This Week in Palestine Week 44 2014
Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 25th, to the 31st, 2014. Israeli attacks leave…
Swedish FM: ‘I’ll be Happy to Send Liberman IKEA Furniture’
Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Margot Wallstrom, today, said she would be ‘happy’ to send Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman some IKEA furniture.PNN reports that Wallstrom’s comments, made during a recent CNN…
Six Palestinians Kidnapped In Jerusalem, West Bank
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday evening and on Friday at dawn, at least six Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and occupied Jerusalem. One of the kidnapped…
Abbas Welcomes Swedish Recognition Of Palestine
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the Swedish decision to recognize Palestine as a State, and said this decision in coherent with International Law and all related resolutions and treaties.Abbas stated…
Funeral Of Slain Man Held Under Strict Security Measures In Jerusalem
Hundreds of Palestinians, including family members, held earlier on Friday at dawn the funeral procession of the slain Palestinian, Ibrahim Hijazi, 32, in occupied Jerusalem although the police and the…
Young Man Shot by Israeli Navy in Northern Gaza
The Israeli navy opened fire on Wednesday morning, against Palestinian fishermen, and shot a young man off Beit Lahia shores, in the northern Gaza Strip.According to Al Ray correspondence, he…
International observers witness the impact of “Operation Protective Edge” in Gaza
International observers witness the impact of “Operation Protective Edge” and the closure of Gaza on human rights defenders’ work inside Gaza.On October 28th, a five-member delegation from Europe and Guatemala…
Israel recalls ambassador after Swedish government recognizes Palestine
After the Swedish government officially recognized the state of Palestine Thursday, Israeli officials announced the withdrawal of the Israeli ambassador from the northern European nation.The recognition by Sweden’s newly elected…
Soldiers Kidnap Seven Palestinians In West Bank
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, at least seven Palestinians in different communities in the occupied West Bank. The PPS said…
Former Political Prisoner Killed In Silwan
A former Palestinian political prisoner from the ath-Thoury neighborhood in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, was shot and killed by live fire of undercover Israeli soldiers. Israel alleges the…
SodaStream to Close Shop in Occupied West Bank
Israeli beverage firm SodaStream, amid intense boycott pressure from the international community, announced on Wednesday that it was closing a controversial factory located in an occupied West Bank settlement, while…
Extremist Israeli Rabbi Shot at Jerusalem Rally
Right-wing Israeli rabbi and militiant activist Yehuda Glick was shot and injured at a rally in Jerusalem, this Wednesday evening, according to witnesses and Israeli police.Israeli media reported Glick to…
Israeli Violations Continue to Escalate in Occupied Territories
Provocations by Israeli soldiers and settlers continued in the occupied Palestinian territories, on Wednesday, with multiple violations occurring across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, while militant Jewish settlers again…
Settlers Destroy Palestinian Property Under the Protection of Israeli Soldiers
Today at approximately 1:30 PM in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of occupied al-Khalil (Hebron), the head of security for the illegal settlements in the area attempted to destroy the property…
Nobel Laureate Donates $50k for UNRWA School Reconstruction
UNRWA Official Press Release Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Malala Yousafzai, has announced that she is donating 50,000 US dollars to rebuild an UNRWA school damaged during the recent fighting in…
Palestine Today 10 29 2014
Audio After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, October 29th, 2014. Soldiers attack Palestinian villagers and injuries a pregnant…
UNESCO Condemns Israeli Violations in Jerusalem
The Executive Board of UNESCO has approved, upon its 195th session, the recommendation of Jordan and Palestine to redefine Israel, according to international law, as an occupying power.According to Al…
Zoabi Deportation Order to be Debated Tomorrow
Israeli prosecution has demanded a list of charges be brought against Palestinian Member of the Knesset, Hanin Zoabi, saying that she ‘threatened’ and gave sharp criticism of a Palestinian serving…
Army Demolishes Homes And Structures Near Hebron, Wounds Several Residents
Dozens of Israeli soldiers, accompanied by a number of military bulldozers, invaded on Wednesday morning the Khashm ad-Daraj and Um al-Kheir villages, east of Yatta town south of the southern…
