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A presentation by Nurit Peled-Elhanan. Peled-Elhanan is an Israeli professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a human rights activist. She is a 2001 co-laureate…

Young Palestinian men were injured during violent clashes which erupted with  Israeli occupation forces in midnight raids, throughout different districts, across the occupied West Bank.  Local sources reported, according to Al…

An estimated 1,000 right-wing Israelis, escorted by Israeli forces, prayed at Joseph’s Tomb in the northern occupied West Bank, on Wednesday evening, leading to clashes in which at least three…

Fahwad Al-Khadoumi (nsnbc) : Lance Bartholomeusz, Director of UNRWA Operations in the West Bank condemned Israel’s latest round of large scale demolitions of homes in the Palestinian Bedouin refugee community Um…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the Israeli army invaded, Thursday, several Palestinian districts in the occupied West Bank, searched and ransacked homes, and kidnapped at least fourteen…

The Israeli army invaded, on Wednesday evening, the town of Sammoa’, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, demolished an under-construction home, a trailer and a well, in…

Several Israeli military vehicles, and bulldozers, invaded on Thursday morning Beit Forik town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and demolished residential structures and tents. One Palestinian…

Several Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the village of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah, and demolished an Auto Body shop and a slaughter house, east of…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday morning, several Palestinian homes in Jerusalem’s Old city, and searched them before kidnapping two women. The army also kidnapped three Palestinians, including a child and…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Wednesday, five Palestinian children, in Ni’lin town west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after assaulting them. Media sources in Ni’lin said the soldiers violently…

In the 7th Annual Conference of “ Struggles for Freedom”:A Comparative Approach Discusses Liberation Movements Resistance History Dimensions of the Palestinian, Indigenous and third world liberation struggles and resistance were…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org ,for Wednesday, April 06,, 2016. Israeli settler ram a Palestinian child injuring her, meanwhile…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org ,for Tuesday, April 05,, 2016. Israeli troops attack farmers in Gaza and kidnap civilians…

Israeli forces, on Wednesday morning, uprooted and burned 47 olive tree saplings that were planted in the annexed East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, last month, to mark the 40th anniversary…

Download/Listen Here Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org ,for Monday, April 04,, 2016. Israeli forces invade West Bank communities and demolish at…

In the early hours of Tuesday, 5th April, around 3am, an armed group of Israeli soldiers stormed the campus of Al Quds university in the area of Abu Dis, part of…

Statement by UNRWA West Bank Director, Lance Bartholomuesz Jerusalem 6 April 2016 UNRWA condemns today’s large scale home demolitions by the Israeli Authorities in the Bedouin refugee community of Um al…

This morning, the Israeli army invaded Om Al Khair village in the South Hebron Hills, without prior warning, to demolish six families’ homes. Army bulldozers destroyed the home of Adel Hadallen…

About 2,070 Palestinian children have been killed, and more 13,000 injured since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, until this past March, official sources have reported, according to Al Ray.…

Israeli forces stormed, early on Wednesday, al-Khader town, to the south of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank, and took measurements of two Palestinian houses there, locals said. Coordinator…

An unidentified driver, on Wednesday, ran over a Palestinian girl in Jabal Jales area south of Hebron, southern West Bank. Locals said that the driver was an Israeli settler, still unidentified,…

Israel authorities said, Wednesday, that they would temporarily stop cutting power to the occupied West Bank, after an agreement was reached with the Palestinian Authority to begin negotiations on the…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, Beit Sahour city, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and demolished a slaughter house, licensed and owned by the City Council, occupied a caravan in…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young man was injured, on Tuesday evening, after a number of fanatic Israeli colonists attempted to invade Douma village, south of the northern…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the Israeli army has kidnapped two Palestinians, in the northern West Bank districts of Jenin and Tulkarem, in addition to summoning two…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, various Palestinian areas in occupied Jerusalem, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped eleven Palestinians. The soldiers invaded the al-‘Isawiyya town, in…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the Israeli army invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, several Palestinian areas in the southern West bank district of Hebron, broke into and…

by: International Solidarity Movement The Yes Theatre, in Al-Khalil (Hebron), works with dedication, for a brighter future for the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank through a diverse set of…

Israel’s foreign ministry will create a reality programme in which the public selects a “hasbara video” to represent Israel.

A group of extremist Israeli settlers, led by American-Israeli rabbi Yehuda Glick, stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound from Al-Magharibah gate, early Monday, according to Al Ray. A statement by the…

Israeli authorities, on Sunday, took into custody a flock of sheep in the Yatta area, southern Hebron hills, occupied West Bank.

Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) cut off power to the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday afternoon, reportedly as a warning over the Palestinian Authority’s mounting debt.

