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In two separate invasions Tuesday night, Israeli forces attacked the east Jerusalem town of Abu Dis, and the southern West Bank city of Hebron, to search for men listed on…
Officials from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu categorically rejected a media report that Israel planned to return up to 90% of stolen Palestinian land in the West…
An Israeli NGO has documented widespread disregard for the construction freeze that was supposed to be enforced in the West Bank settlements.Peace Now, an Israeli group which focuses on illegal…
Four settlers and two Palestinians were injured following the destruction of a home built during the settlement construction freeze.The Israeli military demolished two structures and a goat pen belonging to…
The Israeli government has ordered the Civil Administration to increase enforcement against, what it believes to be, illegal construction in area C of the West Bank.There are six areas in…
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Israeli control of water supplies in the West Bank has led to a severe water crisis for Palestinian residents.…
Israeli soldiers attacked several Palestinian detainees after raiding their cells in section 4 and 5 of the Majido prison. The army said that the soldiers were searching for a mobile…
Some half a million Israelis are now living over the Green Line: more than 300,000 in 121 settlements and about one hundred outposts, which control 42% of the land area…
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, reported Tuesday, that the Palestinian Security Forces of President Mahmoud Abbas of the rival Fateh movement, arrested eight members and supporters of Hamas in Nablus, in…
Settlement Councils in the occupied West Bank are preparing plans for the construction of 2,700 units for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank directly after the claimed “settlement freeze”…
A report by Save the Children, an UK children’s charity, brings to light the devastating poverty experienced by Palestinians under direct Israeli control.The report analyzes conditions of Area C portions…
Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, stated that the Palestinian Authority will soon receive 50 Russian armored vehicles that were donated by Russia several years ago but Israel opposed the delivery.…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Monday at dawn, ten Palestinians during a number of invasions targeting several areas in the occupied West Bank.The Israeli army said that soldiers detained three Palestinians in…
Tuesday morning 14 civilians were arrested all over the West Bank in military invasions.The Israeli military claims that all fourteen men were on its ‘wanted’ list and that all of…
The American Embassy in Israel has called for an IDF investigation into how Emily Honochowicz, 21, lost her eye after being hit by a tear gas canister at a protest…
The American Embassy in Israel has called for an IDF investigation into how Emily Honochowicz, 21, lost her eye after being hit by a tear gas canister at a protest…
Israeli troops detained on Wednesday 12 Palestinian civilians during morning raids targeting West Bank communities. Local sources reported military invasions and home raids in the cities of Ramallah, central West…
Israeli troops handed out demolition orders to nine Palestinian homeowners in the village of Yatma in the northern West Bank.Local sources announced that the Israeli Army came to Yalma telling…
Israeli settlers destroyed on Monday farm lands owned by villagers of Nahalin near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. Farmers said settlers arrived under the protection of Israeli soldiers…
Israeli troops kidnapped seven Palestinians from Bethlehem and Ramallah areas in the West Bank on Thursday. Palestinian security sources said a number of Israeli military vehicles invaded the village of…
Six women and their children from the village of Araba, northern West Bank, were detained by Israeli troops on Tuesday evening. The women and their children were collecting grab leaves…
Six Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops on Tuesday during morning invasions targeting West Bank communities. Israeli soldiers raided homes at the village of Hussan near Bethlehem, southern West…
The Israeli military detained 12 Palestinian civilians, on Thursday, during pre-dawn invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. Palestinian sources reported invasions in Jericho and Jordan valley villages where…
The Israeli military arrested on Wednesday 15 Palestinian civilians during pre dawn invasions targeting a number of west Bank communities. The Israeli military announced that all those arrested today were…
The Waed Society for Detainees reported that the Israeli Authorities deported a resident of Be’er Sheva to the Gaza Strip after claiming that he had no residency papers.The resident was…
The Israeli Authorities deported Saturday a Palestinian resident of the West Bank to Jordan after the army claimed he was illegally staying in the country. Resident Morad Suleiman Zahda, 27,…
Responding to a request from the Israeli High Court regarding two illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli government stated that it intends to “legalize” Hersha and…
Around 100 Israeli settlers clashed with Israeli police forces on Thursday when officers tried to remove homes at the settlement of Hashmonaim, northern West Bank. Police forces managed to demolish…
Israeli soldiers detained on Thursday 33 Palestinian civilians during morning invasions targeting West Bank communities. The military targeted the cities of Bethlehem, southern West Bank, the nearby town of Taqua…
At least 12 Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli soldiers during morning military invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities on Wednesday. Troops invaded the southern West Bank cities…
Israeli Transportation Minister, Yisrael Katz, stated that a full pace of settlement construction and expansion in the occupied West Bank will resume directly after the temporary settlement freeze ends on…
Leaders of the settler movement in the occupied West Bank demanded the Israeli government to withhold all funds meant for the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank for boycotting settlement…
Israeli troops detained on Monday 13 Palestinian civilians during morning invasions targeting several West Bank communities. Invasions were reported in the cities of Bethlehem and Hebron, southern West Bank as…
Eyad Burnat, a leader in the popular struggle against the Israeli wall, was banned by Israel’s military from crossing the West Bank borders into Jordan on Saturday.Burnat is head of…
