Month: August 2005

Israeli soldiers supported by armored vehicles and jeeps invaded Arraba village near Jenin at dawn on Friday at dawn and arrested seven members of the Islamic Jihad movement, a senior…

A local source in Azzoun village, east of Qalqilia, reported that Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets and rounds of live ammunition at hundreds of residents who protested in their orchards…

Severe clashes erupted in Azzoun village, east of Qalqilia, after the residents held their Friday prayers in lands east of the village that Israeli is trying to annex. One youth…

The Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine called on the Palestinian Authority, especially the Legislative Council, in order to close the political detainees file, and release them from Jericho detention facility.…

In a move that seen as provocative, some 25 armed settlers marched Friday through Palestinian villages in the West Bank in an attempt to reach the settlements of Sa-Nur and…

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Al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced on Friday that its operatives will not disarm after the pullout from the Gaza Strip, intended to start…

Al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced on Friday that its operatives will not disarm after the pullout from the Gaza Strip, intended to start…

The mother of detainee Yousef Qandeel, from Jenin refugee camp, said that he is suffering of a deteriorating health condition as a result of medical neglect and bad living condition…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza released its weekly report documenting the Israeli violations and attacks in the Palestinian territories in the period between August 4 and August…

Nathmi Mhanna, head of the Border Crossing Department at the Palestinian Authority, said on Friday that the Rafah Border Crossing, which links the Gaza Strip with Egypt, will remain opened…

Expressing satisfaction with the huge number of right-wingers who gathered at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to protest the disengagement plan on Thursday evening, leaders of the Yesha Council, the…

The Israeli Police reported on Friday morning that dozens of cars which belongs to Arab residents of the Negev area were attacked and damaged at the Soroka hospital parking lot,…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Friday morning, the villages of Arraba and al-Rama, south of Jenin and arrested ten residents. A Palestinian security source in Jenin reported that soldiers invaded the…

Israeli soldiers stopped more than fifty vehicles at a military checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Tubas. A local source in Tubas reported that soldiers installed a roadblock…

Israel incessantly claims that she is the only true democracy in the Middle East. The Jewish state often uses this claim, which is half-true at best, to blur her systematic…

Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Sana’ Harbawi, reported that she visited several detainees in Asqalan detention center on Wednesday, who informed her of the bad living conditions and treatment…

As speculations about a political ‘big bang’ in Israel intensify, Yousef Lapid, chairman of the Israeli Shinui party and former Minister of Justice, said on Thursday that he does not…

Israeli soldiers arrested, on Wednesday evening, a resident from Artas village, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. A local source in Bethlehem reported that Ziad Ali Ismail, 18,…

Dr. Mohammad al-Hindy, one of the political leaders of the Islamic Jihad, said on Thursday that the real battle with the occupation ends after Israel withdraws from all of the…

An Israeli military court sentenced an Israeli Army soldier to eight years in jail after being found guilty of manslaughter for killing the British peace activist Tom Hurndall, Israeli sources reported on…

Israeli soldiers arrested Haya Mohammad Hoshiyya, 25, in an attempt to put psychological pressure on her detained husband, the Bethlehem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported on Thursday. Ayed…

Settlers’ leaders are planning a massive protest rally in Tel Aviv on Thursday night, in their last bid to disrupt the pullout slated to start August 15. The Yesha Council…

Israeli soldiers arrest, on Thursday morning, a resident at a military checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. A source at Azzoun village council, near Qalqilia, reported that…

Israeli police and army admitted on Wednesday that they failed to bar thousands of right-wing pullout protestors from entering the Gaza Strip; the number of pullout opponents who managed to…

A medical source in Qalqilia reported, on Thursday morning, that one resident was hospitalized after soldiers attacked, severely punched and clubbed him while trying to cross Beit Eeba checkpoint. The…

Israeli soldiers arrested, on Thursday at dawn, a resident of Nour Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem in the West Bank. A local source in the camp reported that soldiers,…

Israeli soldiers arrested overnight a resident of al-Mawassi area, west of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The WAFA news agency reported that soldiers arrested Ashraf…

Israeli soldiers surrounded and invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday at dawn. A local source in the city reported that soldiers searched homes and occupied rooftops,…

Israeli soldiers invaded al-Khader, a  town south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on Thursday at dawn. A local source in al-Khader reported that soldiers invaded the al-Baloa’ neighborhood,…

In bid to coordinate security activities prior to and during the Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip and the four minor northern West Bank settlements, a joint Palestinian-Israeli operations room…

The Palestinian Ministry of Interior reported on Wednesday evening that two residents were injured when an explosive went off near them in Gaza. A Palestinian security source said that Khaled…

Israeli President Moshe Katsav apologized on behalf of the State of Israel to the settlers for asking them to leave the settlements. He made the comments in a special address broadcast live…

An Israeli paratrooper refused on Wednesday to carry out an order related to the disengagement plan, an Israeli military source reported. The soldier is the first paratrooper to refuse to…

An erstimated 40,000 to 50.000 pullout opponents conducted an anti-disengagement protest at the “Western Wall plaza” in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, according to Israeli sources. Additional protestors had planned to join the…

