Stabbing in Southern Israel: 4 Israelis Wounded, Crowd Attacks Bedouin
According to Israeli police, a suspected Palestinian stabbed and wounded four Israelis, including a 13-year-old girl, in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat on Saturday evening before fleeing the…
Many Palestinians Injured Near Hebron
Dozens of Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Saturday at dawn, Beit Ummar town north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and clashed with dozens of local youths, before…
Pollard Released After 30 Years in Prison
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Friday, addressed American spy, Jonathan Pollard, who was released on parole after serving 30 years in prison, after handing over top-secret classified information to…
Army Kidnaps Fifteen Palestinians In Hebron
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday at dawn, the southern West Bank district of Hebron, searched dozens of homes and kidnapped fifteen Palestinians. The soldiers invaded the Joret Bahlas area, north…
Soldiers Storm “Hebron Radio” Shut It Down, Confiscate Equipment
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday at dawn, the Hebron Radio in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, confiscated its equipment and ordered it shut for six months.Media sources in…
Israeli Soldiers Attack The Weekly Nonviolent Protest In Bil’in
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and Settlements in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, wounding four persons. The army also…
Soldiers Attack The Weekly Protest In Kufur Qaddoum
Israeli soldiers assaulted, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest in Kufur Qaddoum town, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia, after invading it.The Popular Committee in Kufur Qaddoum said the…
Health Ministry: ‘233 Palestinians Injured On Friday, 118 Of Them With Live Fire’
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that 233 Palestinians were injured by Israeli army fire, on Friday, including 118 who were shot with live army fire, in different parts of…
This Week in Palestine Week 47 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for November 14, to the 20, 2015. Israeli attacks targeting…
Health Ministry: 91 Palestinians, Including 18 Children, Killed By Israeli Fire Since October 1
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire since October 1 has reached 91, including 18 children and four women. More than 10,000…
Israel Agrees To Allow Palestinian Telecommunication Companies Access To 3G
The Israeli Authorities agreed, on Thursday, to release the 3G frequencies and equipment that Tel Aviv has been holding for many years, thus allowing the Palestinian telecommunication companies to provide…
Military Roadblocks? We Have An App For That!
Palestinian developers have managed to create two new digital applications to be used on smart phones, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, in order to alert the public…
New Israeli Demand: ‘Close your Facebook or you can’t travel!’
Israeli occupation authorities have asked a number of Palestinians to close their Facebook accounts, in order to be allowed to travel via Erez crossing.Head of the studies and documentations unit…
DCI: 16 Children Killed in 3 Weeks
Defense for Children International – Palestine has confirmed that Israeli forces have killed 16 Palestinian children in separate incidents across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza…
Police: 2 Israelis Dead, 2 injured in Tel Aviv Stabbing Attack
Two Israelis were reported killed and two injured, on Thursday, in a stabbing attack in southern Tel Aviv, according to Israeli police and medics.Israeli police spokesperson, Luba al-Samri, said that…
Shooting in Gush Etzion: 1 Palestinian, 2 Israelis Killed; Palestinian Death Toll Rises to 91
The Palestinian military liaison (D.C.O.) has received the body of Shadi Zuhdi ‘Arafa, aged 28, from Hebron who was shot dead by Israeli forces today, at Gush Etzion junction.According to…
Palestine Today 11 19 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, November 19, 2015. Two Palestinians killed by Israeli army gunfire…
Report: ‘Israel Kidnapped 1,000 Children In Less Than Two Months’
Translated By Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News (www.imemc.org): A statement issued by the head of the Research and Documentation Department at the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, and a member of its…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Five Palestinians In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, five Palestinians in different parts of occupied East Jerusalem, and searched several homes.Amjad Abu ‘Asab, head of the Jerusalem Detainees’ Parents Committee, said…
Army Kidnaps One Palestinian, Attacks Another, In Hebron
One Palestinian was kidnapped, Thursday, and another resident suffered various cuts and bruises, after Israeli soldiers stormed and searched many homes in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied…
Soldiers Injure Two Palestinians In Nablus, Kidnaps Nine Others
