Category: Jerusalem

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, Friday, a Jordanian man reportedly after he attempted to stab Border Police officers at entrance of Damascus Gate, leading to the Old City of occupied…

Hundreds of Palestinians marched, on Tuesday evening, in the funeral procession of a Palestinian was killed by Israeli soldiers in Shu’fat refugee camp, in occupied Jerusalem, on September fifth. A…

One Palestinian is dead, another is injured and in jail. The Israeli officers that shot both of them remain free. Israeli forces shot and killed Mustafa Nimir, aged 27, in occupied…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday at dawn, a young Palestinian man in Shu’fat refugee camp, in occupied East Jerusalem. Local sources said the soldiers invaded the refugee camp, and broke…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday morning, a young Palestinian man from Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, while on Wednesday at night, the soldiers kidnapped two children, in the city.…

After several eyewitnesses and video and photos contradicted the Israeli military’s claim that the 25-year old Palestinian they shot to death Monday was trying to “ram” their vehicles with his…

Under very strict conditions, extensive police and military deployment, and away from the media, Israeli released shortly after midnight, the body of a slain Palestinian, who was killed by the…

Updated — The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, overnight and at dawn Wednesday, at least seventeen Palestinians from their homes, in different parts of…

On Tuesday evening, a Palestinian man from the al-Wad Street, in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, started demolishing his own home to avoid the extremely high fines and…

The family of the young Palestinian man, Mustafa Nimir, 27, who was shot dead on Monday at dawn by Israeli soldiers invading Shu’fat refugee camp, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, said…

A Palestinian family from occupied East Jerusalem buried, earlier at dawn Tuesday, its son Mohammad Abu Khalaf, who was executed by Israeli soldiers who fired more than 50 live rounds…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, overnight and earlier Monday, ten Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank. In Ramallah, in central…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the Shu’fat refugee camp, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, killed one Palestinian and seriously wounded another, after firing many live rounds at their…

Extremist Israeli settlers, under heavy guard of special forces, again stormed Al-Aqsa mosque courtyards via the Maghariba gate, on Sunday morning. Jerusalemite sources reported, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency,…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Sunday at dawn, five Palestinians, including three children, in different parts of occupied East Jerusalem, and caused several Palestinians to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday evening, a young Palestinian woman at the Qalandia terminal, north of occupied East Jerusalem. The army also closed all roads leading to a village near…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped at least ten Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, adding that three of the kidnapped are children.…

A Palestinian family from Jerusalem managed, on Thursday at dawn, to hold a funeral and burial ceremony for their son, who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers 324 days ago,…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Tuesday evening, six young Palestinian soccer players in Bab Hatta neighborhood, in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, causing several cuts and bruises that required…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday, Sur Baher town, southeast of occupied East Jerusalem, and demolished one home, reportedly for being built without a permit. Eyewitnesses said a large Israeli military…

The Israeli authorities released, on Tuesday at dawn, the body of Tha’er Abu Ghazala, 19, who was killed by the army on October 8th, 2015, after reportedly stabbing and wounding…

Israeli settlers and intelligence officers, on Sunday morning, forced their way into al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, according to local sources. Witnesses told WAFA that a group of hard-line Israeli…

Dozens of fans and players suffered the severe effects of tear gas inhalation, Sunday, after Israeli soldiers fired many gas bombs into a stadium during a soccer match, in the…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, Saturday, a young Palestinian man, and a young woman, in two separate incidents in Hebron, and the Qalandia terminal north of occupied Jerusalem, allegedly for carrying…

Settlers, accompanied by 12 Israeli military soldiers, stormed, on Tuesday morning, Al-Aqsa mosque via the Maghariba gate. According to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, Jerusalem sources said that 46 settlers,…

Palestinian students in annexed East Jerusalem are receiving less than half of the funding of their Jewish counterparts, Haaretz has reported. The paper revealed, according to Al Ray, in a report…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, overnight and on Sunday at dawn, seventeen Palestinians, including children, in different parts of the occupied West Bank. The…

The Jerusalem office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped twelve Palestinians during extensive military invasions and searches of homes, in different parts of…

Palestinian Journalist of the Al-Mayadeen News Agency said that the Israeli army investigators closed her case against a soldier who shot her with a concussion grenade in the face, allegedly…

The Islamic Christian Committee to Defend Jerusalem and Holy Sites warned, on Thursday, against an Israeli project called the “New Face of Modern Jerusalem,” which targets the main western entrance of…

The Israeli authorities released, after midnight, the body of a Palestinian who was killed in March of this year, and only allowed twenty family members to attend the funeral ceremony…

A number of Israeli military vehicles, and bulldozers, invaded on Tuesday at dawn, Anata town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, and demolished a car repair garage, and a tree nursery.…

Israeli institutions and organizations are preparing to build the so-called “Third Temple” in place of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and are waiting for a political decision to start, Israeli channels reported. Israeli…

