International Middle East Media Center
[Saturday, January 18, 2014] Israel will return the remains of 36 Palestinians currently held in Israeli ‘numbered graves’, a Palestinian committee spokesman told Ma’an News Agency.The remains of one Palestinian…
[Saturday, January 18, 2014] Egyptian border guards demolished eight smuggling tunnels underneath the Egypt-Gaza border in Rafah, on Saturday, according to Egyptian army sources.A military source told Ma’an News Agency…
Five Palestinians were arrested in Jenin and in Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp, at dawn on Thursday.According to Aida residents, Israeli soldiers stormed the camp amidst heavy shooting and firing of…
Clashes between Palestinian youth and Israeli forces spilled over onto Bethlehem’s Manger Street, on Friday, after two weeks of daily confrontations in the nearby Aida refugee camp.Local activist Salah Ajarma…
Four Israeli artillery vehicles crossed briefly, on Friday evening, into the Shuhada Cemetery lying east of Jabalya, in the northern Gaza Strip.A reporter from Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency said…
[Friday, January 17, 2014] General-Secretary of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, launched a new initiative on Thursday, calling 2014 a “Palestinian Solidarity Year”. According to the Palestinian News Network (PNN),…
Israeli forces handed out 12 demolition orders, this Thursday, to Palestinians residing in the village of Sa’ir, in the southern al-Khalil hills close to Hebron.The Israeli military has closed the…
[Thursday January 16, 2014] 22 Israeli settlers, escorted by occupation soldiers, stormed al-Aqsa yards on Thursday morning.Media coordinator for the al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage, Mahmoud Abu Atta, told…
The Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage reports that Jewish groups have announced an ‘organizational structure’ for the alleged storming of Al Aqsa Mosque, on Thursday, to coincide with a…
Israeli authorities, on Wednesday, agreed to free two Palestinian Jerusalemites on the condition that they be deported from Jerusalem, a prisoners’ committee spokesman said.Amjad Abu Asab, a spokesman for a…
[Wednesday January 15, 2014] Israeli bulldozers, on Wednesday, razed around 60 dunums (nearly 15 acres) of land belonging to Palestinians in the village of Jalud, south of Nablus, according to…
Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah met with representatives from the Palestinian union for the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees on Wednesday, a Palestinian official has said.Labor Minister Ahmad al-Majdalani said that…
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim Ibn Hamad Al Thani has given orders to grant work visas to 20,000 Palestinians, the Palestinian ambassador to Qatar told Ma’an News Agency, on Monday.The move…
[Tuesday, January 14, 2014] Dozens of Israeli settlers, protected by soldiers, took over a Palestinian-owned plot of land in an area east of the city of Hebron, and began planting…
Al Ray – Palestinians have been barred from objecting to Israeli military court decisions to confiscate their property, under a new injunction signed last month by the head of the…
Palestinians blocked major roads in Ramallah, on Sunday morning, in protest of a lack of public services resulting from the ongoing strike by UNRWA employees. Palestinians blocked major roads in…
[Monday, January 13, 2014] Israeli authorities have seized emergency tents provided by the United Nations to shelter families whose homes were demolished by the army last week, according to a…
(Ma’an) The following is an excerpt from an interview originally published on ‘The Wall has Ears: Conversations for Palestine’ on Jan. 8, 2014. http://lemuradesoreilles.org/2014/01/08/the-palestinian…falk/Frank Barat is an activist based in…
[Sunday January 12, 2014] Israeli forces set up a flying checkpoint, on Sunday, near the entrance of a southern West Bank village, according to a popular committee spokesman.Soldiers stopped traffic…
Israeli forces raided, on Sunday, a number of homes in the northern and southern West Bank, set up checkpoints and summoned individuals for interrogation, according to security sources.The Palestinian News…
Israeli finance minister Yair Lapid has become the latest senior official to warn about the serious impact of growing boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns targeting Israel.“The world seems to…
Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has died, following a long illness, reports Al Ray with Sky News.The 85-year-old’s son was quoted as saying that he had died, at the…
The Israeli Housing Ministry announced, on Friday morning, new tenders for 1,400 housing units within settlements in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, according to Haaretz. The announcement was…
[Thursday January 9, 2014] Six people from Jerusalem, Salfit, Jenin, Ramallah and Hebron were arrested by Israeli forces today, according to local and security sources. A Palestinian boy from Himza,…
[Thursday Morning, January 9, 2014] 17 Palestinian youth were injured, this morning, after occupation soldiers fired rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition at them in Adhaisha camp, in the Bethlehem…
[Thursday January 9, 2014] Three Palestinians have been injured after an Israeli airstrike targeted the southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday, according to medical officials.Ashraf al-Qidra, Gaza’s health ministry spokesman, told…
Management of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has refused to increase the salaries of Palestinian employees in the Gaza Strip. UNRWA employees in Gaza…
