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Israeli army troops and scores of extrimist right wing settlers attacked, on Thursday morning, dozens of farmers and international peace activists while planting trees in the West Bank city of…
Israeli army arrested 35 Palestinians in different cities and villages of the West Bank on Thursday before noon, in several military invasions, Palestinian news network reported. The bulk of arrest…
Today Palestinians commemorate the 30th anniversary of ‘Land Day’, a day in 1976 when thirteen Palestinians were killed by Israeli police during non-violent protests against Israeli land confiscation of Palestinian…
The Israeli army troops arrested two shepherds from the village of Hussan near Bethlehem city, Wednesday evening. Khalil and Wesam Hamamra, 16, were arrested while herding their sheep in the…
Israeli army arrested on Thursday at dawn three residents from the West Bank city of Ramallah and four from the Gaza strip. Troops stormed Ramallah city and arrested two residents…
Israeli army troops invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp on Thursday morning. Troops backed up with several armored vehicles stormed the city and its nearby…
Israeli army troops invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and arrested one resident in the early hours of Thursday morning. Troops stormed and searched several houses in different parts…
Israeli army forces invaded the noprthern West Bank city of Tulkarem and its refugee camp, Thursday at dawn and arrested four residents. Troops and army vehicles stormed the city and…
Palestinians living in are planning number of activities to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Land Day. On this day, Palestinian residents of who protested ‘s land confiscation policy in 1976,…
About 50 armed Israeli officials break into the house of Ibrahim Ghozlan in the Silwan area south of the Old City of Jerusalem and forced five Palestinian families from the…
The Palestinian Hamas-formed government sworn in by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza city on Wednesday, marking the tenth Palestinian government since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in…
Many scholars continue to recommend the need for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations while overlooking the harsh reality that Israel is on a predetermined course. Short of ideologically realizing the vision of the…
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Wednesday that the Israeli elections will not make any difference to the Palestinians if the acting Prime Minister in Israel, Ehud Olmert, does not…
Local sources report that the Jewish National Fund and Israeli Police are forcefully removing the Palestinian Ozlan family from their home in Silwan, East Jerusalem. In the late 90’s the…
One Palestinian was killed on Tuesday morning as Israeli forces invaded the village of Al-Yamoun, west of Jenin, in the West Bank. Israeli Forces also wounded 4 citizens and arrested…
Hamas adopted a strident tone after its cabinet won approval in the Palestinian parliament, with one Member of Parliament declaring "jihad is our way". The parliament, dominated by members of…
A protest demonstration spearheaded by Salfit-based Palestinians and supported by internationals and Israelis in the solidarity movement will be held in the village of Rafat on Thursday, March 30, the…
Ramallah’s twin-city of Al Bireh in the West Bank is having a crisis with its dead. The Israeli authorities are preventing construction of a new cemetery. There is no where…
The Palestinian parliament approved in its session on Tuesday the new Palestinian cabinet formed by the majority party Hamas led by Prime Minister Ismael Haniya. The government, which is the…
"Regrettably, the U.S. administration is always hasty in making its decision and reaffirms its bias toward Israel and against the Palestinian people," said Ismail Haniyeh to reporters at the Palestinian…
Israeli army forces stormed Al Fouar refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, on Tuesday morning. During the invasion, youth throwing stones at the invading military force…
On Tuesday morning, Israeli army troops invaded the west Bank city of Nablus and arrested four residents. Soldiers, supported by armored vehicles, stormed the city and conducted wide scale search…
An Israeli army force stormed the West Bank city of Bethlehem, surrounded an apartment building in the city, and searched the residents’ apartments before arresting a Palestinian National Security officer…
A cheering face with a broad smile is how Said Fahmi Salah, 40-year-old local farmer and a father of 20 children, receives journalists who happen upon his home in the…
Shortly after an Israeli army invasion in the near by village of Al Yamoun, and killing one resident there, troops stormed the West Bank city of Jenin. Soldiers’ conducted wide…
On Tuesday morning, Israeli army troops invaded Al Azza refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and arrested Hatem Da’dara, 26. Soldiers stormed the camp, searched several houses,…
Members of the Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, claimed responsibility for firing one homemade shell at the Israeli checkpoint set up at Kitzofim, on the Gaza…
On Tuesday morning, Israeli army forces invaded the village of Al Yamoun, west of the West Bank city of Jenin, allegedly looking for wanted resistance fighters, and killed one resident.…
Local sources report that Palestinians from Yanoun village in the Nablus region of the West Bank tried to plough their lands Monday but were prevented by Israeli settlers living illegally on…
The incoming Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyya has presented his government to parliament, saying that while Hamas would spare no effort in striving for peace in the Middle East, it…
Saeb Erikat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, recently warned that Mahmoud Abbas, the president, might "embark on dismantling" the Palestinian Authority (PA) if Israel continued to carry out "acts of piracy"…
