UN Secretary-General visits Israel and Gaza
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon traveled to Gaza Monday, following a meeting with the Israeli President in Tel Aviv. In a press statement following his meeting with Israeli President…
Israeli Extremists Attack Palestinian Christians During Pentecost Prayer, Shouting “You Are Evil”
A group of Israeli extremists assaulted the Pentecostal prayer procession in Jerusalem this week, shouting and trying to occupy Mount Zion to keep the Christians out. The Israeli police arrested…
Israeli forces demolish two homes south of Hebron, despite pledge to stop demolitions in Ramadan
The Israeli military demolished two homes, an outdoor kitchen and a barn on Saturday in Wadi Jheish and Umm Al-Daraj, in the village of Susiya, in the south Hebron hills.…
Israel plans to extend 13-year old ‘temporary’ law that has left 247 Palestinian children with no legal status
A committee of the Israeli Knesset is discussing the extension, for another year, of a 13-year old law that has been extended each year as a ‘temporary’ measure. The law…
Israeli military decides that order to attack Palestinian clinic in ‘revenge’ was acceptable
In a precedent-setting decision Tuesday, the Israeli military decided not to press charges against a senior officer who ordered his troops to bombard a hospital in Gaza in 2014 to…
Developmentally-disabled Palestinian Shot and Wounded by Israeli Troops near Nablus
A 26-year old developmentally-disabled Palestinian man was shot and wounded by Israeli forces Saturday after allegedly pulling out a knife while riding a bike near the Awarta checkpoint. No Israeli…
South African Archbishop Tutu latest voice calling for Nobel Peace Prize for Marwan Barghouthi
Revered Archbishop Desmond Tutu, himself a Nobel Prize recipient, has joined a growing number of people who have nominated Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouthi for the Nobel Peace Prize. Barghouthi…
Israeli authorities hold secret meetings with US in advance of Friday’s peace talks
As thirty nations prepare representatives to meet in Paris Friday for talks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday that high-lecel Israeli officials have been meeting secretly with…
Israeli Cabinet Swears-In Controversial Defense Minister
Avigdor Lieberman, the controversial right-wing politician who has frequently called for the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland, was sworn in Monday as the new Israeli Defense Minister. The appointment…
Israeli Prime Minister replaces Defense Minister with Rightwing Zealot
Following a shake-up in the Israeli Defense Ministry which included a statement by the military’s Chief of Staff that the current trends in Israeli society were reminiscent of pre-World War…
Israeli court convicts Palestinian child who was nearly beaten to death by mob
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…
Ringleader of Israeli gang that burned Palestinian child to death sentenced to life in prison
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…
Seven members of Israeli ‘terror cell’ indicted for dozens of attacks on Palestinian civilians & property
On Monday, an Israeli court indicted seven Israelis, including two sons of a leading rabbi, a soldier, and two minor teens, for participating in dozens of attacks against Palestinian civilians…
Israeli Settler Severely Wounds Palestinian Boy in Ramming Attack in Hebron
An Israeli settler attacked a Palestinian child with a vehicle on Thursday, causing moderate injuries. The child, Alaa Ghaleb al-Rajabi, 16, was transported to a local hospital (al-Ahli hospital) and…
Videographer who filmed execution of Palestinian receives death threats from Israeli settlers
A Palestinian videographer and human rights worker whose video of the murder of a 21-year old Palestinian by an Israeli soldier has received widespread attention has received a number of…
Child whose family was burned alive by settlers returns home to Douma
Five-year old Ahmad Dawabsha, who was four when his entire family was burned to death in their beds last July, returned to his hometown for the first time on Tuesday.The…
March 16th: Anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie
March 16th, 2016 marks 13 years since a young American peace activist stood in front of an Israeli armored bulldozer to try to protect a Palestinian home from demolition, and…
March 16th: Thirteenth anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie
March 16th, 2016 marks 13 years since a young American peace activist stood in front of an Israeli armored bulldozer to try to protect a Palestinian home from demolition, and…
14-year old boy shot in chest by Israeli troops during invasion of Palestinian village
A Palestinian boy is in serious condition after he was shot in the chest with live ammunition by Israeli forces who invaded his village, al-Mazraa al-Gharbiya, on Sunday.The boy, 14,…
Israeli Officer killed in ‘Friendly Fire’ During Invasion of Gaza
An Israeli intelligence officer with the Shin Bet covert intelligence service of the Israeli armed forces was killed on Tuesday by other Israeli troops while carrying out an operation in…
