Army takes one prisoner from Bethlehem
Israeli army troops took Awwad Friha, 38, as prisoner during predawn invasion to the West Bank city of Bethlehem Monday. Troops and several army jeeps stormed the city, surrounded Friha’s…
Israeli forces creating ‘Dead zone’ in southern Lebanon while airstrikes on hold
"By Wednesday we are going to establish a two-kilometer (one-mile) wide ‘security zone’ in which there will be no infrastructure or sign of Hezbollah’s presence," Israeli army operations chief General…
Arab women reporters on frontlines of Lebanon war
A male news anchor appeared on screen from the safety of Arabic station Al-Jazeera’s studio in Doha as two female correspondents in full war gear reported live from both sides…
Israeli forces withdraw from Bint Jbeil
Israeli forces pulled out of the Lebanese border town of Bint Jbeil yesterday on the 18th day of the Middle East crisis. Israeli troops had raided the Hizbollah stronghold, 2.5…
Gaza in darkness; quickly running out of water
The irony is almost beyond belief. Since the capture of an Israeli soldier, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to a large-scale military operation, what Israel calls “Summer Rain”. Because…
Israeli checkpoint procedures tightened throughout West Bank
With Israeli invasions ongoing in both Lebanon and Gaza, Palestinians in the West Bank report that Israeli forces have begun tightening already strict procedures that Palestinians must endure at the…
From New Orleans to Gaza
On Sunday, August 29th of last year, the hurricane we’d been watching metastasize in the Gulf of Mexico crossed from sea to land, disfiguring and permanently altering the city of…
Debunking Israeli myths about its war on Lebanon
It is an accepted theory that truth is the first casualty of war. In the present Israeli war on Lebanon spin is certainly the first victor. The misinformation and the…
Palestinian Prisoners Society demands release of all detainees from Israel prisons
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) released a report stating there are currently dozens of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons who were arrested “in peace times” and before the Oslo agreements,…
Haniiya slams Israeli crimes in Lebanon, demands sanctions on Israel
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, expressed shock over “the Israeli crimes against the Lebanese people”, and demanded the International Community to impose sanctions on Israel after the army killed 58…
Israeli soldiers arrest five Palestinians and loot shops in Qalqilia
In a large-scale campaign against the northwestern West Bank city of Qalqilia Sunday, Israeli soldiers terrorized residents on myriad levels. Beginning by invading the city at 2:00 am, Israeli forces…
Israeli settlers and soldiers beat several Palestinians and make arrests in Hebron
Israeli soldiers beat three Dura Village residents, southwest of Hebron Sunday. Medical sources at the southern West Bank’s city hospital reported that the victims are covered in contusions and bruises…
Israeli ‘elite unit’ averted in attempted invasion of At-Taybah; 8 soldiers killed
As Israeli airplanes continue to rain bombs down upon all parts of southern Lebanon, killing dozens of civilians today alone, the attempts at ground invasions have continued to prove difficult,…
Army shells houses in Rafah
Sunday, Israeli soldiers fired artillery shells at several houses in Al Shouka town, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli soldiers stationed…
Residents injured in Beit Hanoun, army shells a house, a hospital, in Gaza, child injured in Rafah
Saturday after midnight, Israeli forces shelled several houses in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, several residents were injured. In Gaza city, soldiers shelled house Al…
Army assassinates Islamic Jihad activist in Nablus
Saturday evening, under-cover units of the Israeli army assassinated a member of the Islamic Jihad and injured another fighter in Al Habla neighborhood, in the Old City of Nablus, north…
Army closes Beit Iba checkpoint, west of Nablus
Israeli soldiers stationed at the Beit Iba checkpoint, located at the western entrance of the west bank city of Nablus, closed it on Saturday morning for over four hours. Troops…
Army invades Al Fokharee neighbourhood, Khan Younis
On Saturday morning, Israeli tanks and bulldozers invaded Al Fokharee neighborhood, south of Khan Younis town, in the eastern Gaza strip. Odah Al Omor, the mayor of Al Fokharee village…
Army closes entrance of Wadi Al Far’a village, south of Tubas
Israeli army forces closed the entrance of Wadi Al Far’a village, south of the West Bank city of Tubas, early on Saturday morning. Troops and jeeps sealed the area and…
Army invades Jenin, its refugee camp and the nearby Qabatia village
Israeli forces invaded the West Bank city of Jenin, its refugee camp and the outlying village of Qabatia, on Saturday at dawn. Army vehicles and bulldozers stormed the city and…
