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Israeli army troops stationed at the container checkpoint east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem arrested Mohamed Abu Ariah, 33, while trying to cross the checkpoint late Wednesday night.…
An Israeli soldier was killed on Thursday morning during a military invasion to the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, Israeli media sources reported. The sources…
Palestinians released on Wednesday the last four of 11 foreigners abducted the previous day in retaliation for an Israeli raid on a Palestinian prison in Jericho, the Palestinian interior ministry…
The Israeli Police in Jerusalem claimed that policemen arrested an Arab woman from East Jerusalem after she allegedly attempted to stab a policeman in Ramat Gan area, earlier on Wednesday.…
A Palestinian medical source in Gaza city reported that one fighter was killed while training with other fighter east of Gaza city. The fighter, Mohammad Abu Assi, was killed blast…
The Israeli army has decided to extend the closure imposed on the Palestinian territories until next Saturday. Army claims receiving several warnings of possible attacks against Israeli targets. The Palestinian…
On Tuesday night and Wednesday throughout the day, thousands of Palestinians from all political parties took part in random massive demonstrations, including a mass demonstration in Ramallah Wednesday afternoon. Demonstrators…
Israeli State Prosecution said, on Wednesday, that it is opposed to resuming the constructions of illegal houses in the Matityahu-East settlement neighborhood, in the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Upper Modi’in, constructed…
Report: "We have now obtained previously top-secret papers which show not only that Norway was a mere cover for the Israel deal, but that Britain made hundreds of other secret…
Four fighters of the Salah Ed Deen Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, were injured on Wednesday after being targeted by a missile fire from as Israeli…
One Palestinian fighter, member of the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was killed, and nine residents were injured, on Tuesday, during clashes which…
The national resistance brigade, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and the Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, claimed responsibility…
A group of Israeli settlers attacked the village of Awarta, southeast of the West Bank city of Nablus, and injured three residents there, on Wednesday afternoon. The settlers from…
Israeli army bulldozers uprooted, on Wednesday, Palestinian orchards east of the West Bank city of Tubas. The orchards were annexed by the soldiers and settlers last month in order…
In an ingoing invasion of the village of Qafr Qaddoum, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia, the Israeli army has arrested one resident and is still imposing…
Israeli army troops stormed, on Wednesday morning, the West Bank city of Jenin, its refugee camp and the nearby town of Qabatia; five residents were arrested and two houses were…
With the media focused on the recent Israeli attack on the Jericho prison, the Israeli government has begun to develop facilities for what eventually could be the largest settlement project…
Israeli army troops stormed the village of Kofier Qadom, located east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia, and imposed a curfew on the village Wednesday at dawn. Soldiers…
Israeli army forces stormed the village of Nahalen, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and arrested two residents there on Wednesday morning. Eight army vehicles invaded the…
Israeli army troops invaded the village of Banni Na’am east of the West Bank city of Hebron, and arrested three residents there, on Wednesday at dawn. Troops stormed the…
Israeli army troops invaded Banni Na’am, located east of the West Bank city of Hebron, arresting three residents Wednesday at dawn. Troops stormed the village and searced residents’ houses before…
Another act of aggression by the Israeli state, emboldened by western governments’ hostility to Hamas. Al-Jazeera is broadcasting footage of a brutal Israeli raid on a prison in the Palestinian…
A report from the Palestine National Information Center released on Tuesday revealed that 4,298 Palestinian people have been killed since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intifada on September 29, 2000. Of…
Additional reports of intense suffering are coming from Israel’s Telmond Prison where several Palestinian children are imprisoned in Department Seven. In a interview with PNN, one of the children reported,…
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, announced that it will abduct Israeli soldiers in retaliation to the arrest of, Ahmad Sa’adat, Secretary General of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of…
Palestinian sources confirmed that Ahmad Sa’adaat, Secretary General of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine and four of his comrades allegdly accused of killing the Israeli Minister Rehavam…
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, warned on Tuesday that Israel is conducting a serious escalation and attack by invading the West Bank city of Jericho and surrounding the Jericho Prison…
Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers arrested three residents of Hebron, Al Fawwar refugee camp, and Beit Ummar village, near the West Bank city of Hebron. A local source in Hebron reported…
The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported on Tuesday that two Palestinian children and an international were injured after extremist settlers attacked them in Tal Romeida neighborhood, the the center of…
As Israeli forces continue to attack and shell the Al Muqataa prison in Jericho, where jailed Palestinian resistance leader Ahmed Sadat and others remain imprisoned, the besieged prisoners have condemned…
Ahmed Sadat, the target of the Israeli siege on the Al Muqataa prison in Jericho on Tuesday, was elected General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine…
A Palestinian security source in Gaza reported that several gunmen attacked the British Cultural Council, and the European Union Office, in protest to the Israeli invasion to Jericho and the…
