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Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Wednesday, two Palestinian children in the al-‘Isawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and an 18-year-old in the northern West Bank district of Nablus. Army also demolished a…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday morning, eight Dunams (around 2 acres) of farmland in the al-‘Isawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, demolished several structures, and uprooted fruit and olive trees.The…
Several armored Israeli military vehicles, and bulldozers, conducted, on Wednesday morning, a limited invasion into Palestinian agricultural lands, east of the al-Qarara town, northeast of Khan Younis, in the southern…
Israel released, on Tuesday evening, the elected head of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Dr. Aziz Dweik, after holding him captive for twelve months.The Change and Reform Bloc of Hamas…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, shot and killed one Palestinian, during clashes that took place after…
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said that $2,097,225 in funding were made available for cash assistance to meet the needs…
The number of mentally disabled people in the Gaza Strip has increased substantially in the last years. 9th June | Miguel Hernández | Gaza, Occupied Palestine It so happens that…
Israeli media reported, Tuesday, that Khader Adnan, the Palestinian administrative detainee who has been on hunger strike for over a month has been forcibly hospitalized and chained to his bed.Al…
The West Jerusalem municipality, on Tuesday, issued orders to demolish industrial facilities for Palestinians in Al-Jeeb town, northwest Jerusalem, under the pretext of no building permit.PNN sources say that soldiers…
Israel’s deputy parliament speaker, lawmaker Oren Hazan, has said he will sue privately owned Channel 2 over a report alleging his involvement in pimping and drugs.’I have ordered my lawyer…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, June 9th, 2015. Israel’s government demolish Palestinian business in Jerusalem…
Defense for Children International – Palestine Branch (DCIP), issued a statement expressing deep concern regarding the decision of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to exclude the Israeli army from the UN…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday morning, the al-Khalayla neighborhood in the al-Jeeb town, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem, and demolished three Palestinian industrial structures.Several military vehicles, and bulldozers, invaded the…
Israeli soldiers invaded, late on Monday at night and on Tuesday at dawn, several Palestinian villages and towns in different parts of the occupied West Bank, violently searched and ransacked…
Russia has offered to host a reconciliation meeting between Hamas and Fateh in Moscow, Lebanese newspaper as-Safir reported Monday.The offer was reportedly made by the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail…
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, stated that the files of Israel’s illegal settlement activities in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, and the repeated Israeli aggression on the besieged coastal…
The southern West Bank city of Hebron is a microcosm of the Israeli occupation with its five settlements and 600 settlers, massive military presence, Separation Wall and institutionalised violation of…
The White House, on Sunday, announced its support for Israel’s missiles on Gaza as the right to defend itself, after rockets were fired from the Strip into Israel by Salafist…
The American president rather than Congress has authority to decide policy on matters of sovereignty such as the US stance on the status of Jerusalem, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.The…
Audio Link after Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, June 8th, 2015. Israeli troops invade West Bank communities and…
Undercover units of the Israeli military invaded, on Monday at dawn, the Beit Jala governmental hospital in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, and attempted to kidnap two wounded Palestinians…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, five Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, while another resident was kidnapped, on Sunday evening, near Bethlehem.Media sources in the…
Israeli forces detained eight Palestinians across the occupied West Bank overnight Saturday, the Israeli army said. On Sunday morning, at the entrance of occupied East Jerusalem, forces detained a young…
The Palestinian Authority’s Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs (CPA) said, in a statement Sunday, that 93 Palestinian minors are currently incarcerated in the Israeli Ofer prison near Ramallah.According to WAFA correspondence,…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has allocated an additional NIS 100 million and ten government positions to the fight against BDS.The Israeli news site ynet reports that Netanyahu held consultations about…
Al Ray Palestinian media network organized, on Sunday morning, a solidarity protest with political detainees on hunger strike in Israeli jails, with special note to Khader Adnan and Abdullah Barghouti..Participants…
Israeli authorities, on Monday, closed Erez and Kerem Shalom border crossings into Gaza, citing “security reasons”.Only few hundred truckloads of aid at a time and a very few number of…
Walla! Israeli website, following the latest rocket on Israel yesterday, said that a Salafist group leader in Gaza announced the group will continue with its strikes if Hamas does not…
A Salafist group has claimed responsibility for a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip towards the Israeli town of Ashkelon on Saturday night, as Israel carried out retaliatory airstrikes overnight.…
Israeli officials, last week, launched a war against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which has been gaining ground in recent weeks.According to thge PNN, Hebrew, international and Palestinian…
The chairman of Orange told AFP on Saturday that he ‘sincerely’ regretted a ‘controversy’ over the French telecoms group’s relations with Israel, saying, the Orange Group ‘is in Israel to…
Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Friday evening, near Jerusalem, injuring two citizens.Soldiers opened fire at unarmed Palestinian protesters in Abu-Dis, east of occupied Jerusalem, Days of Palestine reports. Witnesses…
