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By Celine Hagbard IMEMC News & Agencies: The 23 bodies that Israeli authorities have been holding in custody were finally turned over to the Palestinian Authority on Friday. A line of 17 ambulances, each carrying one of the bodies, entered Hebron’s al-Ahli Hospital Friday afternoon, while a large crowd gathered to witness the return […]

1st Jan 2016

Palestine: Israeli settlers assault taxi driver, shut down road

IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement, Mabo Dothan, built on the land of Yabad, to the southwest of Jenin, Thursday, assaulted a Palestinian taxi driver and hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles. Mohammad Mahmoud from the village of Tura said that a number of Israeli settlers attacked and beat him up after […]

1st Jan 2016

Palestine: Israeli military admits destroying Gaza crops on border

JERUSALEM (AA): Israel’s military has confirmed reports that it destroyed Gazan agricultural crops near the security fence with Israel. The Israeli military told Anadolu Agency in a written statement Thursday that it sprayed a herbicide that “will cause the surrounding vegetation to wilt and prevent its growth.” They Israeli military also claimed the reason for spraying the […]

31st Dec 2015

Palestine: 12.37 millon Palestinians worldwide

IMEMC News & Agencies: In a report issued on Wednesday, by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statics (PCBS), the projected number of Palestinians in the world was estimated at 12.37 million, of whom 4.75 million are living in Palestine, 1.47 million in Israel, 5.46 million in Arab countries, and around 685,000 in foreign countries. Israeli […]

28th Dec 2015

Palestine: 2 Palestinians killed after ‘stabbing’ Israeli soldier

JERUSALEM (AA) – Two Palestinians were killed after allegedly stabbing an Israeli soldier, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The Israeli military said two males — Mohammad Sabana, 17, and Nour al-Din Sabana, 23 — were shot after stabbing and wounding a soldier at a checkpoint in Huwwara, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. […]

27th Dec 2015

Palestine: Israeli army kills young Palestinian in Jerusalem

IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli soldiers killed, Saturday, a young Palestinian man in Bab al-Jadid area, in occupied Jerusalem, after claiming he “carried a knife, and attempted to stab an officer.” Eyewitnesses refuted the military allegations. Israeli sources said the soldiers, and police officers, stopped the man and started searching him, and that he then allegedly […]

26th Dec 2015

Palestine: Israeli forces kill Gaza protester, AA staffer injured

GAZA, (AA) – A Palestinian man was killed and 28 others, including an Anadolu Agency staffer were injured during a clash between Israeli soldiers and protesters in Gaza late Friday, local sources said. Israeli soldiers used live rounds, rubber bullets and teargas on hundreds of Palestinians at the protest. Hani Rafiq Vahdan, 22, died when […]

26th Dec 2015

Palestine: Thousands attend funeral of slain Palestinian mother

RAMALLAH, (AA): Thousands of Palestinians attended a funeral procession Saturday for a 38-year-old Palestinian mother who was shot and killed by Israeli gunfire a day earlier. Mahdia Hammad, a mother of four, was killed by Israeli forces under the pretext that she attempted to run over Israeli soldiers at the entrance of Silwad village northeast […]

26th Dec 2015

Palestine: Israeli planes spray chemicals, ruin farmland in Gaza

GAZA CITY, (AA): The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture in Gaza said that crops near the border with Israel were ruined after Israeli planes sprayed them with harmful chemicals. The ministry said the losses affected approximately 3,000 square meters of crops. Wael Thabit, a senior official at the ministry, told Anadolu Agency that Israeli planes sprayed pesticide along the […]

25th Dec 2015

Palestine: 2 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, total killed 134 since 1Oct

JERUSALEM (AA) – Two Palestinians were shot dead Thursday after allegedly attempting to stab Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military said they shot dead a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) when he approached a checkpoint with a screwdriver and attempted to stab a soldier. Earlier, another Palestinian was […]

22nd Dec 2015

Greece to use term ‘Palestine’ on all public documents

By Magda Panoutsopoulou ATHENS, (AA): Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Monday that all Greek public documents will use the term “Palestine” rather than the term “Palestinian Authority”. Tsipras welcomed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Athens on Monday. He noted that Palestinians were “fighting to find justice … and whose struggle has touched and motivated struggles worldwide”. The […]

19th Dec 2015

Palestine: Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinians; 129 killed since Oct 1

JERUSALEM (AA) – Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and Gaza on the 12th Friday of the third Palestinian “intifada” (uprising), according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The ministry said that 21-year-old Muhammad Ayyad was killed by Israeli forces under the pretext that he attempted to run over Israeli […]

18th Dec 2015

Turkey, Israel holding talks to normalize relations

ANKARA (AA) – Turkey and Israel are holding talks to normalize relations more than five years after Israeli troops stormed a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in international waters, Turkish diplomatic sources confirmed on Thursday. Asked about Israeli media reports suggesting that an agreement had been reached, diplomatic sources told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity that negotiations […]

13th Dec 2015

Palestine: 121 Palestinians killed in 11 Fridays of new ‘intifada’

RAMALLAH, (AA) – Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and Gaza on the 11th Friday of the third Palestinian “intifada” (uprising), according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The ministry said that 55-year-old Issa Haroub was killed by Israeli forces under the pretext that he attempted to run over Israeli soldiers in Halhoul […]

11th Dec 2015

Palestine: Israel takes down banners with Quranic verses in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (AA) – Crews from Israel’s Jerusalem Municipality removed banners with Quranic verses in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday. “People from Jerusalem’s municipality, guarded by Israeli troops, raided my shop at Al-Musrara near Al-Amoud Gate in occupied East Jerusalem and removed the banners,” Mustafa Abu Zahra, a Palestinian store owner, told Anadolu Agency. Abu Zahra added […]

11th Dec 2015

Israel court says book on killing non-Jews not incitement

JERUSALEM (AA) – A book by hardline Israeli rabbis justifying the murder of non-Jews will not have to face charges of inciting violence, the Jerusalem High Court said. Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday that the court ruled there was “no basis” for the charges, upholding a 2012 decision by Israel’s Attorney General […]

10th Dec 2015

Palestine: Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian in Hebron

IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli soldiers killed, Wednesday, a young Palestinian man in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after an alleged stabbing attack targeting an Israeli soldier and a settler. The slain Palestinian’s cousin was killed, near the Ibrahimi Mosque, Monday. Medical sources said the Palestinian has been identified as Yosri Zakariyya Miswada, 21; […]

9th Dec 2015

Palestine: Bethlehem killing using illegal explosive bullet brings Palestinian death toll to 117

JERUSALEM (AA) – The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces since Oct. 1 reached 117 on Tuesday after a young man was shot dead near the West Bank city of Bethlehem. He was killed by an explosive bullet fired at his head, medical sources at the Beit Jala Governmental Hospital told Ma’an. According […]

7th Dec 2015

Israel hits out at Sweden amid rows with EU states

JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday described recent Swedish criticisms of Israeli security measures against alleged Palestinian attackers as “scandalous remarks” following a week of diplomatic rows between the Jewish state and a handful of European countries. Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom on Friday reportedly accused Israel of carrying out the “extrajudicial” killing of Palestinians accused of […]

4th Dec 2015

Palestine: Israeli army kills 2 Palestinian teenagers, 4 in 2 days

IMEMC & Agencies: Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, reported that Israeli soldiers shot dead, on Friday at dawn, two Palestinians in Tal Romeida neighborhood, in the center of Hebron city. This follows the killing of two Palestinians Thursday – one in Hizma town, in occupied Jerusalem, […]

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