MK Steinitz calls for Gaza blackouts
Speaking at a political forum in the Israeli city of Be’er Shiva, on Saturday, Chairman of Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee Yuval Steinitz said Israel should launch a large-scale counter…
Two homemade shells fired into Israel
Salah Ed Deen Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, and Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh, claimed joint responsibility for firing two homemade shells into…
Pal. Tourism Min. 30,000 tourists expected in Bethlehem for Christmas
Days after Palestinian gunmen briefly took over Bethlehem’s city hall to demand jobs and wages, hundreds of Palestinian police and security men packed the festively decorated Manger square, on Saturday,…
Palestinian resistance fires a Qassam homemade shell into Israel
The Israel Radio reported on Saturday afternoon, that Palestinian resistance fired Qassam homemade shells at Israeli targets in the Negev desert. The shells apparently landed and detonated it Palestinian…
This Week in Palestine – December 24, 2005
Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file 5.81 MB This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle…
UK advises its citizens against traveling to Gaza Strip
The British government advised its citizens, on Friday, not to travel to the Gaza Strip, citing the abduction of two Westerners by gunmen earlier in the week. Until now, the…
Army arrests representative of the Islamic bloc in Bier Zeit University
Israeli soldiers arrested on Saturday Ala’ Al Natour, 22, from Tulkarem, and a senior student of Bier Zeit University, and the representative of the Islamic bloc. Al Natour was…
Army invades Nablus arrests one
Israeli army backed by 30 armored vehicles, invaded, on Saturday at dawn, several neighborhoods of the West Bank city of Nablus, prior to arresting one resident and taking him to…
U.S. Congress approves transfer of $600 million in aid to Israel
The United States Congress approved, on Friday, the transfer of $600 million in aid to Israel, this aid is to be used to fund joint security projects between Israel and…
Israel to enforce off-limits zone in northern Gaza Strip
Israel will enforce a new off-limits zone in the Gaza Strip with artillery, helicopter and gunboat fire in response to firing of homemade shells on Israeli towns, an Israeli defense…
Political detainees in P.A prisons started hunger strike
Forty-two detainees of the Islamic Jihad, and thirty detainees of Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh movement, detained by the Palestinian Authority (P.A), started on Saturday morning, an…
Fateh’s old guard quit legislative elections
Ahmad Qurie, the former Palestinian Prime Minister, and several other members of the Fateh Old Guard have decided not to run for parliament and withdrew their names from Fateh candidates…