Army Fails To Evict Illegal Outpost Near Ramallah
Israeli soldiers tried to evict an illegal settlement outpost, erected by extremist Israeli settlers near the Bet EI illegal settlement, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah; the…
Security video of killing of Hebron circus student shows claim of ‘toy gun’ fraudulent
An Israeli security video recently leaked to the media shows that a Palestinian teenager who was killed at a checkpoint on December 12th was actually walking away from soldiers when…
PCHR Weekly Report: 12 Palestinians wounded by Israeli troops, including 3 children
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 20- 26 Dec 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
Israel Claims Arresting A Cell That Planned To Abduct A Soldier
A gag order was lifted Tuesday on the arrest of what Israel claims to be a Palestinian cell that planned the abduction of an Israeli soldier to negotiate his release…
Sharawna Suspends His Hunger Strike
Palestinian Minister of Detainee, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that hunger striking detainee Ismail Sharawna, who started his hunger strike more than 162 days ago, and is facing serious health deterioration, decided…
Israel To Demolish Palestinian Homes in Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers, and personnel of the Jerusalem City Council, distributed Sunday new orders against a number of Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem.Local sources reported that the army invaded As-Sowwana…
Palestinian Cab Driver Shot In Jerusalem
Israeli sources reported, Sunday morning, that a Palestinian Taxi driver was shot by Israeli soldiers near a military base in Jabal Al-Mokabbir area in occupied East Jerusalem.The sources claimed that…
Soldiers Kidnap Five Palestinians In Hebron
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday at night and on Saturday, five Palestinians in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, while several Palestinians have been injured after being attacked by…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnapped 900 Children In 2012
The Palestinian Ministry Of Detainees reported that this year witnessed a sharp increase in Israeli violations against Palestinian children, and said that Israeli soldiers kidnapped this year 900 Palestinian children…
PCHR Weekly Report: 10 Palestinian civilians wounded; one dies of earlier wounds
In its weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 13- 19 Dec 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
Europe Trying To Convince U.S To Obtain Security Council Resolution Against Settlements
Nimir Hammad, Political Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas, stated that several European Countries are exerting efforts meant at convincing the United States to obtain a serious resolution at the United…
General Assembly Votes For Palestinian Right To Self Determination
With an overwhelming majority, the United Nations General Assembly voted for the “Palestinian Right To Self Determination”; the vote passed by 179 votes while only seven countries, including Israel and…
Despite US criticism, Israel continues with plan to construct 6,000 new settlement units
The US State Department issued a statement this week that included a rare criticism of Israeli policy, calling the ongoing construction of settlements on Palestinian land a ‘pattern of provocative…
Several Palestinians Injured In Jenin, Two Children Kidnapped
Palestinian medical sources in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported Wednesday that several residents have been treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation after the…
Army Besieges Al-Isawiyya, Removes Protest Tent
Palestinian sources in occupied East Jerusalem reported Wednesday that Israeli soldiers imposed a full siege on the El-Isawiyya town, in the center of the city, conducted searches of Palestinian vehicles…
Israel To Demolish Palestinian Residential Building In Occupied Jerusalem
The Palestine News & Info Agency, WAFA, reported that Fatima Ja’afara, a Palestinian native of occupied East Jerusalem, voiced an urgent appeal for immediate action as Israel intends to demolish…
Injuries Reported In Clashes Near Aida Refugee Camp In Bethlehem
Palestinian medical sources in Bethlehem reported that clashes took place, on Tuesday evening, between local youths of Aida refugee camp, in the city, and Israeli soldiers; several residents were treated…
US, EU, Denounce Israel’s Settlement Plan
The United States and the European Union issued statements denouncing Israel’s new plan to build thousands of units in illegal Israeli settlements in and around occupied Jerusalem, and in a…
4600 Palestinians, Including 182 Children, Imprisoned By Israel
Former Political Prisoner, Palestinian Researcher, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, stated that Israel is currently holding captive 4600 Palestinians, including 182 children and 11 women, in addition to 1200 detainees who are ill,…
Soldiers Attack Funeral Of Palestinian Child In Hebron
