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Omar Abu Eisha, the father of one of the suspects accused by Israel of taking part in the alleged abduction of three Israeli settlers, has denied that his son was…

Israeli soldiers attacked a weekly march against the occupation and settlements in Nabi Saleh, on Friday. Another weekly march was attacked in Bilin, and yet another in the village of…

Yesterday, an Israeli bulldozer demolished a mosque that was erected in a refugee camp located in occupied East Jerusalem. Violations against the Palestinian Muslim community continued in the region with…

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The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the number of Palestinians, kidnapped by the Israeli Army in the last two weeks, has arrived to 576.The PPS stated that the…

Gaza – Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Friday, that seven Palestinians, including a child and a pregnant woman, have been injured when the Israeli army fired artillery shells into…

Israeli vandals wrote, on Friday at dawn, several anti-Arab, racist slogans on the walls of a local school in Be’er as-Sabe’ (Beersheba), in addition to graffiti against Arab member of…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that three young Palestinian men were shot and injured, on Friday at dawn, by Israeli army fire, after dozens of soldiers invaded the Balata refugee…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 19-25 June 2014, Israeli soldiers killed 6 Palestinian civilians, including a child…

June 26, 2014; A number of f right-wing Israeli settlers, and soldiers, stormed late on Thursday at night a number of homes belong to members of the al-Ja’bary family in…

[Thursday, June 26 2014] The Maan News Agency has reported that two Palestinian detainees are ongoing with their hunger strike despite the understanding reached between representatives of the detainees, and…

The Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) claimed identifying two Palestinians believed to be behind the reported kidnapping of the three Israeli settlers, and that the two are former political prisoners.…

Israeli forces raided several Palestinian-owned shops, today, in the village of Bataʻa Ash-Sahrqiya, to the south of Jenin, provoking residents and inciting further violence, according to security sources.During the raid,…

At least 18 Israeli settlers, again led by Rabbi Yehuda Glick and guarded by Israeli police, have stormed al-Aqsa mosque through the Moroccans’ gate.Israeli forces arrested, this morning, Ziad Abu…

[Thursday, June 26, 2014] According to reports by Israeli military sources, the army has kidnapped a Palestinian who allegedly opened fire at a soldier, and tried to ram another soldier…

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[Thursday, June 26, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded Husan town, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and kidnapped one Palestinian. Two Palestinians were kidnapped in Awarta, near Nablus, and…

[Thursday, June 26, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that an elderly woman died of a heart attack, after dozens of soldiers invaded her home and ransacked it, in the…

Dozens of Israeli soldiers and police officers invaded, late on Wednesday night, various Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem, and clashed with dozens of local youth, causing dozens of injuries.…

France has advised its citizens and companies against doing business with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to the Electronic Intifada:Firms were warned that they could face legal…

A new report published by Defence of Children International-Palestine brings to light the devastating impact on Palestinian children of growing up near increasingly violent Israeli settlements and Israeli military outposts.25…

Gaza’s only power plant is still running today, after fuel was permitted entry into the Strip via Israel, just a day after the power authority warned that the plant would…

Lawyer for the Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Hiba Masalha, has declared that the number of Palestinian children in Israeli jails has increased to 250. The reason behind the…

Israeli Public Security Minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, stated Wednesday that Israel did not sign any agreement with hunger striking Palestinian detainees, or reach an understanding with them, the Maan News Agency…

The UN Human Rights Council held a general discussion and debate on the situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories, as part its 26th ordinary session in Geneva, Tuesday,…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young Palestinian man died on Wednesday, June 25, of serious gunshot wounds, he suffered last Friday, when dozens of soldiers invaded the Qalandia…

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[Wednesday, June 25 2014] The Palestinian “Prisoners Center for Studies” has reported that hunger striking Palestinian detainees, held by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, announced suspending their strike after…

[Wednesday, June 25 2014] Israeli soldiers kidnapped seven Palestinians, after invading their homes, in the southern West Bank district of Hebron. Six family members, including a disabled child, have been…

On Tuesday evening, June 24, the Israeli Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes targeting different parts of the Gaza Strip; two Palestinians injured. A child was accidentally killed…

[Wednesday at dawn, June 25, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and kidnapped two legislators, members of the Change and Reform Bloc of Hamas, and two…

On Tuesday evening, [June 24, 2014] the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the number of Palestinians kidnapped by the Israeli army in the ongoing offensive, starting less than…

The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights has reported that Israel recently moved 36 Palestinians, kidnapped in the latest military offensive, into solidarity confinement, for different periods, without…

[Tuesday evening, June 24, 2014] Several Israeli military vehicles invaded Ya’bad town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and kidnapped one child. Several Palestinians received treatment for…

