Month: July 2006

It is almost unbelievable that after the US speeded delivery of guided bombs to Israel, Israel forces shell civilians in Qana killing at least 37 children, the same city in…

The Palestine News Network reported on Monday that at least 2320 detainees in the Israeli Negev detention Facility, announced a one day Hunger Strike in protest to the Israeli attacks…

The nation of Lebanon observed a national day of mourning following the ‘Qana massacre’ on Sunday, in which 58 civilians, including 38 children, were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Rescue…

Local sources in southern Lebanon have reported that Israeli air strikes have continued unabated despite public promises made by Israeli officials Sunday night that the strikes would pause for 48…

Palestinian sources reported on Monday afternoon that one resident died of wounds suffered ten days ago during an Israeli military shelling to Al Maghazi refugee camp. Two residents were reportedly…

Two US cargo planes believed to be carrying bombs bound for Israel have failed to land for refuelling at a Scottish airport, where a protest was staged at the expected…

Monday afternoon, Israeli soldiers fired tank and artillery shells at Beit Hanoun town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, killing one child while he was standing in front…

Fifteen Palestinian local radio stations from all over the West Bank and Gaza strip have designated Monday as a day of solidarity with the Lebanese people. The joint broadcast, called…

Israeli army troops installed a military checkpoint to the south of the Al Far’a village near Salfit for the second day in row Monday. Soldiers stopped residents and civilian cars,…

The Israeli soldiers stationed at the Yatta village military checkpoint took one man prisoner Monday. Troops stopped Mossa Dawoed, 35, at the checkpoint, searched him, then checked his ID card…

Israeli air force jet fighters continued their air strikes Monday on the eastern areas of Lebanon, only hours after the Israel military announced it will suspend its bombardment on the…

Israeli soldiers stationed at a military checkpoint north of the West Bank city of Hebron have taken one residents prisoner Monday. Ahmad Ebiat, who lives in the near by city…

Israeli soldiers stationed at several military checkpoints around the West Bank city of Nablus have stopped residents and students from traveling to Ramallah Monday. Troops at Za’tara and Howwara checkpoints…

The Israeli army took Ala’ Houssen, 20, prisoner during a predawn invasion to the village of Alar, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia, Monday. Houssen was taken to…

The Israeli army troops invaded Iktaba area east of the West Bank city of Tulkarem and took three residents as prisoners, Monday morning. The three were identified as; Mohamed Alariah,…

The Israeli army troops invaded the Iktaba area east of the West Bank city of Tulkarem Monday morning, taking three residents prisoners. The three were identified as: Mohamed Alariah, 18,…

Israeli forces invaded the West Bank city of Nablus Monday at dawn, taking three residents prisoners, local sources reported. Troops and jeeps entered the city from several directions and searched…

At military roadblocks between Palestinian cities in the West Bank Israeli forces continue to contravene international law, specifically the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit interference in medical procedures. Dr. Ali Al…

Yousif Al Maghari, 22, died Monday morning of wounds he sustained during the Israeli army invasion to the Al Maghazi refugee camp last week. Al Maghari was shot by Israeli…

An Israeli jet fighter fired several missiles into a house in Gaza city Monday at dawn, completely destroying the Al Shikh Radwan area home in central Gaza.

Israeli army troops took Awwad Friha, 38, as prisoner during predawn invasion to the West Bank city of Bethlehem Monday. Troops and several army jeeps stormed the city, surrounded Friha’s…

"By Wednesday we are going to establish a two-kilometer (one-mile) wide ‘security zone’ in which there will be no  infrastructure or sign of Hezbollah’s presence," Israeli army operations chief General…

A male news anchor appeared on screen from the safety of Arabic station Al-Jazeera’s studio in Doha as two female correspondents in full war gear reported live from both sides…

Israeli forces pulled out of the Lebanese border town of Bint Jbeil yesterday on the 18th day of the Middle East crisis.  Israeli troops had raided the Hizbollah stronghold, 2.5…

The irony is almost beyond belief. Since the capture of an Israeli soldier, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to a large-scale military operation, what Israel calls “Summer Rain”. Because…

With Israeli invasions ongoing in both Lebanon and Gaza, Palestinians in the West Bank report that Israeli forces have begun tightening already strict procedures that Palestinians must endure at the…

On Sunday, August 29th of last year, the hurricane we’d been watching metastasize in the Gulf of Mexico crossed from sea to land, disfiguring and permanently altering the city of…

It is an accepted theory that truth is the first casualty of war. In the present Israeli war on Lebanon spin is certainly the first victor.  The misinformation and the…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) released a report stating there are currently dozens of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons who were arrested “in peace times” and before the Oslo agreements,…

Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, expressed shock over “the Israeli crimes against the Lebanese people”, and demanded the International Community to impose sanctions on Israel after the army killed 58…

In a large-scale campaign against the northwestern West Bank city of Qalqilia Sunday, Israeli soldiers terrorized residents on myriad levels. Beginning by invading the city at 2:00 am, Israeli forces…

Israeli soldiers beat three Dura Village residents, southwest of Hebron Sunday. Medical sources at the southern West Bank’s city hospital reported that the victims are covered in contusions and bruises…

