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Israeli forces injured 11 Palestinians, including an 8-year-old child, with rubber-coated steel bullets on Friday, while suppressing Kafr Qaddum village’s weekly march in the occupied West Bank district of Qalqiliya. Spokesperson for the village’s popular resistance committee Murad Shteiwi said that Israeli forces had “attacked” the march, shooting live ammunition …

Arieh King, director of a right-wing settler organization which targets the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, told an Israeli newspaper on Thursday that up to 500 Israeli families would move into Sheikh Jarrah within the next decade. “Sheikh Jarrah, or Shimon Hatzadik, is going through a revolution,” King …

Days after Israeli forces confiscated a Palestinian primary school on the eve of the first day of school in the occupied Palestinian territory, Palestinian leadership and human rights groups continued to issue condemnations against the Israeli actions. Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem released a statement Thursday saying that the destruction …

The city of Frankfurt, Germany, passed a bill on Friday outlawing municipal funding for and the use of public spaces for activities that aim to boycott Israel, according to the Jerusalem Post. The Jerusalem Post reported that the anti-Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement bill was initiated and pushed by …

Clashes erupted in the villages of Burham and Jibiya — both located in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah — in the predawn hours of Friday morning, as Israeli settlers raided the towns under Israeli army protection. Locals from the villages told Ma’an that Israeli forces raided Burham …

On Tuesday, 15 August 2017, Jerusalem Municipality employees went with a Border Police escort to four East Jerusalem neighborhoods where they demolished dwellings and other structures, citing construction without a permit as pretext. All the while, the municipality does whatever is in its power to keep Palestinians from building lawfully. …

Demolition follows on heels of destruction of two other educational facilities in Area C On the evening of Tuesday, 22 August 2017, at around 7:00 P.M. Israeli Civil Administration officials and security forces arrived at the village of Jub a-Dib, southeast of Bethlehem. The forces demolished the community’s recently constructed …

Data issued by the Israeli Civil Administration indicated that 3,455 settlement units were built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported yesterday that all of these buildings – which include settler homes and the Israeli occupation’s state and army institutions – were built …

Israel’s Channel 2 reported that yesterday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave authorisation for Knesset members to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque next Tuesday. Netanyahu issued an order prohibiting members of the Knesset from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in October 2015, since the outbreak of the uprising in Jerusalem. In July he temporarily …

The Palestinian government Friday denounced the Torah scrolls-placing ceremony in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan as purely politically motivated. Government’s spokesperson Yousef al-Mahmoud slammed Israeli officials’ attendance of a ceremony to place Torah scrolls in a synagogue in the predominantly Palestinian neighborhood as a “ new act of Israeli aggression …