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The Israeli Police released, on Sunday evening, three Palestinian children, and one woman, from occupied Jerusalem, after issuing an order denying them access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, for 15 days,…

The Israeli Authorities handed, Sunday, a Palestinian attorney from occupied Jerusalem, a military order preventing him from entering the entire city for six months, in the period between Match, 10…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, at least twenty Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including seven children in occupied East Jerusalem, and two Palestinians from…

On March 16, 2003, 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli demolition man while protecting a doctor’s family home in Rafah.Twelve years ago today, friend to…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Sunday, a nonviolent activity held by dozens of Palestinians, and international peace activists, and dragged a Palestinian away after they assaulted him, causing him to faint.The Israeli…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Sunday evening, a Palestinian woman near the Ibrahimi Mosque, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, allegedly for “carrying a knife.” Soldiers also kidnapped a…

This excerpt of an article by Mark Mondalek appears in full-length at the link following the body of this piece.It was as if all the air had been let out…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 05 – 11 March 2015, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…

Sunday marked two years since five boys, from the northern West Bank village of Hares, were taken into custody over an alleged stone-throwing incident which saw all five charged with…

At least three Palestinians were kidnapped, on Sunday, by Israeli occupational military and police during predawn raids in Jerusalem and Jenin, according to local and security sources.Witnesses told WAFA Palestinian…

Israeli right-wing politician and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Sunday afternoon, broke into Hebron’s Al Ibrahimi mosque. His provocative ‘visit’ came to claim that the mosque had a Jewish identity, and…

Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border fence, fired on Monday morning rounds of live ammunition at Palestinian homes, and farmlands, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Monday, a 10-year-old Palestinian child as dozens of Israeli fanatics stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque yards, in occupied Jerusalem, and also assaulted a mosque guard while trying to…

Israeli soldiers detained, on Saturday evening, six Palestinian teens and one adult, from the al-‘Arqa village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. The Palestinian District Coordination Office…

The Palestinian Detainees Studies Center has reported that detainee Mansour Yousef Shahateet, 28, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, has been severely tortured by Israeli interrogators, leading to…

Family of detainee Ziad Hasan ‘Awwad, from Ethna town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, said the Israeli military prosecutor in the ‘Ofer Military Court, is demanding the…

Israeli forces raided several homes in the occupied West Bank, on Saturday, while extremist settlers attacked Palestinian-owned cars and agricultural lands. Meanwhile, Israel media has revealed new plans regarding the…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Saturday at dawn, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Palestinian waters, in the Sudaniyya Sea area, northwest of Gaza City.The fishers said…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday at dawn, the as-Sammoa’ town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped a Palestinian after breaking into his home. Soldiers also…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for March 7th, to the 13th, 2015. Israel continued refusal…

As hundreds of Palestinians, Israeli and international peace activists, marched on Friday in the weekly nonviolent protest against the Israeli Wall and settlements, in Bil’in in the central West Bank…

Many protesters have been injured, and three kidnapped, after Israeli soldiers used excessive force against the nonviolent weekly protest against the Wall and Settlements in Nabi Saleh village, near the…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and Settlements in Kufur Qaddoum village, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, shot and injured two…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday, three Palestinians in Bethlehem and Hebron, in the occupied West bank, broke into and searched several homes and stores, while many residents suffered the effects…

According to reports by the Almayadeen News Agency and the Al-Akhbar News Agency, an Israeli officer was shot and killed, a few days ago, “during a meeting between Israeli officers…

The Palestinian Embassy in Italy published, on Thursday evening, an official report containing the names of Palestinians who survived the wreck of a ship, carrying refugees from Syria and Lebanon,…

Israeli forces, Thursday evening, opened fire at Palestinians on land east of the city of Khuzaa, in the southern Gaza Strip.Witnesses told Ma’an News Agency that Israeli soldiers deployed at…

Audio After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, March 12th, 2015. Israeli troops invade West Bank communities and kidnaps…

Two days ago, on the 10th of March, at around 1 AM in occupied Al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli occupation forces raided the home of human rights activist Imad Abu Shamsiya and…

Head of the Qatari project, Mohammed al-Emadi, announced Wednesday that the status of reconstruction in Gaza is to witness a real breakthrough, noting that Qatar is to provide 70% of…

A preliminary agreement has been reached between representatives of Palestinian prisoners and Israeli prison authorities, stopping protests which detainees should have started yesterday and that would have culminated in a…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Thursday at dawn, various Palestinian communities in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and a number of nearby towns.Eyewitnesses said the army invaded…

Palestinian Ambassador in Italy, Mai al-Kaila, stated that the ship carrying refugees from the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and the al-Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria, which drowned on March 4, close…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday evening, three young Palestinians including a 10-year old child, and four women, in occupied East Jerusalem, in addition two Palestinians near the northern West Bank…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Thursday morning, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, in the Sudaniyya Sea area, northwest of Gaza City.Local fishers said…

