Portrait with Fire: Khader Adnan
“Some people think being jailed is a destiny. I say freedom is a destiny.”10/24/15 | International Solidarity Movement | al-Khalil Team In Heather Christle’s stirring poem, Self Portrait with Fire,…
Palestinian Voice Speaks Out: 20 War Crimes in a Month by Israeli Soldiers against Palestinians
Hamza Khalil Abu Eltarabish is a freelance journalist who graduated from the Islamic University of GazaThe young Palestinian man Fadi Alon performs the dawn prayers in his home in the…
Tel Aviv: Israelis Rally Over Netanyahu’s Policies
Thousands of Israeli protesters have taken to the streets in Tel Aviv to denounce Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies, which they blame for the recent wave of tensions in the…
Official: US Cutting Aid to PA
The United States is cutting economic aid for the Palestinian Authority, partly because of “unhelpful actions” by Palestinians, a US diplomat said Saturday.A specialized news site, al-Monitor, said earlier that…
Palestinian Girl Killed by Israeli Police in Hebron
Israeli border police shot and killed a 17-year-old Palestinian girl, identified as Dania Ershaid, near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, on Sunday, Palestinian and…
Three Palestinians Injured By Israeli Army Fire Near Hebron
Palestinian medical sources have reported, Sunday, that three residents were shot and injured by Israeli army fire, two of them with live rounds during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading Sa’ir…
Palestinian Seriously Wounded After Paramilitary Settler Opened Fire On Palestinians Picking Olives
Palestinian medical sources have reported Sunday, that one resident suffered life-threatening wounds, and another suffered a light injury, after paramilitary Israeli settlers opened fire on Palestinians, picking olives in their…
Three Palestinians Kidnapped In Bethlehem, Young Man In Hebron
Three Palestinian teenagers have been kidnapped, on Sunday at dawn, by Israeli soldiers invading the al-‘Obeydiyya town, east of Bethlehem, while three others were summoned for interrogation. The army also…
Soldiers Kidnap Five Palestinians In Jerusalem, Settlers Burn Car & Write Racist Graffiti
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Sunday, five Palestinians, including two children, in occupied East Jerusalem, while a number of fanatic Israeli settlers burnt a car, and wrote racist graffiti. The Wadi Hilweh…
Child Injured By Israeli Army Fire Near Jenin
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday at night, Zabbouba village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin and clashed with dozens of local youths, wounding one child, while scores…
57 Palestinians, Including 13 Children And A Pregnant Woman, Killed This Month
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported, Saturday, that 57 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, since the beginning of this month, including 13 children and a pregnant woman, and…
Several Palestinians Injured By Army Fire On Saturday Evening
Medical sources have reported, on Saturday evening, that several Palestinians, including a child, have been injured by Israeli army fire in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and occupied…
Locals Repel Settler Attack near Nablus
Israeli settlers, on Friday, attempted to attack the home of a Palestinian teen who was shot after allegedly attempting to attack the illegal Yitzhar settlement in the occupied West Bank.Ghassan…
Kerry in Jordan to Discuss Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Jordan, renewing his push to ease violence and tension between Israelis and Palestinians.Kerry meets Saturday, in Amman, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas…
16-year-old Boy Shot Dead While Selling Sweets
16-year-old Ahmad Mohammad Said Kamil was gunned down and killed by an Israeli security guard, Saturday, for allegedly “running towards” the soldier.The boy was killed at the Jalama checkpoint, to…
Palestinian Dies of Wounds Sustained in Gaza Demo
The number killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip during the month of October has reached 17, as a Palestinian succumbed, Saturday, to wounds sustained during a demonstration days…
Palestinian Man Loses His Eye After Being Shot With Rubber-Coated Steel Bullet
Surgeons at the Hadassah Israeli Medical Center, in Jerusalem, had to remove the left eye of a Palestinian man, who was shot with an Israeli army rubber-coated steel bullet, in…
27 Palestinians Injured In Abu Dis
Medial sources have reported that 27 Palestinians were injured, late on Friday at night, during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading Abu Dis town, east of occupied East Jerusalem.The sources said…
Two Palestinians Kidnapped In Jenin
Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Saturday at dawn, the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, and kidnapped two Palestinians. The soldiers also invaded Qabatia…
Army Kidnaps Eleven Palestinians, Including Two Children In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, late on Friday at night and on Saturday at dawn, eleven Palestinians, including two children, in different parts of occupied Jerusalem.The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in…