Israeli and U.S. Groups sued for $34.5 Billion for funding construction of Israeli settlements
A group of Palestinians and Palestinian-Americans who have been victims of Israeli settlement construction filed a lawsuit this week to demand financial compensation from some of the companies, individuals and…
Israeli troops invade village near Bethlehem, critically wounding two Palestinians
On Sunday, Israeli forces invaded the village of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, and began firing live ammunition randomly throughout the village, according to local sources. Two Palestinians were critically wounded:…
Palestinian-American activist wins re-trial on immigration charges
Rasmea Odeh, a Chicago-based Palestinian-American activist, had immigration fraud charges against her vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals on Thursday. Odeh and her supporters have long claimed that the…
List of 181 Palestinians & 21 Israelis Killed Since October 1st
The following is a list of names of all Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, including one in…
Autopsy Shows that Palestinian Woman Killed Saturday Died Because of Denial of Medical Care
A Palestinian state prosecutor in the Hebron District announced Sunday that a Palestinian woman killed the previous day by Israeli forces could likely have been saved if Israeli forces hadn’t…
PCHR Weekly Report: Two Palestinian children killed; 9 adults & 8 children wounded by Israeli troops
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 04- 10 February 2016, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
List of 162 Palestinians killed since October 1st
The following is a list of names of all Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, including one in…
Israeli driver hits Palestinian cyclists; killing one and wounding another
Two Palestinian youth riding their bikes near Salfit Monday were hit by an Israeli driver, leading to the death of one of them, and the injury his brother. Update: The…
Israeli paramilitary settler shoots and critically wounds Palestinian who allegedly stabbed woman
An unidentified Palestinian man was shot and critically wounded on Monday morning after allegedly stabbing and wounded a pregnant Israeli woman in Tekoa settlement, near Bethlehem, according to Israeli sources.The…
Israel refuses to allow prisoner to get needed heart surgery
The Israeli Prison Service has refused to allow a 45-year old Palestinian prisoner to receive a medically-indicated, lifesaving heart surgery. The prisoner is now in an intermittent coma as a…
Video: Office of Israeli Human Rights Organization B’Tselem Burned in Suspected Arson
The Jerusalem office of the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, was badly damaged in a fire on Sunday night, which authorities suspect may have…
Israeli Military Kills Two Palestinians Near Nablus
Early Saturday morning, two Palestinians were shot dead at the al-Hamra (Beqaot) checkpoint in the northern part of the Jordan Valley, east of Nablus in the eastern part of the…
Bodies of 23 Slain Palestinians Returned by Israeli Authorities
The 23 bodies that Israeli authorities have been holding in custody were finally turned over to the Palestinian Authority on Friday. A line of 17 ambulances, each carrying one of…
Israeli forces kill one Palestinian, abduct eight, during invasions of Hebron
A Palestinian man was shot and killed Thursday morning in Hebron, in the Saddit al-Fahs area. Israeli troops took the body of the slain Palestinian away in a black bag.The…
Palestinian killed near Israeli settlement in West Bank
A Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Thursday morning after allegedly stabbing and wounding two Israeli guards at an industrial park outside Ariel settlement, the largest…
Leader of Right-Wing Israeli Group Calls Christians ‘Blood-Sucking Vampires’
The leader of the right-wing group Lehava, which calls for the expulsion of non-Jews from Israel, has issued a statement that Christians, like Muslims, should be violently removed from the…
Two Palestinian-Americans killed in December – no U.S. government response
The U.S. government has yet to respond to the killing of two of its citizens by the Israeli military over the past three weeks – the latest being Mohammad Abdul-Rahman…
List of Palestinians Killed Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 18
The Following is a list of names of all Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, including one in…
Palestinian Killed by Police after Allegedly ‘Ramming’ Israeli Settlers with Car
A Palestinian youth was shot and killed on Monday evening by Israeli police near the central bus station in West Jerusalem. According to Israeli police, Abdul-Mohsen Hassounah, 21, was shot…
List of 116 Palestinians Killed Since October 1st
The full list of the 116 Palestinians and 16 Israelis killed since October 1st is below. The Following is a list of names of all Palestinians shot and killed by…
Egypt floods tunnel into Gaza, 14 people missing
