Month: August 2005

The Israeli Knesset approved on Wednesday on Wednesday the Israeli – Egyptian Philadilphi deal, to deploy 750 Egyptian troops at the Philadilphi route, on the Gaza Egypt borders, after Israeli…

Israeli soldiers installed two electronic gates in Tal Rmeida neighborhood and Al Sahla areas, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. A source at the Hebron reconstruction committee reported…

Israeli soldiers decided to close the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron on Thursday, barring Muslim worshipers from entering it. In spite of the fact that Thursday marks a Muslim feast, Israeli…

Israeli soldiers arrested, on Wednesday afternoon, a resident of Hebron at Qalandia checkpoint, north of Jerusalem. The resident, Mohammad Kayed Al Yamani, 26, from Hebron, was heading to Ramallah when…

Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Sana’ Dweik, reported that the detainees are facing daily hardships and bad living conditions in Israeli detention centers, while dozens of detainees are still…

Ofer Israeli military court sentenced on Tuesday a Palestinian detainee to 30 consecutive years. The WAFA news agency reported that the court sentenced Fathi Mohammad Al Najjar, 33, from Hebron,…

Aye witnesses reported that the Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday, Baqa Al Sharqiyya and Qaffeen villages northern of the West Bank city of Tulkarem. A local source in the camp…

Benjamin Netanyahu started his election campaign to lead the Likud and regain the premiership by calling to build a new settlement in the West Bank. The area is called E-1,…

The Hebron Reconstruction Committee, in the old city of Hebron, reported that residents of the old city are suffering from the presence of 400 settlers living their and heavily guarded…

Palestinian Ministry of Interior and National Security reported that the P.A is the only legitimate authority in the Palestinian territories and that it will not allow “private armies” and armed…

Israeli authorities decided to annex 1000 Dunams of family orchards which belongs to residents of Dir Al Hatab and Azmout, east of Nablus in the West Bank. A local source…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that Israeli Prison Authorities deported two Palestinian detainees, bearers of Jordanian passports, to Jordan. The first detainee, identified as Mohammad Tayeh Ayyad, was arrested on…

Israeli soldiers arrested on Tuesday at night two Palestinian children from the northern part of the Gaza Strip. An Israeli military source claimed that the two children entered Doughti settlement,…

A mob of extremist Jewish Israelis attacked two Arab residents of Israel, from Ar’ara village, in the north of Israel, while the residents were working at a public park in Ramat Gan city.…

The WAFA news agency reported on Tuesday that Israeli soldiers arrested two Palestinian residents, east of Jerusalem, and attacked a reporter working with WAFA. The two residents, along with other…

A medical source in Hebron reported that three residents were attacked by Israeli soldiers and sustained moderate injuries in addition to bruises to several parts of their bodies. The three…

An extremist settlers’ group of the Ramat Yeshai illegal settlement outpost, in Tal Rmeida neighborhood, in the center of the West Bank city of Hebron, burnt farmlands planted with Olives,…

The resigned Israeli Minister of Finance Benjamin Netanyahu has decided, in a direct challenge to the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to declare his candidacy on Tuesday for chairmanship of…

Egyptian intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman is currently formulating a proposal which he claims will end the Palestinian – Israeli dispute over the freedom of movement of Palestinian residents and goods through the…

Army invaded Bardalah Village east of Tubas near the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday at down. Troops interred the village, conducted search to the houses there and forced…

Israeli army arrested on Tuesday down three residents from Beit Leqia north of the est Bank city of Ramallah.  The three arrestees are claimed to be  Islamic Jihad acctivests and…

Army leveled, on Tuesday morning, the house of Ahmad Tayyim from AL Fondok village east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia. The house was used as a warehouse for…

Army invaded Bal’a village east of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, on Tuesday morning, and stormed the residents’ houses. Troops conducted military searches in the village, and broke into…

Army invaded Anza village, west of the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday at down.  Troops invaded the village and conducted wide scale search which included more than 20…

