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The Women’s Boat to Gaza, a campaign of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition conducted its meetings, over the past weekend, to discuss and further plans to set sail towards Gaza in…

Lawyer for the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Elijah Theodory, was reportedly able, on Thursday, to acquit 15-year-old Abuallah Qasem of a recent conviction over an incident in which he was accused of…

The Palestinian Minister of National Economy, Abeer Odeh, on Wednesday, said that Palestine will apply to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO), with an observer status, soon. Odeh’s statement came during a…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) managed, Thursday, to obtain an acquittal for an imprisoned Palestinian child, who was kidnapped by the army 45 days ago, as he was returning home…

A group of Israeli extremists assaulted the Pentecostal prayer procession in Jerusalem this week, shouting and trying to occupy Mount Zion to keep the Christians out. The Israeli police arrested…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, earlier on Thursday, at least ten Palestinians, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem.…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated during a press conference in Brussels, on Wednesday evening, that the Palestinian Authority supports the “French Initiative,” and all the efforts by the European Union,…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, searched homes and kidnapped one Palestinian. The Hebron office of the Palestinian…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Qalqilia city in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, searched many homes and stores, and kidnapped two Palestinians. The soldiers violently…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that two workers were injured, on Thursday morning, after Israeli soldiers assaulted them, near Bethlehem, while trying to enter occupied Jerusalem for work. The sources…

On Wednesday, the Israeli military transferred the corpse of the slain Palestinian child, who was killed by army fire, on Tuesday at dawn, back to his family in the central…

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office issued a statement, Wednesday, expressing “its concern” regarding the latest Israeli decision to construct a new settlement building on Palestinian lands, in Silwan town,…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, June 22, 2016. Israeli troops detain more than two dozen Palestinians including…

Israeli settlers, on Wednesday, resumed their provocative visits to Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. WAFA correspondence said that small groups of extremist settlers, accompanied by an Israeli police escort, broke…

06/22/16 | International Solidarity Movement | al-Khalil Team On July 21st 2016, Youth Against Settlements (YAS) organized an Iftar dinner and Jen Cox memorial in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) with the…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped at least 30 Palestinians, including children, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, in…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, a Palestinian security officer, attacked and injured another resident, in Azzoun town, east of the…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, at least five Palestinians, after invading their homes and violently searching them, in the al-Isawiyya and Silwan towns, in occupied East Jerusalem. The…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, June 21, 2016. A Palestinian Youth shot and killed by Israeli troops,…

www.breakingthesilence.org.il testimony catalog number: 852350 unit: Judea Regional Brigade area: Hebron area period: 2012 “We went to Umm al-Khair, which is right up next to [the settlement of] Carmel. We…

06/21/16 | International Solidarity Movement | al-Khalil Team Today, 21st June 2016, Israeli forces delayed and stopped several Palestinians on their way to noon-prayer at Ibrahimi mosque in occupied al-Khalil…

Israel, which is widely believed to possess hundreds of atomic bombs, says it is not yet ready to ratify a UN pact on banning nuclear tests adopted nearly 20 years ago.…

PLO Executive Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, on Tuesday, has  welcomed the EU Foreign Affairs Council’s decision to endorse the French initiative to hold an international peace conference later this year. Ashrawi added,…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) published a new report as part of the series of the monthly “Closure Reports” addressing the latest developments of the state of the…

Following the fatal shooting of a Palestinian child on the hands of Israeli soldiers, earlier Tuesday, the Israeli army admitted that the child was a bystander, and that he was…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, various Palestinian communities in several districts in the occupied West Bank, stormed and searched dozens of homes, and kidnapped at eleven Palestinians, the…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Tuesday at dawn, a Palestinian child from Beit ‘Or at-Tihta village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and injured at least…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Hajja village, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and demolished the inner walls of a home of a…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Nour Shams refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, kidnapped one Palestinian and injured at least three others. The injured…

21st June 2016 | IWPS | Deir Istiya, occupied Palestine When Aziz ‘Aasee, the mayor of Qarawah Bani Hassan village drives through the streets, we’re stopped every few meters by…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, June 20, 2016. A young man dies of earlier wounds as two…

Facebook, in present-day Israel, has hired Jordana Cutler as its head of Policy and Communications. Cutler is a longtime senior advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and chief of…

The Israeli civil administration is reportedly willing to demolish a 10-meter-deep water reservoir that is the only source of water for 20 Bedouin families of the Umm Al-Jimal community, in the Jordan…

Some 500 extremist Israeli settlers, under the protection of Israeli police, have broken into the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque since the beginning of holy month Ramadan, Islamic Waqf Department in Jerusalem…

A number of Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Monday at dawn, the town of Beit Fajjar, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, searched homes and kidnapped two Palestinian…

Updated: Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Monday at dawn, the southern West Bank city of Hebron, before the soldiers kidnapped seven Palestinians, and injured two siblings with rubber-coated steel bullets.…

