Amnesty International called on Israel to release or charge a Palestinian writer and academic held for almost three weeks in the occupied West Bank. Ahmad Qatamesh was detained on suspicion of involvement with the PFLP.
Israeli tank fire wounded several people near the central Gaza Strip’s al-Bureij refugee camp as Hamas chief Khaled Masha’al prepares to meet Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo next week to sign a unity deal.
Israeli army and Border Guard forces clashed with settlers from the extremist “Hilltop Youth” and “Hebrew Cities” movements following deadly violence at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus over the weekend.
From the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), April 14: Today, our friend and colleague, Vittorio Arrigoni, a journalist and human rights defender working in the Gaza Strip, was kidnapped by Salafists, members of a very small extremist group in Gaza. Vittorio… Read morePalestinians call for release of Italian activist kidnapped in Gaza
Fatah and Hamas are at odds on the political affiliation of the man arrested in the assassination of Juliano Mer-Khamis, a co-existence activist and theater director gunned down in Jenin.
Israeli air-strikes and artillery fire struck Gaza nine times on Friday. bringing the total number of dead over the past 24 hours to thirteen, some half of them civilians.
Israeli fire killed five Palestinians and injured some 40 after a missile from the Gaza Strip hit a school bus in southern Israel, injuring two. Sudan meanwhile accuses Israel of an air-strike on its Red Sea coast.
Richard Goldstone’s Washington Post op-ed reconsidering the UN report on Israel’s Operation Cast Lead loans dangerous credibility to the Orwellian concept of “collateral damage.”
Militant factions in the Gaza Strip announced that their recently declared ceasefire is over following an overnight Israeli air-strike that killed three leaders of Hamas’ armed wing.
Israel’s Knesset passed a law enabling the courts to revoke the citizenship of anyone convicted of terrorism, espionage or treason. Tel Aviv also pressured Facebook to shut down a page calling for a Third Intifada.
Israeli military authorities handed down orders for the evacuation and demolition of an “unrecognized” Bedouin community east of Tubas in the northern West Bank—amid escalating house demolitions in the occupied territory.
Israeli forces appeared in large numbers around the southern West Bank town of Beit Ummar, installing road gates and fence posts in a move residents fear will close them in and stifle the population center.
