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The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees has reported that seven Palestinian detainees are currently holding open-ended hunger strikes in Israeli detention facilities, and that some of them are facing very serious…
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Israeli Deputy Defense Minister, Danni Dannon, stated Sunday that American Secretary of State John Kerry intends to travel to the region Monday for new rounds of talks with Israeli and…
[Saturday, January 18, 2014] Israel will return the remains of 36 Palestinians currently held in Israeli ‘numbered graves’, a Palestinian committee spokesman told Ma’an News Agency.The remains of one Palestinian…
Israeli forces handed out 12 demolition orders, this Thursday, to Palestinians residing in the village of Sa’ir, in the southern al-Khalil hills close to Hebron.The Israeli military has closed the…
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In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 09-15 January 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that,…
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Secretary-General of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Abed Rabbo, stated that the Palestinian leadership rejects the proposed agreement presented by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.Abed Rabbo said that…
Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah met with representatives from the Palestinian union for the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees on Wednesday, a Palestinian official has said.Labor Minister Ahmad al-Majdalani said that…
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Al Ray – Palestinians have been barred from objecting to Israeli military court decisions to confiscate their property, under a new injunction signed last month by the head of the…
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[Saturday January 11, 2014] The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees has reported that Palestinian political prisoners held at the Israeli detention facility ‘Ramon’ started a hunger strike to protest the latest…
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Israel is refusing to allow Palestinians the usage of a World Bank funded landfill to the south of Jerusalem, according to Israeli daily Haaretz. The Palestinian News Network (PNN) reports…
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I was video chatting with my family back in Beit Sahour, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, chatting with my mother and family members back there, despite the 10-hour…
Freed detainee, Naim Shawamra, was moved to a hospital in Jordan after Israeli authorities finally granted the approval, following extended delays, Palestinian officials in the occupied West Bank said.Palestinian Minister…
51,000 children have been out of school for over a month, over 40 health clinics have been closed and garbage is piling up around the camps, due to the recent…
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[Saturday January 4, 2014] Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Saeb Erekat, said that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held a meeting with…
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In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, for the week of 26 Dec. 2013 – 01 Jan. 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human…
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Amidst ongoing Israeli violations, invasions and assaults, as well as ongoing illegal settlement construction activities, U.S. Secretary of State John Jerry is to start his tenth tour in Tel Aviv…
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) presents the situation of Palestinians at the end of 2013, as follows:Increase in world population of Palestinians The projected number of Palestinians in…
The following is an excerpt from an extensive article, posted on January 1, 2014, by the Electronic Intifada, detailing the thoughts of former Palestinian prisoner and hunger strike leader Samer…
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[Tuesday at Dawn, December 31, 2013] Israel released 26 veteran Palestinian detainees, as part of the third phase of releasing all detained Palestinians held by Israeli since before the first…
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Israel will be releasing, on Monday [December 30, 2013], 26 veteran Palestinian detainees who have been held since before the first Oslo agreement of 1993. The detainees will be released…
Israeli forces arrested three youth from Bethlehem and Hebron, early Sunday, according to security sources.Israeli forces arrested youth in their early 20s, according to the sources, after raiding and wreaking…
[Friday December 27, 2013] The Census Department of the Palestinian Ministry of Detainee published its annual report stating that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, this year,3874 Palestinians, including 931 children. Four detainees…
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In its weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories, for the week of 19 – 25 December 2013, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…
[Thursday December 26, 2013] Palestinian Presidential Spokesperson Nabil Abu Rodeina stated, Thursday, that the Palestinians are not having any kind of ‘secret talks’ with Tel Aviv.His statements came after some…
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Israel will be announcing plans for new settlement construction next week, in conjunction with the release of a third group of Palestinian prisoners as part of peace negotiations, according to…
[Wednesday December 25, 2013] Israel is expected tp release a group of Palestinian prisoners, all of which have been in jail since before 1994. The release is to take place…
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[Monday December 23, 2013] Different Palestinian factions in occupied Palestine congratulated Samer Al-Eesawy, who was released from an Israeli detention facility on Monday, after conducting a 9-month hunger strike.The factions…
Israeli authorities have released Monday evening (23rd December) the Jerusalemite prisoner, Samer Issawi, who engaged in one of the longest hunger strikes in history after spending more than 11 years…
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[Monday December 23, 2013] Samer Issawi, iconic Palestinian political prisoner and hunger strike organizer, was released today, following over 17 months in Shatta Prison.Family members said that Israeli forces raided…
According to an Arab League official, US Secretary of State John Kerry will present Palestinian and Israeli leaders with a framework peace agreement by the end of the month, the…
[Sunday, December 22, 2013] Israeli soldiers invaded the northern West Bank districts of Nablus and Jenin, and installed a number of roadblocks on various main roads.Local sources state that undercover…
