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As Israeli settlement expansion continues in the eastern part of the West Bank, in the Jordan Valley, another set of eviction/demolition notices were issued by the Israeli military authorities to…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, various neighborhoods in the al-Yamoun town, and the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank district of Jenin. Two Palestinians kidnapped in…

Shocking words from Israeli officials’ and soldier testimonies of criminality reinforce immediate need for arms embargo and other sanctions, says the IPSC.According to the PNN, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has…

A Swedish company established in 2007 was used to cover up the sale and transfer of a West Bank church compound to settlers funded by American millionaire Irving Moskowitz, Israeli…

Israeli forces closed, on Wednesday, a door leading to the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Old City of Hebron, said the mosque caretaker.The Ibrahimi Mosque caretaker, Munther Abu al-Filat, told WAFA…

The family El Najjar was expelled during the Nakba from the Palestinian village of Salamah. This village was the subject of a total ethnic cleansing by the Zionist colonizers.Nowadays just…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a man died, late on Thursday, of serious wounds suffered during Israel’s aggression on the coastal region in the summer of 2014.The sources said…

Israel confiscated eight dunams of land from the occupied East Jerusalem village of Issawiya, Thursday.The land, ostensibly confiscated “for military purposes”, is located in the east of Issawiya, an area…

Yousra Omar Al Najjar, an elderly woman of 77, died on Wednesday evening, in Gaza’s European hospital, after a case of fatigue she sustained during her way back to the…

A push is currently being made to add the Israeli military to the blacklist of the UN Council for Children and Armed Conflict.The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children…

In an ongoing campaign by Israeli authorities to push Bedouin communities from the Negev, Israeli bulldozers demolished the home of Ali Hammad Abu Rabia in the Makhul village Thursday, locals…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, May 28th, 2015. Israeli troops injures a Palestinian worker and…

Palestinian Football Association chief, Jibril Rajoub, says of the vote to expel Israel from FIFA that ‘the situation has not changed.’FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been trying to avoid the…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Thursday, two Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Hebron and Jenin, and searched several homes; soldiers also handed one resident from Bethlehem a military order for…

Medical sources have reported that Israeli soldiers repeatedly assaulted, on Wednesday evening, a young Palestinian man, and detained several others for a few hours. The young man, Sa’eb al-Asmar, 25,…

Early Wednesday, Israeli forces blocked off the checkpoint to a Palestinian town east of Nablus.According to Ma’an, the Israeli military a closed military checkpoint that leads into the West Bank…

The Arab League condemned, Wednesday, the latest Israeli bombardment of different parts of the Gaza Strip, and said that the “extremist Israeli government is trying to make excuses for its…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, May 27th, 2015. Israeli fighter-jets bombards Gaza and in the…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Wednesday, eleven Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, in addition to one woman while visiting her imprisoned son in the Israeli Gilboa’ prison, and…

Israeli Navy ships opened fire, on Wednesday morning, on several Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, near the Beit Lahia shore, in the northern part of the coastal region.Eyewitnesses…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the town in Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and demolished an under construction Palestinian home.The Wadi Hilweh Information…

The Israel Air Force carried out, on Wednesday at dawn, a series of air strikes targeting different areas of the besieged Gaza Strip.Media sources said Israeli F-16 fighter jets fired…

Israeli military sources claimed one rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into an area in the southern part of the country, and that the army confirmed sirens went off,…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a child was injured after being struck by an Israeli settler’s car, in Ras al-‘Amoud area in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem. The…

Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, have reported that a man was seriously injured, after severely beaten and shot, by unknown gunmen,…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, May 26th, 2015. Israeli troops invade West Bank communities and…

The head of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee Issa Qaraqe’ warned of serious complications, and life-threatening health setbacks, as detainee Khader Adnan continues his hunger strike for the 23rd consecutive day.Qaraqe’…

Less than two weeks after Omar al-Shalabi’s nine-month prison sentence over posts on Facebook, Israeli authorities have revoked his wife’s residency status in East Jerusalem.Muna Abdullah al-Shalabi has been living…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that ten residents, including children, have been injured when Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Jaba’ town, south of the northern West Bank city…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, May 25th, 2015. Israeli navy attack fishermen in Gaza injuring…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Monday, a Palestinian from the northern West Bank city of Jenin, after stopping him on a roadblock east of Bethlehem. Extremist Israeli settlers torch several Dunams of…

Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Monday evening, that a third Palestinian fisherman was shot and injured by Israeli Navy fire, in Palestinian waters in Rafah, in the southern part…

Israeli troops invaded on Monday at dawn the village of Al Qoum near the southern West Bank city of Hebron and ordered villagers to remove the power grid there. According…

Individual members of the Canadian Friends Service Committee, (The Canadian Quakers) will continue to support the call for Boycotts Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, regardless of the situation of the…

A Palestinian boy was reported killed on Monday morning at the village of Taluza near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Ahmad Hasayika, 16, was stabbed to death by…

