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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas did not transfer control over the border crossing points to the Palestinian Government, an informed source at the president’s office said on Sunday. The statement came…
Some armed resistance wings are expanding their efforts from just fighting the Israeli occupation to those who are fighting the Palestinian police and public governmental buildings. Many view the Palestinian…
The imprisoned Palestinian lawmaker Jamal Huwail called on the Palestinian resistance factions and the Palestinian Authority (P.A) to consider the issue of the Palestinian prisoners’ in Israeli prisons as a…
Fadwa Al Barghouti is the wife of imprisoned Marwan, the leader of the Fateh party in the West Bank and an elected member of Palestinian government. He has played a…
A report prepared and published by the Palestinian Prisoners Society marking the Palestinian Prisoners Day (April 17) revealed that the number of Palestinian detainees who died in Israeli prisons and…
A Palestinian merchant in the northern West Bank city of Nablus was stopped in his tracks as he inspected what remained of his destroyed stores. Merchant Alam Slah told PNN…
Federal authorities have allegedly decided to deport a former Florida professor and Palestinian rights activist after failing to convict him on charges he helped finance terror attacks in Israel. Sami…
Sunday, Israeli soldiers invaded the villages of Beit Ummar and Surif, north and north-east of Hebron, searched dozens of homes and arrested three residents. Troops surrounded the two villages before…
Saturday evening, Israeli soldiers, supported by armored vehicles and dozens of military jeeps, invaded the West Bank city of Salfit and clashed with dozens of residents who hurled stones and…
Israeli army radio reported on Saturday that Israel could could ask the United States to free a former US Defense Department official, imprisoned in the States for spying for Israel,…
An Israeli man who has been volunteering as a guard to protect Palestinian farmers from attacks from right-wing Israeli settlers has been threatened by the settlers, who came to his…
Israeli soldiers barred on Friday and Saturday thousands of Arab residents of Israel from entering the West Bank city of Jericho after Israel announced the Palestinian controlled city as a…
A Palestinian medical source at the Gaza European Hospital, north of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Saturday that one resident died of wounds sustained…
Saturday, Israeli soldiers arrested for Palestinian residents in the West Bank cities of Nablus and Tulkarem. The four were arrested after soldiers, supported by armored vehciles, stormed the two cities…
Arnon Regular Israeli reporter working with the Israeli online daily Haaretz could have been one of the victims of the Israeli air strike that targeted a playground in Beit Lahia…
The Mayor of Gaza, Dr. Majed Abu Ramadan said, work in more than thirty projects has stopped because of the current closure imposed on the strip by the Israeli army.…
Israeli soldiers abused a father and his six year old child in the village of Yata near the West Bank city of Hebron, on Saturday morning. Ali Al Thawaj’a, 37,…
Palestinian gunmen broke on Saturday into the offices of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, protesting against the delay in the…
The Israeli army closed Beit Iba checkpoint east of the West Bank city of Nablus, for more than three hours, Saturday morning. Soldiers stationed at Beit Iba refused the scores…
This is, as they say, the crunch. This is the political moment all Israeli governments – all of them, Labor, Likud and ‘National Unity’ – have been working towards the…
Several members of the activists community and those working specifically in refugee rights confirmed Saturday the while the United Nations guarantees the rights of Palestinian refugees, numerous international, Arab, Israeli,…
On saturday morning the Israeli army arrested three residents from Beit Oommer and Al Borj villages in the West Bank city of Hebron. Mohamed Amro, 41, was arrested when troops…
Adnan Abu Haniya, 48 from Huwwara village said he is willing to sell his house and to offer the money to the Palestinian authority in a challenging step to the…
Two civilians were injured by shrapnel from Israeli military boats launched west of Khan Yunis in the Gaza , on Saturday morning. Ahmed Bedeir and Solaiman Sharab were injured in…
On saturday morning a group of Israeli soldiers attacked a resident of Tamoun village east of the West Bank city of Tubass whilst he herded his sheep in a nearby…
The Israeli army shot and severely injured Nader Al Dahdoh during yet another invasion to the West Bank city of Nablus, Saturday morning. According to medical sources, Dahdoh suffered injures…
