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Palestinian Civil Affairs Minister Mohammad Dahlan said that the case of the detainees in Israeli prisons is the core in any negotiations with the Israeli side. After conducting a visit…

Eight people were wounded Friday night in the southern Gaza strip city of Rafah in clashes between supporters of Fatah and Hamas over claimed irregularities in the second stage of…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday that it was necessary to hold a meeting with Israeli Minister Ariel Sharon to push forward the peace process. ‘We need a meeting to…

After the Israeli army decided to install electronic equipment on the gate of the Separation wall in Azzoun, near Qalqilia, crossing through the gate became of the daily difficult tasks…

A public pull released by the Israeli newspaper Maariv revealed that support of disengagement among the Israelis has sharply dropped to 54% after it arrived to 61% over the last…

Both Fatah and Hamas have claimed victory in the second round of local elections, which took place on Thursday. According to the most recently known results, Fatah won 54% of…

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati told reporters Friday that he does not consider Hezbollah to be a militia, but vowed to disarm the party that drove Israel out of southern…

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan named on Friday Peruvian diplomat Alvaro de Soto as his special envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, replacing Terje Roed-Larsen. de Soto will also serve as…

After 38 years of patience and pain, Mohammad Ahmad Fayyad from Jenin refugee camp left this world without seeing his sons, until he uttered his last breath, Fayyad kept asking…

The Israeli army is preparing for a military operation in the Gaza Strip in retaliation to the firing of homemade shells against Israeli target, an Israeli source reported. The Israeli…

Friday afternoon, Israeli soldiers arrested three residents during a protest against the Separation Wall in the village of Bilien, near the West bank city of Ramallah. A local source in…

On Friday, the forum of rabbis of the Gush Katif Gaza Strip settlement bloc took a large step closer to coming to terms with pullout plan. For the first time,…

A local source in the village of al-Sammoa’ near Hebron reported that military bulldozers uprooted farmlands located between al-Radeem, Ghwein al-Tihta, and Ghwein al-Foqa areas south of Hebron. Army bulldozed…

Salah Ed-deen brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees declared responsibility for firing two homemade shells at Sderot. The brigades said that the shells were fired in retaliation of…

In a Jerusalem press conference, Israeli leftist groups who took part in the Belein village demonstration on April 28, presented a video that shows undercover soldiers throwing stones from the…

There is no doubt that Israeli cabinet approval of turning Ariel settlement’ College into a university will be a springboard for the development of nearby unauthorized settlers’ outposts, which Israel…

Soldiers fired at and seriously wounded wednesday child Ahmad Salah 14, from Al-Kahder village near the west bank city of Bethlehem, because he refused to collaborate and lead soldiers to…

Hundreds of Israeli left-wing protesters demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening against the killing Wednesday of two Palestinian youths in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers. The two teenagers…

Recent news arriving from balloting stations show that the ruling Fatah movement gained a narrower edge over Hamas in local elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday,…

Abdul-Fatah Yousef Raddad, 22, from the village of Saida, north of Tulkarem, died in al-Ramleh detention hospital, north of Tel Aviv. Raddad was injured on Monday after the Israeli army…

Residents of al-Nu’man village, east of Beit Sahour near Bethlehem, said that military bulldozers resumed the construction of the last section of the Separation Wall, near the village after it…

Thursday afternoon, the Israeli Radio reported that Israeli police arrested on Wednesday and Israeli army officer suspected of belonging to a neo-Nazi group. The soldier, a new immigrant and a…

Resident’s Rights Society appealed to the Legal Councilor of Prison Authorities in Israel to allow the female detainees to conduct the Tawjihi exam. Following the appeal, the councilor ordered prison…

The Palestinian Authority is proceding in its plan to disarm the resistance groups to outdate Israeli pretext used to delay the handover of Palestinian cities to the PA. Chief of…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated the PA’s rejection to the idea of a provisional state, Palestinian sources reported. Speaking at a meeting with some prominent Palestinian figures, Abbas affirmed his…

