Israeli Knesset Passes Referendum Bill
With a majority of 65 votes in favor and 33 opposing, the Israeli Knesset passed the Referendum Bill in the second and third readings, thus requiring a public majority referendum…
E.U. Slams Israel’s Ongoing Siege on Gaza
European Union Foreign Policy Chief, Catherine Ashton, lashed out at Israel for failing to ease the blockade on the Gaza Strip. Ashton stated that despite Israeli vows to the International…
Report: Israeli Army Still Using Children As Human Shields In 2010
One day after an Israeli military court imposed a suspended sentence on two Givati Brigade soldiers for using a nine-year-old boy as a human shield in Gaza, DCI-Palestine has just…
Explosive Charge Detonated In Front Of Home In Central Gaza
The al-Mezan Center for Human Rights reported that an explosive charge was placed and detonated by unknown gunmen in front of a home in al-Boreij refugee camp in central Gaza.…
Palestinian Youth Wounded By Army Fire Near Hebron
Palestinian medical sources reported, Monday, that a Palestinian youth was shot and wounded by Israeli army fire in an area south of Hebron, in the southern part of the West…
Palestine Today 11 22 2010
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Livnat Defines the Boycotters of Ariel Cultural Center as ‘Ignoramuses’
After the theater figures who are boycotting the Ariel center sent a letter to Be’er Sheva Theater actors, encouraging their sensitivity to the cause, the Israeli Minister of Culture and…
Palestinian Worker Shot by Israeli police in Ashkelon
On Monday, Israeli police shot a Palestinian worker who according to Israeli officials, was working in Israel without permission, Ma’an reported.Israeli police explained the shooting saying that the man was…
Israeli Soldiers Who Used 9-year Old As Human Shield Receives No Jail Time
Israeli news sources reported on Sunday, that two soldiers were convicted of following their actions in 2008 during Israel’s war on Gaza. Despite being convicted of using a nine-year old…
Barrier Along Israel-Egypt Border, Ready To Begin
Explained by Israeli government as an essential element to protect the State of Israel, the project will cost NIS 1.35 billion and intends to stop the transit of economic migrants,…
Al-Arakib Bedouin Village Razed for Seventh Time
On Monday morning, Israeli police destroyed the Bedouin town of al-Arakib, in the southern Israel, after the residents rebuilt their homes for seventh time in three months, Ma’an reported.Local sources…
A Palestinian-American view of NATO strategy paper
The new NATO Strategy was adopted last week at a meeting in Portugal by heads of state of the 28-member NATO alliance while outside over 10,000 marchers shouted ‘no to…
U.S. State Dept. Report: Religious Freedom Under Attack in Israel
A new report by the U.S. State Department documents a rise in religious violence and state-sponsored discrimination over the last year. The report specifically mentions right-wing Haredi Jewish groups, and…
In Beit Ummar, Israeli Forces Attack Non-Violent Protest; 6 Abducted
Just days after Israeli troops oversaw the bulldozing of Palestinian homes and farmland in Beit Ummar village to make way for the expansion of an Israeli Jewish-only settlement, Palestinians, internationals…
Israeli Military Attacks Non-Violent Anti-Wall Demos in Bil`in, Ni`lin, al-Ma’sara and Nabi Saleh
Dozens of civilians were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation as Israeli troops attacked anti wall protests organized at a number of villages in various parts of the…
Israel Harbors Fugitive, Wanted For War Crimes in Colombia
International fugitive, arms trader and death squad leader, Yair Klein, has arrived in Israel a free man, despite warrants for his arrest in Colombia for training the death squads of…
This Week in Palestine week 46 2010
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Air Strikes Continue To Hit Gaza
Ma’an News Agency’s Jared Malsin, has reported, via his Twitter feed that further Israeli air strikes have hit Gaza.Malsin states that he has been informed that the attacks took place…
Over 100 British MPs Against Change to Universal Jurisdiction Law
More than a hundred British MPs have opposed the coalition government’s plans to alter the law prosecuting Israeli leaders for alleged war crimes, Press TV claimed on Friday.A parliamentary Early…
Dutch Film Director Accuses Ariel Sharon of Killing Two Palestinian Children in 1982
George Sluizer declared that in 1982 he saw then Israeli defense minister Ariel Sharon shooting Palestinian children from near the Sabra-Shatilla refugee camp, Beirut, while he was filming a documentary.…
88 Palestinian Homes to be Demolished in Silwan
Israel has ordered demolition of around 88 Palestinian homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Palestinian officials warned. Israeli Attorney, Yehuda Weinstein, handed demolition orders in al-Bustan area claiming…
