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Palestinian farmers across the West Bank are finding it increasingly difficult to plough their fields as Israeli settlers, living illegally on Palestinian land, increase their attacks. Rabbis for Human…
Israeli and Palestinian political commentators are calling the recent Israeli election results a political ‘earthquake’. From what I can tell, they are using the term not because the results have…
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Qalqilia Monday morning, arresting two Palestinians and injuring seven others. Aziz Al Nabriss, Habib Hammad, Bilal Odah, Abd Al Latif Milhim,…
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and the nearby village of Bier Al Bash early Monday morning, arresting three Palestinians. Israeli soldiers invaded the village and searched…
Israeli army troops invaded Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, injured two residents and arrested one, Monday morning. Army vehicles and soldiers stormed the camp and…
Israeli army forces invaded the village of Salem east of the West Bank city of Nablus, and arrested two girls on Monday morning. Tharwat, 23, and Khitam Ishtaiah, 22, were…
In the Monday morning assassination of resistance leader Raed Obayat by Israeli special forces, eyewitnesses describe a scene of a badly beaten Obayat, and his companion Ra’ed Sulaiman Abu Joura,…
After a seasonal rainstorm Saturday night, many Palestinian areas have experienced extensive flooding due to the Annexation Wall constructed by Israel that has blocked water drainage. Iad Salamah Rabi’a, 29,…
Israeli Forces continued on Sunday, for the fourth consecutive day, the isolation of al-Aghwar al-Shamaleya area in Jordan Valley in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. Local sources said that the…
Ten Palestinian detainees in the Negev Detention Facility after being attacked by Israeli soldiers who intended to move a transfer hundreds of detainees to other detention facilities. At least thirty…
A Palestinian medical source in Alia governmental hospital in Hebron, south of the West Bank, reported on Sunday evening that one Palestinian resident was suffered fractures, concussions and bruises to…
Each Palestinian has a special place in their heart for Rachel Corrie. She symbolized strength, perseverance, and self assuredness. Conversely, she was labeled an enemy of Israel, a nuisance of…
Britain’s apparent complicity in Israel’s military assault on Jericho prison should finally demolish an enduring myth about Britain’s foreign policy. Iraq’s supposed possession of weapons of mass destruction was not…
In this week’s report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights revealed a number of violations of international law by Israeli…
A Palestinian, who was one of several dozen prisoners set free by Israeli forces during their raid on Jericho prison in March, was responsible for a ‘suicide attack’ that killed…
A few kilometers away from the continuous Israeli heavy shelling in the northeastern Gaza Strip on Saturday, April 1, in the heart of Gaza City, several local Palestinians were enjoying…
An extremist Israeli settler group of the Ramat Yishai illegal settlement outpost, in Hebron, attacked on Saturday three Palestinian farmers and a Swedish peace activist in Tal Romeida neighborhood in…
Since September 2000, more than 800 Palestinian children have been killed. . .Who will take responsibility for her death? Who shall be held accountable? On 18 March 2006, I visited…
Rasheed Abu Shbak, head of the Palestinian Preventive Security in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip reported that the Palestinian Authority formed an investigation committee to probe the clashes…
A Palestinian security source reported that the Israeli air force carried out three air strikes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip; the attacks targeted Al Waha Resort, Al…
Israeli sources reported that Palestinian youth threw bottles and stones at Israeli tanks, jeeps and armed personnel carriers that were invading the Palestinian cities of Tulkarem and Hebron, late Friday…
Dentist Emad Ald’dein Taha ( 31 years) died Thursday of wounds sustained in an unknown explosion inside his house in Al Nisirat Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip two weeks…
Israeli army tanks positioned on the borders between the Gaza strip and Israeli resumed the shelling of Palestinian areas north of Gaza city and east of the town of Beit…
Israeli army forces erected a military checkpoint north of Iqaba village near the West Bank city of Tubas, Saturday morning. Soldiers and army vehicles closed the road that connects the…
Israeli army forces invaded the village of Assera Al-Shamaliya near the West Bank city of Nablus, and arrested one resident there, Saturday morning. Soliman Yassen, 23, was arrested when troops…
The Israeli army troops stationed at the Huwwara checkpoint forbidden residents for the West Bank city of Nablus between the ages of 16 to 32 from traveling through the checkpoint,…
Israeli army troops stationed at Beit Iba military checkpoint west of the West Bank city of Nablus did not allow anyone to pass in our out on Saturday morning. This…
A Palestinian security source reported on Friday night that three Palestinians were killed, twenty others were injured, during an exchange of fire between fighters of the Popular Resistance Committees and…
The Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, invited diplomats from several European representatives offices in the Palestinian areas to participate in an activity regarding the…
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The Israeli army stationed at one of the checkpoints on the way to the West Bank city of Ramallah arrested one west Bank city of Bethlehem resident, Friday morning. Awad…
The Popular Resistance Committees announced on Friday that its leader, Abu Yousef Al Qouqa, 44, was assassinated when a wired vehicle detonated fifty meters away from his home in Al…
Israeli settlers uprooted several almonds and grape trees in lands that belong to Beit Omaer villagers west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Wednesday evening. More than five settlers…
The Israeli army troops stationed at the Jordan valley checkpoints closed these checkpoints and did not allow the Palestinian workers from crossing to get to their jobs, Friday dawn. The…
The Israeli army forces invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and Asker refugee camp in the city, six residents arrested, Friday morning. Troops and armored vehicles stormed the city…
Israeli air force gun ships shelled, in the early hours of Friday morning, a bridge in the center of Gaza city partially destroying the bridge damaging the water system in…
Palestinian residents are reported to have planned a huge demonstration against the Apartheid Wall in Bili’in village today. The demonstration will begin at 12:30pm.
Israeli sources reported that three Israelis were killed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car after night fall on Thursday close to the entrance of Qadumim settlement, near…
A European Union (EU) delegation has visited Gaza to get a fresh perspective on food shortages following the Israeli closure of a critical checkpoint. The delegation, consisting of 16 heads…
Israeli army troops attacked a Palestinian rally commemorating ‘land day’ in Jerusalem and arrested four, Thursday afternoon. Troops stormed the rally with tear gas bombs and sound grenades and attacked…
Hamas formally took power yesterday, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swearing in 24 cabinet ministers, including 14 who had served time in Israeli prisons. Within hours, Canada cut off aid…
Israeli Jewish settlers toke over two buildings that belong to Palestinian families in the Silwan and Al Toor neighborhoods in Jerusalem, late Wednesday night. According to the owners the settlers…
Israeli soldiers stormed the West Bank city of Tulkarem and its refugee camp, and arrested four residents, including two youth, after breaking into dozens of homes and searching them. Four…
A number of Palestinian farmers from Qalqilia whose land is now behind the Israeli Wall north of Qalqilia gave testimony that Israeli forces are preventing them from reaching their lands,…
The Israeli army troops stationed at the Container checkpoint east of Jerusalem, arrested two brothers from Al Azza refugee camp in Bethlehem. Amir and Mohamed Abu Shi’ra were arrested while…
On Saturday, an American volunteering with the Tel Rumeida Project in Hebron was attacked by a group of settlers and sustained a mild concussion. The gash in the back of…
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…