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Head of the Census Department of the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, stated that the Israeli army continues to attack and abduct Palestinian children in violation…

Medical sources reported, on Monday at night, that two Palestinians have been injured, one seriously, after Israeli soldiers opened fire on their car, driving in Beit Ummar town, north of…

A Palestinian youth was killed another injured on Monday midday when Israeli soldiers opened fire at a group of residents near the Za’tara military checkpoint just outside the northern West…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, December 29th, 2014. Israeli troops kill a Palestinian youth in…

Israeli forces raided several areas in the occupied West Bank, on Monday, abducting four Palestinians from Ramallah, Jenin and Qabatiya, according to reports by security and local sources.Israeli guards of…

Israeli naval forces, on Monday, again opened fire on Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the Gaza Strip, while forces elsewhere shot at a group of Palestinians near the border…

Israeli occupation forces, since the early hours on Monday, have been holding military training sessions with live ammunition, in the Khirbet Taweel area, South Nablus.Member of the Popular Struggle Coordination…

Palestinian security forces, Sunday night, arrested a Palestinian journalist after raiding his home in the village of Kafr Ein, north of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.A statement issued…

A number of Jewish extremists, broke into Al Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, Monday, continuing with a string of near daily provocations into the Islamic holy site, say…

On Monday, Israeli army officials confirmed that their soldiers shot and killed a young Palestinian at the Zaatara (Tappuah) checkpoint near Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank.…

Israeli bulldozers, Sunday, razed agricultural lands belonging to Palestinians in Khirbet al-Taweel, located to the south of Nablus. Two Hebron district schools were also reported to have been targeted with…

Head of the Census Department of the Palestinian Committee of Detainees and Ex-Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, stated Sunday that the Israeli army has kidnapped 6059 Palestinians in 2014.The former political prisoner…

Three Palestinians were injured, Sunday afternoon, after Israeli forces opened fire on protesters near Erez crossing, on the border with Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli border guards, stationed…

An Israeli settler, on Sunday, ran over 8-year-old Ali Qrei’esh, near Yatta town, South Hebron, then fled the scene with his car.According to the Palestinian News Network, local sources said…

Palestinians around the world, this Saturday, commemorated the sixth anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s 22-day military offensive on the Gaza Strip, between 2008 and 2009 that left more than…

According to latest reports, constant Israeli excavations underneath Al Aqsa Mosque have caused serious destruction to the foundation of Buraq Square, inside the Dung Gate.According to the PNN, local sources…

Israeli forces, Saturday, summoned seven Palestinians between the ages of 14 and 21 to appear before Israeli intelligence for interrogation. In addition, soldiers blocked the entrance of Beit Ikksa village,…

An Israeli bank has been fined $400 million USD for aiding and assisting Americans in evading payment of their taxes.Al Ray reports, via Press TV, that Israel’s second largest bank,…

An Egyptian committee has finished surveying the homes of residents living between 500 and 1,000 meters of the Gaza border, in preparation for extending the buffer zone to a width…

Extremist Jews from the Susia Settlement in Yatta, south of Hebron, sprayed chemicals on Palestinian lands, Saturday, causing damage to their crops.Member of the Popular Committee Against Settlements and the…

Undercover soldiers of the Israeli military kidnapped, on Friday evening, a young Palestinian man in Wadi al-Jouz neighborhood, during clashes that took place after the army invaded it. Army also…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for December 20th, to the 26th 2014. As Palestinian marked…

Four Palestinians, including an elderly women, were reported to have been injured in the occupied West Bank on Friday, after Israeli forces opened fire on protesters in two separate villages.According…

Israeli police say they have detained over 30 individuals, including former public officials, in an investigation into alleged corruption, and that one of those under suspicion is a deputy minister…

False warning sirens were reportedly heard, this Friday, in the Israeli border towns of Yad Mordechai and Netiv Ha’asara.The two towns are located near the northern border of the Gaza…

A Palestinian man who was apparently attempting to cross the border from Gaza into Israel for work was shot by Israeli troops on Friday.Two workers were apparently attempting to cross…

Palestinian medical sources reported that a child died, on Thursday evening, of serious wounds suffered several months ago, in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, during…

Israeli soldiers surrounded the town of Azzoun, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and invaded it before kidnapping around 14 Palestinians. The army alleged a settler and…

A person with a knife, presumed by police to be a Palestinian, stabbed two police officers in the old city of Jerusalem, causing light wounds on Friday morning. Earlier, on…

At least 12 Palestinians were kidnapped by Israeli forces on Christmas Day, during predawn raids in the occupied West Bank districts of Nablus and Hebron, and in occupied East Jerusalem,…

Ahrar Center for Prisoner Studies and Human Rights said that Israeli forces seized about 70,000 shekels after breaking into home of 52-year-old Ahmed Shubeiri, in Qarboun village, near occupied Nablus.According…

