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In a conference held in the city of Nazareth on Thursday night, the local Roman Orthodox denomination accused Patriarch Irinuis I of selling church properties to the Jewish Agency and…

An explosion in a tourist area near al-Azhar mosque in the Egyptian Capitol, Cairo, took Thursday the lives of four people. 17 more were wounded to various degrees, Egyptian police…

The Rabbis’ Union for the People and Land of Israel, headed by former Israeli chief rabbis Mordechai Eliyahu and Avraham Shapira, called Thursday security forces to refuse orders to evacuate…

Israeli vice Premier Shimon Peres met Thursday with U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney, and told him that for the time being Israel is not building new housing units near the…

A home made Qassam shell, apparently fired from Beit Hanun area of the northern Gaza Strip, landed in a cemetery in the Israeli Negev town of Sderot Thursday evening, causing…

Israeli army and police have recently set up a special command to coordinate the activities of selected elite combat units that will take part in the evacuation of settlements under…

The European Union called Thursday on Israel to observe its obligations, to freeze all settlement activity and to dismantle unauthorized settlers’ outposts, an EU statement said. The European Union expressed…

A report prepared and published by the Palestinian National Information Center revealed that the Israeli army violated the truce, arrived at the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit in Egypt, 345 times, including…

As only 20 percent of the wall around Jerusalem is a cement wall, Israeli Security officials have decided to raise the ‘cement wall’ portion to 30 percent claiming that this…

Yonatan Bassi, Disengagement Department head proposed to temporarily allocate the evacuated settlers in Ashkelon until the construction of their permanent residencies is finalized. Bassi met on Tuesday with a number…

Extreme right wing activists revert to new tactics to exhaust police forces as part of their anti-disengagement campaign. Israeli Police arrested Wednesday two right wing activists on suspicions that they…

A Palestinian medical source reported on Wednesday that four residents were seriously injured west of Salfit in the West Bank while they were trying to stop the military bulldozers from…

Based on post 1948 Egyptian maps, the PA proposes that the northern borders of the Gaza Strip should be at least two kilometers north of where it is now. The…

The Palestinian Authority has presented a plan to American and Israeli officials for coordinating the planed pullout from inside the Gaza Strip and four small settlements in the northern West…

Senior Palestinian officials have acquainted American and Israeli officials with a plan for coordinating the disengagement from the Gaza Strip and four small West Bank settlements, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported…

U.S. President George Bush is likely to refrain from bringing up “thorny” issues when he meets Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at Bush’s Texas ranch next week, because he prefers…

Settlers of Hafat Ma’oun settlement, in the Hebron Mountain area continued their attacks against the Palestinian residents and their farmlands. Resident of villages in the Hebron Mountain area said that…

On Wednesday night, a group of unknown gunmen stopped their car near the headquarters of the PA Preemptive security in the west bank city of Ramallah, and opened fire towards…

Israeli security raised the level of alert as indicators of plans of extremist Jews attack on Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem increased considerably, Israeli TV Channel 1 reported Wednesday. Extreme right…

Israeli soldiers opened fire and seriously wounded four Palestinians on Wednesday morning near the Village of Deir ballout in the Salfit district. According to eyewitnesses, soldiers opened fire from a…

Israeli news website ArabYnet reported Wednesday that a meeting would join 25 Palestinian mayors with 25 Israeli mayors is being planned to take place next week. The idea was initiated…

Tawfiq Tirawi, head of the General Intelligence in the West Bank stated that he has enough indicting evidence against some officials in the Palestinian Authority in corruption cases, Palestine News…

It is amazing how little was said in US mainstream media about the decision by Israel’s supreme court recognizing some non-Orthodox conversion to Judaism.  Israeli and European papers debated this…

Palestinian resistance gunmen said Wednesday they will keep their weapons out of sight, but won’t hand them over to the Palestinian Authority, dismissing PA calls to hand guns and join…

