Category: Palestine

At least five residents were injured Tuesday morning when an Israeli army war plane fired two missiles at a residential area in Jabalia in northern Gaza Strip. The plane fired one…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that seven Palestinians were killed on Monday in separate Israeli military attacks. Four residents were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beit…

Three boys were killed in an Israeli air raid on the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun Monday, witnesses and medical sources reported.  Two Palestinians were killed in a seperate airstrike Monday…

The Hani Abu Haykal family, which lives directly opposite the Tel Rumeida settlement in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Al-Khalil (Hebron), has received a written military order declaring the street…

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Israel is more worried about resistance attacks against its soldiers than its civilians, for the former are the guardians of Zionism and the prestige of self-appointed supremacy, writes Azmi Bishara.…

Palestinian medical sources reported two Palestinians were killed after the Israeli air force fired missile at a vehicle east of the city of Khan Younis in the southern part of the…

15-year old child died Monday of wounds suffered last month during an Israeli missle attack at his home,  a Palestinian medical source in Khan Younis reported.   The child was identified as Khaled…

In the spring of 1948, some Jewish mukhtars (headmen) of Jewish colonies in Palestinian went over to the Arab Palestinian mukhtars in the nearby villages which maintained good neighbourly relations…

After Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh’s call on Saturday for a cease-fire, Israeli leaders responded with an increase in the intensity of their invasion of Gaza, saying the incursion could…

There are conflicting reports from the media as well as spokespersons from both parties as to whether Israel has accepted a broad-based deal offered by Hamas to end the crisis…

Israeli troops arrested four residents from the village of Taqua east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Monday morning. Troops stormed the village and searched several homes before taking…

Monday at dawn: Israeli soldiers invaded the West Bank city of Nablus Monday, breaking into dozens of homes and arresting a mother of six, local sources reported.   The sources reported…

Monday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded the West Bank city of Nablus, broke into dozens of houses and arrested a mother of six children, local sources reported.   The sources…

Representative of the Palestinian Community in India, Abu Salah, penned a letter containing the series of painful realities Palestinians face while fleeing from Iraq as a result of the massacres…

The Israeli army and police installed a new checkpoint on the Jenin-Nablus road and highjacked two civilian’s cars Monday afternoon. The soldiers and police officers stopped and searched passing cars, checking…

Israeli military bulldozers have started destroying farm land in the Al Shiga’ia neighborhood east of Gaza city Monday afternoon. The bulldozers and heavy artillery vehicles were escorted by army tanks…

The Israeli army has handed out military orders renewing the closing of 1000 shops and businesses in the old town area of the West Bank city of Hebron along with…

The Israeli army handed out military orders to renew the closure of 1000 shops and businesses in the old city area of the West Bank city of Hebron along with the…

The Israeli Navy shelled Gaza city beach and nearby houses monday morning, causing panic among residents. No injuries were reported. Last month army gunships killed seven family members picnicing on the…

One killed and four injured when an Israeli army war plan fired a missile at a residential area in Al Shiga’ia neighborhood east of Gaza Monday at dawn. Ahmad Al…

One person was killed and four others injured when an Israeli war plane fired a missile into a residential area in Al Shiga’ia neighborhood east of Gaza Monday at dawn.…

The Israeli army have intensified its invasions into the West Bank city of Bethlehem by invading several villages around the city and searching homes Monday at dawn. Troops stormed the…

Israeli army have intensified its invasions in the West Bank city of Bethlehem by invading several village around the city and searching scores of residents houses, Monday at dawn. In…

Israeli soldiers stationed at Za’tra checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, took Rami Abu Warda 18 prisoner, while he was trying to cross the checkpoint to go…

Israeli army troops took Ghalieb Bani Shamsa, 23, prisoner in a predawn invasion to the village of Beita, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, Monday. Troops and army…

A Palestinian civilian was killed and eight were injured in the southern Gaza city of Rafah after the Israeli air force shot a missile at a car in an apparent assassination…

One element fueling the current crisis in Gaza is the ongoing failure of US corporate media coverage of Israel/Palestine. US policy, public opinion and mainstream media coverage of Israel/Palestine are…

Sunday at night, Five Palestinian residents were injured on Yafa Street in the Al Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City after the Israeli fighter-jets fired missiles at a Palestinian vehicle.…

Despite initial denials, the Israeli air force confirmed an airstrike Saturday night that killed a mother, her five-year old daughter, her twenty-year old son, and injured five other family members…

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya offered a peace proposal for the current standoff with Israel late Saturday, an offer that Israeli authorities flatly refused.  Over 40 Palestinians have been killed by…

Sunday at dawn, Israeli troops invaded the town of Beit Reema, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah, arresting two brothers after breaking into their home. Damage to the…

Israeli forces are preventing lawyers and family members to visit Palestinian political prisoners in the Salem Prison, west of Jenin in the northern West Bank. In response, the imprisoned people…