Israeli human rights organizations called on the Israeli government to take the steps necessary to protect the Palestinians in case of an escalation in violence by settlers during and after…

  Palestinian security source reported that army invaded the village of Fahma to the south of Jenin on Wednesday at down and conducted House-to-house searches, no arrests were reported. Also…

200 protesters from the village of Bel’in, West of Ramallah, international and Israeli peace activists protested on Wednesday ear the construction site of the Separation wall in the village. Troops…

Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Kafr Ra’ai south of the West Bank city of Jenin, with more than ten military vehicles. Troops blocked all entrances to the village and…

A Palestinian security source reported that five army jeeps invaded on Wednesday morning the West Bank city of Nablus. Army jeeps toured the city shooting heavily in the air according…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Nour Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem, conducted military searches and arrested four residents. A local source in the camp reported that soldiers,…

Israeli soldiers and settlers attacked on Wednesday dozens of residents of al-Lubban al-Sharqiyya, north west of Ramallah, and fired rounds of live ammunition; nine residents were injured. A local source…

The Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip and the four West Bank settlements is not an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian land; an Arab senior diplomat was…

Former Israeli Minister of Finance Benjamin Netanyahu would win over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon by a margin of 47 to 32 percent if primary elections for the Likud party leadership…

Israeli soldiers based at the Separation Wall Gate in Kafer Qaddoum village, near Qalqilia, delayed an ambulance transferring and old man to hospital after sustaining a heart attack, the man…

The Israeli army is tightening the closure it has imposed on the Gaza Strip in preparation for implementation of the withdrawal of settlers from the area, a Palestinian security source reported…

Israeli soldiers invaded the West Bank city of Nablus, on Wednesday at dawn, and fired rounds of live ammunition. A local source in Nablus reported that soldiers, supported by five…

The Israeli government approved the 2006 State Budget by a 12-8 vote in the early hours of Wednesday, Israeli sources reported. The budget was prepared by Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,…

Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed on Tuesday on details of a plan to destroy the homes in Gaza Strip settlements slated for evacuation under the Israeli pullout plan. Under…

Two settlers were lightly wounded Tuesday night in a drive-by shooting south of the West Bank city of Hebron. Israeli police believe the attack was criminally motivated.   An Israeli military…

A local source in Azzoun, east of Qalqilia, reported on Tuesday at night, that Israeli soldiers invaded the village and arrested Tahseen Ishaq Zeidan, 24 years old. The source stated…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at night, the West Bank city of Bethlehem and arrested two brothers. A local source in Bethlehem reported that soldiers, supported by armored vehicles, troop…

Israeli and international leftist peace activists accused the Israeli army of using demonstrations against the Separation Wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in as a “test field” for its…

Israeli soldiers, and special army units, attacked the home of detainee Yacoub abu Romiyya, in al-Ezariyya town, south of Jerusalem. A local source in al-Ezariyya reported that soldiers searched the…

The Israeli on Tuesday sealed off the northern West Bank settlements of Kadim and Ghanim after announcing them closed military zones, more than two weeks before they are scheduled for evacuation…

Several Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip reported seeing settlers from Moragh settlement placing dozens of landmines around Moragh settlement, in the southern part of the Strip, in an attempt…

This is a rare eyewitness account of one of the hundreds of illegal ‘targeted murders’ by Israel of young Palestinian men, members of the legal Resistance. As such, its importance…

The residents of Tulkarem in the West Bank burried, on Tuesday,Tamer Zindeq (15) in the afternoon. Tamer Zindeq was killed Monday during an invasion by the Israeli Army of Tulkarem and…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas suggested that new elections for president and vice president be held in four years.  Abbas’ suggestion came during his speech before a special session for the Palestinian Legislative…

An Israeli investigating committee on Tuesday declared 45,000 applications to join the Labor Party invalid on the grounds of fraud. In a press conference at Labor’s headquarters in Tel Aviv, the…

The Israeli cabinet, meeting Tuesday, is set to okay the disputed 2006 state budget, Israeli media sources reported. The ratification of the budget comes two days after the Benjamin Netanyahu…

Israeli soldiers invaded Tulkarem refugee camp and the eastern neighborhood of Tulkarem, and conducted military searches of homes; army claims searching for wanted resistance fighters. A local source in Tulkarem…

The Israeli police barred recently several Arab residents of Jerusalem from entering al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The WAFA news agency reported that the Israeli police handed the residents official orders…

Israeli soldiers arrested on Tuesday a Palestinian resident in Ithna village, near the West Bank city of Hebron after invading it, and occupied one home using it as monitoring towers…

A group of Israeli right-wing demonstrators tried on Tuesday morning to invade the al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem under the protection of the Israeli police. The protestors and the police…

The new Israeli law that prohibits Palestinians who were injured or had their property damaged by Israeli army troops from suing the government encourages Israeli soldiers to commit more crimes against…

Israel’s security cabinet on Monday decided to allow 40 collaborator families now living in the Gaza Strip to move into Israel. The collaborator families currently live in the al-Daheena area, in the southern…

The ministerial security council of the Israeli cabinet on Monday  approved the withdrawal of the Israeli army from the Philadelphi Route, which runs along the Gaza-Egypt border, by the end…

