I’m Sorry But We Blew Up Your Laptop (welcome To Israel)
I was sitting on the deck overlooking the Red Sea. Israeli security officers (most who looked around 18 years old) had completed around two hours of questioning and searching me.…
France To Grant The P.A 200 M Euros
Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyadh Al Maliky, and his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner, signed on Tuesday an agreement in which France agrees to donate 200 Million Euros to support Palestinian development…
Palestine Today 121509
Click here to downloas MP3 file Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 Three men were found dead…
The Israeli Military Kidnaps 15 Palestinians From The West Bank
The Israeli military kidnapped 15 Palestinian civilians on Tuesday during pre dawn invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities.The Israeli army radio announced that all kidnapped 15 men who…
Patient Died In Gaza, Death Toll Due To The Siege Reaches 366
A Palestinian patient died on Tuesday after he was prevented by the Israeli military to leave the Gaza Strip for medical care. Walied Madi, 38 years old, had Tuberculosis. Palestinian…
Three Found Dead Inside A Tunnel In The Gaza Strip
Three Palestinian civilians were found dead on Tuesday afternoon inside a tunnel between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.Palestinian sources reported that the Egyptian military have located the three men, who…
Three Palestinians Missing Under Collapsed Tunnel
Egyptian security sources reported Tuesday morning that three Palestinians went missing when a border tunnel collapsed on them in an area close to the Rafah border terminal, in the southern…
Former Israeli FM Tzipi Livni Will Be Arrested If Enters UK
Arab and Israeli media sources reported Monday that a British court has issued an arrest warrant against former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni for her role in orchestrating last winter’s…
Ashkenazi: “Hamas Could Violate Calm in Gaza At Any Moment”
Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, stated that the clam along the border with the Gaza Strip is temporary and that the Hamas movement and other resistance groups could…
Palestinian Man Prevented By Jewish Municipality From Building On His Own Land
Aadel Suad, a Palestinian resident of the town of Mitzpe Ramon in southern Israel, has been prevented for twelve years from building on his own land, and continues to live…
Obama Asks Lebanese Counterpart To Crack On Weapons Bound To Hezbollah
United States President, Barack Obama, told his Lebanese counterpart, Michel Suleiman, that Lebanon must act to crack down on weapons bound to the Lebanon-based Hezbollah party, adding that it is…
Report: “Excavations Ongoing At The Al Aqsa Mosque Area”
The Aqsa foundation for Waqf and Heritage has revealed large scale Israeli excavations being executed in the area adjacent to the southern wall of Al-Aqsa mosque, the area is also…
Palestine Today 121409
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Soldiers Kidnap Two Children In Northern Gaza
Israeli soldiers invaded the Industrial Area located near the Erez Crossing, west of Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and kidnapped two children. One of them…
Soldiers beat young man in Al-Khalil Market
At 12:30 p.m. on 26 November 2009, Paulette Schroeder and Johann Funk responded to street vendor’s report that Israeli soldiers had beaten a young Palestinian man as he made his…
Egypt Uncovers Tunnel Meant For Smuggling Vehicles Into Gaza
Egyptian security sources reported Sunday that the Egyptian Border Police located a border tunnel meant for smuggling vehicles into the Gaza Strip. The sources told Reuters that the entrance of…
Palestinian Christian leaders call Israeli occupation ‘a sin against God’
A group of Palestinian Christian leaders released a document on Friday calling on Christians around the world to join them in calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of…
Palestinian Killed In Israeli Shelling of Central Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported Saturday that a Palestinian man was killed when the army shelled an area east of Al Boreij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip. The sources…
21 Israeli peace activists arrested in East Jerusalem protest
In a rowdy march Friday afternoon, dozens of Israeli peace activists marched in solidarity with Palestinian residents who have been forced from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East…
Haniyya: “Palestine Is Palestine, From The River To The Sea”
Palestinian Prime Minister of the dissolved Hamas-led government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyya, stated Friday that Palestine is and will always be the same to the Palestinians, from the river to…
