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The Friends of Freedom and Justice Committee in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, reported Friday that dozens of residents and international supporters were treated for…

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With South Africa taking the lead in banning all products from the Occupied Territories labeled as Israeli products, and now the Republic of Ireland and Denmark to follow suit it…

The Al-Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement, stated that all of its military branches will be united under one umbrella, adding that all efforts for this unity have…

The office of the detained democratically-elected head of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Dr. Aziz Dweik, denied reports claiming that Dr. Dweik received an “offer” from Israel to be exiled…

Fuad al-Khoffash, head of the Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies, stated that Palestinian detainee, Zuheir Lubbada, was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at a hospital in the northern West…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 17– 23 May 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…

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The WAFA News Agency reported today a UK Foreign Office statement issued on Wednesday. British Foreign Secretary William Hague told his visiting Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman that Israel’s settlement expansion…

In a PNN report today, the Al-Ahrar Centre for Prisoners’ Studies and Human Rights stated that on Wednesday, May 23rd, prisoner Sameh Elaiwe, 50, was transferred from Nablus city to…

The PNN reported that the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called for the release of Bahaa Khairi Moussa, Director of the Palestinian Prisoner Channel . Moussa was arrested on…

Ma’an news agency reported earlier today that prisoners in Huwarra prison have taken part in an open hunger strike for the second day in protest to the inhumane treatment of…

Haaretz reported today that the Amnesty International 2012 Annual Report for 2011 was released on Wednesday, and detailed violations of human rights worldwide. Among other things, the report is highly…

Reports from PNN have stated that the 18 year old Palestinian, Salah Zghair, is not dead.The Palestinian Prisoners Society has announced that Salah Zghair is in fact not dead, but…

Ma’an News Agency reported today that in an attempt to develop the Palestinian economy, Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad is due to meet with various businessmen and economists from the…

Despite an Israeli High Court ruling that the Ulpana settlement neighborhood must be vacated and demolished because it is illegal, a Knesset bill that had been proposed to circumvent the…

Palestinian sources reported that on Wednesday evening dozens of Israeli settlers closed the main road near Tiqua’ town, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, blocking Palestinian traffic which…

The Kol Hai (Live Sound) Israeli Radio reported that on Wednesday morning the Rabbinical Branch of the Israeli Military started the removal of 100 corpses of Palestinians buried in the…

According to the Palestine Press News Agency (Palpress) the Palestinian Contractors Union has stated that two Israeli companies have won bids for reconstructing water distilling stations destroyed by Israel during…

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The WAFA News Agency reported a statement issued by the spokesperson of the EU’s High Representative Catherine Ashton yesterday that the European Union defends the right of Palestinians to hold…

The WAFA News Agency reported a press release by the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) today that hotel occupancy in the Palestinian areas decreased by 16% in the first…

This opinion piece was first published by PNN on 17 May 2012. It raises serious questions about what if any contribution the various mediators have made to the Palestine/Israel ‘peace…

Givat HaMatos or “Airplane Hill”, so named for the military plane shot down during the six day war in 1967, has major new settlement plans for 2,610 housing units and…

Ma’an News Agency reported today on a Christian family whose four sons have all been imprisoned by the Israeli Military. ‘Since 2004, the whole family did not gather, not even…

The Palestinian News Network, PNN, reported that Israeli forces invaded an area east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip this morning.According to WAFA Agency News, 5 tanks and…

The Palestinian News Network, PNN, and Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, reported that Israeli forces invaded several areas of the West Bank on Tuesday, and abducted seven Palestinians. The Israeli Army…

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In the UK, the Jewish National Fund and more than 280 ‘concerned’ Jews, including the religious head of the Reform Movement, clashed this week over the charity’s invitation to Israeli…

Haaretz reported today that from the start of the second intifada in September 2000 through December 2011, the human rights group B’Tselem filed 57 complaints over soldiers who allegedly did…

Calls for Israel to be held responsible by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court for its settlement crimes on Palestinian land were voiced by Taysir Khalid, a…

Haaretz reported Monday that hundreds of Jewish youths participating in the Jerusalem Day flag procession Sunday shouted anti-Muslim slogans like ‘Mohammed is dead’ at Palestinian protesters gathered at Damascus Gate…

The water crisis in the West Bank is a consequence of Israel’s control and use of water resources, PA Prime Minister Salem Fayyad said on Monday. A conference on water…

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Elections should be held in approximately 6 months to form a new power sharing deal between rivals Fatah and Hamas officials have said.Stalled efforts at reconciliation previously make it unclear…

