Month: May 2015

A young Palestinian girl has died, and her family suffered severe smoke inhalation, when a fire spread through their home in occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Monday.Witnesses said that…

An Israeli court’s order to evacuate and demolish 23 buildings in a northern Jerusalem neighborhood, together with the demolition of an century-old Islamic shrine by Israeli forces in Nablus, has…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, May 11th, 2015. Israeli tanks invade areas in the Gaza…

A number of Israeli military vehicles carried out, on Monday morning, a limited invasion into an area east of Gaza city, and fired a number of rounds of live ammunition…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported Monday that a recently detained Palestinian child has been subject to torture, and frequent violations, by Israeli soldiers and interrogators, in a military…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, six Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including in Jerusalem, after searching several homes, while three of the kidnapped were…

A man was stabbed and lightly wounded at Mishor Adumim Junction near the illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim early Monday morning.Israeli media is reporting that a 19-year-old Israeli man…

PLO Executive Committee member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi stated: “Such a coalition betrays the true nature of the Israeli political system and promotes an anti-peace agenda and the language of racism,…

The Israeli military court of Ofer, on Sunday, sentenced five Palestinian ex-detainees – who were released in the Gilad Shalit prisoners swap in 2011 and were rearrested in 2014 –…

Dozens of extremist Israeli settlers stormed the courtyards of Al Aqsa Mosque on Sunday morning, from Mughrabi Gate and amid tight security protection from private Israeli occupation police.The director of…

A fruit and vegetable vendor set fire to his stand in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, on Sunday, in protest over a decision by local authorities to remove the…

On the thirteenth anniversary of the deportation of Palestinian freedom fighters, following the siege of the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem, the families of deportees held a march in…

The English-language daily Jerusalem Post reports, based on unofficial copies of the Likud-Jewish Home coalition agreement, that within one month a professional team will be created to formulate a plan…

A group of right-wing Israeli men in the old city of Hebron chased down and violently assaulted four children ages 4 – 10 and their mother. The family was walking…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, several communities in the West Bank districts of Hebron, Bethlehem and Ramallah, searched and ransacked a number of homes and kidnapped six Palestinians.Media…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Sunday morning, on fishing boats in Palestinian territorial waters, in northern Gaza, causing damage to one boat, before the soldiers kidnapped two fishers.Nizar Ayyash,…

Former Palestinian detainee, Rami Kamal Shalamish, age 33, from the Jenin-area town of Birqin, died on Saturday, the prisoners’ committee said.Head of the Prisoners and Former Prisoners’ Affairs Committee, Issa…

Due to ongoing aggression against Palestinians, the European United Left group of MEPs demanded, on Friday, the abolition of partnership deals with Israel.The demand was made in the wake of…

Horrific outbursts against the Jews are on the rise all over Europe – exclamations like ‘gas the Jews’ and ‘Jews burn best’ are being heard at soccer games and similar…

Israeli Light Rail guards, and a police officer, in occupied Jerusalem violently attacked and beat, on Thursday, a young Palestinian woman, while shouting and cursing at her before detaining, and…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday afternoon, Silwad town, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and clashed with local youths; many Palestinians have been injured. Army also invaded…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli annexation wall and settlements, in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, causing dozens to…

Medical sources have reported that a Palestinian teen was shot, and seriously injured, by Israeli army fire west of Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.The sources…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly protest in Kufur Qaddoum village, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, leading to clashes with local youths; medical sources said two children,…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and Settlements in Ni’lin village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, causing dozens of residents to…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new right-wing religious ‘government of war’ is a blow to an already stagnating peace process, PLO officials said Thursday, vowing to fight it on the…

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…

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…

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, 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, May 7th, 2015. Israeli attacks leave two injured civilians in…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, earlier on Thursday, seven Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, shot and seriously injured one resident, during military invasions targeting several Palestinian communities. Several residents suffer the…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Thursday morning, that a young man was injured after being struck by a speeding Israeli settlement bus, near the southern West Bank city of…

Israeli soldiers opened fire, on Thursday at dawn, on a number of Palestinian farmers east of Deir al-Balah, in Central Gaza, while navy ships opened fire on fishing boats in…

Palestinian Legislator, deputy Secretary-General of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), Qais Abu Laila, stated that the Israel is using its so-called “Absentee Property Law” as a…

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic), in occupied Jerusalem, published a report documenting the Israeli violations against the Jerusalemite Palestinians in April, and revealed that the soldiers killed…

The Israeli army invaded, Wednesday, Jabal al-Baba area, east of the al-Ezariyya town, east of occupied Jerusalem, and handed three demolition orders.Fateh Movement Secretary in Arab al-Jahalin Bedouin village Daoud…

Two Palestinian children were injured as a leftover Israeli explosive device blew up in eastern Gaza City on Wednesday.Medical sources said that two children were injured when ordnance left from…

On the 3rd of May, the trial of nine Palestinian fishermen kidnapped by the Egyptian army while fishing in waters of the border city of Rafah, took place in the…

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…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, May 5th, 2015. Israeli troops invade West Bank communities and…

Israeli soldiers invaded several Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped four Palestinians, after searching a number of homes and tailor shop; the army also installed roadblocks.Media sources…

