IMEMC, 2/19/14 – Palestinian medical sources reported, on Wednesday, February 19, 2014, that a Palestinian child was injured after being rammed by an Israeli settler’s vehicle near the Ibrahimi Mosque, in Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank. The sources said that the child, Ahmad Naim Borqan, 7 years of age, was […]
Ma’an News, 2/19/14 – A group of Israeli settlers hurled stones at Palestinian schoolchildren in Nablus on Wednesday, locals said. Witnesses told Ma’an that the settlers stormed the village of Burin and threw stones at pupils at a local school. Another group of settlers assaulted a 50-year-old man near the illegal Yizhar settlement south of […]
By Jonathan Cook. Sabbah Report, 2/17/14 – Fadi al-Qatshan is one of the latest casualties of a war taking place in Gaza’s shadows, as Israel seeks ever more desperate ways to recruit collaborators while Hamas, the Islamic movement ruling Gaza, enforces tough counter-measures. The 26-year-old graduate died in November. He was killed not by a […]
By Annie Robbins and Phil Weiss. Mondoweiss, 2/17/14 – Last month the LA Times ran a cute test on its op-ed page to show that Israel doesn’t practice apartheid, and that Palestinians are treated very well by Israel. Today the NY Times runs an op-ed saying that Israel gives Palestinians all the water they need, and as the region dries out, Palestinians are […]
PNN, 2/17/14 – Israeli occupation forces assaulted Saturday evening Photojournalist Yousef Shakarneh from Nahalin village west of Bethlehem, who worked as a freelancer Photojournalist with a number of local and international news agencies. Parents of the Photojournalist Shakarneh told PNN that their son was assaulted and severly beat while shooting a report about the suffering of […]
IMEMC, 2/17/14 – Israeli television Channel 7 has announced that the Israeli occupation municipality in Jerusalem approved, on Friday, the construction of 350 housing units in the settlement of Talpiot, east Jerusalem. According to a report by the Palestinian News Network (PNN), the channel added that the District Committee of the Municipality approved the settlement […]
IMEMC, 2/16/14 – A young Palestinian woman was shot and wounded after Israeli soldiers opened fire at a Palestinian car close to a military roadblock, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The sources said Nihad Kamal Aqel, 17 years of age, was shot by a live round to her thigh, and was […]
IMEMC, 2/15/14 – Israeli troops fired tear gas and live bullets at Palestinians who were throwing stones, Friday, near the border fence in northern Gaza, the army said, with Palestinian medics accounting for 17 wounded men. Clashes are common on Fridays, with regular protests near the border, in support of Gaza farmers who say troops […]
IMEMC, 2/13/14 – Israeli soldiers attacked and fired gas bombs at dozens of schoolchildren in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, leading to dozens of injuries, Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan has reported. The Center said that the soldiers invaded Schools Street, in the Ras al-Amoud neighborhood, in Silwan, and attacked children who were walking […]
IMEMC, 2/13/14 – Palestinian medical sources have reported that one Palestinian was killed, and another wounded by Israeli military fire in the al-Mintar area, east of the Ash-Shujaeyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City. Dr. Ashraf Al-Qodra, spokesperson of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, stated that resident Ibrahim Suleiman Mansur, 26 years of age, was […]
