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Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, issued a press release denouncing the Israeli army’s attacks against homes and officers of elected Palestinian legislators in the occupied West Bank. The movement said that…
Earlier on Thursday morning, 9 Palestinian children and one adult were killed, and 42 were wounded in a tragic traffic accident between a school bus and a truck, near the…
A report released and published by the Mezan Center for Human Rights stated that Israeli troops killed 114 Palestinians, including 15 children and two women, and injured 467 residents, including…
Ethan Bronner, who has served as the Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the New York Times newspaper for four years, has announced that he is being transferred back to the U.S.…
An examination of the proposed U.S. budget submitted by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Congress this week shows that although billions of dollars will be cut from domestic programs…
After a recent increase in Israeli settler attacks against Palestinian civilians, property and holy sites, the UN envoy Richard Falk arrived in the West Bank this weekend to begin an…
Palestinian medical sources reported that four residents were injured, on Tuesday evening, after inhaling gas fired by Israeli soldiers invading Zabbouba village, west of the northern West Bank city of…
The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, reported that one of its fighters was killed, on Tuesday evening, during what it described as a “jihadist mission” in…
An Israeli Military Court rejected on Monday evening the appeal that was filed by the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) against a military order confining ailing detainee, Adnan Khader, who has…
The Israeli Supreme Court issued a preliminary ruling, forbidding Burin village mosque, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, from using loud speakers, and even from using lights…
The Israeli Navy abducted four Palestinian fishermen on Monday morning, after attacking their boats in Palestinian waters north of the Gaza Strip, and near the Gaza Port.The four were identified…
Israeli bulldozers from the Jerusalem Municipality destroyed a playground on Monday morning, in the Wadi Hilweh area, in Silwan of East Jerusalem, and also removed the protest tent in Silwan.Representatives…
On Sunday evening, Israeli soldiers kidnapped five Palestinian residents from Ya’bod village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and held them for several hours at the Mabo…
Palestinian medical sources in Jerusalem reported that four residents were wounded on Sunday evening, when Israeli troops and policemen broke into a Palestinian home of a former political prisoner, in…
The Salah Ed-Deen Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, reported that one of its fighters was killed on Sunday evening during a training accident in Rafah, in…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported Sunday that a 71-year-old man was killed, and two residents were wounded, when the Israeli Air Force fired several missiles into an…
Israeli troops attacked on Saturday the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and settlements, in Beit Ummar town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron; four protestors were…
As 33-year old Khader Adnan continues his 56-day hunger strike in an Israeli prison, a group of supporters held a rally on Saturday afternoon outside the prison, but were attacked…
Palestinian medical sources reported, on Friday at night, that two Palestinians were wounded in an explosion that took place in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.The…
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported Friday that an Israeli soldier and two young female settlers were arrested by the Israeli Police for writing anti-Arab, Anti-Islam graffiti in the Al-Lubban Ash-Sharqiyya Palestinian…
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 02 – 08 Feb. 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected demands presented by representatives of the European Union (E.U.) to release a number of Palestinian political prisoners under a confidence-building measure that would also…
The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank renewed its rejection to resume the “exploratory talks” with Israel, and stated that the “confidence-building measures” proposed by Quartet Envoy, Tony Blair, to…
Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, stated during his Thursday meeting with the Luxembourg’s Minister of Development, Cooperation, and Humanitarian Affairs, Marie-Josée Jacobs, that donor countries must abide by their…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told U.S. Middle East Envoy David Hale, on Thursday, that there is no contradiction between internal Palestinian reconciliation and the peace process with Israel.The meeting was…
The Israeli Military Court decided to hold a session on Thursday at the Safad Hospital where the hunger-striking ailing detainee Khader Adnan is hospitalized, and facing seriously deteriorating health conditions.Head…
Local sources reported Tuesday that a number of Israeli settlers uprooted nearly 25 newly-planted olive trees that belong to residents of Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West bank…
A number of armed Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian gas station on Tuesday in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, and forced the owners and the residents…
The Israeli government, under Benjamin Netanyahu, is planning to initiate talks with Cyprus in order to establish an Israeli Air Force base in the country, while affirming Israel’s “outstanding” relations…
Israeli Police spokesperson, Micky Rosenfeld, stated Tuesday that extremist Israeli settlers carried out another “price tag” attack, this time targeting a Christian Monastery in Jerusalem’s Valley of the Cross Monastery.…
After Israel informed them of its intentions to demolish their homes, members of the Hardan family in al-Fredees village, near Mount Carmel in the north of the 1948 territories, started…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over the reconciliation agreement, singed on Monday at the Qatari Capital of Doha. The deal between Fateh and Hamas head,…
Lawyer of the ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Samer Samaan, was granted access to the ailing hunger-striking detainee, Khader Adnan, who has been on hunger strike for 51…
Palestinian sources reported Monday that the “Miles Of Smiles 9” aid and solidarity convoy made it into the coastal region through the Rafah Border Terminal, between Gaza and Egypt.Convoy Coordinator,…
