Month: October 2005

An Israeli source reported on Monday at night that Palestinian resistance fired a homemade shell at the Israeli Negev town of Sderot. The Israeli police reported that the shell apparently…

Israeli soldiers abducted on Monday evening a Palestinian resident in Tulkarem after breaking into his carpentry workshop, in the southern neighborhood of Tulkarem. The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon addressing the Knesset during the opening of its winter session, said that Israel considers the construction of the Separation Wall in the West Bank as…

Bier Zeit University students, suspended on Monday all classes until further notice  in protest to the violent response of the Palestinian Authority security forces to a protest they held in…

Israel has officially agreed to have European observers as a third party on the Gaza – Egypt border crossing in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli official source said…

Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, on Monday morning, and arrested six residents. Troops stormed the camp and arrested Ashraf Jaradat 26, Jom’ah…

The Israeli army arrested on Monday morning two residents in the village of Azzoun east of the West Bank city of Qulqilia. Troops arrested Ma’mon Katesh, a P.A secourity officer…

The Israeli army invaded, n Monday at dawn, the village of Tammoun, near the West Bank city of Tubas, local sources reported. Troops broke into several homes and searched them…

The Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, vowed to retaliate to the assassination of its leader Jihad Zakarna, 21, and his deputies Irshaiyyed Ahmad Kamil, 21,…

Israeli soldiers invaded two villages near the West Bank city of Qalqilia, on Monday at dawn, and arrested two residents. Also, soldiers invaded the village of PAzzoun, and arrested Ma’moun…

Israeli soldiers invaded two villages near the West Bank city of Qalqilia, on Monday at dawn, and arrested two residents. Also, soldiers invaded the village of PAzzoun, and arrested Ma’moun…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Monday at noon, the West Bank city of Tulkarem and arrested one resident. A local source in Tulkarem reported that under-cover army units of the Israeli…

Israeli soldiers arrested, on Monday at dawn, a Palestinian reporter in Qalandia refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Ramatan news agency reported that soldiers arrested…

“A Valuable Prey” was how Israeli security sources described the successful assassination the commander of Al Quds Brigades in the Jenin district and his deputy.  Jihad Mohammed Zakarneh has been…

An Israeli source reported on Monday that the Israeli prosecution filed charges against thee Druze youth from Majdal Shams in the Golan, to the Nazareth District Court on suspicions that…

Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh, and Salah Ed Deen Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance…

Israeli soldiers assassinated, on Monday at dawn, a fighter in Qabatia town, south of the West Bank city of Jenin, raising the number of fighters killed in Qabatia since Sunday…

Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Al-Kidweh warned on Monday against turning the Gaza Strip into a big open-air prison soon, if the hanging problems were not over come. Al-Kidweh…

Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh, and Salah Ed Deen Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance…

After a gag order was lifted on the case, the Israeli Secret Security Services, Shin Bet, reported that it arrested three Palestinians, said to be manufacturers of Qassam homemade shells,…

Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, threatened on Sunday that he will order his army to strike hard if the resistance fires homemade shells at the Israeli coastal areas. Sharon told…

Israeli army is planning to divide the West Bank into three isolated parts by setting up a checkpoint that separates the northern section of the West Bank with its middle and southern…

One resident was injured in the West Bank city of Hebron, on Saturday at night, after an extremist settlers group attacked dozens of homes in the city, and the neighing…

A medical source at Doura Medical Center, in the village of Doura, near the West Bank city of Hebron, reported that eight residents were injured during clashes which erupted in…

Israeli soldiers arrested on Sunday a young girl near the Ibrahimi mosque, in the West Bank city of Hebron. Soldiers claimed Hiba Tawfik Issa, 16, was attempting to cross the…

Israeli soldiers resumed, on Saturday evening, the military attacks against the Gaza Strip, and shelled several areas after a Palestinian resistance group fired a homemade shell at the Israeli Negev…

An Israeli military source reported, on Saturday evening, that a Palestinian resistance group detonated a wired car near two military vehicles during and invasion which was carried out in the…

A Palestinian underage detainee was mildly injured when an Israeli prisoner stabbed him in Ophik detention facility for underage prisoners, in Hasharon area in the center of Israel. The youth…

Israeli soldiers arrested, on Saturday, a Palestinian woman in the West Bank city of Hebron. An Israeli military source claimed that the woman attempted to stab a soldier, and that…

Palestinian Interior Minister Nasser Yousef issued a statement vowing that the P.A will stop illegal weapon manufacturing workshops, and all weapons storage sites. “We will deal with this issue firmly…

Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative called for comprehensive reforms for the Palestinian security forces in order to end the state of lawlessness in the Palestinian…

The Israeli army invaded, on Saturday at dawn, the village of Al Rashaida south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and arrested three residents. Mosalem Rashidah 33, Deifallah Rashidah,…

Israeli army invaded the village of Al Khader near the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Saturday at down. Troops barged into the house of Odah Al Tayeh, searched it…

Israeli soldiers’ stationed at Al Kafriyyat checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, arrested on Saturday three residents attempting to cross the checkpoint, local sources reported. Shadi Al…

