Israeli army abducts seven Palestinian men from Hebron
The Israeli forces, on Tuesday morning, abducted seven Palestinian men among them three from the same family during a house to house search campaign in several parts of the southern…
Israeli army invades down town Bethlehem, surrounds a house and abducts three brothers
At lest 15 Israeli army vehicles invaded Al Saf Street in down town Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank, surrounded one house and abducted three brothers,…
Israeli army abducts 18 Palestinians from several parts of the West Bank
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army has abducted 18 Palestinians from several parts of the West Bank on Tuesday morning among them several children. In the villages of Abu…
Israeli army abducts 18 Palestinians from several parts of the West Bank
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army has abducted 18 Palestinians from several parts of the West Bank on Tuesday morning. The sources added that among those abducted are…
Israeli army invades down town Bethlehem, surrounds a house
At lest 15 Israeli army vehicles invaded Al Saf Street in down town Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank and surrounded one house on…
Army: “We abducted 4110 Palestinians in 2006”
A senior Israeli military official said on Monday that soldiers abducted 4110 Palestinians in several Palestinian areas 2006. The sources stated that most of the abducted residents “were wanted to…
Palestinians factions call for dissolving the Executive Force
The Ramattan news agency reported on Monday that the Higher Follow-up Committee for National and Islamic Factions in the West Bank issued a statement calling for dissolving the Hamas-controlled Executive…
Army abducts at least twenty residents in the West Bank
Palestinian sources reported on Monday that Israeli troops continued their invasions and attacked in the West Bank and abducted at least twenty residents. Troops also installed dozens of roadblocks blocking…
Israeli human rights group calls for repeal of `apartheid driving` rule
The Israeli human rights group B'tselem has issued a call for the repeal of a new Israeli law, set to go into effect on January 19th, that will forbid Palestinians…
Remember Do`a, martyred by the Occupation on her way from school
Do'a Abdel Khader Naser, a 13 year old girl from Izbet Naser close to Fara'on village south of Tulkarem, was killed on December 20th, 2006, by bullets from the Israeli…
Nablus deputy mayor released Monday after being captured by rival party members Saturday
Mahdi al-Hanbali, a member of the Hamas party, was captured by supporters of the rival Fateh party in Nablus on Saturday. Monday afternoon he was released, and at a press…
Five Hamas supporters abducted, three released, by Fateh supporters in Gaza
According to a Hamas party spokesperson in Gaza, five members of the party were abducted after their car was stopped by members of the rival Fateh party in Beit Lahia,…
Fateh supporters in Ramallah torch stores, fire at homes of Hamas supporters
Internal clashes between the two major Palestinian political parties, Hamas and Fateh, continued Monday as Fateh supporters burned several stores, including a money-changing shop and a clothing store, that belong…
Palestinian resistance claims to have fired three homemade shells into Israel
The armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, the Quds Brigades, on Monday took the credit for firing two Quds-3 homemade missiles at Sderot settlement in the western Negev.The Brigades…
150 dunams of Palestinian farmland bulldozed by Israeli troops near Hebron
According to local sources, Israeli troops escorted huge tractors that started bulldozing a road linking the settlement of Sossia to newly annexed Palestinian lands in Yatta village, east of Hebron…
20-year old Palestinian shot and injured by Israeli gunfire near Beit Hanoun
A 20-year-old Palestinian youth was injured on Monday when Israeli soldiers stationed just outside the Gaza Strip shot at him near the industrial area north of Beit Hanoun city, in…
Palestinian workers inside Israeli boundaries brutally beaten and forced to strip naked
Palestinian workers who comprise part of the low-wage Israeli labor force are subjected to brutality as they try to reach work, in their places of employment, and are often arrested,…
Palestinians from Iraq are refugees once again: Syrian government allocates small plot for new camp
The Ministry of Refugees announced Monday that the Syrian government has agreed to allocate 10 dunams of land to build houses for the hundreds of Palestinian refugees fleeing Baghdad. The…
Hamas website: “Fateh gunmen attack Hamas houses in Jenin”
The Palestine Info news website run by Hamas reported on Sunday at night that members of the Preventive Security Force, loyal to Fateh movement, attacked dozens of houses that belong…
Israeli High Court: “death of 13-year old child could have been prevented”
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that the Israeli High Court of Justice instructed the military police and prosecution to probe whether ‘open fire’ order was given illegally at the Girit…
Peruvian journalist abducted in Gaza, freed
Jaime Razuri, a cameraman working with Agence France-Presse who was abducted by gunmen on January 1 in Gaza, was released on Sunday evening, Tayyib Abdul-Rahim, presidency spokesperson reported.Razuri was moved…
