Category: Israel

Israel is set to release famed Palestinian detainee Muhammad Allan on Wednesday, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Tuesday, ending a year-long stint in administrative detention that he undertook a 66-day…

The Israeli Knesset approved, by second and third reading, minimum prison terms for stone-throwing attacks against vehicles or pedestrians.In a vote of 51 to 17, lawmakers approved a series of…

Israeli police, on Monday, shot and wounded a Palestinian man after he allegedly stabbed and seriously injured a 70-year-old Israeli man in the northern Israeli city of Netanya, north of…

Responding to the success of BDS, Israel updates foreign ministry cadets course.Under direction of Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely and Director-General Dore Gold, Israel has updated its foreign ministry cadets…

Israeli authorities, last week, placed three Palestinian minors from East Jerusalem under administrative detention, a move rights group say is unprecedented in the city, as Israel heightens security measures amid…

The Israeli Prosecutor’s Office stated, Wednesday, that the young Palestinian woman who was shot and wounded in Affoula (near Nazareth), on October 10, did not intend to carry out a…

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced his plan to control “all of the territory” and “live forever by the sword.” The remarks were reported in Haaretz newspaper, according to…

Thousands of Israeli protesters have taken to the streets in Tel Aviv to denounce Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies, which they blame for the recent wave of tensions in the…

Three Palestinian minor detainees submitted sworn affidavits saying that they are being subjected to maltreatment, verbal and severe physical abuse by Israeli army and police forces, either prior to or…

No media organization is more influential in shaping the way American policymakers and news outlets think about Israel and Palestine than the New York Times.But with some notable exceptions, the…

Israeli Jewish Rabbis have declared the killing of Palestinian resistance fighters “a religious duty”, Israeli media has reported. (MEMO/Days of Palestine) Israeli news website Walla reported that right-wing rabbis recently…

Leading Jewish historians, according to the PNN, have rubbished Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims that the Holocaust was caused by Palestinians.Netanyahu blamed the slaughter of millions of people during World War II…

On 13 October 2015, an Israeli paramilitary settler fired 3 bullets at Alaa Abu Jamal (33), from al-Mukaber Mountain, southeast of occupied East Jerusalem, at a bus stop on ‘Malkhei…

A suspected Palestinian was shot dead in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, and another injured, after allegedly grabbing an Israeli officer’s gun and opening fire in the city’s central…

Israeli police sources confirmed, Saturday, that the Jerusalemite woman Israa’ A’bd, aged 29, who was shot previously, was not intending to carry out a stabbing attack at the bus station.A’bd…

The Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-prisoners’ Committee has officially announced, on Wednesday, the death of Fadi Al-Darbi (30) from Jenin city, while being detained in Israeli jails.Al-Darbi suffered a brain-stroke earlier…

Israeli authorities claimed that the US-funded ‘Iron Dome’ defense system intercepted a shell fired from the Gaza Strip on Saturday night.An Israeli army spokeswoman said that sirens sounded across southern…

A number of Palestinian activists on social media have published anonymous messages with Arabic names, that are asking for “names of protesters,” especially in Jerusalem, saying that it’s only “to…

In Affoula town, near Nazareth city, Israeli troops and police officers shot and critically wounded a Palestinian woman at a bus stop on Friday. The woman was identified as Esra’…

Israeli media sources announced that a Palestinian youth stabbed four Israelis on Thursday morning before he was shot dead by Israeli officer in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. According…

Israeli sources have reported, Wednesday, that a young Palestinian identified as Hatem Al-Jundi (17) years from Yatta was shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Although the Israeli military claimed that Al-Jundi…

Thousands of Israelis, including legislators and , gathered Monday in front of the home of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, calling for increased theft of Palestinian land for the expansion of…

Officials close to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Sunday, said that Israel could launch another offensive on the West Bank, to halt what he called “Palestinian violence”, referring…

A rocket launched from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel, late Sunday, with no reported injuries, the Israeli army said. A spokeswoman said that the rocket landed in an…

Israeli authorities will release Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Allan on Nov. 4, a lawyer said Tuesday, alleviating fears that his administrative detention would be renewed again.Jawad Boulos, the head of the…