The Israeli armed forces arrested two residents during an invasion to the West Bank city of Nablus and the nearby village of Dier Al Hatab, Saturday morning. Mohamed Hbisha from…
Naji Tafish, 22, was injured by shrapnel from artillery shells splinters near the evacuated Doghet settlement north of the Gaza strip, Saturday morning. According to medical sources, three were injured…
Hani Abu Hashish, from Beit Lahiya north of the Gaza strip, was injured when he was hit by shrapnel from an artillery shell fired during the continued bombing on, Saturday…
At Jet checkpoint (East of Qalqilia), Israeli soldiers attacked a Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulance and prevented the crew from crossing the checkpoint, according to local sources. Israeli soldiers beat…
Masked Palestinian police sealed off a main road in the central Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis on Saturday and stormed a government building in anger over not receiving salaries…
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Pilgrims wishing to follow in the footsteps of Jesus to Jerusalem from the place where he raised Lazarus from the dead will soon need their own miracle, as the ancient…
All week, Palestinians living in the village of Aqaba, in the western part of the Jordan Valley, have been receiving demolition orders on their homes and village buildings from Israeli…
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees’ Affairs reported that more than 9,400 detainees are still imprisoned in 28 Israeli prisons and detention facilities. A statistical report published by the ministry revealed…
The Israeli government stepped up its threats to invade the Gaza Strip despite its pullout from the Strip last year. The announcement comes one day after the United States blocked…
Concerned with the deteriorating situation in Gaza, Qatar put forward a draft at the United Nations Security Council, hoping it would spark a debate on the "indiscriminate shelling against the Gaza…
Friday afternoon, Approximately 400 protesters, including 70 Israeli and international peace activists marched in Bil’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, against the Israeli annexation Wall and the…
Anata secondary school in East Jerusalem has been experiencing daily incursions by Israeli forces, as the Israeli Annexation Wall runs through the middle of the schoolyard. Israeli soldiers arrived en…
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh shrugged off the US and European Union freeze in aid money to the Palestinian Authority Friday, saying, "The Palestinian people will not give up their…
Despair and fear is on the rise among Palestinian Authority employees [one of the largest sectors of the employed in Palestine] because of the delay in getting their salaries. After…
Israeli soldiers stationed at Tayasser military checkpoint east of the West Bank city of Tubas arrested Hamada Sauafta, 17, on Thursday night. Sauafta was arrested while travelling home from Tubas…
The Israeli army continue their artillery bombardment to north and east areas in the Gaza Strip, this Friday morning. Israeli tanks located north east of the strip, fired scores of…
The Israeli forces stormed Palestinian farmers’ huts in the northern areas of the Jordan valley , Friday at dawn. Soldiers broke into huts located north of Ein Al Bida village,…
The Israeli armed forces arrested two residents from Nour Shams refugee camp in the West Bank city of Tulkarm, Friday morning. Troops and army vehicles broke into the Nour Shams…
The Israeli peace movement issued an urgent plea Thursday to the governments of Europe, the U.S. and the world to end the economic blockade of the Palestinian people, which has…
German Federal Development Minister Heidemarie, Ms. Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul announced Wednesday that bilateral humanitarian assistance for the Palestinian people will continue, despite the European Union’s decision to freeze aid money, and…
The Israeli Army Restricts the movement of Jordan Valley”s citizens. Israeli Forces prevented citizens in al-Aghwar al-Shamaleya, in Jordan Valley, from leaving their villages to reach West Bank cities on…
Weeks after a British magazine published a long article by two American professors titled "The Israel Lobby," the outrage continued to howl through mainstream U.S. media. A Los Angeles Times…
The plan unveiled by newly-elected Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, euphemized as the "Convergence", which will consolidate many of the 450,000 Israeli settlers living illegally in the Palestinian West Bank…
Palestinian and Israeli sources confirmed that a body found in a burned car Thursday morning in Jericho was that of Mahmoud Abu Al-Hawa, apparently attacked for selling East Jerusalem property…
