Palestinians protest closure of Hebron checkpoint | #Palestine

Ma’an News Agency | Aug 26, 2014 | 11:16 (MaanImages/file) HEBRON (Ma’an) — Dozens of Palestinians demonstrated in Hebron’s Old City on Tuesday to protest the closure of a military checkpoint by Israeli forces, witnesses said, after it was burned down by a firebomb. A sit-in protest was held in front of a checkpoint in […]

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IOF quells massive pro-Gaza marches staged Friday in West Bank

[ PIC 16/08/2014 – 11:05 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday afternoon attacked several massive rallies organized in solidarity with the Gaza Strip in different areas of the West Bank. In Bethlehem, a young man suffered a rubber bullet injury and many others suffocated after inhaling tear gas during confrontations […]

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Zatara checkpoint soldiers beat three young men, detain one of them

[ PIC 19/09/2013 – 02:26 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) physically assaulted three young men and kidnapped one of them after intercepting them at Zatara checkpoint, south of Nablus city. The Palestinian prisoner society said that the IOF at Zatara checkpoint brutally beat Wajdi Shalabi, 21, and two of his friends […]

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Israeli occupation blocks travel of 30 Palestinians in one week

[ PIC 25/08/2013 – 09:58 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) blocked the travel of 30 Palestinian citizens in the West Bank via the Karame crossing leading to Jordan over the past week. A report by the Karame police station on Saturday said that the IOA told 30 citizens they were not […]

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Israeli Bypass Roads: Separate But Unequal ~ by Maysoon Zayid

The Daily Beast | by Maysoon Zayid | Aug 12, 2013 The highlight of our summer vacations in the West Bank was the nightly jaunts from our olive-tree-carpeted village to the big city, Ramallah. In the evening after dinner, we would pile into my grandfather’s green Volvo and drive to the greatest ice cream parlor […]

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Israeli occupation forces erect military checkpoint near Yatta

[ PIC 06/08/2013 – 01:29 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday erected a checkpoint near the crossroads of Ziv in Yatta, south of al-Khalil. Activist Rateb Jabour told PIC that the occupation forces erected a checkpoint near the crossroads of Ziv in Yatta and that the soldiers searched the vehicles, […]

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Israeli occupation blocks travel of 29 Palestinians via Karame crossing last week

[ PIC 06/07/2013 – 04:44 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) blocked the travel of 29 Palestinian citizens via the Karame crossing leading to Jordan last week at trivial security pretexts. PA Jericho police sources told the PIC reporter on Saturday that most of those citizens were young men, adding that […]

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Israeli occupation closes Hawara checkpoint south of Nablus

[ PIC 19/06/2013 – 08:04 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– IOF soldiers closed Hawara checkpoint south of Nablus and the southern area of the city completely, and only allowed vehicles leaving the city to pass through. The Israeli decision to close the checkpoint came under the pretext of conducting military training in the area. It resulted […]

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Israeli occupation forces abuse liberated captive at checkpoint in al-Khalil

[ PIC 11/05/2013 – 03:01 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Liberated captive Issa Halaiqa was taken to al-Khalil government hospital on Friday after he fainted at a checkpoint near Ras al-Jura district, north of al-Khalil, where he was stopped and attacked by an Israeli force. Halaiqa, aged 38, told PIC’s correspondent that the occupation soldiers stopped […]

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127 Palestinians were prevented from traveling during April

[ PIC 02/05/2013 – 06:41 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) prevented during April 2013 nearly 127 Palestinians from traveling through al-Karama border crossing, the only exit for Palestinians in the West Bank to the outside world. Quds Press quoted Palestinian official sources as saying that the IOA has prevented during the […]

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Israel closes Nablus checkpoints while settlers set fire to olive fields in ‘Awarta

All Israeli Attacks – Timeline | All Israeli cease Fire Violations – Timeline Maan News Agency | April 30, 2013 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces closed down the Huwara and Zatara checkpoints Tuesday, after hundreds of settlers wreaked havoc in the area, a Ma’an reporter said. Hundreds of settlers marched toward Zaatara checkpoint where a […]

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Israeli occupation forces storm Jenin and a mosque, set up checkpoints in al-Khalil

[ PIC 24/04/2013 – 09:03 PM ] JENIN, AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) raided at dawn on Wednesday the city of jenin and stormed a mosque, and conducted extensive combing operations. Local sources said that Israeli forces raided Halima al-Sa’diyeh Mosque in the eastern neighborhood in Jenin and searched it at dawn prayer, and […]

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Israel’s occupation forces arrests young man on his return from Jordan

[ PIC 11/04/2013 – 03:42 PM ] SALFIT, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) manning the Karame crossing between the West Bank and Jordan arrested a young man from Eskaka village, Salfit province, on his return from Jordan. Local sources said that the soldiers detained Ahmed Harb at the crossing afternoon Thursday for hours at the […]

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Moroccan MPs barred from entering West Bank

Maan News Agency | April 9, 2013 AMMAN (AFP) — Israeli authorities on Monday barred two Moroccan MPs accompanying EU parliamentarians from crossing into the West Bank to meet Palestinian officials, one of the lawmakers said. “The Israel authorities prevented me and my colleague Ali Salem Chekkaf from crossing into the West Bank without giving […]

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Collective Punishment of all off occupied Palestine’s West Bank by general closure for Jewish holiday

Maan News Agency | March 24, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli army will impose a general closure of the West Bank during the Jewish holiday of Passover, the army said Sunday. The West Bank will be closed from midnight Sunday until midnight Tuesday, the army said in a statement. “Persons in need of medical […]

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