Schoolteachers Halt Month-Long Strike
More than 25,000 public schoolteachers, on Sunday, agreed to end a month-long strike after President Mahmoud Abbas urged them to go back to work and pledged to improve working conditions.A…
The Anniversary of Tristan Anderson and the Ongoing Struggle (VIDEO)
On the 13th of March, 2009, at around 4:30pm, Tristan Anderson, an ISM volunteer from the US, was critically wounded by the occupying Israeli forces while peacefully demonstrating against the…
Israel Bans Palestinian Products from Jerusalem
Five Palestinian companies warned of financial losses as Israeli occupation forces banned their products from being marketed in occupied Jerusalem, under political and economic pretexts, Palestinian sources reported Saturday. A…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap 15 Palestinians In The West Bank, Injure A Child In Gaza
Israeli soldiers, invaded on Sunday at dawn several Palestinian districts in different parts of the occupied West Bank, stormed and searched dozens of homes and kidnapped, at least, fifteen Palestinians.…
Bodies Of Two Palestinian Workers Located Under Rubble Of Border Tunnel
The Palestinian Civil Defense, of Gaza’s Interior Ministry, has reported on Saturday evening that rescue workers managed to locate the bodies of two Palestinians, who went missing after a siege-busting…
Palestine Today TV Closed by Israel – Website Blocked
The Palestine Journalists’ Syndicate strongly condemned Israel’s closure of Palestine Today TV after a raid on Friday. The TV channel’s website appears, moreover, to have been subject to a cyber-attack…
Ashrawi Meets with Washington Officials
This week, PLO Executive Committee member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi conducted a series of meetings in Washington D.C., and accompanied by Palestinian Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, Chief Representative of the General…
Gaza: Fateh Committee to Submit Resignation to Abbas
The Fateh High Leadership Committee in the Gaza Strip reportedly plans to submit its resignation to defacto Palestinian President and Fateh leader Mahmoud Abbas, a Fateh official in the besieged…
Palestinian Hackers Send a Message on Israeli Television
Suspected Palestinian hackers briefly overtook an Israeli television broadcast, Friday evening. During the airing of a popular television show “Big Brother” on Israeli Channel 2, the broadcast was briefly interrupted…
Navy Attacks Fishermen Off Gaza Shore
Israeli naval boats, Saturday, targeted Palestinian fishermen’s boats with several missiles, despite sailing within the unilaterally-designated allowed fishing zone offshore, to the northwest of Gaza City.WAFA correspondence said that soldiers…
France: Another Palestinian TV Station Shut Down
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his gratitude, on Saturday, to French President Francois Hollande, after the French government shut down a Hamas-affiliated television station that, according to the Israeli…
Hours After Her Brother Was Killed In Israeli Bombardment; Child Dies Of Her Wounds In Gaza
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has reported, Saturday, that a child, six years of age, who was seriously injured after the Israeli Air Force fired a missile into their…
19 Palestinians Injured In Abu Dis
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday evening, Abu Dis town, east of occupied Jerusalem, and clashed with dozens of local youths, wounding nineteen Palestinians, including one who was shot in his…
Child Killed, His Sister And Brother Seriously Injured, As Israeli Air Force Bombards Gaza
The Israeli Air Force carried out, on Saturday at dawn, a series of airstrikes targeting different areas in the Gaza Strip, killing a child and seriously wounding his sister, and…
Soldiers Injure Many Palestinians Near Ramallah, Kidnap Two Near Jenin
Two Palestinians have been injured Friday, and dozens suffered the effects of teargas inhalation after Israeli soldiers invaded Silwad, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The army…
This Week in Palestine Week 10 2016
Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for March 5, to the 11, 2016. Israeli troops kill…
Israeli Soldiers Attack The Weekly Nonviolent Protest In Bil’in
Israeli soldiers assaulted, on Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and colonies, in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and fired dozens of…
Two Children Injured, Dozens Suffer Effects Of Teargas Inhalation, In Nabi Saleh
Israeli soldiers shot and injured, Friday, two Palestinian children in Nabi Saleh village, northwest of Ramallah, and fired gas bombs, causing dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation…
Army Kidnaps Five Palestinians In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers have kidnaped, on Friday at dawn, three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, while two others were kidnapped on Thursday evening.Media sources in Bethlehem said the soldiers invaded…
PCHR Weekly Report: 6 Palestinian Civilians Killed, 8 Wounded by Israeli Forces This Week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 03– 09 March 2016, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
