Alice in Erez; the Gaza Crossing
A clear and warm November evening; sun sets in a violence of color to the west over the sea and a full luminescent moon on the rise over Beit Hanoun…
Democrats Ignore Subjugation of Palestinians in Vilifying Carter’s Book
President Jimmy Carter's courageous new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, is due on bookstore shelves November 14, 2006. In it, Carter reportedly states, "Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian…
Bil’in protest commemorates independence, calls for Palestinian Unity
Some 300 Palestinians and 100 Israeli and international peace activists marched on Friday against the Israeli Annexation Wall in Bil'in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The procession…
Haniyya describes his meeting with Abbas as positive
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, said on Friday that his late Thursday night meeting with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, was positive and good. Haniyya also stated that he will…
Israeli hospital refuses continued treatment for Palestinian shot by special forces
An Israeli hospital is refusing to continue the medical treatement of a Palestinian resident shot by Israeli special forces, Waleed Athba, 23, was near his home in the northwestern West…
PCHR report: “428 Palestinians, including 80 children and 25 women, killed since June 25”
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) reported that Israeli troops killed 434 Palestinians, in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank since June 25; 271 of the casualties were…
Settlers continue expansion of illegal outposts in the occupied West Bank
In spite of the official Israeli statements of intension to evacuate illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, settlers continued their illegal activities of expansion of settlement outposts north…
Army jet fighters level a house in Beit Lahiya
Israeli army jet fighters fired several missiles at a house in the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip and leveled it to the ground on Friday morning.…
Army takes one resident prisoner from Kofer Dan village near Jenin
The Israeli army invaded the village of Kofer Dan near the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank and took prisoner one resident on Friday morning. Mohamed Mir'e, 24,…
Families of Beit Hanoun plan suit against Israel
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that three Palestinian families who lost nineteen relatives in an Israeli military shelling to their houses last week are planning to sue Israel for its…
Israel rejects the European peace initiative
Officials of the Israeli Foreign Ministry rejected a five-point peace initiative proposed by France and Spain to revive the peace process and renew negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.…
Army shells houses, workshops in the Gaza Strip, four children injured
Palestinian medical and security sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday night after midnight that the Israeli air force shelled several houses, and a workshop, in the Gaza Strip;…
Al-Jazeera launches English-language channel; critics challenge ‘watered-down’ coverage
The Al-Jazeera satellite channel, the largest news agency in the Arab world, yesterday launched the first English-language Arab news channel, Al-Jazeera International, amidst allegations among some reporters that the new…
Youth killed in Qalqilia invasion, at least 31 injured
As the Israeli army continued its large military offensive in Qalqilia town, in the northern part of the West Bank, one Palestinian youth was killed, while the number of injuries…
Abbas demands that Islamic Jihad abide by cease fire
Friday evening, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas demanded that the Islamic Jihad Palestinian resistance movement abide by a cease fire and stop the firing of homemade shells at the Israeli town…
Fighter taken prisoner hours after soldiers surrounded his house and partially destroyed it
Palestinian sources in Tulkarem, in the northern part of th West Bank, that soldiers took one fighter of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh prisoner, hours after…
As thousands of Sderot residents flee, Peretz demand further attacks in Gaza
As thousands of residents of the Israeli Negev town of Sderot rushed to fill 17 buses that came to evacuate them from the town, Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, demanded…
Soldiers attack rooms of abducted Palestinian legislators and ministers
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees slammed the Thursday morning the attacks carried by Israeli soldiers and the Israeli Prison Administration against the rooms of abducted Palestinian ministers and legislators in…