Month: October 2004

Residents of Nablus district, in the north of the West Bank, are in continuous fear of attacks carried out by soldiers and settlers which forced them to avoid picking their…

Israeli Education Minister Limor Livnat is to meet with Sharon Sunday morning and is expected to withdraw her resignation ultimatum. Livnat together with Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took part in…

The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said in the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday that Israel will proceed with the Disengagement Plan despite Arafat’s health condition, and added; “As long…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Egyptian President Hosni Mubark on Thursday that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s health condition will not affect, change or delay, the evacuation of Gaza settlements…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Egyptian President Hosni Mubark on Thursday that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s health condition will not affect, change or delay, the evacuation of Gaza settlements…

The Palestinian envoy to France and Arafat’s spokesperson in France, Leila Shaheed ruled out on Saturday afternoon, any possibility that P. A Chairman Yasser Arafat is suffering from Leukemia. “Doctors…

Sweden has rejected an asylum application by nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, Reuters said on Friday. The immigration department said they rejected the application on the grounds that Vanunu applied while…

As Palestinian President is going through medical checks to decide on the reason of why he suffers an abnormal low count of blood platelets, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell…

Israeli analysts are busy setting scenarios for the ‘after Arafat era’. Already criteria to judge the newly expected leadership performance has been laid out. Names have been assigned positions, and…

A 13 years old girl from Khan Younis, who was shot wounded while sitting inside the classroom, filed charges against the army, seeking compensations. The incident took place in an…

WAFA news Agency said on Saturday, that soldiers razed 13 homes and destroyed an agricultural barracks in Al-Arabeyya area, in Rafah, near the Egyptian borders, in the south of the…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights released its weekly report which revealed that soldiers, during the past week, shot dead 26 Palestinians, including two children and one girl, in addition…

Lawyer of the Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported that female detainees under the age of 18, in Al-Ramlah prison are suffering from inhumane conditions and treatment, in violation…

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden said in a video tape aired late Friday that the scene of destroyed towers in Beirut , during the 1982 Israeli invasion, motivated him to…

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat landed in Paris on Friday afternoon and boarded a helicopter to a military hospital outside the French capital for medical treatment. Jordanian helicopters transported Arafat from…

Despite Israeli finance minister Benjamin Netenyahu’s threats to run against him in the coming elections, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will not change stance on the idea of holding a…

The Municipality of Jerusalem approved on Thursday a tax exempt order to a religious institute in the city called ‘Hara’ayon Hayehudi’ meaning the Jewish Idea, which is affiliated with the…

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, and the Islamic Jihad Movement called for forming a unified leadership which will be a higher political representative of the Palestinian people. The two movements…

Hanan Al-Khateeb, a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoners Society said that she met with two detainees in Al-Ramlah detention camp, who told her about the dangerous situation and continuous assaults…

A medical source in Jenin said that soldiers shot wounded three residents in Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin, in the north of the West Bank, on Friday afternoon. The source…

A local source in Bethlehem said that soldiers arrested two youths from Al-Azza refugee camp in Bethlehem , and from the village of Al-Khader , near Bethlehem , in the…

Translated by: Saed Bannoura After more than four years since the beginning of Al-Aqsa Intifada, different aspects in the Palestinian life were deeply affected by the situation, and the continuous…

Arafat’s advisor, Nabil Abu Rodeina, denied reports released by the Israeli media that P.A Chairman Yasser Arafat appointed a three-man committee to act in his absence. According to the released…

A Palestinian source said that all need arrangement have been carried out to transfer Arafat to France for treatment. The source added that a Jordanian helicopter will transfer Arafat at…

Palestinian sources reported that Israeli Army troops Thursday shot and killed an eight-year-old Palestinian girl who was on her way to school in a Gaza Strip refugee camp. Rania Iyad…

A Palestinian source said that the doctors decided to transfer Arafat to a Hospital in Paris in order to follow up his health condition. The source added that the doctors…

In a Phone call with the Qatar Based Al-Jazeera TV, Dr. Ashraf Al-Kurdy, from Jordan, said that he will arrive in Ramallah on Thursday morning along with a Jordanian medical…

An Israeli military source said that a Palestinian resistance group fired mortal shells at a military post near the settlement of Morag, south of Gaza, and exchanged fire with the…

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday praised the Knesset’s approval of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s unilateral disengagement plan and the removal of settlements from Gaza and four of the West…

‘If in the heat of the moment things were said that shouldn’t have been, I am so sorry.’ Israeli Prime Minster Ariel Sharon said Wednesday at a memorial ceremony for…

Israeli Haaretz said in its online edition that the settlers of an unauthorized settlers outpost near the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar in Nablus area, held up the ambulance coming…

Despite of the Israeli Knesset Approval of the disengagement plan, the Palestinian authority expressed its disbelief that there will be a positive change on the ground in the occupied territories…

The International Women Peace Service (IWPS) reported that Angie Zelter, a prominent nonviolent peace and human rights activist from the United Kingdom is currently being held for deportation by the…

The Knesset approved Sharon’s Disengagement Plan on Tuesday at night with a majority of 67 votes against 45, while seven Mk’s abstained from the vote, absent due to illness; Sharon…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health accused the Israeli Government increased it military operations against the Palestinian in Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip killing 19 residents and…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said that a female detainee from Bethlehem, detained in Atzion military detention, is subjected to daily physcological pressures due to daily torture and harassments conducted against…

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday praised the Knesset’s approval of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s unilateral disengagement plan and the removal of settlements from Gaza and four of the West…

Inspite of the controversial nature of his politics, Palestinians look at former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas as a man of integrity. As a founder of Fatah, unlike of most Palestinian…

