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Thousands of Palestinian civilians and institutions marked Palestinian Prisoner's Day on April 17th by holding massive peaceful protests in support of the detainees currently being held by Israel. The protests…
Palestinian commissioner at the Arab League, Mohammad Sbeih, stated on Tuesday that the League transferred $52 million to the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, and will continue to transfer aid to…
Palestinian security sources in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Sunday that two residents were shot and killed by unknown gunmen in two separate…
A previously unknown group calling itself Al Tawheed and Al Jihad, apparently issueda press release on Sunday stating that it executed Alan Johnston, the abducted British reporter. The reporter was…
Israeli military sources claimed on Saturday that soldiers arrested a Syrian resident who crossed into the Golan Heights on Friday. According to the sources, the man is suffering from serious…
Israeli security sources claimed that Hamas is providing the Islamic Jihad with homemade shells to fire them from the Gaza Strip into Israeli areas, and that Hamas is encouraging the…
A report prepared and published by the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees revealed that Israeli troops kidnapped nearly 600 women since the beginning of the Intifada in September 28, 2000; 128…
The Palestine News Network (PNN) reported on Friday that soldiers broke into the house of Houriyya Al Saidaly, in the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of…
The Palestinian center For Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza published on Thursday its weekly report on the Israeli violations in the Palestinian occupied territories in the period between April 5…
The Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported on Thursday that the Tel Aviv District Court sentenced three Israelis to 13-years in prison after convicting them of driving a Palestinian suicide bomber. …
The Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens Rights (PICCR) reported that Israeli troops stationed at hundreds of roadblocks in the occupied territories barred dozens of pregnant women from crossing the checkpoints…
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported on Tuesday at night that the Bush Administration authorized the Congress to send $59 million to bolster the Palestinian Security Forces loyal to the Palestinian…
Israeli sources reported on Tuesday at night that the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, is “disappointed” by the list of detainees that the Palestinian demand to be freed in a…
Israeli military sources reported on Tuesday that one settler was moderately injured in a drive by shooting attack that took place near Kidumum Israeli settlement , near the northern west…
Detainee Samar Sbeih is one of several female detainees who gave birth in Israeli prisons and remained imprisoned with their children. She was taken prisoner three months after her wedding,…
Recently, a website affiliated with Hamas published a list of names of some detainees that Hamas is requesting to be freed as part of a prisoner-swap deal between Israel and…
Official Egyptian sources reported on Monday that Egyptian border-guards arrested one Palestinian who allegedly crossed from the Gaza Strip into Egypt through one of two tunnels that were recently dug…
A report prepared and published by the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) revealed that Israeli troops shot and killed 860 Palestinian children since the beginning of the Intifada in September 2000.…
Palestinian political detainees in Gilboa’ and Shatta Israeli prisons complained that they are deprived from medical attention and treatment, and stated that several detainees are in immediate need for hospitalization.The…
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported on Saturday at night, that unknown gunmen abducted a Gaza-born Arab resident of Israel after he visited relatives in the Gaza Strip. Haaretz added that…
Friday, unknown gunmen ambushed a Fateh official, and a top union leader, as he drove his vehicle, with his family, in the Gaza Strip; the official was moderately injured.The gunmen…
Israeli military sources reported on Saturday at dawn that Israeli military helicopters fired at least two missiles at what was described “suspicious movements” near the Jabalia refugee camp, in the…
The Maan News Agency reported on Friday at night that a Palestinian policeman was shot and injured by unknown gunmen in Rafidia area, in the northern part of the West…
Palestinian medical sources in al Wafa' hospital, in Gaza city, reported on Friday evening that one fighter died of wounds sustained during an Israeli military invasion to Khazza'a town, in…
Israeli TV, Channel 2, reported on Friday evening that Hamas reduced its demands on the number and names of detainees who should be freed in exchange for releasing the captured…
Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz ordered on Thursday that the settlers who occupied a Palestinian house in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, should be evacuated. However,…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights, in Gaza, published its weekly report on the Israeli violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories in the period between March 29…
The Hamas bloc at Bir Zeit University, near Ramallah in the northern part of the west Bank, achieved a slight victory over Fateh in Wednesday's student elections. Hamas won 22…
Israeli sources reported on Wednesday that Israeli soldiers opened fire last Thursday at “suspicious figures” who crossed the international border between Lebanon and Israel, and that early the following day,…
Israeli sources reported on Tuesday night that senior Israeli military officials are considering an alternative plan for the Illegal Wall, by sealing it around settlements and settlement blocks to keep…
The international police force, Interpol, issued an arrest warrant for three Israelis who are accused of training Colombian private armies, right-wing death squads and drug cartels, Israeli news reported.…
The Israeli Military Intelligence claimed on Tuesday that thousands of fighter of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad are receiving military training in Iran, Syria and Yemen in preparation to what…
Palestinian sources reported on Monday at night that undercover forces of the Israeli army invaded Al Atatra area, west of Beit Lahia town, in the northern part of the Gaza…
