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Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, and kidnapped a Palestinian woman, the wife of a political prisoner, who is serving several life…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported that at least 15 political prisoners, held by Israel, have been held in solitary confinement for several years, denied the right to family visits,…

Several Palestinian soccer players of the al-Khader team, in the al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, suffered severe effects of tear gas inhalation, on Saturday evening,…

The following is a list of names of all Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, including one in…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured, Friday, four Palestinians near the northern entrance of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and at the eastern entrance of Teqoua’ town, southeast of the…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly protest in Kufur Qaddoum village, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and fired live rounds, wounding one teen in his leg.Morad Eshteiwy,…

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

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for January 09, to the 15, 2016. Ten Palestinian civilians…

Palestinian prisoner Muhammad al-Qeeq stopped taking vitamins on Thursday, as he entered the 51st day of a hunger strike which he began to protest his detention without trial, the Palestinian…

At least 350 Israeli, Palestinian and international activists joined a nonviolent protest on Friday near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. Combatants for Peace Movement, in collaboration with a…

A walk through the olive groves of Ni’lin village, down the dirt road between stone walls and cacti and past the scattered remnants of spent tear gas canisters, grenades and…

The Israeli government has summoned Swedish ambassador Carl Magnus Nesser over Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström’s call for a probe into Israeli “extrajudicial executions” of Palestinians.According to Israeli news outlet…

Israeli forces, on Friday afternoon, shot dead a Palestinian during a military invasion of al-Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip. In addition, a Palestinian was killed during a…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, several towns in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, installed roadblocks and attacked many Palestinians.The soldiers installed roadblocks near Ya’bad…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday morning, a Palestinian police officer on a sudden roadblock installed by the soldiers on the main entrance of Ya’bad town, southwest of the northern West…

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has reported that one of its fighters died, on Friday morning, in an accident while working in a border tunnel, in Rafah,…

Israeli navy ships attacked, on Thursday evening, a number of Palestinian fishing boats, in Gaza territorial waters, northwest of the Gaza Strip, and kidnapped two fishers.The two kidnapped fishers have…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 07- 13 January 2016, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, January 14, 2016. Two Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire in…

Israeli forces, on Thursday, demolished four greenhouses and a water well in the Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, locals said.Bassam Maslamani, an activist who monitors settlement activity in…

Israeli occupation forces opened fire, Thursday morning, at Palestinian farmers east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.Eyewitnesses reported, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, that soldiers fired…

Israeli forces abducted at least 18 Palestinians from across the occupied West Bank, during predawn raids, on Thursday.Locals said that 10 were taken from the Hebron district, including five Palestinians…

Israeli prosecutors, on Wednesday, called for life sentences with regard to two young Jewish extremists convicted, last year, of burning a Palestinian teen alive, part of an upsurge in violence…

Real Madrid football club, on Wednesday, said that they have invited the arson attack survivor, five-year-old Ahmad Dawabsha, to visit the team and meet star player Cristiano Ronaldo.Ahmad is the…

A military court in the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, sentenced four Palestinians to death for collaboration with Israel, Palestinian security sources said.Security sources told Ma’an News Agency that the Hamas-run…

Israeli soldiers killed, on Thursday afternoon, a young Palestinian man, at a military roadblock, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.The slain Palestinian has been identified as Haitham…

Women in rural communities along the Masar – the long distance walking path in Palestine, have been empowered by their new roles of catering and welcoming walkers into their homes,…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, Thursday, a young Palestinian man close to the Beit ‘Anoun Junction, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.Palestinian medical sources said the slain…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported that recent testimonies from child detainees, held by Israel, revealed they have been subject to torture and abuse during their abduction, and interrogation. The…

Dozens of Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Thursday at dawn, various Palestinian communities in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, searched many homes and kidnapped eight Palestinians.The Hebron office…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, two young Palestinian men in the al-Yamoun town, west of the northern West Bank district of Jenin. One Palestinian kidnapped near Hebron, on…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Wednesday afternoon, a young Palestinian man with a live round, and two others with rubber-coated steel bullets, at the northern entrance of the West…

In an unprecedented step on Tuesday, 12 January 2016, Israeli forces applied the force-feeding law against the administrative detainee, journalist Mohammed al-Qeeq, who has been on a hunger strike for…

Four people, including three Americans, have filed a civil suit against the state of Israel, seeking compensatory damages for injuries suffered during an attack aboard a U.S. ship in international…

Sweden’s foreign minister called for an inquiry, on Tuesday, into claims that Israeli forces have carried out extrajudicial killings, in clashes with Palestinians.’It is vital that there are thorough, credible…