Israeli military invaded on Monday at dawn areas in occupied East Jerusalem, troops searched homes and kidnapped 16 civilians including a number of teenagers.According to local sources homes were searched…

Israeli forces use extreme and brutal methods to force confessions out of Palestinian detainees for ‘crimes against Israel’ such as stone-throwing.The head of the Palestinian Authority prisoners’ affairs committee, Issa…

Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah of the Palestinian Authority pledged $50,000 to the Bedouin community of Abu Nuwwar east of Jerusalem that is currently being displaced by Israeli forces.According to Ma’an,…

The BDS National Committee website describes BDS as, ‘[t]he global movement for a campaign of Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian…

Denmark has cancelled its planned purchase of howitzers from the Israeli arms company Elbit Systems, a deal that was worth up to DK 1.000 million.The progressive news portal modkraft notes…

On the 23rd May, settlers in Al Khalil (Hebron) blocked the entrance to Hashem Younes Azzeh’s house and attacked his family. Large rocks were thrown at them and his daughter…

Israel closed the Gaza Strip’s only functioning commercial crossing (Kerem Shalom), on Sunday, for the Jewish holiday ‘Feast of Weeks’, a Palestinian official said.’The Israeli closure would disrupt trade traffic…

The farmers and citizens of Salfit city, and of Kafr Al-Deek town, in the southern occupied West Bank, on Sunday, made complaints about the dangerous environmental damage they were facing…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Sunday, six Palestinian Muslim worshipers in the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem, as groups of Israeli fanatics stormed the area while chanting and…

The Israeli Authorities have decided to confiscate around 820 Dunams (202 acres) of privately owned Palestinian lands to establish new dumping grounds for its illegal colonies, in the central West…

Palestinian security sources in Gaza have reported that unknown gunmen shot and injured, on Saturday at dawn, the principal of an UNRWA school in Khan Younis, in the southern part…

Israeli sources have reported on Saturday at night that two Israeli teens were stabbed near the Damascus Gate, in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, and suffered moderate-but-stable injuries. Israeli…

The announcement comes after raft of new agreements between Caracas and Ramallah.Venezuela will boost its diplomatic representation in Palestine to full embassy status, according to the Venezuelan minister for foreign…

Israeli naval forces opened fire at Palestinians fishing boats, while forces targeted farmers in the southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday.Witnesses told Ma’an News Agency that naval forces opened fire the…

A longstanding staple demand of the US Palestine solidarity movement is ending our country’s military aid to Israel. It has been a goal of the US Campaign to End the…

38-year-old Palestinian detainee Mohammad Idrees Rashdan, from the village of Einabus, near Nablus, has launched an open-ended hunger strike after being denied family visits by Israeli authorities, the Palestinian Prisoner’s…

‘The whole land of Israel belongs to the Jews”, said the new Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Hotovely of the new coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, during a…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Saturday, Palestinian towns in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, and the southern district of Hebron, and kidnapped three Palestinians.Soldiers, stationed on a military roadblock near…

Several fanatic Israeli settlers smashed, Saturday, the doors of a number of Palestinian stores and shops, in the Shuhada Street, in Hebron’s Old City, in the southern part of the…

Editor’s note: This is the testimony of a 23 year old woman who survived the land invasion of Khuzaa, Gaza, in the summer of 2014. This is the original version…

Israeli media, on Wednesday, reported that US Congress has approved a new weapons deal with Israel. Hebrew Channel 7 said that the deal will include 50 model BLU-113 bombs and…

Israeli authorities released, on Thursday, the former Palestinian minister of prisoners affairs Wasfi Qabha after 10 months in detention, the Ahrar Center for Prisoners and Human Rights said. Jailed Palestinian…

Scores of residents have been injured, Friday, as Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly protest against the Annexation Wall and Settlements in Ni’lin village, northwest of the central West Bank city…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday, the village of Silwad, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and attacked dozens of residents marching against the occupation, its illegal colonies…

Israeli soldiers used excessive force against Palestinian protesters, conducting the weekly protest against the Wall and Settlements in Kufur Qaddoum village near Qalqilia, and demanding Israel to open the main…

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and settlements in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, causing several injuries, while…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for May 16th, to the 22nd, 2015. This week the…

Fanatic illegal Israeli colonialist settlers have taken control of 40 dunams (10 acres) belonging to a Christian church, between the Gush Etzion settlement bloc and the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north…

The World Bank will be presenting a report to the bi-annual Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) meeting on May 27, 2015 in Brussels that highlights the Gaza Strip’s economic status…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Friday, a young man trying to cross a military roadblock, north of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and invaded various Palestinian communities Jenin and Hebron.Eyewitnesses…

Israeli navy ships attacked, on Friday morning, several Palestinian fishing boats in the Sudaniyya area, northwest of Gaza City, causing significant property damage.Eyewitnesses said the Navy fired dozens of rounds…

Israeli soldiers fired, on Thursday evening, a number of firebombs into Palestinian farmlands, planted with wheat, east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.The Civil Defense office…