Israeli Special Forces broke into Aida Refugee Camp, in the northern part of the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday and surrounded many houses in the camp. Eyewitnesses said…
Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday said the construction of the annexation wall in the West Bank will be completed within several months. "By the end of…
"When the US and British guards left their posts at the Al Muqataa prison, the ‘Jericho Agreement’ became null and void", announced an Israeli military commander in the midst of…
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The Middle East envoy from the ‘Quartet for Mideast Peace’, James Wolfensohn, has told his staff that without a clear mandate on a policy toward Hamas he would leave his…
Israel has imposed a ban on all Palestinians by preventing them from entering Israel during the Jewish holiday of Purim as of last Saturday until next Wednesday. Israeli army officials…
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, is expected to declare Ariel settlement as part of the state of Israel during his visit there on Tuesday, Israeli online daily Haaretz reported. Official…
Israel has imposed a ban on all Palestinians by preventing them from entering Israel during the Jewish holiday of Purim as of last Saturday until next Wednesday. Israeli army officials…
The following is the letter I wrote to the artistic director of the New York Theatre Workshop, Mr. James Nicola, regarding the cancellation of the play "My Name is Rachel…
Israeli officials, while simultaneously demanding recognition from newly-elected Hamas, are lobbying for recognition of Palestine to be denied. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is mired in a…
Israeli officials, while simultaneously demanding recognition from newly-elected Hamas, are lobbying for recognition of Palestine to be denied. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is mired in a…
Maybe you never got the chance to know tom fox. i just learned of his death — an announcement i have been dreading, but almost expecting, since the video released…
A Palestinian official said Saturday that the Palestinian president rejected Hamas’s proposed government program, but Hamas and sources close to President Mahmoud Abbas have dismissed the claim. The senior Palestinian…
A Palestinian official said Saturday that the Palestinian president rejected Hamas’s proposed government program, but Hamas and sources close to President Mahmoud Abbas have dismissed the claim. The senior Palestinian…
Israeli police issued unjustified speeding tickets to Palestinian drivers driving between the villages of Ein Al Bida and Bardalah in the northern Jordan valley, on Monday morning. The…
Israeli army bulldozers resumed work on a road for ‘Israeli Settlers only’ which will cut through the middle of the old city of the West Bank city of Hebron, on…
Israeli colonizers devastated on Sunday vast areas of arable lands in the West Bank (WB) city of Hebron, witnesses said. Witnesses reported that Israeli colonizers of Beit Eain colony, northwest…
PNN met with a potential Palestinian Legislative Council minister Saturday. Dr. Khawla Ragheb Al Shakshir is a professor and a Hamas party member. Her involvement in higher education may be…
A group of illegal Israeli settlers attacked several Palestinian residents of Sosia, located near the West Bank city of Yatta, south of Hebron, on Monday morning. The Palestine News Network…
Israeli forces tightened the closure on Tulkarem area in the north west of the West Bank in the early hours of Monday morning, Palestine News Network reported. Troops closed all…
Israeli army forces, backed by 30 armored vehicles and drones, invaded the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin and the village of Qabatia early Monday morning. The Palestine News Network…
A group of Jewish settlers from Yatzhar, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, attacked a Palestinian photo journalist late Sunday evening. Abd Al-Raheem Qussini, a Palestinian photo…
Israeli army units stationed at Al-Pathan checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus detained scores of Palestinian cars and buses on Monday morning. Troops forced residents to travel on…
Israeli army troops and vehicles stormed the village of Khirbet Ibziq, north of the West Bank city of Tubass, on Monday at dawn. Soldiers infiltrated the village and searched several houses…
Israeli army forces invaded Aida refugee camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem and arrested Firas Da’amssa, 31, and his brother Khadier, 22, on Monday morning. Troops and…
Qassam Abu Baker, 16, from Yabad village, near the West Bank city of Jenin, lost his finger during investigation in Israeli detention center of Salem. Qassam’s brother Rami said that…
Dr. Azeez Dweik, Palestinian Legislative Council spokesman, member of Hamas movement, reported on Sunday that the American Consulate in Israel contacted one of Hamas candidates to be a minister in…
Dr. Azeez Dweik, Palestinian Legislative Council spokesman and a member of Hamas, reported on Sunday that the American Consulate in Israel threatened a candidate for the upcoming Palestinian government, saying that “steps…
Israeli soldiers arrested two Palestinian residents at Beit Eeba checkpoint on Sunday, west of the West Bank city of Nablus, claiming that they were carrying a 20-kilogram explosive. The explosive were detonated in…
Israeli soldiers handed, on Sunday, several residents of Beit Jala city, near Bethlehem, military orders informing them that the military intends to annex vast areas of farmlands near the city.The…
The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas allowed until Monday for the Palestinian factions to express readiness to join a Hamas-led coalition to form the government. Hamas secured an absolute majority as…
Palestinian teachers of two schools in the West Bank city of Hebron went into a strike protesting the delay of salaries on Saturday morning. Teachers who suspended classes for…
Sheikh Tayseer Tamimi head of the higher judicial council in Palestine condemned the Israeli army decision to prevent the call for prayer in the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank…
Israeli army arrested four residents from Rafah near Sofa crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday morning, Palestinian sources reported. Troops were carrying out a search in the…
