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‘My name is Rachel Corrie’ is the title of the play running in London’s theaters tracing the journey of Rachel Corrie from comfortable American home to death in a Gaza…

Physicians for Human Rights published a report on the bad treatment and medical neglect the Palestinian detainees are facing in ‘Ofer’ Israeli detention. The PHR report revealed that detainees in…

Chair of the Israeli Knesset Reuvene Revelen demanded the State’s Attorney General Minachem Mazuz, to urge Prime Minister Ariel Sharon not to sign the agreement in which Israel allows Egypt…

A public poll conducted in Israel revealed that the majority of Jewish Israelis support disengagement and believe that the tension between Jews and Arabs in Israel a grave threat to…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met on Wednesday in Ramallah with the two U.S. envoys, David Welch, deputy secretary of state, and Elliot Abrams, deputy national security advisor, Palestinian sources…

On April 18, the tiny Palestinian village of Aqaba, south-east of Jenin, received a new visitation from Asher, the local boss of the Israeli army’s ‘Civil Administration’. Aqaba villagers have…

A 13 year-old girl from Jenin Refugee Camp is writing a letter to Kofi Anan. Sandy Nasser Al Sa’di is appealing to international organizations to help her reach the UN…

‘SA-18 missiles will of course make it difficult to fly over the residence of the Syrian president,’ Russian President Vladimir Putin told Israeli TV channel one ahead of his next…

In an interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Israeli Prime minister Ariel Sharon affirmed that his cabinet continue to expand West Bank settlements, despite international objections. ‘There, we are building 1,000…

Palestinians, assisted by mayors from the area as well as private businessmen, have been conducting a comprehensive survey of the buildings in the settlements in order to decide which to…

The Israeli army intends to evacuate 27 residents of three families from the village of Al-Aqaba, near Tubas, after notices of eviction were issued against them. The families have to…

Wednesday afternoon, at least 50 soldiers broke into Huwwara detention, north of the West Bank, and attacked the detainees, who were striking in protest to the bad treatment and living…

Wednesday afternoon, Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Al-Ras, north of Tulkarem and conducted military searches of homes. A local source in Tulkarem reported that soldiers broke into dozens of…

Israeli army began moving equipment out of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, in preparation to implementing the unilateral disengagement plan, Israeli sources reported. An army spokesman said, around 20 containers…

The central court in Tel Aviv ruled to end solitary confinement of Tali Fahima, an Israeli citizen arrested upon alleged accusations of helping Palestinians carry out attacks in Israel. Fahima…

A Palestinian woman trapped on Al-Tuffah checkpoint, the only passage leading to Al-Mawassi, west of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, gave birth to a dead infant, after soldiers barred…

Israel’s consul to Holland, Uriel Yitzhaki, 50, was arrested at Ben Gurion International Airport, after arriving in Israel for a visit on Tuesday. An Israeli source reported that the International…

The outgoing Israeli chief of staff Moshe Yaalon met with King Abdullah II of Jordan Tuesday in Amman, Israeli sources reported. The source did not mention topics discussed in the…

Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of the Lebanese resistance party Hezbollah that the United Nations’ demand to disarm the militias in Lebanon is irrelevant to Hezbollah because it is not…

As the Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz visited on Tuesday, Naveh Dkalim settlement, in the Gush Katif settlement Bloc, dozens of settlers called him a traitor and urged him to…

The American Administration has agreed to give Israel a 3 billion-dollar financial guarantee until 2008 to assist the implementation of the disengagement plan, Israel Radio said Wednesday. Israeli delegates met…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a Tuesday meeting with Israeli reporters in Ramallah, stated that Israel has once again failed to give him a chance, as it did while he…

The Palestinian legislative council approved in principle on Wednesday the election bell, ending a two weeks dispute on whether the election could take place on July 17. ‘It is now…

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qorei is slated to sign, Wednesday, an understanding to establish a coordination office to support the Palestinian Police. A senior source at the Palestinian Authority reported…

