One resident injured in army shelling of Al Zahr’a town, southern Gaza strip
Abd Al Rahman Sahbon, 44, was injured when heavy artillery from the Israeli army shelled residential areas in Al Zahr’a town, in the south of the Gaza strip, on Tuesday…
After 23 days of closure, Rafah border crossing partially reopens
The Rafah-Egypt border crossing was partially reopened on Tuesday morning to allow Palestinians who had been trapped for the past 23 days on the Egyptian side of the crossing, to…
Israeli forces withdraw from Beit Hanoun:damage seven million dollars
Israeli forces have officially pulled out of Beit Hanoun after two days of occupying the northern Gaza Strip town. Over the course of two days, the Israeli military caused extensive…
Four residents arrested from Hebron
The Israeli army took four residents as prisoners in a pre-dawn invasion of the West Bank city of Hebron, and the nearby village of Bani No’em and Beity Omer, on…
Army invades Jayues village and take one prisoner
TUESDAY 18 JULY — he Israeli forces invaded the village of Jayues near the West Bank city of Qalqilia and took Bajess Bida as a prisoner this morning at dawn.…
Canadian Activists Mobilize in Solidarity with Palestinians and Lebanese
In Montreal, a coordinated response to Israeli agression began last week and continues indefinitely. This is the message that was sent out by those involved. Montreal-based organisations and individuals have…
Palestinian resistance shells army intelligence compound
TUESDAY 18 JULY — Palestinian resistance fighters shot one home made Qassam shell into the housing compound of Israeli intelligence officers in Ovikim, the Negev town east of the Gaza…
Army invades Nablus city and turns the municipality building to an army post
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday at dawn and turned the municipality building into an army post. In addition, local security sources warned that…
Lebanese Refugee Crisis Unfolds
As more and more Lebanese are bombarded by Israeli forces, it becomes more and more difficult for them to find safety, shelter, food and medicine. A humanitarian crisis is underway. …
Army invades Qabtia village south of Jenin
TUESDAY 18 JULY — Israeli forces invaded the village of Qabtia, south of the West Bank city of Jenin, early this morning. Troops and army vehicles stormed the village, with the…
Army arrests one youth from Assira Al Shamalia village near Nablus
Bassel Sawalha, 20, was taken prisoner by Israeli army after troops invaded the Assira Al Shamalia village near the West Bank city Nablus Tuesday morning. Soldiers stormed the village, searching…
Army arrests one resident near Wadi Al Far’a, north of Tubass
The Israeli army arrested one resident while he was driving his motorcycle at the main road near Wadi Al Far’a, north of the West Bank city of Tubass, Tuesday morning.…
Death toll passes 200 in Lebanon
Death toll passes 200 as Israeli air strikes continue to hit the south of Lebanon. While attacks increase and destruction intensifies, thousands of Lebanese civilians are abandoning their homes in…
American woman assaulted by guards at Israeli border crossing demands justice
A mother and son, both American citizens, were savagely beaten last week by Israeli security at the Israeli entry point into the Palestinian West Bank from Jordan: Allenby Bridge. The…
What Are They Fighting For?
Whatever may be the fate of the captive soldier Gilad Shalit, the Israeli army’s war in Gaza is not about him. As senior security analyst Alex Fishman widely reported, the…
Interview: Dr. Mustapha Barghouthi
IMEMC exclusive Interview with Dr. Mustapha Barghouthi, Palestinian independent legislator, on the current situation in Gaza, and his public statement that the crisis could cause the dissolution of the Palestinian…
Rice plans to visit Middle East
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice intends to visit the Middle East in an attempt to seek calm the region, US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. He added that…
PCHR: ‘Army reoccupies, Isolates Beit Hanoun’
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza reported on Monday that the Israeli soldiers totally reoccupied and isolated Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. …
Troops invade Nablus, occupy a building belonging to its municipality
Israeli soldiers operating in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus broke into a building belonging to the Nablus municipality and used it as military post. Soldiers also occupied a…
Gaza Under Darkness
"I have lost a total of $1000 US dollars since the power supply has been cut, the number of my customers has decreased to minimum, I stay idle at my…
Eleven Israelis injured in Safad, two injured at a “sensitive facilityâ€ÂÂ
Israeli sources reported that eleven Israelis were injured in the northern Israeli town of Safad and two more Israelis were injured after Hezbollah fired missiles at what is being described…
Israeli strikes kill more Lebanese civilians
Israeli aircraft have bombed Hezbollah positions in Lebanon for a sixth successive day but the attacks have not stopped the Shia fighters from firing over 50 rockets at Israeli towns…
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…
Report: 92 Palestinians killed, 326 injured, in last ten days of Israeli attacks on Gaza
Khaled Radhi, spokesman for the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry, on Saturday announced that the Israeli invasion and the relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip have resulted in 92 Palestinians killed…
Five Palestinians killed in Beit Hanoun, Sunday
