ISM: Resistance in the South Hebron Hills
Herding sheep below the illegal settlement construction site close to Um al-Kheir. In early January, ISM activists visited the villages of Um al-Khair and At-Tuwani in the South Hebron hills…
UN Visit to Occupied Territories Opposed by Israel
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited Gaza in August of 2017, but several proposed Security Council visits to the Palestinians territories have been blocked. Israel has told the UN Security Council…
Colonial Settlers Attack Nablus-area Village with Stones
Extremist Israeli settlers attacked, on Thursday, the homes of Palestinians in the village of Asira al-Qiblia, southwest of occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to a local official. Ghassan…
Israeli Forces Cut Water Lines in Yatta Town
On Wednesday, Israeli forces cut off the water supply lines which provide water to the Masafer Yatta communities, south of Hebron. The head of the Twaneh village council, Mohammed Reb’i,…
Army Abducts Five Palestinians In Tulkarem, One In Qalqilia
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, five Palestinians from Qaffin town, north of Tulkarem, and one in Jayyous, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West…
Israeli Soldiers, Navy, Fire At Farmers, Shepherds And Fishermen In Gaza
Israeli soldiers, and Israeli navy ships, opened fired on Thursday at dawn, at many Palestinian farmers, shepherds and fishermen, in several parts of the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip. Media…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Eight Palestinians In Ramallah
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, several areas in the central West Bank governorate of Ramallah, and abducted eight Palestinians, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has confirmed. The PPS…
Army Injures Several Schoolchildren In Hebron
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday morning, the southern area of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and fired gas bombs near a local school, causing…
Israeli Colonists Puncture Tires, Write Racist Graffiti, Near Salfit
A number of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers infiltrated, on Thursday at dawn, into Iskaka Palestinian village, east of Salfit city in central West Bank, wrote racist graffiti and punctures tires…
Soldiers Demolish A Home In Beit Jala
Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, Beit Jala city, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, and demolished a Palestinian home. Media sources said dozens of…
Army Abducts Three Palestinians In Tubas, One In Jenin
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, three young Palestinian men from their homes in Tubas, in northeastern West Bank, and one Palestinians in Jenin, in northern West Bank. The…
Israeli Army To Displace Fifty Families To Conduct Military Drills
The Israeli army has ordered fifty Palestinian Bedouin families, in the West Bank’s Northern Plains, to leave their dwellings, all day Wednesday, so that the soldiers can conduct live-fire military…
Israeli Soldiers Injure Seventeen Palestinians In Jerusalem
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, Abu Dis town, east of occupied East Jerusalem, and injured seventeen Palestinians during ensuing protests. Media sources said the soldiers invaded the Schools Area,…
Israeli Colonists Invade Home, Threaten To Kill Family, In Hebron
A group of illegal Israel fanatic colonists invaded, on Tuesday, a Palestinian home, in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and threatened…
Army Demolishes Three Palestinian Homes, A Storage Room, In Silwan
Israeli soldiers demolished, on Tuesday evening, three Palestinian homes, including an under-construction property, and a storage room, in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem. The soldiers…
Israeli Forces Raid Abu Dis, Injure Palestinian Students
More than 17 Palestinian students suffered from tear-gas inhalation, after Israeli forces stormed the town of Abu Dis, in the occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem, on Tuesday, and attacked…
Israeli Soldiers Attack Car Of Susiya Council Head Near Hebron
Israeli soldiers attacked, Tuesday, the car of the Jihad Nawaj’a, the head of Susiya Village Council, near Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, as he…
Thousands of Bedouin Citizens Prevented from Voting in Upcoming Israeli Election
Photo: General view of one of the Unrecognized Bedouin villages of the Naqab (Negev) Desert, Wikipedia Adalah demands Israel provide voting stations in unrecognized Naqab Bedouin villages; thousands of people with no…
Al Mezan: Israel Claims Immunity from All Damages Inflicted on Gaza Protestors
Adalah and Al Mezan appeal to Israeli Supreme Court against lower court ruling finding that Gazans may be denied compensation for damages because Gaza is defined by law as an…
Samidoun Urges Broad Support for Ilhan Omar
Rep. Ilhan Omar. Photo: Tony Webster/Flickr Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network stands with Ilhan Omar, a strong supporter of Palestine elected to the United States House of Representatives last November, and urges a broad…
