Palestine Today 02 16 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, February 16th, 2015. Israeli troops invade a number of west…
Meretz Party Demands Investigation Into Likud Campaign Video
The Meretz Party in Israel demanded the Legal Counsel of the Israeli government to investigate a video issued by the election campaign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claiming the…
Israeli Police Arrests Sixteen Palestinians In the Galilee
The Arabs48 news website has reported that Israeli police officers conducted a massive search campaign in the Galilee in order to kidnap and detain Palestinian workers, and arrested sixteen.It added…
Army Kidnaps Eight Palestinians In West Bank, Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, several communities in the occupied West Bank, and Jerusalem, and kidnapped seven Palestinians, in addition to a Palestinian who was kidnapped on Sunday…
Netanyahu Campaign Ad Compares Leftist Victory To “ISIS Triumph” in Israel
The Likud Party of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a video, as part of his campaign ads, showing a scenario in which a victory of leftists in Israel is…
UK Labour Party Candidate Beaten and Arrested by Israeli Soldiers at Protest in Palestine
Human rights activist and English political candidate, Mick Bowman, alleges he was beaten and arrested at a peaceful demonstration in Palestine on Friday.A human rights activist from Tyneside, in North…
Nonprofit Humanitarian Organization to Bring Solar Energy to Gaza
Gaza is in desperate need of power. One organization hopes to bring clean, renewable energy to Gaza with the installation of solar panels.Over the past few months an international team…
PCHR Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the oPt (05 – 11 February 2015)
Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) for the reporting period of 05 – 11 February 2015.Israeli attacks…
Taxi Driver Assaulted in West Jerusalem
A number of Israelis, on Saturday night, assaulted a Palestinian taxi driver while he was at work in West Jerusalem, according to witnesses.WAFA reprots that witnesses present at the scene…
Israeli Forces Injure 36 Palestinians in First Week of February
Israeli forces injured 36 Palestinians, including nine children, in various clashes throughout the West Bank from 3-9 February. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that of…
Expansion Procedures Begun in Illegal Bethlehem Settlement
Israeli authorities, on Saturday, began construction work for the expansion of the Israeli settlement of ‘Tzur Hadassah’, built illegally on the land of Wadi Fukin village, to the west of…