Israel Demolishes Historic Islamic Sites In Jerusalem
The al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage issued a press release on Monday revealing that Israeli bulldozers destroyed and demolished historic Islamic sites dating back to the Umayyad, Abbasid and…
Army Demolishes Sheds, Confiscates Water Tanks In Wadi al-Maleh
On Monday afternoon Israeli soldiers demolished several sheds used by Bedouins in Wadi al-Maleh in the northern plains of the West Bank. They confiscated several water tanks used by the…
Palestine Today 06 25 2012
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Egypt Closes, Re-Opens The Rafah Terminal
On Sunday after Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah Border Terminal on the Gaza Strip without any prior notice and without providing any explanation for the move. The terminal was re-opened…
16 Palestinian Injured Near Bethlehem
Palestinian medical sources in the West Bank city of Bethlehem reported Sunday that sixteen Palestinian workers were wounded when their van flipped over after Israeli soldiers pursued it near Husan…
Clashes Reported In Hebron After Soldiers Kidnap Child
Israeli soldiers invaded the town of Beit Ummar, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on Sunday at dawn and kidnapped one child. Clashes were reported after the army…
Major US Retirement Fund Divests From Caterpillar
After a long campaign by human rights activists urging divestment from Israel, the US retirement fund TIAA-CREF has removed the Caterpillar corporation from its socially responsible investment fund, a divestment…
16 Palestinians, Including 4 Children, Killed In One Week
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that one resident was killed, and ten others were wounded, when the Israeli army bombarded, on Saturday evening, an area West of…
19 Palestinians Injured In New Wave Of Airstrikes Targeting Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that 19 Palestinians were wounded in a series of renewed Israeli air strikes targeting the Gaza Strip. The attacks come after two…
Soldiers Attack Bil’in’s Weekly Protest
One Palestinian was injured, and dozens of protesters suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers attacked peace activists participating in the weekly nonviolent protest against the wall…
2 Killed, 5 Injured in Israeli Air Strike; Multiple Projectiles Fired From the Gaza Strip
Two Palestinians have been killed and five others injured, on Friday, following two separate Israeli air force strikes in the Gaza Strip.Reuters has reported that both men were fighters belonging…
This Week in Palestine week 25 2012
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Demonstrators Protest Apartheid in al-Ma’sara
Dozens of Palestinians, joined by participants from around the world, held a peaceful protest in the West Bank village of al-Ma’sara on Friday demanding an end to the occupation and…
Further Projectile Fire Comes From the Gaza Strip
Despite the Hamas movement seeking a truce following this week’s cross-border clashes with Israel, projectiles were fired on Thursday from the Gaza Strip.Israeli news reports state that a total of…
Army Kidnaps Several Residents In The West Bank
On Friday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded the West Bank districts of Hebron and Bethlehem, and broke into and searched several homes and kidnapped three residents before taking them to…
PCHR Weekly Report: 10 Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 14– 20 June 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
Palestine Today 06 21 2012
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Soldiers Kidnap Six Fishermen In Gaza
Israeli soldiers kidnapped six Palestinian fishermen in Palestinian territorial waters, on Wednesday at night, near the as-Sudaniyya area northwest of Gaza City. Local sources reported that several Israeli Navy ships…
Twelve Injured In Tunnel Accident
Palestinian medical sources reported that twelve residents were wounded, on Thursday before noon, after a siege-busting tunnel collapsed, east of the Sheikh Zayed area in the northern part of the…
Deal Struck by Hunger-Striking Prisoner but Others Still Suffer
After 92 days of hunger strike, Mahmoud al-Sarsak resumed eating once Israeli prison authorities agreed to release him on July 10th, however other hunger-striking prisoners continue to be mistreated as…
The Al-Qassam Brigades Seeks Truce After Third Day of Airstrikes
Following days of strikes and counterattacks between Israeli military forces and Qassam brigades in Gaza, the Palestinian organization has announced its desire for a truce. The conditional ceasefire would be…
Palestine Today 06 20 2012
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Cross-Border Fire Goes Into Third Day
Cross-border fire continued on Wednesday with Israeli media outlets reporting that approximately a dozen projectiles were fired from the Gaza Strip. The State of Israel reported that a resistance fighter…
Three Injured In Fresh Attacks Targeting Gaza
The Israeli Air Force carried out several airstrikes during the overnight and early dawn hours Wednesday targeting different parts of the Gaza Strip, leading to at least three injuries among…
Israel Promises 300 Units In Exchange For Relocating 5 Homes
The conservative Israeli government of Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, reached agreement with residents of the Ulpana illegal settlement, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, stating that Israel will…
Army Carries Out Several Airstrikes Targeting Gaza