Palestinian Journalists Syndicate Denounces Israel’s Closure Of ‘Palestine Today’ TV
The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate denounced, Friday, the Israeli invasion into Palestine Today Satellite TV Agency, in the occupied West Bank, the military orders shutting it down, and the abduction of…
Army Shuts Down ‘Palestine Today TV’ In Ramallah, Kidnaps Three Journalists
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, the main headquarters of Palestine Today TV, in the al-Biereh city, in the Ramallah and al-Biereh District in the occupied West…
US VP Joe Biden: Israel Cannot Stop Violence through Physical Force Alone
United States Vice President Joe Biden, Wednesday, said that Israel could not stop violent acts carried out by Palestinians solely through physical force, the Associated Press reported.Biden landed in Tel…
Tamimi to be Released under Conditions and $1,000 Fine
Ofer Israeli military court, in the Ramallah region, on Thursday morning, 10 March 2016, has agreed to release activist Manal Tamimi (43) after two days of detention, on a fine…
Galant Supports Establishing Gaza Seaport
Israeli Minister of Construction and Housing Yoav Galant has expressed support for the idea of constructing a seaport for Gaza, explaining that it would release pressure on the Strip, which…
60 Palestinians without Permits Detained inside Israel
Israeli police, on Wednesday, reportedly detained at least 60 Palestinian workers who were caught inside the Israel border without work permits.According to Hebrew media, Israeli forces detained 25 Palestinians from…
Palestine Today 03 10 2016
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, March 10, 2016. Troops kidnap more than two dozen civilians…
Israeli Forces Deploy near Lebanese Border
Israeli occupation forces have now deployed troops and equipment along the Lebanese border, and stepped up military activities in th region on Wednesday, according to Lebanese sources.For the second consecutive…
G4S Exits Israeli Market, Ahava Relocates
Following concerted BDS campaigns, G4S to exit the Israeli market and Ahava to relocate from the West Bank to inside the Green Line.On Thursday morning, G4S, the British-Danish private security…
Israeli Soldiers Invade The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan
Israeli soldiers and police officers invaded on Thursday morning, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic,) in occupied Jerusalem, and photographed its interiors, in addition to imposing a fine.Majd…
Army Kidnaps 33 Palestinians In The West Bank
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, late at night and on Thursday morning, 33 Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including…
Army Invades Al-‘Isawiyya And Silwan In Jerusalem, Kidnap One Palestinian
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at night, and on Thursday at dawn, the Jerusalem towns of al-‘Isawiyya and Silwan, and kidnaped one Palestinian. Clashes took place in the invaded towns,…
Israeli Extremists Write “Death To Arabs” Graffiti In Al-Khader Town
A number of extremist Israeli settlers infiltrated, on Thursday at dawn, into the al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and wrote “Death To Arabs” graffiti on…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Five Palestinians In Qalqilia, Two In Jenin
Five Palestinians have been kidnapped, on Thursday, after Israeli soldiers invaded ‘Azzoun town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and searched many homes. The soldiers also kidnapped…
Army Kidnaps Four Palestinians In Hebron
Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Palestinian communities in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, searched homes and kidnapped four Palestinians.Media sources in Hebron said the…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Four Palestinians From Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, earlier on Thursday, four Palestinians from the West Bank district of Bethlehem, one of them from his home in al-Khader town, two Palestinian workers, also from…
Palestine Today 03 09 2016
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, March 9, 2016. Two Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire in…
Two Palestinians Killed, One Israeli Seriously Injured, In Jerusalem
Israeli sources have reported, on Wednesday morning, that the soldiers have killed two Palestinians in Jerusalem, and that one Israeli was injured, in two separate attacks in the city. The…
Update: ‘Army Kidnaps 22 Palestinians In The West Bank’
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the Israeli army has kidnapped, on Wednesday, 22 Palestinians, including children and a journalist, in different parts of the occupied West Bank,…
Israeli Officer killed in ‘Friendly Fire’ During Invasion of Gaza
An Israeli intelligence officer with the Shin Bet covert intelligence service of the Israeli armed forces was killed on Tuesday by other Israeli troops while carrying out an operation in…
Qassam Fighter Killed During Training In Central Gaza