An Israeli Court ruled Monday on the removal of Susiya Bedouin village, in Masafer Yatta area, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after colonists of the illegal…

Israeli soldiers placed, Monday, concrete blocks surrounding a Palestinian land Israel intends to illegally confiscate, in Silwan town, in occupied Jerusalem, leading to clashes between the army and local youths.Member…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, May 4th, 2015. Israeli attacks on West Bank communities leave…

A committee of the US Senate has approved a bill to protect illegal Israeli ‘Jewish-only’ settlements built in occupied Palestinian territories.The Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015, which is…

Breaking the Silence, an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers, harshly slammed the Israeli army for its operational policy during last summer’s aggression on Gaza, saying it led to “immense and…

An explosive device blew up near a major square in Gaza City late Sunday, security officials said.The device exploded in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, with no injuries reported. Police arrived…

Israel’s military command perhaps pushes for escalation in order to increase the army’s budget, claims a military budget officer in an anonymous Facebook posting. “Wars, operations, exceptional events, they were…

Fire erupted in a northern Jordan Valley grazing land, on Monday, after Israeli army embarked on live ammunition military training in the area, according to a local official.Aref Daraghmeh, head…

Israeli forces have sealed the main entrance to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Zaayyem, ‘locking up more than 6,000 Palestinians in a large prison,’ local residents say.An iron gate set…

Israeli settlers harassed Palestinians, including small children, in the West Bank’s South Hebron Hills this past weekend.Four settlers, one of them armed, harassed a Palestinian walking with his son through…

The Israeli government has approved the construction of 1,500 new housing units within the Israeli settlement in Jerusalem, this week.Israeli Channel 10 reported, according to Al Ray, that officials issued…

A protest in Tel Aviv, Sunday, against racism and police brutality, initiated by Ethiopian Israelis, has left some 68 people injured and 43 now in police custody, according to the…

A young Palestinian man was shot and injured, on Monday at dawn, by Israeli army in Beit Forik town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.Eyewitnesses told the…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped 19 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, including twelve in Hebron, and 2 Palestinians near the Gaza border fence. Army claims wounding a Palestinian after…

Israeli soldiers installed, Monday, a number of mobile homes on illegally confiscated, and uprooted Palestinian lands, belonging to Palestinian villagers, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem.Head of the Kisan…

A number of armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers, conducted on Monday morning a limited invasion into Jabalia town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and uprooted farmlands.…

[Translated from Arabic]Every Arab citizen inside the Green Line (Israel), seemingly, has the shelter to obtain a normal life, but, on the ground, the occupation government and its institutions are…

Israeli naval boats, on Sunday, opened heavy machine gunfire towards Palestinian fishermen while sailing just offshore of Gaza City, within the allotted the fishing zone, according to local sources.WAFA correspondence…

Israeli authorities, on Sunday, kidnapped six Palestinians in East Jerusalem, including two minors, and three others in the West Bank, most of them during predawn and night raids, during which…

via the International Solidarity Movement (ISM): ‘We, Palestinians struggling against Israeli Apartheid, stand in solidarity with the residents of Baltimore…’We send our condolences to the family of Freddie Gray and…

Former US President Jimmy Carter says that he, along with a non-governmental organization which describes itself as a group of ‘independent global leaders working together for peace and human rights’,…

Israeli forces, Sunday morning, sabotaged hundreds of dunams of agricultural lands in Khirbet al-Tawil, east of Nablus, using military crawlers.According to the PNN, local sources said that Israeli forces have…

Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour has sent an open letter to the UN Security Council demanding that Israel be brought to justice over violations and abuse against Palestinian…

The name of former Israeli President Shimon Peres has been removed from the official guest list of the Clinton Global Initiative Middle East and North Africa Conference in Marrakech.It was…

The Palestinian Radio and Television Union has reported that Israel soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian journalist, shot and injured six others, in April. In a report on Israeli violations against the…

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has reported Saturday, that Israeli soldiers used excessive force against journalists marking World Press Freedom Day in Bethlehem, injuring the Syndicate’s head, and a member of…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, earlier Saturday, five Palestinians, including three children and a security officer, in the occupied West Bank, after breaking into homes and searching them, and kidnapped one Palestinian,…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Friday, Silwad town, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, clashed with local youths, and deliberately fired gas bombs into several homes; many injured, including…

Israeli naval forces opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Gaza City early Friday, witnesses told Ma’an News Agency.An Israeli army spokeswoman stated, according to Ma’an News…

Israeli forces have, at the time of this report, fired at least 45 tear gas grenades towards the village of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah. Many suffer from severe inhalation.Residents of…

Representatives of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) and partner organizations traveled to Tunis last week, where they participated in the World Social Forum. During the WSF they met with several…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for April 25th, to May 1st, 2015. Palestinian workers make…

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) denounced the decision of the Hamas-run security forces in Gaza, to prevent a procession marking International Workers’ Day, on Friday, May…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly protest in the al-Ma’sara village, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers prevented the nonviolent protesters from reaching Palestinian lands…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Annexation Wall and settlements, in Bil’in village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, causing many injuries; army…