The Israeli army carried out several airstrikes targeting the Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening leading to several injuries and excessive damage. The strikes came shortly after a 2-year-old Palestinian child…
Child, 2, Killed By Israeli Shell In Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a 2-year-old child was killed, on Tuesday at night, and her brother was injured, when a missile fired by the Israeli…
Palestine Today 06 19 2012
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In Israel: “Textbook Warns, Associating With Arabs Is Dangerous”
Arab Member of Israeli Knesset, Hanin Zoabi, sent a letter to the Legal Councilor in the country demanding him to order an investigation into a study guide for the Israeli…
5 Detained Across West Bank Invasion, Buildings Demolished in Bethlehem
The Israeli military detained five Palestinians from various locations in the West Bank and several buildings were demolished in Bethlehem on Monday night, reports Ma’an News Agency.During raids in Qabatia,…
Lieberman: ‘Abbas, Greatest Obstacle To Peace’
Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, of the far right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) Party, stated that Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, is an “obstacle to the peace process”, and added…
Two Children Killed By Israeli Missiles In Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported Tuesday that medics and rescue teams located the bodies of two children under the rubble of a building that came under Israeli…
Israeli Army Deploys Tanks On Egypt’s Border
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the Israeli army deployed tanks along the border with Egypt following clashes that took place on Tuesday near an Israeli settlement in the area. Deploying…
40 Detainees Wounded In Eshil Israeli Prison
Israeli soldiers stormed, on Tuesday, sections of the Eshil Israeli detention facility, in Be’er as-Sabe’ (Bir Shiva), wounding at least forty detainees, after forcing approximately 200 detainees under the sun…
Being a Journalist and Peace Activist in Palestine
In the Palestinian territories, journalism has become a major tool of non-violent resistance. More than anywhere else, the lines between journalism and activism are often blurred. Exposing the truth about…
Settlers Burn Mosque Near Jerusalem
A number of extremist Israeli settlers burnt, on Tuesday at dawn, a local mosque in Jaba’ Palestinian village, in occupied East Jerusalem, and defaced some of its walls. Local sources…
Tension Mounts In Refugee Camps In Lebanon
Two Palestinian refugees were killed during clashes that took place, on Monday evening, with Lebanese army soldiers surrounding the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon and in Ein al-Hilwa…
Hamas Denounces Attack On Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, denounced the Lebanese Army attack on the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon on Monday. The attack led to several injuries among the refugees. Five…
Israel Imposes Sanctions On Hunger Striking Detainees
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that the Israeli Prison Authority imposed sanctions on a number of hunger striking detainees, who started their strike 19 days ago, demanding that the…
Palestine Today 06 18 2012
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Two Fighters Killed In Beit Hanoun
The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, reported that two of its fighters were killed, Monday, after the Israeli army fired missile at them, in Beit Hanoun,…
Three Palestinians, One Israeli, Killed In Clashes Along Egyptian Border
Three Palestinians and one Israeli were killed during clashes that took place Monday morning along the Egyptian border with Israel. The army claims that a Palestinian armed group on the…
Two Palestinians Killed By A Settler’s Fire Near Hebron
Palestinian medical sources reported that two Palestinians were shot and killed, on Sunday, and one resident was injured, after an Israeli settler opened fire at them near As-Sammoa’ town, in…
Army Invades Several Areas In Jenin
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the northern West Bank city of Jenin, the Jenin refugee camp, and the towns of Borqeen, Al-Hashmiyya, and Kafreet, before breaking into and…
Army Bombards Rafah, Five Injured
The Israeli Air Force bombarded, late on Sunday evening, a blacksmith workshop in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, leading to extensive damage and at least five…
Israel Blames Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood For Grad Attack
Israeli security officials accused the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt of asking Hamas to fire grad missiles from northern Sinai. Two days ago Grad missiles were fired from northern Sinai and…
16 Soldiers Injured In West Bank Accident
Israeli sources reported Saturday that sixteen soldiers were wounded when a bus transporting them flipped over near an Israeli military roadblock on the Tunnel Road, otherwise known as Road #60,…
At Least 10 Injured In Nabi Saleh Weekly Protest
Palestinian medical sources reported Friday that at least ten protesters were wounded in Nabi Saleh village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly…
Soldiers Attack Weekly Protest In Al-Ma’sara
Media sources reported that Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall in Al-Ma’sara village, near Bethlehem.The protest started from the center of the village before the…
Child Killed, 10 Injured, In Nahr Al-Bared Refugee Camp
The Palestine Press News Agency reported that one Palestinian child was killed, on Friday evening, and ten others were wounded, during clashes that took place with the Lebanese army.The child…
Resident Injured In Bil’in Weekly Protest
