Category: Regions

After midnight and through the dawn hours, Israeli forces raided the city of Tulkarem. Eyewitnesses said a number of military vehicles entered the city and began shooting at a group…

Palestinian gunmen planted bombs at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt and stormed government offices, on Wednesday, demanding the release of a fighter suspected of involvement in the last week’s…

Israeli army troops killed a Palestinian resident, near the West Bank city of  Hebron, late on Tuesday night.    Army claims that infantry troops wanted to arrest Mustafa Khalil 38, from…

Israeli newspaper Haaretz conducted in cooperation with Israel TV channel 10, a dialogue-poll which revealed that 25% pf the eligible voters in Israel might change their votes before the March…

Israeli Television, Channel 10, reported on Tuesday that the Israeli police have evidence that the family of the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, received $3 million in bribes from Austrian…

Israeli police released, on Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, head of the Independent Palestine Coalition for the upcoming legislative elections, after detaining him for several hours and transferring him to…

In a step many considered an Israeli interference in Palestinian preparations for PLC elections set for January 25, Israeli forces detained, on Monday, 23 officials and supervisors of voting stations…

Israeli military bulldozers leveled a four-story building in Beit Hanina town, north of Jerusalem.   The Jerusalem municipality claims that the building was illegally constructed.   The Maan News Agency…

Israeli soldiers broke into Anata School for boys, north of Jerusalem, and clashed with dozens of students; one student and one teacher were injured.   An Israeli military source reported…

Speaking to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Israeli Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz conceded, on Tuesday, that the army’s offensive Operation called "Blue Skies" in the Gaza…

Israeli High Court of Justice gave, on Sunday, the Israeli government the green light to construct the Separation Wall around settlements north of the West Bank, and barred the construction…

In an invasion to the West Bank city of Nablus, on Tuesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers arrested one resident, and searched several houses searching for wanted members of the resistance.…

The Al Quds brigades’, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for firing 14 homemade shells at Israeli settlements around the Gaza strip, on Tuesday at dawn.  …

Israeli soldiers arrested, on Tuesday at dawn, 11 residents from several areas in the West Bank.   10 were arrested from the West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Hebron while…

Israeli troops invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp.   Soldiers, supported by heavy military vehicles, stormed the city and the refugee…

According to documents published by the Israeli online daily, Haaretz, illegal permits were issued retroactively for a new West Bank settlement expansion project while buildings were being constructed or even…

According to documents published by the Israeli online daily, Haaretz, illegal permits were issued retroactively for a new West Bank settlement expansion project while buildings were being constructed or even…

Eight settler families, who took over eight Palestinian stores, at a market in the West Bank city of Hebron, were handed out eviction notices by representatives of the Israeli Civil…

728 candidates competing for the 132 seats of the Palestinian Parliament’s upcoming elections started on Tuesday morning their electoral campaigns in the different parts of the West Bank and the…

Likud chairman, Benjamin Netanyahu announced, earlier on Tuesday, that the remaining four Likud ministers in the cabinet will resign from the government at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday. Netanyahu…

Israeli security devices recommended the government to evacuate the residents of the Lebanese side of the occupied village of Al Ghagar, into Israel, and compensate them in accordance to the…

An Israeli source reported, on Monday at night, that the Israeli Central Court in Be’er Shiva, filed charges against a member of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of…

An Israeli air force aircraft fired, on Monday at night, several missiles at a Palestinian vehicle in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the Gaza Strip; two residents were killed, and…

Israeli border policemen detained, on Monday morning, scores of Palestinian civilians at a sudden military checkpoint in Al Khan Al Ahmar area, near the Israeli settlement of Mishor Adumim in…

Israeli border policemen detained, on Monday morning, scores of Palestinian civilians at a sudden military checkpoint in Al Khan Al Ahmar area, near the Israeli settlement of Mishor Adumim in…

The Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Dan Halutz, approved on Monday a recommendation to dismiss an officer and a sergeant in the elite Duvdevan undercover unit of the Israeli army…

The Israeli army arrested on Monday the election campaign coordinator of "Badeel" coalition, a combination of the Palestinian People’s Party (PPP), the Democratic Front for the LIberation of Palestine (DFLP)…

The Israeli army bulldozers uprooted on Monday more than 400 olive trees in Skaka village near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.  The trees were uprooted for the construction…

Israeli troops invaded late Sunday night the village of Wad Rahal near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, local sources reported.   Eyewitnesses said, several army vehicles stormed the village…

The Israeli military court of Ofer near the West Bank city of Ramallah sentenced a Bethlehem resident Bethlehem to14 months in jail and NIS 3000 fine. Mahmoud Takatka 18, was…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said, on Monday, that he would delay upcoming parliamentary elections if Israel bars East Jerusalem residents from voting. "We all agree that Jerusalem should be included…

Dozens of European Union observers to the Palestinian parliamentary elections began deploying in Palestinian areas Monday, undeterred by a wave of kidnappings and other violence that has swept through Palestinian…

The Israeli army tightened its closure, on Monday morning, on the West Bank city of Tulkarem, and deployed additional army units around the city. Also troops closed Iktaba-Bel’a road which…

Israeli soldier invaded, on Sunday, Anza village, near the West Bank city of Jenin, and arrested one resident. Soldiers invaded the village, broke into a number of houses and arrested…

Four Palestinian workers were rammed by a speeding Israeli military jeep, on Sunday at night, at Al Jaba’ junction road between Hebron and the West Bank city of Bethlehem .…

About 200 Palestinian policemen stormed, on Monday, government offices in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, to protest at the failure of the Palestinian Authority and its…

Israeli soldier, backed by 25 armored vehicles, uprooted on Monday morning, more than 400 olive trees from the orchards which belong to residents of Al-Sikka village, south of the West…

Israeli Public Security Minister, Gideon Ezra, claimed on Monday that Palestinian resistance factions succeeded in smuggling anti-aircraft missiles into the Gaza Strip. Reiterating statistics released by the Shin Bet security…

Israeli army will start its redeployment on the Egyptian-Israeli borders on Monday starting from the Kerem Shalom crossing to the Nitzana salient, Israeli online daily Ynetnews reported. A senior Israeli…

Only a few hours before the beginning of the New Year, Israeli soldiers installed a portable military checkpoint near the eastern entrance of the West Bank city of Qalqilia, and…

Israeli army admitted on Sunday that Palestinian resistance fighters fired a Qassam home made shell from the northern West Bank toward centrals Israel in mid December. An army spokesman reported…

Israeli Defence Minister, Shaul Mofaz, approved a plan prepared by the army, in order to reoccupy several areas in the Gaza Strip. Israeli news paper Maariv, reported on Sunday that…

The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Freed Detainees, reported on Sunday that Israeli soldiers arrested 3495 residents in 2005, from several Palestinians areas; 1600 of them remained in custody. An…

Palestinian security sources in Gaza reported that the security devices are currently searching for an Italian resident who was abducted by an armed Palestinian group earlier on Sunday, in Khan…

Eight Palestinian residents suffered bruises and concussions during a protest against the Separation Wall in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, after the soldiers attacked and clubbed the protestors their peaceful procession…

The Israeli Peace Bloc, Gush Shalom, demanded the Israeli government on Sunday to release the Palestinian jailed legislator and Fateh leader, Marwan Barghouthi, who is serving several life-terms in Israeli…

The Israeli Peace Bloc, Gush Shalom, demanded the Israeli government on Sunday to release the Palestinian jailed legislator and Fateh leader, Marwan Barghouthi, who is serving several life-terms in Israeli…

The Israeli Peace Bloc, Gush Shalom, demanded the Israeli government on Sunday to release the Palestinian jailed legislator and Fateh leader, Marwan Barghouthi, who is serving several life-terms in Israeli…

