Israel Decides To Build 900 Units In Gilo Settlement
The “Construction and Planning Committee” of the Jerusalem Municipality decided Tuesday to build 700 units for Israeli settlers in the Gilo illegal settlement, in occupied East Jerusalem. Member of the…
Tahrir Prevented From Departing To Gaza
The Canadian ship participating in the Freedom Flotilla 2 has been turned back to port after it attempted to depart from Gaza from the Greek port of Agios on Monday…
Soldiers Demolish A Home Near Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers invaded Khirbit Zakariyya area, surrounded by the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and demolish one Palestinian home.Local sources reported that the…
Army Kidnaps Hamas leader, Two Residents, Near Jenin
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Tuesday at dawn a Hamas political leader in Jaba’ town, near the northern Western Bank city of Jenin, along with two other residents, and took them…
Palestinian workers at Salit Quarries make history
Israeli employers, Palestinian workers and an Arab-Jewish union: Workers at Salit Quarries demand basic, fair employment terms, but the quarry management says their claims are childish. The first organized labor…
Deal to transfer remains of 84 dead Palestinian fighters blocked by Israeli Minister
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barack has prevented the transfer of 84 bodies of Palestinians killed since 1967, then buried in unmarked graves in Israel. Barack made his decision after a…
Palestinian woman, child run over by Israeli settlers in separate incidents
An Israeli settler driving near Nablus ran over a 40-year old Palestinian woman Sunday, then tried to flee the scene. Separately, an Israeli-plated vehicle ran over a 14-year old boy…
Palestine Today 07042011
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PA Salaries Cut due to Funding Shortfall
The Palestinian Authority will pay only half the salaries due to its government employees this month due to a shortfall in funding from donor nations, according to PA Prime Minister…
Gas Pipeline Explosion On The Northern Sinai Peninsula
A controversial gas pipeline in Nagah, the Bir Abdu region, has been blown up for the third time since February on Monday, July 4, 2011. The pipeline that connected gas…
Israel To Return Bodies Of 84 Palestinian Fighters Buried In Israel
Israel is to return the bodies of 84 Palestinian fighters killed in Israel since 1967. The deal, reached following extensive negotiations between Israel and Palestinian leaders, was announced by Palestinian…
US Flotilla Passengers Stage Hunger Strike Outside US Embassy In Athens
Activists set to sail to Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla 2 movement, but prevented by the Greek navy and coastguard, have begun a hunger strike outside the US…
Israel Issues Bids For Settlement Construction In Bethlehem, Nablus
The Israeli TV reported that Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, issued direct orders allowing Jewish settlers to build hundreds of units in colonies near the West Bank cities of Bethlehem…
The blockade on Gaza began long before Hamas came to power
The gradual closure of Gaza began in 1991, when Israel canceled the general exit permit that allowed most Palestinians to move freely through Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Since…
200 additional activists may join Freedom Flotilla
A Jordanian union leader told Agence France Presse that a boat has been purchased for $800,000 in Greece to carry construction materials, medical supplies, and 200 additional passengers to join…
Netanyahu Dubs Land-swap A “Joke”
An Israeli official close to Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that Netanyahu fully opposes any Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 border, and believes that the proposal of land-swap is…
Palestinian President: “We recognize Israel, it is time for Israel to recognize Palestine”
In an address to the Dutch Parliament, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that the Palestinian Authority has repeatedly recognized Israel’s right to exist, and now it is necessary for Israel…
Hundreds of Internationals and Hundreds of Palestinians Gear-up for July 8-16 activities
Civil Society organizations finalizing preparations for welcoming hundreds of International activists coming to the Palestinian territories in a campaign defined by the organizers as ‘Welcome to Palestine’. The organizing groups,…
Greek authorities arrest US Flotilla boat captain for attempting to sail without permission
One of the ten boats scheduled to travel to Gaza to bring much-needed humanitarian aid and support has had its captain arrested by Greek authorities after attempting to leave port…
