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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…

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 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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

In the central West Bank villages of Bil’in, Nil’in and Nabi Saleh, non-violent protests were held Friday afternoon to challenge the Israeli Wall construction and support the Libyan people in…

A Palestinian student studying in Libya was shot and killed on Thursday by a group of armed mercenaries in Misrata city, east of Tripoli in Libya, the Maan News Agency…

Around 500 Palestinians along with international and Israeli supporters protested, on Friday, in the Old City in Hebron demanding the opening of Shuhada Street. The Israeli military has barred Palestinians…

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The Lebanese government started to implement the new labor and social security law which allows Palestinian refugees in Lebanon to occupy more jobs.This adjustment is expected to enhance the living…

Confrontations erupted on Thursday evening between Israeli forces and Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem village of Silwan, Violence was concentrated in the Baten al-Hawa area, where Israeli soldiers have…

In the weekly non-violent anti-wall protest in al-Ma’sara village, protestors faced violence from Israeli soldiers, on Friday.Participants attempted to reach the Annexaton wall where their land is located, but were…

Fundamentalist Israeli settlers conducted, on Friday at dawn, several attacks against property and lands that belong to several residents of a number of villages near Nablus, in the northern part…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 17 – 23 February 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…

Palestinian medical sources reported on Thursday evening after the Israeli Air Force fired missiles at a Palestinian vehicle driving in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.The strike…

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Ma’an News Agency has reported, on Thursday, that the State of Israel has bulldozed cultivated lands north of Salfit.The destruction allegedly took place on Thursday morning. Bulldozers destroyed a stone…

On Thursday morning, the Israeli soldiers abducted two Palestinian children from the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, and searched several houses.Mohammad Awad, Media spokesman for the Palestinian Solidarity…

Palestinian medical sources reported on Wednesday evening that a Palestinian child was killed, and three residents were wounded, in an explosion that took place in Khan Younis, in the southern…

Israeli sources reported on Wednesday at night that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approved the return of nearly 350 Palestinian refugees living in Libya into the West Bank.The sources stated…

Only two hours after the Israeli Air Force bombarded Gaza killing one fighter and wounding sixteen residents, an F-16 Israeli fighter jet fired at least one missile at an agricultural…

The al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, reported that one of its fighters died of wounds suffered during clashes with Israeli forces invading Gaza City on Wednesday…

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The Ma’an News Network reports that Israeli settlers burnt two Palestinian cars, south of Nablus.Israeli settlers from the settlement of Bracha allegedly set fire to the cars in the village…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday afternoon, Tallousa village, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus and blocked a number of roads.Local sources reported that several armored military jeeps…

A group of armed extremist Israeli settlers attacked, on Tuesday, at-Tiwana village, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron and uprooted several olive trees.Eyewitnesses reported that settlers of the…

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday, a political leader of the Hamas movement in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, after breaking into his home and ransacking it.Sheikh Awadallah Eshtayya,…

Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, slammed the detention of Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, and considered the act as a “new Zionist crime against the Palestinian…

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The Israeli run Jerusalem Municipality has not approved, on Monday, plans to extend the illegal settlement of Har Homa.Plans had been submitted for approval to extend the settlement, considered part…

The Palestine News Network reports that the Israeli army uprooted over 230 olive trees near Bethlehem.The trees were uprooted and confiscated by the army, who used bulldozers amongst other equipment.…

The Palestine News Network reports that a worker in Gaza has been wounded by fire from the Israeli army.A group of workers were allegedly gathering materials near the border when…

On Monday, Palestinian, Israeli and international activists protested and held vigils in front of Canadian Embassies organized by the Committee for the Defence of the Rights of the Latrun Villages.…

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center, based in the Silwan neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, is reporting that the article published by Israeli daily newspaper, Maariv, on Monday, targeting Wadi Hilweh Information…

The homes of a Bedouin community in the south Hebron hills have been bulldozed by Israeli authorities, according to the Ma’an News Network.A total of five tents, which housed approximately…

Speaking to an audience that included a number of Israeli officials, including President Shimon Peres and Culture Minister Limor Livnat, British author Ian McEwan strongly criticized Israel’s policies of land…

Eighty-one Palestinian non-profit organizations issued a statement, on Monday, urging rival Palestinian factions to work toward reconciliation, just after the Hamas party denied claims that the Fatah party had made…

On Monday morning, the Israeli military abducted two Palestinians from the town of Yatta, south of Hebron, and erected multiple checkpoints.Local sources reported to the Palestine News Agency ‘WAFA’ that…

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According to Adalah-NY, performances by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) will be met with protests in six of the seven cities where it is scheduled to appear during its U.S…

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center, based in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, has published an article raising their concerns over an scheduled project to encircle East Jerusalem with parks…

On Sunday, residents of Silwan in East Jerusalem erected a tent of mourning dedicated to local deceased victim of settler violence, Husam Hussein Rwidy.The ceremony was attended by a number…