Army arrested on Tuesday two residents from Tulkarem at two different checkpoints. Soldiers installed a portable checkpoint at the Tulkarem-Nablus road and arrested Ahmad Abu Safia 20 from Tulkarem while…

The United States has rescinded its demand for Israel to implement the joined, U.S. – Israeli marking of the boundaries of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Israeli and…

Jailed Palestinian legislator Marwan Barghouthi, secretary of the Fateh High Committee in the West Bank, called on Palestinians both in Palestine and in exile to celebrate the Israeli withdrawal from…

A local source in Jerusalem reported that Israeli Border Guards policemen and agents of the Israeli security broke into a residential building in al Suwwana neighborhood in Jerusalem, and arrested…

The settlers of Teneh Omarim settlement requested the opportunity to leave their settlement under the terms of the compensation law passed to cover the disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip…

Palestinians and Israelis agreed on Monday the Israeli army will gradually hand over the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority one position at a time, Israeli sources reported.   The…

The Israeli army decided to evacuate an illegal settlement outpost in the center of the Old City of Hebron by the end of 2005. An Israeli source reported that the…

Dr. Sa’eb Ereikat, head of the negotiations department at the Palestinian Authority said the Palestinians will not accept any agreement that would turn the Gaza Strip into a big jail,…

Army arrested Ali Asafra 26 and Mohamed Kamal 22 when its troops invaded the village of Beit Kahel near Hebron Monday morning.  Asafra works as a nurse in the medical…

Soldiers stationed at the container checkpoint, which blocks the road linking the north of the West Bank with its southern part, detained and assaulted a Palestinian man from Nahaleen village…

A medical source at the Hebron Governmental Hospital reported on Monday that Israeli soldiers attacked and badly clubbed a resident near Al Dabboya settlement in Hebron. The source stated that…

Israeli soldiers imposed a curfew over the village of Fasayel, north of Jericho in the West Bank. A local source in the village reported that soldiers invaded the village, deployed…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided to transfer the collaborators living in Al Daheena area, in the southern Gaza Strip, to the Tal Arad area in the Negev. The decision…

An Israeli military source reported on Monday that one soldier was lightly injured in a shooting incident near the evacuated settlement of Neveh Dekalim, in the Gush Katif settlement bloc…

The Israeli army invaded the village of Habla south of the West Bank city of Qalqilia on Monday at down. Troops invaded the village with several military jeeps and searched several houses.  The…

Mosheer Al Masry, Hamas media spokesperson, said on Sunday that the Palestinian Authority did not achieve anything for the Palestinians, while the resistance managed to force Israel to evacuate from the…

The army sealed off the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday morning. Troops sealed all the checkpoints around the city, blocking the movement of residents, ambulances and medical teams,…

The army arrested Anwar Asakra 37 from Al Asakra village east of Bethlehem Sunday afternoon. Troops stopped Anwar at Al Kontener checkpoint, which blocks the eastern entrance of Bethlehem, detained…

The Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz considers running for the Likud Primaries if the Israeli Prime Minister, chair of the party Ariel Sharon resigns or decides not to run. Mofaz…

Israeli Defense Ministry Director, Amos Yaron, reported on Monday morning that the construction of the Israeli Separation Wall in the southern West Bank will be completed by the end of…

Two Palestinians were killed on Monday morning, in a blast which took place in Askar refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Nablus. Officials are trying to determine the…

Chief of Egyptian intelligence, Omar Suleiman, is to arrive in Gaza on Monday for discussions with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and leaders of Palestinian factions over the Israeli withdrawal from the Rafah…

Salem Israeli military court, north of the West Bank, sentenced two residents of Jenin to one life term each. The two residents were identified as Fawwaz Abu Abed, from Ya’bod,…

The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, reported that one resident was arrested on Sunday in Al Shiokh village, near Hebron. The resident was identified as Ahmad Mohammad Al…

A medical source at the Hebron Governmental Hospital, reported that one resident sustained fractions in his left arm after soldiers attacked him in Anata, north of Jerusalem. The source said…