The Day of Victory: Bil’in Celebrates the Removal of the Wall
Press Release; Friday 1-7-2011- For the first time after nearly seven years of resistance and struggle by the residents of Bil’in, the people of the village and a large number…
Freedom Flotilla activists: “Gaza blockade has been extended to Greece”
With the US boat escorted by military commandos back to a Greek port, the Canadian boat boarded by Greek police, and two other Flotilla boats sabotaged by unknown professional divers,…
Greek cabinet votes to stop Flotilla as US Boat to Gaza forced back to port
After having been delayed a week from the original departure date, facing sabotage of two boats and a complaint against the US Boat by the Israel Law Center that activists…
This Week in Palestine week 26 2011
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Unity Talks Between Hamas and Fatah Postponed To September
On Wednesday, Maan News reported that Fatah and Hamas have agreed to post-pone reconciliation efforts until after the UN bid for Palestinian statehood.Hamas’ Prime Minister Haniyeh said the two parties…
Palestinian Adviser Nimir Hamed: ‘Palestinians Will Defer September Bid Given A Return To Talks’
In an interview with Maan news agency advisor to Mahmoud Abbas, Nimir Hammad, has stated that Palestinians are willing to delay going to the UN in a bid for statehood…
Netanyahu: Israel Has The Right To Operate Against Efforts To Break Siege
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that Israel has a right to work against Freedom Flotilla from breaking siege on Gaza, according to Haaretz. His comments came as Irish…
Israel Plans To Double Settlement Area In Jordan Valley
Israel has announced a plan to double the size of its settlements in the strategic Jordan Valley area in the West Bank. The move was announced in Haaretz daily financial…
PCHR Weekly Report: 35 civilians abducted in 31 Israeli incursions this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 23– 29 June 2011, Israeli forces continued to use force against peaceful…
Palestine Today 06 30 2011
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Flotilla activists say Irish boat sabotaged in same way Norwegian boat was damaged
According to activists on the Freedom Flotilla of aid ships to Gaza, a second boat has been severely damaged by unknown saboteurs who dove under the boat to damage the…
Israel Simulates Attack On Freedom Flotilla
Israeli sources reported that the army, a number of Israeli security officials and politicians, conducted on Tuesday a drill simulating the interception of the Freedom Flotilla 2, that will be…
Israeli forces confiscate Palestinian olive orchards near Ramallah
Hundreds of acres of olive orchards in Al Mazra’a al Gharbiya village were taken over by Israeli troops on Tuesday, who claimed that the area was a ‘closed military zone’…
Fake video accusing ‘Freedom Flotilla’ of bias published from Israeli PM’s Office
As the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ of aid ships to Gaza prepares to depart this week, a video published on Youtube accusing the Flotilla organizers of homophobic bias, which was immediately disseminated…
Palestine Today 06 29 2011
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Israel Removes Structures In Illegal Settlement
Five structures and two tents were raised in the illegal settlement outpost of Ramat Migro in the Northern West Bank on Wednesday morning. Two teenage girls were arrested for allegedly…
Rabbi Ya’akov Yosef Expected To Be Arrested For Justifying The Killing Of Non-Jews
After ignoring police summons, Rabbi Ya’akov Yosef faces arrest for a written endorsement of the Torat Hamelech, which justifies the killing of non-Jews, including babies, that pose a threat to…
First Ships Of Freedom Flotilla 2 Set Sail
The first of the Freedom Flotilla 2 ships have set sail for the rendezvous point in the Mediterranean Sea, where it will meet the rest of the ships participating in…
Israel passes draft law requiring Palestinians to pay for their own home demolitions
A Committee of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) passed a first draft of a law that will require that Palestinians whose homes are destroyed by Israeli forces pay the Israeli government…
‘Hacktivist’ Group To Target Israeli Knesset
The decentralised hacker group ‘Anonomous’ have declared the next target of their Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDOS) to be the Israeli Knesset. The group, which are an anonymous collection…
Fayyed Quells Palestinian Expectations Given A Successful Statehood Bid In September
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Sallam Fayyed has said that a recognition of Palestinian statehood in September will not change facts on the ground in terms of Israeli occupation of the…
