Christ at the Checkpoint, New Direction for Evangelical Christians
For the first time the Baraka Presbyterian Church, located in Bethlehem, added their support for nonviolent action to that of other denominations opposed to the occupation of Palestine by Israel.…
Right-wing Attack on Military Base Linked to Israeli Yeshiva Students
An investigation by the Israeli police has found that a group of right-wing Israeli students from Jerusalem organized a bus to enter the West Bank and attack a military base…
Palestinian Killed, 11 Wounded, As Army Bombards Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that one Palestinian was killed and eleven others were wounded in two Israeli Air Strikes in one hour, which targeted Gaza City…
Addameer Calls Attention to the 443 Gazans Detained in Israeli Prisons
Ramallah, 27 December 2011 – On the third anniversary of Israel’s offensive on the Gaza Strip (27 December 2008–18 January 2009), Addameer reiterates its unequivocal condemnation of the Israeli policy…
Palestine Today 12 27 2011
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Child Injured By Army Fire In Central Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a 13-year-old child was moderately wounded on Tuesday at noon, after being shot by a live round fired by Israeli soldiers…
MK Demands Firing Of Colleagues Who Refuse To Recognize Israel As Jewish State
Likud Party Member of Knesset, Danny Danon, presented a draft of a new legislation that calls for the firing of any member of Knesset who refuses to recognize Israel as…
Hamas Expresses Support For Syrian Regime
Head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, Khaled Mashal, stated that the Hamas movement supports the Syrian President, Bashar Assad, “As he supported the Palestinian resistance and the…
Palestine Today 12 26 2011
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Israel Kidnapped More Than Three Thousand Palestinians In 2011
Former detainee and Palestinian researcher specializing in detainees’ affairs, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, stated that Israeli soldiers arrested 3,312 Palestinians, including children, since the beginning of this year. He said that the…
Fayyad: “No Peace Without Jerusalem”
Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, slammed the Israeli cabinet for its deliberations on passing a law that declares Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish people, and said that…
Boycott Campaigners Claim Credit For Denial Of London Contract To Company Invested In Settlements
A French transportation company, Veolia, that has been the target of a campaign by human rights groups around the world for its investment in Israeli settlements, has been denied a…
Abbas In Bethlehem: “We Believe In Peace, We Seek Peace And Justice”
During his participation in Christmas celebrations in the birthplace of Jesus Christ, Bethlehem, Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that the Palestinian leadership works for peace, and will never abandon its…
Eshtayya: “Palestinian Lands Are For the Palestinians, Not For Settlements”
Mohammad Eshtayya, member of the Central Committee of Fateh movement, headed by Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his government, must understand that the…
Troops Attack Bil’in Weekly Protest; Dozens Injured
Israeli soldiers attacked on Friday the weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall and settlements, in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.Dozens of local…
E.U. Warns Israel Against Connecting Ma’ale Adumim With Jerusalem
The European Union warned the Israeli government against creating a geographical contiguity between the Ma’ale Adumim settlement and occupied East Jerusalem by constructing a new settlement in the area.E.U. envoy,…
PCHR Weekly Report: One Palestinian killed, three wounded by Israeli forces this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 15- 21 December 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that…
Settlers Enter The Al Aqsa Mosque
A group of Israeli settlers entered that Al Aqsa Mosque on Thursday, in occupied East Jerusalem, under the protection of dozens of Israeli soldiers. The settlers were marking the “Hanukkah”…
Israel Voids Defense Contract With Turkey
Israeli sources reported Thursday that the Israel government voided a $141 Million defense contract with Turkey fearing that the aerial defense systems that Tel Aviv sold to Ankara would “fall…
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, To Join Temporary PLO Panel
Palestinian sources in Cairo reported Thursday that the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad Movements agreed to join the temporary panel of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). The Palestinian National Initiative…
