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Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (28 August – 03 September 2014).Israeli attacks in the West Bank & Gaza:…
Since 2011, villagers from Kufr Qaddum demonstrate each Friday against the Israeli military. The village of Kufr Qaddum has had much land stolen by the nearby illegal settlement of Qedumim…
Israeli authorities confirmed confiscation of 2,000 dunams of Palestinian-owned land in the West Bank’s South Hebron Hills area. PA: Confiscation constitutes ‘new stab’ by Israel on efforts to achieve peace…
Palestinian teen Mohammad Sonnoqrot, who was critically wounded last week during a protest, in occupied East Jerusalem, died on Sunday.According to Al Ray, the boy’s relatives said the 16-year-old was…
Israeli forces took at least 127 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank into custody, during the first week of September alone, according to recent statements by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society…
Israeli forces invaded on Sunday afternoon the town of Beit Sahour, near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. Troops surrounded the old part of town, detained around 10 youth…
Israeli forces arrested 10 Palestinian citizens on Sunday, at dawn, in the West Bank after a series of raid and storm campaigns throughout a number of villages in the occupied…
Palestinian medical sources reported, Saturday, that a young man died of wounds suffered during the latest Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.The sources said the young man, Mahmoud Suleiman Sheikh…
With nearly all of its water now contaminated, with basic medicines lacking, and some 200,000 of its population unemployed, Gaza demands the lifting of the blockade. A delegation of 13…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a new three-day visit to Cairo this weekend, is scheduled to attend a meeting with foreign ministers of the Arab League. In addition, a delegation…
In a speech to be delivered tomorrow (Sunday), to Arab League Foreign Ministers in Cairo, UNRWA’s Commissioner General, Pierre Krahenbuhl, will ask for 47 million dollars for 4 weeks emergency…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Saturday, the Wad Ben Zeid valley area, northeast of Yatta town and south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, handing a number of residents military…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday night and on Saturday, at dawn, several Palestinian communities in Hebron and Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, kidnapping one Palestinian and handing another a…
Medical sources reported, on Friday evening, that several Palestinians were been injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading Wad Fokkin village, west of Bethlehem.The sources said the soldiers attacked protesters…
Hundreds of Palestinians marched in solidarity across the West Bank, on Friday, in a call for an end to the Israeli occupation and in protest against the continued illegal confiscation…
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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu intends to renew efforts at legally defining Israel as ‘the nation-state of the Jewish people’. Such a law would address ‘attempt(s) to undermine the national identity…
Yesterday, 300 orphans staged a protest following the demolition of Al-Rayyan Dairy Factory, north of Hebron, which occurred in the early hours of 1st September 2014.5th September 2014 | International…
US permanent representative to the United Nations, Samantha Power, has implied that Washington will block any resolution in the Security Council to pass Palestinian initiatives which aims to end the…
The reconstruction of Gaza is to cost $7.8 billion, according to Palestinian experts. Around 200,000 workers in the Gaza Strip are currently unemployed, say recent statistics, while the European Union…
An alleged prime suspect in the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers, in mid-June, has been officially charged with organizing and financing the crime, according to Israeli security officials.Israeli…
Israeli Economy Minister of the extremist Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett, said that establishing a Palestinian State is not an option, or a viable solution, and called on Netanyahu to…
The Israeli government announced, Thursday, bids for the construction of 283 units in an illegal settlement, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.The “Civil Administration Office’, run by…
Israeli soldiers burned, on Thursday, a number of Palestinian olive trees in an orchard of the Wad al-Hasseen area, in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.The…
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More than 22 thousand, including individuals and organizations from different parts of the world, have signed an online petition against the nomination of Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister of Canada,…
Israeli forces, on Thursday, closed agricultural roads in Idhna and confiscated water pipes from al-Baq‘a, located respectively to the west and east of Hebron, according to municipal sources and witnesses.WAFA…
We arrived around one o’clock in the afternoon of September 1st to the Far’a Refugee Camp and found that we had awakened the three Mansour family households.3 September 2014 |…
We sailed out from Gaza City’s harbor just before dusk with the 13-man crew, including two boys, and we had a theoretical possibility to reach six nautical miles for fishing.…
Dozens of Israeli settlers, protected by special Israeli forces and soldiers, stormed the compound of al-Aqsa Mosque, Thursday morning.According to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, Director of Media at Al-Aqsa…
The Israeli Municipality in Jerusalem announced, in a Thursday press release, that they plan to build 2,200 new constructions in East Jerusalem.The head of the municipality declared, according to the…
