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Israeli soldiers invaded, Saturday, Palestinian towns in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, and the southern district of Hebron, and kidnapped three Palestinians.Soldiers, stationed on a military roadblock near…

Several fanatic Israeli settlers smashed, Saturday, the doors of a number of Palestinian stores and shops, in the Shuhada Street, in Hebron’s Old City, in the southern part of the…

Editor’s note: This is the testimony of a 23 year old woman who survived the land invasion of Khuzaa, Gaza, in the summer of 2014. This is the original version…

Israeli media, on Wednesday, reported that US Congress has approved a new weapons deal with Israel. Hebrew Channel 7 said that the deal will include 50 model BLU-113 bombs and…

Israeli authorities released, on Thursday, the former Palestinian minister of prisoners affairs Wasfi Qabha after 10 months in detention, the Ahrar Center for Prisoners and Human Rights said. Jailed Palestinian…

Scores of residents have been injured, Friday, as Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly protest against the Annexation Wall and Settlements in Ni’lin village, northwest of the central West Bank city…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday, the village of Silwad, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and attacked dozens of residents marching against the occupation, its illegal colonies…

Israeli soldiers used excessive force against Palestinian protesters, conducting the weekly protest against the Wall and Settlements in Kufur Qaddoum village near Qalqilia, and demanding Israel to open the main…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and settlements in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, causing several injuries, while…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for May 16th, to the 22nd, 2015. This week the…

Fanatic illegal Israeli colonialist settlers have taken control of 40 dunams (10 acres) belonging to a Christian church, between the Gush Etzion settlement bloc and the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north…

The World Bank will be presenting a report to the bi-annual Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) meeting on May 27, 2015 in Brussels that highlights the Gaza Strip’s economic status…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Friday, a young man trying to cross a military roadblock, north of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and invaded various Palestinian communities Jenin and Hebron.Eyewitnesses…

Israeli navy ships attacked, on Friday morning, several Palestinian fishing boats in the Sudaniyya area, northwest of Gaza City, causing significant property damage.Eyewitnesses said the Navy fired dozens of rounds…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Thursday evening, a number of firebombs into Palestinian farmlands, planted with wheat, east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.The Civil Defense office…

The Israeli occupation municipality in Jerusalem, Wednesday, approved the construction of 90 settlement units in Har Homa settlement, in Jerusalem.According to the Palestinian News Network (PNN), the approval comes in…

A Palestinian child was critically injured after Israeli forces shot him with a rubber-coated steel bullet near the Shu’fat refugee camp on Thursday, witnesses said.Yahiya Sami al-Amoudi, age 10, was…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, May 21st, 2015. Israeli troops destroy Palestinian farmlands in the…

Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) for the reporting period of 14 – 20 May 2015.Israeli attacks…

Hunger-striking detainee Khader Adnan, who started his strike nearly three weeks ago, is currently only consuming salt and water, rejecting medical checkups and any sort of supplements. Lawyer Ashraf al-Khatib…

The Palestinian Agricultural Relief has reported, Thursday, that Israeli army bulldozers uprooted around 20 Dunams of Palestinian farmlands in the Wadi al-Hamra area, in Husan town, west of the West…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, nine Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, after the army searched dozens of homes. Israeli settlers attack a man in…

The World Bank stated Wednesday that it transferred $70 million to the Palestinian Authority through the multi-donor mechanism run by the “Palestinian Reform and Development Plan Trust Fund,” the Palestinian…

Despite Israeli restrictions, extensive military deployment around Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem, thousands marched, late on Wednesday at night, in the funeral procession of ‘Omran Omar Abu Dheim, 41,…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, May 20th, 2015. Israeli police kills a Palestinian driver in…

The Euromid Observer held a media conference, on Wednesday, highlighting the consequences of economic siege on Gaza which has now lasted eight years. A United Nations (UN) envoy warned about…

Israeli settlers, Wednesday morning, burned down 90 olive trees in Sarta town, near the central West Bank city of Salfit. Eyewitnesses and farmers from the town said, according to the…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Wednesday, ordered the suspension of a controversial measure banning Palestinians from riding the same buses as Jewish settlers when returning from Israel to the West…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, several Palestinians towns in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, and kidnapped three Palestinians. The army also invaded Raba village, near Jenin,…

Israeli officials announced that beginning on Wednesday, the segregation that has been commonplace on buses traveling between the West Bank and what is now Israel has been made completely official,…

Israeli police officers shot and killed, on Wednesday morning, a Palestinian driver, in occupied East Jerusalem, allegedly after he rammed two police officers with his car.The deceased driver has been…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and kidnapped five Palestinians, including four children.Coordinator of the Popular Committee against…

Several Israeli military vehicles, and four armored bulldozers, carried out on Wednesday morning a limited invasion into an area, east of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.Media sources said armored vehicles…

