Category: West Bank

Israeli soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian resident from the southern West Bank city of Hebron while heading to the Israeli Liaison Office on Thursday morning, and moved him to an unknown…

The Israeli Army detained Dmitri Diliani, Member of the Fateh Revolutionary Council, on Tuesday morning. He was moved to al-Maskobiyya detention center for interrogation, the Palestinian news Agency, PNN reported.The…

The Fateh movement in the Gaza strip expressed its hope in achieving national unity and reconciliation, by ending the split between the movement and Hamas, after the release of many…

The Israeli Army detained four Palestinian residents from the southern part of the West Bank on Wednesday morning, the Maan News Agency reported. Israeli sources have stated that those kidnapped…

The Israeli army detained three Jericho residents, and three from Nablus, after breaking into their homes on Monday morning, the Palestinian News & Info Agency reported.Local media sources stated that…

Head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Fares Qadoura, reported that the Administration of the Israeli Prisons (AIP) informed the Palestinian detainees that the file on the isolated detainees will be…

The Israeli army arrested three residents from the village of Beit Ummar, in the northern part of the West bank city of Hebron on Thursday morning, breaking into their houses…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to create a task force to explore ways of legalizing settlement outposts built on Palestinian land, Haaretz reported. By way of background: In…

According to Israeli sources, the military has taken a number of measures to prevent leaks by soldiers about when minor settlement outposts will be dismantled. This is due to recent…

For the Jewish “Yom Kippur” holiday, the Israeli military fully closes the West Bank for 48 hours, from midnight Thursday untill midnight Saturday, Arabs48 News Agency reported. According to Israeli…

All Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails will join in the open-ended hunger strike on October 11, in response to the humiliating and degrading policies imposed upon them, the Palestine News…

On Thursday morning, Israeli bulldozers demolished a number of stockades, cowsheds, and tents in the valleys near the West Bank city of Tubas, the Ma’an News reported.“More than twenty military…

Palestinian Minister of Detainees and Ex-detainees Affairs, Issa Qaraqe’, stated Friday that around Twenty-five Palestinian detainees in solitary confinement at the Nafha. Ramon, Al Ramla and Asqalan Israeli detention facilities…

The Israeli army placed the occupied West Bank under full and tight security closure starting by Midnight Tuesday as Israel will be marking Rosh Hashanah (The Jewish New Year), and…

A group of right-wing Israeli legislators submitted a letter to the Israeli Prime Minister on Monday stating that in response to the Palestinian Authority’s unilateral bid for statehood at the…

The Israeli military stormed the villages of Burqin and al-‘Arqah, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, on Thursday. Military vehicles patrolled the streets of the villages and broke…

Thousands of Palestinians are holding massive nonviolent protests to express their support for the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas,who will be requesting a full membership at the United Nations, after delivering…

Large marches are planned by Palestinian groups on Wednesday in all districts of the West Bank to support the Palestinian bid for full membership in the United Nations. One of…

Israeli sources reported that a Palestinian-Israeli team was formed to coordinate the activities of the Israeli Army and the Palestinian Security Forces in the event of clashes following the declaration…

The popular committee against the wall and settlements in the village of Beit Oula, near Ramallah organized a civilian night watch to protect the village from possible settler or military…

Israeli Ynet News reported that Israeli settlers living in the occupied territories are planning what they dubbed as “Sovereignty Marches” in the Palestinian territories, starting on Tuesday afternoon.Fanatic settlers’ leader,…

When Israeli settlers increase their attacks against Palestinian citizens in the West Bank, they usually observe their movements first before attacking them in remote areas.Iyad Sanafra is one of many…

Palestinian security sources said that Israeli soldiers blocked the western and southern entrances of Jenin and stopped passengers and interrogated them. Troops also thoroughly searched passengers cars and documents which…

This week, non-violent weekly protests in four villages were in support of UN resolution 194 and in support of the statehood bid at the UN later this month.In the central…

