Khaled Mashaal in Cairo for talks over unity government
Khaled Mashaal, chief o f the politburo of Hamas arrived in Cairo on Thursday for talks with Egyptian officials, political sources reported. Khaled who heads a delegation of senior Hamas…
Seven detainees confined to solitary at the Negev detention facility
Israeli Prison Administration (IPA) at the Negev detention facility confined seven Palestinian detainees to solitary without any apparent reason. The detainees were informed that they will be moved to another…
Fighter killed in Beit Lahia, second Palestinian to be killed Wednesday
Palestinians sources in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one fighters was killed on Wednesday evening by military fire of the Israeli under-cover forces.…
Palestine Today – November 22, 2006
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org. For Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 5.41MB || time:5m54s The army continues its offensive…
P.A Interior Ministry decides to suspend, arrest any person who took part in abducting international
The Palestinian Ministry of Interior decided on Wednesday to suspend and arrest any person who participated in the abduction of internationals since the current government took office. Khaled Abu Hilal,…
Abbas: “National Unity Government will enforce law and order”
Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Wednesday that an agreement of a National Unity Government is the way to enforce law and order, and ensure security for the Palestinian people.…
National unity cabinet: a difficult delivery for a precious birth
The many shades of the Palestinian national unity government are subtle. It is the Palestinian dream, so as to break the unjust international economic siege against the Palestinian people. Hamas,…
Female detainee talks about harsh conditions she faces in detention
Detainee Amna Mona, has been confined to solitary since October 5, 2006, and is facing very harsh conditions, humiliation and deprived of her internationally guaranteed rights, the Palestinian Prisoner Society…
Israeli Foreign Minister demands annulment of Palestinian refugees’ right to return
The Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, has urged the world community, especially countries hosting Palestinian refugees, to annul those refugees' internationally-recognized right of return to their homeland (what is now…
Human rights organizations criticize ongoing Israeli detention of human rights worker
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders considered Israeli detention of a Palestinian Human Rights fieldworker a flagrant violation of article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil…
Qassam brigades: “No truce under oppression, all options available”
The Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said that the group is developing its military capabilities, and that it will not agree to any truce with Israel as…
Palestine Today – November 21, 2006
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org for Tuesday November 21st, 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 5.78 || time:6m19s Two were killed in southern…
Troops Abduct an Imam, and his son, in Beit Jala
Israeli troops took prisoner Saleh Jawareesh, the Imam of Ahmad Bin Hanbal mosque in Beit Jala city, near Bethlehem, and his son Azzam, after breaking into their home in the…
Detained Palestinian Minister of Finance appears in Israeli Court chained
During an Israeli court session for the abducted Palestinian ministers and legislators, Palestinian Minister of Finance, Dr. Omar Abdul-Raziq, addressed the court through his lawyer Usama Al Sa'ady, complaining from…
Palestinian mass resistance tactic blocks Israeli air strikes
Palestinians have started to employ new tactics to prevent Israeli air attacks on their houses. Hundreds of protesters successfully forced the Israeli air force to halt air strikes on a…
Peace Now: “40% of West Bank settlements are built on private Palestinian property”
The Israeli Peace Now movement held a press conference in Jerusalem on Tuesday and said that it found in a new study on settlements that approximately 40% of the settlements…
Fateh leader injured after gunmen attempted to assassinate him
Palestinian medical and security sources in the Gaza Strip reported that Abdul-Aziz Shahin “Abu Ali”, member of the Fateh Revolutionary Council, was shot an injured in his leg after unknown…
‘Apartheid road system’ cemented with new regulations on driving
Palestinians may not ride in cars with Israeli license plates, according to a new rule announced today by Israeli authorities. Palestinians are already barred from driving on 40% of the…
‘Apartheid road system’ cemented with new regulations on driving
Palestinians may not ride in cars with Israeli license plates, according to a new rule announced today by Israeli authorities. Palestinians are already barred from driving on 40% of the…
