Category: Israel

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…

The Israeli secret service (Shin Bet) reported Sunday that they had arrested three men for questioning for the burning of the Chruch of the Loaves and Fishes, where Christians believe…

The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) announced that on Sunday July 12th, they will bring back a bill to forcibly remove 40,000 Palestinian Bedouins from their homes in the Negev desert in…

An Israeli court in Jerusalem, Thursday, sentenced a Palestinian man to 18 months in prison over allegedly using the social media website Facebook as a mode of ‘incitement.’Misbah Sbeih Abu…

A secret deal between the Likud party and Yisrael Beiteinu party, in the Knesset, was exposed today. according to the PNN.The deal, agreed between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and…

Israeli politicians have voted to continue work on a bill to allow hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners to be force-fed. Those who oppose it have argued that this is meant to silence…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition lost a parliamentary vote Wednesday for the first time since taking office with a knife-edge majority in May.The vote, on a technical issue…

A Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails, Yasser Tarwa from Hebron, has been in a state of unconsciousness since he was shot and arrested by Israeli forces on June 21, according…

401 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons are boycotting military courts in protest of the inhumane Israeli policy of administrative detention, which violates international humanitarian law and enables the Israeli government…

A rocket landed in the Eshkol region of southern Israel, Friday afternoon, with no injuries or damage reported, the Israeli army said.Rocket sirens sounded across the region at approximately 4:20…

A Palestinian detainee currently being held in the Israeli prison system has entered an open-ended hunger strike over his administrative detention without charge or trial, according to the Committee of…

No deal has been reached between the Israeli authorities and Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan who, on Saturday, entered his 54th day on hunger strike, his lawyer said.'(Israel) is seeking to…

An Israeli decision to purchase new defense technology and to update older mechanisms was revealed by Israeli media, today.Israeli television Channel 7, this morning, revealed the existence of an Israeli…

The Israeli Interior Ministry and Land Administration Agency, in cooperation with the Regavim NGO and the Jewish National Fund (JNF), have been demolishing 1,000 Arab homes in Al-Naqab every year,…

The Israeli government removed, on Tuesday, Israeli human rights group B’Tselem from its service programme after contributing to the UN Gaza inquiry.B’Tselem was one of ten human rights groups which…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Tuesday it was concerned about the deteriorating health and critical condition of Khader Adnan, a Palestinian detainee in Israel, who has…

The Knesset is currently holding a ‘heated debate’ on whether or not to rescind the diplomatic immunity of MK Basel Ghattas of the Joint List party, after he announced on…

Palestinian members of the Israeli Knesset said Tuesday that the UN report on last summer’s war in the Gaza Strip provided enough evidence that Israel should be taken before the…

Following condemnations by other Christian organizations, the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries issued a statement condemning the church burning by right-wing Jewish extremists on Thursday night. Father Michel Sabbah, Father Amjad…

Israeli police detained and have now released 16 young Jewish settlers, Thursday, after an overnight arson attack damaged a revered shrine in northern Israel.The arson attack struck the Church of…

Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), strongly denounced the burning of an historic church, in Tabgha, on the northwest shore of the…

An Israeli rights group released, on Tuesday, a video showing Israeli soldiers intentionally targeting child who posed them no danger.In March of 2014, Israeli soldiers shot and killed Yusef al-Shawamreh,…

The family of 37-year-old detainee Khader Adnan, who has been on hunger strike for the 45 days in a row, recently stated that Adnan refused to undergo medical tests by…

Early Thursday morning, right-wing Israelis set on fire the Church of the Multiplication, where Christians believe that Jesus multiplied loaves and fishes, and wrote graffiti in Hebrew on the walls…

The commission of Detainees Affairs has stated that Nahshon special units broke into Ramon prison, assaulted the detainees and moved eight of them to other cells.In a report issued on…

Minister of detainees and ex-detainees affairs committee, Issa Qaraqe, says that the Israeli prison administration has decided to stop providing Palestinian prisoners with medication, under the pretext of an allegedly…

Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, who is now on his 42nd day on hunger strike against the Israeli practice of administrative detention, said Tuesday that ‘the more [the Israelis] torture me,…

An Israeli government report about the possible effects of BDS on the economy outlines devastating harm. No wonder Israel attempted to hide the report.Under the title “Economy of Israel in…

As numerous Palestinian prisoners are engaged in hunger strikes right now, vowing to continue until death, the Israeli cabinet decided on Sunday to allow prison officials to forcefeed the prisoners.The…

The administration of Dimona nuclear reactor has reportedly been conducting a number of experiments on radioactive bombs, in the Negev desert and also within closed reactor constructors, Haaretz recently unveiled.The…

A group of activists, institutions and prominent figures in the Gaza Strip Wednesday announced a hunger strike in solidarity with detainee Khader Adnan who went on a hunger strike to…

A human rights group submitted, on Wednesday, a report to UN about Israeli torture and mistreatment of Palestinian children. Military Court Watch (MCW) lodged the submission with the UN Special…

Israeli media reported, Tuesday, that Khader Adnan, the Palestinian administrative detainee who has been on hunger strike for over a month has been forcibly hospitalized and chained to his bed.Al…

Israel’s deputy parliament speaker, lawmaker Oren Hazan, has said he will sue privately owned Channel 2 over a report alleging his involvement in pimping and drugs.’I have ordered my lawyer…

The Palestinian Authority’s Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs (CPA) said, in a statement Sunday, that 93 Palestinian minors are currently incarcerated in the Israeli Ofer prison near Ramallah.According to WAFA correspondence,…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has allocated an additional NIS 100 million and ten government positions to the fight against BDS.The Israeli news site ynet reports that Netanyahu held consultations about…

Israeli officials, last week, launched a war against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which has been gaining ground in recent weeks.According to thge PNN, Hebrew, international and Palestinian…

Chief of Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe said, today, that the health of prisoner Khader Adnan had become increasingly bad after he reached the 35th day in his hunger strike protesting…

The family of Khader Adnan, leader in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, who was rearrested and incarcerated in Israeli jails, has confirmed to media the physical weariness which has appeared…

Israel’s military reported, late Wednesda,y that two rockets were fired from the southern Gaza Strip.The Israeli army confirmed reports of rocket-warning sirens going off in Ashkelon and Netivot. No injures…

It is nap-time at Felizia’s daycare center, a squalid street-level flat in Tel Aviv where loud pop music drowns out the miserable cries of dozens of children and babies cooped…

An Israeli military judge reversed a ruling to release Khalida Jarrar on bail, deeming the Palestinian parliamentarian as a ‘security risk’ based on secret evidence, prisoner rights group Addameer told…

Palestinian detainee Abdullah Barghouti began, on Sunday, an open-ended hunger strike to protest his solitary confinement, Chairman of the Prisoners’ Affairs Committee, Issa Qaraqe, reported.The Israeli prison administration placed the…

Israeli Prison Services, on Sunday, put Palestinian detainee Abdulla al-Barghouti in solitary confinement after he gave a radio interview.Israeli troops were ordered by prison services to storm Al-Barghouti’s cell in…

A range of organizations, Saturday, held a march in Jerusalem to call an end to 48 years of the 1967 occupation. Among the organizers was the Coalition of Women for…

Palestinian mother of six children, wife of prisoner, sister of three prisoners Samaher Zeineddin has now entered her 2nd year in prison, without charge.Samaher, age 35, the mother of six…

Israeli president Reuven Rivlin , this week, warned that the Palestinian push towards Boycott, Divestment and sanctions against Israel, in international universities, and Footbal Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)…

Israeli Minister Ayelet Shaked has proposed a sentence of 20 years in prison for Palestinian boys throwing stones at Israeli forces, reports Days of Palestine.Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported, Thursday,…

