Can You Describe Your Feeling when a Missile Falls beside Your Baby?
The three-day-old baby, Mohammed, and his mother Asam 23, were sleeping in their room when an Israeli missile hit their house early Monday morning in the heart of Jabalia refugee…
Twenty-four Lebanese killed in Israeli air strikes
The Israeli air force bombarded Lebanon with heavy fire Monday, killing 24 Lebanese on the sixth day of fighting. Missiles hit a bus driving on a bridge in the town…
Israel detains Aljazeera bureau chief Walid al-Umari
Walid al-Umari, the Arab satellite channel’s bureau chief in the Palestinian Territories, was arrested Monday by Israeli policemen, the pan-Arab television station reported. Al-Umari has been arrested twice in…
Death toll hits 140 in Lebanon, as Israel targets residential areas
At least 140 Lebanese have been killed in five straight days of Israeli bombardments and air strikes, with the vast majority of those killed civilians and children, the Lebanese Daily…
Israel spurns UN call for monitors
Israel has rebuffed a UN call for an international monitoring force to be deployed in Lebanon as it continued to attack the country. Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, had…
Haniyeh: Israel’s offensives in Gaza and Lebanon has far-reaching aims
The Ramatan news agency reported, on Monday, that Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya, said on Monday that the aim of the Israeli military attacks in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon…
Resident, child, killed in Beit Hanoun
One Palestinian child was killed on Monday at noon by Israeli military fire while he was standing on the rooftop of his parent’s house in Beit Hanoun, in the northern…
Ramatan reporters, children, detained at a building in Beit Hanoun
The Palestinian Ramatan News Agency appealed local and international media outlets to interfere for the protection of the reporters in the occupied territories. The agency reported that Israeli troops are…
Hamas calls on captors to keep captive soldier alive
An Israeli soldier, captured June 25th by Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza, was the original impetus for an Israeli invasion that has resulted in the deaths of over 100 Palestinians…
Under cover army unit kidnap a young man from Bethlehem
An undercover Israeli army unit has kidnapped one Palestinian man from the West Bank city of Bethlehem, during the afternoon of Monday 17 July. Yousif Abu Al Ize, 33, was kidnapped when…
Hezbollah shells Haifa, several Israelis injured
Several Israelis were injured Monday afternoon when a building in Haifa, north of the country, collapsed after being targeted by Katusha rockets fired by fighters of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli…
Students in Qalqilia celebrate exam results:Residents discuss their mixed feelings
The Palestinian people live a life of contradictions- joy and sadness, life and death, construction and demolition. Despite the continued Israeli incursions into the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and…
Prominent Palestinians voice their opinions, speak out against Israeli agression
In light of the escalating conflict between Israeli forces and the Lebanese resistance party Hezbollah, on top of the already heightened Israeli military aggression in the Gaza Strip, many prominent…
Israeli Police arrests three residents from Beit Ekssa village near Jerusalem
Israeli police arrested four residents from the village of Beit Ikssa near Jerusalem Monday at dawn. Brothers Tawofek, 21, and Ramiz Jom’a, 24, and Abdallha, 24 and Sa’ed Ghet, 21,…
Army arrests thee residents from Beit Amreen
Israeli troops invaded the village of Beit Amreen and arrested three residents there Monday morning. The arrested were identified as Samih Al Faqeh, 23, Medhat Hasson, 23, and Mohamed Hasson,…
Israeli forces invade Hebron, attack four Palestinians and arrest two others
During an incursion into the southern West Bank town of Hebron Sunday, Israeli forces attacked and beat four Palestinian citizens. Two of those injured in the incident are minors Those…
Lebanon’s Al Manar TV ‘Marked for Death’
After years of asymmetric attacks on the First Amendment – assassinating journalists, surveilling dissent and censoring the free flow of information – the Democracy Mukhabarat rules. Using national security to…
Chicago Professor Fired for Allowing Questions about Judaism and Islam
I am Douglas Giles, an adjunct professor who was fired for allowing students to speak in a World Religions class at Roosevelt University, Chicago. I have taught college philosophy, ethics,…
Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in pre-dawn incursion into Beit Hanoun
Palestinian security and medical sources have reported that three Palestinians were killed in a pre-dawn Israeli air raid on the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun Sunday. A dozen…
Foreign Ministry in Gaza bombed for second time
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry was bombed by Israeli aircraft for the second time in a week, injuring five residents. An 8-story section of the building collapsed and dozens of houses…
Army arrest one resident from Bethlehem
Salah Qassem, 46, was arrested after troops invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem Monday morning. Several army jeeps stormed the Jabal Al Mawaleh area in the city, searching and ransacking…
Israeli Soldier killed, seven others wounded in Nablus
An Israeli soldier was killed and seven others were injured early Monday morning in an explosion in the West Bank city of Nablus. Al Aqssa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing…
Protesters Blockade UK Israeli Arms Manufacturers
Protesters Blockade Brighton Warmongers, EDO MBM, to Prevent Production of Weaponry for War Crimes In the early hours of Monday morning protesters erected two roadblocks outside each gate of EDO…
Israeli Road Block Removed from Palestinian village in non-violent action
Today in Izbat Tabib, in the Qalqiliya region, in the northwestern West Bank, over 250 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists successfully removed a land mound road block in order to…
Israeli Road Block Removed from Palestinian village in non-violent action
Today in Izbat Tabib, in the Qalqiliya region, in the northwestern West Bank, over 250 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists successfully removed a land mound road block in order to…
44 Lebanese killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon
The Israeli army resumed its shelling to Al Dahia area, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and killed 16 residents, including three children, at least 56 residents were injured in the…
Hundreds of Lebanese displaced by Israeli attacks, say aid workers
A report from the International Committee of the Red Cross in Lebanon says thatt hundreds of people have been displaced from the south of the country and from the suburbs…
Gaza, repeated, ad infinitum
We woke up this morning to the footage. No less than six hours after we watched, live, the Israeli bombing of a Gaza building last night, the same rogue military…
Army shells Palestinian Foreign Ministry, a Hamas office in Gaza
The Israeli air force fired missiles at the building of the Palestinian Foreign Ministry early Monday, damage was reported. The attack against the ministry is the second in a week.…
Palestine Today – July 17 2006
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Analysts: Three captured soldiers have become pawns in Israeli plan to tighten control in Mid-East
The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s effort to free three captured soldiers (one in Gaza, two in Lebanon) has become a broad campaign to alter the strategic balance of the…