‘We Bombed Civilians for Entertainment.’
An Israeli soldier has said that he and his colleagues bombed civilian in Gaza Strip during last year’s Israeli offensive “for entertainment”.In an interview conducted on Tuesday with a 20-year-old…
Open the Gate, Bring Down the Wall!
The villagers of Al-Zaim held their third demonstration today in front of the gate in the apartheid wall that separates them from East Jerusalem. Peaceful demonstrators were met by a…
Israel Shutters Palestinian NGO in Jerusalem
Israeli authorities have shut a Palestinian health NGO in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shuafat, Thursday, under the 1948 Prevention of Terrorism Act. Another step in Israel’s oppression of the…
Human Rights Watch: Palestinian Students Abused over Politics by PA Forces
Human Rights Watch, on Thursday, accused Palestinian security forces of arresting or questioning West Bank students over their political opinions, saying several had been mistreated.’It is deeply worrying that students…
This Week in Palestine Week 19 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for May 2nd, to the 8th, 2015. Palestinians say the…
New Israeli Government To Legalize Random Outposts
Israeli sources reported Friday that an agreement was reached between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the “Jewish Home” Party, to legalize random colonial outposts, built on Palestinian lands, in…
Abu Rodeina: “Israel Must Choose Between Peace And Settlements”
Responding to the Israeli decision to build 900 new units in Ramat Shlomo illegal Israeli colony in occupied Jerusalem, Palestinian presidency spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rodeina, said Israel is ongoing with…
Soldiers Invade Palestinian Communities In Jenin
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, various Palestinian communities in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, broke into homes and searched them, and occupied several rooftops.Eyewitnesses…
Israel Approves Construction of 900 Units in Ramat Shlomo
Just a few hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to form his right-wing coalition government; the “Jerusalem Planning Committee” approved the construction of 900 new homes in the…
PCHR Weekly Report: 5 Palestinians wounded, 65 abducted, by Israeli forces this week
In its weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that in the week of 29 April – 06…
Israeli Extremists Attack Car Of Palestinian Official Near Nablus
A number of extremist Israeli settlers attacked, Thursday, the car of a senior Palestinian official on the Nablus-Ramallah road, as he was heading to Nablus.The Maan News Agency has reported…
Palestine Today 05 07 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, May 7th, 2015. Israeli attacks leave two injured civilians in…
Seven Palestinians Kidnapped, One Seriously Injured
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, earlier on Thursday, seven Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, shot and seriously injured one resident, during military invasions targeting several Palestinian communities. Several residents suffer the…
Palestinian Injured After Being Rammed By Israeli Settlement Bus
Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Thursday morning, that a young man was injured after being struck by a speeding Israeli settlement bus, near the southern West Bank city of…
Army Opens Fire On Farmers And Fishers In The Gaza Strip
Israeli soldiers opened fire, on Thursday at dawn, on a number of Palestinian farmers east of Deir al-Balah, in Central Gaza, while navy ships opened fire on fishing boats in…
Abu Laila: “Israel Using Absentee Property Law As A Pretext For Ethnic Cleansing”
Palestinian Legislator, deputy Secretary-General of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), Qais Abu Laila, stated that the Israel is using its so-called “Absentee Property Law” as a…
Palestinian Killed, 120 Kidnapped; Two Structures Demolished In Jerusalem, In April
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic), in occupied Jerusalem, published a report documenting the Israeli violations against the Jerusalemite Palestinians in April, and revealed that the soldiers killed…
Soldiers To Demolish Three Homes Near Jerusalem
The Israeli army invaded, Wednesday, Jabal al-Baba area, east of the al-Ezariyya town, east of occupied Jerusalem, and handed three demolition orders.Fateh Movement Secretary in Arab al-Jahalin Bedouin village Daoud…
2 Children Injured by Unexploded Ordnance in Gaza
