Day: April 14, 2005

A group of armed settlers attacked on Thursday evening dozens of residents on a bypass road east of Hebron, one resident was injured, several cars damaged. A local source In…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas unified the P.A security devices into three apparatuses in an attempt to control chaos and implement reforms in these devices. P.A security devices will now…

For the second time in less that three weeks, settlers poisoned on Thursday, large areas of grazing land near Yasuf and Iskaka, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.…

Settlers of Ramat Yeshai illegal outpost in Tel Rmeida neighborhood, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, attacked a Palestinian man and six children, marking a new wave of…

Israeli soldiers detained eight residents, including elderly, after invading the village of Shoufa, south east of Tulkarem, and conducted military searches. A local source Shoufa reported that soldiers, supported by…

The ‘Jerusalem and Return’ coalition that joined Fatah with the Palestinian People’s Party (former communist) won 16 of the 31 student senate seats in Bethlehem University marking a clean victory…

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights on Thursday condemned Israel for using force against Palestinian civilians and called for halting settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories. The 53-states…

Palestinian sources reported that special units of the Israeli army assassinated an Aqsa Martyr Brigades operative on Thursday afternoon in Balata Refugee Camp, near the West Bank city of Nablus.…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that Dr. Majeda Fidda was transferred on Wednesday to administrative detention for a period which is not fixed yet. The society reported that the Israeli…

Family of detainee Fadil Odeh Shahin, 44, from Gaza, appealed international and local human rights organizations to help them and campaign for his release, since he is suffering from critical…

The National Information Center released a report of Thursday about the Israeli violations in the occupied territories; the report revealed that soldiers killed four residents and injured 29 during the…

Mahmoud Al-Zahar, a prominent leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip said the Israeli withdrawal from the strip will be a ‘victory for the fighters,’ media sources reported on Thursday.…

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas warned Palestinians and institutions from buying real estate from private of public Israeli owners in areas slated for evacuation. On Wednesday, Abbas held a meeting in…

Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, published in London, revealed information that the Greek government decided to fire the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem Irenious the first from his post over…

The Israeli army plans to build roads parallel to the existing main roads used by Israeli traffic in the Gaza Strip, prior to the implementation of the disengagement, Israeli sources…

A group of ‘pragmatic’ settlers from Gush Katif, acting as an ‘alternative leadership,’ are pushing for a deal that allows a quite pullout in exchange to moving en bloc to…

There’s a popular Palestinian folk song called ‘Wein a Ramallah’ – we are going to Ramallah. It’s largely a nostalgic tune cherished by the Palestinian diaspora and sung at festivals…

The U.S. Administration is sending two envoys this week to Israel and the Palestinian Authority territories in order to examine ways to help strengthen Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s rule.  The…