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The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told reporters of international news agencies working in Israel, ‘The settlement blocs resided by Jews will be part of the Jewish State in the…

The Israeli police released 33 out of 50 Israeli protestors, who were arrested on Tuesday during a violent anti-disengagement in Jerusalem. {mosimage}The Israeli police said that the protestors also caused…

Articles of the evacuation bill, which is slated for voting at the Knesset plenary on Wednesday, revealed that the compensation bill to settlers and businesses in the Gaza Strip and…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided not to give his Chief of Staff Moshe Ya’alon a fourth year in service, an Israeli military official stated on Tuesday. Ya’alon will complete…

Israeli Soldiers shot dead two Palestinians seen approaching a West Bank settlement after dark Tuesday, an army source said.  {mosimage}The army source said that the incident occurred near the settlement…

Monday at night, an Israeli source reported that the Israeli High Court will review appeals submitted by Israelis against the release of Palestinian detainees; Israeli army announced that it postponed…

Head of the Gush Atzion settlement council, Shaul Goldstein said that he suggested to the Israeli minister of housing, Yitzhak Herzog, to approve a plan to erect a new settlement…

The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, said on Tuesday that Israel will coordinate his disengagement plan with the Palestinian Authority. {mosimage}In a statement which was described as a “clearest”, Sharon…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed on Tuesday, reports saying that a new Palestinian cabinet headed by the Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, to be announced in the coming 24 hours,…

Israel army Chief Moshe Ya’alon on Tuesday said that the army opposed transferring the West Bank village of Uja to the Palestinian Authority, dismissing Palestinian reportsclaims that an agreement had…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday night, that the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Al-Hariri in Beirut on Monday is a big loss, and described…

Israeli Shinui party signaled to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon willingness to support the 2005 state budget in exchange to forming a secular Likud-Labor-Shinui government. {mosimage}With no progress achieved in…

Palestinian Authority ministries are preparing plans for the construction of thousands of apartments in the slated for evacuation Gaza Strip settlements to resettle refugees now living in refugee camps.  {mosimage}The…

Eleven Israeli police officers were lightly hurt Monday evening in clashes with right-wing activists, who attempted to block traffic in many streets around the country, protesting against the disengagement plan.…

Israeli cabinet is called to approve both the planned evacuation of some settlements and the route of the southern section of the separation on Sunday. {mosimage}A move hat Israeli Prime…

Israeli authorities decided on Monday to delay the transfer of security control over Jericho to the Palestinian authority after differences occurred over details of the transfer planned for Tuesday. {mosimage}Palestinian…

Following the Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s assassination in a blast earlier today, enraged supporters have taken to the streets. {mosimage}An Al-Jazeera television broadcast reported that a person had…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Abu Mazin, said that the Palestinian leadership is committed to the peace process, and is ready to hold its responsibilities in the five areas which…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was quoted Monday as saying that the war with the Israelis is effectively over and that the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is speaking ‘a…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee on Monday that he expects the evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip and the northern West…

The Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that dozens of Israeli right wing extremists moved recently into the Gaza Strip after changing their addresses to the Gush Katif settlement bloc. {mosimage}The…

“The Palestinians will be judged by their actions, not by their words,” Ariel Sharon declared at Sharm-al-Sheikh, does this apply to him, too?” Gush Shalom. {mosimage}The Israeli peace bloc, Gush…

Ministry of Prisoners Affairs (MPA) reported that since the outbreak of the Intifada in September 2000, at least 3,000 Palestinian children were arrested, 321 are still in jail including 11…

Settlers of Itamar in the Nablus area clashed with Israeli Border Police soldiers on Sunday morning at an unauthorized outpost adjacent to the settlement. {mosimage}Border Police officers arrived at the…

The Israeli cabinet unanimously approved the list of 500 Palestinian prisoners to be freed this week in accordance with the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit understandings. {mosimage}The cabinet made the move after…