Israel controls 80% of Palestinian water and regional control has methodically
Palestinian researcher Abu Kishek said that the Arab water security is threatened due to Israeli policy and that any political solution to the Palestinian issue will not happen except through…
When Birds are No Longer Birds: An Allegory
“Bird Nicer was killed by unknown birds in the central countryside, while preaching that killing is prohibited in the Birds’ Shari’a (Law)”.In an imagined (but somehow very real) countryside there…
Thousands of Fateh members rally in Gaza
Marking the 42 anniversary of the formation of Fateh movement and in a move that was seen by many people as show of force, dozens of thousands of Fateh members…
Senior army officer: “Ramallah invasion that left four Palestinians dead was a mistake”
Israeli sources reported on Sunday that the a senior military officer said that the arrest invasion which was carried in Ramallah, in the northern part of the West Bank, that…
Soldiers abduct four Fateh members, claim seizing explosive belts in Nablus
Israeli soldiers invaded early on Sunday Nablus city, in the northern part of the West Bank, and abducted four members of the Tanzim, that belongs to Fateh, and claimed uncovering…
Palestinian journalists demonstrate in support of all colleagues under attack
More than 200 Palestinian journalists held a sit-in and March in Ramallah Sunday afternoon in protest of attacks on members of the press. Among the subjects was the kidnapping of…
University lecturer seriously injured by gunmen in Nablus
Palestinian sources reported on Saturday evening that unknown gunmen fired at Dr. Marwan Al Qaddoumi, a lecturer at Al Najah University in Nablus, after ordering him to step out of…
Three Palestinians killed in armed clashes between two families
Palestinian medical and security sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Saturday evening that three Palestinians were killed during armed clashes between two families in Gaza city; nine residents were…
Abbas outlaws the Executive Force; Hamas decides to increase its members
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, decided on Saturday that the Executive Force, formed by the Hamas controlled Ministry of Interior, is illegal and outlawed. Hamas in return decided to increase the…
Palestinian nonviolent resistance stands up to continued Israeli land confiscation in Ein Mahal
Four thousand dunams of land remain in the village of Ein Mahel located near the city of Nazareth. Although Israeli forces have seized more than 13,000 dunums from the village…
Detainees in Hadarim facing hardships, yet call for ending internal clashes
Palestinian detainees imprisoned at the Hadarim Israeli detention facility called on the Palestinian factions to end all sorts of internal clashes and violence. The detainees said that the factions should…
Hezbollah: `Captured soldiers will not be freed unless Quntar is released`
Officials of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah party told the family of Sameer Quntar, who is imprisoned by Israel since 1979, and told them that the party will not release the captured…
Hamas: ‘The United States is funding a coup against the government’
Mosheer Al Masry, one of the senior Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip said on Friday that the United States is attempting to encourage a revolt against the Hamas-led Palestinian…
Soldiers invade the northern part of the Gaza Strip
Palestinian sources reported on Friday evening that Israeli soldiers, backed by several armored vehicles and jeeps invaded the northern part of the Gaza Strip and stationed east Jabalia. The Ramattan…
THIS WEEK IN PALESTINE – January WEEK 1
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Soldiers invade the Old City of Nablus
Israeli soldiers, supported by a number of military vehicles and jeeps, invaded the Old City of Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, and clashed with dozens of…
A Muslim Cleric Killed and Another Wounded in Shootout in Central Gaza Strip
Unknown gunmen shot dead a local Muslim cleric and wounded another in the central Gaza Strip on Friday. Cleric Adel Nassar of the Maghazi refugee camp was shot…
Bil\’in village holds its weekly protest against the Wall
Officials and supporters of the Palestinian Fateh Party joined together with residents of Bil’in village near the northern West Bank city of Ramallah, as well as international and Israeli activists…
Israeli Army invades Ateel village near Tulkarem; abducts four
Israeli forces invaded the village of Ateel near the northern West bank city of Tulkarem on Friday at 4 am in an attempt to capture a Palestinian resistance fighter with…
Palestinian man dies of wounds he sustained Thursday, ‘cautious calm’ prevails in Gaza strip
One Palestinian man died on Friday morning due to wounds sustained during Thursday's clashes in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern part of the Gaza Strip between armed groups of…
Army invades Al Khader village near Bethlehem and abducts one Palestinian
Israeli forces invaded the village of Al Khader, south of Bethlehem in the southern part of the West Bank, and abducted one local resident on Friday morning.Soldiers and army vehicles…
Follow-up committee demands dismantling Hamas Executive Force
