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Ma’er Merghlit, an Israeli activist and member of ICAHD (the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions) revealed Thursday morning that $600,000 USD had been designated in 2005 by the Israeli Municipal…
Early Thursday morning, Israeli army forces invaded the West Bank city of Qalqilia and arrested five residents there. More than 20 army vehicles stormed the city and surrounded several houses…
In her first visit to the U.S as a new Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, on Wednesday, said a Hamas-Led Palestinian Authority will be a terrorist entity. "When a…
The Israeli army invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the village of Yata, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, two residents were arrested. Ahmad Awwad, 22, and Hamza Al…
In pre dawn invasions Thursday, the Israeli army arrested on Thursday 17 Palestinian resident from several cities in the West Bank, Israeli sources reported. In Kafein village near Jenin, two…
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker peace and social justice organization, has nominated two candidates for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize: Ghassan Andoni, ex-director and co-founder of the…
Dr. Muawiya Hassanen, head of the emergency unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, reported on Wednesday at night, that one resident died of wounds sustained earlier on Wednesday in…
Wednesday, An Israeli military court sentenced a resident of Yabod village near the West Bank city of Jenin, to thirty consecutive years. The Israeli prosecution claimed that resident Mustafa…
In spite of the Sharm Al Sheikh understanding and the declared ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in February 2005, Israel did not honor its obligations and violated the…
60 international observers decided on Wednesday to leave the compound of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) after dozens of Palestinian residents attacked their compound and hurled stones at…
The Palestinian Workers Union in the Gaza Strip denounced the continuous Israeli violations practiced against the Palestinian workers while trying to cross the military checkpoints that are installed on the…
In a surprise attack Wednesday morning, an Israeli army undercover unit arrested two al-Aqsa martyrs brigades’ members from Aida refugee Camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Fadi…
Nine residents were arrested from several cities in the West Bank during an invasion conducted by the Israeli Army on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, Israeli army sources reported. …
The Israeli military court of Salem sentenced Wisam Nasser, 20, from the West Bank city of Nablus to 16 months in Israeli prison and a NIS 2,000 fine. The Israeli…
Seven residents were injured in the town of Dora, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, during an Israeli army invasion of the town late Monday night. All…
Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Wednesday morning, one Palestinian near the Karni crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip; another resident was seriously injured. This latest incident makes a…
In an interview with BBC Radio Wednesday, Syrian-based leader-in-exile of the Hamas party, Khaled Mashal, said that Hamas would be willing to accept a "long-term truce" with Israel if Israeli…
A study by Peace Now, based on Israeli government figures, released Tuesday reveals that, despite Israel’s ‘disengagement’ from the Palestinian Gaza Strip in August and September of 2005, the overall…
A Palestinian medical source in Gaza reported, on Tuesday evening, that an Israeli war-jet fired two missiles at a Palestinian vehicle driving in Al Sabra area, south of Gaza city,…
A medical source in Hebron reported that one youth was shot an injured in his leg, after the soldiers fired at protestors in the West Bank city of Hebron. …
Ezzet Al-Resheq, political bureau member of the Hamas delegation currently visiting Egypt, reported on Tuesday that the delegation would head to Qatar, Sudan and Saudi Arabia and other Arab and…
During an early Tuesday morning invasion of the village of Kafer Dan, near the West Bank city of Jenin, the Israeli army arrested the Mayor of the village, Moustafa Ashour…
A barrage of gunfire from an Israeli navy artillery injured a 15 year old Palestinian boy in Gaza on Tuesday afternoon. Yahya Bashir sustained injuries while walking in a cemetery…
Amin Abu Warda, from the Palestine news Network, headed to Dier Al Hatab village, near Nablus and interviewed Abu Fadi, a resident who, over the last two decades, saw his…
While the Israeli army continues its operations, assassinations, and air-strikes in Gaza, Palestinian resistance fired a homemade shell at the Negev Israeli town of Sderot, damage to one house was…
