Palestinian Killed In Tunnel Accident
Palestinian medical sources reported that one worker was killed late on Tuesday evening in a tunnel accident in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.The sources stated that…
Army Invades Several Villages Near Jenin, Kidnaps Eight Across The West Bank
Israeli soldiers invaded on Wednesday at dawn several villages east of Jenin city, in the northern part of the West Bank. Eight Palestinian were kidnapped across the West Bank.Eyewitnesses reported…
Lod Residents Protest Home Demolitions
Arab residents of Lod held a massive protest, on Tuesday at night, in support of Abu Eid family that lost its seven homes after the Israeli Authorities demolished them four…
Abu Mojahid Welcomes Stance Of New Egyptian Government
Spokesperson of Popular Resistance Committees, Mohammad Al Abreem (Abu Mojahid), welcomed the stances of the new Egyptian government regarding rejecting the Israeli siege on Gaza and the necessity to lift…
Qassam Fighter Killed In Gaza
The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, issues a press release stating that one of its fighters was killed in what was described “a mission in…
Israeli Prime Minister Vows To Maintain Military Occupation Of Jordan Valley
During a tour around the eastern West Bank on Tuesday, the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed to keep the Israeli military presence on the eastern border of the West…
Army Does Not Believe It Can Contain Widespread Revolution In The West Bank
In light with the current events and protests against the ruling regimes in some Arab countries, and the latest removal of Egyptian and Tunisian presidents, the Israeli Army’s Central Command…
Neglected Revolution in Palestine
U.S. mainstream media seldom lists Palestine among countries fighting oppressive regimes. It should. A visit to the West Bank and talks with Palestinians are signs of what will come. In…
Palestine Today 03 8 2011
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Rania Khayyat – Rural Women’s Development Society
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || 12 m 59s || 11.8 MB || The following interview is with Rania Khayyat, the head of public relations for…
Hitam Saafin – Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || 18 m 16s || 16.7 MB || The following interview is with Hitam Saafin, the Chair of the Union of…
International Women’s Day in Palestine 2011
Tuesday marks International Women’s Day, a global celebration of women. In Palestine, rallies and conferences were organized to celebrate this day. These provided a chance and space to reflect on…
Bethlehem Celebrates International Women’s Day with Protest
To celebrate International Woman’s Day, on Tuesday, women in Bethlehem protested against the annexation wall, that divides many parts of the West Bank and annexes Palestinian owned land.Between 150 and…
Settlers Injure 3 Near Nablus
The Ma’an News Agency reports that settlers shot and injured three Palestinians in As-sawiya vilage near Nablus. Dozens of residents of the Yash Adam outpost allegedly attacked the village on…
Britain To Upgrade Palestinian Delegation To A Mission Status
British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, stated Monday that his country has decided to upgrade the status of the official Palestinian delegation in London to the level of a Mission, similar…
Israeli Seeks $20 Billion in US Aid
The Israeli government is planning to head to the United States to ask for a $20 Billion in additional military aid to “cope with the new changes in the Middle…
Gaza’s Ministry Of Detainees Calls On Egypt To Release Palestinians Prisoners
The Ministry of Detainees at the Hamas-led interim government issued a press release calling on the Egyptian government to immediately release all Palestinian detainees held in Egyptian prisons. The Ministry…
Hamas Police Detains Six Protestors In Gaza
As hundreds of residents marched, Monday, in the streets on Gaza City calling for an end to the internal Palestinian divisions and urging for unity, the Hamas-controlled Palestinian police and…
Army To Demolish Homes, Barns, Near Jenin
The Israeli Authorities handed on Monday evening eight orders for the removal of eight homes and barns that belong to residents of Barta’a Al Sharqiyya, isolated behind the Annexation Wall…
Israeli Settlers And Soldiers Attack Palestinians Near Nablus: 10 Palestinians, 1 Settler Injured
According to local sources, a large group of armed Israeli settlers invaded Qusra village, near the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, on Monday, and began uprooting olive…
Israel Constructs Electric Fence On Egypt Border
