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US Congresswoman McCollum Reintroduces Bill to Protect Palestinian Children

U.S. Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) has reintroduced a historic bill to promote the human rights of Palestinian children who face detention, interrogation, abuse and violence by Israel through its military court system in the occupied West Bank. According to Defense for Children International, the Promoting Human Rights for Palestinian Children Living […]

May 2, 2019 10:38 PM IMEMC News & Agencies Human rights, International, International Politics, News Report, Prisoners 0

Israeli Police Demolish Tent, Assault Elderly Man

Israeli bulldozers demolished, on Thursday, a residential tent that was erected in the town of Yatta, to the south of Hebron, and attacked an elderly man during the demolition. Local sources PNN confirmed that Israeli police assaulted an elderly man while their bulldozer demolished his tent at the Umm al-Khirif […]

May 2, 2019 10:33 PM IMEMC News & Agencies Hebron, Israeli attacks, News Report, Refugees/Immigration 0

PPS: “Israeli Soldiers Abduct 17 Palestinians, Including Children, In West Bank”

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, at least seventeen Palestinians, including children, after the army invaded and ransacked dozens of homes across the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem. The PPS stated that the soldiers abducted six Palestinians, identified as Mohammad Hazem […]

May 2, 2019 12:45 PM IMEMC News Hebron, Israeli attacks, Jenin, Nablus, News Report, Ramallah, Tubas, West Bank 0

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinians, Injure Several Others, In Jenin

Dozens of Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, two Palestinians and injured many others, after the army invaded several areas in Jenin governorate in northern West Bank. The soldiers also abducted one child in Jerusalem. Media sources said the soldiers abducted Ibrahim Mustafa al-Qoneiri, from his home in Jenin […]

May 2, 2019 11:28 AM Saed Bannoura Hebron, Israeli attacks, Jerusalem, News Report, West Bank 0

Health Condition Of Hunger Striking Detainee Worsens

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported, Thursday, that a Palestinian detainee in Israeli prisons, has suffered health complications after 54 days of a hunger strike, and added that he is ongoing with his strike demanding ending his arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, holding him captive without charges or trial. It said […]

May 2, 2019 10:20 AM IMEMC News Human rights, Nablus, News Report, Prisoners, West Bank 0

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Six Palestinians In Hebron

Israeli soldiers abducted, Thursday, six Palestinians from their homes in the al-‘Arroub refugee camp and Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Dozens of soldiers invaded the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, and abducted three young men, identified as Ahmad Aladdin Yaghi, Qais Aladdin Yaghi and Mohammad […]

May 2, 2019 9:37 AM IMEMC News Hebron, Israeli attacks, News Report, West Bank 0

Israeli Air Force Fires Missiles Into Gaza

The Israeli Air Force fired, on Thursday at dawn, several missiles targeting a few areas in the besieged Gaza Strip, causing damage, after the army alleged a rocket was fired from Gaza. Media sources said the Israeli missiles struck several sites, run by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of […]

May 2, 2019 7:19 AM IMEMC News Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip, Israeli attacks, News Report 0

Israeli Soldiers Attack Palestinian Detainees In Asqalan

Soldiers of the Metzada special forces unit of the “Israeli Prison Service” attacked, on Wednesday at noon, many Palestinian detainees in their rooms, in Asqalan (Ashkelon) Prison, and destroyed their belongings. The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported that the soldiers attacked the detainees while eating their lunch, and deliberately spilled […]

May 2, 2019 1:53 AM IMEMC News Gaza Strip, Israeli attacks, News Report, Palestine, Prisoners, West Bank 0

Lands Razed by Israeli Bulldozers East of Gaza City

Several Israeli military vehicles raided Palestinian lands, on Wednesday, east of Gaza City, in the central besieged Gaza Strip. A Ma’an reporter said that eight large D-9 Israeli military bulldozers entered the region, dozens of meters into Palestinian lands. Sources added that Israeli military bulldozers razed and leveled the lands […]

May 1, 2019 7:27 PM IMEMC News & Agencies Gaza City, Gaza Siege, Israeli attacks, News Report, Refugees/Immigration 0

Navy Injures Gaza Fisherman, Detains Two Others, in Gaza

Israeli naval forces, Wednesday morning, injured a Palestinian fisherman and detained two others off the shore of al-Sudaniya, northwest of Gaza city. WAFA correspondence reported that the navy opened gunfire and shot water hoses towards a fishing boat sailing three nautical miles off the shore, injuring a fisherman with a […]

May 1, 2019 7:21 PM IMEMC News & Agencies Gaza Siege, Gaza Strip, Israeli attacks, News Report, Refugees/Immigration 0

Ambassador Mansour: Situation in Palestine Going “From Bad to Worse”

The UN Security Council discussed, on Monday, in an open meeting chaired by Germany (the President of the Security Council for this month), the situation in Palestine over the past four months. The Palestine envoy to the United Nations, Ambassador Riyad Mansour, said, in his address to the Council, that […]

May 1, 2019 7:13 PM IMEMC News & Agencies International, International Politics, Israeli Politics, Israeli Settlement, News Report, Palestinian Politics 0

Army Demolishes A Home Near Hebron

Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, the ad-Deerat area, east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and demolished a Palestinian home. Rateb Jabour, the media coordinator of the National and Popular Committees against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in southern Hebron, said several army jeeps invaded […]

May 1, 2019 2:42 PM IMEMC News Hebron, Human rights, Israeli attacks, Israeli Settlement, News Report, West Bank 0

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinians In Bethlehem And Qalqilia

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, two young Palestinian men in Bethlehem and Qalqilia, in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldiers invaded Teqoua’ town, east of Bethlehem, searched homes, and abducted one Palestinian. It added that the soldiers abducted Ahmad Ibrahim al-‘Amour, 22, […]

May 1, 2019 1:46 PM IMEMC News Bethlehem, Israeli attacks, News Report, Qalqilia, West Bank 0

Illegal Israeli Colonists Cut 150 Olive Trees Near Ramallah

A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Palestinian olive orchards near the central West Bank city of Ramallah and cut more than 150 trees. Media sources said the assailants came from an illegal outpost, which was installed on private Palestinian lands in Burqa village, east […]

May 1, 2019 11:43 AM IMEMC News Israeli attacks, Israeli Settlement, News Report, Ramallah, West Bank 0

Wounded Palestinian, Who Burnt Him Self Demanding Medical Care, Dies In Gaza

A young Palestinian man, who was shot with several Israeli army live rounds on April 16, 2018, and torched himself two weeks ago after his repeated calls for medical treatment abroad went unanswered, has died from his serious wounds, on Tuesday evening. Media sources said the young man, Bilal Mohammad […]

April 30, 2019 11:49 PM IMEMC News Gaza Siege, Gaza Strip, Jabalia, Miscellaneous, News Report, Refugees/Immigration 0