Month: August 2006

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…

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…

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.…

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 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…

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…

"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…

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…

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…

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…

It had been reported that the agreement between the prime ministers of Lebanon and Israel has been reached to stop the hostilities by Monday, August 14.  As part of the…

The fighter plane is the quintessence of modern civilization, the modern goddess. It is the product of the collective input of all the sciences and the neutralization of all morals…

Israel has admitted that it was "mistaken" in attacking a convoy of hundreds of cars carrying people fleeing the fighting in southern Lebanon.  At least six people were killed and…

Saturday, Hezbollah gunmen fired at least 65 Katusha shells at several Israeli towns in the north, at least six Israelis were injured.  Several shells were fired at Acre; the shells…

In the furthest reaches of eastern Rafah City, in the southernmost part of Gaza Strip, the village of Shouka , population 14,000, is located.  Reaching the village at night time…

At least nineteen Israeli soldiers were killed in Lebanon Saturday, and over one hundred wounded.  A military helicopter was shot down by Hezbollah fighters – the five soldiers inside the…

Israeli soldiers shelled on Saturday evening several houses in Al Faraheen and Abasan east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Local sources reported that tanks…

Saturday night, Israeli soldiers invaded Jenin city, in the northern part of the West Bank, the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported. Soldiers fired rounds of live ammunition after invaded the…

Israeli troops detained dozens of Palestinian residents for three hours in the hot sun at the Tayaseer checkpoint, east of the West Bank city of Tubas, after closing the checkpoint…

The Israeli army has installed an iron gate at the main road that connects the West Bank cities of Nablus and Tulkarem together on Saturday. The gate is located at…

Israeli army forces invaded and attacked shepherds’ huts in Al Bak’a Valley, East of the West Bank city of Tubas, on Saturday. Soldiers coming from the nearby Bekeot settlement attacked…

Anwar Ibrahem from the Village of Al Far’a valley, near the West Bank city of Tubas, was taken prisoner by the Israeli army Saturday morning. Local sources said that Ibrahem…

Following is the text of the operative provisions of a draft resolution circulated to members of the UN Security Council on Friday, August 11. The preambular provisions have been omitted…

Israeli soldiers stationed at Za’atara military checkpoint, at the Nablus-Salfit junction, opened fired at a Palestinian youth seriously injuring him in his back. The youth was identified as Islam Jom’a…

The Palestine News Network reported on Saturday that thousands of Palestinian children marched in Gaza in solidarity with the Lebanese people, and children, subjected to daily Israeli shelling and attacks.…

Members of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad parties in Jenin are opening their doors to Palestinians residents of Haifa and Akka (Acre) seeking refuge from Hezbollah attacks. The mass exodus…

Four Israeli soldiers were killed and at least forty were injured in heavy clashes with Hezbollah gunmen in southern Lebanon. Clashes have been also reported in the Lebanese towns of…

Yesterday, the Friday prayers were disturbed at Al Haram Al Ibrahimi Mosque , one of Islam’s holiest sites by Israeli settlers in the southern West Bank Hebron area.   The…

The Israeli army and Border Police prevented Bil’in’s weekly Friday non-violent demonstration, by firing rubber bullets and sound grenades on protestors as they marched through the village on their way…

Many Palestinians are fleeing from Haifa, Akka, and other areas inside Northern Israeli 1948 borders to escape being harmed by Hezbollah attacks. Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, urged Palestinians to leave…

The first act in Israel’s "Summer Rain" campaign in Gaza was the destruction of the power station which fed the Strip 70 percent of its electricity. The result was devastating…

The Indonesian Government has sent financial aid to victims of the Israeli occupation in Palestine, said Financial Minister Dr.Sri Mulyani Indrawati on Friday, the Indonesian National News agency (Antara) reported…

The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an end to the war on Lebanon, and authorizes the U.N. to deploy "peacekeeping" forces to help Lebanese troops…

Residents of Modi’in Illit do not consider themselves settlers. The housing shortage has pushed large ultra-orthodox families to the settlement, where they get public housing and government assistance not available…

Israeli forces have killed 203 Palestinians and injured 800 others since the start of their operations in the Gaza Strip, dubbed "Operation Summer Rains", launched June 25, according to a…

In its weekly report, from August 3-9, 2006 on the Israeli violations of human rights in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) said 25 Palestinians, including…

“What is happening in Jerusalem goes beyond security needs, and reflects the essence of the original Zionist dream: maximum territory, minimum Arabs." -Israeli historian Tom Segev As the Apartheid separation…

The day before the Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a statement indicating that there is nothing illegal about Israel’s use of cluster bombs, the Israeli Ambassador to Washington claimed that Israel…

