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This is a special statistical bulletin by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) on the 68th Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba of 1948. The number of Palestinians worldwide has…
By Manuel Hassassian – The 15th May marks the Palestinian Nakba. The word Nakba means ‘catastrophe’ because that is exactly what happened in May 1948 when Palestine was wiped off…
On Tuesday, Tax Day, activists delivered a petition with more than 5,000 signatures to IRS offices across the United States demanding the tax-exempt status of the Jewish National Fund (JNF)…
The Palestinian Authority is losing up to $285 million a year under its current economic arrangements with Israel, the World Bank said on Monday. According to Ma’an News Agency, the…
Israeli forces, on Thursday, demolished a rainwater harvesting well near al-Arrub refugee camp, north of Hebron city, in the southern West Bank, said a local activist. Local activist Muhammad Awad…
Multiple demolitions in the occupied West Bank left 124 Palestinians homeless in a single day, 60 of them children, according to a statement by the United Nations Office for the…
Today, Saturday, is the sixty-eighth anniversary of Deir Yassin massacre committed by the Ergun and Stern Zionist terrorist organizations against this village in 1948, killing 250-360 Palestinian in cold blood,…
Fahwad Al-Khadoumi (nsnbc) : Lance Bartholomeusz, Director of UNRWA Operations in the West Bank condemned Israel’s latest round of large scale demolitions of homes in the Palestinian Bedouin refugee community Um…
In the 7th Annual Conference of “ Struggles for Freedom”:A Comparative Approach Discusses Liberation Movements Resistance History Dimensions of the Palestinian, Indigenous and third world liberation struggles and resistance were…
This morning, the Israeli army invaded Om Al Khair village in the South Hebron Hills, without prior warning, to demolish six families’ homes. Army bulldozers destroyed the home of Adel Hadallen…
Israeli forces stormed, early on Wednesday, al-Khader town, to the south of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank, and took measurements of two Palestinian houses there, locals said. Coordinator…
The following is a press release by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistic (PCBS), marking the fortieth anniversary of the Palestinian Land Day – March 30, 2016. Israeli Occupation Authorities…
A report, issued by the national office for the defense of land and resistance of settlement, has revealed that the number of Palestinian homes razed by Israeli occupation forces jumped…
Monday, at dawn, Israeli police raided a chicken slaughterhouse in the Bedouin town of Shaqib al-Salam, in the southern Israel region of Negev, and rounded up scores of Palestinians from…
Mass Israeli demolitions, in the Jordan Valley village of Khirbet Tana, have left more than a third of its Palestinian residents homeless since the beginning of the year, the UN…
The Israeli “Regional Planning and Construction Council” approved, on Wednesday, the so-called “Kedem – City of David” colonialist project that would be undertaken at the main entrances of the Wadi…
Israeli authorities, on Tuesday, demolished four Palestinian-owned stores and the foundations of a building in Beit Hanina, an outskirt of Jerusalem, according to local sources.WAFA correspondence said that Israeli police,…
The Israeli government, on Tuesday, announced the seizure of 2,340 acres of land in the Jericho area, central occupied West Bank, claiming it as “state land”.Israel radio said that the…
The Israeli occupation municipality, Monday, handed demolition orders to Palestinians in al-Isawiyya, under the pretext of unlicensed buildings. Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported, according to Al Ray, that the crews…
Palestinians are joining the Middle East exodus to Europe in greater numbers because of the Syrian war and ongoing Israeli occupation, a senior Palestinian official has said.Saeb Erekat, the secretary…
Israeli occupation authorities have demolished around 97 homes and 86 facilities in the occupied West Bank, over the month of February 2016 alone, under the pretext of “illegal construction”, according…
A wave of mass Israeli demolitions continued on Wednesday, in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, among them a house under construction in Shuwekeh, on the outskirts of Tulkarem, according…
Israeli occupation bulldozers demolished a Palestinian house in Occupied Jerusalem, Tuesday morning, in Silwan town, south of al-Aqsa Mosque.Israeli forces surrounded the area, according to Al Ray, and began to…
Israeli forces, on Monday morning, have demolished about ten facilities, including tents, barns and residential structures, in the Khillat Khader community of Al-Farisiyya area, east of Tubas district, northern Jordan…
Israeli forces, Wednesday, handed the families of three Palestinian teenagers, who were recently killed by Israeli troops, notices of their intent to demolish their homes, located in Qabatia town, south…