7 people have been rescued, but 14 remain missing Tuesday morning, after Egyptian authorities flooded a tunnel across the Egypt-Gaza border with no warning. The tunnel runs between Gaza and…
19-year old Palestinian girl shot and killed by Israeli troops near Tulkarem
Israeli soldiers stationed at a checkpoint near Tulkarem, in the northern part of the West Bank, shot and killed Maram Ramez Hassouna, 19, on Tuesday morning.Hassouna was from Rafidia, near…
13-year old Palestinian Boy has Court Appearance; Trial will Begin in January
A 13-year old Palestinian boy accused of stabbing and wounding a 13-year old Israeli boy had a court appearance Thursday. On October 11th, Ahmad Manasra was run over by a…
Kufur Qaddoum protest attacked by Israeli forces; 3 Palestinian civilians wounded
On Saturday in the village of Kufur Qaddoum, near Qalqilia, Israeli troops opened fire with live rounds on a non-violent protest march organized by a leftist party. The protest was…
Palestinian driver hits group of Israeli soldiers in the road; soldiers shoot & wound driver
A Palestinian man was shot by Israeli forces Tuesday after he drove his vehicle into a group of Israeli soldiers at Za’atara checkpoint in the central West Bank. Three of…
Israeli Prime Minister pushes for control of Golan after oil discovery
The Israeli Prime Minister’s visit to Washington last week included a meeting with President Obama, in which the two discussed the status of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.Israel invaded and occupied…
Two Israelis killed when their minivan, allegedly shot at, crashes near Hebron
An unknown person allegedly shot at an Israeli passenger car near Hebron on Friday, causing the car to crash, killing the driver and one passenger.Two of the five other passengers…
Israeli Prime Minister Proposes Cutting Off 80,000 Palestinians from Jerusalem
The Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in a recent Cabinet meeting, proposed revoking the residency rights of 80,000 Jerusalemites, which would mean that the people of Sho’afat refugee camp and…
Israeli troops demolish apartment belonging to family members of man who killed Israeli last year
In the latest punitive home demolition carried out by Israeli troops since they resumed the practice this year, the military on Monday night destroyed the interior of an apartment located…
Israeli settler shoots and kills Palestinian teenager in Hebron
A right-wing Israeli paramilitary settler shot and killed a Palestinian teenager Saturday morning on Shuhada Street in the center of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank.Video footage…
Israeli military shoots Palestinian man on bus, claims he stabbed an Israeli passenger
On Monday evening, the Israeli military claimed that a Palestinian man stabbed an Israeli passenger on a bus in Jerusalem, and a soldier on the bus shot and killed the…
Videos contradict Israeli police account of their killing of Fadi Alloun
Two videos have emerged, filmed by eyewitnesses of the fatal shooting of 19-year old Fadi Alloun by Israeli police in Jerusalem Sunday morning, that directly contradict the police account. The…
Israeli undercover agents filmed infiltrating Palestinian protests, pulling guns on demonstrators
A Reuters camera operator captured on film a group of Israeli undercover agents dressed as Palestinian youth during a demonstration in Beit El on Tuesday. The soldiers are seen throwing…
Right wing Israelis rally for more destruction of Palestinian homes and areas
Thousands of Israelis, including legislators and , gathered Monday in front of the home of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, calling for increased theft of Palestinian land for the expansion of…
Teen Killed, Allegedly After Grabbing Gun Of Israeli In Jerusalem, Killing Two
A Palestinian teen was shot to death by Israeli police after allegedly stabbing to death an armed Israeli, grabbing the gun of a settler who intervened, then killing an additional…
PCHR Weekly Report: Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinian civilians, wound 28 in the past week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 17 – 30 September 2015, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…
New Reports: Pro-Palestine Groups at U.S. Colleges Face Intimidation, False Charges
Two new reports were released today documenting a widespread campaign on college campuses across the U-S to stifle free speech on the issue of Israel and Palestine.The first report, co-authored…
Palestine Today 09 28 2015
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, September 28th, 2015. Palestinian fighter die in Gaza and soldiers invade Al Aqsa mosque…
PCHR Weekly Report: One dead; 7 wounded, including 4 children, by Israeli troops this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 03 – 09 Sep. 2015, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…
Thousands protest Netanyahu’s visit to London
Around 2,000 protesters filled the streets of London as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in London today to meet the British Prime Minister, David Cameron.In addition to the protest,…
RT Report: Nearly all of Gaza’s water ‘undrinkable’
