Palestine Today 09 18 2014
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Six Palestinians Kidnapped In West Bank, And Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers invaded on Thursday, at dawn, Nahhalin village, to the west of Bethlehem, where they kidnapped four Palestinians; one in Mareeha village, west of the northern West Bank city…
Abumarzook: “Indirect Ceasefire Talks To Resume Before Sep. 24”
Dr. Mousa Abumarzook, a political leader of the Hamas movement, stated that indirect post ceasefire talks between Israel and the resistance in Gaza would resume, under Egyptian mediation in Cairo,…
Israeli High Court Upholds Law Permitting Jewish Housing Developments to Exclude Arabs
The High Court of Israel, on Wednesday, decided to continue to allow Israeli Jewish communities to discriminate against Arabs and forbid them from living there.The Israeli Attorney General defended the…
Six Children Forced Under House Arrest In Occupied Jerusalem
The Israeli District Court in occupied Jerusalem ordered, Wednesday, six Palestinian children from occupied Jerusalem under house arrest for one week. The court also imposed high fines on the families;…
Settlers Attack Palestinian Cars Near Jenin
A number of fanatic Israeli settlers attacked, on Wednesday evening, several Palestinian cars driving on the main Jenin-Tulkarem road, southwest of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West…
Palestine Today 09 17 2014
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ISM’s Charlie Andreasson: Final Journal from Gaza
This is what seems to be the last thing I will write from Gaza. Not that there is nothing more to tell, there lies a new story under every stone,…
Israeli Report: “Hamas Arrested Group Responsible For Firing Shell Into Eshkol”
According to Israeli security sources, the Hamas movement in Gaza has arrested an armed group that fired a shell into the Eshkol Regional Council of Settlement.The shell did not cause…
7500 New Settlers Moved Into West Bank, Jerusalem, Settlements In Six Months
The Yesha Council of Settlements has reported that the number of Jewish settlers living in the occupied West Bank, including in and around occupied Jerusalem, has reached 382031, adding that…
Israeli FM Refusing to Cooperate with UN Fact-finding Mission
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has expressed a refusal to cooperate with the fact-finding mission with regard to the recent Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip coordinated by the Human Rights…
Ads Against Apartheid’s Richard Colbath-Hess
In an exclusive interview with PNN English, co-founder of Ads Against Apartheid, Richard Colbath-Hess describes the goals and importance of his work, as it calls US public attention to the…
Six Palestinians, Including Two Children, Kidnapped In West Bank, Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers continued their daily invasions into different Palestinian communities and kidnapped, on Wednesday, at dawn, six persons including two children, in the West Bank and Jerusalem.The soldiers also installed…
Nablus Clashes as Soldiers Escort Israelis to Joseph’s Tomb
Hundreds of Israeli Jews again toured the site of Joseph’s Tomb, in Nablus, under guard of Israeli troops, leading to clashes with Palestinian protesters.Witnesses told Ma’an News Agency that more…
Israeli Army Seizes Agricultural Equipment Near Tubas, Conducts Military Maneuvers South of Jenin
According to local sources, the Israeli army, on Wednesday, seized privately-owned Palestinian tractors and agricultural equipment in ar-Ras al-Ahmar, a small village to the east of Tubas in northern West…
Settlers Uproot Agricultural And Grazing Lands Near Salfit
A number of extremist Israeli settlers bulldozed agricultural, and grazing, lands belonging to residents from Deir Estia and Hares villages, north of the Central West Bank city of Salfit.The settlers…
Clashes Take Place East Of Bethlehem
A number of Israeli military vehicles invaded on Tuesday evening, Teqoua’ town, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and clashed with a number of local youth. A settler’s…
Israeli Court: “Army At Fault In Killing Palestinian Driver”
An Israeli court finally made a decision in an eight-year-old case involving the fatal shooting of a Palestinian taxi driver who was waiting for Palestinian passengers heading to the northern…
Palestine Today 09 16 2014
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UN Brokers Privatized Gaza Reconstruction Deal
The United Nations has brokered a deal on imports of construction materials into the Gaza Strip ‘to ensure they will not be diverted by Hamas’, Mr. Robert Serry, UN envoy…
Israeli Settlers Attacked Internationals and a Palestinian Shepherd
On September 14th, two Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian shepherd and two international near the Israeli outpost of Mitzpe Yair, in the South Hebron Hills area. During the aggression, the…