As Israel decided to further arm the settlers by providing them with stun grenades and tear gas bombs, the settlers, supported by extremist right wing factions in Israel, are preparing…

Israeli settlers living in violation of international law in the West Bank have been issued stun grenades and tear gas by the Israeli military, in preparation for anticipated protests by…

UFree calls on the Israeli occupation to immediately release a Palestinian journalist Samer Allawi (46 years), who is a reporter for Al Jazeera TV channel and was arrested early this…

On Friday three children were injured, and dozens of children and adults were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation, as Israeli troops attacked anti-wall protests organized in a…

A number of Israeli police officers have been charged with taking bribes to allow truckers to bring smuggled goods from the West Bank into Israel, according to the Israeli Ministry…

The Israeli army invaded Beit Ummar and kidnapped four individuals Saturday night, according to Maan News Agency. Also, the soldiers fired live ammunition and gas bombs during the invasion.The Israeli…

Reports from Tamimi Press indicate that Sunday evening the Israeli army invaded the Palestinian town of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank. They fired live ammunition and gas bombs and…

Non-violent protests took place on Friday in the central West Bank villages of al-Nabi Saleh, Bil’in, and Nil’in in addition to al-Ma’ssara in the southern West Bank.Local and international protesters…

Senior PA officials have ordered Palestinian security forces to prevent protests expected during the September bid from turning violent. The PLO has planned mass rallies during the UN deliberation, but…

In a watershed ruling on Tuesday, the Israeli Supreme Court ordered the government to dismantle the illegal outpost of Migron by April 2012.The court issued the ruling in response to…

The UN Works and Relief Agency claimed Tuesday that there is a clear link between illegal Israeli settlement expansion and the displacement of Palestinians through home demolitions. The agency released…

An Israeli military court convicted on Tuesday a Palestinian youth from Awarta village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, of stabbing to death five family members of the…

Twelve right-wing settlers living in the Yitzhar settlement have been banned from the West Bank for committing violent acts against Palestinians. Three settlers were banned from all areas of the…

On Friday four people were injured and four arrested, as Israeli troops attacked anti-wall protests organized in a number of West Bank communities. Protests took place in the central West…

An official from the Central Elections Commission stated that the October 22 Palestinian elections will only take place in the West Bank. He cited interference from Hamas as the reason…

Israeli forces invaded the village of Talluza near Nablus on Wednesday morning and kidnapped two Palestinians.The WAFA News Agency reported that 30 military vehicles invaded the village, and troops broke…

Commander of the so-called “Judea and Samria” Israeli army brigade, operating in the occupied West Bank, Nitzan Alon, stated during closed military and security sessions that armed clashes between Israeli…

“Welcome to Palestine” participants on Saturday took part in demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians protesting against Israel’s Annexation Wall in the West Bank city of Qalandya and the village of…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Friday three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank including the daughter of a female legislator from the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Three more Palestinians…

On Friday, Israeli troops attacked the weekly nonviolent protests in a number of West Bank villages. This week, protesters marched in solidarity with Freedom Flotilla 2 detained in Greece and…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week approved the confiscation of private Palestinian land in the Palestinian village of Karyut in the Occupied West Bank for Israeli settlement activity. The…

Human rights organisation BT Selem has released footage of Israeli settlers from the Yitzhar settlement in the West Bank setting fire to fields near olive orchards belonging to Palestinians in…

On Saturday July 2, 2011 Palestinian police and the Palestinian National Security Service injured over 20 peaceful Palestinian demonstrators in Hebron, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. Many…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Wednesday at dawn six Palestinians in several parts of the occupied West Bank. Two Palestinians were kidnapped on Tuesday at night.Israeli army Radio claimed that the…

There has been an increase in clashes among Palestinian villagers and Israeli settlers according to Israeli military commanders. Military leaders, speaking to Haaretz, have expressed fears that hostility will increase…

