International Middle East Media Center
Last Sunday, and following the end of a normal school day in Jerusalem, a number of Arab Palestinian schoolchildren from Jerusalem (around age 12) boarded an Israeli bus while heading…
Thursday January 24; Israeli soldiers invaded several districts in the occupied West Bank, broke into and searched several homes, installed roadblocks, interrogated and kidnapped several residents. Soldier also Invaded an…
Bethlehem – Wednesday January 23; Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian child from the Al-Azza refugee camp, north of Bethlehem, died of serious injuries he suffered last Friday during…
Wednesday January 23; Palestinian medical sources reported that a young Palestinian woman from Bethlehem was shot and killed by an Israeli soldiers fire at the entrance of the Al-Arroub Agricultural…
Wednesday January 23; Israeli soldiers invaded different parts of the occupied West Bank, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped six Palestinians, including two children, before taking them to…
Wednesday January 23; Palestinian medical sources reported that dozens of Palestinian workers have been treated for the effects of teargas inhalation after the army attacked them at the At-Taiba roadblock,…
Palestinian political prisoner, Ayman Sharawna, resumed his open ended hunger strike, that he suspended less than a month ago, due to a very serious health deterioration and while awaiting trial.…
A gag order has been lifted Sunday on the arrest of two Arab brothers from the Negev believed to have planned attacks against Israeli targets, Israeli sources reported, the Arabs48…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported, Monday evening, that a former Palestinian political prisoner from Hebron, died at a hospital in Jerusalem after falling into a coma 50 days ago…
Tuesday – January 22, Israeli soldiers invaded several towns and villages in the occupied West Bank, broke into and searched dozens of homes and kidnapped a number of residents including…
Monday January 21, The Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage reported that Israeli bulldozers removed and bulldozed large areas of the lands of the Mananullah historic Islamic graveyard, in occupied…
Monday – January 21; Palestinian sources reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped four Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Jenin and Tubas. The army also demolished a Palestinian home, a…
Palestinian sources reported, on Sunday at night, that violent clashes took place between refugees of the Al-Amary refugee camp, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and Palestinian Security…
Monday at dawn – January 21, Israeli soldiers invaded the Bab Al-Karama Palestinian village, installed by Palestinian activists on lands Israel intends to illegally confiscate in Beit Iksa, north west…
The Israeli Defense Ministry announced on Sunday that they will re-route a section of the Wall east of Jerusalem in order to close off an existing gap and fully annex…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated Sunday that he totally rejects that idea of establishing a Palestinian state, and spoke of a “sort of autonomy for the Palestinians”. He also…
Saturday January 19, Israeli soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian woman and her 18-month old baby, in the Um Al Arayes area, east of Yatta town, near the southern West bank city…
Saturday January 19, Palestinian detainee Samer Al-Eesawy, was moved from the Ramla Prison Clinic to the Assaf Harofeh Israeli hospital, after a sharp deterioration in his health condition due to…
Saturday evening – January 19, Israeli soldiers imposed a strict siege on the northern plains area of the occupied West Bank, and installed several roadblocks on main roads in the…
Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian teenager was killed, on Saturday at night, when a siege-busting tunnel, in Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, collapsed on…
Friday, January 18, Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and Settlements, and against the continued closure of the main road leading to the Kufur Qaddoum village,…
Friday January 18, Palestinian medical sources reported that two Palestinians have been injured by Israeli military fire as they worked in their lands, close to the border in Beit Lahia,…
Friday evening, a Palestinian child was seriously injured during clashes that took place between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youths in the Aida refugee camp, in the West Bank city of…
The Friends of Freedom and Justice Committee in Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, reported that dozens of nonviolent protesters have been treated for the effects of…
A number of extremist Israeli settlers cut, Thursday, more than 50 olive trees that belong to a resident of Husan town, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.Member of…
Thursday January 17; Palestinian rescue teams located the body of a resident who went missing last week when a siege busting tunnel on the border with Egypt collapsed on him…
Late on Wednesday at night, Israeli soldiers, accompanied by military bulldozers, attacked and demolished the Bab Al-Shams Palestinian village established by nonviolent activists on Palestinian lands Israel considers as “E1”…
The Ad-Dameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association strongly denounced the new Israel attack, carried out Tuesday, against the Bab Al-Shams Palestinian village, for the second time, and said that…
A revised petition of a legal opinion that was submitted to the Israeli High Court of Justice, against the eviction of twelve Palestinians villages from their home so that the…
Wednesday January 16; the Israeli District Court in Jerusalem denied an appeal filed by the defense attorney of hunger striking detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy, requesting the court to void its deliberation…
Israeli Peace Now movement issued a report about Israel’s illegal settlement construction and expansion activities in the occupied territories, and said that the policies of Netanyahu and his government undermine…
The European Union has decided to grant the Palestinian Authority (P.A.), in the West Bank, and the UNRWA, €100 Million so that they can continue to provide essential services to…
Palestinian medical sources reported that at least 11 nonviolent peace activists, and 7 reporters, have been injured when Israeli soldiers attacked a group of activists trying to reach the Bab…
