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Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Tuesday, a Palestinian woman and a child near one of the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, and prevented dozens of summer camp children, and…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, August 10th, 2015. Hundreds march in the funeral of killed…

Over 120 Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s Nafha prison have suspended a hunger strike for a two-week period, after six days without food in protest against the Israeli Prison Service.The Palestinian…

A recently opened cafe in West Jerusalem, which is built on a park that Muslims say is the site of an ancient cemetery, is drawing outrage from religious leaders in…

Israeli naval forces on Monday morning, detained two Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Gaza City, the secretary-general of Gaza’s fishing union said.Amjad al-Shirafi told Ma’an that the fishermen were…

Israeli forces, early Monday, abducted six Palestinians and summoned another from West Bank districts, said security sources.According to WAFA correspondence, Israeli forces raided the Jenin city neighborhoods of Jabal Abu…

The number of Israeli soldiers indicted for drug offenses rose by 50 percent, last year, in comparison to the year before, an internal annual army report reveals.According to Press TV/Al…

What is normalization in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and why does it matter?The concept of normalization emerged at the Camp David agreements signed by Egypt and Israel in 1979. The agreements…

Israeli occupation forces assaulted and injured guards at the Al Aqsa Mosque, Monday morning, at the door of al-Asbat, while detaining one other.The media coordinator of the Foundation of the…

An Arab Member of Israeli Knesset, Dr. Ahmad Tibi, said the administration of Barzilai Hospital will not force-feed hunger striking detainee Mohammad ‘Allan, since force-feeding prisoners is a violation of…

Israel has released all suspects detained in raids as part of a probe into the firebombing of a Palestinian home which killed an 18-month-old child and his father, Israeli authorities…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, earlier on Monday, two Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and one Palestinian near the southern West Bank district of Hebron.Media sources in Jenin…

The head of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee Issa Qaraqe has reported that 32 Palestinian detainees, held by Israel, have joined the hunger strike, and that the current number of striking…

A number of Israeli extremists invaded, Sunday, Palestinian agricultural lands, in Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and set them ablaze.Eyewitnesses said that attackers fled…

Hunger striking Palestinian detainee, Mohammad ‘Allan, will be moved to Barzilai Israeli Medical Center, in Asqalan (Ashkelon) after doctors in the Soroka Hospital refused to force-feed him.Israeli TV Channel 10…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Monday evening, that a young man was shot dead by Israeli army fire, at a gas station on Road #443, near the Modi’in illegal…

At the end of Star Street in the Old City of Bethlehem, turquoise metal doors that are usually locked have been set wide open. In a cave-like interior, a group…

Israeli naval boats, Sunday, opened machine gunfire on Palestinian fishing boats offshore the city of Gaza, according to WAFA correspondence.Israeli naval boats opened machine gunfire on fishing boats sailing within…

Shin Bet Israeli security service, with Israeli police, arrested nine settlers Sunday morning, as part of a crackdown on suspected Jewish terrorists, Haaretz said, according to the PNN.Two West Bank…

A Palestinian child was seriously injured, sunday, after an unexploded ordnance (UXO) left behind by the Israeli army exploded in the city of Hebron, according to a police statement.The statement…

“I have written this book as a way of preserving and passing on stories that need to be told.”I visited North Vietnam in 1968, and had meetings with its leaders…

The Palestinian Football Federation has postponed the second leg of the Palestine Cup final, between the champions of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, after Israel denied entry permits…

US President Barack Obama, in an interview with CNN, said that Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s interference in American politics is ‘unprecedented’, especially following the Iran deal.In the interview, which…

A lawyer representing a right-wing Israeli Jewish organization, Sunday, issued evacuation notices for three Palestinian homes in the Batn al-Hawa area of Silwan, occupied East Jerusalem.The lawyer, representing Ateret Cohanim,…