Two Palestinian children were injured as a leftover Israeli explosive device blew up in eastern Gaza City on Wednesday.Medical sources said that two children were injured when ordnance left from…
Nine Palestinian Fishermen Kidnapped by the Egyptian Army
On the 3rd of May, the trial of nine Palestinian fishermen kidnapped by the Egyptian army while fishing in waters of the border city of Rafah, took place in the…
Palestine Today 05 06 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, May 6th, 2015. Israeli settlers take over Palestinian homes in…
Report: Israeli Soldiers Describe ‘Losing Their Sense of Morality’ During the Gaza Conflict
Israeli forces may have committed ‘grave violations’ of the international laws of warfare during last summer’s bloody Gaza conflict, according to the accounts of soldiers who fought in it.A collection…
Israel to Completely Demolish Negev Village & Displace Residents
The Israeli Supreme Court, on Tuesday, issued a final decision to demolish and displace the people of Atir-Umm Al-Hieran, a Palestinian village which remains unrecognized in the Negev desert of…
Truck Driver Escapes Kidnapping Attempt by Israeli Settlers
A Palestinian truck driver reportedly escaped ambush by a group of Israeli settlers, Tuesday night, while traversing a main road between Nablus and Qalqiliya in the northern occupied West Bank.The…
UNRWA Denies Israeli Allegations over Alleged Palestinian Attack
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on Tuesday denied a false allegation made against it by former head of the Israeli army over an alleged incident which occurred…
Jordan Valley Villagers Call for International Help
Besieged Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank’s Jordan Valley have called on the international community to immediately intervene to halt Israeli military training in the area, which has already…
Soldiers Kidnap Six Palestinians
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, earlier Wednesday, six Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including a woman who was leaving the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli extremists storm the Al-Aqsa…
Families Face Israeli Military and Settlers to Gather Crops (VIDEO)
The Jabari family owns land sandwiched in between the illegal settlements of Kiryat Arba and Givat Ha’vot. In 2001, settlers illegally took over part of the land to erect a…
Lauryn Hill Reneges on Israeli Performance
R&B star Lauryn Hill, on Monday, canceled a concert scheduled for Israeli audiences just days from now, saying that she had tried unsuccessfully to perform in the occupied Palestinian territories…
Settlement Group Occupies Three Apartments in Silwan
Members of the Israeli Ateret Cohanim settlement group invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, three apartments belonging to the Abu Nab Palestinian family, in the Central Neighborhood, in Silwan town in…
Moroccans Celebrate Cancelation of Peres’ Visit
Moroccans are hailing a decision to cancel the planned visit of former Israeli President Shimon Peres as a “victory” for popular efforts.Days of Palestine reports that, this past Friday, thirty…
Army Uproots Palestinian Trees In Hebron
Israeli soldiers, accompanied by military bulldozers, invaded Wednesday Palestinian agricultural lands in Souba area, in Ethna town, west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and uprooted dozens of…
Israeli Extremists Attack A Palestinian In Nablus
A number of extremist Israeli settlers attacked, late on Tuesday at night, a Palestinian man from Hebron, as he was near Sorra village, west of the northern West Bank city…
Detainee Khader Adnan Declares Hunger Strike
Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan, 37 years of age, declared an open-ended hunger strike, protesting his continued imprisonment by Israel, under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial. His wife…
Lieberman to Resign; Yisrael Beiteinu to Boycott Netanyahu Regime
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has announced that he will resign his position and that his political party will not take part in Israel’s incoming government.According to Al Ray correspondence…
Armenia to Allow Visa-free Palestinian Entry
Member of the PLO’s central committee and international relations commissioner, Dr. Nabil Shaath, has announced that the Republic of Armenia will allow Palestinians to enter their land without a visa…
Israeli Policeman Acquitted in Palestinian Shooting Death
Israeli authorities have closed an investigation into a policeman who shot dead a young Palestinian with Israeli citizenship during an arrest operation in November, the justice ministry said on Monday.’The…