Approximately seventy days after the cease fire agreement declared at the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit in Egypt, between the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and the Israeli PM Ariel Sharon, the Israeli…

First step: show no sign of resistance to any move by the controlling superpower, no matter how painful or unjust the move may appear to you. Don’t demand a return…

The Fatah bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is meeting on Thursday in Ramallah to decide whether it is going to vote in the council for the delay of…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that the PA has collected weapons from all wanted men in the West Bank towns of Jericho and Tulkarem, which Israel transferred to Palestinian…

http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/headlin2-041905.mp369ze72.mp3 High court orders a halt to the construction of the Israeli annexation wall section near Ariel settlement, but approves wall construction near Bethlehem Israel has halted the construction of…

http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/headlin1-041905.mp3    Israeli issued monday tenders seeking bids for the construction of 50 new houses in the Wet Bank settlement of Elkana near Salfit, The Palestinian Authority complained to the…

Israeli Prison Authorities (IPA) released on Monday evening detainee ‘Ali Farraj Salem Abu Juraida, 29, from Rafah, after four years in administrative detention, without trial or charges. Abu Juraida was…

The Israeli Separation Wall… one of its main aims is to separate Palestinian people from their land. In Ramallah, the Wall divides the villages into two Ghettos; nine in the…

Representatives of the northern west bank settlement Homesh ended a Tuesday meeting with Israeli Prime minister Ariel Sharon, saying “if disengagement takes place, we want to move together” The settlement…

Israeli Interior Minister Ophir Pines-Paz decided Tuesday to ban nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu from leaving the country for a further 12 months, claiming his departure could harm Israel’s national security.…

Settlers in Ganim and Kadim settlements in the northern West Bank expressed readiness to leave move en masse to Afula if they get a good compensation. They told Yonatan Bassi,…

Member of the PLO executive committee Yasser Abed Rabbo warned that Israel seeks to obstruct the Palestinian legislative elections slated for July 17. The statements of Abed-Rabbu came during his…

Israel has halted the construction of the wall around the settlement of Ariel in the northern West Bank, following injunctions issued by the High Court of Justice, in response to…

Last Monday, French President Jacques Chirac told Israeli vice Premier Shimon Peres that Israel should offer Palestinians a political horizon. French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier proposed hosting an international conference…

In an interview with Israel Radio, Israeli infra-structure minister Benjamin Ben Eliazer (Labor) called Saturday for starting the pullout two weeks ahead of the originally set date. Eland strongly objects…

In addition to raising the risk of new tension with the United States an Israeli government decision to issue tenders seeking bids for construction of 50 new houses in the…

Members of the Aqsa Martyr Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah invaded on Sunday the Palestinian Legislative Council office in Jenin and demanded the members to resign in protest to…

Two Israelis were wounded Monday afternoon when a Palestinian sniper opened fire at them in the southern Gaza Strip close to the border with Egypt, Israeli media sources reported. The…

As the local government elections in Bethlehem area nears, the final number of candidates reached 413 competing on 118 seats, among which 67 women. Firas Yaghi, director bureau of the…

Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society Karim Hammouda, visited several detainees in Ofer military detention and reported that infectious skin diseases are spreading in sections 7 and 9. Prison administration…

The northern Gaza Strip settlements – Alei Sinai, Dugit and Nisanit – will be the first to be evacuated in the first week of the implementation of the disengagement plan,…

The Shin Bet security services said on Sunday that it arrested three Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem on suspicion of ‘plotting to assassinate Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef’. According to…

The Israeli Minister of Finance, Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday against allowing Egypt to deploy more troops on its Borders with the Gaza Strip by the Philadelphi route. ‘Bringing Egyptian…

Israeli news sources said the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is considering a request by the chief of the disengagement administration, in the weekly cabinet session, to postpone the evacuation…

A probe conducted by the Israeli army revealed that the soldiers, who killed the three Palestinian youth in Rafah April 9, did not aim their weapons at the lower parts…

