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The leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) party has officially notified Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya that the party is ready to participate in the…
Palestinian security sources reported that Israeli troops locked down Beit Ebyia, Hewara, Ytzhar and Zaatra checkpoints downtown in the West Bank, adding that Israeli occupation forces have partially re-opened most of…
A large contingent of Israeli forces invaded Nablus district in the West Bank from all directions on Monday, reported Palestinian sources. Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses said that the Israeli…
Israeli military sources said that four residents were arrested in Bethlehem in pre-dawn raids Monday morning. The arrestees were identified as Fadi Hussein Najajra,23, Khalil Radyda,33, Mohammed Rba’a,25, and Ali…
A correspondent to the Palestinian International Press Center reported that during recent incursions by Israeli troops backed by military jeeps into Alar and Ateel towns, north of Tulkarem, four residents were…
The Israeli military conducted wide scale searches at dawn Monday breaking into several homes, arresting three residents and beating three others in the West Bank city of Hebron. Official…
A Palestinian police source reported that an unknown gunmen burned the vehicle of Wasfi Kabha, Palestinian Minister of Detainees and ex-detainees in the Hamas-led government, Sunday evening in Jenin, north…
Hamdan Al Salem has stopped dreaming of leaving the city of Nablus after the hours upon hours has spent waiting at checkpoints dotting the city, creating a lone island called…
Suppose I were to leave my office here in Chicago and walk the short distance to the kidney dialysis unit down the road and pull out the tubes to which…
A new theatre is bringing alternative plays to the residents of the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank to help educate children and adults. The idea of a theatre…
By the beginning of 2007, 486 kilometers of the Annexation Wall will be completed, reported Israeli defense Ministry officials this week. This constitutes 93 percent of the 523-kilometer fence route…
Detainees of the Hamas movement imprisoned in Israeli detention facilities have dissociated themselves from the National Unity Document signed by jailed leaders of various movements. The prisoners said that they…
Citizens of the village of Maradah north of Salfit called upon human rights associations to help them to resist the wall building that they say is strangling the village, according…
The Israeli Forces arrested Bilal Mara’aba (32) from the village of Ras Atiyah in the south of Qalqilia early on Saturday morning. Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli troops raided the village…
alestinian soldier Mohammad Ahmad Abu Salim (23), from the Aida Refugee Camp north of Bethlehem, faced inhuman treatment from Israeli soldiers stationed at the "Container" barrier, while he was going…
The crowded room felt like a sauna, a natural effect of the scorching sun hitting the tin roof and the lack of a fan or air conditioner to ease the…
Why are Palestinians under such demand to adhere to signed agreements when Israel and the US are allowed to circumvent and disregard them at whim? The Latin proverb of “One…
At the present, the Western world seems still under the spell of the legend of Ariel Sharon, who, so the story goes, has brought a gigantic change in Israeli policy…
Friday evening, a Palestinian refugee living in Iraq was abducted and shot dead by unknown gunmen in Al Dawra area, in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. A group which calls itself…
Olmert’s (and Elie Wiesel’s) Roadmap CounterPunch May 25, 2006 http://www.counterpunch.org/halper05252006.html Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s address to both houses of Congress was perhaps the most skilled use of Newspeak since…
The Israeli army arrested one resident from the West Bank city of Qalqilia, Saturday morning. Bilal Mari’ia, 32, was arrested when troops stormed his house and searched it, then he…
An Israeli army and police force stopped on Saturday Israeli peace activists and Palestinian farmers and prevented them from delivering water to Susa village near Hebron. The village has been…
The Israeli army attacked a Palestinian taxi driver from Araba village near the West Bank city of Jenin Saturday at noon. Troops stopped Fadi Al Dahdoh, who tried to pay pass the…
In the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian medical sources stated that Alaa Haijer, 20, died of critical wounds he sustained in late April when the Israeli occupation soldiers manning…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has given Hamas 10 days to endorse a plan accepting the idea of a Palestinian state alongside Israel or he will submit the plan to a…
The Hamas party has rejected a deadline set by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resolve Palestinian internal factional fighting within ten days. Talks on the plan, drafted by Palestinian leaders…
Israeli gunfire at dawn on Saturday wounded a Palestinian teen in the Balata refugee camp east of Nablus city. Medical sources said that the 17-year-old youth was hit with bullet…
The Israeli army attacked a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance in the West Bank city of Nablus, and also attacked a woman in labor the ambulance was carrying, Saturday morning. The…
The Israeli army arrested three residents from the village of Yabad, west of the West Bank city of Jenin, Saturday morning. Two were arrested when troops stopped their car at…
The Israeli army closed the village of Tammoun east of the West Bank town of Tubas, Saturday morning. Soldiers blocked the main entrance to the village, prohibiting residents from crossing to go…
The Israeli army arrested four residents from the West bank city of Nablus and its refugee camps when troops invaded the area Saturday at dawn. This invasion is part of…
