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Confrontations between Silwan residents and Israeli forces

Violent confrontations were reported in Batn Al-Hawa suburb in Silwan town in occupied Jerusalem on Friday after an Israeli policeman harassed a Palestinian woman...

Families of hunger strikers appeal for saving their sons from death

The families of five hunger strikers said their sons may die any moment after their health conditions reached a deadly level and appealed to all human rights organizations to intervene with the Palestinian authority (PA) to get their sons released from its jails...

Lieberman: Israel will not apologize to Turkey

Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman has announced that his government would not apologize to Turkey over the deadly naval attack on the Freedom Flotilla aid convoy to Gaza that killed nine Turkish activists...

Palestinian prisoners of Assabea to go on hunger strike in protest at violations

- Ahrar center for the prisoners' studies and human rights said that the Palestinian prisoners in Assabea prison on Monday may go on hunger strike in protest at their inhumane incarceration conditions and the violations committed against them by the prison administration...

IOF troops violently quell march, break hand of Palestinian youth

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) brutally dispersed a peaceful anti wall demonstration near Qalandia barrier breaking the hand of a Palestinian youth and hurting a number of foreign activists...

Israeli gunboats attack Palestinian fishermen

- Israeli navy boats opened heavy machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Khan Younis and Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, on Sunday night...

Israeli ambassador to Cairo flees to Israel after discovering Mossad spy ring

- The Egyptian newspaper Al-Youm Assabe'a revealed that Israel's ambassador Isaac Levanon left Cairo immediately after the Egyptian authorities discovered a spy ring affiliated with the Mossad and pointed out to his involvement in this case...

Palestinian fisherman injured in IOF shooting

A Palestinian fisherman was slightly wounded on Saturday when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) aboard navy gunboats opened heavy machinegun fire at fishermen off the coast of northern Gaza city...

Egypt: Mossad was behind internet cable cut two years ago

- Egyptian Supreme State Security disclosed investigations leading to Israeli foreign intelligence the Mossad being behind the break in an internet cable belonging to Egypt a few kilometers off Italian shores a year and a half back...

Dozens suffer breathing difficulties in IOF quelling of peaceful march

-- Tens of Palestinians and foreign solidarity activists were treated for gas inhalation in Beit Ummar village, Al-Khalil district, after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired tear gas canisters at them for organizing a peaceful anti wall rally...

Israeli bombing of civilian homes in last Gaza war one of the most grisly crimes

-- The Israeli bombing of civilian homes during the last war on the Gaza Strip was one of the most gruesome crimes which can never be forgotten by the survivors, although they happened two years ago. The families of Assamouni and Addaya are the most bereaved and victimized Gazans...

Israeli jail isolates prisoner for filing complaint

- The Israeli Jalbou prison administration have placed prisoner Jihad Mohammed Shukri Yaghmur in solitary confinement for filing a complaint against prison guards, said the supreme national committee in aid of captives in Palestine Saturday...

IOF troops assault Spanish group at the entrance of Bethlehem

-- IOF troops assaulted a group of Spanish tourists on Thursday afternoon as they tried to enter the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem through its northern entrance to participate in the Christmas festivities...

IOF fire kills shepherd wound farmer in Gaza

- A Palestinian farmer was wounded Friday morning by IOF fire in the northern Gaza Strip while a shepherd wounded by IOF fire on Thursday succumbed to his wounds at hospital, according to Palestinian medical sources...

Israel escalates air strikes on Gaza, wounds two in night raids

Israeli warplanes blasted targets in central and southern Gaza Strip before dawn Saturday wounding two citizens who were passing by one of those targets, medical sources reported...

Tens of civilians hurt during weekly anti wall marches

-- Tens of Palestinian citizens were treated for breathing difficulties while others were injured in the Israeli occupation forces' violent dispersal of the weekly anti wall marches in West Bank villages on Friday...

19,000 Jews migrated to Israel in 2010

- 19,000 Jews, the majority of them from England, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, have migrated to Israel in 2010, at a 16 per cent increase from last year, the Jewish agency reported...

IOF soldiers wound Palestinian teen worker, round up 3 brothers

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at and wounded a Palestinian teen worker while collecting gravel in northern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning, medical sources reported...

Meshaal: Palestinians do not want a nominal state

Hamas politburo chief Khalid Meshaal said Wednesday that the Palestinians do not want a nominal state that asks the world to recognize it, but a real state with sovereignty over its own land, free of occupation, and with Jerusalem as the capital...

Israeli gunboats fire at Palestinian fishing boats

Israeli gunboats opened heavy machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the southern Gaza Strip coast of Rafah on Wednesday night, press sources reported...