First Palestinian Elected to US Congress
On Tuesday, November 6, the first Palestinian-American was elected to the U.S. Congress, marking an historic day for Palestinians living in exile in the United States. 42 year old Rashida…
Settlement Group Files Suit to Re-demolish Bethlehem School
The settlement organization known as “Regavim” has filed a lawsuit, in an Israeli court, to demolish the Tahaddi 5 school, in the Beit Ta’mar area, east of Bethlehem. The head…
Spanish City Cancels Israeli Women’s Waterpolo Match
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists succeeded, on Monday, in persuading the Catalonian city of Molins de Rei not to host a scheduled women’s waterpolo match between Spain and Israel.…
Palestinians to ICRC: Conference in Partnership with Hebrew University Undermines Palestinian Human Rights
Israeli forces detain a Palestinian at Hebrew University during a protest against Israel’s attack on Gaza, 20 November 2012. (Mahfouz Abu Turk, APA images) An International Committee of the Red…
Israel Proposes Plan to Connect Israel to Middle East Countries (VIDEO)
Yisrael Katz, the Israeli Transportation and Intelligence Minister, traveled to Oman, for an international conference, to discuss his proposal for a new system of shipping by sea, in addition to…
6 Palestinian Detainees Continue Open Hunger Stike
Six Palestinian detainees are engaged in an open hunger strike, in solidarity with women detainees of Hasharon prison, who have refused to leave their cells since last July, in protest…
Ashrawi Warns against Imposing Solutions on Gaza
PLO Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi with an Olive Tree Initiative delegation from the University of California. (Photo courtesy of Ashrawi’s office.) Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee…
Fateh Member Denies PA Approval of Truce in Exchange for Funds through Gaza
Member of the PLO Executive Committees of the Fateh and the Central Committee of the Fateh movement, Azzam al-Ahmad, denied rumors circulated by Israeli media that the Palestinian leadership had…
Army Destroys Road, Prevents Construction Of A Multipurpose Center, Near Jenin
Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, Ya’bad town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, destroyed a recently paved road, and prevented the Local Council from starting the construction of…
PPS: “Israeli Soldiers Abduct Eleven Palestinians In The West Bank”
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, overnight until dawn hours, Wednesday, at least eleven Palestinians, including former political prisoners, from their homes in several parts…
Israeli Army Abducts A Man Near Tulkarem
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Wednesday, Shweika area, north of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, and abducted a man after interrogating him and his family. Eyewitnesses said…
Soldiers Demolish A Residential Building In Jerusalem
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday morning, Ras Shehada area, in Shu’fat refugee camp, in the center of occupied East Jerusalem, and demolished a residential building. The soldiers surrounded…
Army Injures Twenty Palestinians In Nablus
Dozens of Israeli soldiers accompanied many colonialist settlers’ buses into the northern West Bank city of Nablus, to visit a historic site, and invaded many neighborhoods in the city to…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Two Former Political Prisoners Near Jenin
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, two former political prisoners from Jenin Governorate, in northern West Bank, and summoned for interrogation a young man from Bethlehem. The Jenin office…
Army Abducts Five Palestinians, Including A Legislator, Injures Several Others, In West Bank
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, five Palestinians, including a legislator, and injured at least nine Palestinians, in the occupied West Bank. Dozens of soldiers invaded Ethna town, west…
Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians Near Jenin
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday evening, three young Palestinian men near Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers stopped three young man,…