Palestinian Injured In Jerusalem Bus Bombing Dies Of His Wounds
Israeli medical sources have reported, Wednesday, that the Palestinian who was seriously injured in the Jerusalem bus bombing on Monday evening, died from his wounds. Hamas claims responsibility, and said…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap 41 Palestinians In The West Bank
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped at least 41 Palestinians, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, in extensive invasions into Palestinian…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Two Palestinians In The Jordan Valley
Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the Zbeidat town, in the West Bank’s Plains, in the Jordan Valley, and demolished two Palestinian homes. Several military vehicles invaded the…
Army Demolishes A Palestinian Home In Qalandia, Injures 8 Palestinians And Kidnap One
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, demolished one home and injured at least eight Palestinians, including three with live fire; one of…
Including 18 Children, Israeli Soldiers Kidnap 25 Palestinians In Jerusalem
Dozens of Israeli soldiers surrounded, late at night, the al-‘Isawiyya town, in occupied Jerusalem, and conducted massive invasions and searches of homes, throughout the night until dawn hours, and kidnapped…
Mass Rally Against Approval of New “Social Security” Law
Thousands of Palestinians, on Tuesday, demonstrated outside of a government building, in the occupied West Bank hub of Ramallah, against the Palestinian Authority’s approval of a new law many believe…
Jordan Halts Al Aqsa Surveillance Camera Project
Jordan has decided not to install security cameras at Islam’s third holiest site, the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in annexed East Jerusalem, because of some Palestinian doubts, Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur…
Israeli Forces Raid Al Quds Newspaper Offices
Last night, Israeli occupation forces stormed the headquarters of local daily newspaper, Al Quds, in the “Atarot” Industrial Zone, to the north of annexed East Jerusalem. Witnesses said, according to Al…
Abu Khdeir Trial: Extremist Ringleader Convicted of Murder
After nearly two years of delay, the leading suspect in the brutal death of 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammad Abu Khdeir was convicted of murder, this Tuesday. The Abu Khdeir family’s lawyer…
BDS: UNOPS 3rd Jordanian-based UN Agency to Drop G4S
The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in Jordan has not renewed its contract with security company G4S, following a campaign over the firm’s role in Israeli human rights…
Human Rights Activists Call on IRS to Investigate Jewish National Fund Charitable Status
On Tuesday, Tax Day, activists delivered a petition with more than 5,000 signatures to IRS offices across the United States demanding the tax-exempt status of the Jewish National Fund (JNF)…
Palestine Today 04 19 2016
Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, April 19, 2016. A fisherman injured by Israeli navy and in the…
Israeli Navy Kidnaps Three Fishers, Injure One, In Gaza Waters
Israeli navy ships attacked, on Tuesday morning, several Palestinian fishing boats and opened fire on them, wounding of fisher, and kidnapped three others, in Gaza territorial waters, in Rafah, in…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Twelve Palestinians In The West Bank
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, at least twelve Palestinians, including four young women, in different parts of the occupied West…
World Bank: PA Losing $285m Annually Under Agreements with Israel
The Palestinian Authority is losing up to $285 million a year under its current economic arrangements with Israel, the World Bank said on Monday. According to Ma’an News Agency, the…
Israeli Soldiers Injure A Child In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Monday evening, a Palestinian child, in the al-Ram town, northeast of Jerusalem, and also kidnapped a young man from his home in the town.…
Five Year Anniversary of the Death of Vittorio Arrigoni
18th April 2016, International Solidarity Movement Last Thursday, 14th April, marked four years since the disappearance of Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza, under the Israeli blockade. According to subsequent statements and…
Medical Detainee on Hunger Strike for 7th Day in a Row
Palestinian patient detainee Mansour Mowkada, 47 years old, from the town of Salfit, has now continued his hunger strike for the seventh day in a row. He is engaged in protest…
Hamas Tunnel Discovered by Israeli Forces
Israeli forces discovered a tunnel, inside the ’48 territories, coming out of the southern Gaza Strip, just over a week ago, the army revealed on Monday morning. The tunnel has since been…
Updated: 21 Israelis Injured; 2 Critical, in Jerusalem Bus Explosion
At least 21 Israelis were injured among them two in critical conditions, and six six who suffered moderate wounds, in a bus explosion near Jerusalem. Israeli media sources said that a…
Palestine Today 04 18 2016