Thousands of Palestinians participated, on Saturday evening, in the funeral procession and ceremony of Sa’ad Dawabsha who died Saturday of serious burns and injuries resulting from the Israeli terrorist attack…

After the Israeli Knesset passed an amendment on July 30 allowing the force-feeding of hunger-striking Palestinian political prisoners, the Medical Committee in Soroka Israeli Hospital has granted, on Saturday evening,…

Press Release for Immediate Publication United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA via UNRWA spokesman Chris GunnessJerusalem, 8 August 2015: The infant mortality rate in Gaza has risen for the…

The heads of Catholic churches, Friday, filed a complaint against the chief of extremist Jewish group, Lehava, for advocating the burning of churches.According to a press release issued by the…

Israeli forces, Saturday, violently quelled a rally organized in condemnation of the Israeli occupation and settlers crimes against the Palestinian people, the latest of which was settlers’ arson attack against…

A group of Israeli settlers attempted to burn another Palestinian house Saturday morning. The house is located on the way between Nablus and Jericho on the eastern side of Palestine.Ghassaan…

Israeli occupation forces confiscated a donkey from some children in the village of Al-Tur, under the pretext of annoying the settlers in a settlement outpost established in that area.Witnesses explained…

Medical sources have reported, Saturday, that Sa’ad Mohammad Dawabsha, the father of Ali, 18 months of age, who was burnt to death in an Israeli terrorist attack targeting their home…

As an exceptionally hot summer heatwave continues to drain the region’s water supplies, this week Israeli water company Mekorot took the situation to a new level with the villagers of…

Scores of Palestinians suffered, on Friday evening, the effects of tear gas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers invaded Silwad town, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and clashed…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a child was wounded, late on Friday evening, after Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border fence, opened fire on homes, east of Beit Hanoun,…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for August 1st, to the 7th, 2015. This week ten…

The Head of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, Issa Qaraqe’, reported,on Friday evening, that the Israeli Prison Administration will begin force-feeding hunger striking detainee, lawyer Mohammad ‘Allan, who started his hunger…

Palestinian medical sources reported that five Palestinians were injured, one seriously, in an airstrike on Friday at night targeting a site that they claimed was a resistance training center in…

Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) for the reporting period of 30 July – 05 August 2015.Israeli…

A number of hospitals in Gaza Strip may be forced to close, due to lack of funding and an ongoing humanitarian crisis, an official warned on Thursday.Deputy Palestinian Minister of…

A rocket reportedly fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel on Friday, with no injuries or damage reported by the Israeli army.According to Ma’an News Agency, an Israeli…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Thursday at night, that eight Palestinians, including a pregnant woman, have been injured, after dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded Biddu village, northwest of occupied…

A large military force invaded Biddu village (northwest of Jerusalem) on Thursday evening to attack the home of a Palestinian who allegedly rammed Israeli soldiers deliberately with his car, and…

Israeli troops shot and wounded a Palestinian driver near Ramallah on Thursday after the car he was driving ran into two Israelis standing by the road. It’s unclear whether the…

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), on Thursday, issued a special report to be presented to the Arab Foreign Minister’s meeting. The report highlights Israel’s terror attacks by settlers in the…

Israeli forces, on Thursday, demolished a tire repair shop and another structure in Bethlehem district, said two local activists.Taha Hamamra, a local activist, told WAFA correspondence that Israeli forces demolished…

Dozens of Palestinian residents of the occupied West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum staged a sit-in, on Wednesday, to protest the Israeli national water company’s cutting off its supply to…

Israeli occupation forces, Thursday, abducted at least 18 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank.Days of Palestine sources said that a large number of Israeli forces stormed the village of Beit…

Saying you are an Arab Jew is the most subversive statement possible against Zionism. Professor Zvi Ben Dor Benite speaks with the Alternative Information Center (AIC) about the history and…

Palestinian Prisoners and Former Prisoners Committee, Thursday, said that 120 prisoners in Nafha prison –located in the occupied Naqab south of Israel, have announced an open hunger-strike in protest of…