Israeli soldiers attacked, Tuesday, hundreds of Palestinians participating in a funeral of a child in Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron; at least three…
Israel Kidnapped 173 Palestinians This Month
The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, since the beginning of this month until Tuesday December 18, 173 Palestinians in different parts of…
Soldiers Attack Hunger-Striking Detainee And His Family
Israeli soldiers of the Nachshon Brigade attacked hunger-striking detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy, and his family when he tried to salute them as he was being taken into court. Al-Eesawy has been…
Knesset Head: “Jerusalem Not Part of Negotiations”
Head of the Israeli Knesset, Reuven Rivlin, of the Likud Party of Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that settlement construction in Jerusalem will continue, and claimed that Israel will never give-up control…
Soldiers Kidnap Five Palestinians In Nablus
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, different parts of the of the northern West Bank district of Nablus, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped five Palestinians including…
Clashes Reported Near Jenin
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at night, the town of Ya’bod, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and fired gas bombs leading to dozens of injuries among the…
Israeli Soldiers Open Fire At Farmers In Gaza
Israeli soldiers attacked, Sunday, dozens of Palestinian farmers working on their lands in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip; damage was reported, no injuries.Local sources reported…
Soldiers Kidnap Four Youths In Hebron
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday evening, the southern West Bank city of Hebron, broke into and searched dozens of homes and kidnapped four youths before taking them to an unknown…
Injuries Reported In Ongoing Clashes In Aida Refugee Camp
Palestinian medical sources reported, Sunday, that clashes continued, for the second day, between local youths in the camp and Israeli soldiers who fired dozens of gas bombs and rubber-coated metal…
Palestinian teachers prepare to strike after PA fails to pay salaries
The Palestinian Authority has failed to pay the salaries of teachers and other civil servants in the West Bank for months, largely due to the withholding of most of its…
Settlers Attack Residents, Vehicles, Near Nablus
Palestinian medical sources reported Saturday that several injuries took place in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, after extremist Israeli settlers, and soldiers attacked Palestinian homes and…
Dozens Of Injuries Reported As Army Attacks Nonviolent Protests In West Bank
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protests against the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall and Israel’s illegal settlements in different parts of the occupied West Bank; dozens of injuries were…
15 Injured By Israeli Fire In Jerusalem, Five Kidnapped
Palestinian medical sources reported, on Friday evening, that 15 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli military fire in Al-Esawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and five residents have been kidnapped…
Two Palestinians Injured By Army Fire In Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that two Palestinians were shot and injured, on Friday evening, by Israeli military fire close to the Israeli “security fence” east of…
Israel Starts Removing Mines Close To Border With Jordan, To Build Settlements
Israel has officially started the removal of landmines close to the border with Jordan to use the lands for illegal settlement construction in the area, especially in the Wadi Araba…
PCHR Weekly Report: 3 dead, including child; 8 wounded by Israeli troops this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 06- 12 Dec 2012, Israeli Forces killed 1 Palestinian child in Hebron…
Dozens Injured, One Seriously, in Ongoing Clashes In Hebron
Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that one youth was seriously injured by Israeli military fire during ongoing clashes that erupted after…
Clashes Renew In Hebron Following Funeral Of Slain Youth
Clashes between local residents in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, and Israeli soldiers, continued to escalate one day after the Israeli soldiers shot and killed a…
Palestinian teen killed by Israeli border police in Hebron
A sixteen year old boy identified as Muhammad Ziad Awad Salaymah was killed by Israeli border police Wednesday outside the Ibrahimi mosque in downtown Hebron.According to Israeli officials, Salaymeh was…
Extremist Israeli Settlers Write Racist Graffiti On Christian Monastery
A number of extremist Israeli settlers wrote, on Wednesday at dawn, racist graffiti attacking Christianity and Jesus Christ on the walls of a monastery in occupied Jerusalem, the WAFA News…
Lieberman: “Heading To ICC, A Palestinian Declaration Of War On Israel”
Israeli Foreign Minister of the extremist far-right ‘Israel Our Home Party’, Avigdor Lieberman, stated that should the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank head to the International Criminal Court (ICC)…