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, has reported Wednesday that one of its fighters was killed in what it called “training and preparation accident,” in central…
Army Kidnaps Seven Palestinians, Including Three Children, In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the al-‘Isawiyya town in occupied Jerusalem, searched many homes and kidnaped seven Palestinians, including three children, and injured one woman.Lawyer Mohammad Mahmoud said…
Israeli Army Kidnaps Ten Palestinians, Injures Another, In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers invaded, overnight and at dawn Wednesday, several Palestinian communities, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, searched and ransacked many homes, and kidnapped, at least, ten Palestinians.…
UPDATE2: 3 More Palestinians Shot Dead after Multiple Attacks Reported (Video)
Three Palestinians were shot dead allegedly carrying out separate attacks in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem, killing one American tourist and wounding at least 12 Israelis, on Tuesday afternoon and…
Freedom Flotilla Coalition: Women’s Boat to Gaza to Sail in September
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has chosen March 8th, which marks International Women’s Day (IWD), to announce the launch of their Women’s Boat to Gaza (WBG) project.The Women’s Boat to…
(co) Resistance: Michel Warschawski Talks About the One State Solution
Michel Warschawski, a co-founder of the Alternative Information Center (AIC) and member of Matzpen, discusses the limitations of ‘one state’ as a solution to the colonial conflict in Palestine. AIC…
18 Palestinian Detainees on Hunger Strike against Israeli Maltreatment
Some 18 Palestinian political detainees in Israel’s Etzion prison have launched a hunger strike in protest of a recent surge of maltreatment and suppression by Israeli prison authorities, according to…
BZU is a Front Runner in the Quality of Publications in Palestine
Birzeit University’s position as one of Palestine’s leading research universities has been solidified by the results of a recent study produced by the university’s Graduate Studies Faculty. The university has…
EU Observer: Palestinians Joining Exodus to EU, according to Erekat
Palestinians are joining the Middle East exodus to Europe in greater numbers because of the Syrian war and ongoing Israeli occupation, a senior Palestinian official has said.Saeb Erekat, the secretary…
Israeli Forces Continue to Target Gaza Farmers
The Israeli army targeted, on Tuesday morning, Palestinian farmers and opened fire towards them to the east of Khan Younis city, in the southern Gaza Strip.Al Ray reports that, according…
Palestine Today 03 08 2016
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, March 8, 2016. Four Palestinians, including one woman, were killed…
Women’s Day: High Profile Activist, Mother of 6, Kidnapped by Israeli Forces
Israeli forces, on Tuesday night, have kidnapped iconic activist against the apartheid wall and settlements, and mother of six, Manal Tamimi, aged 43, from her home in Al-Nabi Saleh village,…
PCHR Statement On International Women’s Day
On International Women’s Day, All Efforts Must Be United to Offer Protection and Justice for Palestinian Women.On the 8th of March, the world celebrates the International Women’s Day, which is…
Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Woman In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers killed, Tuesday, a Palestinian woman in Jerusalem’s Old City after the army alleged her “attempted to stab soldiers.” The soldiers prevented Palestinian medics from approaching the seriously injured…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Twenty Palestinians In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, earlier on Tuesday, at least, twenty Palestinians, including two women, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem.The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported…
Israeli and U.S. Groups sued for $34.5 Billion for funding construction of Israeli settlements
A group of Palestinians and Palestinian-Americans who have been victims of Israeli settlement construction filed a lawsuit this week to demand financial compensation from some of the companies, individuals and…
Lawyer Shireen Al-‘IsawiSentenced To 4 Years, Her Brother To 8
The Israeli Central Court in occupied Jerusalem, sentenced on Monday lawyer Shireen al-Issawi, to four years imprisonment, and her brother to eight.Amjad Abu Assab, head of the Jerusalem Detainees Parents…
Palestine Today 03 07 2016
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, March 7, 2016. A Palestinian farmer injured in Gaza and…
Soldiers Invade An Orphans’ Charitable Society In Hebron
Several Israeli military vehicles invaded earlier Monday, a charitable society for orphans, in Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and violently searched it, causing…
Army Kidnaps 6 Palestinians In The West Bank, Seriously Injure A Palestinian In Gaza
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, several Palestinian communities, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, broke into and searched homes and stores, and kidnapped six Palestinians, including…
