Month: August 2016

Israeli forces, on Wednesday. demolished two rooms used for agricultural purposes and leveled stone walls in the villages of Khirbet al-Marajim and Qusra, in the southern part of the occupied…

Israeli army bulldozers, on Wednesday morning, have reportedly leveled Palestinian-owned lands to the south of Hebron province. A local  journalist in Hebron said, according to the PNN, that the Israeli…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, overnight and at dawn Wednesday, 24 Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, during extensive invasions and violent searches of homes. 14 of the kidnapped…

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, August, 17, 2016. Israeli soldiers demolish Palestinian owned structures and kidnap more than two…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported that a former political prisoner died, Tuesday, from serious health complications resulting from years in Israeli prisons without proper and adequate medical treatment. The…

The Israeli army withdrew, late on Tuesday at night, from the al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, after concluding a massive…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Tuesday evening, a Palestinian teen in the al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and injured at least fifty-nine…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, August, 16, 2016. One Palestinian killed more than 35 others…

Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR), Press Release: Following disengagement from the Gaza Strip in September 2005, Israel unilaterally and illegally established a so-called “buffer zone”, an area prohibited to Palestinians…

Medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, has reported that Israeli soldiers shot and injured at least 35 Palestinians, including one who suffered a…

Israeli military jeeps and bulldozers invaded, Tuesday, the city of Beit Jala, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and demolished two Palestinian homes and a room. The WAFA…

A number of Israeli military vehicles, and bulldozers, invaded on Tuesday at dawn, Anata town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, and demolished a car repair garage, and a tree nursery.…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday morning, the village of Shoufa, south of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, and uprooted many olive trees in Khallet Hammoud area, before loading…

Israeli military vehicles, and bulldozers, invaded on Tuesday morning the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and demolished eight Palestinian homes.…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday morning, the al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, broke into and searched several homes, before shooting and…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that an infant suffered, on Tuesday at dawn, severe effects of teargas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers invaded Kufur Qaddoum, east of the northern West Bank…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the Jenin refugee camp and Ya’bad town, in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, searched homes and kidnapped four Palestinians. The Jenin…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported, on Monday evening, that hunger striking detainee Waleed Masalma was moved to the Soroka Israeli medical center, after suffering a serious health setback. The…

The Police Investigation Unit of the Israeli Justice Department (Mahash) has decided not to indict the Border Guard police officers who, on Monday July 25, 2016, harassed an eight-year-old Palestinian…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, August, 15, 2016. Israeli troops destroy a Palestinian home in…

Israeli institutions and organizations are preparing to build the so-called “Third Temple” in place of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and are waiting for a political decision to start, Israeli channels reported. Israeli…

The Palestinian Authority’s Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah, on Monday, condemned an Israeli plan to appropriate Palestinian land in order to establish a new settlement in the West Bank. “Israel’s move…

Israeli navy ships attacked, on Monday evening, a number of Palestinian fishing boats, in Palestinian territorial water in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and kidnapped…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Monday at dawn, Bani Neim town, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and detonated a two-story home belonging to the family…

On Sunday, a group of around 250 armed Israeli settlers, accompanied by dozens of Israeli soldiers, invaded the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the third holiest site in the world for…

by Anna Baltzer, US Campaign to End the Occupation On Friday, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) voted overwhelmingly — by an estimated 90% — to create an investment…

Israeli army claimed, on Sunday evening, that a Palestinian woman was arrested after she attempted to stab a female soldier at a military roadblock, West of the northern West Bank…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Sunday at dawn, four Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Tulkarem, Jerusalem and Hebron, after invading their…

Dozens of farmers from the central West Bank district of Salfit have complained about being prevented from entering their lands, isolated behind the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall, in Salfit. The…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday morning, the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron and kidnapped one Palestinian. Local sources said the soldiers kidnapped Abdullah…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported, on Saturday evening, that all Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prisons of Nafha, Ramon, Negev and Hadarim will go on hunger strike…

Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border fence east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, opened fire, on Saturday evening, at a number of shepherds and farmers.…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday evening, the village of Talfit, south of Nablus city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped two Palestinians. The Nablus office…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday evening, Harmala town, east of Bethlehem city in the occupied West Bank, and occupied a Palestinian home after kicking the family out. Resident Mohammad Sbeih…

Israeli news site Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet) reports that Beyonce fans in Israel will be disappointed to learn that the singer’s representatives have announced a round of performance cancellations that were supposed…