Palestine Today 05 05 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, May 5th, 2015. Israeli troops invade West Bank communities and…
Four Palestinians Kidnapped In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers invaded several Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped four Palestinians, after searching a number of homes and tailor shop; the army also installed roadblocks.Media sources…
Israel To Remove Susiya Village, In Hebron
An Israeli Court ruled Monday on the removal of Susiya Bedouin village, in Masafer Yatta area, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after colonists of the illegal…
Clashes In Silwan After Israeli Soldiers Isolated Land With Concrete Blocks
Israeli soldiers placed, Monday, concrete blocks surrounding a Palestinian land Israel intends to illegally confiscate, in Silwan town, in occupied Jerusalem, leading to clashes between the army and local youths.Member…
Palestine Today 05 04 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, May 4th, 2015. Israeli attacks on West Bank communities leave…
US Senate Committee Approves Act Protecting Settlements
A committee of the US Senate has approved a bill to protect illegal Israeli ‘Jewish-only’ settlements built in occupied Palestinian territories.The Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015, which is…
Breaking the Silence: Army Deliberately Targeted Civilians in Gaza
Breaking the Silence, an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers, harshly slammed the Israeli army for its operational policy during last summer’s aggression on Gaza, saying it led to “immense and…
Device of Unknown Origin Explodes in Gaza City
An explosive device blew up near a major square in Gaza City late Sunday, security officials said.The device exploded in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, with no injuries reported. Police arrived…
Israeli Army Escalates to Increase its Budget
Israel’s military command perhaps pushes for escalation in order to increase the army’s budget, claims a military budget officer in an anonymous Facebook posting. “Wars, operations, exceptional events, they were…
Israeli Army Drills Continue to Set Fire to Jordan Valley Agricultural Lands
Fire erupted in a northern Jordan Valley grazing land, on Monday, after Israeli army embarked on live ammunition military training in the area, according to a local official.Aref Daraghmeh, head…
Israeli Forces Turns East Jerusalem Neighborhood into Prison
Israeli forces have sealed the main entrance to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Zaayyem, ‘locking up more than 6,000 Palestinians in a large prison,’ local residents say.An iron gate set…
Settler Harassment in Hebron Hills
Israeli settlers harassed Palestinians, including small children, in the West Bank’s South Hebron Hills this past weekend.Four settlers, one of them armed, harassed a Palestinian walking with his son through…
Israel Approves 1,500 New Jerusalem Settlement Units
The Israeli government has approved the construction of 1,500 new housing units within the Israeli settlement in Jerusalem, this week.Israeli Channel 10 reported, according to Al Ray, that officials issued…
Dozens Injured in Clashes between Israeli Police and Ethiopian Jews
A protest in Tel Aviv, Sunday, against racism and police brutality, initiated by Ethiopian Israelis, has left some 68 people injured and 43 now in police custody, according to the…
Palestinian Injured By Israeli Army Fire In Nablus
A young Palestinian man was shot and injured, on Monday at dawn, by Israeli army in Beit Forik town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.Eyewitnesses told the…
Soldiers Kidnap 19 Palestinians In The West Bank And Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers kidnapped 19 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, including twelve in Hebron, and 2 Palestinians near the Gaza border fence. Army claims wounding a Palestinian after…
Soldiers Install Mobile Homes East Of Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers installed, Monday, a number of mobile homes on illegally confiscated, and uprooted Palestinian lands, belonging to Palestinian villagers, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem.Head of the Kisan…
Soldiers Conduct a Limited Invasion Into Northern Gaza
A number of armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers, conducted on Monday morning a limited invasion into Jabalia town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and uprooted farmlands.…
Israel Paving the Way for Another Nakba?
