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Israeli forces invaded Balata refugee camp in Nablus city north of the West Bank and took prisoner one resident on Saturday morning. Army vehicles and one bulldozer entered the refugee…
The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Friday night condemning the Israeli air strike against the civilian population of Beit Hanoun which killed 20 Palestinians and wounded dozens…
Sa’eed Hajuj, 20 was killed by in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia, Saturday morning. An undercover Israeli army unit invaded the town and positioned in a civilian house…
Friday evening, a closed meeting between the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya ended after the two leaders held further talks on the formation of the National…
Palestinian security sources reported on Friday at night that the Israeli air force carried two separate attacks that targeted on house and a charitable society in Gaza City. Eyewitnesses reported…
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Friday at night that the Israeli air force shelled a headquarters of the Palestinian Executive Force in Al Shaty' refugee camp, near…
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A resident of Aida Refugee Camp one of thousands Palestinians with stories of abuse endured in Israeli prison. Mahmoud Ahmed Abu Salem testified under oath to a Palestinian Prisoner Society…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
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.…
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;…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org for Thursday November 16, 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 5.66MB || time:6m11m The Israeli army…
Palestinian Foreign Minister from the Hamas movement said on Thursday that Iran donated $120 million to the Palestinian government, and adding the Iran is willing to donate more. Zahhar, currently…
Palestinian medical sources in Hebron reported on Thursday that a 15-year old Palestinian child was seriously injured north of Hebron, after an explosive device left by the army apparently during…
Several families of Tal village, west of Nablus city, in the northern part of the West Bank, complained that Israeli soldiers and settlers are obstructing their Olive harvest in their…
The Nazareth Israeli District Court approved on Thursday a settlement reached between the State of Israel and the families of eleven Israeli Arabs killed by the Israeli police in 2000.…
Spain will sponsor a new Middle East peace initiative along with France and Italy, the Spanish prime minister said Thursday, stressing that the international community cannot remain idle as violence…
Israeli forces are still surrounding the house of Mohammad Al-Zaitawi, a leader with Al-Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah after invading the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Thursday…
The Israeli army invaded the villages of Dora and Ithna near the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday morning and took three residents prisoner. Troops stormed the two villages,…
Palestinian medical sources reported that three residents were injured in a car accident between a Palestinian civilian car and an Israeli military vehicle in the Jordan Valley in the West…
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Wednesday that he received assurances from the United States that the formation of a National Unity Government would bring an end to its political…
Destruction in Al Ein refugee camp in Nablus, repeated invasions and attacks carried by the Israeli forces became a daily event over the last two weeks. The camp is one…
Palestinian sources reported that talks between Fateh and Hamas on National Unity Government will be resumed today (Thursday) after the talks were stopped for two days. President Mahmoud Abbas and…
The Israeli army invaded Anabta Village, east of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, troops took one resident prisoner and abused another two, on Thursday morning. Troops stormed the village…
The Israeli army invaded the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin City in the northern West Bank on Thursday at dawn and took prisoner five residents. Army vehicles and troops…
Israeli Air Force carried several air strikes late Wednesday night until Thursday morning, targeting a number of houses that belong to families of resistance fighters; five civilians were injured; some…
Israeli forces reportedly discovered a man carrying a ready-to-use explosives belt in Tzahal Square in Jerusalem. Israel Radio reported on Thursday, that the man, identified as Ashraf Hanani, 25, belonged…
I want to start by saying that Israel does not need excuses to attack and kill Palestinians. However, they do it with international approval when they have this excuse. In…
Mohamed Salamah Ihmedan, 25, was shot and killed during an Israeli military invasion to Al Ein refugee camp in Nablus city, in the northern part of the West Bank, on…