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, overnight and on Monday at dawn, at least twelve Palestinians, including a father and his son, in various communities in different parts of the occupied West…

Israeli soldiers demolished, Monday, a Palestinian home in Jabal al-Mokabber village, southeast of occupied East Jerusalem, without prior notice.

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday morning, Khirbit al-Marajem village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and demolished three Palestinian homes. Many Palestinians suffered the effects of tear…

Israeli soldiers, accompanied by several vehicles and bulldozers, invaded on Monday at dawn, Qabatia town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and demolished homes of three Palestinians,…

Several Israeli army vehicles, and bulldozers, invaded on Monday morning Khallet Ein al-Hamam area, in Surif town, northwest of the southern West Bank district of Hebron, and demolished a Palestinian…

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Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Monday at dawn, Teqoua’ town and ‘Aida refugee camp, east and north of Bethlehem, searched homes and kidnapped three Palestinian teenagers.

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the southern West Bank district of Hebron, stormed and searched many homes, kidnapped one Palestinian, attacked and injured another, and searched many homes.

Dozens of autistic children and their families in occupied Jerusalem participated, on Saturday, in a march organized by the Jerusalem Society for Autistic Children, with the support of the United…

Palestinian police in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem arrested, on Saturday, the spiritual head of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Palestine and Jordan, Palestinian security sources said.…

Israeli settlers, on Sunday, razed land in the village of Jallud, to the south of Nablus, that belongs to a Palestinian man. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in northern…

  by International Solidarity Movement (ISM) At around 9am on Thursday, the 31st of March, four Israeli bulldozers entered the Gaza Strip at El Fakhuri.

The decision to extend the fishing zone, off some parts of the Gaza coast, to nine nautical miles took effect early on Sunday morning, the Palestinian civil administration said.

The autopsy conducted on the body of Abd al-Fatah al-Sharif, on Sunday, confirmed that the 21-year-old Palestinian was still alive before a bullet, fired at his head at point-blank range…

A 23-year old woman from the town of Qafr Qassem, in the Negev desert, was detained by Israeli police after allegedly stabbing an Israeli woman lightly in the hand, in…

On Sunday, Israeli soldiers forced all stores on the main road in Huwwara town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, to shut after Palestinians allegedly hurled stones…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, several cities and towns in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped eight Palestinians. The soldiers invaded Beit Fajjar town, south…

The family of Palestinian detainee Mohammad Dawod, from Bethlehem, has informed the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) that he launched a hunger strike eight days ago, to protest his administrative detention.…

One Palestinian was killed and several others injured, Friday, amid heavy clashes between rival factions at the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Helweh, in southern Lebanon, Lebanese state media reported.…

Abu Obeida, the spokesperson of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, stated Saturday that there will be no free information regarding the fate of the four…

Israeli soldiers shot, on Saturday, Hatem Yassin Abu Mayyala, 13, with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the head, as he was walking to school, in Ras al-‘Amoud neighborhood in Silwan…

Israeli navy boats fired, on Saturday at dawn, several shells and live rounds on a number of Palestinian fishing boats, near the Rafah shore, in the southern part of the…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday at dawn, the town of ath-Thaheriyya south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped one Palestinian. Media sources in Hebron said the…

Palestinian medical sources reported, Friday, that Israeli soldiers and fanatic colonizers, attacked Palestinian protesters, and journalists, during a peaceful protest in Nabi Saleh village, northwest of the central West Bank…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Friday, at least five Palestinians in different parts of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said clashes took place after Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border…

Download MP3 File Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for March 26, to April 1, 2016. As President Abbas announced…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Friday, Kafr Qaddoum town, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia, and assaulted dozens of Palestinians, holding the weekly protest against the Annexation Wall and colonies.…

The Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, has reported that Israeli soldiers assaulted, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest in…

The Israeli army ruled, Thursday, that an Israeli soldier who shot dead a wounded Palestinian in Hebron, last week, would be tried on charges of manslaughter, and not, as had…

The Israeli Supreme Court, on Thursday, refused an appeal to allow a Palestinian doctor a role in the autopsy of Abdul Fattah al-Sharif, who was executed in cold blood by…

Commemorating Land Day, Combatants for Peace Movement, in collaboration with a number of Palestinian and Israeli Peace NGOs, organized on Friday April 1 2016 the monthly peaceful demonstration against the…

Thousands of Palestinians and foreigners took to the streets on Friday, to take part in the fourth annual marathon to be hosted by the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, aimed at…

The Israeli army on Wednesday closed the investigation into the killing of a Palestinian teenager during Nakba Day protests in May of 2014, without filing an indictment against the soldiers…

In its Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 24– 30 March 2016, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…

Palestinian medical sources in Jerusalem have reported, on Thursday evening, that Israeli soldiers shot and injured an elderly Palestinian woman, while sitting in front of her home in Ein al-Louza…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday, five Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, and took them to a number of detention and interrogation centers.