Hundreds of residents of Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, protested on Monday at the Beit Forik Israeli military checkpoint, against the siege and roadblocks that isolates…
Non-government Palestinian Christian Organization demanded on Monday the international community to act in order to stop the Israeli attacks and violations to the rights of Palestinian worshipers and the holy…
The Arabs48 news website reported that senior Palestinian officials said that they are disappointed by the the outcome of the visit of Angela Merkel,the German Chancellor, to Ramallah, in the…
On Monday at dawn, under-cover forces of the Israeli army, and military intelligence officers handed residents of Shu'fat refugee camp in Jerusalem warrants to evacuate their homes within 14 days…
The National And Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements held a nonviolent protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall in Izbit Al Tabeeb village, near the northern West Bank city…
Israeli military sources reported on Saturday night that the Israeli army completed last week preparations for a possible major invasion of the Gaza Strip. Special training was conducted at the…
Israeli soldiers detained on Saturday evening several teachers of the Tulkarem Teachers Forum at the Beit Eeba checkpoint, west of Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank. In…
During their meeting in Germany, European Union Ministers backed the revived Arab Peace Initiative, and said that they will deal with ministers of the new Palestinian National Unity Government who…
The European Union (EU) welcomed on Friday the renewed Arab peace initiative, described it as encouraging and said that it would continue to re-evaluate the outcome of the summit and…
In an interview with the Time Magazine, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert described the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh as a 'terrorist' and accused him of transferring more than 1…
Arab residents of Israel, especially those in the Palestinian towns of Sakhneen, Al Taiba and Kufur Kanna, marched on Friday in commemoration of the Land Day. They carried Palestinian flags…
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said on Friday that Israel will not accept the Right of Return of the Palestinian refugees. He told the Israeli 'Jerusalem Post' that this issue…
Palestinian medical sources at the Al Maqassid Hospital in Jerusalem, reported on Thursday night that a Palestinian child died of wounds sustained on Wednesday when Israeli soldiers shot him as…
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, based in Gaza, published its weekly report on the Israeli violations of human rights in the Palestinian territories during the period between March 22nd…
The United States of America welcomed the Arab countries' endorsement of the 2002 peace plan that the Arab countries drew in their previous Arab Summit that was held in Beirut.…
Israeli Vice Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, stated in an interview with an Israeli newspaper on Thursday, that the Israeli position regarding any future peace agreement rejects a withdrawal from Jerusalem,…
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, stated on Wednesday that several European Countries confirmed that they are committed to ending the siege imposed on the Palestinians by developing their relations with…
The Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement, vowed on Wednesday that it would retaliate to the recent Israeli attacks and the assassination of two of its leaders…
Ahmad Sa’adat, Secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) demanded that the Arab leaders holding their summit is Saudi Arabia affirm the Palestinian refugees’ right to…
As attacks continued against the Palestinian refugees in Iraq, and as their conditions continued to worsen, they called on the Arab leaders holding a summit in Saudi Arabia to adopt…
Israeli sources reported on Wednesday afternoon that the Israeli air force fired missiles at a group of fighters “preparing to fire Qassam homemade shells into Israel from the northern part…
On Wednesday evening, Fateh and Hamas movements traded accusation of exchanges of fire in two separate incidents in Gaza that caused the injury of eight Palestinians, including a leader of…
The Israeli Authorities decided on Tuesday to annex 80 dunams of farmland that belongs to residents of the northern West Bank area of Qalqilia for the construction of the Illegal…
Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, stated on Tuesday night that a permanent peace agreement with the Palestinians under the current situation is impossible, and that the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas…
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, stated on Tuesday that the Arab peace plan is the last chance for Israel to live in what he described as “a sea of peace”…
Spokesperson of the Palestinian Interior Ministry, Khalid Abu Hilal, denied media reports that stated that shots were fired at the convoy of the Interior Minister, Hani Al Qawasmi, when he…
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported on Tuesday that a poll sponsored by the Center for the Campaign Against Racism, in Israel, revealed that half of the Jewish population in the…
Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Tuesday that the family of Duaa’ Abdul-Qader, 14, who was killed by Israeli military fire last December in Tulkarem in the northern part of the…
Palestinian medical sources in the northern West Bank city of Nablus reported on Tuesday at dawn that two fighters of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh, were…
Palestinian medical sources at Abu Yousef Al Najjar Hospital in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Monday night that five residents were shot and injured…
The Nafha Society for Defending Human Rights and the Rights of Detainees stated that female Palestinian detainees are facing harsh living conditions in Israeli prisons, suffering from torture, repeated attacks…
An Israeli online daily reported that the Israeli Army GOC Central Command, Yair Naveh, cancelled on Sunday a restriction that barred Israelis from transporting Palestinian passengers in their vehicles in…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon met on Sunday in the central West Bank city of Ramallah with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. He expressed his shock over the harsh living conditions…
On Sunday the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, met in the central West Bank city of Ramallah with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. She said that she intends to…
