Month: July 2015

Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier on Wednesday, the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and the nearby town of Deir Samet, and kidnapped two young Palestinian men.Several armored military vehicles invaded…

During the 2012 Zionist massacre in Gaza, named by the occupation as Operation Pillar of Defense, many buildings near Mohamed’s home were bombed. 21st July 2015 | International Solidarity Movement…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday July 21st, 2015. Two fishermen injured and one of them…

Israeli Knesset passed, on Monday evening, a bill allowing Palestinian youth caught throwing stones to be held up to 20 years in prison.The bill stipulates that youth who throw stones…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday July 20th, 2015. Settlers aid west Bank areas demanding settlement…

The United Nations, on Monday, approved UN accreditation for the London-based Palestinian Return Center in a defeat for Israel, which claimed the organization “openly promotes terrorism”.The center, which researches and…

Salafi groups in the Gaza Strip threatened, on Monday, to fire rockets at Israel in response to what they called “Hamas crimes and conspiracies” against Salafis living in the region.The…

Israeli navy ships opened live fire, on Tuesday at dawn, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, wounding two…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, various Palestinian communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped twelve Palestinians, including an elderly woman. Army bulldozes an…

Head of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee Issa Qaraqe has reported that three political prisoners, held by Israel, are ongoing with their hunger strikes, demanding an end to their illegal detention,…

Israeli soldiers demolished, on Tuesday morning, two sheds and a store, in Ethna town, west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.Sources in the Ethna Local Council said several…

Unable to organize provocative visits to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque during the fasting month of Ramadan, when Palestinian Muslims maintain a permanent presence in the holy site, Jewish settlers resumed their…

The Gaza Ministry of Interior said it arrested two suspects on Sunday, in relation to attacks on five vehicles belonging to the military wings of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad,…

Israeli settlers, Monday, put up banners in multiple areas in Bethlehem district calling for more Palestinian lands to be confiscated for the purpose of settlement construction and expansion, according to…

The actual reasons behind Israel’s opposition to the Iran deal, and what they mean for the region.7/20/15 | Eli Aminov | Alternative Information Center The celebration of last week’s agreement…

Israeli authorities have prevented Israeli power firm from repairing electricity grids supplying Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said on Monday.A technical error in the Israeli side cut off two main power…

Dozens of settlers, yesterday evening, carried out two provocative marches near to Basajut settlement and Bet El settlement, northeast of Ramallah, and a third march near Shilo and Aili settlements,…

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, on Monday, signaled that Washington was ready to boost military cooperation with Israel, during a visit aimed at easing Israeli concerns over the nuclear deal…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday, four Palestinians, including one woman, from different parts of occupied Jerusalem. Israeli Court also ordered several detained Palestinians under further interrogation.The Wadi Hilweh Information Center…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday evening, the town of Beit Ummar, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and clashed with local youths; one child was shot with…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Monday morning, rounds of live ammunition, on a number of Palestinian farmers and homes, east of Gaza City.Media sources said soldiers, stationed on military towers across…

Several Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, earlier on Monday, during clashes that took place after Israeli soldiers invaded Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped four Palestinian teenagers, on Sunday at night and on Monday at dawn, in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, after invading, and violently searching, a number of…

Khader Adnan, freed Palestinian political prisoner and former long-term hunger striker, who won his release from administrative detention in 2015 and 2012 through hunger strikes, issued a video on 19…

On Sunday morning, at least six vehicles owned by local leaders in Hamas, as well as activists in the Islamic Jihad, were bombed and burned out in the Sheikh Radwan…

The Israeli army and Palestinian security forces have detained six Palestinian whom they describe as ‘Hamas operatives’ responsible for a shooting in the occupied West Bank, last month, that left…

Several fanatic Israeli settlers invaded, on Saturday evening, Palestinian farmlands in the town of al-Khader, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and uprooted hundreds of tomato and cauliflower…

A number of fanatic Israeli settlers attacked, Saturday, several Palestinian shepherds in Khallet al-‘Adra area, in Yatta town south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.Coordinator of the Popular…

Palestinian explosives’ engineering police, Saturday, defused an unexploded device left behind by Israeli army in the village of Romaneh to the west of Jenin, according to security sources.Sources informed WAFA…

Israeli forces, late Friday, shot and injured two Palestinians; one was shot in Gaza and the other to the east of Qalqilia. Meanwhile, dozens suffocated as Israeli forces violently suppressed…

A 16-year-old Palestinian Bedouin was killed, and 10 others injured, when a family dispute erupted into violence in the southern Israeli city of Rahat, in the Negev, on Saturday.Israeli police…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and settlements in Nabi Saleh village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and kidnapped…