The “Construction and Planning Committee” of the Jerusalem Municipality decided Tuesday to build 700 units for Israeli settlers in the Gilo illegal settlement, in occupied East Jerusalem. Member of the…

Five structures and two tents were raised in the illegal settlement outpost of Ramat Migro in the Northern West Bank on Wednesday morning. Two teenage girls were arrested for allegedly…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Tuesday at dawn a Palestinian legislator, the head of a center that defends the rights of Palestinian detainees and human rights and a Journalist. 11 Palestinians…

Palestinian Authority President Abbas confirmed on Sunday that he will pursue recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September.Abbas stated that the move would be…

Two Israeli teenage girls have been charged with torching a Palestian car in Hebron as part of a ‘pricetag’ retaliation attack, according to YNet. The girls, who deny having been…

Ten civilians were injured as Israeli troops attacked the weekly nonviolent protests organized at a number of West Bank communities. This week, protests were reported in the villages of al-Nabi…

The Israeli high court has demanded a freeze to construction in the Jewish Israeli settlement of Ofra in the central West Bank. The Israeli high court has ordered a freeze…

The UN Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, has reported that the month of May shows the highest number of children made homeless or otherwise affected by Israeli demolitions in the…

Maan news agency is reporting that five Palestinian men, including minors, were abducted over night during raids on West Bank towns and villages by the Israeli military. Israeli soldiers raided…

The UNRWA has released a report undermining recent media reports that the West Bank economy was booming under the PA and Israeli occupation, according to research author Salem Ajluni. The…

Former Minister of Detainees, Hamas political official, Wasfi Qabha, stated that there are no real indications of reconciliation in the West Bank as the Palestinian security forces are still interrogating…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers prevented university lecturer, Dr. Farid Abu Dheir, from traveling to Jordan as he was trying to cross the Allenby bridge to be with his son who…

The Israeli military has conducted raids in Ramallah and Hebron according to PNN and Wafa news agencies. As part of the raids the military abducted seven men in Ramallah and…

Rafat Nassif, a detained political leader of the Hamas movement, called for suspending all talks and coordination with the Fateh movement for what he called “the ongoing political arrests and…

After a number of controversial posts on Facebook and other websites in recent months, the Israeli military has ordered its commanders to cut off access to the internet for nearly…

Palestinian medical forces reported Sunday that at least 150 Palestinians were injured by Israeli military fire, while dozens of residents were kidnapped as the army opened fire at the “Return…

As the Palestinians prepare the mark the Nakba Day on Sunday, the Israeli authorities decided to place the West Bank under a 24-hour siege under direct orders issued by Israeli…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, four Palestinians during a number of invasions and attacks targeting several areas in the occupied West Bank.The army broke into several homes forcing…

The Israeli peace group, Gush Shalom, has sharply criticized a decision to hold a criminologists’ conference in the settlement of Ariel, deep inside the West Bank. On Sunday, Gush Shalom…

The Israeli Authorities placed the occupied Palestinian territories under a full and strict closure as it marks its “Memorial Day”, an official day in Israel dedicated for Israeli soldiers killed…

Israeli troops arrested on Tuesday morning seven Palestinian civilians among them two children during invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities.In Bethlehem city, southern West Bank, Israeli forces invaded…

Two children and a youth were injured, three Israeli activists arrested on Friday as Israeli troops attacked the weekly anti-wall protests taking place in Bil’in, Nil’in, al-Nabi Salleh, central West…

On Friday, 16 civilians were injured and four abducted as Israeli troops attacked the weekly anti-wall protests in the villages of Bil’in, Nil’in and al-Nabi Saleh, in central West Bank…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Monday at dawn six Palestinians in several parts of the occupied West Bank, and took them to interrogation centers. Israel orders West Bank Closure, to close…

As Israel prepares to mark the Jewish Pesach feast, the Israeli army placed the occupied West Bank under strict siege starting Sunday at midnight and lasting until April 26.The decision…