The Jerusalem Office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, a young Palestinian man, in occupied Jerusalem, and illegally confiscated electronic…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, a Palestinian mother and her daughter, from their home in Qusra village, southeast of the northern West Bank district of Nablus, just four…

The Israeli military demolished two homes, an outdoor kitchen and a barn on Saturday in Wadi Jheish and Umm Al-Daraj, in the village of Susiya, in the south Hebron hills.…

The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that a young Palestinian man died, on Sunday evening, from serious wounds he suffered on May 4th, after Israeli soldiers shot him during an invasion…

The Israeli army, on Sunday, reportedly conducted military drills across different parts of the northern Jordan Valley area to the east of Tubas, according to an official. Aref Daraghmeh, an…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) strongly condemned the ongoing escalation of the armed conflict in Syria which, on 14 June,…

The foreign ministry of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Sunday, demanded the arrest of a Jewish Rabbi, who called on Israeli settlers to poison water used by Palestinians in hundreds of…

Photos of Israeli occupation and Palestinian life in the West Bank city of Hebron (Al Khalil), by Christian Peacemaker Teams. Checkpoint Expansion Pictured here:  Expansion of Israeli Checkpoint Located on…

Zionist Union member of the Israeli parliament of the Knesset, Tzipi Livni, called for a referendum, Saturday afternoon, over what she reduced to a “problem” with Palestinians. Speaking at an…

The Israeli government voted, in its session today, to provide extensive funding for projects which aim to expand illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. According to Israeli TV, NIS…

PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, on Saturday, expressed the grief of Palestinian leadership and the people of Palestine over the death of ‘Palestine’s dear friend and peace and justice activist,’…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, overnight night and on Sunday morning, at least fourteen Palestinians, including two women, in the West Bank districts of Ramallah, Jerusalem, Hebron, Nablus and Tulkarem. The…

Israeli soldiers, stationed on military towers across the border fence, opened fire on Sunday morning, into Palestinian agricultural lands east of Khuza’a town, east of the southern Gaza Strip district…

via the International Solidarity Movement, Facebook. (Europal Forum) A report issued by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) confirmed the severe deterioration in…

Human Rights Defenders (HRD) in Palestine released a video last week showing an Israeli soldier kicking a knife toward the body of Abd al-Fattah al-Sharif — who was shot point-blank in…

18th June 2016 | BDS Oldenburg, Germany On 14 June, 2016, the Regional Court Oldenburg ordered Sara Rihl, local SPD politician and student member of the senate of the university…

Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : The fatal shooting and stabbing of British MP Joe Cox on Thursday, outside Birstall library in North Yorkshire, shocked members of all parties in the UK.…

Netanyahu and his government are ‘weak, feeble, boisterous and radical,’ says former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, according to Israeli daily Haaretz. Barak hinted, during a speech to the Herzliya…

Many Palestinians, accompanied by Israeli and international peace activists held, on Friday afternoon, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and colonies, in the village of Bil’in, near the…

A committee of the Israeli Knesset is discussing the extension, for another year, of a 13-year old law that has been extended each year as a ‘temporary’ measure. The law…

Israeli soldiers opened fire, earlier Saturday, into Palestinian agricultural lands, while navy ships also fired on a number of fishing boats, in the southern part of the coastal region. Eyewitnesses…

Israeli soldiers invaded, late on Friday at night, ‘Azzoun town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, rammed one Palestinian with their jeep and kidnapped three others. The…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday, the weekly protest in Kufur Qaddoum town, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia, and fired gas bombs at the protesters and homes, causing…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for June 11, to the 17, 2016. The Palestinian Authority supports all…

Three hundred Palestinians from besieged Gaza were permitted, on Friday, to visit Al-Aqsa Mosque in annexed East Jerusalem, according to Palestinian officials, following a recent decision to lift a ban…

Michaela Whitton (AM) :  A British MP has died after being shot and stabbed during an attack in her constituency. Jo Cox, a 41-year-old mother of two young children, was…

17th June 2016 | Jo Cox  Jo Cox, a devoted compassionate friend of Palestine, refugees and immigrants, an advocate for the plight of Syrian and Yeminite civilians, a genuine working…

Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and delegates visited the Qatari capital of Doha, to pick up on the stalled national reconciliation talks with Hamas. While news…

Israeli soldiers placed, Friday, several concrete blocks, isolating Jabal al-Mokabber village, south of occupied East Jerusalem. The soldiers first placed concrete blocks on the main road between Jabal al-Mokabber and…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday at dawn, four Palestinians from the West Bank districts of Bethlehem and Salfit. Five Palestinian cars sustained damage after being attacked by Israeli colonizers, near…

Ramallah, May 16, 2016—Thousands of Gazans took to the streets on May 15, to commemorate the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” which marks 68 years of Palestinian displacement and dispossession, at a…

