Happy Independence Lie
US President George W. Bush visited Israel this week. This time he addressed the Israeli Knesset, wishing Israel a “Happy Independence Day”. Just before George Bush took the…
Knesset members: “Bush more Zionist than Olmertâ€
After the US President, George W. Bush, gave a speech at the Israeli Knesset on Thursday, several right wing members of Knesset said that “Bush seems to be more Zionist…
Fifteen Israelis seriously wounded by homemade shells fired at Ashkelon
Israeli sources reported on Wednesday that fifteen Israelis, residents of Ashkelon (Asqalan) town were wounded, three seriously, after Palestinian fighters fired several homemade shells at the city. One of the…
President Bush in Israel as Palestinians commemorate their Nakbah
President of the United States, Gorge W.B Bush arrived on Wednesday in Israel to attend the Hebrew state’s celebrations of the establishment of Israel on historical Palestine in 1948. Leaders…
Elderly tourist to Israel killed by Palestinian shell
According to Israeli sources, a 70-year old woman on tour in Israel was killed by a Palestinian homemade shell on Monday.The Palestinian shells, which are crude and homemade, are impossible…
Three homemade shells fired from Gaza into Negev
According to Israeli sources, three shells fired from the Gaza Strip hit areas inside Israel on Sunday afternoon. Two of the shells allegedly hit near populated areas. The third hit…
Sderot resident killed by a homemade shell
Israeli sources reported that one residents of the Israeli Negev town of Sderot was killed on Friday evening by a homemade shell fired by Palestinian gunmen. The Al Quds Brigades,…
Gag order against Olmert’s probe to be gradually lifted in coming days
Israeli Yent News reported on Tuesday a police sources said that the gag order on the investigation against Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, will be gradually lifted in the coming…
Israeli President: Nuclear Iran would be ‘nightmare’; Israel must remain sole Mideast nuclear power
The Israeli President, Shimon Peres, stated Monday that "Iran is a danger not only for Israel but also for the rest of the world", adding that if Iran were to…
Israel sets forth conditions for ceasefire ahead of Suleiman’s Visit
The Israeli government set forth on Monday three main conditions for a possible Egypt-brokered ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians. Spokesman of the Israeli government, Mark Regev, told the IMEMC…
Three Women from Haifa
–>To download or listen to these interviews, visit: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=27485 –>These interviews will also be airing as part ‘Radio Free Palestine’, an international radio broadcast to be held on May 15,…
Olmert interrogated by Israel’s’ National Fraud Unit
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, was questioned under caution on Friday morning for nearly 90 minutes by the head of the National Fraud Unit in Israel, Brigadier-General Shlomi Ayalon and…
Egyptian Security Chief to visit Israel in the coming days
Israeli media sources reported on Thursday that the Egyptian Intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, is expected to visit Israeli in the coming few days to receive Israel's response on the truce…
M. Intelligence’ ‘Palestinian groups might carry attacks during Israel’s “independence celebrations’
Israeli Military Intelligence Chief, Amos Yadlin, stated on Tuesday that Palestinian armed groups areinterested in carrying a large-scale attack ahead of the Israeli celebrations of the 60th anniversary of independence.…
Israel rejects Hamas offer for truce
Israel officially rejected on Friday an offer made by the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, for a six month truce in the Gaza Strip. Israeli leaders said that the call is…
Settlement leaders in Golan call for further construction of settlements
Leaders of settlements in the occupied Golan Heights stated on Thursday that settlement construction and expansion in the occupied Syrian area will continue and will advance.The leaders said that “any…
Dutch journalist deported from Israeli airport
A Dutch journalist who arrived at the Israeli Ben-Gurion Airport on Monday was detained by Israeli forces there for 24 hours, then deported to Holland and not allowed to enter…
Manifest Destiny?