PCHR Warns of Deterioration of Health and Education Services in the Gaza Strip
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is deeply concerned over the repercussions of the sanctions imposed by the Palestinian Authority (PA) against the Gaza Strip population for 2 years…
Hebron On My Mind
by Jafar Ramini It’s been exactly a week since the colonizers of our land, Mr. Netanyahu and his gang of war criminals, decided not to renew the mandate of TIPH,…
Palestinian Shot and Injured in Gaza
A Palestinian was shot and injured by live Israeli fire, late Monday, east of Gaza City. Local sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces opened fire towards a group of Palestinians,…
Bulldozers Raze Lands in Khuzaa
Israeli military vehicles raided, on Tuesday morning, Palestinian lands along the eastern borders of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Local Al Ray sources reported that six large D-9…
Teen Injured in Gaza Protests Succumbs to Wounds
A Palestinian teenager succumbed to the wounds he sustained after being shot and injured by Israeli forces, during the Great March of Return protests along the borderline area, to the…
Israeli Settlers Assault Palestinian Shepherd
A group of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian man, causing him injuries, while he was herding his sheep in open areas of the northern Jordan Valley, on Tuesday. According to…
Army Abducts Two Siblings In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, two siblings from Hizma town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem. Media sources said the soldiers invaded and searched many homes, and abducted Habis…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Twelve Palestinians In West Bank
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, twelve Palestinians, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported. The Jenin office…
Army Shoots One Palestinian, Abducts Seven, In Jenin
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Jenin city and Jenin refugee camp, in northern West Bank, shot one Palestinian and abducted five others, while undercover soldiers abducted…
Report: All Israeli Electoral Programs Call for the Absorption of One Million New Settlers
by Madeeha Araj/ NBPRS/PNN The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements said, in its weekly report, that, according to data published by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics,…
Support for Israel Divides Democrats, A Division Fomented by Republicans
Republican Senator Marco Rubio pushes a pro-Israel agenda, while new and younger Democrats question US support for the right-wing government in Israel, says Israeli-American journalist Mairav Zonszein. From the time…
Israeli Undercover Forces Kidnap Palestinian Child in al-Isawiyya
Israeli undercover soldiers, or mista’arvim, on Sunday evening, kidnapped a Palestinian child from a shop in Jerusalem. Yusuf Dari, age 13, was abducted from a shop in al-Isawiyya neighborhood, north…
Recently Rehabilitated Road in Masafer Yatta Destroyed by Israeli Authorities
Israeli forces destroyed a recently-rehabilitated road that connected Khirbet Shaab al-Butum to Masafer Yatta, in the south of the West Bank, said a local activist. Coordinator of the Anti-Wall and…
Army Uproots Over 500 Olive Trees in Jordan Valley
Israeli forces cut down and uprooted hundreds of Palestinian-owned olive trees in the Jordan Valley area of the northern occupied West Bank, on Monday. Mutaz Bisharat, a Palestinian official who…
US Media: Trump’s “Deal of the Century” is Ready
The Trump administration has completed its ‘Deal of the Century’, or what it called the ‘Middle East Peace Plan’, framework for a final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinian…
Updated: PPS: “Israeli Soldiers Abduct Twenty-One Palestinians In West Bank”
Updated: The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has confirmed that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, twenty-one Palestinians from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank. In…
Israeli Soldiers Demolish A Palestinian Home Near Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers demolished, on Monday morning, a Palestinian home in the al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Dozens of soldiers, accompanied by bulldozers, invaded Ein Jweiza…
UNICEF Condemns Israeli Army for Murder Of Palestinian Children
UNICEF said that it is deeply saddened by the killing of two children, aged 13 and 17 years old, shot on Friday, by the Israeli occupation army, near the border…
Two Palestinians Killed In Tunnel In Southern Gaza
The Palestinian Interior Ministry in the besieged Gaza Strip has reported, Sunday, that two Palestinians were killed, and nine others were injured, in a siege-busting tunnel on the border with…
Israeli Army Admits the Palestinian Motorcyclist They Killed Had No Explosives
Following an investigation by the Israeli military into the killing of a Palestinian motorcycle rider on February 5th, and the severe wounding of his passenger, the military was forced to…
Hague Recognizes Gaza & West Bank as Official Palestinian Birthplaces
