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Israeli forces have sealed the bedroom of a Palestinian man who is suspected of killing a soldier, Wafa news agency has reported. “The room was sealed following the Supreme Court decision that canceled the demolition […]
Israeli warplanes bombed late last night a site and agricultural land to the south and center of the besieged Gaza Strip without inflicting any human casualties, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Israeli warplanes attack […]
Jewish settlers today flooded Palestinian-owned land with sewage and wastewater in the town of Sebastia, north of Nablus, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Mayor of Sebastia Mohammad Azzam confirmed that settlers from the […]
The Israeli municipality in West Jerusalem has issued demolition notices against 13 inhabited Palestinian houses in Silwan, a neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported today. Fakhri Abu Diab, a member […]
An Israeli navy boat today opened fire and its water hose at Gaza fishermen sailing off the northern shores of the Gaza Strip and forced them to cut short their work at sea, according to […]
60 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails today launched an open-ended hunger strike in solidarity with three of their fellow inmates held in solitary confinement, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. The spokesman for the […]
“No one cares about the prisoners.” Over the past few years, I have heard this phrase – or some variation of it – uttered many times by freed Palestinian prisoners and their families. Whenever I […]
Palestinian detainee Maher al-Akhras enters today his 77th day of hunger strike in protest of his detention without a charge or trial, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). The PPS said al-Akhras was facing greater […]
‘International law’ remains one of the most discussed terms in the context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. It is almost always present, whether the discussion pertains to the Israeli wars and siege on Gaza, […]
Israeli occupation authorities today banned a Fatah official from entry into the occupied West Bank for three months, according to said. The authorities banned the secretary of the Fatah movement in Issawiya Yasser Darwish from […]
Israeli forces Thursday overnight detained 14 Palestinians, including an injured teen, and ransacked homes across various parts of the West Bank, according to the Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS). PPS confirmed in a press statement that […]
The wife of Palestinian prisoner and hunger striker Maher al-Akhras announced on Wednesday that she will be joining her husband in his ongoing hunger strike. Al-Akhras has just completed his 73rd day of hunger strike […]
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz yesterday signed four orders to seize money transfers going to families of Palestinian prisoners and martyrs, Anadolu reported. “The orders targeted funds transferred by both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority […]
Israeli forces Monday night shot and killed a Palestinian youth at Ennab checkpoint, east of Tulkarem city. Eyewitnesses confirmed that they saw the young man lying on the ground bleeding to death after sustaining critical […]
The European Union has offered to provide financial and logistical assistance to hold the Palestinian elections, a Palestinian official said. In Lieu of a #Liberation Strategy: #Palestinian #Elections are Designed to Buy Time https://t.co/8fZgZtovC3 via […]
Israeli forces Wednesday overnight detained at least seven Palestinians, including a disabled man, from various parts of the West Bank, according to security and municipal sources. In Jerusalem, Israeli police detained Fatah Secretary-General in Jerusalem […]
Palestinian prisoner Mohamed Abul Asal launched an open-ended hunger strike yesterday in protest against his continued detention in Israeli occupation prisons. Abul Asal, a resident from Aqabat Jabr refugee camp, southwest of Jericho, took the […]
Israeli forces Monday denied Palestinian worshippers access to the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), citing the Jewish holidays as a pretext, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. A large […]
Jewish settlers today razed large tracts of Palestinian-owned land in the village of Jalud, near the West Bank city of Nablus, in order to expand their illegal settlement, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. […]
Israeli bulldozers Wednesday morning demolished a wedding hall located at the entrance of Jubara village, south of Tulkarm city, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Ihsan Awad, head of the Jubara Village Council, told […]
Reports in the Times of Israel indicate that the annexation of land from the occupied West Bank will be suspended until 2024, confirming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence that annexation is still on the agenda. With […]
Dozens of Jewish settlers forced their way into Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa complex on Sunday in celebration of the Jewish New Year, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the Jerusalem Awqaf Department said 76 settlers backed by Israeli […]
At least three Palestinians, including a journalist, were injured by rubber-coated rounds today as Israeli occupation forces attacked the weekly anti-settlements protest in the village of Kafr Qaddum, in the northern West Bank, according to […]
The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law has become embroiled in controversy following a decision by the dean of the prestigious law school to rescind an offer of directorship to prominent international academic Valentina Azarova […]
Israeli occupation forces last night raided cells of Palestinian prisoners and assaulted and injured many of them in the Israeli prison of Megiddo, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). According to the PPS, the raid […]
On this day, September 16, in 1982, several thousand Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon were brutally massacred by the Lebanese phalange militias at the behest of the Israeli military, which […]
On September 2, the Israeli government approved a proposal that allows the military to indefinitely withhold the bodies of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli army. The proposal was made by the country’s […]
Israeli authorities have held the body of a Palestinian man, Ahmad Erekat, for more than 10 weeks after Israeli soldiers killed him seemingly without justification at a checkpoint, in violation of international humanitarian law, Human […]
Israeli commandos accompanied by attack dogs raided today the cells of the Palestinian political detainees at Ofer Detention Center, southwest of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, and assaulted and injured many of them, according […]
The Jerusalem District court yesterday ordered the eviction of Nasser Rajabi and his family from their home in the Batan Al-Hawa neighborhood of Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Centre, which monitors […]
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