Palestine Today – August 14, 2006
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Returning Lebanese Warned of Dangers of Cluster Bombs
As a massive exodus of Lebanese refugees began the journey home, a joint statement released by the UN and the Lebanese government "urged the population to exercise extreme caution, due…
HEBRON: Christian Peace Team monitoring home invasion detained five hours: update
Christian Peacemakers Team (CPT) members Dianne Roe and John Lynes went through five hours of questioning at the Kiryat Arba police station on 11 August before Israeli authorities released them…
Palestinian Member of Israeli Knesset Speaks Out Against UN Resolution 1701
Mohammad Barakeh, Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset, said Monday that United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 allows Israel to continue attacks on Lebanon. According to Barakeh the resolution grants…
Palestinian resistance fires home made shell at Ashkelon
Palestinian resistance group fired one homemmade shell at the Israeli city of Ashklen on Monday. Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, claimed responsibility for the…
Ecumenical, non-violent solidarity group organizes civilian convoy to South Lebanon
“We’ve been told the situation here is different from Palestine,” says Huwaida Arraf, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. “In Palestine you have Israeli soldiers on the ground actively brutalizing…
Army detains PA police officers in Tubas
Israeli troops detained several police officers and the commander of a police in the West Bank city of Tubas on Monday at dawn. Palestinian security forces in Tubas reported that…
Reisdent taken prisoner in Tubas
An Israeli army force stopped a Palestinian civilian car in the West Bank city of Tubas, and took its driver prisoner late on Sunday night. The driver was taken to…
Israeli soldiers raid three Palestinian hospitals
Israeli troops stormed three hospitals in pre-dawn raids yesterday in the West Bank city of Hebron. Security sources said that the Israeli soldiers broke into Alya, Al-Ahli and Al-Mezan hospitals…
National Unity issues discussed by Palestinian politicians: Abbas and Hannia meet today
Amid reports that President Abbas and Prime Minister Hannia will be meeting in Gaza today to discuss a national unity government, several prominent Palestinian politicians have spoke out on the…
Fragile truce takes hold Monday morning after heavy weekend fighting
Guns fell silent across southern Lebanon on Monday morning as a United Nations ceasefire halting Israel’s month-long war against Hezbollah came into effect, Lebanese security forces say. Half an hour…
Farmers in Qalqilia cut off from land by Israeli Wall
Farmers in the West Bank town of Qalqilia continue to challenge closures to their land created by the separation wall. Unable to care for their crops, farmers have applied for…
Israeli Troops Target Palestinian Cars
Palestinian vehicles were targeted by Israeli soldiers Monday as they tried to enter the West Bank town of Arrabah. Soldiers fired at vehicles coming from the West Bank town of…
Report: Humanitarian crisis in Gaza being overshadowed by Lebanon war
"The food and security situation in Gaza is catastrophic," said Mario Carera, head of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) for Gaza and the West Bank. The SDC,…
Two residents taken prisoners from a town near Hebron
Troops took two residents prisoners during a predawn invasion to the town of Halhoul, near the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday. The arrestees were identified as Sameh Al…
Army invades Balata refugee camp
Israeli army troops and jeeps stormed the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday at dawn. Local residents said that troops stormed the camp and…
Army takes one prisoner from Kafer Qaddoum village
Amer Shaker Da’ass, 23, was taken prisoner while trying to cross an Israeli army checkpoint near his village Kafer Qaddoum, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia on Monday.…
Army takes two prisoners from Kofer Ra’ee and invades Al Yamon
Israeli forces took two prisoners on Monday morning from the village of Kafer Ra’y, and invaded the nearby village of Al Yamoun, west Jenin, in the northern part of the…
Three residents killed in an Israeli Air Strike in Gaza
Three Palestinians including a child were killed in an Israeli air strike in the Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Monday…
Interview with former Palestinian political prisoner, Arifa Salman
Arifa Salman is a former Palestinian political prisoner and student activist at Al-Quds Open University, in the West Bank city of Nablus. In 2004, Arifa was charged with the ambiguous…
PLO: ‘Cease-fire agreement’ leaves room for Israel to continue military invasion
"There was never an agreement more favorable to Israel,” said Israeli defense minister Amir Peretz about the United Nations (UN) ‘ceasefire’ agreement. Such words sound ominous to the ears of…
Civilian deaths Sunday: 26 Lebanese, including mother and three children; 1 Israeli; killed
Lebanese security sources said that Israeli air raids killed at least 22 people on Sunday. The Israeli government reported one civilian casualty from Hezbollah rocket fire in northern Israel. After…
At least five Israeli soldiers killed in ground fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon on Sunday
In the ongoing Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon that was significantly expanded on Friday with a doubling of the number of troops in Lebanon, Hezbollah resistance fighters have killed at…
Collaborator with Israel publicly executed by Palestinian resistance fighters in Jenin
A Palestinian man who admitted that he had been collaborating with Israeli forces to spy on his fellow Palestinians — giving them information on the locations of at least two…