PNN, 3/21/14 – A U.N. human rights investigator accused Israel on Friday of “ethnic cleansing” in pushing Palestinians out of East Jerusalem and cast doubt that the Israeli government could accept a Palestinian state in the current climate. He spoke against a backdrop of deadlocked peace talks and accelerating Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied […]
PCHR, 3/21/14 – In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 13 – 19 March, 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that, during the reporting period, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child. They also wounded 7 Palestinian civilians, including a child and […]
IMEMC, 3/21/14 – Palestinian medical sources reported Thursday [March 20, 2014] that two children were injured after a number of Israeli settlers attacked them near Beit Furik village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The sources said the two children, Mos’ab Fuad Khataba, 11, and Amir Mohammad Saleh, 11, suffered moderate injuries, […]
IMEMC, 3/20/14 – Israeli military forces have killed 56 Palestinians and injured 897 since the resumption of peace negotiations with Israel in July, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said Tuesday. According to the PLO statement there have been over 500 settler attacks on persons and property in the West Bank, and Israeli forces have arrested […]
IMEMC, 3/20/14 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, ordered the army to be ready for a potential strike on Iran this year. Israeli daily Haaretz has reported that the attack would target what was described as “Iran’s nuclear facilities”, and that the strike would cost Israel more than 10 Billion […]
IMEMC, 3/19/14 – Israeli authorities, late Tuesday, delivered the remains of four Palestinians withheld by Israel for over a decade, according to Palestinian officials. Tamir Arafeh, director of the military liaison department in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an News Agency that the remains of Muhammad Abd al-Rahman al-Hanbali, Muhammad Abd al-Hamid Saleh Hamoudha, and […]
IMEMC, 3/19/14 – Palestinian medical sources have reported that a Palestinian child was shot and killed by Israeli army fire near Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The child has been identified as Nayef Yousef Abu Aker, 16 years of age, from Deir al-‘Asal village, south of Doura city in […]
IMEMC, 3/18/14 – Israeli soldiers, stationed at the Taybeh roadblock, south of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, violently attacked a Palestinian woman, and tried to force her to be strip-searched. The woman was heading to an Israeli detention facility to visit her detained son, Ahmad Abdul-Fattah Awwad, sentenced by Israel to 40 years […]
IMEMC, 3/17/14 – Palestinian Authority Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs lawyer Hiba Masalha said that she visited hunger striker Waheed Abu Maria in Wolfson Hospital, on Saturday, and that he is in critical condition. Abu Maria, who has been on hunger strike for 67 days, has lost 88 lbs, is unable to walk, and suffers from […]
IMEMC, 3/17/14 – Israeli colonial settlers damaged, Sunday afternoon, 55 olive trees after spraying them with toxic chemicals in Jaloud village, south of the West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, said that Israeli settlers came from the Esh Kodesh settlement, built […]
