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Israeli police released, on Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, head of the Independent Palestine Coalition for the upcoming legislative elections, after detaining him for several hours and transferring him to…
In a step many considered an Israeli interference in Palestinian preparations for PLC elections set for January 25, Israeli forces detained, on Monday, 23 officials and supervisors of voting stations…
Israeli military bulldozers leveled a four-story building in Beit Hanina town, north of Jerusalem. The Jerusalem municipality claims that the building was illegally constructed. The Maan News Agency…
Israeli soldiers broke into Anata School for boys, north of Jerusalem, and clashed with dozens of students; one student and one teacher were injured. An Israeli military source reported…
Israeli High Court of Justice gave, on Sunday, the Israeli government the green light to construct the Separation Wall around settlements north of the West Bank, and barred the construction…
In an invasion to the West Bank city of Nablus, on Tuesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers arrested one resident, and searched several houses searching for wanted members of the resistance.…
The Al Quds brigades’, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for firing 14 homemade shells at Israeli settlements around the Gaza strip, on Tuesday at dawn. …
Israeli soldiers arrested, on Tuesday at dawn, 11 residents from several areas in the West Bank. 10 were arrested from the West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Hebron while…
Israeli troops invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp. Soldiers, supported by heavy military vehicles, stormed the city and the refugee…
According to documents published by the Israeli online daily, Haaretz, illegal permits were issued retroactively for a new West Bank settlement expansion project while buildings were being constructed or even…
According to documents published by the Israeli online daily, Haaretz, illegal permits were issued retroactively for a new West Bank settlement expansion project while buildings were being constructed or even…
Eight settler families, who took over eight Palestinian stores, at a market in the West Bank city of Hebron, were handed out eviction notices by representatives of the Israeli Civil…
728 candidates competing for the 132 seats of the Palestinian Parliament’s upcoming elections started on Tuesday morning their electoral campaigns in the different parts of the West Bank and the…
An Israeli air force aircraft fired, on Monday at night, several missiles at a Palestinian vehicle in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the Gaza Strip; two residents were killed, and…
Israeli border policemen detained, on Monday morning, scores of Palestinian civilians at a sudden military checkpoint in Al Khan Al Ahmar area, near the Israeli settlement of Mishor Adumim in…
Israeli border policemen detained, on Monday morning, scores of Palestinian civilians at a sudden military checkpoint in Al Khan Al Ahmar area, near the Israeli settlement of Mishor Adumim in…
The Israeli army arrested on Monday the election campaign coordinator of "Badeel" coalition, a combination of the Palestinian People’s Party (PPP), the Democratic Front for the LIberation of Palestine (DFLP)…
The Israeli army bulldozers uprooted on Monday more than 400 olive trees in Skaka village near the southern West Bank city of Hebron. The trees were uprooted for the construction…
Israeli troops invaded late Sunday night the village of Wad Rahal near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, local sources reported. Eyewitnesses said, several army vehicles stormed the village…
The Israeli military court of Ofer near the West Bank city of Ramallah sentenced a Bethlehem resident Bethlehem to14 months in jail and NIS 3000 fine. Mahmoud Takatka 18, was…
Dozens of European Union observers to the Palestinian parliamentary elections began deploying in Palestinian areas Monday, undeterred by a wave of kidnappings and other violence that has swept through Palestinian…
The Israeli army tightened its closure, on Monday morning, on the West Bank city of Tulkarem, and deployed additional army units around the city. Also troops closed Iktaba-Bel’a road which…
Israeli soldier invaded, on Sunday, Anza village, near the West Bank city of Jenin, and arrested one resident. Soldiers invaded the village, broke into a number of houses and arrested…
Four Palestinian workers were rammed by a speeding Israeli military jeep, on Sunday at night, at Al Jaba’ junction road between Hebron and the West Bank city of Bethlehem .…
About 200 Palestinian policemen stormed, on Monday, government offices in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, to protest at the failure of the Palestinian Authority and its…
Israeli soldier, backed by 25 armored vehicles, uprooted on Monday morning, more than 400 olive trees from the orchards which belong to residents of Al-Sikka village, south of the West…
Only a few hours before the beginning of the New Year, Israeli soldiers installed a portable military checkpoint near the eastern entrance of the West Bank city of Qalqilia, and…