At least four Palestinians were killed on Thursday and over 30 injured when an unexploded ordnance (UXO), from last summer’s Israeli military offensive went off, while clearing rubble from a…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, August 5th, 2015. Israeli settlers step up attacks targeting West…

Israeli forces, early Wednesday, abducted ten Palestinians, including at least a minor, from West Bank districts, said local security sources and Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).(Updated from: imemc.org/article/72526) WAFA correspondence reported…

Muhammad Allan entered his 50th day of hunger strike, Wednesday, as the al-Asra Prisoner’s Center for Studies called for action to release the detainee, who is being held under administrative…

Israeli Jewish settlers last night attacked Palestinian homes with stones as they provocatively approached the outskirts of Silat ad-Daher, some 20 kilometers to the south of Jenin in northern West…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, has warned in a report addressed to the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, that “unless funding for the full amount of the…

A senior Hamas official said, Tuesday, that his movement will not deal with the new ministers sworn into the Palestinian government in a reshuffle, last week.Hamas political bureau member Moussa…

Israeli authorities, Wednesday, demolished seven Palestinian-owned agricultural structures in the village of al-Aqaba, northern Jordan Valley, in addition to serving Hebron area Palestinians demolition notices regarding 20 homes, according to…

Israeli forces abducted, early on Wednesday, at least six Palestinians in raids carried out in a number of districts north and central of the occupied West Bank, and demolished a…

Israeli police, on Wednesday morning, stated that they were not able to identify the settler who torched the home of 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsha, who was burned to death in…

Israel used a controversial form of detention without trial against an alleged Jewish extremist for the first time, following international outcry over the death of a Palestinian toddler in an…

Via the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee’s Facebook page: Video showing the actual story not apparent in the viral picture of RHR Field Coordinator Zakaria Sadah and ‪‎Qusra‬ Mayor …returning policewoman…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, August 4th, 2015. Israel’s army demolish Palestinian owned structures and…

Israeli occupation bulldozers, on Tuesday morning, tore down three homes in Dahmash town, near occupied Ramla, under the pretext of building without a permit.The homes are the property of the…

The Palestinian Authority filed a report on settler violence with the International Criminal Court on Monday, following an arson attack in the West Bank last week that killed an 18-month-old…

Israeli authorities, Tuesday, knocked down three Palestinian-owned homes in Dahmash, an unrecognized Palestinian village located on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, according to media sources.The demolished structures belong to the…

The Director of Tel Hashomer Hospital, where the family of toddler Ali Dawabsha receives treatment, on Monday, said the family needs one year in ICU after the elapse of the…

Two Palestinians detained in an Israeli jail have been on hunger strike for almost eight days, in protest of administrative detention and medical negligence, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society…

Several armored Israeli military vehicles, and bulldozers, invaded on Tuesday morning Palestinian agricultural lands, northeast of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and opened fire at…

Israeli soldiers invaded Khashm ad-Daraj Bedouin community, east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and demolished a residential shed, and a barn. Soldiers also…

At around 11:00 PM on the night of August 1st, a fire began in souk of Hebron’s Old City. 3rd August 2015 | International Solidarity Movement | Khalil Team The…

It is illuminating to contrast Israel’s belated solidarity with Pollard to its determined hostility to Mordechai Vanunu.No more confusing mind games are played by sovereign states than in the context…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Tuesday morning, dozens of Palestinians in the Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards, in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped eight Palestinians, including two children. At least two were injured,…

Israeli settlers, Monday evening, have torched tens of olive trees located on private Palestinian land in ‘Azzoun town, to the east of Qalqilia, northern West Bank.Security sources said that civil…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, several Palestinian communities, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, broke into and searched dozens of homes, and kidnapped seventeen Palestinians.Several Israeli…

Unknown attackers reportedly threw a firebomb at a moving car in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, Monday evening, injuring two.According to Israeli media, via Ma’an, the attackers…