At least two Palestinians have been injured, on Thursday at dawn, while nine others were kidnapped, by Israeli soldiers invading Tal town, south of the northern West Bank city of…
Army Injures Four Palestinians, Kidnaps Two, In Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the Deheishe refugee camp south of Bethlehem, kidnapped at least two young Palestinian men, shot and injured four others during ensuing clashes.A large…
Palestine Today 11 18 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, November 18, 2015. Israeli troops injuries scores of Palestinians during…
Clashes in East Jerusalem
Clashes broke out Wednesday morning, in occupied East Jerusalem, during a commemoration of two Palestinians who were killed after carrying out a deadly attack on a Jerusalem synagogue last year,…
Army Injures Dozens Of Palestinians In Jenin and Qalqilia
Medical sources have reported that dozens of Palestinians have been injured, on Wednesday evening, during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading Palestinian communities in the northern West Bank districts of Jenin…
Update: 41 Palestinians Kidnapped in West Bank
The Israeli army and police forces, on Wednesday, abducted at least 41 Palestinians, including minors, during predawn raids and searches in various West Bank districts, according to security sources and…
Palestinian Faces 30 Days In Administrative Detention For Facebook Post
The Nazareth District Court issued, Wednesday, a 30-day Administrative Detention order against a young Palestinian citizen for a Facebook post that appeared to be suicidal, but explained by Israel as…
Bennett: ‘We should have killed more terrorists’ (VIDEO)
Israeli Minister of Education MK Naftali Bennett said, on Wednesday, that “[Israelis] should have killed more terrorists,” in response to the Arab MK (Member of Knesset), Hanin Zoabi’s condemnations of…
South Arica Follows Suit with Spain, Issues Arrest Warrant for Israeli Officials
South Africa issued, on Tuesday, an arrest warrant against four Israeli officials over their role in deadly attacks on pro-Palestinian international activists.Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against the Israeli occupation in…
Army Kidnaps Eight Palestinians, Including Four Children, In Hebron
Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Wednesday, eight Palestinians, including four children, during massive invasions and searches of homes, in different parts of the Hebron district, in the southern part of…
Soldiers Attack And Kidnap A Child In Hebron, Invade Homes
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at night, a Palestinian child after repeatedly kicking and beating him, and stormed many homes, in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied…
Israeli Army Fire Injures One Palestinian In Gaza
Israeli soldiers shot and moderately injured, on Tuesday evening, a young Palestinian man, east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza. Israeli army and navy ships fire shells and…
US Ambassador to Israel: ‘Settlement Product Labels Not Boycott’
American Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro has said that the labeling of Israeli settlement products is not a boycott.Ambassador Shapiro was speaking Monday at the Israel Journalists Association conference in…
Swedish FM Likens Israel to ISIS, Accused of Being “Hostile”
Following the Paris attacks on Friday, Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom made a connection between Islamic State extremism and the Israeli occupation, causing a feud between the two governments, that…
United Nations: End Punitive Home Demolition Policy
The United Nations’ Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, Robert Riper, contended that Israel’s punitive home demolition policy taken against Palestinians suspected of carrying…
5 Shot in Bethlehem Clashes
Two Palestinians were shot and injured with live bullets, while three others were injured with rubber-coated steel bullets during clashes in Bethlehem, on Tuesday, the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health…
VIDEO: Undercover Israeli Soldiers Kidnap 3 Children in Jerusalem
In a series of repeated brutal attacks against Palestinians, Israeli soldiers dressed as Palestinian civilians (Musta’ribeen), this morning, have kidnapped three schoolchildren from Damascus Gate, East Jerusalem.Wadi Al-Hilweh Information Center…
Palestine Today 11 17 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, November 17, 2015. Palestinian youth killed two injured and arrested…
Soldiers Kidnap 10 Children, 2 Journalists And A Young Man, In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers, and undercover units, have kidnapped on Tuesday ten Palestinian children, between the ages of 9 and 13, in addition to two journalists and a young man, in occupied…
Islamic Movement Outlawed Throughout Pre-1948 Territories
The security cabinet of the Israeli occupation announced a decision to outlaw the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, in the pre-1948 occupied Palestinian territories’, Netanyahu’s office announced on Monday…
Health Ministry: ’89 Palestinians Killed, 10.000 Injured Since October 1′
On Tuesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that, following the death of a Mohammad Monir Hasan Saleh, 24, 24, from Ramallah, the number of Palestinians, killed by Israeli fire…
500 Settlement Units Approved for East Jerusalem
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Tuesday, approved the construction of 500 more illegal settlement units in the Ramat Shlomo settlement, occupied East Jerusalem. The move, which sets the stage…
Palestinian Shot Dead in Gunfight with Israeli Forces
Updated: Israeli forces have shot and killed another Palestinian during armed clashes north of Ramallah, Tuesday evening, with two others injured in an exchange of fire.The Palestinian Health Ministry said…
Israeli Prime Minister pushes for control of Golan after oil discovery
The Israeli Prime Minister’s visit to Washington last week included a meeting with President Obama, in which the two discussed the status of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.Israel invaded and occupied…
Palestine Today 11 16 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, November 16, 2015. Israeli troops kill two Palestinians during invasions…
“When soldiers see a camera, they come to you like a beast”
Since the beginning of October Israeli soldier- and settler violence has increased sharply and resulted in even further restrictions on Palestinians’ everyday lives in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). Imad Abu Shamsiyyeh,…
Spain: City Council Announces Support for BDS, Warrant Issued for Netanyahu’s Arrest
The Santiago de Compostela City Council (capital of Spain’s Galicia region) passed a motion declaring itself a space free of discrimination against the Palestinian people and in support of the…
Hebron: Soldiers Demolish 9 Residential Structures, Barns
Israeli forces, early Monday, demolished nine residential structures and animal barns in Khirbet Jorat, al-Khail and al-Qanub localities, east of Sa‘ir town, to the northeast of Hebron.WAFA correspondence said that…
Health Minister Backs Red Crescent’s Account of Wounded Settlers
Palestinian Health Minister Jawad ‘Awad, on Monday, refuted Israeli allegations that Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics abandoned three days earlier wounded Israeli settlers, to the south of Hebron.Speaking during a press…
PRCS Denies Israeli Facebook Allegations
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) categorically denies allegations made by Ofir Gendelman, Israeli Government spokesperson, on his Facebook account, in which he claims that PRCS’ teams refused to discharge…
Ashrawi: Netanyahu Exploiting Paris Attacks
In response to media inquiries, PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi commented, according to PNN:“In his recent statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is cynically exploiting the pain of…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Eight Teenagers In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, several Palestinian communities in different parts of occupied Jerusalem, and kidnapped eights teenagers. The soldiers invaded and searched several homes, and interrogated many…
Israeli Navy Injures Two Gaza Fishers
Israeli Navy boats opened fire, on Monday morning, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the besieged coastal…
Army Kidnaps Four Palestinians Jenin And Nablus
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, two Palestinians in Nablus, and two in Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, during military searches that targeted many…
Israeli Army Kidnaps Five Palestinians In Hebron, Invades A Charitable Society & Dozens Of Homes
Israeli soldiers conducted massive invasions and searches of homes and property, beginning in the late night hours on Sunday, and continuing through Monday at dawn, in different parts of the…
Army Kills Two Palestinians, Injures 34 And Demolishes a Home in Qalandia
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem. The troops killed two Palestinians during clashes with resistance fighters, wounded 34, and…
Army Kidnaps A Young Woman In Bethlehem, Injures Four Palestinians
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the Deheishe refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, kidnapped a young woman, and injured at least four young Palestinian men.…
Soldiers, Paramilitary Settlers, Attack Family Picking Olives In Their Own Orchard
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers and paramilitary guards of an illegal Israeli colony invaded a Palestinian olive orchard in Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron,…
Army Injures Eight Palestinians Near Qalqilia
Eight Palestinians, including a cameraman working for France Press, have been injured on Sunday evening, after several Israeli military vehicles invaded the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia.The invasion led…
Soldiers Injure Six Palestinians Near Ramallah
Palestinians medical sources have reported, Sunday, that six residents were injured by Israeli army fire after the soldiers invaded al-Baloa’ area in the al-Biereh city, leading to clashes with scores…