This Week in Palestine Week 43 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 17, to the 23, 2015. This week 15…
VIDEO: Settler Attempts to Stab Rabbi near Nablus
A Jewish settler, on Friday, attacked the head of the Israeli group Rabbis for Human Rights during a Palestinian olive harvest in the Nablus district, Israeli media reported.Head of the…
3 Settlers Injured by Molotov Cocktail near Beit El
Three Israeli settlers were injured after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at their vehicle near the illegal settlement of Beit El, in the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli army…
VIDEO: Israeli Media Fails to Cover Up Extra-judicial Executions
Israeli media has reportedly failed to cover-up summary executions of Palestinians near Jerusalem. Israeli media reported, Thursday morning, that Israeli forces foiled a stabbing attempt in Beit Shemesh, to west…
VIDEO: Palestinian Man Attacked and Wrongly Detained by Israeli Forces
Last Thursday, Israeli rights group B’Tselem released video footage (currently going viral on social media) in which a young Palestinian man is brutally assaulted before being wrongfully detained near al-Bireh,…
Palestinian Shot after Allegedly Stabbing Israeli Soldier
A Palestinian youth was shot and injured, Friday, after allegedly stabbing an Israeli soldier near the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, to the south of Bethlehem.The Israeli army said a soldier…
PCHR Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the oPt (14 – 21 October 2015)
Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (14 – 21 October 2015).Israeli attacks in the West Bank & Gaza: Shootings…
21 Palestinian Injured In Gaza, One Seriously
Twenty-one Palestinians have been injured, Friday, during clashes with Israeli soldiers in areas close to the border fence in the besieged Gaza Strip, while one of the wounded suffered a…
Dozens Injured In Kufur Qaddoum, Around 50 Trees Burnt
Dozens of Palestinians suffered the effects if tear gas inhalation, Friday, while around fifty trees were burnt, after Israeli soldiers invaded Kufur Qaddoum, in the northern West Bank district of…
Several Palestinians Injured In Bethlehem
At least three Palestinians were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, Friday, and many others received treatment for the effects of tear gas inhalation, during clashes with Israeli soldiers near the…
Soldiers Attack The Weekly Protest In Bil’in
Dozens of nonviolent protesters suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, Friday, during the weekly protest against the Annexation Wall and settlements, in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank…
Israeli Army Kidnaps Five Palestinians In Hebron, One In Ramallah
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, earlier Friday, five Palestinians in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, and one in the central West bank city of Ramallah, after invading their homes and…
Soldiers Assault A Palestinian Laborer In Ramallah
A Palestinian worker was injured, Friday, after Israeli soldiers assaulted him at a construction site, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, causing several various bruises and fractures. The…
Palestinian Teen Injured By Israeli Army Fire In Hebron
Israeli soldiers shot, on Friday morning, a Palestinian teen while walking towards his family’s olive orchard, northwest of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped him despite his…
10 Injured In Tulkarem And Hebron
Medical sources have reported, Thursday, that 10 Palestinians were injured by Israeli army fire in Tulkarem, and Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, during clashes with invading soldiers.The Palestinian Ministry…
Settlers Attempt To Abduct Two Children In Hebron
A number of extremist Israeli settlers, living in illegal colonialist outposts in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, attempted on Thursday evening, to kidnap two children…
Palestine Today 10 22 2015
Audio Report After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, October 22, 2015. One Palestinian man killed by Israeli troops,…
ISM Mourns the Death of Longtime Supporter and Friend, Hashem Azzeh
Long term supporter and friend of ISM, Hashem Azzeh, has tragically passed away today aged 54, following health complications exacerbated by the conditions in Al-Khalil (Hebron). Hashem, who had a…
Palestinian Resistance: Messages From The Streets
Many did not anticipate the current courageous, comprehensive, and vital reaction of the Palestinian people to Israeli policies and practices in Jerusalem. Young Palestinians from the West Bank and Jerusalem,…
Israeli Forces Shoot Woman at Jerusalem Checkpoint
A Jerusalemite woman was injured on Thursday morning, after Israeli forces shot her at Ras Al-Amood checkpoint in Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque.Media sources reported, that 28-year-old Heba Aziz Al-Abasi,…
One Killed, Another Injured in Beit Shemesh after Alleged Attack
