This Week in Palestine week 23 2011
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Dozens Wounded In Bil’ins Weekly Nonviolent Protest
Dozens suffered from the effects of tear gas inhalation when the Israeli army showered protestors with tear gas in the village of Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of…
Stop Greenwashing Apartheid Makes a Breakthrough
On the occasion of Palestinian Land Day and the Global BDS Day of Action last 30th March, the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) officially launched an international…
67 Children Dispossessed Or Affected By Demolitions In May
The UN Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, has reported that the month of May shows the highest number of children made homeless or otherwise affected by Israeli demolitions in the…
Army Kidnaps Former Detainees Minister
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Friday at dawn former Minister of Detainees, Wasfi Qabha, 50, after breaking into his home in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. The Maan News…
Israel Plans International Response To Obstruct Palestinian Statehood
Instructions sent to Israeli embassies around the world have outlined the diplomatic and media strategy combating Palestinian attempts to declare statehood at the UN in September, according to Haaretz. Israeli…
Palestine Today 06 09 2011
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Israel Raids West Bank Towns Overnight
Maan news agency is reporting that five Palestinian men, including minors, were abducted over night during raids on West Bank towns and villages by the Israeli military. Israeli soldiers raided…
Hamas Considering Abstention From Future PA Cabinets
Sections of Hamas’s political leadership are debating proposals to stay out of future governments in the Palestinian Territories in a bid to avoid international isolation, according to AFP.Top officials in…
Divisions Arise In PA Over Plans For September
According to a report by Haaretz, based on conversations with Palestinian and UN officials, divisions between the PA leadership have emerged over plans to seek statehood at the UN in…
Poll Shows Fayyad Most Favored By Palestinians For Role Of PM
A new poll conducted by Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre has shown that incumbent Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad is the most favoured among Palestinians to lead the next unity government.…
‘East Jerusalem-Six Voices’
Israeli human rights group B’T Selem and the Gaurdian UK have released a series of short films based on life for Palestinians living under the threat of eviction and dispossession…
Palestine Today 06 08 2011
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Wine Bottles Smashed In Al-Aqsa Compound
Local sources report that a number of Jewish settlers broke into the al-Aqsa compound and began drinking wine and smashing bottles on the floor.Consumption of alcohol is forbidden in Islam…
Settlers Burn Palestinian Crops Near Hebron
The Palestine News Network reports that on Wednesday afternoon, extremist settlers set fire to crops owned by Palestinian farmers near Hebron.It is alleged that the settlers came from the settlement…
UNRWA Claims West Bank Economy Not As Healthy As Perceived
The UNRWA has released a report undermining recent media reports that the West Bank economy was booming under the PA and Israeli occupation, according to research author Salem Ajluni. The…
Rafah To Reopen Under Specified Agreement
The Rafah border crossing is to reopen following four days closure.The border between Gaza and Egypt at Rafah has reopened according to Gaza border official Ayyoub Abu Sha’ar. The border…
Palestine Today 06 07 2011
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US Seeks To Maintain Central Role In Peace Process
The US has signalled that it intends to maintain its leading position in facilitating Middle East peace talks with its announcement of discussions aimed at renewing the peace process. US…
Settlers Torch A Mosque Near Ramallah
Local residents of Al Mughayyir village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, reported Tuesday at dawn that fundamentalist settlers set the local mosque ablaze, and wrote racist graffiti…
Three Arrested In Majdal Shams As Security Remains Tight
Three men have been arrested in the Israeli Occupied Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams according to PNN. The three were protesting those killed during protests by Palestinian refugees during…
Palestinian Mourners Clash With Security In Syria
There has been an outburst of violence between mourners of those killed at Israel’s border to Israel on Naksa Day and Palestinian resistance group Popular Front for the Liberation of…
Soldiers Kidnap Hamas Legislator in Nablus
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Tuesday at dawn Hamas legislator, member of the Change and Reform Parliamentary Bloc, Sheikh Ahmad Al Haj, after breaking into his home in the northern West…
Non-violence activist addresses Israeli military court
Non-violence activist Bassem Tamimi’s address to Israel’s Ofer military court during his trial for organizing protests in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. A military judge refused to allow…
Report: Palestinian, Israeli Officials Hold Separate Talks With U.S Officials
Israeli paper, Haaretz, reported that Palestinian and Israeli officials are holding separate underground talks with U.S. officials in Washington as part of what was described as the American efforts to…
Israel Prepares To Approve 4100 New Units For Israeli Settlers In East Jerusalem
The Israeli Interior Ministry, and the so-called Construction and Planning Committee, are preparing to officially approve 4100 units for Jewish settlers in occupied East Jerusalem.A special committee, appointed two months…
