Peretz loses leadership election
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak will face Ami Ayalon in a second round of voting after failing to secure the 40% of the vote necessary for an outright victory.After…
Detained Palestinian Legislative head and Legislator receive extended detentions
The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) issued a press release on Monday stating that the Israeli authorities have extended the detention of the head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr. Aziz…
Syrian Detainees in Israeli prisons facing harsh conditions
The Golan Heights Detainees Committee has issued a press release documenting the harsh living conditions that Syrian Detainees from the Golan Heights are facing in Israeli detention facilities.The Committee stated…
Settler fires rounds of live ammunition at Arabic houses in the Negev
Palestinian sources reported on Monday evening that an Israeli settler fired several rounds of live ammunition at several Arab houses in an “unrecognized” village in the Negev.The settler fired at…
Israeli minister: an international peacekeeping force in Gaza is possible
The Israeli minister for pensioner affairs Rafi Eitan signaled on Monday that the deployment of an international peacekeeping mission in the Gaza Strip and at a later stage in the…
Voting begins in Israeli Labour Party leadership election
In an event that could have a serious bearing on the future of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, members of the Israeli Labour Party are set to vote on the election of…
Israeli employer fire three Palestinians because the hold prayer at work
Three Arab employees working at an Israeli factory in Acre, manufacturing parts for camions were fired last Monday for holding prayers at the factory. Acre also known as Akka, is…
Israel reaffirms that it may target Prime Minister Haniyeh if rocket fire does not cease
Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz reaffirmed on Tuesday evening that Palestinian Prime Minster Ismail Haniyeh may be a target for future Israeli attacks, should rocket fire on Sderot and the…
Israeli state bulldozers demolish Bedouin houses in the Negev region
A massive Israeli force composed of police units and Special Forces, backed with bulldozers and helicopters, stormed the unrecognized Arab Bedouin village of Ater, located in the Negev region, and…
Al Qassam brigades attacks Sderot and the Western Negev
The Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, have declared responsibility for the attacks on Sderot and Askalan city, north of the Gaza Strip. The brigades fired dozens of…
Baraka: “Killing of the Palestinian driver wasn’t just an incident”
Arab member of Israeli Knesset, Mohammad Baraka, head of the parliamentarian bloc of the Democratic Front in Israel, stated on Thursday that the killing of the Palestinian driver by a…
B’Tselem sends an urgent letter to Peretz to bar the army from shelling civilian areas
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, sent an urgent letter to the Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, demanding him to bar the army from…
Al Qassam Brigades continue to fire home-made shells at Israel
Al Qassam Brigade, the armed wing of Hamas, fired at least 40 home-made shells at the Israeli town of Sderot and the Western Negev on Wednesday, according to the Palestine…
Palestinian resistance shells Siderot; four Israelis injured
Palestinian resistance fired several Qassam homemade shells at the southern Israeli town of Siderot last Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, injuring four Israelis. On late Tuesday night, a number of…
Jewish Man from Tel Aviv confesses to slaughtering an Arab taxi driver
Israeli media sources reported on Monday at night that a Jewish immigrant from France, living in Tel Aviv, confessed to the Israeli police that he murdered a 35-year old Arab…
Israeli FM signals possible West Bank withdrawal
Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livin, signaled Saturday possibility of Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank for creation of a Palestinian state within a peace deal. Livni’s remarks came in an…
Two Israeli students, two policemen injured in a protest, 12 arrested
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported on Thursday at night that two police officers and two students were mildly injured, and twelve were arrested during clashes that took place in Jerusalem…
Al Sani’: Shin-Bet spys on several Arab Israeli MP
The Arab Israeli Kinaset( Parliament) member Dr. Talab Al Sani’ asked the legal councilor of the Israeli government to question the legality of the Public Security Service (Shin Bet) taping…
Former Israeli PM calls on Olmert to resign
Former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, said on Tuesday that the current PM Ehud Olmert should resign over his failures in handling the war with the Lebanon-based Hezbollah party last…
Palestinian Prisoners on High alert in Jalbo’e Israeli prison
Human right organizations told IMEMC that Palestinian prisoners detained in Jalbo’e Israeli detention camp located in northern Israeli announced a stated of high alert on Monday morning. The high alert…
Israeli sources: “Two Israelis injured by Qassam shells near Sderot”
