Ma’an News, 3/25/14 – Monday marked the fourth day in a row of clashes between residents of Aida camp and Israeli forces, after Palestinian activists tore through the separation wall that surrounds the camp. Local popular committee member Munthir Amira told Ma’an that Israeli special forces raided the Bethlehem-area refugee camp on Monday evening and […]
IMEMC, 3/25/14 – Three Israelis, late Monday, attempted to set fire to a gift shop owned by a Palestinian man in Jerusalem, on Jaffa Street, according to an Israeli police spokeswoman. Luba al-Samri said, in a statement, that the suspects also vandalized the shop, posting slogans reading “Kahane was right,” before fleeing the scene. She […]
IMEMC, 3/24/14 – Israeli settlers raided, on Monday, al-Aqsa mosque through Bab al-Magharbeh (Maghrabi Gate), under the protection of Israeli police. Local and media sources said that the groups raided the mosque in small groups and carried out tours at the mosque’s compound, according to the PNN. The sources added that Israeli police stationed at […]
IMEMC, 3/23/14 – Israel has promoted building plans for 2,372 homes in eight Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in the past month, on land the Palestinians want for a future state, an anti-settlement watchdog has said. (Reuters/Al Ray) The plans, the largest of which is for 839 homes in the Ariel settlement bloc, […]
IMEMC, 3/22/14 – A large contingent of Israeli troops invaded Jenin refugee camp in a pre-dawn raid, on Saturday, surrounding a house with the apparent intention of abducting an inhabitant of the house. The soldiers, however, initiated the fire and, when inhabitants of the house returned fire, shot dozens of rounds into the house, killing […]
PNN, 3/21/14 – A U.N. human rights investigator accused Israel on Friday of “ethnic cleansing” in pushing Palestinians out of East Jerusalem and cast doubt that the Israeli government could accept a Palestinian state in the current climate. He spoke against a backdrop of deadlocked peace talks and accelerating Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied […]
PCHR, 3/21/14 – In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 13 – 19 March, 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that, during the reporting period, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child. They also wounded 7 Palestinian civilians, including a child and […]
IMEMC, 3/21/14 – Palestinian medical sources reported Thursday [March 20, 2014] that two children were injured after a number of Israeli settlers attacked them near Beit Furik village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The sources said the two children, Mos’ab Fuad Khataba, 11, and Amir Mohammad Saleh, 11, suffered moderate injuries, […]
By Phil Giraldi. AntiWar.com, 3/18/14 – On March 6th President Barack Obama signed an executive order “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine” which permits Washington to seize the assets of any “United States person” who opposes current US policies vis-à-vis that country. The order claims absurdly that the status quo in Ukraine and the Crimean […]
IMEMC, 3/20/14 – Israeli military forces have killed 56 Palestinians and injured 897 since the resumption of peace negotiations with Israel in July, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said Tuesday. According to the PLO statement there have been over 500 settler attacks on persons and property in the West Bank, and Israeli forces have arrested […]