The International Criminal Court on Thursday ordered its chief prosecutor to review a decision not to probe Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010, saying ‘errors were made.’Fatou…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a child was shot, and injured, by Israeli army fire in Abasan al-Kobra town, in the southern Gaza Strip district of Khan Younis.The sources…

Many protesters have been injured, while orchards caught fire, on Friday, after Israeli soldiers assaulted the weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Annexation Wall and settlements, in Bil’in village, west…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and settlements, in Kufur Qaddoum village, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia, leading to clashes with local…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for July 11th, to the 17th, 2015. This week Israel…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, July 16th, 2015. Israeli air force targets Gaza meanwhile in…

Spokesperson for the UN agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Sami Mushasha, Thursday affirmed in a press release that UNRWA and PLO’s Department of Refugee Affairs continue to work hand in…

Paper lanterns crafted for Ramadan are hanging over the heads of children as they run between a snack table and a cartoon playing on the television.On first glance, this could…

Israeli authorities ordered the demolition of around half of the homes, in a village south of Hebron, to be carried out after Ramadan, Israeli watchdogs said on Wednesday.Rabbis for Human…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported, Thursday, that a detainee suffered health complications but is still denied access to treatment.The PPS said that one of its lawyers managed to…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, a Palestinian university student from Rommana village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.Eyewitnesses said a large military force invaded the…

According to the Israel Security Agency (Shabak), Israeli soldiers arrested, Thursday, a Palestinian teenage girl, who allegedly stabbed a soldier, east of the Central West Bank city of Ramallah.The Shabak…

The Israeli Air Force carried out, on Thursday at dawn, two air strikes targeting sites in the northern and central parts of the Gaza Strip; the army claims it was…

Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) for the reporting period of 09- 14 July 2015.Israeli attacks in…

On Tuesday, an Israeli court sentenced Dirar Abu Sisi, a rocket engineer and director of Gaza’s sole power plant — destroyed last year by Israeli missiles — to prison for…

Medical sources have reported that two Palestinian teens have been injured, on Wednesday evening, after an Israeli Light Rail guard assaulted them, in Shu’fat village, in the occupied Jerusalem.The sources…

A young Palestinian woman was detained on Wednesday after stabbing and lightly injuring an Israeli soldier in northwestern Ramallah, the Israeli army said.An Israeli army spokeswoman told Ma’an News Agency…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, July 15th, 2015. Israel’s military conduct live military training in…

A Palestinian man, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, was moved to a local hospital, just a few hours after his release from an Israeli detention center, following…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the ath-Thoury neighborhood in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped four family members. The army also…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society has reported Wednesday that two ailing detainees, held by Israel, suffered sharp health deterioration, while Israel continues to deny them the right to specialized medical treatment.The…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) had reported that the freed long time hunger striking detainee Khader Adnan was hospitalized, on Tuesday at night, following health complications.The PPS said Adnan complained…

Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier on Wednesday, several Palestinian communities in the West Bank’s Northern Plains, and handed warrants to a number of families, ordering them to halt constructions of their…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Wednesday, Palestinian communities in the West Bank’s Northern Plains, and conducted live fire military drills in the meadows and overlooking hills. Head of the…

About 450 thousand Muslim worshippers flocked, Monday, to Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem’s Old City to mark Laylat al-Qadr.Laylat Al-Qadr, meaning the Night of Power, takes place toward the…

Last night, at around 11:30 PM, we received a call from one of our Palestinian neighbors about an incident that was unfolding outside our window.A group of five Israeli soldiers…

Lehava is a racist Israeli group that objects to all relationships between Jews and Arabs. Most of the group’s activists are minors.On Thursdays Lehava activists roam the streets of West…

Members of Jewish Voice for Peace and Code Pink, Monday, organized a sit-in in Washington, to protest Israeli policy against Palestinians and its aggression against Gaza.The members of the two…

Israel’s Civil Administration secretly allocated land for 800 housing units in an illegal settlement south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, a rights group said Tuesday.Despite orders by Israeli…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, July 14th, 2015. Israeli soldiers attack farmers and fishermen in…

Israeli navy ships attacked, on Tuesday morning, several fishing boats in Palestinian waters near Gaza city, while Israeli soldiers opened fire on farmlands and homes, in central Gaza.The navy fired…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, July 13th, 2015. Israeli troops opened gunfire at Gaza Farmers…

Haaretz newspaper, on Monday, said that Israel finally responded to the European Union’s urge to revive the negotiations, by saying that there will not be any political talks with Palestinians.…

Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat took office as secretary-general of the PLO on Monday, prompting speculation he is being lined up to succeed Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian president.Erekat, who has…

Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation has passed a controversial “Jewish State’ bill that defines the country as Jewish national homeland, Israeli media reported Sunday.According to Al Ray, Likud Party deputy…

Q-Press media center for Jerusalem and al-Aqsa affairs today said that the planning and construction committee in occupied Jerusalem, last week, has approved the construction of a huge project on…

Israeli authorities have released Khader Adnan for the second time in two days after midnight, Monday, after briefly rearresting the veteran Palestinian hunger striker in East Jerusalem, just a day…

The Presidential Committee for Christian Affairs, in Palestine, issued a statement condemning the Israeli High Court decision granting a green light for starting the construction of the Annexation wall in…

BADIL, the NGO that protects and promotes the rights of Palestinian refugees, recently released a new video as a follow-up to an earlier video entitled Practicalities of Return. Their latest…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported, Monday, that administrative detainee Odai Steity, 24 years of age, is ongoing with his strike for the 26th consecutive day, and is facing…

Israeli military courts renewed, Monday, Administrative Detention orders, without charges, against 15 Palestinian political prisoners for periods varying between 3 and 6 months.The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that…

Lawyer Hanan al-Khatib of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported that detained lawyer, Shireen al-‘Isawifaced very difficult conditions in solitary confinement for more than two months. Al-Khatib managed to visit…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, Bethlehem and the southern West Bank district of Hebron, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped six Palestinians in Hebron, and one…

Israeli soldiers opened fire, earlier on Monday morning, on a number of Palestinian farmers, working in their lands east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip;…

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Sunday, gave instructions to his ministers to vote against the bill which allows execution of Palestinian prisoners, saying that he opposed it. The order came…

Israeli soldiers raided Deheishe refugee camp near Bethlehem, early Monday, and threatened locals, witnesses said.Soldiers raided the house of former prisoner Faris Hasanat and notified him that his brother, Karim…

A Palestinian man aged 33 years was announced dead, Sunday, after he allegedly burned himself.Local sources said that he carried out the act in the center of Gaza city. The…

A Palestinian who injured four Israeli border policewomen and a civilian when he drove his car into them was sentenced Sunday to 25 years in prison, the Israeli justice ministry…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, Sunday, the village of Susiya, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and “offered” the villages to leave their village and lands, and…

A group of extremist Israeli settlers burnt, Sunday, dozens of olive trees belonging to a Palestinian from Nahhalin village, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.Eyewitnesses said the extremists…

The Israeli secret service (Shin Bet) reported Sunday that they had arrested three men for questioning for the burning of the Chruch of the Loaves and Fishes, where Christians believe…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Sunday, that two Palestinians were injured by Israeli army fire, in the Shu’fat refugee camp, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem. The sources said Nafeth Dameery,…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, earlier on Sunday, four Palestinians in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, and two others near the northern West Bank district of Nablus.Local sources in Hebron…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Sunday morning, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats, near the Gaza shore, forcing them back to land.Eyewitnesses said the navy fired rounds of…

Israeli released, on Sunday at dawn, long time hunger striker, Palestinian Administrative Detainee Khader Adnan, and handed him to the Palestinian Military District Coordination office, before he was moved to…

The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) announced that on Sunday July 12th, they will bring back a bill to forcibly remove 40,000 Palestinian Bedouins from their homes in the Negev desert in…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Saturday before noon, a Palestinian child in Tal Romeida neighborhood, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, as he was standing in front of his…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Saturday morning, two Palestinians in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and installed roadblocks at its northern entrances, in addition to the main entrance of…

Citing what the army called “security considerations,” Israeli soldiers closed, on Saturday morning, the Huwwara roadblock, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, until further notice.Palestinian security sources…

A group of colonialist Israeli settlers, driving a number of bulldozers, invaded earlier Saturday Palestinian orchards belonging to residents of Deir Estia village, northwest of the central West Bank district…

No private hospital in Gaza treats cancer, only the public ones, and that the treatment is free of charge. “At Shifa Oncology Department we treat everyday 150 patients, and we…

The body of an unidentified hanged man was found Friday morning, close to the checkpoint Nahal Oz, on the border between Israel and Gaza. The body has been moved to…

A Hamas leader said Friday that talks will only take place with Israel regarding an exchange deal after Israel releases Palestinians who have been rearrested, despite being released in past…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for July 4th, to the 10th, 2015. Israeli attacks this…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that many residents suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers assaulted the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and settlements,…

One child was injured by live Israeli army fire, Friday, while scores of Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, after the soldiers attacked the weekly protest in Kufur Qaddoum…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and Settlements, in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, causing dozens to suffer the…

Israeli Police spokeswomen Luba Samri said, Thursday, that Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has signed an official order shutting down the “Palestine 1948 TV,” and barring all of its…