Israeli sources reported on Sunday at night that two Israelis were injured, one seriously, after Palestinian fighters fired homemade shells at the Israeli Negev town of Sdeort.Israeli online daily, Haaretz,…
Israelis hold a mass rally demanding Olmert to resign
Thousands of Israelis poured into the Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on Thursday at night and rallied against the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, for his and his government’s conduct…
The Livni-Rice Plan: Towards a Just Peace or Apartheid
For years I have been one of the doomsayers, arguing that the two-state solution is dead and that apartheid has become the only realistic political outcome of the Israel-Palestine conflict–…
Arab MK Mohammad Baraka says an Israeli military offensive against Gaza is possible
The Arab member of Knesset Mohammad Baraka said that he does not rule out an Israeli mlitary offensive against Gaza especially following the Winograd Committee report which blamed the Israeli…
Winograd Commission accuses Olmert of serious failure in the second Lebanon war
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported on Monday that the partial report prepared by the government appointed commission to probe the Second Lebanon War accused the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert,…
Israeli Army Chief of Staff threatens to invade Gaza
Israeli Army Chief of staff, Gabi Ashkenazi said on Sunday that the Israeli army would operate in Gaza if the resistance factions do not halt the firing of homemade shells…
Israeli PM says Israel might launch a military attack on Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehuld Olmert, said Israel might carry out a ground attack on the Gaza Strip, Israeli media sources reported Sunday. The sources said that the Israeli PM sent…
Nazareth; thousands protest in support for Dr. Azmi Bishara
Thousands of Arab residents of Israel protested on Saturday in Nazareth in support to Dr. Azmi Bishara, the former Arab member of Knesset, after the Israeli Authorities claimed this week…
Top Israeli army official tells schoolchildren he knew Lebanon war would not free abducted troops
Israeli media sources reported on Wednesday that The GOC Northern Command Major General Gadi Eisenkott admitted that Israel embarked on the Second Lebanon War last year knowing that the conflict…
Dr. Azmi Bishara resigns from Knesset, Police close his office
Arab Member of Knesset Dr. Azmi Bishara submitted his resignation to the Israeli Embassy in Cairo- Egypt on Sunday. Israel closes his office in Jerusalem and his successor Sa’eed Naffa’…
Olmert lowers expectations on the list of prisoners that Palestinians want freed
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, lowered Wednesday expectations on the list of Palestinian prisoners, delivered by Egyptian mediators. The individuals named on thie list are part of a prisoner swap…
Israeli court sentences three Israelis to 13 years for driving a suicide bomber
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. …
Salem military court treats elected members of government like criminals
“I have been kidnapped from home and I have been elected in free and fair elections, This court is not entitled to charge me with anything,” Dr. Omar Abdel Razik,…
Israel to amend list of detainees Palestinian wants to see freed
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 Human Rights activist warns Arab MK Azmi Bishara of Israeli security plan to indict him
Israeli sources claim that Bishra will resign from the Israeli Knesset. Arab sources in Israel dismiss claims of Bishara's intention to resign. Sholamit Aloni, former MK and HUman Rights activists…
Israeli troops fired at “suspicious figures” on the Lebanese border
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 Prime Minister Invites King of Saudi Arabia for Dialogue
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, invited Sunday the King of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah Binabdelazziz, for a dialogue on peace thoughts by both sides. Olmert’s remarks came during a joint press…
Israeli army completes preparations for possible major invasion of Gaza Strip
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…
Olmert in an interview with Time magazine: “Haniyeh is a terrorist”
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 commemorate Land Day
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…
Olmert: “Right of Return, out of the question”
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…
Peres: “No withdrawal from Jerusalem, no withdrawal to the 1967 borders”
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,…
Livni: “Agreement on permanent solution is not possible in current situation”
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…
Poll: “50% of Jews in Israel back state-sponsored Arab emigration from Israel”
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 Army cancels ban on Israelis driving Palestinian residents in the occupied West Bank
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…
Israeli Knesset to extend law baring family unifications
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…
Israeli Police abduct several Palestinians in Netanya
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…
Israeli Cabinet Adopts Olmert’s Position Towards PA Government
In the weekly meeting held Sunday, the Israeli cabinet overwhelmingly stuck to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s position towards the new Palestinian Authority’s unity government. 19 Israeli ministers voted for Olmert’s…
