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Former Jerusalem Affairs Minister at the Palestinian Authority Engineer, Khalid Abu Arafa, stated that Israel aims at removing all Palestinians out of Jerusalem in order to ensure at least a…

The Turkish Relief Foundation demanded Israel to unconditionally release its representative in the West Bank, Mohammad Shahin, who was kidnapped on Wednesday April 27.Head of the Foundation, Bülent Yıldırım, stated…

Palestinian medical sources reported Wednesday that nine Palestinians were wounded during clashes with Israeli soldiers, undercover forces and policemen in Silwan town, south of the Al Aqsa mosque in occupied…

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The Palestinian Librations Organization Executive Committee will convene on Saturday to decide on resuming indirect talks with Israel mediated by Washington. The U.S envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell…

At least 12 Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli soldiers during morning military invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities on Wednesday. Troops invaded the southern West Bank cities…

A number of Israeli tanks and bulldozers invaded farm lands close to the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah boarders with Israel. As bulldozers destroyed crops and bulldozed farm lands…

Israeli Transportation Minister, Yisrael Katz, stated that a full pace of settlement construction and expansion in the occupied West Bank will resume directly after the temporary settlement freeze ends on…

As indirect Palestinian-Israeli talks are to start Wednesday, advisor to U.S. President, Barack Obama, stated that the issue of Jerusalem would be discussed during the final stages of negotiations. David…

Leaders of the settler movement in the occupied West Bank demanded the Israeli government to withhold all funds meant for the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank for boycotting settlement…

United States special Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, will be holding a meeting on Wednesday with Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem to mark the start of indirect talks…

Palestinian medical sources reported Tuesday that a 19-year-old youth was killed when a tunnel collapsed on him in Al Salaam neighborhood, in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza…

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Israeli troops inured two Palestinian men while they were protesting at the Erez crossing on Tuesday. Ahmad Abu Salaf and Mahmoud Sha’baan were deported to the Gaza Strip last month…

The Israeli military invaded on Tuesday at dawn the southern West Bank city of Hebron and nearby villages. Troops detained the three men from al Samou’ and Ithan villagers near…

Israeli tanks shelled on Tuesday residential areas near Gaza City and farm lands close to the borders with Israel. Witnesses told local media that tanks shells caused damage in property…

Renowned South African jurist Richard Goldstone has faced increasing pressure from Zionists in South Africa since publishing a report documenting potential war crimes by both Israeli military forces and Palestinian…

The family of detainee Ahmad Asfour voiced an appeal to human rights and legal groups to intervene and save the life of their son who was seriously wounded during the…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Tuesday at dawn an area in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, leveled the Al Dahniyya mosque and uprooted farmlands.Local sources reported that…

A group of fundamentalist settlers torched the main mosque of the Al Lubban Al Sharqiyya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Jamal Daraghma, head of the…

When their apartment in Hebron was broken into on Saturday May 1st, the international solidarity activists stationed there said they have strong evidence that it was the Israeli military that…

The International Solidarity for Human Rights Foundation (ISHR) issued a report on Monday revealing that Israeli soldiers killed in April eleven Palestinians, including two children, in the West Bank and…

In a move that has become common practice among Israeli settlers, a herd of wild pigs that was captured inside Israel was recently released in the Salfit district, leading to…

In two separate incidents Sunday which critics say demonstrate the double standard of Egyptian and Israeli authorities, two African men were killed by Egyptian border police while crossing the border…

The International Solidarity for Human Rights Foundation (ISHR) issued a report on Monday revealing that Israeli soldiers killed in April eleven Palestinians, including two children, in the West Bank and…

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Two Palestinian teenagers were arrested ion Monday after they entered the Egypt via a tunnel at the borders with the Gaza Strip. Rami Abu8 Mustafa, 17, and Mahmoud Al Alawi,…

Israeli troops detained on Monday 13 Palestinian civilians during morning invasions targeting several West Bank communities. Invasions were reported in the cities of Bethlehem and Hebron, southern West Bank as…

Israel has threatened to prevent any goods into its ports, and to withhold transferring tax money to the Palestinian Authority if the latter continues to call for the boycott of…

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered a full media blackout on the proximity talks between Israel and the Palestinians slated to start Wednesday.He instructed his government and officials in charge…

A group of fundamentalist Jewish settlers, including members of the Kach terrorist movement outlawed by Israel itself, attacked the funeral of Rabbi Moshe Hirsch, head of the Neturei Karta Jewish…

The Indirect Palestinian-Israeli talks, mediated by the United States, are set to start this coming Wednesday. Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will be heading the talks on the Israeli side,…