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Freed Detainees, reported on Sunday that Israeli soldiers arrested 3495 residents in 2005, from several Palestinians areas; 1600 of them remained in custody. An…
Palestinian security sources in Gaza reported that the security devices are currently searching for an Italian resident who was abducted by an armed Palestinian group earlier on Sunday, in Khan…
Eight Palestinian residents suffered bruises and concussions during a protest against the Separation Wall in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, after the soldiers attacked and clubbed the protestors their peaceful procession…
The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that soldiers forced several residents of Ein Al Baida village, in the northern plains of the West Bank, out of their homes, and expelled…
A medical source in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that two brothers were killed, one resident injured, after the Israeli artillery fired several shells…
Israeli soldiers shelled on Sunday at dawn, several areas in the northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, no injuries were reported. The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported…
Israeli troops invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the West Bank city of Tulkarem and its refugee camp. Three army vehicles invaded the city and the refugee camp, harassed the…
Israeli soldiers arrested Sami Awad, director of Holy Land Trust (HLT), and candidate for the Palestinian Legislative Council elections in a nonviolent anti-wall protest in the town of Beit Jala…
The IMEMC team would like to wish all our readers a Happy New Year and we hope the year 2006 will be a year to bring peace to the world and to…
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fateh, and Al Quds Brigades, military wing of the Islamic Jihad, declared on Saturday at night that the truce which was…
An Israeli movement which rejects the occupation organized the protests which it named "It is time to return to the Green Line", demanding Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories…
Palestinian Candidates of Fateh list in east Jerusalem said on Friday they would boycott Jan. 25 parliamentary elections. All of 15 candidates said they will withdraw their candidacies if Israel…
Israeli army invaded, on Saturday at dawn, the West Bank village of Yatta, south of Hebron, and surrounded number of houses prior to arresting a resident. Army surrounded the…
Israeli army invaded Saturday at dawn, the West Bank village of Dir Al Ghsoun, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, and broke into a number of house, the…
Israeli army installed a number of military roadblocks in the West Bank city of Qalqilia and its suburbs on Saturday, the Maan News Agency reported. The roadblocks were installed…
Palestinian security sources reported, on Saturday, that dozens of armed Palestinian gunmen took control of Palestinian Authority buildings, in the city of Dir Al Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.…
Israeli artillery resumed shelling areas in the north and east of the Gaza Strip. Most of the shelled areas are said to be non residential areas, east of both Beit…
Palestinian foreign minister Nasser Qidwa said today there are two main conditions for holding PLC elections on their scheduled date. The first is the participation of Jerusalem residents. He also…
Aqsa Martyrs Brigades groups in Nablus announced their refusal to hold PLC elections on their scheduled date because of the ongoing Israeli measures. Sources close to the Brigades in Nablus…
Israeli artillery shelled several Palestinian areas in the northern part of the Gaza Strip; army claims that the shelled areas are uninhibited and are used by the resistance as launching…
A senior Palestinian Authority official said, on Friday at night, that British Human Rights activist Kate Burton and her parents, Hugh and Helen, were released after they were abducted two…
A senior Palestinian Authority official said, on Friday at night, that British Human Rights activist Kate Burton and her parents, Hugh and Helen, were released after they were abducted two…
A senior Palestinian Authority official said, on Friday at night, that British Human Rights activist Kate Burton and her parents, Hugh and Helen, were released after they were abducted two…
With less than a month to go till the up-coming election, Fatah’s top candidate Marwan Barghouti apologized to the Palestinians for the problems with corruptions within the Palestinian Authority and…
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Israeli soldiers supported by ten armored vehicles and jeeps, invaded Atteel village, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem and arrested eight residents. A local source in Atteel reported…
The Palestinian Ministry of Interior and National Security strongly denounced the murder of a Palestinian policeman by gunmen in Gaza city; three other policemen and three residents were injured. The…
Palestinian policemen, angry over the killing of a fellow police officer, stormed the Gaza-Egypt crossing on Friday, firing in the air and forcing European monitors to close the border and…
