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 […]
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers demolished seven agricultural sheds and structures in the Tiwani village, east of Yatta, in the southern West Bank district of Hebron. Rateb Jabour, Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Hebron, stated that several Israeli military jeeps, armored vehicles and bulldozers invaded the area, and demolished the seven […]
IMEMC – A number of Israelis attacked the Rafat Latin Monastery in West Jerusalem, puncturing car tires, and writing racist graffiti, including insults to the Virgin Mary and words describing the United States as “Nazi Germany”. The vandals also wrote graffiti vowing to make the Palestinians pay the prince from the “peace process”, and other […]
IMEMC – To mark the occasion of Land Day, one thousand olive saplings were planted on Palestinian land threatened with seizure by Israel in ‘Arraba, near Jenin, on Monday. The saplings were jointly planted by the Palestinian Agricultural relief Committees (PARC) and ‘Arraba Municipality, in lands adjacent to Mabo Dothan settlement, WAFA reports. Assistant Governor […]
