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Israeli forces handed out 12 demolition orders, this Thursday, to Palestinians residing in the village of Sa’ir, in the southern al-Khalil hills close to Hebron.The Israeli military has closed the…

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Australian Foreign Minister said, in an interview with the “Times Of Israel” newspaper, that the international community should refrain from labeling Israeli settlements in the West Bank as illegal, and…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 09-15 January 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that,…

[Thursday, January 16, 2014] Israeli soldiers kidnapped two young Palestinian men from the Taybeh town, east of the central west Bank city of Ramallah.Israeli police spokesperson for Arab Media, Luba…

[Thursday Evening, January 16, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded Beit Ummar town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped two Palestinians. Israeli settlers attacked villagers and farmlands east…

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[Thursday January 16, 2014] 22 Israeli settlers, escorted by occupation soldiers, stormed al-Aqsa yards on Thursday morning.Media coordinator for the al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage, Mahmoud Abu Atta, told…

Secretary-General of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Abed Rabbo, stated that the Palestinian leadership rejects the proposed agreement presented by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.Abed Rabbo said that…

[Thursday at Dawn, January 16 2013] Israeli soldiers invaded the West Bank district of Bethlehem, and the southern West Bank district of Hebron, kidnapping several Palestinians.Local sources said that the…

[Thursday January 16, 2014] Local sources have reported that several Israeli military jeeps invaded the Taybeh town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and kidnapped two brothers.…

[Thursday at Dawn, January 16, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that four children and one woman have been injured, after Israeli soldiers carried out a number of air strikes…

[Wednesday Evening, January 15, 2014] Dozens of Israeli military vehicles invaded Beita town and Bir Qoza area, in the northern West Bank district of Nablus, and clashed with Palestinian youth…

[Wednesday, January 15, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young Palestinian man was shot by a live round fired by Israeli soldiers in the Aida refugee camp, north…

The Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage reports that Jewish groups have announced an ‘organizational structure’ for the alleged storming of Al Aqsa Mosque, on Thursday, to coincide with a…

Israeli authorities, on Wednesday, agreed to free two Palestinian Jerusalemites on the condition that they be deported from Jerusalem, a prisoners’ committee spokesman said.Amjad Abu Asab, a spokesman for a…

[Wednesday January 15, 2014] Israeli bulldozers, on Wednesday, razed around 60 dunums (nearly 15 acres) of land belonging to Palestinians in the village of Jalud, south of Nablus, according to…

Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah met with representatives from the Palestinian union for the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees on Wednesday, a Palestinian official has said.Labor Minister Ahmad al-Majdalani said that…

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[Wednesday at Dawn January 15, 2014] A number of Israeli settlers infiltrated into Deir Estia town, near the central West Bank district of Salfit, and burned the entrance of its…

[Wednesday Morning, January 15, 2014] Several Israeli military vehicles carried out a limited invasion into Palestinian agricultural lands, east of Abasan town, east of the southern Gaza Strip city of…

[Tuesday, January 14, 2014] Dr. Ehab Bseiso, head of the Media Office of the Palestinian government in the West Bank, stated that Israeli soldiers obstructed the convoy of Palestinian Prime…

[Tuesday Evening, January 14, 2014] Palestinian sources have reported that several residents have been treated for the effects of teargas inhalation after Israeli soldiers invaded the Burqin town, west of…

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Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim Ibn Hamad Al Thani has given orders to grant work visas to 20,000 Palestinians, the Palestinian ambassador to Qatar told Ma’an News Agency, on Monday.The move…

[Tuesday, January 14, 2014] Dozens of Israeli settlers, protected by soldiers, took over a Palestinian-owned plot of land in an area east of the city of Hebron, and began planting…

Al Ray – Palestinians have been barred from objecting to Israeli military court decisions to confiscate their property, under a new injunction signed last month by the head of the…

[Tuesday at Dawn, January 14, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various districts in the occupied West Bank, kidnapping seventeen Palestinians, including 11 in Azzoun, near the northern West Bank city of…

Gaza – [Monday Evening, January 13, 2014] Palestinian medical sources said that a three-year-old child was injured after the Israeli army bombarded central Gaza. Soldiers also fired shells into several…

Palestinians blocked major roads in Ramallah, on Sunday morning, in protest of a lack of public services resulting from the ongoing strike by UNRWA employees. Palestinians blocked major roads in…

[Monday, January 13, 2014] Israeli authorities have seized emergency tents provided by the United Nations to shelter families whose homes were demolished by the army last week, according to a…

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[Monday Morning, January 13, 2014] A number of nonviolent Palestinian activists closed the entrance of the Eliezer illegal Israeli settlement, one of the settlements of the Gush Etzion settlement bloc,…

[Monday, January 13, 2014] Local sources have reported that a number of Israeli settlers cut down nearly 50 Palestinian olive trees, east of Yatta town, south of the southern West…

