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A peaceful protest by activists from Palestinian popular committees successfully blocked the Jerusalem – Jericho road Friday in their ongoing protest against Israeli policies to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian Bedouin…
Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young man was injured after a number of fanatic Israeli settlers assaulted him at the Light-Rail Station in Bab al-’Amoud area, in occupied…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, the southern West Bank districts of Hebron and Bethlehem district, and kidnapped eight Palestinians. Clashes also took place after several Israeli military vehicles…
The “Hand in Hand Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel” has reported on Saturday at night that its two first-grade classrooms, in the Max Rayne Handed in Hand School in…
Today in al-Khalil (Hebron) families gathered to stage a peaceful demonstration protesting the continuing closure of the Shuhada checkpoint. The rally consisted of approximately 50 Palestinians, of all ages. The…
The Israeli Minister of Internal Security has decided to transfer 20-year-old Islam Izzat Natsheh, from Anata, to conditions of administrative detention (imprisonment without charge or trial) for 6 months, in…
Russian president Vladimir Putin has vowed continued support for Palestinians’ legitimate right to establish an independent, territorial and viable state as soon as possible.’We believe that Palestine’s acquisition of national…
As a recent wave of violence continues to progress in the region, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says that the Palestinian people can no longer live with the status quo in…
Palestinian detainee Nahar Al Saadi, from Jenin, is now in his first week of hunger strike in protest of ill-treatment from the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) and their denial of…
An Italian solidarity activist was critically injured along with 11 other Palestinians, Friday afternoon, after Israeli forces opened live fire on a protest march in the village of Kafr Qaddum,…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for November 22nd, to the 28th, 2014. Israeli attacks in…
Israeli forces violently detained and arrested twenty-year-old Palestinian activist Imad Altrash at approximately two o’clock, yesterday, in al-Khalil (Hebron).28th November 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Khalil Team Soldiers accused…
On November 23, the Israeli cabinet approved a bill that defines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. Such a draft bill aims to destroy the two-state solution by…
Israeli forces deployed along the border of the southern Gaza Strip were reported to have opened fired at Palestinian homes and properties in the area, on Friday morning, according to…
Israeli settlers, on Thursday, attempted to kidnap a Palestinian minor to the south of Hebron, while others attacked a car shop and its owner in Qalqilia, according to security sources.According…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, November 27th, 2014. Israeli troops invade West Bank communities and…
The United States Department of Defense has announced that it will supply the Israeli air force with 3,000 smart bombs (precision-guided munitions designed to achieve greater accuracy).The funding for the…
11-month-old Balqis Ghawadra became the youngest prisoner in the world, after visiting her father in Eshel Israeli prison, occupied Beer Sheva.Nihal Ghannam Ghawadra from Bir Al-Basha village, near Jenin, waited…
UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA declared, on Thursday, a state of emergency in Gaza City, due to massive rains and flooding.Ma’an News Agency reports that a major storm, over the…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and in occupied East Jerusalem, and took them to a number of interrogation…
Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) for the reporting period of 13 – 19 November, 2014. Israeli…
A disabled Jerusalemite woman, Nadya al-Maghribi, aged 55, along with her 22-year-old daughter, Amani, were assaulted by Israeli police, Tuesday, upon which the daughter was taken into custody and, subsequently,…
“Hiraeth – (n). A homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of…
Teachers at an Israeli school recently delivered a worksheet to their students which includes, in a list of rights, the right of ‘Killing Hamas’.This surprised some students’ parents enough to…
Egyptian authorities will open the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip to allow thousands of Palestinians, stranded for weeks on the Egyptian side, to return home, an official stated…
An overwhelming majority of the United Nations General Assembly voted in favor, Wednesday, on 5 draft resolutions in favor of Palestine. President Abbas says that he is ready to set…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, November 26th, 2014. Troops invade West Bank communities and kidnap…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, November 26th, 2014. Troops invade West Bank communities and kidnap…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, various Palestinian communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank, broke into homes and ransacked them, and kidnapped twelve Palestinians.Local sources in…
Israeli settlers, Tuesday, assaulted a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem, causing injuries in neck and back, according to local sources.25-year-old Islam Mazen Ebeid was in West Jerusalem when six Israeli settlers…
Israeli forces raided, this past Monday morning, the headquarters of the Palestinian Football Association in al-Ram, near Jerusalem. According to Ma’an News Agency, a statement from the PFA said that…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Israeli settlers’ ongoing and escalated attacks on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.The latest of these attacks has been against a…
The Gaza reconstruction plan is hostage to Israeli security demands, and was drawn up without participation of Gaza’s population or Hamas. International donors talk about “accountability” and “local ownership”, yet…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given orders for the allocation of $18.1 Million in expansion funds for 300 units of Beit El settlement, illegally built near Ramallah, according to…
