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PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi says that Israel’s illegal steps in Jerusalem are “transforming it into an exclusively Jewish city” where Palestinian Christians and Muslims have now become…
Three Palestinian homes and three structures used for livestock in al-Tur, to the east of the Old City of Jerusalem, were demolished by Israeli bulldozers on Tuesday.According to residents. bulldozers…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped 225 Palestinians in the last three weeks, in different parts of the occupied West Bank. Israel also issued…
Dozens of soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the village of Budrus, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, broke into several homes, took pictures of them, and…
On October 19th, Israeli soldiers briefly detained a developmentally disabled Palestinian boy, who is under the age of criminal responsibility, on suspicion that he had thrown stones. The boy, A.…
Basketball fans joined with human rights supporters in several U.S. towns to call for a boycott of Israeli sports teams, and to challenge what they call a ‘public relations tour’…
Israel’s construction in Jerusalem will continue, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, speaking at the inauguration of a new road to be named after the late Prime Minister Yitzhak…
Forces, on Monday, demolished a Palestinian-owned shed being used as a car wash shop in the town of al-Khader, to the south of Bethlehem, according to security sources.The car wash,…
The Israeli parliament of the Knesset is expected to decide on a new bill, this coming month, which would impose both a temporal and spatial division of al-Aqsa Mosque compound…
Excerpts from an open letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, by Kali Rubaii for Friends of Sabeel—North America:In early September, I accompanied an Iraqi friend to the United Nations…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, October 20th, 2014. Israeli settlers take over Palestinian homes in…
Israeli special forces broke into section five of Rimon prison, yesterday, as part of a regular abusive search campaign, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Studies Center.Al Ray reports that dozens…
Ahrar Center recently announced that Israel’s Ofer court has sentenced prisoner Bakr Sa’ad to two years of imprisonment, with a fine of 4,000 shekels (About $1,070) and a stay of…
Dozens of armed Israeli settlers and soldiers occupied, on Monday at dawn, two apartment buildings and a land, in the Batn al-Hawa area, in Silwan town, south of the al-Aqsa…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, various communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped seven Palestinians, including a journalist, after invading their homes and ransacking…
Ali Dar Ali – Palestine TV – Enas Dar Khalil did not want to wake up that day to go to school, but she had no idea what was awaiting…
The Palestinian Centre For Human Rights (PCHR) published its weekly report on Israeli violations against the Palestinians in occupied Palestine in the period between October 2 to October 15.The report…
Today, at the Salaymeh checkpoint in Hebron, Israeli border police detained three Palestinian men, checking their ID cards and making them remove their belts. One Palestinian was detained for around…
The Joint Council of the Union of Academic Workers – UAW 2865, a body made up of 83 elected officers who oversee the affairs of the 13,000 member-strong student-worker union…
Clashes took place between Palestinian youth and Israeli soldiers who stormed Dakhliya street, in Salfit, Sunday morning, with many reported cases of tear gas inhalation, including journalist Khalid Maali.According to…
Israeli forces, on Sunday, kidnapped at least 15 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, including a physically disabled ex-detainee, while summoning one for interrogation, according to reports by media and…
Big words were used in this latest dispute about Israel’s public announcement concerning construction of 2610 new housing units in Givat Hamatos. A US spokesperson said the decision would “distance…
An official from the Gaza-based Palestinian political faction Hamas, on Saturday, downplayed an earlier call by Palestinian President and PA leader, Mahmoud Abbas, for Palestinians to stay at al-Aqsa Mosque…
Israeli settlers known as “Students for the Temple Mount”, on Sunday, again broke into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, under the protection of special police guards.WAFA correspondence from the Old City, in…
5-year-old Einas Khalil, who was struck by an Israeli settler vehicle, earlier on Sunday, has succumbed to her wounds, according to medics.The girl died after being hit by a car…
A week after the Cairo conference and the recent visits to Gaza by the Palestinian Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah and UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, UNRWA is scaling up its…
Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Sunday at dawn, Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank and Beit Ummar nearby town, broke into a number of homes,…
Palestinian medical sources said several residents have been injured by army fire in renewed clashes that took place with Israeli soldiers invading various neighborhoods and towns in the occupied city.…
Early Saturday morning around 30 settlers trespassed on Mohammad Sadiq Knebi’s land in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, and destroyed his protective fence. According to the International Solidarity Movement, the fence was…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Saturday, dozens of Palestinian residents and international peace activists, and prevented them from rehabilitating an agricultural land in al-Harabala Hill, in Surif Town, northwest of the southern…
The website of the International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC) is back online after the Palestinian news service, under the auspices of the Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement between People, was…
Today Palestinians and international activists participated in a Palestinian village community action which involved reaching an area of their land which has been declared a closed military zone. 12th October…
Palestinian Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Qaraqe, has warned that sick Palestinian prisoners are facing death in Israeli prisons, due to deliberate medical negligence by the Israeli prison administration.The ministry…