Palestinians living in the Netherlands will be allowed to register the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as their official place of birth, Dutch State Secretary Raymond Knops told the…
Settlers Stone Palestinian Vehicles in the West Bank
Extremist Jewish-Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles in the West Bank over the past night. Local Al Ray sources reported that a group of Israeli settlers threw stones towards Palestinian vehicles…
Israeli Forces Attempt to Cut Water Supply to Masafer Yatta
Israeli forces raided water pump rooms in the village of at-Tiwani, east of Masafer Yatta, south of the southern West Bank district of Hebron, said a local official. Head of…
WHO: $32m Needed to Address Humanitarian Needs in the oPt
Al-Awda hospital ER team providing emergency care to an injured patient. Credit: UHWC A new report by WHO shows that, since the start of the mass demonstrations in Gaza, on 30…
Settlers Attack School Near Nablus
The administration of Orif Secondary School, in Orif town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, had to shut the school down, and sent the students to their…
19-year old Israeli Settler Killed in Jerusalem; Palestinian Man Arrested
A 19-year old Israeli woman was killed and her body left in Ein Yael forest, East Jerusalem, on Thursday night. A Palestinian man has been arrested in connection with the…
Two Young Men From Gaza Drown To Death After Boat Capsized Near Algeria
Two young Palestinian men were killed, Saturday, and many others were injured, after a boat, filled with immigrants, capsized while they were trying to sail to Spain to seek better…
Illegal Settlers Attack Homes In Tel Rumeida
A group of illegal fanatic Israeli colonists attacked, on Saturday at night, many Palestinian homes in Tel Rumeida neighborhood, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Media sources said…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Eight Palestinians In Bethlehem And Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers abducted, late on Saturday at night and on Sunday at dawn, six young Palestinian men, from their homes, in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, and two at the Qalandia terminal,…
Israeli Ministers Move Forward with Historic West Bank Settlement Plan
Dozens of Israeli ministers and senior officials from the Likud political party and other right-wing parties have signed a petition to settle two million Jews across the occupied West Bank.…
Ending A Chef’s Dream, And Maybe His Life
by Rasha Hirzallah, for WAFA News Agency RAMALLAH, Saturday, February 09, 2019 (WAFA) – Before being admitted to hospital to undergo an operation on his eye, Laith Kanaan Barghouti, 26,…
Ashrawi: Serial Violations of Human Rights by Israel Must be Investigated Thoroughly
On Wednesday 6 February, Fares Mohammed Baroud, age 51, from al-Shati’ refugee camp in western Gaza City, died from health complications brought on by prolonged and deliberate medical negligence on the…
Soldiers Attack Protesters In Hebron
Israeli soldiers fired, on Saturday evening, many gas bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian protesters at the entrance of the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, in the southern…
Army Abducts A Child And A Young Man, Colonists Attack Cars, Near Ramallah
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Saturday evening, a child and a young man from Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, and south of Ramallah, while Illegal Colonists attack cars, west…
Illegal Colonists Attack Palestinian Cars, North Of Hebron
Dozens of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers hurled stones, on Saturday evening, at Palestinian cars driving at the junction of Gush Etzion colony, north of Hebron, in the southern part of…
Israeli and US Forces to Begin Major Military Drills
Amid growing tension along the northern border, Israeli and US forces will hold their annual joint exercise next week, to test the level of coordination between the two armies, in…
Israeli Forces Fire on Gaza Fishermen & Farmers
Israeli naval forces opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Rafah City, in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, on Friday. Witnesses told a Ma’an reporter that Israeli…
Anat Cohen Assaults ISM Volunteers in Al-Khalil (again)
02/08/19 | International Solidarity Movement | Al-Khalil Team ISM volunteers were detained by Hebron Police for over 8 hours after Anat Cohen assaulted them outside the Qurtuba school checkpoint on…
Israeli Forces Raid Mosque in Ramallah
An undercover Israeli force, on Friday evening, raided a mosque in the center of Ramallah city, in the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped one of its employees. WAFA correspondence said…
PCHR Calls on PA to Withdraw Decision on Gaza Salaries
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), in a statement, said it was strongly concerned over the Palestinian Government’s decision, against Palestinian Authority (PA) employees in the Gaza Strip, to…
Troops Attack Landowners and Activists Planting Olive Trees in Beit Ummar