Palestine Today 12 22 2011
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Jenin Refugee Camp Targeted with High Number of Arrests
Eight Palestinians were arrested in pre dawn raids during a large scale incursion by the Israeli military on Thursday in the Jenin Refugee Camp. Over 30 arrests have been made…
Former Legislator Sentenced To Three Months
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that the Israeli Ofer Military Court sentenced, Thursday, former legislator Husam Khader to three months under administrative detention without charges filed against him. The…
Settlers Attack Child In Jerusalem, Clashes Reported
Eyewitnesses in occupied East Jerusalem reported Thursday that a group of extremist Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian child in al-Wad neighborhood, in the Old City, leading to clashes between the…
Palestinian Worker Wounded By Army Fire In Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported Wednesday that a Palestinian worker, aged just 19 years old, was shot and wounded by the Israeli armyin the northern part of the Gaza Strip.The sources…
Israeli Troops Invade Tulkarem, Firing Live Rounds And Tear Gas
A number of Israeli military vehicles invaded the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem and the nearby refugee camps on Tuesday afternoon.Local youth began throwing stones at the jeeps and…
Palestine Today 12 21 2011
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Security Council Member States Condemn Israeli Settlement Expansion
In a letter issued Tuesday, the four European member states of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Britain, France, Germany and Portugal, condemned the recent Israeli announcement that the Israeli…
New Government Will Not Be Formed Before Dec. 26
Member of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, Izzat al-Rishiq, stated that the Palestinian factions met on Tuesday to discuss the implementation of the Unity Agreement, and decided that…
Palestine Today 12 20 2011
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Great Britain Donates £14.6 Million to Further Education in Gaza
During an official visit by the Department for International Development (DFID) to Gaza, the United Kingdom has pledged millions to help alleviate the pressure facing United Nation schools across the…
Southern Sudan President Visits Israel
The President of Southern Sudan arrived in Israel on Monday night for a short 24-hour visit that will include meetings with senior officials, and Israeli President, Shimon Peres.Salva Kiir Mayardit…
Rebuilding a Wall, Stone by Stone
Surrounded by hilltop settlements above the village, settlers dump raw sewage down the hillside, contaminating the well and making it unusable for agriculture and drinking. Combatants for Peace and their…
Israel Bulldozes Industrial Structures In Silwan
Israeli bulldozers destroyed on Tuesday industrial stalls in ath-Thoury neighborhood, in Silwan, south of the al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem, as part of the destruction that is ongoing to…
PSC accuses Lacoste Elysée Prize of ‘Palphobia’
Palestine Solidarity Campaign has denounced the decision by the Lacoste Elysée Prize to exclude artist Larissa Sansour from the final shortlist on grounds that her work is too ‘pro-Palestinian’, despite…
Settlers Torch Cars Near Ramallah, Vandalize Mosque Near Hebron
In the fourth Israeli settler attack on a mosque in the past two weeks, Israeli settlers defaced another mosque near the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Monday, and…
Troops Kidnap Three Palestinians In Jenin
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, three Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin city, in the northern part of the West Bank, and took them to an…
182 Countries Vote For Palestinian Right To Self-Determination
The Permanent Palestinian Observer at the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, stated that 182 countries at the General Assembly voted Monday for the Palestinian right to self-determination.Seven countries, headed by the…
Soldiers Bulldoze A Road Near Nablus
Israeli soldiers bulldozed on Tuesday a road in Huwwara town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.The Mayor of Huwwara, Mo’een Abdul-Karim Damidi, told a reporter of the…
Palestine Today 12 19 2011
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Ad-Dameer Denounces Daily Arrests In Shu’fat Refugee Camp
The Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association denounced the Israeli Army for the daily kidnappings of children and youth at the Shu’fat refugee camp, in occupied East Jerusalem, adding…
Two Palestinian Families Allowed By Israeli Court To Remain In Their Homes In Silwan
Just one week after two Palestinian homes were destroyed by Israeli troops in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, rendering 15 people homeless, another two families in Silwan neighborhood received…
Armed Clashes Renew In Ein al-Hilweh
Following the first wave of armed clashes on Sunday in Ein al-Hilweh refugee camp, Lebanon, following the assassination of a Fateh leader, clashes took place again between Fateh gunmen and…
Israel to Build 1,000 More Units in West Bank, Jerusalem Settlements
The Israeli government decided on Sunday to build an additional 1,000 units in a number of Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank, including in illegally annexed East Jerusalem.Israeli daily…
Abu Obaida: “Resistance Liberated 20% Of The Detainees”
Abu Obaida, spokesperson of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, stated that the Palestinian resistance managed to liberate 20% of the detainees imprisoned by Israel, and…
Under 2nd Phase of Swap Deal, Israel Releases 550 Detainees
Israel released on Sunday 550 detainees, including two from Jordan and six Palestinian female detainees, as part of the second and final phase of the prisoner swap deal that secured…
25 Palestinians Injured by Army at Ofer Military Prison
25 Palestinians were injured on Sunday at the Ofer Military Prison as Israeli soldiers fired tear gas bombs and rubber bullets at the families of Palestinian prisoners, freed on the…
Palestinian citizens of Israel protest potential ban on mosque loudspeakers
Hundreds of Palestinians with Israeli citizenship protested against a proposed ban on mosque loudspeakers in a number of cities on Saturday, including Nazareth, Jaffa and Umm al-Fahm.The protesters held signs…
Activists Hold Third Annual Conference on Boycott of Israel in Hebron
The Palestinian branch of the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel held its third annual conference in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday,…
Settlement Guard Mildly Injured In Stabbing Attack
Israeli sources reported Saturday that a guard, working at the Ma’aleh Adumim settlement, east of occupied East Jerusalem, suffered mild injuries after being stabbed. The attacker fled the scene while…
Obama assures Jewish Conference: US support for Israel is ‘unshakeable’
In a speech given to the Conference of Reform Jews in the US on Friday, President Barack Obama assured the audience that his administration was doing more than any previous…
Palestinian Killed By Army Fire In Central Gaza
Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Saturday at dawn, a Palestinian man in Al Boreij Refugee camp, in central Gaza, medical sources reported.The sources stated that Majed An-Nabaheen, 35, died…
This Week in Palestine week 50 2011
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Soldiers: “West Bank Problem Is Jews, Not Palestinians”
As extremist settler groups in the occupied West Bank step up their attacks against the Palestinians, their property and their holy sites, in addition to attacking Israeli peace groups and…
PCHR Weekly Report: 5 Palestinians killed (including a child), 23 wounded this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 08- 14 December 2011, 4 Palestinians (two resistance fighters and a man…
Army Demolishes Home In Jericho
Israeli troops demolished in the West Bank city of Jericho, on Thursday, a home that belongs to a political leader of the Hamas movement, currently imprisoned by Israel.Local sources reported…
Iceland Recognizes Palestine as a State
During a special ceremony at its capital, Reykjavik, Iceland’s Foreign Minister, Ossur Skarphedinsson, officially informed his Palestinian counterpart, Riyadh Al Maliki, that his country officially recognized Palestine as a state…
Conditional U.S. Aid To P.A To Continue Next Year
The U.S. Congress proposed to continue the American financial support to the Palestinian Authority (P.A) next year as long as it refrains from filing any other membership applications to United…
Palestine Today 12 15 2011
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Settlers Torch A Mosque In Ramallah
A group of fanatic Israeli settlers burnt, on Thursday at dawn, a mosque in Borqa village, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and wrote racist graffiti on…
Barak Calls Vandals “Jewish Terrorists” As Right-wingers Clash With Police In Jerusalem
