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Israel will reopen the Kerem Shalom crossing with the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, after keeping it closed for six consecutive days, according to a Palestinian official. Nathmi Muhanna, the Palestinian…

The East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Ras Shehada, Ras Khamis, Dahyat A’salam and the Shufat refugee camp, which are cut off from the rest of the city by the separation wall,…

The Municipality of Jerusalem ratified, on Sunday, the construction of 182 new housing units in the settlement of Ramot, northwest of the city.The ratified housing units are part of a…

Israeli occupation forces, on Tuesday, abducted five Palestinians, including three teenagers, from Bethlehem province.A security source said that Israeli forces raided the city of Bethlehem, taking Mohammed Jamal Abu Jalgheef,…

Catherine Ashton, Foreign Policy Chief of the European Union, stated Monday that she opposes boycotting Israel, yet, affirmed the EU opposes Israel construction and expansion of Jewish settlements in the…

Fadi Obeidat, a lawyer of the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, has reported that two detainees, including a 70-year old, are facing serious health deterioration while Israel is denying them the…

[Monday Evening, March 17, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that four Palestinians were wounded, with several others suffering the effects of teargas inhalation, during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading…

[Monday, March 17, 2014] Israeli soldiers, stationed at the Taybeh roadblock, south of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, violently attacked a Palestinian woman, and tried to force her…

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[Monday, March 17, 2014] According to investigations by the Israeli military, fighters of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah party crossed the border a week ago, and planted explosive charges that were detonated…

Israeli sources alleged Monday [March 17, 2014] that gunmen riding Palestinian boats exchanged fire with Israeli navy ships, close to the Gaza shore.The sources said the navy chased boasts, believed…

Palestinian Authority Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs lawyer Hiba Masalha said that she visited hunger striker Waheed Abu Maria in Wolfson Hospital, on Saturday, and that he is in critical condition.Abu…

Israeli military forces raided several Palestinian homes in the Nablus town of Huwwara, on Monday, after a settler vehicle was attacked with firebombs, according to locals.Witnesses told Ma’an that a…

The Israeli Civil Administration informed residents of Hares, a Palestinian village in the Salfit governorate oin the central West Bank, of its intentions to confiscate 100 dunams (25 acres) of…

Israeli colonial settlers damaged, Sunday afternoon, 55 olive trees after spraying them with toxic chemicals in Jaloud village, south of the West Bank city of Nablus. (Al Ray) Ghassan Daghlas,…

[Monday, March 17, 2014] Israeli police have closed the gates leading to Al Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem, and banned Palestinians under 50 years of age from entering, giving rise to…

On March 16th, an Israeli soldier driving a bulldozer two-stories high crushed to death 23-year-old Rachel Corrie, an American nonviolent human rights protestor. According to numerous witnesses and photographic documentation,…

In the latest success for the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, authorities in Buenos Aires, Argentina, have suspended a proposed $170m water treatment plant deal with…

Israeli settlers, today, plowed land and performed religious rituals on lands recently confiscated from the nearby Palestinian villages of Deir Istiya and Haris, in the northern West Bank. Witnesses said…

Occupation forces, on Sunday, kidnapped six people in Qalqilya and an elderly in the Jerusalem area, as well as summoning another from Bethlehem for interrogation, according to reports by local…

Deliveries of fuel to the Gaza Strip resumed, on Sunday, as Israeli authorities allowed the Kerem Shalom (Kerem Abu Salem) crossing to re-open, according to Palestinian crossing officials.Ma’an News Agency…

Scores of patients and disabled Palestinians, on Saturday, staged a protest outside of the Egyptian embassy, in the Gaza Strip, to call for the reopening of the Rafah border crossing…

[Sunday, March 16, 2014] Israeli special forces stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, injuring a number of worshipers on Sunday morning, according to witnesses. Eyewitnesses said that soldiers entered the compound…