On Sunday, villagers from al-Walaja and international supporters went to the area where Israeli authorities are in the midst of destroying lands to build the Annexation wall. They held a…
The last member of the leadership of the Hamas party left Syria on Sunday, in an attempt to separate the party from the Syrian government’s crackdown on protesters.Previously, the Hamas…
Palestinian Prisoner Khader Adnan reached the 49th day of his hunger strike against prison conditions on Saturday. This includes five days of refusing liquids as well – although Israeli prison…
The Palestinian People’s Party and other left-wing groups held non-violent marches in cities throughout the West Bank Saturday, challenging the Palestinian Authority’s proposed austerity measures and privatization schemes.Several hundred people…
A group of Israeli settlers from the Mehola settlement in the Jordan Valley, in the northeastern part of the West Bank, approached a Palestinian shepherd who was tending his sheep…
A group of fundamentalist Israeli settlers installed on Friday a new illegal settlement outpost, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, while another group of armed settlers invaded…
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 26 Jan. – 01 Feb. 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a Palestinian child and a young man were wounded on Friday at dawn, when the Israeli Air Force bombarded a number…
The Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) issued an apology for United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, after several protestors in Gaza hurled shoes at his convoy upon entering…
The Hamas movement slammed the U.N. Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, for refusing to meet with families of Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel, and stated that his refusal is an indication…
Palestinian medical sources reported Wednesday that a Palestinian woman was seriously injured after a number of fundamentalist Israeli settlers hurled stones at a vehicle on the Yitzhar-Nablus road, in the…
On Wednesday evening, Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated during a press conference held in Ramallah with the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban ki-moon, that the Palestinian leadership seeks a comprehensive peace…
Israeli soldiers arrested more than 320 Palestinians in numerous parts of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and occupied East Jerusalem during the month of January, a Palestinian researcher stated.Researcher…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told the visiting United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, that Israel will continue the construction of settlements, and that any chances for a construction freeze would…
Ban Ki-Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, started a series of talks with both Israeli and Palestinians officials on Wednesday, by holding a meeting with Israeli President, Shimon…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, won the Likud Party elections with 75% of the total votes. Party elections were held Tuesday, shortly after the Netanyahu led government approved further incentives…
After interrogating him at a Police station in occupied Jerusalem, on Tuesday, the Israeli Police issued an order forcing Palestinian activist and intellectual, Rasem Obeidat, to remain in his residential…
Prime Minister of the Hamas led government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyya, met on Tuesday with the Prince of Qatar, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Hamad al-Thani, and discussed the latest developments in…
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) reported on Tuesday evening that detainee Khader Adnan was moved to a hospital near Bnei Brak, after a sharp deterioration in his health after 47…
Palestinian detainee, Adnan Khader, head of the Islamic Jihad Movement in the West Bank, declared he will be stepping-up his hunger strike that started 47 days ago, by refraining from…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at night, the eastern area of the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, and kidnapped two residents east of Rafah, in the southern…
Media spokesperson of the Fateh movement, Osama Al-Qawasmi, stated that the Fateh movement and the Palestinian leadership has a unified position regarding rejecting peace talks with Israel before Tel Aviv…
Sa’ad Khalil, of the Palestinian-Iraqi Brotherhood Society, stated that the Iraqi security forces killed a Palestinian detainee three days ago, who was undergoing questioning at an interrogation center in Baghdad.Ma’an…
The Palestine New and Info Agency, WAFA, reported that a Jewish settler illegally took over Palestinian land near the northern West Bank city of Jenin by enclosing the land in…
The Israeli Police shut down, on Sunday evening, two Palestinian institutions in Silwan neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem, under the claim that they are funded by the Hamas movement. The…
King Abdullah II of Jordan met the head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Khaled Mashal, on Sunday in Amman. Mashal is conducting his first official visit to Amman in twelve…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Saturday at night and on Sunday at dawn, three Palestinians in Hebron city in the southern part of the West Bank, and in the nearby town…
An Israeli driver hit a Palestinian teenager at a checkpoint near Jerusalem Saturday, then drove off in an apparent ramming attack. These types of incidents have increased in recent months,…
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 19- 25 January 2012, A Palestinian civilian died out of his wounds…
Israeli President, Shimon Peres, and Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, participated in meetings regarding the possibilities of resuming Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and the prospects of peace in the region.…
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported Wednesday that Israeli Envoy, Yitzhak Molcho, presented on Wednesday a verbal Israeli stance on the issue of borders, during talks with Chief Palestinian Negotiator, Dr. Saeb…
Palestinian Minister of Detainees in the West Bank, Issa Qaraqe’, called for the boycotting of all Israeli military courts for their repeated rulings that confine thousands of detainees under administrative…
The recent talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have reached a standstill, with the Israeli negotiators refusing to present borders between Israel and a future Palestinian state. With the deadline…