One Palestinian was killed and one critically injured by Israeli police in Beit Shemesh, to the west of Jerusalem, Thursday, after an alleged stabbing attack, Israeli media and police said.The…
One Injured, Woman, Young Man and Five Children Kidnapped, In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers invaded, late on Wednesday, the town of al-‘Isawiyya, in occupied East Jerusalem, clashed with local youths, wounding one in the eye, and kidnapped one woman, a young man,…
Army Kidnaps 33 Palestinians In The West Bank
Following the extensive invasions, searches of homes and the abduction of 24 Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers have also kidnapped at least 33 Palestinians in different communities, in the…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap 24 Palestinians In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Thursday morning, 24 Palestinians during extensive military searches of homes, in different parts of occupied Jerusalem. Lawyer of the Ad-Dameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights…
Updated: Palestinian Seriously Injured By Israeli Army Fire In Hebron
The Israeli army initially said the young Palestinian was killed after ramming Israeli soldiers with his car, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, several hours later, the P.A…
Q&A on Palestinian Popular Resistance
Q1. How would you describe the current situation on the ground? A1. A new generation of Palestinians is marching on the footsteps of previous generations, rising up against Israel’s brutal,…
Palestinian Minor Detainees Speak Out on Israeli Brutality
Three Palestinian minor detainees submitted sworn affidavits saying that they are being subjected to maltreatment, verbal and severe physical abuse by Israeli army and police forces, either prior to or…
Settlers Call for Attacks on International Human Rights Defenders in al-Khalil
”These are not tourists. These are hostile anarchists. Soldiers and residents pay attention, the characters in these photos are here to harm Israelis for anti-semitic reasons. Act accordingly.”21th October 2015…
Soldiers Kill Jewish Man After “Mistaking His Nationality,’ Palestinian Killed In Separate Incident
Israeli sources have reported that a Jewish man was shot and killed in Jerusalem, late Wednesday night, by Israeli soldiers who mistook his nationality, believing he was “a Palestinian attacker.”…
NYTimes: Report Accurately on Palestine/Israel
No media organization is more influential in shaping the way American policymakers and news outlets think about Israel and Palestine than the New York Times.But with some notable exceptions, the…
Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians in Hebron
Groups of Israeli settlers carried out, Tuesday evening, a wide range of attacks against Palestinians in several residential homes surrounding the ‘Kiryat Arba’ settlement, east of Hebron, in the occupied…
Settlers Storm Al-Aqsa, Clashes in Silwan
Israeli forces continued, on Wednesday morning, heavy deployment in the city, tightening the siege imposed on occupied East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque.Forces erected a number of military checkpoints in several neighborhoods…
Rabbis: Killing Palestinians a Religious Duty
Israeli Jewish Rabbis have declared the killing of Palestinian resistance fighters “a religious duty”, Israeli media has reported. (MEMO/Days of Palestine) Israeli news website Walla reported that right-wing rabbis recently…
Fact-checking Israel’s Statement to the UNSC
On 16 October 2015, Israeli Ambassador Roet addressed the UN Security Council in an emergency session on the escalating situation in Israel and Palestine. Below are his statements followed by…
Palestine Today 10 21 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, October 21, 2015. One Palestinian youth were killed by Israeli…
Jewish Historians Refute Netanyahu’s Holocaust Accusations against Palestinians
Leading Jewish historians, according to the PNN, have rubbished Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims that the Holocaust was caused by Palestinians.Netanyahu blamed the slaughter of millions of people during World War II…
Palestinian Shot following Alleged Car Attack, 4 Israelis Injured
A Palestinian was shot and injured after allegedly committing a suspected car attack that injured at least four Israelis off route 60, near the illegal Israeli settlement bloc of Gush…
Two Palestinians killed on Wednesday; 53 Palestinians Killed This Month, Including 11 Children
One Palestinian youth were killed by Israeli troops’ gunfire near Jerusalem, on Wednesday, while an elderly man died during ongoing clashes in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Since…
Palestinian Man Dies Of Tear Gas Inhalation In Hebron
Medical sources at the Hebron Governmental Hospital, in the southern West bank city of Hebron, have reported on Wednesday evening that an elderly man died of severe effects of tear…
Israeli Forces Kill 5 Palestinians, Including 2 Children, in Less than 12 Hours
Number of Palestinian Victims Rises to 47 Killed, Including 12 Children and Woman, in oPt, Since Early October, Occupied East Jerusalem Isolated and Divided into Small Cantons.With the continuing international…