On Wednesday, Israeli right-wing settler youth continued attacking property and holy sites for the third straight day, while Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told the Army Radio that he considered…
Army Demolishes Two Buildings In An Illegal Outpost
Israeli soldiers demolished, on Thursday morning, two constructions in an illegal settlement outpost, known as Mitzpeh Yitzhar, near Yitzhar settlement, near Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank.Israeli…
Palestinian Released Under Swap-Deal Believed To Have Known Shalit’s Location
Cleared for publication Tuesday; in September 2007, undercover forces of the Israeli Army kidnapped a resident identified as Mohawish Al-Qadi, from Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.…
PCHR Concerned Over Medical Shortages In Gaza Strip Hospitals
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) expresses concern over the extreme shortage of medicines in the Gaza Strip hospitals. PCHR warns of the potential catastrophic repercussions on the health…
Palestine Today 12 14 2011
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Resident Seriously Injured By Army Fire In Gaza
Palestinian Medical Sources in the Gaza Strip reported that one resident was seriously wounded on Wednesday morning, after the Israeli army opened fire at him east of Gaza city.The sources…
Legislator Taken By Israeli Army In Ramallah
On Wednesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers kidnapped an elected Palestinian legislator, identified as Ayman Daraghma, from Ramallah. Daraghma is a member of the Hamas Change and Reform Bloc, the largest…
Israeli Settlers Try To Torch Historic Mosque In Jerusalem, Spray-paint Anti-Muslim Graffiti
Late on Tuesday night, a group of Israeli settlers attempted to burn down the now disused mosque of Akasha Bin Mohsin. They were unable to obtain entry, and so proceeded…
Fayyad Asserts That UNESCO Membership Was An Important Step
During his participation in an official ceremony to light the Christmas tree in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, stated that raising the…
Second Phase Of Swap Deal Starts Wednesday
The second phase of the prisoner-swap deal will commence on Wednesday and is planned to be concluded by this coming Sunday. The first phase was implement on October 18 when…
Amnesty Claims House Demolitions Have Doubled In 2011
Amnesty International, along with 19 other human rights organizations, reported that the rate of Palestinian homes demolished by Israel 2011 is double the rate of 2010, with over 1,000 Palestinians…
Palestine Today 12 13 2011
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Troops Demolish Four Homes Near Bethlehem
Israeli troops invaded, on Tuesday morning, the al-Makhrour area, in Beit Jala city, north of Bethlehem, and demolished four Palestinian homes.An official at the Beit Jala City Council reported that…
Two Palestinians Injured By Army Fire In Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported, Tuesday, that two Palestinians, including one child, were injured after the Israeli army invaded an area east of the al-Boreij refugee camp,…
Settlers Break Into Israeli Military Base, Sabotage Property
Israeli sources reported Tuesday that a group of extremist Israeli settlers of the Hilltop Youth settler movement infiltrated, on Monday at night, an Israeli military base near the northern West…
Preparations For Second Phase Of Swap Deal To Start Tuesday
Member of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, Saleh al-Aroury, stated that the Israeli army will start gathering all Palestinian detainees scheduled to be released under second and final…
Israeli Settlers Break Into Military Zone By Jordanian Border
Extremist right-wing Israeli settlers broke into a closed-off military zone in between the West Bank and the Jordanian border, at the site thought to be where Jesus was baptized.On Monday,…
Israeli Official Calls For Closing the al-Aqsa Mosque
An official at the Israeli run Jerusalem City Council called for closing the al-Aqsa Mosque for all Muslim worshipers in an attempt to pressure Muslims into accepting the demolishing of…
Israeli Settlers Continue Their Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Their Property
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns attacks launched by groups of Israeli settlers in the early morning in two Palestinian villages to the southeast of Nablus. PCHR calls…
Palestine Today 12 12 2011
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Israeli Military Issues statement, Tweets On The Killing Of Non-Violent Protester
In an official statement by the Israeli military, regarding the shooting of a Palestinian protester in the head with a tear gas canister at on Friday, military officials claimed that…