A meeting was recently held between representatives of Arab countries that do not have diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv, and a number of Israeli officials, to discuss what they called…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, a Palestinian store in Beit Safafa town, in occupied Jerusalem, kidnapping the store owner and his three sons, after assaulting them along with other Palestinian shoppers.The…

On Tuesday, the Swedish State Secretary for International Development Cooperation, Ulrika Modéer, who is currently visiting Palestine, announced a contribution of SEK 40 million ($4.8 million) to the Palestinian Authority.The…

An Israeli court on Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian man to eight months of imprisonment, with an additional six months suspended, for activity on social media.The Jerusalem detainees’ families committee said…

Over 30,000 Israelis marched through the streets of the Muslim Quarter in East Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, in commemoration of Israel’s 1967 occupation of the city.Police ‘sterilized’ the route…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, May 19th, 2015. Israeli troops demolish stores in Jerusalem and…

Media and popular struggle conference activities were launched in Bethlehem on Tuesday, in cooperation with a number of European journalists and popular struggle coordination committees, and will last for a…

The Israeli Supreme court, on Tuesday, turned down an appeal, by the descendants of Sheikh Suleiman Muhammad al-Ukbi, against a three-year-old decision by the central court of Beersheba.The court, in…

The Illinois State House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill which will prevent the state’s pension funds from investing in companies that boycott Israel.Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner (R) has…

The Palestinian Detainees Committee has reported, on Tuesday, that several detained Palestinian children testified to their lawyers about repeated torture, abuse, and intimidation, by Israeli interrogators and soldiers.The Committee said…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, eleven Palestinians, including two children, after breaking into their homes, and searching them, in different parts of the occupied West Bank.Media sources in…

Israeli soldiers released, on Monday evening, a Palestinian child, from Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, after interrogating him for several hours in the police station, in Salah Eddin Street,…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Ein al-Louza neighborhood, in Silwan town of occupied East Jerusalem, and demolished three Palestinian stores belonging to a Palestinian from the town. The…

Israeli nationalists and police clashed with Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, as crowds of Jewish hardliners marched across the city to mark the 48th anniversary of its capture.Known…

Israeli occupation forces, Monday morning, again opened fire on fishermen boats off the Gaza shores.Local sources said, according to the PNN, that Israeli military boats targeted the civilian boats; no…

Tension is brewing between Israel and Finland over the Finnish World Village Festival’s decision to boycott the Jewish National Fund.The Jewish National Fund (JNF) in Finland registered to participate in…

Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Bat Ayin, northern Hebron area, set fire to an estimated 25 dunams of Palestinian land on Monday, destroying up to 250 olive trees,…

The Palestinian foreign minister, Riyad Al-Maliki, said on Monday that he asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to set a date for submitting the case files pertaining to the settlements…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, May 18th, 2015. Israeli settlers attack cause a miscarriage for…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, various Palestinian communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, kidnapped ten Palestinians, mainly children, and attacked several others in…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a woman from the southern West Bank city of Hebron suffered a miscarriage after a number of Israeli fanatics assaulted her, in the center…

Israeli soldiers and police officers used excessive force, on Sunday afternoon, against hundreds of Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, as they marched to counter a provocative Israeli procession marking the so-called…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gave a speech on Sunday in which he rallied a crowd of Zionists with calls to do battle in Jerusalem to rid the city of…

A group of Israeli soldiers were captured on camera chasing down a five-year old child in Kafr Qaddoum, spraying him with foul-smelling ‘skunk water’ until he fell down on some…

Israeli forces, Sunday, abducted nine Palestinians from across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, whereas several Palestinians suffocated from tear gas during confrontations with Israeli forces to the south of…

Israeli authorities are to close a gate, in northern Qalqilia, used by Palestinian farmers to access their land beyond the apartheid wall for three days, starting Sunday morning, according to…

On Friday 15th May 2015, hundreds of Palestinians from all over the West Bank traveled to Ni’lin for a mass protest commemorating the 1948 Nakba (‘catastrophe’). The local villagers were…

‘Memories of the 1940s and 1950s were damaged by the Israeli occupation which occupied our lands, killed our sons and damaged out crops,’ the old man said.Palestinian farmers describe the…

The relation between oppressor and oppressed is a paramount precondition for sustainable peace. Unless the structural distortion and illegitimacy is acknowledged, no viable political arrangement will be forthcoming.As long ago…

If you think that the UN was wrong in labeling Zionism as a racist movement, think again.Of course, Zionist crimes, committed in the name of Judaism and the Jewish people,…

Two 19th-century nuns on Sunday became the first Palestinians to gain sainthood in recent history during an open-air mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St Peter’s Square, and attended by…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Sunday at dawn, four Palestinians during military invasions targeting various communities in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, and handed two others interrogation warrants. Several military…

A number of armed Israeli extremists invaded, on Sunday at dawn, Palestinian orchards in the Shiokh village, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and uprooted around 800…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Saturday evening that a man and his wife were injured after a number of Israelis hurled stones on a Palestinian Taxi, near Gush Etzion,…