Download/Listen Here Eleven schoolchildren lightly wounded by Israeli army gas bombs, 20 Israeli injured in Jerusalem bus fire. These stories, and more, coming up, stay tuned. At…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Two Palestinians In Bethlehem
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported, Monday, that Israeli soldiers kidnapped two Palestinians from the West Bank district of Bethlehem, and summoned two others for interrogation. The PPS said…
Army Kidnaps Three Former Political Prisoners In Hebron
Israel soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the southern West Bank city of Hebron, searched homes, and kidnapped three former political prisoners. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that…
Eleven Schoolgirls Suffer Effects of Teargas Inhalation In Hebron
Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, has reported Monday that at least eleven children suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, after…
43 Journalists Kidnapped by Israel since October 2015
The Committee to Support Palestinian Journalists said, on Saturday, that Israel had detained 43 journalists in the occupied Palestinian territory since October 2015, including two foreign reporters.The New York-based committee…
Settlers, Policewomen Raid al-Aqsa Mosque
A group of Israeli settlers escorted by policewomen, on Sunday, resumed their provocative tours into annexed East Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque compound, provoking tension with Palestinian worshipers, who chanted religious slogans…
Excessive Use of Force and Collective Punishment at Demonstrations in Remembrance of Palestinian Political Prisoners
17th April, 2016, International Solidarity Movement On 15th April, weekly demonstrations against the Israeli occupation were held throughout the occupied West Bank commemorating ‘Prisoner’s Day’. Kafr Qaddum village has been separated…
Poetic Injustice: Free Dareen Tatour!
Dareen Tatour, 33, a Palestinian poet, photographer and activist was arrested at her home in Oct. 2015. They didn’t have a search order or a warrant. This article was originally…
Nafha Prison: Hunger Strike, Solitary Confinement a Palestinian Reality
Palestinian detainees in Nafha prison have been forbidden from partaking in Friday prayers, on 15 April, following a violent attack by Israeli prison guards and special forces within several units…
Palestinian Prisoners’ Day Remembered
In the month of April, each year, Palestinian detainees, the Palestinian people, and the world mark the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners. Prisoners’ Day has been commemorated since…
Report: “509 Jerusalemite Palestinians, including 15 Women And 10 Children, Imprisoned By Israel”
The Jerusalem Detainees’ Parents Committee has reported, Sunday, that as the Palestinians mark the Prisoners Day on April 17, at least 509 Jerusalemite Palestinians are imprisoned by Israel, among them…
Israel To Demolish Many Palestinian Homes In Silwan
Dozens of Israeli soldiers and police officers invaded, on Friday and Saturday, several neighborhoods in Silwan town, in occupied Jerusalem, and handed demolition orders against many Palestinian homes. The Wadi…
Israeli Army Kidnaps Thirteen Palestinians In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Sunday at dawn, at least nine Palestinians, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including five of in the southern West Bank district of Hebron,…
Report: “Israeli Army Kidnapped And Imprisoned 1.000.000 Palestinians Since 1967”
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) have reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped around 1.000.000 Palestinians, including tens of thousands of women and children, since occupying…
Israeli Colonizers Prevent A Palestinian From Entering His Land In Bethlehem
A number of extremist Israeli colonizers attacked, Saturday, a Palestinian farmer, and prevented him from entering his own land, in al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.…
Report: “1700 Ailing Palestinian Detainees, Including 25 Cancer Patients, Imprisoned By Israel”
The United Health Works Committee (UHRC), in occupied Palestine, has reported Friday that Israel is holding captive 1700 ailing detainees, including 25 who suffer from various types of cancer, and are…
Three Palestinians Injured By Israeli Army Fire In Silwad
Medical sources have reported, Friday, that three Palestinians were injured, and dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers invaded Silwad town, east of the central West…
Army Kidnaps Five Palestinians, Injures Many Others In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Friday, five Palestinians during various military invasions and attacks in different neighborhoods, in occupied Jerusalem, in addition to firing gas bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets, causing many…
Israeli Soldiers Attack The Weekly Protest In Kafr Qaddoum
Medial sources have reported, Friday, that dozens of residents suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers invaded the village, and attacked the weekly protest against the Annexation…
Palestinian Seriously Injured By Israeli Army Fire In Hebron
Medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, have reported on Friday evening, that one resident suffered a serious injury after an Israeli soldier shot…
Eleven Palestinians Injured By Israeli Army Fire In Gaza
Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that Israeli troops opened fire on Palestinians, protesting in different parts of the Gaza Strip wounding eleven, while many others fired the effects of…
This Week in Palestine Week 15 2016
Download/Listen Here Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for April 9, to the 15, 2016. Islamic states leaders affirm their…
Rainwater Harvesting Well Demolished near Hebron Camp
Israeli forces, on Thursday, demolished a rainwater harvesting well near al-Arrub refugee camp, north of Hebron city, in the southern West Bank, said a local activist. Local activist Muhammad Awad…
Cremisan: EU Raises Joint Concern over Israel’s Renewed Construction of Apartheid Wall
The EU mission in the occupied West Bank, on Friday, said they were “deeply concerned” at Israel’s renewed construction of the apartheid wall in Bethlehem’s Cremisan Valley. The mission said that…
British MPs Motion to Release Barghouthi
Leading British MPs, from all parties, have signed a parliamentary motion calling on the Israeli parliament to release the Palestinian MP Marwan Barghouthi who has been in jail continuously for…
Occupation Forces Storm Prison Block
Dozens of policemen and security officers have invaded prison blocks in the Nafha prison near the Israeli town of Mitzpe Ramon. They sprayed both tear gas and pepper gas into…
Dozens Injured After Israeli Soldiers Attack Bil’in’s Weekly Nonviolent Protest
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and colonies, in Bil’in village in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, causing dozens of protesters to…
Israel Settlement Plans Raised 3 Times Higher
The construction of new Israeli settlement units in the West Bank has tripled in the first trimester of the year, in comparison to the same period last year, Peace Now organization…
EU, Austria, Ireland and Portugal Pledge over €12m in Support to Palestine
The European Union is making its first contribution in 2016 to the Palestinian Authority’s quarterly payment of social allowances. According to a press statement released on Friday morning, around 119,000…
Army Kills A Palestinian Man In Hebron
Palestinian medical sources have reported that Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Thursday evening, a Palestinian man, 54, near the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, in the southern part…
Al-Maliki: “We Are Ongoing With Preparations To Head To Security Council”
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, stated Thursday that the Palestinian leadership is conducting all needed preparations to send Israel’s settlements file to the United Nations Security Council. His statements came…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Ten Palestinians In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday at dawn, nine Palestinians different parts of the occupied West Bank, while one Palestinian was kidnapped, on Thursday evening, near Tulkarem. Several army vehicles invaded,…
Army Kidnaps A Palestinian Teen, Attacks A Man, North Of Hebron
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday evening, Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, kidnapped one Palestinian and assaulted another, causing various cuts and bruises. Coordinator…
Palestine Today 04 14 2016
Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, April 14, 2016. Five injured; at least 13 other kidnapped as Israeli…
Five Palestinians Injured By Army Fire In Hebron
Medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, have reported that that five residents were injured, on Thursday evening, and many others fired the effects…
Soldiers Cause A Ramallah Building To Burn After Invading Currency Exchange Shop
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, a currency exchange shop in a building in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and fired stun grenades, causing the building to…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap 31 Palestinians, Including 14 elderly Men
Israeli soldiers carried out, late at night Wednesday and on Thursday at dawn, massive invasions and searches of homes and property in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and…
Dr. Ashrawi Denounces Israel’s Decision To Build Hundreds Of Colonialist Units
Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, strongly denounced the Israeli decision to build hundreds of colonialist units in the occupied West Bank,…
Israeli Army Kidnaps 14 Elderly Men In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers invaded, late at night and on Thursday at dawn, many Palestinian homes in occupied Jerusalem and kidnapped fifteen elderly men, between the ages of 57 and 72, and one man,…
Palestine Today 04 13 2016
Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org ,for Wednesday, April 13, 2016. Israeli troops invade West Bank communities search homes and…