Israeli deputy Defense Minister says talks with some PA ministers are possible
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…
Son of Jailed Fateh leader Marwan Barghouthi, acquitted
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…
Israeli poll: “68.4% of Jews in Israel for uprising by Arab residents of the country”
An Israeli pull administered by the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Haifa, Professor, Sami Smooha, revealed that 68.4% of the Jews in Israel fear…
Ahead of his Meeting with President Abbas, Israeli PM Proposes Regional Peace Talks
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said Sunday he would propose direct peace talks with regional states on the basis of the Saudi peace proposal of 2002 Arab states' summit. Olmert’s…
Olmert’s aide: “No peace talks if P.A government refuses to recognize Israel”
An Israeli online daily reported that Miri Eisin, a spokeswoman to Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, stated on Saturday evening that Israel will not hold peace talks with the Palestinians…
Israel cautiously responds to PA truce offer
The Palestinian Authority offered on Wednesday a full truce with Israel if it supports the end of the international aid boycott imposed on the Palestinians since Hamas won the legislative…
Bilin, My Love: Israelis against the occupation
Last night an Israeli film director named Shai Carmeli-Pollak, along with residents of Bilin village, visited the Alternative Information Center in Beit Sahour for a screening of his film ‘Bilin…
Virulent strain of bacteria has killed over 100 in Israeli hospitals since January
It has recently emerged that the Israeli Health Ministry has been fighting off a health epidemic sine the beginning of the year. A deadly bacterium known as Klebsiella pneumoniae is…
Israeli Justice Ministry to try policeman who killed Israeli Arab
The Israeli Justice Ministry decided on Tuesday to try the Israeli officer who shot and killed an Arab resident of Israel, and has decided to file charges of manslaughter against…
Israel claims that Hamas is sending fighters to train in Iran
Director of The Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet), Yuval Diskin, claimed on Monday that Hamas has sent dozens of fighters to Iran for combat training.!– @page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm;…
Israel claims that Syrians threw 10 mines into Israel on Saturday afternoon
Senior Israeli military sources reported that the Israeli army located ten anti-personnel mines that were allegedly thrown by Syrians into Israel on Saturday afternoon. Military sappers arrived in the area…
Israel wants an “improved version of the Arab peace initative”
An Israeli online daily reported on Thursday that Israel is “expecting the Arab league to adopt an improved version of the Saudi peace plan. Arab leaders will meet in a…
Israeli troops training in the Negev seriously wound a Bedouin child
A twelve-year old Bedouin child was shot in the head as she was herding her family’s cattle near an Israeli military base in the northern Negev. The Israeli military police…
Gush Shalom: Israeli Army Attack on Nablus a Provocative Action
Israeli Peace Bloc, Gush Shalom, called Monday the ongoing Israeli army attack on the West Bank city of Nablus ‘irresponsible provocative action’, reiterating belief that Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert…
Olmert: “Realignment plan postponed due to current circumstances”
During a speech hosted by the Foreign Press Association in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the “realignment plan” has faded away due to “changed circumstances”.He stated that…
Israel holds a Knesset session on captured soldiers
Six months after the United Nations issued it resolution number 1701 calling for the release of the captured Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah and Palestinian fighters, Israel officially adopted the resolution…
Israeli police, security say thwarted a “large-scale bombing” in Tel Aviv
The Israeli police and security forces stated on Tuesday that they managed to thwart what was described as a large suicide bombing, planned for Tel Aviv. Security sources reported that…
Two inspectors of Be’er Sheva municipality arrested for assaulting a Palestinian
Israeli sources reported on Tuesday morning that two inspectors of Be’er Sheva Municipality were arrested on Monday for assaulting a Palestinian street vendor in the city. The Palestinian man filed…
Six Israeli soldiers arrested on suspicion of smuggling arms
Israeli sources reported on Monday night that six Israeli soldiers were arrested under suspicion that they were involved in weapon sales and drug smuggling through the border with Egypt.The six…
Anarchist activist Jonathan Pollak sentenced to 3 months suspended sentence
Jonathan Pollak, an activist with the ‘Anarchists Against the Wall’ group was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment on Sunday afternoon, which will be implemented if he is convicted of a…
Israeli Prime Minister to Shun Palestinian Unity Government
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said Sunday during a weekly cabinet meeting that he would shun any Palestinian government that does not meet the international Quartet’s demands to recognize Israel,…