A group of Lebanese civilians attempting to follow the Israeli instructions to evacuate southern Lebanon had formed a convoy of 600 civilian vehicles, accompanied by 350 Lebanese soldiers and police. …

An Israeli military court sentenced a Ukrainian female detainee to twenty consecutive years after charging her with transferring a bomber to Israel. Her Palestinian husband, is currently imprisoned by Israel…

Friday evening, Israeli soldiers arrested one resident in Thannaba town, eat of Tulkarem in the northern part of the West Bank. Local sources reported that the the resident, identified as…

Friday night after midnight, an Israeli F16 fighter-jet fired a missile at a three-story house in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses reported that the shells house belongs…

Israeli security sources reported on Friday evening that Hezbollah gunmen fired a long range missile known as “Khaibar 1” at Haifa city, north of Israel. Dozens of Katusha rockets were…

Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file 9.6 MB This Week In Palestine, a service of the International…

Nearly 150 Palestinian residents of Bil’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, and 100 Israeli and international peace activists, protested against the Israeli annexation Wall and the ongoing…

Protesters broke through the barrier Friday at the weekly demonstration in Al-Khader village.  Internationals, Israelis, and local Palestinians from Al-Khader village gathered in two locations to protest the building of…

Eleven people were killed and 11 wounded when Israeli warplanes bombed northern Lebanon Friday morning, AlJazeera reported. At the same time, at the UN headquarters in New York, Russia proposed…

The Lebanese government has maintained its position that the US-French draft Security  Council resolution must contain certain provisions that would ensure a peaceful resolution to the ongoing conflict, before it…

A reader recently emailed to ask if anyone else was suggesting, as I have done, that Hizbullah’s rocket fire may not be quite as indiscriminate or maliciously targeted at Israeli…

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip have seen a significant increase in war casualties with severe injuries over the past month and are running out of medical supplies, the Medical Emergency…

Israeli tanks and troops in southern Lebanon have retreated and regrouped in Marjayoun, the only town in southern Lebanon that Israeli forces have managed to hold on to, while a…

The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported on Thursday that EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, plans to visit the Middle East from Friday to…

Lebanese sources reported on Thursday evening that Israeli soldiers controlled Lebanese army barracks in Marj Oyoun town, in southern Lebanon while Israeli officials said that the offensive could go wider…

Thursday afternoon, two Israeli soldiers were killed and two were seriously wounded in clashes with Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon. During evening hours on Thursday, eight soldiers were injured, one…

Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file 7.6 MB   Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East…

A core component of America’s foreign policy since September 11 has been educational reform in Muslim countries to check the influence of extremist ideologies and fundamentalism. International obligations under the…

Israeli army continued its shelling to several areas in Lebanon, and shelled a historic lighthouse in a densely populated area in Beirut, as well as killing one man in an…

According to a report published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Wednesday, a total of 1,020 have been killed in Lebanon, 3,508 injured,…

According to a report published by OCHA on Wednesday, a total of 1,020 have been killed in Lebanon, 3,508 injured, and 960 000 have been displaced. Emergency aid is being…

Dr. James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, sees a hopeful sign as some US Congressmen and Senators press for a ceasefire in Lebanon. In an article published in…

Only three hours after the Rafah Border Crossing was opened, the Israeli side phoned the European observers an the crossing and ordered them to close it for "secuirty concerns". It…

Israel army troops stationed at a military checkpoint on the main road connecting the West Bank city of Nablus with Jenin, and stopped scores of civilian cars on Thursday. Two…

Two Palestinian residents were injured and three were taken prisoners in an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Rammallah which started Thursday morning and lasted until the…

Information about the Palestinian prisoner’s conditions in Israeli prisons. Interview with ex-prisoner Arifa Warkat from Balata refugee camp (Nablus). And music from a Palestinian band called Turab. The song is…

A report prepared and published by the Palestinian National Information Center on the Israeli violations and attacks in the Palestinian territories revealed that Israeli soldiers killed 23 Palestinians, injured 64…

The Israeli army took Mostafa Melehm, 16, prisoner from the village of Kofer Ra’ie near the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday morning. Troops invaded the village, searched several houses,…

The Israeli army took four residents prisoner from the West Bank city of Tulkarem and neighboring villages during a morning invasion Thursday. In Kofer Zeid, troops stormed the residents houses,…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus Thursday morning, taking five residents, including a young girl, prisoner. Local residents said the military operation started late Wednesday night…

Israeli sources reported on Thursday that Hezbollah gunmen fired of Katusha shells into northern Israeli towns, a mother and her child were killed in the Arab Galilee town of Dir…

An attempt to draft a revised UN Resolution of the Lebanon/Israeli conflict failed yesterday, when the United States refused to consider  France’s revisions to the original draft.   The crux…

