Month: October 2005

Israeli soldiers arrested on Monday at dawn 22 residents in several areas near the West Bank city of Hebron, after invading them and conducting military searches of homes. 15 residents…

The streets of Qalqilya were boiling with anger on Sunday night after the imam of the Sahaba Mosque in the village of Haja, Sheikh Mohammed Qashou’, 22, and head of…

The number of the Palestinian killed by the Israeli army since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intifada on 29-9-2000 until 30 September 2005 arrived to 4172, whereas the number of injured…

Palestinian Planning Minister Ghassan Khateeb reported on Sunday that there is an international plan to link the Gaza Strip with the West Bank by an underground road. Khateeb told reporters…

israeli soldiersinvaded the village of bil’in, west of the West Bank city of Ramalah on Monday morning, and arrested two residents. Saliman Shhada, 26, and Hamza Abdul-Hadi, 24, were arrested…

Israeli army invaded Beit Forik village, near the West Bank city of Tubas, on Monday at down, and arrested four residents, local sources reported. Mohamed Ikhtabah, 18, Ra’ef Ikhtabah, 19,…

The Israeli military court of Salem, near the West Bank city of Nablus, sentenced a Palestinian detainee on Sunday to four and half consecutive years. Mohamed Bahri, was arrested in…

Israeli army invaded the village of Ein AL Baida near the West Bank city of Tubas, late on Sunday night, and arrested one resident. Jamal Fakha’, 40, who works as…

Following several days of meetings between Fatah and Hamas, a document of understanding will be signed in the coming few days, Hamas spokesman said on Sunday. ‘Our intensive meetings with…

Following several days of meetings between Fatah and Hamas, a document of understanding will be signed in the coming few days, Hamas spokesman said on Sunday. ‘Our intensive meetings with…

Two Palestinian fighters were killed on Sunday at night, after Israeli soldiers engaged in a gun battle with resistance fighters after surrounding a home in Tulkarem refugee camp, in the…

Israeli police and Secret Security Services, Shin Bet, reported on Sunday that Israeli security forces arrested two Arab residents of Israel over ties with Hamas. Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported…

An Israeli military source reported on Sunday evening, that two Israeli policemen were stabbed near the “Tunnel Road”, close to Beit Jala Palestinian town, near Bethlehem. The source stated that…

Salem Israeli military court delayed, on Sunday, announcing the verdict against the jailed Palestinian legislator, and head of the Refugees Rights Defense Committee, Husam Khader, until November, 27, 2005. The…

The Palestinian National Authority (P.A), said that it plans to disarm Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh movement in the coming weeks, and that it intends to incorporate…

Israeli soldiers arrested, on Sunday, nine residents in the village of Bil’in near the West Bank city of Ramallah, after invading the village and breaking into dozens of homes. A…

Israeli soldiers arrested, on Sunday, twelve residents in several areas near the West Bank city of Hebron, and shot wounded one resident, after invading two villages near the city. The…

Israeli soldiers arrested, on Sunday, one resident in Saida village, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem. A local source in the village reported that soldiers installed a military…

Israel army troops on Saturday evening shot dead a 19-year-old Palestinian man from the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian sources reported. Israeli military source claimed the man was trying…

Yasser Arafat brigades, one of the military wings of Al Aqsa Brigades, claimed responsibility for firing at an Israeli military patrol in the West Bank city of Jenin; two soldiers…

An extremist settlers group attacked, on Saturday morning, dozens of school girls near Beit Hadassah settlement outpost in the West Bank city of Hebron. Students of Qortuba primary school for…

  After the attack by the resistance on Gush Etzion and Eli settlements in which three settlers were killed, Israel as usual, turned the place upside down. The only thing…

Israeli troops setup on Saturday three military checkpoints on the main road linking two West Bank cities. Soldiers placed the checkpoints on the in entrances of the Izbat Al Taieb,…

Israeli soldiers arrested 17 Palestinian residents in the West Bank cities of Hebron and Nablus and Tulkarem, after invading the three areas and conducting military searches of homes. A local…