Tuesday afternoon, Israeli army bulldozers uprooted on Tuesday afternoon 160 olive trees owned by Palestinian farmers in Jamoura Village, west of the West Bank city of Hebron. The Israeli army…
Yuval Diskin, chief of the Shin Bet Israeli Security Forces admitted on Monday that his department is more lenient towards Jewish Israeli terror suspects than toward Palestinians (even those Palestinians…
Israeli soldiers shelled on Tuesday afternoon an area in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.; soldiers claim that the shells area is used as a launching pad for Qassam…
Lawyer of the Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Hasan Al Sheikh, visited on Tuesday several detainees in Gush Azion detention facility who informed him of daily violations…
The Palestinian resistance fired, Tuesday early morning, two home made shells from the Gaza strip at a military installation at the Nahal Oz crossing terminal to the Gaza Strip. In…
The Israeli military court of Salem sentenced Safwat Yassin 20, form the village of Adeen near the West Bank city of Jenin, to 15 months in prison on allegations of…
Sources at the Palestinian Attorney General office Ahmad Al Mughani said Tuesday that 13 summons were sent to those involved in the corruption scandal revealed earlier this week, Maan News…
In pre-dawn invasion, the Israeli army troops invaded industrial zone in the west Bank city of Jenin. More than 10 military vehicles stormed the city and conducted wide-scaled search in…
Names for a technocrat Palestinian government is almost ready, said members of the Hamas delegation after their meetings in Cairo, Egypt. The delegation included senior leaders of the movement…
One Islamic Jihad operative was killed and two Israeli soldiers were wounded on Tuesday morning, as Israeli troops invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus, claiming that they are…
The Salem Israeli military court sentenced on Monday one member of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh movement, to 17 years imprisonment. Detainee Shareef Suleiman Raddad,…
Monday evening, Israeli air force fired a missile at a Palestinian vehicle in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, killing two fighters of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the military…
In one of the rare democracies in the Middle East, Palestine, the Palestinians’ choice of Hamas, instead of attracting respect and appreciation of outside bodies, disrespect and downgrade of the…
Scores of Palestinian Muslims and Christians demonstrated in the West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Nablus, on Sunday and Monday, in a show of unity against offensive caricatures of the…
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the armed wing of Fatah, claimed responsibility for launching six homemade shells towards two southern Israeli towns on Monday at dawn. The Brigades launched two projectiles…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked Israeli leadership to continue to consider him as the chief negotiator for the Palestinians, despite a major win of opposition party Hamas in January 25th…
The first meeting between the leadership of the Hamas party, the overwhelming victor in Jan. 25th legislative elections, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas took place Monday morning in Cairo. The…
An unidentified gunman shot a Palestinian man in the city center of the West Bank city of Bethlehem Monday afternoon. 50 year old Mubarak Abu Mehamid sustained serious injuries, after…
Danni Ayalon, Israeli ambassador to the U.S, has sent two letters to the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times news papers slamming them for publishing articles by two Hamas leaders,…
On Monday at dawn, Israeli army forces the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and arrested one resident. Bilal Kleib, 21, was arrested and taken to unknown destination when soldiers…
Over the last week and a half since Hamas’ electoral victory in Palestinian legislative elections, American pundits have taken the opportunity to blast the Palestinian people’s choice, without attempting to…
On Monday at dawn, Israeli army forces the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and arrested one resident. Bilal Kleib, 21, was arrested and taken to unknown destination when soldiers…
reprinted from Haaretz daily newspaper About a month ago, 12-year-old Mohammed Qassam was the victim of an Israeli army dog that grabbed his leg with its teeth and dragged him…
Six Palestinians arrested last month in Hebron by undercover Israeli security forces were finally told their charges Monday morning: they are accused by Israeli security of killing six Israeli colonists…
In an overnight sweep of arrests throughout the West Bank, Israeli soldiers arrested 19 residents. Two residents, said to be Fateh activists, were arrested in Nablus, nine members of…