The Israeli occupation municipality in Jerusalem, Wednesday, approved the construction of 90 settlement units in Har Homa settlement, in Jerusalem.According to the Palestinian News Network (PNN), the approval comes in…

A Palestinian child was critically injured after Israeli forces shot him with a rubber-coated steel bullet near the Shu’fat refugee camp on Thursday, witnesses said.Yahiya Sami al-Amoudi, age 10, was…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, May 21st, 2015. Israeli troops destroy Palestinian farmlands in the…

Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) for the reporting period of 14 – 20 May 2015.Israeli attacks…

Hunger-striking detainee Khader Adnan, who started his strike nearly three weeks ago, is currently only consuming salt and water, rejecting medical checkups and any sort of supplements. Lawyer Ashraf al-Khatib…

The Palestinian Agricultural Relief has reported, Thursday, that Israeli army bulldozers uprooted around 20 Dunams of Palestinian farmlands in the Wadi al-Hamra area, in Husan town, west of the West…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, nine Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, after the army searched dozens of homes. Israeli settlers attack a man in…

The World Bank stated Wednesday that it transferred $70 million to the Palestinian Authority through the multi-donor mechanism run by the “Palestinian Reform and Development Plan Trust Fund,” the Palestinian…

Despite Israeli restrictions, extensive military deployment around Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem, thousands marched, late on Wednesday at night, in the funeral procession of ‘Omran Omar Abu Dheim, 41,…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, May 20th, 2015. Israeli police kills a Palestinian driver in…

The Euromid Observer held a media conference, on Wednesday, highlighting the consequences of economic siege on Gaza which has now lasted eight years. A United Nations (UN) envoy warned about…

Israeli settlers, Wednesday morning, burned down 90 olive trees in Sarta town, near the central West Bank city of Salfit. Eyewitnesses and farmers from the town said, according to the…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Wednesday, ordered the suspension of a controversial measure banning Palestinians from riding the same buses as Jewish settlers when returning from Israel to the West…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, several Palestinians towns in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, and kidnapped three Palestinians. The army also invaded Raba village, near Jenin,…

Israeli officials announced that beginning on Wednesday, the segregation that has been commonplace on buses traveling between the West Bank and what is now Israel has been made completely official,…

Israeli police officers shot and killed, on Wednesday morning, a Palestinian driver, in occupied East Jerusalem, allegedly after he rammed two police officers with his car.The deceased driver has been…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and kidnapped five Palestinians, including four children.Coordinator of the Popular Committee against…

Several Israeli military vehicles, and four armored bulldozers, carried out on Wednesday morning a limited invasion into an area, east of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.Media sources said armored vehicles…

A meeting was recently held between representatives of Arab countries that do not have diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv, and a number of Israeli officials, to discuss what they called…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, a Palestinian store in Beit Safafa town, in occupied Jerusalem, kidnapping the store owner and his three sons, after assaulting them along with other Palestinian shoppers.The…

On Tuesday, the Swedish State Secretary for International Development Cooperation, Ulrika Modéer, who is currently visiting Palestine, announced a contribution of SEK 40 million ($4.8 million) to the Palestinian Authority.The…

An Israeli court on Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian man to eight months of imprisonment, with an additional six months suspended, for activity on social media.The Jerusalem detainees’ families committee said…

Over 30,000 Israelis marched through the streets of the Muslim Quarter in East Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, in commemoration of Israel’s 1967 occupation of the city.Police ‘sterilized’ the route…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, May 19th, 2015. Israeli troops demolish stores in Jerusalem and…

Media and popular struggle conference activities were launched in Bethlehem on Tuesday, in cooperation with a number of European journalists and popular struggle coordination committees, and will last for a…

The Israeli Supreme court, on Tuesday, turned down an appeal, by the descendants of Sheikh Suleiman Muhammad al-Ukbi, against a three-year-old decision by the central court of Beersheba.The court, in…

The Illinois State House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill which will prevent the state’s pension funds from investing in companies that boycott Israel.Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner (R) has…

The Palestinian Detainees Committee has reported, on Tuesday, that several detained Palestinian children testified to their lawyers about repeated torture, abuse, and intimidation, by Israeli interrogators and soldiers.The Committee said…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, eleven Palestinians, including two children, after breaking into their homes, and searching them, in different parts of the occupied West Bank.Media sources in…

Israeli soldiers released, on Monday evening, a Palestinian child, from Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, after interrogating him for several hours in the police station, in Salah Eddin Street,…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Ein al-Louza neighborhood, in Silwan town of occupied East Jerusalem, and demolished three Palestinian stores belonging to a Palestinian from the town. The…

Israeli nationalists and police clashed with Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, as crowds of Jewish hardliners marched across the city to mark the 48th anniversary of its capture.Known…

Israeli occupation forces, Monday morning, again opened fire on fishermen boats off the Gaza shores.Local sources said, according to the PNN, that Israeli military boats targeted the civilian boats; no…