International Middle East Media Center
Turkish Military officials are currently in Israel to receive training and test four Israeli drones, Heron, manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries which is owned by the Israeli government. The visit…
Dozens of armed Jewish settlers of Bat Ayin Settlement, attacked Palestinian homes in the nearby village of Safa, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.The settlers hurled stones…
The Israeli Defense Establishment successfully launched its six spy satellite on Tuesday evening, in a move that was described as another advancement meant to boost Israel’s intelligence-gathering capabilities. The Satellite…
Court proceedings began Wednesday morning in Jerusalem for Hatem Abdel Qader, the Palestinian Chief of Jerusalem Affairs. He was charged with ‘violating a military order’ preventing him from praying at…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called on the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, to start direct peace talks with Israel without any delays. Yet, he did not offer any changes on…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped nearly two dozen Palestinians in the southern West Bank district of Hebron on Tuesday, after invading several areas and breaking into dozens of homes, local sources reported.The…
A spokesperson of the Iranian Red Crescent announced Tuesday that the Iranian aid ship heading to Gaza will be sailing this coming Sunday. The statement came shortly after some sources…
Israeli sources reported that senior U.S. officials asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for clarifications regarding Israel’s decision to demolish 22 Palestinian homes in Silwan neighborhood in East Jerusalem, in…
The Lebanese paper, al-Mustaqbal, stated that France has information from different sources, mainly from Washington, revealing that Israel intends to wage a war against Lebanon to strike the Hezbollah party.The…
Israeli sources reported that a number of Jewish businessmen are holding talks with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem, controlled and dominated by the Orthodox Patriarchate in Greece, with the…
The Russian Foreign Ministry demanded Israel to lift the siege on the Gaza Strip, and also demanded actual measures to end the humanitarian crisis in the coastal region. The siege…
The United Nations Human Rights Council voted for forming an international committee to probe the deadly Israeli attack against the Freedom Flotilla on May 31, leading to dozens of casualties…
An Israeli security organization placed an advertisement in the ads section in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, seeking “women volunteers” to attack and remove women from the Lebanese aid flotilla…
Hundreds of Gaza women held a rally on Monday evening at the Fishermen Port in Gaza City and lit candles in a display of solidarity with the Lebanese Aid Ship,…
A Senior member of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah party was killed Monday by a missile fired by an American drone in Pakistan. Sixteen people were killed in the attack, and dozens…
The U.S. State Department warned its citizens against going to the Gaza Strip, and against what it called “infiltrating” into Gaza by participating in solidarity ships or by any other…
In the first such action in the US, the Longshoreman’s Union in Oakland upheld a picket and refused to offload goods imported from Israel into California on Sunday. The picket…
The Israeli High Court rejected an appeal, on Sunday, against deportation orders targeting three Palestinian legislators and a former minister from Jerusalem. Ahmad Attoun, a Palestinian Legislator affiliated with Hamas,…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Sunday, a nonviolent protest against settlements and the Annexation Wall in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, leading to a number of injuries. The soldiers also attacked bystanders and…
At the end of his Middle East tour, U.S. Middle East Peace Envoy, George Mitchell, held a meeting on Saturday with the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak. Mitchell toured the region…
Tel Aviv sent an official letter to the United Nations stating that it will, and “has the right” to intercept the Lebanese solidarity ship, Mariam, carrying humanitarian supplies to Gaza.Israeli…
Despite Israel’s Thursday decision to “ease restrictions on Gaza”, the Israeli Authorities closed all trade crossings leading to the coastal region. The closure, unless extended, will last until Sunday. Fattouh…
The Israeli government instructed the army and the navy to intercept, and if necessary, to use force against the two Lebanese ships that would be heading to Gaza to deliver…
Amidst efforts to create a positive atmosphere for peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, Israel to discuss demolishing 22 Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem.Last time Mitchell visited the…