Soldiers Break Into A School In Silwan
Scores of Israeli soldiers and police officers invaded, on Tuesday, the Secondary School for Boys in Silwan town, in occupied east Jerusalem, before attempting to kidnap a number of students.…
Soldiers Kidnap Twelve Palestinians
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, twelve Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and occupied East Jerusalem, after storming various communities and searching homes. Soldiers also…
Palestinian Home Demolished In Jerusalem
The Israeli Jerusalem City Council demolished, Tuesday, a Palestinian home in Salah ed-Deen Street, in occupied East Jerusalem rendering eight family members homeless. Sahar Sharif and her family were forcibly…
Four Injured By Army Fire Near Jenin
Palestinian medical sources have reported that four Palestinians have been injured by Israeli army fire, on Tuesday evening, in Ya’bad town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.…
Palestine Today 10 28 2014
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, October 28th, 2014. Israeli soldiers injure an old lady in…
Several Palestinians Kidnapped During Israeli Actions Across West Bank and Gaza
Israeli forces, Tuesday, kidnapped a number of Palestinian citizens, including one with a chronic heart condition, while assaulting another in the West Bank, according to reports by security sources.Israeli forces…
Israeli Military Demolishes a Bedouin Village in the South Hebron Hills
Yesterday, Israeli forces demolished a total of seven structures in the Bedouin village of Um al Kheir. 28th October | Operation Dove | Um Al Kheir, Occupied Palestine The structures…
Netanyahu: No Peace with Palestine Without Recognition of Israel as a ‘Jewish’ State
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that no peace agreement would be achieved unless through mutual negotiations without precondition, keynoting that lasting peace will only be possible via the…
Rafah Crossing Locked Down for 5th Day
Egyptian authorities continue to block Rafah crossing for the fifth day in a row, now, following a recent attack by armed militants in the Sinai desert.A deadly assault occured in…
PA to Begin Paying Delayed Gaza Government Salaries
The Palestinian Authority, on Tuesday, transferred millions of dollars to the Gaza Strip for the long-delayed payment of salaries to civil servants of the former Hamas-run government, a Palestinian official…
Remains Of Slain Palestinian Located Under Rubble Of Bombarded Mosque
Palestinian medics and workers located, on Monday afternoon, the remains of a young man who was killed when the Israeli army bombarded a mosque in Gaza on August 9, during…
Settlers Prepare To Expand illegitimate Settlement Near Salfit
A large number of Israeli settlers of the Bruchin illegal settlement outpost built on Palestinian lands east of Broqeen town, west of the central West Bank city of Salfit, started…
Six Palestinians Kidnapped In West Bank
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, at least six Palestinians in different military invasions targeting various communities in the occupied West Bank, and occupied Jerusalem. Several children injured in…
Palestine Today 10 27 2014
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, October 27th, 2014. Israeli troops attack residents in the west…
900 Palestinians Detained in East Jerusalem
Israel has detained 900 Palestinians from East Jerusalem and pressed charges against 300 of them since the July 2 murder of East Jerusalem teen Mohammad Abu Khdeir, according to Israel’s…
Clashes Following Funeral of Orwa Hammad
Yesterday, a funeral was held for 14-year-old Orwa Abdul-Wahab Hammad, shot dead by the Israeli military on Friday, in Silwad town, close to Ramallah. 27th October 2014 | International Solidarity…
2 Injured in Nablus Clashes, 6 Abducted Overnight
Two Palestinian teens were injured during clashes with Israeli forces to the east of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, early Monday, according to medical sources.The director of the…
1,060 East Jerusalem Settlement Units Ordered by Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday, gave the order to advance plans for the construction of 1,060 new illegal housing units in occupied East Jerusalem.According to WAFA, the new…
4 Palestinian Homes Demolished Near Hebron
Israeli forces, on Monday, demolished four Palestinian homes belonging to the al-Hazaleen family in the Hebron village of Yatta, in the occupied West Bank.Ibrahim Hazaleen, who monitors settlement activity in…
Egypt to Build Gaza Buffer Zone, Thousands to Be Displaced