The Radio Bethlehem 2000 reported, Tuesday, that several Palestinian farmers, from Tequa’ village, east of Bethlehem, were injured after being attacked by a group of extremist settlers as they were…
Palestinian medical sources reported that a 17-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed by four rounds of live ammunition fired by Israeli soldiers at him as he walked near his school…
On Tuesday [15 January 2013] at approximately at 1:00AM, Israeli soldiers kidnapped Sheikh Jamal Al-Tawil, the former mayor of the Al-Biereh town, after breaking into his home, ransacking contents and…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, nine Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Bethlehem, Jenin, Nablus, Hebron and Jerusalem.The Ajyal Radio reported the army invaded Beit Fajjar town,…
The Israeli government published plans for the construction of additional 170 units, and 84 “guestroom”, for Jewish settlers in Rote m illegal settlement, in the Jordan valley, Hagit Ofran of…
Palestinian medical sources in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one Palestinian was killed and three others were injured when a siege-busting tunnel on the…
Thousands of Israeli soldiers and policemen attacked, on Sunday at dawn, the Bab Al-Shams Palestinian village, installed east of in occupied East Jerusalem, and forcibly removed dozens of activists loading…
Palestinian medical sources reported that a young Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli military fire in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank.The army claimed that…
For the first time in years, dozens of fighters of the Fateh movement of President Mahmoud Abbas, marched last week in the Balata refugee camp, carrying automatic rifles and firing…
Dozens of Israeli soldiers and policemen are surrounding the new Palestinian village, Bab Al-Shams, preparing to evict and remove the newly installed Palestinian outpost, set-up on Palestinian lands east of…
The Palestinian community in Turkey and the Turkish-Palestinian Business Council, in cooperation with Doctors Around the World, sent Saturday 10 physicians and surgeons specialized in rare medical conditions, along with…
“You gave a meaning to the meaning”, this is how Lebanese writer, novelist, playwright, critic and intellectual, author of the Bab Al-Shams novel, Elias Khoury, started his letter that he…
The Israeli Police was deployed, Saturday, around the newly installed Palestinian village, Bab Al-Shams”, and handed the activists eviction notices threatening that the army will evict the new “outpost” should…
In an interview that was conducted by the New York Times several months ago, and was only published Wednesday (and then republished by Israeli Radio), Israeli President, Shimon Peres, stated…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a Palestinian teenager was shot and killed by Israeli military fire, while another resident was wounded, east of Jabalia, in the…
The Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, reported that dozens of protesters were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation after…
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 03- 09 January 2013, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that the Palestinian Authority will act on the international level to stop Israel’s illegal settlement construction and expansion activities, and stated that there are 63…
Despite the rain and extreme weather conditions, undercover soldiers of the Israeli Prison Administration broke into section 15 of the Ofer Israel Prison, and attacked several detainees.The detainees said that…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday morning, the villages of Al-Yamoun and Jaba’, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped three residents.Eyewitnesses…
An Egyptian security source reported Thursday that the heavy rainfall, that started several days ago, caused the collapse of a number of siege-busting tunnels in Rafah, across the border with…
Dozens of extremist Israeli settlers attacked, Thursday, a number of Palestinians playing with snow in Orif village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. At least one resident…
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center, in Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, reported that Israeli soldiers violently attacked and arrested several Palestinians playing with snow, in Sheikh Jarrah, in occupied Jerusalem,…
Following his Wednesday meeting with Khaled Mashal of Hamas, and several Hamas officials in Cairo, Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, held a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart, Mohammad Morsi.The meeting between…
Israeli soldiers and policemen attacked, Wednesday, Arab member of Knesset (MK) of the Arab Democratic Party, Talab El-Sana’, as he protested the demolition of an Arab home in Tal Es-Sabe’…
Dr. Aziz Dweik, elected head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, stated that national reconciliation is a main demand the Palestinians want to achieve, and added that President Mahmoud Abbas is…
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, met in Cairo Hamas’ political bureau chief, Khaled Mashal, as part of efforts to secure full Palestinian reconciliation and unity.The meeting is part of a series…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Beit Fajjar town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and kidnapped four residents.Palestinian security sources reported that several Israeli military jeeps…
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that he is willing to continue to cooperate with the United States and the Obama Administration to achieve a peace agreement with Israel based on…
U.S. State Department Spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, stated that, until peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state, the United States will not refer…
Khaled Mashal, head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, arrived in Cairo on Tuesday evening following an invitation from Egyptian President, Mohammad Morsi; Mashal, and a number of…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed that Israel’s construction and expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, mainly in and around occupied East Jerusalem, “do not pose any…
Israeli bulldozers of the Jerusalem City Council demolished, on Tuesday morning, a Palestinian home in Sweij neighborhood, in Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, under the pretext that the home was…
