The Jerusalem District Court has reinstated a previously issued sentence from 2005 for Addameer’s field researcher and human rights defender Salah Hamouri’s, who was issued a six months administrative detention order on 29 August 2017. During the order’s confirmation hearing on 5 September 2017, the judge decided to replace the …
Read More »Government says growing settlement activities undermine any chance of peace
The Palestinian government slammed on Monday the currently growing Israeli settlement activities in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, saying this could undermine any chance of reviving peace talks. Spokesman of the government, Yousef al-Mahmoud, said these settlement activities aim to obstruct international efforts to revive peace talks between …
Read More »Israel delays evacuation of settlers from Palestinian-owned home in Hebron
After the state of Israel ordered a group of Israeli settlers to evacuate a Palestinian-owned building in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, the Israeli Supreme Court has ordered to delay the evacuation based on an appeal submitted by the settlers. According to Israeli media reports, the settlers’ …
Read More »Israeli forces raid Sheikh Jarrah, threaten 7 Palestinian homes with eviction
Israeli authorities raided the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday and delivered eviction notices to six families in the area, also raiding the home of the Shamasna family, who has recently been fighting eviction from their home of 53 years. A local committee in the neighborhood told …
Read More »Fatah demands action against Israeli order expanding settler powers in Hebron
The Fatah movement released a statement on Sunday condemning a recent Israeli army decision to expand municipal powers in Hebron to Israeli settlers that live illegally in the city, saying the decision “foreshadows a real disaster” in the southern occupied West Bank city. According to Israeli NGO Peace Now, the …
Read More »Israeli forces shoot, injure Palestinian, detain 5 others in overnight raids
Israeli forces detained five Palestinians in overnight raids between Sunday and Monday in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli army, with one raid erupting into clashes that reportedly saw one Palestinian shot and injured by Israeli troops. In the northern West Bank, two Palestinians were detained from the …
Read More »Qaraqe’: “Salhi Was Left To Bleed To Death For Ninety Minutes”
The head of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee Issa Qaraqe stated that Raed Salhi, who on Sunday September 3, died at the Hadassah Israeli Medical Center in Jerusalem, from serious wounds suffered on August 9, 2017, was left to bleed to death for more than ninety minutes, when Israeli soldiers shot …
Read More »Israeli Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinians In Bethlehem, One In Jenin
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, two young Palestinian men in the West Bank governorate of Bethlehem, and one in Qabatia town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported. The Bethlehem office of the PPS said the soldiers invaded Wad …
Read More »Soldiers Injure A Palestinian, Abduct Another Near Ramallah, And One In Hebron
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, Beit Rima town, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, wounded one Palestinian with live fire, and abducted another. On Sunday at night, undercover Israeli soldiers abducted one Palestinian near Hebron. Media sources in Ramallah said several army jeeps invaded Beit …
Read More »Israeli Soldiers Assault Nonviolent Protesters, Abduct One, In Hebron
Israeli soldiers assaulted, Sunday, dozens of Palestinians marching nonviolently against the Annexation Wall and colonies, in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and abducted a local volunteer with the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem). The residents …
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