IMEMC, 3/20/14 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, ordered the army to be ready for a potential strike on Iran this year. Israeli daily Haaretz has reported that the attack would target what was described as “Iran’s nuclear facilities”, and that the strike would cost Israel more than 10 Billion […]
IMEMC, 3/19/14 – Israeli authorities, late Tuesday, delivered the remains of four Palestinians withheld by Israel for over a decade, according to Palestinian officials. Tamir Arafeh, director of the military liaison department in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an News Agency that the remains of Muhammad Abd al-Rahman al-Hanbali, Muhammad Abd al-Hamid Saleh Hamoudha, and […]
IMEMC, 3/19/14 – Palestinian medical sources have reported that a Palestinian child was shot and killed by Israeli army fire near Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The child has been identified as Nayef Yousef Abu Aker, 16 years of age, from Deir al-‘Asal village, south of Doura city in […]
IMEMC, 3/18/14 – Israeli soldiers, stationed at the Taybeh roadblock, south of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, violently attacked a Palestinian woman, and tried to force her to be strip-searched. The woman was heading to an Israeli detention facility to visit her detained son, Ahmad Abdul-Fattah Awwad, sentenced by Israel to 40 years […]
IMEMC, 3/17/14 – Palestinian Authority Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs lawyer Hiba Masalha said that she visited hunger striker Waheed Abu Maria in Wolfson Hospital, on Saturday, and that he is in critical condition. Abu Maria, who has been on hunger strike for 67 days, has lost 88 lbs, is unable to walk, and suffers from […]
IMEMC, 3/17/14 – Israeli colonial settlers damaged, Sunday afternoon, 55 olive trees after spraying them with toxic chemicals in Jaloud village, south of the West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, said that Israeli settlers came from the Esh Kodesh settlement, built […]
IMEMC, 3/16/14 – Palestinian medical sources have reported that a child died of serious injuries suffered last week in an explosion that took place in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The sources said that Mohammad Ismael al-Hamadin, two years of age, died of his serious injuries on Sunday morning. The […]
IMEMC, 3/15/14 – The Gaza Strip’s only power plant shut down today, due to a lack of fuel from Israel, which closed a goods crossing after militant rocket attacks, the energy authority said. “The plant has completely ceased to function due to a lack of fuel caused by (Israel’s) closure of the Kerem Shalom crossing,” […]
IMEMC, 3/14/14 – Israeli military sources have reported that the Air Force fired missiles into 29 sites in different parts of the Gaza Strip, alleging that the escalation comes in retaliation for shells fired into Israel from Gaza. The sources said that the missiles struck what was described as rocket launching pads, monitoring sites, training […]
IMEMC, 3/14/14 – A three-year-old child died, on Thursday, after he was unable to receive medical care abroad, due to the closure of the Rafah crossing, an activist group said. Spokesman for the National Committee to Break the Siege, Adham Abu Salmieh, said that Ahmad Ammar Abu Nahl was suffering from an enlarged heart and […]
