BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The national committee to remember the Nakba is planning a protest in Ramallahon Tuesday to mark Nakba day. Ramallah protest planned for Nakba day BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The national committee to remember the Nakba is planning a protest in Ramallah on Tuesday to mark Nakba day. On May 15, Palestinians commemorate the [...]
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities demolished an under-construction house in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina on Wednesday morning, witnesses said. Forces blocked off the Al-Mouroha district and broke into the house, demolishing its foundations, the owner Waleed Sadeq Idkedek said. Idkedek said the demolition took place without prior warning, and called on [...]
Click for more images RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A group of protesters blocked the entrance to the United Nations office in Ramallah Wednesday morning, slamming the UN for not intervening to save hunger-striking prisoners. Around 50 Palestinian youth began the sit-in outside the UN compound at 9 a.m., carrying banners accusing the UN of collusion with [...]
A Palestinian man stands amid rubble after Israeli forces demolished a home in Susiya, southern Hebron, in November 2011. (MaanImages/EAPPI, File) By Charlotte Alfred BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A tiny village of Palestinian families in the southern West Bank has had an unwelcome visitor in recent months. “He comes with small weapons and his camera, sometimes [...]
Israeli border police are seen patrolling in Hebron (MaanImages/File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained three Palestinians Tuesday during a raid of their houses in Herodium area east of Bethlehem, locals told Ma’an. Some 20 vehicles raided the village at around 10 a.m., and forces used dogs to conducts searches which damaged furniture and belongings [...]
(MaanImages/File) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli military vehicles opened fire on a border area in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, trapping journalists at the scene, witnesses said. Ten military vehicles crossed several hundred meters into Gaza, east of Khan Younis, firing towards houses and farmlands, residents said. A crew of journalists took cover for [...]
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli plans to build nine hotels in a settlement neighborhood in East Jerusalem aim to undermine tourism in Bethlehem, a Palestinian researcher warned Tuesday. Israel on Tuesday pushed forward with plans to build 1,100 hotel rooms in Givat Hamatos, a neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem close to Israel’s checkpoint to Bethlehem. Khalil [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli military vehicles crossed into the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, witnesses told Ma’an. Seven army vehicles including bulldozers entered Gaza north of Beit Hanoun and dug up lands in the border area, they said, adding that gunshots were heard in the area. Meanwhile, four Israeli vehicles crossed the border east [...]
Palestinian women attend a rally to show solidarity with Palestinians prisoners held in Israeli jails, in Gaza City, on April 30, 2012. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called on Monday for a new intifada to support Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, who started a mass hunger-strike two weeks ago. [...]
Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. EL-ARISH, Egypt (Ma’an) — Forty Egyptian prisoners in Israeli prisons began a hunger strike Friday after a prisoner swap deal between the two countries reportedly fell through. “About 40 Egyptian prisoners began a hunger-strike on Friday,” Egyptian prisoner Mousa Alatrash told Ma’an. An exchange deal with [...]
The Ibrahimi Mosque is considered the fourth holiest site in Islam. HEBRON (Ma’an) — Settlers raised the Israeli flag on top of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron on Friday, in the first incident of its kind since 1967, a local official said. Zaid Jaabari, director of the Islamic Endowment, or Waqf, in Hebron slammed the [...]
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A special UN committee on Palestinian rights says it is “deeply troubled” by Israel’s cabinet decision to “legalize” three outposts in the occupied West Bank. The bureau says Israel “has blatantly supported and engaged in the expansion of illegal settlements … these brazen actions amount to the first official establishment of new [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinian prisoners continued their hunger strike for the 11th consecutive day in protest of Israeli policy. A mass march went out in Gaza City, which was called by Hamas and Islamic Jihad to support the prisoners. Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh affirmed his government’s support of the prisoners. He added [...]
Settler attacks are common and rarely prosecuted. NABLUS (Ma’an) — Settlers in the northern West Bank set up a roadblock and attacked a Nablus village on Thursday, a PA official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settler activity in the northern West Bank, said that settlers blocked a main road that links the West Bank town [...]
Stone-throwers take cover behind a garbage bin during clashes with Israeli troops after a protest in support of Palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike in Israeli jails outside Ofer prison near Ramallah. (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Four Palestinians were injured Thursday when clashes erupted at a demonstration outside Israel’s Ofer detention center near Ramallah, [...]
NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities on Wednesday ordered villagers in Wadi Qana in the northern West Bank to uproot 1,070 olive trees, a local official said. The mayor of Deir Istiya Nathmi Salman told Ma’an that Israeli forces delivered the orders to Abdul Mansour, Qasem Mansour and Muqbel Awad, who own the trees. The trees [...]
(MaanImages/File) NEGEV (Ma’an) — Israeli forces demolished the Bedouin village Al-Araqib village on Monday for the 37th time, a political official who witnessed the demolition said. The Palestinian residents began to immediately rebuild the site, after forces left just a mosque and cemetery standing, PFLP official Ayman Odeh said on return from the village. [...]