Israeli forces shot and severely wounded a Palestinian citizen in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah Sunday morning, medical sources said. Medics at Abu Youssif al-Najjar hospital reported that Amin…

Several international organizations working in the Gaza Strip expressed their concern over the recent developments in Gaza, and the ongoing Israeli attacks that have left dozens of Palestinians dead and…

The Palestine Liberation Organization released a report Sunday regarding an upswing in Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank in recent weeks.  The settler attacks are in addition…

Israeli forces took six Palestinians prisoner Sunday morning in the West Bank (WB) cities of Nablus and Bethlehem, security sources said. Local sources reported that Israeli soldiers stormed Askar and…

Israeli forces are preventing lawyers and family members to visit Palestinian political prisoners in the Salem Prison, west of Jenin in the northern West Bank. In response, the imprisoned people…

There is arguably no modern state that more shamelessly employs the propaganda technique of the Big Lie than Israel. Since July 6, Israel has been deploying its military forces in…

Saturday after midnight, Israeli war-jets fired missiles at fighters of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement; four fighters were injured, one seriously.   The Palestinian Maan…

Few readers of a British newspaper would have noticed the story. In the Observer of 25 June, it merited a mere paragraph hidden in the "World in brief" section, revealing…

Saturday at night, Israeli troops invaded Aida refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Local sources in the camp reported that soldiers fired rounds of live ammunition, rubber-coated…

"Where is the camera? There are many photos in it which show the killing of Palestinians", said Ma’an News Agency photographer Mohammad Az Zanoun as he fell, having been shot…

Saturday night, Israeli soldiers invaded the Popular Housing project in Nablus, north of the West Bank. Local sources in the city reported that soldiers conducted military searches of homes, no…

Dr. Basim Na’im, the Palestinian Minister of Health, reported on Saturday evening that the Israeli army killed 40 Palestinians, including one in the West Bank, and injured 178 residents, including…

According to a report by the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahranoth, racism is the suspected motive behind the killing of an Israeli-Arab youth in a drive-by shooting in the Israeli town…

"Summer rains are a good blessing" — this is the title for a lesson in the second-grade grammar book of Palestinian children in Gaza.  And while it is true that…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Saturday afternoon that the number of residents killed Saturday had reached five, after a child died of earlier wounds and a…

On terraced fields under the summer sun and the watchful eyes of a small group of Italian priests, weather-beaten workers tend vines ready for transformation into a light Chardonnay, a…

On a covered, concrete sports pitch in Bethlehem, 12 women are being put through their paces by the coach.  They run around the pitch several times, do their warm-up exercises…

The power is still off. It comes on and off irregularly. The electricity company is trying hard to supply power to 1.5 million people who used to get electricity from…

The Palestinian Health Ministry on Friday called on Gaza Strip residents to donate blood, reporting that apart from 24 Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours, 82 Palestinians were wounded…

As the Israeli offensive into the Gaza Strip continues, claiming over 40 Palestinian lives this week alone, thousands of Palestinians are stuck at the closed border, sweltering in the heat…

The June 25 Palestinian fighters’ raid on an Israeli military post near the Gaza-Egypt border has sent Israel “scrambling to defend itself,” the voice of a BBC news reporter declared…

Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, issued a statement on Friday, directed at the Israeli public and the family of abducted soldier Gilad Shalit, saying that the administration of the Israeli Prime…

Palestinian medical source in the Gaza Strip reported on Friday evening that one Palestinian child died of wounds sustained two days ago after the army shelled Izbit Beit Hanoun area,…

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Dozens of residents of Bil’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Israeli and international peace activists, along with a Basque Nationalist musical group, protested on Friday against the…

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…

Friday afternoon, two Palestinians were killed and at least four others were injured after the Israeli air force fired missiles at Al Salateen area, in Beit Lahia, in the northern…

Palestinian medical and security sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Friday that Israeli soldiers stepped-up their military assaults in the Gaza Strip and killed three residents, a fourth resident…

Friday at dawn, Several Israeli armored vehicles invaded Askar refugee camp north west of the West Bank city of Nablus and surrounded it from all of its sides. One resistance…

Israel has renewed its aerial assault in northern Gaza, killing a Hamas fighter and wounding three, Hamas and hospital officials said. After the worst day of clashes in Gaza since…

Palestinian Legislator, and head of the committee of internal affairs and security at the Legislative Council, Mohammad Dahlan, said on Friday that the Israeli attacks against the residents of the…

The Israel Air Force renewed air strikes at armed Palestinians in northern Gaza on Friday morning, hours after the heaviest day of bombardment at the Gaza Strip in the past…

Israeli forces have invaded the village of Anabta near the West Bank city of Tulkarem Friday morning, Troops stormed the village, searched and fired several rounds into residents homes. No…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus Friday, arresting one youth. Salah Al Saber, 17, was arrested when troops stormed several areas in the city and conducted…

