Abbas Hints at Dismantling P.A. Should Peace Talks Fail
During a Friday night meeting with the Arab Follow-up Committee in the Libyan city of Sirt, Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, cast doubts on the future of the Palestinian Authority if…
Israeli Soldiers To Testify Behind Screen In Corrie Case
On Thursday, the Haifa District Court granted a government request to allow soldiers to testify behind a screen in the lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of…
Settler Leader Claims His vehicle Accidentally Rammed Into Two Palestinian Children
Israeli sources reported that a well-known extremist settler leader, head of the so-called City of David group, stated that his vehicle accidentally rammed into two Palestinian children in East Jerusalem.…
Arab Summit Supports Palestinian Decision To Halt Talks With Israel
The Arab Summit held its meeting in Libya on Friday and a decision was made to support the Palestinian conclusion to halt talks with Israel until it stops all settlement…
This Week in Palestine week 40 2010
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Israeli Settler Hits Two Palestinian Children With His Car In Jerusalem
An Israeli settler hit two Palestinian children with his car, Friday afternoon, in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan.Eyewitnesses reported that after the Friday prayer at the Silwan protest tent,…
One Wounded In Anti-Wall Protest In Ni’lin
Hundreds of villagers from Ni’lin, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, took to the streets in a protest against the construction of the wall on their land.The protest which…
Two Journalists Wounded In The Weekly Non-violent Protest In Bil’in
Two journalists were wounded and dozens suffered effects of tear gas inhalation during the weekly non-violent demonstration in the village of Bil’in on Friday.This week’s action was dedicated to the…
A Palestinian woman died due to settler attack of two weeks ago in Silwan
Friday morning a women in her fifties, Hania Odeh, died from a stress induced heart attack sustained two weeks ago in Jerusalem.Ma’an News Agency correspondent in Jerusalem reported that this…
Israeli Army Closes Commercial Crossing Points Leading To Gaza Strip
On Friday, Israel imposed a two day closure on the commercial crossings into the Gaza StripRaed Fattouh, the chairman of the Committee on the Intoduction of Goods into Gaza Strip,…
U.S. Grants Israel Incentives Package In Return For Freeze Extension
Israeli Ambassador in Washington, Michael Oren, confirmed that the United States granted Israel further guarantees and incentives in return for renewing the freeze on settlement activities for two or three…
PCHR Weekly Report: Construction resumes in 350 settlements; one killed, two wounded this week
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 30 September – 06 October 2010, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights…
Report: “Two Palestinians Killed, Ten Wounded During Israeli Invasion In Hebron”
Palestinian medical sources in the southern West Bank city of Hebron reported, Friday morning, that two Palestinians were killed and ten others were wounded after the army invaded the city,…
Eleven Palestinians Wounded In Several Israeli Military Attacks In Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported that eleven Palestinians were wounded, Thursday, in Gaza, after the Israeli army conducted several aerial attacks, and attempted to assassinate a resistance fighter. Damage was reported…
Palestine Today 10 07 2010
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Netanyahu Demands Obama To Abide by Bush Guaranties To Sharon
Israeli daily Yedioth Aharonoth, reported Thursday, that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is demanding that U.S. President, Barak Obama, reinstate the guaranties granted by former president, George Bush to the…
Four Residents Wounded, One Detained On Ramallah-Nablus Road
Four residents were wounded, on Wednesday, while being Pursued by an Israeli military vehicle on the Nablus-Ramallah Road in the West Bank.Witnesses said that an army vehicle was chasing a…
Re-trial Begins In The Case of Rachel Corrie, Killed By Israeli Forces In ’03
On Thursday morning, the District Court of Haifa began the re-trial of a case they had concluded in March: an Israeli judge ruled that the Court should hear further evidence…
P.A. Forces Arrest Former Detainee
On Thursday The Palestinian Security Forces of the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, arrested Omar Barghouthi, 55, a former political prisoner held by Israel for more than ten…
Troops Kidnap 12 Palestinians In West Bank
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, twelve Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank.Israeli military sources told media agencies that the army conducted several invasions into West…
Settlers Start Expanding Settlement Near Tubas