UK Authorities Arrest Sheikh Raed Salah
The British Authorities arrested late on Tuesday at night Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in “Israel” under the claim that he poses a…
One of ‘Freedom Flotilla’ ships found sabotaged in Greek port
A ship known as the ‘Juliano’ (after assassinated activist Juliano Mer-Khamis) was found sabotaged on Monday evening, as it was being prepared for departure on the ‘Freedom Flotilla II’ of…
Palestine Today 06 28 2011
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Zahar: Unity Negotiations at Dead End
Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar has confirmed that talks aimed at establishing a unity government between Fatah and Hamas have stalled due to the appointment of a interim Prime Minister…
Netanyahu reverses announcement to bar Journalists on Freedom Flotilla 2
Monday June 27, Benjamin Netanyahu reversed the announcement made by the GPO that would have barred foreign journalists on board the Freedom Flotilla 2 entry into Israel for up to…
Israeli Anti-Boycott Bill Prepared for Final Vote
The Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee has approved an extended edition of a boycott bill which will prohibit the boycott of any person or product connected to Israel.The “Bill…
Flotilla Organisers: Participants Have Signed Declarations Of Non Violence
Organisers of the Freedom Flotilla 2 have refuted claims made by the Israeli military on Monday that participants in the flotilla plan to use violence in resisting Israeli military plans…
Israel Claims Freedom Flotilla Activists Prepare For Violence
Israeli military sources claimed that international activists participating in the Freedom Flotilla 2, heading to Gaza to deliver the much needed medical and humanitarian supplies, are preparing for violent clashes…
Army Kidnaps Several Palestinians including Legislator, Journalist, Human Rights Activist
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Tuesday at dawn a Palestinian legislator, the head of a center that defends the rights of Palestinian detainees and human rights and a Journalist. 11 Palestinians…
German activists hold ‘solidarity flotilla’ in Berlin canals
As the ‘Freedom Flotilla II: Stay Human’ prepares to sail to Gaza with ten ships and 500 supporters from 20 countries on Tuesday, supporters from around the world have launched…
Palestine Today 06 27 2011
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Israel: Flotilla will be prevented from reaching Gaza
Israel has declared that the Freedom Flotilla 2 will not be allowed to enter into the besieged Gaza Strip by sea. Israeli and Egyptian officials have agreed that the Flotilla…
Christian Peace Maker Team In Hebron Reports Increase In Raids
Christian Peace Maker Team in Hebron have reported in increase in house raids with the arrival of a new brigade of Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city. The team…
Mahmoud Abbas Confirms Unilateral UN Bid in September
Palestinian Authority President Abbas confirmed on Sunday that he will pursue recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September.Abbas stated that the move would be…
Israel Threatens Invasion Of Southern Lebanon
The Israeli Radio reported that a number of Israeli security and military officials threatened that Israel could invade southern Lebanon should the security situation in villages there continue to deteriorate.The…
Israel: “Journalists Onboard Freedom Flotilla Will Not Be Allowed Into Israel”
In another escalation against the Freedom Flotilla, heading to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government stated Sunday that journalists, who are onboard the Freedom Flotilla 2…
Us Boat To Gaza Delayed By Anonymous Complaint
Greek officials claim they received an ‘anonymous tip’ over the weekend that the US Boat to Gaza, part of the ten-boat Freedom Flotilla, was not seaworthy. The officials demanded that…
Israeli troops attack non-violent protest in Beit Ommar; 3 abducted
On Saturday June 25, about 50 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists gathered in Beit Ommar to demonstrate against the Israeli Karmei Tsur settlement, which has annexed hundreds of dunams of…
US government threatens to arrest US flotilla participants
As 38 US citizens prepare to join hundreds of others from around the world on a humanitarian aid mission to the Gaza Strip, the US State Department issued a statement…
Army Kidnaps Three Children In Hebron
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Sunday ay dawn three Palestinian children in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, and took them to unknown destinations. Local sources reported that…
To Construct “Museum of Tolerance”, Israel Bulldozes Muslim Historic Cemetery In Jerusalem
