PCHR Weekly Report: 9 Palestinians wounded, 34 abducted by Israeli forces this week
According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights’ Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, during the week of 14-20 Jan. 2010, 9 Palestinian civilians,…
UN Chief: “Mid East Situation Worsening”
Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban ki-Moon, stated that the situation in the Middle East is worsening due to the lack of progress in the Peace Process, and urged…
UN Expresses Concern Over Health System In Gaza
The United Nations said it is deeply concerned over the declining health care system in the Gaza Strip, due to the ongoing Israeli siege and closure. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/jan2010/gaza_offesnive_un.jpg 300 0) Gaza…
Obama Says His Middle East Peace Expectations Were Set Too High
United States President, Barack Obama, told the Time Magazine that he made a mistake when he had high expectations for Middle East peace, and added that both Israel and the…
Shiokhy: “Toxic Settlement Products Buried in West Bank”
Azmi Shiokhy, head of the Palestinian Consumer Protection Program in the West Bank, stated that several Israeli factories in are pumping and burying their toxins in several areas in the…
Fayyad To Participate In Israel’s National Security Conference
Organizers of the Hertzilia National Security Conference in Israel stated that Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, would be participating in the conference scheduled to start by the end of…
Indictment Filed Against Two East Jerusalem Youths
The Israeli prosecution at the Central Court in Jerusalem filed on Thursday an indictment against two Palestinian youths from East Jerusalem, for allegedly planning to attack Israeli soldiers at the…
Palestinian Families Evacuated from Haiti
The Palestine Media Center (PMC) reported that twelve Palestinians, members of three Palestinian families in Haiti, were safely evacuated Wednesday from the earthquake stricken area, with the help of the…
Palestine Today 01 21 2010
Click here to downloas MP3 file Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, January 21st, 2010. The Israeli military kidnaps civilians…
Presidential Aid to Netanyahu: Palestinians won’t accept any military presence after occupation ends
Nabeel Abu Rudiyneh, the spokesperson for the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said on Thursday that Palestinians will not accept any Israeli military presence in the future Palestinian state after occupation…
The Israeli military orders families to leave their homes in northern W.B ready for demolition
Israel’s military handed out, Thursday, demolition orders to three Palestinian owned homes located in northern West Bank. The houses are the homes of three different families and located at the…
The Israeli military kidnaps ten civilians from the West Bank
Ten Palestinian civilians were kidnapped on Thursday by Israeli troops during invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. Palestinian sources reported invasions to the city of Bethlehem, southern West…
Canada Removes Funding from UNRWA to ‘Redirect in Accordance with Canadian Values’
The Canadian government has decided to pull its funding from United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, and direct the money towards specific projects.The…
Netanyahu States Intention to Maintain Military Presence Even After Final Peace Deal
Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has stated that even if a deal is reached to enable lasting peace, Israel will maintain a military presence along the border with Jordan.Netanyahu’s justification…
Mitchell Starts Mid-East Diplomatic Tour
Visiting United States Special Envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, will start his diplomatic mission with a meeting with senior Israeli officials in an attempt to resume the stalled…
P.A Security Forces Arrest Five Hamas Members, Court Sentences Several Detainees
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, reported that the Palestinian security forces of Fatah movement arrested five Hamas members and supporters in the West Bank districts of Ramallah, Nablus, Slafit and Hebron.…
Israel: Global NATO’s 29th Member
As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is pressuring its 28 member states and dozens of partnership affiliates on five continents to contribute more troops for the war in Afghanistan, the…
Israel Continues To Spy on Its Biggest Ally, Another Israeli Spy Arrested by FBI
Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested on Monday an American scientist on charges of attempting to pass classified information to Israel. The scientist is accredited for helping…
Rajoub: “US Threatened Fateh of Boycott Should It Reconcile With Hamas”
Deputy-head of the Central Committee of Fateh movement, Jibril Rajoub, stated that the movement and its presidents, Mahmoud Abbas, were threatened on boycott by the United States should they achieve…
