Samidoun, a Palestinian prisoners rights group, issued a call to action this week, highlighting the case of Kifah Quzmar, a Palestinian prisoner detained by Israeli occupation forces. According to Samidoun, Quzmar, who in his final year studying business administration at Birzeit University, launched a hunger strike on Sunday, 26 March[…]
Palestinians have started a campaign calling for volunteers to help protect Al-Aqsa Mosque from the frequent Israeli attacks and violations. Activists told Quds Press that the campaign aims to halt the continuous raids on the mosque carried out by the Israeli authorities and settlers, adding that the attackers had assaulted[…]
A Palestinian teen has been killed and two other men wounded by Israeli fire in southern Gaza, according to health officials. Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said 18-year-old Yousef Abu Athira was killed before dawn on Wednesday by Israeli artillery fire east of Rafah. He said two others sustained[…]
Palestinians demonstrated outside the United Nations Special Coordinator Office (UNSCO) in Gaza City on Tuesday, in protest of the UN’s decision to withdraw a report prepared by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), which accused Israel of apartheid policies. Protesters expressed support for ESCWA chief Rima Khalaf,[…]
A Palestinian was killed by Israeli police on Monday morning in Occupied East Jerusalem after wounding two border guards with a knife, police said. The attacker, who was a resident of Occupied East Jerusalem, entered a border guard post and wounded the two before being shot dead, according to the[…]
Israeli forces detained 420 Palestinians during the month of February, including 70 minors and 22 women and girls, according to a statement released on Saturday by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies. The center said in its monthly report that 12 of the detentions were carried out in the besieged[…]
A lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement Thursday that an appeal has been filed with the Israeli Supreme Court after the court confirmed the administrative detention — internment without charge or trial — of Palestinian hunger striker Ammar Ibrahim Hamour, who has gone without food[…]
The Joint List, the Israeli parliament coalition representing Arab citizens of Israel, said yesterday that they planned to file a lawsuit against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of accusations that a recent wave of mass fires in Israel and the occupied West Bank were caused by Palestinians.[…]
A British parliamentary report hit against at what it called “the growing prevalence” of anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom, notably calling for the term “Zionist” to be considered “inflammatory and potentially anti-Semitic.” The report, issued by the parliamentary Home Affairs Committee, came in the wake of accusations of anti-Semitism against[…]
A Palestinian opened fire from a car in Jerusalem Sunday and again as police chased him, killing two people, authorities said, after concerns over the potential for a new upsurge in violence. The gunman was killed soon after carrying out the attack near police headquarters, close to the line dividing[…]
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