Israeli forces demolished six EU-funded irrigation pools used by Palestinian farmers in the northern Jordan Valley, on Thursday, locals told Ma’an News Agency.Israeli military vehicles accompanied by bulldozers arrived in…

The Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, this year, in the Hall of the Nativity, Bethlehem, lit up a Christmas tree decorated with teargas grenades, sound bombs, pictures of injured and murdered…

An Israeli judge has ruled that ‘actions against assimilation’ are not legal violations. This opinion is apparently correct in a number of states apart from Israel, including Iran, Pakistan and…

The Israeli West Jerusalem municipality has approved a tender to build 380 new illegal settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem, according to media sources.Jerusalem city councilor Yosef Pepe Alalu of…

At this time of every year, the whole world celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ with shining lights, Christmas carols, colors and winter coziness. And, with the Christ being born…

Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem shot 5-year-old Muhammad Jamal Ubeid in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet, Wednesday afternoon, as he was exiting a school bus on his…

Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, head of the Palestinian Detainees Committee, and a member of its follow-up committee in the Gaza Strip, stated that the ongoing arbitrary kidnappings, carried out by the Israeli…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Wednesday, the southern area of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of the…

Israeli bulldozers demolished, Wednesday, a barn in the at-Tour village, in occupied East Jerusalem, and a wall surrounding a Palestinian land in Mount of Olives area.Local sources said several military…

The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, said one of its fighters was killed, and an Israeli soldier was injured, during clashes that took place after the…

The Israeli Supreme Court ruled, Tuesday, in favor of allowing the Afek Oil Company headed by hardliner and former Minister of National Infrastructure, Effie Eitam, to dig for oil in…

Several armored Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Qabatia town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and kidnapped two Palestinians, while many suffered the effects…

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fateh, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, issued a statement, Tuesday, strongly denouncing the assassination of one of its leaders, in the al-Yarmouk refugee camp in…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday evening, three Palestinians from the southern West Bank district of Hebron, and the northern West Bank district of Nablus. Army dogs also mauled a child…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014. Israeli troops attack a Christmas march and…

President Mahmoud Abbas, on Tuesday, said that the Palestinian Authority will cut ties with the Israeli government if a draft resolution, presented last week to the United Nations, fails to…

Four houses belonging to Palestinian families, and at least two barns were demolished on Monday by Israeli forces bulldozers in the town of el-Eizariya, southeast of Jerusalem.According to WAFA Palestinian…

1,000 Israelis raided the northern West Bank area of Nablus, Sunday night, to pray at Joseph’s Tomb, located on the outskirts of the city.The settler-affiliated news site Arutz 7 reports…

A number of journalists, on Tuesday, were injured after being targeted by Israeli forces with teargas and explosive acoustic devices, during a non-violent demonstration which took place near an Israeli…

Israeli soldiers invaded several Palestinian homes in different parts of occupied East Jerusalem, leading to clashes, and kidnapped two children before moving them to an interrogation center in the city.Local…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, five Palestinians in Hebron and Nablus districts, in the occupied West Bank, and four Palestinians kidnapped near Ramallah on Monday night, shortly after…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, Dahiat al-Yasmeen area near the al-Jalazonerefugee camp, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and demolished a blacksmith workshop.Resident Mahdi al-Khatib said military bulldozers…

Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) for the reporting period of 11- 17 December 2014.Israeli attacks in…

Assistant Secretary General for Palestine and authority on issues in the occupied territories for the Arab League, Mohammed Sabih, warned of Israel’s further Judaization of Jerusalem, saying that Israeli has…

Jailed Fateh leader Marwan Barghouhti has criticized the UN resolution submitted to the Security Council by the PLO, urging the Palestinian leadership to reword the proposal.In a letter received by…

Palestinian foreign minister Dr. Riyad al-Maliki says that Palestinian leadership has rejected US Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal of bumping the Palestinian resolution bid for statehood post Israeli elections.The…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, December 22nd, 2014. Israeli troops kidnap children and clashes with…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, three Palestinians in Bethlehem and Ramallah, during military invasions that also targeted the northern West Bank city of Nablus. One of the kidnapped…

This documentary looks at the similarities between the two countries, as well as the growing solidarity and campaign efforts, of the Irish people, with regard to the Palestinian struggle. –…

Dozens of Israeli settlers again stormed Al Aqsa Mosque on Sunday morning, guarded by Israeli special forces.According to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, tensions began to escalate when a group…

Israeli authorities in the city of Beersheba, in a symbolic gesture, have recently converted an historic mosque into an Islamic museum, despite the fact that 10,000 local Muslims still have…

Eight Palestinian citizens of Israel were arrested, Monday, on charges of ‘inciting anti-Jewish’ violence through their online postings, in a move by the Israeli state to criminalize all dissent.Media website…

As Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem prepare for the annual Christmas celebration — the biggest day of the year in the city where Christians believe that Jesus was born — a…