Settlers Desecrate Muslim Cemetery Near Nablus
A group of fundamentalist settlers vandalized and desecrated on Wednesday a Muslim cemetery near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/jan2010/hebron_cemetry.jpg 300 0) File – Muslim Cemetery Desecrated in…
El Khodary Welcomes Two Medical Delegates In Gaza
Palestinian Legislator, Jamal El Khodary, welcomed on Wednesday two medical delegates, from France and Switzerland, who came to Gaza to perform orthopedic, neurological and plastic surgeries in the Gaza Strip.…
Qassam Fighter Dies In Exile
The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, reported that one of its fighters, from the northern part of the Gaza Strip, died at age 50, in the United…
Palestine Today 01 20 2010
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Israeli military kidnaps two civilians from central West Bank
Two Palestinian civilians were kidnapped on Wednesday by Israeli troops during an invasion targeting the central West Bank city of Ramallah.Local sources reported that troops stormed parts of the city…
Israel to Stop Issuing Work Permits for NGOs in the West Bank
Israeli media is reporting that the Ministry of Interior has made the decision to stop issuing work permits for internationals working for non- governmental organizations in the West Bank and…
Israel’s Jerusalem municipality hands out demolition orders to Palestinian families
The Israeli municipality of Jerusalem handed out demolition orders, on Wednesday, to five Palestinian families living in Al-Bustan neighborhood.The families said that municipality employees guarded by Israeli soldiers handed out…
Qassam Fighter Dies Of Previous Wounds
Palestinian medical sources reported Wednesday that a fighter of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, died of wounds sustained last week in northern Gaza.The fighter was identified…
Vatican: “Mid-east Conflict Lead Cause Of Christian Immigration”
The Vatican has prepared a document to be discussed during the upcoming October meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and approximately 150 priests from the Middle East. The meeting, to be…
American Journalist, Jared Malsin, Deported
The following is the latest press release from Ma’an News Agency concerning the status of chief English editor, Jared Malsin. Mr. Malsin has now been deported.For the first time in…
PPS: “More Sick Detainees In Deteriorating Conditions”
A lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) visited a number of sick detainees imprisoned by Israel at a number of detention facilities, and stated that there is an increasing…
Army Dismantles An Illegal Settlement Outpost
Israeli soldiers dismantled on Tuesday an illegal settlement outpost in the northern part of the West Bank. The army said that the outpost was installed by fundamentalist settlers in contradiction…
E.U, P.A, Sign €158.5 Million Financing Agreement
Palestinian Authority (P.A) and the European Union signed on Tuesday a €158.5 million Financing Agreement, including €0.5 Million in contribution from Austria, to the P.A’s recurrent expenditures for 2010.The Palestine…
Israeli Minister claims Israel provides Palestinians “more than enough water”
On Monday Israel’s National Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau told a meeting of German Ministers that Israel gives the Palestinians more than they are required to by treaties. But the Palestinian…
Palestine Today 01 19 2010
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Israeli military bulldozers levels a Palestinian owned house near Ramallah
A Palestinian owned house was leveled on Tuesday midday by Israeli’s military. The homes was located at the village of Jaba’ near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Hassan…
The Israeli military kidnaps ten Palestinian civilians from deferent parts of the West Bank
Ten Palestinian civilians were kidnapped on Tuesday by Israeli troops during separate pre dawn invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. Palestinian sources reported invasions to the city of…
Israeli tanks open fire at residential areas in southern Gaza Strip
Israeli tanks opened fire on Tuesday midday at residents’ homes located in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. Local sources reported that tanks stationed at the southern Israeli-Gaza boarders…
Likud Officials Head To Turkey To Discuss Shalit Deal
The Walla Hebrew Language Israeli Website, reported that Likud party members of Knesset, headed by Ayyoub Qarra, headed on Tuesday morning to Turkey to hold talks with Ankara officials on…
P.A Holds First Official Meeting With Foreign Diplomat in East Jerusalem
For the first time since Israel illegally shut down Palestinian Authority civil offices in Jerusalem in 2001, the Palestinian Authority held its first meeting with a foreign diplomat. The meeting…
Silwan Street Collapse Increases, Meters Away From Al Aqsa Mosque Wall
