Month: March 2005

The parents of Rachel Corrie, a U.S. activist killed in Gaza while trying to stop an Israeli army bulldozer from destroying a Palestinian home, filed suit in Israel on Tuesday…

The Israeli Defense Ministry is blaming a military dog for the death of a Palestinian resident, who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers ten months ago. Deputy Defense Minister Ze’ev…

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei slammed Tuesday Israel for continuing to dictate “facts on ground”, saying that Israel is endangering the entire peace process. Qurei described the current times as…

Leader of Israeli secular Shinui party Yousef Lapid said Tuesday that few prominent U.S. administration officials has asked him to support Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the coming state…

The Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arrived in Syrian on Tuesday to hold talks with the Syrian officials on the situation in Lebanon, according to diplomatic Egyptian source. Speaking on condition…

As leaders of various Palestinian factions entered the meeting room, sources close to the Cairo meeting reported that Egypt has proposed a year long truce, but Hamas is only welling…

Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Hussein Al-Sheikh said that he managed to visit a number of detainees in Kfar Aztion detention, especially young detainees, who informed him that Israeli…

The United States had halted the work of the Israeli-American task force after Israel did not keep its promises made to the United States April 2004 to define and set…

Israeli army radio reported on Tuesday that the higher command of the Israeli army issued direct orders against Israeli soldiers who refuse to evacuate settlements under disengagement plan. Major General…

During a meeting on Monday with Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, Sharon reiterated that Israel was demanding the PA to dismantle the resistance groups, not to make agreements with…

Israeli official source said Tuesday that the conflict with the Palestinian Authority over its intentions to release PFLP leader Ahmed Sa’adat will not delay the handover of Jericho. The official…

Since 1993 almost every Israeli negotiator laid on the table a proposal to evacuate the Gaza Strip as the concession Israel is welling to provide in exchange for a political…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the United Nation’s Secretary General Kufi Annan on Sunday night there will be no progress on the peace talks if Palestinian resistance groups were…

Several hundred took the streets of Ramallah calling UN General Secretary Coffi Annan, who arrived in the Palestinian city on Monday morning, to pressure Israel to stop the construction of…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday, the Palestinian Factions will announce a cease-fire this week after the meeting to be held in Cairo. Speaking to the Israeli TV…

Israeli deputy Prime Minister Ehud Ulmert said Monday that Maalee Adumim settlement is an integral part of Israel, affirming that it will be included on the Israeli side of the…

Israeli soldiers arrested Monday two West Bank settlers suspected of opening fire in the Palestinian village of Akid, west of the settlement of Ariel.  Local source in the Palestinian village…

According to the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will ask Palestinian factions to “realistically” look at the right of return of refugees, considering that “not all Palestinian exiles…

250 Israeli high school students signed a document declaring that they do not intend to conduct the military service because “they appose the occupation of the Palestinian territories”. The young refusenicks,…

Monday at noon, a resident of Nablus died of wounds sustained during the Israeli army invasion of the city in December 2002. Dr. Ziad Saleem, specialist in plastic surgery in Rafidia…

The Palestinian-Israeli committee discussing the issue of Palestinian detainees is slated to meet on Monday evening to discuss the release of Palestinian detainees held before 1994 “regardless of Israeli categories…

Pullout opponents stepped up campaign against the disengagement plan, sending SMS messages asking Israelis to change residency address to Gush Katif settlement Bloc. The email, which is sent through the cellular network, urges…

The Palestinian Minister of Interior Nasser Yousef is to meet with the Israeli Minister of defense Shaul Mofaz on Monday in an effort to advance negotiations over the handover of…

Lawyer of the Prisoners’ Supporters Society, Sana’ Al-Harbawi, said that prison administration in Telmond detention for women stepped up punishment procedures against female detainees. Al-Harbawi reported that during her last visit to…

Construction on Settlements outposts in some locations in the West Bank continues despite the latest report by attorney Talia Sasson on government involvement in building and funding ‘unauthorized’ outposts, Israeli…

Sunday afternoon, Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful protest of Israeli and Palestinians women in the village of Bal’in, west of the northern West Bank city of Ramallah. As dozens of…