Israeli soldiers detained dozens of Palestinian residents at the northern entrance of the West Bank city of Hebron, on Saturday morning, broke into homes and detained dozens of residents. A…

Israeli soldiers invaded overnight the village of Bil’in, near the Wets Bank city of Ramallah and arrested four residents, Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall…

  Featured by Palestine News Network ‘The moments of my release from Hasharon detention facility, and heading back home to Balata refugee camp, in Nablus, were the most touching moments…

Israeli air force gun ships launched two sound bombs over Gaza city Saturday at noon, causing a loud explosion, and dozens of school kids were treated for shock, eyewitnesses reported.…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday morning, the West Bank city of Nablus and conducted military searches of homes. Palestinian resistance detonated an explosive charge near a military patrol during the…

The Israeli army is planning to create what was deszcribed as a “security zone” in the Gaza Strip, which includes installing an artillery battery in the southern part of the…

The Israeli army is planning to create what was deszcribed as a “security zone” in the Gaza Strip, which includes installing an artillery battery in the southern part of the…

The Israeli army is planning to create what was deszcribed as a “security zone” in the Gaza Strip, which includes installing an artillery battery in the southern part of the…

In a motion led by the United States, the Committee for the Middle East Peace Process known as ‘The Quartet’ called on Syria to expel the Islamic Jihad movement from…

Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs and rubber coated bullets at a peaceful protest against the Separation Wall in Bil’in village, near the Wets Bank city of Ramallah, several residents were…

An Israeli army force arrested, on Friday, two Palestinians carrying rifles near the Elon Moreh settlement in the West Bank, Israeli source reported. The  sources claimed  that the two were…

The Israeli army invaded on Friday morning the West Bank city of Jenin and its refuge camp, local sources reported. Troops searched houses in the city and armored vehicles surrounded…

Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, said on Friday that Israeli does not consider the Palestinians as its peace partners. His statements came during his Thursday meeting with the Egyptian President…

At least one Palestinian was killed and another seriously wounded in an Israeli air strike that targeted a car he was riding in the northern Gaza Strip, local sources reported.…

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Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday evening, Bil’in village near the West Bank city of Ramallah, forced the residents and peace activists out of the homes. Twenty military jeeps and dozens…

Israeli soldiers arrested on Thursday a Palestinian Schoolgirl near Qortoba School, adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Beit Hadassah, in the West Bank city of Hebron. Isra’ Mohammad Iseed, 15,…

The Islamic Jihad movement considered the assassination attack carried out by the Israeli air-force in Gaza, on Thursday at night, an open war declared by Israel against the movement and…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, five residents in the villages of Saida, Allar and Atteel, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, broke into homes and arrested…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Friday at dawn, the village of Saida, north of the Wets Bank city of Tulkarem. The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that dozens of military vehicles…

Dr. Mahmoud Asaly, head of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, reported that seven Palestinians were killed, at least fifteen others were injured, some seriously, after the Israeli air-force shelled Tal…

Dr. Mahmoud Asaly, head of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, reported that seven Palestinians were killed, at least fifteen others were injured, some seriously, after the Israeli air-force shelled Tal…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided to cancel his meeting with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and said that he will not meet with him before he “acts against terrorism”.…

  A somewhat insolent but nonetheless honest comment was published in Israeli daily Haaretz in late September. It discussed Israel’s need of support (or rather its lack of), from the…

As part of its campaign targeting Islamic Jihad operatives, some 50 Israeli military vehicles invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and arrested Sheikh Abdulhalim Izziddin, 37, leader of the…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to carry out a “broad and nonstop” offensive in the Palestinian territories in retaliation to the Hadera suicide bombing which was carried out on…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday, the West Bank city of Hebron and the villages of Doura and Al Shiokh, broke into dozens of homes and arrested two residents. The WAFA…

Israeli soldiers arrested a resident in Faroun village, south of the West Bank city of Tulkarem. A local source in the village reported that soldiers arrested Ali Sameer Al Lubbadi,…

Israeli soldiers barred, on Wednesday, dozens of activists of the Israeli Peace Now movement from entering the West Bank city of Hebron to protest against Jewish settlements there. Soldiers closed…

The Palestinian factions slammed the section in the report of the UN investigator Detlev Mehlis, which accuses a Palestinian group of being involved in the assassination of the former Lebanese…

Israeli soldiers arrested on Thursday at dawn, six residents in Qabatia and Anza villages, near the west Bank city of Jenin. Among the arrestees, the father of Hadera suicide bombing…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the Palestinian legislators to drop their demand to reform the government before the elections, saying it is a waste of time to form a…

An Israeli military helicopter dropped, earlier on Thursday at dawn, paratroopers in Al Thaghra neighborhood, east of the West Bank city of Tubas. A Palestinian security source reported that the…

Israeli army forces sealed off the West Bank city of Qalqilia on Wednesday afternoon and prevented residents form leaving the city, Palestinian sources reported. Eyewitnesses said Israeli soldiers closed the…

Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz said on Wednesday, that Israel will attack specific Palestinian targets in retaliation to the Hadera suicide bombing which took place in Hadera on Wednesday, on…

An Israeli military source reported that Palestinian gunmen fired homemade shells at an Israeli military post in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The source reported no injuries.