Over 400 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been displaced due to Israeli demolitions during the first six weeks of, this year, a senior UN official said, Wednesday.Coordinator for…
Israeli forces, on Thursday, demolished a home in the Bedouin village of Wadi al-Niam in the Negev, locals said.Village resident Rafat abu Ayesh told Ma’an that the forces, along with…
Israeli occupation forces began, on Wednesday morning, the demolition of Palestinian agricultural and industrial facilities in the town of al-Isawiyya, to the north of occupied East Jerusalem, in favor of…
Israeli forces, on Monday, demolished 20 Palestinian dwellings in Ein al-Rushrash, a locality to the southeast of Douma village, south of Nablus, according to a local activist.Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors…
At least 21 people were injured on Monday, after a ceiling collapsed, in a building under construction, at a university campus in the southern Gaza Strip, a Gaza civil defense…
Palestinian refugee Heesham Ahmed El Khoranin and his family have already survived two Israeli assaults against the Gaza Strip, since he returned after fleeing from Syria in 2011.02/11/16 | International…
Israeli forces, on Thursday, destroyed over 40 Palestinian homes and structures in the Tubas district of the occupied West Bank, as ongoing Israeli policies in the Jordan Valley continue to…
Israeli forces, on Tuesday, demolished more than 10 Palestinian homes and structures in the village of Khirbet Tana, east of Nablus, where residents have lived in an area declared as…
Israeli forces, on Thursday, demolished five homes and four other Palestinian-owned structures in the Jordan Valley town of Tammun, in the occupied West Bank.A spokesperson for Israel’s Coordination of Government…
Israeli bulldozers, on Wednesday morning, demolished a garage in the village of al-al-Isawiyya, occupied East Jerusalem.Haitham Mustafa said, according to Ma’an News Agency, that Israeli forces entered the village from…
Israeli forces, Monday, notified Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, a Bedouin congregation to the south of Hebron, about their intent to demolish residential structures which shelter their families, according to local…
Israeli forces, late Friday, confiscated trucks and equipment being used to build a new agricultural road in the Palestinian village of Khirbet al-Dir, in the northern Jordan Valley.The head of…
Israeli authorities notified Palestinian Bedouin families, on Thursday, of the planned demolition of their houses, giving them a deadline of February 1st to evacuate the structures.The structures are situated between…
Israeli Major General and coordinator of Israeli government activities in the Occupied Palestinian territories, Yoav Mordechai, admitted that his government prevents cancer patients in Gaza from receiving treatment.Earlier this week,…
Israeli authorities, on Thursday, demolished a mosque in the unrecognized Negev village of Rakhama, and issued a demolition order for an area in Nablus, home to 85 residents.According to Negev…
Israeli authorities, overnight, served several Palestinian families with eviction orders from Ein al-Rushrash, a locality southeast Douma village, south of Nablus, according to a local activist.Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement…
In the early morning, 18th January, hundreds of Israeli soldiers entered the Jin Safoot village to demolish a farmhouse belonging to the Palestinian farmer Faed. The barn was serving as…
A Palestinian family in the occupied East Jerusalem village of Sur Bahir, on Friday, demolished their own home following an order by an Israeli court.Khalil Dabash, owner of the home,…
Israeli forces demolished, at dawn on Thursday, three Bedouin houses in the al-Baba mountain area, in the town of al-Ezariya, located east of occupied Jerusalem.Local sources reported, according to Al…
Israeli army forces, on Wednesday, tore down two tents used as shelters by Palestinian families living east of Yatta, in the occupied West Bank, to the south of Hebron.The Popular…
Palestinian refugees from Syria are amongst the most vulnerable refugees who seek safety in Europe. But, the legal framework that is being applied to their plight is a discriminatory one.The…
The Israeli Supreme Court refused to reconsider a decision to demolish the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, and ordered to evict all its residents, Adalah center reported on Sunday.Adalah,…
Israeli forces, on Thursday, demolished four greenhouses and a water well in the Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, locals said.Bassam Maslamani, an activist who monitors settlement activity in…
Israeli forces, on Tuesday, officially informed the Palestinian Authority of plans to build new six military watchtowers in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, a local monitor told…
Israeli forces have confiscated 300 dunams of Palestinian farmlands in Ya’bad town, and declared it a closed military zone.The director of Ya’bad municipality, Yosef Atatrah, said that soldiers erected a…