  Sunday afternoon, Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful protest for Israeli and Palestinians women in the village of Bal’in, west of the northern West Bank city of Ramallah. As dozens…

As election campaign for the Student Council in Hebron university heated, Hundreds of student supporters of Hamas clashed Saturday with supporters of Fatah, one day prior to balloting day. Eyewitnesses…

A Palestinian medical source in Hebron, south of the West Bank, reported that five farmers from the village of Yatta were severely bruised after a group of extremist settlers attacked…

Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz confirmed Saturday that unauthorized settlers’ outposts will not be removed until after the implementation of the disengagement plan. The evacuation of unauthorized settlements is an…

According to Arabs48 electronic news site, Israeli Prime minister Ariel Sharon intends to propose to his ministers, in the Sunday’s cabinet meeting, moving the activities of the ‘settlement section’ of…

While Syrian intelligence offices shut down in central Lebanon and Syrian soldiers continue to lave Lebanon in real numbers, UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen said Saturday that Syria will announce a…

Thousands of unemployed Palestinians stormed the Palestinian parliamentary building in Gaza on Saturday, smashing windows and clashing with police, eyewitnesses reported. About 2,500 unemployed Palestinians, who had previously worked in…

Israel soldiers arrested four Palestinians in the village of Baka al-Sharkiyeh in the northern West Bank before dawn Sunday, Israel Radio reported. Israeli army source claimed that the four arrested…

During his visit to Cairo in the coming few days, Israeli Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin may meet with heads of Parliaments from Arab states that do not have diplomatic relations…

Israeli army continued to impose a curfew on the old city of Hebron for the sixth consecutive day. Soldiers have also restricted the mobility of Palestinians in adjacent city neighborhoods.…

The Islamic resistance movement (Hamas) confirmed Saturday that it will participate in the slated for July Palestinian legislative elections. The Palestinian Authority has welcomed Hamas’s decision. Following lengthy and heated…

Israeli soldiers attacked Friday participants in a wedding ceremony in the village of Budrus, northwest of Jerusalem, and arrested a 22-years-old man. As soldiers left the village, young residents took…

The joint Palestinian-Israeli committee on prisoners’ issues is slated to meet on Monday at the Tel Aviv office of the Israeli Minister of Justice, Tzipi Livni. Dani Naveh, Gideon Ezra and…

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, announced on Saturday that is has decided to participate in the upcoming Palestinian Parliamentary election in July 2005. Hamas, which is a main Palestinian faction,…

At the age of 23, Rachel Corrie was full of life. At the age of 23, she was a senior in college ignited by a passion for justice. At the…

I cannot help but feel the contradictions that flow from the Isreali and US demands that Syrian pull its troops out of Lebanon. Indeed, I feel they reveal their own…

An American and a Soviet soldier meet in Berlin in 1945 and get into an argument about which of their countries is more democratic. ‘Why,’ the American said, ‘I can…

U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Satterfield said Thursday that Israel has yet to implement its promise to remove unauthorized settlers’ outposts. ‘The government of…

Following a request by the Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, the evacuation of Gaza Strip settlements and four West Bank ones, will last for three to four weeks only. The original…

PFLP Gaza leader Jamil Majdalawi said Saturday that Israel agreed to allow him and DFLP delegates to leave to Cairo to join the Palestinian factions’ truce talks. the Israeli decision…

Mahmoud Zahhar, a prominent Hamas leader, said that temporary cease fire will not become permanent until Israeli accepts our list of demands, espcially the release of all prisoners.  Zahhar vowed that if…

Islamic Jihad organized a demonstration in Gaza , Friday afternoon, affirming its choice to continue the resistance and its rejection to the “American and Israeli attempts to control the Middle East”  Dr. Mahmoud Al-Hindi,…

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth revealed on Friday that the Israeli hospital of Hadassah Har-Hatzofim in Jerusalem refused to addmit an Israeli woman suffering serious injuries, because she was transferred in a Palestinian ambulance.…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that 22 Jordanian detainees in Israeli prisons started an open ended hunger strike on March, 3, 2005, in protest to the bad conditions they face…

Lawyer of the Bethlehem office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society Hanan Al-Khateeb, visited several detainees in Hadarim detention, and submitted the following report. Detainee Khalil Baraq’a, from Bethlehem told Al-Khateeb…

