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At least five Palestinians have been kidnapped, earlier Wednesday, after Israeli soldiers invaded various villages and towns in different parts of the occupied West Bank.Media sources in Hebron, in the…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Wednesday at dawn, several rounds of live ammunition on a number of homes in the ‘Aida refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.Media…

Medical sources have reported, on Tuesday at night, that a Palestinian teen was shot and injured by live Israeli army fire in the al-‘Isawiyya town, in occupied Jerusalem, before the…

Medical sources in occupied Jerusalem have reported, on Tuesday at night, that a child was shot with an Israeli army rubber-coated steel bullet in her neck while walking with her…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at night, a Palestinian child in the at-Tour town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and invaded various Palestinian communities in the city.The child, identified as Moath…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young man was shot in the head, and eight others suffered mild-to-moderate wounds, during Tuesday evening clashes with Israeli soldiers in the Qalandia…

Israeli forces entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound’s southern mosque on Tuesday sparking the third straight day of violent clashes at the third holiest site in Islam.Dozens of Palestinians were injured…

PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi met with Dr. Alastair McPhail at the PLO Headquarters in Ramallah, September 14, 2015.Both parties discussed the latest political developments, including Israel’s persistent…

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will head an urgent session, on Tuesday evening, to discuss punishment for stone-throwing.Israeli radio reported, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, that the session…

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli administrative detention are continuing their hunger strike to demand an end to imprisonment without charge or trial. Nidal Abu Aker, Ghassan Zawahreh, Shadi Ma’ali, Munir Abu…

International Solidarity Movement human rights monitors spend the afternoon at the Women in Hebron embroidery cooperative where Palestinian women are empowering themselves and persisting with grace in a colourful and…

Israeli authorities, on Tuesday, closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron to Palestinians for the second consecutive day during the Jewish new year, said Palestinian Waqf (Endowments) and Religious Affairs Ministry.According…

Israeli forces shot and injured a member of Hamas’ military wing in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian sources said, according to Ma’an.They said that the Palestinian, a member…

Groups of Israeli extremists, accompanied by dozens of soldiers and police officers, continued their invasions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem, through the al-Magharba Gate, after the army…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday morning, the town of Doura, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, searched several homes and kidnapped one Palestinians. Palestine TV reporter injured…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday evening, the al-‘Isawiyya and Silwan towns, in occupied East Jerusalem, and clashed with dozens of Palestinians, protesting the escalating Israeli attacks against the Al-Aqsa Mosque.The…

Dozens of undercover soldiers of the Israeli army, and police officers, invaded on Monday morning the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, assaulted many Palestinians, kidnapped seven, and wounded several others,…

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate issued a statement strongly denouncing the serious Israeli escalation against the worshipers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, Sunday, leading to dozens…

A group Palestinian armed resistance fighters exchanged fire, Sunday, with Israeli soldiers invading the eastern area of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.The military vehicles advanced approximately…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that one of its lawyers managed to visit hunger-striking detainee Bilal Daoud, who informed them he has been denied access to medicine for…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, the West Bank districts Jenin and Jericho, kidnapped four Palestinians, and injured at least one.Media sources in the northern West Bank city of…

Israeli Minister of Agriculture, Uri Ariel, joined dozens of Israeli extremists who stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, Sunday, under extensive military and police presence, leading to clashes…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers and police officers invaded, earlier on Sunday, the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, and fired dozens of concussion grenades on local worshipers, and…

The Israeli Tax Authority has rejected a claim for compensation by officials of the Catholic Church demanding compensation for the burnt Church of Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes, which was…

Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture (TRC) have announced their cooperation in providing comprehensive mental health support and rehabilitation for…

Sunday night an international human rights observer was arrested by Israeli forces on bogus charges in al-Khalil (Hebron) in occupied Palestine.12th September 2015 | International Solidarity Movement | Al-Khalil Team…

The Energy and Natural Resources Authority in Gaza announced, Friday evening, that the sole power generation plant in Gaza is scheduled to shut down Saturday, September 12, due to “General…

Dozens of Palestinians, including children, have been injured on Friday evening and early night hours, in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, during clashes that took place after Israeli fanatics…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for September 5th, to the 11th, 2015. This week Palestine…

Israeli extremists, last night, spray-painted racist graffiti on the walls of ar-Rahma Islamic cemetery, outside Jerusalem’s Old City, according to local sources. Shortly after Islamic Waqf personnel discovered the anti-Arab…

Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Ya’alon confirmed, on Wednesday, that Israeli occupation authorities know who burned the house of the Dawabsha family, in July, but failed to identify them.He claimed, according…

Israeli police and border forces took into custody, on Thursday night, 39 Palestinian workers near the Israeli resort city of Eilat, according to Israeli media.It was reported that the 39…