Israel agreed Saturday night to transfer security control of the West Bank city of Jericho to the Palestinian Authority, an informed unofficial source said. {mosimage}According to the same source, the…

The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announced Saturday evening it was committed to the terms of the cease-fire agreed upon with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. {mosimage}Hamas said that in case…

The Palestinian Prisoners Ministry described the list of 500 prisoners slated for release in the first stage of the prisoners release’ agreement, which was sent to three Israeli jails on…

The Israeli Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee is scheduled to look at and vote on the penalty clauses of the settlers’ evacuation compensation bill on Sunday. {mosimage}As it stands…

Israeli vice Premier Shimon Peres is to meet with ultra orthodox Shas party spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef on Sunday evening, in an effort to convince him to join the…

Israel agreed to allow 56 deported Palestinians to return to the West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian officials said Saturday. {mosimage}Among them are 26 deported to Gaza and 13 deported to…

Translated by Saed Bannoura Nayef Hawatma, secretary general of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said that the front will support Abbas as long as he remains committed…

The urge towards violence is an instinct human beings inherited from the animal kingdom. Proponents of totalitarian ideologies that tolerate or even encourage violence as a legitimate means towards an…

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Bush administration have correctly pointed that the opportunities for Israeli-Palestinian peace have markedly improved in the past few months. The success that Palestinian…

Hours before meeting their leaders, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Abbas demanded for resistance groups to honor the cease-fire agreement. {mosimage}Abbas also warned that, should resistance groups refuse to accept the…

U.S. State department spokesman said on Friday that the American security envoy General William Ward will probably visit the region this month. {mosimage}Ward was named earlier in the week to…

A prominent Palestinian source reported Friday that Israel agreed during the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit, to cease assassinations against Hamas and Islamic jihad leaders, and other Palestinian factions. {mosimage}The source stated…

Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz, is slated to meet with Hasan Abu Lideh, Mahmoud Dahlan and Saed Erekat on Sunday night to discuss the handover of West Bank cities, easing…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vowed to take action against any future Palestinian cease-fire violations. {mosimage}Abbas called Fatah’s central committee for an emergency meeting on Thursday night to discuss the violations…

Israeli Police on Friday morning arrested six settlers in the southern Gaza Strip after settlers hurled stones at Palestinians crossing the Gush Katif junction and attempted to pullout drivers out…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon repeated his rejection to hold a national referendum on the disengagement plan, and angrily told Likud members that he will not give in to “threats…

An Israel army officer said Friday that settlers attempted to run him down with a car overnight near the West Bank settlement of Itamar in the Nablus area. {mosimage}The officer…

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) has asked the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to rescind naming Yuval Diskin as chief of the Public Security Service (Shin Bet)…

Thursday evening, Palestinian Attorney General, Hussein Abu ‘Assy, announced in a press conference that he temporarily froze the “Egyptian Cement” file, which is a case against some Palestinian companies which…

Mohammad Dahlan, member of the Palestinian higher negotiation committee, told the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper that the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will meet with Sharon in the coming two weeks in…

An Israeli source reported on Friday that Israel decided not to invade the Palestinian areas in the Gaza Strip, and will practice political pressures over the Palestinians, at the current…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced Thursday the names of the Israeli committee, which will, together with Palestinian counterparts, look into the prisoners release’ issue. {mosimage}The Israeli committee is composed…

Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz said Friday that he views harassment and violence towards elected officials and security personnel as a grave matter. {mosimage}Mazuz publicized his position one day after…

Around 50 armed men forcefully entered the Gaza Central Prison and killed three prisoners, Palestinain security soruce reported on Thursday. {mosimage}The source described the attack as criminal and said the…

Israeli soldiers handed residents form the village of Tarama, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, military orders to annex their family farmlands in order to erect the annexation…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights released its weekly report which revealed that Israeli soldiers killed four residents, including a child in one week, and arrested at least 10 civilians.…