U.N. Welcomes Israel’s decision to Withdraw From Northern Ghajar: Residents Angry
On Thursday, the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon defined Israel’s decision to pull its troops out of the Lebanon’s Ghajar region as an ‘important step’ and hoped that it could…
Gaza Long-range Rocket Fired into Israel
Gaza militants fired a long-range Grad rocket into western Negev, early on Friday, the Israeli Army Radio reported. No casualties were reported. The Soviet-designed rocket exploded north of the Israeli…
Son of Settler Leader Found Guilty of Severely Beating And Dragging Palestinian Child Behind Tractor
One of a group of Israeli settlers who beat a 15-year old Palestinian boy, then tied him to a tractor and dragged him across rocky pavement, has been convicted of…
Palestinian Non-Violent Organizer Released From Prison After One Month Without Charges
Eyad Jamil al-Alami, of Beit Ummar village, in the southern West Bank, has been released from an Israeli detention camp after serving more than a month without any charges.Originally Israeli…
Group Reportedly Linked To Al-Qaida Vows To Avenge Two Gunmen
A group known as the Ansar al-Sunna, a fundamentalist group that rivals the Hamas movement in Gaza, published a 30-second recording in Hebrew vowing to avenge the death of two…
Website Removed After Publishing List of Israeli Military Officials Dubbed As War Criminals
A website that placed pictures, names and personal information of some 200 Israeli soldiers, topped by Israeli Army Chief of Staff, all dubbed by the publisher as war criminals, was…
Fighters Fire RPG Shell At Israeli Military Vehicle Near Gaza Border
Palestinian medical sources reported, Thursday, that a resident was wounded by Israeli military fire near Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip after a resistance group fired…
Boycott Campaign Chalks Up Small Victory As Israeli Company Ends Endorsement Of Israeli Military
The worldwide campaign to boycott Israel to pressure the country to end its apartheid system has claimed a small victory, after Israel’s largest food chain, Strauss Foods, removed from its…
Army Kidnaps 13 Activists Accompanying Palestinians Near Hebron
13 Israeli, international and Palestinian activists were kidnapped on Thursday morning while accompanying farmers to their lands in the Saffa region of Beit Ommar, near the southern West Bank city…
Palestine Today 11 18 2010
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Haniyya: ‘Palestinian Christians Share the Same Pain and Hope’
In a meeting with a Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church, the Prime Minister of the deposed government of Gaza, Ismail Haniyya, stated on Thursday, that his government has a…
Two Mortar Shells Launched at Israel, a Day After the Israeli Airstrike
On Thursday, two mortar shells from Gaza landed in the southern district of Israel, adjacent to the Strip. No injuries were caused, Ma’an reported. According to an Israeli spokeswoman, the…
Israeli Intelligence Suggests Exile of a Number of Prisoners
Palestinian news agency, Ma’an reported on Thursday that Nizar Mahagneh, the lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Club was able to visit many Palestinian prisoners in interrogation centers in which they…
Israeli Army Invades a School in Hebron
Israeli army has invaded a school in the village of Bani Na’im in the eastern part of Hebron, Palestinian News Agency, WAFA reported on Thursday.According to security sources, Israeli army…
‘Cartoons in Conflict’: a New Approach to Israeli-Palestinian Dispute
Starting from November, the exhibition ‘Cartoons in Conflict’, organized by the Israeli-Palestinian association Parents Circle-Families Forum (PCFF), will visit different cities in Europe, such as Rome, Paris and Berlin, to…
Israeli Army Prevents Extinguishing of Fire in Hebron, Abducts Three Palestinian Residents
Palestinian sources reported, on Wednesday, that Israeli army prevented firefighters from extinguishing a fire that broke out in an orchard on the village of Safa, in the northern part of…
Shin Bet Torture ‘Investigator’ Moved to Israeli Justice Department
The Israeli secret service, or Shin Bet, has always depended on ‘internal investigations’ to respond to allegations of torture and mistreatment. Now, the Shin Bet officer in charge of complaints…
With Netanyahu Bribe, Washington Going For Broke
Watching the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians drag on year after year without conclusion, it is easy to overlook the enormous changes that have taken place on the…
Israeli Army Abducts A Resident Near Nablus
Israeli soldiers abducted, Wednesday evening, a Palestinian youth after breaking into his home in Madama village, south of Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank. The army claimed…
Crowley: “Peace Agreement Needs More Than A Year”
