Author: Saed Bannoura

The Israeli Air Force bombarded on Wednesday night after midnight several areas in the Gaza Strip leading to excessive damage; at least one resident was injured.Three consecutive air strikes were…

Israeli soldiers confiscated on Wednesday several agricultural tractors that belong to Palestinian residents on the Jordan Valley, and took them to a nearby illegal settlement. Local sources reported that the…

Egyptian sources reported Wednesday that the new Egyptian government will host several Palestinian officials in Cairo in the coming few days. The talks will focus on efforts to achieve internal…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Wednesday evening Awarta village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, imposed curfew after sealing the village, and abducted several residents. Local sources reported that…

The police force of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank arrested a man Tuesday who was identified by eyewitnesses as the masked man who shot well-known Israeli-Palestinian peacemaker, actor…

U.S. President, Barack Obama, stated on Tuesday that “the wind of change is upon the Middle East”, and that the new changes require a much harder work in order to…

Hundreds of children in the Gaza Strip participated in a Tuesday event organized by the Palestinian Ministry of Sports and Education – The General Administration of Children’s Affairs, demanding the…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Tuesday evening that 13 Palestinians, who were imprisoned by Egypt, were released while twelve of them managed to cross into Gaza. One…

The Israeli Air Force bombarded on Wednesday at dawn several areas in the Gaza Strip causing damage while at least four Palestinians, including two children sand a pregnant woman, were…

Only a few days after retracting his report on Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, South African Judge, Richard Goldstone, said will be happy to visit Israel next summer, starting…

Richard Goldstone, the Chief Investigator of the UN Human Rights Council’s investigation into war crimes and violations by Israel and Hamas during Israel’s 2008-9 invasion of Gaza, created a diplomatic…

Juliano Meir-Khamis, a well-known Israeli actor and co-director of the Jenin Freedom Theatre, was shot to death in his car Monday, just outside his theatre in Jenin refugee camp, in…

Palestinian sources reported Monday that detainee Mustafa Shihab Abdul-Wahab, 16 years old, from a village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, was released from an Israeli detention facility…

Under the pretext of searching for international peace activists, Israeli soldiers and policemen invaded on Monday at dawn Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, broke into…

Weekly non-violent anti-Wall protests in a number of towns across the West Bank on Friday, including Bil’in, Nil’in, al Ma’sara and Nabi Saleh, were attacked by Israeli forces wielding tear…

The Israeli Air Force assassinated, after midnight on Friday night, three fighters of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, north of Khan Younis, in the southern…

After a 2-year long campaign that involved bi-weekly protests, consumer education and petitions challenging the Ahava company’s illegal theft of Palestinian land and resources, British activists are now claiming credit…

The Israeli Prime Minister called the head of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, on Friday to insist that the UN intervene to stop an international humanitarian aid mission that is…

Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Thursday evening, Mohammad Ahmad Rayyan, a political leader of the Hamas movement in the central West Bank city of Ramallah.Rayyan’s arrest comes a few days after…

The White House announced that U.S. President, Barack Obama, will be holding a meeting with Israeli President, Shimon Peres, next Tuesday April 5th in Washington. The White House said that…

Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, issued a press release accusing Israel, and its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of acting to sabotage internationally-mediated talks that aims at conducting a prisoner-swap deal. The…

Sami Abu Zuhri, spokesperson of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, claimed that the Fateh movement of President Mahmoud Abbas “has plans to drag the Gaza Strip into insecurity…

The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, issued a press release stating that one of its fighters was killed on Thursday evening when a tunnel collapsed…

Dr. Mohammad Al Ahmad, the Dean of Student Affairs in Bir Zeit University, near the central West bank city of Ramallah, stated that the Yasser Arafat Bloc of the Fateh…

Dozens of Protesters gathered Wednesday in front of the Chatham House research institute in London to protest allowing Israeli President, Shimon Peres, to visit the institute and giving him the…

One of Israel’s largest banks, Bank Leumi, has agreed to an out-of-court settlement after being sued by the descendents of victims of the Holocaust. The Bank kept money deposited by…

Thousands of residents and university students marched on Wednesday Marking March 30, the Palestinian Land day, and chanted slogans against the illegal Israeli policies of land theft, and the ongoing…

Israeli Policemen broke on Wednesday into the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, In Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, searching for its director, Jawad Siyam. Soldiers and Israeli policemen broke into the…

Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday at dawn that a member of the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, was killed, while another Palestinian was seriously injured…

An official research conducted by researchers of the Palestinian Census Bureau revealed that Israel’s settlement construction in occupied Palestinian had quadrupled in 2010 comparing to the number of settlement units…

Palestinian medical sources reported, Monday evening, that a 16-year-old Palestinian youth from Azzoun town near the northern West Bank of Qalqilia, was hospitalized after being violently attacked by Israeli soldiers…

An advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told reporters Monday that the Palestinian Authority would be willing to give up US aid money rather than submit to US demands that…

