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Israeli occupation forces abducted, overnight Thursday, 18 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank.Families reported, according to Days of Palestine, that large numbers of Israeli soldiers stormed homes, taking two Palestinians…
Hunger-striking prisoner Mohammad Allan, on Thursday, regained consciousness following a medically induced coma day earlier, a lawyer from the Palestinian Authority’s Committee for Prisoner’s Affairs told Maan News Agency.Karim Ajwa…
Eyewitnesses from Beit Hanoun city, northern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, said that four Israeli tanks and three bulldozers entered the Strip, opened fire and razed civilian lands.Locals said that the…
Palestinian Christians clashed with Israeli border police near Bethlehem, Wednesday, after dozens of demonstrators, including priests, gathered to protest renewed work on Israel’s controversial apartheid wall in the Christian majority…
Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Ya’alon, on Wednesday, reportedly gave clear instructions to his soldiers to shoot dead any Palestinian who tries to carry out an operation against Israelis.During a…
Israeli forces accompanied with bulldozers, on Thursday morning, demolished homes and agricultural facilities at the Oyoun area, in the city of Tubas, northern West Bank.PNN security sources in Tubas said…
Palestinian hunger striker Mohammad Allan was in a medically induced coma on Thursday, Palestinian Authority officials and doctors said, a day after Israel lifted his administrative detention order due to…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Wednesday, ten Palestinians after storming into their homes and violently searching them, in different parts of occupied Jerusalem, the Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association has…
The Israeli Police have decided, Wednesday, to prevent a Palestinian woman, and four children, from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, for periods that vary between 15 and 60 days.Lawyer of…
The Egyptian Interior Ministry has reported that unknown gunmen have kidnapped four Palestinians, on Wednesday at night, while traveling in the Egyptian city of Rafah, in the North Sinai Governorate.Spokesperson…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday evening, the al-‘Isawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and clashed with local youths, wounding many, and kidnapped one child before moving him to an interrogation…
The military wing of Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has captured a dolphin sent by Israeli forces to spy on the Gaza Strip, it was reported on Wednesday.In a statement, Al-Qassam…
On Wednesday August 19, at 5:30 AM, Israeli occupation forces began demolishing a three-story home of the Totah and Totanji families in the Wadi Joz neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.19th…
At least nine Palestinian refugees died on Wednesday, after an overloaded boat carrying illegal migrants fleeing the Syrian conflict capsized off the coast of Turkey, according to media sources.The boat…
US presidential contender Mike Huckabee said during a visit to Jerusalem, on Wednesday, that he did not consider the West Bank occupied by Israel.The Republican and Baptist minister, a regular…
Israeli authorities demolished, on Wednesday, two residential units in Jerusalem and Ramallah, as well as notified to demolish the house of a prisoner in Hebron, according to local and media…
Haaretz Israeli newspaper, on Wednesday, unveiled a plan for the Israeli municipality to a finance “long educational day” at high schools in East Jerusalem, in order to prevent the student…
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said, Wednesday, that the school year for half a million Palestinian refugees would start on time, after an eleventh hour scramble to cover a…
Israeli forces, early Wednesday, abducted 10 Palestinians from West Bank districts, according to reports by security sources and an activist.WAFA reports that forces raided al-‘Eizariya town, to the east of…
Haaretz Israeli newspaper, on Wednesday, said that the Israeli military intelligence monitors all BDS groups and activities all over the world.According to report by the newspaper, the Israeli military intelligence…
Israel’s High Court on Wednesday suspended a detention-without-trial order on hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Muhammad Allan but said he must remain in hospital pending a decision on his future.’Due to the…
Famous American linguist Noam Chomsky has described the actions of the Israeli occupation in Palestine as “worse than South African apartheid”.“In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday evening, a young Palestinian man from Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, as he was trying to cross the…