Joint statement by six Israeli human rights organizations blames Israel for humanitarian crisis
Nine Israeli human rights organizations issued an unprecedented joint call to the international community to ensure human rights in the Gaza Strip. The statement comes in light of the dire…
Palestine Today – November 20, 2006
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org for Monday November 20th, 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 4.6MB || time:4m46s . The Israeli…
Israeli military court again postpones trials of elected Palestinian officials
After months of postponements due to lack of evidence, the Israeli Salem Military Court once again put off the trials of elected Palestinian officials this afternoon. The Palestinian Authority Ministry…
Study: 71% of Palestinian Refugees living below poverty line
A study conducted by the Near-East Counseling Institution revealed that 71% of the Palestinian refugees are living in extreme poverty; the remaining 29% of the refugees are poor. Jamil Rabah,…
Talks on National Unity Government are ongoing in spite a Sunday set-back
Several senior Palestinian political leaders confirmed that talks on the formation of a National Unity Government are ongoing in spite of the recent set-back regarding some issues especially the distribution…
Government offers paying part of November salaries, scheduling late payments on 4 months
Talks between Government Workers Union and the government ended on Sunday evening with an offer from the government to pay 1000 New Israeli Shekels to to every employee as part…
Israeli army detains trucks of water east of Tubas
The Israeli soldiers detained trucks containing water tanks that were on their way to farmers in Khirbit Samra village, east of Tubas, on Monday morning. The drivers of the water…
Peace will need more than David Grossman — or Uri Avnery
David Grossman’s widely publicised speech at the annual memorial rally for Yitzhak Rabin earlier this month has prompted some fine deconstruction of his “words of peace” from critics. Grossman, one…
Fighter dies of wounds sustained earlier this month
The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, reported that one of its field leaders died on Saturday evening of wounds sustained on November 2, during the second day…
Israel issues an order to annex hundreds of Dunams in the West Bank
Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Right Center (Musaada) demanded the Legal Counselor of the Israeli so-called Civil Administration Office in the occupied West Bank, to cancel a decision that aims…
Child killed in Beit Lahia, woman dies of heart attack as shell exploded near her home
Palestinian medical sources in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip reported that a 16-year old child was killed by Israeli military fire. A 70-year old woman…
Army installs two military checkpoints north of Tubas
The Israeli army installed two military checkpoints north of the West Bank city of Tubas on Saturday morning. One flying military checkpoint was installed on the I'kaba village – Tubas…
Army critically injures one resident in Beit Lahia
The Israeli army shot one resident of Beit Lahayia north of the Gaza strip on Saturday noon. The man was moved to the nearby Kamal Udwan hospital, medical sources said…
Army kills one resident in Beit Lahia
Sa’eed Hajuj, 20 was killed by in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia, Saturday morning. An undercover Israeli army unit invaded the town and positioned in a civilian house…
Abbas-Haniyya closed meeting ends, described as positive
Friday evening, a closed meeting between the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya ended after the two leaders held further talks on the formation of the National…
This Week In Palestine – November Week 2
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Democrats Ignore Subjugation of Palestinians in Vilifying Carter’s Book
President Jimmy Carter's courageous new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, is due on bookstore shelves November 14, 2006. In it, Carter reportedly states, "Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian…
Bil’in protest commemorates independence, calls for Palestinian Unity
Some 300 Palestinians and 100 Israeli and international peace activists marched on Friday against the Israeli Annexation Wall in Bil'in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The procession…
Haniyya describes his meeting with Abbas as positive
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, said on Friday that his late Thursday night meeting with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, was positive and good. Haniyya also stated that he will…
PCHR report: “428 Palestinians, including 80 children and 25 women, killed since June 25”
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) reported that Israeli troops killed 434 Palestinians, in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank since June 25; 271 of the casualties were…
