Female university student arrested west of Ramallah
On Monday at night the Israeli army arrested Taghreed Khaleel Hannouni, 22, a student of Bir Zeit University, after breaking into her house in Kafer Ni’ma village, west of Ramallah.…
Hamas PLC members met with Israeli Prison Administration & member of Israeli goverment
The Israeli daily, Yediot Aharanot, reported Tuesday morning that a meeting between the Legislative Council of Prisoners, comprised of all Palestinian factions, was held with the Al Naqab (Negev Desert)…
Army arrests a Qalqelia resident
Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Qalqilia, on Tuesday at dawn, fired rounds of live ammunition, and broke into several homes forcing the residents out. One reisdent was arrested…
Audio Report: The Daily News For May 8, 2006
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Qalqilia resident reject a wall reroute that would isolate villages
More than six months after the Israeli Supreme Court issued its decision to change the route of the Wall cutting through Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank in order to…
Palestinian Authority crisis: Prisons running out of food
According to a report Monday morning, Palestinian police cannot provide food for prisoners detained in its prisons because there is no money to pay for it. In addition, a senior…
Palestinian Legislative Council building in Ramallah on fire
A fire started on Monday afternoon in the Palestinian legislative council (PLC) building in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Firefighters and police rushed to the scene and managed to…
Palestinian resistance fighters claim to have thrown a flaming bottle at Israeli soldiers
The Nasser Salah Addin Brigades, the military wing affiliated with the Popular Resistance Committees, have claimed that their fighters threw a flaming bottle at an Israeli patrol while the Israeli…
Israeli Army arrests two Palestinian residents of Ramallah
Israeli military forces invaded the West Bank city of Rammallah and arrested two residents, late Sunday night. Rafaiek Nakhlah, 24, from Al Jalazone refugee camp in the city and Sharif…
Israeli Army attacks shops and houses in Hebron; imposes siege
The Israeli army closed the West Bank city of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, putting it under an intensified military siege while soldiers attacked and searched several Palestinian shops…
Three Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in At’til village
Israeli forces arrested three Palestinian young men, including two brothers ,in the town of At’til north of Tulkarem early Sunday. Local Palestinian sources reported that Israeli forces entered the town…
Two injured, including teen, as Israeli forces continue to pound northern Gaza with artillery
Palestinian security sources reported that a Palestinian man and boy suffered shrapnel wounds Monday morning, after Israeli tanks occupying the northeastern Gaza Strip border fired tank shells. Palestinian medical sources…
Three youth arrested from Beit Fourek village by Israeli army
The Israeli army arrested three youth from the village of Beit Fourek east of the West Bank city of Nablus, Monday morning. The boys were identified as Mojamed Haninni, Mohmaed…
Palestinian arrested from Al Sawahra Al Sharqia village near Jerusalem
The Israeli army invaded Al Sawahra Al Sharqia near Jerusalem and arrested one resident, on Monday at dawn. Sofian Shahin, 27, was arrested when troops stormed his family home and…
Israeli Army arrests one Palestinian from Al Nasrawiah village
The Israeli troops arrested Adel Balawona, 22, from the village of Al Nasrawiah southeast of the West Bank city of Tubas, Monday morning. Balawona was arrested when troops attacked his…
Student arrested at Israeli checkpoint near Kofer Laqef village
Laith Nasser, a university student from the village of Kofer Laqef east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia was arrested by the Israeli army, Monday at dawn. Nasser was…
Army invades Nablus, arrests 9 including a young woman
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday morning and arrested 9 residents including a young woman.Army vehicles and jeeps stormed the city and the nearby…
Construction of Apartheid Road in Al Jeeb Village Destroys Palestinian Lands
A report Monday from the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign said since the beginning of May, Israeli occupation forces have begun uprooting farming lands in the southwest of Jeeb village…
Three killed in Hamas-Fatah gunfight near Khan Younis
At least three Palestinians were killed on Monday during a gun battle between members of the rival Hamas and Fatah groups in the Gaza Strip, paramedics said. It was the…
The Al Quds Brigades aghast at British newspaper report that they intend to assassinate Abbas