[Translated from Arabic]Every Arab citizen inside the Green Line (Israel), seemingly, has the shelter to obtain a normal life, but, on the ground, the occupation government and its institutions are…
Gaza Fishermen Under Israeli Fire
Israeli naval boats, on Sunday, opened heavy machine gunfire towards Palestinian fishermen while sailing just offshore of Gaza City, within the allotted the fishing zone, according to local sources.WAFA correspondence…
At Least 9 Kidnapped in West Bank & Jerusalem, Several Assaulted
Israeli authorities, on Sunday, kidnapped six Palestinians in East Jerusalem, including two minors, and three others in the West Bank, most of them during predawn and night raids, during which…
Solidarity from Palestine to Baltimore
via the International Solidarity Movement (ISM): ‘We, Palestinians struggling against Israeli Apartheid, stand in solidarity with the residents of Baltimore…’We send our condolences to the family of Freddie Gray and…
Carter: ‘We will push to apply Fateh and Hamas agreements’
Former US President Jimmy Carter says that he, along with a non-governmental organization which describes itself as a group of ‘independent global leaders working together for peace and human rights’,…
Israeli Forces Raid Agricultural Lands in Khirbet al-Tawil
Israeli forces, Sunday morning, sabotaged hundreds of dunams of agricultural lands in Khirbet al-Tawil, east of Nablus, using military crawlers.According to the PNN, local sources said that Israeli forces have…
UN Envoy to Palestine Denounces Israeli Child Abuse
Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour has sent an open letter to the UN Security Council demanding that Israel be brought to justice over violations and abuse against Palestinian…
Shimon Peres Disinvited to Clinton Event in Morocco
The name of former Israeli President Shimon Peres has been removed from the official guest list of the Clinton Global Initiative Middle East and North Africa Conference in Marrakech.It was…
One Journalist Kidnapped In April, Six Injured
The Palestinian Radio and Television Union has reported that Israel soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian journalist, shot and injured six others, in April. In a report on Israeli violations against the…
Soldiers Attack Procession Marking World Press Freedom Day, Injure Two Journalists
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has reported Saturday, that Israeli soldiers used excessive force against journalists marking World Press Freedom Day in Bethlehem, injuring the Syndicate’s head, and a member of…
Including Three Children, Six Palestinians Kidnapped In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, earlier Saturday, five Palestinians, including three children and a security officer, in the occupied West Bank, after breaking into homes and searching them, and kidnapped one Palestinian,…
Several Palestinians Injured In Silwad
Israeli soldiers invaded, Friday, Silwad town, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, clashed with local youths, and deliberately fired gas bombs into several homes; many injured, including…
Israeli Navy Opens Fire on Gaza Fishing Boats
Israeli naval forces opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Gaza City early Friday, witnesses told Ma’an News Agency.An Israeli army spokeswoman stated, according to Ma’an News…
Israeli Soldiers Repress Weekly Demonstration in Ni’lin
Israeli forces have, at the time of this report, fired at least 45 tear gas grenades towards the village of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah. Many suffer from severe inhalation.Residents of…
Freedom Flotilla to Regroup in 2015, Former Tunisian President Affirms Onboard Presence
Representatives of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) and partner organizations traveled to Tunis last week, where they participated in the World Social Forum. During the WSF they met with several…
This Week in Palestine Week 18 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for April 25th, to May 1st, 2015. Palestinian workers make…
Hamas Prevents Workers Union Procession In Gaza
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) denounced the decision of the Hamas-run security forces in Gaza, to prevent a procession marking International Workers’ Day, on Friday, May…
Soldiers Attack al-Ma’sara Weekly Protest
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly protest in the al-Ma’sara village, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers prevented the nonviolent protesters from reaching Palestinian lands…
Many Injured, Trees Burnt, As Israeli Soldiers Attack Bil’in’s Weekly Protest
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Annexation Wall and settlements, in Bil’in village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, causing many injuries; army…
IMEMC Report: The Plight of Africa’s Exiles in Israel
Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews protested Thursday evening [April 30, 2015], near Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s residence in Jerusalem, against racism, discrimination and continuous violence suffered at the hands of…
Palestinian Killed In Tunnel Accident In Rafah
Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that a tunnel worker was killed in a partial tunnel collapse accident in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The sources…
Palestinian Killed By An Unknown Gunman In Nablus
The Palestinian Police in the northern West Bank district of Nablus said that a man was shot and killed in Aseera Shemaliyya town, near Nablus. The Police said Osama Taiseer…
Soldiers Kidnap A Palestinian in Nablus
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, Huwwara village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, kidnapped one Palestinian, and broke into the home of Huwwara Local Council…
Army Invades Beit Forik, Near Nablus
Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Friday at dawn, Beit Forik town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and stormed several homes.Eyewitnesses said three military jeeps and…
Ahrar Center: “Seven Palestinians Killed in April; 375 Kidnapped”
The Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies and Human Rights issued its monthly report on Israeli violations against the Palestinians during April of 2015, and said that seven Palestinians were killed,…
Palestinian Fishing Boats Targeted By Israeli Navy Fire
Israeli navy ships opened fire, on Friday morning, on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, causing property damage.The navy targeted the boats near Gaza city, causing…
US Pressuring France to Postpone UN Resolution on Palestine?