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, and Madama village, south of Nablus, and kidnapped six Palestinians. The soldiers also invaded several towns in…

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org ,for Thursday, March 31, 2016.

A Palestinian minor, on Wednesday, sustained fractures and injuries after an Israeli military jeep ran him over near an area of Yatta town, in the southern West Bank district of…

Below is a translation, by the Alternative Information Center (AIC), of testimony provided by a policeman who participated in Israel’s oppression of the 1976 Palestinian Land Day. The now-defunct Hebrew-language…

“We hope that in a few years this race will start at the Nativity Church, in Bethlehem, and finish at Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem.”

Israeli forces, on Tuesday night, broke into the home of the videographer who filmed an Israeli soldier executing a wounded Palestinian in cold blood, in Tel Rumeida, central Hebron, last…

US Senator Patrick Leahy, along with 10 other Democratic congressmen, have called on the US to investigate the possibility of “gross violations of human rights” by Israel’s and Egypt’s security…

Download audio file: palestine_today_03_30_2016 Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, March 30, 2016. A Palestinian child injured by the Israeli…

Mentioning Bethlehem, the first thing that comes to mind is visiting the Church of the Nativity for a pilgrimage. If you take time to wander the streets of Bethlehem, you…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, several Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, searched many homes and kidnapped at least sixteen Palestinians.

The following is a press release by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistic (PCBS), marking the fortieth anniversary of the Palestinian Land Day – March 30, 2016. Israeli Occupation Authorities…

The Israeli Knesset, on Tuesday, approved the first reading of a bill which would allow Israeli courts to hand down prison sentences to minors under the age of 14 —…

Four Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails have entered into a hunger strike in protest of being detained without a charge or trial, while a fifth started a hunger strike in…

On Sunday, the new team of Youth Against Apartheid was honored to meet with each other for the first time. 03/29/16 | International Solidarity Movement | al-Khalil team The wonderful…

On Thursday, Israeli human rights group B’tselem released a video of an Israeli soldier shooting Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif in the head, as he was laying wounded and motionless on…

The Israeli Knesset approved the suspension of lawmakers accused of backing ‘terrorism’, a bill which seems to target Arab MPs, while PM Netanyahu has ordered Palestinian bodies held by the…

After being rejected as Israel’s next ambassador to Brazil, Dani Dayan will replace Ido Aharoni, who has served as consul-general in New York since February of 2011, in New York,…

The Gaza Strip was left almost entirely without power, Tuesday, due to maintenance work on power lines from both Israel and Egypt and ongoing tax disputes on fuel for the…

Israeli Foreign Minister and the head of “Israel Our Home” far-right fundamentalist party, Avigdor Lieberman, was among the hundreds of Israeli fanatics, protesting in front of the Military Court that…

Audio Link After TextWelcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, March 29, 2016. Israeli navy attack Gaza fishermen and troops invade…

Audio Link After TextWelcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, March 28, 2016. Israeli troops target farmers in Gaza, and demolishes…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported, Tuesday, that detainee Samer Abu Kweik is currently facing a serious health condition in the al-‘Afula Israeli hospital, suffering very sharp pain in his…

Israeli soldiers, stationed on military towers across the border fence opened fire, on Tuesday morning, targeting Palestinian agricultural lands and farmers, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers and police officers, accompanied with personnel of the Jerusalem City Council and the Israel Antiquities Authority, invaded on Tuesday morning the town of Silwan, in occupied…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, Tuesday, at least eight Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Qalqilia and Nablus, and kidnapped eight Palestinians. The army kidnapped twelve Palestinians…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported, Tuesday, that a Palestinian detainee from the southern West Bank district of Hebron, went on hunger strike five days ago, protesting his illegal…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, several areas in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, broke into and searched dozens of homes, and kidnapped eleven Palestinians, while another…

On March 18th, the Illinois Investment Policy Board blacklisted 11 companies from doing business with the state for allegedly boycotting Israel.The Illinois legislation behind this move, SB 1761, was passed…

The Israeli army targeted with live fire, on Monday morning, Palestinian farmers east of Khan Younis city, in the southern Gaza Strip.Al Ray reports that, according to witnesses, Israeli occupation…

A report, issued by the national office for the defense of land and resistance of settlement, has revealed that the number of Palestinian homes razed by Israeli occupation forces jumped…

Monday, at dawn, Israeli police raided a chicken slaughterhouse in the Bedouin town of Shaqib al-Salam, in the southern Israel region of Negev, and rounded up scores of Palestinians from…

A new video shows the Israeli soldier, who executed a seriously wounded Palestinian in Hebron, last Thursday, shaking hands with fanatic leader, colonialist settler, Baroch Marzel, who frequently calls for…