PCHR Finds Torture Evidence Among Prisoners Taken During Gaza Assault
Lawyers from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights have visited prisoners detained during the Israeli assault on Gaza and confirmed evidence of torture, according to the PNN. The lawyers reportedly…
13 Children Kidnapped In Jerusalem; 10 Palestinians In West Bank
Israeli soldiers invaded dozens of communities in the occupied West Bank, and in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped 22 Palestinians, including ten children.Palestinian sources in occupied Jerusalem said dozens of…
Thousands of Palestinians to be Forcibly Moved for Settlement Expansion
Israel is planning to forcibly transfer thousands of Palestinian Bedouins from their West Bank communities into a designated township to free up land for settlement expansion. Local and international groups…
Survivors of Ship Disaster Arrive in Malta
Three Palestinian survivors of ship which sunk near Malta arrived have safely in the country after Panamanian trade ships came to their rescue.According to Ma’an, Palestinian ambassador in Malta, Jubran…
Samer al-Isawiin ‘Deteriorating Condition’
Palestinian detainee and iconic former hunger striker Samer al-Isawiis in deteriorating condition, his family said following a visit with him.According to Ma’an News Agency, activist Badie Dweik said that al-Isawiwas…
Israel Installs New Surveillance Room On Main Entrance Of Ibrahimi Mosque
The Israeli army installed, on Monday, a new surveillance room at the main entrance of the Ibrahimi Mosque, in the center of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.Head of…
Palestine Today 09 15 2014
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Netanyahu Calls for Increase in Military Budget
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the “security threats” surrounding Israel will require authorities to raise the military’s budget by billions of New Israeli Shekels, while pressing the necessity…
Army Cuts Electricity to Kufr Qaddum, 6 Villagers Dependant on Oxygen Machines Evacuated
Kufr Qaddum was without the electricity since 11pm on Thursday night. Six villagers who are dependant on oxygen machines have been evacuated to the nearby hospital in Nablus. 14th September…
Ministry of Education: Estimated $33m in Educational Sector Losses
The Palestinian Ministry of Education has reported that the educational sector of the Gaza Strip has sustained a staggering $33 million of losses, as a result of the recently-halted conflict…
Israeli Intelligence Responds to Conscientous Objectors
Veterans of the elite Israeli intelligence unit ‘8200’ rallied to its own defense, Sunday, following a recent public denunciation by 43 of their former fellow teammates.According to AFP, Unit 8200…
Ailing Administrative Detainee Faces Life-Threatening Conditions
The family of detainee Reziq Abdullah Rajoub, 57, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, voiced an appeal to human rights and legal groups to intervene for his release,…
Female Detainee Denied Family Visits Since Six Months
The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights stated that detainee Nahil Abu Aisha, 33, has been denied the right to family visits for six months, and is subject…
Three Kidnapped Near Hebron, Two In Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the town of Beit Ummar, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped three Palestinians. Two more Palestinians have been…
Several Palestinians Injured Near Bethlehem
Palestinian medical sources have reported that several residents have been injured, on Sunday evening, during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading the ‘Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem.Local sources said that…
PCHR Weekly Report: 6 Palestinians killed, 8 wounded by Israeli forces this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 04- 10 September 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
15 Palestinians Killed When Boatload of Migrants Fleeing Gaza Sinks Near Egyptian Coast
A boat carrying nearly one hundred migrants, including dozens of Palestinians fleeing from Gaza, overturned in the Mediterranean Sea near Egypt, on Saturday, killing fifteen of those on board, according…
Despite Grief, Fear And Destruction; Gaza Children Return To School With Full Determination
Despite the heavy destruction to most schools in the Gaza Strip, the thousands of deaths and injuries, the bereaved hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands in the coastal region,…
174 Palestinians Kidnapped In One Week
The Palestinian Prisoners Society has reported, Sunday, that Israeli soldiers kidnapped 174 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, in the second week of September, 2014.The PPS added that most of…
Palestinian From Gaza Dies Of His Wounds In Jordan