An Israeli military source claimed on Thursday afternoon that soldiers arrested a Palestinian resident who was planning a suicide bus bombing in the French Hill in Jerusalem. {mosimage}The source said…

The Bethlehem office of the Palestinian prisoners’ society reported on Thursday that detainees in Bir Shiva detention are suffering of bad living conditions, and deprived of their basic rights. {mosimage}Lawyer…

Translated by Saed Bannoura Nayef Hawatma, secretary general of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said that the front will support Abbas as long as he remains committed…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday afternoon ordered PA security forces to end mortar fire on Gaza Strip settlements. Abbas affirmed his commitment to the cease-fire agreement he had reached…

Arab MK Jamal Zahalka, visited the jailed Palestinian legislator and Fatah leader Marwan Al-Barghouthi, in Eshel detention in Bir Shiva, and discussed with him the latest developments and cease fired…

Thursday afternoon, Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, fired three senior Palestinian security commanders after Palestinian resistance fired home made shells at Israeli settlements in the Gaza strip.   {mosimage}The fired commanders…

The US weekly Newsweek newspaper reported on Wednesday, that the new Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, expressed worries over his life in front of two members of the US senate. {mosimage}According…

The Israel Prisons Service have begun gathering the Palestinian prisoners chosen to be released early next week in Ketziot, a Negev desert military detention camp in the south of Israel.…

Ultra-orthodox Shas party leader Eli Yishai expressed Wednesday impatience with coalition negotiations, warning that Shas might call over talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s representatives. ‘If no clear answers…

Israeli army and security forces decided to freeze plans for a water channel along the Gaza strip borders with Egypt. {mosimage}The decision followed successful talks between Israel and the Palestinians…

{mosimage}Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Wednesday that he promised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during the Sharm A-Sheikh summit that he would increase the number of…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon affirmed Wednesday that a referendum on the disengagement plan will not happen. Speaking to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Sharon accused that calls for the referendum are…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is expected to officially announce on Thursday the appointment of Yuval Diskin as the next Shin Bet security service chief. Current Shin Bet chief Avi…

The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas is demanding a written and explicit Israeli announcement of a cease-fire vis-a-vis Palestinian resistance groups. Hamas spokesmen in Gaza and Damascus said that the wording…

A medical source at Abu Yousef Al-Najjar hospital in Rafah reported that Fathi Abu Jazar, 20, died of wounds sustained Wednesday afternoon in Rafah. {mosimage}Abu Jazar was seriously injured in…

After the concluding of Sharm A-Sheikh summit the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs  Dr. Nabil Sha’ath stated that the issue of dismantling the Palestinian resistance groups was not discussed. {mosimage}’We…

The US Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Adam Arly, praised what he described as the “courageous leadership” of the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon. Arly said that the Palestinian leadership needs to…

Palestinian sources reported that 350 Palestinian prisoners will be released from the desert detention camp, Ansar 3, in the Negev desert. {mosimage}The source said that the prison administration handed a…

Shimon Peres, in a conference, held in the Negev Israeli town of Sderot said that “the right wing in Israel cause huge damage to the state of Israel , after…

Graffiti, ostensibly written by right wing Jewish groups in Ra’nana, in Tel Aviv, threats Sharon with the same “treatment given to Rabin’, “i.e. assassination”. The graffiti describes Sharon as a…

The Mideast Summit held in Sharm A-Sheikh on Tuesday and joined the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with an Egyptian and Jordanian Presence, was…

Israeli Education Minister Limor Livnat called the vote legal, but not legitimate, creating uproar among opposition groups. {mosimage}Livnat to ld Israeli army radio that she felt ‘uncomfortable’ knowing that passage…

The Bush administration is considering naming an official to help coordinate Palestinian economic and political reforms, U.S. diplomatic sources said on Tuesday.   EU and other countries in the region…