A recent court case, from May 8 2012, reported by Haartez has highlighted how The Absentee Property Law together with unsupported affadavits has been used to secure the evictions of…

A recent decision by the minister for trade and industry in South Africa to remove “Made in Israel” tags on products that are actually made in the West Bank settlements…

The Israeli Association for Civil Rights stated in a report published on Sunday that 84% percent of the Palestinian children of Jerusalem live below the poverty line.’Jerusalem Day’ 2012 was…

The Maan News Agency reported that on Sunday the Israeli Ofer Israeli Military Court postponed its verdict announcement in the case against the Coordinator of the Popular Resistance Committee, Naji…

Ma’an News Agency has reported on Monday that Dr. Nabil Shaath, a member of the Central Committee of Fatah, met separately the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Hugo…

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated Sunday that he will never accept any peace agreement that ‘divides Jerusalem’, adding that “Israel without Jerusalem is like a body without heart’.His statements…

Press Release By B’Tselem; On Saturday, 19.5.2012, around four thirty in the afternoon, a large group of settlers descended on the eastern outskirts of the village ‘Asira al-Qibliya, from the…

Israeli soldiers and policemen abducted, on Sunday evening, nine Palestinian youths, including a woman and a medic, during a protest at the Nablus Road in occupied East Jerusalem. The residents…

Palestinian medical sources reported Sunday that a Palestinian youth was injured near the Israeli settlement of Etzion, between Bethlehem and Hebron in the occupied West Bank. The soldiers then stepped…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Saturday, a nonviolent protest held in solidarity with the secretary of the National and Popular Committee in Beit Ummar town, near the southern West Bank city of…

Palestinian medical sources reported that two Palestinian were injured during clashes with Israeli settlers who invaded, on Saturday evening, the eastern area of the Aseera Al-Qibliyya village, south of the…

Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that Arab teachers and students at the Kfar Sava medical center are not allowed to use their mother-tongue despite the fact that Arabic is one of…

Palestinian sources reported that detainee Mahmoud Kamel As-Sarsak, currently held at the Ramla Prison Hospital is determined to continue his hunger strike until his release or death.Sarsak was kidnapped by…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recently issued its weekly report on Israeli violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the period 9-15 of May,…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza issued a statement revealing that 404 patients in Gaza who suffer from kidney failure are facing serious deterioration in their health because of…

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Palestininan News Network, PNN, reported on Thursday that Israel has unveiled a project to expand the settlement of ‘Ariel’ in the northern West Bank in two phases at the expense…

Israeli daily, Haaretz, reports today that the complaint about severe police violence against imprisoned protesters after a demonstration outside Ramle prison made by the Adalah advocacy group two weeks ago…

Palestinian News Network, PNN, reported from Hebrew radio that about 1500 settlers entered Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus late last night and early this morning, guarded by the Israeli military. The…

Teachers and students working in Kfar Sava hospital have been asked not to speak Arabic to their students and amongst the staff themselves. Despite Arabic being one of Israel’s official…

The Arab 48 News Agency reported on Thursday that dozens of Jewish settlers invaded the courtyards of Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, and performed ‘religious rituals’ amid tight security by…

The Arab 48 News Agency reported today that US Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, announced on Thursday that the United States will provide Israel with $70 million in immediate aid…

The Canadian Boat to Gaza, in cooperation, with international initiatives in the US, Australia and other countries, is launching a new initiative to challenge the illegal and inhumane Israeli blockade…

Two convoys organized by the International Campaign to Break the Siege on Gaza (ICBSG) with Lifeline Jordan ‘Ansar 2’ and Miles Of Smiles” solidarity convoys managed to enter the Gaza…

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The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, issued its weekly report (May 10 – 16) on Israeli violations in the occupied Palestinian territories, revealing that Israeli soldiers…

A number of extremist Israeli settlers invaded, Thursday, Einabous village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and torched a Palestinian car.Ghassan Douglas, a Palestinian official in charge of…

Palestinian medical sources reported Thursday that seven Palestinians were wounded when Israeli soldiers fired several artillery shells into the Al-Shujaeyya neighborhood, in Gaza. The shelling came after the army carried…

(Olympia, WA USA – May 16, 2012) – The verdict in the civil lawsuit against the State of Israel for the killing of peace activist Rachel Corrie more than nine…

Israel’s foreign and domestic policy seems to have tarnished its image on the world stage as it came joint third in an annual international BBC poll assessing the negative influence…

Ma’an News has reported from Bethlehem that Muhammad Rashid, a former adviser to the late President Yasser Arafat, is accused of embezzling tens of millions of dollars, the head of…