Dismissed Greek Orthodox Patriach Irinous I returned, under police protection, to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher Friday night. Irinous I managed to enter the church, but most bishops have…

Al-Aqsa Institute for rebuilding and reconstructing the Islamic holy sites, called on the Arab residents of Israeli, and Jerusalemite Palestinians to stand firm ‘against the extremist Jewish right wing groups…

The United Stated blacklisted on Wednesday a charitable organization which it described a ‘front of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’, which said that it ‘needed a safe channel to transfer donations…

U.S. Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin was formally charged Wednesday with passing classified military information about Iraq to two former officials of the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC. Franklin, 58, an analyst…

The Israeli police reported that an unknown group sprayed graffiti against the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon around Jerusalem. The Israeli police said that this incident is one of many…

Thursday morning, Yair Naveh, Central Command Chief of the Israeli army, suspended the officer who was in command in Beit Liqya, near Ramallah, when soldiers shot killed two Palestinian children…

Detainees in Ansar 3 detention in the Negev desert complained of bad health conditions, delays in visitations and rapidly increasing number of mice and snakes as summer approaches rising the…

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Wednesday that he is freezing the handover of West Bank towns to Palestinian security control because the Palestinian Authority failed to disarm militants. A…

Wednesday at night, a Palestinian medical source in Ramallah reported that Israeli soldiers shot and killed two children near the village of Beit Liqya, west of the northern West Bank…

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said on Wednesday that his country managed to get the U.S. President George W. Bush to slightly support the Arab initiative for peace in…

Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Hasan al-Sheikh, reported that detainee Mohammad Ali Rashaida, lost his ability to speak after being tortured and punched on his head and ears. Al-Sheikh…

The Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that some 60 university academics and lefts wing activists protested on Wednesday in front Ariel College against a government decision to change the status…

Wednesday morning, Israeli activists of the Anarchist movement tied themselves to olive trees in Bel’in village in an attempt to stop military bulldozers from uprooting trees for the purpose of building the separation…

Media reports tend to compare the moves made by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Here is an envisioned dialogue between both.  Sharon: Hey Abu Mazen,…

Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned against counting on Egypt to secure the borders between Gaza Strip and Egypt. Netanyahu’s comments correspond to the Israeli Knesset panel’s warnings against deploying…

A report conducted and published by the International Solidarity Institution for Human Rights revealed that Israeli soldiers killed seven Palestinian, including three children in April and arrested more than 200…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday will hold a national referendum on any final status agreement with Israel. He also criticized Israel for applying pressure on him to confront resistance…

{mosimage}An Israeli source reported on Wednesday that the ‘Civil Defense’ office which belongs to the Israeli army started issuing VIP cards for Palestinian officials. The source stated that the new…

Speaking at the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei stressed on Tuesday that his government is making 100 per cent efforts to maintain law and…

Six months after Boaz Albert, the deputy chief of security at Yitzhar settlement, shot to death Palestinian teen Salman al-Safdie, police believe the have made a case of manslaughter, if…

Israeli military court sentenced Tuesday an army officer to do four moths of “military work” for taking part in the killing of a 3-years-old Palestinian child. The incident took place…

http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/headline050305_fsrnready.mp3 Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas said that Palestinian Authority will not tolerate any violations to the cease fire. He added that the Palestinian Authority will act persistently against any group,…

  An extremist settlers group of the Ramat Yeshai illegal outpost in Hebron attacked a group of residents in Tal Rmeida neighborhood, and hurled stones and empty bottles at dozens…

The executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) approved, during a Monday evening meeting, an amendment to the legislative election bill, which calls for running parliamentary elections on the…

A day after returning from a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Turkish lawmakers on Tuesday that “Palestinians should not be left…

Histadrut chief labor MK Amir Peretz on Tuesday officially announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Labor Party. The primary vote is expected to take place June 28. At…