Egyptian authorities have announced a recent decision to build, along its borders with Gaza, a buffer zone with the depth of 500 meters, and a height of 14 km, with…
PCHR Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the oPt for October 16 – 22, 2014
Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (16 – 22 October 2014).Israeli attacks in the West Bank & Gaza: Shootings:…
Gaza Blamed for Sinai Attacks, West Bank Workers Banned from Israeli Buses
Gaza’s Interior Ministry in Gaza issued a statement, on Saturday, which refuted all accusations that Gaza is behind the recent attacks on Sinai, by affirming that the southern border with…
At Least 19 Kidnapped Over the Weekend in the West Bank and Jerusalem
Israeli forces abducted, over Saturday night and Sunday morning, some 19 Palestinians from the Hebron, Jerusalem and Nablus districts in the occupied West Bank.The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said that the…
Ceasefire Negotiations Delayed Until Mid-November
The indirect ceasefire talks with Israel, which were to resume on Monday, in Cairo, have been postponed until the second half of November, according to the head of the Palestinian…
Funeral of Shalloudi Held In Jerusalem
Family members of Abdul-Rahman Shalloudi and a few dozen Palestinians from Jerusalem who managed to reach his home despite the strict military siege, held the funeral ceremony of the slain…
Succession politics in Palestine
My barber, Abu Salah couldn’t wait for me to come to his shop. He had been very concerned this week and wanted an answer to his question. He was searching…
Report: Last Wednesday’s ‘light rail attack’ by Palestinian driver was a car accident
As Israeli right-wingers continue to gather at the site of the death of a 3-month old baby on Wednesday, reports from the police investigating the incident and eyewitnesses on the…
With two year memorial underway, President’s death remains shrouded in mystery
The Fateh movement is memorializing the late President Arafat two years after his death. Near his tomb in Ramallah's Presidential Offices, formerly known as Al Muqata, President Arafat's Fateh party…
Palestine Today – October 12, 2006
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Life in Occupied Palestine
Try to imagine daily life under these conditions: You live in limbo in a country occupied by a repressive foreign army and a system of institutionalized and codified racism. You…
Barghouti Still Wavering Over Candidacy
Following Fatah’s revolutionary council unanimous decision to nominate PLO new head Mahmoud Abbas as their candidate for the position of the PA chairman in the coming January 9, presidential elections,…
Barghouthi Out of Presidency Race
Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti will not run for chairmanship and calls his loyalists to support PLO head Mahmoud Abbas, Kadoura Fares said on Friday after meeting Barghouthi in his…
Seven Palestinains killed in Gaz Strip
according to Palestinian sources in Gaza Strip.IMEMC & Agencies, April 21, 2004 The number of Palestinian killed in Beit Lahia today reached 7, according to Palestinian sources in Gaza Strip.…
U.S Lifts Ban Over Meeting Palestinian Officials
American White House announced Thursday that National SecurityGhassan Andoni-IMEMC & agencies, May 7, 2004 As a move to end the U.S. ban on meeting Palestinian officials, American White House announced…
U.S. Official: Lifting the Ban on U.S.-PA Relations, Excludes Arafat
renewed American effort to establish ties with the PalestinianGhassan Andoni-IMEMC & Agencies, May 8, 2004 State Department official David Satterfield said on Friday that renewed American effort to establish ties…
This Week In Palestine – November Week 4
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This Week In Palestine – November Week 4
Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file 12.5 MB || 13m20s This Week in Palestine, a service of the…
PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the oPt (18- 24 September 2014)
Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (18- 24 September 2014).Israeli attacks in the West Bank & Gaza: Shootings: In…
PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 12 – 18 June, 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…
PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 5 – 11 June, 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…
PCHR – In Excessive Use Of Force, Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Civilian
On Friday, 20 December 2013, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded his brother while working near the borderline with Israel, north of Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza…
PCHR Weekly Report: 15 Palestinians wounded in 56 incursions by Israeli troops