Israeli bulldozers started on Saturday at night the destruction of the Ma’man Allah ancient Muslim cemetery, in occupied Jerusalem, as part of the Israeli plan to construct the so-called “Museum…
Egypt: “Four Immigrants Killed By Egyptian Fire While Trying To Infiltrate Into Israel”
Egyptian security sources reported Sunday that four African persons were shot and killed by Egyptian Border Guards while trying to infiltrate into Israel, apparently seeking work.The sources claimed that the…
PRC: “Netanyahu Behind Delay In Shalit Deal”
The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) one of three groups holding Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, captive since mid-2006, stated that the corporal could have been freed if Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin…
Protesters dismantle section of wall in Bil’in village; 7 injured by Israeli troops
Protesters in Bil’in village continued dismantling a section of the Israeli Wall that the Israeli army began removing earlier this week, in accordance with an Israeli court ruling made four…
This Week in Palestine week 25 2011
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Israeli Teenage Girls Charged With ‘Price Tag’ Attack In West Bank
Two Israeli teenage girls have been charged with torching a Palestian car in Hebron as part of a ‘pricetag’ retaliation attack, according to YNet. The girls, who deny having been…
Mosque In Beersheba To Remain An Islamic Museum
The Beersheba Municipality has rejected a petition by the Bedouin Muslims of the Negev to pray in the old mosque of Beersheba. The Baseiso Mosque was built in 1906 by…
Palestinian Envoy To UN Says Statehood Bid Will Go Ahead Regardless Of Talks
The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations said that they will go ahead with the application for statehood in the UN General Assembly in September even if talks with Israel…
Human Rights Organizations Make Joint Statement on Treatment of Gilad Shalit
Human rights organizations released a joint statement on Friday, the 5th anniversary of the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, demanding an end to his “illegal” and “inhumane” treatment. Israeli,…
Netanyahu To Toughen Conditions For Palestinian Detainees
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he will toughen conditions for Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons in response to Hamas’s refusal to allow the International Red Cross access to…
Clinton: “Ships Heading To Gaza Defy Israeli Siege”
United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, stated Thursday that solidarity ships heading to Gaza come in defiance of the Israeli Blockade on the coastal region, and are considered “unnecessary…
Detained Legislator Receives Extended Administrative Detention Order
An Israeli military court decided Thursday to renew, for six more months, the administrative detention order against elected legislator, Mohammad At-Til, from Al Thaheriyya town, south of the southern West…
PCHR Weekly Report: 5 civilians wounded, including a child; 3,500 chickens killed by Israeli forces
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 16– 22 June 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found…
Palestine Today 06 23 2011
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Red Cross Demands Information Proving Gilad Shalit Is Alive
The International Red Cross has demanded, in a statement on Thursday, that Hamas authorities prove that captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is still alive. The ICRC has demanded that Hamas…
Israeli Jerusalem Municipality Continues Judaizing Of City
The Israeli Jerusalem municipality has continued to Judaise East Jerusalem through the renaming of Arab street names and monuments in the city, according to Wafa.As part of what the municipality…
“Third Palestinian Intifada” Apple App Removed
The technology firm, Apple have removed an application called “The Third Palestinian Intifada” for purchase for Mac, and iPhone users.The action was taken after Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, Israeli Minister for Public…
Sources Claim Hezbollah Prepared To Open Front With Israel To Relieve Pressure On Syrian President
Israeli newspapers Haaretz and JPost are claiming that the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah are gearing up for possible action against Israel in the case that Syrian leader Bashar al Assad’s…
OIC: “Water Situation in Gaza Deteriorating”
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) issued a report warning of the sharp deterioration of the water situation in the besieged Gaza Strip due to the devastated infrastructure in…
‘Freedom Flotilla 2’ prepares to sail to Gaza in next few days