An Israeli military official based in the southern part of Israel stated Monday that the first stage of the Israeli electric fence on the Israel-Egypt borders will be accomplished soon.…
Palestinian Boy Summoned to Jerusalem Police Station
10 year old Muslim Aoudeh from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, was summoned to the Jerusalem police station for investigation on Sunday. Aoudeh was abducted, along with four other…
Palestine Today 03 07 2011
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Khirbet Tana Water Confiscated By Israeli Army
The Ma’an News Agency reports that Israel has continued its campaign against Khirbet Tana by confiscating 20 portable water tankers on Monday morning.The tankers were brought into the village after…
Israeli Army Invades Nablus
The Israeli Army invaded Kharbet Tana in the eastern part of Nablus, on Monday, and confiscated tanks of water belonging to civilians. Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian Authority official in charge…
Second Day of Sit-in at Karam Abu Salem Crossing
Truck drivers protested, Monday morning, at Karam Abu Salem crossing for the second day. This prevented the entry of goods to the strip.Jihad Islaiem, spokesman for the protesters, stated that…
Pink Floyd Singer Joins Cultural Boycott of Israel
The former lead singer of the rock band Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, is the latest artist to voice support for the boycott of Israel, in an effort to pressure the…
Non-violent Protest Leader in Nabi Saleh taken by Israeli troops
Local protest leader, Naji Tamimi, was abducted during a night raid on the village of Nabi Saleh by the Israeli military, according to a statement by the Popular Committee Against…
Palestinian President calls for Palestine to Join UN
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in a press conference this weekend that it is time for Palestine to become a permanent member of the United Nations. At a news conference…
Troops Attacks Women’s Protest, Dozens Wounded
Dozens of women were wounded on Saturday after the Israeli forces violently attacked a peaceful protest at the Qalandia Terminal north of Jerusalem, and fired gas bombs and rubber-coated metal…
Israeli Air Force Carries A Series Of Air Strikes In Gaza
The Israeli Air Force carried out on Sunday at dawn a series of air strikes targeting a number of areas in Gaza city, and areas in central Gaza; damage was…
Hamas To Re-start National Unity Talks With Fateh
The Hamas party, which won elections in 2006 but was prevented from forming a government in the West Bank, announced Saturday that it is working on an initiative to restore…
Palestinian Government In Gaza Protests Closure Of Main Commercial Crossing Into Israel
The Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip said on Saturday that they may close down the Kerem Shalom crossing from the Gazan side, in protest of Israel’s decision this week…
Israeli military invades village near Jenin
The Israeli military invaded, the village of Ceres, south of Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank on Saturday morning. Troops erected a military checkpoint between Ceres and…
Non-violent anti-Wall protests held in four West Bank villages on Friday
On Friday afternoon, anti-Wall protests were organized in the villages of Bil’in, Nil’in and an-Nabi Saleh, in the central West Bank, as well as al-Ma’sara in the south. Three were…
Palestinian Woman Attempts To Stab A Soldier Near Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Friday evening a young Palestinian woman from Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, after claiming that she attempted to stab a soldier at the Etzion Junction. Palestinian…
When Buying Dinner Becomes Dangerous
On Thursday, February 24, 20-year-old Mohammad Gharib of al-Isawiya village near Jerusalem was driving home, bringing dinner from a restaurant in Jerusalem.Mohammad took his youngest brother and his friend along…
Clashes Reported In Silwan
Local sources reported that clashes took place on Friday following noon prayers at the protest tent in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, as the local residents continued their protests…
This Week in Palestine week 92011
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Israel To Sue Bedouin Villagers For Cost Of Demolition
The Alternative Information Center reports that Israel plans to sue the residents of al-Arakib, a Bedouin village in the Negev desert, for the costs of demolishing their homes.Al-Arakib has been…
Settlers Cut Down More Than 500 Olive Trees In Nablus
