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Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, several Palestinian communities in the northern West Bank districts of Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarem,  searched many homes, and kidnapped six Palestinians. The soldiers invaded…

Two Palestinian security officers were injured, on Monday evening, after a number of fanatic Israeli settlers hurled stones on their car, driving on the Yitzhar road, south of the northern…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, June 13, 2016. Israeli forces continue to siege Palestinian village, in the…

Israeli forces, on Monday at dawn, broke into and raided Palestinian homes in the southern West Bank town of Yatta, tightening the siege that has been imposed on the town since Thursday. The siege on Yatta followed…

Israeli authorities, on Monday, decided to extend the administrative detention of a 23-year-old Palestinian circus performer, in spite of widespread outcry from activists and rights groups around the world demanding…

The Israeli tourism ministry has published a map of the occupied Old City of al-Quds (Jerusalem), which omits significant Muslim and Christian holy sites, as well as entire neighborhoods, from the…

Agricultural lands located behind the apartheid wall in Qalqilia, were set on fire late Sunday night due to the firing of flares by Israeli forces, according to WAFA security sources.…

via the Alternative Information Center “G4S shares plunge after Orlando killer is named as employee” Omar Mateen, who killed 50 people at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was an…

A Palestinian from Gaza city has released a guide on wild flowers growing in the Gaza Strip. Researcher Ayman Dardounah says, according to Al Ray, that his guidebook includes photos of…

Barak Ravid, of Israeli daily Haaretz, wrote on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Likud ministers he will never accept the original Arab Peace Initiative as a basis for…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn and late at night Sunday, at least fifteen Palestinians in different parts of the occupied…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, many Palestinian homes in Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and searched many homes, before the…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, Beit Fajjar town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and kidnapped three young Palestinian men. The soldiers invaded the town through…

A former soldier relates his experience with regard to the destruction of Palestinian olive trees while on patrol with the Israeli army. testimony catalog number: 314970 rank: Sergeant First Class unit: Reserves…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Sunday at dawn, a Palestinian legislator from his home, in Surif town, northeast of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said…

Israel has imposed collective punishment measures, and its leaders have threatened more to come after two Palestinian men opened fire in a busy upscale Tel Aviv square, this past Wednesday…

Israeli occupation authorities shut down, on Sunday, the commercial and land crossings of the Gaza Strip for one day, in addition to a pretrial closure for Al-Karama crossing in the…

As an electricity crisis continues to afflict the Gaza Strip, Muslim residents of the besieged coastal enclave are breaking their fasts on the beach, as the holy month of Ramadan…

The Israeli army continued its attacks against Palestinian farmers and shepherds along Gaza’s borderline, Sunday, according to WAFA correspondence. Witnesses reported that Israeli soldiers, stationed at watchtowers along the borderline area…

A 26-year old developmentally-disabled Palestinian man was shot and wounded by Israeli forces Saturday after allegedly pulling out a knife while riding a bike near the Awarta checkpoint. No Israeli…

Israeli soldiers completely isolated, on Sunday at dawn, all villages and towns north and northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after the army alleged a Palestinian car…

Syriza, the ruling party in the Greek parliament, told Palestinian lawmakers, Saturday, that the government was set to officially recognize the state of Palestine, according to a statement by the…

In an interview with Israel’s Knesset Channel (the Israeli equivalent of CSPAN), the country’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi advocates building a Third Temple on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, arguing that it…

06/16/16 | International Solidarity Movement | Gaza  Team Last Wednesday, 30-year-old Rajab Khaled Abu Riela, his brother and two cousins left Gaza’s port at 12 pm. They stayed out fishing…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, Beit Amra village, east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and demolished a home of a Palestinian…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Saturday at dawn, five young Palestinian men, after attacking them near one of the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, and injured several others…

Israeli soldiers attacked Friday the weekly protest in Kufur Qaddoum town, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia, causing many injuries. Morad Qaddoum, media spokesperson of the Popular Committee…

Several Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists participated, Friday, in the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and colonies, in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for June 4, to the 10, 2016. This week a Palestinian youth…

06/10/16 | UN Human Rights – Office of the High Comissioner | Occupied Palestine Statement by the Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, regarding the…

Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier on Friday, Yatta town and Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, searched many homes and kidnapped six Palestinians. The Hebron office…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, dozens of homes in the West Bank districts of Qalqilia, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Tubas, and kidnapped six Palestinians, including one woman. The…

nsnbc : Egyptian intelligence and Egypt’s President Abdel Fateh Al-Sisi will attempt to mediate the dialog between Palestinian factions, including Al-Fateh, PFLP, DFLP the PPRM as well as Hamas. Abbas reiterates…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, June 9, 2016. Israeli troops storm West Bank communities and kidnap civilians,…

Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in theoPt continued during the reporting period (02 – 08 June 2016).   Shooting: Israeli forces have continued to commit crimes,…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), on Wednesday, deplored the escalation of the armed conflict in Syria which, in recent days,…

The Israeli Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which implements Israeli policies in the occupied Palestinian territory, issued an order freezing more than 83,000 permits allowing Palestinians to…

06/09/16 | International Solidarity Movement | al-Khalil Team For more than seven months, Israeli forces have kept a staircase leading to Qurtuba school and the surrounding neighbourhood in occupied al-Khalil…

Extremist Israeli settlers, on Thursday, spray-painted racist graffiti on the walls of an Arab village known as Abu Ghoush, to the northwest of Jerusalem, according to WAFA sources. The painted…

Four Israelis were killed and several others injured, Wednesday night, in a shooting that took place in Tel Aviv by two Palestinian youth. The two shooters, cousins in their early twenties,…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, at least eleven Palestinians from their homes, and on military roadblocks, in different parts of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS)…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, June 8, 2016. Israeli navy attacks fishers in Gaza and detain three…

Official statement from  www.usslibertyveterans.org: ON JUNE 8, 1967, while patrolling in international waters in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, USS Liberty(AGTR-5) was savagely attacked without warning or justification by air and naval…

Israeli sources have reported that 3 Israeli civilians have been killed, and at least 5 wounded, as shots were heard at a market in central Tel Aviv Wednesday evening. At…

On the evening of June 5th, 2016, 49 years into the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, Jewish organizations and individuals worldwide speak out in support of the right…

A Palestinian security guard was reportedly hit and injured by an Israeli police vehicle inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in annexed East Jerusalem, Wednesday morning, witnesses said. Eyewitnesses explained to…

Israeli settlers, Wednesday, razed Palestinian-owned lands in the village of al-Khader, to the south of occupied Bethlehem, according to local sources. Hasan Burajeya, of the Anti-Settlement Committee in Bethlehem, told…

Yesterday, the Palestinian News and Info Agency reported that Israeli authorities notified Adeeb Dawabsha, deputy mayor of Douma, that two of his homes and a carpentry workshop would be demolished.…

06/08/16 | International Solidarity Movement | al-Khalil Team On Wednesday, June 8th, 2016, human rights defender Imad Abu Shamsiyah testified in an Israeli court over the case of the extrajudicial execution…

With the arrival of Ramadan, the most densely populated area on the planet – the Gaza Strip – is now facing the added pressure of increasing power cuts amid the hot summer weather. The…

On Tuesday, Israeli authorities announced plans to construct 82 units in the illegal settlement of Ramat Shlomo and to build an illegal settlement outpost of 15,000 units in the Qalandia…

Commenting on the Western European and Others Group’s (WEOG) decision to nominate Israel for the chairmanship of the UN General Assembly Sixth Committee, PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, at least sixteen Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank. The PPS…

A number of extremist Israeli settlers invaded, on Wednesday morning, Palestinian agricultural lands, in the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, and bulldozed them while many soldiers were deployed around the…

Former Israeli military spokesperson Avital Liebovich has called Palestinian journalists ‘terrorists’ and has promoted the massive Israeli military invasions of Gaza in 2008-9 and 2012, in which hundreds of children…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, two Palestinians in Beit Fajjar town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The army also kidnapped a Palestinian in Hebron. The…

Israeli navy ship attacked, on Wednesday at dawn, a number of Palestinian fishing boats, in the Sudaniyya Sea area, northwest of Gaza city, and kidnapped three fishers. The navy used…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, June 7, 2016. Israeli soldiers hand over demolishing orders to West Bank…

Revered Archbishop Desmond Tutu, himself a Nobel Prize recipient, has joined a growing number of people who have nominated Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouthi for the Nobel Peace Prize. Barghouthi…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, June 6, 2016. Palestinian youth dies of wounds sustained last week, meanwhile…

Israel is reportedly planning to build over 15,000 new settlement units on the site of an unused airport between the occupied West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem). According to Press…

The Balad Israeli-Arab political party, has denounced the Israeli occupation police campaign against the members of the party, explaining that the aim of the camping is to undermine the political…

