Lod Residents Protest Home Demolitions
Arab residents of Lod held a massive protest, on Tuesday at night, in support of Abu Eid family that lost its seven homes after the Israeli Authorities demolished them four…
Abu Mojahid Welcomes Stance Of New Egyptian Government
Spokesperson of Popular Resistance Committees, Mohammad Al Abreem (Abu Mojahid), welcomed the stances of the new Egyptian government regarding rejecting the Israeli siege on Gaza and the necessity to lift…
Qassam Fighter Killed In Gaza
The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, issues a press release stating that one of its fighters was killed in what was described “a mission in…
Israeli Prime Minister Vows To Maintain Military Occupation Of Jordan Valley
During a tour around the eastern West Bank on Tuesday, the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed to keep the Israeli military presence on the eastern border of the West…
Army Does Not Believe It Can Contain Widespread Revolution In The West Bank
In light with the current events and protests against the ruling regimes in some Arab countries, and the latest removal of Egyptian and Tunisian presidents, the Israeli Army’s Central Command…
Britain To Upgrade Palestinian Delegation To A Mission Status
British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, stated Monday that his country has decided to upgrade the status of the official Palestinian delegation in London to the level of a Mission, similar…
Israeli Seeks $20 Billion in US Aid
The Israeli government is planning to head to the United States to ask for a $20 Billion in additional military aid to “cope with the new changes in the Middle…
Gaza’s Ministry Of Detainees Calls On Egypt To Release Palestinians Prisoners
The Ministry of Detainees at the Hamas-led interim government issued a press release calling on the Egyptian government to immediately release all Palestinian detainees held in Egyptian prisons. The Ministry…
Hamas Police Detains Six Protestors In Gaza
As hundreds of residents marched, Monday, in the streets on Gaza City calling for an end to the internal Palestinian divisions and urging for unity, the Hamas-controlled Palestinian police and…
Army To Demolish Homes, Barns, Near Jenin
The Israeli Authorities handed on Monday evening eight orders for the removal of eight homes and barns that belong to residents of Barta’a Al Sharqiyya, isolated behind the Annexation Wall…
Israeli Settlers And Soldiers Attack Palestinians Near Nablus: 10 Palestinians, 1 Settler Injured
According to local sources, a large group of armed Israeli settlers invaded Qusra village, near the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, on Monday, and began uprooting olive…
Pink Floyd Singer Joins Cultural Boycott of Israel
The former lead singer of the rock band Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, is the latest artist to voice support for the boycott of Israel, in an effort to pressure the…
Troops Attacks Women’s Protest, Dozens Wounded
Dozens of women were wounded on Saturday after the Israeli forces violently attacked a peaceful protest at the Qalandia Terminal north of Jerusalem, and fired gas bombs and rubber-coated metal…
Israeli Air Force Carries A Series Of Air Strikes In Gaza
The Israeli Air Force carried out on Sunday at dawn a series of air strikes targeting a number of areas in Gaza city, and areas in central Gaza; damage was…
Hamas To Re-start National Unity Talks With Fateh
The Hamas party, which won elections in 2006 but was prevented from forming a government in the West Bank, announced Saturday that it is working on an initiative to restore…
Palestinian Government In Gaza Protests Closure Of Main Commercial Crossing Into Israel
The Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip said on Saturday that they may close down the Kerem Shalom crossing from the Gazan side, in protest of Israel’s decision this week…
Palestinian Woman Attempts To Stab A Soldier Near Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Friday evening a young Palestinian woman from Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, after claiming that she attempted to stab a soldier at the Etzion Junction. Palestinian…
Clashes Reported In Silwan
Local sources reported that clashes took place on Friday following noon prayers at the protest tent in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, as the local residents continued their protests…
PCHR Weekly Report: 2 Palestinians killed, 9 wounded, 31 buildings damaged by Israeli forces
In its weekly report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 24 Feb. 02 Mar. 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…
Palestinian Prisoners Freed By Egypt, Arrive In Gaza
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a number of Palestinian prisoners who were detained by Egypt arrived on Thursday evening at the Rafah Border Terminal between the Gaza…
Israeli Air Force Bombards A Car In Gaza
Palestinian sources reported, on Friday at dawn, that the Israeli Air Force fired at least one missile at a Palestinian vehicle in An-Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza completely destroying…