Israeli deputy Foreign Minister, Dani Ayalon, stated that Israel might accept having international observers monitor Gaza Strip border crossings in order to supervise the transfer of humanitarian supplies to Gaza.His…
In its weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Territories of Palestine, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that during the week of 10-16 June 2010,…
Workers of the Jerusalem municipality and officers of the Israeli Border Police broke into several homes, Thursday, that belong to the Salah family in Beit Safafa in East Jerusalem, and…
The U.S. State Department stated, Thursday, that although Israel has managed to achieve significant progress in countering human trafficking, it still “lacks the awareness to battle it and the will…
The Israeli army issued strict orders to the soldiers to stay away from Arab towns in the country and not to interact with Arab citizens. Israeli online daily, Maariv, reported…
Amnesty International issued a statement urging Israel to lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip, stating that the siege is a form of collective punishment against 1.4 million Palestinians.Commenting on…
The Israeli Ministerial Cabinet decided on Thursday morning to ease some of the restrictions it enforces on the entry of goods and supplies into the besieged coastal region. The cabinet…
One cargo ship full of humanitarian aid has departed from Iran bound for Gaza, with another ship planning to join it by the weekend. The Iranian flotilla, organized by the…
Israeli sources reported that the U.S Middle East Envoy, George Mitchell, will be holding a meeting on Thursday with Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, and a number of other Israeli…
The Star newspaper in Turkey reported Wednesday that the Turkish government decided not to send a new ambassador to Israel unless it cooperates with the International Investigation Committee in charge…
The Freedom Flotilla 2 carrying humanitarian supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip will be sailing to Gaza in mid-July 2010. All arrangements have been concluded and several ships are now…
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the Israeli soldier who shot and killed a 64-year-old Palestinian woman and her daughter, 35, during Israel’s offensive against the Gaza Strip, 18 months ago,…
The official Israeli version of an incident last Friday, in which a Palestinian motorist from East Jerusalem was killed by Israeli border officers after a motor vehicle accident, has been…
Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, spokesperson for the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, said Wednesday that the statements of Azzam al-Ahmad, a member of the Central Committee of the Fatah…
The Israeli army killed one man on Wednesday morning after spotting a group of people, some of them armed, apparently attempting to infiltrate through the border from Egypt, some 40…
A group of fighters survived, late on Tuesday night, an Israeli assassination attempt in Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.The al-Quds Brigade, the…
Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyya, stated that Israel’s decision to investigate its own attack against the Freedom Flotilla in international waters is an attempt to deceive the world, adding that the…
The leftist Palestinian People’s Party (PPP) held a protest in Nablus on Tuesday against political prosecution practiced by Hamas’ security forces in the Gaza Strip against members and leaders of…
Israel sent messages to Iran and Lebanon threatening that it will resort to violence if needed in order to prevent the Iranian and Lebanese solidarity ships from reaching the Gaza…
When Israeli border control officers attacked a non-violent protest near Qalandia checkpoint on June 1st, eyewitnesses reported that the troops fired three high-velocity tear gas canisters directly toward 21-year old…
Deputy Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Hussein Salami, stated that the Corps has no plans to escort the Gaza-bound solidarity ships heading from Tehran.The statement is contrary…
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak canceled a trip to an arms trading fair in France after French passengers of the Freedom Flotilla attacked two weeks ago said they plan to…
The German Federal Prosecution announced Saturday that a Mosad agent has been arrested in Poland for his suspected involvement in the flagrant assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Madbouh in Dubai…
Responding to requests from the Palestinian Workers Union and other unions and organizations around the world, the Norwegian Ports Union decided to follow its Swedish counterpart by launching a boycott…
Palestinian medical sources in Hebron reported, Saturday evening, that a 10-year-old child was hospitalized after being violently attacked and beaten by Israeli soldiers. The child, Gandhi Nidal al-Oweywy, 10, suffered…