The Israeli army forces invaded the West Bank city of Rammallah Thursday morning, surrounded several buildings and imposed a curfew in the city. Troops stormed Al Murjan building near the…

The Israeli army invaded the west Bank city of Jenin its refugee camp and the nearby village of Al Yamon, early Thursday morning. Army jeeps and bulldozers stormed the area,…

Israeli army troops stormed shepherds’ huts is Al Maleh and Ein Al Helwa areas in the Jordan valley late Wednesday night. The shepherds reported that soldiers searched their huts and…

An attempt to draft a revised UN Resolution of the Lebanon/Israeli conflict failed yesterday, when the United States refused to consider  France’s revisions to the original draft. The crux of…

Israeli war planes targeted and destroyed two homes in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip after warning residents with a phone call to evacuate.  The planes struck in the…

Whatever we think of Israel’s assault on Lebanon, all of us seem to agree about one fact: that it was a response, however disproportionate, to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah.…

This 23 minutes audio piece presents 3 villagers that are struggling against Israeli law to have right of ownership of their own lands. Hanin Amr and Tania Tabar report. Click…

There were bulldozers turning over the tons of rubble, a cloud of dust and smoke a mile high over the smashed slums of Beirut’s southern suburbs and a tall man…

A Sky News newscaster, interviewing British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Sunday, July 30 demanded an answer to this paraphrased question: if indeed Israel had precise intelligence that a Hezbollah…

Sheikh Hasan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanon based Hezbollah party, said in a televised speech on Wednesday evening, that his party will continue to fight and that it backs the…

After the capture of the Palestinian Legislative head Dr. Aziz Dweik by Israeli forces this weekend, adding to the eighty Palestinian government officials already being held without charge by Israel…

Palestinian medical sources in Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza reported on Wednesday at night that three Palestinians, including a three- year old child were killed, and three other residents were…

Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that the so-called Israeli Security cabinet approved the expansion of ground assault in Lebanon authorizing the army to invade Lebanese areas up to the Litani…

Nigel Parry, The Electronic Intifada 9 August 2006 As the Israeli war on continues to dominate world headlines, ‘s ongoing war against Gaza seems to be taking place in a…

Two Palestinians were extra judicially killed and several were injured in an Israeli air strike in Jenin Refugee Camp in the northern West Bank on Thursday morning, Palestinian News Network…

Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file 7.5 MB Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media…

Israeli forces invaded the Balata refugee camp in the early hours of Wednesday morning and surrounded one house of a Palestinian family and threw several tear-gas bombs in the neighborhood,…

As the sun baked the densely populated camp, young children carrying empty plastic bottles and cooking pots chased a United Nations truck transporting drinking water to schools which had been…

Palestinian resistance fighters shelled four home made shells at an Israeli army post in Kerem Shalom crossing south of the Gaza strip on Wednesday.   The National Resistance Brigades, the…

Leaflets being dropped into the Lebanese port city of Tyre today and yesterday by Israeli aircraft have warned all residents that anything that moves in the city will be bombed.…

Wednesday morning, the Israeli air force assassinated Amjad Sa’id Ajamy, 20, from Atteel village, one of the senior leaders of the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic…

Israeli army troops detained dozens of Palestinian civilians at a military checkpoint newly installed between Halhool village and the near by West Bank city of Hebron. Soldiers prevented cars and…

Gazan resistance fighters launched shells at an Israeli army post in the southern Gaza Strip Tuesday, while Israeli soldiers responded with their own shells in various parts of the Gaza…

A group of illegal settlers with the participation of Israeli army soldiers attacked two members of the Christian Peacemaker Team late Tuesday night in Sousya east of the West Bank…

The Israeli army arrested Faudil Dendis from the old town area of the West Bank city of Hebron Wednesday morning and intensified its presence in the city.  Local sources said…

The spokesperson for the European Union monitors working at Rafah crossing south of the Gaza Strip said that the Israeli army banned them from reaching their work station at Rafah…

Akram Awwad was arrested while crossing a military checkpoint near Isebet Jabara village south of the West Bank city of Tulkarem Wednesday morning.  According to eyewitnesses, Awwad was going from…

Israeli army troops took four prisoners from Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus Wednesday at dawn.   The four arrested are brothers from the Abu Ayyash…

Israeli army troops invaded the village of Fahma south of the West Bank city of Jenin Wednesday morning.  Palestinian security sources said that several army vehicles stormed the village and…

Israeli army tanks stationed at the Gaza Israeli border continued shelling residential areas in the northern sector of the Gaza Strip Wednesday.   The shelling targeted areas in Beit Lahia,…