Israeli authorities, on Tuesday, demolished a number of residential tents in the village of Fasayel, in the southern Jordan Valley, according to local sources.Hamza Zubedat, a local activist, said that…
Israeli army forces raided, before dawn on Tuesday, the house of Mohammad Abu Amsha al-Atrash’s family, a Palestinian who was shot dead in cold blood by the Israeli army on…
Israeli forces, overnight Monday, abducted eight Palestinians from across the occupied West Bank, according to reports by Palestinian security sources and the Israeli army.Palestinian security sources said that Israeli undercover…
Detainee Shirin Isawihas joined her brother and fellow inmate in an open-ended hunger strike, in solidarity with hunger-striking prisoner Muhammad Allan, who recently awoke from a coma induced by failing…
Israeli troops demolished on Tuesday 12 tents owned by Palestinian Bedwens in Al Fasayel area in the Jordan Valley. Another four structures were demolished by the army in the nearby…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, August 18th, 2015. Hunger striking political detainee recover from coma…
Israeli settlers, Tuesday morning, have brutally assaulted a girl and a youth in the old city of Hebron, causing them both wounds. The settlers stoned little girl named Farah Abu-Sneineh,…
A Palestinian boy and a Jewish girl get stuck in the elevator. The girl changes her military uniform to civilian clothes, and the boy pays her a compliment: “Looks better…
A United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) report on Palestine’s Gaza Strip concludes that infant mortality has risen for the first time in decades. A significant marker for a…
Palestinian lawyer/political prisoner Mohammed ‘Allan entered his 64th day of hunger strike Tuesday after waking from a four-day coma, and pledged to continue the open-ended strike until death if necessary.…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, August 17th, 2015. Israeli soldiers kill a Palestinian man at…
On Sunday, a senior adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Yasin Aktay, said that there will be a truce between the Gaza-based Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Israeli…
Israeli bulldozers, Monday morning demolished structures belonging to more than 20 families of the Jahalin Bedouin community in eastern Jerusalem, locals said.Israeli border police reportedly escorted the bulldozers into the…
On Saturday the 15th of August 2015, the villagers from Kafr Qaddum once again demonstrated against the blockage of the road leading to Nablus as well as the nearby Kedumin…
Israeli occupation forces, on Monday morning, have invaded Beit Jala town, northwest of Bethlehem, using bulldozers, to proceed with building a new section of the apartheid wall.The razing is taking…
Israeli soldiers, on Monday, shot dead a Palestinian at Za’tara military checkpoint to the south of Nablus, according to the Red Cross. According to WAFA correspondence, Red Crescent said that…
One year ago, on 15 August – 40 days into Israel’s 51 day monstrous assault on Gaza that was clocking up 1800 innocent Palestinian deaths – Adrian Orr, the CEO…
Senior Palestinian Authority officials, Sunday, accused Israeli authorities of preventing a Palestinian doctor from visiting Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad Allan at Barzilai Medical Center.Issa Qaraqe, the head of the PA…
Actress Penelope Cruz and her husband Javier Bardem have roused the fury of Hollywood producers, with pledges made to snub the Spanish couple.Oscar-winner Bardem and Cruz signed an open letter…
The rapper Matisyahu was taken off the schedule of a Spanish Reggae festival due to his refusal to publicly support creation of a Palestinian state, Spanish media reports.16 August 2015…
At least five Palestinians were abducted by the Israeli military during predawn raids across the West Bank, over the past 24 hours. The army also seized a tractor belonging to…
For two months, concerned Palestinians have demonstrated against the sale of the Presbyterian church in Beit el Baraka to right-wing activist Aryeh King. 15 August 2015 | International Solidarity Movement…
Israeli forces confiscated, on Sunday morning, a strip of land adjacent to the eastern wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque, near the Golden Gate.Director of Wadi Hilweh Information Centre, in occupied East…
Soldiers stationed in occupation watchtowers along the eastern border of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, opened fired toward the Palestinian farmers and shepherds, early Sunday. No injuries were reported.…
A Palestinian woman from Rafah city, in the southern Gaza Strip, died Sunday morning from wounds she sustained more than a week ago when an unexploded ordnance, from last summer’s…
An Israeli settler, on Sunday, ran over a Palestinian child in Yatma village, to the south of Nablus, and fled the scene, according to the PNN.Security sources said that a…
