Day: September 20, 2006

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It is essential to reflect on this background before one can comprehend the widespread outrage at Pope Benedict XVI's remarks in Germany. Imagine, for a moment, how much more enjoyable…

The Israeli police team investigating charges of sexual harassment against against the Israeli President, Moshe Katsav, estimated that they have enough evidence to press charges against him. The charges include…

A massive demonstration was organized Wednesday morning in the West Bank city of Hebron against the Pope’s comments on Islam and its Prophet Mohammad and the Israeli army moved to…

Mohammad Shahine, 50, from Al ‘Azaria south of Jerusalem was denied entry to Jerusalem by Israeli troops Wednesday morning.  Shahine, a cancer patient, was going to Jerusalem for surgery as…

Israeli troops installed Wednesday afternoon a military checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Tubas.   The checkpoint was installed between the village of Tamoun / Al Fara’a refugee camp…

Israeli Knesset “Ethics Committee “ decided to ban Arab members of Knesset Jamal Zahalka and Ibrahim Sarsour  from the Knesset for three days over a trip they made to Syria…

To ease the economic burden of thousands of Palestinian families, the Palestinian Ministry of Transport requested that a less costly form of gas be available for automobiles.  If the Council…

Israeli forces invaded the village of Beit Fourik at dawn on Wednesday, set one house ablaze and took one person prisoner. Soldiers surrounded the house of Ferass Militat, 30, and…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday that one resident was killed, another was injured, after the Israeli army fired a tank shell at a group of…

Hamas retracted its original agreement to include the 2002 Arab peace initiative in the proposed national unity government with Fatah, party officials said Tuesday.  Hamas officials are against the initiative’s…

An Israeli force invaded the Dohaisha refugee camp in the southern part of West Bank city of Bethlehem on Wednesday. Troops conducted a wide scale search campaign in the refugee…

Bashar Bsharat, 24, was taken to an unknown location by the Israeli army troops who invaded Tamon village near the West Bank city of Tubass on Wednesday morning. Israeli troops…

Siraj Yousif, 23, was taken prisoner by the Israeli army during an incursion to Al Doha town west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Wednesday at dawn. A…

The Israeli army invaded several cities in the West Bank and broke into money changers' shops and banks, confiscating some 1.5 million USD, on Wednesday morning.  The seizure of cash…

Hanan Abu Odah, 15, from Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza strip, died on Wednesday morning of wounds she sustained last month in an Israeli attack that killed…

Following on a statement by an Israeli commander that the Israeli army fired at least 1.2 million cluster bomblets on Lebanon during the war, the majority of which were fired…

Despite the rising tension this past weekend between Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas movement, it is safe to assume that soon a government of national unity…

Every Palestinian detainee has his own story of the horrors of being held in Israeli detention facilities, but in the case of detainee Luay Al Ashqar, 28, from Saida village,…

Detainee Suad Abu Hamad, from Nazareth, said that female detainees in Telmond Israeli prison are facing harsh procedures and collective punishment after the prison administration claimed that two detainees attempted…