Next month, Israel will celebrate its 60th anniversary. The government is working feverishly to make this day into an occasion of joy and jubilation. While serious problems are crying out…
Israel’s president says halting Qassam homemade shells requires reoccupying Gaza
Israeli president, Shimon Peres, stated yesterday that stopping homemade shells fire from Gaza onto nearby Israeli areas requires Israel to reoccupy the Gaza Strip, an option Israel never wants. Israeli…
UN official to be denied entry to Israel
Israeli Foreign Ministry stated on Tuesday that it will bar a UN official, appointed to investigate Human Rights abuses in Israel and Palestine, from entering the country after he, according…
Livni: there are red lines I will not cross in the negotiations
Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, stated that there are 'red lines' she will refuseto cross during Palestinian- Israeli talks. Livni told Israeli radio that the 'red lines' are a generalised…
Ben-Eliezer; Israeli-Palestinian talks, “just a showâ€
Israeli Infrastructure Minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, stated on Saturday that the Palestinian Israeli talks are just “a Pretend", adding that if Israel wants to achieve peace it should free that Fateh…
MK Tibi visits Lebanon despite of Israeli ban
Israeli media sources reported on Thursday that Dr Ahmad al Tibi, Arab member of the Israeli Knesset, and head of the Arab bloc (United Arab List, Ra'am-Ta'al) had challenged the…
Israel to distribute gas-masks to its civilians starting in 2009
The Israeli Radio reported on Wednesday that the Israeli Authorities decided to distribute gas-masks among the population in Israel starting in 2009. The step, the radio said, comes as a…
Israeli official: ‘I am ready to meet with Hamas over talks regarding Prisoners deal.’
The President of the Israeli right wing Shass movement and the Minister of the Israeli security cabinet, Eli Yishai, told Israeli army radio on Monday that he is willing to…
Israeli police detains four Palestinians in Tel-Aviv
Israeli police detained on Sunday four Palestinians in the Israel city of Tel-Aviv, Israel says were suspected of plotting an attack in the Bet Yam locality to the south of…
Leftist Israeli MP, Belin, urges Olmert to freeze settlement activities
The leftist Israel Member of Parliament, Yusi Belin, urged Sunday the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, to comply with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s call for freezing the Israeli settlement activities…
Arab-Israelis hold protest to oppose Israeli land expropriation
In the Arab-Israeli city of Jaffa, just south of Tel Aviv in Israel, more than 1500 Arab-Israelis and Jewish Israeli activists gathered on Friday in the city center to protest…
Israel: “Hamas is interested in keeping the truce in Gazaâ€
Israeli daily newspaper, Haaretz, reported on Tuesday that senior Israeli military officials believe that Hamas movement is currently interested in maintaining the truce along the borders between the Gaza Strip…
Israeli sources: Israeli soldiers injured during military training
Israeli media sources reported that an Israeli army officer was lightly injured on Tuesday during a military training exercise in an army base located in southern Israel The Israeli online…
Israeli soldier arrested for ‘handing intel to Hezbollah’
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported on Monday that the Israeli police and northern district command, arrested an Israeli soldier last month after suspecting that he handed intelligence information to the…
Arab MK demands a probe into statements of incitement by Rabbi
Arab member of Knesset, Talab Al Sane', head of the United Arab Bloc at the Israeli Knesset, demanded on Monday that the Israeli government's legal counselor, Mini Mazouz, initiate a…
Israel threatens to sever relations with PA if Palestinian unity talks succeed
According to Israeli sources, top officials in the Israeli government have threatened to cut all ties with the Palestinian Authority if a "national unity" agreement is made between Palestinian factions.…
The Crusader State
Events in the last few years suggest a qualitative change in the Palestinian cause at the regional level. No analyst or observer could fail to miss the resemblance between the…
Livni: all final status issues are on the negotiating table
The Israeli Foreign Minister and head of the Israeli negotiation team, Tzipi Livni, states that all final statute issues will be discussed during current negotiations with Palestinians.Livni made her statement…
No limits on rules of engagement to avoid abduction of soldiers
Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday that the Israeli army instructed troops deployed at the Gaza-Israel borders to do whatever it takes in order to foil any abduction…
Leftist students protest against Lieberman’s visit to Haifa University
Dozens of Arab and Israeli students of different leftist parties in Haifa University protested against a visit conducted by Avigdor Lieberman to the university campus on Wednesday. One Arab student…
Mossawa Center releases racism report detailing over 169 cases
The Mossawa Center released its annual racism report at a press conference in Nazareth today, detailing 169 incidences of racism against Arab minority of Israel, including the killings of Arab…
Chairman of the Yesha rabbinical council forbids renting houses, employing Arabs
Israeli sources reported on Wednesday that the Chairman of the Yeshai rabbinical council, chief Rabbi at the Keryat Arba’ Israeli settlement in the Palestinian city of Hebron, Lior Dov, issued…
Israel orders army to use lethal fire against Palestinians protesting illegal wall
Israeli media sources reported on Wednesday that the Israeli government has given new orders to the army, which allow troops to use live rounds at Palestinian protesters near the illegal…
Israel develops a defense system to intercept Palestinian homemade shells
The Israeli military tested lasted week a newly-manufactured interceptive missile, designed to block Palestinian homemade shells being fired by Palestinian resistance groups from Gaza onto nearby Israeli towns, Israel's channel…
Israel boycotts Al Jazeera news channel
The Israeli government decided to officially boycott the Qatar-based Al Jazeera News channel after claiming the its coverage of the incidents is unbalanced and biased towards the Palestinian people.The Israeli…
Gush Shalom: West Bank assassinations, “grave provocationâ€
The Israeli Peace Bloc, (Gush Shalom), described the assassination of four Palestinians in Bethlehem and Tulkarem, on Wednesday as a grave provocation and accused the Israeli government of deliberately obstructing…
American activist and feminist Starhawk denied entry and deported from Israel.
