The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, warned, on Wednesday, that transfer of population in an occupied territory constitutes a war crime. Bensouda said in a statement regarding the situation in Palestine: […]
More than a quarter of illnesses in Gaza are caused by water pollution, a new study has said, noting that this is the main cause of mortality in the coastal enclave that has endured an […]
An Israeli policewoman is suspected of shooting an unarmed Palestinian “for fun” while on duty near a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. The 20-year-old policewoman was arrested yesterday and appeared before Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court […]
The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate yesterday condemned Israel’s shooting of photojournalist Jaffar Ishtayeh with a gas canister in his head, Shehab.ps reported. The group also condemned the Israeli shooting of five other journalists and photographers as […]
Four people have been arrested for attempting to stop bulldozers entering the village of Khan al Ahmar in the West Bank. A number of people were injured by Israeli security forces. Two Israelis and two […]
Dozens of Palestinians participated in a protest against an Israeli army order to close a Palestinian high school in the al-Lubban village south of the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, on Monday, forcing […]
When you look at the history of the South African struggle for liberation one cannot help but notice the tremendous role played by youth in fighting against the apartheid system and the many other struggles […]
Jewish settlers stormed the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, east of Jerusalem, on Monday, and flooded the area with wastewater for the second time. Locals said that Jewish settlers from the nearby illegal settlement of […]
Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Al-Rimawi launched a hunger strike to protest against Israeli occupation forces holding him under administrative detention, Quds Press reported yesterday. According to a statement issued by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (PPC), the […]
Israeli police said on Saturday they were investigating the death of a Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank after her husband said he suspected Jewish settlers had pelted their car with rocks. Reuters was […]
Israel’s Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has ordered an immediate halt to fuel deliveries headed to the besieged Gaza Strip in response to what he said were attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians, his office announced […]
Israeli forces have killed six Palestinians, including two teenage boys, during ongoing protests along the Israeli separation fence east of Gaza, according to Ashraf al-Qidra, the enclave’s health ministry spokesperson. https://t.co/kRKzrsfTQlSix Palestinians Said Killed as […]
It is disconcerting that the decision to demolish the village of Khan Al-Ahmar is being tied to the two-state compromise by Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah. At a meeting in Ramallah with a delegation from […]
A Palestinian prisoner died while in an Israeli jail, the Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC) announced today, making him the fourth such death while in Israeli prisons so far this year. No details about the circumstances […]
Israel yesterday ordered two New Zealand activists to pay 45,000 shekels ($12,000) in damages for persuading pop-star Lorde to cancel her concert in Tel Aviv. The decision was handed by the Jerusalem Magistrates Court and […]
Israeli authorities have refused entry to the occupied Gaza Strip to two members of a US medical delegation because they are Jewish, reported Haaretz. Initially, the refusal was extended to the entire group, from the […]
Israeli occupation authorities were deployed in large numbers around the Palestinian village of Khan Al-Ahmar yesterday, Shehab.ps reported. Local sources said that more than 30 battalions were deployed at the gates and roads leading to […]
As the frail body of 12-year-old Nassir Al-Mosabeh fell to the ground on Friday, September 28, history was repeating itself most tragically. Little Nassir was not just another number, a ‘martyr’ to be exalted by […]
Israeli occupation forces yesterday demolished two Palestinian homes and confiscated solar panels in Al-Halawa neighborhood in the south of West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), Quds Press reported. The Coordinator of the Anti-Settlement and Wall […]
Jewish settlers vandalized several Palestinian-owned vehicles, on Wednesday, in the Qaryut village south of the northern West Bank district of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said […]
Two Palestinians suffered injuries, on Monday evening, after Israeli forces opened fire at crowds gathered at the northern borders of the besieged Gaza Strip to take part in a naval march setting off from the […]
A Palestinian man was forced to demolish his own home, on Monday, in the Beit Hanina neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem after receiving demolition threats from the Jerusalem municipality. Ayman Naim Kawasbeh told Ma’an that […]
Israeli’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett said yesterday that he would impose a “shoot to kill” policy in Gaza, including against Palestinian children. Bennett says IDF should shoot to kill Gazans who cross border https://t.co/cEi5uqQ195 pic.twitter.com/cHrwbtb9Dg […]
Thirteen students at United Nations schools have been killed by Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip since March, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. The UNRWA statement, released yesterday, reveals that the […]
An Israeli warplane carried out an airstrike, on Monday morning, targeting east of Rafah City in the southern besieged Gaza Strip. A Ma’an reporter said that an Israeli warplane fired a missile that landed next […]
Israeli forces raided the home of Palestinian prisoner and activist, Hasan Karajeh, in the Safa village, in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah, on Monday morning. Locals said that Israeli forces raided Karajeh’s […]
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected a request from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to cancel the punitive measures he has imposed on the Gaza Strip, Israeli TV claimed yesterday. The Israeli state-owned […]
Dozens of Palestinians demonstrated high unemployment rates in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, which has been reeling under a crippling Israeli blockade since 2007. Protesters called on local authorities and the Ramallah-based Ministry of Labour to intervene […]
Israel has announced further reductions of the Gaza Strip’s fishing zone, stating it was in response to the weekly protests near the fence east of the coastal enclave. Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s office said […]
Israeli naval forces detained two Palestinian fishermen off the coast of northern besieged Gaza City, on Saturday morning. Head of the Fishermen Union in Gaza, Nizar Ayyash, said that the Israeli navy detained two fishermen […]
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