On Thursday, January 7th, the ISM went to visit Kifaya Rishek, a widow who lives in Beit Hanina, occupied East Jerusalem, waiting for her home to be demolished.But Kifaya is…
Israeli police, Thursday, demolished two Palestinian-owned homes in Ein el-Lawza neighborhood in Jerusalem, citing construction without a permit as a pretext, according to local sources.An Israeli police contingent accompanied by…
Israeli forces, on Wednesday morning, demolished five dwellings housing Palestinian Bedouin families in the Abu Nuwwar community east of Jerusalem — part of the wider E1 corridor — leaving 25…
The Israeli army, Tuesday, delivered a notification to demolish two agricultural structures and to stop the construction work on a house in Beit Ummar, a town located to the north…
On the 22nd of December, Israeli forces started excavating land belonging to the Palestinian village of Shufa. Residents fear the possibility of settlement expansion will threaten the future of their…
Israeli forces razed Palestinian lands in the Wadi Sair area of eastern Hebron, Thursday, with the intention of building a military watchtower, the mayor of the village said.Kayid Jaradat said,…
During the past 6 months, the Jordan Valley Solidarity Campaign has registered further land grabbing in Fasayal village in the Jordan Valley.12-31-15| International Solidarity Movement | Nablus Team The land,…
The Israeli occupation has reportedly destroyed some 478 Palestinian facilities, including homes, clinics and historical sites during 2015.A research centre affiliated to the PLO has documented the demolitions which occurred…
In a report issued on Wednesday, by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statics (PCBS), the projected number of Palestinians in the world was estimated at 12.37 million, of whom 4.75…
PA President Mahmoud Abbas says that his government is set to change the name it uses on passports from ‘Palestinian Authority’ to ‘State of Palestine’.Following a Monday meeting with Greek…
Dim lighting and candles softly illuminate decorative tapestries as the smell of incense fills the air and the harmonic sound of hundreds singing in unison drifts onto a busy street…
Israeli authorities, on Sunday, notified two families living in the Silwan neighborhood of annexed East Jerusalem of intentions to evict, under claims they are owned by non-governmental Jewish organizations.WAFA correspondence…
Sweden contributed SEK 190 million, ($22 million) to the Palestinian Partnership for Infrastructure Development Multi-Donor Trust Fund (PID MDTF), administered by the World Bank. The Palestinian Authority will support the…
The UN General Assembly has adopted, by a vast majority, eight resolutions in favor of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA),…
Israeli armed soldiers, on Saturday, physically assaulted a Palestinian after he was caught returning back home from his workplace in Israel without having a work permit for seeking employment there.Security…
The EU missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah made a statement, this Friday, regarding the recent demolitions and confiscations of Palestinians houses and structures in Area C.It reads as follows, according…
Israeli bulldozers demolished, on Tuesday morning, a Palestinian house in the town of Arraba (also known as Arrabat al-Battuf), Upper Galilee, in pre-1948 occupied Palestine.Ashraf Khatib, a resident of the…
Israeli forces confiscated, on Monday morning, water pumps which supply Khirebt al-Deer in the Jordan Valley, near the border with Jordan, depriving farmers of their sole irrigation source. Also on…
Early Thursday, Israeli authorities demolished residential structures in the northern Jordan Valley locality of al-Hadidiya, according to PNN municipal sources.Aref Daraghmeh, who monitors settlement activities in the Jordan Valley, said…
Thousands of Palestinians will be displaced as part of a new Israeli plan to build several Jewish-only communities in the Negev region, in south of the Israeli territory, which will…
Some 3,500 patients in Gaza are eagerly awaiting the opening of Rafah crossing, on the joint borders between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, in order to travel to receive medical…
Yesterday, the European Commission announced an additional €10 million in support to UNRWA, in order to keep schools open, and to maintain core services for Palestinian refugees..According to the official…
Israeli forces, early Monday, demolished nine residential structures and animal barns in Khirbet Jorat, al-Khail and al-Qanub localities, east of Sa‘ir town, to the northeast of Hebron.WAFA correspondence said that…
Israeli forces, this Tuesday, demolished three water wells in the northern occupied West Bank which they said had been built without a permit, according to Palestinian security sources.Sources told Ma’an…
Israeli forces enforced, on Saturday evening, the Al-Rajjbi family to demolish their home in the Beit Hanina neighborhood, to the north of Jerusalem, by their own effort, in order to…