Egyptian sources reported that an African immigrant was shot and killed on Friday morning by Egyptian Border Police fire as he was trying to infiltrate into Israel, another immigrant was…
Hisham Yousef, assistant Arab League Secretary-General, left the Gaza Strip through the Rafah terminal later on Thursday at night after conducting a short visit to observe the preparations for the…
In its weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the week of 3– 9 June 2010, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that…
The Magistrates Court in Haifa decided on Thursday to keep four settlers, Yeshiva students, in custody as they are the main suspects in spraying racist graffiti on the walls of…
The Palestinian Ministerial Council in the West Bank decided to delay that local council elections scheduled for July 17, until further notice. The Council said that a new elections date…
The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies reported Thursday that detainee Mohammad Abdul-Salaam Abdeen, 37, from al-Toor Palestinian neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, died at the al-Ramla prison. The detainees was…
Israeli soldiers detained and violently attacked a Palestinian Youth in Beit Ummar, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and released him later on. The youth, Hisham Khalil, 16,…
While the people of Gaza continue to demand that Israel lift its 3-year long siege and allow building materials, electric appliances, medical equipment and car parts into Gaza, the Israeli…
Dr. Mofeed Shihab, Egyptian Minister of State for Legal and Representative Councils Affairs, announced that the Rafah Border Terminal between Gaza and Egypt will remain open in order to enable…
25 fundamentalist members of Israeli Knesset submitted a bill proposing that the Knesset transfer money allocated to the Palestinian Authority to Jewish settlements, to punish the Palestinians for their boycott…
In the 1967 War, the Israeli military attacked and sank the USS Liberty in international waters. 34 US sailors were killed and 174 wounded after Israeli Navy officers mistook the…
Abdul-Raouf Adeeb Zada, head of the the Iranian Red Crescent’s International Relations department , announced Wednesday that two Iranian ships carrying humanitarian supplies will be sailing to Gaza by the…
Following his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, US President Barack Obama announced that his administration had decided to give 400 million dollars to the Gaza Strip in order to…
The UK submitted a secret proposal last week that suggested easing the siege on Gaza in return for what it called “a watered-down” investigation into Israel’s deadly attack on the…
The head of the Palestinian Ministry Of Detainees’ Census Department , Abdul-Nasser Farawna, who is himself a former detainee, stated that Israel has arrested around 700,000 Palestinians since June 1967.…
A special committee in Israel will be holding a meeting on Wednesday to make a decision on expelling nine Palestinian detainees from the West Bank. The violation is considered an…
On Tuesday, in the first incident of its kind, the Israeli Authorities deported a Sudanese citizen who had been working in Israel without a visa to the Gaza Strip. The…
An extremist organization in New York, calling itself “The Pulsa Di Nura,” sent a letter to Arab member of Knesset Dr. Ahmad Tibi informing him that he has “180 days…
Israeli soldiers uprooted and bulldozed, on Tuesday morning, agricultural lands in the al-Walaja village, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Israeli soldiers invaded that village after closing all of…
Israeli Army Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi appointed Major General Giora Eiland to lead the investigation into the Freedom Flotilla raid and to “draw lessons” from the botched operation. The…
The Egyptian Authorities stopped nine Egyptian Legislators at the Rafah Terminal who were trying to deliver construction supplies to Gaza.In Sinai, Egyptian Authorities confiscated four trucks filled with cement and…
In a joint press conference with Syrian President Bashar al Assad, Turkish Prime Minister Receb Tayyip Erdogan stated that Turkey will not be silent regarding Israel’s deadly raid on Freedom…
During his most recent visit to the US, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu requested that the US provide him with Joint Direct Attack Munition bombs, rockets, aircraft ammunition and other…
Five Palestinian families in the Jordan Valley, in the eastern part of the West Bank, received eviction orders from the Israeli military on Sunday, just days after Israeli settlers set…
Palestinian medical sources reported, Monday at dawn, that four fighters were killed by Israeli fire near the Gaza coast.The attack was carried out approximately at 4:30am, at dawn, as the…
The largest labor union in Britain, Unite, has passed a resolution to divest from Israel, while another U.S. College, slain activist Rachel Corrie’s school Evergreen College, has also voted for…
