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Israeli settlers, Saturday, buried a Palestinian-owned water well in the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, with dirt and rocks to prevent the owner from using it to irrigate his…

The children of the Jabari family in Jabari neighbourhood of al-Khalil are singing along to a Palestinian children’s television show. It is a sunny Saturday morning but in the small…

It only depends on us that this mother’s cry of pain does not drown in the silence.19th September 2015 | International Solidarity Movement | Gaza Team “My paralyzed daughter was…

Israeli forces shot and injured a 14-year-old Palestinian boy with live fire, Saturday, during a protest in the village of Kafr Qaddoum in the northern occupied West Bank district of…

Israeli war jets fired, on Saturday at dawn, several missiles into different areas of the besieged Gaza Strip, causing excessive damage to homes and structures, while one Palestinian was injured.…

Israeli soldiers invaded, late at night Friday, the village of ‘Anin, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, clashed with local youths, and fired gas bombs at a…

Several Israeli soldiers broke into the home of Moammar ‘Ayyad, in Silwad town, in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, and attacked his family with rifles and batons, while…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday evening members of the Es’eeda Palestinian family, in Wad al-Jouz, in occupied East Jerusalem, fractured the arm of one woman, shot a girl with a…

Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Friday evening, three Palestinians, and kidnapped one of the wounded, at the northern entrance of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Many Palestinians have…

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, on Friday, according to an Israeli army spokesperson.The spokesperson told Ma’an News Agency that the…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for September 12th, to the 18th, 2015. Israeli attacks targeting…

Palestinian detainee Mohammad Allan suspended his hunger strike, Friday morning, the head of the legal unit at the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) told Ma’an.Jawad Boulos visited Allan in the Ramla…

Tonight, in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli forces arrested a 10-year old Palestinian boy twice. Both times he was taken to the military base.18th September 2015 | International Solidarity Movement |…

Israeli forces, on Friday, opened fire at Palestinians near the border north of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, witnesses told Ma’an News Agency.Witnesses said forces opened fire at…

The Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, has reported that Israeli soldiers used excessive force against Palestinian, Israeli…

Several Palestinians have been injured, Friday, after Israeli soldiers attacked a nonviolent protest, in the southern area of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The protesters…

The Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Kufur Qaddoum, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, has reported that Israeli soldiers used excessive force against the weekly…

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic), in occupied East Jerusalem, has reported that Israeli soldiers invaded, Friday, Sur Baher village, south of Jerusalem, and kidnapped two children. The…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday at dawn, a Palestinian teenager, the son of the Manuscripts Department head in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem. His abduction comes just 24 hours…

Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier on Friday, the Rashayda village, east of the West bank city of Bethlehem, and kidnapped one Palestinian.Head of the Rashayda Village Council, Fawwaz Rashayda, said the…

Clashes resumed, on Thursday evening, in various villages and towns, and in a number of neighborhoods, in occupied Jerusalem, as part of the ongoing protests to the escalating Israeli attacks…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Friday at dawn, that a young man was shot and seriously injured by Israeli army fire, near the Beit Forik Israeli military roadblock, east…

Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) for the reporting period of 10 – 16 Sep. 2015.Israeli attacks…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, September 17th, 2015. Clashes continue in Jerusalem as the Israeli…

Clashes broke out in the neighborhoods of occupied East Jerusalem for the third consecutive day, on Thursday, as tensions continue to run high following increased violence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque…

About 600 thousand settlers live in the West Bank and half of them are in Jerusalem district, said the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) in a Thursday press release.WAFA…

Life is becoming untenable for Palestinians in Jerusalem.The strategy of Teddy Kollek, the infamous mayor of Jerusalem following Israel’s 1967 occupation and subsequent annexation of Jerusalem, was grounded on three…

Hundreds of Palestinians in pre-1948 occupied territories participated on their motorcycles, Wednesday, in a mass demonstration launched from Al-Ajami garden, and roamed a number of streets in the city.According to…

Israel has approved the use of sniper rifles against stone throwers in Jerusalem, Channel 10 reports on Thursday morning. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the Attorney General to authorize…

Iceland’s capital Reykjavik has passed a resolution that banns all Israeli-made products. The resolution was adopted over Israel’s protracted and illegal occupation of Palestinian territories.Reykjavik’s ban comes as the international…

Media sources have reported, Thursday, that Israeli soldiers kidnapped six Palestinians, including one child, in different parts of the southern West Bank district of Hebron.The sources said the army invaded…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, eight Palestinian children after storming their homes in different parts of the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, and several surrounding communities. Sixty…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at night, the al-‘Isawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and clashed with dozens of residents, wounding a young man with a live round in the…

Audio Iink After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, September 16th, 2015. Israel rearrests a long-time hunger striking political…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at night, the al-Makassed Islamic Charitable Society Hospital, in the at-Tour village in occupied East Jerusalem, and searched several sections.Hospital administration said the soldiers invaded…