Mustafa Tamimi murdered by a tear gas canister to the head
So far, there were three people who had suffocated from the tear gas, and three people injured by rubber bullets. I saw gas, and so assumed that it was another…
Protests Held In Jerusalem Against Plans Targeting Bedouin Villages
Thousands of Palestinians from the 1948 territories held a protest on Sunday in front of the Jerusalem office of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to protest the so-called “Brawer-Begin Plan”…
Egypt Denies Claims Of Hamas Training Centers In Sinai
Egyptian security officials denied claimed reported by the Israeli “Jerusalem Post” in which it said that the Hamas movement established basis and missile manufacturing facilities in the Sinai Peninsula as…
Israel Arrests Three Brothers In Nazareth, One Of Them Paralyzed
The Arabs48 news website reported Saturday that the Israeli District Court in Nazareth ordered an extension on the remand of Mohammad Sa’id, 19, for additional ten days. On Wednesday, his…
Report: “19 Children Killed, 200 Injured, By Israeli Shells In 2011”
Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesperson of the Higher Committee for Medical and Emergency Services In Gaza, reported that, in 2011, Israeli soldiers killed 19 children, and injured more than 200, in…
Palestinian Group Marks 63rd Anniversary Of UN Resolution Calling For Right Of Return Of Refugees
On the 63rd anniversary of UN General Assembly Resolution 194, the BADIL Resource Center for Residency and Refugee Rights issued a statement to bring the attention of the international community…
Palestinian taxi driver hospitalized after assault by Israeli soldiers at checkpoint
Israeli troops beat a Palestinian taxi driver with their fists, feet and rifle butts, fracturing his back, on Saturday afternoon at the Barta checkpoint, near Jenin in the northern West…
Army Bombards Sheep and Chicken Farm In Beit Hanoun
On Saturday, Israeli soldiers fired artillery shells targeting a chicken and sheep farm in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip — dozens of livestock died in…
Fayyad: “Gingrich’s Statements Cheap And Disgraceful”
Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, stated Saturday that the statements of U.S. Republican Presidential Candidate, Newt Gingrich, are cheap and disgraceful. The statements of Fayyad came after Gingrich stated…
Palestinian dies of wounds sustained in anti-wall protest
A Palestinian young man died of wounds sustained on Friday during an anti-wall and settlement protest in the village of Nabi Saleh near the West Bank city of Ramallah.Mustafa Tamimi,…
UN General Assembly Passes Nine Resolutions On Israel-Palestine
On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly passed nine resolutions related to Palestine as part of a set of 24 resolutions and two texts related to human rights and decolonization.The…
Army Bombards Qassam Center In Rafah
The Israeli Air Force bombarded, on Saturday at dawn, a training center that belongs to the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, west of Rafah, in the…
Child, 12, Dies Of Wounds Suffered During Israeli Shelling On Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a child identified as Ramadan Bahjat Az-Za’lan, 12, died of wounds he suffered when the army bombarded his family’s’ home on…
This Week in Palestine week 49 2011
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Egypt Holds Israel Responsible For Escalation
The Egyptian Ambassador to Palestine, Yasser Othman, held the Israeli government responsible for the latest escalation against the Gaza Strip that led to the death and injury of several Palestinians,…
Israel Holds Hamas Responsible For Latest Escalation
The Israeli Army and the Defense Ministry held the Hamas movement in Gaza responsible for the death of a Palestinian father, on Friday, and the injury of 17 residents, including…
PCHR Weekly Report: 2 Palestinians killed, 7 wounded, 52 abducted by Israeli forces this week
In its Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 01- 07 December 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that…
Hamas Interior Ministry Calls On Israeli Military To Stop Escalation In Gaza
The Hamas Ministry of Interior stated on Friday morning that the Israeli air strike, which targeted a civilian car in central Gaza on Thursday afternoon, is a result of ongoing…
Hamas: “We Affirm Our Right To All Forms Of Resistance”
Marking the twenty-fourth anniversary of the first Palestinian Intifada, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, issued a press release affirming that it will continue all forms of resistance against the Israeli…