Avigdor Lieberman, member of the Israeli Ichud Leumi party (National Union) called for banning Arab Knesset member Ahmad Tibi from running in the upcoming Knesset elections after he asked foreign…

Sheikh Yasser Mansour, a leading figure in Hamas, called on the factions and the Palestinian Authority to stand united against Israeli statements calling for a ban on Hamas from participating…

Israeli soldiers arrested, overnight, eleven Palestinian residents in several West Bank areas. According to Israeli military sources the arrested residents are members of Hamas movement. Most of the arrestees were…

Israeli soldiers invaded, overnight, Balata refuge camp in the West Bank city of Nablus and exchange fire with the Palestinian resistance, two residents were injured during the clashes. The two…

Palestinian sources reported on Saturday that an Israeli army force killed two Palestinians near the village of Anabta near the West Bank city of Tulkarem, in Friday night. The army…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Thursday evening, a Palestinian child near Husan adjacent to the West Bank city of Bethlehem. An Israeli military source claimed that soldiers shot Akram…

Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, said that the American President George Bush is pushing the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas in order to confront the resistance groups and dismantle them. The movement…

Residents and peace activists in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, invented a new way in countering a Robot which the army started using against them during the weekly peaceful protests…

Eilat police safely detonated, on Friday afternoon, a LAW missile in the Hotel District in the southern Israeli city of Eilat. An Israeli police source in Eilat reported that the…

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Nathmi Mhanna, General Director of the Border Crossing Department at the Palestinian National Authority, said on Friday that the Rafah Border Crossing, in the Gaza Strip, will be opened on…

The Israeli government decided to encourage constructions and development in the Galilee areas, north of the country, and offered tax breaks and special grants for the residents. Israeli Vice Premier…

Israeli soldiers arrested, on Friday morning, four residents in Jaba’ village, south of the Wets Bank city of Jenin after invading it. A local source in Jenin reported that soldiers…

Israeli soldiers arrested two residents in Al Biereh and Bier Zeit towns near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Soldiers invaded the two towns, conducted military searches of homes, and…

  For the eight consecutive time, Israeli prison authorities renewed the administrative detention orders against the elected mayor of Qalqilia, Wajeeh Qawwas, and this time for additional three months. Qawwas…

Israeli and international peace activists who regularly protest along with the Palestinian residents against the Separation Wall in Bil’in village, near Ramallah, said that Israeli soldiers are continuously using and…

Relentless Israeli restrictions and aggressions against the Occupied Palestinian territories inflicted the drained -out economy losses cost at $15.6 billion in the five years of al Aqsa Intifada. A report,…

An Israeli military source reported on Thursday evening, that four settlers were injured after Palestinian youth hurled stones at their vehicles on a circular-road, south of Jerusalem. One settler woman…

An Israeli source reported on Thursday that Israel will delay the implementation of its E1 project, which aims to link Maali Adumim settlement with Jerusalem from the east. The move…

U.S. President George W. Bush reiterated Israel and the U.S. administration demand for the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to fight the Palestinian resistance groups and disarm them. Bush’s demands to…

  The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday and arrested six residents. The Hebron office of Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that Israeli soldiers stormed…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported on Thursday that the structural conditions of Al Damoun detention facility are imposing real threats on the lives of the Palestinian detainees. “Israeli is detaining…

The Popular Committee for releasing the Palestinian Legislator Marwan Barghouthi demanded the Jordanian government to act in order to pressure Israel to release the Jordanian detainees and reveal the location…

An Arab resident of Israel, Mohamed Khalaf, from the village of Jett, north of the country has been charged in the Magistrates Court in Tel Aviv, on Thursday of aiding…

A Palestinian youth was arrested by Israeli soldiers at Huwwara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, on Thursday morning, allegedly carrying two knives and what was suspected…

Resistance fighters opened fire, on Thursday, at an army force near Gaza Strip border, Israeli source reported. The fighters opened fire from the town of Khan Younis while the army…

American President George W. Bush is expected to pressure Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, on their Thursday meeting, in order to end the attacks carried out by resistance groups against Israeli…

