Month: June 2006

AL Aqsa martyers brigades the armed wing of the Fateh movement, and the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)…

Israeli ground and naval forced completely sealed off the Gaza borders in an attempt to prevent what an Israeli military spokesperson described as “any attempt to smuggle the abducted Israeli…

Israeli army troops stormed Palestinian shepherd huts east of the West Bank city of Tubas Monday morning, forcing the shepherds and their families out.of their homes while the soldiers conducted…

 Ahmad Nawaf, 15, and Tarik Qassrawi, 40, were injured when Israeli troops opened fire at them during an invasion to the West Bank city of Tubass late Sunday night.  Army…

 The Israeli Forces invaded the West Bank city of Nablus Monday morning, arresting two residents as soldiers opened fired at a journalist’s car. Troops stormed the city and conducted a…

The Israeli army arrested Qobel Radida, 23, during an invasion to Al Obadia village east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem Monday morning. Troops entered the village from different…

Three Israeli peace activists said they were assaulted Saturday by a group of Jewish settlers at the village of At-Tuwani near the West Bank city of Hebron. According to the…

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ruled out any talks with the Palestinian Authority to secure the release of an Israeli soldier who is believed to be in the hands of…

The ‘Jews-only’ settlement of ‘Elkana’, built on illegally seized Palestinian land, has begun construction of an additional 54 houses on farmland belonging to Mas’ha village farmers. Elkana settlement has been…

The Israeli cabinet has extended, on Sunday,a law banning most Palestinians from living in Israel with their spouses. The law was endorsed by Israel’s highest court by the narrowest of…

Brukin village, located in the central West Bank, in the Salfit district, has been subjected to massive sewage dumping from the illegal Israeli settlements ‘Ariel’ and ‘Brukhin’, which are ‘Jewish-only’…

The Israeli political-security cabinet approved a plan that authorizes the army to start preparing for a “fierce” military operation in the Gaza Strip in order to secure the release of…

Three Palestinian resistance factions that carried out the Kerem Shalom Crossing attack earlier on Sunday reported that their gunmen did not abduct any Israeli soldier during the attack. Three Palestinian…

The US government, with European urging, has requested that Israel give negotiation of a bilateral agreement with the Palestinian Authority one last shot. If by the end of the year…

The Hamas government called upon the Palestinian resistance groups who were involved in the attack against the Israeli military post Sunday to keep the Israeli soldier captured during the operation…

At least three Palestinian resistance fighters and two Israeli soldiers were killed in an attack launched by Palestinian resistance early Sunday morning at the Israeli military post of Kerem Shalom…

Israeli soldiers invaded Qabatia and a nearby village Saturday in the West Bank and arrested one fighter of the Al quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad. Soldiers…

Khaled Al Batsh, one of the political leaders of the Islamic Jihad ,reported that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and leaders of the Islamic Jihad will meet at 10pm Palestinian time…

Khaled Al Batsh, one of the political leaders of the Islamic Jihad reported that the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and leaders of the Islamic Jihad will meet at 20hours Palestinian…

Khan Younis-Ma’an-Well-informed Palestinian sources have told the Ma’an correspondent that Palestinian political factions have reached agreement on the Prisoners’ Accord Document. All the political factions, including the Hamas movement, have…

International peace activists from all around the world have become a friend of Palestinian farmers and villagers who are isolated from their orchards by the Israeli annexation Wall. Their nonviolent…

Saturday morning, Israeli troops invaded the Gaza Strip through Sofa Crossing east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Strip, and arrested two Hamas gunmen after surrounding a house…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Saturday with his Prime Minister Ismael Haniya in Gaza city to discuss several issues of interest, Palestinian sources reported. Abbas and Haniya will…

Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a Hamas leader imprisoned by Israel, dismissed reports by the Israeli daily Haaretz in which the paper claims he said Hamas would negotiate with Israel. Haaertz reported…

In Israeli discourse, Israel is always the side exercising ‘restraint’ in its conflict with the Palestinians. This was true again for the events of the past week: As the Qassam…

Palestinian medical sources in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that a baby girl whose mother was injured in an Israeli air strike was stillborn…

My Name is Rachel Corrie was first staged in London at the Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs on 7 April 2005, then on 11 October 2005 at the Royal Court,…

Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, reported on Friday that he will meet with President Mahmoud Abbas after the later arrives in Gaza. Among other issues, the meeting will focus on…

Friday, The United States Senate on passed a bill that blocks United States aid from going to the Palestinian government, headed by Hamas movement, but gives humanitarian relief to the…

Approximately 250 Palestinians and 60 international and Israeli peace activists protested on Friday against Israel’s annexation Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah in the West Bank. Several  protesters, wearing…

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Courage To Refuse conscientious objectors movement in Israel has renewed its activity in wake of the oscillating number of innocent Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in recent weeks. “The…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank village of Za’tarah, east of Bethlehem, Friday before noon and arrested a resident who was identified as A’mer Ibrahim Mas’dah, 27.  Eyewitnesses reported…

