IMEMC – Israeli violations against the Palestinian people and their property continued throughout the day, on Monday May 12, 2014, with attacks and abductions occurring in various regions of the West Bank, including Qalqilia, Jenin and Bethlehem. Sixteen people were kidnapped by Israeli forces in the West Bank, today, most of them from the district […]
DCI Palestine – Rising numbers of Palestinian children are being subjected to solitary confinement for interrogation purposes in Israeli detention, according to a new report from Defense for Children International Palestine. In 21.4 percent of cases recorded by DCI-Palestine in 2013, children detained in the Israeli military detention system reported undergoing solitary confinement as part […]
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers, manning military towers across the border with Gaza, opened fire at Palestinian farmers working in their lands east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers fired several rounds of live ammunition at the farmers while they were working in their own agricultural lands, […]
IMEMC – Richard Falk called, on Friday, for worldwide solidarity with the Palestinian struggle through boycott and divestment from companies profitng from illegal Israeli settlement construction. In a report originally published in Arabic on the UN’s website, special rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Territories, Richard Falk, urged organizations and companies around the world […]
IMEMC – Right-wing news site Arutz 7 reports that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke, on Wednesday evening, with the head of the haredi (Jewish ultra-orthodox) division of the Likud, Yaakov Vider, saying that the law he intends to submit, defining Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people, will include a clause stating […]
IMEMC – The Roman Catholic church has demanded Israeli action, after suspected Jewish vandals daubed hate graffiti on Vatican-owned offices in annexed East Jerusalem, just two weeks before a formal papal visit. Israeli Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said, according to Ma’an, that the Israeli government plans to use administrative detention against the suspects, as […]
IMEMC – Head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, stated that high rates of cancer among Palestinian political prisons run by Israel could be attributed to nuclear toxic waste which Israel buries near several prisons in the Negev Desert, south of the country. Ferwana said that (%53.7) of these […]
IMEMC – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former driver has been officially indicted in the Jerusalem District Court for hundreds of sexual assaults and rapes against six minors, mostly relatives of his. The indictment against Ilan Shmuel, 51 and a Zecharya resident, was filed Sunday by the Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office, the Jerusalem Post has reported. […]
IMEMC – The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that 120 Palestinian detainees, held by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention policies without charges or trial, are ongoing with their strike demanding an end to their illegitimate detention. The detainees started their strike on April 24 after the Israeli Prison Authority unilaterally rescinded and voided previously […]
IMEMC – The Israeli authorities sealed their border crossings with the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, on Sunday, under a pretext of celebrating the anniversary of the establishment of Israeli State, according to Israeli sources. The seal-off is expected to continue until next Tuesday, according to WAFA. To the south of Bethlehem, the army […]