As Israeli airplanes continue to rain bombs down upon all parts of southern Lebanon, killing dozens of civilians today alone, the attempts at ground invasions have continued to prove difficult,…

Sunday, Israeli soldiers fired artillery shells at several houses in Al Shouka town, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli soldiers stationed…

Saturday after midnight, Israeli forces shelled several houses in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, several residents were injured. In Gaza city, soldiers shelled house Al…

Saturday evening, under-cover units of the Israeli army assassinated a member of the Islamic Jihad and injured another fighter in Al Habla neighborhood, in the Old City of Nablus, north…

Israeli soldiers stationed at the Beit Iba checkpoint, located at the western entrance of the west bank city of Nablus, closed it on Saturday morning for over four hours.  Troops…

On Saturday morning, Israeli tanks and bulldozers invaded Al Fokharee neighborhood, south of Khan Younis town, in the eastern Gaza strip. Odah Al Omor, the mayor of Al Fokharee village…

Israeli army forces closed the entrance of Wadi Al Far’a village, south of the West Bank city of Tubas, early on Saturday morning.  Troops and jeeps sealed the area and…

Israeli forces invaded the West Bank city of Jenin, its refugee camp and the outlying village of Qabatia, on Saturday at dawn. Army vehicles and bulldozers stormed the city and…

Israeli army troops invaded the village of Tuqa on Saturday at dawn, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.  Security sources in the village reported that several armored jeeps…

Israeli sources reported that the United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, headed to the Middle East in order to hold talks with the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, to…

Saturday morning, Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian military medic in southern Hebron, in the west Bank, the Palestinian WAFA news agency reported. The agency stated that troops arrested Ahmad Noah…

An Israeli military court sentenced two young Bethlehem men to 21 life terms and additional 15 Ahmed Salah from Deheisha Refugee Camp, 24, and Zaher Mekdad from Bethlehem City, 26,…

Israeli air force fired missiles, on Saturday, at the area of Al Safeer, in Al Dahia Al Janoubiyya area in Beirut, and shelled Jarhou’ area in southern Lebanon. Also, troops…

Friday afternoon, fighters of Hezbollah party attacked several Israeli military vehicles and tanks stationed in Maroun Al Ras and Eitaron areas in southern Lebanon.  Hezbollah fighters said they shot down…

Israeli police, who control the entry to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, have been preventing anyone under 40 years old from praying on Thursday and Friday, today firing tear gas…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a Palestinian residents died of wounds sustained on Thursday evening, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, while an elderly…

Hezbollah has fired a new rocket at Israel, striking deeper than ever before, as Israel continued to pound Lebanese targets and battle resistance fighters on the ground. Hezbollah said it…

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At least 250 Palestinian residents of the village of Bil’in, west of Ramallah, along with some 50 Israeli and international peace activists, protested against the Israeli military attacks in Lebanon…

Dr. Muawiya Hassanen, head of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, reported on Friday that one resident died of wounds sustained on Thursday night after the Israeli…

Local, Israeli and international peace activists in Bil’in said that a victory for the Palestinian villagers of Bil’in was achieved after the Israeli High Court of Justice ruled on Thursday,…

Watching the news today in my grandfather’s home in Lebanon, all I want to do is weep. Until today, I was cautiously optimistic. Until today, there were some positive developments…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced Friday that the outcome of the two-day Israeli campaign against Al Sha’af and Al Tuffah areas in eastern Gaza City. The Ministry reported that…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced Friday that the outcome of the two-day Israeli campaign against Al Shufa area in eastern Gaza City. The Ministry reported that Israeli forces killed…

Nearly a hundred Palestinians, Israelis, and international peace activists protested the impending construction of the Separation Wall in Al Khader, west of the city of Bethlehem, Friday in what has…

Palestinian sources in Gaza reported on Friday that medical teams uncovered a body of a resident who was shot and killed by the Israeli army east of Gaza. The teams…

Christian priests from various church denominations held a protest against the ongoing Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza and Lebanon in front of the Holy Sepulchre church in Jerusalem on…

This week I had the pleasure to appear on American radio, on the Laura Ingraham show, pitted against David Horowitz, a "Semite supremacist" who most recently made his name under…

On Friday morning Palestinian ambulance teams found the body of Mohamed Abu Sakran, 22, on farm land east of Gaza city. The youth was killed during the Israeli invasion to…

After Israel’s declaration that its decision to continue its assault on Lebanon had been endorsed by the 15-nation summit in Rome earlier this week, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose…

The Israeli tanks stationed at the Gazan-Israeli borders have resumed  shelling  Beit Lahia, Beit Hannon and Jabalia refugee camp north of Gaza strip Friday morning. They targeted residential areas and…

An official source from Hamas, who wished to remain anonymous, told PNN Thursday that the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, will not be released until Israeli authorities respond to the…

In the past two weeks, since the onset of Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon, regional and international media has all but forgotten Palestine. The killings, incursions, and arrests by…

Official sources in the Palestinian Office of the Public Land Defense Committee announced Thursday that the Israeli government will confiscate another 215 dunams of land for the Wall. This time…