The Israeli army invaded the village of Kafer Lobbadeast of the West Bank city of Tulkarem Friday at dawn. Troops entered the village and attempted to arrest Yousif Barhash after…

In a step aimed at confronting the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip,  Palestinian Interior Ministry gave orders to the Palestinian National Forces to be on highest alert and…

At least five Palestinians have been killed and several injured in an air strick at a residential block in Al Salteen area in Beit lahya town in the Gaza steip,…

One Palestinian was killed and at least 11 were wounded in an Israeli invasion to the West Bank city of Jenin, following a failed assassination attempt by an Israeli undercover…

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At least five Palestinians have been killed and several injured in an airstrike that targetted a Al Salateen residential neighborhood in the town of Beit Lahia Thursday evening, raising the…

In a statement issued on Thursday, by Al Naser Salah Al Din Brigade, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, the brigade claimed responsibility of killing of an Israeli…

An Israeli warplane fired one missile at a crowd of civilians who gathered in one of the streets in the Al Farahen area east of Khan Younis Thursday afternoon. Initial…

The Israeli army carried out two invasions to the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, local sources reproted. Troops invaded the city at the dawn hours, searched several houses…

Seven Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the early hours of Thursday morning as the Israeli government gave the army orders to carry out a major offensive…

Israeli troops invaded the northern West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp Thursday at dawn, local sources reported Eyewitnesses said, troops and army vehicles stormed the city from…

The Israeli forces broke into the headquarters of Juthour Culture and Arts center in the West Bank city of Tubass, Thursday morning. More than 8 army vehicles surrounded the building. …

Thursday, several residents were injured in Al A’tatrah area west of Beit Lahia , in the northern part of the Gaza Strip after the Israeli forces invaded it and fired…

Several residents were injured after Israeli army troops invaded Al Nabi Elias and Azon villages east of the West Bank city Qalqilia and searched several houses, Thursday at dawn. Troops…

Israeli military bulldozers started to level wide areas of lands owned by the residents of Al faraheen area east of Khan Younis south of Gaza Strip on Thursday. Local eyewitnesses…

The Palestinians have no partner for peace. They will only have one if Israel agrees to recognise Palestine’s right to function. Thank goodness for the Swiss. Alone in Europe, their…

The Gaza strip, the most densely populated place on earth is completely walled up no one can get out or in, without the Israeli armies’ blessing. The Gaza strip has…

The Gaza strip, the most densely populated place on earth is completely walled up no one can get out or in, without the Israeli armies’ blessing. The Gaza strip has…

The Gaza strip, the most densely populated place on earth is completely walled up no one can get out or in, without the Israeli armies’ blessing. The Gaza strip has…

Mohamad Ahmad Al Attar,20, was killed and several others were injured Thursday after the Israeli army fired rounds of live ammunition at the residents in the  Al Salateen area west…

Abdallah Al Zomer, 24, was killed by Israeli shells targeting a naval police post for the Palestinian Authority in Al Sodaniah area north of the Gaza strip Thursday at dawn.

The Israeli army troops have arrested eight residents from Atil village north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem Thursday at dawn. Among the arrestees were Sanad Tahlawi, 18, Mo’men…

D. Hassan Abu Agowa was killed  Thursday at dawn by unknown gunmen in Al Shoga’ia neighborhood in Gaza city. Abu Agowa was hit with several rounds and was transferred to…

Husam Hijazi, 24, was killed near the American school in Beit Lahia town north of the Gaza strip Thursday morning after troops opened fire at him while he was standing…

Nine navy police officers were injured after the Israeli army shelled thier post in Al Sodaniah area north of the Gaza strip Thursday at dawn. The injured were moved to…

Palestinian officials and witnesses said at least seven tanks, along with armored personnel carriers, entered the abandoned settlement of Nissanit, one of ‘s former settlements in northern Gaza, on Wednesday…

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Israeli extremist settlers set a fire to an olive trees orchards Wednesday in Tel Rumiedah neighborhood in the West Bank city of Hebron. Local sources in the city reported that…

The Israeli army killed Mahmoud Shahin from Ein Al-Sultan refugee camp near the West Bank city of Jericho during an invasion to the city Wednesday morning. A number of Israeli…

The Israeli army, backed by military jeeps, invaded the West Bank village of Qarawet Bani Hassan west of the Salfit Wednesday, breaking into an orphan’s and needy relief society building.…

The security cabinet, after convening in Jerusalem Wednesday morning has agreed to expand operations in Gaza, which will likely include a significant expansion of the buffer zone in the north…

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Israeli forces have arrested three residents from the West Bank city of Nablus in a pre-dawn invasion to the city Wednesday. Fadi Zied, 22, his brother Al’a, 18, and their…