Army invades Tuqa village, east of Bethlehem
Israeli army troops invaded the village of Tuqa on Saturday at dawn, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Security sources in the village reported that several armored jeeps…
Rice to meet Olmert on Saturday night
Israeli sources reported that the United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, headed to the Middle East in order to hold talks with the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, to…
Troops arrest a Palestinian Military Medic in Hebron
Saturday morning, Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian military medic in southern Hebron, in the west Bank, the Palestinian WAFA news agency reported. The agency stated that troops arrested Ahmad Noah…
Israeli court sentences two young Bethlehem men to 21 life terms
An Israeli military court sentenced two young Bethlehem men to 21 life terms and additional 15 Ahmed Salah from Deheisha Refugee Camp, 24, and Zaher Mekdad from Bethlehem City, 26,…
Army shells several areas in southern Lebanon
Israeli air force fired missiles, on Saturday, at the area of Al Safeer, in Al Dahia Al Janoubiyya area in Beirut, and shelled Jarhou’ area in southern Lebanon. Also, troops…
Six Israeli soldiers injured in southern Lebanon
Friday afternoon, fighters of Hezbollah party attacked several Israeli military vehicles and tanks stationed in Maroun Al Ras and Eitaron areas in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah fighters said they shot down…
Resident dies of wounds suffered on Thursday, elderly man injured in Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a Palestinian residents died of wounds sustained on Thursday evening, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, while an elderly…
Hezbollah strikes deep into Israel
Hezbollah has fired a new rocket at Israel, striking deeper than ever before, as Israel continued to pound Lebanese targets and battle resistance fighters on the ground. Hezbollah said it…
This Week in Palestine, July Week 4
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Peace activists protest against the Wall in Bil’in, against the killing of Lebanese and Palestinians
At least 250 Palestinian residents of the village of Bil’in, west of Ramallah, along with some 50 Israeli and international peace activists, protested against the Israeli military attacks in Lebanon…
Resident dies of wounds sustained on Thursday
Dr. Muawiya Hassanen, head of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, reported on Friday that one resident died of wounds sustained on Thursday night after the Israeli…
Israeli High Court bans new construction of Matityahu East settlement, near Ramallah
Local, Israeli and international peace activists in Bil’in said that a victory for the Palestinian villagers of Bil’in was achieved after the Israeli High Court of Justice ruled on Thursday,…
Notes from a Free Fire Zone (Beirut)
Watching the news today in my grandfather’s home in Lebanon, all I want to do is weep. Until today, I was cautiously optimistic. Until today, there were some positive developments…
Ministry of Health: Israeli forces kill 29, injure 128 Palestinians, in one area, in 48 hours
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced Friday that the outcome of the two-day Israeli campaign against Al Sha’af and Al Tuffah areas in eastern Gaza City. The Ministry reported that…
Ministry of Health: Israeli forces kill 29, injure 128 Palestinians, in one area, in 48 hours
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced Friday that the outcome of the two-day Israeli campaign against Al Shufa area in eastern Gaza City. The Ministry reported that Israeli forces killed…
One Hundred peaceful demostrators protest Wall in Al-Khader
Nearly a hundred Palestinians, Israelis, and international peace activists protested the impending construction of the Separation Wall in Al Khader, west of the city of Bethlehem, Friday in what has…
Bodies of two residents found in Gaza
Palestinian sources in Gaza reported on Friday that medical teams uncovered a body of a resident who was shot and killed by the Israeli army east of Gaza. The teams…
Christian priests protest against the Israeli attacks on the Palestinians and Lebanese
Christian priests from various church denominations held a protest against the ongoing Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza and Lebanon in front of the Holy Sepulchre church in Jerusalem on…
Five Primetime Lies from the American Media
This week I had the pleasure to appear on American radio, on the Laura Ingraham show, pitted against David Horowitz, a "Semite supremacist" who most recently made his name under…
Ambulance team finds residents bodies killed in Israeli shelling of Gaza
On Friday morning Palestinian ambulance teams found the body of Mohamed Abu Sakran, 22, on farm land east of Gaza city. The youth was killed during the Israeli invasion to…
EU President and US deny Israel’s Interpretation of Rome Meeting ‘their own, wrong interpretation.’