Explosive Remnants Located in Villages Near Nablus
Palestinian Sources reported Monday that remnant of explosives dropped by the Israeli forces in previous invasions were located in Surra and Bazaria villages, west of the northern West Bank city…
PA Seeks WTO Membership
The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank in conducting preparations to ask for official membership at the World Trade Organization (WTO), or at least an observer status in the current…
Palestine Today 06 06 2011
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Palestinian Girl, 13, Detained During Visit To Her Detained Father
A 13 year old Palestinian girl has been detained during a visit to her father in a Israeli prison in the Negev Israeli detention camp. The girl, Samah Majdi Musallam,…
Palestinian Killed In Tunnel Accident
A Palestinian worker was killed on Monday at dawn when a siege-busting tunnel collapsed on him at the Gaza-Egypt border, in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip,…
Tension Remains High on Syrian Border
The Israeli Army deployed dozens of additional units at the border with Syria following Sunday clashes in which the army short and killed 23 protesters marking the Naksa Day, and…
Israel Army Attacks Naksa Demonstration In Qalandia
A fresh round of violence erupted during Naksa Day in the Golan and the West Bank as Palestinians marched for the right of return to their homes in what is…
24 Killed By Israeli Fire In the Golan, 350 Injured
Syrian media sources confirmed that Israeli soldiers shot and killed on Sunday 24 protesters who gathered on the Syrian side of the border of the Israeli occupied Golan Heights marking…
5,000 Israelis march in Tel Aviv calling for Palestinian statehood
At a march organized by a number of Israeli center-left groups, around 5,000 protesters marched through the streets of downtown Tel Aviv Saturday night calling for a Palestinian state on…
French Activist summoned to court over Israel Boycott Video
Olivia Zemor a French national has been summoned to appear before the Paris tribunal for publishing a video on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against israel on the website…
Qabha: “Real Reconciliation Does Not Exist In The West Bank”
Former Minister of Detainees, Hamas political official, Wasfi Qabha, stated that there are no real indications of reconciliation in the West Bank as the Palestinian security forces are still interrogating…
Palestinian protesters storm Gaza-Egypt border terminal
Dozens of Palestinian protesters from the Gaza Strip broke into the Rafah terminal that links between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, Saturday morning.The Egyptian authorities have suddenly decided to close…
This Week in Palestine week 22 2011
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June 5th March Postponed In Lebanon
A high ranking Palestinian leader has told Lebanon Daily Star newspaper that the June 5th march by Palestinian refugees will be postponed due to pressure from the Lebanese government. The…
Sammy Ofer Dies Age 89
One of Israel’s richest businessmen, Sammy Ofer, has died in his home at the age of 89. The shipping magnate spent the last months of his life embroiled in scandal…
PCHR Weekly Report: 2 wounded, including child, 44 abducted by Israeli troops this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 26 May – 01 June 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights…
Settlers Clash With Israeli Police, 11 injured
Israeli Police spokesperson, Micky Rosenfeld, stated that six Israeli policemen and five settlers were injured during violent clashes that took place on Thursday when the Israeli police dismantled an illegal…
Israeli Sources: “Peres Meets Abbas In Italy”
Visiting Italy Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, held a meeting, on Thursday, with Israeli President, Shimon Peres, and the two held talks on the efforts to resume the stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace…
Netanyahu: “Israel Will Act Firmly Against Attempts To Cross Border”
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned Thursday that Israel will act firmly against attempts to cross into the country while the Palestinian mark the “Naksa” day this coming Sunday. The…
Rishiq Denies Swap Deal Nearing
Hamas political leader, Izzat Al Rishiq, denied on Thursday media reports claiming that a prisoner swap deal with Israel is approaching, adding that the deal remains in a deadlock due…
US Issues Official Statement Against Gaza-bound Flotilla
The US State Department issued an official statement reiterating its objection to the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla, and stating that it raised the issue with the government of Turkey, as the…
Palestine Today 06 02 2011
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Lebanese Military Closes Border Area In Run Up To June 5th
The Lebanese military is due to close off the border to Israel on Sunday to prevent a repeat of the clashes on Naksa Day of this year, according to Israeli…
Juppe Presents Peace Plan. Says France Will Host Talks
French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, has proposed a Middle East peace conference in Paris before the end of July in an attempt to restart the stalled Middle East peace process,…
Peace, Not Surrender
As I walked recently along the Israeli separation barrier, being constructed inside the 1967 borders between Israel and the Palestinian Territories, my attention was brought to one of the many…
Thousands Of Zionists March In Jerusalem