On April 24, 2005 is Nour’s second birthday. Nour (meaning light in Arabic) was born in jail. However, soon he will have to leave his mother because kids over 2…

  The Shin Bet revealed on Wednesday that it arrested a Palestinian man in late February on suspicion of connection with the Lebanon based Hezbollah party, and planning attacks against…

An Israeli military source said that soldiers arrested two settlers, after throwing stones and eggs at the soldiers trying to bar them from attacking a Palestinian home in the southern…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday he needed more time to reconstruct the PA security forces. He promised not to stay in office even for one day if he fails…

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to visit the Palestinian areas during his planned visit to Israel at the end of April. “Putin…

As the Disengagement plan is moving into the Knesset’s legislative agenda, a number of Mk’s are moving the business and homes to areas slated for evacuation. National Union Party leader…

Three Palestinians were injured on Wednesday morning when Israeli security guards opened their machine gunfire at anti-wall protestors near the village of Rantis northwest of the West Bank cit of…

    The Israeli government intends to bar all Palestinians workers from entering Israel for work by 2008; the Palestinian Authority warned that such a plan is considered a disaster…

Settlers protesting the construction of a fence that separates between settlers and Palestinians in the old city of Hebron clashed on Wednesday morning with Israeli security forces. A police officer broke…

Three Palestinians were wounded on Wednesday morning; one of them seriously, by Israeli security guards gunfire at a separation wall work site northwest of the West bank city of Ramallah.…

Governor of Hebron, Arif Al-Ja’abari stated on Tuesday that Israeli army confiscated more land from Hebron district raising the confiscated land up to 54.3 percent. Al-Ja’bari told the French news…

The “Third Arab Human Development Report” was published on Tuesday in the Jordanian Capital in cooperation with the Economic and Social Development Fund and the Arab-Gulf Program to aid UN…

Israeli military source said that a Palestinian-Israeli security meeting was held in Hebron after Israeli soldiers assaulted and arrested five Palestinian Policemen in the city on Tuesday. The Israeli commander…

About 1,000 Palestinian security officials will be forced into retirement by the end of the week as part of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’ security reforms, a senior Palestinian official said…

Jerusalem’s city engineer Uri Shitrit listed Tuesday three reasons that could prevent establishing contiguity between the settlement of Ma’alee Adumim and Jerusalem. There is no more publicly owned land in…

U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that he would press Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at their meeting next week to abide by the road map peace plan…

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday the Bush administration will help with the reconstruction of Gaza after Israel’s withdrawal. The Palestinian Authority and International agencies estimate that around…

The Israeli Online daily Jerusalem Post reported that the senior Palestinian official is suspected of embezzling millions of Dollars from the P.A Budget.  The Jerusalem Post said that a P.A…

The general administration of Borders and Crossings at the Palestinian Authority demanded the Israeli side to remove the high-tech X-Ray searching room installed at the crossing. The administration said that…

Israeli media sources said Tuesday that a senior PA official embezzled millions of US $ before moving to live in Jordan. The Jerusalem post newspaper failed to name the official,…

An Israeli military source stated that a settler was seriously injured on Tuesday afternoon, while working in Morag settlement, in the southern Gaza Strip.   The source reported that the…

Israel soldiers beat five unarmed Palestinian traffic police in the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday, throwing them to the ground and hitting one with a rifle butt. The…

8, including the Mayor of the 15-member Bethlehem Municipal Council will be occupied by Christians in the coming municipal elections on May 5. The quota also includes the councils of…

Pope John Paul II was not only the supreme head of the Roman Catholic Church he epitomized the good and kind shepherd too. He cared for and protected his flock…

Palestinian Interior Minister Nasser Yousif said Tuesday that he informed Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz that the PA is incapable of playing a real security role in Gaza due to…

Representatives of major UK academic institutions are planning to sanction Israeli higher education institutes, except the ones who condemns the “racist Israeli policy towards Palestinians” The Guardian newspaper reported Tuesday…