U.S. State Department Spokesperson, Philip J. Crowley, stated that Washington still believes that a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians is possible, but added that such a deal requires…
Israeli Education Students Refuse Participate In An Educational Project In Ariel Settlement
A number of Israeli Education students, studying at the Beit Berl Israeli College, informed the College administration that they refuse to hold their final project at an educational institution located…
Zahhar Denies Claims That Hamas Planned Assassination Of Nablus Governor
Member of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, Dr. Mahmoud Zahhar, denied claims reportedly made by Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, in which he claimed that Hamas planned the assassination…
Two Brothers, Members Of the Army of Islam, Killed By Army Airstrike In Gaza
Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday evening that two brothers, members of the Army of Islam, were killed were the Israeli Air Force targeted their vehicle in al-Wihda Street, in the…
Palestine Today 11 17 2010
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Settlers Set Fires in Safa Village, Three Palestinians Arrested
Israeli forces arrested three Palestinians in Safa village, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, for trying to extinguish fires set by Bat Ayin settlers on Tuesday night, local…
P.A. Forces Arrest “Cell” Believed To Be Planning To Assassinate Nablus Governor, Bombings
The Pal-Home news website reported, Wednesday, that senior Palestinian security sources announced the arrest of a cell, reportedly affiliated with the Hamas movement, and that cell members were planning to…
Israel Asks Egypt To Release A Spy In Exchange For Egyptian Detainees
An Israeli official presented an offer to Egypt to release a spy detained by Cairo in exchange for releasing a number of Egyptian detainees.The offer was presented by Ayyoub al-Qarra,…
Israel to Hand Over Disputed Village
Israel’s security cabinet approved, on Wednesday, a plan to pull out troops from the northern half of Ghajar, a village on the country’s border with Lebanon, local agencies reported.The Israeli…
Detained Palestinian Legislator Released
The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies reported Wednesday that the Israeli Prison Authorities released, on Tuesday evening, one of the detained Palestinian Legislators, from the Tubas district in the central…
Israel “Pardons” 75 Fatah Fighters
In a step that was considered by Israel as an act of good will towards Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel pardoned 75 Palestinians wanted by its army and security forces.The…
Zionists Attack Meeting of Jewish Peace Group in California; 2 Injured
A meeting of the left-wing advocacy group ‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ in San Francisco Sunday was attacked by right-wing Zionists from ‘SF Voice for Israel’ who, wrapped in an Israeli…
Islamic Jihad Fighters Clash With Israeli Troops in Gaza
The al-Quds Brigades told Ma’an News, on Tuesday, that their forces fought off Israeli military that entered the Gaza Strip at dawn. A statement by Islamic Jihad’s military wing claimed…
Two Settlers Arrested on Suspicion of Trying to Attack Palestinians
On Wednesday, Israeli police arrested two students from the Yitzhar religious academy, south of Nablus, after finding knives, gloves, masks and other materials in their car, PNN reported.This is not…
Israel’s New Re-Zoning Plan for East Jerusalem
Jerusalem Mayor, Nir Barkat, presented, Tuesday morning, a controversial new city planning policy for East Jerusalem which entails demolishing several homes, Agence France-Presse reported. Barkat announced that the re-zoning plan…
Palestine Today 11 16 2010
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Palestinians & Arab League Likely To Reject U.S. Proposal
According to Ma’an News, a proposal from the United States for a 90-day temporary freeze on construction in Israeli West Bank settlements might not be enough to entice the Palestinians…
Meridor: ‘No cabinet freeze vote until U.S. gives proposal in writing’
In an interview with Israeli Army Radio today, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor said U.S. promises were needed in writing before the Cabinet votes on a 3 month settlement…
Settlers Destroy Trees Near Hebron
Farmers from Surif, north of Hebron, went to their land, on Tuesday, to find that many of their trees had been set on fire by settlers. According to the Palestinian…
Belgian Citizens Set To Sue Israel
Four Belgian citizens who were on board the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza when it was attacked by Israeli forces on May 31, 2010 are planning to sue the Israeli government.The…
Settlement Petitioned Government In 2001 To Avoid Paying Taxes, Saying It Was Not Part Of Israel