European Union Expresses Concern over Israeli Settlement Grants
The European Union expressed concern Friday about the Israeli Prime Minister’s plans to grant credits to some West Bank settlers.The EU is consulting its partners in the Middle East about…
Rabbi Froman: “Burning Yassuf Mosque, Blasphemy”
Rabbi Menachem Froman stated Friday that torching of the mosque in Yasuf Palestinian village is a blasphemy and an act that does not represent Judaism as it is an insult…
Three Siege-busting Tunnels Uncovered
Egyptian security sources reported that a tunnel was located inside a home of an Egyptian smuggler in the Salah Ed Deen border area, while two more tunnels were uncovered nearby.…
Flourishing Palestinian Sex Trade Exposed In New Report
Young Palestinian women are being forced to into prostitution in brothels, escort services, and private apartments in Ramallah and Jerusalem, including areas inhabited by Jews, according to a report released…
This Week in Palestine – Week 50, 2009
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Nine wounded in Ni’lin’s weekly nonviolent protest
At least nine Palestinians were wounded in the weekly nonviolent protest in the village of N’ilin on Friday. Residents of Nil’in together with intentional peace activists marched after the Friday…
Dozens Wounded In Bil’in’s Anti-wall Nonviolent Protest
Dozens of Palestinians were treated for gas inhalation during a nonviolent protest against the wall in the village of Bil’in near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.Villagers along with…
Likud MK: “Settlement Construction to Continue Regardless of Freeze”
Israeli Minister of the Likud Party, Benny Begin, stated that constructions in Israeli settlements will resume regardless of the temporary settlement freeze decision, and added that the 10-month freeze of…
Betawy: “Burning Salfit Mosque, Part Of Ongoing Attacks”
Palestinian Legislator, Sheikh Hamed Betawy, said that the Friday at dawn torching of the Great Mosque in Salfit is not the first or the last attack carried out by fundamentalist…
PCHR Weekly Report: One Palestinian wounded, 36 abducted by Israeli forces this week
According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, during the week of 03- 09 Dec 2009, one Palestinian…
UK Urges Businesses TO Label Settlement Products
The British government issued a statement urging businesses around the country to place clear labels on products made in Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank so that consumers engaged…
Settlers Torch a Mosque Near Salfit
A group of fundamentalist Jewish settlers burnt on Friday at dawn large sections of the “Great Mosque” in Yasuf village, near the central West Bank city of Salfit. The settlers…
Once Again, High Court Affirms No Visitations For Gaza Detainees
The Israeli High Court of Justice approved a military decision to continue disallowing families of Palestinian detainees from Gaza, from visiting their detained loved ones. The decision was made late…
P.A Security Forces Arrest Son Of Detained Legislator
Palestinian Security Forces arrested Thursday No’man Salhab, 20, the son of legislator Dr. Azzam Slahab, who is currently imprisoned by Israel. Eyewitnesses reported that members of the Palestinian Preventive Security…
Palestine Today 121009
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Islamic Party Slams P.A For Sponsoring Miss Palestine In The West Bank
The “Liberation Party” voiced sharp criticism of the Palestinian Authority (P.A) for sponsoring “Palestine Beauty Pageant” Contest in the West Bank city of Ramallah. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/dec2009/miss_palestine.jpg 300 0) File; Miss Palestine…
Israeli Police Kidnaps 214 Palestinian Workers in Israel
The Israeli Police and the so-called Border Guards carried out a comprehensive campaign targeting Palestinian workers who ‘illegally’ entered Israel seeking work to provide food for their families, and kidnapped…
Hamas: “We Are Waiting Israel’s Response On Shalit Deal”
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, stated Thursday that it waiting Israel’s response on Shalit deal and that Israel can decide whether the prisoner of war returns home by the beginning on…
Dweik Calls On EU Parliamentarians To Launch International Campaign Against The Siege
Head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr. Aziz Dweik, called on European Parliamentarians to hold an international campaign against the illegal Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip and to support…
Seven Palestinians Ordered Out Of Jerusalem For 45 Days
