Palestine to apply for full UN membership
Palestinians will be pushing the envelope in January as they apply for full membership in the United Nations. The body has shown sympathy and…
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Merry Christmas, Israel is building 2,191 new settlement housing units on Palestinian land
In 2018, the government advanced thousands of housing units, including most which can be found in isolated settlements deep inside the West Bank, outside Israel's…
Remembering Operation Cast Lead, 10 years ago today
Today we remember the 2008-9 Israeli incursion into Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, which was launched exactly 10 years ago. 1400 Palestinians – including 344…
Christmas headlines from the Occupied Palestinian territories
The International Middle East Media Center reports on the ongoing acts of Israeli injustice and violence that most other media don't bother with. Not…
Next year in Bethlehem: Gaza Christmas celebrated despite siege
For the 11th year, Gaza's Christian minority celebrates Christmas under Israeli siege, unable to join family in West Bank. Travel requests are mostly denied…
Israeli settler violence: 6 incidents in 2 days
As Israel criticizes Palestinians for their legal resistance against an illegal occupation, illegal Israeli settlers attack Palestinians on a daily basis - often with…
WATCH: Leaked report based on 20 years of monitoring: Israel regularly violates international law
An international group created 20 years ago to monitor the situation in the West Bank city of Hebron has issued a confidential report based…
Truth is stranger than fiction: 3 days in the West Bank
Elderly women, families, children, and of course young men in the occupied Palestinian territories are regularly treated with brutality by Israeli forces. International laws…
A cruel, yet very usual Israeli incident that almost nobody knows about
The illegal Israeli occupation continues its illegal collective punishment by demolishing the home of an alleged terrorist's family and terrorizing the entire neighborhood.
Three Palestinians and three Israelis killed in spate of deadly incidents
The Israeli military has recently been conducting aggressive operations inside the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including in Area A, where the Palestinian Authority is…