A newspaper article published Sunday has incensed the armed resistance wing of Hamas, the Al Qassam Brigades. The piece claims that Al Qassam intended to assassinate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.…
Troops invade Balata refugee camp, exchange fire with resistance fighters
Sunday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, and exchanged fire with resistance fighters, Palestinian sources reported. Four residents were arrested in separate invasion in the West…
Army shells Beit Lahia, kills one resident; eight killed in three days
Sunday morning, Israeli army shelled with heavy artillery an area located east of Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, killing one resident who was planting his…
Israeli police evacuates three settler families that occupied a Palestinian house in Hebron
Sunday morning, the Israeli police evacuated three Jewish settler families that occupied a Palestinian house in Hebron, south of the West Bank. The Israeli radio reported that at least fifty…
Israeli forces arrest three, beat one Saturday in Balata
On Saturday at dawn, Israeli military forces invaded Balata refugee camp, near Nablus in the northern West Bank, and arrested three citizens. Witnesses said that Israeli soldiers broke into and…
Army shells Gaza, kills an elderly resident, injures four
A Palestinian medical source at Kamal Adwan Hospital, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one resident was killed after the Israeli army, stationed at the northern…
Settlers attack children in Hebron, wound three
Three Palestinian school children were injured in the West Bank city of Hebron after being attacked by extremist settlers living in illegal settlement outpost in the city. The attack…
Settlers attack children in Hebron, wound three
Three Palestinian school children were injured in the West Bank city of Hebron after being attacked by extremist settlers living in illegal settlement outpost in the city. The attack was…
Parents of detainees protest in Bethlehem
In cooperation with the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) in Bethlehem, the Committee of Parents of Detainees in the city organized, on Saturday, a protest in front of the Red Cross…
2 Palestinians Wounded as Israeli forces pound northern Gaza with artillery rounds
Two citizens were wounded Saturday morning as Israeli Forces resumed bombarding the northern parts of the Gaza Strip, medical sources said. Ministry of Health sources reported that two citizens were…
Two women arrested at a military roadblocks east of Tulkarem
Israeli soldiers arrested on Friday at night two Palestinian women from Atteel village north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem while attempting to cross an Israeli military checkpoint installed…
P.A security officer arrested in Hebron
Last night Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian citizen at a military checkpoint occupying the western Hebron area of the southern West Bank. At the same time, Israeli forces are intensifying…
Hamas and Fateh school teachers collect monthly funds for the unpaid
In a pioneering move to triumph over the economic blockade, the Ibn Qabatia School in Nablus has created a cooperative borrowing fund to assist those in need during this period…
Mobile phone Camera captures torturous soldiers abuse against Palestinians in the West Bank
Many remain unaware of Israeli soldiers’ behavior against Palestinian citizens at checkpoints in the West Bank, the racial slurs, the torturous behavior and humiliation. This is the story,…
Israeli army air-strikes Gaza, kills five residents including two brothers
Palestinian medical sources and eyewitnesses reported, on Friday evening, that five residents, including two brothers were killed after the Israeli air force shelled a training camp which belongs to the…
19-year-old youth killed in Nablus
The Israeli army invaded the Rafidya neighborhood of Nablus in the West Bank, and surrounded two houses seeking wanted persons. One youth was shot and killed by the Israeli forces…
Bil’in Protesters demonstrate, through street theater, the suffering of Palestinians
Hundreds of Palestinian residents of Bil’in village, and dozens of Israeli and international peace activists, held their weekly protest against Israel’s annexation Wall in the village of Bil’in, near the…
Farmers in Qalqilia suffer from Wall: I cannot add a thing because all there is, is pain
The hope of the farmers in Qalqilia is that their fruits and citrus will survive the season behind the Wall. Since 2002 farmers have been isolated from their lands, suffocated…
Jenin on hunger strike in nonviolent protest against the `“starvation of children and residents
Dozens more Palestinians join nonviolent protest, hunger striking against “starvation of children and the Palestinian nation, as the US-led economic blockade continues against Palestinians after the elected the Hamas party…
This Week in Palestine – May Week 01