Chair of the Palestinian National Council Salim Al-Zanoun met with the Secretary General of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Ahmed Sa’adat in his confinement in PA…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Tuesday, the village of Al-Ras, south of Tulkarem in the West Bank. A local source in the village reported that several military jeeps, vehicles and a…

NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer will arrive in Ramallah Tuesday for talks with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other Palestinian officials. The visit was arranged last month…

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, denounced the firing of several employees, mainly teacher working at schools which belong to the Ministry of Education. A considerable number of the employees are…

  Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qorei officially announced on Monday evening the official launch of Palestine’s official domain name suffix “ps”. Qorei’s announcement came during a ceremony in the Ramallah…

Some of the armed resistance groups vowed to challenge the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to disarm resistance men wanted by Israel. While the Islamic Jihad and Hamas completely rejected…

Israeli newspaper Youdot Ahranot revealed on Tuesday that Palestinian Minister of civil affairs Mohammed Dahlan met Monday night with Israeli communication minister Dalia Itzik in Dan hotel in Tel Aviv.…

Representatives of Gush Katif settlements expressed ‘cautious optimism’ Tuesday after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The representatives’ decision to meet Sharon was described as a step that threatens…

Israeli vice Premier Shimon Peres said Tuesday he is going to Washington to seek U.S. financial aid for Israel’s intended withdrawal from inside the Gaza Strip and four small West…

Ala’ Sanaqra, a leader of the brigades in the West Bank, said that the fighters are not willing to disarm, or even consider disbarment as long as the occupation remains.…

Following a Tuesday meeting with U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, Sharon’s top advisor Dov Weissglas said Tuesday that the American-Israeli differences over the grand expansion the largest West bank…

The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon adopted on Monday a law preventing Palestinian spouses of Israeli residents from obtaining Israeli residency. Sharon said during a meeting at his office with…

The secretary general of Palestinian Presidency Taib Abdul-Rahim dismissed media reports over conflicts between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and hi Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei as baseless. Abdul-Rahim said Monday that…

Palestinian West Bank intelligence Chief Tawfiq Tirawi rescinded Monday his resignation upon the request of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, PA official told Reuters. Tirawi resigned on Friday following a Thursday…

A poll conducted by Dahaf Institute on behalf of Madar, the Palestinian Center for Israel Studies, shows that a majority of Jewish Israelis believe that the state should encourage Israeli…

Around 70% of the settlers slated for evacuation under the terms of the disengagement plan will reach agreement with the disengagement administration, Yonatan Bassi, the head of the Disengagement Administration,…

The Israeli border police deployed on Monday, in the northern West Bank Israeli settlement of Yitzhar in an attempt to prevent settler violence against Palestinian residents and security officials. The…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that Israel is holding talks with the Palestinian Authority on the release of 400 more Palestinian Prisoners, and 21 Jordanian detainees in Israeli prisons.…

The Islamic Jihad Movement said on Monday that it had decided yet on participating in the Palestinian Legislative elections, and that the movement might join the PLO after it is…

Israeli soldiers invaded Al-Arroub refugee camp, near Hebron, broke into dozens of homes, and conducted military searches. Issa Abu Kheizaran, head of Al-Arroub local council, said that soldiers arrested Ata…

Despite international treaties prohibiting occupying powers from making use of occupied territories for its own benefit, Israel has decided to transfer garbage beyond the Green Line and dump it in…

A Letter drafted by two right wing Rabbis called the Israelis for extensive anti disengagement activities in order to prevent what they described as “the expulsion and destruction”, saying that…

The Israeli police revealed that extremist Jewish groups are considering bombings at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem; and decided to increase police force at the mosque area. Yedioth Ahronoth, an Israeli…

  The Israeli Air Force received three Apache Longbow Helicopters equipped with advanced night-vision system, 17 more choppers are expected to arrive by the end of 2006. An Israeli military…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported on Sunday that Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons are considering hunger strike as a result of the deteriorating conditions they face in detention. Lawyer of…

