Israel Shifts A Section Of the Annexation Wall in Bilin
The Israeli army started on Tuesday evening to shift a section of the illegal Annexation Wall built on lands that belong to the residents of Bil’in village, west of the…
Settlers Torch Farmlands Near Ramallah
After a recent burning of its mosque, a group of extremist Israeli settlers torched on Friday Palestinian farmlands planted with wheat in the Al Mogheer village, north of the central…
Settlers Torch Olive Orchards Near Ramallah
A number of armed extremist Israeli settlers torched on Wednesday at night dozens of olive trees that belong to villagers of Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of…
Israeli troops attack anti-Wall protest near Ramallah, injuring seven
According to local sources, Israeli forces attacked a non-violent action by Palestinian men, women and children trying to block Israeli bulldozers from bulldozing their farmland and orchards on Wednesday.Eyewitnesses reported…
Army Invades Bilin Village
Israeli soldiers invaded on Saturday evening Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and fired rounds of live ammunition, rubber-coated bullets and gas bombs in different directions…
65-year-old Man Wounded By Army Fire Near Ramallah
Israeli soldiers shot and injured on Friday a 65-year-old man during clashes that took place in Kafr Malik village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, between local residents…
Dozens Wounded In Bil’ins Weekly Nonviolent Protest
Dozens suffered from the effects of tear gas inhalation when the Israeli army showered protestors with tear gas in the village of Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of…
Settlers Torch A Mosque Near Ramallah
Local residents of Al Mughayyir village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, reported Tuesday at dawn that fundamentalist settlers set the local mosque ablaze, and wrote racist graffiti…
Non-violence activist addresses Israeli military court
Non-violence activist Bassem Tamimi’s address to Israel’s Ofer military court during his trial for organizing protests in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. A military judge refused to allow…
Settlers Clash With Israeli Police, 11 injured
Israeli Police spokesperson, Micky Rosenfeld, stated that six Israeli policemen and five settlers were injured during violent clashes that took place on Thursday when the Israeli police dismantled an illegal…
Juppe Presents Peace Plan. Says France Will Host Talks
French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, has proposed a Middle East peace conference in Paris before the end of July in an attempt to restart the stalled Middle East peace process,…
Troops Kidnap Seven Palestinians In Ramallah
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Thursday at dawn seven Palestinians in the central West Bank city of Ramallah.Israeli Army Radio reported on Thursday morning that the army invaded several villages and…
Israeli settlers dump sewage in Palestinian town
Sewage and wastewater from the Israeli settlement of Ariel, the largest settlement in the West Bank, has polluted the Palestinian village of Bruqin, which sits adjacent to the settlement.Ariel is…
Two Young Men Wounded; Dozens Suffer Gas Inhalation In Bil’in Weekly Demonstration
On Friday, in the weekly march in Bil’in organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall with the participation of Sa’di Tameezi, the Palestinian ambassador to Vietnam, two young men…
Activists Travelling To Weekly Bil’in Protest Blocked by Israeli troops
Roads were blocked to activists travelling Friday to the weekly anti-wall protest in the town of Bil’in. The Israeli military blocked all roads going into the town as a means…
Bil’in Villagers Protest Againt The Wall To Mark The Nakba
Three civilians were injured in the village of Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, as the villagers carried out their weekly anti-wall protest. As is the case…
22 Wounded One Critically in The Weekly Nonviolent Protest in Nabi Saleh
A large march started after the Friday prayers midday towards the construction site of the new settlement Israel is building on the land of the villagers of Nabi Saleh near…
Masked Gunmen Execute A Suspected Collaborator Near Ramallah
A group of gunmen killed on Saturday at night a resident from Al Jalazonerefugee camp, north of the central West bank city of Ramallah, believed to be a collaborator with…
Soldiers Attack Nabi Saleh Procession Celebrating Unity
Israeli soldiers attacked on Wednesday a nonviolent procession in Nabi Saleh village, near the central West Bank city of Nablus, as dozens of residents marched in the streets celebrating the…
Army Seales Nabi Saleh Village
Israeli soldiers sealed late on Monday at night the entrances of Nabi Saleh village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after closing its two main gates and…
Health Condition Of Child, Wounded Friday, Deteriorates
Medical sources at the Palestine Medical Center In Ramallah reported on Monday morning that the child, who was hit by a gas bomb fired by the army last Friday, was…