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the week of 14- 20 November 2013, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
4 January 2009: The Abdel Dayem Family
“I was told initially that Arafa had been injured in an Israeli strike. Of course I was concerned, but many people get injured in his line of work and what…
Human Chain links between the Presidential Office and PLC building in protest of internal fighting
Organized by the Palestinian Farmers Association, a human chain was created in Ramallah on Saturday midday reaching from the Presidential Office to the Palestinian Legislative Council building. Organized by the…
This Week In Palestine – November Week 4
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Dozens injured, Many Kidnapped In Occupied Jerusalem
Palestinian medical sources in occupied East Jerusalem have reported that scores of residents have been injured during clashes that took place in different parts of occupied Jerusalem following noon prayers,…
Clashes in Jerusalem Foreshadow Funeral of Rail Attack Suspect
Israeli police clashed with Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, on Saturday, just ahead of the funeral of a man who drove into a crowd, Wednesday, killing an Israeli baby.Tensions in…
Funeral Of Slain Teen Held In Ramallah
Thousands of Palestinians marched in the burial ceremony of slain teen, ‘Orwa Abdul-Wahab Hammad, who was shot and killed, on Friday, by Israeli army fire in Silwad town, east of…
Seventeen Kidnapped In Israeli Military Invasions Into West Bank, Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, various Palestinian communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and in Jerusalem’s Old City, and kidnapped seventeen Palestinians before taking them…
Jerusalem is Burning
Once upon a time, the state of Israel had real political leaders. Their ability to lie and hide their true (and ugly) goals under a cover of moderation and readiness…
Israeli Forces Attack Palestinians for Dismantling Settler Outpost
Israeli forces again, on Saturday, attacked Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills, this time in the village of Susiya, as citizens attempted to remove a tent erected by settlers on…
Palestinian-American Teen Executed By Israeli Soldiers
(Televised report by Ali Dar Ali, Palestine TV) His father is in the United States; his mother in Jordan, and he is a martyr bleeding on Palestine’s soil. ‘Orwa Abdul-Wahab…
Washington DC activists protest Israeli hummus
A group of protesters gathered outside the ‘Hummus House’ restaurant in Washington DC earlier this week to denounce the company’s ties to the Israeli army. Customers, including one man wearing…
10 O’clock In Jerusalem & All Is Not Well
On Monday, October 27th, indirect negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli delegations will resume in Cairo, in order to address the possibility of a lasting ceasefire between the discrepant parties.Israel’s devastating…
Soldiers Kidnap A Palestinian Researcher In Occupied Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers violently attacked, and kidnapped, on Friday evening, a Palestinian field researcher in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, as he was documenting clashes taking place between dozens…
This Week in Palestine Week 43 2014
Audio After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 18th, to the 24th, 2014. Israeli attacks this week…
Seven, including A Child, Injured By Army Live Fire Near Ramallah
Medical sources have reported, on Friday evening, that six young Palestinians, and a 10-year-old child, were shot by live rounds, fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes near the ‘Ofer Israeli…
Another Palestinian Teen Killed by Israeli Forces near Ramallah
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during clashes, late on Friday, in the village of Silwad, near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.Medical sources said that ‘Arwa Abdul-Wahab…
Several Palestinians Injured In Hebron
Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that many residents, including a child, have been injured after Israeli soldiers attacked a nonviolent protest at the northern entrance of Hebron city, in…
Prisoners Suffer Intolerable Health Conditions
Lawyer for the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (PPC), Shireen Nasser, stated Thursday that health conditions for prisoners are constantly deteriorating, with some detainees now awaiting critical operations for months and even…
Palestine Today 10 23 2014
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, October 23rd, 2014. Israeli settlers take over Palestinian lands in…
ISM Report on Huwwara Raid
At approximately 09:30, on October 22nd, settlers from the illegal settlement of Yizhar set fire to a Palestinian olive field above Huwwara village, just outside of Nablus.22nd October 2014 |…