United Methodist Kairos Response is pleased to announce that the $20-billion Pension and Health Benefits Fund of the United Methodist Church has declared the five largest Israeli banks off limits…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, January 13, 2016. Israeli attack on Gaza leave on Palestinian…

An Israeli military video camera recently fell in the hands of Palestinian protesters, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah; its videos shot by a soldier, showed how he…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, at least 15 Palestinians in different districts of the occupied West Bank, including four children in occupied Jerusalem.The Hebron office of the…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Wednesday, four Palestinian children in Jerusalem’s old city, and Shu’fat, and took them to an interrogation facility in the city. Amjad Abu ‘Asab, head of the Detainees’…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Wednesday, that one Palestinian was killed and three others were injured, at least one seriously, after an Israeli drone fired a missile into an area,…

A number of armored Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the central West Bank city of Tubas, shot and injured at least one Palestinian. The soldiers also invaded…

Several Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers carried out, on Wednesday morning, limited invasions into an area, northwest of Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and al-Qarara…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday evening, the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and clashed with scores of local youths, who hurled stones and empty bottles on the invading military vehicles;…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, January 12, 2016. Israeli troops kill three Palestinian youth in…

Israeli police and army forces, Tuesday, detained two Palestinian young women in Jerusalem and Hebron, according to local sources.In Jerusalem, Israeli police detained a young woman, who was identified as…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said that it received only 20 percent of the money needed for the reconstruction of…

The Palestine Prisoners Society (PPS), Tuesday, said that prisoner Kifah Hattab has suspended his open ended hunger strike, which began 50 days ago in demand of being treated as a…

Israeli police forces, on Tuesday evening, raided the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of ‘Isawiyya, firing tear gas at Palestinians and their homes, a local monitor said.Muhammad Abu al-Hummus, a member…

On 22 December 2015, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) published a short film about death penalty showing efforts exerted for years by PCHR to put an end to…

Israel decided to use torture against it’s own, as the internal intelligence service, last year, struggled with the uncovering of a murder case against the Palestinian baby Ali Dawabsha and…

Israeli forces, early Tuesday, abducted four young men, including a journalist, from Nablus and Jenin, in the north of the occupied West Bank.Local sources reported that an Israeli special force…

French telecommunications giant, Orange, aims to end its ties with Israel’s second-largest mobile company, Partner Communications.The move, which will be enforced in February, according to the PNN, brings an end…

A conscientious objector to the Israeli occupation force will spend at least 20 days in jail.Tair Kaminer reported to an Israeli military induction base in Tel Hashomer, on Sunday. There,…

Israeli forces, on Tuesday, officially informed the Palestinian Authority of plans to build new six military watchtowers in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, a local monitor told…

The latest batch of controversial emails released by the US State Department shows that Hillary Clinton may have been seeking to encourage an anti-Israel atmosphere, and generate Palestinian protests, in…

Israeli forces have confiscated 300 dunams of Palestinian farmlands in Ya’bad town, and declared it a closed military zone.The director of Ya’bad municipality, Yosef Atatrah, said that soldiers erected a…

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said that extremist Israeli Jews have desecrated a Christian cemetery near the occupied city of Jerusalem.“People attacked and desecrated the cemetery in Beit Jamal, west…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, Tuesday, two Palestinians, including one teen, near Beit ‘Anoun village junction, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, while a third Palestinian was…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, Beit Jala city, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, and clashed with local youths, in the Sahl area, before shooting to death a young man,…

The Head of the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Committee Issa Qaraqe’ said that the Israeli Authorities have force-fed hunger striking detainee, journalist Mohammad al-Qeeq, via intravenous infusion.Qaraqe stated al-Qeeq is the…

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian officials in charge of Israeli Settlements’ file in the Palestinian Authority, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, has reported that Israel informed the…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, at least twelve Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem. Among the kidnapped is a journalist from Jenin.The…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday evening, a Palestinian man after stopping him while driving in Ein al-Louza neighborhood in Silwan town, in occupied Jerusalem, and took him away, leaving his…

Several Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, on Monday evening, after Israeli soldiers invaded the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem. The army also stormed and occupied a home in…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, January 11, 2016. Israeli attacked targeting Palestinians leave a child…

Official Press Statement from Birzeit University 01/11/16:Birzeit- (11 Jan 2016)- In the early morning hours, the Israeli occupation army invaded Birzeit University campus. This is neither new nor unprecedented given…

Israeli authorities, on Monday, issued administrative detention orders against 34 Palestinian detainees, said the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS).Fourteen of the detainees received administrative detention orders for the first time, according…