Israel is refusing to allow Palestinians the usage of a World Bank funded landfill to the south of Jerusalem, according to Israeli daily Haaretz. The Palestinian News Network (PNN) reports…
A Palestinian man has died inside of an Israeli checkpoint, on Sunday, in the northern West Bank, while on his way to work in Israel.According to witnesses, 59-year-old Adel Muhammad…
On Monday evening, a siege broke out on the town of Beit Awwa, south-west of Hebron in the West Bank, after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the tower near…
[Monday January 6, 2014] Israeli Settlers stormed the village of Urif, in the northern West Bank, south of Nablus, under heavy guard of Israeli soldiers.Al Ray news agency has reported…
51,000 children have been out of school for over a month, over 40 health clinics have been closed and garbage is piling up around the camps, due to the recent…
[Monday January 6, 2014] US Secretary of State John Kerry is on his way home today, after four days of intense diplomacy, insisting that progress has been made and despite…
[Sunday Morning, January 5, 2014] According to media sources, an Israeli settler violently assaulted a 12-year-old Palestinian girl who was on her way to school this morning, in the old…
[Saturday January 4, 2014] A group of youngsters from Gaza began, on Saturday morning, a day of hunger in solidarity with Palestinian refugees in Syria, under the slogan ‘On Hunger…
[Friday January 3, 2014] Israel has conducted, today, a successful experiment of the ‘Arrow 3’ missile interceptor, the second of a series of missile tests being conducted jointly with the…
An Italian solidarity delegation has arrived in the Gaza Strip, on Thursday evening via the Rafah crossing, in order to assess the humanitarian situation across Gaza’s five governorates and refugee…
The following is an excerpt from an extensive article, posted on January 1, 2014, by the Electronic Intifada, detailing the thoughts of former Palestinian prisoner and hunger strike leader Samer…
At least 15 Palestinians have died of hunger, since September, in a besieged refugee camp in the Syrian capital of Damascus, according to UN sources. (Palestinian News Network/AFP)“Reports have come…
[Wednesday January 1, 2014] A Palestinian minor was shot and injured by Israeli forces, Wednesday, in Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem.The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) reports that,…
Nahshon Israeli forces raided, on Tuesday, Ramon Israeli prison, breaking into Section 2 and assaulting prisoners.The Palestinian News Network (PNN) reports that, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), the…
Israeli occupation forces arrested two students from the Greens, on Tuesday, after chasing them on the way to their homes, following school.According to Ahmed Salah, coordinator of the Popular Committee…
[Monday December 30, 2013] The West Jerusalem municipality has ordered Jerusalem area residents to demolish a newly-built mosque, Palestinian homes and parking garages, under the pretext of ‘unlicensed construction’, according…
Two Palestinians were injured after Israeli artillery fired on the central Gaza Strip, on Sunday, a Palestinian official has said.According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health spokesman, Israeli forces hit an…
[Monday December 30, 2013] Israeli forces have arrested six Palestinians in the West Bank cities of Hebron and Bethlehem, in addition to four others from Jerusalem, according to security sources,…
[Sunday December 29, 2013] A Palestinian man has died, on Sunday, at a flying checkpoint erected by Israeli forces in the northern West Bank.Adel Muhammad Amarnah, 65, was being rushed…
Israeli forces arrested three youth from Bethlehem and Hebron, early Sunday, according to security sources.Israeli forces arrested youth in their early 20s, according to the sources, after raiding and wreaking…
[Sunday December 29, 2013] The Israeli military has fired a number of shells into southern Lebanon, after five Katyusha-style rockets were launched against Israel on Sunday, according to officials.Officials from…
Israel will be announcing plans for new settlement construction next week, in conjunction with the release of a third group of Palestinian prisoners as part of peace negotiations, according to…
[Thursday December 26, 2013] For the 63rd time, Israeli forces have demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib, in the Negev, Thursday morning.A Ma’an reporter in Beersheba said that bulldozers, escorted…
[Thursday December 26, 2013] The Israeli army has destroyed dozens of dunams of agricultural land, south of the West Bank town of Qalqilya, according to witnesses. Witnesses say that the…
[Wednesday December 25, 2013] During Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, at the Church of Nativity, in Bethlehem, Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal prayed for peace and prosperity in Palestine, as well…
Hundreds of mourners in Gaza, today, attended the funeral of the 3-year-old girl who was killed by Israeli forces, during an airstrike conducted the previous day.Hala Abu Sbeikha was buried…
[Wednesday December 25, 2013] Israeli police have arrested two students attending an outdoor class session at Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem, on Wednesday.WAFA reports that the students were arrested following a…
[Wednesday December 25, 2013] Israel is expected tp release a group of Palestinian prisoners, all of which have been in jail since before 1994. The release is to take place…