Hunger striking Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli jails have suspended their hunger strike on Tuesday, after reaching a deal with the Israeli prison service, according to Minister Issa Qaraqe, Chairman…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies on Monday issued an urgent call for action on 17 hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners, seven of whom the center said were in ‘real danger’.The center…

The challenging situation of Palestinian women was created by the establishment of Israel.An article by Nirit Anderman appeared in Ha’aretz about a new film, to be screened next week at…

A rocket launched from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel overnight, Israel’s army said, with no reported injuries.According to Ma’an, the rocket landed in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council…

A Palestinian prisoner, held by Israel on criminal charges, in the Nativot prison, died due to circumstances and conditions that remain unknown. Israel said it would be conducting an autopsy…

Israel will circumvent EU plans to label settlement products by directly lobbying EU member states against implementation of this guideline.Israel’s foreign ministry decided last week to ramp up its fight…

Seven Palestinian administrative detainees currently held by Israeli authorities, in solitary confinement, continued a hunger strike for the 30th day in a row, Saturday, the Prisoners’ and Former Prisoners’ Affairs…

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, on Friday, according to an Israeli army spokesperson.The spokesperson told Ma’an News Agency that the…

Palestinian detainee Mohammad Allan suspended his hunger strike, Friday morning, the head of the legal unit at the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) told Ma’an.Jawad Boulos visited Allan in the Ramla…

Palestinian detainee Mohammad Allan restarted a hunger strike, Wednesday, after Israel arrested him and reinstated his internment without trial, his lawyer said, with a previous such protest having lasted two…

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will head an urgent session, on Tuesday evening, to discuss punishment for stone-throwing.Israeli radio reported, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, that the session…

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli administrative detention are continuing their hunger strike to demand an end to imprisonment without charge or trial. Nidal Abu Aker, Ghassan Zawahreh, Shadi Ma’ali, Munir Abu…

The Israeli Tax Authority has rejected a claim for compensation by officials of the Catholic Church demanding compensation for the burnt Church of Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes, which was…

Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Ya’alon confirmed, on Wednesday, that Israeli occupation authorities know who burned the house of the Dawabsha family, in July, but failed to identify them.He claimed, according…

Israeli police and border forces took into custody, on Thursday night, 39 Palestinian workers near the Israeli resort city of Eilat, according to Israeli media.It was reported that the 39…

Medical sources said, Sunday, that Riham al-Dawabsha, mother of a Palestinian 18-month-old toddler who was killed in an terrorist attack carried out by Israeli settlers in July, was beginning to…

The Palestinian National Authority’s Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs (PNA) said, Friday, that eight Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails were on hunger strike over the unlawful policy of administrative detention which…

Vittorio Fera is released on bail after an extremely violent and terrifying time in Israeli prisons.He is falsely accused of throwing stones and attacking Israeli soldiers. His case will be…

The Israeli parliament of the Knesset passed a controversial counterterrorism bill in its first reading, on Thursday, when 45 members voted in favor of the bill, while 14 voted against.According…

Israeli military police, Wednesday night, arrested an Israeli soldier who was accused of assaulting and breaking the nose of a Palestinian prisoner that had been handcuffed and blindfolded at the…

Israeli Minister of Culture, Miri Regev, has said that the army should have shot the Palestinian women who saved Mohammad al-Tamimi from abuse by an Israeli soldier.Israeli Minister of Culture,…

The Union of Palestinian Radio and Television documented about 20 Israeli violations regarding the rights of Palestinian journalists and media staff working in Palestine this August.The Union stated, in the…

Five Palestinian detainees in the Israeli Nafha prison have been on an open-ended hunger strike for seven days in protest of their administrative detention without charge or trial, according to…

Israeli authorities have renewed the administrative detention of 85 percent of Palestinians detainees held under the policy, a prisoner rights group said Friday.The Prisoners’ Center for Studies said that at…

Dozens of Palestinians protested on Thursday, in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran near the town of Hura, in the Negev, as Israel’s construction of a Jewish town on the…

Ali Etani, a 17-year-old detainee from the northern West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday, briefed his lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) on the ill-treatment and abuse he has…