A group of Israeli settlers attacked on Thursday the town of Huwara, in northern West Bank, and destroyed olive trees and property. The settlers started their attack by setting fire…
The Israeli army detained on Thursday nine Palestinian civilians during dawn invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. The military announced that those men who were detained on Thursday…
Israeli paper, Jerusalem Post, reported that Israel has no intention to dismantle any of the 23 illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank in the foreseeable future. The paper…
Thirteen Palestinian civilians were detained on Wednesday by Israeli troops during predawn military invasions targeting the southern West Bank villages. Nine men were detained as troops searched and ransacked residents’…
Israeli soldiers detained six Palestinian civilians during military invasions targeting West Bank communities on Tuesday. Local sources reported invasions into the cities of Nablus and Ramallah, in the central and…
Five Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli soldiers on Monday at dawn and Sunday night during military invasions targeting West Bank communities. Local sources reported invasions at villages located southern…
Fifteen Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops during military invasions targeting West Bank communities on Thursday. Najeep Qawasmeh from Jenin, northern West Bank, sustained light wounds after soldiers attacked…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that detainee Raed Abu Hammad, who died on April 16, was hit by Israeli interrogators on the center spine and the back on his…
Israeli sources reported that a group of settlers of the Yitzhar illegal settlement, attacked several soldiers and lightly wounded one soldiers on Thursday evening, and also hurled stones at military…
The Israeli Authorities decided to deport a detainee from Kafr Thuluth town, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, to the Gaza Strip. 14 other detainees will also be…
The Israeli army handed out on Monday demolition orders to four Palestinian home-owners at the town of Halhul, southern West Bank. The army says the homes are located in an…
Israeli forces kidnapped two Palestinian civilians Wednesday morning from the West Bank. Palestinian media sources reported that Israeli troops invaded the town of Yattah near Hebron and kidnapped Hamza Hoshiyeh…
The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JSCER) issued a press release slamming the Israeli decision to expel thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank, and stated that this…
The Israeli government is set to start the implementation of a new order that would lead to the expulsion of thousands of Palestinians, and even internationals living in the West…
Palestinian Legislator, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, stated that nonviolent, popular resistance in Palestine is the most effective means of resistance against the Israeli apartheid regime.Dr.…
Israeli Infrastructure Minister, Uzi Landau, threatened that Israeli would cut water supplies if the Palestinians do not install water treatment plants. His statement disregard the fact that Israel is not…
Four Palestinians were detained during a military operation targeting the village of Beta, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.Undercover forces of the Israeli army, using a Palestinian car,…
Israeli troops detained on Tuesday at dawn three Palestinian civilians during invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. The military searched and ransacked homes at the city of Nablus,…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Sunday evening two residents at the Qalandia roadblock near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, local sources reported. A Palestinian child was moderately wounded after…
Reporters Without Borders reported that the Israeli army is violating the freedom of press in the occupied territories and repeatedly opened fire at them. At least eight Palestinian reporters were…
The Hamas movement reported Saturday that the Palestinian Security Forces of Fateh movement arrested 11 members and supporters of the movement in the West Bank districts of Ramallah, Qalqilia, Tulkarem,…
Five Palestinian civilians were detained on Thursday by Israeli troops during morning invasions targeting West Bank communities; another shepherd was detained while herding his sheep. Local sources reported invasions and…
Three Palestinian civilians were detained on Wednesday by Israeli troops during invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. Local sources reported invasions in Hebron and Qalqilia, in the southern…
Two injured, dozens of people suffered effects of tear gas inhalation, and two were detained, on Wednesday afternoon, when Israeli troops attacked protests organized in Ramallah and Jenin, in the…
Four Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops on Monday during invasions treating West Bank communities. Local sources reported invasions targeting Hebron and Bethlehem, southern West Bank, in addition to…
Five Palestinian civilians were detained on Thursday by Israeli troops during an invasion targeting Hebron, southern West Bank. Troops stormed and searched residents’ homes in the old part of Hebron…
Armed Israeli settlers attacked on Tuesday Palestinian farmers in different locations in the occupied West Bank. In the village of Qauit, northern West Bank, settlers prevented dozens of farmers from…
Nine Palestinian civilians were detained on Thursday by Israeli troops during morning invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. The military announced that most detentions took place at the…
Two journalists were wounded on Wednesday during clashes between Israeli troops and local youth in different parts of the southern West Bank. In Hebron, clashes erupted when troops attacked school…
Sixteen Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops on Monday during invasions targeting West Bank communities. Fifteen of those detained today are from the southern West Bank village of Surif…
Israeli security forces announced that a full closure on the Israeli-occupied Palestinian West Bank would be extended until Tuesday, supposedly to protect a group of Israeli settlers as they begin…
A group of armed Israeli settlers attack on Wednesday the village of Bureen northern West Bank and destroyed a car there. Witnesses told media that the settlers came from the…
Palestinian Legislator, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, called on the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank to void its approval for holding talks with the Israeli…
The Israeli Authorities decided to pardon ten fighters of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement. A list containing the names of the fighters was handed to…