A forum of senior Israeli ministers met Tuesday to discuss the fate of the homes left behind by settlers evacuated from the Gaza Strip. The cabinet is expected to make…

Israeli Police arrested Tuesday morning three West Bank settlers on suspicions of planning to block highways with burning vehicles in protest against the disengagement plan. According to a police source,…

Israeli vice Premier Shimon Peres told the Israeli Radio on Tuesday morning that he rejects leveling settlers’ homes in the settlements slated for evacuation in the Gaza Strip. Peres said…

An American official source said the United States administration is pressuring the Europeans to reject the idea of holding an international peace conference on the Middle East proposed by the…

The Israeli Foreign Minister Sylvan Shalom is expected in Mauritania on Tuesday in order to present the ‘Road Plan’ as Israeli calls it, which aims to expand the Israeli relations…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon harshly attacked Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday, reiterating claims that Abbas was strengthening rather than fighting terror. Speaking to visiting U.S. senators Bill Frist…

The Palestinian Authority released on Monday three Hamas operatives, who were arrested Monday on suspicions of attempting to launch Qassam shells at Israeli targets in the Northern Gaza Strip. The…

Khader Khateeb, a leader of the Islamic Jihad, said that the truce reached with Israeli is about to collapse as a result of the continuous military operations and invasions in…

In a surprising development, the government of Israel informed Settler representatives on Monday night that it intends to meet almost all their demands concerning relocation to Nitzanim dunes. Israeli Justice…

Palestinian Authority bulldozers on Monday demolished three unfinished seaside homes of three senior PA officers as part of the new anti-corruption campaign. The three officers – a major, a lieutenant…

Minister of Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky submitted his resignation to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday in protest over the disengagement plan, Israeli Army Radio reported. ‘We are standing…

  A medical source in Ramallah reported that Israeli soldiers used a new weapon against anti-wall protesters in the village of Belein, west of Ramallah. The source stated that soldiers…

The Israeli army on Monday lifted a closure banning Palestinians from moving in and out of the city and the surroundings, Israeli sources reported. The closure was imposed on all…

Palestinian Interior Minister Nasser Yopusif warned Sunday that the Palestinian Authority will not allow any faction to force its political programs or ideologies on Palestinians by the force of arms,…

Soldiers shot and seriously wounded Ahmed Salah 13, in the Village of Al-Khader near the West bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday. Salah was shot in the chest and moved…

Ahmed Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), will head the group’s list of nominees to the July 17 Palestinian legislative elections, PFLP…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who arrived Sunday to Israel, expressed desire to play a role in the peace process, and proposed setting up a Turkish-Israeli-Palestinian working team to…

Settlers’ representatives and the ministerial panel headed Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni have failed to arrive at an agreement on moving a group of Gaza settlers en masse to the…

Palestinian Civil Affairs Minister Mohammad Dahlan said Sunday that the Palestinian Authority will prevent the looting or destruction of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip after the Israel pullout. ‘The…

Israeli troops incurred Sunday into the city of Tul-Karim, first time since the northern west bank city was handed to the Palestinian Authority, and arrested Mohammed Shalhub 19. Israeli security…

Sunday afternoon, Israeli soldiers shot and seriously wounded a child in al-Khader, south of Bethlehem. A local source in al-Khader reported that soldiers fired rounds of live ammunition at dozens…

Palestinian Interior Minister Nasser Yousef met Saturday with Palestinian security chiefs in Gaza to coordinate a crackdown on growing lawlessness in Palestinian areas, Palestinian officials said. ‘There will be a…

The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem sold properties inside the Jaffa Gate to a Jewish company to prove to Israel that he does not sympathize with Palestinians and the PLO,…

Nine people were injured Saturday in Cairo during a double terror attack carried out by a suicide bomber, his fiancée, and his sister. Ihab Yousri Yassin, who is believed to…