On Wednesday night, a group of Jewish settlers started construction for the expansion of Michola settlement, in the Jordan Valley near the central West Bank city of Tubas. The Palestine…
Army Bombards Gaza, Six Wounded
Palestinian medical sources reported that six Palestinians were wounded, on Thursday at dawn, as a result of Israeli airstrikes targeting different areas in the Gaza Strip. Medical sources in Gaza…
Palestine Today 10 06 2010
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Israeli Settlers Uproot Olive Trees In Nablus
On Wednesday afternoon, Israeli settlers cut down dozens of olive trees and looted the harvested fruits from villages of Yanoun and Hawwara near the city of Nablus.Ghassan Douglas, a Palestinian…
Israeli Army Intensified Its Military Operations In Hebron
On Wendesday, the Israeli army intensified its military operations in Hebron, in the southern West BankSecurity sources and witnesses reported to the Palestine News Agency ‘Wafa’ that the Israeli army…
Israeli army invaded several neighbourhoods in Jerusalem
Israeli army invaded many Palestinian houses in Batin al-Hawa neighbourhood, of Silwan, just outside the walls of the Old City and near to the al-Aqsa mosque.Maher Ghazawe,a citizen from Batin…
Israel Plans A New Gate Into Jerusalem Walls
Israel is preparing a plan reportedly meant for renovating sections of the occupied Old City of Jerusalem, including opening a gate in the City’s walls for the first time since…
Egypt says Would Facilitate Passage Of Artery Of Life Into Gaza
Zaher Beerawi of Viva Palestina 5 stated that Egypt promised to facilitate the entry of the convoy into Egypt, and that Cairo is interested in insuring that humanitarian supplies make…
Israeli Siege Claims the Life Of Gaza Infant
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported, Tuesday, that a 30-day old infant died due to sharp shortages in medical supplies and medical equipment in Gaza Strip hospitals, induced…
Palestine Today 09 05 2010
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Israeli Rabbis visit a mosque in Bethlehem, torched by settlers
On Tuesday a number of Israeli Rabbis visited the mosque that Israeli settlers burned in the village of Beit Fajjar near Bethlehem on Monday. Governor of Bethlehem Abdul Fattah Hamayel,…
Maguire’s Deportation Appeal Denied
An appeal filed by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Mairead Maguire, was denied by the Israeli Supreme Court as its justices decided that the 10-year deportation order against her is valid,…
Wounded Man Kidnapped By Israeli Troops
A Palestinian man was shot and wounded, on Tuesday at dawn, after Israeli soldiers opened fire at him at a military roadblock near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia.Israeli…
Zahhar: “Hamas Doesn’t Want War With Fateh”
Dr. Mahmoud Zahhar, member of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, stated that Hamas does not want a civil war with Fatah movement, and that they desire national reconciliation…
Jordanian Aid Convoy Arrives In Syria To Join Viva Palestina 5
A Jordanian aid convoy arrived in Syria on Monday to join the Viva Palestina 5 solidarity mission that is heading to the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid and medical…
Soldiers Attack Detainees in Nafha Prison
Israeli soldiers entered the Nafha Prison on Monday evening and searched the rooms of the detainees causing damage. The attack led to tension in the prison camp when the soldiers…
Palestine Today 10 04 2010
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Hebron Child Released on Bail
The Ofer Israeli Military Court released on Monday a 15-year-old child from the southern West Bank city of Hebron after forcing his family to pay a 5.000 NIS bail.The child,…
Palestinian Worker Shot Dead By Israeli Policeman Near Jerusalem
A Palestinian laborer was shot and killed, on Monday at dawn, by an Israeli policeman, who reportedly shot him at point blank range in occupied East Jerusalem. The policeman was…
Netanyahu Places News Conditions For Extending Freeze
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that he agrees to extending settlement construction freeze for a number of months, but in return he wants guarantees that it will not be…
Settlers Torch Mosque, Copies of the Holy Quran, Near Bethlehem
A group of fundamentalist Israeli settlers broke into a mosque, on Sunday at night, in Beit Fajjar, near Bethlehem, and set it ablaze. The settlers burnt twelve copies of the…
Abbas: “No Talks Under Settlement Construction”
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated following a Sunday meeting with King Abdullah of Jordan, that he will not return to the negotiations table unless Israel halts its settlement activities in…
Two Israeli soldiers convicted of using 11-year old as human shield during Gaza invasion
Despite repeated Israeli assurances that there were no violations of the law by soldiers during last year’s invasion of Gaza, each one of the few incidents actually investigated by the…