Palestinian journalists and activists have launched a campaign to demand that Google add “Palestine” to the Google Maps application instead of “Israel”. The Forum of Palestinian Journalists issued a statement…

Israeli forces, on Friday, injured a Palestinian with live fire in the eastern part of al-Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, during clashes with Israeli forces deployed near…

Israeli authorities in occupied Jerusalem have omitted all texts and pictures related to Palestine, and the struggle against the occupation, from Palestinian school books before its distribution. According to the Hebrew…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Saturday, the West Bank city of Bethlehem, broke into the Zakat office and confiscated computers, files, and documents containing detailed information about orphans and…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that at three young men were injured, late on Friday at night, after Israeli soldiers repeatedly assaulted them, causing various cuts and bruises. The soldiers…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday at dawn, several areas in occupied East Jerusalem, especially in the Old City, conducted extensive searches of homes and kidnapped at least ten…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Friday, Kufur Qaddoum town, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia, and attacked dozens of residents holding the weekly nonviolent protest, causing many to suffer the…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that a young man was injured by Israeli army fire, east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza. The sources said the young…

Medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, have reported that many Palestinians suffered, on Friday evening, the effects of tear gas inhalation, during clashed…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 6, to the 12, 2016. As Palestinians warn…

  Our connections to Israel flourished, faltered and finally ended even though we grew up, live and work in the heart of the American Jewish community. When I was asked…

12 August 2016, Poppy Liuba-Carmichael, Alternative Information Center (AIC) The Bethlehem Live Festival brings local and international artists to Palestine to revive historic Star Street and energize cultural resistance to Israeli…

In the anticipation of extending existing illegal settlements on Palestinian lands, Israeli forces have been setting up new mobile homes in the heart of Hebron’s old city. Thus far they…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest in Bil’in village, in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, as the Israeli, international and Palestinian activists marched this week in…

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) issued a statement condemning the Israeli decision to hold a court session for hunger striking detainee, Bilal Kayed, on October 5th…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, the town of Sa’ir, east of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, searched homes and kidnapped five Palestinians. Earlier…

A number of Israeli navy ships attacked, earlier on Friday, a number of Palestinian fishing boats, opened fire on them and kidnapped five fishers, before confiscating their boats. Zakariyya Bakr,…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, several Palestinian homes in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, and Silwan town, south of the All-Aqsa mosque, violently searched…

A Palestinian man was moderately injured, on Thursday evening, after Israeli soldiers repeatedly assaulted him in Ein al-Louza neighborhood, in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information…

Several Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Friday morning, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats, in Gaza territorial waters, in Beit Lahia and Sudaniyya, in the northern part of…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday morning, several parts of the southern West Bank district of Hebron, broke into and searched many homes and kidnapped seven Palestinians. The Hebron office of…

Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt) continued during the reporting period (04 – 10 August 2016). Photo: Israeli Forces Demolish Two…

Five-year-old sole survivor of an arson attack in the village of Douma, in the occupied West Bank district of Nablus, last year, Ahmad Dawabsha, was taken to Israel’s Tel Hashomer…

Five American pro-Palestinian campaigners were detained, interrogated and deported by Israeli officials as they tried to enter the country to “observe the conditions under which Palestinians live,” NBC Newsreported a US…

The Mahash police investigation unit, run by the Israeli Justice Ministry, has decided to close the investigation into the murder of Palestinian government minister, Ziad Abu Ein, who was killed…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at night, a Palestinian home in Hizma town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, a handed the owner a military notice ordering him and his family…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, earlier on Thursday morning, Barta’a ash-Sharqiyya village, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, demolished a brick factory and confiscated its equipment. The…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that three Palestinians, who were recently kidnapped by the army, were repeatedly assaulted by the soldiers, and by the interrogators at an army…

A number of Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Thursday morning, Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, searched several homes and kidnapped one Palestinian. The…

Undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated, on Thursday at dawn, into the northern West Bank district of Jenin, and kidnapped two Palestinians. Eyewitnesses said the undercover soldiers infiltrated the Cinema area in…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at night, four Palestinian children in Silwan and the ar-Ram towns, after invading their families’ homes and searching them. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and nearby Beit Fajjar town, broke into and searched a few homes and kidnapped two Palestinians. The…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, August, 10, 2016. Palestinian man killed after being rammed by…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Wednesday, at least ten Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Nablus, Tulkarem, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Jenin. The army…

