Israeli occupation

Hundreds of torture lawsuits against Israeli jailers unheeded

Thursday-8-December-2016

Despite hundreds of complaints of Shin Bet torture no single criminal investigation has been launched by the Israeli authorities Haaretz newspaper reported Wednesday.

As world turns back on Palestine “1st War of Stones” reemerges

Thursday-8-December-2016

As Palestinians mark the 29th anniversary of the First Palestinian Intifada (Uprising) the memories of a people dispossessed of its own land and bereaved of the warmth of home and the nourishment of family reemerge marking the world’s most traumatic legacy.

IOA okays construction of 770 illegal homes on Palestinian land

Thursday-8-December-2016

The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) approved a plan to construct 770 illegal settlement units on Palestinian land Haaretz reported Thursday.

Health of 3 hunger strikers sees turn for worse in Israeli jail

Wednesday-7-December-2016

The health conditions of three Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails have seen a turn for the worse.

Israeli occupation sends 19 Palestinians to prison without trial

Wednesday-7-December-2016

The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) sentenced 19 Palestinian detainees to administrative prison terms with neither charge nor trial for periods ranging from three to six months.

Jordanian citizen to meet jailed sibling in Israeli jail

Wednesday-7-December-2016

Brother and sisters of the Jordanian prisoner Muneer Mar’i headed to the occupied Palestinian territories on Wednesday morning to visit their sibling in an Israeli jail.

MP: Legitimizing settlement outposts declaration of war

Tuesday-6-December-2016

Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa al-Barghouthi on Tuesday said the legitimization of settlement outposts by the Israeli Knesset is “a war on the Palestinian people.”

Israeli bulldozers knock down 2 Palestinian structures in Jerusalem

Tuesday-6-December-2016

Israeli bulldozers at dawn Monday razed two civilian structures in eastern Occupied Jerusalem to the ground.

IPS steps up pressure on hunger striker al-Hamour

Tuesday-6-December-2016

Palestinian prisoner Ammar al-Hamour has been subjected to pressure from the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) so as to force him to suspend his hunger strike a rights group reported Tuesday.