The Israeli Authorities decided to expel seven Palestinians, from Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in East Jerusalem, out of the city for 45 days. The Israeli Police arrested the seven Palestinians following…
Jewish Terrorist Stands Trial In Jerusalem
The Jerusalem District Court initiated on Wednesday the trial of Jewish terrorist, Yaakov Teitel, after official charges of two murders, five attempted murders, weapons violations, arson and incitement to commit…
Army Claims Foiling Jerusalem Bombing
The Israeli army claimed it arrested on Wednesday a Palestinian youth carrying explosives while heading to Jerusalem to carry out a bombing.Israeli sources reported that the twenty-year old Palestinian youth…
Bethlehem University Student Not Allowed To Complete Her Study
The Israeli High Court of ‘Justice’ decided on Wednesday to prevent Bethlehem University student from the Gaza Strip from completing her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration after accusing her of…
Body of a Palestinian man killed in 1976 by Israeli troops to be released
The Israeli authorities agreed to release the body of Mashour Al-Arouri, a Palestinian killed by Israeli troops in 1976, Palestine News Agency reported on Wednesday. The Israeli high court ruled…
Palestine Today 120909
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Israeli Troops Kidnap PFLPLeaders In Nablus
Israeli soldiers invaded the northern West Bank City of Nablus on Wednesday at dawn and kidnapped several leaders of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).A senior…
Palestinian threatens lawsuit against ‘Bruno’ for misrepresenting him as a terrorist
Former political prisoner and Christian peace activist from Beit Sahour, Ayman Abu Aita, has threatened to file a lawsuit against filmmaker Sacha Baron Cohen for misrepresenting him as a ‘terrorist’…
Israel To Open Kerem Shalom And Al Mintar Crossings
The Israeli Authorities decided to open the Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem) and the Eretz (Al Mintar) Crossing to allow the entry of home humanitarian aid, fuel and cooking gas…
EU Foreign Ministers Support Division Of Jerusalem
Foreign Ministers of the European Union declared Tuesday support for dividing Jerusalem to be the capital of both Israel and the future Palestinian State. They said that a solution should…
Israel to Build A Wall Along The Border With Egypt
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, decided to build a Wall along Israel’s border with Egypt after stating that this step is unavoidable and strategic to stop the thousands of African…
Israeli Police Apprehends Three Fundamentalists Suspected Of Stabbing An Arab Man
The Israeli Police in Jerusalem apprehended last month three fundamentalists, including two minors, on suspicion that they stabbed an Arab man in Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem. The news were…
Palestinian PM Welcomes EU Call Regarding Jerusalem
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad welcomed the call of the European Union to make Jerusalem a capital of two states.The Palestinian Premiere said this position of the EU is an…
Palestine Today 120809
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Al Maqt, A Detainee Behind Bars Since 24 Years
Former detainee, specialist in Detainees’ Affairs, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, stated that detainee Sidqi Al Maqt, from the Golan heights, is hoping a prisoner-swap deal would free him after 25 years in…
Settlement Leaders To Fight Settlement Freeze
Leaders of Jewish settlement in the occupied territories said they will do all what they can to counter the Israeli Government’s decision to temporarily freeze settlement activities in the occupied…
Netanyahu claims Syria Dropped Golan Withdrawal As Precondition
Israeli media sources reported that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that Syria dropped an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Golan Heights as a precondition to resume indirect peace talks.…
LRC: “14 Homes Demolished In Jerusalem In November”
The Land Research Center (LRC) of the Arab Studies Society in Jerusalem reported that the Israeli authorities conducted 187 against Jerusalem in November, and demolished 14 Palestinians homes in addition…
Israeli Man Shot Dead By Israeli Border Policemen
Israeli sources reported that an Israeli man was shot dead on Monday when Israeli Border Policemen opened fire at him as he tried to cross the border fence into the…
Palestine Today 120709
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Settlers stop state inspectors from handing out settlement activity freeze orders
Israeli settlers escalated their protest against the Israeli government decision two week ago to freeze construction in west Bank settlement. On Monday morning scores of Israeli settlers blocked a road…