In contrast with its claims in recent months that it is part of the state of Israel and should be treated as such, the municipal government of the settlement of…
Palestine Today 11 15 2010
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Soldiers Confiscate Company Equipment Of Detained Hamas Leader Believed To Be In Charge Of Finances
The Israeli military raided the home of a Hamas official, allegedly a finance official of the Hamas movement in the West Bank, the Maan News Agency reported Monday.The man was…
Clashes at Haifa Uni. Over MK Zoabi Event
Clashes have occurred at the University of Haifa between students and police, following the arrival of Haneen Zoabi, MK of the Balad party.Zoabi was scheduled to speak at the university…
Road Block Erected at Entrance to Issawiya
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center has reported, on Monday, that Israeli Military personnel erected a road block across the north eastern entrance to the village of Issawiya for the second…
Israeli Deputy PM: Wall Should Become Official Border For Israel
Verifying the fears that Palestinians have voiced for years (which have constantly been denied by Israel), Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor told an interviewer with Ha’aretz newspaper that Israel plans…
Settlers Burn Olive Trees Near Nablus
A group of extremist Jewish settlers torched, on Sunday, at least 200 Palestinian olive trees that belong to residents of Salem village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus,…
Peace Now: 1,629 New Settlement Houses In Six Weeks Since Freeze Ended
According to the Israeli watchdog group Peace Now, Israeli settlers living in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, in violation of international law, have engaged in a frenzy of…
U.S. Government Offers Israel $3 Billion Weapons Deal In Exchange For 3-month Settlement Freeze
After US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with the Israeli Prime Minister on Friday, the US set out an offer of additional military assistance to Israel in exchange for…
Erekat: “We Will Seek U.S. Recognition Of A Palestinian State”
Chief Palestinian Negotiator, Dr. Saeb Erekat, stated Friday, that should the United States fail in obliging Israel to halt its settlement activities in the occupied West Bank and in occupied…
Carter: “Hamas Agrees To Allow Shalit To Send A Message To His Family”
Former American President, Jimmy Carter, stated during an interview with al-Jazeera on Friday, that the Hamas movement agreed to allow the captured prisoner of war, Gilad Shalit, held by three…
Israeli Soldiers Suppress 3 Separate Anti-Wall Protests in al-Masara, Bil’in, Nil’in
Three separate anti-Wall protests in different parts of the West Bank were attacked by Israeli troops on Friday. Soldiers used tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets against the unarmed, non-violent…
This Week in Palestine week 45 2010
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Israeli Army Segregates the Village of Nabi Saleh to Prevent Commemorative Folk Festival
After the Fatah movement called the Palestinian people in Ramallah for a folk festival to commemorate late president Yasser Arafat, as a new step in escalating the popular resistance, the…
Hamas Releases 30 Fatah Supporters Detained During Arafat’s Commemoration in Gaza
Hamas security forces have released 30 persons, two hours after arresting them at an event in Gaza commemorating the the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Ma’an News reported on…
Clinton: “Israel’s Security Needs Will Be Guaranteed Under Any Peace Deal”
U.S. Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, assured Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that all of Israel’s security needs will be taken into full consideration under any future peace deal with…
International Aid Workers on Gaza-bound Boat Stuck in Libyan Waters
At least a dozen international aid volunteers are on board a boat off the coast of Libya, where they are allegedly being held captive by the boat’s captain, according to…
Jerusalem Municipality Weighs Plans To Build 130 Units in East Jerusalem
The Jerusalem Municipality is weighing plans for the construction of 130 units in the areas located between Beit Safafa and Gilo settlement in occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli sources reported. The…
PCHR Weekly Report: Three civilians wounded; 18 abducted, including 6 children
During the last week, from November 4th to 10th, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights documented numerous violations of human rights by Israeli forces in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, which…
Traffic Accident in Jordan Leaves One Israeli Dead And 10 Wounded
Israeli sources reported Thursday that one Israeli tourist was killed and ten others were wounded in a traffic accident that took place in Jordan.The accident took place when a bus…
Palestine Today 11 11 2010
