I have witnessed with my own eyes how is made the decline of human beings in savage beasts…I am a son of a refugee, living in Aida refugee camp…Aida, a…

A small delegation of 100 of the 1,340 peace activists from around the world gathered in Egypt for the ‘Gaza Freedom March’ were allowed to pass into Gaza Wednesday, while…

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Israel has informed the High Court of Justice that it will continue construction in a West Bank settlement, despite promises of a settlement freeze for a period of 10 months.…

The Palestinian Health Ministry reported on Wednesday that its inventories have run out of 141 types of prescription drugs.The Ministry said the shortage of medicine was caused by the continued…

Israeli troops kidnapped on Wednesday four Palestinian civilians during pre dawn military invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. Local sources reported invasions in Ramallah city, central West Bank,…

Palestinian official has urged the Security Council to compel Israel to stop its illegal settlement activities and to act in a responsible manner so that the peace process can resume,…

Israeli soldiers attacked on Tuesday at night four Palestinian workers, broke the legs of three of them and took the fourth to an unknown destination. The attack took place near…

Following a similar ban at Hebrew University, students at the University of Haifa were notified Tuesday that the administration would not allow their planned protest commemorating Israel’s invasion of Gaza…

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A number of Israeli tanks opened fire on Tuesday midday at Palestinian farmers near the northern Gaza Israeli borders. The farmers told local media that tanks invaded their lands located…

A Palestinian patient was reported dead on Tuesday after he was unable to leave the besieged Gaza Strip for medical care. 48 years old Mohamed Jassier had hart condition, he…

Five Palestinian civilians were kidnapped by Israeli troops on Tuesday during pre dawn invasions targeting a number of west Bank communities. Local sources reported invasions in the central West Bank…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Tuesday at dawn the village of Bil’in, near the Central West Bank city of Ramallah, and kidnapped two children after breaking into their homes.The Friends of…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported that Ismail Haniyya of Hamas, Prime Minister of the Gaza government dissolved by President Mahmoud Abbas, is seeking to expand his government as…

After voicing a shy call on Israeli to halt the construction of hundreds of new homes for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem, the United States administration called on the Palestinians…

A student group affiliated with the socialist ‘Hadash’ party in Israel had organized a conference commemorating and condemning the Israeli invasion of Gaza one year ago, but the Hebrew University…

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A humanitarian aid convoy on its way to the Gaza Strip has been re-routed through Syria after it was turned away at the Gulf of Aqaba.The ‘Viva Palestina’ convoy consists…

The Israeli settler-led government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party, decided to construct additional 700 homes for Jewish settlers in illegal settlements it considers part of the “Greater…

Hedy Epstein, the 85 year old Holocaust survivor and peace activist, announced that she will begin a hunger strike today as a response to the Egyptian government’s refusal to allow…

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The Israeli Housing Ministry released hundreds of new bids to construct homes in Settlements around East Jerusalem. The Israeli Channel 10 reported that the Israeli government released three construction bids…

In two separate attacks, Israeli tanks invaded on Monday areas close to the northern and southern Gaza Israeli borders. The first invasion took place on Monday morning when tanks and…

Israeli troops kidnapped on Monday nine Palestinian civilians during pre dawn military invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. Local sources reported invasions at the Qalyndia refugee camp, and…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that the Palestinian Authority will act on prosecuting all Israeli war criminals who killed women, elderly and children during the aggression on Gaza one year…

As Gaza marks the first anniversary of Israel’s aggression, the Israeli Foreign Ministry has concluded its response to the report of Judge Richard Goldstone on Israel’s war, and will hand…

Dec. 27, 2009 is the one year anniversary of the illegal Israeli invasion of Gaza. This video documents some of the illegal Israeli violations, atrocities and crimes against humanity, it…

Fundamentalist settlers of the Karmeil illegal settlement opened fire on Sunday at a Palestinian woman herding her sheep, south of Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank.Local sources…

Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, reported Saturday that the execution of three fighters in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, come as an outcome of the security coordination between the…

The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank filed a complaint to the United States after the Israeli army invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus and executed three Palestinians…

The Hamas movement accused the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, head by Mahmoud Abbas of Fateh movement, of involvement in the assassination of three Palestinians, members of Fateh’s Al…

Members of the Viva Palestina international aid convoy to Gaza will begin a hunger strike at 11.25am local time tomorrow (27th) in protest at the Egyptian government’s refusal to allow…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed on Saturday six Palestinians in two separate attacks in the northern West Bank City of Nablus, and in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed on Saturday at dawn six Palestinians in two separate attacks in the northern West Bank City of Nablus, and in Beit Hanoun, in the northern…