Israeli Soldiers Invade Arraba, Near Jenin
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday evening, the town of Arraba, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, before breaking into and searching a coffee shop and a car…
Police Quell Rally Condemning Ban on Entry to al-Aqsa
Israeli police, on Sunday, violently suppressed a rally organized by Palestinian women who have been banned, by Israeli authorities, from entering annexed East Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque, for various periods of…
PCHR: Threats Against Al-Haq Target Palestinian Rights Movement As A Whole
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), on Sunday, expressed its solidarity with and support of Al-Haq human rights organization, in confrontation of the campaign which aims to defame Al-Haq…
Army Kidnaps Nine from West Bank, Including Football Player
Israeli forces abducted at least nine Palestinians — including a football player — in raids across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.At least five Palestinians…
2016: 23 Journalists Assaulted by Israeli Army
Since the beginning of January 2016, a total of 23 Palestinian journalists on duty were targeted by Israeli armed forces and police, with 12 of the attacks occurring during the…
Netanyahu on Biden’s Visit: An Expression of Great Relations with Washington
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, has said that US Vice President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to Israel is an expression of great relations…
Army Injures A Palestinian Near Bethlehem, Kidnaps Another
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, the al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, shot and injured one Palestinian and summoned three others for interrogation. The…
PCHR Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the oPt (25 February – 02 March 2016)
Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territories continued during the reporting period (25 February – 02 March 2016).Israeli attacks in the West Bank…
February 2016: 97 Palestinian Homes Demolished by Israel Forces
Israeli occupation authorities have demolished around 97 homes and 86 facilities in the occupied West Bank, over the month of February 2016 alone, under the pretext of “illegal construction”, according…
A Moment That Changed Me: Carrying Out Kidney Transplants in Gaza
It is only a 20-minute walk, but crossing no-man’s-land at the Erez border control changes everything. Entering Gaza feels like gaining access to a state penitentiary; there are guards, automatic…
Military Opens Fire on Gaza Farmers
The Israeli military, Saturday, targeted with gunfire a group of Palestinian farmers as they attempted to enter their agricultural land situated along the borderline area of al-Zaytoun neighborhood, to the…
Crimes Against the Palestinians are Finally Called ‘Crimes’
Unlike the political elite and Zionist activists, the Western public had not known or cared much about the Zionist project in Palestine before the establishment of Israel. Only after the…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Three Palestinians, Injure A Child, In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Friday evening, two Palestinian men in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, after a number of Israeli extremists assaulted them. Army also kidnaped a Palestinian…
This Week in Palestine Week 09 2016
Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for February 27, to March 4, 2016. As the Palestinian…
UNICEF Ends G4S Contract in Jordan (VIDEO)
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Jordan has ended its contract with G4S following a campaign by BDS activists in the country and across the world over the company’s…
Army Fires on Palestinians near Gaza Border
Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinian workers east of Gaza City, Friday morning, with no injuries reported.Heavy gunfire was heard as Israeli soldiers stationed in military towers along the Gazan…
Two Detainees Continue Hunger Strike Protesting Their Illegal Detention
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported that two detainees, held by Israel without charges or trial, have declared an open-ended hunger strike, demanding Israel to end their arbitrary Administrative Detention,…
Belgian MPs Barred from Entering Gaza
Israeli authorities have denied a delegation of six Belgian MPs entry into the blockaded Gaza Strip to visit local NGOs, this week.The delegation, which represents different political parties in Belgium,…
Illegal Settlers of Kiryat Arba Abuse Palestinians and Volunteers
On Saturday, 27th February 2016, as two ISM volunteers were walking on Prayer Road, right next to the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron), they were attacked, threatened…
Child Injured In Kafr Qaddoum As Israeli Soldiers Use Excessive Force
Israeli soldiers assaulted, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and Colonies in Kafr Qaddoum town, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, wounding one child, while many…
New Discriminatory, Anti-democratic Legislation