Reporters from RT (Russia Today) traveled to Gaza to look into last year’s report that 90% of Gaza’s water is undrinkable. As they sampled water from different parts of the…
Thousands Attend Funeral of Reham Dawabsha, Mother of 18-month old Baby who was Burned to Death
A day after her death in an Israeli hospital from wounds sustained when Israeli settlers firebombed her family home just over a month ago, Reham Dawabsha’s funeral was held in…
Gaza Could Be Uninhabitable In 5 Years, UN Report Warns
A new report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) found that under current conditions, the Gaza Strip, home to 1.8 million Palestinians, will become uninhabitable within the…
Israeli settlers take over large building in East Jerusalem; Palestinian protesters attacked
Early Tuesday morning, the Israeli military accompanied a large group of Israeli settlers as they moved into a formerly Palestinian-owned building in the Silwan neighborhood in East Jerusalem. The arrival…
Palestinian family reports theft of money and valuables by Israeli soldiers during home raid
A Palestinian family whose home was raided in a pre-dawn attack on Wednesday said that Israeli troops ransacked the home, destroying furniture and stealing thousands of dollars worth of cash…
Israeli paramilitary settler gang beats Palestinian worker with steel rods
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…
Israel cuts water to Palestinian village, causing deaths of hundreds of farm animals
As an exceptionally hot summer heatwave continues to drain the region’s water supplies, this week Israeli water company Mekorot took the situation to a new level with the villagers of…
5 Palestinians Injured In Israeli Airstrike On Central Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported that five Palestinians were injured, one seriously, in an airstrike on Friday at night targeting a site that they claimed was a resistance training center in…
Palestinian driver shot after running over two Israelis
Israeli troops shot and wounded a Palestinian driver near Ramallah on Thursday after the car he was driving ran into two Israelis standing by the road. It’s unclear whether the…
Grandson of Meir Kahane arrested for role in ‘Jewish terrorist network’
As Israeli investigators released their findings that a right-wing Jewish terrorist network is gaining power throughout Israel and illegal West Bank settlements, they detained Meir Ettinger, the grandson of the…
Israeli troops shoot, injure Palestinian youth at northern West Bank checkpoint
On Monday at midday, Israeli soldiers stationed at the Za’atara checkpoint in the northern West Bank shot and wounded a Palestinian youth.The teen, who has not yet been identified, was…
Israel arrests 3 Jewish Extremists on Suspicion of Burning the Church of Loaves and Fishes
The Israeli secret service (Shin Bet) reported Sunday that they had arrested three men for questioning for the burning of the Chruch of the Loaves and Fishes, where Christians believe…
Israeli Knesset brings back bill to forcibly transfer Palestinian Bedouins
The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) announced that on Sunday July 12th, they will bring back a bill to forcibly remove 40,000 Palestinian Bedouins from their homes in the Negev desert in…
British, Australian activists shut down Israeli weapons factories on anniversary of Gaza invasion
On Monday July 6th, Palestinians and their supporters around the world marked the one year invasion of the Israeli attack on Gaza that ended up lasting fifty one days and…
Israeli Troops Attack March Commemorating One Year Anniversary of Murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir
As hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the Shoafat neighborhood of East Jerusalem Thursday, one year after 16-year old Mohammed Abu Khdeir was brutally tortured and burned alive by a group…
United Church of Christ Divests from Israeli Occupation
The U.S.-based United Church of Christ voted 508 – 124 on Tuesday to divest from companies involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.The divestment resolution passed by the United Church…
Freedom Flotilla III en route to Gaza; military plane spotted overhead
On June 26th 2015, four boats of the 2015 the Freedom Flotilla III set sail toward Gaza to try to break Israel’s nine-year-long economic siege on Gaza. The ships are…
UN Report: Widespread, systematic violations in Gaza by Israeli forces
A long-anticipated United Nations Report on the 51-day Israeli invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014 was released on Monday. The report faulted the Israeli military with deliberately targeting…
Israeli extremists burn the church where Jesus multiplied loaves and fishes
Early Thursday morning, right-wing Israelis set on fire the Church of the Multiplication, where Christians believe that Jesus multiplied loaves and fishes, and wrote graffiti in Hebrew on the walls…
Israeli Cabinet passes bill authorizing force-feeding of prisoners
As numerous Palestinian prisoners are engaged in hunger strikes right now, vowing to continue until death, the Israeli cabinet decided on Sunday to allow prison officials to forcefeed the prisoners.The…