Israeli soldiers and police on Sunday night removed three unauthorized outposts put by settlers near Hebron earlier in the evening. Two outposts were set up near the settlement of Kiryat…

The “Israel’s Lands Department” bulldozed on Sunday, hundreds of agricultural Dunams in Sa’wa area, in the Negev. Department employees, supported by the Israeli Police and borders guard units, surrounded the…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society revealed that Israeli arrested in 2004, 63 females, from several Palestinian areas, among them wives of detainees and residents who were killed by the army. Also,…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Sunday several areas and villages near the northern West bank city of Tulkarem, and arrested two brothers in Baqa Al-Sharqiyya. A local source in Tulkarem stated…

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who is paying a visit to Egypt, said Sunday he is ready to coordinate fully with Israel in the implementation of the disengagement plan. Abbas…

Seven Jordainian prisoners will be released on Thursday, an Israeli prison authority offical said, but failed to expalin why only seven out of the 9 approved by the cabinet will…

Israeli cabinet on Sunday approved a plan for temporary homes for settlers who will be evacuated from the Gaza Strip. A sub-ministerial committee was set up to provide temporary homes…

A group of unknown gunmen opened Saturday fire at a building in the West bank city of Nablus, where two Palestinian Authority ministers held a press conference to explain the…

Palestinian Housing Minister Mohammed Shteiah expressed Saturday hopes that Israel demolish settlers’ homes and clean the resulting rubble, to help the PA replace them with high rise buildings as a…

‘We have no intentions or desire to delay these elections,’ Abbas told reporters at his Ramallah headquarters, dismissing reports over a planned delay of Palestinian legislative elections slated for July…

Israeli Prime Minister Advisor Dov Weissglas is scheduled Sunday to meet Palestinian Authority official Saeb Erikat, marking a resumption of security talks. Two months ago, at the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit,…

Leaders of the Gaza Strip Gush Katif settlers Saturday canceled a meeting scheduled for Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The move indicates strong differences around the proposed entire…

Many things need to be reformed in the United Nations, said U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. ‘The United Nations can not continue to be a vital power if it…

Palestinian official sources announced on Saturday that the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, will visit the United States for meetings with the U.S. president George W. Bush in early May. Abbas…

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian, PFLP, and the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, rejected calls of the Palestinian Authorities to disarm. The two movements said that the weapons…

Following decades in which western democracies have backed oppressive regimes in the Middle East and focusing efforts on backing authorities and secular elites, both the U.S. and the EU are considering closer…

Israeli soldiers conducted extensive searches in the village of Doura, near Hebron, and several surrounding villages after closing the area. A local source in Doura reported that soldiers, and under-covered…

According to data collect by the Department of Planning and Census at the Ministry of Detainees and Liberated, 177 Palestinian detainees died in Israeli prisons since 1967, 69 of them…

Palestinian lawmakers said Saturday that parliament will delay for at least several days a planned vote on an election law. The election law is seen crucial to holding the July…

Download Headline in MP3: http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/headline041605.mp3 As Caterpillar refused to reconsider selling D9 bulldozers to Israel, 8 more Palestinians were wounded while attempting to block Caterpillar bulldozers from uprooting their trees. …

Local sources reported Friday that Israeli military authorities informed Aboud’s  village council that a decision was made to expropriate 6000 dunams of the village farmland, which represents one third of…

Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayad met Friday U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to discuss international aid needed to overcome economical hardships in the Palestinian territories. The meeting focused on…

The Islamic Jihad has decided to boycott the upcoming Palestinian legislative elections, a senior leader of the resistance group said on Friday. Even so, Islamic Jihad would also not call…

U.S. defense officials said Friday the United States has stooped Israel’s involvement in the development of the biggest warplane program ever, because of Israel’s arm deals with China. ‘There are…

Sami Abu Zuhri, Hamas media spokesperson, warned that the truce is about to collapse as a result of the Israeli rejection to respond to the Palestinian demands, especially concerning the…

The Israeli army decided on Friday evening to grab 6000 Dunams which belongs to residents of Aboud, west of Ramallah. An Israeli military source reported that the lands will be…

