Tag Archives: Palestine

A Jerusalem court ordered Sunday that a Palestinian-American teenager, who was severely beaten in police custody, be released to house arrest for nine days pending an investigation into stone-throwing allegations. Tareq Abu Khudair, 15, who holds US citizenship and lives in Florida, is a cousin of Mohammed Abu Khudair, a ...

Initial autopsy findings from the charred body of a Palestinian teenager from East Jerusalem who was kidnapped and killed by suspected Israeli settlers showed that he was burned alive, the Palestinian attorney-general is reported as saying. “The direct cause of death was burns as a result of fire and its ...

Israeli forces arrested nearly 3,000 Palestinian children from the beginning of 2010 to mid-2014, the majority of them between the ages of 12 and 15 years old, Addustour newspaper published a new report saying yesterday. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN)’s report documented dozens of video recorded testimonies of children arrested ...

Israeli settlers kidnapped, burnt and killed a Palestinian child in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday at dawn, international media reported. The child was identified as Mohammed Abu Khudair, 16. He was reportedly kidnapped by Israeli settlers driving a grey Hyundai car. Abu Khudair’s uncle told reporters that his nephew was ...

The bodies of three Israeli settlers who went missing on June 12th were found in a hastily dug shallow grave in Halhul, north of Hebron. Since the teens went missing from Gush Etzion, a Jewish-only colony in the West Bank, Israel has besieged the 4 million Palestinians who already live ...

Israel on Monday confirmed finding the bodies of three settlers who disappeared in the occupied southern West Bank on June 12, blaming Hamas for their kidnapping and murder despite showing any evidence that the Islamist movement was behind it. “During the search for Eyal Ifrach, Gilad Shaer and Naftali Frankel, ...

Official statistics from the Ministry of Information in Ramallah have revealed that 1,518 Palestinian children were killed by Israel’s occupation forces from the outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000 up to April 2013. That’s the equivalent of one Palestinian child killed by Israel every 3 days for almost ...

Italy has advised its citizens not to invest in Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian land, just days after France issued the same warning, Italian media reported Friday. Foreign Minister Federico Mogherini cautioned Italians “not to get involved in financial activity and investments” in settlements in the occupied West Bank, ...

Israeli tank fire has reportedly injured five people in the Gaza Strip as Tel Aviv intensifies its acts of aggression against the besieged Palestinian territory. Ashraf al-Qidra, the spokesman for the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza, said Israeli military tanks fired shells into the agricultural areas of the southern city ...

Their names are Jawhar Nasser Jawhar, 19, and Adam Abd al-Raouf Halabiya, 17. They were once soccer players in the West Bank. Now they are never going to play sports again. Jawhar and Adam were on their way home from a training session in the Faisal al-Husseini Stadium on January ...