Palestinian medical sources in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis reported that six residents, including four members of the same family, were shot and injured on Saturday evening…
The Israeli Army and Police force warned on Saturday West Bank settlers against carrying out their plans to reoccupy the evacuated illegal settlement outpost of Homesh in the occupied West…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Friday evening that one person was killed and four were injured in violent clashes that took place in Al Zaytoun neighborhood…
One Palestinian child was shot and killed on Friday morning in renewed clashes between Fateh and Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip. Abductions and attacks against private and public properties…
Settlers of Hersha, an illegal Israeli settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank, asked the Israeli High court of Justice to compensate them if they are evicted from the outpost.The…
Palestinian security sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday night that bodies of two residents were found in the Central and the eastern parts of the Gaza Strip. Shots…
Israeli border guard policemen were caught on camera beating and abusing a 17-year-old Palestinian youth from Huwwara village, near Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank on Wednesday.The…
In an interview with the Israeli TV, Channel 1, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that the framework agreement for the release of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, published its weekly report on the Israeli violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories in the period between…
The Palestinian Maan News Agency reported on Wednesday night that one Palestinian youth was shot and killed, and another civilian was injured by Israeli army gunfire in Aboud village, near…
A report prepared and published by the Palestinian National Information Center – State Information Service, revealed that the Israeli army committed 1,123 violations against Palestinians and their property in the…
An Israeli online daily reported on Wednesday at dawn that the Knesset is expected to vote on Wednesday on the extension of a controversial citizenship law. The law would bar…
Amr Mousa, Secretary-General of the Arab League, called on Israel on Tuesday to be more “proactive” in restarting the peace process in the Middle East following the formation of an…
Jacob Walles, the US consul-general in Jerusalem, met on Tuesday with the Palestinian Finance Minister, Salaam Fayyad. The meeting is considered the first contact between the United States and the…
Israeli media sources reported on Tuesday that the Israeli police took prisoner several Palestinian residents of the Israeli town of Netanya. The police claimed that they received intelligence information that…
The Committee of Detainees, part of the Occupied Syrian Golan Coalition, reported on Monday that Israeli soldiers and security services broke last Wednesday morning into the cells of detainees from…
After the Palestinian President decided on Monday to appoint Mohammad Dahlan, a prominent Fateh leaders and the previous head of the Preventive Security Force in Gaza, as the Security Advisor,…
The Palestine News Network reported on Sunday evening that unknown gunmen abducted Justice Bassam Hijawi, head of the Jenin Court, in the northern part of the West Bank, and released…
Israeli military sources reported on Sunday night that one soldier was injured when an explosive charge detonated near a military jeep as the army was invading Batala refuge camp, in…
Ephraim Sneh, Israeli deputy defense minister, told the Israeli Ynet online daily that talks with some Palestinian ministers of the new government are possible. His statements contradict the Israeli government's…
Saturday, the United States said that it was disturbed by a statement from the Palestinian Unity Government regarding the right of resisting the Israeli occupation. The government's statement was made…
Israeli Ynetnews reported on Friday night that a former Egyptian prisoner of war said that he witnesses Labor member of Knesset and the National Infrastructure Minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, killing two…
Abu Mujahid, spokesperson of the Popular Resistance Committees, one of three Palestinian groups holding the Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit captive since June 25 2006, stated on Friday that dramatic developments…
Palestinian government spokesperson, Dr. Ghazi Hamad, stated on Friday that President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, received assurances from several European countries that they will be willing to…
The Salem Israeli Military Court acquitted on Thursday Qassam Barghouthi, the son of jailed Fateh leader, Marwan Barghouthi, after two years imprisonment. His lawyer expects him to be freed next…
The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported on Thursday night that the acting Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, handed president Mahmoud Abbas a list containing the names of the ministers who…
Acting Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, stated on Wednesday that all talks regarding the unity government were concluded, and that the minister of interior had been named, the Maan News…
A report prepared and published by the Palestinian Information Center – State Information Service, revealed that Israeli soldiers have shot and killed two Palestinians and injured 26 others over the…
The Palestinian Ministry of Refugees reported on Wednesday that the Palestinian refugees in Iraq were attacked 31 times in February, and that eight Palestinians were killed in separate attacks.The ministry…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday night that six Palestinian civilians, including three children, were injured in renewed violent clashes between Fateh and Hamas gunmen in…
Ahmad Abu Al Gheit, the Egyptian Foreign Minister, said on Tuesday night that Israel must investigate reports which held the Israeli Army responsible for executing 250 Egyptian soldiers who surrendered…
Israeli sources reported on Tuesday night that the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia said that Israel should accept the Saudi Initiative as it is, and that Israel is trying to…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Tuesday night that a Hamas fighter was killed and nine others were injured during internal clashes that took place in Gaza…