U.S. Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, of the Republican Party, who was named by President Barack Obama Monday, stated that he will grant Israel his utmost support under all circumstances, and…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, four Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Jenin and in Bethlehem, after invading the two cities and searching several homes forcing…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported that more than 602 types of medications and medical supplies are not found in Gaza, including several types of essential…
Former political prisoner, a Palestinian researcher specialized in detainee’s affairs, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, wished all Palestinian Christians a Merry Christmas and a happy new year, and stated that Palestinian Christians are…
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, gave his orders to the Palestinian Authority (P.A), Sunday, to start issuing Palestinian Passports, ID Cards, Postage Stamps and License Plates carrying “State Of Palestine”, instead…
The Arab League announced Sunday that it will be holding a session for Arab Foreign Ministers in Cairo, next Sunday, in order to discuss the Palestinian financial crisis, and the…
Chief Palestinian Negotiator, Dr. Saeb Erekat, demanded Israel to stop all of its violations, mainly its ongoing illegal settlements construction and expansion activities in the West Bank including in occupied…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed that Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, continues to ignore what he called “all Israeli efforts to resume direct peace talks”, and accused Abbas of placing…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Fadi Obeidat, stated that Israeli physicians at the Ramla Prison Clinic decided to amputate the left leg of detainee Nahedh Al-Aqra’, 41, from…
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, reported that undercover forces of the Israeli army kidnapped, on Saturday evening, several Palestinian youths and children in the…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that one child was killed and another child was injured when an explosive object detonated near them in Khan Younis, in the…
A group of undercover soldiers of the Israeli army infiltrated, Friday, into the West Bank city of Bethlehem, using a Palestinian Taxi that was confiscated by the soldiers just outside…
The Israeli army stated Friday that it is conducting extensive arrests targeting Palestinian youths in the occupied West Bank “in order to prevent a third Intifada in the territories”, the…
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 27 Dec.- 02 Jan. 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at night and on Friday at dawn, eight Palestinians in Al-Esawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem; the soldiers broke into several homes and violently searched…
Palestinian medical sources reported that dozens of Palestinian youths have been injured, Thursday, during clashes with Israeli soldiers stationed at the Al-Jalama roadblock, north of Jenin, in the northern part…
Palestinian medical sources in occupied East Jerusalem reported that four Palestinian youths have been wounded, on Thursday evening, in Ras Al-Amoud neighborhood in the city after the army invaded it.…
Local sources in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, reported that several Palestinians have been injured by Israeli military fire, on Thursday morning, during clashes that…
The Israeli government approved in 2012 tenders for the construction of 2386 settlements in occupied Jerusalem, compared to 772 units approved in 2011 and 256 in 2010, Israeli human rights…
The United States called for the resumption of the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks without any further delay in order to reach a lasting and a comprehensive peace agreement.Victoria Nuland, spokesperson…
Israeli sources reported that two senior officials of the Likud Party of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called on the government to “officially annex C area” of the occupied West…
Around a 1000 Palestinians living in Bedouin communes and residents of Al-Maleh area in the northern Plaines of the occupied West Bank started leaving their homes and tents after receiving…
Palestinian medical sources reported that three Palestinians, including a child, have been injured after a number of extremist Israeli settlers invaded Jaloud village, south of the northern West Bank city…
The Israeli Navy opened fire, on Wednesday morning, at a number of Palestinian fishing boats at the coasts of Khan Younis and Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, four Palestinians, former political prisoners, in the Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron; several residents were wounded…
The Palestine Public Broadcasting Cooperation reported Tuesday that Israel started the new year with a series of invasions, attacks and destruction of Palestinian property, and with arrests targeting local residents;…
Israeli military bulldozers demolished, Monday, a Palestinian home in Jabal Al-Mokabber, south of occupied East Jerusalem, under the pretext that it was built without a construction permit, the Palestine News…
Head of the Wadi Al-Maleh area, in the northern plains of the occupied West Bank, Aref Daraghma, stated that the Israeli army intends to displace around 10000 Palestinian Bedouins in…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) – Hebron branch, reported Sunday that the Israeli army kidnapped since the beginning of this month 88 Palestinians in the southern West Bank city of…
Israeli President, Shimon Peres, stated Sunday that Israel has a partner in the “peace process”, and that this partner is Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas; Peres warned that the lack of…
Israeli media sources reported on Saturday evening that an Israeli soldier and a settler have been injured in two separate incidents after Palestinian youths hurled stones at them.The sources said…
Israeli media sources reported, Saturday evening, that the army kidnapped two Palestinian young men at a roadblock near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and claimed they carried weapons,…
The Palestinian Detainees Studies Center reported that the Israeli Salem military court sentenced three Palestinian children from Azzoun town near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, to four months…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Friday, a Palestinian police officer who allegedly punched an Israeli soldier, in the center of Hebron, as the army was chasing and firing at Palestinian youths who…