The Israeli military invaded the Palestinian village of Ein al-Hilwe in the eastern part of the West Bank known as the Jordan Valley, an area subject to numerous recent attacks…

The Israeli Magistrates Court in Jerusalem sentenced, on Sunday, an Israeli settler from a West Bank illegal settlement to 18 months imprisonment after convicting him of kidnapping and attacking a…

Officials from the Palestinian Authority criticized the destruction this week of an ancient water well and reservoir southeast of Bethlehem used by Palestinian Bedouin shepherds as their main sources of…

Only a few hours after several resistance factions, including the Al Qassam Brigades of Hamas, declared that they are committed to a ceasefire should Israel halt its attacks, Israeli soldiers…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, met on Saturday with Hamas representatives in the West Bank and told them he plans to head to Gaza in an attempt to end internal rifts…

And here we go… again, another initiative, another diplomatic move and another act that distances us further away from any real solution to the real issue at hand, Peace that…

Salam Fayyad, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority led by the Fateh party, met on Friday with Robert Gates, the US Secretary of State, who was visiting Ramallah after…

The Maan News Agency reported that a Palestinian man, originally from Gaza, was killed after gunmen opened fire at a vehicle carrying him, a physician and a nurse in Dir’a…

Dozens of Palestinian children in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip sent letters to Japanese children to express solidarity with them after the massive earthquake that hit Japan and the…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the week of 17-23 March 2011, 10 Palestinians, including 4 children, were killed by Israeli…

The National Resistance Brigades, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed joint responsibility…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) issued a press release accusing the Hamas-led government and Hamas’ security forces of cracking down on dozens of journalists in the Gaza Strip, adding…

One of South Africa’s most prominent universities has announced that it will cut all financial and academic ties with Israel’s largest university, Ben Gurion University, due to Ben Gurion University’s…

In a law condemned by rights advocates as racist, revisionist and divisive, the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) voted Wednesday to prevent any commemorations of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) in which historic…

Israeli sources reported Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approved a series of strikes in the Gaza Strip before he headed to Russia.The decision came during a meeting he…

The explosion that took place in Jerusalem was caused by an explosive device placed in a phone booth close to a bus stop near the Jerusalem Convention Center. An Israeli…

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas must choose between peace with Israel and peace with the rival Hamas movement, the Israeli Radio and…

After an Israeli airstrike killed eight civilians, including three children on Tuesday, the UN Envoy to the Middle East issued a statement condemning the attack, and calling on Israel to…

Ismail Haniyya, head of the Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip, demanded the Security Council to take serious and fast measures to ensure the protection of the Palestinian people suffering…

In the most recent wave of Israeli military escalation targeting the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian medical sources reported that nine Palestinians, including three children, were killed as the army…

As Israel renewed its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, another resident was wounded east of Gaza city while the Israeli army conducted a limited invasion into Gaza city. A total…

As the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) and a number of European solidarity groups declared intentions to send a relief flotilla to the besieged Gaza Strip this coming May, Israel…

The Palestinian Information Center, affiliated with the Hamas movement, reported Tuesday that Egyptian Foreign Minister, Dr. Nabil Al Arabi, stated that Hamas delegates will be visiting Egypt soon in order…

Only a few days after Israeli soldiers concluded a military operation in Awarta village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, troops invaded the village again on Tuesday morning…

Israeli sources reported that an Israeli soldier was stabbed in Jaffa city on Sunday, and that the masked assailant snatched his weapon and fled the scene.The soldier suffered moderate wounds…

According to Israeli media reports, the Israeli intelligence service set up a special department several months ago to monitor groups involved in bringing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, claiming…

Dr. Aziz Dweik, head of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), stated Saturday that he hopes that he would be able to accompany President Mahmoud Abbas in his first visit to…

Palestinian medical sources reported that five Palestinians were wounded on Saturday morning when the Israeli army bombarded several areas in the Gaza Strip. Israel claimed that 48 shells were recently…

Israeli forces operating in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Friday claim that they were attacked by Palestinian fighters, who fired an anti-tank projectile at an Israeli tank.…

Former White House correspondent Helen Thomas, 89, who was fired last year after making controversial comments about Israel, told Playboy magazine in a feature interview that her comments were misinterpreted…

The student association of Edinburgh University in Scotland voted overwhelmingly Thursday night to support a boycott of Israeli goods and services. This comes after the student association, which represents all…

Clashes took place on Friday between dozens of Palestinian residents on Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem. Several residents and one Israeli officer, were injured.Israeli sources reported that the Border…

The Israeli Authorities handed down orders to six Bedouin families, from Al Saray’a tribe, in occupied East Jerusalem, informing them the the Jerusalem Municipality intends to demolish their homes.The new…

The Hamas movement denied a report said to be published by Haaretz Israeli newspaper claiming that Ayman Taha, one of Hamas’ political leaders, is involved in financial corruption and indecent…