Dr. Barghouthi: “Army’s Use of Live Ammunition, Implementation of Israeli Government Policy”
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, stated that the Israeli army’s invasion of the West Bank village of Ni’lin, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah,…
Soldiers Granted More Freedom In Live Ammunition Regulations
The Israeli army has modified its instructions to the soldiers regarding the use of live ammunition against Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank, allowing the soldiers in the field…
Abbas Threatens To Head To ICC Should Israel Implement E1 Project
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, threatened to head to the International Criminal Court (ICC) should Israel insist on implementing its decision to build more than 3000 homes for Jewish settlers as…
Army Invades Ramallah, Breaks Into NGO’s
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the central West Bank city of Ramallah, broke into and searched several nongovernmental institutions, including the office of the Palestinian Women’s…
Army Invades Ramallah, Breaks Into NGO’s
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the central West Bank city of Ramallah, broke into and searched several nongovernmental institutions, including the office of the Palestinian Women’s…
Israel To Sponsor Ads Attacking Abbas In European Papers
Israeli daily, Maariv, reported, Tuesday morning, that Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, instructed Israeli ambassadors in five European countries to sponsor ads in major newspapers attacking the Palestinian president, Mahmoud…
Five Palestinians, Including Mother, Her Two Underage Daughters, Kidnapped In Jerusalem
Local sources in occupied East Jerusalem reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday evening, five Palestinians, including a mother and her two daughters, in Qaa’ Al-Hara area, in At-Tour in…
Soldiers Occupy A Palestinian Home In Huwwara
For the second day in a row, Israeli soldiers continued to occupy a Palestinian home in Huwwara village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, despite the fact…
EU Countries Denounce Israeli E1 Plan
Foreign Ministers of the European Union issued a statement, after holding a meeting in Brussels Monday, denouncing the Israeli E1 illegal settlement project that will lead to the total isolation…
Soldiers carried Out a Limited Invasion Into Khan Younis
Media sources in the Gaza Strip revealed that Israeli soldiers carried out, earlier on Monday at dawn, a limited invasion into Palestinian lands east of Khan Younis, in the southern…
Arab Countries To Grant P.A. $100 Million A Month
The Arab Follow-up Committee decided, during its meeting Sunday in Doha – Qatar, to immediately implement a decision that was made during the Baghdad Summit late in March this year,…
Palestinian Dies Of Serious Injuries Suffered During Latest War On Gaza
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported that a Palestinian man, who was seriously injured by Israeli shells during the recent war on Gaza, died of his…
Soldiers Kidnap 9, Including 3 Children, In The West Bank
The Israeli army kidnapped late on Friday evening, and on Saturday at dawn, nine Palestinians, including three children, in different parts of the occupied West Bank.Local sources in Bethlehem reported…
Mashal Calls On Arab Countries To Support Resistance
Speaking the massive celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the foundation of Hamas, in Gaza, Khaled Mashal head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, called on the Arab…
Khaled Mashal Arrives In Gaza
Leader of the Hamas Political Bureau, Khaled Mashal, arrived in the Gaza Strip Friday after 37 years in exile, making his first trip to the besieged coastal region via the…
Soldiers Attack Bil’in Weekly Protest Against Wall, Settlements
The Friends of Freedom and Justice Committee in Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, reported Friday that Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation…
PCHR Weekly Report: 3 Palestinians dead, 14 wounded by Israeli forces this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 29 Nov.- 05 Dec 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…
14 Injured By Army Fire In Hebron
Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that 14 residents have been injured, while dozens were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation,…
Canada Denounces Israeli Settlement Plan
Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, informed Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that his country cannot support Israel in its recent decision to build thousands of settlement units in the E1…
Soldiers Kidnap Four Children In Hebron
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday evening, four children in Ash-Shuhada’ Street, in the center of Hebron city, and the nearby Beit Ummar town, in the southern part of the West…
King Abdullah Of Jordan Arrives In Ramallah, Meet Abbas