The Israeli army troops stationed at Za’tara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus tightened its procedures on Saturday morning. Troops searched the local residents cars and slowly…
The Israeli army installed two military checkpoints near the villages of Araba and Fahma south west of the West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday morning. Troops stopped and…
The Palestinian refugees’ league in Europe demanded on Saturday morning a fair solution to the problems Palestinian refugees facing in Iraq. The league sent their demand in an open…
Israeli army troops invaded the West Bank city of Tulkarem and its refugee camp on Friday after midnight. Soldiers backed by military vehicles stormed the city and the refugee…
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Several residents, Israeli and International peace activists and a reporter were injured, on Friday afternoon, during protests against the annexation Wall in the villages of Beit Seera and Bil’in, near…
The Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for firing three homemade shells at the Israeli city of Ashkelon on Friday afternoon. In the…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported that Israeli soldiers killed seven residents of the Gaza Strip, five of whom were children. Of the five children who were killed this…
Israeli army troops invaded the village of Beit Fafar south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and arrested four residents on Friday morning. Troops and army jeeps stormed…
Israeli army renewed its heavy artillery shelling against Beit Hanon and Beit Lahia towns in the northern Gaza strip, on Friday at dawn. The shells landed in farm lands…
Israeli army forces invaded Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus Friday at dawn and arrested two residents there. Ahmad Atalah, 19, and Ahmad Fa’or, 22, were…
Israeli army forces continued to detain farmers form the West Bank town of Tubas on Friday morning. Soldiers arrested several farmers on Thursday while working in their farmlands located near…
Hamas leader, Ismael Haniya, the Palestinian Prime Minister-elect, said there are no signs of crisis between Fatah and Hamas, and described his meeting with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as…
A third round of talks between Fateh and Hamas movements on the formation of the new Palestinian government was concluded, on Thursday at night, without any results or breakthrough in…
The Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh movement, fired on Thursday evening two homemade shells at Kfar Azza settlement, east of the Gaza Strip. The brigades released a…
A group of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian man and woman in separate incidents in the Old City of Hebron Wednesday night, medical sources reported. Shaher Fakhouri, 43, and Ghazala…
An Open Letter to Jim Nicola, Artistic Director, New York Theater Workshop I write an open letter to encourage you to set a firm date for the opening of "My…
Israeli army troops stormed Al Aza refugee camp in the city of Bethlehem late Wednesday night, and searched several houses there, no arrests were made, local sources reported.
Israeli acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he intends to "get Israel’s permanent borders, whereby we will completely separate from the majority of the Palestinian population and preserve a large…
A Palestinian medical source at the Hebron Governmental Hospital reported that settlers attacked and injured, on Wednesday night, a woman in the Old City of Hebron. The source stated that…
Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, and Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for shooting at the settler’s road near Abu…
Israeli army artillery stationed at the borders between the Gaza strip and the south of Israel, fired on Thursday at dawn, several shells at Palestinian areas in the northern part …
The Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fateh, and the Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for firing four homemade shells at…
Israeli soldiers stationed at Taiaseer military checkpoint, at the eastern entrance of the West Bank city of Tubas, confiscated, on Thursday morning, indigenous plant groves. Local farmers call the…
An extremist settlers group of Sousia settlement, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, uprooted on Wednesday dozens of olive trees and bushes which belong to residents of Yatta…
In keeping with the stated Israeli policy to "put the Palestinians on a diet, but not starve them" (as stated by governmental advisor Dov Weisglass), Israeli forces stationed in Gaza…
Israeli army troops invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Askar refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus and arrested one resident. Ahmad Ghandour, 18, was arrested when soldiers…
In pre-dawn invasions on Thursday, Israeli army forces arrested 13 Palestinians from several West Bank cities. Four residents, allegedly members of Fateh, were arrested in an invasion to the…
The Israeli army, backed by 15 armored vehicles, invaded the West Bank refugee camp and city of Tulkarem Thursday at dawn. The army fired rounds of live ammunitions and broke…
An Israeli female settler was injured by stones hurled at her as she was driving near Biet Aur Al-Tahta, west of Ramallah. The settler received first aid treatment at one of…
Jewish settlers are able to "terrorize" Palestinians with impunity, intimidating children on their way to school and destroying farmers’ trees and crops, a United Nations expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…
Israeli Forces have strengthened military measures at the checkpoint of Zatarah, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The forces stationed at the barrier prevented citizens of Jenin…
On Wednesday, the British government condemned Israeli Air Force attack in Gaza, which resulted in the death and injury of Palestinian citizens, including three children. In an official statement distributed…
Eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli army invaded the West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Biet Sahour and arrested six residents on Wednesday at dawn. The Israeli soldiers invaded the…