Alternative Information Center (AIC) – Eyad Sarraj, a Gazan psychiatrist and leading Palestinian human rights defender, has died at the age of 69, after a long battle with leukemia.Sarraj was…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the construction of settlements will continue, regardless of warnings that peace negotiations with the Palestinians could suffer a breakdown, the Palestinian News Network…
According to a new report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), at least 3,608 Palestinians were injured by Israeli soldiers, this year.Furthermore, the report states…
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In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 12- 18 December 2013, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
Member of the Central Committee of the Fateh Movement, Fathi Abu Eshtayya, denounced the ongoing Israeli assaults, and stated that the army has killed 31 Palestinians, kidnapped at least 500,…
[Thursday, December 19, 2013] Israel said that it would be handing over, to the Palestinian Authority (P.A) in the West Bank, the remains of 36 Palestinians buried in the Numbers…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PSS), Hanan Khatib, has reported that the health conditions of two Palestinian detainees have sharply deteriorated, due to lack of adequate and specialized medical…
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[Wednesday, December 18, 2013] Senior Palestinian sources are accusing the Obama administration of taking up Israeli positions in the peace talks. During U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s last two…
Alternative Information Center (AIC) – The winter storm that raged through the West Bank and Gaza Strip, from Thursday to Saturday, has left tens of thousands of Palestinian families without…
The Palestinian Center for Public Opinion conducted a poll randomly surveying 1000 Palestinians from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem in the period between November 27 and…
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[Sunday, December 15, 2013] Alternative Information Center (AIC) – The Israeli government has officially announced that parliamental discussions in the Knesset concerning the Prawer plan will be halted. This is…
[Saturday, December 14, 2013] (Ma’an) Civil defense forces in the West Bank reported, on Saturday evening, that at least one person has died and 53 have been injured in storm-related…
The Israeli Ofer Prison administration has transferred the prisoner Mutassim Samara, a leader in the Captive Movement, to Megiddo prison, after being moved from Negev to Ofer Prison only one…
[Saturday, December 14, 2013] President Mahmoud Abbas, according to a Palestinian source, has rejected US proposals for Israel to keep troops in a future Palestinian state along the Jordan border,…
Well… U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stated that he strongly believes peace is possible between Israel and the Palestinians in April this coming year, about four more months from…
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[December, 2013] The World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed concerns over critical shortages in medical supplies and electricity for Gaza health services — shortages which are putting Palestinian patients’ lives…
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 05- 11 December 2013, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
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[December 11, 2013] AIC (Alternative Information Center) — Shaykh Sayah Atouri has returned to his home in the Naqab (Negev-area) village of Al Araqib, Tuesday, after winning his appeal to…
[Thursday, December 12, 2013] The Israeli government has decided to discard a controversial draft law to relocate thousands of Bedouin residents from the Negev desert, the Ma’an News Agency has…
For the first time since Israel was established in the historic land of Palestine, in 1948, and the resulting destruction and displacement of hundreds of villages and towns, there, a…
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[December 11, 2013] U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive to the region, today, in order to push the last of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, the Palestinian News Network…
[Tuesday, December 10, 2013] Marking The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Adopted by the UN on December 10 1948), the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israel is ongoing…
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the international Middle East media center, www.imemc.org for Tuesday December 10, 2013U.S. Secretary of State, john Kerry to visit Palestine and Israel, meanwhile…
The White House announced that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry would be visiting Tel Aviv and Ramallah on Wednesday, November 11, to hold separate talks with Israeli Prime Minister…
On 10 December, the world celebrates the Human Rights Day, which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1950 to review the international achievements in the field of…
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Israeli TV Channel 10 has reported that Arab Members of Israeli Knesset are demanded the visiting US Secretary of State, John Kerry, to intervene and stop Israel’s Prawer Negev displacement…
The European Union has granted the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) in the West Bank approximately €11 Million, in order to help it pay November salaries of more than 71,000 Palestinian civil…
[Thursday, December 5, 2013] Israeli sources have reported that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected security arrangements offered by US Secretary of State John Kerry, during their Thursday meeting in…
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[Thursday, December 5, 2013] Israeli media sources have reported that United States Secretary General, John Kerry, will be separately meeting, later on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian…
It has been another busy year in PCHR and the attached report will tell you why. – Link to full PCHR report on Human Rights situation in 2013 attached.This year…
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December 3 2013, marked the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. In 1992, at the conclusion of the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons (1983-1992), the General Assembly proclaimed 3…
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[Sunday, December 1, 2013] The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights has issued its monthly report revealing that Israel soldiers shot and killed 13 Palestinians in the West…
[Saturday, November 30, 2013] Israeli soldiers and police officers have violently assaulted hundreds of nonviolent protesters marching, in the Negev, against the Prawer-Begin Negev displacement plan.The Police, in full riot…
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In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 21- 27 Nov. 2013, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
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