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By Anees Bargouthi RAMALLAH, (AA): Over a thousand Israeli settlers stormed a local shrine in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, triggering clashes with Palestinian youths. “At least 1,150 Israeli settlers forced their way into the [Joseph’s Tomb] shrine under the protection of the Israeli army and performed Talmudic rituals,” Ahmed Shamekh, […]

6th Apr 2016

Palestine: 1900 Palestinian minors arrested by Israelis since Oct

By Anees Bargouthi RAMALLAH, (AA): The Israeli authorities have arrested 1,899 children since the beginning of an ongoing Palestinian uprising that began last October, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)’s detainees committee said Tuesday. In a statement released on the occasion of Palestinian Child’s Day, the committee noted that the detained minors had been picked […]

2nd Apr 2016

Palestine: Israeli soldier behind Hebron execution to be released, tried for manslaughter

IMEMC News & Agencies: The Israeli army ruled, Thursday, that an Israeli soldier who shot dead a wounded Palestinian in Hebron, last week, would be tried on charges of manslaughter, and not, as had been widely expected, those of murder. UN said on Wednesday the footage purporting to show the shooting of a wounded Palestinian […]

27th Mar 2016

Palestine: 1/3 of Palestinian village left homeless by demolitions in 2016

IMEMC News & Agencies: Mass Israeli demolitions, in the Jordan Valley village of Khirbet Tana, have left more than a third of its Palestinian residents homeless since the beginning of the year, the UN said Friday. A Palestinian Bedouin woman stands next to her destroyed tent in the village of Atouf in the Jordan Valley. […]

27th Mar 2016

Palestine: VIDEO: Israeli soldier executing wounded Palestinian

IMEMC News & Agencies: On Thursday, a video of a soldier executing an injured Palestinian in Hebron went viral. The Israeli army claimed, according to the PNN, that the soldier was suspended, and an investigation was opened into the case. The video [see below] by B’Tselem rights group showed the soldier, surrounded by others, approaching […]

22nd Mar 2016

US presidential candidates double down on Israel

WASHINGTON (AA) — Regardless of party, presidential candidates seeking their party’s nomination sought to out-show their competitors Monday on one area: their unwavering pro-Israel bona fides. The largest pro-Israel gathering in the U.S. attracted all standing major presidential contenders hoping to outdo one another in front of an estimated 18,000 attendees – except one. Vermont […]

18th Mar 2016

Jordan: 16 Palestinians killed in bus crash on way to Umrah

By Anees Bargouthi RAMALLAH, (AA): At least sixteen Palestinian Umrah pilgrims were killed and dozens were injured in a bus accident in southern Jordan, Palestinian and Jordanian officials said. “At least 16 Palestinian Umrah pilgrims were killed and 33 others were injured after a bus overturned near the Jordanian-Saudi borders,” Farid al-Sahre, spokesman for […]

18th Mar 2016

Palestine: Israeli army kills two Palestinians in West Bank

By Anees Bargouthi RAMALLAH, (AA): Two Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank following an alleged stabbing attack, the Israeli army said. The head of Beit Fajjar Municipality, south of Bethlehem, said the two Palestinians have been identified as Ali Jamal Mohammad Taqatqa, 19, and Ali Abdul-Rahman al-Kar […]

18th Mar 2016

US: Daesh committing genocide

[Photo: US Secretary of State John Kerry said Daesh commiting genocide against minorities. Photo: Erkin Keci/AA] By Michael Hernandez WASHINGTON (AA) – Daesh is committing genocide in territories it controls in Iraq and Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday. “In my judgment, Daesh is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its […]

16th Mar 2016

Palestine: Palestinian attack survivor to meet favorite footballer

By Anees Bargouthi JERUSALEM (AA) – Ahmad Dawabsheh, the orphaned son of a Palestinian family killed last year in an arson attack by Israeli extremists, is set to leave for Spain, where he will meet his favorite footballer. “Ahmad will leave the hospital for a five-day visit to Real Madrid, where he will meet […]

14th Mar 2016

Palestine: 14-year old boy shot in chest by Israeli troops

By Celine Hagbard IMEMC News: A Palestinian boy is in serious condition after he was shot in the chest with live ammunition by Israeli forces who invaded his village, al-Mazraa al-Gharbiya, on Sunday. The boy, 14, was shot when Israeli troops opened fire on a group of teens who were allegedly throwing stones at […]

13th Mar 2016

Palestine: Israeli airstrike kills Palestinian children in Gaza

By Anees Bargouthi GAZA CITY, (AA): The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza reported, Saturday, that a child, six years of age, who was seriously injured after the Israeli Air Force fired a missile into their home in northern Gaza, killing her brother, died of her serious wounds. The Ministry said the child, Israa’ Suleiman […]

11th Mar 2016

Israel arrests 250 Palestinian workers in fresh crackdown

By Anees Bargouthi JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has arrested at least 250 Palestinian workers in the last 24 hours on charges of staying in the country without a work permit, Israeli police said in a statement. The crackdown follows a stabbing attack carried out by a young Palestinian man earlier this week in the […]

11th Mar 2016

Palestine: Israeli army shuts down Palestinian TV, detains 3 journalists

IMEMC News: Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, the main headquarters of Palestine Today TV, in the al-Biereh city, in the Ramallah and al-Biereh District in the occupied West Bank, and shut it down. The army also kidnapped its director, a cameraman and a Technician. Palestine Today said in a statement that […]

9th Mar 2016

Palestine: Israeli forces kill Palestinian woman in East Jerusalem

By Anees Bargouthi JERUSALEM (AA) – A Palestinian woman was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Tuesday after an alleged stabbing attack in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a Palestinian woman was killed after she attempted to stab police officers in the old city of Jerusalem. According to Israeli […]

5th Mar 2016

Egypt: Sisi’s Egypt appears to draw closer to Israel

By Mahmoud Ghareb CAIRO (AA) – Despite their 1979 peace treaty, relations between Egypt and Israel have long remained cold due to the latter’s heavy-handed treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories. However, there have been signs of warming Egyptian-Israeli ties since Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi came to power in 2014. Egypt was the […]

29th Feb 2016

Palestine: 186 Palestinians killed by Israel over last 5 months

By Anees Bargouti RAMALLAH , (AA): According to the latest Palestinian figures, since Oct. 1 of last year, at least 186 Palestinians have been killed and another 15,645 injured by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip and in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Over the same period, according to Israeli figures, 33 […]

26th Feb 2016

Palestine: 22 years later, Ibrahimi Mosque massacre not forgotten

By Anees Bargouthi HEBRON, (AA): Twenty-two years have passed since Israeli-American Baruch Goldstein opened fire inside al-Khalil Ibrahimi Mosque, killing 29 and injuring 125. The event later became known as the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre. The horrific events took place on the last Friday of Ramadan on Feb. 25, 1994. Seven hundred people gathered to […]

20th Feb 2016

Palestine: Israeli soldiers kill 2 Palestinians in Bethlehem & Ramallah

IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli soldiers killed, on Friday, a young Palestinian man, in Beit Fajjar town, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, after several Israeli military vehicles invaded it. The army also killed a young man in Silwad town, east of Ramallah. The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that the soldiers shot and seriously […]

19th Feb 2016

Palestine: 49 children killed by Israeli forces since Oct

IMEMC News & Agencies: Defence for Children International-Palestine, on Tuesday, accused the Israeli army of willfully killing Palestinian children in the occupied Palestinian territories, QudsNet reported. Since the start of October, Israeli forces have killed more than 180 Palestinians including 49 children. According to Middle East Monitor, the organisation said: “Repeated killing and shooting of […]

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