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Translated by: Saed Bannoura After more than four years since the beginning of Al-Aqsa Intifada, different aspects in the Palestinian life were deeply affected by the situation, and the continuous…

Arafat’s advisor, Nabil Abu Rodeina, denied reports released by the Israeli media that P.A Chairman Yasser Arafat appointed a three-man committee to act in his absence. According to the released…

A Palestinian source said that all need arrangement have been carried out to transfer Arafat to France for treatment. The source added that a Jordanian helicopter will transfer Arafat at…

Palestinian sources reported that Israeli Army troops Thursday shot and killed an eight-year-old Palestinian girl who was on her way to school in a Gaza Strip refugee camp. Rania Iyad…

A Palestinian source said that the doctors decided to transfer Arafat to a Hospital in Paris in order to follow up his health condition. The source added that the doctors…

In a Phone call with the Qatar Based Al-Jazeera TV, Dr. Ashraf Al-Kurdy, from Jordan, said that he will arrive in Ramallah on Thursday morning along with a Jordanian medical…

An Israeli military source said that a Palestinian resistance group fired mortal shells at a military post near the settlement of Morag, south of Gaza, and exchanged fire with the…

Israeli sources quoted a Palestinian source as saying that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s health had begun to deteriorate as of Wednesday night. Senior Palestinian officials, including Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia,…

Inspite of the controversial nature of his politics, Palestinians look at former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas as a man of integrity. As a founder of Fatah, unlike of most Palestinian…

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday praised the Knesset’s approval of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s unilateral disengagement plan and the removal of settlements from Gaza and four of the West…

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday praised the Knesset’s approval of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s unilateral disengagement plan and the removal of settlements from Gaza and four of the West…

‘If in the heat of the moment things were said that shouldn’t have been, I am so sorry.’ Israeli Prime Minster Ariel Sharon said Wednesday at a memorial ceremony for…

Israeli Haaretz said in its online edition that the settlers of an unauthorized settlers outpost near the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar in Nablus area, held up the ambulance coming…

Despite of the Israeli Knesset Approval of the disengagement plan, the Palestinian authority expressed its disbelief that there will be a positive change on the ground in the occupied territories…

The International Women Peace Service (IWPS) reported that Angie Zelter, a prominent nonviolent peace and human rights activist from the United Kingdom is currently being held for deportation by the…

The Knesset approved Sharon’s Disengagement Plan on Tuesday at night with a majority of 67 votes against 45, while seven Mk’s abstained from the vote, absent due to illness; Sharon…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health accused the Israeli Government increased it military operations against the Palestinian in Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip killing 19 residents and…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said that a female detainee from Bethlehem, detained in Atzion military detention, is subjected to daily physcological pressures due to daily torture and harassments conducted against…

Detainee Husam Badran, from Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the north of the West Bank, told lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoner’s society, Khaled Al-Dosouqy, that Gilboa prison administration…

Soldiers withdrew from neighborhoods in the west of Kahn Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, leaving 17 residents dead, more than 78 wounded, 34 homes leveled in addition…

The credit goes to people like Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that the Likud, an extreme right wing party, managed to dominate the center of the political life in Israel…

The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reiterated his refusal to hold a national referendum on the disengagement plans despite threats by some of his key Likud ministers to quit the…

Military Police have arrested a Givati Brigade commander on suspicion he shot dead a 13-year-old Palestinian girl at close range while the girl was laying wounded on the ground. The…

Dr. Moaweya Hassanen, head of the emergency Unit in the ministry of health, said that one resident, identified as Abdul-Aziz Abu-Mo’ammar, died of wounds sustained earlier on Tuesday at dawn,…

P. A Chairman Yasser Arafat, met with the Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qorei and head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Rawhi Fattouh, and Minister of Negotiations, Saeb Erekat on Tuesday…

Israeli police found graffiti on Tuesday morning, on the walls in the streets of West Jerusalem which said: ‘We killed Rabin, we will kill Sharon too, and death to the…

A local source in Hebron said that soldiers arrested four residents, burnt a carpentry and a shoemaking store and pinched money and gold from some homes during raids conducted in…

A Poll conducted by the Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, revealed that two-thirds of the Israelis support Sharon’s Disengagement Plan, despite the fact that only more than half of the participants…

After Sharon’s speech in the Knesset, opposition leader Shimon Peres, asked MKs to support the disengagement plan, indicating the Gaza Strip was not worth fighting for. Peres, referring to the…

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat underwent minor exploratory surgery on Monday in his Muqata headquarters and is in stable condition. A senior Palestinian official said that Doctors carried out an endoscopey…

A Palestinian security source in Khan Younis said that soldiers killed a resident in the Austrian Neighborhood in Khan Younis, on Monday at night, raising the total number of residents…

Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, opened the debate on his disengagement plan in the Knesset on Monday, saying that his plan would ‘strengthen Israel’. Sharon blamed Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat,…

An Israeli army source said on Sunday that some Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza Strip may have anti-aircrafts missiles in their possession. Generals of Israeli military establishment think that resistance…