Hundreds of Palestinian demonstrated against the construction of the separation wall in the village of Bel’en near Jerusalem. The demonstrators stood in front of the bulldozers not allowing them to…

“Palestine, land and nation, one undivided unit”; the Palestinian Al-Awda center in London, in cooperation with the Palestinian Media Union, and the Palestinians in Exile Committee are slated to hold…

Palestinian sources reported on Friday that Israel  will allow four exiled Palestinian to immediately return to the West Bank. Abdul Fattah Hamayel, responsible for the ‘Wanted and Deportees’ file, said that…

Lebanese sources reported that almost all of the Syrian troops have left north Lebanon on Friday. Nevertheless, the United Nations, called on Syrian president Bashar Assad to provide a timetable…

Lebanese sources reported that almost all of the Syrian troops have left north Lebanon on Friday. Nevertheless, the United Nations, called on Syrian president Bashar Assad to provide a timetable…

Palestinian sources reported on Friday that Israeli Authorities will allow four Palestinian deportees to immediately return to the West Bank. Abdul Fattah Hamayel, responsible for the ‘Wanted and Deportees’ file,…

A group of extremist settlers of Halmesh, north of Ramallah, attempted to annex several farmlands owned by residents of the villages of Nabi Saleh and Dir Nitham. Hussein Ali Tameemy, a…

Farid Al-Jallad, Palestinian Minister of Justice, reported on Friday that the Palestinian Authority will implement the executions against convicted inmates who collaborated with the Israeli security. Al-Jallad defended his stand, saying that…

Armed gunmen stormed into, and forced an end to a meeting of 1200 Fatah movement representatives, representing all the West Bank movement’ regions, signaling that the ‘Young’, ‘old’ guards crisis…

The Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that the Israeli the Israeli vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres met in Madrid with the Algerian presidents Abdelaziz Bouteflika during a in an international…

The European decided on Thursday to consider the Lebanon based Hezbollah party as a terrorist organization, and urged the EU countries to acts against it. The nonbinding decision adopted by…

Five municipalities of West Bank settlements transferred approximately NIS 12 million to the budget of the Council of Jewish Settlements (Yesha Council), which were used for the anti-disengagement campaign. Israeli…

Mubarak, Mofaza arrived Thursday at a tentative understanding by which Israel commits to evacuate the Philadelphi route, along the Gaza-Egyptian border, sometime after the disengagement from Gaza is completed. Egyptian…

Desperate Sharon appeals to Likud wives to use influence on spouses to vote in favor of the state budget in the Knesset. As the Knesset voting closes up, the list…

Israeli soldiers arrested ten residents in the village of Baqa Al-Sharqiyya, north of Tulkarem, after invading it and conducting military searches of homes; another resident was arrested in Saida, north…

Israeli authorities barred Adel Abu Ni’ma from leaving the country, and refused to provide him with a travel permit in order to participate in a conference Rome ; the authorities…

The Mandela Institute for Human Rights released a report revealing that the number of Palestinian and Arabs detainees in Israeli prisons exceeded 7000. IMEMC & Agencies, March 10, 2005, 01:14…

The Israel Army Prosecutor Gen Avi Mendilit, met on Wednesday evening in his office in the Ministry of Defense with family members of James Miller, a British Cameraman killed by…

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Thursday that he expects full Israeli withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip, urging Israel, the PA to keep to the understandings reached at Sharm’s summit.…

Rabis, Jewish figures and activists from the United States are expected in Israel in the coming weeks to “express support” for settlers of the Gush Katif settlement Bloc in the…

Abdul-Fattah Hamayel head of the deportees and wanted fighters committee said that the Palestinian-Israeli meeting on Wednesday evening arrived to an agreement ensuring the safety of the wanted resistance fighters…

Sami Abu Zuhri, the media spokesperson of Hamas, denied that all Palestinian factions agreed on cease fire. Abu Zuhri told the Qatar based Al-Jazeera TV that “Hamas did not reach…

Officials in the Bush administration are to explain to skeptical lawmakers in Washington that the $350 million proposed to aid the Palestinians will be transferred to the P.A in order…

