This Week in Palestine Week 51 2014
Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for December 13th, to the 19th 2014. This week the…
Army Orders A Palestinian To Stop Digging A Well In His Land
A number of Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Friday, an area in the al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and ordered a Palestinian to stop digging…
Soldiers Assault A Palestinian Man Near Jenin
Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday, a Palestinian man near the village of Ta’nak, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, causing various cuts and bruises.Media sources in Jenin…
Palestinian Kidnapped Near Jenin, Many Injured
Media sources in the northern West Bank city of Jenin several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Thursday evening, the al-‘Arqa village, west of Jenin, kidnapped one residents while many suffered…
ITUC Recognizes Palestine, Calls For Reconstruction Of Gaza
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has officially recognized Palestine as a state, expressed its support for ending the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and has called for speeding the reconstruction…
Geneva Conference Slams Illegal Israeli Settlement Activities
The summary resolution of the conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention has denounced the continued practice of settlement expansion in occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), expresseing deep…
UN General Assembly Passes Resolution For Palestinian Right To Self-Determination
The United Nations General Assembly passed on Thursday, by an overwhelming majority, a resolution recognizing the Palestinian legitimate right to Self-Determination, including the right to an independent Palestinian State.180 countries…
Qassam Fighter Killed In Accidental Explosion In Gaza
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), has reported that one of its fighters was killed, Thursday, in what it described as an accidental explosion…
Settlers Assault Palestinian Bus Driver In Jerusalem
A Palestinian bus driver was injured, Thursday, after a number of Israeli extremists assaulted him at the Central Bus Station in West Jerusalem.The driver, identified as Anwar Tawil, 32, works…
Abbas Submits UN Resolution Draft with 2017 as Deadline for Israeli Withdrawal
Palestinian President and Fateh party member Mahmoud Abbas submitted, on Wednesday, the awaited UN resolution draft setting terms for final peace talks with Israel, saying that Palestine is open to…
Israeli Settler Alleges Palestinians Tried To Kidnap Him
An Israeli settler claimed, on Thursday at night, that two Palestinians tried to kidnap him as he was waiting for an Israeli bus in the bus junction located at the…
Settlers Attack Homes, Sabotage Electricity in Burin
A group of Israeli settlers, Thursday, cut power to an electricity line that had been supplying a Palestinian home in the village of Burin, to the south of Nablus, according…
Several Palestinians Injured Near Hebron
Palestinian medical sources have reported that several residents have been injured in the Safa and ath-Thaher areas, in Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron,…
Gazans Who Filed Compensation Against Israel Will Not Be Allowed Into Israel To Testify
Press Release: Israeli Supreme Court approves regulations that ban Palestinians from Gaza from entering Israel for their compensation cases against the Israeli military.On 16 December 2014, the Supreme Court of…
Palestine Today 12 18 2014
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, December 18th, 2014. Israeli radicals attack a Palestinian bus driver…