Palestine Today – August 24, 2006
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ISRAEL MUST WIN
“The ceasefire in Lebanon was holding by a thread last night after sanctioned a commando raid in the east of the country. Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary General, said…
Shebaa Farmers Present Deeds in New Hopes of Reclaiming Land
The Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, urged those who had titles deeds to land in Shebaa Farms, to quickly compile them before a visit next week by UN Secretary General…
Israeli Army takes three prisoners from Sa’er village near Hebron
Israeli soldiers took three prisoners from the village of Sa’er, north east of the West Bank city of Hebron, in a pre-dawn invasion of the village invasion on Thursday. The…
Arabs Formally Request U.N. Ministerial Meeting to Bring Peace to the Middle East.
On Wednesday, ‘s acting ambassador, who currently chairs the Arab Group at the United Nations, formally requested that the U.N. Security Council hold a ministerial meeting in September to launch…
Vietnam Era Israeli Dud Cluster Bombs Keep on Killing in Lebanon
Unexploded Israeli cluster bombs, some dating back to the Vietnam war era, are exacting an increasing toll on Lebanese civilians returning home, the UN and human rights groups say. …
Fighter of the Al Quds brigades killed east of Khan Younis
Israeli soldiers fired overnight artillery shells at fighters of the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, killing one fighter and injuring three others. The fighters…
Video Released of Two Journalists Kidnapped in Gaza
A group, calling themselves the Holy Jihad Brigades, a faction which was not previously known in Gaza, has threatened to kill the two Fox News journalists kidnapped 9 days ago,…
Army invades Qalqilia and takes 12 prisoners
Israeli army troops stormed the West Bank city of Jenin and the nearby village of Azzon Thursday morning and took 12 prisoners. More than 20 army vehicles invaded both the…
Nablus Journalism Professor Detained and Disappeared
Israeli soldiers occupying the eastern Bethlehem District’s Wadi Nar Checkpoint, also known as The Container, detained a Nablus professor yesterday. Wednesday afternoon An Najah University School of Journalism professor,…
Israeli Army invades Nablus
An Israeli army force, backed by armored humvees and bulldozers, stormed the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday morning. Soldiers fired live rounds and sound bombs randomly at residents’…
Army takes One Prisoner and Intensifies its Presence around Bethlehem
Bilal Rizek, 25, a resident of Hendaza neighborhood in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, was taken prisoner by the Israeli Army during a pre-dawn invasion of the city, early…
Israeli Army takes one prisoner from Al Hamra checkpoint in the Jordan valley
Israeli soldiers stationed at the Hamra checkpoint in the Jordan valley area took one Palestinian civilian as a prisoner Thursday morning. Eyewitnesses said that the man was stopped at the…
Army Kills One Resident and takes One Prisoner East of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip
The Israeli Army invaded the district of Farheen, east of Khan Younis city and south of the Gaza Strip, killing one resident and arresting another early Thursday morning. Eyewitnesses report…
DON’T FORGET GAZA!
With the UN-sponsored ceasefire between Israel and Hizbullah going into effect, Palestinians are apprehensive that might embark on a fresh rampage in Gaza in order to boost the morale of…
Israeli Army takes one prisoner from Tamon village near Tubas
Ma’mun Shehada, 22, from the village of Tamon, east of the West Bank city of Tubas, was arrested at an Israeli military checkpoint near the village on Thursday morning. Eyewitnesses…
Palestinian Prime Minister endorses two-day weekend
For the first time in the history of Palestine, a 40-hour work-week with a two-day weekend has been declared by the Hamas-led Palestinian government. The declaration comes in the midst…
The Occupier Defines Justice
On Jerusalem’s Jabotinsky Street, opposite the President’s Residence, a medium-sized plaque is fixed on a locked gate, enclosing a broad building and a lovely garden: "This building was the location…
2:30 AM in Gaza
My wife tapped me on the shoulder, saying, "Wake up and take Mohammad. I’ve fed him and changed his diapers, but he won’t go to sleep. I’m too tired to…
More lands annexed near Jerusalem to install `“fortified checkpoint`
Israeli soldiers confiscated nine Dunams of Palestinian land from Shu’fat village, north of Jerusalem, in order to expand a military checkpoint located on the western entrance to Shu’fat refugee camp.…
Israeli soldiers harass families, human rights workers in Hebron to facilitate Jewish ‘tour’ group
Today in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, the Israeli army went from house to house and forcibly entered every Palestinian home…
Electricity in Gaza: Another Victim of Israeli ‘Summer Rains’
As I walked into one of the largest food processing plants in the central Gaza Strip, the first thing I noticed were two workers lying idle in the ice-cream production…
Land mine kills an Israeli soldier in southern Lebanon; three Lebanese soldiers killed
Israeli sources reported that one Israeli soldier, identified as St.-Sgt. Alex Assaf, 21, from Karmiel, was killed, while three other soldiers were injured on Wednesday, when troops of the Israeli…
Leader of the Islamic Jihad armed wing seriously injured in Jenin
Wednesday at night, under-cover forces of the Israeli army ambushed Ahmad Jaradat, 43, leader of the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad in Jenin, in the northern part of the…
Video released of kidnapped Fox reporters
In a video released today on Al-Jazeera Television, the previously unheard-of "Holy Jihad Brigades" claimed responsibility for the abduction of two foreign reporters in Gaza nine days ago. The group…