Author: Ali Salam

Israeli navy ships, on Sunday, fired at Palestinian fishermen sailing in the Mediterranean, off the shore of Gaza City, forcing them to return to shore, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported.…

Israeli forces detained several Palestinian civilians from various parts of the West Bank, over night Friday, including 12 from Hebron, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported. It said Israeli…

Israeli soldiers fired numerous tear-gas canisters at Palestinian demonstrators in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia in northern West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. No injuries were…

The Al-Qassam Brigades, Saturday, announced the accidental death of a Palestinian resistance fighter in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, according to their official website. The military wing of the Hamas…

Four Palestinians were shot and injured, Friday, at the weekly anti-settlement march in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia in the northern West Bank, according to a local…

The wife of the Palestinian administrative detainee, Maher Al-Akhras, 49, who has been on hunger strike for 73 days, has announced that she will begin a hunger strike and participate…

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor sent a letter to EU diplomats and ambassadors in the Palestinian Territories to protest against EU diplomatic delegation’s visit to Israel’s southern region, which borders…

Illegal Israeli settlers, Wednesday, attacked Palestinians who were harvesting olives in Hawara village, south of Nablus, injuring three, the Palestinian Information Center reported. The settlers came from the illegal Israeli…

The Higher Planning Council (HPC) of the Civil Administration is set to convene to advance at least 4,430 settlement units in the West Bank in two consecutive meetings on 14…

Israeli occupation forces detained nine Palestinian civilians, overnight Monday until Tuesday at dawn, from various West Bank cities, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) released in a statement. The PPS stated…

Three Palestinians were shot by Israeli forces, Monday, east of Tulkarem in the northern occupied West Bank, the Jerusalem Press reported. According to the official Hebrew channel, the army alleged…

A Palestinian former prisoner, on Thursday, October 2, 2020, was shot in the eye by Israeli forces that, stormed Sebastia town, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus and…

Two Palestinians were injured, Saturday, after being attacked by illegal Israeli settlers in the village of Huwwara, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, according to a local…

Israeli forces detained a Palestinian youth in Hebron city, on Saturday morning, in the southern West Bank and placed road barriers in several places, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local…

A number of Palestinian civilians were shot and injured, Saturday, including four who were shot with rubber-coated steal rounds, when Israeli troops suppressed the weekly anti-settlement demonstration in the northern…

Fifteen Palestinian civilians were injured by Israeli forces, Friday during the weekly protest against Israeli settlements, which has been held every week in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia in…

Two Palestinian young men, on Thursday, were detained by Israeli forces after crossing Gaza borders into Israel, the Palestinian Information Center reported. An Israeli army spokesman alleged that the youths…

The Israeli forces detained dozens of Palestinians, in the predawn hours of Thursday, from the occupied West Bank, including a journalist and former prisoners. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) released…

The Israeli forces, on Wednesday, demolished a Palestinian-owned agricultural storehouse in Husan village, west of Bethlehem in the central West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources stated that…

The Israeli occupation forces, overnight Tuesday, arrested ten Palestinian civilians from the West Bank, including a young man with special needs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported. It said that…

Israeli soldiers opened fire, on Wednesday night, at Palestinians, in the southern occupied West Bank town of Surif, injuring one young man, according to Palestinian security sources. Sources told Palestinian…

The Israeli intelligence agency, Shin Bet, on Wednesday, detained Palestinian activist Aida as-Sidawi, from her home in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Sidawi stated…

Israeli forces demolished, on Wednesday, a number of Palestinian-owned structures in both the northern and southern occupied West Bank, local sources said. Coordinator of the Popular Committees in Hebron, Rateb…

The Israeli forces, on Monday, and Tuesday morning, detained a number of Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources stated that Israeli soldiers…

The Israeli occupation forces, on Tuesday, demolished two Palestinian-owned homes east of Tubas, in the northern Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem Press reported. In a press…

Israeli forces demolished, on Tuesday, a Palestinian-owned shack in Beita town, south of Nablus city, in the northern occupied West Bank, Palestinian WAFA News reported. Local official in charge of…