Israeli soldiers arrested, on Tuesday morning, three residents near Tiaseer village, east of the West Bank city of Tubas. According to eyewitness reports, soldiers arrested the three residents who were…

The Israeli court at Salem, near the West bank city of Qalqilia, sentenced Nedal Bastakgee, 16, of Qalqilia to two years in jail. The court said the boy is part…

 The Israeli Army arrested three brothers from Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus at dawn on Tuesday. After invaded the camp and conducting extensive searches, the…

The International Red Cross suspended its field work in the Gaza Strip Tuesday after three UN workers – two foreigners and a Palestinian - were abducted in Gaza, the organization’s spokesman,…

An Israeli military source reported that an Israel sergeant was sentenced by a military tribunal to three weeks in detention. The source stated that the sergeant refused to carry “al…

Palestinian Foreign Ministry called the international world and the United Nations to keep recognizing the Gaza Strip as an occupied territory after the Israeli withdrawal. “Gaza will continue to be…

The WAFA news agency reported on Monday at night that one youth was killed, several residents were injured in Nour Shams refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Tulkarem…

The Arabs48 news website reported on Monday that extremist settlers attacked a mosque in the coastal Lod town, placed porn pictures in the mosque and wrote graffiti calling for expelling…

It was all expected: both the massacre and the questions it raised. But behind the easy questions that practically posed themselves, much more difficult and unasked questions are hidden. The…

The Israeli Army on Monday afternoon arrested one resident from the Al Mawasi area in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, An eyewitness reported that the army invaded the area,…

 The Israeli Army on Monday afternoon shelled homes in the  Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Eyewitness reported that the troops positioned in the army posts around the…

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee announced on Monday that Israel and Egypt are expected to reach a deal to deploy Egyptian troops on the Philadelphi route separating Sinai and…

The Palestinian police freed two UN workers who were abducted by Palestinian gunmen in Gaza, a Palestinian security source reported. The two workers, who were no identified, were taken to…

An Israeli military source reported on Monday that the Palestinian resistance fired at several army posts in the Gush Katif settlement Bloc. No injuries were reported.

Monday at dawn, a Palestinian resistance group fired at military jeeps in Azzoun village, near the West Bank city of Qalqilia. Al-Aqsa brigades, the military wing of Fateh, claimed responsibility…

Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Mousa said that there are no new Arab initiatives for peace in the Middle East other than the one presented in Beirut, Palestine…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Sunday at night Azzoun village, east of Qalqilia, conducted military searches of homes and arrested four residents, two residents were released later on. A local source…

Resistance fighters fired at settlers’ cars late Sunday night at Azun village, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia. No injuries were reported. The Al Aqsa brigades clamed responsibility…

Palestinian resistance fighters fired a mortar shell toward  the Gush Katif settlements in the Gaza Strip early on Monday morning. No damage was reported. Also in the Gaza, resistance fighters…

Amr Mousa, Secretary General of the Arab League, said on Monday that the peace initiative that was approved by the Arab summit in Beirut in March 2002 and officially confirmed…

The Palestinian Ministry of the Interior and National Security reported on Monday that General Jamal abu Zayed, deputy minister of the interior, and Israeli Defense Ministry Deputy Director General Moshe…

The Palestine Section of Defense for Children International reported Monday that at least 330 child prisoners are currently imprisoned in Israeli prisons and detention centers. Khaled Qirmaz, a lawyer working…

The Fateh Central Committee met on Sunday evening to discuss preparations for ensuring security in the Palestinian areas during the Israeli withdrawal and other security issues in the Gaza Strip.…

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz signed orders placing three extremist settlers who are members of the outlawed Kach movement in administrative detention. The three extremists were charged with attacking Palestinian residents.…

As the interim Israeli Minister of Finance, Ehud Olmert from Likud, is getting ready to present the 2006 State Budget on Tuesday, Labor party ministers are threatening to vote against…

The Israeli Army invaded Obeidiyah, a village east of Bethlehem, on Monday morning. Local sources from the village reported that eight army jeeps invaded the village, and soldiers conducted house-to-house…

Israeli soldiers on Sunday night invaded Azzoun, a village east of Qalqilia, and imposed a curfew barring the residents from leaving their homes until further notice. The WAFA news agency reported that…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Sunday appointed Ehud Olmert as interim Finance Minister in place of Benjamin Netanyahu, who resigned earlier on the day. Sharon is scheduled to meet…

A medical source in Qalqilia reported that soldiers attacked and injured a residents of Sier village, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia. Abed al-Salem al-Sharry, head of al-Sier…

Two Palestinian detainees announced Hunger Strike in protest to harsh conditions and medical neglect in Israeli prisons. The two detainees, Mohammad Ala’ ed-Deen, from Bethlehem, and Salah Barghouthi from Ramallah,…

A settler boy was critically wounded Sunday in a drive-by shooting incident north of the West Bank city of Ramallah, an  Israeli source reported. The car was driving on the…

A Palestinian medical source in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that soldiers shot and killed one resident on Sunday afternoon.  A medical source at abu…