The Friends of Freedom and Justice in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, reported Friday that one resident was shot and wounded in his left forearm…
This Week in Palestine week 24 2012
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Three Fishermen Kidnapped In Gaza
The Israeli Navy kidnapped, late on Thursday evening, three Palestinian fishermen, while in Palestinian territorial waters, close to the Gaza shore, the Palestinian Fishermen Syndicate reported.The Syndicate said that an…
Army Kidnaps Several Residents In Ramallah
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday at dawn, several Palestinians in the central West Bank district of Ramallah. Some of the kidnapped residents are former political prisoners who were previously kidnapped…
Two Injured By Israeli Shells In Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported Thursday that the army fired a number of shells into al-Kurd Hill, located between al-Qarara town, near the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, and…
Gaza Water Unfit For Human Consumption
Several charitable non-governmental organizations in the Gaza Strip issued a statement warning the residents that drinking water in Gaza is unfit for human consumption, and adding that the water in…
IJV Canada Endorses United Church Working Group Call to Boycott Settlement Products
Independent Jewish Voices-Canada (IJV) today issued a response endorsing the recommendations of the United Church of Canada’s Working Group on Israel/Palestine Policy (WGIP). IJV Canada Endorses United Church Working Group…
Israeli Navy Attacks Oliva Boat and Holds another Boat in Gaza Waters
On Wednesday, 13 June 2012, the Israeli Navy attacked Oliva Boat, which monitors the situation off the Gaza coast, and held a fishing boat in Rafah waters in the southern…
Occupied Lives: Closure of Gaza’s Agricultural Industry
For the last 3 years, Yousef Shaath has been the Cash Crops Project Manager for the Agricultural Relief Committee (PARC) in Gaza City. This particular project has been operating since…
PCHR Weekly Report: Israeli troops abduct 19 civilians in 45 incursions this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 07– 13 June 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
Palestine Today 06 14 2012
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Ex-Israeli soldier is seeking Palestinian citizenship
A 23-year old Israeli who served in the Israeli army told reporters Thursday that he wants to renounce his Israeli citizenship and is seeking Palestinian citizenship. He hopes to live…
Abed-Rabbo: “Abbas-Netanyahu Meeting Must Carry Commitments”
Secretary-General of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Abed-Rabbo, stated that there are certain ideas about arranging a meeting between Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,…
For The Third Time, Son Of Arab MK Imprisoned For Refusing Military Service
An Israeli military court ordered the imprisonment of Amro Naffa’, 18, the son of Arab Member of Knesset, Sa’id Naffa’, for two more weeks for refusing military service in the…
Netanyahu Considering Border Fence With Jordan
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, instructed the defense establishment to weigh the possibility of constructing a fortified border fence along the border with Egypt.Talking to the Israeli Radio, Brigadier Gen.…
Palestinian Killed In Tunnel Accident
Palestinian medical sources reported that one resident was killed on Wednesday evening when a barrel fell on him as he was working in a siege-busting border tunnel, in Rafah, in…
Report: “Army Kidnapped 21 University Students In May”
The European Network to Support the Rights of Palestinian Prisoners (UFree) issued a press release revealing that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, in May, 21 Palestinian university students, including 19 students who…
Occupied Lives: I shall not be moved from my land
Yousef Shaheen (34) owns a wheat farm in Abasan Village, east of Khan Younis. On Friday, 1 June 2012, at around 6:30 in the morning, Yousef got a phone call…
Palestine Today 06 13 2012
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6 Arrested at Women’s Movement Walk in Hebron
Five activists and one journalist have been arrested on Wednesday at a women’s movement walk in the West Bank city of Hebron.Activists have stated on social media platform Twitter that…
FIFA Expresses ‘Grave Concerns’ Over Israeli Detention of Footballers; Letter Calls for Release
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has released a statement on Tuesday via its website regarding the illegal detention of Palestinian footballers, including Mahmoud Sarsak, and a letter has…
Multiple Detentions of Youths Across the West Bank
At least seven Palestinians have been detained on Tuesday in a variety of locations across the West Bank.Maan News Agency reports that residents of the village of Iraq Burin, in…
Number of Palestinians Compared To Settlers In Jerusalem Is 10 to 7
Palestinian sources reported that the number of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem comparing to the number of Jewish-Israelis living in settlements in and around the occupied city is 10 to…
Residents Open Gate That Closed Their Village’s Main Entrance
Dozens of youth of Nabi Saleh Palestinian village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, opened on Tuesday evening, the main gate that was installed by the army at…
Palestinian Refugee Killed In Syria
Palestinian medical sources reported Tuesday that a Palestinian refugee was killed during clashes that took place between Syrian gunmen in Hama refugee camp, in central Syria. The slain Palestinian, a…