Following the Sharm summit, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz Tuesday approved a list of ‘gestures’ towards palestinians. With the exception of allowing Palestinian public transportation through the Gush Katif junction…

Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Tuesday he intends to lead the campaign for holding a referendum on disengagement; an idea that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vehemently oppose. Shalom,…

Jordan and Egypt announced Tuesday they were sending their ambassadors back to Israel. The announcement followed the declaration of a mutual cease-fire at Sharm Al-Shaeikh summit earlier in the day.…

Sakher Bseso, member of the Fatah revolutionary council said that Sharm Al-Sheikh summit is considered a positive starting point to put the peace process back to track, and to show…

Mohammad Nazzal, one of the leaders of Hamas, said that the Palestinian Authority disappointed the Palestinians, and not only Hamas, and that the summit did not achieve any progress to…

Tuesday afternoon, Israeli soldiers, supported by two tanks and a number of Jeeps invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and detained residents and students for several hours. {mosimage}Earlier…

Israeli soldiers handed residents form the village of Yatta , east of Hebron , military orders to annex family farmlands in the areas of Tal Al-Tawani, and Um Sabba. {mosimage}Moshe…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared Tuesday they would stop all resistance and violent military activity against each other, pledging to break the four-year cycle…

Thousands of residents and leader of Palestinian factions gathered in front of the Palestinian legislative Council in Gaza city in support of the Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons and detention…

The Israeli High Court allowed, on Tuesday, the resumption of the construction of the annexation wall, North West of Jerusalem. The new decision cancels an interim injunction freezing the construction…

The Israeli online daily Haaretz that captain R, from the Givati Brigade at the Israeli army, who repeatedly shot a 13-year-old girl in Gaza was released from custody, but will…

A senior Israeli security officials said on Monday that Israel will evacuate unauthorized settlers outposts in the West Bank after the implementation of the unilateral disengagement plan {mosimage}A senior Israeli…

Likud secretariat election ended with a major failure for the far-right Jewish Leadership faction, as Moshe Feiglin’sm the main candidate failed to win representation, Israel Radio reported on Tuesday. However,…

According to the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, Syrian President Bashar Assad sent a letter to Egyptian President Husni Mubarak, praising his efforts to promote peace. Egyptian media sources reported Monday that…

U.S. President George Bush said Monday that he hopes to meet with the new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the White House this spring. Speaking to reporters, Bush was full…

According to Israeli and Palestinian sources, at the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will announce a cease-fire, but Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will only promise to end…

The Israeli central court in Ten Aviv sentenced of Monday a Palestinian to twenty years after convicting him of attacking three Israelis with an axe last year in Ramat Gan…

Palestinian officials met on Monday with the Egyptian security delegate, headed by Mustafa Al-Boheiry, deputy chief of the Egyptian intelligence, who is currently visiting the Gaza Strip. The meeting, which…

An Israeli source said on Monday evening that the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hinted during her meetings with Israeli officials that she does not support leveling the settlements…

At least 500 detainees in Ohali Qidar detention Bir Shiva announced on Monday evening that they will conduct hunger strike on Tuesday, in protest to the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit which…

The Israeli online daily Haaretz reported in Monday at night that the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will declare a “formal end to more…

The Islamic resistance movement Hamas, and the Islamic Jihad stressed on the importance of discussing the truce with the Palestinian factions prior to announcing it. Mahmoud Zahhar, a prominent Hamas…

The military court of the southern command’s division at the Israeli army decided in Sunday, to release a military officer charged with killing a 13-year-old girl in Rafah at “point-blank…

The Syrian President Bashar Assad told the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in a letter on Sunday, ‘We want peace.’ This statement by Assad comes one day prior to the Sharm…

A Palestinian political source voiced some expectations that a new Palestinian Cabinet will be announced within the coming 24 hours. The source said that some ministerial changes took place where…

Members of the Israeli Foreign and Security committee met with dozens of settlers in the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip, head of the Knesset, Reovin Revlin, who…