Four Wounded, Dozens Suffer Effects Of Tear Gas Inhalation In Bil’in
On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, as local residents along with Israeli and international supporters marched…
Palestinian Youth Remain Camped Out On Hunger Strike For 17th Day
A group of Palestinian youth who began a sit-in and hunger strike in Ramallah 17 days ago say they will continue the strike until the Palestinian Authority releases political prisoners,…
Suffering From Cancer, Child Detainee Released From Israeli Prison
Palestinian sources reported Monday that detainee Mustafa Shihab Abdul-Wahab, 16 years old, from a village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, was released from an Israeli detention facility…
Army Invades Bil’in
Under the pretext of searching for international peace activists, Israeli soldiers and policemen invaded on Monday at dawn Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, broke into…
Army Kidnaps A Hamas Leader In Ramallah
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Thursday evening, Mohammad Ahmad Rayyan, a political leader of the Hamas movement in the central West Bank city of Ramallah.Rayyan’s arrest comes a few days after…
Palestinian Woman Attacked By Settlers Near Ramallah
A Palestinian woman was attacked on Wednesday at night by a group of Jewish settlers while she was driving her car on the Bir Zeit Road, near Jalazonerefugee camp, in…
Fateh Wins Student Elections In Bir Zeit, Islamic Bloc Boycotted the Polls
Dr. Mohammad Al Ahmad, the Dean of Student Affairs in Bir Zeit University, near the central West bank city of Ramallah, stated that the Yasser Arafat Bloc of the Fateh…
Weekly Non-violent Protests Attacked in the West Bank
Three protesters were injured and 13 arrested when Israeli troops forcibly suppressed weekly anti-wall protest marches in several locations across the West Bank.In Bil’in, a village in the central West…
Head of Popular Committee in Nabi Saleh Arrested
Bassem at-Tamimi, the head of the Popular Committee Against the Wall & Settlements in an-Nabi Saleh, has been arrested by the Israeli military on Thursday.At-Tamimi was preparing to meet with…
Soldiers Abuse A Palestinian Company Guard Near Ramallah
Israeli soldiers broke on Wednesday morning into a tower that belongs to the National Cellular Phone Company in Jenin, attacked and detained the guard forcing him to remove his shirt…
Abbas Says Ready To Head To Gaza For Talks
Mahmoud Abbas has stated, on Wednesday, that he is willing to travel to the Gaza Strip to meet with Ismail Haniyya of Hamas, in an attempt to restart the stalled…
Hundreds Protest for Unity in Ramallah
Hundreds of protesters came together, on Tuesday, in Ramallah’s al-Manara Square to call for the end of political division, and a united stance for all Palestinians against the Israeli occupation…
Palestinian Non-violent Organizer Released From Prison
Abdullah Abu Rahme, a Palestinian organizer of the weekly non-violent demonstrations in Bil’in village, in the central West Bank, was released from prison on Monday after serving a 16-month sentence…
Settlers Uproot Lands Planted With Wheat Near Ramallah
A group of extremist settlers uprooted 150 Dunams planted with wheat near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.The settlers came from an illegal outpost near Al Mogheer Palestinian village…
Thousands of Palestinians Protest U.S. Veto of Settlement Resolution
An estimated 3,000 Palestinians marched through downtown Ramallah, in the central West Bank, on Sunday afternoon to protest the U.S. government’s veto of a United Nations Security Council Resolution condemning…
HRW Video Exposes Repression by PA Police
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a video, Wednesday, showing plainclothes Palestinian police officers trapping a protester and beating him while he was taking part in a demonstration in support of…
Bil’in protest in solidarity with Egypt attacked by Israeli troops
Several hundred Palestinians, along with international and Israeli supporters, gathered in the village of Bil’in on Friday for their weekly non-violent protest. This week’s protest called for national unity, and…
Army Kidnaps Three Children in Bil’in
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Wednesday three Palestinian children in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after claiming that they were standing near the annexation wall.Eyewitnesses reported…
Hamas MP’s Hold A Meeting With South African Embassy In Ramallah
Palestinian sources in Ramallah reported, Monday, that officials of the South African Embassy in the city held a meeting with elected Hamas members of parliament to discuss the current situation…
An-Nabi Saleh Popular Committee Leader Beaten, Two Children Arrested
Following the arrests of Karim Saleh al-Tamimi and, his brother, Islam, the leader of the Popular Commitee Against The Wall & Settlements in Nabi Saleh, Bassam Tamimi has been arrested,…
