Palestine Today – October 9, 2006
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Hazardous Intent: US Brokers in Palestine
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is back in the Middle East and she is in a “very concerned” state. For someone who has played Israeli ambassador to the Middle East…
Israeli Settlers Threaten Israeli and Foreign Activists
The Israeli army has demanded that Israelis and foreigners, who are escorting Palestinian farmers during this year’s olive harvest to protect them from Israeli settler attacks, not participate in this…
Freed detainee: `“Female detainees were attacked after administration claimed that two tried to fle
Ramah Habayib, a freed female detainee from Nablus city, in the northern part of the West Bank, said that female detainees in Telmond Israeli detention facility, were harshly attacked on…
Army kills Nablus resident at Huwwara checkpoint south of the city
Mohammad Sa'adah, 22, was shot and killed on Monday afternoon by Israeli soldiers stationed at the Huwwara military checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Nablus. Soldiers did not…
Muslim pilgrims started crossing the Rafah border crossing, food aid expected in Gaza
Hundreds of Muslim pilgrims heading to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, managed to cross the Rafah Border Crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, after the international observers resumed…
Two Palestinians injured by Israeli army gunfire in the Gaza strip
Palestinian medical sources reported that two residents were injured during an Israeli army invasion of the Al Sika area in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza strip…
Solidarity activists remove roadblocks near Hebron
Over the weekend, Israeli and international peace activists dismantled several roadblocks in the Hebron area that had been set up by the Israeli military, and had been acting as a…
Shepherd huts attacked by Army east of Tubass
On Monday at noon an Israeli Army unit invaded agricultural land, east of the West Bank city of Tubass and ransacked shepherds huts there. According to local sources, troops in…
Palestinian killed, five injured in an army air strike in the Gaza Strip
Palestinian medical sources reported that one resident was killed and five were injured, most of them children, in an Israeli military air strike that targeted a Palestinian vehicle in Beit…
Israeli war planes bomb home in Khan Younis refugee camp
Israeli war planes dropped missiles on a home in Khan Younis refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, late Sunday night. Although the house was completely destroyed, no casualties have…
Israeli army puts a village in the Jordan valley under curfew
The Israeli forces put a curfew on Al Ezbedat village in the central area of the Jordan Valley, in the eastern part of the West Bank, on Monday morning. Troops…
Qatar Enters as Mediator Between Hamas and Fatah
Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jasim Al Thani has entered talks to form a unity government as a mediator between Hamas and Fatah, the leaders of which he will…
the Isreali Army seizes three residents from Nablus
Israeli troops with a cavacade of jeeps invaded the West Bank city,Nablus on Monday at dawn and seized three residents . local sources reported that over 12 army vehicles, invaded…
Al Yamoun village near Jenin invaded
The Israeli army invaded the village of Al Yamoun village west of Jenin and searched houses on Monday at dawn. Troops, backed by over 10 military vehicles, invaded the village, …
Soldiers abuse handcuffed brothers at a West Bank checkpoint
Two Palestinian brothers, from the Salem village, near Nablus city in the northern part of the West Bank, were brutally beaten and abused for several hours at the Huwwara military…
Israeli Border Police arrest three peace activists for aiding Palestinian farmers
The Israeli Border Police arrested three international peace activists near Al Khader town, in Bethlehem area, after they arrived at the town to held Palestinian farmers in harvesting their orchards.…
Resident of Balata refugee camp in Nablus killed by military fire, two on Sunday
Palestinian medical sources in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank reported that Israeli soldiers shot and killed one resident, from the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus,…
Exploring roots in Israel – American-Palestinian style
While most American college students visiting Israel this summer seldom ventured across the Green Line, Sarah was among several dozen Americans participating in the Palestinian Summer Encounter (PSE) program, based…