Soldiers Break Into Eshil-Be’er Sheva Prison, Attack Detainees, Search Their Rooms
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported Thursday that Israeli soldiers and under-cover units of the Israeli army broke into the Eshil-Be’er Sheva prison, violently attacked the detainees and searched their…
Soldiers Kidnap Four Children In East Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers invaded on Thursday Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped four children. Local sources reported that the children are only 13-15 years old, and that the Israeli…
Hamas Delegates Start A Tour To Discuss Shalit File
Delegates of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip started a tour that would include meetings with the movement’s leaders in the Arab World to discuss the file of prisoner-of-war…
February: Seven Palestinians Killed, 46 Injured By Army Fire In Gaza
A report published by the Higher Committee for Medical Services in Gaza, revealed that Israeli soldiers killed, in February, 7 Palestinians, and wounded 46, including several children, during several attacks…
10 Wounded, Sixteen Detained During Jaffa Clashes As Settlers March In City
Clashes were reported in Jaffa city, on Wednesday evening, as a group of extremist Israeli settlers and fundamentalist right-wing leaders and members, marched in the city demanding the Jaffa to…
PA Calls On International Community To Help Stop Settler Violence
Following the recent increase in attacks by Israeli settlers on indigenous Palestinians in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority issued a statement, Wednesday, calling on the international community to ‘intervene…
Report: “Israel Kidnapped 80 Children in Jerusalem Since The Beginning of 2011”
The Research and Documentation Unit at the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER) reported that Israeli soldiers and policemen have kidnapped more than 80 Palestinian children in occupied…
US Folksinger Decides to Support Boycott of Israel
The legendary 82-year old folk singer Pete Seeger, an icon of the folk movement of the 1950s and 60s, told an Israeli organization that he supports the movement for Boycott,…
Army Kidnaps Elected Legislator
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, legislator Azzam Salhab, 54 years old, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after stopping him at a military roadblock near Jericho city.…
Jerusalem Municipality Approves Settlement Construction In East Jerusalem
The Jerusalem Municipality decided to transform a police station in the Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amoud in Jerusalem into a settlement outpost, and approved the construction of 14 units that…
Israeli Navy Fires At Palestinian Fishing Boats
Israeli Navy boats opened fire, on Wednesday at dawn, at Palestinian fishing boats near the shore in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Damage was reported, but…
Haniyya: “Reconciliation Cannot Be Reached Amidst Siege, Collaboration With Israel”
Hamas leader, and Prime Minister of the dissolved Hamas-led government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyya, stated that the Palestinian people want real reconciliation that addresses the current political changes in the…
Netanyahu Said To Be Weighing A Plan For A Palestinian “State” With Provisional Borders
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is weighing a plan that would lead to the establishment of a “Palestinian state with provisional borders”, and that this…
Settlers Attack Homes, Property In Hebron
A group of armed fundamentalist Israeli settlers attacked, on Tuesday at dawn, several Palestinian neighborhoods in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.Eyewitnesses reported that dozens of settlers led by…
Report: “Israel To Carry Out Specified Attacks Against Gaza”
The Israeli Radio reported, Monday, that the Israeli Army intends to carry out specified and targeted attacks against certain areas in the Gaza Strip without conducting a direct confrontation or…
Army Invades al-Qarara, Uproots Farmlands
Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday morning, the town of al-Qarara, east of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and uprooted farmlands.Local sources reported that eight armored military…
Israeli Police Detains 23 Extremist Settlers In Jerusalem
As dozens of extremist Jewish settlers blocked roads in Jerusalem while protesting the removal of structures at the illegal outpost of Gilad Farm, near the northern West Bank city of…
Blaming Palestinians for Outpost Demolition, Settlers Intensify Attacks
Angered by the Israeli army for demolishing, on Monday, four homes at the Gilad illegal settlement outpost near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Israeli settlers carried out several…
Jerusalem, Nablus roads blocked by Israeli settlers in protest against outpost removal
Hundreds of Israeli settlers blocked the Nablus road in the northern West Bank, and dozens more tried to block a main road in Jerusalem on Monday, calling for the Israeli…
