Category Archives: Today in Palestine

Israel demolishes homes in Hebron, Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley

Israeli bulldozers demolish residence, shed south of Hebron HEBRON (WAFA) 25 Jan – Israeli forces Wednesday demolished a residence that housed orphans and a shack in Khirbet Umm al-Khair, a locale in the Hebron south of West Bank, according to … Continue reading

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In the last 24 hours an orgy of land theft and political arrests of children

Land Theft & Destruction / Attacks on Protests Against Land Theft / Restriction of Movement / Apartheid / Refugees Breaking: Israeli bulldozer, soldiers destroy entire community of Beit Arabiya in West Bank, Philip Weiss Tne tragic night in the West … Continue reading

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Israel arrests two more Palestinian lawmakers in Jerusalem

Exile / Ethnic cleansing / Land, property theft & destruction Israel detains 2 more lawmakers JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 23 Jan — Israeli forces on Monday detained two Palestinian MPs during a raid on the Jerusalem headquarters of the International Red Cross. … Continue reading

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‘George Orwell meets Mel Brooks’: International activist arrested by Israeli miltary in Hebron for carrying tea; later detained for ‘farting on a soldier’

George Orwell meets Mel Brooks in detention of international activist ISM 20 Jan by Jack English. The ongoing repression of international activists took a turn for the ridiculous on Thursday night in Al-Khalil, also known as Hebron. At approximately 7:30pm on … Continue reading

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Must-see TV from West Wing: Hide the 1709 map of Holy Land, it doesn’t show Israel!

Blackwashing joins pinkwashing and greenwashing to save the Israeli brand

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Israel issues demolition orders in Silwan, Hebron and Nablus, confiscates land in Jerusalem

Land, property theft & destruction / Ethnic cleansing / Apartheid / Assaults on Palestinian culture House demolition orders spark clashes in Silwan OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC) 18 Jan — The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Wednesday served demolition notices to a … Continue reading

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Military trial for 17-year-old girl, charged with… Spilling Water on Soldier

  Military Trial of 17-year old Amal Hamamdeh from Mufakarah. Charge: Spilling Water on Soldier, Assaf Oron As reported here, during home demolitions in the cave-dweller village of Mufakarah, two young women who resisted nonviolently were arrested and charged with … Continue reading

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Settlers assault Palestinians in Hebron. Palestinian fire fighters save settlers in Hebron

and other news from Today in Palestine: Jewish settlers assault two young men and the soldiers arrest themIsraeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested two Palestinian young men in Al-Khalil city after a group of Jewish settlers assaulted them on Friday. link … Continue reading

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Israel plans to expel a Bedouin community from the shadow of Ma’ale Adumim to a garbage dump in Abu Dis

Israel’s Civil Administration is planning to relocate some 27,000 Bedouins living in the West Bank. At first, some 2,300 people will be expelled from their homes near the Ma’ale Adummim settlement and relocated to a site next to the Abu Dis garbage dump, east of Jerusalem.

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13 year old Palestinian girl in wheelchair victim of hit and run by Israeli settlers

Hiba Abdul Ghaffar, 13, was heading to school Thursday when she was hit by a settler car near the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron,

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Israel breaks promise to the U.S. by subsidizing settlement housing

Netanyahu announces a plan to build 277 housing units in the Efrat settlement through a government program that will result in below market value housing prices. This breaks an agreement Israel reached with the Bush administration.

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Palestinian drivers challenge Israeli-only roads in the West Bank

This video was taken today outside Jericho as a convoy of 50 Palestinian cars attempted to travel to Ramallah over roads restricted to Israelis. Reports over Twitter say four activists were arrested.

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U.S. continues to fund Israeli military but not Palestinian ‘Sesame Street’

“Sharaa Simsim,” the Palestinian version of Sesame Street, has been put on hiatus for the 2012 season due to a funding freeze by the U.S. Congress.

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Poof, Dome of the Rock, gone: IDF rabbinate edits Dome of the Rock out of picture of the Temple Mount

  IDF rabbinate edits out Dome of the Rock from picture of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount Photo appears in army packet on Hanukkah describing the Jewish revolt against Hellenistic rule; IDF spokesman: Image meant to illustrate a period in which holy … Continue reading

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383 Palestinian children arrested in 2011, 15 in the last week alone

According to the Ansar organization for prisoners, Israel arrested 3,232 Palestinians in 2011. 383 of those arrested were children, and 250 of them remain in Israeli jails.

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Israel building walls on its borders with Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon

Israel to build new wall on Lebanon frontier TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma‘an) 2 Jan — Israeli military officials plan to build a new wall on the country’s northern ceasefire line with Lebanon, Israeli media reported on Monday. An official in … Continue reading

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Kept from their land by the Separation Wall, Palestinians risk losing their land due to Israeli ‘absentee’ laws

Land, property theft & destruction / Ethnic cleansing / Apartheid / Restriction of movement Absentee landowners? West Bank landowners can’t get to their land BETHLEHEM, West Bank (CNS) 30 Dec — Jamal Salman stood on one side of the double … Continue reading

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Jenin Freedom Theatre Director Zakaria Zubeidi ordered by Israel to turn himself in to PA security services

Palestinian pardoned by Israel put back on wanted list Zakaria Zbeidi, the former commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Jenin who now runs the Freedom Theater, says he did not know his pardon was canceled. Zakaria Zbeidi, the former commander … Continue reading

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Three years since Cast Lead

Four children in the al Samouni family use animated drawings to share what happened to their family during the Israeli attack on Gaza in the winter of 2008-09.

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‘If Jesus were to come this year, Bethlehem would be closed’

‘If Jesus were to come this year, Bethlehem would be closed’ A strip of settlements built on what was northern Bethlehem threatens to cut the city off from its historic twin, Jerusalem. If Joseph and Mary were making their way to … Continue reading

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Settlers have carried out over 100 attacks on Palestinians in 2011

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Israeli settlers have attacked 96 Holy Muslim and Christian sacred sites in the West Bank and 46 sacred sites in Occupied East Jerusalem since the beginning of the year.

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Another 550 Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails

550 Palestinian prisoners released in 2nd Phase of Hamas brokered prisoner exchange for Galid Shalit, Israel’s pick this time around.

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New details emerge on IDF interrogation methods of prisoners

Haaretz details routine brutalization of Palestinian suspects

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Settlers torch West Bank mosque, second attack in two days

New attack on mosque in West Bank Vandals have tried to set a mosque on fire and scrawled graffiti on the walls for the second time in two days. link to www.bbc.co.uk   Mustafa Tamimi   Egypt envoy pays respects … Continue reading

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Settlers attack Israeli military base and set fire to Jerusalem mosque

Israeli settlers infiltrated an Israeli military base near the West Bank city of Qalqilia; sabotaged property and threw stones at soldiers.

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