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According to the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, the Israeli army arrested Thursday five citizens, including a girl in the West Bank (WB) cities of Bethlehem, Nablus and Qalqiliya. In Bethlehem,…
With the recent announcement of the Church of England that the Church would divest from companies which profit from Israel’s occupation, as well as a similar divestment by an Architect’s…
Thursday afternoon, local sources reported aerial bombardment by Israeli forces east of Gaza City. No injuries have been reported. The Israeli military gave no statement as to the reason for…
Mohammad Mansour, a Palestinian organiser for non-violent resistance to the Israeli occupation, faces trial Thursday for allegedly engaging in an ‘illegal protest’ with the International Solidarity Movement in 2004. In…
Last week, The Guardian (UK) published a two-part series by its reporter Chris McGreal comparing Israeli policies vis-a-vis its own Palestinian citizens and those living under its occupation in the…
The National Association for Democracy and Law denounced Wednesday the continued Israeli bombardment on crowded residential areas in Gaza Strip cities. According to the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, the Association…
Ni’meh Abu Zaharah, mother of eleven, has been prevented from visiting her daughter since 2005. This testimony was documented by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem. Before the intifada, my husband…
The Palestinian leadership condemned the Israeli construction of the ‘eastern Wall’ which will completely enclose the West Bank within a de-facto open-air prison. The construction of the eastern section of…
Palestinian National Information Center (PNIC) published its weekly report on the Israeli violations to the cease fire agreement which was declared between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the Egyptian…
According to a report Thursday by the joint Palestinian-International grassroots organization, ‘Stop the Wall’, at least twenty homes have been bulldozed in the past month, most of them in the…
Hamas made its first parliamentary appointments on Wednesday in preparation for the opening of Parliament on Saturday, as Israeli officials declared that a Hamas-led Palestinian government would make it part…
Israeli troops stationed at a random checkpoint near the Al-Bira area, west of the West Bank city of Jenin, forced residents to remove their clothes and lie down on the…
Palestinian Official sources reported that one mentally-challenged resident was injured by Israeli army bullets in Beit Hanon city in the northern part of the Gaza strip late on Wednesday. Mofied Arafat,…
Four Palestinians were arrested at Sofia border crossing south of the Gaza strip by the Israeli army on Thursday at dawn, a Palestinian security source reported. An Israeli army source…
Israeli army forces invaded Al-Marj area in the West Bank city of Qalqilia and soldiers searched several houses, arresting one resident there on Thursday at dawn. Mohamed Hilal, 25, was arrested…
From Gideon Levy’s article "There will be a Vietnam Here" in Ha’aretz 13 Feb 2006 As Israeli President Ariel Sharon lay comatose in a hospital in Israel with little chance of…
The Israeli military closed the main Nablus-Qalqilia road Thursday afternoon, imposing a mobile checkpoint in a heavily travelled area, according to the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA. Palestinians were forced to…
The Bethlehem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that Israeli soldiers arrested 24 Palestinian residents in Bethlehem in seven days. All of the arrestees were arrested from home…
Although early reports indicated that Mofeed Arafat, 25, a mentally challenged resident of Gaza, had been killed late Wednesday night, medical sources indicate that he is alive and in serious…
Israeli soldiers invaded Al Zabbouba village, near the West Bank city of Jenin after claiming that residents of the village came close to the Separation Wall. A local source in…
The difference between the US/EU funding conditions and those of the Gulf countries are not as incongruent as Hamas leaders may want people to believe. The story of the Palestinian…