The Committee for Defending the Lands and Structures in Silwan town, in East Jerusalem, reported that the land slide and collapse that took place on Monday morning in the main…
Rights Movement: “Israel Harvested Organs From Palestinian Christian In 1988”
The Popular Movement for the Support of Prisoners and Palestinian Rights showed a video in Gaza City on Monday showing Israeli soldiers executing a Christian Palestinian from Gaza city after…
Gazans Collect Donations To Haiti
Palestinians in the impoverished and besieged Gaza Strip gathered on Monday at the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza to offer donations and financial support to the victims of the devastating…
Israel, Germany hold joint Cabinet meeting amidst protests; Israel to receive nuclear submarine
“Judaism Yes, Zionism No!” read signs carried by a group of Orthodox Jews who joined dozens of other protesters outside a joint Cabinet meeting of the German and Israeli Prime…
Abu Zuhri: “Israel Deliberately Trying To Flood The Palestinians”
Sami Abu Zuhri, spokesperson of the Hamas movement, stated that Israel deliberately opened the dams allowing the water to flood the Gaza valley area, and added that this is yet…
Hundreds Displaced By Gaza Flood
Dozens of Palestinian homes were flooded in the Gaza Valley area on Monday evening, and hundreds of families were rendered homeless after Israel opened one of its dams that were…
Palestine Today 01 18 2010
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The Israeli military kidnaps 17 Palestinian civilians from the West Bank
Seventeen Palestinian civilians were reported to have been kidnapped on Monday by Israeli troops during pre-dawn invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities.Fifteen of those kidnapped were taken from…
Israel’s military continues to target anti wall protest organizers
Four Palestinian civilians were kidnapped by Israeli troops during a pre-dawn invasion targeting the village of Nil’in, central West Bank. Israeli troops told their families that they have been kidnapped…
Hamas Welcomes Amnesty Report
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, welcomed the report of Amnesty International in which it demanded Israel to lift the siege on the Gaza Strip, and stated that the siege leaves more…
Former Israeli High Court Justice Advices Mazuz To Probe Gaza War
In an attempt to respond to the Goldstone report on the war on Gaza, and after officially rejecting it, former High Court Justice in Israel, Aharon Barak, advised the legal…
Israeli Excavations Lead To A Collapse Near The Al Aqsa Mosque
The ongoing illegal Israeli excavations near and under the Al Aqsa Mosque and its surrounding areas, in occupied East Jerusalem, caused on Monday at dawn a collapse in the center…
Protesters at Egyptian Embassy in Beirut challenge Egypt’s border wall construction in Gaza
Several hundred Lebanese protesters gathered outside the Egyptian Embassy in Beirut on Sunday, calling on the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to immediately cease construction of a border wall between Egypt…
Israel’s Gaza Blockade Continues To Suffocate Daily Life
Israel must end its suffocating blockade of the Gaza Strip, which leaves more than 1.4 million Palestinians cut off from the outside world and struggling with desperate poverty, Amnesty International…
Nine Settlers, Including Three Teens, Arrested For Involvement in Salfit Mosque Attack
Israeli sources reported Monday that the Israeli Police and Internal Security Services detained on Sunday six teen yeshiva students and three adult settlers from the illegal West Bank settlement of…
Four Israeli Policemen Face Charges For Abusing Palestinian Detainee
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that four Israeli police officers were indicted on Sunday for abusing a Palestinian detainee after arresting him on suspicion of driving a stolen motorcycle.The charges…
Hamas Security Forces Arrest Khan Younis Imam
The Palestine News and Information Center, WAFA, reported that the security forces of Hamas in Gaza arrested an imam of a local mosque in Khan Younis, in the southern part…
Israeli Navy Kidnaps Six Palestinian Fishermen In Southern Gaza
The Israeli Navy kidnapped on Sunday at dawn six Palestinian fishermen in Palestinian territorial waters in the Rafah area, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The Navy also…
Palestinian Security Forces Arrest 12 Hamas Members, Including A Senior Qassam Fighter
The Security Forces of Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, arrested on Sunday 12 Hamas members in the occupied West Bank, including a senior fighter and leader of the Al Qassam Brigades,…
Turkish President, Prime Minister, Refuse To Meet Barak
Turkish media sources reported on Saturday that the Turkish President, Abdullah Gül, and Prime Minister, Receb Tayyip Erdogan, will not hold a meeting with Israel’s Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, who…
We’re Sailing Again: Join Us!
