report has surfaced in…

The village of Einabus lies approximately 10 km south of Nablus, in the northern half of the West Bank. The illegal settlement of Yizar is located just up the hill…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that twelve Palestinians have been injured, near Khan Younis, in ongoing Israeli air strikes targeting different parts of the coastal region.The sources said the twelve…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that dozens of Palestinians, including children, have been treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs at their homes…

On Monday at night, Israeli soldiers kidnapped four Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem. A Palestinian man was also kidnapped near Bethlehem.The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) has reported…