IMEMC – Minister of Local Government Mohammed al-Farra said that the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, since 2007, disrupted 21 projects in the fields of water and sanitation. The projects were negatively affected due to the closure of the crossings with Gaza and the ban on entry of construction materials which are necessary to fulfill several […]
IMEMC – In another measure meant to “punish” the Palestinian Authority (P.A) in the West Bank for signing 15 international treaties, the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu decided to enforce various sanctions, and placed a hold on the transfer of Palestinian Tax money it collects on West Bank border terminals. Talking on condition of anonymity, […]
IMEMC – Israeli forces, on Thursday, tore down and confiscated several tents that the Palestinian Red Crescent had erected, east of Nablus, in order to house families whose houses were demolished by Israeli forces a few days before, a Palestinian official said. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement-related activities in the northern […]
IMEMC – A number of Israeli settlers from the Efrat settlement, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, flooded Palestinian farmlands in al-Khader town with sewage. Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in al-Khader, Ahmad Salah, stated that the settlers pumped sewage into eight dunams of Palestinian agricultural lands belonging […]
IMEMC – The Bethlehem marathon will host hundreds of runners from around the world in the ancient West Bank city next Friday, with one omission: The Palestinian Authority’s top runner, who happens to reside in the Gaza Strip. GAZA (PNN/Haaretz) — Nader al-Masri, 34, with 14 years of running under his belt, was the only […]
IMEMC – Marking the occasion of Palestinian Children Day, on April 5, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) stated Thursday, in a press release, that in 2013 there were 2.08 million Palestinian children under the age of 18, constituting 47.1 percent of the total population in Palestine. AIC reports that Palestinian Minister of Social […]
IMEMC – Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails decided to begin actions, this week, in protest of Israel’s failure to release a fourth group of veteran prisoners. 13 Palestinians were injured during one protest in solidarity with the prisoners. According to Ziad Abu Ein, an undersecretary at the Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs, the protests would […]
IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources have reported that dozens of Palestinians have been injured, including several residents shot by rounds of live ammunition, after Israeli soldiers attacked nonviolent protests in different parts of the occupied West Bank. Medical sources in Kufur Qaddoum, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, said that dozens suffocated after […]
IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources have reported that two Palestinians, including a child, were injured in a series of Israeli air strikes targeting different areas of the besieged Gaza Strip. The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) has reported that F-16 Israeli war jets fired a missile into the Abu Jarad area, south of Gaza […]
IMEMC – Suspected Jewish vandals, on Thursday, slashed the tires of over 40 cars and sprayed racist graffiti in a predominantly Christian town, in the Galilee area of northern Israel, according to Israeli media sources. The perpetrators sprayed “Only goyim should be evacuated from our land” on a wall in the village of Jish, a Maronite majority […]
