Israeli authorities use facial recognition against Palestinians to “consolidate apartheid”, according to Amnesty International. Israeli authorities are using the newly developed Red Wolf facial recognition technology for automatic surveillance of Palestinians to “severely restrict” their freedom of movement, according to Amnesty. In a new report , the organization has documented... 

An Israeli soldier guards an area as an army bulldozer pulls down the house of the Palestinian Raba’ai family in Al-Dirat, south of Yatta Village near the West Bank town of Hebron (al-Khalil), January 20, 2015. Israel’s supreme court has authorized the regime’s authorities to demolish a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank. The high court approved on Monday a request from the Israeli... 

Palestinians have fired over a dozen rockets from the besieged Gaza Strip into Israel in retaliation for the Tel Aviv regime’s deadly airstrikes on the blockaded enclave. Two rockets were reportedly intercepted by the Israeli Iron Dome missile system. The rest, however, passed through the US-sponsored system, with one of them hitting the central part of Israel’s southern city of Sderot, causing... 

The Israeli Air Force bombed dozens of sites in the Gaza Strip hours after a search for three missing young Israelis led to discovery of their dead bodies. The Israeli government is contemplating further action. The airstrikes on 34 targets were conducted on Tuesday morning in a standard Israeli response to rocket launches from the Gaza Strip, the IAF reported. The tension has been reaching the boiling... 

Lebanese television Al Manar has broadcast footage simulating how the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah sent a drone deep into the Israeli airspace, evading radar systems. Al Manar released the video on Friday after Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah confirmed the flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that entered Israeli airspace earlier this week. The operation code-named... 

Observers say the penetration of a UAV into Israel’s airspace is a security fiasco for Israel. The half-hour penetration of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) into Israel’s airspace is considered a complete strategic fiasco for Israel’s intelligence and military apparatus, observers say. On Saturday, a large unmanned helicopter entered the airspace of southern Israel, flying about half an hour... 

Israeli soldiers fire their weapons during a training session near Beqa’ot in the West Bank Israel’s Defense Ministry has ordered eight Palestinian villages in the West Bank to be razed, claiming the land is needed for military training. Hundreds of Palestinians are to be displaced despite evidence that the villages have existed since 1830. ­The residents of the villages, located in the southern... 

All the houses of the Bedouin village of Deqeiqa, south of Hebron, received the Military Order of demolition in a another example of the Israeli expulsion policy in the occupied West Bank, according to denouncements by human rights organizations. This village, situated in the impoverished desert hills south of Hebron, is home to about 400 people who live on cattle raising and have no electricity or... 

Israeli soldiers take part in a military operation searching for Hamas members overnight in the West Bank city of Hebron. In Israel, concern is growing that it may have to return land it has long occupied and built settlements on if Palestinian statehood is officially recognized by the UN. ­On Friday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a passionate televised speech vowing to seek full recognition... 

Palestinian groups said the images showed the Israeli occupation was "corrupting" A former Israeli soldier has been sharply criticised for posting images of herself on Facebook posing next to Palestinian prisoners. Eden Aberjil had put the images in an album on the site entitled “The army: the best days of my life”. Army officials have condemned her behaviour as “shameful”... 

British film crew threatened by a settler in Hebron. Efforts Tel Rumeida Project and International Solidarity Movement.  Read More »