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Greece and Cyprus affirmed, Wednesday, their support for the creation of an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. A joint communique, issued following…

When Palestinian Minister of Sports and Youth Jabril Rajoub called Palestinian Christians ‘the Merry Christmas people’ he fueled the problematic debate of who is truly Palestinian. by Nassar Ibrahim Usually…

Israeli police have reportedly beat a Jerusalemite woman named Hanade Halawani, as she was leaving al-Aqsa mosque. Halawani said that one of the officers beat her while she was leaving the holy site after…

The Women’s Boat to Gaza (Zaytouna-Oliva) left the port of Ajaccio at 09:30, this morning. It is due to arrive later this week in Messina, Sicily, Italy, where it will…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, 27 Palestinians, including a young woman, in different parts of the occupied West Bank.…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported that detainee Malek Al-Qadi, who ended his 70-day hunger strike, on Wednesday, after reaching an agreement for ending his Administrative Detention, and setting a…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Thursday at dawn, a young Palestinian man, and kidnapped at least one, after the army and settlers invaded the eastern area of Nablus, in the…

Israeli forces opened fire, on Wednesday at dawn, towards civilian homes in the east of Khan Younis, local resources reported, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency. Israeli soldiers stationed…

The Central Elections Commission (CEC) said, on Wednesday, that local elections planned for October 8 cannot be held as scheduled, after the Supreme Court of Justice postponed hearings on holding…

(photo: Palestinian girl crying her brother, who was killed by the Israeli army, in the 2014 war on Gaza.) According to the PNN, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, September, 21, 2016. Israeli troops injuries a child at a…

The head of the Palestinian Detainees Committee Issa Qaraqe has reported that an agreement was reached for the release of hunger striking detainees Mohammad Balboul, Mahmoud Balboul and Malek al-Qadi,…

A Palestinian child was shot and wounded by the Israeli military Wednesday morning when she allegedly failed to heed a soldier’s order to ‘stop’ as she approached a military roadblock.…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, twenty-one Palestinians, during extensive invasions and searches of homes in different parts of the occupied…

The former Deputy Chief of the Israeli military, Uzi Dayan, testified Monday at the trial of an Israeli soldier changed with manslaughter for the shooting in the head of a…

Hundreds of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, Beit Ummar, Doura and the al-Arroub refugee camp, searched dozens…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, approximately at 2:30 after midnight, the village of Bil’in in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, broke into and searched several homes and confiscated…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, September, 20, 2016. Israeli troops kill a Palestinian teenager, injure…

University of California, Berkeley, has reinstated a course on Palestine that was cancelled under pressure from pro-Israel groups, according to a press release. Palestine Legal said, according to WAFA, that…

Israeli forces, on Tuesday, served a deportation decision to a Fateh movement secretary from al-Aqsa Mosque, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency. Israeli intelligence summoned Shadi Mtawar to Qashla investigation…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, overnight and at dawn Tuesday, 33 Palestinians, including many children, in different parts of the occupied West Bank…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the Deheishe refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, shot and injured two young Palestinian men, and kidnapped…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Tuesday morning, a Palestinian child at the Wad Al-Jouz Junction, near Bani Neim town, east of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, September, 19, 2016. Israeli troops kill three Palestinians during two…

The Zionist symbolism of Israel’s national football team creates a quagmire for its Palestinian Israeli fans. Support for Israel’s national football team indicates that while Palestinian citizens of Israel have…

The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission of the Palestinian Authority called, on Monday, for a day of mass protests in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian detainees held in Israeli jails. The commission…

Israeli soldiers forced, on Monday morning, traders from occupied Jerusalem to close their shops. Al Ray sources said that the occupation ordered the traders to close their shops in Salah al-Din,…

According to the PNN. the Center for Freedom and Justice in Beit Ummar village, to the north of Hebron, is facilitating a popular struggle, with grape trees and vegetable fields as…

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…

Update: Israeli soldiers shot and killed, Monday, two Palestinians near the Ibrahimi mosque,  in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry has…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Monday at dawn and Sunday evening, at least 25 Palestinians, including several children, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners Society…

Updated: Many Israeli military vehicles invaded, earlier Monday, Kufur Abboush village, south of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, in addition to Tal village and Balata refugee camp, in the…

Many Israeli military jeeps invaded, on Monday at dawn, Zabbouba village and Qabatia town, in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, and kidnapped three Palestinians. The soldiers also stopped…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Monday at dawn, the West Bank city of Bethlehem, searched a few homes in Wad Ma’ali area, in the center of the city, and…