According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights’ Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, during the week of 16- 22 Dec 2009, Israeli forces…

An Israeli settler was shot and killed on Thursday evening near the Jewish settlement of Einav, near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, Israeli sources reported.The army said that…

Israeli Army Radio reported Friday that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected in recent months several requests to remove Israeli military roadblocks spread across the occupied West Bank.A number of…

As the Christian world celebrates Christmas, and as Christians in Palestine and in Israel celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, the Chief Rabbinate in Israel recommended that hotels…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Friday morning a Palestinian youth in the southern West Bank city of Hebron after claiming that he carried a sharp tool.Israeli sources reported that the so-called…

Families, church officials and government figures marked on Thursday the start of the Christmas festivities in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. As is the case every year Boy…

After holding anti-Wall protest organizer Abdullah Adu Rahma in prison for over a week without charges, Israeli authorities have decided to charge him with “arms possession” for picking up spent…

Israeli Television, Channel 1, reported on Wednesday at night that six Knesset members of the Kdaima Party, headed opposition leader by Tzipi Livni, signed their initials on an agreement with…

A report by sixteen human rights groups has found that civilians in the Gaza Strip are suffering disproportionately due to Israel’s stranglehold blockade of essential goods. Israel and Egypt have…

Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, stated Wednesday that it received the Israeli response to the prisoner-swap deal through the German mediator, and added that its leaders would study the Israeli response…

The Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) reported Tuesday that it reached a deal with Israel to purchase 10 “Heron” drones TAI General Manager, Muharrem Dörtkaşl, said that the deal is expected…

The Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem (ARIJ), reported that the Israeli occupation increased its violations against the Palestinians and in Jerusalem by forcing them out of their homes, internally displacing…

On Tuesday, Israeli troops handed out demolition orders targeting buildings belonging to Palestinian farmers from different areas in the Jordan valley. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/dec2009/israeli_troops_in_the_west_bank_photo_by_ghassan_bannoura_2008_2.jpg 300 0) File – Soldier taking aim at…

According to a report in Israeli media sourced only from anonymous Israeli government sources, the Palestinian government led by the Hamas party may accept a plan by the Israeli government…

Netanyahu, worked hard to foil a prisoner-swap deal with the Hamas movement in Gaza and insisted to increase the number of detainees Israel demands to deport in case they were…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated Tuesday that there will be no new Palestinian Intifada (uprising) as long as he is in power, but also warned that the current “calm” will…

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Israeli troops kidnapped on Tuesday nine Palestinian civilians during pre dawn invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. The Israeli army radio announced that all those kidnapped men were…

Local sources in the southern West Bank City of Hebron reported on Monday evening that the Palestinian Security Forces arrested a member of Sair Town Council moments after the District…

Thousands of Palestinians protested on Monday at the Salah Ed Deen Gate area, near the border with Egypt, against the Iron Wall Egypt is installing with American support and supervision…

The 1,360 peace activists from around the world currently on their way to Egypt will find the border to the Gaza Strip closed to them, say Egyptian officials. The Gaza…

Jamal Juma’, coordinator of the Stop the Wall Campaign, is in an Israeli jail – the latest in Israel’s attempt to silence Palestinian non violent resistance. Israeli security first summoned…

Israeli Sources reported Monday that Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, held a meeting with Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, Ministers Dani Yaalon, Dan Meridor, Benni Begin and Eli YIshai, and Israeli Army…

The Israeli government has admitted that the practice of organ harvesting did occur in the 1990s, after a recording surfaced in which Dr. Yehuda Hiss, the chief pathologist of the…

The head of the so-called Home Front Command of the Israeli Military, Gen, Yari Golan, decided on Monday to ban Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Northern Branch of the…

Israeli sources reported Monday that a soldier of the Golani Brigade was shot in the head and died of his wounds during a training accident at a military base in…

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Abed Al Raheem Malouh, general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, blamed the Hamas Movement for stalling an agreement on National reconciliation. The leftist leader added…

Five Palestinian civilians were kidnapped on Monday by Israeli troops during military invasions targeting the southern West Bank city of Hebron and nearby villages. Muntasser Braghith, 19 years old, and…

Hassan Abu Libdeh, the Palestinian Minister of the Economy with the Fateh-led de facto government in the West Bank, told a meeting of the Nablus Chamber of Commerce Sunday that,…

Local sources report that twenty Israeli armored military vehicles, accompanied by Apache helicopters, invaded the al-Ghoul area in northern Gaza early Monday morning.Residents also reported Israeli shelling in the town…