Israeli Army Jeep Rams 2 Year Old Child
Palestinian medical sources reported Sunday that a 2-year old toddler was injured after an Israeli military vehicle struck him in Bir Niabala town, northwest of occupied Jerusalem. One woman was…
Soldiers Kidnap Twelve Palestinians In Hebron
Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Sunday at dawn, twelve Palestinians during invasions and searches of homes, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, several nearby villages, towns and the…
Soldiers Injure Ten Palestinians, Kidnap One, In Qalqilia
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday at night, the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and clashed with local youths, wounding ten Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets, while at least 25…
Army Kidnaps Six Palestinians In Hebron, Wounds Seven
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, late on Saturday at night, six Palestinians, including a father and his son, in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and the nearby…
Soldiers Wound Seven Palestinians In Bethlehem
Palestinian medical sources have reported, Saturday, that six Palestinians were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, and one was directly shot with a gas bomb, during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading…
Palestinian Killed, Four Israelis Injured In Traffic Accident
After several media agencies dubbed the incident as a deliberate attack by a Palestinian driver, near Ramallah, the Israeli military said what happened in Jerusalem, leading to the death of…
Israeli Army Blows Up Three Homes In Nablus, One In Ramallah
Israeli soldiers invaded on, Saturday at dawn, the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and detonated bombs in two homes of detainees who were accused of killing an Israeli settler…
Names Of The 86 Palestinians Killed By Israeli Fire Since October 1st
The Following is a list of names of all Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli fire in occupied Palestine, in the period between Thursday October 1st and the end of…
This Week in Palestine Week 46 2015
Audio ink After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for November 7, to the 13, 2015. Israeli escalation continued;…
Three Palestinians Killed, 154 Injured, On Friday
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that Israeli soldiers shot and killed three Palestinians, on Friday, and wounded at least 154 others, in different parts of the occupied West Bank,…
Many Palestinians Injured In Kufur Qaddoum
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest in Kufur Qaddoum village, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, causing scores of residents to suffer the effects of tear…
Soldiers Assault Nonviolent Protesters In Jerusalem
Palestinian medical sources in Jerusalem have reported Friday that Israeli soldiers assaulted dozens of nonviolent protesters marching in Jabal al-Mokabber, in occupied Jerusalem, causing dozens to suffer the effects of…
Two Israelis killed when their minivan, allegedly shot at, crashes near Hebron
An unknown person allegedly shot at an Israeli passenger car near Hebron on Friday, causing the car to crash, killing the driver and one passenger.Two of the five other passengers…
Soldiers Attack Weekly Protest in Bil’in, Kidnap 3 Internationals, One Palestinian
Israeli soldiers on Friday assaulted the weekly nonviolent protest against the Apartheid Wall and illegal Israeli colonies, in Bil’in village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, kidnapped…
PCHR Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the oPt (05 – 11 November 2015)
Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (05 – 11 November 2015).Israeli attacks in the West Bank & Gaza: Shootings…
VIDEO: Human Rights Activists Evicted from Tel Rumeida Apartment Again
Yesterday, international activists regained access to their Tel Rumeida apartment after being denied entry for a week.This morning, at 8:45am, another activist tried to enter the apartment but was prevented…
Palestine Today 11 12 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, November 12, 2015. An injured Palestinian man killed by Israeli…
Israeli Soldiers Shoot Palestinian in Hebron District
Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Thursday, a young Palestinian man with multiple bullets, fired while they were stationed on a number of Palestinian rooftops, at the entrance of the…
Israel to Dig ‘Groove’ around Gaza
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon revealed, on Thursday, that his government would start digging a ‘groove’ around the Gaza Strip. According to Israeli military radio, Ya’alon said that his army…
‘Doctors Without Borders’ Condemns Hospital Raid
Doctors Without Borders (MSF), on Thursday, condemned Israel’s undercover arrest raid committed earlier that day at al-Ahli hospital, in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.In a statement, the organization…
Palestinian Authority Forms Special Force To Protect Hospitals