An Israeli court decided on Tuesday at night to extend the remand of two elected Palestinian legislators for additional six month under administrative detention, once again, without an indictment. Legislator…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Wednesday at dawn 14 Palestinians, including children, in several West Bank areas.The invasions targeted the districts of Nablus, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron. In Jerusalem, soldiers broke…

As the Palestinian Authority prepares to ask the United Nations General Assembly to recognize the state of Palestine in September, Israeli sources report that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Thursday morning the Aqaba village, east of the central West Bank city of Tubas, declared it as a closed military zone, demolished two homes bulldozers internal…

Weekly non-violent anti-Wall protests in a number of towns across the West Bank on Friday, including Bil’in, Nil’in, al Ma’sara and Nabi Saleh, were attacked by Israeli forces wielding tear…

And here we go… again, another initiative, another diplomatic move and another act that distances us further away from any real solution to the real issue at hand, Peace that…

Six civilians were injured and two were kidnapped when the Israeli army attacked the weekly anti-wall protests organized on Friday in the villages of Bil’in, Nil’in and an-Nabi Saleh, in…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated Wednesday that Israel always rushes to blame the Palestinians, and rushed to blame them for the brutal murder of a Jewish family in Itamar settlement,…

After alleged reports that a Palestinian murdered five Israeli settlers, including a baby and two small children, in their beds Friday night, the Israeli government announced that 500 new units…

Dozens of armed Israeli settlers attacked late on Saturday at night and early Sunday at dawn dozens of Palestinian homes in Huwwara town, south of the northern West Bank city…

In light with the current events and protests against the ruling regimes in some Arab countries, and the latest removal of Egyptian and Tunisian presidents, the Israeli Army’s Central Command…

Local protest leader, Naji Tamimi, was abducted during a night raid on the village of Nabi Saleh by the Israeli military, according to a statement by the Popular Committee Against…

Following the recent increase in attacks by Israeli settlers on indigenous Palestinians in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority issued a statement, Wednesday, calling on the international community to ‘intervene…

The Israeli Authorities sentenced, on Sunday, a Palestinian legislator to six months in administrative detention without presenting any legal charges against him.Dr. Omar Abdul-Raziq, former Finance Minister, stated after the…

In the central West Bank villages of Bil’in, Nil’in and Nabi Saleh, non-violent protests were held Friday afternoon to challenge the Israeli Wall construction and support the Libyan people in…

Anti-Wall protests were organized this Friday in the villages of Bil’in, Nil’in, Nabi Saleh, and al-Ma’ssara, located in the central and southern parts of the West Bank. Today, the theme…

Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian teen in Beit Ummar near Hebron, witnesses told Ma’an News Agency on Saturday. Mohammad Awad, local popular committee spokesman, said the youth, identified as Mohammad…

The Israeli military abducted, on Sunday morning, three Palestinians from the West Bank districts of Hebron and Ramallah.Local sources reported that Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Qatana, near Ramallah,…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Saturday at dawn several areas in the West Bank, broke into and searched several homes and kidnapped two residents in Madama village, near the northern West…

The Palestine News and Information Agency, WAFA, reported Thursday that Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, signed an agreement with the French State Minister and Minister of Foreign and European…

The Popular Struggle Coordination Committee has created a new fund, the “Dismantling Impunity Fund”. This fund will aid Palestinians engaging in non-violent resistance pay for legal fees when suing Israel…

Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian child was wounded on Tuesday evening after Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron in the southern part…

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Palestinian and international human rights groups on Thursday warned of a decline in freedom of expression in the West Bank, amidst the banning of Egypt solidarity rallies by the Palestinian…

Palestinian Authority security spokesman, Adnan Ad-Dmeiri announced on Thursday that the PA has forbidden ‘unlicensed gatherings’ in order to preserve order in the West Bank. The PA official said this…

A genuine will to have an understanding on what is going on with popular committees in Palestine naturally arose from observing the many challenges posed by the Occupation, and witnessing…