Month: May 2016

For the second time, the “Hassan Bek” mosque in Jaffa, was defaced on Saturday at dawn with racist graffiti written in Hebrew, similar to dozens of previous incidents that targeted…

By Manuel Hassassian – The 15th May marks the Palestinian Nakba. The word Nakba means ‘catastrophe’ because that is exactly what happened in May 1948 when Palestine was wiped off…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Saturday, two Palestinians in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem. Many Palestinians were injured in the Schools Street,…

Dozens of fanatic Israeli colonists attacked, on Friday at night, a Palestinian home in Tal Romeida neighborhood, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, wounding a woman and a…

Israeli soldiers attacked on Friday dozens of Palestinians and international peace activists during the weekly protest in Kafr Qaddoum town, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and used…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and colonies, in Bil’in village west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, kidnapped a senior nonviolent…

Medical sources reported Friday that Israeli soldiers shot and injured three Palestinian with live fire, during a protest march east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza.

Download/Listen Here Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for May 7, to the 13, 2016. This week, UN Security Council…

In its Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 04 – 11 May 2016, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, May 12, 2016. Israeli troops attack a funeral in Jerusalem and kidnap…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday evening, two young Palestinian men, during a provocative procession by colonialist Israeli settlers in Bab al-‘Amoud area, in the center of occupied East Jerusalem. The…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Wednesday evening, the funeral ceremony of an elderly Palestinian woman, east of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, as the mourners were heading towards the graveyard…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The PPS said many army vehicles invaded…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the Israeli Authorities imprisoned 647 Palestinians under arbitrary Administrative Detention order, without charges, since October 1, 2015. The PPS said that the…

Israeli soldiers invaded, late on Wednesday at night, Kafr ed-Deek town, west of the central West Bank city of Salfit, and kidnapped a child from his home. Eyewitnesses said several…

A Palestinian child, Ahmad Manasra, 14, was convicted Tuesday of two counts of attempted murder, despite a lack of evidence, a video showing him being severely beaten and insulted by…

Mohammad Khatib, a senior human rights defender from the village of Bil’in, in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, is one of six human rights defenders around the world,…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported, on Wednesday evening, on behalf of detainee Sami Janazra that he has temporarily suspended his hunger strike, for seven days, awaiting interrogation outcome,…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, May 11, 2016. Israeli troops invade West Bank communities and injuries two…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, two Palestinians in the northern West Bank district of Nablus, and in Jerusalem, after invading their homes and searching them. The Nablus office…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee (PPS) has reported, on Wednesday morning, that hunger-striking detainee Sami Janazra, has suspended his hunger strike, that lasted for 69 days protesting his Administrative Detention. The…

A Palestinian resistance fighter died on Wednesday morning, of serious wounds he suffered in 2003, after Israeli soldiers fired missiles into Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday morning, the village of Kafr Aqab, north of occupied East Jerusalem, shot and injured two Palestinians, one seriously, in clashes that took place with local…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Two Israeli women stabbed in Jerusalem and troops demolish…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, overnight and on Tuesday at dawn, at least fourteen Palestinians, including several children, in different parts of the…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, overnight and on Tuesday at dawn, at least fourteen Palestinians, including several children, in different parts of the…

Israeli extremists of the Ateret Cohanim colonialist organization occupied, Monday, a Palestinian apartment building in the Muslim Quarter in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, allegedly after buying it.…

Israeli soldiers fired, Monday, several gas bombs at students and health workers of the “Health Work Committees,” in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, causing many…

The Israeli state prosecutors decided not to pursue murder charges against Israeli soldier Elor Azaria, who was caught on video executing 21-year old Abdul-Fattah Sharif, on March 24 2016, after…

Several Israeli military vehicles, and bulldozers, invaded on Tuesday at dawn the al-Walaja village, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, and demolished an under construction home. Local sources…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers invaded several districts in the occupied West Bank, searched many homes and kidnapped five Palestinians. The PPS said the soldiers…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, two Palestinians in towns near occupied East Jerusalem, and one in a village, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Several Israeli…

Israeli sources have reported, Tuesday, that two elderly Israeli women were injured in a park, in Jabal al-Mokabber Palestinian town, in occupied Jerusalem, after being stabbed by two masked young…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, May 09, 2016. Israeli troops open fire at Palestinian farmers in Gaza…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, various districts in the occupied West Bank, searched many homes and kidnapped at least fourteen…

The Israel Authorities releases, on Monday at dawn, the body of a Palestinian who was shot and killed by the soldiers, on November 10 2015, and only allowed a limited…

Israeli Soldiers, stationed across the border fence, opened fired earlier on Monday on a number of Palestinian farmers, in their own agricultural lands, east of Khuza’a town, east of Khan…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the towns of al-Khader and Beit Fajjar, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, searched and ransacked many homes, and kidnapped…

A new video published by the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories shows a Palestinian videographer assaulted by Israeli settlers, causing head injuries, while Israeli soldiers…

Updated: Israeli soldiers kidnapped, late on Saturday at night and earlier on Sunday at dawn, at least seven Palestinians from the West Bank districts of Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron and Tulkarem. The…

Palestinian medical sources shave reported, on Saturday evening, that one resident, from the southern West Bank district of Hebron, was shot with an Israeli army live round near Dar Salah…