Friday before noon, Israeli soldiers and border guards invaded the West Bank town of Al-Khader near Bethlehem, and broke into several homes in the town, conducting searches and forcing residents…

In 2005, there were approximately 6.8 million Palestinian refugees and 400,000 internally displaced Palestinians representing 70 percent of the entire Palestinian population worldwide (9.7 million). The legal status of some…

Israeli authorities at the Ben Gorion International Airport in Tel Aviv barred on Thursday eight international peace activists from entering the country for what the authorities described as “conducting activities…

The Palestine News Network learned Friday that Israeli security forces and police intend to evict a Palestinian cancer patient, Mustafa Al Hilo, because of that fact that he is required…

A recent report by the International human rights organization Human Rights Watch, (HRW) states that the investigation run by the Israeli Army in the killing of a Palestinian family on…

Surveys conducted for Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu “Israel Our Home” party showed that 70% of the Israelis who supported the Gaza Disengagement Plan last year object to a West Bank…

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said at an economic conference in Jerusalem that he instructed the Israeli army to resume the targeted killing policy against resistance fighters in the Palestinian…

Israeli media sources reported that a French Jew identified as Raphael Schoemann, 65, received 10-month suspended prison sentence for sending bullets accompanied by threatening notes to high-profile figures who are…

Thursday evening, Palestinian sources in the West Bank city of Ramallah reported that a Palestinian intelligence officer and member of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement, was…

Israeli Newspaper Maariv reported on Thursday that the Israeli security services are preparing for a campaign to bar international peace activists from entering the occupied West Bank this summer to…

The Israeli army arrested three residents, including a police officer, from the West Bank city of Bethlehem and in the neighborhood of Hendaza Mountain south of the city Thursday at…

Thursday afternoon, Israeli soldiers invaded the West Bank city of Nablus, and its Old City, and clashed with dozens of youth, no injuries were reported. Local sources in Nablus reported…

Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that Palestinian detainees in Al Maskobiyya Israeli Prison in Jerusalem are facing bad treatment, torture and are suffering from deteriorating mental and health condition as a…

King Abdullah II of Jordan hosted on Thursday the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas at Petra convention in what was described by Israeli media…

The Palestinian Prisoner Society )PPS) is currently preparing to send a delegation of lawyers to visit Palestinian political prisoners in Al Naqab (Negev Desert) Prison inside southern Israeli borders. The…

Israeli forces and settlers injured four Palestinians, including several youth, in separate attacks in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. A fifth individual was arrested following the attacks. Medical…

Israeli army installed a military checkpoint at the southern entrance of the West Bank city of Qalqilia on Thursday and obstructed the movement of the residents and their vehicles there.…

The Israeli army backed by military jeeps broke into a home of Ahmad Shaheen Abu Alan during a wide-scale home search of the West Bank town of Al Thahreya, south…

  Four residents from the West Bank city of Hebron and one of its nearby towns were injured on Thursday when they were attacked by Israeli soldiers and settlers. Palestinian…

General strike was declared in all governmental organizations and ministries on Thursday by the invitation of the committee of the employees of the governmental sector in the West Bank and…

Palestinian medical sources and eyewitnesses in Gaza reported on Wednesday evening that a Palestinian woman has been killed and 14 other civilians, including children, were injured in a second Israeli…

The Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth  reported that Israel plans to conduct yet another large-scale military operation on the Gaza Strip. This news came in the wake of a heated…

In an attempt to deepen public knowledge of World Refugee Day, the UN Relief Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees hosted a series films about refugees Tuesday evening in the Palestinian…

Israeli soldiers deported on Tuesday detainee Rasmi Subaih, 24, from the West Bank city of Tulkarem, to Gaza after detaining him in the Negev Administrative Detention Facility without trial for…

Palestinian medical sources in the West Bank city of Nablus reported that one fighter of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement, was killed and two other…

Palestinians may not pass a statehood referendum called by Mahmoud Abbas as they see the vote as a symbol of the power struggle between the Palestinian president and the Hamas…

An Israeli investigation aired on the Israeli Television, Channel 10, revealed that fragments of an Israeli artillery shell were found in the body of one of the residents injured at…

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) published a report showing a statistical overview about demographic status of Palestinian refugees totaled according to UNRWA records 4,255,120 till 31st of March…

The Israeli Supreme Court has rejected two challenges to the route of the West Bank annexation Wall in and around the occupied east Jerusalem, allowing construction to proceed as planned…

The leadership of Hamas and Fateh in the West Bank sent a letter Monday to colleagues in the Gaza Strip urging them to reach a national agreement as soon as…

The Prisoner Supporters Society released a statement Sunday indicating that the Israeli Prison Administration is barring visits to the Palestinian political detainee Ibrahim Hamid, member of the Al Aqsa Brigades,…

A senior official at the Preventive Security force in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that gunmen attacked on Sunday at dawn with shells and…

Sunday, an Israeli military court sentenced Israeli a Lieutenant Colonel, identified as Omar Al-Hayeb to 15 years in prison, after he was “found guilty” of spying for the Lebanon based…