[Wednesday December 25, 2013] Two people, including a 13-year-old, were injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers in Tulkarm, on Wednesday, according to witnesses in the area.WAFA news agency reports that…
Hundreds of undocumented African migrants, on Monday [December 16, 2013], began a protest march to Jerusalem after fleeing a detention center in the south where they were being held.(Ma’an) The…
[Monday December 23, 2013] Samer Issawi, iconic Palestinian political prisoner and hunger strike organizer, was released today, following over 17 months in Shatta Prison.Family members said that Israeli forces raided…
More than a dozen people from different areas of the West Bank were arrested by Israeli forces, Monday, December 23, according to security and local sources.Among the detainees are five…
[Monday December 23, 2013] Palestinian news sources have reported that, according to Israeli police, a rocket fired from Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip hit a southern Israel community, early this morning, without…
According to an Arab League official, US Secretary of State John Kerry will present Palestinian and Israeli leaders with a framework peace agreement by the end of the month, the…
Alternative Information Center (AIC) – Eyad Sarraj, a Gazan psychiatrist and leading Palestinian human rights defender, has died at the age of 69, after a long battle with leukemia.Sarraj was…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the construction of settlements will continue, regardless of warnings that peace negotiations with the Palestinians could suffer a breakdown, the Palestinian News Network…
Israeli forces dispersed Palestinian protests across the West Bank, on Friday, with rubber bullets and excessive use of tear gas, injuring dozens of demonstrators, reports the Ma’an News Agency.Eight people…
[Friday, December 20, 2013] Areas of the Gaza Strip are still struggling to cope with severe flooding of homes and businesses, reports +972.According to Gaza City residents, local government was…
[Wednesday, December 18, 2013] Ten dunams of land were confiscated by Israeli forces, on Tuesday, in addition to the restrictions imposed upon 500 dunams of private Palestinian farm land in…
[Wednesday, December 18, 2013] Senior Palestinian sources are accusing the Obama administration of taking up Israeli positions in the peace talks. During U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s last two…
Alternative Information Center (AIC) – The winter storm that raged through the West Bank and Gaza Strip, from Thursday to Saturday, has left tens of thousands of Palestinian families without…
[Tuesday, December 17, 2013] (WAFA) – The Israeli military authority has notified 10 residents of the village of Barta’a al-Sharqiyeh, south of Jenin, of its intention to demolish their homes,…
[December 16, 2013] The Prawer Plan may not be shelved after all, reports +972. Just four days after the co-author of the Prawer law, Benny Begin, announced the halting of…
Just released by the American Studies Association: The members of the American Studies Association have endorsed the Association’s participation in a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. In an election that…
US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted, on Sunday, that concrete progress has been made in peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, but that the details are to be kept…
[Sunday, December 15, 2013] Alternative Information Center (AIC) – The Israeli government has officially announced that parliamental discussions in the Knesset concerning the Prawer plan will be halted. This is…
It’s been a great week for Israel in the US Congress, this week, but not for the American taxpayer…Alison Weir December 13, 2013 While many Americans are gearing up for…
[Saturday, December 14, 2013] (Ma’an) Civil defense forces in the West Bank reported, on Saturday evening, that at least one person has died and 53 have been injured in storm-related…
The Israeli Ofer Prison administration has transferred the prisoner Mutassim Samara, a leader in the Captive Movement, to Megiddo prison, after being moved from Negev to Ofer Prison only one…
[Saturday, December 14, 2013] President Mahmoud Abbas, according to a Palestinian source, has rejected US proposals for Israel to keep troops in a future Palestinian state along the Jordan border,…
[Friday, December 13, 2013] A winter storm of unparalleled dimensions has left hundreds of families in Gaza homeless, the Middle East Monitor has reported.Local Palestinian sources have told the Palestine…
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, this morning, the Palestinian News Network (PNN) has reported. The meeting was set to be…
[December, 2013] The World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed concerns over critical shortages in medical supplies and electricity for Gaza health services — shortages which are putting Palestinian patients’ lives…
[December 11, 2013] AIC (Alternative Information Center) — Shaykh Sayah Atouri has returned to his home in the Naqab (Negev-area) village of Al Araqib, Tuesday, after winning his appeal to…
[Thursday, December 12, 2013] The Israeli government has decided to discard a controversial draft law to relocate thousands of Bedouin residents from the Negev desert, the Ma’an News Agency has…
[December 11, 2013] U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive to the region, today, in order to push the last of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, the Palestinian News Network…
An official from the Gaza Strip Power Authority (GSPA) expressed concerns, Sunday, that Gazans will have electricity for less than six hours a day, as winter approaches, the Ma’an News…