The Ma’an News Agency reported, on Monday, that a group of settlers uprooted olive trees and damaged Palestinian farmland near Nablus. The settlers destroyed 270 olive trees using chainsaws and…

Israeli forces demolished a number of tents near Nablus yesterday, reports the Ma’an News Agency.The tents belonged to villagers of Tana, a village located east of Nablus, and had been…

An estimated 3,000 Palestinians marched through downtown Ramallah, in the central West Bank, on Sunday afternoon to protest the U.S. government’s veto of a United Nations Security Council Resolution condemning…

Following his resignation as Chief Negotiator for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Saeb Erekat has, on Sunday, called for a re-examination of the Palestinian Authority.Erekat, speaking to the military run Israel…

Palestinian Medical sources reported, Saturday, that ten residents were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation after Israeli soldiers attacked a nonviolent protest in Dir al-Ghsoun village, north of Tulkarem…

Palestinian medical sources reported, Saturday, that a child and the mayor of Beit Ummar town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, were wounded after the Israeli army opened…

On Saturday, Israeli settlers threw stones at several Palestinian residents in the city of Hebron and the nearby town of Yatta, wounding at least one.An eyewitness reported that Nassar Mohammad…

Despite claims by US President Barack Obama that his administration is opposed to Israel’s further takeover of land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem for colonial settlements, the US…

Anti-Wall protests were organized this Friday in the villages of Bil’in, Nil’in, Nabi Saleh, and al-Ma’ssara, located in the central and southern parts of the West Bank. Today, the theme…

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The Hampshire University chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine successfully demonstrated and shut down an event headlining Israeli soldiers. What follows is the description of the action from the…

Hundreds of people demonstrated Thursday in Manara Square in Ramallah, calling for Palestinian national unity.The demonstration was organized by the Palestinian NGO network and inspired by the success of recent…

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center reports that Israeli bulldozers cleared a tract of Palestinian land in Sheikh Jarrah yesterday.Landowner Khalil Abu Taa’ has been fighting a lengthy legal battle for…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 10 – 16 February 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)…

Israeli soldiers demolished on Thursday a mosque located in Khirbit Yirza, near the West Bank city of Tubas, and also removed 10 tents used by farmers and shepherds in the…

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The Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC) has issued a report highlighting the gender-specific impact that Israeli policies in East Jerusalem have on the lives of Palestinian women.…

The Ma’an News Agency reports that two men have been injured by the Israeli Army this morning.The two were injured in separate incidents at approximately 10am and midday this morning.…

JNF (Jewish National Fund) bulldozers re-entered the village of al-Arakib this morning and destroyed buildings that were put up after yesterday’s destruction.This is now the 18th time that al-Arakib has…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a video, Wednesday, showing plainclothes Palestinian police officers trapping a protester and beating him while he was taking part in a demonstration in support of…

The Israeli military erected, on Thursday morning, many checkpoints in the town of Hebron, southern West Bank, and searched several houses.Security sources reported to Palestine News Agency ‘WAFA’, that the…

Agence France-Presse are reporting, on Thursday, that three Palestinians have been killed during clashes with the Israeli military in the north of the Gaza Strip.Quoting medical sources, AFP reported that…

Undercover forces of the Israeli army broke on Wednesday into the home of Jerusalem Legislator, Ahmad Attoun, and detained his brother, Jihad, and his cousin. Attoun, as well other elected…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported, Wednesday evening, that two day-laborers were wounded after an explosive dropped by the Israeli army in a previous invasion detonated near them.…

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On Wednesday, the Jerusalem District Court rejected an appeal by police disputing the court’s decision to release Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Protesters without conditions.The four protesters were arrested, Monday, for demonstrating…

Israel has once again, on Wednesday, demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqeeb in the Negev desert. The village, which has been repeatedly demolished and rebuilt in recent months, is not…

Palestinian medical sources reported, on Tuesday evening, that a Palestinian youth was shot and wounded by settler gun fire near Jaloud village, south of Nablus, in the northern part of…

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“They come for our woman and our children,” Bassem Tamimi, the leader of the Popular Committee of Nabi Saleh recently told me, “they [the Israeli army] know that woman are…

Israeli Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists have urged international artists who are slated to perform in the International Red Sea Chamber Music Festival in Eilat, Israel next month to…

Plans to build 120 new settlement homes in East Jerusalem were approved on Monday.Jerusalem’s municipal council has approved plans to add two new tranches of homes to the Jewish settlement…

The Israeli military abducted, on Tuesday morning, two young Palestinians after invading their houses in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.Mohamed Awad, Media spokesman for the Palestinian Solidarity…

Over the weekend, Israeli troops erected new earth mounds blocking the Nablus-Beit Iba road, a road which had been closed by Israeli authorities until international intervention by the Quartet for…

Dr. Ahmad Shafiq, the acting head of the temporary Egyptian Government, stated that former Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, is currently in a coma in his residence in the Egyptian resort…

Palestinian medical sources reported, Monday, that a worker was mildly wounded by Israeli army fire near the northern border of the Gaza Strip. The sources stated that the army opened…