Starhawk, well known American activist was deported by the Israeli government on Thursday. Starhawk, author of many works celebrating the Goddess movement and Earth-based, feminist spirituality arrived in Tel Aviv…
“Jenin Jenin†film on trial in Israel
Mohammed Bakri, the producer of a film titled “Jenin Jenin”, which details the Israeli invasion into Jenin refugee camp in 2002, is currently on trial in an Israeli court under…
Israeli officials: Israel accepts a month-long trial truce with Hamas
Amos Gilaad, the Israeli Defence Minister Adviser for Security and Political Affairs told Israeli media on Tuesday that Israel has agreed to announce a month-long trial truce with Palestinian resistance…
Israeli military officials: targeting of Gaza will stop if homemade shells stop
Israeli media sources reported on Monday that the Israeli government has instructed the army to stop attacking the Gaza Strip if the Palestinian resistance do not shoot homemade shells from…
Olmert says Israel has the authority to respond to all risks
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said Sunday that his country has the authority to respond to what he called ‘ risks and threats surrounding us’ (the Israelis).Olmert’s remarks came during…
MK Lieberman holds Arab members of Knesset responsible for the recent attack in Jerusalem
On Friday, Member of Knesset Avigdor Lieberman, a leader in the extremist Yisrael Beiteinu party, stated that Arab members of Knesset were to blame for the recent attack on a…
Israeli government orders military to step up attacks on Gaza
The Israeli government announced on Wednesday that it had approved stepping up attacks targeting the Gaza Strip. The announcement came after today’s cabinet meeting, headed by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud…
Israeli army officials: three day ground offensive on Gaza was ‘success’
The Israeli army Southern Division Command convened on Wednesday for a debriefing session regarding the three day military offensive conducted over the weekend, targeting the Gaza Strip. Army officials told…
Arab-Israelis protest in Nazareth after Israel bans memorial
After the Israeli government banned a memorial service to honor recently deceased Palestinian leader George Habash, Arab-Israelis in Nazareth held a protest on Friday afternoon. George Habash was a leader…
Bodyguard of Israeli minister injured by homemade Palestinian shells
The Palestinian resistance continued on Thursday launching homemade projectiles from the Gaza Strip, targeting the nearby southern Israeli town of Sderot. One Israeli woman, and the bodyguard of an Israeli…
Israeli man killed by a Qassam shell in Sdeort
Israeli sources reported that an Israeli man was killed on Wednesday afternoon Palestinian fighters fired homemade shells at the Israeli Negev town of Sdeort.Medical sources in Israel said that Roni…
Palestinian National Resistance shells Israeli military base in Gaza
Palestinian National Resistance, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, claimed responsibility for attacking an Israeli military base in Gaza, Sofa base, on Tuesday morning.In…
Mayor of the Israeli town of Sderot wants a truce with Hamas
Mayor of the border Israeli town of Sderot, Eli Moyal, expressed willingness to talk with Hamas over halt of Gaza-based homemade shells fire, offering a 10-year-long pause of hostilities. Moyal…
Israeli Court frees 8 Jewish youth who plan to attack Arabs and burn their homes in Tel Aviv
An Israeli Court in Tel Aviv released on Wednesday eight Jewish youth who planned to attack Arab residents in Tel Aviv area, and burn their homes. The release was unconditional…
Israeli Authorities demolish several Arab constructions in the Negev
The Israeli Authorities in the Negev area demolished on Thursday morning four houses, one shop and a public facility in al Far’a, Wadi Al Ni’am and Um Amatan unrecognized Arab…
Israeli army chief says conflict is likely
Israeli army chief of staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, was reported on Wednesday as saying that a conflict in the region is likely in the near future. " I can not promise…
Fearing Hezbollah retaliation; Israel deploys patriot missile battery
Israeli sources reported on Monday that the Israeli army deployed a battery of Patriot Missiles, made by the USA, near Haifa town in the northern part of the country, in…
Israel radio: a prisoners swap deal between Israel and Palestinians likely
Israeli radio reported Monday that a prisoner swap deal between Israel and holders of Israeli soldier Gil’ad Shalit in Gaza is likely, as Israel gave consent to the release of…
UN’s Holmes condemns Gaza-based homemade shells fire
United Nations Undersecretary General for humanitarian affairs, Jhon Holmes, condemned on Sunday the homemade shells, being fired from Gaza onto nearby Israeli towns.Holmes' denunciation came during a visit to the…