The Israeli forces detained, on Monday, three Palestinian young men from their homes in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, in the central West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources said,…

Israeli military court sentenced, on Sunday, a Palestinian child from Jenin refugee camp, in the northern occupied West Bank, to serve 5 years in prison, the Palestinian Information Center reported.…

The Israeli police detained a Palestinian woman and her husband, Al-Maqdisi, on Sunday, after invading their home in Al-‘Isawiya town in occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local…

The Israeli authorities announced, last week, a military order to confiscate a large area of Palestinian lands in the Tel Rumeida area, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.…

An armed Israeli settler assaulted, on Sunday, a Palestinian farmer who was working in his land in Asira al-Qiblya village, south of Nablus city in the northern West Bank, Palestinian…

The Egyptian authorities handed over, on Saturday evening, the bodies of two Palestinian fishermen, who were shot by the Egyptian navy, on Friday, in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, while…

Ramzy Baroud for Middle East Monitor Palestine can never be truly understood through numbers, because numbers are dehumanising, impersonal, and, when necessary, can also be contrived to mean something else…

The Israeli forces detained several Palestinian youths, early Wednesday morning, from across the occupied West Bank, including former prisoners, the Palestinian Information Center reported. The Jerusalem police arrested a young…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said that eighteen Palestinians were detained, overnight Monday, by Israeli forces, across the occupied West Bank. From the northern West Bank Jenin refugee camp, occupation…

Israeli forces detained at least five Palestinians, on Monday, including 61 year old activist from the occupied Palestinian territories, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Local sources said that soldiers…

Israeli forces ordered two Palestinian brothers to tear down agricultural structures, Monday, in the area of Khirbet Yerza, in the northern Jordan Valley, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Activist…

Israeli soldiers detained four Palestinians, on Saturday, after they tried to cross into Israel, from the besieged Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Army spokesperson said that its forces…

Israeli bulldozers destroyed 200 fruit trees, on Saturday, in the town of Bidya, west of Salfit, in the northern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. The uprooted fruitful…

Two Palestinians, Friday night, were assaulted by illegal Israeli settlers near al-Walaja village, west of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Security sources…

Three Palestinians were injured, Friday, during the weekly Kufur Qaddoum march in the northern West Bank, after being shot with rubber-coated steel rounds, while dozens suffered the severe effects of…

Israeli forces detained four Palestinians, on Saturday, after they attempted to enter Israel from the besieged Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Center reported. The Israeli military spokesperson stated that soldiers…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society reported that Israeli prison authorities, Wednesday night, stormed sections 5 and 6 of the high-security Megiddo prison, assaulting the prisoners, and spraying them with tear-gas. The…

A young Palestinian man, Wednesday, was stabbed by Israeli citizens inside Israel, where he is employed, the Palestinian Information Center reported. The young man, identified by local sources as Issa…

Israeli jets bombed several areas of the besieged Gaza Strip, Wednesday, which the Palestinian resistance reciprocated with crude rockets, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources said, Israeli military jets…

The Palestinian resistance in the besieged Gaza Strip, Tuesday, launched rockets north towards Israel, in an expression of contempt for the normalisation agreements between Israel and 2 Arab states, Quds…

An open Letter by Shawan Jabarin, General Director, Al-Haq The decision of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to normalise relations with Israel lay bare what has been clear to…

Israeli forces, overnight Sunday, detained a number of Palestinian young men, including a high school student, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources said the…

The Israeli authorities have detained 297 Palestinians from the Occupied Palestinian Territory during the month of August 2020, 12 of whom were children, 10 of whom were women, according to…

The Israeli military attacked, Friday, unarmed Palestinians during the suppression of the 3 demonstrations held against Israel’s ongoing colonial ventures in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported.…

Israeli forces, detained several Palestinian civilians, Thursday, including a journalist, and former prisoners from the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Local sources said that Israeli soldiers,…