Army Abducts Two Palestinians From Hebron
Israeli soldiers abducts, on Monday at dawn, two Palestinians from the southern West Bank city of Hebron.The two were taken from their homes after the army conducted an invasion into…
Elected Legislator Sentenced To Six Months
The Israeli Authorities sentenced, on Sunday, a Palestinian legislator to six months in administrative detention without presenting any legal charges against him.Dr. Omar Abdul-Raziq, former Finance Minister, stated after the…
One Resident Wounded As Army Bombards Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported, Monday morning, that one resident was injured after the Israeli army bombarded an area near the Gaza International Airport, east of Rafah, in the southern part…
Israeli Internal Probe: 2002 Bombing Which Killed 8 Children ‘Justified’
An ‘internal investigation’ by the Israeli military released a report, Sunday, stating that there was ‘no wrongdoing’ in a 2002 targeted assassination carried out by the Israeli airforce, in which…
Palestinian Killed By Army Shells East of Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported, on Sunday evening, that one resident was killed and several were injured in a number of Israeli military attacks targeting the Gaza…
Settlers Block Roads Leading To Nablus, Hurl Stones At Local Vehicles
A group of armed Israeli settlers blocked, on Monday morning, a number of roads leading to the northern West Bank city of Nablus. They hurled stones at several vehicles while…
Palestinian Child Wounded After Being Run-over By Settler’s Vehicle
A Palestinian child was injured, on Sunday, after being run-over by a vehicle driven by a Israeli settler in the district of Hebron, in the southern part of the West…
Settlers Attack Palestinian Village Near Nablus, Torch Vehicle
For the second day in a raw, a group of fundamentalist settlers of the Yitzhar illegal settlement, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, invaded on Saturday at dawn…
Israeli Air Force Carries Out A Series Of Air-Strikes Targeting Gaza
The Israeli Air Force conducted on Saturday at dawn a series of Air Strikes targeting a number of areas in the Gaza Strip leading to excessive damage; no injuries were…
Settlers Uproot Lands Planted With Wheat Near Ramallah
A group of extremist settlers uprooted 150 Dunams planted with wheat near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.The settlers came from an illegal outpost near Al Mogheer Palestinian village…
Palestinian Student Killed By Mercenaries In Libya
A Palestinian student studying in Libya was shot and killed on Thursday by a group of armed mercenaries in Misrata city, east of Tripoli in Libya, the Maan News Agency…
Settlers Conduct Several Attacks In Nablus
Fundamentalist Israeli settlers conducted, on Friday at dawn, several attacks against property and lands that belong to several residents of a number of villages near Nablus, in the northern part…
PCHR Weekly Report: 1 fighter, 3 civilians killed; 17 wounded by Israeli forces this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 17 – 23 February 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…
Four Wounded In An Israeli Air Strike Targeting Rafah
Palestinian medical sources reported on Thursday evening after the Israeli Air Force fired missiles at a Palestinian vehicle driving in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.The strike…
Child Killed, Three Residents Wounded, In An Explosion In Khan Younis
Palestinian medical sources reported on Wednesday evening that a Palestinian child was killed, and three residents were wounded, in an explosion that took place in Khan Younis, in the southern…
On Humanitarian Basis, 350 Libyan-Palestinians To Be Allowed Into The West Bank
Israeli sources reported on Wednesday at night that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approved the return of nearly 350 Palestinian refugees living in Libya into the West Bank.The sources stated…
Army Bombards Several Areas In Gaza
Only two hours after the Israeli Air Force bombarded Gaza killing one fighter and wounding sixteen residents, an F-16 Israeli fighter jet fired at least one missile at an agricultural…
Fighter Killed By Army Fire In Gaza
The al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, reported that one of its fighters died of wounds suffered during clashes with Israeli forces invading Gaza City on Wednesday…
Soldiers Invade Tallousa Village Near Nablus
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday afternoon, Tallousa village, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus and blocked a number of roads.Local sources reported that several armored military jeeps…
Hebron Settlers Attack At Tiwana, Uproot Trees
A group of armed extremist Israeli settlers attacked, on Tuesday, at-Tiwana village, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron and uprooted several olive trees.Eyewitnesses reported that settlers of the…
Soldiers Abduct Hamas Leader In Nablus