After Israel’s declaration that its decision to continue its assault on Lebanon had been endorsed by the 15-nation summit in Rome earlier this week, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose…
Army continues to shell northern areas of Gaza strip
The Israeli tanks stationed at the Gazan-Israeli borders have resumed shelling Beit Lahia, Beit Hannon and Jabalia refugee camp north of Gaza strip Friday morning. They targeted residential areas and…
Hamas source: Israeli soldier will not be released until all conditions are met
An official source from Hamas, who wished to remain anonymous, told PNN Thursday that the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, will not be released until Israeli authorities respond to the…
Even the Arab media has forgotten Palestine
In the past two weeks, since the onset of Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon, regional and international media has all but forgotten Palestine. The killings, incursions, and arrests by…
Israeli government confiscating 215 dunams of Palestinian land between Hebron and Bethlehem for Wall
Official sources in the Palestinian Office of the Public Land Defense Committee announced Thursday that the Israeli government will confiscate another 215 dunams of land for the Wall. This time…
Israel ‘authorised’ to continue attacks
Israel has said it has received implicit "authorisation" from international powers to continue its attacks in Lebanon. The Israeli justice minister, Haim Ramon, said Israel had "in effect obtained the…
Christians in Gaza protest against the war in Lebanon, Palestine
Christians in Gaza protested on Thursday against the ongoing Israeli military escalation and war in Palestine and Lebanon, and called for a just peace in the region. The protesters called…
Palestinian child killed in Jabalia
Palestinian security sources in Gaza reported that a Palestinian child was shot and killed by Israeli military fire in Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The Media…
Palestine Today – July 27 2006
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A new group against war in Lebanon established in Israel
“Waking up in time” is the name of a new movement established in Israel following the current war on Lebanon. The origin of the movement stems from the “Four Mothers”…
What if?
What if Israel fails to win the battle against Hezbollah? Many are asking such a question, especially in the shadow of the results of the early ground battles, which Israeli…
Army invades Jenin refugee camp, injures three residents
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp on Thursday surrounding one house after firing rounds of live ammunition at residents; two people were…
Israeli forces invade Jenin, injured PNN and Al Jazeera correspondents
Some 40 Israeli military vehicles invaded the northern West Bank city of Jenin Thursday afternoon. As the raid began, Israeli forces immediately injured six Palestinians. As the attacks continued, Israeli…
Three Palestinians, including a 75-year old woman, killed by Israeli shells in Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported that two Palestinians were killed after an Israeli military helicopter fired a missile at a group of people who gathered east of Gaza city,…
Israel increases air strikes in Southern Lebanon after suffering record loss on the ground
Israel continues its air bombardment of Southern Lebanon, while the Israeli cabinet made it clear that air attacks on Lebanon will intensify, but ground operations will be limited, Israel media…
Army invades south west of Rafah
On Thursday afternoon, the Israeli army forcibly entered areas south east of Rafah city, in the southern Gaza Strip, in a 2km-deep incursion to the territory. According to local sources,…
One resident killed in Kofer Qadom village, east of Qalqilia
On Thursday afternoon, sources in the Qalqilia Governorate announced the death of Hamada Da’ass, 18, a resident of Kofer Qadom village, east of the city. Da’ass sustained injuries during a…
One resident injured in Israeli shelling to east suburbs of Gaza city
Medical sources reported on Thursday at noon that one resident from Al Tufah neighborhood was injured when Israeli army tanks targeted the area. Doctor Muawiya Hassinen, Director of the Ambulance…
Army takes a child as prisoner from Azaria, near Jerusalem
Local sources reported on Thursday morning that the Israeli army took the child, Mousa Faron, 14, as a prisoner from Al Azaria village, east of Jerusalem. According to family members,…
Army invades Beit Furiq and takes three prisoners
Three residents were taken as prisoners when troops from the Israeli army invaded the village of Beit Furiq, east of the West Bank city of Nablus, on Thursday morning at…
Army takes four prisoners from Yatta and Hebron
The Israeli forces took four prisoners during wide scale searches in the West Bank city of Hebron and the nearby village of Yatta, early on Thursday morning. Several army vehicles…
Army takes one prisoner from Nablus
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus Thursday morning, taking Tha’er Al Aghbar as a prisoner. Troops stormed the city and the nearby Balata refugee camp, making…
Human Rights group investigation reveals Israeli Army targeted 3 family members in Gaza