Israeli soldiers again attacked weekly peaceful marches which took place in several Palestinian villages and towns, across the occupied West Bank.PNN reports that, during Friday’s weekly demonstration in Bil’in, near…
A number of extremist Israeli settlers invaded, on Saturday, Palestinian olive orchard in the al-Jab’a village, southwest of Bethlehem, and cut nearly 50 olive trees.Resident Ibrahim Abu Lateefa said he…
A number of fanatic Israeli settlers attacked, on Friday evening, a young Palestinian man from Jerusalem, and attempted to strangle him to death, while working at the Rimonim Shalom Hotel,…
In the central West Bank village of Beit Laqiya, this Friday, thousands of people attended the funeral of 13-year-old Bahaa Samir Badir, who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers on…
Two Palestinian youth were injured by Israeli fire during clashes which erupted in the town of Khirbet Safa, to the north of Hebron, on Wednesday evening.Clashes erupted between Palestinian youth…
The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed that Bradford-West MP George Galloway will not be charged over a speech in made in Leeds, this past August, which asserted that Bradford…
Audio Link After The Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 11th, to the 17th, 2014. This week…
A number of fanatic Israeli settlers invaded, late on Thursday at night, the Ishaqiyya area of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, designated for Muslim…
A number of extremist Israeli settlers held two young Palestinian men in Jerusalem, and violently assaulted them, until the police arrived at the scene, and released them.The WAFA News Agency…
Overnight clashes took place in different neighborhood in and alleys of the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, after the army closed the al-Aqsa Mosque, preventing all Muslim worshipers below…
A Palestinian political prisoner from Sielet ath-Thaher, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, has entered his 28th consecutive day of his hunger strike in an Israeli detention…
Palestinian detainee, Rami al-‘Alami, who supervises Palestinian children held at the ‘Ofer Israeli military prison, told a lawyer of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee that around 100 children are held in…
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, October 115th, 2014. Israeli soldiers attack worshipers in Jerusalem and settlers destroy water wells…
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, October 16th, 2014 Israeli troops kill a Palestinian child near Ramallah, and Palestinian police…
Palestinian sources announced, on Thursday night, that a Palestinian boy died of wounds he sustained during clashes at the village of Beit Liqia, near the central west Bank city of…
Palestinian Authority security forces killed a 25-year-old man, early this morning, during a raid in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.Security officials informed Ma’an News Agency that clashes broke…
The Government of India has pledged $4 million in contributions to the Palestinian National Early Recovery and Reconstruction Plan for Gaza, designed by the Palestinian Authority, according to a Thursday…
Head of the Palestinian Businessmen Association, Mr. Ali Al-Hayek, stated that a delegation of international observers arrived on Wednesday, to the Gaza Strip, to monitor the Gaza reconstruction process.According to…
Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister, Moshe Ya’alon, outlined the nature of official Israeli government policy in an interview with Israeli ‘Hayom’ newspaper on October 15th, 2014. The PNN extracts from his…
The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) released a report, on Thursday, estimating that over 80 percent of Palestinian journalists were engaged in self-censorship.The group released a report…
The unprecedented harassment of independent media and journalists continues as the International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC) has been targeted by a DOS attack. The independent news agency’s website was…
Dozens of Israeli settlers damaged Palestinian-owned water wells in the Khirbet Samra area of the Jordan Valley, a local official said on Wednesday.Aref Daraghma, head of a local village council,…
In light of escalated violations by Israeli forces and settlers against al-Aqsa Mosque and other holy sites, including Christian, Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah is urging the international community to protect…
Israeli soldiers and police officers kidnapped, on Wednesday evening, at least seventeen Palestinians near the al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem, while many residents have been injured, in renewed clashes.Local…
Three Palestinian children were injured, Tuesday evening, in an explosion from a sound bomb which was left by Israeli forces in the Hebron district.Clashes had previously erupted between Palestinians citizens…
Israeli media reported, today, that PM Benjamin Netanyahu tried to convince UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to eliminate the international investigation regarding the latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.According to…
Israeli Member of Knesset (MK) Miri Regev of the Likud Party of Benjamin Netanyahu called for firing Arab (MK) Dr. Ahmad Tibi from the Knesset, and to strip him from…
On Monday, three Palestinians were picking olives in Burin. Their field was in a very exposed area, right between an illegal settlement, a military checkpoint, and a security detention centre.…
(Full transcript of Ban’s Gaza press encounter below audio track.)via Christopher Gunness Spokesperson, Director of Advocacy and Strategic Communications UNRWA | Office of the Commissioner General | Jerusalem t: +972…
35-year-old Raed Moussa, currently being held in an Israeli prison, has been on hunger strike for nearly a month, now, in protest against being held without charge or trial for…
Egyptian authorities deported 68 Palestinians back to Gaza, yesterday, after they attempted to migrate from Alexandria to Europe.The migrants were found in the Mediterranean port city by security forces and…
As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon toured the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, urging a revival of peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian political factions, armed Israeli aggression against Palestinians continued in…