[Sunday, March 16, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a child died of serious injuries suffered last week in an explosion that took place in Beit Hanoun, in the…

Public discussion on the Palestinian/Israeli crisis, which has diminished in recent years, received a powerful impetus with The National Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel Special Relationship, March 7 at the…

The Israeli civil administration delivered a notice to a Palestinian village in the central West Bank, declaring plans to confiscate parts of the village’s land, a local council said in…

Israeli forces kidnapped, on Saturday, four people from the districts of Hebron and Jenin, as well as summoning one for interrogation, according to statements by security sources.Occupation forces stormed Bani…

A Gaza official said that the number of the Gaza Palestinians killed by Israel since early 2014, as a result of military escalation, has increased to 18.Al Ray Palestinian Media…

[Saturday, March 15, 2014] The Gaza Strip’s only power plant shut down today, due to a lack of fuel from Israel, which closed a goods crossing after militant rocket attacks,…

Clashes broke out between a number of youth and Israeli forces, Saturday afternoon, in the town of Beit Furik, east of occupied Nablus, after attempts to infiltrate the Itamar settlement,…

Israeli forces, this past week, kidnapped five Palestinians from the districts of Jenin and Bethlehem, in the West Bank, in addition to two others from Jerusalem, according to reports by…

Israeli authorities have renewed the administrative detention of an aging Hebron citizen to three months, for the fourth time.Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies said in a statement that Husain Amr,…

Israeli forces bombed a target in southern Lebanon, on Friday, hours after an explosive device was detonated on the border, the Israeli military said.Israeli forces reported that they fired towards…

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(AFP/Ma’an) A truce declared by Gaza militants appears to be largely holding, on Friday, with the Israeli military reporting a single rocket fired after two days of tit-for-tat violence.’Moments ago…

In 2008, HP was awarded a $74 million contract by the Israeli Ministry of Interior to manufacture five million biometric ID cards, which contain advanced technology which allows the Israeli…

Israeli occupation forces re-arrested, Thursday at dawn, freed ex-prisoner Midhat al-Isawi from al-Isawiyya village, in occupied Jerusalem. Wadi Helwa Information Centre reported that Israeli forces abducted Midhat, brother of the…

Israeli occupation forces, on Friday, prevented Palestinian men under the age of 40 from entering the al-Aqsa Mosque to observe the Friday prayer. Israeli police had distributed a statement, earlier,…

A three-year-old child died, on Thursday, after he was unable to receive medical care abroad, due to the closure of the Rafah crossing, an activist group said. Spokesman for the…

[Friday, March 14, 2014] Israeli soldiers kidnapped three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and violently assaulted a Palestinian at a roadblock, near Nablus.Eyewitnesses said soldiers, stationed at the Yitzhar…

[Friday, March 14, 2014] Israeli military sources have reported that the Air Force fired missiles into 29 sites in different parts of the Gaza Strip, alleging that the escalation comes…

Sheikh Khaled al-Batsh, a senior political leader of the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, has reported that Egyptian mediation efforts have managed to achieve a truce between the resistance…

[Friday, March 13, 2014] Despite talks of a truce between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza, the Israeli Air Force said that it carried out on Friday, at dawn,…

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Lawyer for the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said, after visiting a number of Israeli prisons, that the health condition of four Palestinian hunger striking prisoners has dramatically deteriorated due to…

Israeli Haaretz newspaper unveiled, Thursday morning, that an Israeli soldier pointed his gun at a handcuffed Palestinian boy, during an investigation after arresting him in Nabi Saleh village, near the…

President Mahmoud Abbas stated Thursday that Palestinian leadership did not receive any request to extend negotiations.President Mahmoud Abbas stated that if the Palestinian leadership receives a request to extend negotiations,…

A senior Islamic Jihad official said, Thursday, that Egypt had managed to reactivate a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip.Khalid al-Batsh highlighted that his movement would…

[Thursday, March 13, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, and in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped several Palestinians.The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)…