The Follow-up committee, formed by Palestinian and National movements, denounced on Thursday the attack which was carried by Executive Force members against the house of a P.A security officer, and…
Haniyya, Abbas meet, agree on forming probe committee
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, said on Thursday night after midnight following his meeting with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas that the two leaders agreed to form a probe committee…
Gunmen attack Hamas offices in Jenin
Palestinian sources reported on Thursday at night that that gunmen attacked several offices and institutions that belong to the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, in Jenin, in the northern part of…
Haniyya: “Our weapons should be against the occupation, not against each otherâ€
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, returned on Thursday to Gaza after conducting the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. He slammed the recent violent internal clashes and said that the Palestinian…
Israeli TV: ‘Olmert to ask Peretz to step down’
Israeli TV channel 2 reported on Thursday that the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has decided to ask his Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, to step down. Olmert’s office denied the…
Fateh leader, three others, killed in Jabalia infighting; six total on Thursday
Palestinian medical sources reported on Thursday evening that Mohammed Ghayeb, a Fateh leader, was assassinated in his home by members of the Executive Force formed by Hamas, in Jabalia, in…
Hamas says it is ready to swap a video of Shalit for the release of detainees
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported on Thursday that Hamas fighters holding an Israeli soldier captive since June 25 said that they are ready to give Israel a video tape of…
Palestina Oggi Gennaio 04, 07 (Palestine Today – Italian)
Palestina Oggi, un servizio dell`International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, di giovedì 4 Gennaio 2007|| Clicca qui per scaricare il file MP3 5.88 MB || durata:6m 25s Quattro morti oggi…
Palestine Today – January 4, 2007
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Abducted P.A deputy minister of health released
Palestinian sources reported on Thursday morning that gunmen released Bashar Al Karmy, deputy Palestinian Minister of Heath, hours after breaking into his house in Al Biereh city, near Ramallah, and…
Army invades Bethlehem, injures a Palestinian man and abducts him
At around 4:30 on Thursday afternoon at least 15 Israeli military jeeps invaded the city of Bethlehem in the southern part of the West Bank injured a Palestinian man and…
Israeli army invades Ramallah, 4 killed and 20 wounded
Four Palestinians were killed and at least 20 were wounded in the clashes, three of which were described as serious. One of the killed was identified as Yousef Abdul Qader,…
Israeli forces abduct five Palestinian men from a village near Hebron
Five Palestinian men were abducted by invading Israeli forces to Beit Kahiel village west of Hebron city in the southern part of the West Bank on Thursday morning.Israeli army vehicles…
Israeli army abducts a Palestinian man and his son in Tubass city
The Israeli army invaded the northern West Bank city of Tubass on Thursday morning and abducted a man and his son. Hafeth Sawaftah and his son Bassam, were both taken…
Israeli army injures four Palestinian farmers in northern Gaza strip
Israeli troops stationed at the northern border of the Gaza Strip, near the Palestinian city of Beit Lahia, shot and injured four Palestinian farmers on Thursday morning.Medical sources identified the…
Five Palestinians killed due to infighting Wednesday in Gaza strip
Five Palestinians, including one woman, were killed due to the infighting between Hamas and Fatah affiliated forces in the Gaza strip on Wednesday evening. Three officers from the Preventative Security…
Israeli army abducts one Palestinian man from a village near Bethlehem
The Israeli army abducted a Palestinian man during an invasion on Wednesday morning in the village of Al Shawourah, east of Bethlehem. Mohamed Shawourah, 22, was taken to an unknown…
Egypt proposes a regional summit
Israeli sources reported that Egypt is preparing a proposal for a four-way summit that would host leaders from Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. Israeli sources reported that the…
The Israeli Wall will annex 19000 out of 22000 Dunams in Al Khader village
Al Khader, near Bethlehem, is facing a harsh future as a result of the construction of the Annexation Wall, as Israeli bulldozers continue to uproot the town’s farmlands to construct…
Year end statistics: Israeli forces killed 742 Palestinians, injured 3,735 and arrested 5,671
Official Palestinian health statistics, compared against human rights organizations data and press reports were submitted for the final report for the year 2006. The report was issued from Gaza this…
Year end statistics: Israeli forces killed 742 Palestinians, injured 3,735 and arrested 5,671
Official Palestinian health statistics, compared against human rights organizations data and press reports were submitted for the final report for the year 2006. The report was issued from Gaza this…
Parents in prison are strangers to their children
“One of the well wishers told me to buy a toy with several shekels so that my daughter would not cry when she approached me.” These are the words of…
