Labor, Kadima said to have decided on portfolios
Source at the Israeli Labor Party reported on Tuesday that talks between the Labor party head Amir Peretz and Kadima head Ehud Olmert had reached an agreement on the new…
Settler charged to two years for deliberately shooting a Palestinian
Justice Rahel Barkai of the Israeli Be’er Shiva District Court sentenced a rejected an appeal by the Israeli prosecution to sentence a settler to seven years for shooting a Palestinian…
Widow of British reporter shot by Israeli forces condemns Israeli delay on investigation
The widow of a British cameraman shot by Israeli soldiers in Gaza in 2003 has accused the Israeli and British authorities of delaying the investigations into her husband’s death. Testifying…
Israel confiscates 2,432.3 Dunams of Palestinian land in the West Bank, Jerusalem
A new report issued Tuesday by the International Solidarity for Human Rights Organization indicates that Israel confiscated 2,432.3 Dunams of Palestinian land in the first quarter of 2006. The report…
Israeli artillery shells Beit Lahia, two residents killed and six injured
A Palestinian security source in the Gaza Strip reported on Tuesday afternoon that two residents were killed and six were injured after the Israeli army shelled with heavy artillery Palestinian…
South African President Accepts Abbas’ Invitation to Visit, Invites Hamas
South African President Thabo Mbeki accepted an invitation to visit the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) extended to him during a three-day visit by President Mahmoud Abbas, who urged South Africa…
Handicapped Palestinian from Qalqilia saves photographer from soldiers’ attack
As the saying goes, “the handicapped have their abilities and their disability does not negate their potential.” This saying played itself out as the Israeli “special” forces invaded the center…
Salem farmer in critical condition after attack by Israeli settlers
Palestinian farmer, Saber Shtaya of Salem, is in critical condition in Beilinson hospital in Israel after being brutally attacked by settlers last Friday. On that day, Israeli soldiers stood and watched…
In an morning invasion of Nablus old city, the army arrest two girls
Israeli forces invaded the old city area in the West Bank city of Nablus and arrested two residents, early tuesday morning. Soldiers and army vehicles invaded the area and soldiers…
Israeli Forces invade Al Zababda and Bier Al Basha villages near Jenin
The Israeli army invaded Zababda and Bier Al Basha villages situated near the West Bank city of Jenin and arrested four residents from Bier Al Basha village, Tuesday morning. Troops…
Homeland as the Gift of Destiny
Homecoming, between dwelling and settling Inspired by Heidegger’s “Elucidations of Holderlin’s Poetry,”(1) the question to be asked is: What is meant by homecoming? How do people transform a place into…
Army arrest five citizens of Tulkarem
Israeli army arrested five Tulkarum residents early tuesday morning carrying out invasions across several villages in the West Bank city of Tulkarem. In Alar village, troops invaded and searched residents’…
Two residents arrested in Toqua village near Bethlehem
Israeli armed forces invaded the village of Toqua south east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem and arrested two men on Tuesday morning, Hassan Jebriel, 28, and Mohamed Jebriel,…
Army erect a sudden military checkpoint in Jenin
Tuesday morning Israeli soldiers erected a military checkpoint between the villages of Qabatia and Sanor situated near the West Bank city of Jenin. Eye witnesses reported, that the army stopped…
Army arrest one resident in Askar refugee camp
Israeli armed forces invaded Askar refugee camp, east of the West Bank city of Nablus and arrested one resident, Tuesday morning. Ahmad Al Shatawi, 35, was arrested when troops and…
Army arrest one resident from Bethlehem
Israeli armed forces invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem and arrested one resident there, Tuesday dawn. Hossam Aiesh, 22, was arrested after troops stormed several houses in the city,…
Israeli Army arrested one resident of Tamon village
On Tuesday morning Israeli troops arrested Jihad Bani Odah aged 20, from the Tamon village in the West Bank city of Tubass. Troops stormed Tubbas searching several houses before arresting…
Palestinians and Israelis ‘drum through the wall’
This weekend, a group of Palestinians and Israelis gathered in Abu Dis to “break the sound barrier by drumming through the wall”. As the sun set on Saturday, close to…
UN: `“Gaza on verge of a humanitarian disaster`
Several United Nations organizations are warning that the Gaza Strip is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster as a result of the Israeli closure and isolation to the Gaza…
Israeli High Court to issue a ruling on a military Wall in Hebron
The Israeli High Court is slated to issue a ruling regarding installing a “security Wall” around several roads in the Hebron Mountain area after it held a session on Monday…
Hamas holds talks with French and Indian officials
A spokesman of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, reported on Monday that Hamas members held talks two months ago with French officials, and that recently the movement held talks with…
Palestinian child killed near Ramallah
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian child, and injured two youth, in Qalandia refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. A local source in the camp reported…
Israeli Wall in the West Bank: Post-Occupation Strategy to Deny Sovereignty to the Palestinian State
Constructive discussions or academic talks on Israel need an unbiased attitude, juridical approach and humanist values towards the Arabs particularly the Palestinians who have been losing their campaign for freedom…
Military court fines several Palestinian prisoners
The Israeli military court of Salem sentenced and fined a number of Palestinian prisoners during closed military trials held Monday morning. Abd Azazma was sentenced to three months and NIS…
Army arrests two residents in Hebron
Israeli army forces arrested one Palestinian resident of Dora village and another from Ithna village, near the West Bank city of Hebron, Monday morning. Troops invaded the village of Dora…
Israeli Bank which profited from Holocaust victims now allowing U.S. citizens to open accounts
Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank, and one of five major Israeli banks found to have profited from the Holocaust by an Israeli government investigation last year, said on Sunday it…
Ahmad Sa’adat: Wherever I am I will continue to fight!