Boys stand near a banner depicting hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners during a protest supporting the prisoners, in Jerusalem April 20, 2012. (Reuters/Ammar Awad) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli military court on Monday refused an appeal by long-term hunger-strikers Thaer Halahla and Bilal Diyab to end their detention without charge, prisoners groups said. Muhjat al-Quds society for [...]
An overview of the southern West Bank town of Yatta. (MaanImages/File) HEBRON (Ma’an) — A teenage boy was injured Sunday after a gunman opened fire near his school in Yatta in the southern West Bank, a Ma’an reporter said. The unidentified assailant shot at Ismail Bheis, 17, and then fled the scene, a Ma’an correspondent [...]
(MaanImages/Screenshot) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli military court released a Palestinian journalist on bail after seeing a video showing him rushing to the aid of his wife at a West Bank demonstration, a popular committee said on Sunday. Bilal Tamimi, an independent journalist, was detained by Israeli forces at a popular protest in Ramallah-district village [...]
HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israel’s Civil Administration on Wednesday handed a demolition order to an electricity company in the southern West Bank, the Land Research Center said. The power company, in Umm Sidra near al-Ramadin village in the Hebron district, has supplied electricity since 2006 to 25 homes in the neighborhood, which is close to Israel’s [...]
TUBAS (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers shot an 18-year-old shepherd in the chest on Thursday evening during military training exercises in the northern West Bank, medics said. Yasir Suleiman Nijad Kaabnah was shot while herding sheep and camels near Wadi al-Maleh in the northern Jordan Valley, medics told Ma’an. Salem Kaabneh, the victim’s uncle who was [...]
(MaanImages/file) NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli prison authorities on Thursday prevented relatives from visiting detainees in Gilboa prison in northern Israel, the Prisoners Society said. Family members of detainees from Nablus told the Prisoners Society that they were not allowed to see their relatives. Several detainees were also transferred to nearby Shatta jail as a punishment [...]
(MaanImages/File) NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained at least 13 Palestinians in the West Bank overnight Tuesday, including a group of youth in a Nablus village, officials said. Ten youth were seized in the Burin village, south of Nablus, PA official Ghassan Daghlas said. He identified them as Walid Mursi, 15, Muhammad Suheil Najjar, 16, [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinians and international activists went out in a demonstration organized by a local initiative in Beit Hanoun north of Gaza to protest the buffer zone on Tuesday. Coordinator Saber Zaaneen said the demonstration arrived to the zone, which Israel imposed on the borders of Gaza. It prevent hundreds of farmers from [...]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Tuesday that peaceful popular resistance is a clear response to occupation and settlements in Palestine. Speaking at an international conference on popular resistance in Bilin, near Ramallah, Fayyad said the weekly demonstrations against Israel‘s separation barrier reflect the Palestinian people‘s resolve. Popular resistance is part [...]
Palestinian youths perform the traditional Palestinian folk dance, the “dabkeh”, in the Nativity Square in Bethlehem. (MaanImages/Haytham Othman, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The mayor of Bethlehem on Tuesday urged Israel not to humiliate hundreds of tourists invited to a week-long tour of Palestine. Some 25 Palestinian organizations have invited internationals to visit Palestine from April [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers on Monday shot and injured a Palestinian construction worker in eastern Gaza, medics said. The 23-year-old man was taken to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, medical officials told Ma’an. An Israeli military spokeswoman did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Also Monday, witnesses said that dozens of [...]
(MaanImages/file) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israel’s navy fired live ammunition at a fishing boat in the Gaza Strip on Monday, witnesses said. Several shells were fired into open areas off the Gaza coast, locals told Ma’an. An Israeli military spokeswoman said that a fishing boat had deviated from the designated fishing area, and after failing [...]
Prisoner Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqe says the PA was not involved in the decision to deport Hana Shalabi to the Gaza Strip. (MaanImages, File) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Authority was not involved in the decision to deport Hana Shalabi to the Gaza Strip, Prisoners Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqe said Monday. “We have been always [...]
(MaanImages/File) HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained an American-Palestinian activist in Hebron on Sunday amid closures in the city during the Jewish holidays, a local activist said. Forces evacuated Beersheba road in the center of the southern West Bank city to allow Jewish worshipers to visit the tomb of Othniel Ben Knaz, Hebron defense committee [...]
Palestinian protesters dressed as jailed Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan gesture as they take part in a weekly demonstration against Israel’s separation wall, in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Feb. 17, 2012. (REUTERS/Ammar Awad) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli prison authorities transferred a Palestinian detainee on hunger strike to Ramla hospital on [...]
(MaanImages/file) QALQILIYA (Ma’an) — Israeli forces raided the northern West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum before dawn on Thursday and detained locals and two police officers, witnesses said. Witnesses said soldiers detained police officers Thaer Shteiwi, 38, and Riyad Shteiwi, 38, and 18 other residents including four minors. An Israeli army spokeswoman said 19 people [...]
