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To mark the occasion of Land Day, one thousand olive saplings were planted on Palestinian land threatened with seizure by Israel in ‘Arraba, near Jenin, on Monday. The saplings were…

[Sunday, March 30, 2014] Israeli soldiers violently attacked several nonviolent protests held by Palestinians across the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem marking the 38th anniversary of Palestine’s Land Day, leading…

President Mahmoud Abbas has been exerting all efforts to negotiate the release of the fourth group of Palestinian veteran prisoners, a PLO official said Sunday.Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat said…

As negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian officials reach a standstill, Palestinian negotiators have voiced their objection to the Israeli decision not to release the last of four groups of Palestinian…

A member of the PLO’s Executive committee said in a statement, Saturday, that ‘stagnant’ negotiations with Israel have been ‘too costly for the Palestinian people,’ pointing at a long list…

Israeli forces hit a journalist with a tear gas canister during clashes in the Jerusalem governorate as Palestinians marked Land Day, according to a local popular committee spokesman. Hani Halabiyya…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, for the week of 20 – 26 March, 2014, the Israeli military killed a child and…

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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has demanded that the Palestinian Authority security apparatus and its intelligence services halt a campaign of arrests, and persecution of its…

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to extend peace talks with Israel, if certain conditions are met, a Palestinian official said on Monday.Photo: A Palestinian youth holds his national flag…

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A Palestinian teenager who confessed to throwing stones after he was tortured in Israeli custody faces attempted murder charges and a severe prison sentence.Photo: Ali Shamlawi, 17, was held in…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 13 – 19 March, 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…

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Israeli military forces have killed 56 Palestinians and injured 897 since the resumption of peace negotiations with Israel in July, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said Tuesday.According to the PLO…

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Israeli authorities, late Tuesday, delivered the remains of four Palestinians withheld by Israel for over a decade, according to Palestinian officials.Tamir Arafeh, director of the military liaison department in the…

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Fadi Obeidat, a lawyer of the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, has reported that two detainees, including a 70-year old, are facing serious health deterioration while Israel is denying them the…

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The Israeli Housing Ministry approved, Tuesday, construction permits for 387 settlement units in Ramat Shlomo, to the south of occupied Jerusalem.By this decision, occupation authorities aim to expand the settlement…

The Israeli Authorities handed, on Tuesday evening, the remains of five Palestinians who were buried at the Numbers Graveyard for many years. The bodies were moved to the Taybeh roadblock,…

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The Israeli military abducted, on Tuesday, three young Palestinians from Tkou’ village, east of Bethlehem.According to the Palestinian News Network, a security source said that the Israeli military raided the…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refuses to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, thereby rejecting the demands of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. According to Abbas; ‘They are pressing and saying, ‘No…

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PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi recently stressed on the essential role of Britain and of Europe in exercising a corrective influence on negotiations, bringing Israel to compliance, and…

The Head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, stated that, since 1967, Israel has kidnapped and imprisoned more than 15,000 women, including 1,000 since…

A request by a European Union official to visit Palestinian political prisoners, held by Israel, was denied by Israeli Foriegn Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, of the extreme right-wing “Israel Our Home”…

The Prison Administration at the Negev Detention Camp, in the Negev Desert of occupied Palestine, moved detainee Majed Taha Qaraqe’, age 40, to the Soroka medical center after suffering serious…

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Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, sent on Wednesday identical letters to the UN Secretary General, President of the UN Security Council and President of the UN…

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The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights have reported that Israel is currently holding captive 21 Palestinian women at the Hasharon prison, under very dire conditions and ongoing…

The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights has reported that Israel is currently holding captive eleven democratically elected Palestinian legislators and one minister.In a press release, head of…

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A number of Palestinian Prisoners in Shatta prison were injured, last Thursday, when Israeli forces raided cells 7 and 10 ,in the prison, smashed their belongings and sabotaged the section.Some…

According to the Palestinian Department of Antiquities, there are 944 archaeological sites in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, while the number of monuments hit 10 thousand, the Palestinian…

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat rejected, on Thursday, a decision by United States officials to extend the April deadline for reaching a framework peace deal in nine months.The US stated…

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In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, for the week of 20 – 26 February, 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…

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Palestine Liberation Organization – Negotiation Affairs Department issued, Wednesday, a report revealing the number of Israeli violations that were committed since the resumption of negotiations, as follows: (PNN) Since the…