[Monday, January 13, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded various areas in the southern West bank district of Hebron, and kidnapped five Palestinians. Three more Palestinians were kidnapped in Bethlehem, and two…

(Ma’an) The following is an excerpt from an interview originally published on ‘The Wall has Ears: Conversations for Palestine’ on Jan. 8, 2014. http://lemuradesoreilles.org/2014/01/08/the-palestinian…falk/Frank Barat is an activist based in…

[Sunday January 12, 2014] Israeli forces set up a flying checkpoint, on Sunday, near the entrance of a southern West Bank village, according to a popular committee spokesman.Soldiers stopped traffic…

Israeli forces raided, on Sunday, a number of homes in the northern and southern West Bank, set up checkpoints and summoned individuals for interrogation, according to security sources.The Palestinian News…

[Saturday January 11, 2014] The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees has reported that Palestinian political prisoners held at the Israeli detention facility ‘Ramon’ started a hunger strike to protest the latest…

[Saturday Evening, January 11, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that several residents have been wounded during clashes which took place between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youth in the Aida…

[Saturday evening, January 11, 2014] Palestinian medical sources said that a young Palestinian man was shot and wounded by Israeli army fire in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.Eyewitnesses…

[Saturday January 11, 2014] Israeli sources have reported that an Israeli man, 30 years of age, was stabbed in the neck in occupied Jerusalem.The police said that the attacker fled…

Israeli finance minister Yair Lapid has become the latest senior official to warn about the serious impact of growing boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns targeting Israel.“The world seems to…

Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has died, following a long illness, reports Al Ray with Sky News.The 85-year-old’s son was quoted as saying that he had died, at the…

The Israeli Housing Ministry announced, on Friday morning, new tenders for 1,400 housing units within settlements in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, according to Haaretz. The announcement was…

[Saturday at Dawn, January 11, 2014] Dozens of Israeli soldiers have invaded the town of Azzoun, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and kidnapped three Palestinians.Eyewitnesses stated…

The Hamas-led government in the besieged Gaza Strip warned that Israel is escalating its aggression on Gaza, and that armed resistance groups in the coastal region have the right to…

[Saturday, January 11, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded, late on Friday night and on Saturday, at dawn, the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, and various areas in the southern…

Dozens of nonviolent Palestinian activists managed to stop a meeting that was taking place at the Ambassador Hostel in occupied Jerusalem, between Palestinian and Israeli officials, and said “normalization with…

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Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday evening [January 9 2013], the ‘Ezbet al-Tabib village, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, firing gas bombs and causing dozens…

Jerusalem – January 9 2014, Eyewitnesses said that a settler child, approximately 12 years of age, sprayed the face of a Palestinian girl with chlorine and fled the scene. Soldiers…

[Thursday January 9, 2014] A number of extremist Israeli settlers infiltrated the Palestinian village of Sinjil, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and wrote racist graffiti on walls…

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[Thursday January 9, 2014] Six people from Jerusalem, Salfit, Jenin, Ramallah and Hebron were arrested by Israeli forces today, according to local and security sources. A Palestinian boy from Himza,…

[Thursday Morning, January 9, 2014] 17 Palestinian youth were injured, this morning, after occupation soldiers fired rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition at them in Adhaisha camp, in the Bethlehem…

[Thursday January 9, 2014] Three Palestinians have been injured after an Israeli airstrike targeted the southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday, according to medical officials.Ashraf al-Qidra, Gaza’s health ministry spokesman, told…

Management of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has refused to increase the salaries of Palestinian employees in the Gaza Strip. UNRWA employees in Gaza…

Israel is refusing to allow Palestinians the usage of a World Bank funded landfill to the south of Jerusalem, according to Israeli daily Haaretz. The Palestinian News Network (PNN) reports…

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I was video chatting with my family back in Beit Sahour, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, chatting with my mother and family members back there, despite the 10-hour…

[Wednesday January 8, 2014] The “Miles Of Smiles 24” humanitarian convoy arrived in the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Border Terminal, between the besieged Gaza Strip and Egypt.The Governmental Committee…

[Wednesday Afternoon, January 8, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that at least one Palestinian was wounded after Israeli soldiers attacked the funeral procession of a Palestinian fighter killed earlier…

[Wednesday January 8, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that one Palestinian has been killed, and two children injured, one seriously, when Israeli soldiers fired shells into the Al-Kassarat area,…

[Wednesday January 8, 2014] Palestinian sources have reported that a number of Israeli settlers infiltrated Madama village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, attacked Palestinian property and…

An Israeli official said that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged King Abdullah, of Jordan, and King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz, of Saudi Arabia, to talk the Palestinian leadership into…