August of 2015 witnessed a high rise in the number of media freedoms violations in Palestine, and recorded a huge leap compared to what was recorded during July, and when…

Israeli military forces, on Friday, raided the house of Palestinian Authority police chief in Nablus, Abd al-Latif al-Qaddumi, and turned his home into a military outpost after evicting his wife…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that four young men were wounded, one moderately, after Israeli soldiers assaulted the weekly protest in Kufur Qaddoum, near the northern West Bank city…

Israeli soldiers assaulted, on Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall and colonies, in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, leading to…

A group young Palestinian men managed, earlier on Friday at dawn, to foil an attempt by a number of Israeli extremists to carry out an attack in Madama village, near…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, September 10th, 2015. Israeli navy attack Palestinian fishing boats near…

The United Nations General Assembly voted, Thursday, in an overwhelming majority for raising the Palestinian flag at the United Nations, despite aggressive opposition led by the United States and Israel.The…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 03 – 09 Sep. 2015, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported, Thursday, that detainee Bilal Kayed is ongoing with the hunger strike he started on September 5, demanding his removal from solitary confinement.The detainee started…

The Israeli Prison Authority renewed, Thursday, the Administrative Detention order against a hunger striking Palestinian detainee, for three additional months, without charges or trial.The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said detainee…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Thursday morning, five Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including a teenager walking to school in Jerusalem.The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in…

Media sources in Jerusalem have reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday evening, one Palestinian in Jabal al-Mokabber village. Soldiers also kidnapped a Palestinian from Bethlehem while heading to Jordan,…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday morning, the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and clashed with scores of students as they were heading to…

Several Palestinians fishing boats have been attacked, on Thursday morning, by Israeli navy fire close to the shore in the Sudaniyya Sea, northwest of Gaza City.The Palestinian News & Info…

Around 2,000 protesters filled the streets of London as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in London today to meet the British Prime Minister, David Cameron.In addition to the protest,…

Reporters from RT (Russia Today) traveled to Gaza to look into last year’s report that 90% of Gaza’s water is undrinkable. As they sampled water from different parts of the…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, September 9th, 2015. Palestinian civilian critically injured by an Israeli…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to visit Britain, this week, for talks with his counterpart David Cameron, as the right-wing Israeli leader faces diplomatic pressure over illegal settlements in…

The US State Department announced, on Tuesday, that three Hamas leaders, along with a Hezbollah spokesperson, have been added to the specially designated global terrorist list, subjecting them to US…

Israeli forces, on Wednesday morning, threw teargas grenades on the Kharabtha Boys School, near Ramallah, causing tens of suffocation cases among students.Head of the School, Abboud Assi, said that soldiers…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, nine Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, during military invasions targeting various Palestinian communities, and uprooted agricultural lands near Hebron.…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, three young Palestinian men after breaking into their homes, in the at-Tour village, in occupied East Jerusalem; the three are former political prisoners.…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported, on Wednesday at dawn, that a young man was hospitalized at the Shifa Medical Center, west of Gaza City, after an…

A group of Israeli extremists, living in illegal Israeli colonies in the northern West Bank district of Nablus, burnt on Wednesday at dawn, Palestinian olive orchards and farmlands, belonging to…

Israeli soldiers closed, on Tuesday evening, the Container Roadblock, north of Bethlehem, and searched dozens of cars while inspecting the ID cards of the passengers. The army also invaded al-‘Obeydiyya…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that three residents were injured, on Tuesday evening, after Israeli extremists hurled stones at their car, while the residents were driving back home in Jenin…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, September 8th, 2015. Israeli tanks invade areas in Gaza and…

Israeli forces entered the Bethlehem-area town of al-Khader, on Tuesday, and attempted to raid a school, in order to confiscate footage from one of its surveillance cameras, a Palestinian official…

One year after Israel’s attacks in the Gaza Strip, the massacre in Khuzaa is vividly remembered by one of its inhabitants.8th September 2015 | International Solidarity Movement | Gaza Team…

The Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) decided, Monday, to postpone holding the convocation of Palestinian National Council (PNC), which was to be held mid-September, in Ramallah. Al…

The Israeli occupation is set to demolish 13,000 Palestinian buildings in the occupied West Bank, over the course of one year, a UN report said on Monday. (Other media sources…

About five Israeli military machines,Tuesday night, entered the town of Khuza’a near Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip, to raze agricultural lands.Security sources said, according to the PNN, that farmers…

In response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu’s rejection of accepting any refugees in Israel, PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi said: “Israel is in the business of creating…

Clashes erupted in occupied East Jerusalem, overnight Monday, following the death of Riham Dawabsha, the mother of an 18-month-old toddler who was burned alive in an arson attack carried out…

