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By Celine Hagbard IMEMC News: A day after her death in an Israeli hospital from wounds sustained when Israeli settlers firebombed her family home just over a month ago, Reham Dawabsha’s funeral was held in her village south of Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank on Monday. Reham Dawabsha was 27, […]

7th Sep 2015

Palestine: Israeli police assault female worshipers at al-Aqsa as it allows settlers in

IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli police assaulted, on Sunday, a group of Palestinian women who attempted to enter al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, after being denied entry to the holy site, according to media sources. WAFA correspondence reports that around 40 women were organizing a peaceful protest at as-Selsela Gate leading to the compound in […]

5th Sep 2015

Palestine: Israeli soldiers attack weekly protest in Bil’in

By Saed Bannoura IMEMC News: On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and Settlements, in Bil’in village, in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, causing several injuries. Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Bil’in, Abdullah Abu Rahma, said the soldiers assaulted the nonviolent […]

5th Sep 2015

Palestine: Israeli soldiers shoot, injure child in Gaza

IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian child near the shores of the Beit Lahiya village in the northern Gaza Strip, medics said. Medics told Ma’an News Agency that Bilal Abu Amro, aged 11, was shot in the thigh while he was with his father, a fisherman. He was taken to […]

3rd Sep 2015

Palestine: Israeli soldiers demolish Bedouin settlement in E Jerusalem rendering 94 homeless

Palestinian Center For Human Rights: In the context of a systematic policy to evacuate Area “C” in the West Bank for the interest of settlement projects, on Monday, 31 August 2015, Israeli forces demolished “al-Khdeirat” Bedouin community, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem near “Adam” settlement, rendering eleven Bedouin families homeless. According to investigations conducted by […]

3rd Sep 2015

Palestine: Israel confiscates ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (AA): Israeli authorities on Wednesday seized parts of occupied East Jerusalem’s historical Bab al-Rahmeh cemetery east of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to a Palestinian official. “Forces of the so-called ‘Israeli Nature Authority’ – backed by large numbers of Israeli police – on Wednesday morning forced their way in and set up barbed wire around […]

2nd Sep 2015

UN report warns Gaza may become ‘uninhabitable by 2020’

GENEVA (AA): Gaza could become uninhabitable by 2020 if current economic trends and blockade persist, UN warned on Tuesday. “In addition to eight years of economic blockade, in the past six years, Gaza has endured three military operations that have shattered its ability to export and produce for the domestic market, ravaged its already debilitated […]

1st Sep 2015

Palestine: Israeli army fires shells into homes in Jenin

IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli soldiers continued, on Tuesday at dawn, their invasion into the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and fired missiles into two homes, before demolishing a store and several walls. The invasion into the camp started on Monday evening. During the invasion, the soldiers kidnapped a […]

29th Aug 2015

Palestine: Dozens of protesters shot by Israeli army across W Bank

IMEMC News & Agencies: A Palestinian journalist was shot and injured with a rubber-coated steel bullet, while another was abducted during clashes which erupted, in Ramallah’s village of Bil’in, between Palestinian locals and the Israeli army, as the latter suppressed the weekly and peaceful anti-settlement demonstration. Injuries were also reported east of Qalqilia. The popular […]

27th Aug 2015

Palestine: 32 Palestinians detained by Israeli forces in W Bank

IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli forces kidnapped, on Wednesday, 32 Palestinians citizens in several cities and villages across the occupied West Bank. Families reported that forces took six Palestinians in Nablus, three in Bethlehem, two in Ramallah, and one in Jericho. A rights group said that soldiers stormed the village of Salem and arrested six […]

27th Aug 2015

Palestine: 1,000 Gaza children disabled by Israel’s 2014 onslaught

GAZA CITY, (AA): More than 1,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip sustained permanent disabilities during last year’s 51-day Israeli military onslaught, according to Defense for Children International (DCI), an NGO devoted to children’s rights. In a report entitled “Operation Protective Edge: A war waged on Gaza’s Children”, released on Tuesday, DCI’s Palestine unit said […]

26th Aug 2015

Palestine: Israeli soldiers detain two teens in Jerusalem

IMEMC News: Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Tuesday evening, two Palestinian teens in Ras al-‘Amoud neighborhood, in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported that the soldiers kidnapped Azzam Issa Ghorab, 17, while walking back home, allegedly after he hurled stones on their vehicles. Soldiers also […]

24th Aug 2015

Palestine: 20 Palestinian women barred from entering Al Aqsa, Israeli settlers allowed in

IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli police, on Sunday, prevented around 20 Palestinian women from entering al-Aqsa mosque, while allowing Israeli settlers into the mosque’s compound, according to WAFA correspondence. Special Israeli police units erected metal barricades near al-Aqsa mosque, imposing restrictions on the entry of Palestinians and preventing around 20 women from entering for attempting […]

23rd Aug 2015

Palestine: Israeli settlers attack farmers in Qasra

IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli settlers attacked, on Saturday, Palestinian farmers in the village of Qasra, to the south of Nablus, whereas the Israeli army raided and searched several Palestinian homes, setting up military checkpoints in the Hebron district, according to a local activist. WAFA correspondence reports that Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in […]

21st Aug 2015

UK: Hamas leader Mashal invited to London for long-term truce talks

IMEMC News & Agencies: Azzam Tamimi, head of Hamas-affiliated institution said on Wednesday that former British prime minister and Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair invited Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to London, for discussing a long-term truce with Israel. Tamimi said that Mashal’s visit did not take place because Hamas wanted to know the details […]

20th Aug 2015

Palestine: Israel suspends detention of brain damaged Palestinian hunger-striker

JERUSALEM (AA): Israel’s supreme court temporarily suspended the administrative detention of jailed Palestinian activist Mohamed Allan on Wednesday after doctors treating him said he suffered brain damage as a result of going on a hunger strike for 60 days. A 31-year-old lawyer from the occupied West Bank and a reported member of Palestine’s Islamic Jihad resistance group, Allan was detained by Israeli authorities last November. […]

19th Aug 2015

Palestine: 12 residential tents demolished in Jordan Valley

IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli authorities, on Tuesday, demolished a number of residential tents in the village of Fasayel, in the southern Jordan Valley, according to local sources. jordanvalley2maan.jpg Hamza Zubedat, a local activist, said that an Israeli army force accompanied by bulldozers demolished 12 residential tents, which shelter members of the Bedouin tribes Rashaydeh […]

19th Aug 2015

Palestine: Another Palestinian youth killed by Israeli troops

IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli soldiers, on Monday, shot dead a Palestinian at Za’tara military checkpoint to the south of Nablus, according to the Red Cross. According to WAFA correspondence, Red Crescent said that the soldiers shot 26-year-old Mohammed Bassam al-Atrash for allegedly attempting to stab an Israeli soldier. Israeli forces reportedly denied medical teams […]

17th Aug 2015

Palestine: Israeli settler hits Palestinian child with car, flees scene

IMEMC News & Agencies: An Israeli settler, on Sunday, ran over a Palestinian child in Yatma village, to the south of Nablus, and fled the scene, according to the PNN. Security sources said that a settler ran over 10-year-old Mohammed Mustafa Najjar, causing him a fracture in his right leg. The child was moved to […]

12th Aug 2015

Palestine: Israeli settlers set fire to West Bank park

IMEMC News & Agencies: Jewish Israeli settlers, at dawn on Tuesday, used molotov cocktails in an attempt to set fire to a public park in the northern West Bank village of Qaryut. Local Palestinian sources said that a number of settlers arrived in three vehicles at 2 am and threw several molotov cocktails into the […]

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