Israeli sources reported that Palestinian armed groups fired more homemade shells at the Israeli Negev town of Sderot seriously wounding a 17-year old youth. Earlier on Wednesday one Israeli was…
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org for Wednesday November 15, 2006..|| Click here to Download MP3 file 5.27MB || time:4m38s In the West Bank,…
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org for Wednesday November 15, 2006..|| Click here to Download MP3 file 4.25MB || time:4m38s In the West Bank,…
Ahmad Al Afeefy, head of the Palestinian Football Association said on Wednesday that the team was unable to participate in the Asian World Cup due to the Israeli closure of…
Palestinians living under Israeli occupation aspire to liberation and freedom, but eighteen years after the Palestinian leadership, from exile, announced the Palestinian independence day, the Palestinian people are still under…
The Israeli army invaded Al Doha town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem for the second time on Wednesday afternoon and took another prisoner. Soldiers attacked the house…
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, searched and ransacked residents' houses and took two brothers prisoner on Wednesday at dawn. Residents…
The Israeli army invaded Dora village and Al Fuwar Refugee Camp, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, on Wednesday morning and took two prisoners. Troops attacked residents' houses…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas assured Hamas that the boycott will be lifted despite their refusal to recognize Israel; rather it is conditioned on a non-partisan government of technocrats, according to…
President Mahmoud Abbas met on Tuesday night in Cairo, with David Welch, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, for an update on the meeting held between…
Wednesday morning, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas met in Cairo with the Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak and discussed the ongoing efforts to revive the Peace Process in the Middle East and…
The town of Azzun 'Atma has come to represent the worst of the worst of the effects of the Israeli Wall in the West Bank. The small town is in…
On Wednesday soldiers abducted a mother of five from Doura town, near Hebron in the south of the West Bank, in order to pressurise her wanted husband to surrender, Palestinian…
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, searched and ransacked residents houses on Wednesday at dawn. Residents said that more than 17 army…
Israeli forces invaded the town of Al Doha west of Bethlehem, in the souther part of the West Bank, and took prisoner one resident on Wednesday morning. Troops stormed the…
A group of Palestinian resistance fighters fired on Wednesday morning seven homemade Qassam shells into the western Israeli Negev town of Sederot. One 57 year old woman was killed and…
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that the Shin Bet security service chief, Yuval Diskin, stated on Tuesday that the government must prepare for a "military option" in Gaza, and claimed…
Palestinian Legislator, head of the detainees committee at the Legislative Council, Issa Qaraqe', said that the number of Palestinians being taken prisoner by Israeli forces has sharply increased as the…
The European Union has agreed to extend its mission on the Gaza-Egypt border crossing for additional six months, EU officials stated on Tuesday. The decision came after EU Foreign…
A report prepared by the Israeli embassy in Russia revealed that the number of Russian Jews who left the country back to Russia arrived to 50.000, while three years ago…
On November 8, 2006 at around 2:00 am, under-cover units of the Israeli army shot and killed five Palestinians in Al Yamoun village, near Jenin, in the northern part of…
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Tuesday November 14, 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 5.27MB || time: 5m 45s A…
Members of the Hamas movement will still hold key positions in the nearly formed national unity government of Palestine and according to Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, Hamas will not settle…
Sources from the Palestinian preventative security forces working in Gaza Strip announced on Tuesday that the forces managed to arrest two Gaza residents working as agents for the Israeli secret…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Tuesday that the Israeli army controlling the border crossing in or out of Gaza is refusing to allow patients with severe…
A special Israeli army force invaded the village of Al Thahria, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, on Tuesday morning. Soldiers searched a number of houses, ransacked them…
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Qalqilia and took prisoner a photo journalist on Tuesday morning. Troops stormed the city and searched several houses including the house…
Israeli forces attacked the village of Harmalah, south east of Bethlehem city in the southern West Bank and took prisoner five residents on Tuesday morning. Army vehicles and troops entered…