[Thursday, March 12, 2014] The Israeli army fired several shells into a number of areas in the Gaza Strip, causing power blackouts and property damage, in certain areas, but no…

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Palestinian sources reported that five Palestinian teenagers were injured on Wednesday during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading the southern West Bank town of Beit Omer near Hebron city. Three boys…

On Tuesday, March 12, 2014, Israeli naval boats opened fire at Palestinian fishermen from Gaza, official Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reports.(PNN/WAFA) The incident happened off the coast of As-Sudaniya, reportedly…

The Israeli Housing Ministry approved, Tuesday, construction permits for 387 settlement units in Ramat Shlomo, to the south of occupied Jerusalem.By this decision, occupation authorities aim to expand the settlement…

Israeli forces, on Wednesday, prevented several people from entering their own agricultural plots in the area of Samra, to the east of Tubas, in the northern Jordan Valley, as a…

Israeli bulldozers demolished, Wednesday morning, residential homes and barracks belonging to a Palestinian community in the East Jerusalem town of al-Eizariya.According to the Palestinian News Network (PNN), witnesses in Jerusalem…

Dozens of rockets launched from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel, on Wednesday, a day after an Israeli airstrike killed three Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.(Ma’an) The al-Quds…

Originally published by the Alternative Information Center. Video by Ryan Rodrick Beiler. Every Friday, for more than two years, come sunshine, rain, or even snow, Father Ibrahim Shomali, a Palestinian…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Tuesday evening, March 12, 2014, five Palestinians, while wounding several others, after attacking a nonviolent procession denouncing the latest Israeli military escalation that claimed the lives…

[Wednesday, March 12, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, kidnapping at least nine Palestinians.Local sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied…

The Israeli Authorities handed, on Tuesday evening, the remains of five Palestinians who were buried at the Numbers Graveyard for many years. The bodies were moved to the Taybeh roadblock,…

[Tuesday Evening, March 11, 2014] Palestinian medical sources said that three Palestinians were killed, and seven were injured, in an explosion which took place in a home in Beit Hanoun…

Palestinian medical sources reported, on Tuesday [March 11, 2014], that a Palestinian man has died of injuries suffered when a siege-busting border tunnel collapsed on him in Rafah, in the…

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The Israeli military abducted, on Tuesday, three young Palestinians from Tkou’ village, east of Bethlehem.According to the Palestinian News Network, a security source said that the Israeli military raided the…

Occupation forces, on Tuesday, served residents with notifications that three privately-owned Palestinian houses, to the south of Nablus, are scheduled for demolition. In addition, two water wells near Hebron are…

Dozens of Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers carried out, Tuesday morning, an incursion east of Khuza’a village, in the southern Gaza Strip.According to Al Ray, six bulldozers entered into the…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refuses to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, thereby rejecting the demands of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. According to Abbas; ‘They are pressing and saying, ‘No…

A number of young Palestinian men were injured by rubber bullets and excessive tear gas inhalation, during clashes with Israeli troops near Bethlehem, on Tuesday. Youth in the area had…

Israeli opposition parties in the Knesset announced, Sunday, that they will not be taking part in discussions and will vote on three contentious bills which the government is attempting to…

[Tuesday at noon, March 11, 2014] Palestinian medical sources said that three Palestinian resistance fighters have been killed by an Israeli shell, east of the Rafah district, in the southern…

[Tuesday, March 11, 2014] Israeli soldiers shot and killed a young Palestinian man from Atteel village, northwest of Tulkarem in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian…

An Israeli soldier shot and killed a Jordanian judge, identified as Raed Z’eitar,, at the Jordan River border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank on Monday.Details about exactly what…

[Monday, March 10, 2014] Hours after Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian at the al-Karama Crossing, between Jordan and occupied Palestine, the army shot and killed a Palestinian civilian…