As Israeli investigators released their findings that a right-wing Jewish terrorist network is gaining power throughout Israel and illegal West Bank settlements, they detained Meir Ettinger, the grandson of the…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, August 3rd, 2015. Israeli soldiers injure a Palestinian youth and…

On Monday at midday, Israeli soldiers stationed at the Za’atara checkpoint in the northern West Bank shot and wounded a Palestinian youth.The teen, who has not yet been identified, was…

Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Monday, Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank district of Hebron, and kidnapped two Palestinian teenagers. One Palestinian injured near Nablus.Mohammad Awad, coordinator of…

A Palestinian man, Emad Abu Sharekh, was seriously injured when he was brutally attacked on Sunday by three Israelis while returning from Fajr prayers at al-Kabeer Mosque, in Lod City.Abu…

Under the patronage of PA president Mahmoud Abbas, the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF) has launched its fourth international conference for the Palestinian youth in the diaspora, as part…

Palestinian security sources from Hebron’s Old City, today, said that Israeli soldiers have brutally attacked a Palestinian youth and, then, forced him to drink gasoline.Sources said, according to the PNN,…

Residents of the Palestinian village of Douma in the occupied West Bank are forming voluntary groups to guard against attacks by Israeli settlers, days after a deadly arson attack left…

Palestinian Health Minister Jawad Awwad said that the wounded father, mother and brother of the 18-month old baby who was burned to death Thursday are still facing life-threatening injuries from…

A Palestinian bus, filled with residents from Hebron, was attacked, Sunday, by Jewish extremists living in illegal colonies in the occupied West Bank, leading to six injuries. The Palestinians were…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Saturday evening and Sunday, ten Palestinians in different parts of occupied Jerusalem, including five who were about to leave the Al-Aqsa Mosque, while many Palestinians have…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Saturday evening, that several residents received treatment for the effects of tear gas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs at homes in Beit…

Several family members have been mildly wounded, after being attacked in their own home, when a number of Israeli military vehicles invaded the Um Rokba area in the al-Khader town,…

In statement sent to press, U.S. Consul General Donald Blome in Jerusalem, condemned the attack by Israeli settlers targeting a home in Douma village in northern West Bank. Right-wing Jewish…

A group of activists from the Combatants for Peace Movement visited the village of Douma near the northern West Bank city of Nablus and paid Condolences for the child family…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Saturday evening Abu Dis town, east of occupied Jerusalem, clashed with dozens of Palestinian youths, and fired gas bombs and concussion grenades on them, and nearby…

Minister of Justice Counsel Saleem Saqa, Saturday, announced the results of al-Khaldi’s postmortem report, affirming that he was shot from behind.The autopsy indicated that the bullet penetrated through al-Khaldi’s body…

Israeli settlers, Saturday morning, attempted an attack on Palestinian farmers in village of Qusra, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, a local official said.Dozens of settlers from the…

On Tuesday, July 28, at 2:40 pm, the Israeli army arrived to the village of Azzun, located in the district of Qalqilya, to block 3 of the 4 existing entrance…

Israeli naval boats, Saturday, opened machine gunfire on Palestinian fishing boats off the shore of the northern and central Gaza Strip, reported witnesses.Israeli naval boats opened machine gunfire on fishing…

Israeli forces shot and injured at least eight Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets during clashes near al-Jalazun refugee camp that broke out on Saturday, following the funeral of 17-year-old Laith…

The Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies and Human Rights has reported that Israeli soldiers have killed six Palestinians in the occupied territories, and kidnapped 316, while Israeli fanatics have killed…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday at dawn, Kafr Malek village, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, stormed and searched several homes, and clashed with dozens of local…

A number of extremist Israeli settlers, living in illegal colonies built on Palestinian lands, attacked on Saturday morning Palestinian farmers in their lands, in Qasra village, south of the northern…