Dozens of Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, Saturday, after Israeli soldiers assaulted hundreds of residents marching in solidarity with hunger striking detainee Mohammad ‘Allan, in Kufur Qaddoum,…
Palestinian medical sources have reported that Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Saturday evening, a young man at the Za’tara roadblock, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.…
Egypt will be opening the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Palestinian Gaza Strip on August 17 – 22 in both ,directions. The border crossing was closed to regular…
Former US president Jimmy Carter said, recently, that the two-state solution has “zero chance” of being realized in the present day, pointing to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for the plan’s…
Israeli soldiers shot and wounded, on Saturday morning, a young Palestinian man near Beit ‘Aour al-Foqa town, West of the Central West Bank City of Ramallah, before abducting him; Israeli…
Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian and foreign activists on Friday during a memorial in the village of Susiya south of Hebron for 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha who was killed in…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly protest against the Israeli Apartheid Wall, colonies and the closure of the main road for the thirteenth consecutive year, in Kufur Qaddoum, near the…
Israeli soldiers used excessive force against nonviolent Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists, during the weekly protest against the Annexation Wall and colonies, in Bil’in village, near the central West…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for August 8th, to the 14th, 2015. UNRWA’s financial crises…
Palestinian prisoner Muhammad Allan, who has been on hunger strike for two months, lost consciousness Friday morning, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said.PPS said that Allan’s health had dangerously deteriorated…
How is it that outrage over the killing of Cecil the lion has spread so far, and yet many people in the United States have still not heard the name…
A gang of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian worker who was repairing a traffic light in an illegal Israeli settlement near Jerusalem Thursday, landing the worker in the hospital with…
Palestinian prisoners are continuing their protests and resistance inside prison.This includes Muhammad Allan, the 31-year-old lawyer on hunger strike for 58 days to protest his administrative detention without charge or…
Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) for the reporting period of 06- 12 August 2015.Israeli attacks in…
Israeli forces abducted at least 12 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, overnight on Wednesday, according to local reports.Two of the Palestinians were taken in the Jordan Valley, two close…
In her small atelier surrounded by hundreds of small, medium and large portraits, Palestinian painter Majdal Nateel from the besieged Gaza Strip uses her skills to express her hopes for…
The European Union, with the government of Denmark, has announced a donation of $26 million in aid to be transferred to hospitals in occupied East Jerusalem.The latest contribution is being…
The number of tourists entering Israel has declined 13 per cent in the first seven months of this year, in comparison with the same period during 2014, a report by…
Israeli forces, Thursday morning, demolished two homes and seized a shipping container in the eastern outskirts of Bethlehem, said a municipal source.WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency reports that military…
A Palestinian Bedouin tent was set ablaze in the occupied West Bank, near Ramallah city, on Thursday. Extremist Jewish settlers are under suspicion for the attack.Local sources reported that the…
A lawyer representing hunger-striker Muhammad Allan lodged an urgent request to Israeli authorities on Thursday, urging them to consider his release due to his deteriorating health, a prisoners’ committee said.Abir…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, August 13th, 2015. Two youth injured, another 12 kidnapped as…
Israeli naval forces opened fire on Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Gaza City, early Wednesday, witnesses said.The fishermen said that they came under fire as they were sailing off…
Israeli forces abducted, early Wednesday, nine Palestinians and summoned another from West Bank districts, said security sources and an activist.WAFA correspondence stated that Israeli forces raided a Hebron city neighborhood,…
The mother of the 18-month-old Palestinian boy who was killed in a recent arson attack on his home, by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, may have gone brain…
A British petition demanding the arrest of the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, upon his arrival in the UK next month, went viral in just a few days. A petition…