Amidst official ceremonies, King Abdullah of Jordan arrived in the central West Bank city of Ramallah and held a meeting with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, in a visit that is…
Indonesian Parliament Head Arrives In Gaza
Indonesian Parliament head, Ali Marzouki, arrived in the Gaza Strip via the Rafah Border Terminal on Wednesday heading a senior Indonesian delegation to observe the massive destruction caused by Israel…
Settlers Cut, Uproot, 200 Olive Trees Near Bethlehem
Palestinian sources reported that a group of extremist settlers cut and uprooted approximately 200 olive trees in Palestinian orchards west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.The sources said that…
Hamas: “We Are Going To Cairo This Month To Implement Unity Agreement”
Osama Hamdan, head of the International Relations Department of the Hamas movement, stated that Hamas will be heading to Cairo this month to participate in meetings meant at implementing the…
191 Palestinians Killed, 1492 Injured In November
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported that 191 Palestinians, including children, women and elderly, have been killed by Israeli military fire in Gaza in November, and…
Army Demolishes A Mosque Near Hebron
For the second time, Israeli soldiers demolished the Al-Mafqara mosque, east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and did not even allow the residents…
Palestinian Killed by Army Fire In Nablus
Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian man was shot and killed, Monday morning, by Israeli military fire, just outside of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.Israel claimed that…
Israeli Ambassadors Summoned In Britain, Sweden, and France
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported Monday that the governments in Britain, Sweden and France summoned the Israeli ambassadors in protest to the newly declared Israeli plan to construct settlement units in…
Israel Asked Jordan’s Approval To Strike Syrian Facilities
Israeli sources reported Monday that the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu asked Jordan, twice in the last two months, to grant Tel Aviv a green light to strike what Israeli…
Israeli Security Services Oppose Government Decision To Build More Settlements
The Israeli Security Services expressed rejection of the new Israeli government decision to build additional 3000 units for Jewish settlers in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank, and said that…
Report: “ 650, Including 85 Children, 7 women, Kidnapped In November”
The Palestinian Detainees Research Center published a report on Sunday revealing that Israeli soldiers kidnapped 650 Palestinians in November; adding that 85 women and 7 children were among the kidnapped…
Two Palestinians Die Wounds Suffered Saturday, And During War
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a young Palestinian man died of wounds suffered on Saturday at dawn after the army opened fire at him in Rafah,…
Europe “Concerned” Regarding Israel’s New Settlement Construction Plan
Israeli Army Radio reported, on Saturday evening, that several countries of the European Union strongly denounced the new Israeli decision to build 3000 units for Jewish settlers in the occupied…
Palestinian Injured By Army Fire In Hebron
Palestinian medical sources reported that a young Palestinian man was shot by a rubber-coated metal bullets in his abdomen in Doura city, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron,…
Army Kidnaps 21 Palestinians In West Bank, Gaza
Israeli soldiers and Navy kidnapped, Saturday, 19 Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip; 12 fishermen were kidnapped in Gaza territorial waters in Gaza, and nine in the…
Israel Threatens To “Reoccupy’ West Bank
Israeli member of Knesset, Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development and the development of the Negev and Galilee, Silvan Shalom, threatened that Israel would reoccupy the West Bank…
Israel To Build 3000 Settlement Units In West Bank, Jerusalem
In a new direct violation of International Law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory and a repeated violator, the Israeli government decided to build 3000…
Eight Palestinians Injured By Army Fire In Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported, Friday, that eight Palestinians have been injured by Israeli army fire in different parts of the Gaza Strip in a new military escalation against the coastal…
Two Injured, Dozens Suffocated After Inhaling Gas, In Bil’in
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and settlements in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah; two residents were hit by…
PCHR Weekly Report: 8 dead, 44 wounded by Israeli troops this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 22 -29 Nov. 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
Qassam Fighter Killed, Several Injured, In Jabalia
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, reported that one of its fighters was killed and eight were injured, on Friday at dawn, when an unexploded Israeli…
US Senate Threatens Sanctions Against P.A.