The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that soldiers forced several residents of Ein Al Baida village, in the northern plains of the West Bank, out of their homes, and expelled…

A medical source in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that two brothers were killed, one resident injured, after the Israeli artillery fired several shells…

Israeli soldiers shelled on Sunday at dawn, several areas in the northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, no injuries were reported.   The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported…

Israeli troops invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the West Bank city of Tulkarem and its refugee camp.   Three army vehicles invaded the city and the refugee camp, harassed the…

Israeli soldiers arrested Sami Awad, director of Holy Land Trust (HLT), and candidate for the Palestinian Legislative Council elections in a nonviolent anti-wall protest in the town of Beit Jala…

The IMEMC team would like to wish all our readers a Happy New Year and we hope the year 2006 will be a year to bring peace to the world and to…

The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fateh, and Al Quds Brigades,  military wing of the Islamic Jihad, declared on Saturday at night that the truce which was…

An Israeli movement which rejects the occupation organized the protests which it named "It is time to return to the Green Line", demanding Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories…

Palestinian Candidates of Fateh list in east Jerusalem said on Friday they would boycott Jan. 25 parliamentary elections. All of 15 candidates said they will withdraw their candidacies if Israel…

Israeli army invaded, on Saturday at dawn, the West Bank village of Yatta, south of Hebron, and surrounded number of houses prior to arresting a resident.   Army surrounded the…

Israeli army invaded Saturday at dawn, the West Bank village of Dir Al Ghsoun, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, and broke into a number of house, the…

Israeli army installed a number of military roadblocks in the West Bank city of Qalqilia and its suburbs on Saturday, the Maan News Agency reported.   The roadblocks were installed…

Palestinian security sources reported, on Saturday, that dozens of armed Palestinian gunmen took control of Palestinian Authority buildings, in the city of Dir Al Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.…

Israeli artillery resumed shelling areas in the north and east of the Gaza Strip. Most of the shelled areas are said to be non residential areas, east of both Beit…

The Israel Radio reported, on Saturday, that an Israeli inter-ministerial team is scheduled to begin working on Sunday on formulating Israel’s official stand if Hamas takes control over the Palestinian…

Palestinian foreign minister Nasser Qidwa said today there are two main conditions for holding PLC elections on their scheduled date. The first is the participation of Jerusalem residents. He also…

Aqsa Martyrs Brigades groups in Nablus announced their refusal to hold PLC elections on their scheduled date because of the ongoing Israeli measures. Sources close to the Brigades in Nablus…

Israeli artillery shelled several Palestinian areas in the northern part of the Gaza Strip; army claims that the shelled areas are uninhibited and are used by the resistance as launching…

A senior Palestinian Authority official said, on Friday at night, that British Human Rights activist Kate Burton and her parents, Hugh and Helen, were released after they were abducted two…

A senior Palestinian Authority official said, on Friday at night, that British Human Rights activist Kate Burton and her parents, Hugh and Helen, were released after they were abducted two…

A senior Palestinian Authority official said, on Friday at night, that British Human Rights activist Kate Burton and her parents, Hugh and Helen, were released after they were abducted two…

With less than a month to go till the up-coming election, Fatah’s top candidate Marwan Barghouti apologized to the Palestinians for the problems with corruptions within the Palestinian Authority and…

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Israeli soldiers supported by ten armored vehicles and jeeps, invaded Atteel village, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem and arrested eight residents. A local source in Atteel reported…

 The Palestinian Ministry of Interior and National Security strongly denounced the murder of a Palestinian policeman by gunmen in Gaza city; three other policemen and three residents were injured. The…

Palestinian policemen, angry over the killing of a fellow police officer, stormed the Gaza-Egypt crossing on Friday, firing in the air and forcing European monitors to close the border and…

Israeli Security sources reported that the Palestinian Authority fears large scale Israeli Army retaliation in Tulkarem following Thursday’s suicide bombing in which an Israeli soldier and three Palestinians were killed.…

