Day: January 18, 2005

Prior to being sworn into office, newly-elected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was squeezed from all directions. The savior, long-awaited by everyone, is apparently not even going to be given a…

              June 29, 2004             Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Tuesday that troops will             complete taking over the area from which Qasam rockets were fired             recently at…

               June 29, 2004             As Israel is assembling troops at the Gaza Strip borders, apparently             preparing for a wide scale invasion of the northern parts of the            …

               June 29, 2004             Dr. Nabil Sah’ath, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Palestinian             Government, accused the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of             trying to foil…

                        June 29, 2004, 16:54             The Israeli Minister of Defense, Shaul Mofaz said Tuesday that Army             will stay in Gaza Strip as long as needed.            …

                June 29, 2004             Israeli sources reported Tuesday that the Knesset reject three             no-confidence motions in its Monday session.             The three motions have to do wit…

                June 29, 2004             Meeting with Israeli President Moshe Katsav, Israeli Labor Party             Chairman Shimon Peres said that, ‘Unjustified terror presents a huge             problem for the…

               June 29, 2004             Israeli High Court of justices will hold a hearing on Tuesday             afternoon on the three petitions against the decision to close the             Greek…

                           June 2004             Amjad Al-Najjar, head of the Palestinian Prisoner Society office in             Hebron, south of the West Bank, said that the district of Hebron             witnessed…

                           June 30, 2004             Despite Israeli objections, French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier             met Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in his Ramallah compound on             Tuesday.             In…

               June 30, 2004             In the wake of the Israeli High Court of Justice’s decision made             Wednesday to make changes on 30 Kilometers of the route of…

Now it’s official: “the First Democracy in the Arab World” or “the Second Democracy in the Middle East” has been born. The Palestinian elections have impressed the world. Until now,…

Now it’s official: “the First Democracy in the Arab World” or “the Second Democracy in the Middle East” has been born. The Palestinian elections have impressed the world. Until now,…

While the Israeli army continues its aggression against the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the city of Khan Younis , in the northern part of the…

IMEMC & Agencies, January 18, 2005, 14:42 ‘I am going to Gaza with the hopes of reaching an agreement,’ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday before departing to the Gaza…

IMEMC & Agencies, January 18, 2005, 14:56 Hundreds of Sderot residents marched Tuesday morning toward Beit Hanun city in the Gaza Strip in protest of the Israeli government’s ‘incapacity’ to…

IMEMC & Agencies, January 18, 2005, 15:04 P. A Minister of the Social Affair, Intisar Al-Wazeer, called the Palestinian Authority on Monday to form a new government after Mahmoud Abbas…

Chief of Staff of the Israeli army Moshe Ya’alon ordered the army on Monday to prepare for a wide scaled military operation in the Gaza Strip, Israel Radio reported. The…

Israeli Helicopters attacked on Monday afternoon, residential areas in the occupied Shaba Farms, in the southern Lebanon wounding two women. The two women’s wounds were described as light. Israeli army…

Dr. Mohammad Ghazal, a senior Hamas leader hinted that truce talks might be reconsidered pointing that the priority should be for reorganizing the internal Palestinian affairs to preserve the national…

Prior to being sworn into office, newly-elected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was squeezed from all directions. The savior, long-awaited by everyone, is apparently Since the day the death of the…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society revealed that the Israeli military courts imposed fines on 95% of the Palestinian detainees, forcing the parents to pay money instead of having their sons sentenced…

Spokespersons of few Gaza-based resistance groups criticized Monday the PA leadership decision to act against attacks on Israeli targets, affirming that attacks will continue until occupiers leave. Representatives of Hamas,…

For the past 55 days, at least 2,000 Palestinians are held at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing and are prevented from arriving back to their homes in…

During the siege imposed over the villages surrounding Hebron, Israeli soldiers bulldozed and uprooted at least 5000 olive trees and other kinds of trees in the areas in several areas…

            June 30, 2004             Army encircled Wednesday early morning hours the northern Gaza Strip             town of Beit Hanoun with tanks and tore up roads.             Qasams Hit Sderot…