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Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, several districts in the occupied West Bank, searched many homes and kidnapped at least four Palestinians, while one child was kidnapped, on Thursday…

Ramallah, October 13, 2016 (WAFA News) – Since September 2015, Israel killed 248 Palestinians, 74% of them were 25 years old or younger, a report prepared by the Palestine Liberation…

The council meeting for FIFA, the worldwide football association, that opens on Thursday, October 13, 2016 in Zurich, will hear from a monitoring committee it established in 2015 to review…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, October, 12, 2016. Israeli troops and navy ships attack farmers…

World Day against Death Penalty, 10 October 2016, The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) – “On the World Day against Death Penalty, we stress that our struggle will continue on all levels…

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is expected to vote on a resolution proposal that ‘denies Jewish connections to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound & the Dome of…

Today’s human rights realities did not begin in 1993 nor in 1967, but with the emergence of Zionist colonisation of Palestine. Human rights organisations will not find a solution if…

(Photo: The harvest season represents a symbol to strengthen the steadfastness of the Palestinian farmers, and a refuge for impoverished families.) The olive harvest, in the occupied West Bank, is…

Israeli forces, on Thursday morning, have destroyed a road that leads to a Bedouin community site named Khirbet Hadidiya, in the northern Jordan Valley. An army bulldozer, accompanied with four military…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, a young Palestinian man from Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and released five, who were previously detained, after issuing orders denying them…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Nahhalin village and Teqoua’ town, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, and kidnapped five Palestinians, including three children. The soldiers also invaded…

Israeli soldiers, stationed on military towers across the border fence, opened fire, on Thursday morning, at several Palestinian homes, and agricultural lands, east of Rafah, in the southern part of…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at night, Zabbouba village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades, some targeting homes, during…

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has reported that a child was killed, on Wednesday evening, after Israeli soldiers opened fire into an area east of the al-Qarara town, northeast…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, October, 12, 2016. Israeli army gunfire leave a child dead…

Several Palestinians were by live fire or rubber-coated steel rounds, Wednesday, during clashes with Israeli forces in the town of ar-Ram, to the north of Jerusalem, according to local sources.…

The population of the Gaza Strip reportedly exceeded two million, on Tuesday night, following the birth of Walid Jihad Shaat, from the Rafah district, southern Gaza. Official sources stated, according…

On Wednesday morning, Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border fence, fired many live rounds targeting farmers in Palestinian lands, close to the border fence, along the eastern area of Khan…

Israeli soldiers invaded, late on Tuesday at night and early Wednesday, several districts in the occupied West Bank, broke into and violently searched many homes, and kidnapped nine Palestinians, including…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday morning, the town of al-Ram, north of occupied East Jerusalem, injured a Palestinian woman, and kidnapped another, in addition to wounding dozens of…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday evening, the town of ar-Ram, north of occupied East Jerusalem, and shot four young men with live fire, during clashes that took place after the…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, October, 11, 2016. Israeli soldiers kill a Palestinian, injuries ten…

Israeli soldiers fatally shot, on Tuesday evening, a young Palestinian man in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, after the army invaded the town, and clashed…

The 3rd and 4th of October marked the celebrations of the Jewish New Year. In the occupied West Bank, Jewish holidays, celebrated by the settlers from the illegal settlements. This…

Israeli occupation authorities have imposed a full security cordon, beginning last night, on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, for the Jewish holiday of “Forgiveness”. According to Israeli public…

This report, prepared by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), summarizes Israel’s violations, committed by its occupation forces and armed settlers, for over a year: between September 13th, 2015 and September…

Since the death of Misbah Abu Sbeih, who was killed by Israel army and police fire after carrying out a fatal shooting attack in which an Israeli police officer and…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Beit Forik town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and demolished an apartment of an imprisoned Palestinian, believed to be…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at night, the ‘Aida refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, shot and injured three young men with live fire, during clashes…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, October, 10, 2016. Israeli troops kidnap at least 12 Palestinians…

Israeli soldiers, and police officers, invaded on Monday at dawn, the ar-Ram town, north of occupied East Jerusalem, and broke into the home of Misbah Abu Sbeih, who was killed…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, Tulkarem city, and Tulkarem refugee camp, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, kidnapped one Palestinian and injured several others, including…

Several Israeli military jeeps invaded, on Monday at dawn, the town of ‘Azzoun, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, broke into and searched dozens of homes, and…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Sunday at night, two young Palestinian men from Huwwara town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and one Palestinian from Meithaloon town,…