Updated: Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, Beit Ummar and Ethna towns, in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, searched homes and kidnapped four Palestinians. One of the invaded…

According to Israeli sources, that two police officers suffered very serious wounds, one Monday morning,  a young Palestinian man stabbed them, in the Sahera Gate area, in occupied East Jerusalem,…

Updated: Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday evening, a number of neighborhoods, in the Old City other parts of occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped three young men. The soldiers also invaded a home…

Palestinian detainee Malek al-Qadi said after he came out of coma, Sunday, that he is ongoing with the hunger strike he started 65 days ago, and refused to take any…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday evening, the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, southwest of Jericho city, in the occupied West Bank, kidnapped a child, and took him to a detention and…

The Israeli authorities transferred, on Sunday evening, the body of slain Jordanian man, Sa’id Hayel Amro, 28, to the Jordanian side of the Allenby Border Terminal. The Petra Jordanian News…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday evening, Zabbouba village, northwest of Jenin in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped four Palestinians, including two children. Local sources said…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Sunday at dawn, two young Palestinian men in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Local sources said the soldiers invaded and searched…

Early Sunday morning, a Palestinian man was shot in the head and critically wounded after allegedly stabbing an Israeli soldier just outside the settlement of Efrat, south of Bethlehem. The…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday evening, the town of al-‘Ezariyya, east of occupied East Jerusalem, and fired many gas bombs, causing scores of Palestinians to suffer the effects of teargas…

Updated: Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday evening, Iraq-Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, searched homes and kidnapped six young men; many Palestinians suffered the effects of…

(image: Wikipedia) According to the Israeli army, Israel’s “Iron Dome” aerial defense system destroyed two rockets fired from Syria above the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday, with no injuries reported.…

The deal guarantees Israel $10 million a day in U.S. military aid for the next decade. (Photo: Israeli Minister of Defence, Avigdor Lieberman) The United States and Israel have agreed…

Marking 34 years since the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps of Beirut, Lebanon, Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO),…

Official statement, 17 September, 2016: Birzeit University condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the denial of entry to Dr. Adam Hanieh, who was invited by the Ph.D. Program in the Social…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Saturday morning, a young Palestinian man at the entrance of Tal Romeida neighborhood, in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Friday evening, a Palestinian child in Tal Romeida area, in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank,…

Israeli soldiers forced, Friday, a Palestinian man to demolish his own home, in Jabal al-Mokabber town, south of occupied East Jerusalem, after the City Council ruled for the demolition of…

Dozens of Palestinians, Israeli and international peace activists held, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Israeli annexation wall and colonies, in Bil’in village, northwest of the central West Bank…

Hundreds of Palestinians marched, Friday, in the weekly protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall and colonies in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, also…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Friday evening, three young Palestinian men with live fire, during clashes that took place east of Gaza city, and east of the al-Boreij refugee…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Friday evening, that a number of Israeli military jeeps invaded the al-Jalazonerefugee camp, north of Ramallah, and shot two young men with live fire,…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday evening, two Palestinian teenagers from the town of al-Yamoun, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped the two…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for September 10, to the 16, 2016. This week four…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday evening, the town of Beit Ummar, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, fired many gas bombs, including a new type of smokeless…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, Friday, a young Palestinian man, and injured a woman, after opening fire on their car, close to the entrance of Keryat Arba’ colony, in Hebron…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, Friday, a Jordanian man reportedly after he attempted to stab Border Police officers at entrance of Damascus Gate, leading to the Old City of occupied…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday at dawn, a young Palestinian man in Yatta town, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The soldiers invaded Yatta…

The Palestinian Detainees Committee has reported, on Friday morning, that more than 100 detainees have joined the hunger strike, in solidarity with the striking detainees Mohammad Balboul, his brother Mahmoud…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, ‘Aida refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, searched homes and kidnapped two Palestinian men. The Bethlehem office of the…

Israeli soldiers invaded, late on Thursday at night, the town of Zabbouba, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, clashed with local youths and fired many gas bombs,…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Thursday evening, a Palestinian man from Beit Ola town, west of Hebron in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, during a scuffle…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, September, 15, 2016. Israeli troops kill a Palestinian man in…

Two boats with all-women crews set sail Wednesday for the Gaza Strip from Barcelona, Spain. They are planning to travel across the Mediterranean and break the Israeli blockade on Gaza…

