Report: “Israeli Jews Will Lose Majority By 2015”
Israeli paper, Haaretz, reported that recent Israeli and Palestinian statistics revealed that the demography of the country will significantly change by 2015, and the Jewish majority will sharply decline and…
Palestine Today 01 03 2011
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Factions Slams Palestinian-Israeli Meeting In Amman
Several Palestinian factions slammed the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) in the West Bank for accepting to attend a meeting with Israeli representatives in Jordan’s capital, Amman, on Tuesday.The Democratic Front for…
Former Detainee Dies Of Health Condition Suffered While In prison
Zakariyya Daoud, a former Palestinian political prisoner, who got seriously ill while in Israeli prisons, and was only released on August 22, 2011, died of cancer on Monday, he was…
Palestine Israel History and Theirstory
HisStory and TheirStory Submitted to the IMEMC by. Dr. Christof Lehmann I hope that the reader will bear over with me for inventing the word theirstory, but if history is…
Report: “4500 Palestinians Still Imprisoned By Israel”
Abdul-Nasser Farawna, a former political detainee and a Palestinian researcher specialized in detainees affairs, published a report revealing that as the world marks 2012, and despite the fact that Israel…
1 January 2009: The Nasla Family
On 1 January 2009 at around 15:00, Israeli military planes targeted a water tower across from the home of the Nasla family in North Beit Lahiya. The family were making…
Imprisoned Palestinian Sheikh enters third week of hunger strike
36-year old Sheikh Khader Adnan, a spokesman for the Islamic Jihad resistance movement, entered the third week of a hunger strike on Sunday, in protest of the conditions in the…
Troops Kidnap Several Palestinians In The West Bank
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Monday at dawn several Palestinians in number of villages and towns in the occupied West Bank, mainly from the Hebron district.Local sources reported that Israeli soldiers…
Israeli authorities give ‘legal’ status to illegal settlement outpost
An illegal settlement outpost established on stolen Palestinian land in 2001 by individual Israelis with no government sanction has been given legal status by the Israeli government, after Israeli authorities…
Settlers ‘Help’ Soldiers Man Roadblocks
Armed Israeli settlers, in civilian clothes, were seen helping Israeli soldiers in searching Palestinian vehicles and checking ID numbers of Palestinians at a number of military roadblocks leading to the…
Palestinian Injured By Army Fire In Northern Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported Saturday that a Palestinian man was shot and wounded by Israeli military fire, north of Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, the…
Protester shot in neck by Israeli forces in one of six non-violent anti-Wall demonstrations
A number of Palestinian and international solidarity activists were wounded, including one shot in the neck, and several other protestors were detained in numerous anti-wall protests taking part in a…
Palestinian Detainees Might Launch Irish-Style Hunger-Strike
Leaders of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement in Israeli prisons and detention facilities stated that the situation all political detainees are facing is at its worst, adding that, right now, detainees…
Settlers Break Into Archeological Areas In Bethlehem
Palestinian sources reported that a group of armed fundamentalist Israeli settlers broke on Friday into the Solomon Pools site and the Conference Palace Archeological areas in Al Kahder town, south…
Activists campaign against sale of Israeli drones to France
A group of activists involved in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign in France have launched a campaign calling on the French government to call off a deal to purchase…
Israel, Gaza, and the Celebration of the Aniversary of Genocide
When observing the aerial bombardment, heavy artillery and haubitzer shelling of Gaza, three years ago, I remembered Erich Maria Remarqe´s, book All quiet on the Western Front, and the passage…
This Week in Palestine week 51 2011
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Israel Closes Karm Abu Salem Crossing
Israeli authorities temporarily close the Karm Abu Salem Crossing with the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Security sources reported on Friday. The border crossing will re-open on Sunday. Raed Fattuh, the Palestinian…
PCHR Weekly Report: One Palestinian killed, 11 wounded by Israeli forces this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 22- 28 December 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
Freed Palestinian to Marry in Turkey
One of the Palestinian detainees freed in the latest prisoner exchange-deal with Israel, is scheduled to marry in the capital of Turkey, Ankara, the Turkish daily, Vatan, reported on Friday.Ayman…
One Dead, Five Injured in Israeli Shelling in the Gaza Strip
One Palestinian was killed and five were injured in an Israeli shelling of the Gaza Strip on Friday morning, a Palestinian medical source reported.The source identified the dead as Mo’min…
Family Marks 3 Years After Its Children’s Death By Army Shells
On the night of December 29, 2009, just after Israel launched its deadly, illegal, war on the residents of the Gaza Strip, Israeli war-jets fired missiles at Imad Aqel Mosque…
Palestine Today 12 29 2011
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Israel to open Karm Abu Salem Gaza crossing
Israeli authorities said it will open the Karm Abu Salem, also known as Kerem Shalom, crossing to allow some basic material to enter into the beseiged Gaza Strip, Palestinian Media…
Israeli police arrest Jewish extremists
Israeli Security forces arrested prominent right-wing Jewish activists in a West Bank settlement early Thursday, over suspicions of monitoring the movements of Israeli soldiers in the region, the Israeli newspaper…
Israeli airforce attacks Northern and Central Gaza; no injuries reported
On Thursday morning, Israeli warplanes shelled two locations targeting what the Israeli military claimed were sites used by Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip to fire projectiles across the border…
Israeli navy attacks international observers, injures Palestinian, on monitoring boat in Gaza waters
At 10:55 am on Wednesday December 28th, an Israeli naval warship attacked the international observers and Palestinian captain of the Civil Peace Service Gaza (CPSGAZA) boat Oliva, injuring its captain…
On Third Anniversary of Israeli Invasion of Gaza, Palestinian Prime Minister Calls for Arab Support
As Palestinians commemorated the third anniversary of a massive Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, called on the Arab League…
Israeli Government Approves Additional 130 New Settlement Units In Bethlehem Area
Following the approval of over 1,000 new settlement buildings in the West Bank, and 650 in East Jerusalem, the Israeli municipal government for the city of Jerusalem approved on Wednesday…
Palestine Today 12 28 2011
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Residents of Beit Shemesh Fight Back Against Religious Extremism and Gender Segregation
Thousands of local residents gathered in the Israeli village of Beit Shemesh, protesting the radically changing demographic of their city by the ultra-Orthodox community. The group seem hell-bent on enforcing…
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…