Chief of Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe said, today, that the health of prisoner Khader Adnan had become increasingly bad after he reached the 35th day in his hunger strike protesting…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Saturday, Palestinian protesters as they were commemorating the 1967 occupation of the full area of historic Palestine by the Israeli military. The demonstrators tried to reach the…
A rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel Saturday, falling in an open space in Ashkelon, the Israeli army said.Rocket-warning sirens were sounded across the Ashkelon region, including…
Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Saturday morning, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters. Soldiers open fire on farmers in different areas. Media sources said…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Saturday morning, a young Palestinian man from Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after stopping him on the Tunnel Roadblock;…
United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Makarim Wibisono, today, repeated his call for the Israeli occupation to abandon its plans for the forced relocation of Palestinian Bedouins in the West Bank.PNN…
Hamas, on Friday, organized a march in Jabaliya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, to protest the national unity government‘s alleged neglect of the coastal enclave, as well as…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday afternoon, the town of Silwan, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, wounding three Palestinians with live rounds, and two with rubber-coated metal…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for May 30th, to June 5th, 2015. This week the…
A number of Israeli military units, including bulldozers, today, infiltrated east of the neighborhood Shuja’eyya, east of Gaza City, in a leveling operation on agricultural border lands.Eyewitnesses reported, according to…
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday, Kufur Qaddoum village, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and attacked the weekly protest, which led to clashes; the soldiers fired…
MK Dov Khenin: ‘The Path of dispossession and deportation prevents Palestinians and Israelis from having a future’Approximately two hundred Israeli and international activists joined today (Friday, June 6th, 2015) midday…
As dozens of Palestinians, accompanied by Israeli and international peace activists, marched Friday, marking the 48th anniversary of the Palestinian Naksa, Israeli soldiers resorted to the excessive use of force…
Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) for the reporting period of 28 May- 03 June 2015.Israeli attacks…
The Israeli Internal Security Service (Shin Bet) and the Police in Jerusalem have officially announced, Thursday, the identity of the Palestinian who allegedly stabbed, on May 24, two Israelis near…
The French telecommunications giant, Orange on Thursday announced decision to end its brand licensing deal with the Israeli firm Partner Communication and quit its operations in the country.The decision, according…
Israel’s navy, on Thursday, detained five Palestinian fishermen off the northern Gaza Strip, witnesses told Ma’an New Agency.Israeli naval forces stopped a fishing boat belonging to the Bakr family near…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, June 4th, 2015. Israeli jetfighters attack Gaza and in the…
An elderly Palestinian woman, Thursday, suffered a heart attack after as Israeli forces raided her family’s home in al-Samou‘ town to the south of Hebron.WAFA correspondence reported that dozens of…
Some of this information is from a summary issued by the Negotiations Affairs Department (an independent group advising Palestinian negotiators):- It has been 67 years since the occupation of 78%…
A female Israeli settler ran over a Palestinian youth on Thursday morning, near the West Bank city of Salfit.Witnesses said that the settler approached the youth while he was walking…
Israeli forces demolished over 30 agricultural structures in the northern Jordan Valley on Thursday morning, local officials said.Israeli bulldozers protected by military vehicles stormed an area known locally as Diraa…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, several Palestinian communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, stormed and searched dozens of homes and kidnapped at least…
The Israeli Air Force carried out, on Thursday at dawn, several air strikes targeting a number of areas, and resistance camps, in different parts of the Gaza Strip, causing excessive…
Hackers claiming to be affiliated with the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) group defaced the official webpage of the leftist Palestinian People Party (PPP) on Wednesday.The cyber-attackers replaced…
Father of the slain Palestinian child, Mohammad Abu Khdeir, 16, who was kidnapped, tortured and burnt to death by Israeli fanatics, in Shu’fat in occupied Jerusalem, last year, stated Wednesday…
Israeli soldiers installed, Wednesday, a sudden roadblock at the main entrance of Silwad town, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and kidnapped one child, who also holds…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday evening, at least three Palestinians, participating in procession against the provocative Israeli march, on the sidelines of the so-called “Jerusalem Lights Festival,” that was organized…
Palestinians, on Wednesday afternoon, protested the start of the Lights in Jerusalem festival, in the Damascus Gate area of the Old City, onlookers said. A Ma’an reporter said that activists…
7 Palestinians and 4 Israeli settlers have been injured in a car accident Wednesday morning involving an Israeli car and a Palestinian car south of Nablus city, according to Israeli…
United States President Barack Obama, Tuesday, blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s diplomacy terms for failure to advance peace with the Palestinians, saying that Israel seems to have lost its…
What is normalisation and why is it so damaging to achieving justice?Anyone with any exposure to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will also be exposed to certain oft-repeated words and phrases that…
Gazans unable to travel due to Rafah crossing’s closure started, on Tuesday, an open-ended hunger strike, calling for Egyptians to open it.Days of Palestine reports that the hunger strikers set…
The family of Khader Adnan, leader in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, who was rearrested and incarcerated in Israeli jails, has confirmed to media the physical weariness which has appeared…