Israeli sources revealed a plan by the Israeli government to build roads in the West Bank that will be used only by Israeli settlers to move among the settlements in the West Bank.…

Crossing through Huwwara checkpoint, south of Nablus, is considered one of the difficult tasks, mixed with suffering and humiliation the Palestinian residents have to go through on daily basis. If…

Israeli soldiers arrested overnight ten Palestinian residents, including two women, in several West Bank areas. Soldiers claim that the two women are potential suicide bombers. An Israeli military source reported…

US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, said on Wednesday that it made it clear for Israel that settlement construction between Jerusalem and Maali Adumim settlement contradicts with the American policy.…

Israeli Peace Now movement announced a new initiative on Wednesday calling the Israeli government to withdraw from 26 West Bank settlements which are relatively isolated within large concentration of Palestinian…

Israeli police in the West Bank arrested a 32-year-old settler suspected of throwing stones, on Friday at night, at an Israeli army officer and his family at the Western Wall…

Israeli military court extended the remand of 14 Palestinian detainees from Jenin area, north of the West Bank. The Jenin office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that the military…

Dozens of extremist settlers stormed, on Wednesday, the esplanade of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the Palestinian WAFA news agency reported. The guards of the Mosque, who clashed with that an…

An extremist settlers group of the Ma’oun illegal settlement outpost, which is constructed on Palestinian annexed lands, east of Yatta village south of Hebron, attacked homes and properties in the…

An Israeli court recently ruled that the state should compensate a Palestinian family; the Israeli army killed their father in Bethlehem.   The state should compensate the family of Dr.…

Israeli army troops closed all the main roads leading to the town of Al-Thahriya, and the villages of Arab Al-Ramaden, Arab Al-Frijat and Inab and prevented scores of students of…

Israeli soldiers arrested one resident and injured two children after invading the villages of Kharsa, Doura, Beit Awwa, and Al Arroub refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Hebron.…

  Clashes erupted, on Tuesday night, in Al Aroob refugee camp in the West Bank city of Hebron, local sources reported. Troops closed the camp and harassed the residents there.…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported on Tuesday that a special Israeli military force attacked several child detainees in Ofer detention facility, and confined some of them to solitary. The society…

Three children were injured, on Tuesday at night, in the village of Beit Awwa near the West Bank city of Hebron during clashes which erupted in the village after Israeli…

At least 240 members of ruling Fatah party in Rafah area in the Gaza Strip, announced collective resignation from the movement as a protest of what they called Fatah’s weakness.…

Israeli Army invaded, on Wednesday, morning the West Bank city of Jenin, local sources reported. Troops took over the roof a building in the city center, and used it as…

Israeli army invaded the village of Kharass near the West Bank city of Hebron and apprehended three residents, local sources reported. Two of the arrested residents were identifed as Jawad…

Israeli army invaded, on Wednesday morning, Deheishe and Aida refugee camps, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Troops invaded Deheishe refugee camp and sealed off all roads surrounding it,…

Palestinian Ministry of Interior and National Security denied, on Wednesday, denied reports published by the Israeli military intelligence claiming that ten members of Al Qaeda network infiltrated into the Gaza…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to arrive in Washington on Wedensday where he will meet with some U.S. top officials who will most probably ask him about Hamas’ participation in…

Salem Israeli military court sentenced, on Tuesday, a Palestinian detainee from Qalqilia to one life-term. Ammar Ahed Al Shobaki, 24, was arrested in 2003 after the soldiers broke into his…

An Israeli military source reported on Tuesday at dawn that a Palestinian group hurled a pipe-bomb at border policemen patrolling near the Separation Wall area, south of Jerusalem. Three border…

An Israeli military source reported on Tuesday evening that Israeli soldiers fired rounds of live ammunition at two Palestinians at a highway north-east of Ramallah. The source claimed that soldiers…

An Israeli military source reported on Tuesday at dawn that a Palestinian group hurled a pipe-bomb at border policemen patrolling near the Separation Wall area, south of Jerusalem. Three border…