A number of landowners and Combatants For Peace activists suffered, Friday, the effects of tear gas inhalation after Israeli troops at participants of a solidarity action of planting olive trees…
Army Seals Shut A Palestinian Home North Of Hebron
Israeli soldiers sealed shut, on Friday evening, a the front entrance of a Palestinian home in the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied…
Israeli Soldiers Injure Several Palestinians In Ni’lin
Israeli soldiers shot, Friday, a Palestinian with a gas bomb in his leg, and causing dozens to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, during the weekly nonviolent procession against the…
Undercover Israeli Soldiers Kidnap A Palestinian from A Mosque In Al-Biereh
Undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated, on Friday evening, into Jamal Abdul-Nasser Mosque, in the of al-Biereh city, in Ramallah and al-Biereh Governorate in central West Bank, and kidnapped a Palestinian man,…
Israeli Soldiers Injure Several Palestinians Near Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers injured, Friday, several Palestinians after firing many gas bombs and concussion grenades at them, while many nonviolent activists were planting trees in Palestinian lands, in Beit Fajjar town,…
Israeli Soldiers Kill Two Palestinian Teens, Injure Eighteen, In Gaza
The Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip has confirmed, Friday, that Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinian teens, 18 and 14 years of age, and injured at least eighteen…
Palestinian Prisoner Dies In Israeli Prison
A Palestinian prisoner, held by Israel in Beersheba (Be’er as-Sabe’) prison, died on Friday, due to the lack of adequate medical treatment, the media department of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee…
PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (31 January – 06 February 2019)
Israeli forces continued with systematic crimes, in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), for the week of 31 January – 06 February, 2019. Israeli forces continued to use excessive force against…
EU Report: Over 15,000 Settlement Units Built During 2018
The advancement of settlement units continued at an unprecedented high level during the second half of 2018 (July-December), according to a recent EU report on Israeli settlements in the occupied…
Palestinian Child Loses Eye to Israeli Sniper
Palestinian child Muhammad Al-Najjar (12) is living a severe psychological shock after losing his right eye by an Israeli sniper’s bullet, during his participation in the Great Return March protests,…
Foreign Ministry: Warsaw Conference is an American Conspiracy
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said, on Thursday, that the upcoming Warsaw conference called for by the United States is an American conspiracy intended to get the…
US Blocks UN Motion against Israeli Expulsion of TIPH Monitors
The US has blocked yet another UN Security Council draft resolution that would condemn Israel for expelling an international observer group tasked with safeguarding Palestinians, in the flashpoint West Bank…
Two ISM Members Abducted for Securing Movement of Palestinian Students
Two members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) were detained by Israeli soldiers, on Thursday, while securing movement of elementary school students in the Israeli occupied section of the southern…
Making Art From The Remnants Of War
Handicraft prepared by Akram Warah and his family from the wreckage of war artifacts. Credit: Alethea Kanas For at least a decade, Palestinian refugees lived in makeshift tents precariously in…
Report: Palestinian Christian Diplomacy in Fight against Christian Zionists
by Daoud Kuttab- Amman The Palestinian government is turning to its own Christian community and even its evangelicals to campaign against distorted Christian Zionists. Palestinian foreign ministry officials were in…
PCHR: “Death of Detainee Fares Baroud: An Example of Deliberate Negligence”
Yesterday, 06 February 2019, the Palestinian detainee who spent 28 years in the Israeli jails, Fares Mohammed Baroud (51), from al-Shati’ refugee camp in western Gaza City, died only hours…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Six Palestinians In West Bank
Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Thursday, six Palestinians from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported. The PPS stated that the…
Detainee Malek Hamed Forced Into Solitary Confinement
A Palestinian political prisoner at the Ramon Israeli prison was forced into solitary confinement, on Wednesday at night, when he threw boiling water at a soldier after the guards attacked…
Al-Arakib Bedouin Village Destroyed For The 140th Time
The Israeli Authorities demolished, Thursday, the al-Arakib Bedouin Palestinian village, in the Negev, for the 140th consecutive times, after dozens of soldiers and police officers invaded it. The army, accompanied…
Detainees’ Committee Demands Autopsy On Deceased Detainee
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Committee has demanded Israel to perform an autopsy on the corpse of a detainee who died, Wednesday, shortly after being moved to an Israeli hospital.…