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday, a political leader of the Hamas movement in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, after breaking into his home and ransacking it.Sheikh Awadallah Eshtayya,…
Hamas Slams Israel’s Detention of Sheikh Raed Salah
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, slammed the detention of Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, and considered the act as a “new Zionist crime against the Palestinian…
British Author Condemns Israeli Policies While Accepting ‘Jerusalem Prize’
Speaking to an audience that included a number of Israeli officials, including President Shimon Peres and Culture Minister Limor Livnat, British author Ian McEwan strongly criticized Israel’s policies of land…
Thousands of Palestinians Protest U.S. Veto of Settlement Resolution
An estimated 3,000 Palestinians marched through downtown Ramallah, in the central West Bank, on Sunday afternoon to protest the U.S. government’s veto of a United Nations Security Council Resolution condemning…
Ten Residents Wounded In Tulkarem
Palestinian Medical sources reported, Saturday, that ten residents were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation after Israeli soldiers attacked a nonviolent protest in Dir al-Ghsoun village, north of Tulkarem…
Child, Beit Ummar Mayor, Wounded In Weekly Nonviolent Protest
Palestinian medical sources reported, Saturday, that a child and the mayor of Beit Ummar town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, were wounded after the Israeli army opened…
US Vetoes UN Resolution Condemning Israeli Settlement Expansion
Despite claims by US President Barack Obama that his administration is opposed to Israel’s further takeover of land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem for colonial settlements, the US…
PCHR Weekly Report: One civilian killed by right-wing Israelis; 6 wounded by Israeli troops
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 10 – 16 February 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…
Army Demolishes A Mosque Near Tubas
Israeli soldiers demolished on Thursday a mosque located in Khirbit Yirza, near the West Bank city of Tubas, and also removed 10 tents used by farmers and shepherds in the…
Two Workers Wounded In Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported, Wednesday evening, that two day-laborers were wounded after an explosive dropped by the Israeli army in a previous invasion detonated near them.…
Palestinian Youth Injured By Settler Gun Fire Near Nablus
Palestinian medical sources reported, on Tuesday evening, that a Palestinian youth was shot and wounded by settler gun fire near Jaloud village, south of Nablus, in the northern part of…
Israel Closes Northern West Bank Road; Deny Report That Checkpoints Will Be Dismantled
Over the weekend, Israeli troops erected new earth mounds blocking the Nablus-Beit Iba road, a road which had been closed by Israeli authorities until international intervention by the Quartet for…
Egyptian Paper: “Mubarak In A Coma”
Dr. Ahmad Shafiq, the acting head of the temporary Egyptian Government, stated that former Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, is currently in a coma in his residence in the Egyptian resort…
Worker Injured By Army Fire In Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported, Monday, that a worker was mildly wounded by Israeli army fire near the northern border of the Gaza Strip. The sources stated that the army opened…
Armed Israeli Settlers Storm Palestinian Village Near Hebron
A group of heavily-armed Israeli settlers stormed the village of Beit Ummar, in the southern part of the West Bank, on Sunday night. They harassed villagers but caused no injuries,…
Cabinet In West Bank To Resign, New Ministers To Be Selected
Reuters reported, Sunday, that the Palestinian cabinet in the West Bank will be submitting its resignation on Monday, to enable Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, to select new ministers under…
Two workers wounded by Israeli gunfire in Gaza
On Saturday, Israeli soldiers stationed at the Gaza-Israeli border fired live rounds at two workers who were collecting rubble to use as building material, in the northern part of the…
Egypt’s Army To Allow Smooth Power Transition, To Respect Regional Agreements
The Higher Council of the Armed Forces in Egypt, currently in power after the resignation of Hosni Mubarak, vowed to ensure a smooth transition of power towards what it called…
Army Invades Several Areas In The West Bank, Kidnaps Two In Nablus
Israeli soldiers invaded on Saturday at dawn several areas in the West Bank, broke into and searched several homes and kidnapped two residents in Madama village, near the northern West…
Presidential, Legislative Elections to Be Held By September, Hamas Rejects Call
The Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, PLO, announced Saturday that it is starting preparations for presidential and legislative elections in the Palestinian territories, and stated that the elections…
Arab League Secretary-General To Resign