Israeli government approved on Sunday the Philadelphi deal for deploying Egyptian border guards across the Philadelphi Route in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The agreement will…

An Israeli security source reported that two security guards were injured in Be’er Sheva on Sunday morning after a bomber detonated explosives outside the central bus station when he was spotted by…

In the mid-80s Meron Benvenisti, an Israeli researcher on the West Bank and Gaza, came up with the term irreversibility when referring to the difficulty that will be met to…

Dear Settlers — ‘Dear’ in the most literal sense. At long last it must be spelled out, without hypocritical pity, without ‘if’ and ‘but’. We have paid billions of shekels…

A Palestinian resident was injured on Saturday evening after settlers hurled stones at her near Karnei Shomron settlement, in the northern West Bank. The woman sustained light injuries when about…

  Israeli soldiers uncovered a pipe bomb near the West Bank city of Ramallah, an Israeli military source reported. Border guard sappers detonated the charge in a controlled explosion.

Israeli soldiers invaded Marda village, near the West Bank city of Salfit, and arrested one resident on Saturday at dawn. A local source in the village reported that soldiers broke into…

Israeli soldiers arrested three residents in Hebron and Al-Shiokh village, raising the number of residents arrested in the Hebron area during the month of August to 56. The three residents…

An Israeli source reported on Saturday that the Israeli government is expected to approve the deployment of Egyptian forces on the Philadelphi route along the Gaza-Egypt border near Rafah. After the…

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine denied reports which were published by the media regarding its intention to run in the upcoming Palestinian Legislative elections, scheduled for January 25, 2006.…

Sufian Abu Zaida, Palestinian Minister of Detainees and Liberated Detainees, said that there are no current negotiations with the Israeli side regarding releasing Gaza detainees from Israeli prisons. Abu Zaida…

The Palestinian Authority delivered an urgent message to the Quartet objecting to the Israeli policies of settlement expansion in the West Bank, especially around Jerusalem. Dr. Saeb Erekat, head of…

Mohammad Deif, a prominent Hamas activist, also believed to be a master bomb-maker wanted by Israeli security forces for the last decade, appeared on a video tape Saturday saying that…

Resident Yasser Omar, from Beit Amin village near the West Bank city of Qalqilia, reported that a group of settlers standing on a hill close to the Separation Wall gate,…

The Israeli army confiscated a car belonging to a resident of Tammoun, near the West Bank city of Tubas, local sources reported. The man was heading back home from the nearby village…

Israeli army invaded the village of Azoon near the West Bank city of Qalqilia on Friday afternoon.  The army imposed a curfew on the village, barring residents from leaving their…

Israeli soldiers arrested Khader AL Majaidah, 50, a resident of Al Mawasi area in the Gaza Strip late Friday night. Troops arrested Al Majaidah while he was standing in front…

For the second time in less than a month, the Israeli Prison Authority transferred a prominent Hamas leader to solitary confinement in Asqalan detention facility. Lawyer Shadi Younis, who managed…

The United Nations Conference for Trade and Development, UNCTAD, reported that the Palestinian economy has sharply deteriorated since the beginning of Al Aqsa Intifada in 2000. A report prepared by…

A former senior Palestinian Authority official, now jailed in PA’s Jericho prison, offered to assist father to discover the fate of the Israeli American soldiers who went missing in Israel’s…

Israeli soldiers detained dozens of residents at Al Hamra, south of Tubas in the West Bank, after closing it for several hours. A local source in Tubas reported that soldiers…

Dozens of Palestinians, International and Israeli peace activists marched on Friday in the village of Bil’in near the West Bank city of Ramallah protesting the construction of the separation wall…

Israeli soldiers arrested one resident in the west Bank city of Hebron, and declared several neighborhoods in the old city as closed military zones, while settlers repeated their attacks in…

Israeli soldiers arrested Hamad-Allah Ebdah, 15 years old, from Marda village near Salfit overnight, a Palestinian source reported.  A local source in the village reported that soldiers invaded the village,…