Israeli soldiers opened fire, Wednesday, on dozens of locals of Qusra, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, as Israeli bulldozers and colonists resumed the uprooting and bulldozing…

An Israeli military jeep rammed, on Wednesday evening, a Palestinian child, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, before the soldiers detained and interrogated him instead of providing…

Israeli occupation police have decided to raise the number of its stations and security cameras in occupied East Jerusalem. The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reports that, according to an official…

Shireen Iraqi, a lawyer with the Palestinian Detainees Committee, stated that the prison administration in Gilboa Israeli detention center has issued an order preventing all defense attorneys from meeting with…

8th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement The International Solidarity Movement is a Palestinian-led movement with a mandate to support Palestinian nonviolent popular resistance to Israeli military occupation and apartheid.…

The so-called Committee for Planning and Construction, in the municipality of Jerusalem, is scheduled to discuss a plan to confiscate lands from the Mount Scopus neighborhood, in Jerusalem, for the…

An 85-year-old Palestinian died, on Wednesday, after he was run over by an Israeli settler driving a motorcycle near the community of Khirbet al-Marajim, west of the southern Nablus village…

Israeli forces, on Wednesday, uprooted some 250 olive saplings near the village of Sekaka, east of Salfit town, in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources. Palestinian correspondence said that…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, August, 9, 2016. Israeli troops invade West Bank communities and…

Dozens of students suffocated on Tuesday, after Israeli soldiers attacked the campus of Al-Quds University with teargas, in Abu Dis town, east of Jerusalem. Witnesses told WAFA News & Info…

Israeli forces raided the Deheishe refugee camp, on Tuesday, in the occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem, in the early morning hours, detaining a Palestinian activist and injuring seven Palestinians with…

Weekly photos of Palestinian life and Israeli occupation in the West Bank city of Hebron, courtesy of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) and the Alternative Information Center (AIC).     Growing restrictions Pictured…

Dozens of extremist settlers, accompanied by Israeli intelligence agents, stormed  Al Aqsa  Mosque on Tuesday morning, via the Mughrabi gate, amid intensive military presence in the Old City district of annexed…

Users of Google Maps can no longer find the name Palestine. Instead, they will be seeing and outline of Palestinian territories, clearly labeled as Israel. More than 150,000 responded by…

Black Lives Matter and The Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of more than 50 organizations representing African Americans, published a comprehensive platform, Friday of last week, which addresses the systemic racism,…

Press Release by the Palestinian  Centre For Human Rights (PCHR): The West Bank witnessed a number of security incidents in which force was excessively used and a number of civilians…

Israeli soldiers, accompanied by military bulldozers, invaded earlier on Tuesday at dawn, the town of Sabastia, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and demolished a restaurant and…

A number of Israeli military jeeps and bulldozers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Um al-Kheir village, east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and demolished…

The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, four…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, kidnapped a former political prisoner from his home and injured seven Palestinians during ensuing clashes. Local sources…

The Israeli government and the Jerusalem City Council are advancing a plan to build 2,500 units in the Gilo colony, south of occupied East Jerusalem. Gilo was built on lands owned…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, August, 8, 2016. Israeli troops kidnapped more than a dozen…

By Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : The Israeli government formed a ministerial task force to track down any foreigners in Israel who are engaged in activities linked to the international Boycott Divestment…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported, Monday, that Israeli soldiers prevented twelve Palestinian families, from the West Bank district of Bethlehem, from heading to prisons to visit with their detained…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported, Monday, that the administration in Gilboa’ Israeli prison prevented 35 hunger striking detainees from meeting their lawyers, as a form of illegal collective…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, overnight and at dawn Monday, eighteen Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including nine in…

Earlier on Monday morning, Israeli soldiers forced a Palestinian to demolish his own barn and shed in Sabastia town, northwest of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The Palestinian,…

photo: With Palestine solidarity activism in Germany gaining more visibility, the backlash against it has increased. (Anne Paq/ActiveStills) The Holocaust was the first historic event that touched my inner core as a…

via the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network Protesters in New York City rallied outside the Manhattan office of British-Danish security corporation G4S on Friday, 5 August to demand freedom for…

BDS National Committee 08/07/16 Palestine solidarity activists in Saudi Arabia and neighboring Gulf states are expressing outrage after a Saudi delegation visited Israel to meet with senior officials. The group “BDS…

A Germany university has cancelled an academic course regarding the lives of Palestinian youth inside Israeli-occupied territories, Ynet news reported.  According to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, the site reported that the university…