This spring, the Free Gaza Movement is sending at least six boats to Gaza to break Israel’s illegal blockade on 1.5 million Palestinians. This blockade constitutes an act of collective…
EU Parliamentarians Leave Gaza
European Parliamentarian, who managed to enter the besieged and devastated Gaza Strip on Friday, left the coastal region on Saturday afternoon via the Rafah Border Terminal, in the southern part…
Current Status of Detained Maán Journalist – Jared Malsin
Ma’an have issued a press release concerning the current status of chief English editer, Jared Malsin. Arguments will be heard tomorrow at Tel Aviv District Court to determine his possible…
Israeli Officials Arrive In Jordan After Attack On Embassy
Following a bombing that was meant to target Israeli diplomats in Jordan two days ago, a number of senior Israeli security officials arrived in Amman to review the security measures…
Detainee Seriously Wounded Due To Torture
The Detainees Media Committee reported that a Palestinian detainee was seriously wounded due to extreme torture by Israeli interrogators at the Salem detention camp in the northern part of the…
Hamas, Islamic Jihad: “No Ceasefire Under Aggression”
The Hamas and the Islamic Jihad movements in Palestine stated in separate press releases that the Palestinian resistance did not reach a ceasefire deal with the occupation and will always…
New Egyptian Harbor To Tighten Gaza Siege
Egypt announced its intention to build a harbor along its sea border with the Gaza Strip in order to be used by Egyptian navy patrols to monitor the Egyptian side…
This Week in Palestine -Week 02 2010
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Demonstrators met with live ammunition in Bil’in Village
On Friday in Bil’in village, central West Bank, demonstrators against the Israeli built wall and illegal Israeli settlements were met with live ammunition, tear gas (in both plastic and aluminum…
Israeli Military Barricades Nili’n – Journalists Denied Access
Today in the village of Nili’n, central West Bank, the Israeli military closed all entrances and exits, and didn’t allow any journalists in the village.The demonstration started after midday prayers,…
After Night Time Incursion, al-Ma’sara Protest Continues
After last night’s military incursion into the village of al-Ma’sara, central West Bank, the weekly, non-violent protest continued as usual.The protests in al-Ma’sara have occurred every Friday for the last…
Settlers Steal 25 Dunams Near Nablus
Israeli settlers stole on Thursday 25 Dunams (6.17 Acres) of Palestinian lands that belong to the residents of Dir Istia village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.Local sources…
Qassam Fighter Killed in Gaza
The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, reported on Friday at dawn that one of its fighters was killed “while performing a task” in Dir Al Balah, in…
A People’s Cartoon History of Gaza
The launch of a new book by Joe Sacco is a major event, and with considerable expectation a crowd recently gathered in London to hear the great Maltese-American cartoonist and…
PCHR Weekly Report: ‘7 Palestinians Dead From Israeli Attacks, 8 Wounded’
According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, during the week of 06-13 Jan. 2010, Israeli forces killed…
Bardaweel: “Hamas Ready To Sign Unity Deal”
Legislator Salah Bardaweel, a prominent political leader of the Hamas movement, stated that Hamas believes in reconciliation and is ready and willing to sign a unity deal based on the…
Israel To Exile15 Detainees
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees filed an appeal to the Israeli High Court demanding it to void a decision aimed at exiling15 Palestinian detainees who have already served their terms…
Israeli authorities prevent 17 Palestinians from getting necessary eye surgery
After the Israeli human rights group Physicians for Human Rights arranged a donation of 17 corneas to allow sight-impaired Palestinians from Gaza to receive necessary eye surgery, Israeli border agents…
Hearing Set for Detained Journalist Jared Malsin
Ma’an News Agency has released a press release regarding the current status of their chief editor of the English desk, Jared Malsin. Mr. Malsin is currently waiting a hearing in…
Palestine Today 01 14 2010
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Southern West Bank farmers accuse settlers of uprooting trees
Palestinian farmers from Yatta village southern West Bank accused Israeli settlers of destroying 70 of their trees on Thursday.The farmers reported that as they arrived to their lands this morning,…
Bomb explodes near Israeli diplomat’s car at the West Bank’s border with Jordan
A bomb exploded Thursday afternoon near an Israeli diplomat’s car near the Allenby Bridge crossing between Jordan and the West Bank. According to media sources, three Israeli diplomats were crossing…
Israeli Government Grants Permission to Settlement Municipalities to Issue Construction Permits
Israeli sources are reporting that Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, has granted the local municipalities of the settlements to continue granting permits for construction, so that construction can be renewed…
The Israeli military kidnaps 12 civilians from the West Bank, and settlers destroy cars
12 Palestinian civilians were kidnapped on Thursday by Israeli troops during military invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities.Local sources reported invasions of the southern West Bank cities of…
Israel Apologizes To Turkey After Insulting Its Ambassador
The Israeli Foreign Ministry issued on Wednesday an official apology to Turkey and its ambassador after Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister, Danni Ayalon, insulted him over a Turkish TV Show depicting…
American Journalist Denied Re-entry to Israel, Deportation Imminent – UPDATE.