An Israeli military source reported, on Friday afternoon, that an explosive device went off near a military jeep near the electronic security fence in the southern Gaza Strip. No injuries…

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A Palestinian medical source in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one resident lost his leg after an explosive left by the army went off…

A Palestinian security source reported on Friday afternoon, that Israeli soldiers installed a military post north of Doughit settlement, in Beit Lahia, in the north part of the Gaza strip.…

An Israeli security source reported that two Lau missiles hit a residential building in Jaffa city, earlier on Friday, apparently as part of conflicts between underworld families in the coastal…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said on Friday that the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza is only the beginning, and that it should be followed by further withdrawals from the settlements in…

As many as 54 percent of the Israelis said they believe the Israeli government should withdraw from more territories in the West Bank and to reach peace with the Palestinians,…

The Israeli Security Services, Shabak, arrested on Thursday at night two Jewish extremists suspecting of throwing a pig’s head at Hassan Bek mosque in Jaffa near Tel Aviv in Israel,…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, in Gaza, published its weekly report of Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights in the occupied terrotories; the report covers the period between August…

An Israeli military source reported on Friday morning, that one Israeli Border Policeman was stabbed near the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron. The soldier sustained moderate…

Palestinian resistance fired, on Friday at down, a home made shell an army post in the Gush Katif settlement Bloc in the Gaza Strip, one soldier was injured. Khaled AL…

Palestinian man stabbed on Friday morning an Israeli soldier near Al Ibrahimi mosque in the old city of Hebron. Israeli army source reported that the soldier sustained moderate wounds in…

Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on Friday that the number of settlers in the West Bank has increased by13 thousand over the last year, especially in religious settlements; total number of…

An investigation conducted by the Israeli army regarding the Shfa-Amr terrorist carried out by an Israeli settler-soldier earlier this months killing four Arab residents of Israel, called on the Israeli…

The Israeli government is weighing the possibility of evacuating its troops from the Philadilphi Route, on the Gaza Egypt borders, at the same time of evacuating its forces from the…

Two Palestinian residents were injured on Thursday afternoon, during a protest against the separation Wall in Al Ramadeen village, south of the West Bank city of Hebron. A local source…

Hundreds of Palestinian security forces arrived in the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday to help maintain security in the city as part of the Palestinian Authority’s efforts to…

A medical source in Hebron reported that soldiers attacked and clubbed three brothers, in Hebron, south of the West Bank, after breaking into their home, and detained them. The source…

Israeli police arrested seven Palestinian workers in Nazareth in the Galilee while doing construction work in the city, Israeli sources said. According to the source, the seven were arrested since…

Waiting for freedom While Iran is being pressured to halt its nuclear weapon program, Israel’s nuclear weapon possession gets close to no attention at all. Though endagering his own freedom,…

Israeli soldiers operating on the checkpoint on the southern entrance of West Bank city of Bethlehem, blocking the road to Hebron, arrested Omar Al-Afandi from the nearby Deheisheh refugee camp.…

The Israeli Army invaded the West Bank city of Qalqila on Thursday morning and arrested two residents. Troops, backed by several military jeeps, invaded the city, searched many houses and…

An extremist settler group attacked, on Thursday, dozens of Palestinian residents and stores near Al Aqsa Mosque area, in the old city of Jerusalem, a local source reported. The settlers,…

A home made Qassam shell hit the Israeli Negev town of Sderot, Thursday morning causing no damage or casualties as it fell in an open area near the town Israeli…

Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, and the Islamic Jihad, condemned the assassination of five residents, said to be Islamic Jihad members in Tulkarem, on Thursday, and vowed to avenge the attack.…

Five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli army raid in the West Bank city of Tulkarem overnight, one of them was an Islamic Jihad operative and the other four were…

Palestinian resistance fired, on Thursday morning, at the troops dismantling the army posts in the evacuated settlements of  Kfar Darom and Neveh Dikalim Settlements in the Gaza strip, Israeli army…