The Israeli government said yesterday it would continue its bombardment of northern Gaza with an estimated 300 shells a day despite international criticism over the death of an eight-year old…
The Jenin refugee compound, more than 50 years old and one of the oldest camps in Palestine, is home to 13,000 people, half of them under 15. It was the…
Five Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations demanded Wednesday that the Israeli Airforce and Army cease the ongoing assault on the Palestinian Gaza Strip, the most crowded place on earth…
The Palestinian village of Isdud, about 50 km south of Tel Aviv on the Israeli coast, was taken over by Israeli forces during the creation of the state of Israel…
Two weeks ago, on Israeli Election Day, at 8 A.M., drivers wishing to leave Tul Karm from the eastern exit (toward Anabta) discovered that their permits were invalid. A soldier…
Tawfiq Musmar takes up his place behind the lost luggage desk at Gaza international airport each morning, checking all is in order at the baggage carousel before wandering off to…
The EU move gave Hamas the possibility to think again about its policy directions, said German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The EU’s decision on Monday to stop all direct aid…
Palestinian fighters of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh movement, briefly briefly took over the Cabinet building in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Thursday, protesting…
The Israeli armed forces invaded Jeet village, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia, Thursday morning. Soldiers broke into several homes and searched them, no arrests were reported.
Wednesday, an Israeli military court sentenced Mo’tasem Adwi, 16, to eight months imprisonment and 2000 New Israeli Shekels (NIS) fine, and Ra’ed Shamrokh, 14, to eight months imprisonment and 1000…
The Israeli army arrested Mohamed Odah, 19, from Tammoun village near the West Bank city of Tubass, late on Wednesday night. Odah was arrested in the Al Baq’a valley near…
There is widespread international agreement that Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons is an alarming prospect, but very little attention is paid to the most obvious, immediate reason why: that there…
Palestinians who attack Israeli soldiers cannot be defined as terrorists, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said in an interview with US television network ABC broadcast on Tuesday, April 11. "Somebody…
Palestinian officials reported that President Mahmoud Abbas flew on Wednesday to Casablanca – Morocco, on his first official trip the the country after newspaper reports the city may host secret…
Palestinian medical sources reported on Wednesday evening that two Palestinians were killed by Israeli military fire near the Kissufim Crossing, south of Gaza City. The two residents, fighters of the…
Wednesday afternoon, Israeli troops stationed at Beit Eeba checkpoint, west of the West Bank city of Nablus, arrested one Palestinian youth trying to cross the checkpoint. The young man identity…
Israeli army troops arrested on Wednesday at dawn one Palestinian resident of the West Bank city of Hebron. Sari Al Natsha, 19, were arrested when troops stormed his fathers’ home…
On Wednesday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded the West Bank city of Tulkarem and arrested Zeid Al Shahed, 20, and Ahmad Qatawi, 20. Both were arrested when soldiers stormed their houses…
The Israeli army broke into the villages of Qabatia Dir Da’eef and Al Yamoun near the West Bank city of Jenin and they arrested Khaldoun Awwad, 20, Wednesday morning. Army…
Israeli sources reported on Tuesday that a huge blast rocked an explosives factory in Zichron Yaakov, in northern Israel, killing one man and injuring two others. The huge explosion was…
New Finance Minister Omar Abdel-Razeq has said the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority cannot pay salaries, at least for now. The suspension of direct aid to the Palestinian Authority by the European…
An Israeli army source claimed uncovering an explosive lab that belongs to the Islamic Jihad while operating in Borqeen village, near the West Bank city of Jenin early Thursday. The…
An Israeli military source claimed that soldiers arrested a Palestinian resident carrying a 25-centimeter knife at a checkpoint west of Nablus. The source added that the knife was confiscated and…
Thousands of Palestinian marched through the streets of Jenin on Monday to mark the fourth anniversary of what they term the Jenin massacre — an Israeli assault on the refugee…