Ma’an have released a further statement on status of the potential deportation of chief editor, Jared Malsin.On Wednesday night, Ma’an attorney Castro Daoud filed an injunction in a Tel Aviv…
Israeli Court Sentences Islamic Movement’s Head To Nine Months
The Israeli District Court sentenced on Wednesday Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Northern Branch of The Islamic Movement, to nine months after “convicting him of incitement”. Salah was prevented…
Palestine Today 01 13 2010
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Jamal Juma’ – local organizer released from detention
Jamal Juma’, co-coordinator of the Stop The Wall campaign was released yesterday evening. Jamal had been arrested on December 16th, 2009 having been called in for questioning previously. He had…
The Israeli military kidnap two civilians as they crossing borders into the West Bank
Two Palestinian civilians from the same family were kidnapped by the Israeli military on Wednesday at dawn as they were crossing the borders between Jordan and the West Bank.Suhyaib, 23…
Chief Editor of major Palestinian news Agency detained – IMEMC Exclusive interview
Following the detention of Jared Malsin, Ma’an News Agency’s chief editor at Ben Gurion yesterday, IMEMC spoke with George Hale, an editor at Ma’an.Mr. Hale told IMEMC that in addition…
Three injured as soldiers attack farmers in southern West Bank
Two farmers and a child were injured on Wednesday at dawn when Israeli troops attacked villagers from Safa, southern West Bank, as they protested the destruction of their land.Local sources…
American Journalist and Partner Denied Re-entry to Israel – Deportation Imminent
The following is a prepared statement from Ma’an News network regarding the detention and immanent deportation of the chief editor of their news desk, Jared Malsin.The English Desk at Ma’an…
‘Fund of National Dignity’ Launched
The Palestinian National Authority has launched a venture, with private sector companies and civil society institutions, that intends to remove all settlement products from the Palestinian market by the end…
Abu Al Gheit: “Two State Solution, Or One Bi-national State”
Egyptian Foreign Minister, Ahmad Abu Al Gheit, stated in an interview with Egypt’s Channel 2 TV that his country believes in the necessity of establishing a Palestinian State, with East…
Palestine Today 011210
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Israel’s military crack down on nonviolent, anti-wall protest organizers in the West Bank
Israeli troops kidnapped four men on Tuesday, during invasions targeting a number of areas in the West Bank. All four are members of the local Popular Committees Against the Wall…
Strip Search, Arrest and Car Detonation at Reikhan Barta’a Checkpoint, Jenin
A Palestinian man was subjected to a strip search today at the military checkpoint of Reikhan Barta’a, near Jenin in the North of the West Bank, before having his vehicle…
Rawabi – The First Planned Palestinian City
Ground has been broken at the site of Rawabi, the first planned city to be constructed in Occupied Palestinian Territories by Palestinians.The project, funded jointly by the Palestinian Authority and…
Qassam Fighter Killed in Northern Gaza
The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement, reported on Monday at night that one of its fighters was killed “in a mission” in the northern part of…
Interview With Rani Bornat -Bil’in
McIntyre recently interviewed Palestinian activist Rani Bornat about his life after being shot by the Israeli army. Rani Bornat: My name is Rani Abdelfatah Ibrahim Bornat, and I’m 29 years…