Israeli forces, Wednesday evening, took into custody three youngsters during clashes between Palestinian youth and Israeli settlers outside the Barzilai Hospital, in Ashkelon, where Mohammad Allan lies in ICU, after…

Israel released hundreds of African migrants from a desert detention center, Tuesday, after a court order. However, asylum seekers were left with few options after being barred from two cities.Detainees…

Israeli Public Prosecution informed the Barzilai, on Sunday, not to discharge Palestinian hunger-striker Mohammad Allan.Allan has begun to take food and medicines. However, the medical center had said that he…

Israel, on Monday, charged an ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israeli man with murder for stabbing a 16-year-old girl to death and wounding five others at a Gay Pride parade, as he lashed…

Haaretz Israeli newspaper, on Sunday, said that the Israeli army issued administrative orders against some 10 settlers living in West Bank settlements, and throughout Israel, over the past several days,…

The Palestinian Minister of Health said, Monday, that former hunger striker Mohammad Allan is in a stable health condition and that his health is improving gradually.Jawad Awwad’s statement was released…

Israeli excavators, on Sunday morning, began work on the infrastructure of two Jewish-only settlements in the former Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, in the Negev desert, southern Israel, according to…

Hunger-striking prisoner Mohammad Allan, on Thursday, regained consciousness following a medically induced coma day earlier, a lawyer from the Palestinian Authority’s Committee for Prisoner’s Affairs told Maan News Agency.Karim Ajwa…

Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Ya’alon, on Wednesday, reportedly gave clear instructions to his soldiers to shoot dead any Palestinian who tries to carry out an operation against Israelis.During a…

Palestinian hunger striker Mohammad Allan was in a medically induced coma on Thursday, Palestinian Authority officials and doctors said, a day after Israel lifted his administrative detention order due to…

Israel’s High Court on Wednesday suspended a detention-without-trial order on hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Muhammad Allan but said he must remain in hospital pending a decision on his future.’Due to the…

Israeli forces, overnight Monday, abducted eight Palestinians from across the occupied West Bank, according to reports by Palestinian security sources and the Israeli army.Palestinian security sources said that Israeli undercover…

Detainee Shirin Isawihas joined her brother and fellow inmate in an open-ended hunger strike, in solidarity with hunger-striking prisoner Muhammad Allan, who recently awoke from a coma induced by failing…

Senior Palestinian Authority officials, Sunday, accused Israeli authorities of preventing a Palestinian doctor from visiting Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad Allan at Barzilai Medical Center.Issa Qaraqe, the head of the PA…

Palestinian prisoner Muhammad Allan, who has been on hunger strike for two months, lost consciousness Friday morning, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said.PPS said that Allan’s health had dangerously deteriorated…

Palestinian prisoners are continuing their protests and resistance inside prison.This includes Muhammad Allan, the 31-year-old lawyer on hunger strike for 58 days to protest his administrative detention without charge or…

The number of tourists entering Israel has declined 13 per cent in the first seven months of this year, in comparison with the same period during 2014, a report by…

A lawyer representing hunger-striker Muhammad Allan lodged an urgent request to Israeli authorities on Thursday, urging them to consider his release due to his deteriorating health, a prisoners’ committee said.Abir…

Recommendations to the EU would “shut down” the Israeli economy.Israel’s financial sector is preparing for the worst following European recommendations not to work with banks invested in the oPt. Bank…

Ofer Israeli Military Court has decided to keep Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar in custody without charge, refusing to release her on bail.According to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, the judge…

Israel police questioned and freed, on Tuesday, a Jewish extremist leader who condoned torching churches amid an uproar over recent attacks carried out by Israeli settlers, including the deadly firebombing…

Over 120 Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s Nafha prison have suspended a hunger strike for a two-week period, after six days without food in protest against the Israeli Prison Service.The Palestinian…

The number of Israeli soldiers indicted for drug offenses rose by 50 percent, last year, in comparison to the year before, an internal annual army report reveals.According to Press TV/Al…

Israel has released all suspects detained in raids as part of a probe into the firebombing of a Palestinian home which killed an 18-month-old child and his father, Israeli authorities…