Israel To Demolish 50 Structures, Tents, Near Hebron
The so-called “Civil Administration” that runs under the Israeli Military in the occupied West Bank, handed military orders on Tuesday for the destruction of 52 structures and tents in the…
Palestine Today 06 12 2012
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Israel Demolishes A Home, Structures, In Jerusalem
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli soldiers demolished, on Tuesday at dawn, a Palestinian building in Beit Hanina neighborhood, north of occupied East Jerusalem. The army also demolished sheds and structures…
Soldiers Kidnap 12 Palestinians
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, several areas in the West Bank, broke into and searched dozens of homes, and kidnapped twelve residents. The army also informed two residents…
Residency Of 240.000 Palestinians Revoked By Israel Since 1967
Israeli daily, Haaretz, published a report revealing that Israel revoked the residency rights of around 240.000 Palestinians since it occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, in…
Soldiers Invade Gaza
Israeli soldiers, supported by four armored military vehicles, and five armored bulldozers, invaded on Monday afternoon, an area Southeast of Gaza City, opened fire at random, and uprooted farmlands.The Quds…
Palestinian Prisoner Mahmoud Sarsak Is In A Deteriorating Health Situation
UFree Network holds the Israeli occupation responsible for the critical health situation of Palestinian detainee Mahmoud Sarsak, who launched a hunger strike 89 days ago.On Sunday 10-6-2012, Israeli Prisons Service…
Palestine Today 06 11 2012
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Two Children Taken from Beit Ommar
Two Palestinian children have been kidnapped by the Israeli military, in a pre-dawn raid in Monday, from the town of Beit Ommar in the Hebron district in the West Bank.The…
Army Kidnaps Palestinian Family In Jerusalem; Child Taken from Playground
A combined force of the Israeli military, police and security services, kidnapped on Monday at dawn, a family in occupied East Jerusalem. Members of Rebah Abu Hums’ family were kidnapped…
Protest Held In Solidarity With Hunger Strikers
Dozens of activists, religious figures and families of Palestinian detainees held by Israel, participated Monday in a protest held in front of the Red Cross headquarters in Jerusalem, in solidarity…
Under Guise Of Tourism, Israel Plans East Jerusalem Construction
The so-called Construction and Planning Committee of the Jerusalem City Council, is scheduled to meet on Monday to approve a final draft on a new massive settlement projects in Silwan…
Settler Attacks in Retaliation for Regulation Bill Failure
Eight cars belonging to Palestinians were flattened by settlers on Sunday night in Shuafat, Jerusalem. ‘Death to Arabs’ and ‘Ulpana’ were written on cars as retaliation for the failure of…
Israeli Forces Attack Homes in Gaza Strip
Israeli forces attacked the homes and lands of Palestinian residents in the east of Khan Younis, South of the Gaza Strip on Monday morning.According to eye witnesses, Israeli forces situated…
Settlers Cut Olive Trees Near Hebron
A number of extremist Israeli settlers of the Maon illegal settlement, cut on Sunday morning, several Palestinian olive trees, east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city…
Soldiers Prevent The Reconstruction Of A Mosque Demolished Last Year
Israeli soldiers prevented, Saturday, residents of khirbit Al-Mafqara, a small village near the southern West bank city of Hebron, from rebuilding a mosque that was demolished by the army in…
Soldiers Attack Beit Ummar’s Weekly Protest
Israeli soldiers attacked, on Saturday afternoon, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and settlements, in Beit Ummar town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped a…
Egypt Said To Be Trying To Ensure Resumption Of Talks
The Al-Hayat Newspaper in London reported that a senior Egyptian source stated that Cairo is holding talks with Israel in an attempt to ensure the resumption of direct peace talks…
This Week in Palestine week 23 2012
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Former Arafat Aid Convicted of Corruption in Absentia
An anti-graft court has convicted Mohammed Rashid on Thursday on charges of corruption and embezzlement, Reuters has reported.Rashid, an aide to late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, has been convicted in…
Hamas Arrest Resident in CEC Bomb Plot
A Palestinian has been arrested in the Gaza Strip under suspicion of planting a bomb at the headquarters of the Central Elections Committee, Maan News Agency has reported.Security personnel in…
Co-existence Village Vandalized in Price Tag Attack
Vandals attacked the village of Neve Shalom/ Wahat as-Salaam on Friday damaging cars and leaving racist graffiti.The slogans, which were sprayed onto buildings and cars, included ‘death to Arabs’ and…
PCHR Weekly Report: 3 killed, 23 wounded, including 8 children, by Israeli troops this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 31 May– 06 June 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found…
Court Decides To Deport 1,500 S. Sudan Migrants, Israel To Build 25,000 Cells
The Israeli Central Court ruled Thursday for the deportation of 1,500 migrants from Southern Sudan state; the ruling will be implemented in the coming few weeks. Israel also decided to…
Palestinian Killed In Tunnel Accident In Rafah
Palestinian medical sources reported Thursday that a Palestinian was killed and another was injured when a siege-busting tunnel, on the Gaza Egypt border, collapse while they were working inside it.The…