The Israeli Air Force fired, on Thursday at dawn, a number of missiles into several areas, believed to be run by the Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, in different parts of…

The head of the Palestinian Detainees Committee ‘Issa Qaraqe voiced an urgent appeal to the United Nations Human Rights Council, holding its 33rd session Wednesday, to immediately intervene and save…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Wednesday, nine Palestinians, including a young woman and four members of her family, in different parts of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, Wednesday, September, 14, 2016. Israeli bulldozers invade lands in Gaza meanwhile Palestinian…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the town of Beit Ummar, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, searched several homes and kidnapped two Palestinians. Several military…

A number of armored Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Wednesday morning, Palestinian agricultural lands, east of Rafah city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said four armored…

A number of Israeli soldiers attacked, on Tuesday at night a Palestinian man after stopping him at a military roadblock, north of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, causing…

Hundreds of Palestinians marched, on Tuesday evening, in the funeral procession of a Palestinian was killed by Israeli soldiers in Shu’fat refugee camp, in occupied Jerusalem, on September fifth. A…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, Tuesday, September, 13, 2016. Israeli troops kidnap five civilians during invasions targeting…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday evening, a young Palestinian man at the Container roadblock, northeast of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The soldiers stopped and searched dozens of cars,…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, late at night Monday, three young Palestinian men, reportedly after they hurled stones and paint on a settlement bus, near the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of the…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at night, four Palestinians in Qosra village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The soldiers also detained several Palestinians near Jenin, in…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, Monday, September, 12, 2016. In the West Bank six Palestinian civilians injured,…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that two young men suffered serious wounds, on Monday evening, after being crushed by an Israeli military vehicle in the al-Fahs area, south of Hebron,…

09/12/16, Sergio Yahni, Alternative Information Center (AIC) Even Israeli occupation officials question the amount of secrecy afforded to the Ministry of Strategic Affairs’ anti-BDS campaign.  Yossi Melman details in his recent article…

Several armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers invaded, on Monday morning, Palestinian agricultural lands, north of Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, bulldozed some of them…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, two Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Ramallah and Jenin, and interrogated many others. Several military vehicles invaded Beit Rima town, northwest…

(photo: A suffragette is force-fed in HM Prison Holloway, in the UK, during hunger strikes for women’s suffrage. ~Wikipedia) The Israeli Supreme Court ruled, on Sunday, that a law which permits…

Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (01 – 07 September 2016). Shooting: Israeli forces have continued to commit crimes,…

via bdsmovement.net Cadiz, provincial capital in the autonomous community of Andalusia in the Spanish state, has become the latest municipality to pass a motion supporting the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions…

via the International Solidarity Movement A number of Palestinian human rights organizations have recently issued a letter of solidarity in conjunction with the efforts of US-based group Black Lives Matter, in taking an…

(photo: PNN archive image) Israeli armed forces, on Sunday, opened heavy machine gunfire toward Palestinian homes along the borderline area to the east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza…

A group of Palestinian youth, activists and politicians staged a sit-in, Saturday, at the Bethlehem office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in the southern occupied West…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, the towns of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, and Ethna, west of the southern West Bank district of Hebron, searched homes and kidnapped…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Saturday evening, a Palestinian police officer, and detained several Palestinians, after stopping them at a military roadblock on the main entrance of Zababda town, southeast of…

Palestinian medical sources said that a child, six years of age, was killed on Saturday evening, after being rammed by a speeding Israeli colonist’s car in Um Rokba area, in…

(PNN archive image) The United States strongly criticized, on Friday, statements by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which he described Palestinians not wanting settlers in their future state as…

PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi recently met with a visiting delegation of Palestinian business and civil society leaders from Chile at the PLO Headquarters in Ramallah, and welcomed…

One Palestinian is dead, another is injured and in jail. The Israeli officers that shot both of them remain free. Israeli forces shot and killed Mustafa Nimir, aged 27, in occupied…

Palestinian Detainee Malek al-Qadi, who started a hunger strike 57 days ago, fell into a coma, and is currently in a life-threatening condition that could result in imminent death, the…

Two Palestinian boys lead a donkey cart carrying scrap metal collected from trash pits in Gaza. (Photo: DCIP) “I remember when a 14-year-old child was buried under a pile of…

Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border fence, shot and killed on Friday, a Palestinian teen, east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza, and injured another in northern Gaza.…