On Thursday, January 7th, the ISM went to visit Kifaya Rishek, a widow who lives in Beit Hanina, occupied East Jerusalem, waiting for her home to be demolished.But Kifaya is…

The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs warned, on Monday, of the Israeli Medical Committee’s decision to force-feed Palestinian journalist Muhammad Al-Qeeq, who is currently on hunger strike.Al-Qeeq has waged a hunger…

Three Palestinian detainees continue their open-ended hunger strikes, staged in differing duration, according to a report released by the PLO’s Committee of Detainees and Ex-Detainees, on Sunday.The prisoner, Kifah Hattab,…

The Palestinian journalist Muhammad Al-Qeeq has fallen into a coma, after entering his 48th day of hunger strike, family sources revealed.According to the Palestinian News Center (PIC), Al-Qeeq’s wife said…

Israeli soldiers, Monday, directly hit a Palestinian child with a live round in the village of Hizma, north of Jerusalem, under the pretext of hurling stones at a bus carrying…

Following the early Monday morning Israeli military invasion into Birzeit University, in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, and the abduction of a senior Student Senate member, the Syndicate…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, late at night and on Monday at dawn, at least 21 Palestinians, in military invasions targeting various communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank.The…

Israeli soldiers shot and seriously wounded, on Monday morning, a young Palestinian man, allegedly after attempting to stab Israeli soldiers near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem.Israeli sources said…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the al-Jadeeda village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, took measurements and pictures of the home a Palestinian,…

Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Monday morning, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats, in Gaza territorial waters, close to the Beit Lahia shore, in the northern part of…

The Jerusalem office of the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, was badly damaged in a fire on Sunday night, which authorities suspect may have…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, Beit Fajjar town and Mrah Rabah village, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, and kidnapped nine Palestinians. The soldiers also kidnapped two…

Medical sources have reported that one Palestinian was shot and injured by Israeli army fire, on Sunday evening, near Kafr Qassem military roadblock, close to the Zawiya village, west of…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at night, Teqoua’ town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and injured seven Palestinians during clashes with local youths.The Local Council in Teqoua’…

*Airbnb is enabling anyone to rent rooms and vacation homes in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.According to an article published by +972 Magazine, last week, the list…

Israeli troops carried out predawn detention raids in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, arresting six young Palestinian men, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said in a statement.Israeli forces detained…

Dany Sail, an Israeli Black Panther, worked alongside the Palestinian resistance to end Israeli colonial occupation in the early 1970s. He managed to escape from Israel when his comrades were…

The Israeli government’s nomination of Dani Dayan as its next ambassador to Brazil, and Brazil’s delay in approving the appointment, is heightening diplomatic tensions between the two governments.One of the…

Palestinians and Israelis alike have become increasingly convinced that the two-state solution is no longer an option due to Israel’s policies which continue to see settlements built across the occupied…

Israeli forces have been leveling private Palestinian land south of the occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem, in preparation to build a military tower in the area, residents said.A resident…

Bethany Koval, a Fair Lawn High School student, has found herself in the center of a national discussion involving free speech rights and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after school administrators questioned…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Sunday at dawn, Nahhalin town, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, searched homes and kidnapped two Palestinians.The soldiers invaded and ransacked many…

Israeli forces demolished the home of a Palestinian suspected of having killed two Israelis in October, after large numbers of Israeli military vehicles stormed the village of Surda, north of…

An Israeli naval boat, Saturday, opened heavy machine gun fire on Palestinian fishermen’s boats, while sailing within the allowed fishing zone offshore Gaza.WAFA correspondence reported that an Israeli naval boat…

The ongoing Israeli excavations under Palestinian homes in Wadi Hilweh, in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, forced a Palestinian family to leave their home after…

A report released today by Ireland’s largest multinational corporation, CRH, confirmed that the global cement giant has divested from its 25% stake in the Israeli cement market. The company has…

The United States came down, Friday, on a decision by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon to incorporate a southern West Bank church compound into the illegal Gush Etzion settlement bloc.Spokesman…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Saturday, Beit Einoun area, the main road leading to Sa’ir town, northeast of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and clashed with local residents causing dozens…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday evening, Kafr Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and injured an elderly man with live fire, while many Palestinians suffered…

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 injuries.This week’s…

Early Saturday morning, two Palestinians were shot dead at the al-Hamra (Beqaot) checkpoint in the northern part of the Jordan Valley, east of Nablus in the eastern part of the…

Wadi Hilweh Information Center has issued their 2015 yearly report and monitored the main events in the city of Jerusalem, with special attention given to Israeli violations against Jerusalemites and…