After Hamas won a majority of the seats in Palestinian legislative elections a week ago Wednesday, the Israeli military occupation of Palestine stepped up in intensity, with daily incursions in…
Late Sunday night, dozens of Israeli military vehicles invaded the city of Jenin, firing hundreds of rounds in the area around Haifa St., according to local residents. This is the…
A Palestinian security source in Gaza reported after midnight on Monday night that the Israeli artillery shelled open areas in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The Maan…
A Palestinian security source in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Sunday that Palestinian security sappers defused a bomb which was dropped by an…
An internal investigation on Sunday revealed that over the past several years, $700 million has gone missing from the finances of the Palestinian Authority (PA).The State Comptroller, Ahmed al-Moghani, stated…
Dr. Moawiya Hassanen, head of the Emergency unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, reported on Sunday night that two residents were killed and at least four were injured when an…
The Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, reported on Sunday evening that one of its leaders in the West Bank city of Nablus survived an assassination…
Israeli soldiers arrested, based a checkpoint which is installed between Nablus and Tulkarem, arrested on Saturday evening seven residents including two brothers from the West Bank city of Tulkarem. …
Three Palestinian residents were killed and eight were injured after the Israeli airforce shelled a sports club and a vehicle after midnight on Saturday night in Tal Al Hawa neighborhood,…
A meeting in Egypt Saturday between rival political factions Fateh, represented by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and Hamas, represented by Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar, was largely successful. Plans were made…
An Israeli military court sentenced, on Saturday afternoon, a 15-year old child to six consecutive years. The child, Mohammad Anati, is from Shu’fat Refugee Camp in Jerusalem. He is…
Israeli forces stormed, on Saturday morning, the village of Beit Forik, east of the West Bank city of Nablus, and arrested two residents. The two are said to be members…
Saturday morning, Israeli soldiers, supported by several armored vehicles, invaded Al Obaiydiyya village, near Bethlehem, and arrested one resident. A local source in the village reported that resident Aref…
Israeli troops stationed at dozens of checkpoints around the West Bank city of Nablus, tightened the strict military procedures which are limiting the movement of the Palestinian residents. Troops…
Mahmoud Al Zahhar one of Hamas’ prominent political leaders, said on Saturday, that a meeting will be held later this night with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas.The movement also dispatched…
Unknown gunmen abducted a Palestinian security officer and his wife, on Saturday, after obstructing his vehicle while he was driving along the coastal road in Gaza. …
Israeli officials approved the confiscation of 279 Dunums of Hij’ja, Kafer Laqif and ‘Azoun villages in the Qalqilia area Saturday for ‘security reasons’, as well as confiscations in Salfit and…
In spite of the recent incidents which followed the publication of cartoons which included offensive caricatures against Islam’s prophet Mohammad, the Al Yasser brigades, one of Fateh armed groups visited…
Spokesperson of the EU Commission, Kholoi Di laGuardia, on Saturday affirmed that the Commission transferred its Danish and French observers from the Gaza Strip to Israel. He said that this…
Palestinians say Israeli soldiers manning West Bank checkpoints are taking out their frustration about the results of the recent Palestinian Legislative Council elections on Palestinians as a whole and workers…
Israeli artillery fired on Saturday shortly after midnight at least 40 tank shells at open areas in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. An Israeli military source reported that…
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, called on the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, to respect the obligations of the Palestinian Authority to the International Community. Abbas made his comments while talking briefly…
{mosimage}The sweeping electoral victory of Hamas is primarily a triumph for the Israeli government and a big defeat for Palestinian interests. The international pressure on the Palestinians is growing. If…
Friday afternoon, residents of Bil’in along with dozens of Israeli and international peace activists held their weekly protest against the Separation Wall, and protested against the perceived insult to Islam…