Ma’an News reported from Ramallah today that Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad lost his dual role as finance minister in a government reshuffle on Wednesday, as President Mahmoud Abbas…

Marking the annual Palestinian Prisoners Day of 2012, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights releases the film This short documentary addresses the issues of solitary confinement and other measures of…

Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported today that the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court has awarded legal and administrative custody over Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus in the middle West Bank to two rabbis who…

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The Palestinian News Network has reported that the Finance Committee of the Knesset approved on Tuesday the allocation of NIS 44 million to support settlements in the West Bank, and…

The Palestinian News Network reported that on Tuesday afternoon an undercover Israeli Security force attacked a young man from the town of Issawiya in Jerusalem and arrested him. In a…

During a visit to both Washington and the UN in New York, Israeli Military Intelligence Commander Major General Aviv Kochavi discussed the Iranian nuclear programme, the Syrian crisis, and Hezbollah’s…

Israeli sources reported that, last week, Israeli soldiers forced closure of a Palestinian elementary school in Khribit Jibna village, in the south Hebron hills, in the southern part of the…

May 15, 2012 On this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer, home demolitions, land confiscation…

In Haifa District Court on Tuesday the judge ruled that whether a person is an Israeli citizen is determined by whether that person is of Jewish descent, i.e. born to…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday, a Palestinian child in Beit Ummar town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on Tuesday. He was repeatedly kicked and punched to various…

Today, 15 May 2012, marks the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the anniversary of the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland. This was the harshest…

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Ma’an News reported Medics as saying that over 80 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces near Ramallah on Tuesday, as protesters commemorated the Nakba, or catastrophe, the name…

Israeli settlement building and curbs on economic development in the occupied West Bank risk wrecking Palestinian hopes of creating their own state, the European Union was reported by Reuters as…

Reuters has reported that Israel allowed the export of Palestinian-made clothes from the Gaza Strip for the first time in at least five years on Monday. Raed Fattouh, who coordinates…

The Palestinians mark the Nakba Day on May 15; the day armed forces uprooted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and lands, and destroyed their villages, killed and…

The Israeli Government has decided to transfer 700 illegal Sudanese immigrants back to their country, the State of South Sudan, after it concluded that “their lives will not be endangered…

After an ongoing 79 days of hunger-strike, Palestinian detainees Tha’er Halahla and Bilal Thiab signed an agreement with the Israeli Prison Authorities to end their hunger-strike in exchange for their…

The Israeli Police kidnapped Amro Naffa’, 18, the son of Arab Member of Israeli Knesset, Sa’id Naffa’, after he refused to go for compulsory military service, rejecting any part of…

Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that Israel has agreed to a large number of the legitimate demands of the hunger-striking Palestinian political prisoners, including ending its illegal solitary…

According to Wafa’ Abu Ghalma, the wife of detainee Ahed Abu Ghalma, her husband has been denied medical treatment or hospitalization by the Israeli prison authorities despite a serious deterioration…

Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Beit Ummar, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, broke into two houses and handed the owners instructions for two young men to…

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With some prisoners in serious failing health, the Palestinian Prisoner Association says Israel will present a deal that will include references to administrative detention, solitary confinement, and visitation permits for…

One month after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sent a letter that it was hoped would initiate efforts over frozen peace negotiations, Netanyahu rejected demands to halt Jewish settlement building in…

Ma’an agency news reported that a group of demonstrators closed the main entrance to the settlement of Ma’ale Adumin on Sunday located east of the city of Jerusalem, one of…

The Palestinian News Network, PNN, reports that a number of international organizations working in the Occupied Palestinian territories have stated that the Israeli military has demolished many of their European-funded…

Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that EU Foreign Ministers are expected to issue a condemnation of Israel’s actions in the occupied West Bank, and the escalating attacks carried out by extremist…

It is a departure for both of us to reach out to you in this way, but we are feeling as if we must. The world offers us many opportunities…

Israel has been urged to give immediate and sustainable health care to Palestinian hunger strikers including their transfer to civilian hospitals.Some 1,600 Palestinian prisoners are currently refusing food in protest…

A group of armed extremist Israeli settlers occupied privately-owned Palestinian farmland at gunpoint. The land belongs to a resident of Al-Khader city, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.Coordinator…

In a press release, the leftist Palestinian People’s Party (PPP) announced that Engineer Anwar Fuad Riziq, from Beit Jala City near Bethlehem, was assassinated on Wednesday, by a bomb that…

The commander of an elite Israeli undercover unit has admitted that soldiers dressed up as Palestinians and threw stones at Israeli soldiers during non-violent demonstrations beginning in 2005, in the…