Israeli settlers attacked, on Wednesday morning, Palestinian homes in the west Bank city of Hebron. The settlers lashed hurtled stones and empty bottles at dozens of homes and verbally attacked…

Israeli soldiers arrested on Wednesday, Mohammad Jaradat after ambushing him on the entrance of al Arka, west of the West Bank city of Jenin. Jaradat is wanted by the Israeli…

Israeli online daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Wednesday that hundreds of settler youth set up six new settlement outposts on several West Bank hills. Hundreds of settler youth formed a…

An explosion tore through the open-air market in the coastal city of Hadera on in northern Israel, Wednesday afternoon, killing at least five and wounding some 30 others, Israeli sources…

Israel and Egypt agreed on Wednesday to reopen the Palestinian-Egyptian border crossing in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli sources reported. In a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak…

Israeli army invaded on Wednesday at down the West Bank city of Bethlehem, arrested one resident. Troops invaded the city and arrested Mostafa Abd Al Hadi after soldiers surrounded Al-Karkafa…

Israeli army invaded on Wednesday morning the village of Obaidya near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, two residents arrested. Troops broke into the houses of Jalal Radidah 24 and…

Three Israelis were killed, five injured, in an explosion which rocked an apartment at a residential building in Tel Aviv. The explosion is believed to be criminally motivated. The Israeli…

The settlement of Qadumim east of Qalqilia and directly adjacent to the villages of Kafer Qaddoum and Jet has become an enclave for extremist settlers who practice and preach the…

Sa’id Syam, one of Hamas prominent political leaders, told the Palestinenet news website, that Hamas and Fateh movements intend to prepare a document of understandings between the two movements. The…

Israeli soldiers, supported by approximately ten armored vehicles, invaded Tiqua village, east of Bethlehem on Tuesday evening, broke into dozens of homes, and arrested one resident. A local source in…

Israeli artillery shelled the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Palestinian sources reported. The source said that this is the second time…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday evening, Beta village, and south of the West Bank city of Nablus. A local source in the village reported that forced dozens of residents to…

Settlers of Qadumim attacked, on Tuesday morning, the village of Jett, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia. Settlers lashed the civilian’s houses with stones and empty bottles and…

Israeli army invaded on Tuesday at down the village of Al Tabaqa, near the West Bank city of Hebron. Troops conducted house-to-house search in the village and occupied house of…

The Israeli army invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the village of Al Samoa’ near the West Bank city of Hebron. Troops searched several homes in the village, and occupied the…

Israeli border guards units operating at the Israeli-Egyptian borders arrested, on Tuesday morning, six Sudanese after crossing the borders into Israel searching for work. The “Ramon” unit spokesperson reported that…

In an attempt to prevent further escalation in the area, the Palestinian Authority deployed its police and security men in the areas which Israel shelled in Rafah, Beit Lahia and…

Israeli army invaded, on Tuesday at down, the village of Jaba’ near the West Bank city of Jenin, and arrested three residents.   Hassan Khaliliah, 21, Abul Wahab Malabsha, 23, and…

A Palestinian medical source in Ramallah reported that Farha Barghouthi, 74, a mother of two detainees from Kobar village, west of Ramallah died on Saturday after a long fight with…

“The occupation shows no mercy – even the sick are punished.” These are the words of a weary husband, watching his wife battle illness and the Israeli occupation, which barred…

The United States will not be helping any winner of the Palestinian legislative elections that will be held in January, U.S. President George W. Bush said on Monday. ‘You asked…

Abdul-Hafeth Saleh, 45, was injured, on Monday, after Israeli soldiers fired at a Palestinian bus and several houses on the main road between the West Bank city of Ramallah and…

Israeli army invaded, late on Monday at night, the village of Marda Near the West Bank city of Salfit. Troops fired concussion grenades and tear-gas bombs at the residents, no…

Israeli army arrested, on Tuesday at dawn, one resident form the village of Jaba’ near the West bank city of Jenin. Army claims that the resident is an Islamic Jihad…

Israeli military artillery and helicopters shelled over night and at dawn several areas in Rafah and Beit Hanoun, in the Gaza strip; at least five residents, including an infant and…

An Israeli source reported on Monday that the Israeli Defense Minster, Shaul Mofaz, is slated to visit Cairo on Wednesday, to meet the Egyptian President, Hosny Mubarak. Mofaz will also…

Israeli artillery shelled several Palestinian targets in the northern part of the Gaza Strip; Israeli military sources claimed that the shelled areas were used areas to fire homemade shells at…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, visited the Egyptian President, Hosney Mubarak, on Monday and briefed him on his talks with the American President, and asked for the Egyptian support in the…

An Israeli military source reported on Monday that a Palestinian resistance group fired homemade shells at the Israeli Negev town of Sderot, no injuries were reported. The “Red Dawn” alert…