A few hours after the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, resigned from his post after nearly three weeks of massive protests against his regime, Arab League Secretary-General, Amro Mousa, stated that…
Turkish Inquiry Finds Israel Violated International Law In Attack On Aid Ships
On Friday, the Turkish government released a summary of its investigation into the Israeli assault on an international humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters on May 31st, 2010 — an…
Army Attacks Palestinian Protesters In East Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers and policemen attacked dozens of Palestinian protesters in Silwan, south of the Al Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, after the residents conducted Friday prayers at the mosque.Soldiers…
Army Kidnaps Three Fatah Leaders In Occupied East Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers and policemen, on Friday at dawn, broke into homes of three Fateh leaders in occupied East Jerusalem and kidnapped them before moving them to al-Maskobiyya interrogation facility in…
PCHR Weekly Report: 16 wounded in 46 incursions by Israeli troops this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the week of 03 – 09 February 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found…
France Grants P.A €10 Million To Finance Water Services In Bethlehem
The Palestine News and Information Agency, WAFA, reported Thursday that Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, signed an agreement with the French State Minister and Minister of Foreign and European…
Palestinians Not Allowed Into Egypt
An official at the Egyptian Passport Control department stated, Wednesday, that instructions were handed down to the department to prevent the Palestinians from entering Egypt amidst the current protests against…
Hamas Rejects July Local Elections
Member of the Hamas political bureau, Izzat al-Rishiq, stated that the decision of the government of Dr. Salaam Fayyad to hold local councils elections in the West Bank before unity…
Israel Cautious About Making Statements On Egypt
A senior Israeli military source reported that Israel continues to be cautious about making official statements on the situation in Egypt and the attempts to end the rule of its…
Egyptian Army Prepares To Protect Presidential Palace
At the eighteenth day of massive protests demanding the removal of Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, and his regime, the Egyptian army was extensively redeployed in several streets in Cairo, especially…
Fundamentalist Settler Rabbi Says Killing “Non-Jews” Is Justifiable
Dov Lior, Chief Rabbi of the Keryat Arba’ illegal settlement in Hebron, in the southern part of the West bank, stated that killing non-Jews is justifiable, in some cases, without…
Settlers Planning 200 Units in Sheikh Jarrah
Arieh King, founder and director of the Israel Land Fund, stated that within five to ten years 200 units for Jewish settlers will be built in the Palestinian neighborhood in…
Extremist Settler-leader Describes Spanish Foreign Minister As Anti-Semite
During her visit to the Ibrahimi Mosque, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, also referred to as the Cave of the Patriarchs, extremist settler leader, Itamar Ben Gavir,…
Child Wounded By Army Fire In Hebron
Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian child was wounded on Tuesday evening after Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron in the southern part…
Ten Palestinians Wounded In A Number Of Israeli Air Strike Targeting Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported that ten residents were wounded in a number of air strikes targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip.Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesperson of the Higher Committee of…
Bedouin village bulldozed by Israel for the 12th time
On Monday, the Israeli military and police employed armored bulldozers to destroy the village of Araqib, located in the Negev desert in southern Israel. This is the 12th time that…
Explosion In Egyptian Gas Pipeline Disrupts Israel’s Gas Supply
An explosion Friday morning took out a natural gas pipeline in the northern Sinai in Egypt, near the border with Israel. Egyptian national television initially reported that ‘foreign elements’ had…
Bil’in protest in solidarity with Egypt attacked by Israeli troops
Several hundred Palestinians, along with international and Israeli supporters, gathered in the village of Bil’in on Friday for their weekly non-violent protest. This week’s protest called for national unity, and…
Egyptian protesters return to the streets Friday for ‘Day of Departure’ demonstration
At least 100,000 demonstrators held protests in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and other cities in Egypt Friday, calling on the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down immediately. Friday’s ‘Day of…
UN condemns Israeli destruction of Palestinian water systems
After documenting the destruction of 27 water cisterns, and diversion of 15 mountain springs by Israeli forces over the last year, the Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Territories for the…