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that a young man died at a Jordanian hospital, on Sunday morning, of wounds suffered during the latest Israeli onslaught on…
Settlement Products Account for Nearly All Expired Goods in Palestine
According to the Ministry of National Economy, Israeli settlement products account for about 98% of expired goods detected in the Palestinian market by Consumer Protection Directorate (CPD) crews.A report issued…
Haniyeh Rules Out Direct Talks With Israel
Chief Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh stated, on Saturday, that the faction would not be holding any direct talks with Israel.There will be ‘no direct negotiations with the Zionist enemy,’ Haniyeh…
Two Hebron Children Hospitalized After Settlers’ Attack
Two Palestinian children have been moved, on Saturday evening, to the Hebron governmental hospital, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after a number of extremist Israeli settlers sprayed…
Palestinian MP: Abbas Blocked ICC Bid on Israeli War Crimes
According to the second-deputy speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Hasan Khreisha, Fateh party member and defacto president of the country, Mahmoud Abbas, has blocked an attempt to push for the…
Israel Court Says Officer Who Assaulted Palestinians Suffered More
An Israeli defense statement against a Palestinian plaintiff has claimed to the effect that an officer convicted of beating five demonstrators suffered more than the plaintiff. It further claims that…
Israeli Officer Admits Ordering Strike to Kill Captured Soldier
In a rare admittance of the use of the so-called ‘Hannibal Directive’, in which Israeli soldiers kill their fellow soldiers to avoid their capture, an Israeli military officer admitted in…
Arab Man Seriously Injured By Army Fire In The Negev
An Arab Bedouin man, from the Negev, was shot and seriously injured by Israeli army fire, on Friday, in an open area in the Negev.The Arabs48 news website said the…
At least Ten Injured, One Seriously, Near Ramallah
Palestinian medical sources have reported, Saturday, that ten Palestinians were injured, one seriously, during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading Silwad town, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.The…
Clashes Renew In Silwan, In Occupied Jerusalem
Several Palestinians have been injured, on Friday evening, and at least three, including a 10-year-old child, have been kidnapped, after Israeli soldiers invaded several neighborhoods in Silwan town, in occupied…
This Week in Palestine Week 37 2014
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Israeli Officer Charged with Assault on Palestinian-American
Israel’s Ministry of Justice has filed an indictment against a border policeman for assaulting and injuring 15-year-old Tarek Abu Khdeir, cousin to Muhammad Abu Khdeir, who was burned to death…
39 Palestinians Kidnapped from Jenin and Hebron
Israeli forces kidnapped, on Thursday, 39 Palestinians from occupied West Bank districts of Jenin and Hebron districts, according to reports by security sources.WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency stated that…
12-year-old Child Injured During Israeli Arrest Raid
Israeli police arrested, on Tuesday afternoon, 12-year-old Muzeed Mohammad Abbasi after chasing a group of children as they were walking home from school, near the Old City of Jerusalem.The Wadi…
BDS Victory as Vancouver Blocks Israeli Ship
Hopefully this is just the beginning of a world-wide campaign against Zim and all other Israeli shipping, until Israel reconsiders its policy of blocking all shipping to and from Gaza.11…
Israeli Soldiers Refuse to Spy on Palestinians
Some 43 reserve soldiers serving in Israel’s top electronic surveillance unit have refused to wiretap Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency.In a letter addressed…
International Organizations Call For End to Forced Transfer of Bedouin Community
42 international organizations, including groups based in both Palestine and Israel, are calling on world leaders to put a halt to plans by the Israeli state to forcibly transfer thousands…
Soldiers Kidnap Four Palestinians In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday, four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and handed a father and his son military warrants for interrogation.The Israeli army said that it kidnapped one…
Israeli Navy Boats Open Fire At Palestinian Fishermen In Gaza
Israeli Navy ships opened fire, on Friday morning, at a number of Palestinian fishing boats in the Sudaniyya Sea, northwest of Gaza City, causing damage but no injuries.The fishermen had…
Autopsy Reveals Slain Detainee Died Of Extreme Torture
Issa Qaraqe’, head of the Detainees’ Committee at the Palestinian Authority, stated that detainee Raed Abdul-Salaam al-Ja’bari, 37, died after being severely and repeatedly tortured by Israeli interrogators.Qaraqe’ accused Israel…