Dublin National Union of Journalists to Support Eurovision Boycott
(L to R) Celebrities, public figures & activists at Dublin’s Ha’penny Bridge during a launch of the Irish Call to Boycott Eurovision 2019 in Israel on June 27, 2018 (Image:…
Mobile Caravans Erected by Israeli Colonists in Jenin
Israeli settlers, on Wednesday, set up new mobile caravans on Palestinian-owned agricultural lands between Yaabad town and Zabda village, south of the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin. The…
Israeli Tender for Jerusalem Railway Rejected by Spanish Company
A Spanish company announced, yesterday, that it had rejected an Israeli tender to build part of the Jerusalem railway, which will cut deep into occupied Palestinian territory. Construcciones y Auxiliar…
US Court Throws Out Lawsuit Against Academic Boycott Of Israel
by Ali Abunimah, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine, now out from Haymarket Books. A federal judge in Washington, DC, on Monday…
Anti-BDS Bill Passes US Senate
The Republican-controlled United States Senate has passed legislation that would allow state and local governments to sanction those who support the BDS movement (Boycott, Divest and Sanctions) against Israel, with…
Palestinian Detainee Dies From Medical Neglect In Israeli Prison
The Palestinian Detainees Committee has reported, on Wednesday evening, that a Palestinian detainee from Gaza, who has been held by Israel since 1991, died from serious complications resulting from being…
Israeli Soldiers Fire Artillery Shells Into Southern Gaza
Israeli soldiers fired, on Wednesday at night, several artillery shells into Palestinian areas, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The WAFA Palestinian News Agency…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian, Confiscate His Car And Cash, In Hebron
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, a Palestinian man, and confiscated his car and a large sum of money, in Hebron governorate, in the southern part of the West Bank.…
Army Displaces Dozens Of Bedouin Families To Conduct Military Training
Israeli soldiers displaced, on Wednesday morning, dozens of Bedouin Palestinian families from their tents and dwellings in several parts of the West Bank’s Northern Plains, in order to conduct military…
Report: “Israeli Courts Imposed More Than 60.000 Shekels In Fines On Detained Children, In January”
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainee Committee has reported that Israeli military courts have imposed more than 60.000 Shekels in fines on Palestinian children who were abducted by the soldiers and…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Ten Palestinians In the West Bank
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, at least ten Palestinians, including a former legislative council member, from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian…
Illegal Israeli Colonists Attack Archeological Site, Uproot Trees, Near Nablus
A group of illegal fanatic Israeli colonialist settlers invaded, earlier Wednesday, an archeological site, south of Jaloud village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and caused damage,…
Israeli Minister and Settlers Raid Al-Aqsa Mosque
The head of the Public Relations office of the Islamic Endowment Department, Firas al-Dibs, told Maan News Agency that the Israeli Minister of Agriculture, Uri Ariel, along with many settlers…
Israeli Court Refuses To Release Detained Ashraf Na’alwa’s Mother, And His Brother
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported, Monday, that the Israeli military court in Ofer prison, near Ramallah in the central part of the occupied West Bank, has denied an appeal…
Samidoun Calls for Action to Save Life of Walid Khaled Sharaf
Palestinian prisoner Walid Khaled Sharaf, 25, from Abu Dis in occupied Jerusalem, is suffering from serious illness in Ramle prison clinic. Sharaf is jailed without charge or trial under administrative…
Palestinian Professors’ Unions Urge Pitzer College to Uphold Faculty Vote to Suspend Study Abroad with Complicit Israeli Institutions
Via BNC Official. February 5, 2019 / By Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) / United States The Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) supports the…
Bulldozers Raze Lands in Southern Gaza
Several Israeli military vehicles raided Palestinian lands along the eastern borders of Khan Younis, in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. Locals told Ma’an that four large D-9 Israeli…
Cancer Patients Face Slow Death in Gaza
About 8515 cancer patients in the Gaza Strip are facing a fate worse than death, as they do not have adequate resources for medical treatment, Al Mezan Center for Human…
Abbas: PA Will Not Take Part in Any Conference Not Based on UN Resolutions
Mahmoud Abbas welcoming in Ramallah his Austrian counterpart Alexander Van der Bellen. (WAFA Images / Thayer Ghanayem) PA President Mahmoud Abbas said, on Tuesday, that he will not take part…
Israel Surfaces Plan to Seize Land Southeastern Jerusalem
Head of the committee for the defense of East Jerusalem land, Bassam Bahr, says there is an Israeli plan to seize more than a thousand dunams of agricultural land, including…