Israeli news site Ynet, on Thursday revealed the Israeli state’s plans to build a concrete wall along the Gaza-Israeli borders, reportedly to halt the use of tunnels from Gaza. According to…

30 Palestinian detainees in Megiddo Prison are carrying out a solidarity hunger strike with Palestinian detainee Bilal Kayed. The 35-year-old  was ordered, on Monday, to six months of administrative detention by the Israeli…

Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territories continued during the reporting period (09 – 15 June 2016). Shootings: Israeli forces have continued to commit…

On Thursday, Palestinian Arabic dailies focused on a gathering between Hamas and Fateh officials in Doha, last night, as part of an effort to forward intra-Palestinian reconciliation talks. According to the…

06/15/16 | International Solidarity Movement | al-Khalil Team On 15th July 2016, a peaceful sit-in protest organized in demand of the opening of Qurtuba stairs, in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron), by…

Ahmad Nattat is a former Palestinian detainee from Gaza, who spent years in Israeli custody. Nattat was married to Sameera Al-Shawmra, from the occupied West Bank of Hebron, 13 years…

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah issued a statement decrying Israeli national water company Mekorot’s decision to cut off water supplies to several Palestinian cities and villages. “Israel wants to prevent Palestinians…

Several Israeli army vehicles invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, kidnapped a young Palestinian man, and injured seven, including five family members. The Palestinian…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Aida refugee camp, north of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, searched homes and kidnapped two young men. The soldiers also injured…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, approximately at 1:20 after midnight, the village of Bil’in in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, after surrounding it from various directions, and illegally…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, June 15, 2016. West Bank Palestinian youth injured by Israeli military jeep,…

The Israeli navy released, late on Wednesday evening, eight Palestinians fishers who were among ten fishers kidnapped by the navy during early morning hours in Gaza territorial waters. Zakariyya Bakr,…

Groups of extremist Israeli settlers stormed, on Wednesday morning, the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, from the Magharba gate, under heavy protection of Israeli occupation police. An Al Ray reporter said that…

The month of May, 2016, has reportedly witnessed a limited decline in the number of violations against media freedoms in Palestine, compared to the previous month. According to the PNN,…

Palestinian astrophysicist Imad Barghouthi faced a second hearing yesterday, 13 June in Israeli military court. Barghouthi, 54, is a professor of space plasma physics at Al-Quds University; he was arrested…

via the Alternative Information Center, courtesy Al Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network Introduction Israel’s attacks on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and other human rights defenders living under occupation, such…

According to Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet), new agreements between Turkey and Israel included the allowance of Ankara, by Israel, to establish a new electricity company in the Gaza Strip.…

A teenaged Palestinian boy was hit by a bullet to the head on Wednesday, as Palestinian security officers clashed with masked gunmen in the village of Kafr Aqab, in the…

A Palestinian youth was seriously wounded on Wednesday, at dawn, after being rammed by an Israeli military jeep in Balata camp, northern occupied West Bank. Local sources reported, according to Al…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, at least seven Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, in addition to one Palestinian who was kidnapped late at night, Tuesday, at…

In a precedent-setting decision Tuesday, the Israeli military decided not to press charges against a senior officer who ordered his troops to bombard a hospital in Gaza in 2014 to…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Wednesday at dawn, several rounds of live ammunition targeting Palestinian homes and lands, in Central Gaza. On Tuesday evening, the soldiers fired a missile into a…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday evening, Section 3 of the Nafha Israeli Prison, in the Negev Desert, wounding at least three detainees, and moved dozens into solitary confinement. The Palestinian…

A large military force invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Yatta city, in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, broke into homes and injured a child after firing a concussion…

In an open letter, published in today’s Irish Times and Irish Independent, thirteen of Ireland’s best-known musicians, writers, artists and sports stars have called on the Irish government to join…

EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn, responsible for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, visited the EU-funded seawater desalination plant in southern Gaza, today. PNN reports, today, that the first phase of…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, June 14, 2016. Settlers injuries two Palestinian security officer as troops invade…

The Israeli Parliament of the Knesset voted, on Monday evening, to re-extend Israel’s “Citizenship and Entry into Israel” provision, which prohibits Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and the besieged…

Damascus, 14 June, 2016  The UNITED NATIONS WORKS AND RELIEF AGENCY (UNRWA) strongly condemns the parties responsible for two explosions in the vicinity of Qabr Essit camp in the town…

Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, the head of the Studies and Documentation Unit of the Palestinian Detainees Committee, has reported that the Israeli authorities issued an arbitrary Administrative Detention order against a Palestinian…

Birzeit University retains its title as Palestine’s best university, while rises eleven places to hurtle the 50th spot in the QS Quacquarelli Symonds’s rankings this year. The QS World University…

Dr. Shaher Awawdeh, deputy permanent observer of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to the United Nations, strongly denounced Israel’s election as the head the UN Legal Committee (officially named the…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, three Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, and one Palestinian in Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, after the army stormed and searched…