Like the blinded Samson, America has great power but cannot see its obvious use. Hamas running Gaza, contrary to what our politicians and pundits are saying, is an opportunity to…
Israeli forces broke on Wednesdat morning into the West Bank city of Nablus, and searched number of houses allegedly looking for Indifada activists. About 30 military vehicles, broke into Al…
Wednesday morning, Israeli forces installed a military checkpoint in Al Bq’ia valley east of Tamoun village near the West Bank city of Tubas. Troops operating in the area, stopped and…
The Israeli armed forces arrested seven residents from Balata refugee camp, east of the West Bank city of Nablus, during an invasion to the camp on Wednesday morning Troops stormed…
British Legislator, Gerald Kaufman said Tuesday, sanctions must be imposed against Israel if it does not hand over officers and troops suspected of being responsible for the killing of two…
A Palestinian medical source in Jenin reported on Tuesday at night that one Palestinian child died of wounds sustained last Saturday during an Israeli military invasion to his village Sielet…
The Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah party, fired homemade projectiles from the Gaza Strip, which hit near the town of Sderot, and also near the Ashkelon…
The shells keep falling. They’ve gotten inside my head, so that its not just my house shaking but but my brain throbbing. It’s like someone is banging a gong next…
Israeli security sources reported on Tuesday that soldiers arrested last night a Palestinian resident who bit a soldier during a protest against the Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah…
A report prepared and published by the Palestinian National Information Center on the Israeli violations in the period between April, 4 and April 10, 2006, revealed that Israeli soldiers shelled…
Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, stated on Tuesday that there will be no quiet in Gaza unless there is quiet in Israel. The statements of Mofaz came as he was…
A jury has ruled that a British activist shot while trying to protect small children from Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip was "intentionally killed" by Israeli forces. The ruling…
The Israeli army arrested four residents Dora and Beit A’wa villages, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, late Monday night. Troops broke into the Al Saleeb region, to…
Israeli armed police force and intelligence officers broke into the Greek Orthodox Patriarch’s headquarters in the Old city of Jerusalem, Tuesday morning. The soldiers targeted archbishop Atallah Hanna’s house, and…
{mosimage}Saturday has become a strange day of rest for the families from Anata, East Jerusalem. Parents go about their work without the anxiety of going to the secondary school gates…
Tuesday morningTh. Israeli armed forces arrested ten residents including two brothers from Ein Beit Alm’a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus after invading it. More than 30…
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Qalqilia and arrested Moner Zied, 28, Tuesday morning. Zied were arrested and taken to unknown destination after troops stormed several houses …
Israeli soldiers arrested Mohamed Al Wahsh during an invasion of Beit Te’mer Village in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday morning. A number of military vehicles, broke into the village and closed…
The Israeli artillery continue its bombardment campaign against the north and eastern areas of the Gaza Strip, through Monday night into Tuesday morning. Israeli tanks stationed on the north borders of the…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health slammed the Israeli decision to ban the entry of medication to the Gaza Strip, and the American and the European Union decision to halt all…
A Palestinian medical source in the Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one ten-year old child was killed, and fifteen residents were injured after…
Palestinian Presidential spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, condemned the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. In air strikes and artillery shelling, Israeli forces have killed sixteen Palestinians since Friday, including a…
Israeli security sources reported on Monday that Hamas movement is close to a decision on initial steps aimed at barring resistance fighters from firing homemade at Israeli targets; Hamas denied…
Israeli armed forces arrested one resident from Tamoun village, east of the West Bank city of Tubass, after invading it on Monday afternoon. Eyewitnesses reported that Mohamed Bisharat, 19, was…
Israeli forces destroyed several agricultural greenhouses in Beit Lahiya north of the Gaza Strip, Monday morning. Eyewitnesses report that the greenhouses were destroyed when Israeli army tanks shelled the Abu…