Settlers continue expansion of illegal outposts in the occupied West Bank
In spite of the official Israeli statements of intension to evacuate illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, settlers continued their illegal activities of expansion of settlement outposts north…
Army jet fighters level a house in Beit Lahiya
Israeli army jet fighters fired several missiles at a house in the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip and leveled it to the ground on Friday morning.…
Israel rejects the European peace initiative
Officials of the Israeli Foreign Ministry rejected a five-point peace initiative proposed by France and Spain to revive the peace process and renew negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.…
Abbas demands that Islamic Jihad abide by cease fire
Friday evening, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas demanded that the Islamic Jihad Palestinian resistance movement abide by a cease fire and stop the firing of homemade shells at the Israeli town…
Fighter taken prisoner hours after soldiers surrounded his house and partially destroyed it
Palestinian sources in Tulkarem, in the northern part of th West Bank, that soldiers took one fighter of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh prisoner, hours after…
Soldiers attack rooms of abducted Palestinian legislators and ministers
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees slammed the Thursday morning the attacks carried by Israeli soldiers and the Israeli Prison Administration against the rooms of abducted Palestinian ministers and legislators in…
Palestine Today – November 16, 2006
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org for Thursday November 16, 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 5.66MB || time:6m11m The Israeli army…
Zahhar: “Iran donated $ 120 Million to Hamas-led government”
Palestinian Foreign Minister from the Hamas movement said on Thursday that Iran donated $120 million to the Palestinian government, and adding the Iran is willing to donate more. Zahhar, currently…
Soldiers, settlers obstruct families from harvesting their olive trees
Several families of Tal village, west of Nablus city, in the northern part of the West Bank, complained that Israeli soldiers and settlers are obstructing their Olive harvest in their…
Abbas: “The United States assured me embargo will be lifted if Unity Government formed”
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Wednesday that he received assurances from the United States that the formation of a National Unity Government would bring an end to its political…
Al Ein Refugee camp, small in size, big target for the Israeli army
Destruction in Al Ein refugee camp in Nablus, repeated invasions and attacks carried by the Israeli forces became a daily event over the last two weeks. The camp is one…
Talks on naming P.A ministers for National Unity Government start today
Palestinian sources reported that talks between Fateh and Hamas on National Unity Government will be resumed today (Thursday) after the talks were stopped for two days. President Mahmoud Abbas and…
Army invades Qabatiya and takes prisoner five residents
The Israeli army invaded the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin City in the northern West Bank on Thursday at dawn and took prisoner five residents. Army vehicles and troops…
What are Palestinians gaining from launching Qassams?
I want to start by saying that Israel does not need excuses to attack and kill Palestinians. However, they do it with international approval when they have this excuse. In…
Palestine Today – November 15, 2006
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org for Wednesday November 15, 2006..|| Click here to Download MP3 file 5.27MB || time:4m38s In the West Bank,…
Palestine Today – November 15, 2006
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org for Wednesday November 15, 2006..|| Click here to Download MP3 file 4.25MB || time:4m38s In the West Bank,…
Independence Day in Palestine: a lifeless holiday
Palestinians living under Israeli occupation aspire to liberation and freedom, but eighteen years after the Palestinian leadership, from exile, announced the Palestinian independence day, the Palestinian people are still under…
Army invades Al Doha town for the second time and takes another prisoner
The Israeli army invaded Al Doha town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem for the second time on Wednesday afternoon and took another prisoner. Soldiers attacked the house…
Lifting of Boycott Not Conditioned On Hamas’ Recognition of Israel
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas assured Hamas that the boycott will be lifted despite their refusal to recognize Israel; rather it is conditioned on a non-partisan government of technocrats, according to…
A village cut in two: the goal is displacement, looting and land confiscation
