According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)'s Weekly Report, during the week of 8 - 14 May 2008, 13 Palestinians, two of whom were civilians, were killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.  In addition, a Palestinian civilian was killed by the private Israeli security guards of “Ofra” settlement in Ramallah.  Also 2 Palestinian children died from previous injuries in Khan Yunis town in the southern Gaza Strip.  27 Palestinians and Israeli human rights defender were wounded by Israeli forces.  Of the 27 injured, 20 were civilians, including 4 children, an elderly woman and 2 journalists. Full Story

The Good Shepherd Church in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and the Palestine Forum, held an activity on Wednesday at night commemorating the Nakba. Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, representatives of Private and Governmental Institutions participated in the protest.  Full Story

Palestinian residents of Jerusalem, their political and social leaders conducted a general strike in the occupied city of Jerusalem in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Nabka, while Israeli soldiers and policemen were intensively deployed in the area. Full Story

The Regional Union of Arab Students in Israeli Universities organized on Thursday a protest at main entrance of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of Palestinian disposition, the Nabka. Full Story

Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in a number of Palestinians cities, towns, villages and refugee camps to commemorate 60 years of their dispossession by Israel in 1948. Full Story

Palestinians sources reported that 19 Palestinians had been kidnapped from different part of the West Bank early on Thursday morning. Army kidnapped those Palestinians in military operations that were carried out in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Nablus and Hebron. Full Story

Israeli troops arrested Farid Al-Atrash, a lawyer from Bethlehem as he was among other Palestinians protesting the presence of Israeli settlers who occupied a piece of land east of the town of Beit Sahour near Bethlehem in order to build a new settlement on that land, Thursday morning. Full Story

On Thursday morning, a Palestinian from the town of Sa'er, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, was wounded by Israeli fire after clashes broke out in the area.

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Palestinian sources reported that two fighters of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, were killed late on Wednesday at night, and three others were injured after being targeted by Israeli shells east of Al Shujaeyya neighborhood in Gaza City. Full Story

Israeli sources reported on Wednesday that fifteen Israelis, residents of Ashkelon (Asqalan) town were wounded, three seriously, after Palestinian fighters fired several homemade shells at the city. Full Story

The Palestinian Popular (Folk) Committees issued on Wednesday a press release slamming the Israeli occupation forces for uprooting Palestinian lands in the southern West Bank city of Hebron in order to construct a military post. Full Story

Monqith Abu Roomy, head of the media office of Asrana (Our Detainees) center, which defends the rights of Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel, voiced an appeal to the US President, George W. Bush, to intervene for the release of all child and female Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel. Full Story