A Statement by a Group of Palestinian Youths Regarding the PA Crackdown of Tunisia Solidarity Rally
Palestinian Authority Police Sabotage Solidarity with Tunis Event in Ramallah and Confiscate Tunisian Flag Occupied Palestine – Ramallah – January 20, 2011 Palestinian security forces sabotaged an event that was…
Palestinian Authority Sabotages Tunisia Rally in Ramallah
Last Wednesday, the Palestinian Authority refused to grant permission to a group of Palestinian activists for a solidarity rally with the people of Tunisia for their overthrow of the Tunisian…
Israel Claims Palestinian Woman Died Of Previous Health Condition, Medical Reports State Otherwise
The Israeli army issued a report claiming that Jawaher Abu Rahmah, who was killed by the army more than two weeks ago during a nonviolent protest against the Wall in…
Four Civilians Injured by Israeli Soldiers During Bil’in and Ni’lin Wall Protests
Four civilians were injured on Friday when Israeli soldiers attacked the anti-wall protests in the villages of Bil’in and Nil’in, central West Bank.In the central West Bank village of Bil’in,…
Three injured at Bil’in protest commemorating woman killed by tear gas last week
Dozens of people suffered from inhalation of tear gas fired by Israeli troops at a protest commemorating the death of Jawaher Abu Rahma last week by tear gas inhalation. Two…
Role of Israeli firms raises boycott concerns about Rawabi
(Image below) Bashar Masri shows US Consul General in Jerusalem Daniel Rubinstein (left) and USTDA Director Leocadia Zak (second from left) around the site of the planned Rawabi real estate…
Palestinian Developer Intends To Buy Settlement Construction Firm
A construction firm headed by Palestinian businessman, Bashar Al Masry, intends to buy an Israeli Construction Firm that builds Jewish settlements in occupied East Jerusalem. The news angered residents of…
Israeli Army Arrests 9 French Nationals In The West Bank
The Israeli troops operating at the military checkpoint of Qalandia, north of Jerusalem arrested nine French protestors and assaulted others at the checkpoint, Sunday at noon.The nine arrestees were taking…
Palestinian-American Meeting Held In Ramallah
Head of the Palestinian negotiations team, Dr. Saeb Erekat, stated Tuesday that Palestinian and American officials held a meeting in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, but added that…
Dozens Injured By Tear Gas at Weekly Protests; Palestinian Shot With Tear Gas Canister
On Friday, dozens of people were treated from the ill effects of tear gas inhalation, as a result of inhaling said gas during the weekly nonviolent protests against the wall…
Picasso to Ramallah
A joint initiative between Ramallah’s International Art Academy Palestine and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands, is trying to bring an original masterpiece by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso to…
Peace Activist Released From Israeli Prison
The Israeli Authorities released Adeeb Abu Rahma, 40, one of the leaders of the nonviolent movement against the Annexation Wall and settlements in Bil’in village near the central West Bank…
Soldiers Attack Bil’in Weekly Protest
As Palestinian residents of Bil’in village, near Ramallah, accompanied by Israeli and international Peace activists, held their weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and settlements, Israeli soldiers violently attacked…
Hearing Begins In Case Of Palestinian Non-violent Protest Organizer
Abdullah Abu Rahme was brought to an Israeli court Monday, after completing a one year prison sentence for ‘incitement’ due to his role organizing non-violent weekly demonstrations against the Wall.…
16 Year Old Child Detained During Night Raid in Bi’lin
The Israeli military raided the West Bank village of Bi’lin, on Tuesday, and detained a 16 year old boy, Mohammed Abu Rahme.The raid occured at 2:30am, when Israeli military jeeps…
Israeli Army Segregates the Village of Nabi Saleh to Prevent Commemorative Folk Festival
After the Fatah movement called the Palestinian people in Ramallah for a folk festival to commemorate late president Yasser Arafat, as a new step in escalating the popular resistance, the…
Army Invades Bil’in
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at night, the West Bank village of Bil’in, near Ramallah, and searched the home of a local organizer of nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall.…
Israeli Military Enters Bi’lin in Pre-Dawn Raid
The Israeli military, on Tuesday, entered and searched the village of Bi’lin, near Ramallah in the West Bank, in a pre-dawn raid. The military claimed to be searching for Ashraf…
Hamas: “Israel Seeking Failure Of Palestinian Unity Talks”
The Hamas movement issued a press release slamming the kidnapping of the secretary-general of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr. Mahmoud al-Ramahi, and stated that, by the ongoing arrests and the…
Israeli prosecutors seek to increase sentence of Palestinian non-violent leader