The British government stated, on Monday, that it will review arms export licenses to Israel, to ensure that the use of such weapons does not contravene international law.Britain reviewed, in…
An Israeli bus driver ran over two Palestinians at al-Jalama checkpoint in Jenin, on Tuesday, injuring one person and killing another, Palestinian security sources have reported.Sources told Ma’an News Agency…
Israeli officials, on Tuesday, mocked US concerns about the controversial new ‘Jewish State’ bill that was issued on Sunday, with the cabinet set to vote on and approve it Wednesday,…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, November 25th, 2014. Palestinian fighter killed in Gaza meanwhile a…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and occupied East Jerusalem, and moved them to a number of interrogation centers.Israeli…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, the secretary of the Fateh movement of President Mahmoud Abbas, in occupied East Jerusalem, from his home in Silwan town, south of the…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday morning, a Palestinian at the entrance of the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.Local sources…
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, stated Tuesday that one of its fighters was killed during training, east of Gaza City.The brigades said the fighter, identified…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at night, a Palestinian father and his son after breaking into their home, in Jabal al-Mokabber, in occupied East Jerusalem, and searching it. Six more…
Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Monday evening, that a child suffered several fractures and bruises, after being struck by a speeding settler’s vehicle, west of occupied Jerusalem. The sources…
Israeli occupation authorities have barred, at Kerm Abu Salem crossing, ten truckloads of agricultural products from passing out of the war-torn and economically besieged Gaza Strip, due to an alleged…
Israeli media reported, on Monday, that a 45-year-old Jewish man arrived at a police station in Jerusalem’s Old City with stab wounds to his abdomen. According to Ynet, the man…
The Israeli cabinet, on Wednesday, is set to vote on and approve the controversial ‘Jewish Nation’ legislation proposed by Prime Minister Netanyahu, which was opposed by 7 ministers and approved…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, November 24th, 2014. Palestinian man shot and killed by Israeli…
The Israeli military issued, on Sunday, a military ruling renewing an order preventing the Palestinians from building in their own lands, in thousands of Dunams of Palestinian lands, south of…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Sunday evening, a young Palestinian woman at a military roadblock, near the Shu’fat refugee camp, in occupied East Jerusalem.The kidnapped woman has been as Shorouq Ayman…
Palestinian medical sources have reported that a man was shot and killed by Israeli army fire, east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Sunday. In…
Medical sources reported, Sunday, that a Palestinian shepherd was killed when an Israeli explosive, dropped by the army during training, detonated near him in al-Marah area, close to Bardala village,…
Several have been injured amidst a wave of escalating violence against Palestinians by Israeli soldiers and settlers across the West Bank region. At least five Palestinians were abducted by Israeli…
A Palestinian teenager was reported to have been seriously injured, while two others were abducted by Israeli forces near the Kerem Shalom crossing, in the Gaza Strip. Medical sources said…
Yesterday evening Israeli forces beat and detained young Palestinians on Tel Rumeida hill in al-Khalil (Hebron).23rd November 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron A twenty-two-year-old man was taken from…
The Israeli Knesset Finance Committee recently approved an additional 20 million NIS (roughly $5.2 million) for funding security in settlements built in occupied East Jerusalem.Estimations made by Israeli Finance Ministry…
The Israeli cabinet voted, on Sunday, in favor of a ‘Jewish State’ bill, which PM Benjamin Netanyahu says will balance democracy with Judaism. ‘Both principles are equal and must be…
A Jerusalem court has charged an Israeli border policeman with manslaughter for the shooting death of a Palestinian teen, during a demonstration in the occupied West Bank, this past May.17-year-old…
A number of Palestinians across the occupied territories have been targeted with live fire this weekend, with random attacks by civilians becoming increasingly common, in addition to attacks by Israeli…
Defense for Children International – Palestine has published a video analysis, conducted by Forensic Architecture, which identifies the Israeli soldier who shot and killed 17-year-old Nadim Nowarah six months ago,…
No one takes US ‘peace plan’ efforts seriously anymore – the Amman meetings were proof of that.US Secretary John Kerry met in Amman with King Abdullah, PM Netanyahu, and PA…
Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Palestine, Archbishop of Sebastia (Theodosius) Attallah Hanna, called on the world community to fully recognize all legitimate Palestinian rights of liberation and independence.Archbishop…
Human Right Watch (HRW) issued a statement calling on Israel to stop the illegal policies of the demolition of homes of Palestinians suspected of carrying attacks on Israelis, and said…
The Israeli Police apprehended, Friday, an Israeli man in Hadera city (al-Khdeira), in the Haifa District, after entering a restaurant carrying a knife, and threatened to kill Palestinian workers.The man…
A Palestinian woman has been injured, on Friday afternoon, after an Israeli settler deliberately rammed her with his car in Shu’fat town, north of occupied Jerusalem, and fled the scene.The…
Israel’s Shin Bet security service revealed, Thursday, that security forces had apprehended a Hamas-affiliated group in the West Bank who planned to assassinate far-right Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.According to…
The official launching of the International Conference of Local Authorities in Solidarity with the Palestinian People took place on Friday, gathering more than a hundred International, Arab and Islamic key…