The Palestine Solidarity Project reported that undercover forces of the Israeli army kidnapped on Sunday evening six children in Beit Ummar town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron,…

Enjoying Israeli police protection, a group of fundamentalist settlers occupied a Palestinian home in Beit Safafa town, in East Jerusalem, and raised Israeli flags on top of it “to declare…

Palestinian medical sources reported Sunday that seven residents, including a reporter, were wounded after the Israeli Army opened fire at a nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall in Beit Jala…

Egyptian security sources reported Sunday that two African immigrants were shot and killed by Egyptian Border Police fire while trying to infiltrate into Israel seeking work.The first, a 35-year-old man…

In honor of the international workers’ day celebration, workers in the Gaza Strip held a rally of over 2,000 people at the Erez crossing with Israel, and 300 people at…

Scores of Israeli policemen invaded Taybeh Arab city, in the 1948 territory, and demolished a home after surrounding it and forcing the residents out, the Arabs48 news Website reported. A…

Many of Israel’s critics blame an ‘Israel lobby’ for the near-total complicity of the US in Israeli annexation, colonization and cleansing programs in the occupied West Bank. This complicity continues…

Hamas spokesperson, Fawzi Barhoum, stated that the guarantees of the United States for the resumption of indirect peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are just a scam, and only…

Israeli soldiers attacked on Saturday evening a nonviolent protest against settlements and ongoing settler attacks against the residents of Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of…

The White House denied reports that claimed that President Barack Obama vowed to Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, that the U.S will not use its Veto power to obstruct any decision…

Israeli sources reported that American Middle East Envoy, George Mitchell, will be back in the region for one week in order to hold talks with Israel and the Palestinian leadership…

Eyad Burnat, a leader in the popular struggle against the Israeli wall, was banned by Israel’s military from crossing the West Bank borders into Jordan on Saturday.Burnat is head of…

The Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (PHRF) reported Friday that since the beginning of this year, 52 Palestinian residents were killed in border tunnels after the Egyptian Authorities gassed the tunnels…

Israeli settlers uprooted on Friday at least 30 Olive trees that belong to residents of Kefir Qaddoum town, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. Local sources reported that…

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On Friday Palestinians, Israeli, and International activists marched to the wall built on the central west Bank village of Bil’in lands. As is the case every Friday, villagers along with…

The villagers of Nil’in, central West Bank, organized on Friday their weekly anti wall protest. Israeli and international protesters joined the villagers this week. Villagers with their supporters held the…

Villagers along with international supporters gathered on Friday in Al-Walaja village near Jerusalem to protest the Israeli wall being built on their lands. The Israeli army resumed woke at this…

On Friday midday the residents of Al Ma’ssara village near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem protest the Israeli-built wall on their lands. International and Israeli supporters joined the…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians, wounded 20 residents, including children, and kidnapped 45 residents in 27 invasions into the West Bank and four limited invasions into the Gaza…

The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JSCER) published a report revealing that Israel stripped the residency rights of 4672 Palestinians in 2008 comparing to stripping residency rights of…

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A group of Israeli settlers attacked on Thursday the town of Huwara, in northern West Bank, and destroyed olive trees and property. The settlers started their attack by setting fire…

The Israeli army detained on Thursday nine Palestinian civilians during dawn invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. The military announced that those men who were detained on Thursday…

Israeli soldiers opened fire at a nonviolent protested organized near Rafah city, southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday injuring one Palestinian man. The protesters gathered near the Israeli borders with Rafah…

Israeli tanks and bulldozers invaded on Thursday border areas near Al Buraj refugee camp in central Gaza Strip. Local sources said that the bulldozers uprooted trees and destroyed crops owned…

Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, media spokesperson of the Hamas movement, held the Egyptian Authorities responsible for the death of four Palestinians who died in a tunnel after Egypt’s Border Police…

Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, reported that Israeli soldiers fired a gas bomb at a Palestinian Taxi wounding a 23-year-old mother…

Israeli paper, Jerusalem Post, reported that Israel has no intention to dismantle any of the 23 illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank in the foreseeable future. The paper…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday evening that four Palestinians were killed and nine others were wounded after the Egyptian security forces sprayed a border tunnel…

Palestinian medical sources reported Wednesday that two sisters, aged 8 and 10, were killed while their father and brother were wounded after Israeli soldiers rammed their jeep into them in…

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A group of Israeli settlers attacked on Tuesday late at night a Palestinian worker in Jerusalem’s old city, Palestinian media reported on Wednesday. Yasser Rabayiaa, 35 years old, was on…