The Israeli Knesset house committee decided to revoke three key parliamentarian privileges of MK Zo’by for being part of the Freedom Flotilla that was carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. The…
A delegation of Arab Parliamentarians visited the Gaza Strip on Sunday in a step that was described as a move to challenge the Israeli siege on the coastal region, and…
Arab League Secretary-General, Amro Mousa, will be heading to the besieged Gaza Strip in the coming few days. Mousa phoned Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and informed him of his intention.…
Israeli Army Radio reported that Israel agreed to form an investigation committee for its violent attack against the Turkish ship heading to Gaza with the solidarity flotilla carrying humanitarian supplies…
The last ship in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, the MV Rachel Corrie, was captured by the Israeli navy early Saturday morning in international waters about 35 miles off the coast…
Around 35 miles off the coast of Gaza, at least three Israeli naval ships have blocked the passage of the MV Rachel Corrie, a humanitarian aid ship trying to deliver…
As the Irish-Malaysian aid ship MV Rachel Corrie approaches within 25 miles of Gaza, communication with the passengers and crew has been cut. This development occurred just after 6:30 am…
On Friday, the Israeli Police informed Hamas political leaders, Mohammad Abu Teir, Mohammad Totah, Khalid Abu Arafa, and Ahmad Attoun, all from Jerusalem, that the High Court ordered their expulsion…
The New York Times provided, on Thursday afternoon, internet ‘coverage’ of the deadly Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla and its nonviolent peace activists heading to Gaza to deliver humanitarian…
Palestinian medical sources reported Friday that an infant died at a hospital in Gaza after Israel refused to allow his family to transfer him to an Israeli hospital to receive…
Egyptian Legislator, Dr. Hazim Farouq, stated Friday that an Egyptian humanitarian convoy will be heading to the Gaza Strip this coming Monday carrying construction materials. Dr. Farouq, who was among…
United States President, Barack Obama, attempted to justify Israel’s deadly attack on the Freedom Flotilla, described it as tragic, yet stated that Israel has “legitimate concerns regarding the Gaza Strip…
The Hamas movement invited Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, of the rival Fateh party, to visit the Gaza Strip as the first step to break the Israeli siege, and end internal…
In its Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the week of 27 May – 02 June 2010, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights…
Israeli Interior Minister, Elie Yishai, sent a letter to the Legal Councelor of the Israeli government, Yehuda Feinstein, recommending that he revokes citizenship rights of Arab MK, Hanin Zo’by, for…
The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera reported that South Africa has recalled its ambassador to Israel to protest the deadly Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla Ships filled with humanitarian supplies, and…
The Israeli government stated Thursday that its opposes any international investigation into its violent and deadly attack against the Freedom Flotilla that was heading to Gaza, leading to the death…
Thousands of Turkish nationals and international activists participated on Thursday in the funeral of Turkish peace activists who were murdered by the Israeli Navy during the attack against the Marara…
Arab Member of Knesset Hanin Zo’by was given a security detail after she received several death threats for her participation in the Freedom Flotilla, the convoy of aid ships that…
Arab League secretary-general, Amro Mousa, stated that the Arab League will demand the United Nations to ensure Israel lifts the siege on Gaza immediately, and added that the Arab League…
The Israeli government sent a Gaza Strip resident back to the coastal region while his Turkish wife was deported back to Istanbul. The resident and his wife were among the…
Several fundamentalist members of Knesset attacked Arab legislator Hanin Zo’by, Wednesday, during a discussion of Israel’s deadly raid against the Gaza-bound humanitarian Freedom Flotilla.Zo’by was onboard one of the solidarity…
Three Turkish ships, carrying hundreds of human rights activists who were kidnapped and attacked by the Israeli army, during the illegal Israeli attack against the Freedom Flotilla heading to Gaza,…
In an interview with Fox News, the Israeli Ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, told viewers that he believed that his government’s raid on an unarmed aid ship in international…
Israeli Police arrested a 17-year-old Palestinian nonviolent activist in al-Ma’sara village Wednesday evening.Saddam Ala Ed-Deen, 17, is active in the nonviolent movement and resistance against the Annexation Wall in the…