Israel has said it has received implicit "authorisation" from international powers to continue its attacks in Lebanon. The Israeli justice minister, Haim Ramon, said Israel had "in effect obtained the…

Christians in Gaza protested on Thursday against the ongoing Israeli military escalation and war in Palestine and Lebanon, and called for a just peace in the region. The protesters called…

Palestinian security sources in Gaza reported that a Palestinian child was shot and killed by Israeli military fire in Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The Media…

A Israeli policemen from the border guards division shot and killed a Palestinian resident in east Jerusalem Thursday night, Israeli police in Jerusalem reported. The police claim the resident opened…

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“Waking up in time” is the name of a new movement established in Israel following the current war on Lebanon. The origin of the movement stems from the “Four Mothers”…

What if Israel fails to win the battle against Hezbollah?  Many are asking such a question, especially in the shadow of the results of the early ground battles, which Israeli…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp on  Thursday  surrounding one house after firing rounds of live ammunition at  residents; two  people were…

Some 40 Israeli military vehicles invaded the northern West Bank city of Jenin Thursday afternoon. As the raid began, Israeli forces immediately injured six Palestinians. As the attacks continued, Israeli…

Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported that two Palestinians were killed after an Israeli military helicopter fired a missile at a group of people who gathered east of Gaza city,…

Israel continues its air bombardment of Southern Lebanon, while the Israeli cabinet made it clear that air attacks on Lebanon will intensify, but ground operations will be limited, Israel media…

On Thursday afternoon, the Israeli army forcibly entered areas south east of Rafah city, in the southern Gaza Strip, in a 2km-deep incursion to the territory.  According to local sources,…

On Thursday afternoon, sources in the Qalqilia Governorate announced the death of Hamada Da’ass, 18, a resident of Kofer Qadom village, east of the city. Da’ass sustained injuries during a…

Medical sources reported on Thursday at noon that one resident from Al Tufah neighborhood was injured when Israeli army tanks targeted the area. Doctor Muawiya Hassinen, Director of the Ambulance…

Local sources reported on Thursday morning that the Israeli army took the child, Mousa Faron, 14, as a prisoner from Al Azaria village, east of Jerusalem. According to family members,…

Three residents were taken as prisoners when troops from the Israeli army invaded the village of Beit Furiq, east of the West Bank city of Nablus, on Thursday morning at…

The Israeli forces took four prisoners during wide scale searches in the West Bank city of Hebron and the nearby village of Yatta, early on Thursday morning. Several army vehicles…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus Thursday morning, taking Tha’er Al Aghbar as a prisoner. Troops stormed the city and the nearby Balata refugee camp, making…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is calling for a full investigation by the Israeli Military Attorney’s office after their independent investigation revealed the Israeli Army illegally targeted the civilian…

56 British Members of Parliament called for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East on Wednesday, calling the Israel military strikes on Lebanese civilians "immoral." The Members of Parliament released…

The Israeli military continued bombing Southern Lebanon on Thursday, launching a heavy air and artillery attack. Communication masts north of Beirut have been destroyed, as well as three trucks carrying…

75 year old Kamilah Al Najar was killed on Thursday after an Israeli army tank shell hit her in the head in the town of Jabalia in the Gaza strip. With…

Ahmad Mossa, 38, was taken prisoner by the Israeli army during an invasion to the village of AL Khadir near the West Bank city of Bethlehem Thursday at dawn. Troops…

Israeli troops killed on twenty-four Palestinians, including three children, on Wednesday, and injured at least 70 residents in Al Sha’af in Al Shijaeeya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, Palestinian medical…

  An elderly man died Wednesday night as Israeli soldiers prevented him from reaching a local hospital in the West Bank City of Qalqilya, witnesses said. Local sources told WAFA…

In an act of nonviolent resistance, a Palestinian man refused to stop reading prayers from the Qur’an, despite beatings and racial slurs from Israeli soldiers, eyewitnesses reported.  Israeli soldiers at…

Wednesday at night, Israeli soldiers invaded a town near Qalqilia, north of the West Bank, leveled one house and seriously injured a youth by shooting him in his head, the…

{mosimage}Beirut is burning, hundreds of Lebanese die, hundreds of thousands lose all they ever owned and become refugees, and all the world is doing is rescuing the "foreign passport" residents…

As the Israeli soldiers continue their offensive in the Gaza Strip, twenty-two Palestinian residents, including three children, were killed by Israeli shells, and at least seventy residents were injured in…

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A Palestinian human rights researcher, Ahmed Betawi of the International Foundation for Human Rights, reported Wednesday that Israeli forces killed 167 Palestinians this month.. The total number of Palestinians that…

An  IAF strike in on the building of a UN observer force killed four peacekeepers.in the town of Khiyam near the eastern end of the border with Israel. The four…

Palestinian medical sources in Gaza City reported on Wednesday at noon that one resident was killed and at least two were injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted a…

Thirteen Israeli soldiers were killed and twelve were injured in the ongoing gun battles in Maroun Al Ras, Bint Jbeil, and Eitaroun, in southern Lebanon. The soldiers are from the…