Sunday evening, Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful procession against the Wall in the village of Bal’in, west of Ramallah. A local source in the village stated that dozens of residents,…

  A Palestinian source revealed on Sunday that a secret Palestinian-Israeli meeting was held in Jerusalem, Sunday morning. The meeting was held between the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ahmad Qorei, Minister…

Saturday evening, three residents, including an aged woman, were injured after a group of extremist settlers attacked them while working in their lands, near Hebron. A local source in Hebron…

Jibreel Rajoub, the strongest candidate for West Bank national security Chief, said Sunday that the process of unifying all security apparatuses into three only will start very soon. Speaking to…

UN envoy to Lebanon Terry Larsen said Sunday that Syria will pullout all of its troops and security personnel from Lebanon by April 30. Larsen statements came in a joint…

If the calls to disobey orders continue, the deputy chairman of the Yesha Council of Settlements, Eliezer Hisdai, will ask army to draft him into the reserves as a volunteer…

Vandals Sunday defaced the graves of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his wife Lea in the national cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Their names were erased from…

The Israeli cabinet approved on Sunday across-the-board cutbacks of NIS 750 million in ministry budgets, which is the amount promised to Shiuni in order to support the budget bill in…

Israeli ambassador to Ethiopia Doron Grossman, 49, died in Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem from his wounds on Sunday morning, days after shooting himself in the Ethiopian capitol Addis Ababa.…

The growing Hamas popularity and the declining support for Fatah movement is causing concerns to many including the Hamas leadership. Hamas used its latest campaign to commemorate the Islamic movement…

Participants in the interfaith dialogue conference in Jerusalem concluded their Saturday conference with a protest march against the separation wall. At the end of their one day meeting, participants issued…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday that ‘we will not allow anyone to take the law into his own hands,’, criticizing PA security officials for failing to do their jobs. …

Junior U.S. State Department officials called Saturday Israel, India and Pakistan to disown nuclear weapons and accept international Atomic Energy Agency safeguards on all nuclear activities.   The officials, Jackie…

The Egyptian prosecution published a report which revealed that Sinai bombing was carried out October, 7 2004 after failing to enter the Palestinian territories to carry out attack against Israel…

A group of Ramat Yishi settlers under army protection took over Saturday the home of Judah and Zaki Bakri, which is adjacent to the settlement fence. A local source in…

An explosive device detonated Friday night in Maten, northeast the Lebanese capitol Beirut, lightly wounding nine people. Around 9:45 P.M. an explosive device planted in the parking lot of Plaza…

Israeli soldiers leveled on Friday six homes in Wad Rahhal, west of Bethlehem, and claimed that the homes were constructed without obtaining the needed permits. A local source in the…

Vatican officials confirmed the death of Pope John Paul II, who led the Roman Catholic Church for more than 25 years, on Saturday at night, at the age of 84.…

The Palestinian security forces are being slammed for the way the Palestinian Authority handled the latest ‘riots’ in the West Bank city of Ramallah, which led to the resignation of…

Media and Information Center, reported that the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, published a report about military predictions of a new round of violence in August, 2005. “The higher command of…

Bir Zeit University Environment Health Center reported Friday that tests has revealed that the material settlers threw in quantities in Tiwani region near Hebron last week is toxic and dangerous,…

Addressing a gathering in Beirut, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nassralah on Thursday challenged the United States to send troops to Lebanon to disarm resistance. Thousands gathered in Beirut in the anniversary…

A Jordanian official source reported on Friday that Israel informed Jordan that it intends to release Jordanian detainees next week. The source stated that apparently Israel will release 20 detainees,…

The Jerusalem District Court sentenced on Thursday, two Palestinian residents to seven life terms and additional 30 years. The Israeli prosecution charged that the two residents, identified as Ahmed Obeid,…

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