Israeli soldiers, stationed on military towers across the border, east of ‘Abasan town, east of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, opened fire on several farmers trying to…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Saturday at night and Sunday at dawn, nine Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, one Palestinian in occupied East Jerusalem, and two Palestinians kidnapped near Gaza…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Saturday evening, Beit Ummar town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped one Palestinian during clashes with local youths, while many suffered the…

Humanity for Palestine has reported that, since the ceasefire agreement of August, 2014, Israel has committed 94 ceasefire violations. The latest was Saturday’s airstrike in Khan Younis, along with an…

Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement said that Hamas is committed to Egyptian-mediated ceasefire agreement, as long as Israeli is committed too.On…

The Israeli navy, on Saturday, again opened fire at Palestinian fishermen boats, this time along the As-Sudaneyya shore, northwest of the Gaza Strip. Hamas has denied responsibility for an alleged…

A number of extremist Israeli settlers attempted, on Friday evening, to kidnap a Palestinian child on the main road, leading to Huwwara village, south of the northern West Bank city…

On Friday December 19th, the General Assembly of the United Nations passed a resolution recognizing the Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, late on Friday at night, four Palestinians, including two brothers, during clashes in different parts of occupied East Jerusalem. Several Palestinians have been injured by army fire.Local…

Tens of thousands of Palestinians performed afternoon prayers at Al Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, Friday, and later marched through the streets of the Old City in protest against…

His Beatitude Fouad Twal, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, expressed in a Christmas message sent out through his Vicar in Jerusalem and Palestine, Bishop William Shomali, his concern over a…

Mohammad Saleh, a sixty-six-year-old Palestinian resident of Tel Rumeida, al-Khalil (Hebron), waited with his mule outside Shuhada checkpoint for nine hours over the course of two days. He spent four…

Israeli authorities delivered 17 new demolition orders to Palestinian families in the Jerusalem and Hebron area Wednesday.Eleven demolition orders were delivered to the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan. The Wadi…

A Jewish settler opened fire on dozens of Palestinians, on Friday, who were holding a march in protest of the Israeli occupation and its settlement policies in the West Bank,…

Washington, after seeing the text of the draft resolution circulating in the UN security council, Thursday, said that they had decided to not back it. US State Department spokeswoman Jen…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that dozens of residents have been injured after Israeli soldiers attacked a nonviolent protest in Tormus Ayya town, north of the central West Bank city…

The Israeli air force carried out, on Saturday at dawn, two air strikes targeting two areas in the Gaza Strip, for the first time since Israel’s war on the coastal…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for December 13th, to the 19th 2014. This week the…

A number of Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Friday, an area in the al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and ordered a Palestinian to stop digging…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday, a Palestinian man near the village of Ta’nak, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, causing various cuts and bruises.Media sources in Jenin…

Media sources in the northern West Bank city of Jenin several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Thursday evening, the al-‘Arqa village, west of Jenin, kidnapped one residents while many suffered…

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has officially recognized Palestine as a state, expressed its support for ending the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and has called for speeding the reconstruction…

The summary resolution of the conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention has denounced the continued practice of settlement expansion in occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), expresseing deep…

The United Nations General Assembly passed on Thursday, by an overwhelming majority, a resolution recognizing the Palestinian legitimate right to Self-Determination, including the right to an independent Palestinian State.180 countries…

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), has reported that one of its fighters was killed, Thursday, in what it described as an accidental explosion…

A Palestinian bus driver was injured, Thursday, after a number of Israeli extremists assaulted him at the Central Bus Station in West Jerusalem.The driver, identified as Anwar Tawil, 32, works…

Palestinian President and Fateh party member Mahmoud Abbas submitted, on Wednesday, the awaited UN resolution draft setting terms for final peace talks with Israel, saying that Palestine is open to…

An Israeli settler claimed, on Thursday at night, that two Palestinians tried to kidnap him as he was waiting for an Israeli bus in the bus junction located at the…

A group of Israeli settlers, Thursday, cut power to an electricity line that had been supplying a Palestinian home in the village of Burin, to the south of Nablus, according…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that several residents have been injured in the Safa and ath-Thaher areas, in Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron,…

Press Release: Israeli Supreme Court approves regulations that ban Palestinians from Gaza from entering Israel for their compensation cases against the Israeli military.On 16 December 2014, the Supreme Court of…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, December 18th, 2014. Israeli radicals attack a Palestinian bus driver…

The Christian Peacemaker Team in Hebron videotaped an incident on Wednesday morning in which two small children are grabbed and held by soldiers. As the boys begin to cry and…

On Wednesday, the Parliament of the European Union voted to recognize ‘in principle’ a Palestinian state, and, in a separate action, the General Court of the European Union decided to…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, December 17th, 2014. Israeli settlers injure a Palestinian woman in…

Clashes took place overnight in different parts of occupied Jerusalem, as protests continue following the death of Mahmoud ‘Adwan, who was shot and killed by the army in the Qalandia…