Palestine: Israel launches airstrikes on Gaza | A list of ceasefire violations by Israel since November 21, 2012.

Israeli border policemen remove a Palestinian medic during clashes at a protest, held without a police permit, outside Jerusalem’s Old City April 2, 2013. (Reuters)

Israel has launched fresh air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the first such attack since the November ceasefire between the Hamas and Israel. Israel has been continuously violating the ceasefire since November with the first violation coming on the very second day after the agreement. The Jerusalem Fund has published an extensive list of […]

Israeli forces attack annual “Land Day” protests

Palestinians take part in a rally marking Land Day in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip on 30 March 2013. (Photo: AFP - Mahmud Hams)

- By Ma’an, WAFA Israeli forces fired tear gas and rubber coated bullets at Palestinians marking the annual Land Day in towns across the West Bank and Gaza on Saturday, local media reported. Eyewitnesses told Ma’an News Agency that hundreds of Palestinians gathered in agricultural lands near the West Bank village of Jayyus to plant trees […]

“Castrate them!” “Burn them!” “Bullet in the head!”: Facebook Israelis react to photo of Palestinian kids

An image of three Palestinian boys sparked an outpouring of violent and sadistic fantasies after it was reposted to an Israeli Facebook page (Original source and screenshot of context). (Shadi Hatem)

- By Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada Having regularly documented the horrifying racism and violent fantasies frequently expressed by Israelis on Facebook or Instagram, I thought I had seen everything. But this may be the worst yet. On Wednesday, the picture above of three Palestinian boys in a tent was posted on a popular Facebook page titled in Hebrew “We are all […]

Israeli Police Kidnap Two Children In Jerusalem

Deena And Her Brother Mohammad - Wadi Hilweh Information Center

- By IMEMC News Monday March 18, 2013, Two children identified as Deena Morad Jweiles, 14, and her brother Mohammad, 12, have been kidnapped by the Israeli Police after being attacked and harassed by an Israeli settler in Wadi Hilweh, in Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported. The center said […]

IDF round up Palestinian children in Hebron, Obama meets Israeli children in Jerusalem

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Video: Israeli soldiers round up children in Hebron (Ma’an News) – By Ma’an News Agency BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli rights group B’Tselem on Wednesday said Israel’s mass arrest of children in Hebron was “unacceptable,” and released a video of the detentions. The video shows soldiers forcefully arresting schoolchildren, one of whom is dragged along the […]

Israel releases hunger striker Ayman Sharawneh, arrests his brother

Ayman Sharawneh, a Palestinian prisoner who was on long-term hunger strike, reacts upon his arrival at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on 17 March 2013. (Photo: AFP - Mahmud Hams)

- By Ma’an, WAFA, Al-Akhbar Israel arrested the brother of former-Palestinian prisoner Ayman Sharawneh in the West Bank early Monday just hours after the long-term hunger striker was released from Israeli prison and deported to the Gaza Strip, Ma’an News Agency reported. Israeli forces raided the home of Jihad Sharawneh, 24, at dawn Monday in Deir […]

Jabhat al-Nusra is a threat to us, says Israeli Army Chief

Benny Gantz

Israel Army Chief: Syria ‘Terrorist’ Groups Getting Stronger (Naharnet) – By Naharnet Newsdesk Israel’s military chief Benny Gantz said on Monday that “terrorist” groups fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad alongside other insurgents were becoming stronger. “The situation in Syria has become exceptionally dangerous. The terrorist organisations are becoming stronger on the ground. Now […]

The “most moral army in the world”: Israeli soldiers set fire in a masjid in al-Khalil

mosque in al-Khalil

- By The Palestinian Information Center AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation soldiers targeted on Thursday afternoon the mosque of Ali ibn Abi Talib in al-Hijri area, north of Fawwar camp near al-Khalil, with gas and stun grenades, which caused the outbreak of fire inside the mosque. Firefighters from the civil defense center in the city of Dura […]

“May all Arabs die!” Israelis on Facebook express joy at Jordan bus crash that killed Palestinian pilgrims

Palestinian killed in Jordan bus accident

- By Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada   Israelis, including at least one person identifying himself as a soldier, reacted with genocidal joy on Facebook to the horrifying news this morning that 17 Palestinians returning from a pilgrimage had been killed in a bus accident in Jordan and dozens more injured. Early reports had put the number of […]

Israeli settlers training dogs to attack Palestinians

MK Tibi: Settlers training dogs to attack Palestinians (Ma’an news) – By Ma’an news BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli Knesset member Ahmad Tibi on Monday alleged that settlers in the West Bank are training dogs to attack Palestinians. Tibi told Ma’an that he obtained a videotape which shows settlers training dogs to attack Palestinians who say Allahu […]

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