An Israeli medical source reported on Friday that four family members, including a child, were injured, on Friday afternoon, in Kibbutz Karmiya, in the western Negev, after a Palestinian armed…
A Palestinian medical source in Jerusalem reported that one child was injured in his head, on Thursday, after the soldiers fired at peaceful protestors against the Separation Wall. The…
Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file 8.5 MB A governmental report shows 25,997 Israeli violations of the…
Khaled Mashal, the head-in-exile of the Hamas political party, said Friday from Damascus, Syria that Hamas will not recognize the state of Israel, but would be willing to discuss the…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) appealed to humanitarian organizations, locally and internationally, to pressure the Israeli authorities to stop the violations and abuse carried against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons…
A medical source in Hebron reported on Friday that settlers attacked a 40-year old man in Yatta village, near the West Bank city of Hebron. The family Kaheel Mahmoud…
The Ofer Israeli military court sentenced a resident of Bethlehem to 16 months imprisonment and 1000 New Israeli Shekels fine. The Maan News Agency reported that detainee Saoud Mheisin,…
An Israeli military source reported on Friday afternoon that fighters of the Lebanon based Hezbollah party shelled Israeli military bases in the occupied Shiba Farms on Israel-Lebanon border, a day…
The Palestinian community of Norway issued a statement today condemning the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper last week, and saying that the cartoons do not reflect…
Israeli Defense establishment is expected to advise Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to transfer to the Palestinian Authority NIS 250 million in tax revenues, which he froze following the Hamas…
Israeli authorities claim that soldiers found explosives among the possessions of two twenty year old boys who were going from one part of Nablus to another. The two were arrested…
Israeli authorities claim that soldiers found explosives among the possessions of two twenty year old boys who were going from one part of Nablus to another. The two were arrested…
The exiled leader of the Fateh party’s Central Committee, Farouk Al Qadumi, said Friday that he and many other central figures in the Party blame Abbas for Fateh’s electoral defeat…
A Palestinian security source in Gaza reported that a German citizen, who was abducted by gunmen in the West Bank city of Nablus, was safely released shortly after he was…
Dr. Mahmoud Zahhar, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and a leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, said on Thursday, that the movement will not allow anybody or group…
The Israeli High Court of Justice ordered, on Thursday, the state prosecutor to explain why is the state rejecting to change the rout of the Separation Wall in Bil’in village,…
Conditions in the Israeli Telmond Prison are deplorable for the women being held there, according to Hanan Al Khatib, a lawyer with the Palestinian Prisoner Society who was able to…
An order implementing the Israeli closure of all but 11 border crossings into the Palestinian West Bank was put in place on Thursday, prohibiting Palestinians from crossing in other places,…
Rumors have begun about negotiations taking place with Egypt regarding the Palestinian Authority, as Hamas leaders, Palestinian President Abbas, and the Israeli Foreign Minister were all spotted crossing to Egypt…
Thursday morning Farmers continue their protest against Israeli closures of commercial crossings in and out of the Gaza Strip, which is wreaking havoc on their already fragile economy. More than…
Israeli army troops stationed at Huwara south of the West Bank city of Nablus checkpoint arrested two Palestinians, Thursday morning. Israeli sources claimed that the two were carrying explosives.…
On Thursday, in the West Bank city of Hebron, local youth, angry at the Danish caricatures of Mohammed, threw stones at members of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH).…
In an interview with, Shiekh Yasser Mansour, a Hamas prominent leader and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council affirmed that the movement has no reservations about opening dialogue with any…
An as-yet unidentified 17-year old boy was herding his family’s sheep in the hills of southern Lebanon yesterday when Israeli gunfire from across the border pierced his body, ending his…
Palestininian resistance fired on Thursday at dawn three home-made shells at Israeli targets near the Gaza strip. Two of the shells landed in the town of Karni Zakim outside…
The Israel Military Court in Ofer sentenced on Thursday morning, Iyad Abu Judeh 34 from Deheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, to five years of in…