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Palestinian Lands Razed Near Bethlehem

IMEMC, 3/6/14 – Israeli authorities razed a land near Solomon’s Pools, in the village of Ertas, south of Bethlehem. Last week, Israeli authorities evacuated a military watchtower that was built on the land, to return yesterday and start razing the 102 dunums of Palestinian land, belonging to Abu Sway family, the PNN has reported. In […]

Palestinian Families Ordered Out Of Homes As Israeli Army Prepares For Training

IMEMC, 3/5/14 – Israeli soldiers handed military orders to 21 families in the Wad Ebzeeq area, in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank, ordering them to leave as the army prepares for training. The army ordered the residents to stay away from the area on Wednesday, as the soldiers will be conducting training […]

Israeli Missile Kills Two Palestinians, Wounds Child In Gaza

IMEMC, 3/4/14 – An Israeli fighter jet reportedly dropped a missile, Monday night, near Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza, killing two Palestinians and wounding three others, including a child. The two men killed in the attack were identified as Musab Moussa al-Zaneen, 21, and Sharif Nasser, 31. The two men wounded in the Israeli airstrike […]

Nine Palestinians Kidnapped from West Bank, One from Al Aqsa Mosque

IMEMC, 3/3/14 – Israeli occupation forces abducted, on Monday, eleven Palestinians from the West Bank. Four Palestinians from Hebron and two others from Tulkarem were taken, while another in Ein Yabrud village, north of Ramallah, was abducted by Israeli forces, according to a PNN report. Israeli troops also took one Palestinian from al-Jalzoun refugee camp, […]

Elderly Palestinian Man Run Over and Killed by Israeli Settler

IMEMC, 3/2/14, – Saleh Mlihat, 70, was killed on Sunday, after being run over by an Israeli colonial settler, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Mosa Mlihat said that his father was run over during crossing the main street and transferred to hospital immediately, Al Ray reports. Local sources said that a settler ran […]

Israeli Forces Shoot, Kill Palestinian Woman in Southern Gaza

Ma’an News, 3/1/14 – A Palestinian woman was shot dead by Israeli forces in the southern Gaza Strip late Friday, witnesses and medics said. Witnesses said 57-year-old Aminah Atiyeh Qudeih was shot and killed by Israeli forces east of Khan Younis when she approached the separation barrier between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Ambulances were not […]

Israeli soldier’s needless killing of Palestinian activist: punishable by death?

An elite unit shot a Palestinian activist at point-blank range dozens of times. He had received a summons and failed to appear. What should be the penalty? By Amira Hass. Ha’aretz, 3/3/14 – If the order was to escalate, the takeover of the village of Bir Zeit last Thursday by the Yamam counterterrorism unit and the […]

Israeli Settlers Bulldoze Lands in Ja’loud Village

IMEMC, 2/27/14 – Settler bulldozers, on Thursday morning, began to raze lands in Ja’loud village, to the south of Nablus, in order to expand settlements in the region. Al Ray News Agency reports that Ghassan Daghlas, a PA official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said that settlers started to bulldoze tens of […]

Amnesty International Addresses West Bank Killings

IMEMC, 2/27/14 – Amnesty: Some Israeli West Bank killings may be war crimes Israeli forces are using excessive, reckless violence in the occupied West Bank, killing dozens of Palestinians over the past three years in what might constitute a war crime, Amnesty International said on Thursday. Photo: Israeli army soldiers fire tear gas towards Palestinian […]

Israeli Soldiers Kidnap 15 Palestinians In West Bank, Demolish Home

IMEMC, 2/27/14 – Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, kidnapping 15 Palestinians, including a 9-year old child and a mentally challenged Palestinian. Soldiers also demolished a Palestinian home near Ramallah, after firing shells at it. Palestinian sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, […]

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