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The U.S. administration is planning to broaden the mandate of its special security envoy Lt. Gen. William Ward, to allow him to deal with Israeli complains and become more involved…

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday night to request an immediate move to crack down on the armed groups in Gaza. According to Mofaza,…

 Israeli media sources reported on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is expected to tell Bush that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s regime is on verge of collapsing, proposing to…

As a decent person, I am supposed to feel compassion for the Gush Katif settlers. To embrace them. To shed a tear for their plight. And indeed, there are grounds…

On Saturday afternoon, Israeli soldiers stationed near the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah opened fire at a group of Palestinian children playing soccer at an open field, killing three…

Right wing activists, Opponents of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan blocked the busy Ayalon Highway around Tel Aviv during Sunday morning rush hour, causing massive jams. Protesters blocked…

The planning-construction process of the Har Homa settlement north of the West bank city of Bethlehem, took place over an extended period following the signing of the Oslo accords between…

Labor MK Dani Yatum warned Saturday that a military coup could happen in Israel because national religious officers will soon constitute the majority in the army leading ranks. Yatum is…

Israelipolice released Monday Sheikh Hassan Yousif after being detained for few hours for entering Jerusalem without a permit. Israeli Police detain Sheikh Hassan Yousif Israeli police Sunday detained a Hamas…

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah claimed responsibility for detonating an explosive charge near a military jeep near Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem. The Israeli army confirmed…

Israeli soldiers fired on Saturday afternoon at a group of children playing at a playground near Salah Ed-Deen Crossing “Philadiphi Route” in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will depart for the United States on Sunday to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney at Bush’s ranch in…

Israeli soldiers broke on Saturday into a kindergarten which belongs to the Red Crescent Society in Hebron. Sameeha Al-Nather, headmaster of the kindergarten stated that soldiers into the building, and…

Dozens of settlers’ families moved recently into settlements and settlement outposts in Hebron, south of the West Bank. The WAFA news Agency reported that dozens of settlers came to the…

An Israeli military source reported on Saturday that the army and Israeli police started, over the last few weeks, training special army units to be deployed near settlements slated for…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday that settlement activities conducted by the Israeli government in the Palestinian territories are illegal. The statements of Abbas were made as the…

Prison administration in Gilboa detention barred a youth from visiting his brother as he came along with his father to visit him. The father, Yousef J’eidi, said that after he…

Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army issued written land confiscation memos to some residents of the city of Beit Jala and the villages of Al-Walajeh and Al-Khader. Adnan Al-Atrash,…

Israeli official sources reported Friday that Iran’s nuclear capabilities are expected to take a major part of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Monday meeting with U.S. president George Bush. Israeli…

Israeli official sources reported on Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon leans to accept the recommendation of his defense minister Shaul Mofaz and retreat the cabinet decision to demolish…

Israeli Prime minister Ariel Sharon toured Friday Nitsanim area, which settlers of Gush Katif proposed to move to in their entirety. Sharon demanded that work starts immediately to build a…

A collection of testemonies by survivors of the massacre Mr. Fahimi Zeidan, 12,:’The Jews ordered all our family to line up against the wall and they started shooting us. I was…

U.S. President George Bush said on Friday he would tell Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that there can be no expansion of Jewish settlements under the U.S.-backed road map for…

Presidents, prime ministers and kings from around the world joined around two million people in paying a final farewell Friday to Pope John Paul II; one of the largest religious…

 Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom downplayed Saturday the political significance of the hand shakes between Israeli Preisdent Moshe Katsav and both the Syrian and Iranina Presidents. ‘I hope that it…

Friday afternoon, at least 10 residents were injured after Israeli soldiers fired at peaceful protest against the Wall in Deir Ballout, near Salfit. A local source in the village said…

Download MP3 http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/4365.php This week in Palestine—a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, IMEMC.org, for the week of Friday, April 1st to Thursday, April 7th. Amid high alerts…

Friday evening, Israeli soldiers injured five residents in the village of Bal’in, west of Ramallah; one resident was arrested and transferred to an unknown location. A local source in the…

Friday evening, Israeli soldiers injured five residents in the village of Bal’in, west of Ramallah; one resident was arrested and transferred to an unknown location. A local source in the…

The UN Security Council decided Thursday night to form an international committee to investigate the assassination of late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Harirri. The resolution 1595, submitted by the U.S.,…

Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Kassem told the Financial Times on Friday that his group will be prepared to discuss disarmament if Israel withdrew from Shebaa Farms. Kassem said if…

Mahmoud Radi Erekat, 16, from Abu Dis, near Jerusalem, complained of torture practiced against him in Maali Adumim detention center, before he was transferred to Atzion detention. Lawyer of the…

The Israeli Peace Bloc “Gush Shalom” said that Sharon is appearing to be obeying the Israeli Supreme Court concerning the route of the Separation Wall; it became clear now that…

The Israeli deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres told the US vice President Dick Cheney “not to worry about the constructions Israel intends to carry out near Maali Adumim settlement”, Israeli…

Israeli sources said that the new plan for Jerusalem, which would cost around $5 Millions, shows territorial contiguity between Jerusalem and the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim. this linkage annexes wide…

The Israeli Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz told senior security officers that he wants the settlers’ houses that will be evacuated in Gush Qatif settlements after the intended Israeli pullout…

Salem Israeli military court sentenced a resident of Jenin refuge camp to five consecutive years after charging him of membership in the political wing of the Islamic Jihad and forming…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society published a reported on Thursday which revealed that there are 350 Palestinian children imprisoned in Israeli detention camps and prisons. The report revealed that there are…

Against Israeli security and police expectations, tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers peacefully concluded weekly prayers in Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem on Friday. Amid high alerts of a possible attack…

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…