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Palestinians wounded during protests find their injuries are only the beginning of their ordeal.

Occupation army imposing nine-day closure on West Bank, Gaza for Passover holiday.

Israel profits from denying power to Palestinians.

Israeli army blocks access to land while settlers damage trees and steal crops

Proposed rule changes could censor criticism of Israel and Zionism.

Raed al-Salhi, 22, was shot, dragged through streets by undercover forces.

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By advertising hotels in these settlements, Booking.com is abetting war crimes.

An extra 1,000 police are being stationed in occupied East Jerusalem under a plan approved by the Israeli government.

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Both Israel’s economic warfare and the Palestinian Authority’s neoliberal policies have widened income inequality.

Ruth Padel avoids the clumsiness that often characterizes attempts to compare Israel and Nazi Germany.

Ignorance of the basic facts of daily life in Palestine pops up throughout this show.

Ma’an News Agency | Sept 1, 2014 | 16:57 HEBRON (Ma’an) &

  Tuesday September 02, 2014 05:05 by IMEMC News & Agencies Israeli forces kidnapped six Palestinians and physically assaulted two teenagers in West Bank districts, on Monday, according to reports by security sources. Also on Monday, seven residential and agricultural structures in the southern Hebron Governorate were demolished.

By Stephen Lendman | Global Research, September 01, 2014 On August 31, Israel’s Civil Administration announced confiscation of around 1,000 acres of privately owned Palestinian land.  It lawlessly declared it State Land. It’s to establish a Gva’ot settlement. It’s located south of Bethlehem. It’s in the Southern West Bank.

Ma’an News Agency |  (updated) 02/09/2014 11:46 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli bulldozers demolished a dairy factory

By Lawrence Davidson | Redress | Sept 2, 2014 If you are over 50 and were raised in a Jewish household, you either heard this question, “but is it good for the Jews?” explicitly asked numerous times or were subtly encouraged to think the question to yourself.

PressTV | Tue Sep 2, 2014 1:16AM GMT The United States has criticized Israel’s plan to grab hundreds of hectares of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. On Sunday, the Israeli military said nearly 1,000 acres (400 hectares) of land in the area of Bethlehem will be seized.

Ma’an News Agency | September 1, 2014 |  22:41 CAIRO (AFP) — Egypt on Monday denounced Israeli plans to expropri

Ma’an News Agency | (updated) 01/09/2014 21:34 HEBRON (Ma’an) — A group of Israeli settlers chopped down grape

Anadolu | 01 September 2014 17:52 (Last updated 01 September 2014 17:53) LONDON  Britain’s government condemned Monday what it called an “ill-judged” decision by Israel to confiscate a further 988 acres of Palestinian land in the West Bank, saying it should instead work on a ceasefire in Gaza.

Ma’an News Agency | (updated) 01/09/2014 13:30 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian teenager was critically wound

MEMO | Monday, 01 September 2014 12:31   Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has continued his incitement campaign against Arab Israelis on social media by describing a festival of solidarity with the Gaza Strip, which was orga

[ PIC 01/09/2014 – 08:09 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A state of swelling tension has flared up on the peripheries of Jerusalem’s Old City, particularly across Wadi al-Jouz neighborhood, following the exacerbation of the health status of Palestinian 16-year-old child, Abdul Majid Sunkqrat, shot in the head by the Israeli police on Sunday evening.

    Published on Aug 31, 2014 Palestinians slam the Israeli army’s announcement of new land grabs in the occupied West Bank, calling for international action against Tel Aviv.

Ma’an News Agency | (updated) 01/09/2014 12:17 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israel has seized some 200 million shekels ($5

Ma’an News Agency | (updated) 01/09/2014 11:03 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces raided the al-Fara refugee camp

Ma’an News Agency | (updated) 31/08/2014 20:22 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Two Palestinian youths being held in Israel&am

      Published on Aug 31, 2014 The military says 400 hectares of land at the settlement of Gevaot in the southern city of Bethlehem are declared as Israeli land.

[ PIC 31/08/2014 - 02:19 PM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Israeli Occupation Authoriteis (IOA) decided to confiscate around four thousand dunums of Palestinian lands, which surround the Israeli settlement of Gush Etzion, south of Bethlehem.

A family reunion without joy, and the loss of my childhood friend in Gaza.

[ PIC 31/08/2014 - 10:16 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday and at dawn Sunday nabbed two Palestinian youngsters from the West Bank and four other citizens from Occupied Jerusalem, bringing the number of Palestinians detained since mid-June to over 2,000.

Ma’an News Agency | (updated) 31/08/2014 11:46 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Dozens of Palestinians protested on Hebron&amp

Ma’an News Agency | Aug 31, 2014 | 10:41 NABLUS (Ma’an) &

[ PIC 30/08/2014 - 04:01 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Islamic-Christian Commission in support of Jerusalem and holy sites strongly condemned the Israeli Municipality’s approval of the establishment of a religious school in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem.

 Saturday August 30, 2014 21:30 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News Two brothers were abducted from their home in a village near Ramallah, and two other men were taken into custody by Israeli troops at the Qalandia checkpoint overnight.

[ PIC 30/08/2014 - 10:02 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– At least seven Palestinians were injured during clashes with Israeli invading forces that broke out Friday in Beit Ummar village to the south of al-Khalil.

[ PIC 30/08/2014 - 09:06 AM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed Palestinian houses in Jenin villages at dawn Saturday and interrogated a number of inhabitants. Local sources told the PIC reporter that soldiers broke into and searched houses at the outskirts of Zabuba village, near to the Salem military base.

[ PIC 30/08/2014 - 09:51 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Member of the political bureau of Hamas Movement, Mahmoud al-Zahhar, called for replicating the Gaza experience in resisting the Israeli occupation to the West Bank.

Ma’an News Agency | Aug 29, 2014 | Published 16:54 (MaanImages/file) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) &

[ PIC 28/08/2014 - 09:25 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– An Israeli settler opened live bullets at a Palestinian car, southern al-Khalil city, south of the West Bank, on Wednesday night. The coordinator of the popular committees against the wall and settlement, Ratib Al-Jabour, said that an Israeli settler fired shots from automatic assault rifle at […]

[ PIC 29/08/2014 - 03:15 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Spokesman for the Israeli premier Ofir Gendelman denied that Benyamin Netanyahu accepted the establishment of a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders.

[ PIC 29/08/2014 - 07:58 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Three Palestinian young men were taken prisoners at dawn Friday by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) during raids in Beit Fourik to the east of Nablus, north of the Occupied West Bank. Local sources told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that a large number of Israeli […]

[ 29/08/2014 - 02:23 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Friday arrested a Palestinian young man and carried arbitrary raids in different Jenin neighborhoods, north of the occupied West Bank. The occupation troops nabbed 19-year-old Amir Abdullah Asaad, while he was on his way back home from Jordan via al-Karama […]

    Published on Aug 29, 2014 The Israeli military has demolished several Palestinian homes near Jerusalem al-Quds. This has now brought the number of Palestinians displaced from the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds to 7-hundred and 52 so far this year.

[ PIC 28/08/2014 - 03:38 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Jewish settlers from the Itamar settlement set on fire Palestinian agricultural land in Orta village, to the south east of Nablus city, on Thursday morning. Villagers told the PIC reporter that they saw billows of smoke emanating from their cultivated land lots, north of the village. […]