Updated: Army Kidnaps Thriteen Palestinians In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, thirteen Palestinians, including children, in different cities and towns in the occupied West Bank. Among the children are several university students. The Nablus…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Five Palestinians In Jerusalem, Ramallah And Jenin
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday evening, four Palestinians, including two children, in occupied Jerusalem, and in the central West Bank district of Ramallah. One Palestinian was kidnapped while attending his…
JLAC Manages To Revoke A Demolition Order In Ramallah
In an unprecedented achievement, the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Advocacy Center (JLAC) managed to revoke an Israeli decision to demolish the home in a Palestinian, who was killed on Monday…
Palestine Today 04 12 2016
Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org ,for Tuesday, April 12, 2016. Israeli troops demolish homes in the West Bank and…
Students Affairs Council of Palestinian Universities Condemns Israel’s Violations of Right to Education in Al-Quds University
This is a press release from the Deans of Students’ Affairs Council of Palestinian Universities, condemning the Israeli army’s continuous invasions into academics institutions, especially the latest invasion into the…
Detainee Fawaghra Continues His Hunger Strike For 30th Day
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Committee has reported, Monday, that a Palestinian detainee from Bethlehem, is ongoing with his hunger strike for the thirtieth consecutive day. The Committee said that…
Army Injures A Child In Central Gaza
Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Monday, a Palestinian child in Johr ed-Deek area, in central Gaza, while he was herding the family cattle in Palestinian lands, close to the…
Army Kidnaps A Young Man In Hebron; Child Injured After Settlers Attacked Him
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday, a young Palestinian man in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, while Israeli colonizers attacked and injured a child in the center of the…
Israeli Soldiers Demolish Three Under-Construction Homes In Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers, accompanied by a number of bulldozers, invaded on Tuesday morning that al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem, and demolished three under construction homes allegedly for being built without construction…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Seven Palestinians In Tulkarem And Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the northern West Bank districts of Tulkarem and Bethlehem, searched several homes and kidnapped seven young men; four in Tulkarem and three in…
Army Dumps Rubble And Sand On Farmland Near Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers invaded, Monday morning, a Palestinian agricultural land in the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, and dumped rubble and sand on the plants. The land is close to the…
Israeli Soldiers Barricade Home Of Palestinian Detainee From Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers closed, Monday, the family home of a Palestinian detainee from Sur Baher town, south of occupied East Jerusalem. The detainee, along with four others, stand accused of causing…
Palestine Today 04 11 2016
Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org ,for Monday, April 11, 2016. More than a dozen Palestinians kidnapped, others treated for…
Israeli Army Kidnaps Eight Palestinians In Hebron
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Monday, eight Palestinians, in different parts of the southern West Bank district of Hebron. Twenty Palestinians kidnapped overnight. The…
Army Kidnaps Six Palestinians In Nablus
Palestinian media sources have reported that Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn and at night Sunday, several areas in the northern West Bank district of Nablus, searched many homes,…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap A Palestinian In Bethlehem, And Three In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the West Bank districts of Bethlehem and Jerusalem, broke into several homes and kidnapped two Palestinians in Bethlehem and three in Jerusalem. The…
Army Kidnaps One Palestinian Near Jenin, Injures Many Others
Israeli soldiers invaded, late at night Sunday, the village of Barta’a, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and Jenin city, kidnapped one Palestinian, and injured several others.…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Eleven Palestinians In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, late at night and on Sunday at dawn, at least eleven Palestinians, including children and a journalist, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and summoned…
Israeli Soldiers Invade Bil’in
Several armored Israeli military jeeps invaded, shortly after midnight, the village of Bil’in, west of the Central West Bank city of Ramallah, and fired gas bombs. Haitham Khatib, a nonviolent…
Palestinian Factions Denounce Hamas’ “Children Repentance Video,” Hamas Defends It
