Palestine Today – January 2, 2007
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday January 2, 2007. || Click here to Download MP3 file 4.04 MB || time:4m 24s A…
Bethlehem University student: I could offer no gift other than stones from our demolished home
“I could only provide stones as gifts to the heads of the British churches after Israeli bulldozers demolished our house,” 19 year old Bethlehem University student Motaz told PNN…
Hamas member of the Executive Force killed in Gaza explosion
The Palestinian Information Center, controlled and run by Hamas, reported on Tuesday that a member of the Executive Force that belongs to the Ministry of Interior was killed in an…
Haaretz: “Israel agrees to release 450 detainees for Shalit”
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported on Tuesday that Hamas movement accepted Israeli offer to release 450 Palestinian detainees in the second stage of a deal that would see the release…
Symbolic Funeral for Saddam in Bethlehem
Political parties in Bethlehem organized on Tuesday a symbolic funeral for the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in protest against his execution. The funeral procession started in Al-Azza refugee camp…
The Spectacle of the Noose
Indeed we live in a global village, in a sealed monolithic ghetto in which medieval pornographic images of barbarism travel around the world at the speed of light for our…
Presidential Source: No out-of-country Talks over Unity Government
A Palestinian government source denied that a short meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh was held in Cairo, according to Palestine News Network. According to…
Truck driver wounded as a mortar shell hits the Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip
A mortar shell was fired on Tuesday morning at the Karni border crossing at the eastern Gaza strip. A Palestinian truck driver was wounded in the attack, which no Palestinian…
Israeli Gunboats Abduct Three Fisherman off Rafah Seashore
Israeli army gunboats have abducted three Palestinian fishermen off the Rafah seashore on Tuesday at dawn. The three were identified as Ayman Al Ejbur, Isma'el Basalah, and his brother Samer,…
Israeli army abducts 11 Palestinian men from different parts of the West Bank
The Israeli army has abducted 11 Palestinian men in pre-dawn invasions to several areas of the West Bank on Tuesday. Israeli forces invaded, searched and ransacked residents' homes in Aida…
Settlement sewage polluting northern West Bank
Residents of Burqin in the northern West Bank report that their lands are being polluted by an Israeli settlement built on Salfit District lands. Farmers told PNN on Monday that…
Olmert: “No progress on Shalit”
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, held a session on Monday morning with his special envoy for the release of the captured soldier, Ophir Dekel, and members of several security agencies,…
Islamic Jihad, PFLP mediate to release abducted Hamas and Fateh members
The Islamic Jihad Movement and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced that they have struck a deal late on Monday evening that would see the release…
Gunmen abduct a foreign reporter in Gaza
Palestinian security sources in Gaza reported on Monday that an unknown armed group abducted a Peruvian photographer working for the French press agency (Agence France-Presse). So far, no armed group…
No change at the Israeli Military checkpoints in Palestine
The hardships on the Israeli military checkpoints in the West Bank are still making the life of Palestinians who need to travel a nightmare, despite the Israeli claims of removing…