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Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews staged a mass prayer in New York City, to protest Israel’s proposal to draft ultra-Orthodox citizens into its army. (Haaretz) Sunday’s gathering in Manhattan brought together…

The District court judge in Jerusalem cancelled, last Thursday, an indictment against the 19-year-old Ahmad Daoud Obeid, from the village of Esawyeh.The Wadi Hilweh Information Center reports that Mohammad Mahmoud,…

Four Palestinian-owned plots near Qalqilya were retrieved by their owners, after being previously seized by Israeli companies claiming ownership to the land.(WAFA) The Qalqilya governorate said in a statement, on…

A Tel Aviv court, on Monday, sentenced a Palestinian-Israeli with a 25-year prison term over the 2012 bombing of a bus during a major Israeli campaign in Gaza.Photo: Mohammed Mafarja,…

The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) welcomed, in a press release, the passing of motion calling on the National University of Galway (NUIG) Students’ Union to actively participate in the Palestinian-led…

[Sunday Evening, March 09, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded Palestinian farmlands in the al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and uprooted them.Ahmad Salah, coordinator of the Popular…

[Monday, March 10, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, installed roadblocks, broke into homes and searched them, kidnapping twelve Palestinians.Local sources in the southern…

[Monday, March 10, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that Israeli soldiers stationed at the al-Karama crossing, between the West Bank and Jordan, shot and killed a Palestinian man.The sources…

Palestinian prisoners in Negev prison said, on Sunday, that they sent a notification to the Israeli Prison Service, saying that they will launch a hunger strike next month.(Al Ray) Palestinian…

PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi recently stressed on the essential role of Britain and of Europe in exercising a corrective influence on negotiations, bringing Israel to compliance, and…

Israeli forces backed by bulldozers proceeded, Sunday, to level Palestinian-owned agricultural land in the village of al-Khader to the south of Bethlehem as a prelude to take it over, according…

The last shipment of Qatar-donated diesel — used to fuel the Gaza Strip’s sole power plant — is expected to run out within four or five days, a Palestinian official…

A group of Israeli high school students sent the following letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu, explaining their refusal to serve in the Israeli army.(via the Alternative Information Center) CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS…

The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People expressed concern over the recent developments and increased tensions in Occupied East Jerusalem, and…

An Israeli military vehicle, on Saturday, hit a Palestinian girl in the southern West Bank, injuring her seriously, according to a local spokesman. Nidal al-Haddar, spokesman for Yatta’s popular committee,…

Israeli settlers in the West Bank stoned the car of a Palestinian photographer working for AFP, slightly injuring him, as he was on his way to cover a story, on…

Some 50,000 Palestinian residents of Jerusalem have been without water for three days, after their water supply was cut off, on Tuesday. The residents are from the Shufat refugee camp…

Eleven Palestinian women were hurt by tear gas inhalation, Saturday, when Israeli forces dispersed a demonstration marking International Women’s Day.Dozens of Palestinian women rallied, early Saturday, near Qalandia checkpoint between…

As the visit of Pope Francis to Palestine and Israel nears, a letter signed by 20 US Bishops was sent the Pontiff asking him to speak out against the targeting…

The Head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, stated that, since 1967, Israel has kidnapped and imprisoned more than 15,000 women, including 1,000 since…

A request by a European Union official to visit Palestinian political prisoners, held by Israel, was denied by Israeli Foriegn Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, of the extreme right-wing “Israel Our Home”…

The Prison Administration at the Negev Detention Camp, in the Negev Desert of occupied Palestine, moved detainee Majed Taha Qaraqe’, age 40, to the Soroka medical center after suffering serious…

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A group of colonial Israeli settlers attacked, on Thursday morning, three young Palestinians in al-Mughayyar village, to the north of the West Bank city of Ramallah. Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian…

The papal ambassador to Israel has informed the Israeli Foreign Ministry that Pope Francis will cancel his planned visit to Israel, which was to take place over May 24-26, due…