Israeli police, on Wednesday, assaulted two Islamic Waqf guards and a number of women, with their clubs, at al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, according to local sources.Omar Keswani, director of…

Israeli authorities, on Wednesday afternoon, ordered two Palestinians to leave their land within 48 hours, near the Salfit district of the occupied West Bank.The 26 dunams of land — about…

Israeli forces, on Wednesday, served notices for the demolition of three houses and a residential tent belonging to Palestinian locals in the Hebron’s locality of Massafer Yatta, in the southern…

One of Israel’s most infamous crimes occurred 33 years ago this week. In September 1982, the Israeli army surrounded the Sabra neighborhood and adjacent Shatila refugee camp in southern Beirut.Israel…

The Security Council of the United Nations have discussed an Arab draft statement on the recent developments at Al Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings, at a time when the European…

According to Israeli media reports, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced, at the start of an emergency meeting of ministers and security officials held earlier today, a toughening of the…

Palestinian detainee Mohammad Allan restarted a hunger strike, Wednesday, after Israel arrested him and reinstated his internment without trial, his lawyer said, with a previous such protest having lasted two…

The Israeli Authorities kidnapped longtime hunger striking detainee, Mohammad ‘Allan, directly after he was discharged from the Barzilai Israeli Medical Center, in Asqalan.General Director of the Detainees Committee of the…

At least five Palestinians have been kidnapped, earlier Wednesday, after Israeli soldiers invaded various villages and towns in different parts of the occupied West Bank.Media sources in Hebron, in the…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Wednesday at dawn, several rounds of live ammunition on a number of homes in the ‘Aida refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.Media…

Medical sources have reported, on Tuesday at night, that a Palestinian teen was shot and injured by live Israeli army fire in the al-‘Isawiyya town, in occupied Jerusalem, before the…

Medical sources in occupied Jerusalem have reported, on Tuesday at night, that a child was shot with an Israeli army rubber-coated steel bullet in her neck while walking with her…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at night, a Palestinian child in the at-Tour town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and invaded various Palestinian communities in the city.The child, identified as Moath…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young man was shot in the head, and eight others suffered mild-to-moderate wounds, during Tuesday evening clashes with Israeli soldiers in the Qalandia…

Israeli forces entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound’s southern mosque on Tuesday sparking the third straight day of violent clashes at the third holiest site in Islam.Dozens of Palestinians were injured…

PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi met with Dr. Alastair McPhail at the PLO Headquarters in Ramallah, September 14, 2015.Both parties discussed the latest political developments, including Israel’s persistent…

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will head an urgent session, on Tuesday evening, to discuss punishment for stone-throwing.Israeli radio reported, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, that the session…

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli administrative detention are continuing their hunger strike to demand an end to imprisonment without charge or trial. Nidal Abu Aker, Ghassan Zawahreh, Shadi Ma’ali, Munir Abu…

International Solidarity Movement human rights monitors spend the afternoon at the Women in Hebron embroidery cooperative where Palestinian women are empowering themselves and persisting with grace in a colourful and…

Israeli authorities, on Tuesday, closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron to Palestinians for the second consecutive day during the Jewish new year, said Palestinian Waqf (Endowments) and Religious Affairs Ministry.According…

Israeli forces shot and injured a member of Hamas’ military wing in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian sources said, according to Ma’an.They said that the Palestinian, a member…

Groups of Israeli extremists, accompanied by dozens of soldiers and police officers, continued their invasions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem, through the al-Magharba Gate, after the army…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday morning, the town of Doura, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, searched several homes and kidnapped one Palestinians. Palestine TV reporter injured…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday evening, the al-‘Isawiyya and Silwan towns, in occupied East Jerusalem, and clashed with dozens of Palestinians, protesting the escalating Israeli attacks against the Al-Aqsa Mosque.The…

Dozens of undercover soldiers of the Israeli army, and police officers, invaded on Monday morning the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, assaulted many Palestinians, kidnapped seven, and wounded several others,…

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate issued a statement strongly denouncing the serious Israeli escalation against the worshipers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, Sunday, leading to dozens…

A group Palestinian armed resistance fighters exchanged fire, Sunday, with Israeli soldiers invading the eastern area of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.The military vehicles advanced approximately…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that one of its lawyers managed to visit hunger-striking detainee Bilal Daoud, who informed them he has been denied access to medicine for…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, the West Bank districts Jenin and Jericho, kidnapped four Palestinians, and injured at least one.Media sources in the northern West Bank city of…

Israeli Minister of Agriculture, Uri Ariel, joined dozens of Israeli extremists who stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, Sunday, under extensive military and police presence, leading to clashes…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers and police officers invaded, earlier on Sunday, the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, and fired dozens of concussion grenades on local worshipers, and…