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[Monday at Dawn, February 24, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, kidnapping ten Palestinians. The army also kidnapped two from their work places in…

Lawyer of Prisoner’s Club Society, Fawwaz Shloudi, said that the Israeli occupation administration transferred the 15-year-old Palestinian prisoner Ubaida Asaid from Ofek criminal prison to Hasharon prison.Shloudi said that Asaid…

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The Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association (Ad-Dameer) has reported that one of its lawyers visited, on Thursday – February 20, 2014, hunger-striking detainee Abdul-Majid Khudirat at the Ramla prison…

The International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights (ISFHR) has reported that a Palestinian detainee from the northern West Bank district of Nablus fainted before his military court hearing, on Thursday…

Nawal Jabarin wants to be a doctor when she grows up. For now, she lives in a cave with 14 siblings, in constant fear of military raids. We meet the…

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The Turkish government will transfer $5 million to the Palestinian Authority in the coming two days, the Palestinian ambassador to Turkey said, on Thursday.Nabil Maroof told Ma’an News Agency, on…

Israeli Knesset passed, on Wednesday, in its first reading, a bill to deprive Palestinian prisoners from 1948 territories of national insurance benefits, upon their release from Israeli jails, amidst increased…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Wednesday, denounced the Israeli prime minister’s campaign of intimidation against companies and organizations which boycott Israeli businesses involved in supporting settlement construction in the…

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The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that a disabled Palestinian detainee, held by Israel and facing several health complications, was moved into solitary confinement, last week, for demanding to…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that eight Palestinians detainees, held by Israel, have been holding hunger strikes demanding to be released, as they are held without charges or…

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Dozens of Israeli settlers, in recent months, have installed cameras on their vehicles’ license-plates in order to capture Palestinians and record the shooting and incidents of throwing stones or Molotov…

The Palestinian Interior Ministry has begun work to remove the religion section from Palestinian citizens’ identification cards. Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry Hassan Alawi stated that ‘the implementation to abolish…

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Japan announced, Thursday, a contribution of $30 million to the Palestinian budget, out of a total of $62.2 million to be donated.WAFA reports that Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah thanked Japan…

Two young Palestinian football players shot by Israeli forces, last month, have learned that they will never again be able to play sports, due to their injuries, say doctors. Doctors…

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Israeli soldiers have arrested two Palestinians in the town of Ni’lin, West of Ramallah in Palestine.Both were political leaders of the Hamas movement. According to the Palestinian News Network (PNN),…

The Israeli West Jerusalem municipality, on Monday, destroyed a mobile caravan used as a storage belonging to a Palestinian in the neighborhood of al-Tur, East Jerusalem, under the pretext that…

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A report published by the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees in Ramallah, on February 8, revealed that several ailing detainees currently imprisoned by Israel, including cancer patients, are suffering serious deterioration…

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The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) issued its weekly reports on Israeli violations in the occupied territories for the period between January 30 to February 5, 2014.The PCHR stated…

Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has brokered an agreement between Palestinian employees of UNRWA and the agency’s administration, ending a two-month strike.Officials privy to the details told Ma’an News Agency on…

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February 4, 2014, Head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, said that Israel is currently holding captive around 4,800 Palestinians in seventeen prisons, detention…

Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Israeli state to justify the route of the separation wall in Beit Jala’s Cremisan valley in an apparent indication that the proposed land…

YNet News reported, on Sunday afternoon, that new information has been leaked from the latest peace talks which speak of the US suggesting that Palestinians get areas of Negev in…

Israeli occupation authorities on Tuesday agreed to allow a thousand tons of cement into Gaza for the families affected by Alex storm, a Gaza official said. Turkish aid distributed. A…

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The Central Committee of the Fateh Movement of Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that there can be no peace with Tel Aviv without an independent Palestinian State, with East Jerusalem…

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The launching ceremony of the Palestinian Electricity Transmission Company (PETL) was held on Monday, in Ramallah, and was attended by high-ranking Palestinian officials and an EU representative.PETL is the first…

[Saturday, February 01, 2014] The Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies and Human Rights has reported that Israeli soldiers killed six Palestinians, wounded dozens of others, and kidnapped 383, in January…

In an interview, conducted by the Al-Quds Daily Newspaper, and published Saturday, February 1, 2014, Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, said Israel has kidnapped more than 3000 Palestinians in…

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