Israeli soldiers, accompanied by armored bulldozers, invaded, on Tuesday morning, Palestinian farmlands in the Rashayda village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and placed sand barriers blocking an…

Israeli soldiers invaded several Palestinian communities, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped thirteen Palestinians after storming their homes, and violently searching them. Media sources in Jerusalem…

A Palestinian teenager was attacked, on Tuesday morning, by a number of Israeli extremists, while heading to his work in West Jerusalem, and suffered various cuts and bruises.The Wadi Hilweh…

A group of Israeli extremists hurled stones, on Monday at night, on a Palestinian home in Deir Estia town, west of the central West Bank city of Salfit, causing property…

Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier on Tuesday morning, Palestinian farmlands in Artas village, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and uprooted more than 10 Dunams (2.47 Acres) of privately…

The following is a statement issued on September 7, 2015 by the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the broadest coalition in Palestinian society that leads the global…

A day after her death in an Israeli hospital from wounds sustained when Israeli settlers firebombed her family home just over a month ago, Reham Dawabsha’s funeral was held in…

The Jabari family in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) is again facing threats of settlers taking over their land, as the settlers again trespassed onto the land this weekend to conduct prayer…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, September 7th, 2015. Third family member of Israeli arson attack…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported that the number of Palestinian children, held by Israel in the ‘Ofer Prison, has arrived to 100, especially since August witnessed the largest number…

Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier on Monday, a number of Palestinian communities in occupied East Jerusalem, searched several homes, and kidnapped five Palestinians, including three children between the ages of 12…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped two Palestinian women, one from her home near Ramallah, and another while visiting her brother, held by Israel in the Nafha Israeli prison.Media sources have reported…

Israeli media sources have reported that Reham Dawabsha died of her serious wounds, shortly after midnight on Sunday night, after a deterioration in her health condition, despite a slight improvement…

In the world of marketing, it is a given that what ‘delights’ the customer today, will simply be an expectation tomorrow. For example, when cameras were first introduced on cell…

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Minister of Defense, Moshe Ya’alon, are to officially announce the beginning of the 30 KM fence project sometime today.The 30 kilometer fence will…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, on Sunday, he would not allow Israel to be ‘submerged’ by refugees after calls for Israel to take in those fleeing Syria’s war.Speaking at…

Israeli police assaulted, on Sunday, a group of Palestinian women who attempted to enter al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, after being denied entry to the holy site, according to media…

Settlers broke into the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque from Mughrabi gate, on Sunday morning, amid tight security protection from Israeli police.Al Ray reports that, according to media, the coordinator for…

Medical sources said, Sunday, that Riham al-Dawabsha, mother of a Palestinian 18-month-old toddler who was killed in an terrorist attack carried out by Israeli settlers in July, was beginning to…

SodaStream announced, today, that it will finalize the closure of its West Bank factory in two weeks.SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum commented, earlier, that the boycott only had a “marginal” effect…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, earlier on Sunday, a young Palestinian man in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, one near Jerusalem, and two others Hebron, and attacked three workers from Hebron,…

Israeli soldiers and police officers attacked, Sunday, many Palestinian women, and prevented more than 40 from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, and accompanied dozens of Israeli extremists during…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Saturday at night, the village of Zabbouba, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and threatened further collective punishment and invasions “should…

Friday 28th August afternoon we went to our weekly demonstration, against the theft of our land and apartheid wall, in Bil’in. We have been doing this non-violent demonstration for 10…

A number of Palestinians were reportedly injured Saturday morning, after a ‘dispute’ erupted at a Fateh conference in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.Witnesses told Ma’an…

The Palestinian National Authority’s Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs (PNA) said, Friday, that eight Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails were on hunger strike over the unlawful policy of administrative detention which…

Israeli forces abducted two young Palestinian men on Friday night, after allegedly assaulting them in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, a witness told Ma’an News Agency.Iyad al-Tawil said…

PA President and Fateh leader Mahmoud Abbas, on Saturday, instructed Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, to take immediate actions to absorb Palestinian refugees in the occupied Palestinian…

Israeli sources reported that Israel fears that the threat of PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ resignation could be serious, this time.The sources reported that the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…

A petition to the UK government and parliament requesting that the government arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘for war crimes when he arrives in London,’ reached its target Saturday…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, earlier on Saturday, a Palestinian child and a young man, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and Doura nearby town.Media sources said the soldiers invaded…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Saturday, that a young Palestinian man was injured, after Israeli soldiers violently assaulted him on the al-Hamra roadblock, in the Central Plains of the occupied…

Palestinian medical sources in the southern West Bank city of Hebron have reported that a young man was injured, on Saturday at dawn, after a number of Israeli fanatics assaulted…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday at dawn, various Palestinian villages and towns, in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, and installed several roadblocks. Media sources in Jenin said the…