The European Union (EU) missions in occupied Jerusalem and Ramallah, on Wednesday, urged the occupation state of Israel to cease its demolition policy aimed exclusively at Palestinian structures in the…

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA): Bi-weekly report (August 25 – September 7, 2020) An Israeli civilian was killed and an…

The Israeli authorities, Tuesday, forced a citizen of Jerusalem to demolish the fourth floor of his home, near the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Information Center reported.…

An undercover unit of Israeli forces, also called “Musta’ribeen” abducted, on Monday, a young man near the Shu’fat refugee camp roadblock, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, in the central West Bank,…

Dozens of Palestinians foiled illegal Israeli settlers’ attempts, Monday night, to steal Palestinian-owned land to assemble an illegal outpost in the village of Kufr Malik, east of Ramallah, in the…

Israeli occupation bulldozers, Tuesday, razed Palestinian-owned lands of Kifl Hares village, west of Salfit, in the northern occupied West Bank, a local official reported. Head of the village council, Sheikh…

The Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem, Tuesday, forced a Palestinian family to demolish their five shops in Jabal al-Mokkaber, south east of Occupied Jerusalem, in the central West Bank, the…

Israeli forces detained several Palestinians in various occupied West Bank areas, Sunday night through Monday morning, including a former prisoner, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Israeli soldiers detained former prisoner,…

A Palestinian youth was shot and detained by the Israeli forces, on Sunday, after he allegedly attempted to stab Israeli soldiers at the Ariel Junction, north of Salfit in the…

An Israeli settler, on Sunday, struck a Palestinian child with his car, near the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement, built on Palestinian-owned lands of Hebron, southern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian…

UPDATED: Sept 7 @ 0613 A Palestinian Detainees’ Committee lawyer, Khaled Mahajna, has reported that after Israeli forces wired and detonated the front door of their home, on Saturday, both…

Three Palestinian workers were shot, Friday, by Israeli forces near Habla town, south of Qalqilia city in the northern West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS). The…

Dozens of Palestinians choked on tear-gas, Friday, as Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly demonstration, in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia, in the northern occupied West Bank, according…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported that Israeli forces detained 15 Palestinian civilians, Thursday, from the occupied West Bank, two of whom were released after lengthy interrogation by occupation authorities.…

Israeli forces, on Wednesday, detained several Palestinians from various areas of the occupied West Bank, the Jerusalem Press reported. Occupation forces detained Mu’taz Jumaa Jadal Abu Muhaimid, 29, from the…

A Palestinian man suffered a bullet injury, on Wednesday, when an Israeli soldier opened fire at him at the northern entrance to Bethlehem city, in south of the West Bank,…

Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian man, on Wednesday morning, at Zatara military roadblock, south of Nablus city, in the northern West Bank, according to medical sources. The Palestinian…

Israeli forces, on Tuesday, attacked Palestinians protesting Israel’s plan to expropriate occupied Palestinian land near Tulkarem city, in the northern West Bank, Palestinian WAFA News Agency correspondent. She stated that…

The Israeli forces detained a Palestinian teenager, on Tuesday, from the Shufat Refugee Camp in occupied East Jerusalem, Shehab News Agency reported. In photos, several Israeli soldiers hold the youth…

Two Palestinian brothers in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, began demolishing their homes, in order to avoid having the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem demolish it, according to the…

Undercover Israeli agents, on Sunday evening, abducted senior Palestinian official, Husam al-Razza, who belongs to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported.…

The Israeli authorities announced, Monday, the reopening of the “Kerem Shalom” crossing between Israel and the besieged Gaza Strip, in addition to the restoration of the fishing zone to 15…

Israeli forces, Saturday night, detained five Palestinians, including a minor, during invasions across the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS). Israeli forces detained one Palestinian, identified…

Musa Zahran, 53, a Palestinian under administrative detention in Israeli prison, ended his 15 day hunger strike, on Sunday, to protest his detention without a charge or trial, according to…

The Israeli army shelled, Sunday, two alleged resistance sites in the besieged Gaza Strip, the site sustained material damage, but no human casualties were reported. A Palestinian Information Center (PIC)…