Israel decided Monday to allow Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to leave his headquarters for a medical check in Ramallah hospital, about 2 kilometers away from where the President is besieged…

Al-Aqsa Brigades threatened to split from Fatah Movement if the Qorei Government and Fatah’s Central Committee does not fulfill their demands to conduct new procedures in order to solve the…

Refraining from expressing any preference for either U.S. President George W. Bush or his rival Senator John Kerry, the Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said that the next U.S. president…

An Egyptian government source announced Monday that eight Egyptian and a Palestinian were involved in the three simultaneous car bombings of a hotel and a tourist resort in Sinai on…

Two Jewish families moved into a house near Rachel’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Bethlehem this week. The two families joined yeshiva students who earlier moved to the…

Israeli Attorney General, Menachem Mazuz, asked judges adjudicating cases against the Palestinian Authority to stop imposing confiscation orders on PA funds. Mazuz said last week, Israel will cover damages awarded…

Several female detainees accused the Israeli Security of sexually harassing them, in order to force the detainees to confess to charges laid against them, in addition to repeatedly imposing physiological…

The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, said in its online edition on Monday, that a Jordanian group is planning to build the fifth minaret in the Aqsa Mosque area. According to Raef…

A medical source in Khan Younis said that soldiers killed two P.A security men, wounded six others, after firing two missiles at a Palestinian security center in the Austrian neighborhood…

During it’s Sunday weekly meeting, the Israeli cabinet approved by 13 to 6 vote the ‘compensation-evacuation law’ bill, which will compensate settlers evacuated under the disengagement plan. Likud ministers Yisrael…

As Israel intends to maintain control over the crossings to Gaza, its coastline, and airspace, it will still be considered under international law as the occupying power, concluded to an…

A local source in Hebron said that soldiers detained two residents in Hebron, and held scores of residents during vast military searches conducted in the city, on Sunday morning. The…

A local source in Hebron said that soldiers apprehended two residents in Hebron, and withheld tens of residents during vast military searches conducted in the city, on Sunday morning. The…

‘If Sharon believes that with a pullout from Gaza everything is already done and that peace would come automatically, we won’t support that, that wouldn’t be a dream, but a…

A Palestinian Authority treasury source said Saturday that about half of the Palestinian Authority budget deficit was caused by seizures imposed by Israeli courts on PA funds. According to the…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is assured that the disengagement plan will be approved on Tuesday’s Knesset session, but fears lacking a majority to approve the state budget for 2005…

For the two years following September 11th, the Western public was inundated with propaganda to such a vociferous degree that to be a critical voice was to be heretical and…

Translated by: Saed Bannoura Ala ’ Al-Shalash, 19 years old, said that he was severely clubbed by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint known as “the container checkpoint”, to the east…

How would it feel to be targeted in the street, or in the car, what sort of live you will be living while knowing that you might be a moving…

Saed Bannoura, IMEMC Children are the most affected by any conflict in this world, the faultless victims of brutality and advanced weapons technology; tiny angels, the builders of the future…

Translated by: George N. Rishmawi-IMEMC PNN: How do you view the latest Israeli offensive in Gaza Strip? Rajoub: The Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip and other areas in…

Ten minutes stroll northward from the lively alleyways of the Old City and its renowned Golden Dome lays one of the Holy Land’s smallest parishes; the Anglican Church, with its…

A Palestinian medical source Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, said that the Israeli army killed more than 31 and woudned over 200 Palestinians in the past 36 hours in…

The Prisoners’ Supporters Society said that soldiers continued their assaults and violations against the Palestinian detainees in Al- Maskobiyya prison in Jerusalem, for the second day. The society, centered in…

In an interview with Al-Jazeera TV, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell called Wednesday on the Palestinians to end the four-year-old Intifada, as it is hindering the creation of an…

A group of Palestinian Lawmakers are planning to force a no-confidence vote that could bring down the Palestinian cabinet. Lawmakers said on Wednesday they had collected enough signatures on a…

A Palestinian medical source Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, said that the Israeli army killed more than 31 and woudned over 200 Palestinians in the past 36 hours in…

The Prisoners’ Supporters Society said that soldiers continued their assaults and violations against the Palestinian detainees in Al- Maskobiyya prison in Jerusalem, for the second day. The society, centered in…

In an interview with Al-Jazeera TV, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell called Wednesday on the Palestinians to end the four-year-old Intifada, as it is hindering the creation of an…

A group of Palestinian Lawmakers are planning to force a no-confidence vote that could bring down the Palestinian cabinet. Lawmakers said on Wednesday they had collected enough signatures on a…

A medical source in Dir Al-Balah, in the north of the Gaza Strip said that a military helicopter fired a missile at a group of residents in Karm Al-Zaytoun area,…

It’s absurd that officials on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are convinced that the four years fighting is all about making a point. An Israeli foreign minister official told…

Two International volunteers of the Christian Peace Makers Team, Chris Brown, 40 and Kim Lamberty, 44 were attacked by five masked men around the settlement outpost of Maon in the…

Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, chair of “Health and Development Information Policy Center” (HDIP), said that 3334 Palestinians were killed and 53,000 were wounded since the…