A group of Israeli settlers attacked on Friday a Palestinian Cab driver at the Za’tara junction east of the central West Bank city of Salfit. The driver, Fathallah Bozeah, 45,…

In its Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the week of 10-16 March 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that…

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, harshly slammed the reconciliation efforts between the rival Fateh and Hamas movements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.In an interview with the CNN,…

On Wednesday and Thursday, Israeli soldiers stationed at a gate in the Annexation Wall near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, have been demanding that the students undergo electronic…

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, Elyahu Yishai, decided on Thursday to prevent Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, head of the Higher Islamic Committee in Jerusalem, from leaving the country for six months. Yishai…

Israeli Ynet News reported that a Jewish man, member of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council was stopped by a policewomen who racially profiled him as an Arab. The man described…

A statement released by the Lebanese Army revealed that an Israeli surveillance system was uncovered and dismantled on Thursday in Sahmaa town, near Tyr in southern Lebanon.The system was in…

Egypt announced Wednesday that it managed to uncover a spy network working for Israel on Egyptian soil, and that its intelligence services are trying to locate two Israelis and one…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated Wednesday that Israel always rushes to blame the Palestinians, and rushed to blame them for the brutal murder of a Jewish family in Itamar settlement,…

A Palestinian Facebook activist from Sakhnin, north of the country, was kidnapped by the Israeli police on Wednesday and was placed under interrogation on charges of “inciting violence, and humiliating…

Israeli soldiers fired on Wednesday evening several artillery shells at an area surrounding the eastern Al Shuhada Graveyard, east of Gaza city; damage was reported, no injuries.Local sources reported that…

Israeli soldiers broke on Wednesday morning into a tower that belongs to the National Cellular Phone Company in Jenin, attacked and detained the guard forcing him to remove his shirt…

Around twenty Jewish organizations, and a number of prominent Jewish individuals, including several Holocaust survivors, have signed on to a letter published by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network this week…

Palestinian medical sources reported that a local fisherman was shot and wounded on Wednesday at noon by Israeli navy fire near the Gaza shore. The sources added that the navy…

The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights reported that the Israeli Air Force bombarded on Wednesday morning a location for the Palestinian National Security Forces, north of Al Mighraqa village…

Rallies organized by a grassroots youth movement in Palestine took place all over the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The largest such rally was in Gaza City, involving…

Hamas spokesperson in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, slammed the Ma’an News Agency for, what he called, “publishing false reports that proved it is biased towards the Fatah…

Prime Minister of the dissolved Hamas-led government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyya, called Tuesday on Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, to visit the Gaza Strip and initiate comprehensive unity talks.Haniyya said that…

Palestinian sources reported, Tuesday, that an armed Israeli settler opened fire at a Palestinian vehicle driving near the entrance of Bani Neim town, south of Hebron, in the southern part…

Abdullah Abu Rahme, a Palestinian organizer of the weekly non-violent demonstrations in Bil’in village, in the central West Bank, was released from prison on Monday after serving a 16-month sentence…

Secretary-General of the leftist Palestinian People Party (PPP), Bassam Salhi, stated Monday that the PPP will not join the new interim government that is expected to be declared soon by…

Israeli forces have maintained a closure of the village of Awarta for the last three days, preventing all residents from leaving their homes, with no indication as to when the…

After alleged reports that a Palestinian murdered five Israeli settlers, including a baby and two small children, in their beds Friday night, the Israeli government announced that 500 new units…

Dozens of armed Israeli settlers attacked late on Saturday at night and early Sunday at dawn dozens of Palestinian homes in Huwwara town, south of the northern West Bank city…

After the stabbing deaths of five family members, including an 11-year old, 4-year old, and 3-month old baby on Friday night in the northern West Bank, Israeli troops set up…

Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, strongly denounced that stabbing attack that was carried out in Itamar settlement, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, leading to the death…

Israeli sources reported that an unknown assailant, presumed to be Palestinian, attacked a family of Israeli settlers in their house in Itamar settlement late Friday night. Israeli authorities have called…

The United Nations believes that a Palestinian Engineer, who lived in Gaza and worked as a senior engineer at the Gaza Power Plant, and went missing in Ukraine more than…

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 03-09 Mar. 2011, 7 Palestinian civilians, including two children, were wounded by…

Israeli deputy Foreign Minister, Danni Ayalon, threatened that should the Palestinian Authority declare a Palestinian state without reaching a comprehensive peace agreement with Israel, Tel Aviv will absolve itself from…

After the Hamas movement presented a document that was described as a new initiative to achieve internal Palestinian unity, the rival Fatah movement rejected it and said that Hamas is…

Palestinian medical sources reported that one worker was killed late on Tuesday evening in a tunnel accident in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.The sources stated that…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Wednesday at dawn several villages east of Jenin city, in the northern part of the West Bank. Eight Palestinian were kidnapped across the West Bank.Eyewitnesses reported…

Arab residents of Lod held a massive protest, on Tuesday at night, in support of Abu Eid family that lost its seven homes after the Israeli Authorities demolished them four…