Israeli gunboats have again opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats off Gaza city shores, on Tuesday, at dawn.According to Walla Hebrew news site, Israelis opened live fire on the fishermen…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made a brief visit to the war-torn Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, just two days after international donor states pledged some $5.4 billion in reconstruction aid, following…
On Sunday, October 12, Israeli forces stormed Aida refugee camp without any provocation and began shooting tear gas, sound bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets at children in the streets.According to…
Local sources in occupied East Jerusalem have reported that undercover soldiers of the Israeli military kidnapped, on Sunday evening, four Palestinian children in the city, while Palestinian youth managed to…
Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young Palestinian man was shot and injured in his face during an Israeli military invasion on Tuesday, at dawn, into the al-Far’a refugee…
A number of fanatic Israeli settlers invaded a mosque, shortly after midnight on Tuesday, in ‘Aqraba village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, torched parts of it…
In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate Your Excellency President Abdel Fattah Al Sissi President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Your Excellency Mr. Børge Brende, Minister of…
Dr. Mads Gilbert (b. June 2, 1947) is a Norweigan doctor who struggled and insisted to enter Gaza during the recent Israeli Assault last July, the Palestinian News Network reports.…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on Monday, expressed strong dissent to Israeli settlement building and warned against ‘provocations’ at Jerusalem’s holy sites, calling for renewed peace talks in order to avoid…
The incident caught on camera in this video took place on Saturday, October 11, 2014, near Mitspe Yair illegal Israeli settlement outpost, in the South Hebron hills, in the Hebron…
Palestine Today 10 14 2014 Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, October 14th, 2014. Israeli soldiers injures a Palestinian youth…
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British Parliament voted in favor of a non-binding motion for official recognition of the state of Palestine, Monday.Haaretz daily newspaper reports that the vote was decided by a majority of…
The Israeli army arrested Hebron city council member Faruk A’shur on October 8th, later placing him in administrative detention for three months. He is a major proponent of Boycott, Divestment…
United States Secretary of State John Kerry announced, on Monday, $414 million in US assistance to the Palestinians.This will include more than $212 million that will be delivered through USAID,…
Dozens of Israeli soldiers and police officers invaded, on Monday morning, the al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and fired gas bombs, concussion grenades, and rubber-coated metal bullets. The invasion…
Global donors pledged several billions of dollars in aid to the devastated Gaza Strip, on Sunday, despite warnings that the coastal enclave remained a ‘tinderbox’, following Israel’s relentless bombardament of…
Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Sunday evening, a child was shot in the head by an Israeli rubber-coated metal bullet, fired by soldiers invading the ‘Aida refugee camp, north…
The Palestinian Committee of Detainee has reported that Israeli soldiers have escalated their attacks against Palestinian political prisoner, held at the Negev Detention camp, under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Sunday, at dawn and during morning hours, nine Palestinians, including a child, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, during various military invasions and home…
Palestinian medical sources in occupied East Jerusalem have reported that a young man died, on Friday, of wounds suffered during the latest Israeli onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip.The man,…
Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, arrived in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, on Saturday, to attend the Sunday meeting for rebuilding the Gaza Strip which was recently ravaged…
Palestinian medical sources have reported that a local teen was injured after a number of settlers attacked him in Yatta, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Additionally, several…
Israeli forces notified residents of al-Khader, to the south of Bethlehem, Saturday, of their intention to seize about 80 dunams of Palestinian-owned cropland, according to local activist Ahmad Salah. Also…
Seven Jerusalemites were injured on Friday night, during violent clashes which broke out in Silwan. In the Nablus district, on Saturday, Israeli forces abducted seven Palestinians from the Zwata, Balata…
In a Middle East region that continues to suffer from the consequences of violence, the people of Palestine continue to live under occupation and in exile, the Palestinian News Network…
A delegation of Palestinian officials left the West Bank for Jordan, en route to Cairo, early Saturday, to participate in the previously scheduled international donor conference for the Gaza Strip.…
This list is still incomplete, but we are trying to fill in gaps – these are Palestinian men, women and children killed during the Israeli assault on Gaza from July…
The government of Ecuador recently announced that a second cargo load of humanitarian aid was brought to the Gaza Strip, on Thursday.According to the RIA Novosti news site, Ecuadorian authorities…
Tuesday afternoon, the 7th of October, olive farmer Mahmoud Rga Mahoud Aid, his wife and their three children were attacked by a group of settlers from the illegal settlement of…
The Palestinian Authority is set to assume responsibility for the Erez and Kerem Shalom border crossings in the Gaza Strip, on Sunday, according to Deputy Prime Minister Muhammad Mustafa.DPM Mustafa,…
Israeli authorities have kidnapped 88 Palestinian citizens since the beginning of October, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club. Additionally, the administrative detention orders of six Palestinian MPs have been renewed.According…
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Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, a Palestinian researcher specialized in Detainees’ Affairs, stated that Israel is deliberately inflicting physiological harm on Palestinian political prisoners, amidst ongoing harassment, assaults and bad living conditions.The former…
In what seems to be related to a case of selling homes to Israeli settlers, a Palestinian man was stabbed to death, on Thursday evening, in Silwan town, occupied East…