Day: May 6, 2015

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, May 6th, 2015. Israeli settlers take over Palestinian homes in…

Israeli forces may have committed ‘grave violations’ of the international laws of warfare during last summer’s bloody Gaza conflict, according to the accounts of soldiers who fought in it.A collection…

The Israeli Supreme Court, on Tuesday, issued a final decision to demolish and displace the people of Atir-Umm Al-Hieran, a Palestinian village which remains unrecognized in the Negev desert of…

A Palestinian truck driver reportedly escaped ambush by a group of Israeli settlers, Tuesday night, while traversing a main road between Nablus and Qalqiliya in the northern occupied West Bank.The…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on Tuesday denied a false allegation made against it by former head of the Israeli army over an alleged incident which occurred…

Besieged Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank’s Jordan Valley have called on the international community to immediately intervene to halt Israeli military training in the area, which has already…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, earlier Wednesday, six Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including a woman who was leaving the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli extremists storm the Al-Aqsa…

The Jabari family owns land sandwiched in between the illegal settlements of Kiryat Arba and Givat Ha’vot. In 2001, settlers illegally took over part of the land to erect a…

R&B star Lauryn Hill, on Monday, canceled a concert scheduled for Israeli audiences just days from now, saying that she had tried unsuccessfully to perform in the occupied Palestinian territories…

Members of the Israeli Ateret Cohanim settlement group invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, three apartments belonging to the Abu Nab Palestinian family, in the Central Neighborhood, in Silwan town in…

Moroccans are hailing a decision to cancel the planned visit of former Israeli President Shimon Peres as a “victory” for popular efforts.Days of Palestine reports that, this past Friday, thirty…

Israeli soldiers, accompanied by military bulldozers, invaded Wednesday Palestinian agricultural lands in Souba area, in Ethna town, west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and uprooted dozens of…

A number of extremist Israeli settlers attacked, late on Tuesday at night, a Palestinian man from Hebron, as he was near Sorra village, west of the northern West Bank city…

Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan, 37 years of age, declared an open-ended hunger strike, protesting his continued imprisonment by Israel, under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial. His wife…

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has announced that he will resign his position and that his political party will not take part in Israel’s incoming government.According to Al Ray correspondence…

Member of the PLO’s central committee and international relations commissioner, Dr. Nabil Shaath, has announced that the Republic of Armenia will allow Palestinians to enter their land without a visa…

Israeli authorities have closed an investigation into a policeman who shot dead a young Palestinian with Israeli citizenship during an arrest operation in November, the justice ministry said on Monday.’The…