By Carlos Latuff. IMEMC – For three days, a small village in the West Bank, Nabi Saleh, was subjected to a military siege imposed by the Israeli army as a form of collective punishment. On Saturday, the 12th of April, Israeli forces imposed a blockade on the village after declaring it a ‘closed military area’. […]
IMEMC – Miles of Smiles Convoy (26) arrived this past week, in Gaza, with solidarity activists from 21 nations worldwide. Deputy Foreign Minister, Ghazi Hamad, welcomed the convoy’s activists “Here Gaza, where we share patience and resilience.” Hamad expressed hope that the convoy encourages other convoys. He appreciated the delegation’s determination to come to the […]
IMEMC – Israeli forces set up a military base on the roof of a Palestinian house in the Bethlehem district, on Sunday, a Ma’an reporter said. In the village of Tuqu southeast of Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers climbed to the rooftop of a house belonging to Nayef Hussein Moussa. The soldiers stationed machine guns on the […]
IMEMC – One Palestinian was killed and 101 were injured by Israeli violence in the occupied Palestinian territories, during the period from April 8 to 14, a UN report said. According to the report, issued by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Israeli occupation displaceed 40 Palestinians, half of them women […]
IMEMC – Suspected Jewish vandals, on Friday, set fire to a mosque and sprayed racist graffiti in the northern Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm, on the border of the West Bank, according to an Israeli police spokesman. Mickey Rosenfeld told Ma’an News Agency that there was “damage to the front door of the mosque and […]
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, broke into homes and searched them, installed roadblocks and kidnapped at least eight young Palestinian men. The army also attacked and detained teachers and students in a Hebron school. Local sources in Beit Awwa town, southwest of Hebron, stated that dozens of […]
IMEMC – Palestinian Christians carried a bold message as part of the annual Palm Sunday procession from the Mount of Olives to the Old City in East Jerusalem, this year. The parishes of various Palestinian villages carried banners reading: “Pope Francis: Palestine Wants Justice.” The pontiff will be visiting the Holy Land next month, the […]
IMEMC – Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon gave his approval to the establishment of a new Jewish-only settlement in the heart of the Palestinian city of Hebron, and several families moved in, on Sunday, with the assistance of a military phalanx which paraded the settlers through the city and established them in an illegally-seized Palestinian home. The […]
IMEMC – Israeli Minister of Defense, Moshe Ya’alon, announced on Sunday that works began for the largest project of expanding the settlement bloc of Gush Etzion, in the south of the West Bank. He confirmed that a 984-dunum area of land in southern and west of Bethlehem were seized last week for the benefit of […]
IMEMC – An internationally renowned expert on torture says that evidence confirms a young Palestinian has died of injuries he sustained in Israeli custody due to torture. Arafat Jaradat, a 33-year-old father of two, died on February 23, 2013, in Israel’s Megiddo Prison, where he was being interrogated by the Shin Bet secret police, according […]