Due to fear of attack Israel places its troops under a state of high alert
The Israeli army announced on Thursday that they have decided to increase their state of alert on the Israeli-Lebanese borders. Army officials told media that the new state of alert…
Israeli Knesset to discuss the demolishing of 246 homes in Al Teera
The Israeli Knesset discussed on Wednesday demolishing orders which were issued against 246 houses in Al Teera Arab town within the Israeli boundaries. The deliberations were made after Sheikh Abbas…
Israel to build 1100 new housing units in Israeli settlements throughout East Jerusalem
The Israeli government announced on Tuesday that it has approved the construction of an additional 1,110 housing units in two settlements in the Jerusalem municipality. According to the government statement,…
Israeli Housing Minister: ‘We will not stop construction of Jerusalem settlements’
The Israeli Minister of Housing, Ze'ev Boim, told Israeli media outlets on Tuesday that the Israeli government will not freeze construction of settlements in the city of Jerusalem.He added that…
Minister of Defense Barak objects to broader cabinet discussion of an offensive on Gaza
Israeli minister of defense, Ehud Barak objected Sunday to a broader Israeli cabinet discussion of a military offensive on the Gaza Strip, for concern over possible leak of information to…
Israeli FM dismisses possibility of a Palestinian state with Hamas in power
Israeli foreign minister, Tzibi Livni, hinted Sunday at the possibility of no state for the Palestinian people until the homemade shells fire fm the Hamas-ruled Gaza comes to a halt.…
Druze Consciences objector sentenced by the Israeli army to 75 days in person
the Israeli military court in Haifa city sentenced Arabi Salalha, from the Druze village of Beit Junn located in Galilee on Saturday for 75 days imprisonment for refusing to serve…
Popular Committee for Defending Public Freedom prepares for its regional conference
As the Israeli state intensified its prosecution against Arab leaders in the country, the Popular Committee For Defending Public Freedom, part of the Higher Follow-Up Committee, intensified its preparations for…
Detainee sentenced to one-life term and twenty years for participating in killing Ze’evi
On Tuesday afternoon the Israeli Central Court in Jerusalem sentenced Basil Asmar, to one life-term and additional twenty years for “participating in the assassination of the Israeli Minister of Tourism…
Two Palestinians blow themselves up in a mall in southern Israel
At least 3 people are confirmed dead, and eight others wounded, Monday morning as two Palestinian suicide bombers blew themselves up in a mall in the southern Israeli town of…
Israel’s defense minister wants a fence-off wall on Egypt-Israel border line
Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, urged a cabinet meeting Sunday that a fence-off wall should be constructed along the Egypt-Israel border lines, mainly at the Nitsana and Elat areas.Barak told…
Israel to maintain a state of alert on Egypt-Israel border lines
Israeli military decided Saturday to maintain a high security alert on Egypt-Gaza border line, in light of continued security warnings, Israeli media sources reported.According to the Israeli army officer, in…
Thousands of Arab residents protest against Israeli Attorney-general ruling
Approximately 20.000 Arab residents of Israel protested on Friday against the decision of the Israeli Attorney-general to close the file of the 2000 uprising without seeking indictments against the soldiers…
Winograd – The Failure of the System, Not the PM
If anyone believes that a different Prime Minister, under similar circumstances would have acted differently, then they refuse to look at the history of Israeli incursions and the power the…
Winograd: Political and Military Failure in Israel during the war on Lebanon
Israeli media sources reported on Thursday that the Israeli Prime Minister Ehod Olmert felt relief by the final Winograd Committee report on the Second Israeli war on Lebanon. Retired Judge…
The Israeli High Court approves Israeli army fuel and power cuts to Gaza
The Israeli High Court of Justice approved on Wednesday afternoon the Israeli army reduction in fuel and power supplies to the Gaza strip.The court decided that the reduced shipments of…
Troops attack a female detainee while in Tel Aviv to court
Palestinian sources reported on Tuesday that Israeli soldiers attacked detainee Woroud Qasim, 20, from the Arab town of Al Teera, as she tried to talk to her brother before the…
Prisoners Society: consequences of medical negligence kill the prisoner Abu al Rab
The lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society visited the Israeli detention center of Gilbo’a last week and met several prisoners revealing a seroius problem, a statement by the society stated…
Candle procession in Kafer Kanna Arab town in solidarity with the Gaza Strip
Hundreds of Arab residents of Kafer Kanna Arab town in the north of the country held a massive candle procession on Friday evening in solidarity with the Gaza Strip which…
Dozens of Israelis and Arabs protest in Haifa
On Thursday, dozens of Arab residents of Israel and Jews held a joint protest in Haifa city against the ongoing Israeli attacks and siege against the Gaza Strip, the Arabs48…
Researcher: “Israel is about to pass a law which will bar thousands of detainees from visitation ri
Fuad Al Khafsh, a Palestinian researcher and specialist in detainee’s affairs, stated on Wednesday that the Israeli Knesset approved in preliminary reading a new law which will give the Israeli…
Israeli Peace group slams Israel for its attacks on the Gaza strip
Latif Douri, founder and secretary of the committee for Israeli Palestinian dialogue, issued a statement on Thursday evening condemning Israeli attacks on the Gaza strip. Douri told IMEMC via phone…
Israeli sources: seven Israeli soldiers injured, one seriously, at an Israeli naval base
Israeli media sources reported that an artillery shell exploded onboard an Israel Navy missile ship at the Haifa naval base on Wednesday morning injuring seven soldiers, one critically. Israeli Navy…
Palestinian resistance fires 25 home made shells at southern Israeli
Palestinian resistance groups fired 25 home-made shells at the southern Israel towns of Sederot and Ashkelon neighboring the Gaza Strip, causing damage but no injures on Wednesday. The Al Quds…
Poll: Majority of Israelis support prisoner trade of Marwan Barghouthi for Gilad Shalit
A poll released Friday revealed that 71% of Israelis would support a trade of Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouthi, who is one of 10,000 Palestinians held in prison camps by…
Bush arrives in Israel and renews his commitment to the Jewish State
The President of the United States of America, George Bush, arrived in Israel on Wednesday. His visit to Israel is the first since he took office seven years ago. Bush…
The world according to Avigdor
Anyone staying long enough in the West Bank comes to realise that the apparatus of the Occupation (prevention of free movement, house demolitions, indefinite administrative detention – just to mention…
Rockets fired from Lebanon into Israeli town; bomb explodes in Lebanon
Two incidents took place Tuesday morning in which Lebanese fighters targeted both the United Nations and Israel. The political leadership in Israel has connected the two attacks with the planned…
Israel may consider release of Palestinian leader in prisoner swap deal
The Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai on Monday called for the release of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi in exchange for the release of an Israeli soldier captured by…
Arab-Israelis hold mass protest in Nazareth calling for end to Israel’s Gaza siege
A mass demonstration was held in Nazareth, in northern Israel, on Saturday, to protest the ongoing Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip. At least 10,000 Arab-Israelis marched through the streets…
A new Israeli documentary reveals the facts of occupation
‘Would I smile?’ the name of a new Israeli documentary film which was recently released featuring six Israeli female soldiers who aim at shaking the Israeli society by exposing them…
Israelis favor military operations in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that there is no option to prevent and cease Qassam fire on Sderot immediately but Israeli Jews think differently.A significant minority of 42 percent…
Israel distances itself from Gaza ground invasion over fears of war with Syria
Sources in the Israeli army have stated that there has been no ground invasion of the Gaza Strip because of fears over a summer war with Syria.According to Haaretz.com, highly-placed…
Palestinian resistance shells Sderot
Palestinian resistance shelled the Israeli town of Sderot with a home-made shell on Friday morning. The Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the attack,…
Israeli air force plane crashes in the sea
An Israeli training fighter crashed on Thursday lunchtime during a training exercise near the Israeli costal city of Ashkelon. According to Israeli sources the pilot ejected from the plane after…
Report highlights widespread torture of Palestinian prisoners
In a report released on Wednesday, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel accuses the Israeli intelligence services of the widespread torture of Palestinian detainees.The accusations contained within the report…