The Israeli army prevented, on Friday, Palestinians from holding prayers on the citizen-owned lands of Kifl Hares, in the northern West Bank, which is under threat of confiscation by the…

Illegal Israeli settlers, Thursday night, set fire to a Palestinian-owned vehicle and sprayed racist graffiti on walls in Asira al-Qibiliya village, south of Nablus city in the northern occupied West…

At least one Palestinian civilian was shot and injured, Friday, when Israeli forces fired rubber-coated steel rounds at protesters taking part in the weekly Kufur Qaddoum in the northern West…

On Thursday morning, Israeli forces invaded the village of Rojib, east of Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank, and took measurements of the home of Palestinian prisoner…

The Israeli army, on Wednesday, delivered demolition orders against 3 Palestinian-owned homes and stop-work orders against 6 others in Nahalin town, west of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank,…

The Israeli army, Thursday morning, demolished a Palestinian-owned under construction bakery, and delivered a demolition notice to a carpenter shop in Arraba town, near Jenin, under the pretext of unlicensed…

The Israeli authorities, on Thursday, demolished tents and makeshift homes in the Palestinian Bedouin village of al-Araqeeb in the Negev desert in Israel, for the 177th consecutive time the Palestinian…

The Israeli air force launched, Friday morning, two rounds of airstrikes on different areas of the besieged Gaza Strip, according to local sources. Sources told the Palestinian Information Center’s reporter…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported that Wednesday night through Thursday morning, the Israeli forces detained thirteen Palestinian civilians from various parts of the occupied West Bank. From al-Fawwar camp…

The 2 million Palestinians in Gaza face a “double crisis” as they struggle with an acute electricity shortage just as the coronavirus has spread into the community among the vulnerable…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) in a statement, confirmed the detention of 24 Palestinians, including a journalist. The PPS stated that at least 10 Palestinian civilians were arrested from several…

An Israeli man, on Wednesday, was reportedly stabbed by a Palestinian worker in Petah Tikva, central Israel, Haaretz reported. The man, Shai Ohayon, 39, a father of four who was…

Israeli warplanes, early Wednesday morning, fired missiles at farmland near Khan Younis city, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian WAFA News Agency correspondent. He confirmed that an Israeli…

Two Palestinian-owned homes were demolished Monday night and Tuesday morning, in occupied East Jerusalem under the pretext of construction without a permit, according to the Palestinian WAFA News Agency. In…

Israeli jets and tanks, Tuesday at dawn, bombed Palestinian lands in Rafah and Khan Younis in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources told the…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported that the Israeli forces, Monday night until Tuesday at dawn, detained four Palestinians from Tulkarem, in the northern occupied West Bank; Wajdi Tawfiq Jayyousi,…

The Israeli forces, on Monday at dawn, detained one Palestinian man from the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, and five from different areas of Tulkarem, according to Alray. Local sources…

Israeli authorities delivered, Monday, a number of stop work orders to Palestinians in the southern West Bank village of Birin, east of Hebron City, according to the Palestinian WAFA News…

Israeli warplanes and tanks, Monday at dawn, bombed three targets in Khan Younis in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, local sources reported. The sources told the Palestinian Information Center’s reporter…

The Israeli navy, on Sunday, attacked Palestinian fishermen and their boats as they sailed within one nautical mile off the Gaza shore, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local Coordinator of…

A Palestinian family in occupied East Jerusalem refuses to demolish their homes, despite orders issued by the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem, and is facing heavy costs if the municipality…

Israeli forces, on Saturday, handed demolition notices to Palestinian owners of two buildings in Wadi al-Hummus area, northeast of Bethlehem city, in the southern West Bank, according to a local…

Israeli forces, on Friday, invaded Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem while firing of tear-gas bombs, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources said that dozens of patients and medical staff suffered…

Illegal Israeli settlers, on Saturday, attacked Palestinian shepherds and chopped down olive trees in Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank, while others set up a mobile home on…