The Israeli minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz is slated to meet with the Egyptian President Hosni Mobarak in the Egyptian resort of Sharm Al-Sheikh, for talks on the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations…

Former Israeli Minster of Housing Effi Itam, stated on Wednesday that building unauthorized outposts in the West Bank was an organized policy in the Ministry of Housing even prior to…

Israeli soldiers demolished a home in Al-Nazla Al-Wista, north of Tulkarem, Thursday at dawn, killing a 25-eyar-old Palestinian. Abdul-Latif Hussein Abu Khalil was in his house when an Israeli force…

Israeli official sources said that Egypt is trying to bring about a deal in which Palestinian President Yasser Arafat would hand real power to Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei in exchange…

The Islamic jihad movement slammed the results of the Abbas-Mofaz saying that the meeting “did not fulfill the aspirations of the Palestinian people”. Khaled Al-Batsh, a leader of the Islamic…

More than 20 Palestinian gunmen burst into a large gathering of the Fatah party on Thursday, ordering people out of the building and firing shots into the air. Roughly 1,200…

Download MP3  http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/03/3983.php   This Week in Palestine – a service of the International Middle East Media Center, IMEMC.org, for the week of March 4th to March 10th, 2005. Talks…

PA general security head Haj Ismael told reporters as he angrily left the second meeting with Israeli army officers that “apparently Israel is not willing to handover Auja village or…

Several dozen female settlers from the West Bank blocked a main road in the Gaza Strip and clashed Wednesday afternoon with police officers and Israel army soldiers.  Settlers, who were…

In a pre-Purim sermon at a Jerusalem synagogue, Shas party spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef slammed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his disengagement plan. ‘What a cruel and evil…

Israeli military officials expressed concerns that Syrian pullback from Lebanon to the Bekaa could urge Hezbollah to renew attacks on Israel. Israeli army chief, Moshe Ya’alon said on Tuesday. Ya’alon…

In a press conference in Jerusalem, the author of the report on unauthorized West Bank outposts said that some of the unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank were both…

The Palestinian Information Center released a report on Israeli violations of the truce agreement between February 28 and March 7, 2005, 452 violations were reported, including 68 shooting incidents, causing the death of…

Israeli Foreign Minister, Sylvan Shalom told the US secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, during a meeting held on Tuesday, that “Israeli will not be able to progress in the political…

Israeli Radio reported on Wednesday that the Palestinian National security advisor, Jibreel Rajoub, said that the Palestinian armed group decided to cease “all attacks within the Israeli pre-1967 borders. “The…

We were in a van about 100 meters down the road from our destination of At-Tuwani, and it had only been half and hour since we had left Jerusalem this…

Israeli failure to keep its promise to remove all unauthorized settlers’ outposts established in the West Bank since March 2001 will harm relations between Israel and the United Sates, and…

The Israeli Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee is set to meet on March 21 to vote on the first reading of a bill that would mandate a referendum on…

Israeli and Palestinian Authority security officials were meeting for a second round of talks on the transfer of the West Bank town of Jericho on Wednesday evening, but second round…

Tuesday after noon, dozens of residents protested in the village of Bal’in, west of Ramallah, against the expropriation of lands for the construction of the annexation wall. Israeli soldiers fired…

At least one million people attended a rally against the Syrian pullback from Lebanon called by Hezbollah in Lebanese capitol Hezbollah source reported on Tuesday. This rally drastically outnumbered those…

Tuesday afternoon, Israeli soldiers lifted the curfew which was imposed over the old city of Hebron on Monday morning, while several military units conducted military searches of homes forcing the…

An official Japanese source denied that Japan is planning to host a Mideast summit saying ‘we have no such plans,’ Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda clarified that Japan has…

After few weeks, during which Israel halted coordination with the Palestinian Authority and has frozen the implementation of the Sharm’s summit understandings, Israel-PA coordination is back on track. The embargo…

Raed Mahameed, a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoners Society, visited several detainees in Gilboa detention center. Mahameed reported harsh conditions and serious violations of prisoners’ rights. Mahameed reported that Israeli…

Israel’s strategic goal is to phase out Palestinian labor by 2008, Israeli army chief of staff said on Tuesday.    Speaking to a security conference, Ya’alon said that before the…