By The Legal Center For Arab Minority Rights In Israel – Aadalah: Lawyers: IBA move, pushed through in a hasty and underhanded manner, is strictly political in motive and is seemingly intended to advocate Israeli government positions entrenching occupation. 475 lawyers in Israel are demanding that the Israel Bar Association […]
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that, just two days before her scheduled release, the Israeli Authorities slapped a female Palestinian political prisoner with a new arbitrary Administrative Detention order for six additional months. The PPS said that the detainee, Shorouq al-Badan, 25, from Bethlehem south of occupied Jerusalem, […]
The Israeli occupation forces said that it struck Hamas targets, in the besieged Gaza Strip, early Thursday morning, Israel’s Haaretz reported. In a statement, an IDF Spokesperson said that “The Hamas organization is responsible for everything that happens in the Gaza Strip, and it will be held accountable for its […]
Hundreds of illegal settlers stormed the town of Kifl Haris north of the central West bank city of Salfit, Monday morning, PNN reported. Under strict Israeli military protection, the colonists performed Talmudic rituals near a historical shrine. “0404” Hebrew website stated that the settlers broke into the town after the […]
Israeli soldiers, stationed in their military towers across the perimeter fence with the Gaza Strip, opened fire, on Sunday at dawn, on several Palestinian farmers on their own lands in central Gaza and in the southern part of the coastal region. Media sources said the soldiers targeted many farmers in […]
Israeli navy ships attacked, on Wednesday morning, several Palestinian fishing boats with live fire and water cannons, in the al-Waha area, in the northern part of the besieged Gaza Strip, wounding one fisherman, before abducting two others. Zakariya Bakr, the coordinator of the Palestinian Fishermen’s Syndicate, said the Israeli navy […]
The Palestinian Center for Human RIghts : Mohammed Deeb Salim Safi, a 28-year-old university graduate, lost sight in both eyes after being tortured in an Internal Security detention center in the Gaza Strip on grounds of allegedly participating in the “We Want to Live” popular movement which started last March. […]
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, a child, only 12 years of age, with a concussion grenade in his head, during the weekly nonviolent procession against the Annexation Wall and Colonies, in Ni’lin village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Dozens of Palestinians, accompanied by Israeli and international peace […]
By HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual: For Immediate Release: HaMoked has written urgently to the Israeli military to return a 14 year-old girl who was illegally deported to the Gaza Strip. Ghada (her last name is withheld) was born in 2003 in the city of Ramallah in […]
The Israeli “Civil Administration Office,” run by the army in the occupied West Bank, has approved the construction of 31 colonialist units, for Jewish settlers, in the old Central Bus Station, in the Shuhada Street, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. The approval is the largest construction plan […]
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, a Palestinian man and his child, in Jayyous town, northeast of Qalqilia, in addition to abducting a former political prisoner from Broqin town, southwest of Jenin, two men in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, and four in the central […]
The Israeli “Housing Ministry,” and the Jerusalem City Council, have approved the construction 10.000 new units, on illegally-confiscated Palestinian lands, near Qalandia, north of occupied East Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The constructions are planned for the expansion of Atarot area, built on Palestinian lands, northwest of Jerusalem. Israeli TV, […]
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday at dawn, seven Palestinians from various parts of the southern West Bank governorate of Hebron, and shut down a blacksmith workshop, after confiscating some of its machines and tools. Media sources in Hebron city said the soldiers abducted four Palestinians from the city, three of […]
Medical sources have reported, Friday, that several Palestinians and international activists suffered the severe effects of teargas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers assaulted the weekly procession against the Annexation Wall and colonies, in Kufur Qaddoum town, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia. The procession started from the center of […]
Following disengagement from the Gaza Strip in September 2005, Israel unilaterally and illegally established a so-called “buffer zone”, an area prohibited to Palestinians along the land and sea borders of the Gaza Strip. The precise area designated by Israel as a “buffer zone” is not clear and this Israeli policy […]
A number of armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers invaded, on Monday morning, Palestinian agricultural lands, east of the Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza city, and bulldozed them. Media sources said five armored bulldozers, and several vehicles, advanced more than fifty meters into the Palestinian lands, and bulldozed some of […]
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the Israeli army invaded, Thursday, several Palestinian districts in the occupied West Bank, searched and ransacked homes, and kidnapped at least fourteen Palestinians. The PPS said the soldiers invaded several towns in Hebron, and kidnapped five Palestinians, identified as Amjad Akram Rajabi, […]
The Israeli army invaded, on Wednesday evening, the town of Sammoa’, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, demolished an under-construction home, a trailer and a well, in addition to uprooting farmlands. The Palestinian New & Info Agency (WAFA) said the soldiers surrounded the area, and demolished the […]
Several Israeli military vehicles, and bulldozers, invaded on Thursday morning Beit Forik town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and demolished residential structures and tents. One Palestinian was also injured in Nablus city. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official in charge of Israeli Settlements File in the northern […]
Several Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the village of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah, and demolished an Auto Body shop and a slaughter house, east of the town. Mohammad Abdul-Qader Amira, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Colonies in Ni’lin, said the […]
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday morning, several Palestinian homes in Jerusalem’s Old city, and searched them before kidnapping two women. The army also kidnapped three Palestinians, including a child and a woman, on Wednesday evening. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic), in Jerusalem, said the soldiers kidnapped Dalal […]
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Wednesday, five Palestinian children, in Ni’lin town west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after assaulting them. Media sources in Ni’lin said the soldiers violently attacked the five children, causing various cuts and bruises, before cuffing and blindfolding them, and took them to military base […]
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