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is calling for a full investigation by the Israeli Military Attorney’s office after their independent investigation revealed the Israeli Army illegally targeted the civilian…
British MPs Call for Immediate Cease Fire in the Middle East
56 British Members of Parliament called for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East on Wednesday, calling the Israel military strikes on Lebanese civilians "immoral." The Members of Parliament released…
Israel continues with bombardment of Southern Lebanon despite Israeli losses on Wednesday
The Israeli military continued bombing Southern Lebanon on Thursday, launching a heavy air and artillery attack. Communication masts north of Beirut have been destroyed, as well as three trucks carrying…
75 year old woman dies after being hit by an army tank shell in Gaza
75 year old Kamilah Al Najar was killed on Thursday after an Israeli army tank shell hit her in the head in the town of Jabalia in the Gaza strip. With…
Army takes one prisoner from Al Khader village
Ahmad Mossa, 38, was taken prisoner by the Israeli army during an invasion to the village of AL Khadir near the West Bank city of Bethlehem Thursday at dawn. Troops…
24 Palestinians killed at least seventy injured on Wednesday
Israeli troops killed on twenty-four Palestinians, including three children, on Wednesday, and injured at least 70 residents in Al Sha’af in Al Shijaeeya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, Palestinian medical…
Elderly Dies at Israeli Checkpoint east of Qalqilia
An elderly man died Wednesday night as Israeli soldiers prevented him from reaching a local hospital in the West Bank City of Qalqilya, witnesses said. Local sources told WAFA…
Israeli soldiers attack man for reading Qur’an, beat 70 year old, break 24 year old’s arm
In an act of nonviolent resistance, a Palestinian man refused to stop reading prayers from the Qur’an, despite beatings and racial slurs from Israeli soldiers, eyewitnesses reported. Israeli soldiers at…
Israeli Army levels a house east of Qalqilia, seriously injuring one youth
Wednesday at night, Israeli soldiers invaded a town near Qalqilia, north of the West Bank, leveled one house and seriously injured a youth by shooting him in his head, the…
Israel’s ‘new Middle East’
{mosimage}Beirut is burning, hundreds of Lebanese die, hundreds of thousands lose all they ever owned and become refugees, and all the world is doing is rescuing the "foreign passport" residents…
Troops killed twenty-two residents, including children, injure 70 in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday
As the Israeli soldiers continue their offensive in the Gaza Strip, twenty-two Palestinian residents, including three children, were killed by Israeli shells, and at least seventy residents were injured in…
Palestine Today – July 26 2006
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July is bloodiest month of the year with Israeli forces killing 167 Palestinians
A Palestinian human rights researcher, Ahmed Betawi of the International Foundation for Human Rights, reported Wednesday that Israeli forces killed 167 Palestinians this month.. The total number of Palestinians that…
Four peacekeepers killed in IAF strike on UN base in Lebanon
An IAF strike in on the building of a UN observer force killed four peacekeepers.in the town of Khiyam near the eastern end of the border with Israel. The four…
Resident killed, two injured in Gaza, death toll rises to fourteen on Wednesday
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza City reported on Wednesday at noon that one resident was killed and at least two were injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted a…
Thirteen Israeli soldiers killed, twelve injured, in southern Lebanon
Thirteen Israeli soldiers were killed and twelve were injured in the ongoing gun battles in Maroun Al Ras, Bint Jbeil, and Eitaroun, in southern Lebanon. The soldiers are from the…
Fire rages in Qalqilia while Israeli soldiers disallow water and take ID from firefighters
The Qalqilia Office of Civil Defense was called up this morning to extinguish a large fired that had broken out in the town, near the Israeli Wall. According to eyewitnesses,…
Israeli soldiers attack man for reading Qur’an, beat 70 year old, break 24 year olds arm
In an act of nonviolent resistance, a Palestinian man refused to stop reading from the Qur’an, despite beatings and racial slurs from Israeli soldiers. Israeli soldiers occupying the West Bank…
Thirteen residents killed, at least 40 injured in the Gaza Strip
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that the number of residents killed in the continuous Israeli attack in Al Shujaeyya area, east of Gaza City has arrived to…
A settler opens fire on the shepherds in a Hebron town
An Israeli settler riding a car fired at two shepherds in Al Thahreyah town south of Hebron and killed three of their sheep Wednesday. Aser Al Tal, a resident of…
Army takes four residents from a Nablus town as prisoners
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank town of Beit Furiq, east of Nablus, Wednesday at dawn and took four residents as prisoners Ahmed Nasarah, Secretary of Beit Furiq municipality…
Army installs a checkpoint at the southern entrance of a Jenin town.