Various Palestinian factions in occupied Palestine issued statements strongly denouncing a recent video that surfaced on social media outlets, showing Hamas members in a school yard, lining up students to…
France Calls for Construction Halt on Cremisan Apartheid Wall
The French Foreign Ministry has called on Israel to halt renewed construction of the Israeli separation wall in the southern occupied West Bank’s Cremisan Valley, according to a statement published…
OCHA: 124 Palestinians Left Homeless in Less than 24 Hours
Multiple demolitions in the occupied West Bank left 124 Palestinians homeless in a single day, 60 of them children, according to a statement by the United Nations Office for the…
Army Attacks Shepherds near Gaza Border
Israeli soldiers on the border between the southern Gaza Strip and Israel, Saturday, opened machine gun fire on Palestinian shepherds. WAFA correspondence reported that soldiers, stationed at watchtowers along the…
5th Annual BDS Conference Held in Ramallah
04/09/16 International Solidarity Movement Held on the 68th anniversary of the Deir-Yassin massacre, the fifth annual BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanction) Conference took place in Ramallah. The event featured a keynote…
VIDEO: Palestine Marks 68th Anniversary of Deir Yassin Massacre
Palestinians, this Saturday, mark the 68th anniversary of the massacre of Deir Yassin, a small village to the west of Jerusalem, which was carried out by extremist Zionist militias. The Deir…
Israeli Army Kidnaps Six Palestinians In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday at dawn, several Palestinian districts in the occupied West Bank, searched many homes and kidnapped at least six Palestinians, in addition to summoning others for…
Deir Yassin Massacre
Today, Saturday, is the sixty-eighth anniversary of Deir Yassin massacre committed by the Ergun and Stern Zionist terrorist organizations against this village in 1948, killing 250-360 Palestinian in cold blood,…
Soldiers Kidnap Six Palestinians In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday afternoon, the Ein al-Louza neighborhood in Silwan town, in occupied Jerusalem, and kidnapped six Palestinians. The soldiers also removed and confiscated a protest tent in…
Israeli Army Kidnaps A Palestinian In Qalandia
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday at dawn, the Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, searched many homes and kidnapped a young man. The soldiers also released a…
Two Injured, Four Kidnapped, Near Qalqilia
Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that two Palestinians were shot and injured, and many others suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers assaulted a nonviolent procession…
Army Injures Eight Palestinians In Gaza
Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Friday, at least ten Palestinians, including four with live fire, in the Gaza Strip. Medical sources said two Palestinians were shot with live rounds…
Israeli Soldiers Attack The Weekly Nonviolent Protest In Bil’in
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, dozens of Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists holding the weekly nonviolent protest in Bil’in village , near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. This…
4 Wounded, 5 Kidnapped as Israeli Troops Attack a Joint Israeli-Palestinian Peaceful Protest
Israeli soldiers on Friday blocked a joint Israeli-Palestinian peaceful demonstration against the seizing of private Palestinian lands. The demonstration, led by activists from the ‘Combatants for Peace’ movement, is part…
This Week in Palestine-Week 14 2016
Download/Listen Here Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for April 2, to the 8, 2016. Palestine’s mission at the United…
DCI: “Israeli Soldiers Abuse Children During Home Invasions, Arrests”
Defense for Child International – Palestine Branch has reported that Israeli soldiers are systematically abusing Palestinian children, especially during invasions of their homes and while abducting them. DCI said it…
Israeli Government To Approve Millions Of Dollars In Aid To West Bank Colonies
The Israeli Government, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is set to approve more than 45 Million Israeli Shekels in aid to Jewish colonies, in the occupied West Bank, under…
Palestine Today 04 07 2016
Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org ,for Thursday, April 07, 2016. Israeli invasions targeting West Bank communities leave three youth…
PEN Calls for Israeli Backing of New York Writing Festival to be Dropped
More than 100 prominent writers and literary figures have written a damning open letter to PEN American Center, urging it “to reject support from the Embassy of Israel” for the…
Settlers Raze Agricultural Lands near Ramallah
A group of Israeli settlers, escorted by Israeli forces, leveled Palestinian agricultural lands on Thursday, near the village of Deir Ghassana, in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah.…
Japan Donates $7M for UNICEF Interventions in Palestine
The Government of Japan has donated $7 million in support of UNICEF’s humanitarian and development response to children in Palestine. This new grant will enable UNICEF and partners to implement…