Shin Bet Israeli security service, with Israeli police, arrested nine settlers Sunday morning, as part of a crackdown on suspected Jewish terrorists, Haaretz said, according to the PNN.Two West Bank…

A rocket reportedly fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel on Friday, with no injuries or damage reported by the Israeli army.According to Ma’an News Agency, an Israeli…

Palestinian Prisoners and Former Prisoners Committee, Thursday, said that 120 prisoners in Nafha prison –located in the occupied Naqab south of Israel, have announced an open hunger-strike in protest of…

Muhammad Allan entered his 50th day of hunger strike, Wednesday, as the al-Asra Prisoner’s Center for Studies called for action to release the detainee, who is being held under administrative…

Israel used a controversial form of detention without trial against an alleged Jewish extremist for the first time, following international outcry over the death of a Palestinian toddler in an…

Israeli authorities, Tuesday, knocked down three Palestinian-owned homes in Dahmash, an unrecognized Palestinian village located on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, according to media sources.The demolished structures belong to the…

Two Palestinians detained in an Israeli jail have been on hunger strike for almost eight days, in protest of administrative detention and medical negligence, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society…

A Palestinian man, Emad Abu Sharekh, was seriously injured when he was brutally attacked on Sunday by three Israelis while returning from Fajr prayers at al-Kabeer Mosque, in Lod City.Abu…

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Wednesday, approved the construction of hundreds of illegal settlement units in Jerusalem and Bet El settlement near Ramallah, in response to the high court’s…

Two-hundred French Jewish immigrants have arrived in Israel, according to a Tuesday statement issued by The Jewish Agency for Israel.The newcomers – half of whom are children – were brought…

Detainee Udai Steiti, who was hospitalized after starting an open-ended hunger strike to protest his administrative detention, has asked for a wheelchair to access the hospital’s toilet, but his request…

On Monday morning, the Israeli Ministerial Committee drafted an “anti-terrorism” law. According to Israeli Channel 7, the committee is expected to approve the bill, which amends and expands the definition…

In defiance of international law, Israeli occupation authorities approved, on Thursday, 906 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank.It is reported, according to Days of Palestine, that the Israeli…

The Israeli justice ministry established a committee Tuesday that ‘legalize’ the settlements set up on the West Bank lands.Israeli cabinet secretary Avichai Mendelblit will head the committee, which had been…

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) has revealed that 53% of Israelis agree on evacuating Israeli settlements in West Bank, with 47% in disagreement, Maariv Israeli newspaper reported Wednesday.BESA carried…

A delegation from the European parliament, including ambassadors to Israel from European Union countries, was not allowed to enter the Knesset, Tuesday morning, for a meeting with members of the…

Israeli Knesset passed, on Monday evening, a bill allowing Palestinian youth caught throwing stones to be held up to 20 years in prison.The bill stipulates that youth who throw stones…

The actual reasons behind Israel’s opposition to the Iran deal, and what they mean for the region.7/20/15 | Eli Aminov | Alternative Information Center The celebration of last week’s agreement…

A 16-year-old Palestinian Bedouin was killed, and 10 others injured, when a family dispute erupted into violence in the southern Israeli city of Rahat, in the Negev, on Saturday.Israeli police…

Paper lanterns crafted for Ramadan are hanging over the heads of children as they run between a snack table and a cartoon playing on the television.On first glance, this could…

On Tuesday, an Israeli court sentenced Dirar Abu Sisi, a rocket engineer and director of Gaza’s sole power plant — destroyed last year by Israeli missiles — to prison for…

Israel’s Civil Administration secretly allocated land for 800 housing units in an illegal settlement south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, a rights group said Tuesday.Despite orders by Israeli…

Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation has passed a controversial “Jewish State’ bill that defines the country as Jewish national homeland, Israeli media reported Sunday.According to Al Ray, Likud Party deputy…

Israeli authorities have released Khader Adnan for the second time in two days after midnight, Monday, after briefly rearresting the veteran Palestinian hunger striker in East Jerusalem, just a day…

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Sunday, gave instructions to his ministers to vote against the bill which allows execution of Palestinian prisoners, saying that he opposed it. The order came…