The Israeli military kidnaps five Palestinians from the West Bank
Five Palestinian civilians were kidnapped on Monday by Israeli troops during pre dawn military invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. Israeli soldiers ransacked and searched homes at a…
Israeli MK Demands Preventing Mosques For Calling For Dawn Prayers
Israeli member of Knesset (MK) Arie Bibi of the Kadima party headed by Tzipi Livni, intends to file a proposal to the Knesset to vote on preventing the mosques in…
French Medical Crew Examined Shalit
The Al Hayat newspaper, based in London, reported that four French physicians examined the captured prisoner of war, Gilad Shalit, in the Gaza Strip last week marking the first time…
PCHR Weekly Report: 6 Palestinians wounded, 20 abducted by Israeli forces this week
According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, during the week of 25 Nov.- 02 Dec 2009, 6…
Egyptian Security Uncovers Tunnel, Two Storehouses
Egyptian security forces uncovered a tunnel and two storehouses filled with goods meant to be smuggled into the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip. The tunnel and storehouses were uncovered as…
Israel Rejects Swedish Initiative, P.A Promotes It
Israel considered the initiative of Sweden for declaring recognizing a Palestinian State in the occupied territories, with East Jerusalem as its capital, as a stance that does not represent the…
Egypt Invites The Reconciliation Committee To Resume Unity Talks
The Egyptian leadership issued an invitation to the Palestinian National Reconciliation Committee to visit Cairo in an attempt to resume the talks and efforts to end internal divisions and achieve…
Soldiers Invade Nur Shams Refugee Camp, Kidnap One Youth, Elderly Man Wounded Near Tulkarem
Israeli soldiers invaded on Friday at dawn the Nur Shams Refugee Camp, near the northern West Bank City of Nablus, broke into several homes and kidnapped one youth. A 75-year-old…
Five Palestinians Wounded Near Nablus
Palestinian medical sources reported that five Palestinians were wounded, on Friday morning, by setters and soldiers fire in Aseera Al Qibliyya town, south of the northern West Bank city of…
Eight Palestinians Wounded Near Jerusalem
Palestinian medical sources reported Thursday that eight Palestinians were wounded by Israeli military fire in Shu’fat refugee camp, north of Jerusalem.Israeli soldiers invaded the camp and fired at protesters who…
This Week in Palestine -Week 49 2009
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Bil’in residents demonstrate in support of recent Swedish initiative calling for a Palestinian state
Residents of Bil’in village, central West Bank, alongside international and Israeli solidarity activists, demonstrated on Friday against the Wall after the midday prayer. Many suffered from tear-gas inhalation, as the…
One injured and dozens suffers effects of tear gas at the weekly Nil’in protest
One civilians sustained moderate wounds as others treated for tear gas inhalation when Israeli troops attacked on Friday the weekly anti wall protest in the village of Nil’in, central West…
Homemade video shows settler driving car back and forth over Palestinian assailant
When a Palestinian man from Hebron entered an Israeli settlement gas station with a knife, the Israeli settlers on the scene took things into their own hands. After beating the…
Jordan Protests Over Excavation At The Church Of Holy Sepulcher
Jordan filed an official complaint to Israel demanding it to stop the excavations and renovations at the Church of Holy Sepulcher in East Jerusalem.The letter was handed to the Israeli…
Palestine Today 120309
Click here to downloas MP3 file Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, December 3ed, 2009. Israeli troops kidnap Palestinian civilians…
The military: two home-made bombs were found near an army base in central West Bank
Israeli military sources announced that troops have found on Thursday afternoon two home-made bombs near an army base in the central west Bank. the military said that troops have managed…
Israeli tanks invade southern border area of the Gaza Strip and open fire at residents’ homes
A number of Israeli tanks and bulldozers invaded on Thursday morning border areas close to Rafah city, southern Gaza Strip and opened fire at residents’ homes. Witnesses said tanks advanced…
The Israeli military kidnaps 15 civilians from the West Bank
The Israeli military kidnapped on Thursday 15 Palestinian civilians during invasions targeting West Bank communities.Local sources reported that the Israeli army searched and ransacked homes in Ramallah city, central West…
Hamdan Denies Shalit Was Moved To Egypt