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Sick detainee forced to shower while hand tied in Israel hospital
Apparently, chains became the daily companion of the Palestinian political prisoners, even when hospitalized and in need to surgery. Wajeeh Qawwas, mayor of Qalqilia who was elected while he was…
Army creats blockade between north and south of W.B
Israeli army troops stationed at Al Nabi Elias checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Salfet, stopped residents from northern areas of west Bank to cross to the southern…
Army invades the town of Beit Jala, and arrested one resident
The Israeli troops invaded Beit Jala town in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and arrested one resident, Friday at dawn. According to Eyewitness report., Wisam Sansor, were arrested when…
Army invades Nablus and the nearby Balata refugee camp
Israeli army forces invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and the nearby Balata refugee camp, Friday morning. Soldiers opened fire randomly at the residents’ homes wounding three. Army also…
Russia transfers $10 million to Palestine, Haniya express gratitude
Russia has transferred 10 million U.S. dollars as an immediate relief aid to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), an official at the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. …
Detainee Manal Ghanim will be separated from her child soon
Female detainees in Telmond Israeli prison reported that they intend to organize a series of steps in protest to a decision of an Israeli court to separate detainee Manal Ghanim,…
Troops invade Nablus refugee camp, exchange fire with resistance fighters
Friday at dawn, Israeli troops invaded the Balata refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Nablus, in an attempt to arrested “wanted” resistance fighters and exchanged fire with them,…
In protest to bad conditions, detainees in Huwwara prison on hunger strike
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) visited on Thursday several detainees in Huwwara detention facility, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, and met with several detainees who…
Hamas willing to accept 2002 peace Plan if Israel does
Hamas leaders-in-exile have said that they are ready to consider a 2002 Arab League peace plan – which calls for recognition of Israel and a return to pre-1967 war borders…
Israeli politician calls for execution of some Arab-Israeli Parliament Members
The leader of the Jewish ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party raised an uproar after calling for the execution of Israeli Arab MPs who have been in contact with members of Hamas.…
Palestinian activists begin Hunger Strike to protest Israeli Policy of Starvation
On Thursday, two prominent Palestinian citizens started an open-ended hunger strike to protest the dire economic situation created by the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, and the ‘collective punishment’ of…
Israeli company negotiates largest arms deal ever with Nigeria
A few days ago, the American ambassador in Nigeria met with the Nigerian defense minister, Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso. The ambassador complained about a major weapons deal that the Nigerian defense…
Israeli leader: Settlements will become part of Israel forever
In an address to the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) on Thursday, Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Israeli settlements built illegally in the West Bank will establish the final…
Troops kill Palestinian taxi driver at a military checkpoint near Nablus
Israeli soldiers shot and killed on Thursday evening a Palestinian Taxi driver near Al Bathan Israeli checkpoint, north east of the West Bank city of Nablus; the driver dies instantly…
Hamas accuses U.S. of blocking Palestinian salary and pension payments
The new Palestinian prime minister has charged the US with blocking money to pay 165,000 of its public sector workers. Ismail Haniyeh told a news conference on Wednesday that the…
Cash-strapped Gaza taxi drivers turn to cooking gas for fuel
Facing sky-high petrol prices and fewer passengers, Palestinian taxi driver Abdel-Hakim Yassin now powers his shabby cab with cooking gas canisters as a financial crisis deepens in the Gaza Strip.…
Jewish youth attack Palestinian Mosque in Akka
In the Jewish suburbs of Akka, a largely Palestinian city inside Israeli borders — a place where Israeli flags regularly fly overhead, incensing the Palestinian-Israeli population, Jewish youth attacked the…
Israeli troops impose siege on Arraba village, near Jenin
On Thursday, Israeli soldiers imposed a strict siege on Arraba town, southwest of Jenin city, and banned residents from entering the town. Local sources stated that troops posted roadblocks very…
Audio Report: The Daily News For May 4, 2006
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U.S. University censors Palestinian art exhibit