On Sunday, a group of around 250 armed Israeli settlers, accompanied by dozens of Israeli soldiers, invaded the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the third holiest site in the world for…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Sunday at dawn, four Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Tulkarem, Jerusalem and Hebron, after invading their…

Israeli authorities in occupied Jerusalem have omitted all texts and pictures related to Palestine, and the struggle against the occupation, from Palestinian school books before its distribution. According to the Hebrew…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that at three young men were injured, late on Friday at night, after Israeli soldiers repeatedly assaulted them, causing various cuts and bruises. The soldiers…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday at dawn, several areas in occupied East Jerusalem, especially in the Old City, conducted extensive searches of homes and kidnapped at least ten…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, several Palestinian homes in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, and Silwan town, south of the All-Aqsa mosque, violently searched…

A Palestinian man was moderately injured, on Thursday evening, after Israeli soldiers repeatedly assaulted him in Ein al-Louza neighborhood, in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at night, a Palestinian home in Hizma town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, a handed the owner a military notice ordering him and his family…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at night, four Palestinian children in Silwan and the ar-Ram towns, after invading their families’ homes and searching them. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Wednesday, at least ten Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Nablus, Tulkarem, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Jenin. The army…

Israeli occupation police have decided to raise the number of its stations and security cameras in occupied East Jerusalem. The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reports that, according to an official…

The so-called Committee for Planning and Construction, in the municipality of Jerusalem, is scheduled to discuss a plan to confiscate lands from the Mount Scopus neighborhood, in Jerusalem, for the…

Dozens of students suffocated on Tuesday, after Israeli soldiers attacked the campus of Al-Quds University with teargas, in Abu Dis town, east of Jerusalem. Witnesses told WAFA News & Info…

Dozens of extremist settlers, accompanied by Israeli intelligence agents, stormed  Al Aqsa  Mosque on Tuesday morning, via the Mughrabi gate, amid intensive military presence in the Old City district of annexed…

The Israeli government and the Jerusalem City Council are advancing a plan to build 2,500 units in the Gilo colony, south of occupied East Jerusalem. Gilo was built on lands owned…

Extremist settlers, guarded by  Israeli special forces, stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque yards on Sunday morning,  via the Mughrabi Gate. The settlers, led by archaeological and historical guides, toured the Al- Aqsa  compound…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, overnight and earlier Sunday, at least eight Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Jerusalem, Hebron, and Bethlehem. The…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported, Thursday, that more than 300 Palestinian political prisoners, held in Israeli prisons and detention centers, demanding an end to the escalating violation against…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, earlier Thursday, one Palestinian in Qotna town, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, and another near the light-rail station, south of Jerusalem, and moved them to interrogation facilities.…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday morning, four workers of the Waqf and Islamic Affairs Department, in the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, after ordering them to stop maintenance work in…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Tuesday evening at dawn Wednesday, ten Palestinians, including children, in al-Isawiyya and Silwan towns, and the at-Tour…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, 21 Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank. The soldiers also assaulted…

Israeli soldiers and personnel of the Jerusalem City Council demolished, on Tuesday at dawn, a Palestinian car dealership and two sheds in Sur Baher, southeast of occupied East Jerusalem. The…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Monday, five Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Nablus, Jenin, and Jerusalem, and claimed to locate gas bombs, homemade guns, magazines and a workshop for manufacturing…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Sunday evening, two Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem, and took them to an interrogation facility. Local sources said the two children have been identified as…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Saturday morning, a Palestinian guard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and took him to an interrogation center in occupied Jerusalem. The WAFA Palestinian News Agency said the…

The US State Department strongly condemned, in a statement issued on Wednesday, Israel’s continued settlement expansion in occupied Jerusalem. State Department Spokesman John Kirby said, in the statement, that the…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday morning, four Palestinians after stopping them at military roadblocks, in the West Bank districts of Hebron and Nablus. On Thursday evening, the soldiers kidnapped a…

The Israel land authority, on Wednesday, released tenders for the construction of 323 housing units in occupied Jerusalem. According to the new plan, 130 housing units will be built in the…

Israeli soldiers invaded, late at night and on Thursday at dawn, several areas in occupied Jerusalem, searched many homes and kidnapped four young Palestinian men. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center…

On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers driving Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozers and other armored vehicles entered the town of Qalandia and began demolishing Palestinian homes. A group of townspeople quickly organized a…

Hundreds of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the town of Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, before storming and violently searching dozens of homes and kidnapped 33 Palestinians. The…

Dozens of Palestinian youth were injured Monday evening, in clashes with Israeli soldiers who tried to forestall a march in solidarity with hunger striker detainee Bilal Kayed, in Abu Dis…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Tuesday, a young Palestinian woman near the Qalandia terminal, north of occupied East Jerusalem, after she reportedly ran rewards them. Israeli TV Channel 10…

Groups of Israeli settlers entered Al Aqsa Mosque, this morning, under tight protection of Israeli police and special forces. PNN reports that, according to the Palestinian Information Center, the extremists…