Abdullah Abu Rahma, a leader of the non-violent movement in Palestine currently imprisoned in an Israeli detention camp for “incitement”, faces two new hearings this week as Israeli prosecutors attempt…
Settlers Torch Hothouses Near Ramallah
A group of fundamentalist settlers torched, on Wednesday, several agricultural hothouses that belong to residents of Nabi Saleh and Dir Nitham villages, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.…
Many Protesters Suffer From Tear Gas During The Weekly Non-violent Protest In Nil’in
Many suffered from the effects of tear gas inhalition during the weekly non-violent demonstration against the wall in the village of Nil’in, near the centrel West Bank.Residents of the village…
Abbas: “We Believe In A Two-State Solution”
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas stated that the Palestinian Authority believes in a two-state solution that would ensure the establishment of an independent Palestinian State within the 1967 borders, and that…
Fatah Movement: Netanyahu Conditions Are Evidence For His Political Bankruptcy
Ahmad Assaf, the spokesman of Fateh movement, stated on Thursday that Netanyahu’s conditions are on one hand a clear evidence for the political fail of the Israeli government which always…
One Wounded In Anti-Wall Protest In Ni’lin
Hundreds of villagers from Ni’lin, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, took to the streets in a protest against the construction of the wall on their land.The protest which…
Two Journalists Wounded In The Weekly Non-violent Protest In Bil’in
Two journalists were wounded and dozens suffered effects of tear gas inhalation during the weekly non-violent demonstration in the village of Bil’in on Friday.This week’s action was dedicated to the…
Four Residents Wounded, One Detained On Ramallah-Nablus Road
Four residents were wounded, on Wednesday, while being Pursued by an Israeli military vehicle on the Nablus-Ramallah Road in the West Bank.Witnesses said that an army vehicle was chasing a…
P.A. Forces Arrest Former Detainee
On Thursday The Palestinian Security Forces of the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, arrested Omar Barghouthi, 55, a former political prisoner held by Israel for more than ten…
Dozens Suffer From Tear Gas Inhalation in Bil’in
Dozens of people suffered the effects, on Friday, of inhaling gas fired by the Israeli army in the village of Bil’in, during the weekly non violent protest against the wall…
Soldiers Fire Live Rounds At Bil’in Weekly Protest, One Palestinian wounded
As local residents of Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, accompanied by dozens of Israeli and international peace activists, held their weekly protest against the Wall…
Israeli Military Invades Bil’in Attempt to Abduct Youth
An Israeli military force invaded the village of Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday midday.Eyad Burnat head of the popular committee against the wall and…
Four wounded in Bil’in’s weekly anti-wall protest
Israeli and international supporters marched with the villagers of Bil’in after the midday prayers and headed from the village to the wall built on farmers’ lands. As soon as protesters…
Nabi Saleh Village Holds Protest Against The Wall
Dozens of residents and international peace activists held their weekly protest against the Annexation Wall and settlements in Nabi Saleh village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The…
Dozens Wounded As Army Attacked Nonviolent Protest In Bil’in
Israeli soldiers attacked on Friday afternoon the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall in Bil’in village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah inflicting dozens of injuries.…
Another Attack Against Settlers In Ramallah, Two Wounded
Two Israeli settlers were wounded, Wednesday night, in a drive-by shooting near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.The attack comes a day after a deadly attack in the southern…
Palestinian Authority infiltrates, breaks up meeting opposing ‘direct talks’
A meeting held in Ramallah this week consisting of around 200 political, academic and non-profit leaders opposed to the upcoming ‘direct talks’ in Washington was broken up when plainclothes officers…
Demonstrator Suffers Moderate Wounds in Bil’in
During the weekly non-violent demonstration in Bil’in Friday afternoon, one demonstrator was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital with moderate injuries, after a rubber coated bullet shot at him from a…
Red Crescent Members Arrested at Weekly Protest, Ni’lin
Israeli writer and film maker Joseph Dana has reported, via his twitter account, that the Israeli military has conducted a number of arrests in Ni’lin, near Ramallah, including the five…
Another Palestinian Gandhi convicted of ‘incitement’
A great man, Abdullah Abu Rahmah, has just been convicted of the most ridiculous and bogus charges by an Israeli court (incitement) for being one of the most effective non-violent…
Non-violent activist convicted of ‘incitement’ by Israeli court
