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By Anees Bargouthi JERUSALEM (AA): The Israeli government has issued tenders for the construction of 323 new housing units for Jewish settlers in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, the Israeli media reported Wednesday. According to Israeli Radio, the plan includes 130 new housing units in the Jewish-only Har Homa settlement and another 89 units in the […]

21st Jul 2016

Palestine: Israeli army guns down Palestinian teen in West Bank

By Anees Bargouthi RAMALLAH (AA) – A Palestinian teen was gunned down on Tuesday night by the Israeli army during clashes in the occupied West Bank. Muhey al-Tabakhi, 12, died after a rubber bullet fired by Israeli forces struck his chest during clashes in the central town of al-Ram, the Palestinian Health Ministry said […]

18th Jul 2016

Palestine: Palestinian child sentenced to 6.5-year sentence

IMEMC News: A 14-year old Palestinian boy was sentenced Sunday to 6.5 years in prison for allegedly attacking an Israeli security guard in Jerusalem last November. Moawiya Alqam was accused of trying to stab an Israeli security guard at the entrance to the illegal Israeli settlement of Pisgat Ze’ev, along with his 12-year old cousin […]

15th Jul 2016

Palestine: Israeli human rights violations 30 June to 13 July

PCHR Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the oPt (30 June – 13 July 2016): Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territories continued during the reporting period (30 June – 13 July 2016). Shooting: Israeli forces have continued to commit crimes, inflicting civilian casualties. They have also […]

13th Jul 2016

Palestine: Jewish settlers enter holy sites in Jerusalem, Nablus

By Anees Bargouthi JERUSALEM (AA): Scores of Jewish settlers on Tuesday entered East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex and performed religious rituals, a Palestinian official told Anadolu Agency. They were led by the Rabbi Yehuda Glick, protected by Israeli security forces. “Around 285 Jewish settlers, backed by Israeli police, stormed the holy compound via […]

12th Jul 2016

Palestine: Tony Blair held talks with Hamas one month ago

By Alaa Rimawi JERUSALEM (AA): Former “quartet” envoy and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair held talks with Hamas one month ago regarding the situation in the blockaded Gaza Strip, a source close to the Palestinian resistance group told Anadolu Agency on Monday. “Blair spoke with Hamas about the possibility of reaching a formula on […]

7th Jul 2016

Palestinian president slams ‘quartet’ report

By Anees Bargouthi RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday slammed a recent report issued by the Middle East “quartet” (comprised of the U.S., the UN, the EU and Russia) on the moribund Palestine-Israel peace process. “The report… does not fulfill its mission nor will it lead to peace,” Abbas said after […]

3rd Jul 2016

Palestine: Israel approves 42 new settlement units in W Bank

By Anees Bargouthi JERUSALEM (AA): In the wake a fatal stabbing of a local teenager, Israeli authorities on Saturday approved the construction of new settlement units in southern Israel-occupied West Bank, Israeli media reported. According to Israeli Channel 10, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman approved the construction of 42 […]

1st Jul 2016

Israel: Palestinian shot dead after alleged knife attack

IMEMC News: Israeli sources have reported, on Thursday evening, that two Israelis were injured when a Palestinian reportedly stabbed them before he was shot dead by an armed Israeli man, in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya. Israeli daily Haaretz said the Palestinian stabbed a 40-year-old ultra-Orthodox man, and a 62-year-old woman, before an armed […]

30th Jun 2016

Palestine: Israeli land theft: 440% increase in 2016

IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli land confiscation policy has notably escalated in occupied Jerusalem and West Bank by 439% since the beginning of 2016, in comparison to last year, a Palestinian report revealed on Tuesday. Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem (ARIJ) revealed that Israeli authorities confiscated, since the beginning of the year, 7,773 acres of […]

28th Jun 2016

Turkey: Erdogan confirms Gaza support, apologises to Russia

ANKARA (AA) – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said 14,000 tons of supplies will be sailed to Gaza from Turkey before the Eid al-Fitr religious holiday early July. Speaking at an iftar, fast-breaking, meal in the Turkish capital Ankara on Monday, Erdogan said a planned normalization of relations with Israel would see “basic necessities such […]

24th Jun 2016

Palestine: Israeli forces shoot Palestinian woman dead in W Bank

By Anees Bargouthi RAMALLAH, (AA): A Palestinian woman was shot dead Friday by Israeli forces near the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) after allegedly carrying out a vehicular attack, the Israeli army and the Palestinian Health Ministry have said. The Israeli army said in a statement that a Palestinian assailant had driven her […]

22nd Jun 2016

Palestine: Palestinian teen ‘mistakenly’ shot dead in West Bank

By Kaamil Ahmed JERUSALEM (AA): A Palestinian teen was shot dead and four others were injured, the Palestinian health ministry confirmed in a statement on Tuesday, after Israeli forces “mistakenly” shot at them during clashes in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli army said they fired after Palestinians allegedly threw Molotov cocktails and stones […]

20th Jun 2016

Palestine: Palestinians decry Rabbi call to poison West Bank water

By Anees Bargouthi RAMALLAH, (AA):The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has denounced a Jewish rabbi’s permission for settlers to poison water sources in Palestinian areas in the occupied West Bank as “an order to kill”. Rabbi Shlomo Mlma, chairman of the Council of Rabbis in the West Bank settlements, has issued an advisory opinion in […]

19th Jun 2016

Palestine: Gaza seige Illegal & in violation of Humanitarian Law: UN

IMEMC News & Agencies: A report issued by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) confirmed the severe deterioration in various aspects of life in Gaza as a result of the continued Israeli siege imposed on the Strip over the last 10 years. The report listed the […]

14th Jun 2016

Palestine: Israeli army detains 15 Palestinians in West Bank

IMEMC News: Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn and late at night Sunday, at least fifteen Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank. The PPS said a large military force invaded, at dawn, the Schools Street in Jabal al-Mokabber neighborhood, in Jerusalem, searched homes, and […]

13th Jun 2016

Palestine: 130 Jewish settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque complex

By Anees Bargouthi JERUSALEM (AA): More than 130 extremist Jewish settlers on Sunday forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, where they tried to perform Talmudic rituals, a Palestinian official has said. “Around 135 extremist settlers stormed the mosque holy compound through Al-Mugharbeh gate under the protection of Israeli police officers,” […]

11th Jun 2016

Palestine: Only 100,000 Muslims allowed for 1st Friday of Ramadan at Al-Aqsa

By Anees Bargouthi JERUSALEM (AA) – Thousands of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem marched to the Al-Aqsa Mosque today to perform the first Friday prayer of the Ramadan holy month. Men over 45, children under 12 and women of all ages were allowed by the Israeli army to enter occupied […]

10th Jun 2016

Palestine: After attack, Israel suspends West Bank travel permits

By Kaamil Ahmed JERUSALEM (AA): Israel on Thursday prohibited Palestinians from the occupied West Bank from visiting Jerusalem during Ramadan following a deadly shooting attack one day earlier in Tel Aviv in which four Israelis were killed. According to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Israel’s military authority in the West […]

5th Jun 2016

Palestine: Israeli army kills Palestinian woman near Tulkarem

IMEMC News: Israeli soldiers killed, on Thursday afternoon, a Palestinian woman, at the Ennab military roadblock, east of Tulkarem city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military claimed that the slain woman “attempted to stab a soldier,” before she was shot and seriously wounded. An eyewitness told the al-Fajr Palestinian […]

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