Israeli newspaper ‘Haaretz’ has published a report saying that the United States and several other countries – including Arab states – have asked the French government, over the past two…
Palestine Today 04 30 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, April 30th, 2015. Israeli troops forces families out of their…
Israeli Supreme Court Holds Session for Shalit Swap Detainees
A session was held this past Tuesday, by the Israeli Supreme Court, to discuss the appeal submitted by seven detainees who were freed among the “Shalit” swap deal and who…
Carter Cancels Visit to Gaza, Palestinian Authority Implicated
After Israeli occupation obstacles, the Palestinian Authority (PA) sought to impede former US President Jimmy Carter’s planned visit to Gaza Strip.Carter has called off the planned visit to the region,…
Palestine and the Injustice of the World Community
In 2014, shortly after Hamas, the democratically-elected government in the Gaza Strip, and Fateh, the puppet government that takes its orders from Israel in the West Bank, agreed on a…
Israeli PM Begins Forming Pro-Settlement Coaltion
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed coalition deals with two parties on Wednesday, in his first steps toward constructing a new government, one week before the deadline to present a…
Detained Jerusalem Child Beaten And Tortured
Lawyer of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) said the Israeli police violently attacked, and beat, on Monday evening, a child who was kidnapped in Wad al-Jouz neighborhood,…
Nonviolent Protesters Attacked In Gaza
Eyewitnesses said that the Hamas-run security forces in the Gaza Strip attacked, Wednesday, protesters demanding Fateh and Hamas movements to end their tensions and divisions, and arrested several Palestinians, including…
Israel Displaces 50 Families To Conduct Military Training
Dozens of soldiers invaded, Thursday, several areas of the West Bank’s Northern Plains, and ordered around 50 Bedouin families to leave their areas, as the army intends to conduct training.…
Soldiers Kidnap Eight Palestinians In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, eight Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including four teenagers in occupied East Jerusalem.Media sources in Hebron, in the southern…
Palestine Today 04 29 2015
Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, April 29th, 2015. A Palestinian man injured as Israeli troops…
PCHR Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the oPt (23 – 28 April 2015)
Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) for the reporting period of 23 – 28 April 2015.Israeli attacks…
Israeli Forces Demolish Livestock Structure in Nablus
Israeli forces, on Wednesday, demolished a Palestinian-owned structure used for raising livestock in Rujeib village, to the south of Nablus, according to a local activist.Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors the construction…
Apartheid and the Palestinian National Struggle
This Palestinian situation is tragic, in part, because there is no clear path to liberation, and the devastation of oppressive circumstances have gone on decade after decade with no end…
United Nations Mideast Peace Coordinator Arrives in Gaza
The new general coordinator for the peace process in the Middle East, Nikolai Mladenov, arrived on Wednesday morning in the Gaza Strip, through the Beit Hanoun crossing in northern Gaza.Local…
No Real Sign of Reconciliation between Fateh and Hamas
The two main Palestinian political forces show no sign of moving the necessary steps to get to the solution of a fracture that has, for years, damaged the Palestinian cause.…
Long-term Ceasefire Proposed by Turkey and Qatar
A long-term ceasefire between Hamas and the Israeli occupation has been proposed by Turkey and Qatar.Informed sources confirmed to Days of Palestine that a joint Turkish-Qatari ceasefire proposal has been…
Settlers Damage Water Pipes in Hebron’s Old City District
A group of Israeli settlers damaged water pipes serving the Palestinian community in Hebron’s Old City, Tuesday, according to locals.Mufid al-Sharabati, a resident of Shuhada street, told Ma’an News Agency…
One Person Shot at Protest Against Israel’s Cancer-causing Chemical Plants in Tulkarem
Around fifty Palestinians and international activists gathered today in Tulkarem, east of Nablus, to protest the presence of 11 Israeli chemical plants located in the city. The protest took place…