The Israeli army and police detained, on Sunday at night, five Palestinians from Jerusalem for capturing the Jerusalem shooting attack on film, while allegedly showing support for the attack by…

On Sunday afternoon, a squadron of Israeli soldiers invaded the village of al-Ram, east of Jerusalem, to raid the home of 39-year old Misbah Abu Sbeih, who was killed Sunday…

Updated: The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, overnight and at dawn Sunday, nine Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank. The head of…

Israeli sources have reported, Sunday, that two Israelis were killed, and six others were wounded, in a drive-by shooting near the Light-Rail stop, close to the Police headquarters, in Jerusalem,…

Students from Al Quds University, in the area of Abu Dis east of Jerusalem, held a protest on Sunday that was violently assaulted by Israeli troops. The Palestinian Red Crescent…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday morning, the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, and clashed with many youngsters who hurled stones on the army vehicles. Eyewitnesses said the…

For the 104th time in just a few years, Israeli soldiers and police officers demolished, Friday, the al-Araqeeb Bedouin village, in the Negev. Several Israeli army and police vehicles surrounded…

Dozens of Palestinians, accompanied by international peace activists, held the weekly protest, Friday, in Kufur Qaddoum town, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia, demanding access to their own…

Friday afternoon in Bil’in village, the Israeli military blocked the main road toward the Israeli Annexation Wall and declared the entire area a ‘closed military zone’, just as demonstrators began…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured, Friday, at least three young Palestinian men, while many suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, after the army attacked protesters close to border areas, in…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday evening, two Palestinians from ‘Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem, and a man in Zabbouba village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 1, to the 7, 2016. As Israel announces…

At least 200 people joined on Friday the monthly freedom March demanding the Israeli occupation to “   Stop drying out Palestine, Water is a Right for All”. The protest was…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Friday at dawn, the al-Far’a refugee camp, south of the Tubas in the occupied West Bank, shot and injured three Palestinians, and kidnapped two.…

Israeli navy ships attacked, earlier Friday, a number of Palestinian fishing boats, in Gaza territorial waters, and kidnapped two fishers. The WAFA Palestinian News Agency has reported that the navy…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 29 September- 05 October 2016, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…

The Israeli army shelled a site allegedly used by Palestinian militant groups in the central Gaza Strip, on Thursday, after a rocket reportedly fired from the Gaza Strip hit an…

nsnbc : The BBC war propaganda machinery was busted, again, big time. BBC 4 released a video report, touting the very same members of the Nour al-Din al-Zenki gang who…

The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign announced, on Monday, that its accounts had been closed by the Bank of Ireland. (photo: 2014 Dublin protest in solidarity with Gaza, Palestine — Paul ReynoldsRabble.ie) The…

October, 2016 | International Solidarity Movement (ISM) | al-Khalil Team One week ago, the United States and much of the world turned on their televisions to tune into the 2016 Presidential…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims the greatest challenge facing the peaceful democracy of Israel is the Palestinian people’s refusal to accept its Jewish character.  In his speech at the…

Israeli army bulldozers, on Thursday, razed land in the village of Kharas, to the west of Hebron, as well as land in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, October, 06, 2016. Israeli tanks shells areas in Gaza and…

PCHR: On Wednesday, 05 October 2016, Khan Younis First Instance Court issued a death sentence against a woman, setting a precedent in the history of the Palestinian Judiciary. The Palestinian Center…

A report by the Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): On Wednesday, 05 October 2016, Israeli Naval Forces intercepted and confiscated al-Zaitounah (Olivia) Boat to break the closure while sailing within…

Israeli soldiers, accompanied by a number of armored bulldozers, invaded Thursday the at-Tass area, west of Kharas town, west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, before bulldozing and…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, eight Palestinians, in several communities, in the central West Bank district of Ramallah. 36…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, al-‘Isawiyya town and at-Tour village, in occupied East Jerusalem, searched many homes and kidnapped 16 Palestinians, including six children, before moving them to detention…

The Tulkarem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, seven Palestinians in Nour Shams refugee camp, east of the…

by: Nora Barrows-Friedman – re-posted from the Electronic Intifada Israeli forces intercepted a boat carrying women solidarity activists as it was approximately 40 miles from Gaza’s shore on Wednesday.