Israeli war jets carried out, on Saturday at dawn, two air strikes into Palestinian agricultural lands, east of Khan Younis and Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Friday, two young Palestinian men from Ya’bad town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. The soldiers also detained four Palestinian in Marj Ben Amer…

Several Israeli army vehicles invaded, Friday, the Naqqar neighborhood, west of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, injured one Palestinian and kidnapped another. Media sources in Qalqilia said the…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for April 30, to May 6, 2016. Israeli attacks targeting Palestinian communities…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Friday, the town of Abu Dis, southeast of occupied East Jerusalem, and clashed with dozens of youngsters, wounding at least thirty-three, including two medics. |Three Palestinians Injured…

As is the case every first Friday of every month, Combatants for Peace Movement, in collaboration with a number of Palestinian and Israeli NGOs, organized on Friday  in the monthly…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that Israeli soldiers shot and injured three Palestinians, in different parts of the besieged Gaza Strip. The sources said that a young man was…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Friday at dawn, at least nine Palestinians, including former political prisoners, in different parts of the occupied…

The Israeli Air Force carried out, on Friday morning, several airstrikes targeted various areas in Khan Younis and Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and in Deir…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday morning, a young Palestinian man near the Ibrahimi Mosque, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron; the army claims the soldiers located a knife…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a Palestinian woman was killed, on Thursday evening, after the Israeli army fired shells into Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, May 05, 2016. Four Palestinians, including children, injured in Gaza as Israeli…

Israeli Army Coordinator of Government Activities in the Occupied Territories, Major Maj. -Gen. Yoav ‘Poli’ Mordechai, said the Israeli army will continue its activities in border areas in the Gaza…

A number of armored Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Thursday morning, Palestinian agricultural lands, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, while army drones and war…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that an elderly man, and three children, suffered moderate-to-severe wounds at dawn Thursday in a serious of Israeli air strikes targeting a number of areas…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped at least thirteen Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including three in occupied Jerusalem, and one medic. The Jerusalem…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at night, a Palestinian child from Jerusalem’s Old City. The soldiers also shot and injured a disabled Palestinian man near Hebron, in the southern part…

Various military analysts of the Israeli TV said, on Wednesday at night, that the current deterioration, and escalation, on the Gaza border is serious, but will unlikely lead to a…

A right-wing Israeli man who kidnapped a Palestinian child and burned him to death in Jerusalem in 2014 has been sentenced by an Israeli court to life in prison, plus…

Various Palestinian factions, including Hamas and Fateh movements, have warned that the latest Israeli military escalation on Gaza, including the Wednesday bombardment of border areas in the southern part of…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, May 04, 2016. Israeli tanks invade areas in Gaza meanwhile in the…

An armed Palestinian resistance group fired, Wednesday, a mortar shell on Israeli military vehicles, operating near the border fence, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, late at night and on Wednesday at dawn, at least twelve Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank; the army said it located a weapon…

Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier on Wednesday, the al-Walaja town, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and handed demolition orders targeting eight homes. The soldiers also ordered a halt…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the northern West Bank district of Nablus, searched many homes and kidnapped four Palestinians, in addition to two Palestinians from their work in…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported, Tuesday, that one of its lawyer managed to visit hunger striking detainee Sami Janazra, who started his hunger strike 62 days ago, and…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Tuesday evening, a Palestinian driver allegedly after he deliberately rammed three Israeli soldiers with his truck at a military roadblock, installed near the main…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, May 03, 2016. Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian and kidnapped…

Update: The soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday afternoon, a young Palestinian  man, identified as Tareq Aziz al-Abbasi, from his work in Jerusalem. Updated From: May 3, 2016 @ 13:29 Israeli soldiers kidnapped,…

Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Saeb Erekat, stated Tuesday that all bilateral security coordination meetings with the Israeli side have been ceased. Erekat…

  Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, May 02, 2016. Israeli troops invade West Bank communities injuries civilians and kidnap…

Israeli authorities say that they used a city-wide system of surveillance cameras to track down and arrest an 18-year old suspect for allegedly stabbing an Israeli man near Lion’s Gate…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, May 02, 2016. Israeli troops invade West Bank communities injuries civilians and…

A number of Israeli army vehicles, and bulldozers, carried out, on Monday at dawn, a limited invasion into Palestinian agricultural lands east of Rafah, in the southern part of the…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and several nearby towns, searched homes and kidnapped four Palestinians, in addition to confiscating a laptop,…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Sunday at night, that several Palestinians were injured, after Israeli soldiers invaded Ni’lin village, west of the central West Bank district of Ramallah. The…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, the al-‘Azza refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, shot and injured one Palestinian, and kidnapped three others in the…

Palestinian orthodox Christians celebrated today the Bright Saturday or know as Holy Saturday in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza marking the start of Easter. IMEMC camera visited the town…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, earlier Sunday, Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, searched homes and kidnapped a child and a former political prisoner.…

The Abdullah Al-Hourani Center for Studies and Documentation has reported that the Israeli army killed four Palestinians, including a child and a woman, in different parts of the occupied West…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday, the al-‘Isawiyya town, in the center of occupied East Jerusalem, searched and ransacked several homes, and kidnapped three children. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in…