500 olive trees, which were planted some weeks ago near an settlement outpost called Yash Adam, were cut down by the Israeli settlers this morning in Nablus. Eyewitnesses stated that…
PCHR Weekly Report: 2 Palestinians killed, 9 wounded, 31 buildings damaged by Israeli forces
In its weekly report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 24 Feb. 02 Mar. 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…
Palestinian Prisoners Freed By Egypt, Arrive In Gaza
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a number of Palestinian prisoners who were detained by Egypt arrived on Thursday evening at the Rafah Border Terminal between the Gaza…
Israeli Air Force Bombards A Car In Gaza
Palestinian sources reported, on Friday at dawn, that the Israeli Air Force fired at least one missile at a Palestinian vehicle in An-Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza completely destroying…
Soldiers Break Into Eshil-Be’er Sheva Prison, Attack Detainees, Search Their Rooms
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported Thursday that Israeli soldiers and under-cover units of the Israeli army broke into the Eshil-Be’er Sheva prison, violently attacked the detainees and searched their…
Soldiers Kidnap Four Children In East Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers invaded on Thursday Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped four children. Local sources reported that the children are only 13-15 years old, and that the Israeli…
Hamas Delegates Start A Tour To Discuss Shalit File
Delegates of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip started a tour that would include meetings with the movement’s leaders in the Arab World to discuss the file of prisoner-of-war…
Troops Invade Tulkarem To Eat Knafeh
It’s not strange for Israeli soldiers to invade a neighborhood for the sole purpose of investigating identity cards of young in the occupied territories; the strange thing is to enter…
Palestine Today 03 03 2011
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Settlers Organize ‘Day Of Rage’
Extreme Israeli settlers have launched a ‘day of rage’ in protest against the demolition of a handful of illegal structures in the Havat Gilad outpost. Demonstrators briefly succeeded in blocking…
Israeli Forces Arrest Residents From Hebron
The Israeli army arrested, on Thursday, residents from the West Bank city of Hebron.Israeli military forces raided the area of Bir al-Mhajer, north of Hebron, and arrested two brothers, Mohammed…
Israeli Police Detain Citizens From The al-Aqsa Mosque
Israeli police arrested, on Thursday, citizens who were present at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. According to guards at the al-Aqsa Mosque to the Israeli police raided this morning, the…
Kirbeh Tana Demolished For The 6th Time By Israeli Bulldozers
Kerbeh Tanna, north of Nablus, has been demolished for the 6th time, on Wednesday, after residents recently re-built it.Early in the morning 20 structures, including homes, were demolished by three…
Israeli Soldiers Abducted Two Palestinians In Jenin
On Thursday morning, the Israeli military abducted two Palestinians and erected multiple checkpoints in the northern West Bank city of Jenin.Security Sources reported to the Wafa News Agency that the…
February: Seven Palestinians Killed, 46 Injured By Army Fire In Gaza
A report published by the Higher Committee for Medical Services in Gaza, revealed that Israeli soldiers killed, in February, 7 Palestinians, and wounded 46, including several children, during several attacks…
10 Wounded, Sixteen Detained During Jaffa Clashes As Settlers March In City
Clashes were reported in Jaffa city, on Wednesday evening, as a group of extremist Israeli settlers and fundamentalist right-wing leaders and members, marched in the city demanding the Jaffa to…
PA Calls On International Community To Help Stop Settler Violence
Following the recent increase in attacks by Israeli settlers on indigenous Palestinians in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority issued a statement, Wednesday, calling on the international community to ‘intervene…
Report: “Israel Kidnapped 80 Children in Jerusalem Since The Beginning of 2011”
The Research and Documentation Unit at the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER) reported that Israeli soldiers and policemen have kidnapped more than 80 Palestinian children in occupied…
US Folksinger Decides to Support Boycott of Israel
The legendary 82-year old folk singer Pete Seeger, an icon of the folk movement of the 1950s and 60s, told an Israeli organization that he supports the movement for Boycott,…
Army Kidnaps Elected Legislator