Israeli soldiers invaded, late on Tuesday at night, an area east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and conducted extensive military searches of homes…

Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Ya’alon, stated that the ongoing search for the three missing Israelis is heading in the right direction, and that locating the three Israelis, and their “kidnappers”,…

On Tuesday, Israeli army bulldozers razed a privately owned Palestinian ranch in the village of Hassaka, north of Hebron, according to local sources. Coordinator of the anti-settlement committee Rateb Jabour…

Official Envoy of the Quartet to the Middle East, former British PM Tony Blair, has called on Israel to stop their military operations in the West Bank and the Gaza…

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Hunger-striking Palestinian politictal prisoners have written a letter to President Mahmoud Abbas, demanding he seek the UN Security Council’s mediation to save their lives, as Israeli authorities prepare to pass…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday, Barta’a Palestinian village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and handed military orders for the destruction of more than ten stores.Member of…

[Tuesday at dawn, June 24 2014] Israeli soldiers kidnapped three Palestinians in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, shot and injured two more Palestinians.Palestinian security sources said the army invaded…

[June 24 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that two Palestinians were wounded after a number of settlers chased their car and threw a gas bomb at it, near the…

[Tuesday at dawn, June 23 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in the northern West Bank district of Nablus, detained dozens of Palestinians, and kidnapped two.Eyewitnesses said the army…

A number of human rights organization have called, in an official letter, upon the Israeli security and military commanders in the West Bank to refrain from collectively punishing the civilian…

A number of Israeli bulldozers raided Palestinian lands near Nahil Ouz, in the Gaza Strip, Monday. Meanwhile, the Israeli military appears to have nearly exhausted the momentum of their recent…

Israeli forces raided a currency exchange shop today, in Bethlehem, where they confiscated surveillance cameras, according to a security source. Late last night, Israeli ‘price tag’ vandals slashed the tires…

[Monday, June 23, 2014] The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped 529 Palestinians, during daily invasions and assaults, since three Israeli settlers went missing ten…

The Israeli Knesset has postponed voting on a bill facilitating the force-feeding of hunger-striking prisoners, in its second and third reading, as some political parties have objected. Meanwhile, Israeli Prison…

Israeli forces have again arrested former prisoner Samer al-Issawi, after storming his house in al-Isawiya .Samer served 10 years in Israeli jails and became an internationally recognized icon for the…

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[Monday at dawn, June 23 2014] Dozens of Israeli military vehicles invaded Palestinian communities, in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, and clashed with dozens of local youth.Local sources…

[Monday, June 23, 2014] Israeli soldiers kidnapped 37 Palestinians in different parts of the West Bank, as its military offensive continues for the eleventh consecutive day.In Nablus, soldiers kidnapped eight…

Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyad al-Maliki asserted, this Saturday, that Israeli actions in the ongoing West Bank arrest campaign amount to war crimes. According to the Alternative Information Center…

Over 120 Palestinian detainees imprisoned by the state of Israel have now entered the 60th day of hunger strike, in protest against the policy of Administrative Detention, in which prisoners…

Israel continued its escalation of assaults against Palestinians, on Sunday, with a series of airstrikes on several locations in the Gaza Strip, according to media sources. Forces fired at Lorry…

Palestinian leadership initiated official requests for an emergency session of the UN Security Council, today, seeking intervention with Israel’s ongoing military campaign in the West Bank.“The oppressive Israeli aggression during…

Sunday evening, June 22 2014: A number of fanatic Israeli settlers attacked the funeral of a Palestinian, killed by the Israeli army in al-Biereh, near the central West Bank city…

Israeli forces, on Sunday at dawn, stormed Al Quds University in occupied East Jerusalem, as well as Polytechnic University in the West Bank city of Hebron.The soldiers broke into the…

Bethlehem – Sunday, June 22 2014: Israeli soldiers invaded Aida refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and sprayed windows of the local mosque, and homes, with…

The Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) movement made a major advancement on Saturday, as one of the largest churches in the United States voted in their biennial national meeting to divest from several…

Four Palestinians killed in the West Bank in 10 days. On Sunday morning, 22 June 2014, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian from ‘Ein Beit al-Maa’, northwest of Nablus in…

[Sunday at dawn, June 22, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young Palestinian man was shot, and killed, by Israeli military fire, in the central West Bank city…

On the ninth day of the ongoing and escalating Israeli military siege and offensive against the Hebron district, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers continued…

[Sunday, June 22, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli army fire in the al-Ein refugee camp, in the northern West…

[Saturday Evening, June 21, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that two Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli army fired east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the…

A 17-year-old boy has died, after stepping on a landmine in the northern Jordan Valley, Saturday, according to a local activist group.The boy, identified as one Sakher Dorgham Zaamel Abu…