(MaanImages/File) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A Palestinian detainee who has been on hunger strike for 28 days was moved to Israel‘s Ramla prison hospital, a lawyer said Wednesday. Omar Abu Shalal, 55, from Nablus, has refused food for four weeks in protest over his detention without charge, Prisoner Society lawyer Jawwad Boulous told Ma’an. Abu Shalal [...]
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers have planted trees on privately-owned Palestinian land near Bethlehem, a local official said Tuesday. Popular committee spokesman Ahmad Salah told Ma’an that a group of settlers planted tree saplings on 2,000 square meters of land in the Ein al-Qassis area of al-Khader. The land belongs to Hasan Mousa Hasan, who [...]
(MaanImages/HO) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces demolished four ancient buildings and uprooted 52 electricity poles in lands near Bethlehem on Tuesday morning, locals said. The electricity line that connects the Al-Makhrour neighborhood to nearby Beit Jala was destroyed by bulldozers, local anti-wall committee coordinator Mazin al-Azza told Ma’an. Locals said the electricity connection had been [...]
A woman stands near a construction site in Gilo, a Jewish settlement that Israel erected on land it captured in 1967. (Reuters/Baz Ratner, File) TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Israel’s Jerusalem Mayor plans to establish a new Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem, according to news reports Tuesday. Around 200 new homes are planned for the [...]
Click for more images(MaanImages/HO) HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained a teenage boy during a weekly protest held in Hebron village Beit Ummar on Saturday, locals and security officials said. Spokesman of the local anti-separation wall committee Yousef Abu Maria said forces seized Hussain Ramzi, 14, during the demonstration. An Israeli army spokesman said a [...]
(MaanImages/Moti Milrod, File) HEBRON (Ma’an) — An Israeli military court renewed the administrative detention of a Palestinian lawmaker for the third time on Friday, a Hamas-affiliated news site reported. Khalil al- Rabai, an MP with Hamas’ Change and Reform Bloc, has been held without charge since he was detained on Dec. 30, 2010, the Palestine [...]
(MaanImages/Rami Swidan, File) 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 Israelis approached them. The [...]
A woman holds a placard depicting prisoner Hana Shalabi during a rally in support of her hunger strike as well as calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in front of Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City March 24, 2012. (REUTERS/Ammar Awad) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian who was deported [...]
A Palestinian woman holds a placard depicting Hana Shalabi during a rally in Ramallah, in support of Shalabi and calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails March 20, 2012. (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A deal to release Palestinian hunger-striker Hana Shalabi to the Gaza Strip temporarily was reached late Thursday, [...]
(MaanImages/File) HEBRON (Ma’an) — An Israeli settler shot an 18-year-old Palestinian in Hebron’s Old Cityon Tuesday morning, leaving him moderately injured, locals said.Medics at Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron said Muhammad Hisham Abu Aker was shot in his right leg and is undergoing surgery. On Saturday, a Palestinian man was moderately injured when armed settlers stormed [...]
Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian following an operation in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar (MaanImages/File) Israeli court rules against bail for Beit Ummar teens Published today (updated) 26/03/2012 21:14 HEBRON (Ma’an) — An Israeli court ruled to keep seven children from Beit Ummar behind bars until the end of their trial, a lawyer and community [...]
JENIN (Ma’an) — Israeli forces raided several homes in Yabad in the northern West Bank before dawn Monday, witnesses said. Jamal Abu Bakr said Israeli soldiers and an intelligence officer ransacked his home and the homes of Nizar Abu Bakr and Abdul Abu Bakr at around 2 a.m. He told Ma’an his relatives were held [...]
(MaanImages/HO) JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A group of Israelis broke two Muslim gravestones in a Jerusalem cemetery on Saturday, the Al-Aqsa Foundation said. More than 20 Israelis gathered in Bab al-Rahmah cemetery near the eastern wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform prayers, the Foundation for Waqf (Endowment) and Heritage said. A cemetery guard told the [...]
A fuel tanker arrives at a power plant in the central Gaza Strip, March 23, 2012. Gaza’s sole power station shut down on Sunday morning after two days of electricity production. (REUTERS/ Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza’s sole power station shut down on Sunday morning after two days of electricity production, as [...]
Palestinian demonstrators run as Israeli forces fire tear gas during a protest near Ramallah (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman, File) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A Palestinian man was shot and injured Saturday during clashes with Israeli settlers who attacked his village in the central West Bank, medical officials said. Hassan Muatan, 40, was shot in the abdomen after armed [...]
A boy holds a flag during a rally calling on Egyptian authorities to supply the Gaza Strip with fuel and electricity in Khan Younis on the southern Gaza Strip March 23, 2012. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A senior leader of Hamas criticized the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority for being an ally of Israel [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Protesters on Wednesday held a rally in Gaza City against Mahmoud Abbas, accusing the president of neglecting his responsibilities to the Gaza Strip. They carried posters urging the president to resign if he could not fulfill his duties, and reminding Abbas that he presides over all Palestinian people and not just [...]