Palestinian medical sources reported that Mohamed Mekhiz, 21, died on Tuesday morning of wounds he sustained during the Israeli army attack on Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza strip last…
Army invaded Ein Al Ma' refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus and killed Baha' Khater, 20, on Tuesday at dawn. Local sources said that an Israeli…
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported, on Monday at night, that soldiers shelled several homes in Al Mawassi area, and Al Qarara town, near Khan Younis, in the southern…
Palestinian sources reported on Monday at night that the rival Fateh and Hamas movements agreed on the formation of a National Unity Government headed by Mohammad Abu Shbeir. Abu Shbeir…
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Monday November 13, 2006. || Click here to Download MP3 file 5.27MB || time: 5m 45s In…
Gilad Atzmon highlights the inherent contradictions in the views of Israeli Zionist author David Grossman who appears to espouse peace with the Palestinians but shows worrying signs of Jewish supremacism.…
Dar Al Salam hospital (the House of Peace Hospital), along with the science and technology university departments in the city of Khan Younis, in the southern part of…
Israeli authorities released on November 6, 2006, detainee Marwan Ali Jabbour from Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. He was taken prisoner by Israel on the…
The Israeli army invaded Al Doha Village on the western side of the West Bank city of Bethlehem and took prisoner six residents on Monday at noon. Several army vehicles…
The Israeli soldiers stationed at Za'tara military checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus detained a Palestinian ambulance who was carrying a severe case patent on Monday morning. The…
The Israeli army started to install a barbed wire fence on the southern farm lands that belong to Azon Village, south of the West Bank city of Qalqilia on Monday…
Senior officials of Fateh and Hamas movements resumed their talks on the formation of a national unity government. The two movements held an extended meeting last night that concentrated on…
The Israeli army started to bulldoze farm lands and uproot trees that belong to the residents of Wadi Rahal Village, south of he West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday…
Israeli troops operating in Rafah at the southern border of the Gaza Strip attacked and took over one Palestinian home on Monday morning. Soldiers took over the roof top of…
Israeli forces invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem late Sunday night and took one child prisoner. More that 10 army jeeps entered the city from the western entrance and…
The Israeli army invaded Ein Beit Al Ma' refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus and took prisoner two residents on Monday at dawn. Troops and army vehicles…
The late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who died on November 12th, 2004, was remembered today in simultaneous rallies held in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Gaza City, Rafah, Jenin and Beit Hanoun. In…
Israeli Authorities plan to annex Palestinians lands in Anata town, north of Jerusalem, for the construction of the Annexation Wall and for “military purposes”. The decision (T -06/84) states that…
Sunday evening, leaders of Hamas and Fateh movements met in order to finalize the details of the upcoming National Unity Government. The meeting was held at the presidential headquarters in…
Arab Foreign Minister decided during an urgent summit in Cairo to break the siege imposed on the Palestinians and to transfer aid money to the Palestinian Authority. Secretary of the…
Palestinian medical sources in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one youth died of wounds sustained on November 6, in Beit Hanoun, in the…
Israeli soldiers, and border-guard forces, invaded on Sunday at night Batteer village, near Bethlehem, broke into several houses and searched them, the Palestine News Network reported (PNN). The invasion is…
Nineteen inhabitants of Beit Hanun were killed with malice aforethought. There is no other way of describing the circumstances of their killing. Someone who throws burning matches into a forest…
A Palestinian was wounded Sunday in al-Qarara town, north of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, when Israeli troops opened random fire towards citizens' houses in the area, local…
Standing at 6'1, with strong build, a full beard, and long dark hair, Yehuda Shaul seems like an unassuming young man. Wearing dark cargo pants, and a long-sleeved blue shirt,…
In the town of Beit Hanoun, the site of an Israeli shelling that killed eighteen civilians on Wednesday, another child was killed Sunday by the ongoing Israeli shelling of the…
Sunday at noon, Israeli soldiers invaded Al Zababda village, south east of Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank. Local sources reported that at least fifty military vehicles…
Israeli soldiers took prisoner one employee of the Hebron office of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank, the Palestinian News Agency,…