Marking the so-called “Jerusalem Day”, approximately 30.000 Zionists marched in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday “celebrating 44 years of occupation and annexation of the holy city”, and clashed with Arab…
Army Invades A Village Near Tulkarem
Israeli soldiers invaded on Wednesday evening Kafr Al Lubbad village, east of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, broke into a school construction site, and interrogated several residents. Local…
Palestine Today 06 01 2011
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Soldiers Invade Hebron, Neabry Areas, Kidnap Three Children
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Wednesday at dawn three children in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and took them to an unknown destination. Troops installed roadblocks in the Hebron…
Arab League Forms A Committee To Monitor the Implementation of Unity Agreement
The Ministerial Council of the Arab League held a session on Tuesday at night and decided to form a higher committee that will be tasked with supervising and monitoring the…
Army Displaces Palestinian Village In the Jordan Valley
Israeli soldiers attacked on Wednesday at dawn “Khirbit Yizra” village in the Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, and displaced its residents under the claim that the area is…
Hamas And Egypt Agree Measures To Ease Flow Of People Through Gaza
Tensions between Hamas and the Egyptian regime over delays and restrictions of movement at the Egypt-Gaza Rafah border crossing have been eased in overnight talks, according to Maan News Agency.…
Protetests Announced For Naksa Day
Refugees are preparing for a second display of mass civil disobedience on June 5th as part of commemorations of “Naksa Day”. Palestinian refugees plan to once again gather at Israel’s…
Israel Says It Will Prevent ‘freedom Flotilla 2’ From Reaching Gaza
Israel has confirmed it will block the next “Freedom Flotilla” seeking to break the maritime siege of Gaza. The flotilla is due to sail in June. The Israeli Navy has…
Palestine Today 05 31 2011
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Explosion Kills Three PRC Members
Three members of the Popular Resistance Committee have been killed in an explosion at a training ground in Rafah, according to Maan News Agency. Four others have been injured Israel…
Troops Kidnap 10 Islamic Jihad Members, Break Into Homes, Offices, In The Jenin District
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Tuesday at dawn ten members of the Islamic Jihad in the northern West bank city of Jenin, and nearby villages and towns, broke into offices that…
Israeli Association For Civil Rights Slams Israel’s Record In East Jerusalem
A new report by the Israeli Association for Civil Rights claims that tensions are on the rise between Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem and Israeli security forces. The report accuses…
Israeli Forces Raid West Bank City Of Jenin, Detaining 12 And Closing Charity.
Israeli forces raided the West Bank city of Jenin and nearby villages detaining 12 Islamic Jihad forces and closing a charity. The raids, which took place between 3 and 4…
Spain To Recognize Palestinian State Before September
Spanish Consul General in East Jerusalem, Alfonso Manuel Portales, has announced Spain will recognise a Palestinian state before September. The announcement came after a meeting between the Spanish official and…
Palestine Today 05 30 2011
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Futher Measures Announced To Strengthen Israeli Presence In East Jerusalem
Wide spread measures to secure Israel’s grip on Jerusalem and insure it remains undivided have been announced ahead of Jerusalem Day this Wednesday 1st of June, according to a report…
Mass Incursion Of Israeli Worshipers To Joseph’s Tomb Spirals Out Of Control
Between 200 and 300 Israeli settlers infiltrated Nablus and called for the Israeli military to re-establish control in the area after they broke free from the Israeli security forces accompanying…
Rafah Crossing Opens Allowing Hundreds Travel, Many For Fist Time In 4 Years.
After four years of closure the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip was opened on Saturday allowing hundreds of Gazans to travel into EgyptThere were joyous scenes…
Palestinian unity government to be formed by June 6th
The two major Palestinian political parties, Fateh and Hamas, have announced that they are in the final stages of negotiation on a national unity agreement, and will formally institute the…
Time to tear down the fences
I spent a part of my youth in a kibbutz very close to southern Lebanese village Maroun al-Ras, where the historic march of return of Palestinian refugees took place earlier…
Gaza Journalism Forum Slams Israeli Police For Attacking Journalists in Jerusalem
The Palestinian Journalists Forum in Gaza issued a statement denouncing the Israeli police for attacking Palestinian journalists reporting on clashes that took place in Ras Al Amoud neighborhood, in occupied…
Palestinian Forced To Demolish His Own Home In Jerusalem
Israeli authorities forced Mahmoud Aramin to demolish his house in East Jerusalem Sunday, or risk having it destroyed by an Israeli bulldozer, which would have resulted in an exorbitant fine.Aramin…
Soldiers Detain Palestinians, Abduct International Peace activist Near Hebron
Israeli soldiers detained on Saturday evening five several Palestinians, including women and children, and kidnapped an international peace activist near Safa village, north of the southern West Bank city of…
Israeli Pressure Leads To Zionist Support Statement By G8 Ministers
After a call from Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Canadian Premier Stephen Harper agreed to draft a statement for all G8 ministers to sign that expressed support for Zionist aspirations…