Israeli sources reported Sunday that a number of Israeli soldiers and officers, who live in West Bank settlements, leaked army plans to enforce the temporary freeze of settlement construction in…

The Palestinian Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, toured the Bethlehem district , southern West Bank, on Sunday, marking the start of Christmas celebrations. In the town of Beit Jala, Fayyad was…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Saturday at night the village of Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and broke into two homes. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/dec2009/bilin1.jpg 300 0) http://www.bilin-ffj.org/ Israeli soldiers…

A group of fundamentalist settlers clashed on Saturday with Palestinian farmers near the illegal settlement outpost of Mitzpe Asael, in the southern Hebron Hillls. Local sources reported that two Israeli…

United States President, Barack Obama, signed the Foreign Aid Budget Law of 2010 which includes granting $2.775 Billion in security aid to the state of Israel. This budget is the…

Dr. Ahmad Tibi, deputy speaker of the Knesset, head of the United Arab Bloc for Change, stated that the Abu Kabeer forensic center removed in the 90’s patches of skin…

The Viva Palestina convoy, carrying aid from London to the besieged population of Gaza, has received an overwhelming welcome from Turkey on its drive through the country.Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister,…

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The villagers of Bil’in in the central West Bank staged on Friday their weekly protest against the Israeli wall built on their land. Last Friday the demonstration organized by the…

Unlike previous years, the Palestinian Authority decided that all policemen and security personnel who would be deployed in Bethlehem during Christmas will be from the Bethlehem district.Usually the Palestinian Authority…

The city of Beit Sahour, known as the Shepherds Field where, according to the Bible, the angel appeared to the Shepherded and asked them to follow the star to Bethlehem,…

Egyptian sources reported that a border-guard Egyptian policeman was shot and killed on Thursday evening during armed clashes with armed drug smugglers along the Egyptian-Israeli border.A senior Egyptian security official…

Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, stated Thursday that the government of Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will resume its settlement activities on a large scale directly after the 10-month freeze ends.…

In the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights’ Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, during the week of 10- 15 Dec 2009, a Palestinian civilian…

United Nations Middle East Envoy, Robert Sery, informed the Security Council that Israel’s partial slowdown of settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories is only a slow down not a…

Last week’s hopeful talk of a prisoner exchange between Israel and the Palestinians has grown into increasing frustration this week as the negotiators failed to reach a compromise agreement.Today, the…

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The Israeli military allowed on Thursday food and fuel supplies to enter the besieged Gaza Strip. According to local sources the army allowed 90 trucks of food into the coastal…

The Israeli army removed on Thursday morning a military checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Witnesses told local media that soldiers removed the concrete blocks and the…

The Israeli police attacked on Thursday midday a festival organized by Palestinians in Jerusalem old city. The festival was organized by the Palestinians Authority to mark the end of the…

39 fundamentalist members of Knesset signed a petition calling for boycotting goods and services from the United Kingdom as a response to a recent non-binding decision asking merchants and importers…

Israeli online daily, Haaretz, published the “map for a permanent solution with the Palestinians” that was previously proposed by the former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, to the Palestinian President,…

Less than 48 hours after the British Foreign Minister, David Miliband, apologized for the former Israeli Foreign Minister, and the current head of the opposition in Israel, Tzipi Livni, British…

In a talk to the Zionist Organization of America on Sunday, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon told the crowd that Jews should be able to live anywhere in what…

An 18-year old Israeli woman has received a fourth extension of a prison sentence for refusing to enlist in the Israeli military.Or Ben-David is one of the students who signed…

Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip who had appealed to the Israeli High Court to be allowed to visit their family members held in Israeli detention camps faced disappointment on…

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told on Wednesday Israel’s opposition leader Tzipi Livni that she is always welcome in UK. During a phone call Brown voiced his rejection of an…

The central committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization extended on Wednesday President Mahmoud Abbas and the Legislative Council terms. At the meeting today in the central West Bank city of…

Nine Palestinian civilians were kidnapped by Israeli troops on Wednesday during morning invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. Local sources reported invasions and house-to house searches in the…

Commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA), Karen Abu Zeid, confirmed reports stating that Egypt is installing an iron barrier along its border with the Gaza Strip, and…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian Territories (OCHA) reported that Israel is preventing Palestinians from building on 44% of West Bank lands…

Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday morning that a fundamental Israeli settler was mildly wounded during clashes with local residents of Qaryut village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.The…

Khalid Mashal, head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement in Syria, stated that Israel is responsible for the delay in achieving a prisoner-swap deal with the Hamas movement.…