The Israeli air force fired missiles at a group of fighters east of Beit Hanoun town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, killing two resistance fighters and injuring…
Train depot in Haifa hit by Hezbollah rockets; eight Israelis killed
Hezbollah representatives in Lebanon claimed that the attack on the northern Israeli port city of Haifa was in response to the indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas in Lebanon by Israeli…
Bodies of three missing soldiers found off coast of Beirut
Israeli sources reported on Sunday that three days after an attack on their vessel, the bodies of three missing crew members were found. The Israeli Ynetnews reported that an initial…
Palestinian elderly woman killed by Israeli shells in Rafah
A Palestinian medical source in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Sunday that an elderly woman died when an Israeli shells blasted near her house.…
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…
Member of Islamic Jihad in Jenin dies of wounds
Mahmoud Al Sa’adi, head of the Islamic Jihad movement in Jenin reported that Mahmoud Lutfi Al Sa’adi ,18, a member of the movement in Jenin refugee camp died of wounds…
The Moment of Truth Is Now for Arabs
A Golf ball landed in my front yard. It came from the direction of my neighbor across the street. I was not sure if one of my neighbor’s kids threw…
Twenty-three Lebanese killed, including 11 children, in Israeli missile strike on bus of evacuees
The Israeli air force shelled several buildings in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and the city of Trablus, north of Lebanon, soldiers also shelled a seaport north of Beirut, and the…
Detainees in Shatta on Hunger Strike for the fourth day
Palestinian detainees in Shatta Israeli detention facility continued their hunger strike for the fourth consecutive day in protest to the bad living conditions and bad treatment they face. Head of…
Israel deploys Patriot missiles in Haifa
The electronic website of the Israeli paper, Yedioth Ahronoth, reported on Saturday that the Israeli army had deployed three Patriot missile batteries in the city of Haifa in the morning.…
Troops invade northern Gaza, army shells houses in Beit Hanoun
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Saturday night after midnight that Israeli soldiers shelled several houses in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Tanks and personnel carriers…
Army arrests four residents from Hebron
Israeli troops took four residents from the West Bank city of Hebron prisoners on Saturday. The four were taking prisoners when troops stormed Wadi Al Hira area south of the…
Detainees in Shatta Israeli prison continue with their open Hunger Strike for the fourth day
Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported Saturday that prisoners in Shatta Israeli detention facility continued with their open hunger strike for the fourth day in protest to their bad imprisonment conditions…
Army arrests one student from Dir Istiya village
Ibraheem Abd Al Razek, was arrested when Israeli troops stormed the village of Dir Istiya, west of the West Bank city of Salfit, on Saturday. Troops searched resident’s houses before…
Man, a 7-month old baby, and one youth killed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza, Dir Al Balah
Palestinian medical source at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza, reported that two Palestinians, including a 7-month old baby were killed on Saturday after the Israeli air force fired missiles at…
Army arrests one resident from Nablus
Abd Allah Al Sayeh, 27, was arrested when Israeli army troops invaded the West Bank city of Nablus, Saturday morning. Troops searched and ransacked several houses in the old city…
One youth arrested in Al Obadiyya village east of Bethlehem
Mohamed Khalil Safi, 19, was arrested in the village of Al Obadiyya east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on Saturday. Troops stationed at a military checkpoint near the…
Two Palestinians Killed, Israel Bombs Ministry of Economy, bridge in Gaza
One Palestinian was killed and eight were injured as Israeli air force war planes bombed a house in Gaza city on Saturday morning. The house is located in Al-Sheikh Radwan,…
Two Israelis killed in Safad, army shells house of Hezbollah leader
Friday night, an Israeli source reported that a woman and her four-year-old grandson died of their wounds. The two were injured by a Katyusha rocket fired by Lebanese militia fighters…
Hundreds protest Israeli apartheid by holding engagement ceremony at Wall construction site
At the weekly protest in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah in the West Bank, Palestinians, internationals and Israelis challenged the recent Israeli decision to block certain holders of American passports…
This Week in Palestine, July Week 2
Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file 13.2 MB This Week In Palestine, a service of the International…
2320 Palestinian detainees in the Negev detention camp announced a 1-day hunger strike
Palestinian sources reported that approximately 2320 Palestinians imprisoned in the Israeli Negev detention facility announced on Friday morning a one day hunger strike in protest to the violations carried by…
Hundreds of residents stuck at the Rafah border crossing push their way into Gaza
Palestinian security source in the Gaza Strip reported that hundreds of Palestinians struck at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing since June 25 forced their way into the…
Israeli army is planning to shell Hezbollah headquarters in a densely populated area of south Beirut
A senior officer of the Israeli army reported on Friday that the army is planning to bomb a Hezbollah headquarters in a densely populated area of south Beirut on Friday.…