The Israeli army arrested two residents from Al Yamon village and invaded the Qabatiya village near the West Bank city of Jenin, late Friday night. In Al Yamoun village, troops…
Friday’s protest in Bil’in village, west of the West Bank city of Ramallah called on the Palestinian factions and people to renounce all sorts of internal violence and conflict, and…
Friday evening, Israeli soldiers arrested a resident after ordering him to stop his vehicles in Al Far’a area, south of Tubas in the West Bank. Soldiers installed a military checkpoint…
As the Israeli army continued its shelling of Palestinian neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday night, five Palestinians, including three teens – two of them members of the…
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A Palestinian medical source in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Friday afternoon that one Palestinian child was seriously injured after the Israeli army…
The Israeli army invaded the village if Ateel near the West Bank city of Tulkarem, and arrested on resident on Friday morning. Soldiers and army jeeps stormed the village and conducted…
Friday morning, a 54-year old Palestinian farmer was injured as the Israeli army fired artillery barrage on the Gaza Strip. Israeli army sources confirmed the attack but denied reports of…
The Palestinian Hamas-led government has ordered on Friday its fighters off Gaza’s streets in the wake of deadly clashes with the Fatah movement that stirred fears of civil war in…
The US-led political and economic blockade continues, yet contrary to popular belief, it is not only affecting Palestinian Authority employees and the merchants they buy from. Palestinian organizations are also…
A large force of the Israeli military stormed the Social Club in Tulkarem in the northwestern West Bank at dawn Friday. The Social Club belongs to Hamas and is known…
Friday at dawn, the Israeli army arrested seven residents, including three brothers, form Doura village south of the West Bank city of Hebron. The arrestees were identified as Bassem Al…
In an Israeli army invasion of Nablus in the West Bank, earlier on Friday morning, Israeli troops surrounded a residential building and injured one resident. Yousef Abu Laila, 26, a Palestinian security…
The Israeli artillery continued its shelling to areas east and northof the Gaza strip, Friday at dawn. The shelling targeted residential areas east of Gaza city, Beit Lahia and Beit…
Jimmy Carter has been blunt: Despite the fact of a Palestinian election result that was not to their liking, the former president says, "it is unconscionable for Israel, the United…
Israel on Wednesday released Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli army describes as “security-related” violation. Rajoub, 28, was charged with harboring pro-Hamas…
In today’s Palestinian National Dialogue session, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas set out an ultimatum for the various internal factions to reach an agreement, saying he will call for a referendum…
A member of the Fatah-controlled Palestinian security forces was killed and four others were wounded Thursday, doctors and witnesses said, in the latest factional clashes in the Gaza Strip. The…
Eight months ago, the Palestinians were celebrating the end of Israel’s military occupation of Gaza. But the artillery shells keep falling, factions are fighting each other and the economy is…
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Israeli forces invaded the town of Qabalan, south east of the city of Nablus, on Thursday morning, and imposed a curfew on the town. Local sources said that confrontations erupted…
Israeli soldiers killed during this week nine Palestinian residents, including three women and one child, in several military attacks carried out in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Among…
The Israeli army has arrested one resident from the West Bank city of Hebron during an invasion in one of the city neighborhoods, on Thursday. Army vehicles and troops stormed…
The Israeli army stormed Al Bad Cultural Museum in the West Bank city of Bethlehem and severely damaged the site Thursday morning. Soldiers bombed the door of the museum and…
The Israeli army annexed five Dunams of Assira Al Shamalia village lands, near the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday. The orders were signed by the Israeli Army Central Command…
Palestinians in southern Nablus were held under curfew while dozens were imprisoned in small rooms since Wednesday. Early this morning Israeli forces finally left. Lawyer Zayed Omran reported that Israeli…
One week ago heavily guarded Israeli bulldozers dredged the lands of Amatin Village, 15 kilometers east of Qalqiliya in the area known as Jabal Abu Suwayd. Farmer Al Haji Suleiman…
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on Wednesday threatened to begin an open-ended hunger strike if the national dialogue failed to reach an agreement that would end the state of tension…
In West Bethlehem, between al-Khader and the villages to be isolated in a ghetto on the west side of the Wall, Israeli forces have begun building a tunnel under the…
The israeli army have installed a new military watch tower at Al Arop refugee camp in the West Bank city of Hebron, Thursday morning. The watch tower’s installation was completed…
The Israeli army invaded the village of Beita south of the West Bank city of Nablus, arrested two residents and turned a house into a military post, Thursday morning. Ihssan…
The Israeli army installed a military checkpoint at the entrance of Tammon village east of the West Bank city of Tubas, Thursday morning. Soldiers stopped residents and cars, searched them…
The Israeli army arrested three residents at a random military checkpoint north of the West Bank city of Nablus, late on Wednesday night. Of those known from the three was…
The Israeli army arrested four residents from the village of Borqen in the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday at dawn. The arrestees were identified as Mostafa Sobeh, 20, Majdi…