In an ongoing campaign by Israeli authorities to push Bedouin communities from the Negev, Israeli bulldozers demolished the home of Ali Hammad Abu Rabia in the Makhul village Thursday, locals…

Israeli forces use extreme and brutal methods to force confessions out of Palestinian detainees for ‘crimes against Israel’ such as stone-throwing.The head of the Palestinian Authority prisoners’ affairs committee, Issa…

38-year-old Palestinian detainee Mohammad Idrees Rashdan, from the village of Einabus, near Nablus, has launched an open-ended hunger strike after being denied family visits by Israeli authorities, the Palestinian Prisoner’s…

‘The whole land of Israel belongs to the Jews”, said the new Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Hotovely of the new coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, during a…

Israeli authorities released, on Thursday, the former Palestinian minister of prisoners affairs Wasfi Qabha after 10 months in detention, the Ahrar Center for Prisoners and Human Rights said. Jailed Palestinian…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Wednesday, ordered the suspension of a controversial measure banning Palestinians from riding the same buses as Jewish settlers when returning from Israel to the West…

The Israeli Supreme court, on Tuesday, turned down an appeal, by the descendants of Sheikh Suleiman Muhammad al-Ukbi, against a three-year-old decision by the central court of Beersheba.The court, in…

A PLO human rights specialist has revealed that around 95% of Palestinians imprisoned by Israelis have been tortured.“They had been subject to physical, verbal and psychological torture,” Hassan Abed-Rabbu, information…

Former Palestinian hunger striker and detainee, Khader Adnan, has been on a hunger strike for seven consecutive days in protest of his administrative detention in Israeli jails, without charge or…

The general responsible for Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip says that continued rule by Hamas is necessary for its stability, Israeli media reported Tuesday.’The alternative would be the Israeli…

Head of the Fateh political party in East Jerusalem was sentenced to nine months imprisonment for postings on Facebook, the first time such a punishment has been given under Israeli…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara has hit back at what she says is a smear campaign over her alleged mistreatment of domestic employees, media reported on Monday.She railed…

Israel’s new coalition government, under the direction of PM Benjamin Netanyahu, has taken on Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan as its deputy defense minister, known for his previous assertion that Palestinian are…

The Israeli military court of Ofer, on Sunday, sentenced five Palestinian ex-detainees – who were released in the Gilad Shalit prisoners swap in 2011 and were rearrested in 2014 –…

Israeli forces may have committed ‘grave violations’ of the international laws of warfare during last summer’s bloody Gaza conflict, according to the accounts of soldiers who fought in it.A collection…

The Israeli Supreme Court, on Tuesday, issued a final decision to demolish and displace the people of Atir-Umm Al-Hieran, a Palestinian village which remains unrecognized in the Negev desert of…

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has announced that he will resign his position and that his political party will not take part in Israel’s incoming government.According to Al Ray correspondence…

Israeli authorities have closed an investigation into a policeman who shot dead a young Palestinian with Israeli citizenship during an arrest operation in November, the justice ministry said on Monday.’The…

Israel’s military command perhaps pushes for escalation in order to increase the army’s budget, claims a military budget officer in an anonymous Facebook posting. “Wars, operations, exceptional events, they were…

A protest in Tel Aviv, Sunday, against racism and police brutality, initiated by Ethiopian Israelis, has left some 68 people injured and 43 now in police custody, according to the…

Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews protested Thursday evening [April 30, 2015], near Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s residence in Jerusalem, against racism, discrimination and continuous violence suffered at the hands of…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed coalition deals with two parties on Wednesday, in his first steps toward constructing a new government, one week before the deadline to present a…

Palestinians in the pre-1948 occupied territories staged a mass strike in protest of the policy of house demolitions. The strikers also prepare for a mass rally intended towards Tel Aviv,…

A rocket, Thursday night, was reported to have been fired from the Gaza Strip into the Negev desert area. Sirens sounded in Sderot settlement in the south, according to the…

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have turned down a request from Jimmy Carter to meet during his upcoming visit to the occupied Palestinian territories, because of…