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the United States Senate threatened to block all funding to the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) in the West Bank should the Palestinians decide to sue Israel…
Palestine Wins General Assembly Vote
The Palestinians managed to garner an overwhelming support to their UN General Assembly membership bid and were voted in as a nonmember observer state.138 member states voted in favor of…
150 Countries To Vote “Yes” For Palestine
As the vote approaches, the Palestinians seem to be garnering all needed support to be recognized as a nonmember observer state at the United Nations General Assembly with more than…
UN Secretary-General; “Peace Process Dying Off”
United Nations Secretary General Bank Ki-moon, stated that peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are “on life support”, adding that both Israel and the Palestinians must step out of…
Two Israeli Policemen Face Charges Of Abusing A Kidney Patient
Israeli paper, Yedioth Aharonoth, reported that two Israeli Policemen are facing charges after they abused and humiliated a Palestinian kidney patient, including hitting him with their rifles, at a military…
E.U Says It Backs Palestinian State, But Split On UN Vote
The European Union expressed direct support of a Palestinian state, but not all of its 27 countries will be voting for upgrading Palestine’s status at the United Nations, to become…
Tunisian Health Minister Arrives In Gaza
Tunisian Health Minister, Dr. Abdul-Latif Al-Makky, arrived in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening, heading a medical team in addition to the Tunisian Ambassador in Cairo, and were welcomed by…
European Parliamentarians, Politicians, To Visit Gaza Saturday
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported that senior European Parliamentarians and officials will be arriving in the coastal region on Saturday to observe the devastating effects of the latest…
Seven Palestinians Injured By Army Fire In Central Gaza
The Israeli army continued its violations of the ceasefire that was reached on the evening of Wednesday November 21, shot and injured on Wednesday evening (Nov. 28), seven Palestinians east…
Turkish PM To Visit Gaza
Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, stated that he will be visiting the Gaza Strip on December 5, in order to express support to the Palestinian people living under siege…
UN Third Committee Votes For Palestinian Right To Self Determination
The General Assembly of the United Nations, Social, Humanitarian, & Cultural – Third Committee, unanimously voted Wednesday for a resolution acknowledging the Palestinian Right to Self Determination.173 countries voted for…
Abbas Arrives In New York, US Slams France For Supporting P.A Bid
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, arrived in New York accompanied by several senior Palestinian officials, in order to officially submit the Palestinian application for a nonmember state status at the United…
France To Support Palestine At The UN
Israeli sources reported on Tuesday evening that France confirmed that it will support the Palestinian bid at the United Nations General Assembly during the Thursday vote for observer state status.France…
Despite U.S.-Israeli Pressure; P.A. Refuses To Alter Text Of UN Application
Despite enormous pressures practiced by the United States and Israel, and all threats impose heavy financial sanctions besides the sanctions that are already in place, the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) in…
Israel Is Seeking A Modified Palestinian UN Draft
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, decided to shift the Israeli policy and stance regarding the UN Thursday vote on the Palestinian nonmember status, and is currently tying to tone down…
Israeli Report: “Palestinian Killed By Army Fire Across The Border With Gaza”
Israeli sources reported that the army shot and killed, on Monday, a Palestinian man who managed to cross the border fence with Gaza, and managed to reach the home of…
Woman Dies Of Wounds Suffered During Israel’s War On Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a Palestinian woman died, on Monday morning, of wounds suffered during the latest Israeli war on Gaza.The woman, Sabah As-Skafy, in…
Four Injured By Army Fire In Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that four Palestinians have been injured, on Monday evening, after Israeli soldiers opened fire at them near the eastern border of the…
Mashal Phones Abbas, Confirms Support To UN Bid
Head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, Khaled Mashal, phoned Monday Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, informing him that the Hamas movement approves and supports the UN bid Abbas…