The Palestine News Network received the following statement from the Sumoud Political Prisoners Group Monday, reprinted in full below. "Palestinian Legislative Council member and General Secretary of the Popular Front…
PPS: `“Detainees are deprived of visitations, education and receiving insufficient food`
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Adel Khalaila, visited several detainees in Hadarim Israeli detention facility who informed him of the bad living conditions and treatment they face in…
Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian farmers increase
Palestinian farmers across the West Bank are finding it increasingly difficult to plough their fields as Israeli settlers, living illegally on Palestinian land, increase their attacks. Rabbis for Human…
Conservatives rush to cut ties with Hamas: demonstrate lack of diplomatic discretion
Israeli and Palestinian political commentators are calling the recent Israeli election results a political ‘earthquake’. From what I can tell, they are using the term not because the results have…
Seven residents injured, two arrested in Qalqilia.
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Qalqilia Monday morning, arresting two Palestinians and injuring seven others. Aziz Al Nabriss, Habib Hammad, Bilal Odah, Abd Al Latif Milhim,…
Israeli army invades Jenin, arresting three Palestinians
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and the nearby village of Bier Al Bash early Monday morning, arresting three Palestinians. Israeli soldiers invaded the village and searched…
Two injured, one arrested in an invasion to Balata refugee camp in Nablus
Israeli army troops invaded Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, injured two residents and arrested one, Monday morning. Army vehicles and soldiers stormed the camp and…
Two residents arrested from Salem village
Israeli army forces invaded the village of Salem east of the West Bank city of Nablus, and arrested two girls on Monday morning. Tharwat, 23, and Khitam Ishtaiah, 22, were…
Eyewitnesses: Palestinian leader Obayat was shot ‘execution-style’ by Israeli forces
In the Monday morning assassination of resistance leader Raed Obayat by Israeli special forces, eyewitnesses describe a scene of a badly beaten Obayat, and his companion Ra’ed Sulaiman Abu Joura,…
Israeli Annexation Wall blocks water drainage; one dead, one injured from flooding
After a seasonal rainstorm Saturday night, many Palestinian areas have experienced extensive flooding due to the Annexation Wall constructed by Israel that has blocked water drainage. Iad Salamah Rabi’a, 29,…
Israeli forces impose closure on al-Aghwar al-Shamaleya area in Jordan Valley for 4th day
Israeli Forces continued on Sunday, for the fourth consecutive day, the isolation of al-Aghwar al-Shamaleya area in Jordan Valley in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. Local sources said that the…
Israeli police arrest two Palestinian workers who crossed illegally into Israel
After a shutdown of the Israeli cities of Beit She’an and Afula due to ‘intelligence’ that the two cities may be targeted for an attack by Palestinian resistance, Israeli police…
Ten detainees injured in the Negev facility, thirty confined to solitary
Ten Palestinian detainees in the Negev Detention Facility after being attacked by Israeli soldiers who intended to move a transfer hundreds of detainees to other detention facilities. At least thirty…
Troops attack, abuse two Palestinian workers from Hebron
A Palestinian medical source in Alia governmental hospital in Hebron, south of the West Bank, reported on Sunday evening that one Palestinian resident was suffered fractures, concussions and bruises to…
‘Rachel’s Words’ Live On as Supporters Gather in New York
Each Palestinian has a special place in their heart for Rachel Corrie. She symbolized strength, perseverance, and self assuredness. Conversely, she was labeled an enemy of Israel, a nuisance of…
The myth of the ‘honest broker’: Britain and Israel
Britain’s apparent complicity in Israel’s military assault on Jericho prison should finally demolish an enduring myth about Britain’s foreign policy. Iraq’s supposed possession of weapons of mass destruction was not…
PCHR Weekly Report: 5 Palestinians killed, 18 wounded by Israeli gunfire this week
In this week’s report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights revealed a number of violations of international law by Israeli…