Two Palestinian men living in Israel assaulted by ultra-Orthodox Jewish men
Two Palestinian men from the town of Qalansuwa, inside the green line, were injured during a scuffle that broke out at a home of the Bnei Brak family on Saturday.…
Israeli airline extends racist policies to include transport of deceased passengers
Racial profiling is common practice at airports and is often used against Arabs traveling to and from Palestine and Israel. Now an Israeli airline is even refusing to carry the…
46% of the Israel’s Jewish population supports renewing talks with P.A unity government
Forty-six percent of the Jewish population in Israel supports renewing peace talks with the new Palestinian National Unity government, if and when it is established, a study conducted by the…
Syrian group claims to be holding an Israeli soldier captive, Israel expresses doubt
Israeli sources reported on Tuesday that a Syrian group claimed to be holding an Israeli soldier captive. The soldier went missing in 1979; Israeli military sources expressed doubts over the…
Israel considering cutting ties with Abbas
Israeli officials reported on Tuesday morning that Israel is considering cutting its ties with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas if the new national unity government, which will be formed in…
Dispute between Olmert and Abbas over trilateral summit agenda
Israeli sources reported on Monday that a dispute between the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, could cause uncertainty over the planned US/ Israeli/Palestinian summit…
Olmert: “New P.A cabinet is a test for Abbas”
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, stated on Monday that the formation of the new Palestinian national Unity government is a test for the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas .The statements of…
Israeli rejects the Palestinian unity agreement
On Sunday, Israel officially rejected the Mecca agreement on a Palestinian National Unity government and considered it out of line with the Quartet Middle East mediators’ condition, an Israeli online…
Israel rebuffs Palestinian unity government deal
The Israeli government officially rejected the Palestinian unity government deal reached between the Palestinian factions in Mecca. Israeli officials said that this deal failed to meet the preconditions of the…
Lieberman demands harder response to protests against mosque digging
The extremist right-wing minister, Avigdor Lieberman, demanded that Israel should respond more severely to the protests against the digging Israel is conducting near the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.Lieberman, the…
Israeli Minister calls for Barghouthi’s Release
Minister of Environment, Gedeon Ezra said on Monday that Israel should release the jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi in order to give the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas support concerning Hamas,…
Palestinian stabbed to death in Tel Aviv
On Sunday night a Palestinian man was fatally stabbed in the northern Israeli city of Tel Aviv, Israeli police handed the case over to Palestinian authorites. Palestinian sources said that…
Israeli peace activists in Tel Aviv protest against the Wall
Israeli peace activists, members of the ‘Anarchists Against the Wall’ movement, protested on Saturday in Tel Aviv and closed a road using barbed wire taken from a fence soldiers installed…
Olmert investigated, testifies that Israel won the Lebanon war
On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was brought before the Winograd Committee investigating the second Lebanon war. Despite a chorus of public criticism of the country's leadership, Olmert is…
40 members of Knesset sign petition calling for impeachment of Katsav
A petition calling for the removal of President Moshe Katsav from office was submitted to the Knesset House Committee on Wednesday. The petition was signed by 40 Knesset members.The petition…
Israel’s former justice minister found guilty
An Israeli online daily reported on Wednesday that former justice minister Haim Ramon was found guilty of indecent behavior at Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on Wednesday afternoon.Ramon was found guilty…
US Government report: Israel broke US arms deal terms
A British media source reported on Monday that a US Government report has come to the conclusion that Israel probably violated the terms of its arms deals with Washington by…
Following Eilat bombing, Israel to step-up operations
Following the Monday suicide bombing in Eilat, Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz instructed the army to step up operations against Palestinian armed groups and said that Israel has decided to…
Eilat bomber hitched ride with a reserve colonel
The Israeli media reported on Monday night that the bomber, who blew himself up Monday morning in an Eilat bakery, attempted to hitch a ride to the center of the…
Three Israelis killed in Eilat Bombing
On Monday morning the first Palestinian suicide bomb attack since April 2006 occurred in a bakery in the coastal town of Eilat, killing three Israelis and injuring several others. …
Israel intends to buy “smart bombs”
An Israeli newspaper reported on Monday that Israel intends to purchase thousands of Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) missiles from the United States; the deal’s cost is estimated to be…