An Israeli military court convicted Palestinian peace activist Abdullah Abu Rahmah of incitement and cleared him of stone-throwing charges on Tuesday. Activists called the sentence a direct assault against the…
One Journalist Injured; 2 Activists Arrested During Weekly Protests
Ramallah – PNN – Two anti wall protests were organized in the central West Bankk villages of Bil’in and Nil’in on Friday. The Israeli military attacked the weekly anti wall…
Israeli Media: Palestinians Attempt To Blow Up The Wall
Loud explosions and gun shots were been heard near the annexation wall near Qalandia refugee camp near Ramallah, Thursday near Midnight.Israeli media sources reported that Palestinians set some tires on…
In summer, West Bank towns have little water
FAQUA, West Bank (CNS) — You won’t find one dripping faucet in all of the northern West Bank village of Faqua, joked village council head Amar Abu Farha with the…
Hale Leaves Ramallah Following A Meeting With Abbas, P.A Officials
U.S envoy, David Hale, left Ramallah by midnight Sunday following a meeting with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and a number of Palestinian officials at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah. Palestinian…
Protesters wounded in Anti-wall protests in two W.B villages
Dozens of Palestinian and International protesters were wounded during the nonviolent weekly anti-wall protest in the village of Ni’lin near Ramallah in the central West Bank.Israeli troops fired a number…
Israeli Peace Activist Injured During The Weekly Protest In Bil’in Village
One Israeli peace activist was injured and other civilians suffered from tear gas inhalation as Israeli troops attacked the weekly anti wall protest in the village of Bil’in, in the…
Anti-wall Protest In Ni’lin To Commemorate The Death Of One Of Its Activists
The villagers of Ni’lin, near Ramallah, in the West Bank organized their weekly nonviolent protest Friday at noon.This week’s activity was dedicated to commemorate the death of Yousef ‘Amira who…
Dozens Wounded In The Weekly Nonviolent Protest In Bil’in
The Popular Committee against the Wall and settlements in Bil’in organized their weekly march against the construction of the Wall on Friday at noon.The march started after the Friday prayer…
‘Boycott Israel’ protest held Friday in Bil’in village; two injured
Around 200 Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals – including a group of hip-hop musicians from the US and Britain – joined a protest on Friday afternoon in the Palestinian village of…
Youth Wounded At A Military Roadblock Near Ramallah
Local sources reported on Thursday evening that a Palestinian youth was shot and wounded by Israeli military fire at the Atara Roadblock, north of central West Bank city of Ramallah.…
Israel Banning Protests With Out-Dated Military Order
Israeli rights group B’Tselem has released a report detailing the use of a military order from 1967 against present-day protests.The Israeli military has been using a military order from 1967…
One Injured; Four Arrested During Bil’in Weekly Protest
Villagers of the central West Bank village of Bil’in, along with their international and Israeli supporters, protested the Israeli wall on Friday.Around 100 protesters marched from the village after the…
Anti-wall Protest In Ni’lin, Protesters Suffer Tear Gas Inhilation
The Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in the village of Ni’lin, near Ramallah, organized their weekly nonviolent protest against the construction of the annexation wall on the village’s…
Leader In The Non-Violent Resistance Sentenced By Occupation
A leader in the protest movement was sentenced by an Israeli court to two months in jail while facing another trial in the coming months.Abdallah Abu Rahmah was first detained…
Several wounded in anti-wall protest in Bil’in
Two Palestinian citizens were injured and dozens of suffocations occurred due to the attacks of the Israeli military forces to the participants in the weekly anti-wall protest in the town…
Soldier Who Shot Bound Palestinian Convicted Of “Unbecoming Behavior”
An Israeli Court in Tel Aviv issued a ruling, on Thursday, convicting the Israeli soldier who shot a bound and blindfolded Palestinian in Ni’lin village near Ramallah, with unbecoming behavior…
Qassam Fighter Dies Of Wounds Suffered In 2006
The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement, reported that one of its fighters died of wounds suffered four years ago after the army attempted to assassinate him in…
Israel To Demolish Two Homes, Workshop, In Nablus
Israeli soldiers handed residents of Borqa village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, military orders informing them that the army intends to demolish their homes under the pretext…
The Battle of Nabi Saleh: Soldiers vs. Kids
When Israeli soldiers entered the embattled Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh on July 2, they were immediately confronted by over a dozen small children.While the Israeli army is accustomed to…