Day: July 22, 2005

Israeli soldiers fired on Friday afternoon, at a peaceful procession against the Separation Wall in Bel’in, west of Ramallah; six residents were injured, and five others were arrested. A local…

Israeli soldiers shot killed,a Palestinian youth, on Friday at night, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. An Israeli army source said on Friday, that a Palestinian gunman fired…

A mass wedding ceremony sponsored by the Islamic Jihad organization in the Gaza Strip, 222 Gazan couples got married in Gaza city on Friday, Maan news agency reported. In addition…

US secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, met on Friday, with the Israeli prime Minister Ariel Sharon at his Negev Ranch, Sharon was reportedly “very pleased” with the outcome of the…

Three Israeli settlers today attacked a 75-year-old man, Mahmoud Shousha, from Housan village near Bethlehem The settlers came by car to Shousha’s land while he was working in it. His…

Clashes erupted between anti-wall demonstrators and the army on Friday afternoon as internationals, Israelis and Palestinians demonstrated in Bil’in village, west of the West Bank city of Ramallah. Troops lashed…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Friday, that the Israeli Authorities re-operated the X-ray search machine chamber at the Rafah Boder Crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza…

Friday afternoon, Israeli soldiers invaded Wadi al-Maleh area, east of the West Bank city of Tubas, and expelled two residents. Aref Dharaghma, head of the Projects Department in Wadi al-Maleh,…

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The Palestinian police arrested on Thursday evening an armed group of Israeli youths after they entered Beit Jala, near Bethlehem. The youths were then handed over to the Israeli army, which…

Israeli military officials admitted that the army failed to completely seal off the Gaza Strip to Israeli civilians, as it had intended to do in preparation for the upcoming evacuation of…

A committee of Israel’s Knesset is set to vote Monday on a bill that would make it virtually impossible for Palestinians to seek compensation from the state for damages caused…

Israeli soldiers arrested two residents of Qabatia, south of the West Bank city of Jenin.  A local source in Qabatia reported that soldiers invaded the village on Friday at dawn, conducted…

Israeli soldiers, backed by armored vehicles, barged into the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, in the early hours of Friday morning, eye-witnesses reported. Troops conducted house-to-house…

A Palestinian medical source has said that a resident of Gaza died on Thursday of wounds sustained last week. Dr. Jom’a al-Saqqa, head of the Public Relations Office at Nasser Medical Compound in…

The economic ministerial council at the Knesset approved a plan to provide 97 million shekels in aid to improve infrastructure, agriculture and for settlement expansion in the Jordan Valley area. The…

For the first time ever, the Israeli Army participated in a NATO exersice. A total of 13 IDF commanders took part in the two-and-a-half week long training, which was held at…

Allowing ourselves a little empirical leeway it is possible to divide summer society into two classes. One is constantly on the move. Its members have not a moment’s rest as…

Israel denied access to a group of 130 international human rights and peace activists of the Caravan for Justice in Palestine, who tried to access the country, coming from Jordan,…

An Israeli military source reported that soldiers arrested two residents in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. The two residents were arrested overnight after the army invade the city…

Israeli soldiers shelled on Friday at dawn, several homes west of Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip. A local source in Khan Younis reported that soldiers stationed…