Category: Palestine

Condoleezza Rice has put the blame on Hezbollah for the crisis with Israel and said a cease-fire would only be possible if two kidnapped Israeli soldiers were freed.   "Any…

Two hours after the Israeli army ordered two families to evacuate their houses, Israeli F 16 fighter jets shelled one house north of Khan Younis and a house in Gaza,…

Monday evening, a 5-year old child was killed and three members of her family were injured in Beit Lahia in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. In a separate…

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Esma’el Al Sabah, 23, was taken prisoner by Israeli soldiers at the Atzion checkpoint near Hebron while traveling from work to his home in the village of Taqua, east of…

Ministry of Health said Monday that Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed 39 first aid workers, doctors, ambulance drivers and nurses since its military operation "Summer Rains" on June 28, 2006.…

Leading Palestinian artist Ismail Shammout died this week at the age of seventy-six. With a career that spanned over fifty years, Ismail Shammout was one of the most influential Palestinian…

Layal Nejib, 23, a photographer for the Lebanese magazine Al-Jaras, was killed by an Israeli air strike on her taxi in southern Lebanon yesterday.  Although she is the first journalist…

A Palestinian source reported on Monday that the Israeli air force shelled a house that belongs to a leader of the Islamic Jihad in Gaza city. Fighters of the Islamic…

The Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility forfiring homemade shells at the Israeli city of Ashkelon, Monday morning. Israel confirmed the statement, saying that one…

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah stated on Monday that Israel’s ground invasion into South Lebanon will not prevent Hezbollah from firing rockets into Northern Israel. Israel’s declared goal, of ending…

Monday afternoon, Israeli soldiers shelled with heavy artillery civilian areas in Abraj Al Nada area, north of Beit Lahia, in the northern Part of the Gaza Strip killing three residents,…

Israeli Army took two prisoners on Monday morning, one at a military checkpoint bear Araba village and another one during an invasion to Sannor village, both villages are near Jenin…

Six residents were injured Monday afternoon when Israeli army tanks shelled the Abraj Al Nada area, north of Beit Lahia, in the Gaza strip. The residents were injured by shrapnel…

Mohamed Al Massri, 28, was injured Monday afternoon in northern Gaza town of Beit Hannon during continued Israeli army shelling to the area. Al Massri sustained several cuts and injures…

The Israeli army troops installed several military checkpoints on the main roads and inside the West Bank city of Salfit Monday morning. Soldiers stopped residents and civilian cars, searching them…

Israeli army troops installed several military checkpoints on the main roads to and on roads inside the West Bank city of Salfit Monday morning. Soldiers stopped residents and civilian cars,…

This is obviously the outcome of the newly emerged Hebraic arithmetic laws. For 2 kidnapped Israeli soldiers who are still kept alive, 500,000 innocent Lebanese civilians are displaced. For 2…

The roads are closed and Jenin is besieged. Israeli forces are not allowing the northern West Bank residents to move, claiming “hot warnings.” The armed Palestinian resistance may conduct operations…

Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses said that at dawn Monday Israeli Apache helicopters hit the home of Sheikh Mohammed Dib in Gaza City’s Beach Refugee Camp. Palestinian medical sources said…

The Israeli army took three residents prisoners from the village of Bel’a and the Nor Shames refugee camp near the West Bank city of Tulkarem during a predawn invasion Monday.…

The Israeli army closed the entrances to the West Bank cities of Tulkarem, Nablus, and Jenin Monday morning, putting the three cities under total siege as violence escalates on both…

Israeli army troops and armored jeeps stormed the West Bank city of Nablus Monday morning. Soldiers were deployed in several neighborhoods and the old town area of the city, though…

Israeli army tanks stationed at the Israeli-Gazan border shelled northern areas in the Strip late Sunday night, including farmland and residential areas. Damage to resident’s property was reported, though no…

Israeli forces invaded the town of Al Doha, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, taking Ra’ed Zakaria, 28, as a prisoner Monday at dawn. Troops invaded the town…

Demonstrations were held in major cities across the world on Saturday, as part of an international call of solidarity against Israeli aggression in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. The biggest…

The following are two interviews with Tina and Michael Hannouneh.  Tina is an American of Palestinian origin who was beaten by Israeli border guards, along with her son, Michael, at…

Israeli soldiers shelled a house in Gaza city and several towns in the northern part of the Gaza Strip Sunday night after midnight, injuring two residents, the Palestinian News agency,…

Ahead of her trip to the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on 21 July 2006 blamed Hizbollah for the current crisis and announced that her trip is…

As the Israeli army continues its offensive against Lebanon for the twelfth consecutive day, eleven Lebanese were killed and dozens were wounded in several Lebanese towns and cities. On the…

In an ongoing invasion into the northern West Bank, Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in the city of Jenin on Sunday; two of them just 16 years old. The military…

Sunday evening. The Israeli police arrested three protesters marching against the war in Lebanon and Palestine during a protest in the northern city of Lod. The protest was organized by…

