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Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday night, after midnight, Birzeit University near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after surrounding it from all sides, and imposing a strict…

[Thursday At Dawn, June 19, 2014] Israeli soldiers continued their extensive invasions and assaults in the Hebron District, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, kidnapped 15 Palestinians,…

[Thursday At Dawn, June 19 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that several civilians were injured, and excessive property damage was reported, as the Israeli Air Force fired missiles into…

On Wednesday, the construction of 172 new housing units in the illegal settlement of Jabal Abu Ghneim (HarHoma), east occupied Jerusalem, was approved by the Israeli planning and construction commission.…

Israeli military bulldozers demolished, yesterday, two Palestinian-owned houses. The foundations of a house under construction and water well in Al-Khader, a town to the south of Bethlehem, as well, under…

Over two hundred children have gathered in front the International Committee of the Red Cross office, in Gaza, in demand of the release of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike. Since…

The Israeli army has threatened a Palestinian citizen in Beitunia, east of Ramallah, for his part in documenting the killing of two teens during the Nakba Day protest, last May.According…

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The Israeli Defense Ministry is studying all “legal options” to forcibly remove dozens of senior leaders of the Hamas movement, in the West Bank, and illegally expel them to the…

[Wednesday, June 18, 2014] As the army continued its invasions and arrests in different parts of the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, at least 64 Palestinians were kidnapped on Wednesday,…

As Palestinian detainees, held under illegal Administrative Detention orders in Israeli prisons, continued their hunger strike for the 55th consecutive day, demanding an end to their illegitimate detention, detainee Ayman…

Israeli online daily, Haaretz, has reported that Israeli ministers held an urgent meeting, and decided to worsen the conditions of imprisoned Hamas members held in various Israeli prisons and detention…

[Tuesday, June 17, 2014] Israeli soldiers have kidnapped 197 Palestinians and invaded more than 791 homes, in different parts of the West Bank, since three settlers went missing last Thursday…

Forensic pathologists, following a recent autopsy and exhumation, have determined that a live bullet was the cause of death for Nadim Nawarah, aged 17, one of two Palestinian teenagers who…

Early today, Israeli bulldozers demolished a two-story Palestinian home in the Khirbet al-Ras neighborhood of Idhna, in Hebron, according to Mayor Hashim Tmeizi. The 200-square-meter structure belonged to one Muhammad…

Israeli settlers have again stormed the courtyards of al-Aqsa mosque, on Tuesday, escorted by dozens of Israeli soldiers.Approximately 20 settlers broke into the mosque, through the Moroccan Gate, touring the…

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Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett stated that, as the search and investigation into the disappearance of the three settlers continue, Israel must end its policies of what he called “allowing…

[Tuesday, June 17, 2014] Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and the Jenin refugee camp, violently broke into and searched dozens of homes, kidnapped…

[Tuesday, June 17, 2014] Israeli soldiers continued their large-scale military invasion into different Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, broke into dozens of homes and searched them, and kidnapped…

[Tuesday At Dawn, June 16, 2014] The Israeli air force fired several missiles targeting different areas in Gaza City, and Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip,…

As the Israeli military continues its massive crackdown on Palestinians throughout the West Bank, the US Consulate issued a statement to U.S. citizens registered with the consulate as living, working…

[Monday, June 16, 2014] The Israeli military continued its massive invasion and arrests in different parts of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, and so far kicked out three…

[Monday Evening, June 16 2014] Israeli army bulldozers demolished several Palestinian structures, including residential, in al-‘Ezariyya town, occupied East Jerusalem.The Maan News Agency has reported that military bulldozers, accompanied by…

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Military correspondent and defense analyst for Israeli paper Haaretz, Amos Harel, claims that the case of the missing three Israeli settlers is an abduction performed at a high level of…

Dozens of international, Israeli and Palestinian activists and doctors held a demonstration outside the Knesset building, in west Jerusalem, on Monday, in protest of the new bill which promotes force-feeding…

[Monday, June 16, 2014] Israeli soldiers continued their massive arrest campaign, and military invasions, and kidnapped Dr. Aziz Dweik, head of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), along with Legislators Bassem…

The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees denounced the ongoing Israeli military escalation against Palestinians in the occupied territories, and revealed that the army kidnapped at least 120 Palestinians, during random home…

Monday at dawn – June 16, 2014: Palestinian medical sources have reported that several Palestinians have been injured, and many suffered anxiety attacks, after the army fired missiles into different…

[Monday At Dawn, June 16, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young Palestinian man was killed by Israeli army fire after soldiers invaded the al-Jalazonerefugee camp, north of…

[Sunday at night, June 15, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that two children were wounded when Israeli soldiers detonated the main door of their home, in Hebron city, in…

On Sunday evening [June 15, 2014] Dozens of Israeli military vehicles invaded the central West Bank city of Ramallah, the nearby towns of al-Biereh and Betunia, and clashed with dozens…

[Sunday, June 15, 2014] Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and the nearby city of Beit Jala, installed roadblocks, and conducted military searches. Soldiers also…