On Wednesday at dawn, the Israeli army installed a checkpoint at the southern entrance of the West Bank town of Qabatia, south of Jenin. Local sources reported that soldiers present…
Army conducts wide scale of searches in an outlying Hebron town
Israeli army troops, backed by armored vehicles, invaded the West Bank town of Yatta, south of Hebron, Wednesday at dawn. Soldiers conducted searches over a wide area, notably in the…
Army invades Tulkarem, clashes with resistance fighters inside its refugee camp
Israeli army troops, backed by armored vehicles, invaded the West Bank city of Tulkarem and Tulkarem refugee camp and fired rounds of live ammunition randomly at residents’ houses.The Palestinian resistance…
Nine soldiers killed and 10 injured in Bint Jbeil village
Nine Israeli soldiers have been killed and ten more injured in ongoing clashes between the Hezbollah Lebanese resistance fighters and the invading Israeli army troops in Bint Jbeil village in…
One resident injured in clashes with army in Dura village near Hebron
One resident was injured during clashes with the Israeli army troops who invaded the village of Dora, southwest of the West Bank city of Hebron, late Tuesday night. Troops stormed…
Five Israelis injured by Hezbollah rockets targeting outskirts of Haifa
Five Israelis were injured Wednesday morning by Hezbollah rockets targeting outskirts of Haifa city in Israel. Israeli media sources reported that several Katyusha rockets hit the city and explosions could…
Army invades Beit Fourik and takes one prisoner
Israeli forces invaded the village of Beit Fourik east of the West Bank city of Nablus Wednesday at dawn, taking one resident prisoner. Najeh Khataita, 56, was taken to unknown…
Five Katyusha rockets hit Tiberias
Five Hezbollah Katyusha rockets hits the city of Tiberias in eastern Israeli Wednesday morning.No injuries or damage were reported in the city. Sirens were heard in the town of Safad…
One camera man injured east of Gaza
Cameraman Ebrahem Al Atallah of Palestinian TV was injured while covering the Israeli army shelling to eastern parts of Gaza city Wednesday morning. According to reporters at the scene, soldiers…
One Israeli soldier killed seven injured in clashes between Hezbollah and the army
One Israeli soldier was killed and seven others were injured in ongoing clashes between Hezbollah resistance fighters and the Israeli army in the Beit Ejbeel village in southern Lebanon Wednesday…
Israel to establish ‘killing zone’ on Lebanon border
With many Lebanese civilians still hiding in their homes in refugee camps and villages in southern Lebanon, afraid to flee after hearing of convoys of evacuees being hit by Israeli…
Haniyya: “US view on new Middle East destroys Lebanon, kills more Palestiniansâ€ÂÂ
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, said Tuesday that the Unites States’s view of a new Middle East begins with "destroying Lebanon" and killing the maximum number of Palestinians, the Middle-East…
Soldiers shell residential building in Ramallah, three injured
Israeli soldiers shelled the West Bank city of Ramallah late Tuesday night and surrounded a residential building in Um Al Sharayet neighborhood in the city. The Palestinian News Agency,…
Soldiers shell a residential building in Ramallah, three injured
Israeli soldiers shelled invaded late on Tuesday night the west Bank city of Ramallah , and surrounded a residential building in Um Al Sharayet neighborhood, in the city. …
Israeli Special Forces killed a child, injured his father and sister in Gaza
Tuesday at night, undercover united of the Israeli army shot and killed a Palestinian child, and injured his father and sister while they were standing near their house, east of…
The UN’s top humanitarian official describes Israeli use of force “disproportionateâ€ÂÂ
Jan Egeland, who is in Gaza to evaluate the destruction caused by Israel’s offensive on Palestinians, claims that the Israeli use of force is “disproportionate”. It has been reported that…
The UN’s top humanitarian official describes Israeli use of force “disproportionateâ€ÂÂ
Jan Egeland, who is in Gaza to evaluate the destruction caused by Israel’s offensive on Palestinians, claims that the Israeli use of force is “disproportionate”. It has been reported that…