Hamas PLC members change offices in the Gaza Strip in light of assassination attemps
Eyewitnesses said Israeli warplanes fired several rockets at dawn today, destroying buildings in near Jabaliya Refugee Camp north of Gaza City. The targets were elected government officials who ran and…
Israel: “24 injured, two moderately after a Katyusha shells were fired at areas in northern Is
Israeli sources reported on Friday that Hezbollah fighters fired several Katyusha shells at several areas, north of the country; 24 Israelis were reportedly injured, two seriously. The shells were fired…
Troops shells Fateh office, residential building and a bridge in the Gaza Strip
Israeli tanks and fighter-jets fired several shells in separate incidents at a building that belongs to Fateh legislators in the northern area of Gaza, a residential building in the Tal…
One Palestinians killed, one seriously injured, child dies of earlier wounds
The Israeli army, stationed at Abu Holy checkpoint in the central Gaza Strip, fired artillery shells at a vehicle driving south of Dir Al Balah killing one resident and seriously…
Palestinian resistance shells Kissufeem
The National Resistance Bigades, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of Popular Front for the…
Army arrests two in Hebron
Thursday evening: Israeli army troops arrest two residents from the West Bank city of Hebron. Noaman Al Najjar, a sergeant in the Palestinian police force in the city, and Atallah…
Army artillery shells north and east areas in the Gaza strip
The Israeli army artillery shelled northern and eastern areas of the Gaza strip on Friday morning. The shelling targeted residents’ houses in Beit Lahia, Jabalia and Beit Hanon, as well…
Palestinian nonviolent resistance protest Israeli violation of village cemetery in front of Supreme
The Al Aqsa Foundation are organizing demonstrations to stop Israeli desecration of Islamic holy sites. Palestinians conducted a sit-in in protest of Israeli violation of a Palestinian cemetery in a…
Israeli prison authorities censor all television other than Israeli Channel 2
Human rights sources reported that upon expressing a sense of hope at the Lebanese capture of two occupying Israeli soldiers, Israeli prison authorities cut all television channels in its prisons…
One resident arrested from Toqua village near Bethlehem
Kammal Soboh was arrested from the village of Toqua, south of the city of Bethlehem, Friday morning. Soboh was arrested when troops invaded the village and searched several houses then…
Army attacks shepherds huts east of Tubas
Troops from the Israeli army attacked shepherds huts east of the West Bank city of Tubas, Friday morning. Troops and army jeeps stormed the huts located on the farming lands…
Israel’s ‘Operation Summer Rains’ Offensive Includes Internationally Banned Toxic Weapons
The Palestinian Ministry of Health has recently made it known that the Israeli army is using radioactive and toxic shells against unarmed civilians in the Gaza Strip. Medics and surgeons…
Palestinian fighters attempt to force border re-opening
After nearly three weeks of border closure between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, in which at least eight Palestinians waiting there have died from heat exposure, a group of Palestinian…
Catholic organization Criticises Firms Backing Israeli Occupation of Palestine
The Catholic organization Pax Christi has backed a report from the group ‘War on Want’ which has highlighted the role of companies like Tesco, Sainsburys, Waitrose, Connex and Caterpillar in…
Muhammad Joudeh (83 years): ‘The land is my soul and it keeps our dignity’
Community Voice, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, June 10th, 2006 In Rafat, as throughout Palestine, the spirit of resistance against the Occupation has passed through generation to generation. The land…
U.S. vetoes draft UN Security Council resolution calling for end to Israeli invasion of Gaza
"We are highly disappointed and frustrated at the council’s continued inability to act while innocent Palestinian civilians continue to be brutally killed by the Israeli occupying forces," said Ryad Mansour,…
Two Israelis killed in cross-border shelling from Lebanon; rockets hit as far south as Haifa
The Hezbollah resistance movement made a statement Thursday saying, "The Islamic resistance will bombard [the northern Israeli city of] Haifa as soon as the Israeli aggression reaches Beirut or the…
Fifty-three Lebanese killed by Israeli missiles
The Israeli air strikes that targeted several areas in the southern suburbs of Beirut and across southern Lebanon have killed fifty-three civilians. Also, the army air-struck Beirut airport two times…
Palestine Today – July 13 2006
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79 Palestinians killed in the period between June 6 and June 12
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) published its weekly report documenting the Israeli violations and attacks in the Palestinian territories and reported that soldiers killed 79 Palestinians, including children,…
Israeli forces invade Hebron; ransack homes
Israeli troops stormed residents’ homes in the old town area of the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday. Soldiers searched and ransacked several homes allegedly looking for illegal substances,…
Legislator Barghouthi calls international community to send fact finding committee to Gaza
Palestinian Legislator, Mustafa Barghouthi, head of the Palestinian National Initiative, said on Thursday that the Israeli army have 47 air strikes on Gaza Strip that led to the death of…