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Israeli Police Abduct A Palestinian Novelist From Jerusalem

Israeli police officers abducted, on Saturday morning, a Palestinian novelist after she finished writing her latest work dubbed “The Jackal’s Trap,” talking about informants and collaborators, spying on their own people. The Palestinian novelist, identified as Khaleda Gousha, was abducted after the police and soldiers stormed her home, in Beit […]

March 11, 2017 12:09 PM IMEMC News Israeli attacks, Jerusalem, News Report, West Bank 0

Army Injures A Young Man In Gaza

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday evening, many Palestinians protesting near the border fence, east of Gaza city, and injured a young man with live fire. Media sources in Gaza said the soldiers, stationed in the Nahal Oz military base, across the border fence, east of the Sheja’eyya neighborhood, in the […]

March 11, 2017 9:47 AM IMEMC News Gaza City, Gaza Siege, Gaza Strip, Israeli attacks, News Report 0

Army Injures A Child In Ni’lin, Causes Many To Suffer Effects Of Teargas Inhalation

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and colonies, in Ni’lin village, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, wounding one child and causing many protesters to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation. The procession started from the center of the village, when the […]

March 11, 2017 8:36 AM IMEMC News Israeli attacks, Israeli Settlement, News Report, Ramallah, The Wall, West Bank 0
Teargas in Bil'in (image by Mohammad Yassin)

Protest in Bil’in attacked by Israeli troops; two civilians abducted, including a child

A weekly non-violent demonstration against the Israeli Wall and settlements in Bil’in village in the central West Bank was met with a massive show of force by the Israeli military, who fired tear gas canisters at children and blocked international observers from entering. Two people were abducted by Israeli forces: […]

March 11, 2017 7:38 AM Celine Hagbard News Report, Non-violent action, Ramallah 0

Several Palestinians Injured By Israeli Gas Bombs Near Bethlehem

Palestinian medical sources have reported that several residents suffered, on Friday evening, the severe effects of teargas inhalation during clashes that took place after Israeli soldiers invaded the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Ahmad Salah the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall […]

March 11, 2017 6:54 AM IMEMC News Bethlehem, Israeli attacks, News Report, West Bank 0

Israeli Soldiers Open Fire At Homes Near Jenin

Israeli soldiers fired, on Friday evening, many live rounds at several homes in ‘Aneen village, west of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Resident Radi Khaddour told the WAFA Palestinian News Agency in a phone interview that the soldiers, stationed near the military fence, fired many […]

March 11, 2017 6:31 AM IMEMC News Israeli attacks, Jenin, News Report, West Bank 0

FIFA Slammed by Human Rights Defenders for Failure to Expel Israeli Football Clubs Based in Illegal Settlements

A wide coalition of Palestinian and international organisations denounced FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s failure to compel Israel’s national football league to exclude six football teams based in illegal Israeli settlements and called for the dissolution of the FIFA Monitoring Committee Israel-Palestine. FIFA’s failure to act against the Israeli settlement clubs […]

March 10, 2017 8:34 PM IMEMC News & Agencies Boycott Movement, Human rights, International, News Report, Non-violent action 0

Journalist Al-Qeeq Suspends Hunger Strike

A Palestinian detainee suspended his hunger strike on Friday, upon reaching a deal with Israeli Prison Services, said Chairman of the Detainees’ Affairs Commission Issa Qaraqe. Mohammad al-Qeeq has suspended his 33-day hunger strike upon reaching a deal with Israeli Prison Services to be released on April 14. Al-Qeeq, a […]

March 10, 2017 8:16 PM IMEMC News & Agencies Israel, News Report, Prisoners 0
Child abducted by Israeli troops (PCHR photo)

PCHR Weekly Report: One Palestinian Civilian Killed, 7 Wounded by Israeli Troops This Week

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 02 – 08 March 2017, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that Israeli forces continued systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories (the West Bank and Gaza). Israeli forces killed […]

March 10, 2017 12:46 PM PCHR Gaza Human rights, News Report, Palestine 0

Israeli Army Fires Artillery Shells Into Gaza

Israeli soldiers fired several artillery shells into areas in the southern and central parts of the Gaza Strip, in addition to flares, reportedly after a shell was fired from Gaza, but detonated shortly after launch. Media sources in Gaza said several Israeli artillery shells were fired into an area, east […]

March 10, 2017 11:47 AM IMEMC News Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Israeli attacks, Khan Younis, News Report 0

Israeli Soldiers, Police, Detained 89 Palestinian Workers This Week

Israeli soldiers and police officers have detained, this week alone, 89 Palestinians workers “for entering Israel without permits,” and shut down twelve construction sites for hiring them. According to Israeli media outlets, the police arrested 20 persons; many are contractors, and others are drivers, for transporting and providing aid to […]

March 10, 2017 5:59 AM IMEMC News Israel, Jerusalem, News Report, Palestine, Palestinian attacks 0

Queen Expected to Visit Israel in Marking Balfour Anniversary

Britain’s royal family might accept an official invitation to visit Israel to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, in a first visit of its kind since establishment of Israel, the Times reported, according to Al Ray. Reuven Rivlin, the Israeli president, extended the invitation during a meeting with Boris […]

March 9, 2017 9:49 PM IMEMC News & Agencies News Report 0

Netanyahu Lobbies Foreign Governments to Accept Israeli Sovereignty in Occupied Syrian Golan

As the Israeli Prime Minister peddles another illegal occupation, al-Marsad uncovers more Syrian villages destroyed by Israel in 1967. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in a press release, yesterday, that Netanyahu “intends to reiterate to [Russian] President Putin the fact that the Golan Heights is not […]

March 9, 2017 9:41 PM IMEMC News & Agencies Arab World, International Politics, News Report, Refugees/Immigration 0

Gaza Water Reservoir Operating Again with Help from Germany

Thanks to a 9-million euro fund from the German government, the Muntar water reservoir in Gaza, destroyed by Israel during its summer 2014 military onslaught, is once again operating. Germany’s Representative to the Palestinian Authority, Peter Beerwerth, and Palestinian Minister of Water, Mazen Ghneim, inaugurated the rebuilt reservoir in ceremonies […]

March 9, 2017 9:34 PM IMEMC News & Agencies Gaza Strip, International Politics, News Report, Refugees/Immigration 0

Jericho: Israeli Forces Uproot 350 Palm Trees (VIDEO)

Israeli forces have uprooted some 350 palm trees and bulldozed lands in Jericho city, Jordan Valley. Journalist Adel AbuNemah, reported to the PNN that the land was razed and the trees were uprooted, even though it is located in area B and not C, as Israel claims. The land is private property of farmer […]

March 9, 2017 9:15 PM IMEMC News & Agencies Human rights, Jericho, Jordan Valley, News Report, Refugees/Immigration 0