Thursday’s suicide attacker was one of the prisoners freed by Israeli forces in Jericho jail raid
A Palestinian, who was one of several dozen prisoners set free by Israeli forces during their raid on Jericho prison in March, was responsible for a ‘suicide attack’ that killed…
Trying to enjoy a spring day Amidst Israeli Shelling
A few kilometers away from the continuous Israeli heavy shelling in the northeastern Gaza Strip on Saturday, April 1, in the heart of Gaza City, several local Palestinians were enjoying…
Settlers attack Palestinian farmers and international peace activists in Hebron
An extremist Israeli settler group of the Ramat Yishai illegal settlement outpost, in Hebron, attacked on Saturday three Palestinian farmers and a Swedish peace activist in Tal Romeida neighborhood in…
‘Don’t worry – it’s just another Palestinian child’s death’
Since September 2000, more than 800 Palestinian children have been killed. . .Who will take responsibility for her death? Who shall be held accountable? On 18 March 2006, I visited…
Palestinian Authority to probe Gaza in-fighting
Rasheed Abu Shbak, head of the Palestinian Preventive Security in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip reported that the Palestinian Authority formed an investigation committee to probe the clashes…
Israeli air force shells Palestinian neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip
A Palestinian security source reported that the Israeli air force carried out three air strikes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip; the attacks targeted Al Waha Resort, Al…
Bottles thrown at Israeli military patrols in Tulkarem and Hebron; Israelis respond with live fire
Israeli sources reported that Palestinian youth threw bottles and stones at Israeli tanks, jeeps and armed personnel carriers that were invading the Palestinian cities of Tulkarem and Hebron, late Friday…
Palestinian dies of wounds sustained two weeks ago
Dentist Emad Ald’dein Taha ( 31 years) died Thursday of wounds sustained in an unknown explosion inside his house in Al Nisirat Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip two weeks…
U.S. reiterates suspension of contact with Palestinian Government
In a press conference Friday, U.S. officials reiterated their directive, first announced Wednesday, that the U.S. will bar its officials from dealing with officials of the Palestinian Government agencies that…
Israeli Army resumes shelling of northern and eastern Gaza strip
Israeli army tanks positioned on the borders between the Gaza strip and Israeli resumed the shelling of Palestinian areas north of Gaza city and east of the town of Beit…
Israeli Army erects military checkpoint in Iqaba village, near Tubas
Israeli army forces erected a military checkpoint north of Iqaba village near the West Bank city of Tubas, Saturday morning. Soldiers and army vehicles closed the road that connects the…
Palestinian arrested from Assera Al-Shamaliya village, near Nablus
Israeli army forces invaded the village of Assera Al-Shamaliya near the West Bank city of Nablus, and arrested one resident there, Saturday morning. Soliman Yassen, 23, was arrested when troops…
Army forbids residents under the age of 32 from passing through Huwwara checkpoint
The Israeli army troops stationed at the Huwwara checkpoint forbidden residents for the West Bank city of Nablus between the ages of 16 to 32 from traveling through the checkpoint,…
Army closes Beit Iba checkpoint west of Nablus
Israeli army troops stationed at Beit Iba military checkpoint west of the West Bank city of Nablus did not allow anyone to pass in our out on Saturday morning. This…
Anti-Wall Campaign asks for boycott of French companies following home demolitions in Walaja
After two home demolitions last week in the village of Al Walaja, near Bethlehem, the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign issued a call for citizens and civil society groups to…
Three Palestinians killed, twenty injured, during infighting in Gaza
A Palestinian security source reported on Friday night that three Palestinians were killed, twenty others were injured, during an exchange of fire between fighters of the Popular Resistance Committees and…
Residents, peace activists and international diplomats conduct march to Wall in Bil’in
The Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, invited diplomats from several European representatives offices in the Palestinian areas to participate in an activity regarding the…