Fighter of the Al Aqsa Brigades killed in the northern part of the Gaza strip
Palestinian medical and security sources reported on Wednesday that one fighter of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh was shot and killed by unknown gunmen who ambushed…
Six injured in internal clashes in Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday that six Palestinians were shot and injured during clashes between members of the Executive Force and members of the Preventive…
Palestina Oggi Gennaio 03, 07 (Palestine Today – Italian)
Palestina Oggi, un servizio dell` International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, di mercoledi 3 Gennaio 2007. || Clicca qui per scaricare il file MP3 6.54 MB || durata:7m 08s Sei…
Palestine Today – January 3, 2007
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday January 3rd, 2007.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 5.44 MB || time:5m 57s || (Click…
Two killed and one critically wounded in Khan Younis clashes
Palestinian sources reported that two members of the preventative security forces were killed and another one was critically wounded in clashes between Palestinian security forces in Khan Younis northern Gaza…
Israeli army abducts three Palestinian men near Nablus
Israeli soldiers stationed at the Huwwara checkpoint, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, have abducted two Palestinian men on Wednesday afternoon. Israeli security sources said that the…
One killed six injured in renewed clashes between Palestinian security forces in Jabalia
One Palestinian young woman was killed and six men injured in renewed clashes between Palestinian factions in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza strip on Wednesday afternoon, Palestinian sources…
Tali Fahima, an Israeli convicted of having ties with Palestinian resistance, released
Israeli media sources reported that Tali Fahima, an Israeli women who was convicted of having ties with Palestinian resistance fighters late 2005 was released on Wednesday midday under parole. Fahima…
Unknown gunmen abduct a Palestinian security officer in the southern part of Gaza Strip
Palestinian security sources reported on Wednesday that a group of masked gunmen injured and kidnapped a Palestinian security officer in Khan Younis city, in the southern part of the Gaza…
Unknown gunmen kill a Fatah Activist in northern Gaza strip
A group of unknown gunmen opened fire and killed a member of Al Aqsa brigades the armed wing of Fatah movement, in Beit Lahiyia town in the northern part of…
Israeli soldiers shoot and injure a Palestinian man in northern Gaza Strip
Israeli forces stationed at the northern borders of the Gaza strip opened fire at a Palestinian man and injured him on Wednesday midday.Mohamed Ishehada, 25, sustained an injury in his…
Bodies of a Woman and child found in Gaza
The bodies of a child and a woman were found in the Gaza strip on Wednesday morning, Palestinian Medical sources in the Gaza strip reported. Dr. Mou'awiah Hassanin, director of…
Israeli army invades Nablus and Tubass, three residents abducted among an injured man
The Israeli army invaded the northern West Bank cities of Nablus and Tubass on Wednesday at dawn, attacked residents' homes, wounded one resident and abducted three includinf the wounded, Palestinian…
Hamas, Fateh trade accusations regarding renewed clashes
Officials of the rival Fateh and Hamas movements traded accusations over the renewed violent clashes between the two movements, and accused each other of acting for further escalation. Abdul-Hakim Awad,…
Three Hezbollah detainees appeal to be treated as prisoners of war
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that three of six Hezbollah detainees imprisoned by Israel appealed to the Israeli High Court of Justice on Wednesday, demanding be recognized as prisoners of…
The Rafah terminal to open on both directions Thursday
Palestinian security sources reported on Tuesday that the Rafah Border Crossing, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, will be opened on Thursday morning on both directions for five continuous days.…
Halutz: “I committed mistakes during Lebanon war, but won’t resign”
Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Dan Hallutz, admitted on Tuesday that Israel failed in achieving its objectives in its war against Hezbollah, but rejected calls to resign as a result…
P.A security officer shot and injured by gunmen in Hebron
Palestinian security sources reported on Tuesday that a Palestinian security officer was shot and injured by unknown gunmen in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of…
Hamas denounces the abduction of foreign reporter in Gaza
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, slammed on Tuesday that abduction of Jaime Razuri, abducted a Peruvian photographer working for the French press agency (Agence France-Presse).Azuri was abducted by unknown gunman in…
Palestine Today – January 2, 2007
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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…
Prisoner-swap deal expected to be declared during Mubarak-Olmert summit
The Ramattan News Agency reported on Sunday that a prisoner swap deal that would see the release of hundreds of Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel is expected to be declared…