According to the Mina Tzemach poll, published Friday morning by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the Likud party headed by Benjamin Netanyahu is narrowing the gap with Kadima part headed…

West Bank city of Tubass, closed it for traffic Thursday afternoon. Since Tayasser checkpoint lies at the entrance of Tubass city, closing it caused many residents from the surrounding villages…

Israeli army troops invaded, on Friday at dawn, the West Bank city of Tulkarem; ten residents were arrested. Troops invaded the village of Atil near the city and arrested nine…

Israeli sources reported on Friday that the Israeli army unit stationed in Dura Village, near the West Bank city of Hebron, disarmed a bomb planted near the village. The sources…

In a press release, the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades General Command and the Salah Al Deen Brigades claimed responsibility, Thursday, for firing two home made-shells at Israeli army targets in Kosofem…

The Israeli army invaded, on Friday at dawn, the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, local sources reported. Troops, backed with more than 30 military vehicles, invaded…

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has ordered the army to probe reports of uprooted Palestinian trees by extremist settlers groups. Mofaz said that…

A report prepared by the State Information Service (SIS) revealed that Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians, including one extra-judicially assassinated, and injured 32 others, in addition to committing 746…

A report prepared by the State Information Service (SIS) revealed that Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians, including one extra-judicially assassinated, and injured 32 others, in addition to committing 746…

A report prepared by the State Information Service (SIS) revealed that Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians, including one extra-judicially assassinated, and injured 32 others, in addition to committing 746…

Al Qaeda Network in Iraq claimed responsibility of firing several shells at Israel, two days ago, from the Lebanese territories. In a statement released by the network and signed by…

Al Qaeda Network in Iraq claimed responsibility of firing several shells at Israel, two days ago, from the Lebanese territories. In a statement released by the network and signed by…

Al Qaeda Network in Iraq claimed responsibility of firing several shells at Israel, two days ago, from the Lebanese territories. In a statement released by the network and signed by…

Al Qaeda Network in Iraq claimed responsibility of firing several shells at Israel, two days ago, from the Lebanese territories. In a statement released by the network and signed by…

The Israeli army sealed, on Thursday, the southern entrance of the West Bank city of Jenin, and installed four military checkpoints at Jenin-Nablus road and Arraba road junction, south of…

The Israeli Ofer military court sentenced on Mohamed Khalaf, 26, to fourteen years consecutive imprisonment, and five on parole, Thursday afternoon.   Khalaf was arrested earlier this month form Al…

The Israeli army invaded, on Thursday, the West Bank city of Jenin, local sources reported.   Troops entered the city backed up by several military armored vehicles, and closed the…

Israeli soldiers arrested two residents from the West Bank city of Hebron; one of the residents is from Al Fawwar refugee camp, in Hebron, while the other is from Al…

A Palestinian police source in Gaza reported on Thursday that a group of gunmen fired live ammunition near the home of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas.   The source stated…

A Palestinian security reported, on Thursday, that four Palestinians, and one Israeli officer, were killed in the suicide bombing which was carried out at a military checkpoint, south of the…

An extremist settlers group attacked, on Wednesday at night and Thursday morning, dozens of homes in the West Bank city of Hebron, and pinched several chickens owned by the residents.…

Arab League Secretary General Amr Mousa said the Palestinian cause is at the top of his priority list and a prime issue for 2006. In an exclusive statement to PNN,…

Palestinian Minister of Economy Mazen Sinoqrot said today that the Palestinian Authority is seeking to attract foreign investments worth $7 billion. In a press conference in Ramallah, Sinoqrot announced the…

Israeli Prison Authorities barred visitations of detainees imprisoned in Gilboa’ and Shatta detention facilities, and informed the Red Cross of the decision without providing any further details. Families of dozens…

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said on Thursday that the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has no limitations in his war against the firing of homemade shells, from the Gaza…