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, legislator Azzam Salhab, 54 years old, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after stopping him at a military roadblock near Jericho city.…
Palestine Today 03 02 2011
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Report: Israel illegally interrogates, tortures children
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainee Affairs published a new report Wednesday documenting the torture of children as young as seven in Israeli prisons. Since the beginning of this year, Israeli…
Right-wing Israelis March In Jaffa against Arab Presence
Right-wing Israelis held a march through Jaffa to protest against what they deemed, “the Islamic movement gaining control” over the city.The march was organised by Michael Ben-Ari, an MK (member…
Jerusalem Municipality Approves Settlement Construction In East Jerusalem
The Jerusalem Municipality decided to transform a police station in the Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amoud in Jerusalem into a settlement outpost, and approved the construction of 14 units that…
Israel Shuts al-Mintar Crossing
The israeli army has shut al-Mintar crossing, on Wednesday, and kept “Karam Abu Salem” crossing open only.Israel had previously shut the trade crossing “Nahil Ouz” and transferred all the exports…
Israeli Navy Fires At Palestinian Fishing Boats
Israeli Navy boats opened fire, on Wednesday at dawn, at Palestinian fishing boats near the shore in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Damage was reported, but…
Haniyya: “Reconciliation Cannot Be Reached Amidst Siege, Collaboration With Israel”
Hamas leader, and Prime Minister of the dissolved Hamas-led government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyya, stated that the Palestinian people want real reconciliation that addresses the current political changes in the…
Netanyahu Said To Be Weighing A Plan For A Palestinian “State” With Provisional Borders
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is weighing a plan that would lead to the establishment of a “Palestinian state with provisional borders”, and that this…
Arab Democratic Revolution: Bringing It All Back Home – To Palestine
Larry Derfner wrote a suggestive column in the Jerusalem Post about what he hopes is the coming Palestinian democratic revolution. It got me to thinking about how such a thing…
Palestine Today 03 01 2011
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Palestinian Man Injured by Israeli airstrike in Gaza
A twenty two year old man was injured by an Israeli airstrike in the southern part of Gaza in Khan Younis, in the midst of an Israeli incursion in the…
Hamas Prevent Unity Rally in Gaza
Hamas security forces dispersed a rally in the Gaza Strip, on Monday. The rally had been intended to call for an end to political division within the Palestinian political world.Agence…
Al-Quds Brigades to Employ ‘New Tactics’
Ma’an News Agency are reporting, on Tuesday, that the al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, are preparing ‘new tactics’ to use against the Israeli military.The militant group are…
Six Children Arrested in Silwan Clashes
Israeli ‘undercover’ forces arrested six Palestinian children, on Monday, during violent confrontations in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, local sources informed.Six children were rounded up in al-Ein al-Fawqa, in…
Another Palestinian Child Run Over in Hebron
An Israeli settler hit a Palestinian boy with his car in Hebron, on Monday evening, Ma’an News Agency reported. Residents of the Old City of Hebron witnessed having seen a…
Israel To Legalize Settlement Outposts
Israel has announced plans to legalize a total of 96 settlement outposts.According to Israeli NGO Peace Now, there are a total of 99 settlement outposts, of which the government is…
Man Killed By Israeli Army in Gaza
The Israeli army killed a man who entered the 300m ‘buffer zone’ in Gaza on Monday.The army claim that troops opened fire aiming for the lower torso of the man.…
Settlers Attack Homes, Property In Hebron
A group of armed fundamentalist Israeli settlers attacked, on Tuesday at dawn, several Palestinian neighborhoods in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.Eyewitnesses reported that dozens of settlers led by…
Settlers Set Fire To House in Huwara Village
A group of extremist settlers set fire to a Palestinian home near Nablus, Monday night, Palestinian media sources reported.According to the Ma’an News Agency, the groups threw Molotov cocktails at…
Report: “Israel To Carry Out Specified Attacks Against Gaza”
The Israeli Radio reported, Monday, that the Israeli Army intends to carry out specified and targeted attacks against certain areas in the Gaza Strip without conducting a direct confrontation or…