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap 21 Palestinians In Hebron
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, various Palestinian communities and towns in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, searched and ransacked homes, and kidnapped twenty-one Palestinians.Media…
Soldiers Kidnap Four Palestinians In Nablus, Three In Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and kidnapped four Palestinians during extensive searches of homes, while three…
Two Children Injured In Nablus And Jenin, One Palestinian Kidnapped
Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Wednesday morning, a Palestinian child near the Yitzhar illegal colony, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Child injured after settlers attacked…
Two teens killed in Hebron by Israeli military after allegedly wounding soldier
Israeli soldiers shot and killed two boys, aged 15 and 17 years old, in Hebron’s Old City Tuesday night, claiming that the two tried to attack a soldier. The military…
Three Palestinians killed on Tuesday; 49 Palestinians Killed This Month, Including 10 Children
Two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli soldiers in southern West Bank, on Tuesday, while a third Palestinian died after being shoot by Israeli troops during clashes at borders areas…
Palestine Today 10 20 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, October 20, 2015. Three Palestinian youth killed and more than…
West Bank: 9 Palestinians Injured by Live Fire, 35 Kidnapped
Israeli forces shot and injured at least nine Palestinians with live fire on Tuesday during clashes across the occupied West Bank, medics and witnesses said.A reporter in al-Bireh in the…
Armed Settlers Attack Hebron Homes Under Military Protection
Armed Israeli settlers — under Israeli military protection — attacked Palestinian homes with stones and empty glass bottles to the east of Hebron city, on Tuesday, according to local and…
West Bank Teens Shot, Clashes in Jenin
A Palestinian teenager was shot and injured by Israeli soldiers, Tuesday, during clashes near Ramallah, while a number of Palestinians suffocated by teargas in clashes near Jenin, according to local…
VIDEO: Shoot First Don’t Ask Questions Later
A video posted on October 12th, by Shehab news agency, described an attack on a Palestinian girl from Haifa in her twenties, for allegedly trying to assault a taxi driver…
Israel Planning Mass Arrests in Jerusalem
Israeli police are planning to arrest “hundreds of Palestinians” in Jerusalem, over the coming week.Acting Police Commissioner Bentzi Sau told journalists, Tuesday, that “during the coming week hundreds of East…
Media Office: 62 Violations Against Palestinian Journalists
The Government Media Office (Ministry of Information) documented 62 Israeli violations against the Palestinian journalists during the recent uprising, which has occurred since the beginning of October.The office explained, in…
1 Dead, 2 Injured in Suspected Settlement Car Attack
A Palestinian man was shot dead, Tuesday afternoon, after his car ran into a soldier and a civilian.The incident happened at the Gush Eztion Junction toward Jerusalem in the West…
Gaza: 1 Palestinian Dead, 14 Injured in Border Clashes
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian, and injured nine others with live fire on Tuesday, during clashes on the border of the northern and central Gaza Strip, a medical…
Palestinian Shot Dead By Israeli Army Fire In Hebron
Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Tuesday before noon, a young Palestinian man in Beit ‘Awwa town, southwest of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Army also invaded various…
Health Ministry: “46 Palestinians, including 10 Children, Killed Since October 1”
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported, Monday, that the number of Palestinians, killed by Israeli fire since the beginning of this month, has arrived to 45, including 10 children, in…
Israeli troops demolish apartment belonging to family members of man who killed Israeli last year
In the latest punitive home demolition carried out by Israeli troops since they resumed the practice this year, the military on Monday night destroyed the interior of an apartment located…
Two Palestinians, four Israelis killed in two separate incidents in Jerusalem
On 13 October 2015, an Israeli paramilitary settler fired 3 bullets at Alaa Abu Jamal (33), from al-Mukaber Mountain, southeast of occupied East Jerusalem, at a bus stop on ‘Malkhei…
28 Palestinians Injured In Jerusalem And Qalqilia
Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Monday evening, that eleven Palestinians were injured by Israeli army fire in Abu Dis town, in occupied Jerusalem, and seventeen others in the northern…
Palestine Today 10 19 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, October 19, 2015. An elderly woman die of tear gas…
Dozens Of Students Wounded In Khadoury University
Dozens of students suffered, Monday, the effects of tear gas inhalation in the Palestine Technical University “Khadoury,’ west of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, after Israeli soldiers fired…