Seanad Éireann Recognizes the State of Palestine
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign congratulated, today, Seanad Éireann on passing a motion calling on the Irish Government to formally recognize the State of Palestine.The motion, which was tabled by Sen.…
Benefit Concert in Support of Gaza’s Children Held in Irish Kinvara
A very special concert featuring Declan O’Rourke, Paddy Casey and Brian Kennedy, with support from Mark Dignam, in solidarity with children in the Gaza Strip took place in Kinvara, Ireland,…
Israeli Government Completes Plan to Impose Sovereignty on Area C
According to Israeli sources, the state has completed a plan, in the works since April of 2013, to impose its sovereignty over occupied Area C.Local sources say that Israel intends…
Israel Seizes 20 Dunams Near Salfit
Israeli authorities confiscated 20 dunams (approximately 5 acres) of Palestinian-owned land, today near the Jewish settlement bloc of Ariel, in the northern occupied West Bank. A UN official has noted…
Overnight Attacks By Settlers Target Palestinian Homes In Jerusalem
Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked, overnight, several Palestinian homes in Sheikh Jarrah, in occupied East Jerusalem, and attacked residents, cars and homes with stones, sticks and sharp objects.The Wadi Hilweh…
Army Kidnaps Nine Palestinian Women In The Al-Aqsa Mosque
Israeli soldiers and police officers kidnapped, on Wednesday evening, nine Palestinian women while leaving the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, and took them to a police station in the Old…
PCHR Warns of Consequences of Fuel Shortage at Gaza Hospitals
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) warns of the disastrous and grave deterioration that may affect the Palestinian patients in the Gaza Strip due to the lack of fuel…
Israeli Attacks on Fishermen in the Gaza Sea
Israeli Naval forces continued to carry out attacks on Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip during the reporting period[1] (1 – 30 September 2014), including 18 shooting incidents that resulted…
Child Killed In Northern Gaza
Palestinian medical sources have reported that a child was killed, after an undetonated explosive dropped by the Israeli army, during the latest aggression on Gaza, went off in Beit Hanoun,…
Palestine Today 10 22 2014
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014. Israeli police kill a Palestinian in Jerusalem,…
Israeli Settlers Burn 100 Olive Trees near Nablus, Multiple Abductions in Gaza, West Bank
Israeli colonial settlers, in the town of Huwwara, to the south of Nablus, torched approximately 100 olive trees on Wednesday, according to local activist Ghassan Douglas.WAFA correspondence reports that a…
Palestinian Man Killed by Israeli Police in East Jerusalem
A Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli police, on Wednesday, following a suspected attack at a light rail station, near the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.An…
Palestinian Children Assaulted While in Israeli Custody
The PA’s Department of Prisoner’s Affairs said, today, that dozens of Palestinian minors jailed by Israel have recently been assaulted by prison authorities, during their time in custody.According to Ma’an…
Two Palestinians Kidnapped Near Jenin, One Near Bethlehem
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the northern West Bank city of Jenin and several nearby towns, and kidnapped two Palestinians. One Palestinian was kidnapped near Bethlehem.Soldiers…
Four Palestinian Fishermen Kidnapped In Gaza Waters
Israeli navy boats attacked, on Wednesday morning, a Palestinian fishing boat close to the Gaza shore in the Sudaniyya area, north of Gaza City.Eyewitnesses said the navy fired rounds of…
VIDEO: Hebron’s Olive Harvest of Resistance
The Hebron Defence Committee organised a community work day near the Hebron-area village of Surif on land that is under threat of confiscation by the Israeli military. 10/22/14 | Alternative…
Palestine Today 10 21 2014
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, October 21st, 2014. Israeli soldiers demolish homes in Jerusalem and…
Human Rights Defender Abdallah Abu Rahma Receives Guilty Verdict from Military Court
On October 21st, Human Rights Defender Abdallah Abu Rahma was found guilty by an Israeli military court of “disturbing a soldier”.21st October 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Bil’in “Demonstrating…
Homes Raided West of Ramallah, TV Cameraman Assaulted
Israeli forces, on Tuesday, raided a number of Palestinian houses in the village of Budrus, to the west of Ramallah, under the pretext of collecting ‘static data’.Al Ray Palestinian Media…