Wednesday, at approximately 11:00 in al-Khalil (Hebron) a settler from a nearby illegal settlement approached the Qurtuba school in H2 with a gun [H2 is the area of Hebron under…
Videos show how settlers were attacking Palestinians in the northern West Bank village of Orif, on Tuesday, while Israeli soldiers stood by and did nothing to stop them.Distributed by the…
After refusing to cooperate with a one UN committee, Jerusalem has reportedly agreed to work with another, so long as certain conditions are met.According to the PNN, Israeli newspaper Haaretz…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for November 15th, to the 21st, 2014. The Palestinian President…
Dozens of Palestinians were injured during clashes with Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on Friday, according to witnesses. Two Israelis were reported to…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, November 20th, 2014. Dozens injured in ongoing clashes in Jerusalem,…
At least 600 Palestinian children were arrested in Jerusalem since last June. Of these chlidren, nearly 40% were reportedly exposed to sexual abuse during arrest or investigation by the Israeli…
Palestinian medical sources have reported that an infant, three months of age, suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, after dozens of soldiers invaded Beit Leqia village, west of the…
Israeli police issued a summons order, Thursday, to a Palestinian pathologist who attended the autopsy of a bus driver found dead earlier this week.Dr. Saber al-Aloul received an order to…
Divestment organizers at UCLA, representing a wide coalition of students from all backgrounds and sectors of campus, celebrated a milestone victory for social justice with the passage of ‘A Resolution…
Israeli bulldozers demolished, on Thursday, a number of mobile homes to the east of At-Tayba village, east of Ramallah. Near Hebron, forces seized a tractor and four water tanks, while…
Israeli police in occupied Jaffa were reported to have interrogated a young Palestinian man for posting a photo on his Facebook page, while visiting al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards.According to Al Ray,…
A student-led movement taking shape on U.S. college campuses have seen a growing number of young activists organizing around solidarity with Palestine.Al Ray correspondence reports that Students for Justice in…
Israeli public security minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, has approved to ease the rules for private bearing of arms for Israeli citizens, under a pretext of defense against ‘terror attacks’, according to…
Israeli forces have taken captive at least 380 Palestinians, in raids across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, over the past 20 days, including 21 on Thursday alone. The…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the Askar refugee camp, east of the northern West bank city of Nablus, and clashed with local youths wounding three. Clashes also took…
A number of extremist Israeli settlers invaded, Thursday, the village of Qusra, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and attacked property before local villagers chased them, and…
A number of extremist Israeli settlers invaded, on Wednesday evening, the village of al-Mogheer, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and attempted to burn a home.Eyewitnesses said…
Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Wednesday evening Huwwara town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and imposed curfew forcing the entire village under house arrest.Local sources…
Medical sources have reported that at least twelve Palestinians have been injured by Israeli army fire in occupied East Jerusalem; one of them suffered a serious head injury, while more…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, November 19th, 2014. Israeli police injuries dozens of Palestinian civilians…
Israeli police released nine relatives of two Palestinian attackers who had been detained earlier in the day, Tuesday. Meanwhile, clashes continue in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.Israeli police raided…
Disruptions to public transportation in Jerusalem are expected again Wednesday, as Palestinian drivers working for the Israeli bus company ‘Egged’ begin their second day of strike in protest of the…
Israeli forces, Wednesday, took over thousands of dunams in Ya’abad, southwest Jenin, in the northern West Bank, according to the PNN. Additionally, 78 new settlement units have been approved in…
Israeli military media and military reported gunshots fired near Erez crossing, between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip. on Wednesday.Channel 7 said gunshots were fired towards Israeli forces at the…
Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and Beit Ummar nearby town, broke into and searched homes, and installed roadblocks.Mohammad Awad,…
Palestinian medical sources have reported that dozens of children have been injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers, near the Shu’fat refugee camp, and ‘Anata town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem.Local…
Palestinian human rights groups have reported that a detained Palestinian child from Jerusalem was seriously injured during interrogation at an Israeli interrogation center in Salah Ed-Deen Street, in the occupied…
Israeli soldiers detonated, on Wednesday at dawn, the home of Abdul-Rahman Shalloudi in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem.Israel claims Shalloudi, who was shot dead…
Dr. Hasan Ali Khater, head of the International Jerusalem Center, stated that the recent Israeli cabinet decisions regarding occupied Jerusalem are a declaring war on the Palestinians, and a green…
Medical sources have reported, Tuesday, that a Palestinian teen was shot, and moderately injured by a live round, fired by an Israeli settler near Beiteen village, east of the central…
Israeli Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich issued orders for more severe measures isolating entire Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem, including the constant search of Palestinians entering or leaving them.Aharonovich…
Attempts to pass legislation that would officially define Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people are being held up by internal problems within Israel’s ruling coalition, problems which may…