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What kind of country throws a teen out of an IDF jeep?

Haaretz – Without money, a phone or identity papers, Fadel Tamimi’s 14-year-old son was thrown out of an Israeli army jeep, in the dead of night, 15 kilometers away from home, after being interrogated. By Gideon Levy and Alex Levac. If a man falls from a plane in the middle of the night God alone can raise […]

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Gets 6 Years for Bribery

IMEMC – Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert sentenced was sentenced to six years in prison by a Tel Aviv court, on Tuesday, for accepting bribes in connection with a major Jerusalem land development, according to media reports. Israel’s main radio stations, broadcasting live from the court room, said that Judge David Rosen sentenced Olmert to six years […]

Further Attacks and Abductions in West Bank by Israeli Army

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 […]

Rising Number of Palestinian Children Subject to Solitary Confinement

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 […]

Israeli Army Opens Fire on Palestinian Farmers in Southern Gaza

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, […]

UN Official: Boycott Israeli Settlement Products Worldwide

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 […]

Netanyahu Says Talmud Will be the Basis of Israeli Law

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 […]

Roman Catholic Church Demands Israel Stop Hate Attacks

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 […]

Toxic Waste May Be Leading Cause Of Cancer Among Palestinian Political Prisoners

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 […]

Netanyahu’s Former Driver Indicted For Sexual Assault and Rape

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. […]

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