Elderly Woman Dies After Soldiers Delay Car Transporting Her To Hospital
An elderly Palestinian woman from the al-’Isawiyya town, in occupied Jerusalem, died late on Sunday at night, on a military roadblock, after Israeli soldiers, manning a roadblock on the eastern…
Army Kidnaps Twelve Palestinians, Including 4 Children, In Jerusalem
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic), in occupied Jerusalem, has reported that dozens of soldiers invaded, on Sunday evening and Monday at dawn, various towns and neighborhoods in…
Soldiers Kidnap 17 Palestinians In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, seventeen Palestinians, including children, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, during extensive military invasions and searches of homes, and also shot…
Foreign Ministry Denounces Execution Of Palestinians, Demands International Investigation
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry issued a statement, Sunday, strongly condemning the ongoing “Israeli violations and crimes, carried out by soldiers and paramilitary settlers’, on a daily basis in different parts…
Mother And Her Son Kidnapped At West Bank Border Terminal
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Sunday, a Palestinian woman and her son, while trying to cross into the occupied West Bank, on their way back home from Jordan. Soldiers also kidnapped a…
VIDEO: In al-Khalil, the Situation Grows Gravely Worse
After a day of intensified violence in al-Khalil (Hebron) the midnight hour brought horrifying screams for help from local mosques, the screaming sirens of ambulances and clouds of teargas drifting…
VIDEO: Jerusalem Says End the Occupation
Over 2,000 Israeli Jews and Arabs demonstrated Saturday night in Jerusalem.Protesters marched under the slogan ‘we will not surrender to despair’. They called for an end to the Israeli occupation…
Wall to Separate East Jerusalem District from Settlement, Settlers Firebomb Hebron Area Village
Israeli forces, on Sunday, began installing a large concrete wall in occupied East Jerusalem to separate the Palestinian neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukabbir from the illegal Israeli settlement of Armon Hanatziv.Witnesses…
West Bank Clashes Continue, Live Fire Exchanged with Armed Fateh Wing
Israeli forces suppressed marches across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, as clashes continued for the 17th consecutive day.Israeli forces shot and injured three Palestinians with live fire during clashes…
Army Raids West Bank Schools, Injuries Reported
Israeli forces, on Sunday, fired tired gas canisters and stun grenades inside a boys’ secondary school in Jenin while students were still inside, as groups of settlers attempted to storm…
Palestinian Shot; Eritrean Bystander Killed by Mob in Southern Israel
A suspected Palestinian was shot dead in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, and another injured, after allegedly grabbing an Israeli officer’s gun and opening fire in the city’s central…
Five Palestinians killed on Saturday; 44 Palestinians Killed This Month, Including 11 Children
Three Palestinians were killed in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, another youth was killed in Jerusalem, and a fifth was killed at Qalandia checkpoint by Israeli live gunfire…
2 More Palestinians Slain Following Alleged Stabbings
Two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces on Saturday evening, after allegedly carrying out separate stabbing attacks in Hebron and Qalandia, in the occupied West Bank.Their deaths bring the…
Key Witnesses to Shooting in Hebron Detained, Cameras Taken
At least three witnesses to the fatal shooting of a Palestinian teenager, Saturday morning, have been abducted by Israeli forces.Ma’an News Agency reported that Mufeed Sharbati, an eyewitness and an…
Israeli Police: Female Palestinian Stabbing Suspect May Be Innocent
Israeli police sources confirmed, Saturday, that the Jerusalemite woman Israa’ A’bd, aged 29, who was shot previously, was not intending to carry out a stabbing attack at the bus station.A’bd…
Video: Israeli Government Lies about Footage of Boy in Hospital
As soon as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas concluded his speech earlier this week, in which he spoke about the 13-year old boy Ahmad Manasra, Israeli media was flooded with images…
Video Shows Soldiers Placing Object Near Body Of Slain Palestinian Teen
The Youth Against Settlements Coalition in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, published a video of the fatal shooting a Palestinian youth on the hands of…
Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Child In Hebron
Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Saturday at noon, a Palestinian girl in Wad al-Ghrous, close to the Keryat Arba’ Israeli colony, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron,…
Palestinian Teen Killed By Army Fire In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Saturday, a Palestinian teen close to the Armon Hanetziv illegal colony, built on Palestinian lands in Jabal al-Mokabber neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem.The Israeli…