Senior Fateh and Hamas officials met on Sunday and reached an agreement on the division of the Palestinian Security Forces. Senior Fateh leader, Mohammad Dahlan, head of the Security Services…

The Israeli military claimed that weapon trafficking into Gaza through the Gaza-Egypt borders have significantly increased in recent days while the Palestinian Authority has done nothing to prevent it.  …

Under-cover units of the Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and fired randomly at residents houses, Saturday morning. Troops stormed the old city, and several other neighborhoods,…

Ahmad Zeidann, 26, was arrested when Israeli troops invaded the village of Ramain east of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, Saturday at dawn. Several army vehicles stormed the village,…

Israeli forces stormed and attacked the shepherds’ huts in hilds located east of the West Bank city of Tubas, Saturday morning. Several army jeeps stormed the area and sealed it,…

Saturday morning, Israeli army troops invaded, on Sunday, the village of Kharabtha Al Misbah, west of the West Bank city of Rammallah, and arrested five residents. Troops invaded the village,…

The Israeli armed forces have invaded the village of Al Aqaba, east of the West Bank city of Tubas, and conducted military searches of homes, local sources reported. Scores of…

Israewli troops arrested Sa’ed Al Shriteh, 21, during an invasion and seach campaign to the residents’ homes in Yatta village south of the West Bank city of Hebron, Saturday. Soldiers…

At least three residents were injured in several army attacks in the West Bank city of Hebron and the nearby villages of Sa’er and Al Shioukh, on Saturday. The three…

The Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement, claimed responsibility for firing at Israeli soldiers stationed at a military checkpoint near Tiaseer village, south of the West…

The Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement, claimed responsibility for firing at Israeli soldiers stationed at a military checkpoint near Tiaseer village, south of the West…

Friday and Saturday, Israeli soldiers started bulldozing farmlands belonging to Palestinian families from Sabastia village, near Nablus, in an operation that aims to expand the nearby Shavei Shomron Settlement. Resident…

The EU Commissioner for External Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner will visit Palestinian Territories next week for talks with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. She will also meet with the Israeli Prime…

Friday at night, the Israeli air-force fired missiles at a Palestinian vehicle carrying members of the Islamic Jihad; two fighters were killed and one was seriously injured, Palestinian security and…

Friday, dozens of residents of Bil’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, along with dozens of Israeli and international peace activists held their weekly protest against the annexation…

Holy Land Trust, a non-profit organization based in Bethlehem, celebrated the conclusion of their training program entitled “The Role of Public Action in Conflict Resolution” Thursday in Jenin. The program…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza released its weekly report on the Israeli violations in the Palestinian territories. The report revealed that Israeli soldiers killed 28 Palestinians, including…

A group of right wing Israeli settlers and some of their supporters gathered on Friday and organized a festival on a stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank city of…

Scores of right-wing Jewish settlers from Ramat Yashai settlement post, a settlement that overlooks the West Bank city of Hebron, have burned olive trees belonging to Palestinian residents of the…

Unknown gunmen attacked the Municipality building in the West Bank city of Nablus, damaged and burnt the information desk, Friday afternoon. The masked gunmen forced the employees and the residents…

Dozens of American citizens, members of a Peaceful Jewish organizations, protested on Thursday evening in front of Caterpillar headquarters in Chicago, in the United States, and demanded the company to…

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Leaders of the European Union endorsed on Friday a plan to channel aid payments to the Palestinian health, social services and facilities sectors such as heating and sanitations, while maintaining…

Members of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed resistance wing of the Fateh movement, stormed the Tulkarem headquarters of the Legislative Council late Thursday night.  Once inside, the members opened…

Head of the Israeli Betenu extreme right wing party in Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, said during a visit to the Israeli Negev town of Sderot that Israel must level the houses…

Dr. Ghassan Bannoura, a doctor at Al Hussein Hospital (The Governmental Hospital) in Beit Jala, spoke recently of a patient named Mustafa Ahmaro, two and a half, from Hebron who…

Israeli troops invaded the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday at dawn, and clashed with dozens of residents, one soldier was mildly injured during the clashes. Israeli sources reported…

An inquiry conducted by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has revealed that there has been a huge rise in the number of houses destroyed by the Israeli army in the process…

Israeli army troops invaded the village of Attile, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, and arrested one resident Friday at dawn. Mohamed Doka, 28, was arrested when troops…

A group of resistance fighters from Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, have attacked the Palestinian legislative council offices in the West Bank city of Tulkarem late…

Thursday. thousands of residents of Shfa-Amr Arabic town in Israel protested against arresting seven residents the Israeli police claims that they killed the settler-soldier Eden Natan-Zada who staged on board…

Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, instructed the Israel army on Thursday to conclude preparations for the evacuation of illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank within two weeks. The first…

An Israeli military source reported on Thursday that soldiers arrested three Palestinians who to attempted to abduct two settler teen girls at the Rechalim Junction, near the West Bank city…

Thursday evening, three Palestinian fighters of the Islamic Jihad were killed by Israeli military fire near the Kissufim military crossing in the central Gaza Strip. Army source claimed that the…