A lawyer with the Palestinian Prisoners Society said that the Salem Military Court in Israel submitted rulings Monday against Mohammad Khatib of Balata Refugee Camp, sentencing him to 8 months…
Palestinian farmers in the Gaza Strip, afraid of losing their means of livelihood and receiving no compensation from the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority, have been unwilling to kill their chickens after…
On Saturday March 25 Israeli military placed a notice at the Kalandia checkpoint announcing that from March 27, 2006 only holders of a permit to enter Israel will be allowed…
The Israeli Ofer Military Court, near of the West Bank City of Ramallah, rejected of Monday a request bail by the Secretary General of the Popular Front of Palestine (PFLP),…
For more than a quarter century, Israeli policy has been in conflict with that of the United States and the international community. Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory has obstructed a…
On Monday morning, an Israeli war-jet and a tank fired missiles at Palestinian fighters of the Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, while they were present…
The Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, claimed responsibility for firing a homemade shell at the Natif Etzra Settlement and another into Sderot, an Israeli town near…
Israeli Polices increased their presence around the Aqsa Mosque in east Jerusalem since early morning on Monday. Officers installed checkpoints and blocked all gates of the old city, and searched…
Four Palestinian residents were injured from the village of Tall Al Romaida in the West Bank city of Hebron late on Sunday, after being attacked by Israeli army troops i0n…
The Israeli army troops arrested six residents from several villages in the West Bank city of Hebron in pre-dawn invasions there on Monday. In Bani No’am village, the Israeli army…
This morning, the Israeli army fired heavy artillery towards the College of Agriculture in Beit Hannon in the Gaza strip, killing one student and injuring another two. The dead civilian…
The Israeli army installed a military checkpoint at the south east entrance of the West Bank city of Nablus Monday morning, sealing off the city and preventing residents from going to nearby villages.…
A Palestinian resident of Al Obadia village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem was abused by Israeli army troops early Monday morning. The troops, stationed at checkpoint 300…
A large Israeli forces of almost 20 military vehicles invaded the West Bank city of Tulkarem in the early hours of Monday morning. Troops invaded several Palestinians houses in the…
The Israeli border guard police arrested 680 Palestinian residents after claiming that they were staying in Israel without legal permits. An Israeli police source in Jerusalem reported that 550 residents…
A Palestinian security source in the West Bank of Hebron reported that extremist settlers attacked Bedouins living in tents in the south of Hebron; two residents suffered mild-to-moderate wounds. …
In an escalation against the Palestinian community in Iraq, a group calling themselves the "Brigades of the Judgment Day" distributed a leaflet in the area of Huriyah in Baghdad city…
A Palestinian security source reported that a 16-year old Palestinian was shot and killed in the early morning hours on Sunday by Israeli military fire in the Juhr Al Deek…
The average Palestinian uses about 60 litres (15 gallons) of water a day. In comparison, the average Israeli uses about 900 litres (250 gallons) a day, same as the average…
Palestinian Prime Minister-designate, Ismail Haniyya, stated on Saturday at night that the new Palestinian government headed by his movement, Hamas, will be sworn in on Wednesday following its ratification on…
A medical source in the West Bank city of Tubas reported on Saturday that one child and a man were injured when an explosive left by the military during an…
The United Nations expressed concern on Tuesday about the fate of 89 Palestinians, nearly half of them children, who fled Baghdad and have been stuck in no-man’s-land on the Iraqi-Jordanian…
A transcript released by the Palestinian Hamas party describes their planned program for the Palestinian government, including the statement, "The government shall deal with the signed agreements with a high…
The armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), claimed responsibility for firing five home made shells at an Israeli army post near the northern part of the Gaza Strip…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to approve the appointment of a new Hamas-led government today but warns that the administration has no future – and will be acting against the…
Israeli troops invaded, on Saturday morning, the villages of Al Shiokh and Doura, and Al Arroub refugee camp in the West Bank City of Hebron, searched dozens of houses and…
Recent Israeli attacks on Palestinian water resources have been making life impossible for Jordan Valley residents, say human rights groups working in the area. On Monday, Occupation forces handed Mu’ayad…
Abu Ali Mustafa brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed on Saturday morning, responsibility for firing one homemade shell at an Israeli military…
Israeli army bulldozers uprooted, Saturday morning, orchards that belong to the residents of the Kafer Alled and Beit Leed, near the West Bank city of Tulkarem. Bulldozers uprooted trees and…
The Israeli army troops posted at Huwwara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, detained on Saturday morning dozens of reisdents. The residents were forced to wait for…
One of Al Aqsa martyrs brigades resistance groups escaped fatal attack by the Israeli army artillery late Friday afternoon. Shell targeted the group while being in Al Atatra area north…
Israeli army troops and armored vehicles invaded late on Friday at night the West Bank city of Qalqilia, and arrested one resident. Troops searched several houses in the city before…
On Friday, Israeli troops stormed Berqin and Kufr Dan villages near Jenin and launched search operations, terrifying citizens, mainly children and women. No injuries or arrests were reported.