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Israeli military invades Palestinian village after Israeli Settlers attack family
On Thursday morning, in Tiqua village, near Bethlehem, a Palestinian family was attacked by Israeli settlers, which led to a clash between the residents of the village and Israeli forces.…
Thirty Students Wounded After Inhaling Gas Fired By The Army Near Hebron
On Thursday morning, thirty Palestinian students were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation after Israeli soldiers fired tear gas bombs at them in the village of Beit Ummar…
Egyptian Flags “Made In Israel”
An Egyptian paper reported that it managed to obtain documents from the Egyptian ministry of Trade and Finance revealing that a number of Egyptian businessmen imported Egyptian flags that were…
Clinton: ‘We Do Not Support Unilateral Steps’
On Wednesday, at a videoconference with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in Washington, the U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton declared that the U.S. will not support any unilateral step related…
Israeli Bulldozers Demolish Sheep Farm in the Village of al-Issaweyeh, Jerusalem
Palestinian sources in Jerusalem reported, on Thursday, that bulldozers belonging to the Israeli controlled Jerusalem municipality demolished a sheep and horse farm in al-Issaweyeh village in North East Jerusalem.Witnesses said…
Palestinian Factions Plan To Continue Dialogue In December
On Wednesday, the talks between the two main Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, ended in Damascus without an agreement regarding to the security issues. The two factions agreed to continue…
Israeli Settler Attacks Two Palestinian Children and Elderly Woman
Palestinian sources reported on Thursday that two Palestinian children and an elderly woman were wounded when an Israeli settler from the settlement of Tekoa, southeast of Bethlehem, attacked them with…
Hamas In Gaza Refuses To Authorize Arafat’s Commemoration Ceremonies
The Fatah movement reported that its request to be allowed to hold a public ceremony commemorating the late President, Yasser Arafat, was rejected by the Hamas police in Gaza City.…
Two Officers Feared Dead As Israeli Jet Crashes In The Negev
Israeli sources reported, Wednesday, that rescue teams are now searching for an Israeli Air Force pilot and his navigator after their fighter-jet (F-16I) crashed in a canyon in the Negev…
Army Invades Bil’in
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at night, the West Bank village of Bil’in, near Ramallah, and searched the home of a local organizer of nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall.…
Palestine Today 11 10 2010
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PIC: Abu Mujahid Says Israel’s Propaganda on Resistance is Addressed to the West
The spokesman for the popular resistance committees, Abu Mujahid, told the Palestinian Information Centre, on Tuesday night, that recent claims by the Israeli authorities about new attempts by the Palestinian…
Israeli Military Enters Bi’lin in Pre-Dawn Raid
The Israeli military, on Tuesday, entered and searched the village of Bi’lin, near Ramallah in the West Bank, in a pre-dawn raid. The military claimed to be searching for Ashraf…
PNN: Israeli Rightist Request to Protest Rejected
Sharon District Police Chief, Brigadier-General Shimon Shomroni, refused to authorize a request by Israeli right-wing students to protest outside the house of Military Advocate General Avichai Mandelbilt, PNN said.The right-wing…
New Objects Gathered for Arafat Museum
Following the sixth anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death, on November 11, people donated thousand of his objects – photographs, pistols, trademark sunglasses and military-style suits– for display in a new…
Crowley Reaffirms Obama’s Stance Against New Settlement Construction In Jerusalem
State Department Spokesperson, Philip J. Crowley, reaffirmed the stance of American President, Barack Obama, against the new Israeli plan to build hundreds of units for Jewish settlers in occupied East…
New Incursion By Israeli Troops Into Gaza
Israel has launched a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip with its forces advancing hundreds of meters into the east of the southern city of Khan Younis, Press TV reported…
Hamas: “Israel Seeking Failure Of Palestinian Unity Talks”
The Hamas movement issued a press release slamming the kidnapping of the secretary-general of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr. Mahmoud al-Ramahi, and stated that, by the ongoing arrests and the…
Arrests Campaign in Silwan and New Excavation in Hilweh Valley in East Jerusalem
Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday that Israeli soldiers abducted, after midnight, Muhammad Odeh, an owner of construction materials store, and requested Hammudeh Siyam, a shopkeeper to head to the nearest…