In eastern Gaza City, among ruins and memories of war and destruction, a red carpet was laid out for a film festival on human rights. The event was held amidst…

Pope Francis met President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday, calling him ‘an angel of peace,’ days after the Vatican said it was preparing to sign its first accord with Palestine, to…

As thousands of Palestinians marked, on Friday, the 67th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, Israeli soldiers resorted to the excessive use of force against the protesters, causing dozens of injuries.The…

Israeli soldiers opened fire, on Saturday morning, on Palestinian farmers in their own lands, east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza, while navy ships opened fire on fishing…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday afternoon, Silwad and Betunia towns, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and attacked dozens of Palestinians marking the Nakba Day. The Palestine TV…

The Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, has reported that Israeli soldiers have attacked the weekly protest, firing…

More than 1,200 Palestinians, accompanied by Israeli and international peace activists, marched in the weekly protest in Ni’lin village on Friday, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, marking…

Today (15th of May), during the Nakba day demonstration in Kafr Qaddum, four young men were shot with live ammunition in their legs. One of the men got a serious…

One year ago, on May 15, Nadeem Nowarah, 17, was shot and killed by Israeli forces near Israel’s Ofer military prison in the occupied West Bank. An hour later, Mohammad…

A march was organized, Thursday evening in Ramallah, where 67 torches, 67 keys, 67 Palestinian flags and 67 black flags were held high in remembrance of Nakba 1948.The streets were…

For Palestinians, 2015 marks the 67th year of forced displacement from, and within, their ancestral homeland.This ongoing Nakba (‘catastrophe’) continues to be perpetuated through Israel’s denial of the Palestinian refugees’…

More than 10,000 South African students marched, earlier today, in protest against Woolworths Stores’ trade agreements with Israel. 15th May 2015 | Congress of South African Students | Welkom (Free…

Alrowwad Cultural & Theatre Society, today, organized a march commemorating the 67th anniversary of the Nakba. The group, mainly consisting of young people, marched from the Alrowwad centre in Aida…

Three Palestinians were injured by live fire during a Nakba Day demonstration in the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to witnesses.Locals told Ma’an News Agency that Israeli soldiers opened fire…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for 9th, to the 15th, 2015. This week, Palestinians marked…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated that the Israeli agendas of ongoing occupation and aggression have failed to end the Palestinian cause, while the Palestinian people remain steadfast in their homeland,…

Thousands of Palestinians marched, on Thursday at night, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus marking the 67th anniversary of the Nakba, when Israel was established in the historic…

On Thursday, Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders issued a statement denouncing the new plan to build more units in illegal Israeli settlements in occupied…

The Israeli Housing Ministry announced, Thursday, new tenders for the construction of 85 settlement units in Givat Zeev illegal colony, just five kilometers northwest of occupied Jerusalem, in addition to…

Medical sources have reported, late on Thursday at night, that at least eight Palestinians have been injured after Israeli soldiers, and settlers, invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus,…

Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) for the reporting period of 07 – 13 May 2015.Israeli attacks…

MK Moti Yogev touring a settlement in East Jerusalem’s Silwan/Photo: Moti Yogev Facebook Knesset Member Moti Yogev (Jewish Home) toured the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan Thursday morning. The tour…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, May 14th, 2015. At least 50 civilians were injured in…

A Palestinian youth was injured with a rubber-coated steel bullet during clashes with Israeli soldiers, at the northern entrance of Bethlehem, Thursday.Medical sources said, according to Ma’an, that a youth…

Three Israeli settlers were wounded, Thursday afternoon, at crossroads near the illegal settlement of Gush Etsion, south of Bethlehem.Walla Israeli news site said, according to the PNN, that ambulances reached…

Palestinian medical sources said that 50 Palestinian civilians were injured on Thursday afternoon when an Israeli missile exploded near residents homes in Beit Lahyia town in the northern part of…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, thirteen Palestinians from different parts of the occupied West Bank, including one Palestinian from occupied East Jerusalem.Several military vehicles invaded the al-Khader town,…

Palestinian political prisoner Khader ‘Adnan, 37 years of age, is ongoing with the hunger strike he started ten days ago, rejecting Israel’s Administrative Detention policies, and demanding his immediate, unconditional,…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Wednesday evening, that an elderly woman suffered a broken hand, and various cuts and bruises, after Israeli soldiers attacked and beat her on the…

Israeli Soldiers kidnapped on Wednesday evening a Palestinian child in Hebron, and a man in the Old Askar refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and invaded…

On December 4, 2014, Basel Kamal Safi, then 17, sustained a gunshot wound when he found himself in the midst of clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian youth in the…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, May 13th, 2015. Palestinians mark Nakba day all over the…

In continuity with the previous executive, the infant Israeli government will not stop the policy of destroying ‘illegal’ Palestinian homes. Entire Bedouin villages at risk.The Israeli Prime Minister builds and…