Palestinian Wounded By Army Fire In Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that Israeli soldiers shot and injured a Palestinian man, on Sunday at dawn, east of Al Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City.Adham Abu…
Arab Follow-Up Committee Supports Palestinian State, To Ask UN For Recognition
At the end of its Saturday meeting in Doha – Qatar, the Arab Follow-up Committee, decided on Saturday to head to the United Nations to ask for recognizing a Palestinian…
Israel Prevents University Lecturer From Traveling To Jordan
On Friday, Israeli soldiers prevented university lecturer, Dr. Farid Abu Dheir, from traveling to Jordan as he was trying to cross the Allenby bridge to be with his son who…
European Campaign Slams Ki-moon Statements
The European Campaign to end the Siege on Gaza denounced recent statements made by UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, in which he called for preventing the Freedom Flotilla 2 from heading…
Settlers Uproot 20 Olive Trees Near Hebron
A group of extremist Israeli settlers, living at the Beit Ayin illegal settlement built on Palestinian lands the belong to Beit Ummar village, north of the southern West Bank city…
Three International Activists, One Palestinian, Detained During Nonviolent Protest Near Nablus
Israeli soldiers detained on Saturday evening three international peace activists, and one Palestinian citizen, as the army attacked the weekly nonviolent protest in Iraq-Burin village, south of the northern West…
Group of 12 Israeli settlers severely beat elderly Palestinian shepherd
An elderly Palestinian shepherd, Hamad al-Kett, 67, was admitted to the hospital on Friday with a fractured skull, internal bleeding, and bruising throughout his body, after he was attacked and…
Egypt’s ‘state security’ still blocks Rafah exit from Gaza
“My father, may he rest in peace, was an Egyptian, my daughters are Egyptians, my grandchildren are Egyptians, my brothers are Egyptians, I am an Egyptian,” an exasperated Salah Zorob…
Ban Ki-moon Calls For Obstructing Freedom Flotilla Heading To Gaza
United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, called on Middle Eastern countries to prevent the new Freedom Flotilla from heading to the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian supplies next month.Ban Ki-moon…
Report: “200 Israeli Companies have Ties With Iranian Energy Sector
A report published by Israeli Haaretz indicated that there are 200 Israeli companies that have indirect investment with the Iranian Energy Sector that feeds the Iranian Nuclear Program, and that…
Settlers To March In Sheikh Jarrah Next Wednesday
Extremist Israeli settlers intend to hold a provocative procession starting from Sheikh Jarrah Palestinian neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem to mark 44 years since Israel occupied the city.Israeli paper, Yedioth…
Israeli Police Attack Nonviolent Protesters In Jerusalem, Kidnap One
The Israeli Police attacked on Friday afternoon Israeli leftist protesters and Palestinian activists as they held a nonviolent protest in front of “Har Hazeiteem” illegal Israeli settlement in Ras Al…
Fateh, Hamas, Held Meeting In Gaza, Leaders To Meet Again Sunday
Leaders of the Fateh and Hamas movements held on Friday evening a meeting in Gaza Strip in which they discussed efforts to implement the Reconciliation Agreement signed in Cairo. Dr.…
Boycott Movement Cheers British Prime Minister Decision To Cut Ties With JNF
The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, stated Friday that he has resigned his position as an Honorary Patron of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), the body which owns 90% of…
This Week in Palestine week 21 2011
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Israeli Navy Fires On Fishing Boat Off Gaza
According to Maan news agency the Israeli Navy have fired on Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza injuring three. Three men have been taken to hospital after the Israeli Navy fired…
G8 Call For Renewed Peace Talks. Extend Aid To Democratizing States.
G8 leaders have called for renewed peace talks between Palestinians and Israeli’s on the basis of US President Obama’s vision for peace. Canada, however, successfully lobbies to have all mention…
Second Freedom Flotilla To Set Sail in June
The international Gaza aid flotilla that was at the centre of an international Israeli diplomatic crisis last year is due to set sail again for Gaza in the coming months.…
Study Values Settlements At $18.8 Billion
A new study by formerly Israeli state funded Macro Center for Political Economics has valued Israeli settler homes at $18.8 billion in the West Bank, according to JNet. The report…
PCHR Weekly Report: 1 killed, 3 wounded, 26 abducted by Israeli forces this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 19– 25 May 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that…
Israeli Leftists Call On Europe To Recognise Palestine Come September
About twenty Israeli writers and intellectuals have signed a petition calling on the EU recognise a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders. Members of the Israeli left have signed a…
Palestine Today 05 26 2011
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Israeli Vice-PM Shalom Against Opening Gaza Crossing
Israeli Vice-Premier Silvan Shalom has spoken out against the easing of the blockade on Gaza through relaxed restrictions at the Egypt-Gaza crossing at Rafah, according to the Jerusalem Post. Shalom…
Israeli Miltary Carries Out Abductions In Hebron
The Israeli military has conducted raids in Ramallah and Hebron according to PNN and Wafa news agencies. As part of the raids the military abducted seven men in Ramallah and…