The United States is cutting economic aid for the Palestinian Authority, partly because of “unhelpful actions” by Palestinians, a US diplomat said Saturday.A specialized news site, al-Monitor, said earlier that…
Israeli authorities, overnight Wednesday and during the day on Thursday, executed punitive measures against the families of Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks against Israel, giving four families 72 hours…
Three years of siege, famine and bombing of his Damascus refugee camp didn’t kill celebrated Palestinian musician Aeham al-Ahmad, but something died inside him the day militants burnt his beloved…
Israeli authorities, on Wednesday afternoon, ordered two Palestinians to leave their land within 48 hours, near the Salfit district of the occupied West Bank.The 26 dunams of land — about…
Israeli forces, on Wednesday, served notices for the demolition of three houses and a residential tent belonging to Palestinian locals in the Hebron’s locality of Massafer Yatta, in the southern…
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Minister of Defense, Moshe Ya’alon, are to officially announce the beginning of the 30 KM fence project sometime today.The 30 kilometer fence will…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, on Sunday, he would not allow Israel to be ‘submerged’ by refugees after calls for Israel to take in those fleeing Syria’s war.Speaking at…
PA President and Fateh leader Mahmoud Abbas, on Saturday, instructed Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, to take immediate actions to absorb Palestinian refugees in the occupied Palestinian…
Israeli, Egyptian and international siege have been imposed on Gaza for nine years obliges grooms to attend wedding parties via Skype.Andalou/Days of Palestine reports that, in one of the wedding…
Living conditions in Gaza are so bad that they’ve been described as ‘less than human’ and potentially uninhabitable by 2020, the United Nations said on Tuesday.The warning comes from the…
Israel released hundreds of African migrants from a desert detention center, Tuesday, after a court order. However, asylum seekers were left with few options after being barred from two cities.Detainees…
Around 225,000 Gazan schoolchildren were forced to return home, on Monday, after local staff at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza (UNRWA) went on strike on the first…
Israeli municipality officials delivered a demolition order, on Friday, to the al-Qaaqaa Mosque, a house and a studio apartment in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, local sources said.Majdi…
Some 19 Palestinians have become homeless after Israeli occupation forces demolished their homes in the Jordan Valley, on Thursday..Israeli rights group B’Tselem reported that Civil Administration, with military forces, demolished…
Egyptian authorities have re-closed the Rafah border crossing, after opening it for four days, starting last Monday.The Borders and Crossings Authority said that 2,579 travelers left the Gaza Strip, while…
Israeli forces accompanied with bulldozers, on Thursday morning, demolished homes and agricultural facilities at the Oyoun area, in the city of Tubas, northern West Bank.PNN security sources in Tubas said…
On Wednesday August 19, at 5:30 AM, Israeli occupation forces began demolishing a three-story home of the Totah and Totanji families in the Wadi Joz neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.19th…
At least nine Palestinian refugees died on Wednesday, after an overloaded boat carrying illegal migrants fleeing the Syrian conflict capsized off the coast of Turkey, according to media sources.The boat…
Israeli authorities demolished, on Wednesday, two residential units in Jerusalem and Ramallah, as well as notified to demolish the house of a prisoner in Hebron, according to local and media…
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said, Wednesday, that the school year for half a million Palestinian refugees would start on time, after an eleventh hour scramble to cover a…
Israeli authorities, on Tuesday, demolished a number of residential tents in the village of Fasayel, in the southern Jordan Valley, according to local sources.Hamza Zubedat, a local activist, said that…
A United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) report on Palestine’s Gaza Strip concludes that infant mortality has risen for the first time in decades. A significant marker for a…
Israeli bulldozers, Monday morning demolished structures belonging to more than 20 families of the Jahalin Bedouin community in eastern Jerusalem, locals said.Israeli border police reportedly escorted the bulldozers into the…
Israeli forces, Thursday morning, demolished two homes and seized a shipping container in the eastern outskirts of Bethlehem, said a municipal source.WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency reports that military…
Saudi Arabia has announced that it will provide $35 million to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in a bid to avert a financial crisis within the organization, a statement…