Secretary-General of the Palestinian Ministerial Cabinet, Ali Abu Diak, said that the Acting Palestinian Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah issued direct orders to the police and security forces to form a…
ISIS – Israeli Style, In Knesset Too
New photos recently emerged, and were also published by Israeli TV Channel 2, of Israeli soldiers — mostly masked — expressing their support to the “Lehava” Israeli terrorist organization, largely…
Health Ministry: ’83 Palestinians Killed Since October 1”
Palestinian Health Minister, Dr. Jawad Awwad, has reported that the Thursday Israeli assassination of Abdullah Azzam Shalalda, in the Hebron Governmental Hospital, brings the number of Palestinian killed by Israeli…
Families Displaced As Israeli Soldiers Conduct Training In Jordan Valley
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday morning, the Hamsa area of the Jordan Valley in the West Bank’s Plains, and displaced thirteen Bedouin Palestinian families, to conduct military training.…
Israeli Soldiers Open Fire On Palestinian Farmers In Gaza
Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border fence, fired dozens of rounds of live ammunition on Palestinian farmers, working in their lands close to the border fence, east of Deir al-Balah,…
Dozens Of Schoolchildren Suffer Effects Of Teargas Inhalation In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers fired, on Thursday morning, several gas bombs on schoolchildren, trying to cross a military roadblock on the main entrance of the Shu’fat refugee camp, in the center of…
Soldiers Kidnap Fifteen Palestinians, Mainly Children, In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians during military invasions and searches of dozens of homes, in different parts of the occupied West Bank. Seven of the…
Video: Undercover Israeli Soldiers Kill a Palestinian in Hebron Hospital
Undercover soldiers of the Israeli military invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the al-Ahli hospital in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, where they assassinated one Palestinian and kidnapped his…
Israeli Authorities Demolish 3 West Bank Village Wells
Israeli forces, this Tuesday, demolished three water wells in the northern occupied West Bank which they said had been built without a permit, according to Palestinian security sources.Sources told Ma’an…
Soldiers Quell Rally Marking 11th Anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s Death
Tension escalated on Wednesday, between Palestinian locals and Israeli soldiers at the northern entrance of Bethlehem, as the latter violently quelled a rally marking the 11th anniversary of the death…
Bill Banning BDS Supporters Passes First Stage
The Knesset plenum, on Wednesday, approved a preliminary reading of a bill that would deny entry to the country to anyone urging a boycott of Israel.According to the bill, which…
People living under violent military occupation must be instructed in nonviolence?
This morning I read yet another comment from someone in the US putting forward their solution to the “conflict” in Palestine and Israel. Apparently Palestinian women need to start pushing…
Justice Ministry to Allow Jailing of Palestinians as Young as 12
Israel’s Justice Ministry has finished drafting a bill that would allow children under 14 to be sentenced to jail, Israeli sources reported.Under the bill, which was drawn up by Israeli…
Palestine Today 11 11 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, November 11, 2015. Israeli troops attack protesters all over the…
891 Settlement Units to be Built in Bethlehem
The Israeli occupation municipality in Jerusalem, on Wednesday, approved the construction of 891 settlement units in the illegal settlement of Gilo, which was constructed on the Bethlehem territory of the…
141 Palestinians Injured By Israeli Army Fire In The West Bank
At least 141 Palestinians have been injured, Wednesday, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, as Israeli soldiers invaded several communities, and clashed with hundreds of Palestinians.Medical sources said…
Four Palestinians Injured Near Ramallah
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday morning, the al-Baloa’ area, northeast of the al-Biereh city, and the area near ‘Atara military roadblock, in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, and…
Thirteen Palestinians Injured, One Seriously, In Qalandia, Child Kidnapped In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday morning, the Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, and clashed with dozens of local youths, wounding thirteen Palestinians, including a child who suffered a…
Army Kidnaps Eight Palestinians In Hebron
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, eight Palestinians in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, after the army invaded and searched several homes.Several military vehicles invaded the al-‘Arroub…
Abusive Interrogation of Palestinian Teen Ahmad Manasra
This controversial video shows clips of the interrogation of 13-year-old Palestinian child, Ahmad Manasra, as Israeli occupation detectives curse and verbally abuse Manasra, in questioning him about the incident and…