Israeli warplanes struck a minibus carrying people fleeing the ongoing Israeli bombing of southern Lebanon, killing three people, and injuring thirteen, Lebanese security officials said Sunday.  Those killed had been…

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert described what is happening in Lebanon as saying. "This is an act of war." Olmert is correct. This is war. It has been war, non-stop,…

The Palestine section of the ‘Defense for Children International (DCI) – reported on Sunday that the Israel army has killed 783 Palestinian children since the outbreak of the Palestinian Intifada…

The Israeli bombing of a Beirut neighborhood where Hezbollah supposedly had its headquarters has breached humanitarian law, a senior U.N. official said on Sunday. "It is horrific. I did not…

This audio documentary features audio of the people in the village of  Majdal Shams shouting across the minefield (1967 cease fire line) that separates them from their relatives in Syria.…

Israeli medical sources reported on Sunday morning that two Israelis were killed and at least 14 others were injured as ten Katusha rockets fired by Hezbollah gunmen hit Haifa, Israel’s…

Israeli soldiers attacked on Sunday morning three Palestinians; an old man and two youths in a military invasion to Al Zibedat village in the Jordan valley. Troops and jeeps stormed…

The general surprise that Lebanese civilians are taking the brunt of Israel’s onslaught — and the unwillingness in some quarters of the media to report the fact — reflects a…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Saturday afternoon that Israeli soldiers accompanied by armored vehicles and military bulldozers invaded an area east of Jabalia town, in the northern…

An Egyptian legal committee has warned of the serious consequences of the Israeli use of chemical weapons against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip for more than a week…

The village of Yaseed, north of the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, was ransacked by Israeli troops Saturday.  The soldiers took one Palestinian prisoner, identified as Munther…

It looks like an earthquake hit the center of Nablus, a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, as Israeli troops pulled out Saturday.  A massive pile of rubble was…

As Israel continues its military attacks in Lebanon, Israeli soldiers occupied Maroun Al Ras village in southern Lebanon and claimed that the village was used by Hezbollah fighters. Major-General Benny…

Saturday evening, at least 5000 Israeli and Arab residents of Israel marched from the Rabin Square to the Cinematheque plaza Tel Aviv against the war on Lebanon and Palestine and…

Hundreds of Palestinian nonviolent activists took the streets outside Bethlehem in protest of the Israeli Annexation Wall. Al Khader Village is being forced under the shadow of the 25-foot concrete…

Israeli soldiers took Mish’al Abu Baker, from the West Bank city of Jenin, late on Friday evening, before he could see his newly born son. Abu Baker, who works selling…

On Saturday at noon, tanks from the Israeli army continued their shelling of residential areas in the eastern part of Gaza city. The tanks shelled several neighborhoods east of the…

The Israeli forces took Monther Mashaqi, 24, as a prisoner in an invasion to the village of Yassed, north of the West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday. Soldiers surrounded…

The Israeli army have told the Palestinian military coordination office in the West Bank city of Tulkarem that Israeli troops will demolish the Palestinian Authority security headquarters in the city.…

The Israeli army invaded the villages of Beit Ola and Kharssa, near the West Bank city of Hebron, and took six residents as prisoners on Saturday at dawn. Troops invaded…

The Bush administration has complied with Israel’s request for an expedited delivery of satellite and laser-guided bombs, the New York Times reported Saturday.  Meanwhile, the reports coming in from southern…

Israeli forces stormed the West Bank city of Jenin, Saturday morning, and started to provoke residents. Eyewitnesses reported that soldiers were using loudspeakers to insult local residents, and shooting live…

Atiha Al Sowarka, 70, sustained several wounds in deferent parst of his body after being hit with fragments of an Israeli tank shell at his house in the Abu Safiah…

Israeli army troops stormed the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Saturday at dawn, after putting the city under siege for a week.  Resistance fighters attacked the invaders. More than…

The fury of Israel’s offensive in Lebanon has more than a few observers shaking their heads. The vast majority of Western media reports do not accurately portray the fact that…

The fury of Israel’s offensive in Lebanon has more than a few observers shaking their heads. The vast majority of Western media reports do not accurately portray the fact that…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) called on the Israeli Army to explain a shooting incident Wednesday in Nablus, in which a news crew of TV satellite channel Al Jazeera…

American marines arrived at the Beirut shore to evacuate the remaining American citizens from Lebanon, while those Lebanese unable to evacuate are facing shortages in food and medicine, according to…

The disparity between Israel’s public narrative and its actual intents cannot possibly be any more palpable than in the current Gaza onslaught following the capture by Palestinians of an Israeli…

TYRE, Lebanon – Soldiers laid 72 coffins in two trenches, a mass grave for victims of the Israeli bombardment. Elsewhere, mounds of rubble sat undisturbed; rescue workers were too fearful…

In an interview with the pan-Arab satellite television channel "Al Jazeera", the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, denied the Israeli reports that 50 percent of Hezbollah’s military force have been…

Israeli air power alone is capable of damaging Hezbollah but not of defeating the Lebanese resistance movement, leaving Israel with a choice of a ground offensive in southern Lebanon or…