Several Israeli military jeeps invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the al-Far’a refugee camp, in the central West Bank district of Tubas, and kidnapped one Palestinian. The soldiers also invaded Qabatia…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, and kidnapped three children and a young man. The soldiers also kidnapped one Palestinian near Hebron.…

Photo: Israeli politicians, citizens and organizations have been depoliticizing the Jerusalem Intifada by chalking it up to ‘incitement’ on Facebook since it began in October 2015. Now, Facebook has partnered…

An Israeli air force pilot died and another was injured on Wednesday, as their fighter jet crashed while returning from an air assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli newspaper Haaretz…

The first deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Ahmed Bahar, warned Israeli forces against intercepting the Zaytouna relief ship coming to Gaza. Bahar said, in a statement, that…

A delegation from the world’s only permanent war crimes court is visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories, this week, to “promote better understanding” about its work, their chief prosecutor said…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, October, 05, 2016. Israeli troops takeover solidarity ship to Gaza,…

For the second time in just a few hours, The Israeli Air Force and army fired several shells and missiles, on Wednesday, targeting various areas of the Gaza Strip, after…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Wednesday at noon, an artillery shell into a site run by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, east of Beit Hanoun town, in the…

Several Israeli military vehicles, accompanied by armored bulldozers, invaded Palestinian lands in Beit Ola town, west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and uprooted five Dunams (1.23 Acres)…

soldiers invaded, late at night Tuesday, the towns of al-‘Ezariyya and Abu Dis, in occupied Jerusalem, and clashed with many local youths before firing gas bombs, concussion grenades and rubber-coated…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, overnight and earlier on Wednesday, nine Palestinians, including two children, in the occupied West Bank, including occupied East…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, two Palestinians from Bethlehem and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said. The PPS stated that the soldiers…

Several Israeli military jeeps invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, two towns in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, searched homes and kidnapped three Palestinians, including two children. The Hebron…

Israeli soldiers and navy ships opened fire, on Wednesday morning, targeting Palestinian fishing boats, farmers and shepherds, in different parts of the Gaza Strip. Media sources in Gaza have reported…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, October, 04, 2016. Israeli troops detain Palestinian journalists and kidnap…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, earlier on Tuesday at dawn, two young Palestinian men in the West Bank districts of Jerusalem and Ramallah. The army also prevented dozens of schoolchildren from…

Samidoun: The following is a translation of the report issued monthly by Palestinian organizations working on prisoners’ issues: Prisoners Affairs Committee; Palestinian Prisoners; Society; Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights and…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, October, 03, 2016. A report by Palestinian NGOs shows that…

The Palestinian Supreme Court in Ramallah, during its Monday session, decided to carry on with local elections in the occupied West Bank, and call them off in the Gaza Strip. Lawyer…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Sunday, a young Palestinian man who crossed the border fence, and entered the Eshkol regional council of settlement, close to the border area in the besieged Gaza…

Israeli authorities locked down the West Bank and Gaza, home to over 5 million Palestinians, in preparation for the national celebration of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, which begins…

A 19-year old Palestinian woman was released from custody Saturday after spending two weeks in Israeli prison. Raghad al-Khdour, 19, was seriously wounded on September 16, 2016, and her fiancé…

Mere days ago, on the 22nd of September, the city of occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) remembered and mourned the murder of 18 year old Hadeel al-Hashlamoun, another Palestinian youth executed in…

The Palestine Investment Fund (PIF), the investment arm of the Palestinian Authority, launched phase one of the new cement factory on Saturday, the first in the Palestinian areas. Ceremonies were…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest in Ni’lin village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The Popular Committee in Ni’lin said the soldiers used excessive force…

A 28 year old Palestinian identified as Naseeb Abu Mazer, from Kafr Aqab village, was shot and killed Friday night by Israeli troops at the Qalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and…

Israeli soldiers assaulted, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest in Bil’in village, in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, and kidnapped two Palestinians, and three international peace activists. Approximately 40…

Dozens of Palestinians and international peace activists held, Friday, the weekly protest in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, demanding Israel to reopen the…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Friday evening, five Palestinians east of the Sheja’eyya neighborhood, east of Gaza city, and east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza, Palestinian…

Ingrid Jaradat, a lobbyist and expert on Jerusalem affairs discusses, with the Alternative Information Center (AIC), Israeli politics on Jerusalem and the problem of a lack of specific solidarity strategies regarding…

On the 25th of September, 2016, the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee submitted a comprehensive complaint to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, regarding the frequent and systematic extrajudicial killing of Palestinians in…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Friday, two Palestinian men from the northern West Bank district of Jenin and Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS)…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 22– 28 September 2016, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for September 24, to the 30, 2016. As efforts by…

The Palestinian Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip has reported that one Palestinian was killed, on Thursday evening, and three others were injured, while trying to defuse an Israeli missile,…