On Monday morning, the Israeli army invaded Hawwara village, north of the West Bank city of Nablus. Dozens of Israeli soldiers occupied at least ten Palestinian houses in the center…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order, on Sunday, that will penalize people and businesses in support of the non-violent movement to boycott of Israel. In a speech to…

In a place where children are treated like adults, or even enemies, where they are imprisoned, injured and killed, child protection campaigns become a necessity. In order to protect children, the…

Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in the Russian capital Moscow on Tuesday. On the agenda are bilateral relations in various…

Secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Saeb Erekat, denounced Tuesday the visit of Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin to illegal colonies, built on Palestinian lands, east of the central…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday, the village of Douma, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and handed demolition orders targeting two homes, and a carpentry workshop. The…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, earlier on Tuesday, nine Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including four who were taken prisoner…

The Israeli Information Center on Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, issued a press release Monday stating that a second Palestinian was executed in Hebron on March 24th, in…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, and kidnapped one Palestinian. The soldiers also invaded Rashayda village, east of Bethlehem, and handed demolition orders…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), on Sunday, said that Israeli courts have imposed fines on imprisoned Palestinian children in the realm of 88,000 Shekels ($22,000), during the month of May alone. Lawyer for…

The Israeli High Court in Jerusalem, on Sunday, has rejected a petition demanding that the Zionist “Jerusalem Day” march, which celebrates the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and…

The European Union announced, Sunday, a contribution to the PA of €15.0 million for the payment of May’s salaries and pensions for over 66,000 Palestinian civil servants and pensioners in…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open a formal investigation into serious crimes committed against Palestinians, by the state of Israel, over the past…

Israeli occupation bulldozers reportedly penetrated into the Gaza Strip, east of the border fence, today. Eyewitness stated that five Israeli bulldozers, of the D9 style, penetrated some 50 meters into Palestinian…

Following the release of Khalida Jarrar, prominent leftist and feminist legislator and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, six members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) remain imprisoned in Israeli jails.…

International Solidarity Movement, Al Khalil Team 7 years ago today, Aqil Srour was murdered by an Israeli sniper in the occupied West Bank village of Ni’lin, near Ramallah. He was…

The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported, Monday, that a young Palestinian man died of serious wounds he suffered, on Friday at dawn June 3rd, after Israeli soldiers shot him during…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society PPS, has reported, Monday, that Israeli soldiers kidnapped two Palestinians in Ramallah, and one in Qalqilia. The PPS stated that the soldiers invaded and searched home…

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…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, several Palestinian communities in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, searched many homes and kidnapped at least four Palestinians. One Palestinian was…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, and abducted a child in occupied East Jerusalem, on Sunday at night. The…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Sunday evening, the head of the Jerusalem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Nasser Qous. PPS Lawyer Mofeed al-Haj said the soldiers kidnapped Nasser Qous…

Sunday June 5th marks the 49th anniversary of the day known to Palestinians as the ‘Naksa’, the day that the Israeli military occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, several Palestinians districts in the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped seventeen Palestinians, including ten who were taken prisoner in the southern West Bank…

Israeli navy ships opened fired, on Sunday morning, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats, near Gaza City, causing serious property damage. The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) said…

By Samidoun- The detention and interrogation of Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Hasan Safadi, Arabic media coordinator for Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, was renewed on Friday, 3…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday at dawn, Tarqoumia town, northwest of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped one Palestinian. The soldiers also invaded Teqoua’ town, east of…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for May 28, to June 3, 2016. Israeli troops kill a Palestinian…

Medical sources have reported, Friday, that Israeli soldiers shot and injured a Palestinian teen with a live round, while dozens of residents suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, east of…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Friday, Kufur Qaddoum town, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia, and assaulted the weekly protesters, wounding two siblings with live rounds. The army also sprayed…

The Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, has reported, Friday, that Israeli soldiers used excessive force against the weekly nonviolent protest, causing…

Friday June 3rd, 2016 – Bethlehem – As is the case every first Friday of every month, Combatants for Peace Movement, in collaboration with a number of Palestinian and Israeli…

The Israeli authorities released, Friday, elected Palestinian legislator, senior political leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Khaleda Jarrar, after holding her captive for fourteen months.…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 26 May – 01 June 2016, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and clashed with many local youths, wounding two Palestinians with live fire, while one of them…

Update: The Palestinian  Health Ministry said the slain woman has been identified as Ansar Husam Harsha, 25, from  Qaffin town, northeast of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem. She…

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

As thirty nations prepare representatives to meet in Paris Friday for talks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday that high-lecel Israeli officials have been meeting secretly with…