Palestinian negotiators met with US Secretary of State John Kerry for over two hours of ‘constructive’ talks concerning future relations with Israel, said a US official.Media sources said, it was…
Egyptian medical sources have reported, Thursday, that an elderly Palestinian woman died at the Nasser Medical Center, in Cairo, of serious injuries suffered on August 29, during the Israeli war…
A report by the United Nations Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) has estimated that, one week after Israel’s 50-day long assault on Gaza came to an end,…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Thursday, at dawn, eleven Palestinians in various invasions targeting homes and areas in the West Bank districts of Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin, Tulkarem and Qalqilia. Additionally, near…
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that a Palestinian man died, Wednesday, of wounds suffered during Israel’s war on the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip.The sources said resident…
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UNRWA Commissioner-General, Pierre Krähenbühl, says that the reconstruction process of Gaza may take over a decade, if the current blockade on the Gaza Strip is not lifted. According to Al…
Major General of the Palestinian Intelligence Service, Majed Faraj, along with the head of the Palestinian negotiation team, Saeb Erekat, traveled to the United States to meet Secretary of State…
Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian-owned house and a water well in Hebron, on Tuesday, according to locals.Landowner Muhammad Nafith al-Herbawi stated that Israeli forces destroyed his house, along with all…
ISM watched over two different checkpoints in al-Khalil (Hebron) on the 31st of August, Qeitun (209) and Salaymeh (29), both separating the H1 and H2 zone in this occupied city…
Israeli soldiers opened fire, on Wednesday morning, at a number of Palestinian fishing boats close to the shore in the Sudaniyya area, west of Gaza City, and kidnapped two.Eyewitnesses said…
Israeli soldiers invaded on Wednesday, at dawn, several Palestinian communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank, searched and ransacked several homes and properties, and kidnapped fourteen Palestinians.Media sources…
Two New Jersey senators were the subject of a protest, last Tuesday, which called for an end to what they termed “a blank check for Israel’s crimes”. 13 of the…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the northern West Bank city Nablus, and broke into a local sports center, a kindergarten, and a society for the disabled, shot and…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday evening, two Palestinians near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and one Palestinian near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.Mohammad Awad, coordinator of…
Tuesday, September 2: A young Palestinian man, from Nablus, was shot and killed, by Israeli army fire, at the Taybeh roadblock near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia; one…
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The Palestinian Ministry of Public Works and Housing has stated that Gaza needs five thousand caravans, in order to provide shelter more than 130,000 displaced peoples.“It is so important to…
Israeli forces have opened fire at fishermen off the coast of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, in an apparent violation of the ceasefire agreement reached in Cairo last week,…
Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, has joined international figures in publicly denouncing Israel’s recent announcement that it will confiscate approximately 1,000 acres of Palestinian-owned land near the illegal…
The scale of the devastation caused by Israeli shelling on Gaza during the recent two-month assault has been shown in an online video, Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency reports.The brief…
Israeli soldiers invaded on Tuesday, at dawn, the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and initiated the destruction of a dairy factory that belongs to the Islamic Charitable Society for…
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, ‘Anza village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, broke into and ransacked several homes, and kidnapped 17 Palestinians.…
Palestinian medical sources report that a man and a child have died of serious injuries suffered, in different strikes, during Israel’s extensive bombardment and aggression on the Gaza Strip. The…
Israeli forces kidnapped six Palestinians and physically assaulted two teenagers in West Bank districts, on Monday, according to reports by security sources. Also on Monday, seven residential and agricultural structures…
According to Israeli media, PM Netanyahu does not plan to send a delegation for negotiations in Cairo, as stipulated by the recent ceasefire agreement.In a TV report, Channel 10 stated…
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Israeli police have begun using skunk water against Palestinian demonstrators in Jerusalem, where over 770 Palestinians have been arrested since the July 2 murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir. Prior to…
At least four Palestinians were injured during clashes which erupted Monday, at dawn, in Deheishe refugee camp, to the south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.According to Al Ray…
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is set to pay civil servants employed by Hamas in Gaza, on Wednesday, following an extended salary crisis which came upon the forming of the new…
Israeli forces abducted four Palestinians from different areas of the West Bank, on Sunday, while summoning others to appear for interrogation, according to local reports.The Palestinian Prisoner’s Club (PPC) said…