“The Marker” Israeli newspaper reported Monday that the Israeli government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, decided to allocate dozens of millions of US Dollars for settlement activities in the occupied West…
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported on Monday at night that a Palestinian tractor driver was arrested by the army after fleeing the scene following an accident with two Israeli cars near…
Six Palestinian civilians were detained on Monday by Israeli troops during invasions targeting a number of West bank communities. Local sources said that the army kidnapped civilians from northern and…
The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) agreed to holding indirect talks with Israel, as proposed by the United States, while some PLO factions expressed rejection to such talks.Yasser Abed-Rabbo, secretary of…
The Israeli government sent messages to the Palestinian Authority (P.A) demanding it to act on stopping popular protests in the West Bank, and to forbid P.A officials from participating in…
Eleven people, amongst them two internationals, were injured, on Friday, by Israeli military fire when troops suppressed an anti wall protest at the al-Nabi Saleh village, northern West Bank.After the…
Eight Palestinian civilians were detained, on Thursday, by Israeli troops during morning invasions targeting West Bank communities. Israeli army radio announced that those taken on Thursday were on the military’s…
Two Palestinian men were injured and taken by Israeli troops during an overnight invasion targeting the villages near Jenin city, northern West Bank. Israeli forces stormed the villages of al-Yamon,…
Invasions targeted the central West Bank village of Nabi-saleh and nearby refugee camp, this Tuesday.Local sources said that soldiers searched homes the village of Nabi-Saleh and detained five men. Meanwhile…
Nineteen Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops, on Tuesday, during invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities.Israeli troops invaded the village of Beit Ommar, southern West Bank. Soldiers…
Four Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops on Monday during military invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. Local sources announced that those invasions targeted the southern West…
Twenty Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops during military invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities on Thursday morning. Local sources reported invasions in Hebron and Bethlehem cities…
Israeli troops detained on Wednesday 14 Palestinian civilians during pre dawn invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. Palestinian sources reported invasions at the cities of Bethlehem and Hebron,…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, blasted president Mahmoud Abbas for his remarks regarding Israel’s plan to consider the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and the Bilal Mosque in Bethlehem as part…
During a speech made to the Belgian Parliament in Brussels, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed his concern that the listing of the Ibrahimi Mosque and the Mosque of Bilal as…
Eight Palestinian men were detained on Tuesday by Israeli troops during invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. Local Media sources reported home raids in the cities of Nablus,…
Bethlehem will be holding a general strike, on Tuesday, to protest the Israeli government’s decision to annex the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and the Bilal Mosque to the so-called ‘Historic…
Five Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops, on Monday, in morning invasions. The attacks targeted a number of West Bank communities.The Israeli army radio announced that all were moved…
Eleven Palestinian civilians were detained, on Thursday, by Israeli troops during military invasions targeting West Bank communities.Local sources reported home searches and detentions in the cities of Nablus and Jenin,…
Eleven Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops on Wednesday during invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. Local sources said that five of those kidnapped were taken during…
After a recent speech to a Zionist conference in Tel Aviv extolling the importance of building ‘heritage sites’ and other projects connecting Jews around the world to the Zionist program,…
Two Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli soldiers, while other troops conducted a drill in the West Bank on Tuesday. According to Palestinian sources, the two men were taken by…
On Tuesday, Palestinian Marshal Court in Nablus city, southern West Bank, sentenced a Palestinian Journalist to 18 months in jail. Tarik Abu Zaid, aged 37, was charged with working for…
Twelve Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops, on Monday, during invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities.Local sources reported invasions in the cities of Nablus, were seven people…
Two Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops, on Wednesday, during house search targeting the city of Hebron and nearby town.Local sources said that two young men were taken by…
An Israeli soldier was reported to have been stabbed & killed, on Wednesday at midday, when he was attacked by a Palestinian man in northern West Bank. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/feb2010/armed_israeli_setters_near_hebron__photo_by_michael_ramallah_1.jpg 300 0)…
Israeli troops fired tear gas at Palestinian famers and their international and Israeli supporters, on Wednesday, at the town of Yatta southern West Bank. The villagers along with their supporters…
The Israeli military detained 16 Palestinian civilians during invasions targeting West Bank communities, late Monday night and Tuesday at dawn.The Israeli army radio announced that all those detained today were…
Ten Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops, on Monday, during pre-dawn military invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities.Invasions were reported at the town of al-Bireh, central West…
Twelve Palestinian civilians were detained, on Wednesday, by Israeli troops during pre-dawn invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities.Local sources reported house-to-house searches in villages and town centers in…
Ten Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops, on Tuesday, as the military served six demolition orders to families during different invasions targeting West Bank communities.Local Palestinian sources reported invasions…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, toured on Friday a number of settlements in the occupied West Bank, and reaffirmed the stance of his government regarding retaining West Bank settlements, especially…