Israeli soldiers attacked on Friday afternoon a peaceful protest against the Separation wall in Bal’in, west of Ramallah; five residents were injured and two international peace activists arrested. A local…

April 8 – 14, 2005 This Week in Palestine – a service of the International Middle East Media Center, IMEMC.org, for the week of Friday, April 8th to Thursday, April…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society said that 8000 Palestinians detainees in all Israeli prisons and detention camps, decided to conduct hunger strike on Sunday, April 17, commemorating the Palestinian Prisoners Day. The Society…

Khaleel Al-Tafakjy, a Palestinian expert in estates, said that the World Bank estimated settlers’ estates in Gaza Strip settlements by 500 million US Dollars. This estimation was made after evaluating…

  Palestinian lawyers and detainees revealed that the Israeli Prison Authorities used the media to deceive the detainees and grab confessions from them. An interrogation teams which belongs to the…

A Palestinian official  source said on Friday that an Israeli soldier who entered Jenin was captured and handed over to the Israeli army. Israel Radio reported that the soldier entered…

Local informed sources in the West Bank city of Bethlehem reported that the Israeli troops and special units’ officers wearing civilian outfits backed with at least ten military vehicles invaded…

Hundreds of Palestinians gathered at the Church of the Nativity square when the start of the Marathon for peace was announced on Thursday Morning. The Marathon ended at the Franciscan…

the Holy Land Trust organization and Panorama center organized a two-day conference in Ramallah on the strategies of the civil based nonviolent resistance against the Israeli occupation in Palestine. The…

The Israeli Peace Bloc, Gush Shalom, said that the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel is destroying the peace process, and trying to “convince the US president that the P.A has collapsed”.…

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Thursday that normalization of relations with Israel is every countries own business. The United Emirates based Al-Bayan newspaper quoted Abul Gheit as…

A settler family from the Gush Katif settlement Bloc received compensation from the Israeli government in accordance with the disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip; the family is considered the…

The Bush administration announced Thursday that James Wolfensohn, the retiring president of the World Bank, will become a special coordinator to help in the economic and political aspects of the…

Friday morning, an Israeli security source reported on Friday that soldiers arrested an armed Syrian resident who infiltrated into the Golan Heights. {mosimage}The source claimed that the Syrian man was…

Israeli Prime Minister Office denied Friday news published by Yodout Ahranot that the premier is considering another unilateral disengagement.   Sources close to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hinted Friday that…

Despite the United States objections to the settlement expansion, Israeli authorities continue the construction in Ma’ale Adumim settlement east of Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses reported seeing Israeli vehicles building new roads around…

Shareholders of the Caterpillar Company this week rejected a proposal that called for re-examining selling bulldozers to Israel due to their use in the demolition of Palestinian homes. Only 3%…

Israeli Minister Haim Ramon (Labor) said Thursday that he would consider running for the Labor Party chairmanship if the party primaries are postponed until after the implementation of the disengagement…

Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz instructed Thursday army officers to collect all weapons, settlers received from the army, prior to the implementation of the disengagement plan. The directive did not…

The ruling Fatah movement is seriously considering a move to delay Palestinian legislative elections, which is scheduled for mid-July, over fears of a solid defeat at the hands of the…

A group of armed settlers attacked on Thursday evening dozens of residents on a bypass road east of Hebron, one resident was injured, several cars damaged. A local source In…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas unified the P.A security devices into three apparatuses in an attempt to control chaos and implement reforms in these devices. P.A security devices will now…

For the second time in less that three weeks, settlers poisoned on Thursday, large areas of grazing land near Yasuf and Iskaka, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.…

Settlers of Ramat Yeshai illegal outpost in Tel Rmeida neighborhood, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, attacked a Palestinian man and six children, marking a new wave of…

Israeli soldiers detained eight residents, including elderly, after invading the village of Shoufa, south east of Tulkarem, and conducted military searches. A local source Shoufa reported that soldiers, supported by…