Following a recent call for a boycott of Israeli products, several residents of Nablus took things a bit further on Wednesday when they set on fire a truckload of Israeli…

This Collective Consciousness music creation is dedicated to the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees worldwide and is simply titled, ‘We Will Return.’ The creation is a multi-lingual amalgam also…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, March 11th, 2015. Palestinian man dies of wounds sustained by…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Nabi Saleh village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and kidnapped four Palestinians, after storming and ransacking their homes.Local sources said…

Medical sources have reported, Wednesday, that a Palestinian man died of sharp complications resulting from injuries he suffered after being shot by Israeli soldiers in November of 2008. On November…

Palestinian detainee, leader of the Al-Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas, Abdullah al-Barghouthi, was moved from Ramon Israeli prison to solitary confinement in Nafha following extensive interrogation after releasing…

Several armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers carried out, on Wednesday morning, a limited invasion into an area east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza, and bulldozed farmlands.Eyewitnesses…

Several Israeli military vehicles, and armored bulldozers, invaded on Wednesday morning Barta’a village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and demolished a brick factory.Tawfiq Qabaha, member of…

Israeli soldiers crossed the “Blue Line,’ in southern Lebanon, and advanced approximately 50 meters into the Bostra farms area, while firing smoke bombs, the al-Manar TV in Lebanon has reported.Bostra…

Israeli sources said, Tuesday, that a soldier was shot and injured by rounds of live ammunition, reportedly fired from the Syrian side.The sources said the wounded officer, who was shot…

A number of Israeli extremists attacked, Tuesday, a Palestinian worker in Tel Aviv, causing various injuries that required hospitalization.The worker has been identified as Mousa Hasan Shawahin, 44, years of…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, March 10th, 2015. Israeli soldiers attack university students injuring seven,…

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, on Tuesday, decided to suspend escalatorysteps planned in protest of the oppressive policies imposed by Israeli Prisons Service (IPS).Palestinian sources, according to Al Ray, said…

The legislative elections will be held in Israel on March 17th. The voters will renew the 120 members of the Knesset, the unicameral parliament. Since the first elections in the…

Seven Palestinian students were injured by rubber-coated steel bullets, Tuesday, as clashes broke out near Ofer detention center in Ramallah, witnesses said. Several Palestinians were injured in clashes which took…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Teqoua’ town, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and kidnapped eighteen Palestinian youths, including several siblings, after storming dozens of homes…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Bil’in village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and stormed several homes before searching them.Eyewitnesses said the soldier…

Israeli soldiers bulldozed large areas of Palestinian lands, in Kisan village east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, to build an “industrial zone” that would serve near illegal Israeli…

In the village of Umm al-Fahm, in the northern part of what is now Israel, a group of Israeli soldiers on Monday invaded a media center that had recently been…

Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) for the reporting period of 26 February – 04 March 2015.Israeli…

Israeli Foreign Minister and the head of Yisrael Beiteinu Party, Avigdor Lieberman, lashed out at Israel’s Arab citizens, Sunday, threatening to cut their heads off with an axe.’Those who are…

Walla Israeli website said, Monday, that Hamas has recently sent a series of letters to Israeli occupation authorities, offering a long-term ceasefire which would last for at least 5 years,…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, March 9th, 2015. Soldiers invade West Bank communities and attack…

On International Women’s Day, Women’s Suffering Doubled and Unprecedented Due to Consequences of the Israeli Offensive on the Gaza Strip.The 8th of March is the day proclaimed by the international…

Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, has reported that scores of residents, including children, suffered on Monday morning the effects of teargas…

Several Israeli military vehicles, and bulldozers, invaded the al-Jaroushiyya village, north of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, and demolished a home belonging to a local judge. The soldiers…

Israeli military bulldozers uprooted large areas of Palestinian farmlands, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and uprooted more than 300 Olive trees. Army invades a construction company…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Monday, eight Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, after storming their homes and violently searching them.Media sources in Hebron, in the southern part of…

Representing Arab and Islamic countries, the Arab League intends to submit to the UN Security Council, Monday, a new draft proposal calling for ending the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and…

In a statement released by the Likud Party, Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explicitly said Tel Aviv would never withdraw from any of part of the occupied territories“Israel will…

The Israeli police kidnapped, Sunday, a Palestinian woman and a teenage girl while leaving the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, and took them to a police station in the Old…

Israeli authorities decided to deport four solidarity activists, from the France-Palestine Solidarity Association, arrested while joining the people of Bil’in in their weekly demonstration against the occupation and apartheid wall,…

Israeli forces continue to demolish Palestinian homes in the Jordan Valley, in spite of an order signed in January indicating that the homes no longer lie in an army firing…