Brandeis University officials have removed from a school exhibit artwork that depicts injured and bloodied Palestinian children, according to a media report. The images were painted by Palestinian teenagers at…
Huwwara under strict curfew for second day, seven youth arrested
For the second consecutive day, Israeli soldiers kept a strict siege and closure imposed on Huwwara village, south of the West Bank city of Nablus; seven youth were arrested in…
Settlers’ vehicle rams a 3-year old child in Hebron
A Palestinian medical source at the West Bank city of Hebron reported that a three- year old child was seriously injured on Wednesday evening after a settler rammed him with…
Fateh wins the Bethlehem Student Council elections
The Jerusalem and Right of Return bloc of the Fateh party won the majority of seats in Bethlehem University’s student council elections today. Fateh won 16 out of 31 seats,…
Israeli forces detain a Qalqilia resident for 10 hours because he had a public map of the Wall route
Israeli soldiers occupying the gate that leads in and out of the city of Qalqilia detained a Palestinian for 10 hours because he carried a map of the Wall route. …
Special Forces infiltrate the west Bank city of Tubas
An Israeli Special Forces unit entered the West Bank city of Tubas on Tuesday. A security source in the city said that the force using a white van to infiltrate…
Army occupies several shops in Hebron
Israeli soldiers took over several Palestinian shops in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday morning. Troops stormed shops that sell construction materials, and setup an ambushes inside forcing…
Soldiers open fire at residents trying to pass a military checkpoint near Nablus
Israeli soldiers stationed on Al Bathan checkpoint, at the southern entrance of the West Bank city of Nablus, fired on at residents trying pass thursday morningt. The checkpoint, which is…
Army invades Howwara and arrest seven youths
The Israeli army invaded the town of Howwara south of the West Bank city of Nablus and arrested seven youths, on Thursday morning. Soldiers continue to impose a curfew on…
Hebron child injured in settler hit and run.
Abd Allah Al Ja’bari, 3 years old , from the West Bank city of Hebron was seriously injured on Tuesday evening, in a hit and run incident with an Israeli…
Army arrest resident from Obadyia village
Israeli troops invaded the village of Obadyia east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem and arrested one resident, Thursday morning. Ayoub Al Assa, 21,was arrested after soldiers stormed his…
The village of Araba near Jenin under siege
The village of Araba south west of the city of Jenin, is under seige from the Israeli army, Thursday morning. Army vehicles and soldiers have blocked all access roads to…
Israeli settlers in Hebron steal and beat Palestinians’ donkeys
Israeli settlers in the southern West Bank area of Hebron are beating Palestinian’s donkeys without mercy. An armed group from Kiryat Arba, the first settlement in the West Bank imposed…
Palestinian resistance leader survives assassination attempt by Israeli forces
An armed resistance leader survived an ambush in the northern West Bank Wednesday morning. Salah Souafta is the leader in Tubas City of Saraya Al Quds, the armed resistance wing…
Go Home, Mofaz!
What is to be done with Mofaz now? As an elected MK on Kadima’s list, his place is in the Knesset. The mark of shame on his brow will only…
Israeli Settlers in Hebron Prevent Palestinian School Children from Returning Home after school
Israeli settlers living illegally in Hebron, in the Palestinian West Bank, prevented Wednesday afternoon Palestinian school children from returning home from school in Hebron to their home village in Umm…
Israeli Settlers in Hebron Prevent Palestinian School Children from Returning Home after school
Israeli settlers living illegally in Hebron, in the Palestinian West Bank, prevented Wednesday afternoon Palestinian school children from returning home from school in Hebron to their home village in Umm…
Five-year Old Boy Detained by Israeli Forces
Defence for Children International- Palestine Section said that a five-year old boy was detained, together with his father, by Israeli soldiers for long hours under baseless pretexts on Wednesday. The…
Audio Report: The Daily News For May 3, 2006
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Report: BBC Reporting favors Israel
Coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict by the British Broadcasting Service (BBC) favors the Israeli side, a study for the BBC Governors has concluded. Deaths of Israelis received greater coverage than…
Israeli Troops storm Jenin, arrest three Palestinians
Israeli soldiers invaded on Wednesday at dawn the West Bank city of Jenin and its nearby villages of Al Zababda and Kufur Ra’ey, and arrested three young men after breaking…
Army arrest handicapped youth from Beit Awwa village near Hebron
