#PalHunger | Hunger strikers Samer al-Barq and Hassan Safadi severely assaulted by Israeli prison authorities

Maan News Agency | Aug 2, 2012 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli prison authorities on Wednesday assaulted two prisoners on hunger strike, a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoners Society said. Jawad Boulos said that hunger strikers Samer al-Barq and Hassan Safadi had both been severely assaulted, after a visit to Ramle prison clinic on Wednesday. “At […]

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4 hospitalized after very violent settler attack near Ramallah

Maan News Agency | March 31, 2012 SALFIT (Ma’an) — Four Palestinians were hospitalized in the northern West Bank after they were attacked by Israeli settlers near Ramallah on Saturday, locals told Ma’an. Salfit residents said the two men and two women were picking tumbleweed near Mikhmas junction outside Ramallah, when a group of young […]

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Palestinian Teen Severely Injured during Clashes near Ramallah

WAFA MARCH 5 2012 RAMALLAH, March 5, 2012 (WAFA) – A 19-year-old Palestinian was severely injured on Monday during clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians at Atara checkpoint, north of Ramallah, according to medical sources. According to Ahmad Bitawi, director of the Palestinian Medical Complex, Mohammad Abu Awwad was brought to hospital with critical head […]

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Gaza: New weapons being used – what are they? Medical staff explains the injuries – video 2

Gaza Under Attack- in pictures | Part 1 | Part 2 | Aug 25, 2011 Victims of israel’s recent attacks on Gaza are arriving at Al Shifa Hospital with extensive burns, severe deep tissue injuries, and severed limbs and extremeties – mutilation injuries unlike any the medical staff encountered even duirng Operation Cast Lead. What […]

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Street shut down for Jewish holiday, severe congestion

Wednesday, 10 August, 2011 | 04:05 Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Israeli forces closed off the northern entrance of Wadi Hilweh district of Silwan this evening, citing the anniversary of the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem’s Old City. Israeli officers blocked Palestinian vehicles from entering or exiting via Wadi Hilweh Street, causing severe congestion. […]

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The crisis of medicines reached a grave level

04-08-2011,13:45 Al Qassam website– Gaza- senior health official warned that the crisis of medicines and medical consumables have reached a dangerous level threatening the lives of patients in Gaza hospitals and became much worse than the situation that preceded the Israeli war. Information director at the Palestinian health ministry Ashraf Al-Qudra told a news conference […]

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On Ramadan’s eve, severe financial crunch hitting occupied territories

[ 30/07/2011 – 05:28 PM ] From Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah Muhammed and Sarah Sawabha live at a middle class Ramallah neighborhood, with their six children, including two college students. Muhammed has a Bachelor of Science and earns a monthly salary of about $800 US dollars as a teacher at a local school. His wife, […]

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Extensive Human Rights Abuses noted in B’TSELEM – report & video

NOTE OCCUPIEDPALESTINE | BELOW ARTICLE DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT & VIDEO Thursday May 12, 2011 15:49 by Kevin Murphy – 1 of International Middle East Media Center Editorial Group A report from Israeli peace organisation Bt’ Selem was today released documenting the extensive abuse of power by the occupying Israeli military in the Jordan Valley and […]

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Israel arrests over 100 Palestine women

PressTV – Thu Apr 7, 2011 6:38AM Palestinian women More than 100 Palestinian women have been arrested by Israeli forces in a village near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, local officials say. Hundreds of Israeli troops stormed the Awarta village after midnight and imposed a curfew after which they began rounding up the […]

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100 women detained in Awarta

April 7, 2011 NABLUS (AFP/Ma’an) — Israeli troops stormed the village of Awarta on Thursday morning, arresting more than 100 women in what local officials said was part of the ongoing investigation into the murder of five settlers in March. Hundreds of troops entered Awarta – the village adjacent to Itamar, and illegal settlement where […]

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IPA fails to treat prisoner for a year and a half

[ 17/02/2011 – 05:38 PM ]   NABLUS, (PIC)– The Israeli prison authority (IPA) has rejected a year and a half of requests by a Palestinian captive for treatment, the Tadhamon (Solidarity) international human rights foundation said. Mohammed Adnan Abu Haddaf, 27, has for one and a half years been suffering from rheumatoid, a sickness […]

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Israeli ambulances refuse to enter ‘unrecognized’ Palestinian villages

Wednesday, 12 January 2011 11:45 Medical crews from the Israeli ambulance organisation, the Red Shield of David, routinely refuse to enter Palestinian villages. Palestinian rights organizations working in Israel have stated that medical crews from the Israeli ambulance organisation, the Red Shield of David, routinely refuse to enter Palestinian villages ‘unrecognized’ by the state and […]

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Palestinian youth seriously wounded in blast of ordnance

[ 03/01/2011 – 03:23 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– A Palestinian young man was hospitalized in serious condition on Monday after Israeli army ordnance exploded near him in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia. Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for medical services, said that the 20-year-old youth was hit with shrapnel in his […]

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