Israeli sources quoted a Palestinian source as saying that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s health had begun to deteriorate as of Wednesday night. Senior Palestinian officials, including Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia,…

Detainee Husam Badran, from Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the north of the West Bank, told lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoner’s society, Khaled Al-Dosouqy, that Gilboa prison administration…

Soldiers withdrew from neighborhoods in the west of Kahn Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, leaving 17 residents dead, more than 78 wounded, 34 homes leveled in addition…

The credit goes to people like Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that the Likud, an extreme right wing party, managed to dominate the center of the political life in Israel…

The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reiterated his refusal to hold a national referendum on the disengagement plans despite threats by some of his key Likud ministers to quit the…

Dr. Moaweya Hassanen, head of the emergency Unit in the ministry of health, said that one resident, identified as Abdul-Aziz Abu-Mo’ammar, died of wounds sustained earlier on Tuesday at dawn,…

Military Police have arrested a Givati Brigade commander on suspicion he shot dead a 13-year-old Palestinian girl at close range while the girl was laying wounded on the ground. The…

P. A Chairman Yasser Arafat, met with the Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qorei and head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Rawhi Fattouh, and Minister of Negotiations, Saeb Erekat on Tuesday…

Israeli police found graffiti on Tuesday morning, on the walls in the streets of West Jerusalem which said: ‘We killed Rabin, we will kill Sharon too, and death to the…

A local source in Hebron said that soldiers arrested four residents, burnt a carpentry and a shoemaking store and pinched money and gold from some homes during raids conducted in…

A Poll conducted by the Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, revealed that two-thirds of the Israelis support Sharon’s Disengagement Plan, despite the fact that only more than half of the participants…

After Sharon’s speech in the Knesset, opposition leader Shimon Peres, asked MKs to support the disengagement plan, indicating the Gaza Strip was not worth fighting for. Peres, referring to the…

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat underwent minor exploratory surgery on Monday in his Muqata headquarters and is in stable condition. A senior Palestinian official said that Doctors carried out an endoscopey…

Al-Aqsa Brigades threatened to split from Fatah Movement if the Qorei Government and Fatah’s Central Committee does not fulfill their demands to conduct new procedures in order to solve the…

Israel decided Monday to allow Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to leave his headquarters for a medical check in Ramallah hospital, about 2 kilometers away from where the President is besieged…

An Israeli army source said on Sunday that some Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza Strip may have anti-aircrafts missiles in their possession. Generals of Israeli military establishment think that resistance…

Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, opened the debate on his disengagement plan in the Knesset on Monday, saying that his plan would ‘strengthen Israel’. Sharon blamed Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat,…

A Palestinian security source in Khan Younis said that soldiers killed a resident in the Austrian Neighborhood in Khan Younis, on Monday at night, raising the total number of residents…

Refraining from expressing any preference for either U.S. President George W. Bush or his rival Senator John Kerry, the Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said that the next U.S. president…

An Egyptian government source announced Monday that eight Egyptian and a Palestinian were involved in the three simultaneous car bombings of a hotel and a tourist resort in Sinai on…

Two Jewish families moved into a house near Rachel’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Bethlehem this week. The two families joined yeshiva students who earlier moved to the…

Israeli Attorney General, Menachem Mazuz, asked judges adjudicating cases against the Palestinian Authority to stop imposing confiscation orders on PA funds. Mazuz said last week, Israel will cover damages awarded…

Several female detainees accused the Israeli Security of sexually harassing them, in order to force the detainees to confess to charges laid against them, in addition to repeatedly imposing physiological…

The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, said in its online edition on Monday, that a Jordanian group is planning to build the fifth minaret in the Aqsa Mosque area. According to Raef…

A medical source in Khan Younis said that soldiers killed two P.A security men, wounded six others, after firing two missiles at a Palestinian security center in the Austrian neighborhood…

During it’s Sunday weekly meeting, the Israeli cabinet approved by 13 to 6 vote the ‘compensation-evacuation law’ bill, which will compensate settlers evacuated under the disengagement plan. Likud ministers Yisrael…

As Israel intends to maintain control over the crossings to Gaza, its coastline, and airspace, it will still be considered under international law as the occupying power, concluded to an…

A local source in Hebron said that soldiers detained two residents in Hebron, and held scores of residents during vast military searches conducted in the city, on Sunday morning. The…

A local source in Hebron said that soldiers apprehended two residents in Hebron, and withheld tens of residents during vast military searches conducted in the city, on Sunday morning. The…

‘If Sharon believes that with a pullout from Gaza everything is already done and that peace would come automatically, we won’t support that, that wouldn’t be a dream, but a…

A Palestinian Authority treasury source said Saturday that about half of the Palestinian Authority budget deficit was caused by seizures imposed by Israeli courts on PA funds. According to the…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is assured that the disengagement plan will be approved on Tuesday’s Knesset session, but fears lacking a majority to approve the state budget for 2005…

Translated by: Saed Bannoura Ala ’ Al-Shalash, 19 years old, said that he was severely clubbed by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint known as “the container checkpoint”, to the east…

For the two years following September 11th, the Western public was inundated with propaganda to such a vociferous degree that to be a critical voice was to be heretical and…

How would it feel to be targeted in the street, or in the car, what sort of live you will be living while knowing that you might be a moving…

Saed Bannoura, IMEMC Children are the most affected by any conflict in this world, the faultless victims of brutality and advanced weapons technology; tiny angels, the builders of the future…

Ten minutes stroll northward from the lively alleyways of the Old City and its renowned Golden Dome lays one of the Holy Land’s smallest parishes; the Anglican Church, with its…

Translated by: George N. Rishmawi-IMEMC PNN: How do you view the latest Israeli offensive in Gaza Strip? Rajoub: The Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip and other areas in…