Artery OF Life 5 Arrives At Syrian Shores
The Artery of Life 5 solidarity ship arrived on Saturday night shortly after midnight at a Syrian port carrying dozens of activists and humanitarian supplies. All solidarity ships heading to…
Soldiers Attack Nonviolent Protestors In Hebron
Israeli soldiers attacked on Saturday evening dozens of Palestinian, Israeli and International protestors who held a march in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, demanding freedom of…
Army Uproots Farmlands, Prepares To Annex Them
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli army bulldozers uprooted farmlands close to Tiqoua’ settlement, built on lands initially taken away from residents of the Tiqoua’ Palestinian village, south east of Bethlehem.The bulldozers…
Jerusalem Woman Placed Under House Arrest
Four days after ongoing interrogation, Dina Qawwas, 41, the wife of the head of the Palestinian Prisons Society in Jerusalem, was released on a 15.000 NIS bail, and was placed…
Mitchell Leaves Middle East, Talks Suspended
United States Middle East Peace Envoy, George Mitchell, left the Middle East on Friday without achieving any breakthrough in the troubled direct Palestinian-Israeli peace talks.Mitchell could not convince Israeli Prime…
Settlement Security Officer Torches Palestinian Olive Trees
A security guard working at the Itamar Jewish settlement, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, torched a number of olive trees that belong to resident of Awarta village,…
Netanyahu Accuses the Palestinians Of Stalling Peace Talks
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accused on Friday that Palestinian side for staling peace talks, and claimed that renewing the construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank should not…
Israeli Court Decides To Deport Maguire
The Petah Tikva District Court had turned down and appeal against the deportation of Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Mairead Maguire, and granted her lawyers a 48-hour period to file an…
The Revolution Will Not Be Online
Today marks the first Friday of protest after the 10th anniversary of the begining of the second intifada. All over the West Bank peaceful protest over the occupation of the…
This Week in Palestine week 39 2010
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Dozens Suffer From Tear Gas Inhalation in Bil’in
Dozens of people suffered the effects, on Friday, of inhaling gas fired by the Israeli army in the village of Bil’in, during the weekly non violent protest against the wall…
U.S Angered As Netanyahu Rejects Guarantees
The United States was angered by the response of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejecting an American proposal offering Israel unprecedented security and political assistance in return for extending settlement…
Palestinian Residents of Israel Hold General Strike
Palestinian residents of Israel are holding a general strike, on Friday, marking the tenth anniversary of Ariel Sharon’s incursion of al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.The Palestinians will commemorate the anniversary of…
Zahhar: “Negotiations Will Fail Again”
Member of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, Mahmoud Zahhar, stated that negotiations with Israel will fail and that negotiations are meant to eliminate the resistance and serve the…
Viva Palestina 5 Arrives In Turkey
The Viva Palestina 5 solidarity convoy arrived in the Turkish capital Ankara and was received by thousands of supporters who carried Palestinian flags, Turkish flags and pictures of the al-Aqsa…
Mitchell: “U.S. Efforts Will Continue To Ensure Resumption Of Talks”
U.S. Special Middle East Envoy, George Mitchell, stated Thursday that Washington is conducting extensive efforts to ensure the resumption of Palestinian-Israeli peace talks. His statements came following his meeting with…
Army Fires At Farmers, Homes, In Rafah
Palestinian farmers stated, Thursday evening, that Israeli soldiers stationed near the border in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, fired rounds of live ammunition at them, their…
Israeli Police Detains 12 Palestinians In Jerusalem
Israeli policemen detained, on Thursday, 12 Palestinians near the al-Aqsa Mosque and took them to unknown destinations. Eyewitnesses reported that the police violently attacked the residents during a protest against…
PCHR Weekly Report: 6 killed, 5 wounded by Israeli forces this week
In its weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 23-29 September 2010, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that Israeli…
Palestine Today 09 30 2010
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Foreign Secretary Of The European Union To Meet Palestinian And Israeli Officials
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, said she would travel to the Middle East from 30 September to 2 October, to meet…