Washington Threatens Sanctions Should PA Approach UN with Proposal to Dismantle Israeli Occupation
The United States government has reportedly threatened the Palestinian Authority (PA) with economic sanctions if Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas continue to insist on presenting his plan for the end of…
Human Rights Watch: Israel Likely to Have Committed War Crimes in Gaza
Human Rights Watch says that Israel is likely to have committed war crimes in the Gaza Strip, this just a day after the army announced that five criminal investigations were…
42 Wounded Children From Gaza Arrive In Germany For Treatment
The Palestinian Embassy in Germany has reported that 42 Palestinian children, wounded during Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, arrived in the country for medical treatment in a number of…
Army Kidnaps 26 Palestinians In Jenin, 3 In Hebron
Israeli soldiers invaded the Fahma village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and kidnapped 26 Palestinians, including five brothers, and three more Palestinians in Hebron, in the…
Israeli Vehicles Invade al-Qarara, In Southern Gaza
A number of armored military vehicles and bulldozers invaded Palestinian agricultural lands east of the al-Qarara town, near Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, bulldozed and…
Two Palestinians Die Of Wounds Suffered During Israel’s Aggression On Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported, on Wednesday, that a man and a woman died of serious injuries suffered during Israel’s war on Palestinians in the Gaza…
Israeli Settler Runs Over Hebron Child With Car
An Israeli settler, on Wednesday, ran over a child in Hebron City, according to local sources.6-year-old Mohammad al-Jabari, according to WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency, was run over by…
UN: Israel Used UNRWA School For Military Operations
Israeli forces, during the recent offensive on the the Gaza Strip, used one of UNRWA’s schools in the region as a military base, according to a UN offical. Leila Zerrougui,…
Gaza Hospitals Threaten Strike as Hygiene Puts Workers at Risk
A Ministry of Health official has warned of an impending health disaster, as hospital hygiene services providers threaten to engage in a strike over unpaid salaries.Director General of Administrative Affairs…
Treating the Hidden Wounds of Gaza’s Children
The story of 4-year-old Shima is surely as horrifying as that of any child who lived through the recent conflict in Gaza. Listening to the details recounted by her father,…
Israeli Forces Again Open Fire On Gaza Fishermen
Israeli navy forces opened fire at a boat engaged in fishing off the coast of southern Gaza, on Wednesday, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.Furthermore, Ma’an reports that forces escorted…
ISM Report: The Arrest of Burin Activist Ghassan Najjar
The prominent activist from the West Bank village of Burin, and member of Solidarity Movement for Free Palestine, Ghassan Najjar, was taken by the Israeli army from his home in…
Palestine Today 09 10 2014
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Army Installs A Military Post In Ya’bad, Near Jenin
Several Israeli military vehicles and jeeps invaded, on Wednesday, Palestinian farmlands in the southern area of Ya’bad town, north of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and installed what…
Five Palestinians Kidnapped, One Injured, In Hebron
A number of armored Israeli military vehicles and jeeps invaded, on Wednesday morning, various communities in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, injured one Palestinian and kidnapped two. Local…
Five Homes, Structures, Demolished In Hebron
Dozens of Israeli military vehicles and armored bulldozers invaded, on Wednesday morning, the al-Hathalin area, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, demolishing five homes and structures. Ibrahim…
Palestinian Detainee Dies Of Serious Complications
Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisoners are holding a one-day hunger strike, as an initial protest, for the death of a detainee who died, Tuesday, at the Soroka Israeli medical center,…
Palestinian Killed By Israeli Army Fire In Hebron
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the al-Am’ari refugee camp, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, shot and killed a young Palestinian man, and wounded several others.Medical…
Child Dies In Egypt Of Injuries Suffered In Gaza
A 5-year-old Palestinian girl has died of injuries sustained during the recent Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.The Safa News Agency said Rahaf Abu Jame’, 5, from the village of…
Thousands Fleeing Gaza By Any Means
The numbers of Palestinians migrating from Gaza to Egypt and Europe have now tripled since the recent Israeli military assault on the region, sources say. According to the Palestinian News…