Saudi Arabia has announced that it will provide $35 million to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in a bid to avert a financial crisis within the organization, a statement…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, August 12th, 2015. Israeli navy attack Gaza fishermen and in…
During the hottest month of the year, the Israeli occupation has cut off water from three more Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank.The villages of Qarawat Bani Hassan, Biddya…
Palestinian researcher in settlement affairs, Ahmad Sob Laban, has reported that the Israeli colonization organization “Ateret Cohanim”, based in the Muslim Quarter in occupied Jerusalem, has presented a construction plan…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, August 11th, 2015. Israeli settlers attack Palestinian Public Park, and…
Palestinians in a number of refugee camps across the occupied West Bank, on Tuesday, reportedly closed main roads near the camps to protest a possible decision by the UN agency…
Israeli police has denied women and children access to al-Aqsa Mosque Compound in East Jerusalem, provoking resentment among the crowds, according to local sources.WAFA correspondence said that a scuffle broke…
Maher Shitat, 13 years old, was shot in the leg on Friday night by the occupation forces.11th August 2015 | International Solidarity Movement | Gaza Team Hi’s father sent him…
Recommendations to the EU would “shut down” the Israeli economy.Israel’s financial sector is preparing for the worst following European recommendations not to work with banks invested in the oPt. Bank…
Israeli forces, Tuesday morning, demolished a three-story commercial building in the industrial zone of Qalandia, just north of Jerusalem, the owner told Ma’an News Agency.Mazin Abu Diab said that Israeli…
Israeli forces, on Tuesday morning, have demolished three residential structures near the Hamra military checkpoint, central Jordan Valley.Jericho governor Majd Al-Fityani said, according to the PNN, that soldiers tore down…
Jewish Israeli settlers, at dawn on Tuesday, used molotov cocktails in an attempt to set fire to a public park in the northern West Bank village of Qaryut.Local Palestinian sources…
Ofer Israeli Military Court has decided to keep Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar in custody without charge, refusing to release her on bail.According to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, the judge…
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Tuesday morning, broke into the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Old City of Hebron.WAFA correspondence reported that Ya’alon broke into the mosque under tightened security protection.…
The Israeli Security Service (Shabak) has reported that the army arrested, earlier in July, a senior Hamas fighter, allegedly responsible for digging tunnels across the border, and various other military…
Israel police questioned and freed, on Tuesday, a Jewish extremist leader who condoned torching churches amid an uproar over recent attacks carried out by Israeli settlers, including the deadly firebombing…
Israeli soldiers demolish, on Tuesday morning and on Monday at night, a number of residential and agricultural structures, and barns, near the al-Hamra military roadblock, and in al-Jiftlik, Zbeidat, Froush…
The Israeli army demolished, on Tuesday morning, a commercial building in the Industrial Zone, north of occupied East Jerusalem, after surrounding the entire area.Several Israeli vehicles, accompanied by army bulldozers,…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Tuesday, a Palestinian woman and a child near one of the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, and prevented dozens of summer camp children, and…
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, August 10th, 2015. Hundreds march in the funeral of killed…
Over 120 Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s Nafha prison have suspended a hunger strike for a two-week period, after six days without food in protest against the Israeli Prison Service.The Palestinian…
A recently opened cafe in West Jerusalem, which is built on a park that Muslims say is the site of an ancient cemetery, is drawing outrage from religious leaders in…
Israeli naval forces on Monday morning, detained two Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Gaza City, the secretary-general of Gaza’s fishing union said.Amjad al-Shirafi told Ma’an that the fishermen were…
Israeli forces, early Monday, abducted six Palestinians and summoned another from West Bank districts, said security sources.According to WAFA correspondence, Israeli forces raided the Jenin city neighborhoods of Jabal Abu…
The number of Israeli soldiers indicted for drug offenses rose by 50 percent, last year, in comparison to the year before, an internal annual army report reveals.According to Press TV/Al…