A large number of extremist settlers, on Sunday morning, broke into Al Aqsa Mosque under the protection of special Israeli police units.According to PNN sources, 35 settlers broke into the…

Tens of thousands of Israelis rallied on Saturday evening, in Yitzhak Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, calling for the current Israeli Prime Minister to be replaced in the upcoming parliamentary elections,…

As hundreds of Palestinian women peacefully marched near the Qalandia Terminal north of occupied Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers violently attacked them, and wounded nine.The protesters marched towards the soldiers, close to…

Clashes took place, Sunday, near the al-Jalazonerefugee camp, and Silwad town, in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, after dozens of soldiers invaded the area, and surrounded it, before…

Israeli soldiers, stationed on the al-Jalama military roadblock, north of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, violently attacked, and detained, a mentally-challenge teen.Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped Mohammad Fawwaz…

Three Palestinians have been shot and injured after the Palestinian security officers tried to enter the Balata refugee camp, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, to arrest…

Several Israeli military vehicles, accompanied by two armored bulldozers, invaded Kisan village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, bulldozed and uprooted Palestinian agricultural lands.Hussein Ghazal, head of the…

As the Palestinian people mark March 8th, International Woman’s Day, the Palestinian Committee on Detainees issued a statement that Israel is still holding captive twenty Palestinian women, including one who…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that an elderly man was injured, on Saturday evening, after a number of Israeli extremists assaulted him as he was leaving the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a resident was injured, on Saturday evening, when an explosive object dropped by the Israeli military during a previous invasion, detonated near him.Spokesperson of…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a fisher who was shot and injured by Israeli navy fire, earlier Saturday, died of his wounds in the Shifa Medical Center, in Gaza,…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Saturday, a young Palestinian man at a sudden roadblock, installed by the army, west of Jenin city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.The WAFA…

Israeli navy boats opened fire, on Saturday at dawn, at Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, moderately wounding one fisher, and kidnapped two others.Ziad ‘Ayyash, head of the Palestinian…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Friday at night, two young Palestinian men, after firing rounds of live ammunition on their car, driving near the al-Jalama roadblock, north of the…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a child was shot and seriously injured, on Friday evening, and four residents suffered moderate wounds, after Israeli soldiers invaded the al-Jalazonerefugee camp, near…

Israeli forces deployed on the border east of Khan Younis opened fire at Palestinians on Friday.Witnesses reported that shots were fired towards Palestinians on their agricultural lands in eastern al-Qarrara,…

From 7th-14th March, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) will be hosting a week of informative and interactive events – including a public talk, film screenings and protest rallies –…

The only power plant in the Gaza Strip is set to resume operations after a fuel delivery, in Friday, Palestinian officials said.The Kerem Shalom crossing will be opened as an…

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center (Silwanic) in Silwan, in occupied Jerusalem has reported that a young Palestinian man was shot and seriously injured by Israeli army fire, after the soldiers…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for February 28th, to March 6th, 2015. This week the…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured three Palestinian civilians, and kidnapped four international supports, during weekly nonviolent protests organized in West Bank villages on Friday midday. Two villagers were injured and…

Clashes took place, on Friday afternoon, after Israeli soldiers invaded various areas in Hebron and Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.In Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs and rubber-coated metal…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Thursday afternoon, a number of Palestinian police officers chasing a suspect who tried to run away through an Israeli military roadblock close to the Bet El…

The Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization voted on Thursday to end security cooperation with Israel due to the Israeli government’s continued non-compliance with past signed agreements.However, the President…

Israeli daily Haaretz has reported that the election headquarters of the Likud Party of Benjamin Netanyahu removed on Thursday at night a video ad that compared workers of the Israel’s…

Israeli forces, on Wednesday, wrecked a number of tent homes and tin shacks in the northern Jordan Valley locality of Khirbet ‘Ein Karzaliyah, according to WAFA correspondence.Stepping up the pace…

The Gaza Strip’s sole power plant was shut down, Wednesday evening, as Qatari-donated fuel supplies finally ran out, a Gaza power authority said.’The power plant stopped producing electricity during the…

To date, ISM volunteers in Al-Khalil (Hebron) have faced two attempted night raids, two invasions, and continual daily harassment from Israeli occupation forces. 5th March 2015 | International Solidarity Movement…

Extremist Israeli settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque from the Mughrabi Gate, under heavy protection by police, Thursday morning.Media coordinator for Islamic Waqf in Jerusalem, Firas Debs, told Al…

Residents of Al-Mugheer village, east of Ramallah city, today, said that Israeli settlers torched two cars and sprayed hate slogans on walls, calling for the death of Palestinians.According to PNN…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, March 5th, 2015. Palestinian fishermen injured by Israeli navy attack…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday evening, Beit Ummar town north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and the al-Khader town south of Bethlehem, and clashed with local youths,…