UNICEF: Reconstruction of Gaza Schools Requires Donors to Step Forward
Pernille Ironside, Chief of the UNICEF field office in Gaza has staed that “UNICEF and its partners will be playing a full part in the longer-term reconstruction of schools and…
Schools Suspended in Jabal Al-Mokabber
Schools in the Jabal Al-Mokabber are have been suspended, following the arrest of two Students’ Families’ Committee members, Jerusalem’s Wadi Hilweh Information Center has reported.SFC members Mahmoud Eweisat and Omar…
ISM Report: Army Incursions Into Madama
We arrived in Madama yesterday, 8th September; in the early afternoon after we were told that during the night Israeli army invaded this village, and the nearby villages of Burin…
Palestine today 09 09 2014
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The Blockade Remains
More than a week has passed since the ceasefire started and yet no significant easing of the blockade has been seen. Drones are still circulating over the rooftops, maybe carrying…
Ten Palestinians Kidnapped In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Tuesday, three Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Jenin and Bethlehem. Medical sources say that a Palestinian kidnapped in Bethlehem was violently assaulted by the soldiers.…
Four Fishermen Kidnapped In Northern Gaza Waters
Israeli navy boats attacked on Tuesday, at dawn, Palestinian fishing boats in the Sudaniyya Sea, near Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and kidnapped four fishermen.The…
Israel Fabricated Video That Claimed to Show Palestinian Fighters in Hospital
In targeting hospitals during the recent 50-day long assault on Gaza, Israeli officials repeatedly claimed that Palestinian resistance fighters were hiding in hospitals, using hospitals to store weapons or actually…
Soldiers Kidnap Two Children Near Ramallah
Israeli soldiers, kidnapped on Monday evening two children, only seven and eight years of age, while playing in front of their family homes, in Silwad town, east of the Central…
Child Injured, Four Children Kidnapped, Near Jenin
Israeli soldiers invaded on Monday, at night, the town of Ya’bad, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, shot and injured a Palestinian child, and kidnapped several residents.Eyewitnesses…
Army Kidnaps Twelve Palestinians Near Nablus
Israeli soldiers, stationed at the Za’tara military roadblock, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, kidnapped on Monday evening twelve Palestinians and took them to an unknown destination.Eyewitnesses…
Palestinian Dies Of Wounds Suffered During Israel’s War On Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported, Monday, that a young man died of serious injuries suffered during an Israeli bombardment of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, amidst the…
Jerusalem: Injuries Reported in Funeral Of Teenage Palestinian Killed By Army Fire
Medical sources in occupied Jerusalem have reported that dozens of residents have been injured, on Monday evening, after Israeli soldiers and police officers attacked the funeral procession of a Palestinian…
Palestine Today 09 08 2014
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PA Deputy: Authority Will Not Pay Hamas Wages
Deputy Prime Minister Muhammad Mustafa, of the Palestinian Authority, said Sunday that the PA will not pay the salaries of Hamas civil servants in Gaza, but may provide financial assistance.’We…
VIDEO: Seven-year-old Violently Detained, One Child and Two Adults Arrested
This morning in al-Khalil (Hebron), through the Salaymeh checkpoint, a seven-year-old was forcefully detained and three more were arrested, including another child.8th September 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron…
B’Tselem and Yesh Din: Israel Unwilling to Investigate Violations Against Palestinians
“Figures show that the Israeli authorities are unwilling to investigate human rights violations committed by security forces against Palestinians,” Israeli human rights organizations B’Tselem and Yesh Din recently revealed in…
Israel Limits Gaza Fishing Zone Again, Violates Ceasefire Agreement For 3rd Time
The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture states that Israel has violated the recent ceasefire agreement made with the Palestinians, now allowing Gaza fishermen to sail up to only five nautical miles…
UNRWA: Israel Must Accept Accountability
Commissioner General for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Pierre Krähenbühl, at the Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo, declared that Israel should stand accountable for its violations…
Jerusalem; Palestinian Schools In Jabal al-Mokabber On Strike
Palestinians in the Jabal al-Mokabber area, in occupied East Jerusalem, launched a strike in all schools, protesting Israel’s arrest of parents of students, of members of the Parents Committee, in…