The Israeli Radio reported, on Tuesday evening, that three border policemen were injured south of Jerusalem after a Palestinian group hurled a bomb at their jeep. The incident took place…

Israeli Defense Minister’s Advisor for Arab Affairs, David Hakham, said that the field procedures conducted by the Israeli army and government after the Sunday’s Gush Etzion junction shooting attack, are…

Palestinians, stranded at the Egyptian side of the Rafah Crossing began a hunger-strike in protest of the ongoing closure of the crossing, local radios reported on Tuesday. The reports said…

Closure imposed by the Israeli army over the West Bank city of Hebron continued for the second day, local sources reported.  Troops closed all main roads leading to the city…

Hamas officials denied on Tuesday that Hamas had admitted responsibility for what was described as “mysterious explosion” in Jabalia Refugee Camp one month ago, where 22 Palestinians were killed, and…

Israeli army invaded, on Tuesday morning, Aida refugee camp south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Troops conducted a wide scale search in the camp, forced the families out…

Palestinian gunmen abducted two men in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, after accusing them of collaborating with the Israeli security. A newly formed…

An Israeli source reported on Tuesday that the Greek police and the Interpol are searching for an Israeli man who went missing last week after heading to Greece for a…

Political leaders of Hamas said, on Monday, that the movement did not sign the Code of Ethics treaty regarding the upcoming legislative elections, but the movement will respect it, adding…

Ja’far Eshtiyya, member of Salem village council, east of Nablus, reported that dozens of settlers of Alone Moreh settlement burnt olive orchards in 180 Dunams, in Al Shifa area, while…

Israeli soldiers arrested a resident near a roadblock in Nablus area, north of the West Bank. Israeli soldiers claimed that the resident is a member of the Popular Front for…

The Palestinian Ministry of Interior and National Security reported on Monday at night that Hamas movement admitted to it’s responsibly for the Jabalia explosion which left 22 Palestinians killed, and…

Beit Al Maqdis Brigades, a recently formed group, claimed responsibility for Sunday’s Gush Etzion shooting attack which left three settlers dead and five injured. The Arabs48 news website reported that…

A group of Evangelical Christians from around the world have donated about $40,000 to Jewish settlers evacuated from the Gaza Strip settlements, a spokesman said Monday. David Parsons, spokesman of…

A Palestinian organization which monitors settlement activities reported on Monday that the Israeli Authorities annexed 1000 Dunams of Palestinian orchards to Rotem settlement in Wadi All Maleh area, east of…

Four Palestinian residents, including an infant, were injured in the West Bank city of Hebron, during separate attacks carried out by settlers and soldiers in the city. A medical source…

Minister of Planning at the Palestinian National Authority (P.A), Dr. Ghassan Khateeb, said that the Gush Etzion shooting attack, carried by a Palestinian group on Sunday is counter productive and…

Israeli army invaded the villages of Qarawa Bani Zeid, Deir Istia and Marda near the West Bank city of Salit on Monday. Five residents were arrested in Qarawa Bani Zeid…

Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Ya’bod, North West of Jenin and arrested seven residents. A local source in the village reported that ten military vehicles invaded the village, conducted…

An extremist settlers group, estimated by 40 settlers, attacked dozens of Palestinians residents and vehicles after controlling Beit Forik – Beit Dajan checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of…

Israeli troops invaded, on Monday morning, the town of Tubas south east of the West Bank city of Jenin and arrested one resident, local sources reported. Troops broke into dozens…

The Israeli army invaded, on Monday morning, the village of Qaffeen, north the west Bank city of Tulkarem and arrested four residents. Soldiers conducted house-to-house search, arrested Ameen Ta’mah, 18,…

Israeli soldiers arrested 18 residents in predawn invasions carried in the West Bank. Ten residents were arrested in Jenin, five in Hebron and three others in Betunia near the West…

Palestinian and Israeli negotiators progressed on the Rafah border crossing dispute about the border control arrangement, in their meeting on Sunday. Saleem Abu Safiya, chief of the border security in…