[Tuesday Evening, January 7, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that at least fifteen young Palestinian men have been injured after Israeli soldiers invaded Al-Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron,…

A potentially violent confrontation was defused Tuesday in the Palestinian village of Qusra, south of Nablus, after a group of 11 Israeli settlers invaded the village to carry out a…

[Tuesday at Dawn, January 7, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded the northern West Bank district of Nablus, and the southern West Bank district of Hebron, kidnapping five Palestinians. Several Palestinians kidnapped…

Israeli Peace Now Movement revealed, Monday, that Israel is planning the construction of 272 units of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, and that the decision was made…

A Palestinian man has died inside of an Israeli checkpoint, on Sunday, in the northern West Bank, while on his way to work in Israel.According to witnesses, 59-year-old Adel Muhammad…

On Monday evening, a siege broke out on the town of Beit Awwa, south-west of Hebron in the West Bank, after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the tower near…

Freed detainee, Naim Shawamra, was moved to a hospital in Jordan after Israeli authorities finally granted the approval, following extended delays, Palestinian officials in the occupied West Bank said.Palestinian Minister…

[Monday January 6, 2014] Israeli Settlers stormed the village of Urif, in the northern West Bank, south of Nablus, under heavy guard of Israeli soldiers.Al Ray news agency has reported…

51,000 children have been out of school for over a month, over 40 health clinics have been closed and garbage is piling up around the camps, due to the recent…

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[Monday January 6, 2014] US Secretary of State John Kerry is on his way home today, after four days of intense diplomacy, insisting that progress has been made and despite…

[Monday at Dawn, January 6, 2014] Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the Kufur Ni’ma village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and kidnapped a Palestinian journalist.Local sources…

[Monday Morning, January 6, 2014] A number of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian school and a water tank in Orif village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.Local…

[Sunday Morning, January 5, 2014] According to media sources, an Israeli settler violently assaulted a 12-year-old Palestinian girl who was on her way to school this morning, in the old…

[Saturday Evening, January 4, 2014] Israeli soldiers violently assaulted several Palestinians in Um Al-Kheir village, east of Yatta, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.Rateb Jabour, coordinator of the…

[Sunday January 5, 2014] Israeli police officers kidnapped a Palestinian in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem, while Israeli soldiers kidnapped three Palestinians in Beit Fajjar town, south of…

Israeli sources claimed that the army managed, late on Saturday evening, to foil an attack on the Migdal Oz Israeli settlement, in the Gush Etzion settlement block, west of the…

[Saturday January 4, 2014] Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Saeb Erekat, said that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held a meeting with…

[Saturday January 4, 2014] A group of youngsters from Gaza began, on Saturday morning, a day of hunger in solidarity with Palestinian refugees in Syria, under the slogan ‘On Hunger…

[Friday Evening, January 3, 2014] Palestinian medical sources said that two Palestinians were shot and wounded by Israeli military fire east of the Jabalia town, in the northern part of…

[Friday January 3, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that several Palestinians have been injured by Israeli army fire in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part…

[Friday January 3, 2014] Israeli soldiers kidnapped a young Palestinian woman in Bab Al-‘Amoud, in occupied East Jerusalem, allegedly after she tried to stab an Israeli soldier.According to Israeli Police…

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[Friday January 3, 2014] Israel has conducted, today, a successful experiment of the ‘Arrow 3’ missile interceptor, the second of a series of missile tests being conducted jointly with the…

An Italian solidarity delegation has arrived in the Gaza Strip, on Thursday evening via the Rafah crossing, in order to assess the humanitarian situation across Gaza’s five governorates and refugee…

[Friday January 3, 2014] Palestinian Medical sources have reported that a Palestinian teen has died of wounds suffered Thursday, after Israeli soldiers opened fire at an area in northern Gaza.The…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, for the week of 26 Dec. 2013 – 01 Jan. 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human…

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[Thursday January 2, 2014] Israeli Interior Minister, Gideon Sa’ar, placed the cornerstone for a new illegal settlement in the occupied Jordan Valley of the West Bank, Palestine TV has reported.The…

[Thursday January 2, 2014] Undercover forces of the Israeli army have invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem, kidnapping two Palestinians.Local sources have reported that undercover soldiers, driving a local…

[Thursday at Dawn, January 2, 2014] Israeli soldiers invaded Al-‘Ezariyya town, southeast of occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped one Palestinian. Local sources have reported that the soldiers violently broke into…

[Wednesday Evening, January 1, 2014] Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the Tabaqa village, south of Doura, in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, invaded local homes and kidnapped several…

[Wednesday Evening, January 1, 2014] The Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Kufur Qaddoum village, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, has reported that an elderly…

Amidst ongoing Israeli violations, invasions and assaults, as well as ongoing illegal settlement construction activities, U.S. Secretary of State John Jerry is to start his tenth tour in Tel Aviv…