The town of Azzun 'Atma has come to represent the worst of the worst of the effects of the Israeli Wall in the West Bank. The small town is in…
The Israeli Army seize mother of five to force her wanted husband to surrender
On Wednesday soldiers abducted a mother of five from Doura town, near Hebron in the south of the West Bank, in order to pressurise her wanted husband to surrender, Palestinian…
Qaraqe’: “420 residents taken prisoner since less than 14 days”
Palestinian Legislator, head of the detainees committee at the Legislative Council, Issa Qaraqe', said that the number of Palestinians being taken prisoner by Israeli forces has sharply increased as the…
Report: Sharp increase of Russian Jews immigrating back to Russia
A report prepared by the Israeli embassy in Russia revealed that the number of Russian Jews who left the country back to Russia arrived to 50.000, while three years ago…
B’Tselem: “Grave suspicion of extrajudicial execution of two wounded Palestinians, 8 Nov. 06”
On November 8, 2006 at around 2:00 am, under-cover units of the Israeli army shot and killed five Palestinians in Al Yamoun village, near Jenin, in the northern part of…
Palestine Today – November 14, 2006
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Tuesday November 14, 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 5.27MB || time: 5m 45s A…
Unity Government Still Dominated by Hamas
Members of the Hamas movement will still hold key positions in the nearly formed national unity government of Palestine and according to Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, Hamas will not settle…
Army does not allow patients with severe conditions to enter Israel for treatment
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Tuesday that the Israeli army controlling the border crossing in or out of Gaza is refusing to allow patients with severe…
Shbeir, the new Palestinian Unity Government head
Palestinian sources reported on Monday at night that the rival Fateh and Hamas movements agreed on the formation of a National Unity Government headed by Mohammad Abu Shbeir. Abu Shbeir…
Palestine Today – November 13, 2006
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Monday November 13, 2006. || Click here to Download MP3 file 5.27MB || time: 5m 45s In…
Deconstructing David Grossman: If he is Israeli left, who needs right?
Gilad Atzmon highlights the inherent contradictions in the views of Israeli Zionist author David Grossman who appears to espouse peace with the Palestinians but shows worrying signs of Jewish supremacism.…
After being imprisoned in Pakistani, US, Jordanian, and Israeli prisons, detainee finally freed
Israeli authorities released on November 6, 2006, detainee Marwan Ali Jabbour from Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. He was taken prisoner by Israel on the…
Army installs a barbed wire fence near Azone Village
The Israeli army started to install a barbed wire fence on the southern farm lands that belong to Azon Village, south of the West Bank city of Qalqilia on Monday…
Fateh, Hamas resume unity talks
Senior officials of Fateh and Hamas movements resumed their talks on the formation of a national unity government. The two movements held an extended meeting last night that concentrated on…
Rallies throughout Palestine commemorate anniversary of death of Arafat
The late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who died on November 12th, 2004, was remembered today in simultaneous rallies held in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Gaza City, Rafah, Jenin and Beit Hanoun. In…
Hamas, Fateh hold meeting on National Unity Government
Sunday evening, leaders of Hamas and Fateh movements met in order to finalize the details of the upcoming National Unity Government. The meeting was held at the presidential headquarters in…
Arab leaders decide to end siege, adopt peace plan
Arab Foreign Minister decided during an urgent summit in Cairo to break the siege imposed on the Palestinians and to transfer aid money to the Palestinian Authority. Secretary of the…
Youth dies of wounds sustained last week
Palestinian medical sources in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one youth died of wounds sustained on November 6, in Beit Hanoun, in the…
No One is Guilty in Israel
Nineteen inhabitants of Beit Hanun were killed with malice aforethought. There is no other way of describing the circumstances of their killing. Someone who throws burning matches into a forest…
Breaking the silence: Israeli soldiers speak out
Standing at 6'1, with strong build, a full beard, and long dark hair, Yehuda Shaul seems like an unassuming young man. Wearing dark cargo pants, and a long-sleeved blue shirt,…
Palestinian child blown to pieces by Israeli shell, teen dies of wounds sustained Wednesday
In the town of Beit Hanoun, the site of an Israeli shelling that killed eighteen civilians on Wednesday, another child was killed Sunday by the ongoing Israeli shelling of the…