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, has issued a statement regarding Israeli search operations in the West Bank:“The Special Coordinator is deeply concerned by reports…

Israeli troops killed a 14-year-old Palestinian, Friday, as they continued their West Bank ‘crackdown’ on the Hamas movement, in the search for three missing Israeli youth. No evidence of a…

[Saturday, June 21, 2014] The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the Israeli army continued its military offensive in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped 37…

[Saturday at dawn, June 21, 2014] Israeli soldiers conducted a series of extensive military offensives in different parts of the northern West Bank district of Nablus, leading to clashes with…

[Saturday, June 21, 2014] Israeli soldiers continued their extensive military offensive in the occupied territories, broke into Palestinian homes, facilities and offices, and kidnapped dozens of Palestinians.Local sources in the…

[Saturday, June 21, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that at least ten young Palestinians were injured, after dozens of soldiers invaded the al-Biereh city, near the central West Bank…

[Saturday at dawn, June 20, 2014] Palestinian medical sources in Salfit, in central West Bank, have reported that a Palestinian man, in his sixties, died of a heart attack after…

A supply of diesel donated by Qatar, used to fuel Gaza’s sole power plant, is to run out tomorrow. Palestinian PM Rami Hamdallah has denied that his government refused to…

Thousands of people took part in a funeral procession, on Friday, for Mahmoud Jihad Muhammad Dudeen, age 14, who was killed by Israeli forces during an overnight raid. Meanwhile, further…

[Friday, June 20, 2014] Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that local rescue teams managed to locate the bodies of all slain Palestinians, killed Thursday, under the…

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UNRWA Records have indicated that the number of registered Palestinian refugees, as of January 2014, amount to approximately 5.4 million, according to a press release by the Palestinian Central Bureau…

Six new ‘residential areas’ are to be constructed in the Negev, a sub-committee of the Israeli National Council for Planning and Building (NCPB) has agreed — five for Jews and…

On June 18th, the Israeli army, along with border police officers and DCO (District Coordination Office) officers entered in the Palestinian village of Khallet Forem, in South Hebron Hills, and…

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young Palestinian man was shot and seriously injured, by Israeli army fire, in the Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem.The sources…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Friday at dawn June 20, 2014, Beit Forik town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and detained at least 20 Palestinians…

[Friday, June 20, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a Palestinian child was shot and killed by Israeli army fire, after dozens of soldiers invaded Doura town, south of…

[Friday At Dawn, June 20, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that three young Palestinian men have been shot, and seriously injured, by Israeli army fire, during clashes that took…

In the first direct accusation since the three Israeli settlers went missing a week ago, an Israeli security source, accused Hamas leader, Salah al-‘Arouri, of being the mastermind, and financier,…

Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Friday at dawn [June 20 2014] the ‘Aroura village, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and demolished the home of Hamas…

[Friday At Dawn, June 20, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that at least six Palestinians have been injured, in a series of Israeli air strikes targeting different parts of…

[Friday At Dawn, June 19, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that at least five Palestinians have been injured, one seriously, by Israeli soldiers invading the Deheishe refugee camp, in…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped more than 300 Palestinians in the ongoing invasions, and massive arrest campaign, conducted by the army starting on…

On a note which resonates with absurdity, Israel has been elected as vice-chair of the ‘UN Special Commitee on Decolonization’ – which deals among other things with matters related to…

The recent wave of arrests, attacks, killings and total closure of large parts of the West Bank following the disappearance of three Israeli settlers is a clear form of collective…

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said that her country has not changed its position on Australian legal status of the oPt and East Jerusalem. WAFA reports that AU Rep to Palestine…

Wednesday, the Israeli army invaded a family house in the H1 area, supposedly under full Palestinian Authority civil and security control, of al-Khalil (Hebron). 18th June 2014 | International Solidarity…

45 Israeli settler students from Talmudic institutions stormed al-Aqsa, today, led by Israeli Rabbi Yehuda Glick.The settlers, backed by Israeli police, invaded the mosque from al-Maghareba Gate, as usual, and…

Omar Sa’ad, who served seven sentences in prison for refusing to serve in the Israeli army, has finally been released from military service, according to the Alternative Information Center, in…

The Knesset’s Internal Affairs Committee has ended its 2-day discussion of a controversial bill recently introduced to facilitate forced feeding of Palestinian hunger strikers. The bill has been approved for…

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[Thursday, June 19, 2014] Israeli soldiers kidnapped two Palestinian fishermen in Gaza waters, in northern Gaza, and a Palestinian patient at the Erez terminal, as he was heading to an…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped four Palestinians in the northern West Bank district of Nablus, and three Palestinians, including a paralyzed man, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem.Dozens of soldiers invaded…