An extremist settlers group of the Sosia settlement, near Yatta village, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, uprooted on Friday dozens of olive trees after attacking the residents…
A Palestinian security source in the West Bank city of Tubas reported on Friday evening that two residents were injured in an explosion that took place in the northern neighborhood…
300 Residents of Bil’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, including Israeli and international peace activists protested on Friday against the annexation Wall and settlements; the peaceful protesters…
Israeli soldiers invaded on Friday evening the the Wets Bank city of Qalqilia and arrested one resident. A local source in the city reported that soldiers surrounded a restaurant and…
Residents of the West Bank village of Beit Siera, west of Ramallah, Israeli and international peace activists protested on Friday afternoon against the annexation Wall Israel is constructing on the…
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The Palestine Net news network interviewed on Friday at noon, detainee Fuad Al Khafsh, deputy director of the Ministry of Detainees and x-Detainees, detained in the Negev detention facility. Al…
The Palestinian Legislative Council will form a panel to investigate last week’s Israeli raid on a Jericho prison. The committee will submit its findings to the parliament within 10 days.…
A report compiled by the United Nation Office for the Coordination of the Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revealed a new social and economic reality that has emerged in the last year…
An Israeli court released on Friday morning Odilia Habibi, one of the assailants that attacked the Basiilica of the Annunciation with hundreds of gas bombs, rockets and firecrackers during Lent…
The Palestinian journalists’ trade union in the West Bank city of Bethlehem organized a demonstration Friday protesting the recent attack on the local TV station Al Ro’ah in the city.…
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas slammed the Israeli party Kadima’s policy of unilateral steps regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Israeli sources reported. In an interview with the electronic newspaper Ma’ariv, Abbas…
The Israeli army forces stormed, on Friday morning, the village of Burqeen, near the West Bank city of Hebron. Troops surrounded three houses after closing the entrances of the village,…
Two homemade shells fired by Palestinian resistance groups landed in Negev, in western Israel, Friday morning. The shells landed in an open area causing no damage or injuries to Palestinians, media sources…
The killer of 13-year old Iman Al Hams, a girl who was cowering behind a stone and positively identified as a child before she was shot, and then was shot…
The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) claimed responsibility for the shooting of the Israeli soldier at the eastern borders of the Refuge Camp of Maghazi in the central area of the…
Three decades ago, a small group of religious pioneers installed themselves on a bare hillside to reclaim the biblical town of Beit El for the modern state of Israel. A…
On July 18, 2005, 14-year-old Ragheb Al Masri sat in the back of a taxi with his parents at the Abu Holi checkpoint. An Israeli bullet penetrated his back and…
Israel exists as a major military force in the world and a silent member of the nuclear club. Yet it cries wolf that Hamas threatens its existence. On the third…
On the eve of the formation of the new Palestinian government, a public opinion poll by the Center for Policy and Survey Research in the West Bank and the Gaza…
The new Palestinian government seemed unlikely to reach any kind of agreement on the makeup of its new government after Hamas and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) traded barbs Wednesday…
Bird Flu-infected chickens were found in the Israeli settlement Moahsaf Bigoat in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank on Thursday morning, Israeli media sources reported. Shortly after the news…
Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad Movement, claimed responsibility for shooting an Israeli soldier who was repairing the border fence near the Israeli town of Khuza’a, in…
Israeli army forces invaded Askar refugee camp in West Bank city of Nablus Thursday morning and arrested one resident there. Ashraf Mas’ha, 18, was arrested after troops stormed the camp…
In honor of Mother’s Day in Palestine this year, the “Never Forget” Organization in Jenin Refugee Camp opened a handcrafts bazaar. Hundreds gathered for the opening with the National anthem,…
Palestinian boy was injured by the Israeli forces stationed in the area between Ithna and Tarqomia in Hebron Province. Ham’mad Qot’tainah, 15 years old, was injured in the leg when…
Israeli army troops invaded the village of Bani Na’em in the West Bank city of Hebron and arrested one resident there, Thursday morning. Soliman Ibeed, 24, was arrested after troops…
Israeli army forces invaded the West Bank city of Tulkarem and arrested eight residents there on Thursday at dawn. Troops stormed the city and conducted a wide scale search of…
Israeli army forces stormed Dihasha refugee camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem and arrested one resident there Thursday at dawn. Waled Hamda, 32, was arrested when troops invaded…
Israeli army troops invaded the village of Kofer Dan in the West Bank city of Jenin, on Thursday morning. Soldiers and army vehicles stormed the village, searched several houses, and chased a…
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, announced responsibility for launching four homemade shells at Al-Majdal city in Israeli, late Wednesday night. In a press release issued on Thursday…
Israeli army forces invaded the village of Dier Ghassanah, west of the West Bank city of Ramallah, and arrested six residents there Thursday at dawn. Troops stormed the village and…
Three Palestinians, two of whom were said to be operatives of the Islamic Jihad movement, were killed Thursday morning as an Israeli surveillance plane fired at least two missiles at…
Ziad Al Nakhala, deputy secretary-general of the Islamic Jihad movement, denied the statements of the Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, who claimed that the movement received 1.8 million US Dollars…
The Israeli Magistrate’s Court in Jerusalem rejected the proposed route of the annexation wall in Sheikh Sa’ad neighborhood, in the East Jerusalem village of Jabal Al Mokabber, after the residents…
The incoming Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, stated on Wednesday that the Palestinian Legislative Council will meet on Saturday to discuss and vote on the program of the new Palestinian…