Two residents were arrested when troops invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on Thursday at dawn. Fathi Ramadan, 20 Samier Al Laham, 27, were arrested when troops invaded the…
Representatives and leaders of different Palestinian factions and religious sects are set to convene on Thursday in Ramallah and Gaza to put an end to the internal conflicts which escalated…
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and Balata refugee camp and arrested residents among them the wife of a wanted man, on Thursday morning Those known…
Around 160 Sudanese from Darfur who arrived to Israel in the past year hoping that they find refuge from the ongoing war in their region, are now imprisoned in Israel .…
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, said after a seven-hour meeting with leaders of Fateh and Hamas movements in his Gaza office that the only way to end tension and violence…
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At lest one senior Palestinian security officer was killed and another injured when a bomb went off in his car in Gaza. Officer Nabil Hudhud, director of the Palestinian Preventive…
Several Israeli army vehicles, accompanied by three bulldozers / drills, invaded the village of Funduq near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia at the early hours of Wednesday morning.…
The US-led political and economic blockade continues, yet contrary to popular belief, it is not only affecting Palestinian Authority employees and the merchants they buy from. Palestinian organizations are unable…
As nation marks 39 years to city’s reunification, discrimination is rampant. Arab residents lack schools, services, law enforcement. It is clear and unquestioned to every Israeli citizen that he gets…
A rPalestinian man with heart problems died after being beaten in the head and chest by Israeli soldiers at a military checkpoint in Abu Dees suburb, south of occupied East…
The number of Palestinians were killed in an Israeli invasion to the West Bank city of Ramallah has increased to four after a young man died of wounds sustained earlier…
The Israeli army arrested two children at midday during an invasion to the town of Howwara south of the West Bank city of Rammallah, on Wednesday. Yunis Damidi, 16, and…
Israeli army bulldozers demolished several buildings and farm sheds in Al Fonduq village, near the West Bank city of Qalqilia. The bulldozers demolished a house belonging to Salem Abas from…
The Israeli army arrested two residents from the West Bank city of Hebron and took over a house to use as a military post in the nearby village of Dora,…
Hours after the Israeli army assassinated the Al Quds Brigades leader in Gaza City on Saturday, his wife gave birth to a baby girl. During the assassination, Israeli forces also…
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported on Wednesday that at least two settler families moved on Tuesday into apartments in a illegal settlement neighborhood of the West Bank settlement of Upper…
The Israeli settlers from Rotem settlement continued to install barbed wire around annexed Palestinian land belonging to Tubas West Bank city residents, Wednesday morning. The settlers are increasing the number…
The Israeli army arrested one resident during a pre-dawn invasion to Qarawit Bani Zied village south of the West Bank city of Salfit, on Wednesday. Nidal Stef, 17, was arrested…
The Israeli army invaded the village of Mithlon, south of the West Bank city of Jenin, Wednesday morning. Troops stormed the villagers’ homes and the municipality building, then forced all…
Mohamed Kadih, 22, died of wounds he sustained on Wednesday at dawn when unknown gunmen fired at him in east Khan Younis in the Gaza strip. Also, Salah Kadih and…
Ala Zakarna, was arrested when troops invaded Qabatia, south of the West Bank city of Jenin, Wednesday at dawn. Troops invaded the town, searched several homes and interrogated residents before…
Israeli troops arrested three residents during an ongoing military operation in the West Bank city of Nablus, Wednesday morning. In the old city of Nablus, troops stormed residents’ homes and…
A Palestinian security source in Gaza reported that one member of the Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, was killed and two others were injured after being abducted…
1.Not since Foreign Affairs magazine published Samuel Huntington’s "The Clash of Civilizations?" in 1993 has an academic essay detonated with such force as "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy,"…
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The Israeli army invaded Al Far’a valley south of the West Bank city of Tubas, Tuesday at noon. Soldiers stormed the area and hurled tear gas and shot rubber bullets…
The Israeli High Court of Justice rejected on Tuesday an appeal filed by the residents of Al Ezariyya town, east of Jerusalem, against the rout of the annexation Wall which…
Tuesday, Israeli troops arrested Sheikh Ibrahim Hamid, leader of Iz Ed Deen Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and “number 1” wanted fighter in the occupied West Bank, Israeli army…
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that Israel’s retreat to 1967 lines will bring peace to the region. "If Israel withdraws to the…
Israeli forces invaded the village of Al Karmel south of the West Bank city of Hebron allegedly looking for "wanted" Palestinians, Tuesday morning. Soldiers entered the village and conducted a…
The Israeli army invaded two towns near Bethlehem in the West Bank and nabbed two residents in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Troops entered Al-Doha town to the west of…
The Israeli army arrested four residents from Deheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem in a pre–dawn invasion on Tuesday. The arrestees were identified as; Mohamed Al…
Israeli troops invaded the West Bank city of Ramallah, north of Jerusalem, and arrested two residents after destroying shops and a home, Tuesday at dawn. Soldiers surrounded the house of…