Infant Dies As Pouring Rain Floods Devastated Gaza
Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that an infant died in southern Gaza, due to freezing temperature as dozens of homes have been flooded as a result of pouring rain.The…
This Week in Palestine Week 02 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for January 3rd, to the 9th, 2015. The Palestinian Authority…
Detainee ‘Adnan On Hunger Strike Since January 6
The family of Palestinian political prisoner Khader ‘Adnan, 37 years of age, said their son started his most recent hunger strike on January 6, protesting the renewal of his arbitrary…
Settlers Break Into Palestinian Stores In Hebron
The Youth Against Settlements Coalition in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, has reported that fanatic Israeli settlers broke, on Wednesday, into one of the Palestinian…
Seven Palestinians Kidnapped In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday evening, several Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem, imposed a siege on a number of areas, and kidnapped seven Palestinians.The invasion took place after the…
Homes, Lands, Targeted By Israeli Fire In Southern Gaza
Israeli soldiers, stationed on across the border fence, opened fire on Thursday evening targeting Palestinian homes and lands east of the Khan Younis district, in the southern part of the…
Settler Injured In Jerusalem Stabbing
Israeli media sources have reported that an Israeli settler was stabbed in the upper torso, and suffered a moderate injury, in occupied East Jerusalem.The Police said it is searching “for…
Settler Injured In Jerusalem Stabbing
Israeli media sources have reported that an Israeli settler was stabbed in the upper torso, and suffered a moderate injury, in occupied East Jerusalem.The Police said it is searching “for…
Storm ‘Huda’ Arrives in the Holy Land
Millions of Palestinians bunkered down at home, this Wednesday, as they faced down the first day of a huge winter storm which has brought a mixture of rain, hail and…
Israeli Soldier Aquitted of Minister Abu Ein’s Murder
The Israeli soldier whose direct involvement in the death of Minister Ziad Abu Ein, early December 2014, was acquitted of all charges after a military investigation.According to WAFA Palestinian News…
Palestine to Join ICC on April 1st
In a statement posted on the UN’s treaty website Tuesday night, United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, said: ‘The statute will enter into force for the State of Palestine on…
Israel Approves Administrative Detention Orders for 13 More Palestinian Prisoners
The Israeli military court of Ofer, on Tuesday, approved administrative detention orders filed against 13 detainees, according to the lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).PPS reported that the orders…
Israel and US to break Backs of the Camels called Oslo Accords and ICC
Israel will be lobbying the U.S.’ Congress to enforce legislation to freeze funds for Palestine, should Palestine lodge charges at the ICC. Israel’s decision to withhold Palestinian tax funds caused…
Palestine Today 01 06 2014
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, January 6th, 2014. Israeli troops kidnap civilians during invasions targeting…
Palestine Today 01 05 2015
Audio Link after Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, January 5th, 2014. Israeli troops demolish Palestinians owned structures and…
Orthodox Christians commemorate Christmas; snowy weather in Bethlehem
A rare ‘White Christmas’ was celebrated Tuesday evening by Orthodox Christians in Bethlehem. The snow did not hinder the festivities, which were carried out as planned.Under the Eastern Orthodox calendar,…
Wounded Woman Moved Back To Prison Despite Need For Further Medical Care
The Israeli Prison Authority transferred, on Tuesday, wounded female detainee, Amal Taqatqa, from an Israeli hospital to prion, despite her need for further medical attention, and treatment.The Palestinian Detainees Committee…
Soldiers Kidnap 22 Palestinians In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, several Palestinian communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank, broke into and searched dozens of homes, and kidnapped 21 Palestinians, including…
Al Aqsa Raids Continue, Settler Suspected of Killing 16 Sheep in Aqraba
A number of Israeli settlers, Monday, again entered Al Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, provoking worshipers, according to WAFA correspondence.The settlers were reported to have broken into the…
Israeli President Rivilin Against Palestinian Tax Freeze
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said, Monday, that he opposed a freeze in the transfer of taxes to the Palestinians in response to their application to join the International Criminal Court.’Freezing…
Israel To Ask US Congress To Cut Aid To Palestinians
Recent American legislation states that, if Palestinians initiate any action against Israel at the International Criminal Court, the State Department would have to stop US aid to the PA.According to…
Peace Activists Raise Palestinian Flags In Illegal Israeli Settlement In Bethlehem
A number of nonviolent Palestinian activists managed to raise Palestinian flags, on Monday evening, in the Efrat illegal Israeli settlement, built on Palestinian lands south of the West Bank city…
Dozens Hurt In Two Israeli Military Invasions In West Bank
Israeli soldiers invaded on Monday evening, the village of Zabbouba west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and Beit Ummar town north of the southern West Bank city…
6800 Palestinians Currently Imprisoned By Israel
The Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies has reported that the Israeli army has kidnapped and detained 7110 Palestinians in 2014, adding that, by the end of the year 2014, the…
Army Demolishes A Carwash Facility, Two Sanitary Storage Rooms, In Bethlehem
Several armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers invaded, earlier on Monday at dawn, the town of Husan, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and demolished a car-wash structure,…
Soldiers Kidnap Six Palestinians In Hebron And Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in Hebron and Jerusalem, late on Sunday at night and on Monday at dawn, and kidnapped six Palestinians after searching and ransacking their homes.Media…
Israeli government authorizes $18 million for 300 new units in Beit El settlement
The Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, along with Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, approved on Sunday the expansion of an Israeli colony located on stolen Palestinian land near Ramallah.The expansion of…
Israeli High Court orders re-routing of Annexation Wall in Battir village
Palestinian villagers from Battir, in the southern part of the West Bank, declared a victory on Sunday in their struggle to save their village from annexation by Israeli forces for…
Netanyahu Threatens Palestinian Prosecution Over ICC Bid
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, Sunday, that PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ bid to join the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) would only expose him and other Palestinian officials to…
At Least 5 Kidnapped by Israeli Forces in Jerusalem and West Bank, Hebron Teen Injured by Live Fire
Israeli authorities, Sunday, abducted at least five Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank district of Bethlehem, according to reports by local and security sources.In Jerusalem, Israeli police invaded the…
Barghouthi: “Israel Practicing Piracy By Withholding Palestinian Tax Money”
Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, described the Israeli decision to withhold 500 Million New Israeli Shekels of Palestinian Tax money, as an act of theft and…
PCHR Weekly Report: 4 killed, 17 wounded by Israeli forces this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 24- 30 Dec. 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
Palestinian Fisherman Seriously Injured By Israeli Navy Fire In Gaza
Israeli Navy boats opened fire, on Saturday at dawn, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats, in Gaza waters in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, seriously…
Israeli Army Imposes Curfew On Deir Nitham Village
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday, the village of Deir Nitham, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, imposed a curfew forcing the residents under house arrest, and launched…
US Diplomats Cars Attacked By Fanatic Israeli Settlers In The West Bank
A number of extremist Israeli settlers hurled stones at cars of an American diplomatic delegation who drove along with Israeli police vehicles to an area near the central West Bank…
Israeli troops attack non-violent Palestinian protests in 5 West Bank villages, wounding one
One boy was injured, and scores of civilians were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation on Friday when Israeli soldiers attacked nonviolent weekly protests organized in West Bank…
Palestinian Child Killed by Egyptian Forces at Rafah Border
Egyptian military forces, late Friday, shot and killed a Palestinian child at the Rafah border between Egypt and Gaza.Witnesses told Ma’an News Agency that Egyptian soldiers opened fire at four…
This Week in Palestine Week 01 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for December 27th, 2014 to January 2nd, 2015. Two Palestinian…
Soldiers Kidnap Two Palestinians In Ramallah
At least eleven Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Friday at dawn, several areas south of the West Bank city of Ramallah, and Betunia town, and kidnapped two Palestinians.Media sources in…
Israeli Extremists Attack Palestinian Cars near Jenin, Uproot Saplings In Bethlehem
Dozens of fanatic Israeli settlers gathered, on Thursday at night, on the main Jenin-Nablus road, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and attacked several Palestinian cars. Settlers…
B’Tselem: ‘Israel Demolished 188 Homes In 2014’
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem) has reported that the Israeli authorities demolished, in the year 2014, 188 Palestinian homes in the West Bank…
Further Youth Detentions in West Bank Cities
Israeli forces, Thursday detained a 17-year-old from the village of Al Arqa, to the west of Jenin, and caused tens others to suffocate from teargas during confrontations, security sources told…
86 Israeli Attacks on Islamic and Christian Holy Sites in 2014
Al Aqsa Association for Waqf and Heritage has reported that Israelis carried out some 86 assaults and violations of Islamic and Christian Palestinian holy sites in the occupied West Bank…
Israeli Settlers Destroy 5,000 Olive Saplings near Turmusayya
Jewish settlers have uprooted more than 5,000 olive tree saplings in lands east of the town of Turmusayya, north of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank, locals said Thursday.One…
Raids, Kidnappings and Demolitions by Israeli Forces Continue Across Occupied Palestine
Israeli forces Thursday detained three men from Hebron and Jenin districts, as a part of the Israeli army’s systematic policy of daily arrests, local and security sources told WAFA correspondence.…
VIDEO: “They look like they’re in a war zone, but what they’re aiming at is five-year-olds”
By 10:30 am on Tuesday morning of December 30, Palestinian children attending school near Qeitun checkpoint in al-Khalil (Hebron) had endured over forty tear gas canisters, multiple rounds of rubber…
Abbas Signs Several International Treaties
In a statement received by the PNN, PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Saeb Erekat said that the State of Palestine has signed a number of international treaties, all of which…
Netanyahu Re-elected as Leader of Likud Party
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was elected to another term as leader of the ruling Likud party ahead of a snap election, his group said Thursday.According to Ma’an News Agency,…
Dozens, Including Children, Kidnapped Across West Bank and Jerusalem, Dormition Abbey Vandalized
Israeli forces, on Wednesday, abducted dozens of Palestinians, including minors, from various districts in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. Several injuries and other violations by Israeli forces and extremist…
BDS 2014 Roundup
For Palestinians and people of conscience everywhere, 2014 will be remembered as the year in which Israel carried out its bloodiest massacre, ever, of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.2014…
Palestinian Man Crushed to Death at Israeli Checkpoint
A Palestinian man from the occupied West Bank village of Farun died Wednesday morning, after being crushed to death inside an Israeli checkpoint near Tulkarem, while trying to get to…
Abbas Submits Application for ICC Membership
PA President and Fateh member Mahmoud Abbas, Wednesday, signed a formal request for Palestine to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), following a failed UN resolution for ending the Israeli…