The Israeli Tax Authority has rejected a claim for compensation by officials of the Catholic Church demanding compensation for the burnt Church of Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes, which was…

Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture (TRC) have announced their cooperation in providing comprehensive mental health support and rehabilitation for…

Sunday night an international human rights observer was arrested by Israeli forces on bogus charges in al-Khalil (Hebron) in occupied Palestine.12th September 2015 | International Solidarity Movement | Al-Khalil Team…

The Energy and Natural Resources Authority in Gaza announced, Friday evening, that the sole power generation plant in Gaza is scheduled to shut down Saturday, September 12, due to “General…

Dozens of Palestinians, including children, have been injured on Friday evening and early night hours, in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, during clashes that took place after Israeli fanatics…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for September 5th, to the 11th, 2015. This week Palestine…

Israeli extremists, last night, spray-painted racist graffiti on the walls of ar-Rahma Islamic cemetery, outside Jerusalem’s Old City, according to local sources. Shortly after Islamic Waqf personnel discovered the anti-Arab…

Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Ya’alon confirmed, on Wednesday, that Israeli occupation authorities know who burned the house of the Dawabsha family, in July, but failed to identify them.He claimed, according…

Israeli police and border forces took into custody, on Thursday night, 39 Palestinian workers near the Israeli resort city of Eilat, according to Israeli media.It was reported that the 39…

August of 2015 witnessed a high rise in the number of media freedoms violations in Palestine, and recorded a huge leap compared to what was recorded during July, and when…

Israeli military forces, on Friday, raided the house of Palestinian Authority police chief in Nablus, Abd al-Latif al-Qaddumi, and turned his home into a military outpost after evicting his wife…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that four young men were wounded, one moderately, after Israeli soldiers assaulted the weekly protest in Kufur Qaddoum, near the northern West Bank city…

Israeli soldiers assaulted, on Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall and colonies, in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, leading to…

A group young Palestinian men managed, earlier on Friday at dawn, to foil an attempt by a number of Israeli extremists to carry out an attack in Madama village, near…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, September 10th, 2015. Israeli navy attack Palestinian fishing boats near…

The United Nations General Assembly voted, Thursday, in an overwhelming majority for raising the Palestinian flag at the United Nations, despite aggressive opposition led by the United States and Israel.The…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 03 – 09 Sep. 2015, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported, Thursday, that detainee Bilal Kayed is ongoing with the hunger strike he started on September 5, demanding his removal from solitary confinement.The detainee started…

The Israeli Prison Authority renewed, Thursday, the Administrative Detention order against a hunger striking Palestinian detainee, for three additional months, without charges or trial.The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said detainee…

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Thursday morning, five Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including a teenager walking to school in Jerusalem.The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in…

Media sources in Jerusalem have reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday evening, one Palestinian in Jabal al-Mokabber village. Soldiers also kidnapped a Palestinian from Bethlehem while heading to Jordan,…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday morning, the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and clashed with scores of students as they were heading to…

Several Palestinians fishing boats have been attacked, on Thursday morning, by Israeli navy fire close to the shore in the Sudaniyya Sea, northwest of Gaza City.The Palestinian News & Info…

Around 2,000 protesters filled the streets of London as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in London today to meet the British Prime Minister, David Cameron.In addition to the protest,…

Reporters from RT (Russia Today) traveled to Gaza to look into last year’s report that 90% of Gaza’s water is undrinkable. As they sampled water from different parts of the…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, September 9th, 2015. Palestinian civilian critically injured by an Israeli…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to visit Britain, this week, for talks with his counterpart David Cameron, as the right-wing Israeli leader faces diplomatic pressure over illegal settlements in…

The US State Department announced, on Tuesday, that three Hamas leaders, along with a Hezbollah spokesperson, have been added to the specially designated global terrorist list, subjecting them to US…

Israeli forces, on Wednesday morning, threw teargas grenades on the Kharabtha Boys School, near Ramallah, causing tens of suffocation cases among students.Head of the School, Abboud Assi, said that soldiers…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, nine Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, during military invasions targeting various Palestinian communities, and uprooted agricultural lands near Hebron.…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, three young Palestinian men after breaking into their homes, in the at-Tour village, in occupied East Jerusalem; the three are former political prisoners.…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported, on Wednesday at dawn, that a young man was hospitalized at the Shifa Medical Center, west of Gaza City, after an…

A group of Israeli extremists, living in illegal Israeli colonies in the northern West Bank district of Nablus, burnt on Wednesday at dawn, Palestinian olive orchards and farmlands, belonging to…

Israeli soldiers closed, on Tuesday evening, the Container Roadblock, north of Bethlehem, and searched dozens of cars while inspecting the ID cards of the passengers. The army also invaded al-‘Obeydiyya…