The Israeli army said, Sunday, that unidentified gunmen opened fire at a military site near Bethlehem. Rockets were also fired late Sunday, from Gaza, amidst conflicting reports on the exact…

Israeli rabbi Yehuda Glick has once again broken into al-Aqsa Mosque, Sunday morning, accompanied by a group of Israeli settlers. Protected by Israeli police, settlers stormed the mosque from al-Maghareba…

The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization condemned, Sunday, the ‘racist’ Israeli campaign led by PM Netanyahu against the Palestinian people and their leaders, under the pretext that the…

Two Palestinian women have been injured as a result of an Israeli warplane attack, last night. Several locations in the Gaza Strip were targeted.One of the injured is a 15-year-old…

[Sunday Morning, June 15, 2014] The Israeli army imposed a strict military siege on the Hebron district, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and on the West…

Israeli soldiers conducted a large military campaign in various districts of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped dozens of Palestinians, mainly Hamas and Islamic Jihad members, legislators, political leaders and…

Government spokesperson Ihab Bseiso has stated that the Qatari government is to transfer a sum of $20 million, over a three month period, in helping to pay salaries to 40,000…

This morning, Israeli warplanes targeted several locations in southern Gaza Strip.The PNN reports that an Israeli Apache helicopter and a surveillance drone fired at least three missiles targeting a location…

[Saturday, June 14, 2014] Israeli soldiers kidnapped at least twelve Palestinians in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, after breaking into dozens of homes and searching them, and confiscating…

[Saturday, June 14 2014] Palestinian medical sources said three Palestinian were moderately wounded after a number of settlers hurled stones at their car while driving near the entrance of Jensafut…

[Saturday At Dawn, June 14, 2014] As part of the search for three missing Israeli teenage settlers, Israeli soldiers intensified their invasions and strict security measures in the southern West…

Israeli soldiers and police officers invaded, late on Friday at night [June, 13, 2014] Rahat city, the largest Bedouin community in the Negev, conducted military searches, and kidnapped several residents.The…

From the 8th June until today, the Israeli military has been training in Palestinian-owned fields, close to the Palestinian villages of Jinba and Al Mirkez, in Masafer Yatta.13th June 2014…

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, on Thursday, called upon the international community to exert serious and considerable pressure on Israel to release the administrative prisoners who have been on hunger…

Australia is facing the possibility of trade sanctions by Arab nations over its decision to stop referring to East Jerusalem as an occupied territory.Head of the Palestinian delegation to Canberra,…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has, after 13 years following the incident in question, succeeded in ensuring a remedy for the family of ’Ahed al-Telbani, from al-Maghazi refugee…

Palestinian sources, in the besieged coastal region, have reported that several Israeli war jets have been flying over various areas of the Gaza Strip, while Israel also ordered all border…

Following Friday prayers in the Old City of Jerusalem, 28 Palestinians were injured and eight detained during fierce clashes which broke out after Israeli troops stormed Al-Aqsa mosque. Worshipers at…

[Friday, June 13, 2014] Israeli media outlets have reported, on Friday evening, that the three missing Israeli teenage settlers, might have been killed, or moved to the Gaza Strip.No Palestinian…

[Friday, June 13, 2014] Israeli security officials stated that three teenage settlers, including one who reportedly holds a US citizenship, who have been missing since Thursday at night, are feared…

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[Friday, June 13, 2014] Palestinian Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah, stated that the Palestinian Authority intends to investigate Wednesday’s attack carried out by Palestinian security officers against Palestinian reporters, and residents,…

Ramallah, Occupied Palestine, June 13 2014 – Media sources in the central West Bank city of Ramallah have reported that Palestinian fighters fired toward a number of soldiers, stationed in…

[Friday, June 13, 2014] Gaza, Occupied Palestine; Palestinian Researcher and head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, stated that the Palestinian political prisoners, held…

Amid concerns raised by church justice advocates, United Methodist Church Pensions sells all stocks in G4S, a supplier of security services and equipment for Israeli prisons, settlements, checkpoints and Separation…

As violence escalates in the region and shops close across the West Bank and Jerusalem in solidarity with an ever growing number of hunger striking Paletinian detainees, a ministerial committee…

Over 100 leading artists and intellectuals have signed a public letter calling on participants to withdraw from Creative Time’s traveling Living as Form exhibition as it is currently showing in…

Yesterday evening, at approximately 7 pm, Israeli soldiers broke into several Palestinian family’s homes in the Qeitun region of al-Khalil (Hebron), following clashes with local youth, which began an hour…

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Foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) have recently stressed the importance of finding a fair solution to the Palestinian cause.Al Ray reports that the third meeting of EU ministers…

This morning, Israeli forces demolished a number of structures in the Naqab village of al-Araqeeb, to the north of Beersheba.Israeli media has reported that members of the Israeli Committee of…

[Thursday, June 12, 2014] The town of al-‘Isawiyya, in occupied Jerusalem, remains under tight siege by Israeli military and police for the fifth day, under constant attacks and home invasions,…

Several Israeli military jeeps invaded, on Thursday at dawn [June 12, 2014], the northern West Bank city of Jenin, where they kidnaped two Palestinians and detained one resident for several…