Egyptian Consul visits hunger strikers in Israeli prison, working for release
Egyptians detainees continue their hunger strike in Israeli prison in protest of being held without a legal cause or trial. On Saturday the Egyptian Consul in the Egyptian Embassy in…
Palestinian government determined to unmask the causes of Arafat’s death
On the second anniversary of the death of the late Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian Authority headed by Hamas has affirmed that it is determined to solve the mystery…
Abbas: “National Unity Government will be born by the end of the month“
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Saturday that the National Unity Government will be formed, in spite of all the difficulties, by the end of this month and that the…
Elderly woman resists further land destruction
A 65 year old woman attracted international attention to the plight of Palestinian olive farmers when she grabbed hold of the trunk of an olive tree, refusing to allow Israeli…
Cluster bomb blast kills one Hezbollah fighter
Lebanese sources reported on Friday at night that one Hezbollah fighter was killed when an Israeli cluster bomb exploded as he was clearing unexploded ordnance in southern Lebanon. The fighter…
Rizqa: “National Unity Government should not be formed before Abbas receives guarantees”
Palestinian Minister of Information, Dr. Yousef Rizqa, said on Friday that the National Unity Government should not be formed before president Mahmoud Abbas receives American and Israeli guarantees that the…
We overcame our fear
Yesterday at dawn, the Israeli air force bombed and destroyed my home. I was the target, but instead the attack killed my sister-in-law, Nahla, a widow with eight children in…
This Week In Palestine – November Week 1
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Bil’in protest commemorates Yasser Arafat; challenges international silence on Israeli atrocities
In the village of Bil'in today, more than a hundred people, including Palestinians, Israelis and internationals, held a nonviolent protest to challenge the Israeli Wall and attacks, as well as…
Restrictions Imposed on West Bank Due to Israel’s High State of Alert
The Israeli government imposed restrictions on West Bank residents, including prisoners as part of Israel’s high state of alert after the killings in Beit Hanoun that left 20 civilians dead.…
Palestinian Prime Minister says he’s willing to resign if it will lead to lifting of siege
Just two days after an Israeli attack in Gaza killed 18 civilians, many of them children, the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has announced that he would be willing to…
Hamas and Fateh committee formed to create unity government
Former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei is among the members of a new committee formed between Hamas and Fateh factions to hash out details of the new coalition government. Leftist…
Palestinian farmers fight back against Israeli attack during demonstration
The Palestinians of southern Bethlehem's Wadi Rahal Village engaged in nonviolent resistance Thursday by demonstrating at the site of land confiscation for Wall construction in the West Bank. Israeli soldiers…
Palestine Today – November 9, 2006
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Government Hospitals to Remain Closed Throughout Palestine, Despite Recent Plan to Pay Salaries
The Federation of Unions of Health Care Professionals continues to strike against unpaid salaries despite a recent government plan to pay all salaries owed to the health care employees since…
Nonviolent protest continues against construction of Jewish museum on desecrated Islamic cemetery
Palestinians inside the Green Line are holding a nonviolent sit-in throughout Tuesday in protest of the Israeli decision to build a Jewish museum on the ruins of an Islamic cemetery,…
Palestine Today – November 8, 2006
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Extremist Jewish groups calls for attacking the Al Aqsa Mosque
Israeli sources reported on Wednesday that an extremist Jewish group threatened that it will attack the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Thursday. The Al Aqsa Foundation for Muslim Holy…
Abbas: “Israel does not want peace and stability, it carried a horrible, ugly, massacre”
Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, slammed the Israeli attack that killed twenty residents, all family members and relatives, and described the attack as a horrible and ugly massacre. Abbas stated that…
Palestinian resistance responds to the army attacks on Beit Hannoun
After the Israeli army killed 20 civilians in Beit Hannoun on Wednesday morning, Palestinian resistance retaliated by firing homemade shells at Israeli targets near the Gaza Strip. At first,…
Bloody Day in Palestine, what is the reaction
At least 25 Palestinians have been killed in less than one day. 20 mostly civilians were killed in Beit Hanoun in Gaza Strip and five in Al-Yamoun near Jenin. Most…