While Israeli and US officials have worked to dissuade the Freedom Flotilla from setting sail to Gaza next week, the flotilla participants have vowed to go ahead with their plan…
Israeli Academics Support Acts Of Civil Disobedience
In an advertisment posted in Haaretz on Friday 17th June 300 Israeli academics from around Israel have signed their name to a letter supporting actions taken by the Israeli womens…
Jerusalem Arab Housing Plan Blocked By Political Right
A plan to build 2,500 Arab housing units in East Jerusalem was stopped by right-wing pressure groups and Haredi city council members on the grounds that it was a ‘politically…
PPP Calls For Forming Social-Democratic Coalition To Save Unity Deal
The leftist Palestinian People Party (PPP) called on the Palestinian factions to act on saving the National Unity Agreement by forming a large democratic-social coalition to prevent the collapse of…
US Jews comprise one-fourth of US Freedom Flotilla contingent
Jewish activists from the US, outraged at the siege of Gaza carried out by the Israeli government in their name, have been among the key organizers of the upcoming humanitarian…
Ross: “Israel Must Remain Jewish State”
Dennis Ross, senior aide to American President, Barack Obama, stated during a speech in Jerusalem, Wednesday, that all steps must be taken to ensure that Israel “remains a democratic and…
Palestine Today 06 22 2011
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Israeli Forces Bulldoze Business Near Jenin
The Ma’an News Agency reports that ten workshops have been destroyed by Israeli forces in Barta’a ash-Sharqiya near Jenin.The workshops are located in the West Bank but are on the…
B’Tselem Show Increase In Israeli Residential Demolitions In the West Bank. Many In The Last Week.
Israeli human rights organization, B’Tselem, has released figures showing a steep rise in the number of Israeli housing demolitions in the West Bank compared to 2010 and 2009. According to…
Fayyed Says He Will Not Stand In The Way Of Unity
Current Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Sallem Fayyed, has said that he will not stand in the way of national reconciliation but declined to say that he would step down from…
Israeli Army Invades Multiple Towns in the West Bank, Resulting in One Arrest
The Israeli military placed two flying checkpoints in Beit Sahour Wednesday morning. The raids did not result in any major incident. In Hebron, however, one Palestinian civilian was abducted after…
UNRWA Appeal For Funds To Support Palestinian Refugee’s
Jordan’s Prime Minister Marouf al Bakheet and the UNRWA’s Commissioner General Filippo Grandi appealed for monetary aid to appeal for finances to fund the UNWRA’s work among Palestinian refugees. In…
Israeli Military Stop Christian Leader From Visiting Central Hebron
A visit to Hebron, in the southern West Bank, by the Archbishop of Jerusalem, Fuad Twal, was cut short on Monday when Israeli forces stopped the Archbishop from entering the…
Israel Strikes Underground Tunnel In Gaza
The Israeli air force attacked an underground tunnel running from the Gaza strip into Israel. According to military officials the strike was in response from a rocket fired from the…
Despite Israeli Pressure, Apple Approves “Third Intifada” App
The giant Apple Company decided to allow the publishing of a new App for the IPhone carrying the name “Third Intifada” despite Israeli pressures on the company to ban the…
Israel Shifts A Section Of the Annexation Wall in Bilin
The Israeli army started on Tuesday evening to shift a section of the illegal Annexation Wall built on lands that belong to the residents of Bil’in village, west of the…
Palestine Today 06 21 2011
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63% Of Israeli Public Support Mass Prisoner Exchange For Gilad Shalit
A poll released today by the Rafi Smith polling company on behalf of the campaign to release Gilad Shalit and published in Haaretz newspaper shows that a majority of the…
Israel High Court Issues Order Regarding Communities Law
The Israeli High Court presided over a hearing on Monday regarding two separate petitions brought against the controversial Israeli “Acceptance to Community Law”. The petitions were brought by the Association…
Israeli Officer Indicted On Charges Of Ramming Mentally Disabled Palestinian Boy
The Israeli military prosecutor has filed an indictment against an Israeli officer for illegally ordering the ramming of a mentally disabled Palestinian civilian in an incident in the West Bank…
Netanyahu Expresses Desire To Separate From Palestinians
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his belief that Israel need to disengage from Palestinian areas in the West Bank in order to avoid the demographic nature of Israel as…