Zionist Camp representative Tzibi Livni said, today, that the crisis in Israeli-United States relations was not a personal or diplomatic issue but rather an issue in terms of Israeli security.In…
Israel’s military reported, late Wednesda,y that two rockets were fired from the southern Gaza Strip.The Israeli army confirmed reports of rocket-warning sirens going off in Ashkelon and Netivot. No injures…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015. Israeli navy attack fishing boats near Gaza…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015. Israeli navy attack fishermen in Gaza and…
On Tuesday, 02 June 2015, Israeli naval gunboats chased and opened fire at a Palestinian fishing boat sailing off northern Gaza shore wounding two fishers. On Monday morning, 01 June…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, dozens of Palestinian communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank, searched and ransacked homes, and kidnapped at least thirteen Palestinians. Media spokesperson of the…
Israeli navy ships attacked, Wednesday, several Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, and kidnapped five fishers. Israeli army vehicles carried out a limited invasion into southern Gaza, opened fire…
Israeli soldiers opened fire, on Wednesday morning, on a number of Palestinian farmers in their own lands, east of Khuza’a town, east of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan…
It is nap-time at Felizia’s daycare center, a squalid street-level flat in Tel Aviv where loud pop music drowns out the miserable cries of dozens of children and babies cooped…
Proponents of ISIS in the Gaza Strip have issued Hamas a 48-hour deadline to stop its crackdown on them, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.In a statement sent to the…
Israel has rebuked the United Nations for granting accreditation to a Palestinian non-governmental organization which Tel Aviv says is linked to the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas.Press TV/Al Ray reports that,…
Israeli Jews banned, on Monday, Christian prayer at holy site of Jesus’ Last Supper, calling it “pagan ceremony.”Witnesses said that clashes erupted between the Israeli Jews and Christians –Palestinian and…
The Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) today warned from the Israeli civil administration’s project E1, which aims to conduct six structure plans annexed to each other, forming a new…
An Israeli military judge reversed a ruling to release Khalida Jarrar on bail, deeming the Palestinian parliamentarian as a ‘security risk’ based on secret evidence, prisoner rights group Addameer told…
Media sources in Gaza said the Hamas-run security forces in the Gaza Strip shot and killed, on Tuesday morning, a Palestinian man, believed to be a supporter of ISIS, in…
Israeli soldiers and members of the “Civil Administration Office” run by the army in the occupied West Bank, invaded Tuesday Um Salmouna village, south of Bethlehem, and handed orders against…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, late at night and earlier on Tuesday, at least seventeen Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including seven in East Jerusalem. The Jericho Office…
Bashar Qaryouti, Coordinator of Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Qaryout village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, said Israeli extremists bulldozed and uprooted, on…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, Silwan town, south of the al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, demolished three homes, near the al-Magharba Gate, and the Salah Ed-Deen Street, and kidnapped two…
The Deputy Head of Hamas says there has been no humanitarian or economic progress in the Gaza Strip since the national consensus government was formed a year ago.According to Ma’an,…
Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Tuesday morning, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in the Sudaniyya Sea area, northwest of Gaza city, wounding three fishers.The Palestinian News &…
At least 15 Palestinians were abducted late Sunday night and Monday at dawn, by the Israeli army and police, in raids that targeted many cities across the West Bank and…
On Wednesday, the 27th of May 2015, at 11:00 AM, an unprecedented demonstration will be held in the plaza in front of the Lev Ram building in Jerusalem (Ministry of…
Extremist Israeli settlers broke into the courtyards of Al Aqsa Mosque, on Monday morning, from Mughrabi Gate, under heavy guard of Israeli police.Mahmoud Abu Atta, media coordinator of Al-Aqsa Foundation…
Israeli naval boats, Monday, opened machine gunfire on Palestinian fishing boats and detained five fishermen offshore the Sudaniya to the northwest of Gaza.According to WAFA correspondence, Israeli naval boats opened…
The German foreign minister, on Monday, called on Israel to lift the blockade of Gaza in return for Palestinian security reassurances during a visit to the beleaguered coastal enclave.Frank-Walter Steinmeier,…
The delegate of the Palestinian-Portuguese parliamentary friendship committee in the Legislative Council ended his visit to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. According to the PNN, the committee was convened in…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, June 1st, 2015. Israeli navy attack fishermen in Gaza, meanwhile…
Khalil Tafakji, a Palestinian expert in Maps and the head of the ‘ and Geographic Information Systems Department’ of the Arab Studies Center in Jerusalem, said the Palestinian Authority intends…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, nine Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, and handed a family near Jenin an order to demolish their…
The Eyal checkpoint will be reopened after 10 years of forced closure, allowing Palestinians in Israel to travel to the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia.According to Ma’an, the decision…
Palestinian Authority lawyer Hiba Masalha reported that young Palestinian detainees are being ‘terrified, threatened, and blackmailed’ by Israeli authorities while detained.There are currently 68 Palestinian teenagers being held in Section…
A group claiming allegiance with ISIS issued a statement, Sunday, claiming responsibility for assassinating a senior Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip, by detonating his store in Khan Younis.The group,…
Israeli settlers from Beit Hadassa, Beboya and Ramat Yishai, Saturday, attacked citizens from Tel Rumeideh, central Hebron, using sharp tools.According to the official agency, seven settlers from these settlements, illegally…