Al Arabiya television said on Friday the Israeli army had found the body of an Israeli soldier who had previously been reported missing, in southern Lebanon.  Earlier on Friday, Israel…

Since the Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip started on June 27th, Israeli ground forces and warplanes have been killing Palestinian men, women and children, destroying the Palestinian economy…

Palestinian medical sources in Nablus, in northern the West Bank, reported that a nurse died after the Israeli army charged the Palestinian Security Headquarters in the city with explosives and…

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Israeli sources reported on Thursday that one Israeli pilot was killed and another three were injured after a collision of two Israeli Apache helicopters.       Israeli authorities are…

Israeli sources reported on Thursday around midnight that one Israeli pilot was killed and  three others were injured after a collision of two Israeli Apache helicopters. Israeli authorities are investigating…

One pilot killed and tow injured I an Army helicopter collision Israeli sources reported on Thursday midnight that one Israeli pilot was killed and another three were injured after a…

The Israeli army released several female criminal prisoners from Nablus Central Prison on Thursday evening. After the intervention of the Red Cross, the army released 13 female prisoners from the…

We, the undersigned Israeli filmmakers, greet the Arab filmmakers who have gathered in Paris for the Arab Film Biennial. Through you, we wish to convey a message of camaraderie and…

Friday at around 1:00 P.M fighters of the Lebanon based Hezbollah party fired Katusha shells at Haifa city, in the north of Israel, two Israelis were seriously injured, four moderately…

In Bil’in village Palestinians, Israelis and internationals peacefully protest against Israeli attacks in Gaza, Lebanon Two-hundred-fifty Palestinian residents, 100 international supporters and 20 Israeli peace activists held a silent protest…

B’Tselem’s (The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) initial investigation indicates that, during an incursion by Israeli forces into Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip,…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights released a report today calling attention to the 26 Palestinians killed during the past week by Israeli forces. The report highlighted the lack of…

Despite Koffi Annan’s statement to the Security Council which reflect the deep-seated international unease about the human cost of ‘s aerial onslaught on Lebanon, Israeli warplanes continued their bombardment yesterday,…

16 Palestinians were killed early Friday morning, four  of them are from the same family, when Israeli forces shelled a house in Shajaiyeh district, east of Gaza City. The four…

Dr. Jom’a Al Saka, the spokesperson of Al Shifa hospital in Gaza, said in an interview with the IMEMC that if the Israeli "Summer Rain" military operation continues, Gaza will…

 Israeli reconnaissance warplanes bombed a gathering of citizens near a grade school this morning in Maghazi Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip. The bombing killed one Palestinian civilian, and injured…

Saraya Al Quds, the armed resistance wing of the Islamic Jihad party, claimed responsbility today for the bombing of the southern Israeli town of Sderot.. Members of the group told…

Bilal Abu Hamid, a member of the Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, met today in Nablus with officials from the Palestinian Committee on Foreign…

Fadwa Al Eroki, 10, died on Thursday afternoon due to wounds she sustained during Wednesday’s Israeli shelling of Al Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. Al Eroki was injured by…

The Israeli Navy shelled a bus that belongs to the Palestinian Presidential Guards while it was driving on the costal road in Gaza on Thursday afternoon. One person was injured,…

Yousif Al Lili, 24, died and two others were injured in the early hours of Thursday morning raising the death toll in Al Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza to…

Hizbollah took two Israeli soldiers prisoner in Lebannon, a legitmate act of state protection as these were military personel from a hostile state on Lebanese territory. This security precaution is…

At least two Palestinians were killed and several others were wounded as Israeli forces attack a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, for the second day in…

The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has worsened significantly since March 2006, especially since the massive Israeli offensive that began in late July, stated John Dugard, the United Nations…

In a major military operation in Nablus this morning, Israeli forces attacked the Palestinian Security Headquarters and arrested over 150 national security officials. Eyewitnesses said that the operation began around…

 The Israeli Army arrested two residents from E’baiat village near the West Bank city of Bethlehem Thursday at dawn. Army vehicles, troops, and undercover soldiers stormed the village from the…

An Israeli settler hit  Wafa’ Zobaidi, 19, with his car while she attempted to cross the Howwara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus late Wednesday night. Zobaidi is…

Israel has opened "windows" for the foreign powers to evacuate their terrified nationals from Lebanon. Obligingly, the foreign media have turned these "windows" into an opportunity to avert their gaze…

Hizbollah took two Israeli soldiers prisoner in Lebanon, a legitimate act of state protection as these were military personel from a hostile state on Lebanese territory. This security precaution is…

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Israeli jets have dropped bombs on a bunker in southern Beirut where senior Hezbollah leaders were thought to be sheltering. Military officials said dozens of aircrafts dropped 23 tons of…

Palestinian and medical sources reported the Israeli army has killed fourteen Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank Wednesday. In a recent attack carried out on Wednesday evening,…

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Leaders from the Muslim and Christian communities are uniting in condemnation of continued Israeli aggression against the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples. Chief Islamic Justice Sheikh Taysir Rajab Al Tamimi and…