Israeli troops arrested Ashraf Al Massalma, 23, from the village of Beit Awwa near the West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday. Al Masalmah is handicapped and uses a wheel…
Army imposes curfew on Huwwara near Nablus
The Israeli army imposed curfew on the town of Huwwara, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, on Wednesday morning. Troops stormed the town and occupied a building using…
Hamas denies internal conflict on holding national talks
Islamic Resistance Movement, (Hamas) denied on Wednesday the presence of internal conflict in the movement regarding holding national talks with the Palestinian movements slated for May 15. The Al Hayat…
Due to Israeli Siege, Gaza Suffers Unprecedented Health Crisis
Several Health Ministry officials at the Palestinian National Authority have warned of a serious health crisis in Gaza Strip due to the shortage of medicines and basic medical supplies, caused…
Army arrest two residents from Atel and Sieda villages north of Tulkarem
On Wednesday morning, Israeli troops arrested one resident from Atel village and one from Sieda both villages are situated north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem. Yazed Aodah, 28,…
Quartet Committee Convenes Next Tuesday to Discuss Feasibility of Road Map
Israeli news reports mentioned that representatives of the Quartet Committee members will meet next Tuesday in New York to discuss the mediation the Committee is doing in the Middle East,…
Report: ’37 Palestinians, including 6 children, killed in April’
A monthly report prepared and published by the National and International Office at the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) revealed that Israeli soldiers killed in April 37 residents, including 6 children,…
May 3: 58th Anniversary of ‘the Catastrophe’: Al Nakba
The entire debate between the old and the new historians revolves round the question of moral responsibility for the consequences of the first Arab-Israeli war. It is a pleasure and…
Army continue to block the west entrance of Nablus
Israeli soldiers stationed at Al Bathan military checkpoint on the western entrance of the West Bank city of Nablus are keeping it closed Wednesday. According to eyewitnesses the soldiers announced…
Army invades Jenin and nearby village of Zababda, arresting one
Israeli armed forces invaded the West |Bank city of Jenin and the nearby village of Al Zababda, and arrested one resident, on Wednesday at dawn. In Jenin city, troops and…
Three Young men arrested from Obaidiyya village near Bethlehem
In a predawn invasion to the village of Obaidiyya, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Israeli troops arrested three young men on Wednesday morning. The arretees were identified…
The Israeli Army arrest two residents from Kofer Ra’ee village near Jenin
The Israeli army invaded the village of Kofer Ra’ee south west of the West Bank city of Jenin and arrested two residents, Wednesday morning. Ayman Milhem, 16, and Fadi Mrished,…
P.A Labor Minister; `“Our projects should be development and not relief`
As the workers of the world, and the Palestinians, celebrated the First of May, Palestinian workers remained jobless as a result of the Israeli military procedures, attacks and checkpoints barring…
Audio Report: The Daily News For May 2, 2006
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Israeli Military confiscates land, demolish Palestinian house, barn in Hebron area
The Israeli Army commander of the West Bank issued three military orders on Tuesday — to demolish a house and a barn in the West Bank city of Hebron and…
Israeli prison administration closes 150 canteen accounts
The financial crisis facing Palestine due to the US-led economic boycott against the new Palestinian Hamas-led government has reached Palestinian political prisoners. Sources in the Palestinian political prisoner movement in…
Two Palestinian security officers killed, seven injured north of Gaza City
On Tuesday afternoon, two Palestinian security officers were killed and seven were injured in an explosion in that took place at the building of the Palestinian National Security in the…
Army arrests 17 residents in Bethlehem in two days
Israeli soldiers backed by more than 15 armored vehicles and armored jeeps carried out wide scale arrests and invasions in several locations in Bethlehem area in the West Bank, mainly…
Army continues to prevent the farmers of Kafer Qaddoum from accessing their lands
Israeli troops stationed around the village of Kafer Qaddoum east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia prevented farmers from accessing their lands, on Tuesday. Soldiers attacked the farmers and…
Two PA officers killed in an explosion east of the Gaza strip
Khalied Sanonah, 33, and Tamer Al Masheharwai, 26, were killed in an explosion in the Palestinian National security forces headquarters in Jabalia town north of the Gaza strip, Tuesday afternoon.…