Dr. Mohammad al-Kittani, the elected head of the Egyptian People’s Council, a political leader of the Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt, declined an invitation to visit Israel to deliver…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the Wa’r ad-Beik area of Anata town, north east of occupied East Jerusalem, and demolished six sheds. These sheds were home to six…
In a meeting on Monday between U.S. State Department and Israeli officials, the U.S. officials promised to extend loan guarantees to Israel for the next three years. The $3.8 billion…
Israeli troops abducted, on Tuesday evening, Sheikh Mohammad Freihat, 46 years old. Sheikh Freihat is a religious figure and a political leader of the Hamas movement, in al-Yamoun town, west…
The Israeli Military Court at the Ofer Israeli prison, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, decided to imprison the elected head of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Dr.…
Palestinian medical sources reported on Thursday that resident Hamid Ahmad Sahloul, 42, from the western refugee camp in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, died of…
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported that the Israeli Air Force carried out, on Tuesday at dawn, four airstrikes targeting areas in the northern and southern parts of the…
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that Jewish leaders in Britain cancelled a meeting that was scheduled with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, following intense pressure from the Israeli embassy in London, and…
The Israeli “Ofer” Military Court, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, decided Sunday to stay the deliberations on the case of the detained head of the Palestinian Legislative…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that two Palestinians were injured on Saturday, when a tunnel partially collapsed while they were in it. The tunnel is located south…
According to local sources, a squadron of Israeli troops invaded the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday, raided a community center, and abducted a leader in the non-violent…
Palestinian medical sources reported on Sunday that Hanin Kamal Abu Jalala, 16 years old, died of wounds suffered during the Israeli offensive on Gaza three years ago. The child was…
The editor and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, has come under fire for an op-ed in which he surmised that the Israeli Prime Minister should “order a…
Israeli sources reported Saturday that a Palestinian man stabbed an Israeli border policeman at a military roadblock near the Shufat refugee camp, in occupied East Jerusalem. The soldier was mildly…
A Palestinian researcher, who specializes in detainees’ affairs, Riyadh al-Ashqar, reported that the number of elected Palestinian legislators currently imprisoned by Israel has risen to 26 following the abduction on…
The Israeli Air Force bombarded, Saturday, an area in the Gaza Strip leading to no injuries; an Israeli military spokesperson claimed that the attack targeted resistance fighters who fired a…
Local sources in Kufr Qaddoum village, east of the northern west Bank city of Qalqilia, reported that Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall…
Ismail Haniyya, Prime Minister of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, demanded that the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) in the West Bank halt talks with Israel in response to the…
Two Palestinian resistance fighters were killed by Israeli forces in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip. In a separate incident, two Palestinian resistance fighters were wounded by Israeli forces…
Dr. Ahmad Bahar, the deputy head of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), strongly denounced the kidnapping of PLC head, Dr. Aziz Dweik, and held Israel responsible for his safety. The…
Israeli Hebrew-language Walla news reported, Thursday evening, that approximately 1,500 tank shells went missing, likely stolen, from a military base in southern Israel. The website stated that the large number…
Released for Publication – The Israeli Internal Security Service (Shabak) revealed that its operatives kidnapped ten members of the Islamic Jihad in recent months, in the Jenin district, in the…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday evening, the elected head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr. Aziz Dweik, after stopping him at the Jaba’ military roadblock, south of Jenin, in northern…
In its annual report that was submitted to the Security Council on Wednesday, regarding the humanitarian situation and human rights in the occupied territories, the United Nations (UN) reported that…
During the eviction of an unauthorized settlement outpost Thursday morning, Israeli troops arrested three Israeli settlers who were protesting the eviction. During the clashes that resulted, six settlers and three…
The Arabs48 news website reported on Wednesday that three Arab students, studying at the Engineering Academy in occupied Jerusalem, have received police warrants exiling them from the city for seven…
In a series of military incursion into West Bank towns in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday morning, Israeli troops arrested twelve Palestinians and took them to an unknown location.One of…
Israeli daily, The Jerusalem Post, reported that the General Staff of the Israeli Army had instructed the Southern-Command to take all measures to be ready for the possibility of a…
The so-called “Ethics Committee” of the Israeli Knesset decided to remove member of Knesset (MK) Dr. Ahmad Tibi, from participating in Knesset sessions for one week, for strongly denouncing Mk…
Israeli forces invaded the Jenin refugee camp and the city of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, on Monday morning, and abducted one Palestinian. Separately, two Palestinian men were taken…
A group of computer hackers known as ‘Nightmare’ managed to shut down the websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, as well as the Israeli national airline El Al on…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday, the village of Azzoun, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. They arrested twelve residents, after violently beating and attacking them; four of…
Ad-Dameer, the Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, issued a press release denouncing the Palestinian Security Forces for arresting and attacking a Palestinian youth on Sunday, for participating in a…