The WAFA news agency reported that seven residents, including five children, were injured in al-Fawwar refuge camp in Hebron, after the army fired at dozens of homes following clashes which…

The Israeli authorities issued a new plan to construct a new settlement road which carries Nr. 55, south of the Separation Wall area near Qalqilia. The planned road will cross…

Saturday morning, an Israeli military source reported a Palestinian resistance group fired a homemade shell at a settlement in the Gush Katif settlement Bloc in the Gaza Strip. The source…

You had to choose your demonstration carefully during this week of Passover.  If you went to the one in Gaza or the northern West Bank, joining right-wing settlers to protest…

As many controversial reports were published on the events that took place in the Village of Beilin, near Ramallah, on Thursday, IMEMC correspondence in Ramallah visited the Village on Friday…

{mosimage}UN representative to the Palestinian Authority Francis Agelo met Friday with Child Sandy Saadi 13, who handed him a letter she wrote to UN secretary general Coffi Annan. Sandy’s father…

{mosimage}UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday that he was happy with the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, but made note that Security Council resolution 1559 requires the disarmament of militant groups.…

‘It is impossible to give up the option of resistance for as long as there is occupation,’ Palestinian lawmaker Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five consecutive life terms in an…

Eight settlers were arrested in Friday after attacking eight Palestinians near the northern West Bank city of Nablus; one Israeli field commander was also injured by the settlers. The Israeli…

{mosimage}Friday afternoon, at least ten Palestinian residents were injured after the Israeli police and soldiers attacked them with clubs in the yard of the church of the Holy Sepulcher in…

Ahmad Lutfi Dharaghmah, from Tubas, who was sentenced to 15 consecutive years, is currently suffering from several health problems, and facing harsh conditions at al-Ramleh prison hospital which lacks the…

{mosimage}Reporter Kliman Lipskind, from Israeli newspaper Ma’areev, revealed Friday the original documents concerning the Jerusalem property deal between the Greek Orthodox Church and Jewish investors, saying the documents will be…

{mosimage}Israel has bought 300 dunams of land near the southern Israel town of Nitsan to build 450 housing units designated to house Niveh Dikalim settlers after the evacuation of the…

The Aqsa Martyrs brigades, the armed wing of the ruling Fatah party declared that they are still committed to the calm declared by the Palestinian factions in the Cairo talks…

An Israeli army officer was wounded while cashing settlers, who earlier were spotted throwing stones at Palestinians near the West Bank city of Nablus, eight settlers has been so far…

‘If we expect chairman Abbas to fight terrorism effectively, he can’t do it with slingshots and stones,’ Russian President Vladimir Putin said. Putin was making a reference to Israel’s dismissal…

The Palestinian police arrested two members of al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of Fatah. The P.A security believes that the two resistance fighters fired homemade shells at an Israeli settlement…

Issa Qaraqi, chair of the Palestinian Prisoners Society in a special interview with the Palestine News Network talks about the situation in Israeli jails and warns that the situation will…

An extremist settler group attacked and a group of residents in Hebron and al-Ramdeen area near the city, three residents were injured. A medical source at the Hebron governmental hospital…

On April 22, 1991, I was only 18 years old; I was out with some of my comrades planning to conduct a march and rally in the streets of our…

Download MP3  (7.38 MB) | Listen to Real Audio   (08:03 sec) For the period of 22 – 28 April 2005 This week in Palestine – a service of the International Middle…

A Bir Zeit university public opinion published on Thursday showed that the ruling Palestinian Fatah movement would take a considerable lead over the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in legislative elections…

Israeli TV channel 10 reported Thursday that Israel illegally detains a number of Palestinian kids, aged between 8 and 10, in Offer military detention camp, near the West bank city…

During his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Jerusalem on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Israel to support Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, rather than put pressure…

Israel has rejected a request by the United States to supply the Palestinian police with weapons to help them maintain law and order in the Palestinian Authority areas ‘Let them…