[Wednesday Evening, June 11, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded al-Isawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, broke into several homes and stores, violently searched them, and kidnapped five Palestinians.The Maan News Agency…

[Wednesday at Night, June 11, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that one Palestinian was killed, and two were seriously injured, when an Israeli war jet fired a missile targeting…

[Wednesday, June 11, 2014] Nonviolent Palestinian activists held a mock soccer match in front of the Ofer Prison, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, to express solidarity with…

[Wednesday Evening, June 11, 2014] A Palestinian child was killed, and a young man was wounded, in an explosion that took place in a home in the at-Tuffah neighborhood, in…

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Israeli settlers stormed the park of the Ibrahimi Mosque (Cave of the Patriarchs) in Hebron, on Wednesday, where they attempted to sabotage its content, according to media sources.WAFA correspondence reprts…

Banks in the Gaza Strip began operating on Wednesday after a week of closure, according to Jihad al-Wazir, governor of the Palestinian Monetary Authority.The Palestinian official told Ma’an that Hamas-affiliated…

The Israeli Ministry of Health has placed severe restrictions on visits to hospitalized detainees by private doctors, according to Hebrew newspaper Haaretz. Prompted by Shin Bet Israeli security service and…

Attorney General Muhammad Abd al-Ghani al-Uweili has stated that the body of Nadim Nuwara will be exhumed and taken to the Palestinian Institute of Forensic Medicine for an investigation into…

According to affidavits collected by DCI-Palestine, children from Areas A and B who end up in PA custody are reporting threats, beatings and neglect by forces during arrest and detention.…

Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a rocket, on Wednesday, striking again an open area in southern Israel, according to Israeli officials.The rocket hit the Eshkol region, without causing any casualties…

On Wednesday afternoon, IPS unit ‘Massada’ stormed Ward No. 6 of the Negev prison where a number of Palestinian hunger strikers are being held. Local media reported the storming force…

Israeli forces kidnapped nine Palestinians on Wednesday, including four minors from West Bank cities of Hebron, Bethlehem, Nablus and Jenin.Palestinian security sources have reported that the Israeli army raided al-Aroub…

One half of all beaches along the Gaza Strip have been polluted to the point of being rendered unfit for swimming, according to the Palestinian environmental authority.Khalid Abu Ghali, a…

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Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset, Masoud Ghanim, has proposed a no-confidence motion against the Israeli government. Concerned about the critical health situation of Palestinian hunger-striking prisoners, Ghanim proposed the…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is deeply concerned over the continued closure of the banks in the Gaza Strip for 6 days, as former Gaza government employees prevented…

The Israeli government’s refusal to allow whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, who leaked details of the country’s nuclear arsenal to the international media in 1986, to leave the country for even three…

A young Palestinian, from the northern West Bank village of Yasid, is believed by friends and family to have been shot dead by Israeli forces six days ago, as he…

Israel’s Lands Administration has invited tenders for the construction of 400 new housing units in the illegal settlement of Ramat Shlomo, in occupied Jerusalem.The number of construction bids in the…

Israeli forces kidnapped three Palestinians from West Bank cities of Jenin and Hebron, today, in addition to razing Palestinian-owned lands in Jerusalem. According to Palestinian security sources, the Israeli army…

[Tuesday, June 10, 2014] Israeli soldiers, heavily deployed in occupied East Jerusalem, especially near the al-Aqsa Mosque, attacked dozens of Palestinians, including children, near Bab al-Majlis Gate (The Council Gate),…

Israeli Brigadier General Roni Numa was promoted to head the Israeli military’s ‘Depth Corps’ this week, despite having ordered the ‘neutralization’ of a Palestinian civilian in 2001. The Palestinian man…

Chairperson of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), Dr. Leonid Eidelman, stated that the association refuses the force-feeding of hunger striking Palestinian political prisoners, adding that Israeli physicians respect the wishes…

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Israeli Shin Bet security service is encouraging Prime Minister Netanyahu not to negotiate with hunger-striking Palestinian administrative detainees, according to Israeli media. Israeli daily Haaretz stated that Netanyahu’s decision not…

Yesterday morning on the 8th June, Israeli police forces raided the village of Iqrit (located on the northern tip of Israel, within eyesight of Lebanon).9th June 2014 | International Solidarity…

Robert Serry, the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, met Sunday in Gaza with four ministers of the new Palestinian consensus government. “I assured them full support…

According to B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, over 300,000 Israelis live in more than 200 settlements and settlement outposts throughout the West Bank…

According to Israeli media, a Palestinian rocket was fired from Gaza at midnight, this morning, into open area in Ashkelon. In related news, Israeli Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett has…

[Tuesday Morning, June 9, 2014] Several Israeli military jeeps and a number of armored bulldozers invaded Far’oun town, south of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, and demolished one…

[Monday, June 9, 2014] Israeli soldiers, stationed across the eastern border of Gaza City, fired dozens of rounds of live ammunition targeting a number of homes, and farmlands, east of…

[Monday, June 9, 2014] Israeli soldiers kidnapped at least ten Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and confiscated around 80 computers from two stores in Tulkarem.Local sources…