The Israeli District Planning and Building Committee in Jerusalem has deposited a plan for the construction of 770 new settlement units between the illegal settlement of Gilo and the West Bank…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday evening, five Palestinians, including an elderly man, in several areas of occupied East Jerusalem. The army also shot and injured a Palestinian in Teqoua’ town,…

via the Alternative Information Center, Beit Sahour. Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association has released a report entitled, “In the Shadow of the 2014 Gaza War: Imprisonment of Jerusalem’s…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, Friday, five Palestinians, including a journalist and an elderly man, different parts of occupied Jerusalem. The soldiers invaded the Sa’diyya neighborhood, in the Old City, and…

Israeli soldiers, on Wednesday, uprooted olive trees in the village of Deir Istiya, Salfit governorate, under the pretext of opening a road designated for the sole use of people residing in…

Dozens of extremist settlers stormed, on Wednesday morning, the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, through the Mughrabi Gate. Sources in Jerusalem reported, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, that  17…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, at dawn Wednesday, at least sisteen Palestinians, including former political prisoners, in different parts of the occupied West Bank,…

The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that one child was killed, Tuesday, after an Israeli soldier shot him from a close range in the town of al-Ram, north of occupied…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers, accompanied by several armored vehicles and bulldozers, invaded on Tuesday morning Ein al-Louza neighborhood in Silwan town, in occupied Jerusalem, and demolished warehouses and a commercial…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, earlier on Tuesday, four Palestinians, including a former political prisoner and two teenagers, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, and five others, including a child, in…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, earlier Monday, at least seventeen Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including one who came under fire of an armed Israeli paramilitary settler, before…

A 14-year old Palestinian boy was sentenced Sunday to 6.5 years in prison for allegedly attacking an Israeli security guard in Jerusalem last November. Moawiya Alqam was accused of trying…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, overnight and on Sunday at dawn, ten Palestinians, including a young woman, after invading their homes, in different parts of the occupied West Bank. The Hebron office…

Yahya Hisham Hijazi, 24, from Shu’fat refugee camp in occupied Jerusalem, who was injured by nine Israeli army bullets, became the latest victim of Israel’s security obsession and paranoia, under…

The Israeli “Civil Administration”, on Wednesday, approved the construction of 90 settlement units in the illegal settlement of Gilo, Jerusalem. The decision came a few days after Tel Aviv approved plans…

In 2002, the Israeli government decided to construct “a barrier” separating the West Bank and Israel with the declared purpose of improving the security of Israel by preventing Palestinians from…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured, Thursday, a young Palestinian man, and kidnapped another, after several army vehicles invaded Shu’fat refugee camp, northeast of occupied Jerusalem. The army prevented Palestinian medics…

The Israeli army completely surrounded and isolated the town of al-‘Isawiyya, in occupied East Jerusalem, earlier on Thursday, after the soldiers parked their vehicles on all of its entrances, preventing…

After Israel conducted an autopsy on the body of Anwar Falah Salaima, 24, who was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers, at dawn Wednesday, it became clear that the young…

Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier on Wednesday, the town of al-‘Isawiyya, in the center of occupied Jerusalem, searched several homes and kidnapped seven Palestinians. The army also kidnapped one Palestinian near…

Israeli soldiers demolished, on Wednesday at dawn, three Palestinian homes belonging to ‘Oweisat, Abu Shakran and ‘Oqeil families, in the al-Kharja area in Jabal al-Mokabber town, southeast of occupied East…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Wednesday at dawn, a young Palestinian man, and injured another, after the army fired several live rounds at a Palestinian car in the town…

Several Israeli military vehicles, and bulldozers, invaded on Tuesday morning ‘Anata town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, and demolished sheds, a farm, a car repair facility and several walls, in…

An Israeli court in Jerusalem sentenced a Palestinian man to multiple life sentences, with an additional 60 years, on Monday, after he was convicted for the murder of three Israelis.…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, and kidnapped a young wounded Palestinian man. Local sources in Qalandia said the soldiers broke into…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected American and European ‘condemnations’ of a new plan to build hundreds of colonialist units, in illegal Israeli colonies in the occupied West Bank, including…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, at least six Palestinians in different parts of occupied East Jerusalem, and took them to a number of interrogation facilities, the Wadi…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, overnight and on Monday at dawn, at least 34 Palestinians, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including…

On Sunday the Israeli Cabinet approved the expansion of several Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, adding an additional 800 new units to the existing thousands of…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured at least four Palestinians in the ongoing military invasion into the Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, after dozens of Israeli army vehicles invaded…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, overnight and at dawn Sunday, at least ten Palestinians, during massive invasions and searches of homes; nine of the kidnapped are from the Old City, and…

7/2/16 | International Solidarity Movement | al-Khalil team Today marks the two year anniversary of the brutal kidnap, torture and eventual murder of 16-year-old Palestinian Muhammad Abu Khdeir. The teenager…