This Week in Palesitne – May Week 2
Download MP3 (9.00 MB) | Listen to Real Audio  (9:39 min) This week in Palestine – a service of the International Middle East Media Center, IMEMC.Org- for the week of Friday,…
Hebron woman dies of wounds sustained Thursday
A medical source in Hebron reported that resident Widad Mohammad al-Qaoud, 57, died of wounds sustained on Thursday after midnight, after soldiers attacked her brothers’ home in the old city.…
Abbas: Israel doesn’t want calm
In an interview with London-based newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas charged Israel was inciting against him but said that despite the smear campaign he does not intend to…
P.A began collecting weapons
The Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that the Palestinian Authority began collecting weapons in its controlled areas, which comes in accordance to the Sharm al-Sheikh understandings. Haaretz stated that that…
million signitures to reveal the cause behind Arafat’s death
A group called Fatah’s Forum launched a campaign to collect a million signature, calling upon the Palestinian leadership to investigate and uncover the real cause of the death of Palestinian…
Man killed near Israeli embassy in Tashkent
An Israeli source reported on Friday that security guards of the Israeli embassy in the Uzbek capital Tashkent shot and killed a man near the embassy. The Israeli Ynet news…
Atallah Hanna speaks on the Dismissal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem
In an interview with spokesman of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, Dr. Archimandrite Atallah Hanna, conducted the Palestine News Network, Hanna affirms that the church is serious about appointing the…
We want the body of our son
Family of Abdul-Fattah Yousef Raddad, who died in detention on May 5, 2005, appealed humanitarian organizations to inflict over the Israeli Prison Authorities in order to hand them the body…
Settlers attack, wound an aged man near Nablus
Resident Sameeh Mustafa Hamdan, 70, from the village of Salem near Nablus, was badly bruised in his face, and several parts of his body, and sustained fractions in his left…
Abbas: Everybody must respect the choice of the Palestinians in the elections
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the decision by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to take part in the upcoming parliament election scheduled for July 17, Palestinian sources reported. Abbas…
Destroying settlers’ homes to cost $45M
A report issued this week by Israeli defense ministry estimated the cost of destroying settlers’ homes, including the cost of removing the rubble, at NIS 200 million. The report also…
Netanyahu: U.S. civil aid to Israel will end in 3-4 years
Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that In three or four years American financial aid for non-military purposes would end completely. Netanyahu’s comments came in an interview with Israeli…
U.S. Episcopal Church considering divestment from Israel
The U.S. Episcopal Church, considering a review of investments in companies that do business with Israel. A church fact-finding team, who recently visited the West bank, came back deeply disturbed.…
Hezbollah shells Army outpost near Lebanese border
Israel Radio reported Friday afternoon that shells fell at a military outpost in the occupied Sheba farms region. No immediate reports on casualties were released. The Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV said…
EU warns Iran against resumption of nuclear activities
The foreign ministers of the European Union’s three biggest powers, France, Britain and Germany sent a strongly worded letter to Hassan Rohani, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, warning that resuming nuclear…
Palestinians in Israel mark Nakbe Day
Palestinians living in Israel commemorated Thursday Nakba (‘Catastrophe’) Day by mass pilgrimages to destroyed Palestinian villages. In the morning, families of internally displaced Palestinians visited the sites of the villages…