A medical source in Dir Al-Balah, in the north of the Gaza Strip said that a military helicopter fired a missile at a group of residents in Karm Al-Zaytoun area,…

It’s absurd that officials on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are convinced that the four years fighting is all about making a point. An Israeli foreign minister official told…

Two International volunteers of the Christian Peace Makers Team, Chris Brown, 40 and Kim Lamberty, 44 were attacked by five masked men around the settlement outpost of Maon in the…

Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, chair of “Health and Development Information Policy Center” (HDIP), said that 3334 Palestinians were killed and 53,000 were wounded since the…

Jerusalem – Four years ago on September 28, 2000, when Ariel Sharon made his operatic visit to the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem igniting the Second Intifada,…

It’s absurd that officials on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are convinced that the four years fighting is all about making a point. An Israeli foreign minister official told…

AP reported that RIad Abu Ali, CNN Producer has been released after negotiations between the PA and the group that abducted Abu Ali on Monday night in Gaza Strip. PA…

“It is likely that Israel acted in order to force Hamas to run a global war, hoping that such a move will remove the borders that differentiate between the Palestinian…

AP reported that RIad Abu Ali, CNN Producer has been released after negotiations between the PA and the group that abducted Abu Ali on Monday night in Gaza Strip. PA…

“It is likely that Israel acted in order to force Hamas to run a global war, hoping that such a move will remove the borders that differentiate between the Palestinian…

A Palestinian non-violent protester, Mansour Mansour from the village of Budrus northwest of Jerusalem and another German activist were badly beaten and at least 15 Israeli activists have been arrested…

Israeli Magistrate court in Kfar Saba near the West Bank city of Qalqilia released on Tuesday, the Israeli settler Yihusha Alitzur who killed a Palestinian from the village of Salem…

AFP reported that the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu Al-Gheit is scheduled to visit Israel next week, for talks with Israeli officials on the Israeli unilateral disengagement plan. AFP also…

Four officers in an elite Israeli Army Air Force unit recently sent a letter to senior Army officers in which they harshly criticized the army’s operations in the Palestinian occupied…

Jordan said on Monday that the West Bank wall will interfere with establishing a stable Palestinian state and presents a threat to neighboring countries. In a speech to the United…

The Israel army launched a broad operation in the West Bank city of Jenin early Monday. Eyewitnesses said Israeli forces are backed with armored vehicles and Apache gun ships. Troops…

An Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, said on its online edition on Sunday that more than 140 settlers are preparing to erect two settlement outposts in Hebron, in the West Bank.…

Palestinian sources said that one man was killed and three others were injured after an Israel helicopter fired a missile at a vehicle in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza…

Palestinian sources from the village of Budrus west of Ramallah that Israeli troops sealed all entrances of the village Sunday night. Residents of the village expressed their worries that the…

Soldiers apprehended two residents in Nablus after raiding several neighborhoods in the city, and Al-Ein refugee camp, and firing at tens of homes on Monday morning. A local source in…

The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories released a report on Thursday which revealed the number of casualties among the Palestinians since the beginning of the…

Translated by: Saed Bannoua-IMEMC Wisam Abdul-Kareem, 14 years old, from the village of Kafr Al-Deek, in the north west of Salfit, in the West Bank, tells his story of military…

Israeli security sources confirmed Sunday that Israel is involved in the car bombing that killed one of the senior Hamas officials in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Minutes after the…

The Israeli Newspaper Haaretz said that army in preparing a wide-scaled operation in the Gaza Strip, which aims to stop the launching of Qassam shells at the Israeli settlements in…

UN Human Rights investigator dismissed Israeli claims that the West bank separation wall was built to keep out suicide bombers, saying that the findings of his investigation affirms that it…

In response to Palestinian Prime minister Ahmed Qurei’s Friday hints that it was possible to dismantle Fatah’s military wing, a brigades spoksman, nicknamed as Abu Mahmoud called Qurei to resign…

Palestinian security sources confirmed Saturday that Israeli Authorities at the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt denied exit to Palestinian security personnel who were supposed to go to Egypt for…

A group of International peace activists, cycling for peace from London to Jerusalem, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, arrived in Palestine on September 22. The tour, that started on…

Soldiers withdrew from West Khan Younis refugee camp on Saturday morning, after conducting a vast military raid leaving one resident dead, seven wounded and eighty homes destroyed. A local source…

 The Palestinian Prisoner Society said that the detainees in Nafha detention informed lawyer Fayez Al-Shalloudy, that the situation now is worse than it was before the hunger Strike conducted in…

Once again, Egypt called off invitations to hold talks between Palestinian different factions in Cairo. Egypt blamed ‘Israel’s lack of cooperation’ as the reason for the ever lasting suspension. Egyptian…

Once again, Egypt called off invitations to hold talks between Palestinian different factions in Cairo. Egypt blamed ‘Israel’s lack of cooperation’ as the reason for the ever lasting suspension. Egyptian…

Disagreeing with US officials, France’s foreign minister reiterated his country’s stance, that no progress can be made in the Middle East peace process by marginalizing or not negotiating with Palestinian…