Adalah unpacks 10 Israeli laws and bills with provisions liable to harm Palestinians and those who defend Palestinian rights. Adalah: the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel released…
Two Medics Injured In Bethlehem After Soldiers Fired A Gas Bomb Into Their Ambulance
Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that two medics of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers fired a gas bomb into…
Several Palestinians Injured In Ni’lin
Several protesters suffered, Friday, the effects of tear gas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers assaulted the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and Colonies, in Ni’lin village, west of Ramallah.The…
PA Leaders Meet with Israeli Authorities, Again Threaten to End Security Coordination
A delegation from the Palestinian Authority (PA) officially warned Israeli authorities, several days ago, that the Palestinian government would end its security coordination with Israel if the state did not…
Many Injured As Israeli Soldiers Assault The Weekly Nonviolent Protest In Bil’in
Israeli soldiers assaulted, Friday, dozens of Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists, holding the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and colonies, in the village of Bil’in, near the…
Ireland: Gino Kenny Raises Palestinian Flag Upon Election Victory
New Irish Parliament Member Gino Kenny, from the Anti-Austerity Alliance, celebrated his election victory, this past Saturday, by waving a Palestinian flag.Kenny, aged 42, is a local Irish activist that…
DCI: ‘Israel Killed 41 Children Since October 1’
Defense for Children International (DCI), Palestine Branch, has reported that Israeli soldiers have killed 41 children in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, since the current uprising began…
Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Woman In Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers killed, on Friday morning, a Palestinian woman driving her car close to the Gush Etzion settlement block, on the main Bethlehem-Hebron road, south of Bethlehem. One Palestinian died…
Israeli Soldiers Invade al-‘Isawiyya And Silwan, In Jerusalem
Dozens of Israeli soldiers surrounded, on Thursday, the towns of al-‘Isawiyya and Silwan, in occupied Jerusalem, and invaded them before firing many gas bombs, and rubber-coated steel bullets. The soldiers…
Palestine Today 03 03 2016
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, March 3, 2016. Troops invade West Bank communities and kidnap…
Update: ‘Soldiers Kidnap Eighteen Palestinians In The West Bank’
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported, Thursday, that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped eighteen Palestinians in various districts if the occupied West Bank, including in Jerusalem.The PPS said the soldiers…
Army Kidnaps Ten Palestinians In The West Bank, Demolishes A Gas Station
Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, earlier Thursday, at least nine Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, assaulted and injured another, and demolished a gas station. A Young woman…
Al Atrash and Amro Released by Israeli Authorities
Israeli authorities, on Tuesday evening, have released the coordinator of Youths Against Settlements, Issa Amro, and the director of the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) office in the southern…
Young Gazan Self-immolates, Rescued by Locals
A young Palestinian man set himself on fire in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday night, before being saved by bystanders.The 22-year-old reportedly poured flammable liquid over…
Demolitions Continue to Escalate Despite International Attention
A wave of mass Israeli demolitions continued on Wednesday, in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, among them a house under construction in Shuwekeh, on the outskirts of Tulkarem, according…
420 Acres of Land to be Returned to Palestinians
Israel’s High Court, on Wednesday, ruled that Israeli authorities are obliged to return 1,700 dunams (420 acres) of land back to private Palestinian landowners, lawyers told Ma’an News Agency.Mohammad Shqeir…
Oscar Winners Invited to Visit Palestinian Children Held in Israeli Jails
Hollywood stars have been urged to visit Palestinian children being held in Israeli jails. According to Middle East Monitor/Al Ray, the human rights organisation Avaaz made the call after Israeli…
Guy Butavia Speaks
Guy Butavia is one of three activists, along with Ezra Nawi and Nasser Nawajah, who were arrested following a TV news show that depicted an inciting work made about them…
Palestinian Leader says Shin Bet Murdered Arafat
The leader of Israel’s Joint Arab List party has accused the Israeli government of murdering Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 2004, Haaretz reports.Ayman Odeh, in a recent interview, accused the…
Etzion Detainees Announce Open-ended Hunger Strike
At least 46 Palestinian detainees being held at Etzion incarceration facility will begin an open hunger strike on Thursday, in demand of better living conditions, according to a lawyer for…