Osama Hamdan, a political leader of the Hamas movement, denied reports claiming that the prisoner of war, corporal Gilad Shalit, was moved to Egypt as part of the efforts to…
Abuse Continues Against Families Visiting Their Detained Loved Ones
Several parents of Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel complained of ongoing harassment and abuse against them while trying to visit their detained loved ones. The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) reported…
Bethlehem Mayor: “Peace In Bethlehem Leads To Peace Everywhere”
Bethlehem Mayor, Victor Batarsa, stated in an interview with the Globe newspaper, based in Joplin Missouri in the United States, that peace starts in Bethlehem, the city of Nativity and…
Israel Uprooted 7000 Olive Trees This Year
The Land Research Center reported that the Israeli Authorities uprooted 7000 olive trees in the occupied West Bank this year. 1455 trees were uprooted during the olive picking season.Fundamental settlers,…
Kuwaiti Paper: “Shalit Already In Egypt, Countdown Started”
The Al Jareeda Kuwaiti newspaper reported that countdown for prisoners swap has already started as the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, is already in Egypt accompanied by the head of…
84 Structures To Be Built In West Bank Settlements
The Israeli cabinet decided on Wednesday evening to build 84 more homes in a number of illegal West Bank settlements. The decision came while Israel vowed a 10-month freeze of…
Sheikh Sabri Barred From Al Aqsa Mosque For Six Months
The Israeli Authorities in Jerusalem handed Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, head of the Higher Islamic Committee in Jerusalem, a restriction order preventing him from entering the Al Aqsa Mosque, in East…
Barak: “Settlements Part Of The State Of Israel”
Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, stated during a Wednesday night meeting with heads of West Bank settlements, that West Bank settlement blocs are an important part of Israel. He added…
Palestine Today 120209
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Palestinian fighter killed in Gaza car bomb
A fighter with the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Fateh party, was killed on Monday when his car exploded in Al Shati refugee camp, near Gaza…
Hamas fighter Reported dead in the Gaza Strip
The ruling Hamas movement in the Gaza announced that one of its fighters were killed on Wednesday morning. The Al Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas identified the fighter…
Settlers Fake Foundations to bypass the government decision on settlement freeze
In order to bypass government freeze of settlement construction , dozens of ‘Fake Foundations’ were established in West Bank settlements in recent days. The Israeli government decided last week to…
Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in response to the settlement freeze
During an anti settlement construction freeze rally, scores of Israeli settlers hurled, on Wednesday, stones at Palestinian cars in northern West Bank.The rally lunched from the Elon Moreh illegal settlement…
Israeli Spy Imprisoned By The U.S Demands Executing Palestinian Detainees
Jonathan Pollard, an Israeli spy imprisoned by the United States harshly attacked talks on the release of hundreds of Palestinian detainees in exchange for the release of the prisoner of…
Hamas Official: “Swap-deal Reached An Advanced State”
A senior Hamas official stated Tuesday that a prisoner-swap deal between Israel and Hamas managed to reached an advanced level that requires both sides to make decisive and difficult decisions.…
Palestine Today 120109
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Israeli secret agency defends use of torture
he Israel Security Agency, Shin Bet, responded to a petition in Israel’s High Court on Monday, defending their use of torture against detainees. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/dec2009/torture_technique.jpg 300 0) Image Caption Goes Here…
EU To Consider Resolution Recognizing East Jerusalem As Palestinian Capital
Sweden has introduced a resolution to the European Union to be considered next week in Brussels that would call for the recognition of East Jerusalem as the capital of any…
Israeli Helicopters Drop Warning Leaflets On Rafah
Israeli choppers dropped on Monday evening thousands of leaflets warning the residents of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, that the army would bombard their areas once…
Israeli Soldiers Get ‘Slap On The Wrist’ For Force-feeding Detainees
Four Israeli soldiers who were caught abusing and forcefeeding Palestinian detainees were sentenced Monday by a military court to a demotion of one rank and a small fine of less…