‘We Bombed Civilians for Entertainment.’
An Israeli soldier has said that he and his colleagues bombed civilian in Gaza Strip during last year’s Israeli offensive “for entertainment”.In an interview conducted on Tuesday with a 20-year-old…
Open the Gate, Bring Down the Wall!
The villagers of Al-Zaim held their third demonstration today in front of the gate in the apartheid wall that separates them from East Jerusalem. Peaceful demonstrators were met by a…
Israel Shutters Palestinian NGO in Jerusalem
Israeli authorities have shut a Palestinian health NGO in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shuafat, Thursday, under the 1948 Prevention of Terrorism Act. Another step in Israel’s oppression of the…
Human Rights Watch: Palestinian Students Abused over Politics by PA Forces
Human Rights Watch, on Thursday, accused Palestinian security forces of arresting or questioning West Bank students over their political opinions, saying several had been mistreated.’It is deeply worrying that students…
This Week in Palestine Week 19 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for May 2nd, to the 8th, 2015. Palestinians say the…
New Israeli Government To Legalize Random Outposts
Israeli sources reported Friday that an agreement was reached between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the “Jewish Home” Party, to legalize random colonial outposts, built on Palestinian lands, in…
Abu Rodeina: “Israel Must Choose Between Peace And Settlements”
Responding to the Israeli decision to build 900 new units in Ramat Shlomo illegal Israeli colony in occupied Jerusalem, Palestinian presidency spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rodeina, said Israel is ongoing with…
Soldiers Invade Palestinian Communities In Jenin
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, various Palestinian communities in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, broke into homes and searched them, and occupied several rooftops.Eyewitnesses…
Israel Approves Construction of 900 Units in Ramat Shlomo
Just a few hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to form his right-wing coalition government; the “Jerusalem Planning Committee” approved the construction of 900 new homes in the…
PCHR Weekly Report: 5 Palestinians wounded, 65 abducted, by Israeli forces this week
In its weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that in the week of 29 April – 06…
Israeli Extremists Attack Car Of Palestinian Official Near Nablus
A number of extremist Israeli settlers attacked, Thursday, the car of a senior Palestinian official on the Nablus-Ramallah road, as he was heading to Nablus.The Maan News Agency has reported…