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Ramallah, October 19, 2020—Wael Tahan, a 47-year-old Palestinian truck driver, built his home in 1992 on his own land in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. In mid-August, he watched Israeli bulldozers demolish that home. “My children always ask me why the house was demolished, what we are going to do, and how long this will go on, and I honestly do not have any answer.”  Despite the growing number of cases of COVID-19 in Israel and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, Israeli authorities have accelerated the demolition of Palestinian homes in 2020. Tahan’s family is among the 278 people, including 141 children, displaced by Israeli authorities in East Jerusalem this year, according to B’Tselem.  Tahan, who has 11 children i...

After 20 years in jail, Shin Bet rearrests Palestinian detaineePrisoner Imad al-Batran enters day 38 of his hunger strikeMishaal: Releasing Palestinian prisoners is our priorityPrisoner Abu Rayan to go on hunger strikeNazi court jails Palestinian young girl for 16 months Nazi occupied JERUSALEM- The Nazi occupation intelligence, Shin Bet, on Monday morning rearrested Jerusalemite prisoner Majd Barbar immediately after he was released from the Nazi camp in Negev. According to Asra Media Office, the Nazi Gestapo 'Shin Bet' intelligence apparatus rearrested Barbar after he completed his 20-year prison term and left the Nazi camp in Negev. Nazi Gestapo 'Shin Bet' also transferred Barbar to the Moskobiya Nazi detention center in west Jerusalem for interrogation and summoned his br...

Nazi soldiers abducted, earlier Friday, five Palestinians, including a former government minister and two siblings, from their homes in Jerusalem and Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources in Hebron said the Nazi soldiers invaded and ransacked the homes of Issa Ja’bari, 55, a former government minister and elected official, before moving him to an unknown destination. They added that the soldiers also abducted Hatem Qfeisha, 58, a former elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), in addition to former political prisoner, Mazin Natsha, 49, from their homes in Hebron. It is worth mentioning that since the Palestinian factions announced the upcoming election, Nazi soldiers started escalating their invasions and arrests targeting various political lead...

Soldiers Demolish Four Palestinian Homes In Jerusalem Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, four Palestinian homes in several parts of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The soldiers invaded the as-Sal’a neighborhood in Jabal al-Mokabber town, east of Jerusalem, before demolishing a two-story home, owned by Khaled and his brother Monir al-Abbassi. The Abbasi brothers built their building in the year 2016, and attempted to obtain the required construction permits; however, their applications were denied. The two siblings managed to obtain court rulings freezing the demolition, but the army went ahead and destroyed their property. The City Council in occupied Jerusalem also said it will impose more fines and fees, in addition to forcing them ...

By: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has confirmed that Nazi soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn and morning hours, at least fourteen Palestinians, including siblings, a female journalist, and former political prisoners, in several parts of the occupied West Bank. In the central West Bank governorate of Ramallah, the soldiers abducted a journalist, who is also a former political prisoner, identified as Bushra Tawil, from the al-Biereh city, after stopping her at a sudden military roadblock near Nablus, in northern West Bank, before moving her to Huwwara military base, south of Nablus. The Nazi soldiers also invaded the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, in addition to Doura al-Qare’ town, north of Ramallah, and used a military surveillance drone while conducting s...

Richard Becker Download PDF flyer With the announcement by its initiator and leader Marwan Barghouti that he will stop drinking water, the Palestinian mass hunger strike, now in its 32nd day, has entered a critical stage. Barghouthi’s dramatic step came as a response to the Israeli government’s refusal to engage in negotiations with the strikers. More than 1,300 Palestinian prisoners are participating in the “Freedom and Dignity” strike. The strike is calling for an end to the denial of family visits, improved health care, access to higher education, and an end to solitary confinement and administrative detention. Without water, a person, especially one already weakened by more than a month without food, is unlikely to survive more than a week. The Palestinian Committee of Pr...