14 Palestinian families in Jordan Valley receive demolition orders from Israeli military
As Israeli settlement expansion continues in the eastern part of the West Bank, in the Jordan Valley, another set of eviction/demolition notices were issued by the Israeli military authorities to…
‘Jim Crow’ segregated bus system made official by Israel
Israeli officials announced that beginning on Wednesday, the segregation that has been commonplace on buses traveling between the West Bank and what is now Israel has been made completely official,…
On Jerusalem Day, Israeli Prime Minister calls for biblical-style battle for Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gave a speech on Sunday in which he rallied a crowd of Zionists with calls to do battle in Jerusalem to rid the city of…
Israeli soldiers stalk 5-year old, spraying sewage-smelling water at him until he falls
A group of Israeli soldiers were captured on camera chasing down a five-year old child in Kafr Qaddoum, spraying him with foul-smelling ‘skunk water’ until he fell down on some…
Right-wing Israeli settlers assault Palestinian children and their mother in Hebron
A group of right-wing Israeli men in the old city of Hebron chased down and violently assaulted four children ages 4 – 10 and their mother. The family was walking…
PCHR Weekly Report: 5 Palestinians wounded, 65 abducted, by Israeli forces this week
In its weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that in the week of 29 April – 06…
Palestinian Christian leaders criticize Israeli restrictions on Easter celebration
The archbishop of the Sebastian Greek Orthodox Church, Atallah Hanna, addressed crowds in the town of al-Ezzariya (Lazarus) on Saturday, condemning the Israeli restrictions on Easter celebrations, and calling on…
Oregon activists succeed in getting Israeli company ‘Sodastream’ to change labeling
An Israeli manufacturer based in an illegal West Bank settlement has changed its product labeling due to complaints from human rights activists. The Israeli SodaStream corporation, maker of home beverage…
Cremisan Monastery wins appeal in Israeli High Court: Route of Israeli Wall must be changed
A Bethlehem-area monastery that was slated to be split in half by the Israeli Annexation Wall has won its appeal in the Israeli High Court, after a nine year struggle…
Report: Palestinian Authority will not file charges against Israel in International Court
A new report by the Israeli newspaper ‘Jerusalem Post’, based on unnamed sources within the Palestinian Authority, claims that the PA has agreed to pursue no formal charges against Israel…
Final witnesses testify in case of Tristan Anderson against the Israeli government
U-S peace activist Tristan Anderson had his final court hearing yesterday in his civil case against the Israeli military.Anderson was severely wounded and disabled for life in 2009 when an…
PCHR Weekly Report: 1 killed, 36 wounded, 75 abducted by Israeli forces from March 5 – 11th
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 05 – 11 March 2015, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…
Israeli products burned by Palestinian boycott activists in West Bank city
Following a recent call for a boycott of Israeli products, several residents of Nablus took things a bit further on Wednesday when they set on fire a truckload of Israeli…
Israeli troops raid newly-established Palestinian media center
In the village of Umm al-Fahm, in the northern part of what is now Israel, a group of Israeli soldiers on Monday invaded a media center that had recently been…
PLO decides to suspend security cooperation with Israel
The Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization voted on Thursday to end security cooperation with Israel due to the Israeli government’s continued non-compliance with past signed agreements.However, the President…
Israeli Politician Leaks Classified Army Video Showing Soldiers Using Dogs to Attack Palestinian Boy
A video posted on Facebook Monday by a right-wing Israeli politician, then quickly removed, showed graphic evidence of what Palestinians have reported to be a common Israeli military practice: using…
700 British artists sign on to cultural boycott of Israel
In the latest show of support for the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a group of 700 British artists, actors and musicians have signed on to a boycott of…
Leftist Jewish & Palestinian legislators call for end to racist attacks in Israel
A coalition of political parties in Israel that includes the two Arab parties and a left-wing Jewish party launched a campaign Saturday to call for unity and demand an end…
Israeli who placed bomb at Palestinian girls’ school released from prison early
A Jewish Israeli extremist who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2002 for constructing and placing a bomb to kill Palestinian children will be released this month, two…
Second Israeli soldier in 2 weeks beaten for speaking Arabic
In the second such incident in less than two weeks, an Israeli Druze soldier, who was out of uniform at the time, was beaten badly by Jewish soldiers in a…