Thirteen Palestinian civilians were detained on Wednesday by Israeli troops during predawn military invasions targeting the southern West Bank villages. Nine men were detained as troops searched and ransacked residents’…

A Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli soldiers as they opened fire at a nonviolent protest on Wednesday east of Gaza City. Palestinians along with international supporters gathered near the…

In commemoration of the anniversary of the Nakba, and as an expression of our commitment to resisting Israeli occupation, colonization and apartheid in accordance with international law, we (Palestinian youth…

In the third incident of forced removal by Israeli troops since the new regulation was implemented, Israeli troops abducted and forcibly removed 19-year old Fadi Al-Gharazmeh from the southern West…

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Israeli soldiers detained six Palestinian civilians during military invasions targeting West Bank communities on Tuesday. Local sources reported invasions into the cities of Nablus and Ramallah, in the central and…

Israeli naval forces attacked on Tuesday Palestinian fishing boats off the shoreline of northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya. Fishermen said that navy vessels opened fire at them while…

A scuffle erupted between Palestinian residents and Israeli troops in Silwan East Jerusalem neighborhood on Tuesday. Witnesses told local media that troops gathered at Silwan and provoked local youth, a…

According to the Palestinian Water Authority, the settlement of Ariel has been pumping its sewage directly into the nearby Palestinian village of Bruqin, creating a dangerous and unhealthy situation for…

A number of civilians were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation and one child was detained by soldiers when they attacked anti wall protest at the Wallajeh village…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has issued a ban on products from Jewish settlement in West Bank, Reuters reported on Monday.“There’s an international consensus that the settlements are illegal and therefore…

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The Islamic Christian Commission in Support of Jerusalem and Holy Sites announced on Monday Israel’s intentions to build 321 new settler homes in East Jerusalem. The new homes which will…

In 2001 the outpost of Derech Ha’avot was established on lands owned by Palestinian villagers from Al Khadir, near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. On September 28, 2008…

Five Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli soldiers on Monday at dawn and Sunday night during military invasions targeting West Bank communities. Local sources reported invasions at villages located southern…

Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, held Fateh movement of President Mahmoud Abbas, and the Israeli Army, responsible for the Monday assassination of Qassam Brigades fighter, Ali Sweity, and said that this…

Palestinian medical sources report on Monday morning a fighter of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement, was killed during clashes with Israeli soldiers who surrounded a…

A group of protesters in Portland, Oregon, USA, erected mock settlements, a ‘Wall of Shame’, and a checkpoint as part of a protest against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Sunday Shereen Al Esawy, a lawyer representing Jordanian Detainees imprisoned in Israel. Al Esawy was kidnapped at a roadblock, near Jabal Al Mokabbir, in East Jerusalem.The…

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, slammed the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, for releasing an a short animating video about the captured soldiers Gilad Shalit, and described it as an irresponsible…

The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, released a 3D video about the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, and stated that the video carries several messages to the…

Palestinian medical sources reported Sunday that at least five Palestinians, including a medic, were wounded by rubber-coated bullets fired by the Israeli army at protestors in Al Bustan neighborhood in…

Israeli sources reported Saturday evening that a number of settlers were wounded during a scuffle that took place with Palestinian residents in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem. The…

After an Israeli official stated that “Israel can send Syria to the Stone Age”, a Syrian official told Manbar Al Rai paper in Kuwait, that Syria can send Israel to…

Israeli soldiers used excessive force against a nonviolent protest in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped Four residents. The protest was organized against the ongoing closure of…

One international peace activist was shot in the leg, and five Palestinians wounded (one seriously) when Israeli troops fired live ammunition at a group of unarmed demonstrators in the northern…

The Israeli police shot and wounded on Saturday a tourist who reportedly attempted to stab a police officer in the Church Of Holy Sepulcher. The police claimed that the policemen…

In what appears to be the first enforcement of a recent Israeli military order on Palestinian residency rights, 2 Palestinian residents of Israel have been deported to Gaza in separate…

The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, reported Friday that one of its members was killed in an explosion in Al Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza…

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At least a dozen Palestinian and international civilians were injured during the weekly nonviolent protest at the central West Bank village of Bil’in. This Friday protest marked the end of…

Residents of Al Ma’ssara village near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem protest on Friday midday the Israeli-built wall on their lands. Villagers, joined by International and Israeli supporters…

Around 200 villagers along with international supporters gathered in Al-Walaja village south of Jerusalem on Friday to protest the Israeli wall being built on their lands.The protest started at the…

Seven local youth were injured at the village of Nil’in, central West Bank during the weekly anti wall protest on Friday. Villagers along with international and Israeli supporters held the…

In its Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that during the week of 15-21 April 2010,…