Army Invades al-Qarara, Uproots Farmlands
Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday morning, the town of al-Qarara, east of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and uprooted farmlands.Local sources reported that eight armored military…
Israeli Police Detains 23 Extremist Settlers In Jerusalem
As dozens of extremist Jewish settlers blocked roads in Jerusalem while protesting the removal of structures at the illegal outpost of Gilad Farm, near the northern West Bank city of…
Blaming Palestinians for Outpost Demolition, Settlers Intensify Attacks
Angered by the Israeli army for demolishing, on Monday, four homes at the Gilad illegal settlement outpost near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Israeli settlers carried out several…
Murdered Jerusalem Man Subjected To Racism Even In Death
All Hussain Hassan Rwidy wanted was to bury his son. ‘They took me to see the investigator who worked on the case. He called me inside [his office], alone, and…
Jerusalem, Nablus roads blocked by Israeli settlers in protest against outpost removal
Hundreds of Israeli settlers blocked the Nablus road in the northern West Bank, and dozens more tried to block a main road in Jerusalem on Monday, calling for the Israeli…
Palestine Today 02 28 2011
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Silwan Residents Injured by Israeli Gunfire Over Weekend
This weekend saw a continuation of clashes in Silwan, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem targeted for Israeli expansion, leaving many Palestinians injured. On Friday, a young Palestinian man from Silwan,…
Army Abducts Two Palestinians From Hebron
Israeli soldiers abducts, on Monday at dawn, two Palestinians from the southern West Bank city of Hebron.The two were taken from their homes after the army conducted an invasion into…
Israeli Settlers Demand Firing Of Bus Driver For Crime Of ‘being Arab’
A Palestinian-Israeli bus driver, who holds Israeli citizenship, has been threatened with firing after he was assigned to a route that serves the Israeli colonial settlement of Elazar. Jewish Israeli…
Elected Legislator Sentenced To Six Months
The Israeli Authorities sentenced, on Sunday, a Palestinian legislator to six months in administrative detention without presenting any legal charges against him.Dr. Omar Abdul-Raziq, former Finance Minister, stated after the…
One Resident Wounded As Army Bombards Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported, Monday morning, that one resident was injured after the Israeli army bombarded an area near the Gaza International Airport, east of Rafah, in the southern part…
Israeli Internal Probe: 2002 Bombing Which Killed 8 Children ‘Justified’
An ‘internal investigation’ by the Israeli military released a report, Sunday, stating that there was ‘no wrongdoing’ in a 2002 targeted assassination carried out by the Israeli airforce, in which…
Palestinian Killed By Army Shells East of Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported, on Sunday evening, that one resident was killed and several were injured in a number of Israeli military attacks targeting the Gaza…
Settlers Block Roads Leading To Nablus, Hurl Stones At Local Vehicles
A group of armed Israeli settlers blocked, on Monday morning, a number of roads leading to the northern West Bank city of Nablus. They hurled stones at several vehicles while…
Palestinian Child Wounded After Being Run-over By Settler’s Vehicle
A Palestinian child was injured, on Sunday, after being run-over by a vehicle driven by a Israeli settler in the district of Hebron, in the southern part of the West…
Settlers Attack Palestinian Village Near Nablus, Torch Vehicle
For the second day in a raw, a group of fundamentalist settlers of the Yitzhar illegal settlement, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, invaded on Saturday at dawn…
Israeli Air Force Carries Out A Series Of Air-Strikes Targeting Gaza
The Israeli Air Force conducted on Saturday at dawn a series of Air Strikes targeting a number of areas in the Gaza Strip leading to excessive damage; no injuries were…
Settlers Uproot Lands Planted With Wheat Near Ramallah
A group of extremist settlers uprooted 150 Dunams planted with wheat near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.The settlers came from an illegal outpost near Al Mogheer Palestinian village…
‘Why I tried to arrest Avigdor Lieberman’
If apartheid is a crime, there is only one way to treat its practitioners: arrest them. That is precisely what I tried to do when I confronted Avigdor Lieberman, the…