Israeli Security sources reported that the Palestinian Authority fears large scale Israeli Army retaliation in Tulkarem following Thursday’s suicide bombing in which an Israeli soldier and three Palestinians were killed.…
The Israeli army invaded, on Friday at dawn, the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, local sources reported. Troops, backed with more than 30 military vehicles, invaded…
West Bank city of Tubass, closed it for traffic Thursday afternoon. Since Tayasser checkpoint lies at the entrance of Tubass city, closing it caused many residents from the surrounding villages…
Israeli army troops invaded, on Friday at dawn, the West Bank city of Tulkarem; ten residents were arrested. Troops invaded the village of Atil near the city and arrested nine…
Israeli sources reported on Friday that the Israeli army unit stationed in Dura Village, near the West Bank city of Hebron, disarmed a bomb planted near the village. The sources…
In a press release, the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades General Command and the Salah Al Deen Brigades claimed responsibility, Thursday, for firing two home made-shells at Israeli army targets in Kosofem…
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has ordered the army to probe reports of uprooted Palestinian trees by extremist settlers groups. Mofaz said that…
A report prepared by the State Information Service (SIS) revealed that Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians, including one extra-judicially assassinated, and injured 32 others, in addition to committing 746…
A report prepared by the State Information Service (SIS) revealed that Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians, including one extra-judicially assassinated, and injured 32 others, in addition to committing 746…
A report prepared by the State Information Service (SIS) revealed that Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians, including one extra-judicially assassinated, and injured 32 others, in addition to committing 746…
The Israeli army sealed, on Thursday, the southern entrance of the West Bank city of Jenin, and installed four military checkpoints at Jenin-Nablus road and Arraba road junction, south of…
The Israeli Ofer military court sentenced on Mohamed Khalaf, 26, to fourteen years consecutive imprisonment, and five on parole, Thursday afternoon. Khalaf was arrested earlier this month form Al…
The Israeli army invaded, on Thursday, the West Bank city of Jenin, local sources reported. Troops entered the city backed up by several military armored vehicles, and closed the…
Israeli soldiers arrested two residents from the West Bank city of Hebron; one of the residents is from Al Fawwar refugee camp, in Hebron, while the other is from Al…
A Palestinian police source in Gaza reported on Thursday that a group of gunmen fired live ammunition near the home of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. The source stated…
A Palestinian security reported, on Thursday, that four Palestinians, and one Israeli officer, were killed in the suicide bombing which was carried out at a military checkpoint, south of the…
An extremist settlers group attacked, on Wednesday at night and Thursday morning, dozens of homes in the West Bank city of Hebron, and pinched several chickens owned by the residents.…
Palestinian Minister of Economy Mazen Sinoqrot said today that the Palestinian Authority is seeking to attract foreign investments worth $7 billion. In a press conference in Ramallah, Sinoqrot announced the…
Israeli Prison Authorities barred visitations of detainees imprisoned in Gilboa’ and Shatta detention facilities, and informed the Red Cross of the decision without providing any further details. Families of dozens…
The International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC) in cooperation with Palestine News Network (PNN) held a workshop on Wednesday on the role of media in nonviolence in conflict areas. The…
An Israeli helicopter fired a missile, on Wednesday evening, at a group of residents in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, one resident was injured. One…
Israeli soldiers began shelling several targets in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening, and moved into these areas in order to implement the “buffer zone” after…
Palestinian resistance fighters fired, on Wednesday, one home made shell at the Israeli Nagave town of Sderot, Israeli sources reported. The shell landed in an open area causing no damage…
A Palestinian security source reported, on Wednesday afternoon, that unknown gunmen abducted three British Citizens as they crossed the Rafah Border Crossing into the Gaza strip. Palestinian Policemen spotted the…
In a joint press release, the Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, Salah El Deen brigades and Abu Al Reesh brigades, clamed responsibility for firing three homemade shells at Sofa crossing and…
Palestinian resistance fired, on Wednesday, three RBJ shells at a military post east of Beit Hanoun area in the Gaza strip. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of…
Israeli army arrested, on Wednesday, one resident from Allar village, near the West Bank city of Tulkarem, while attending a court hearing for his cousin at the Salem Israeli military…
Israeli Army units with invaded the village of Artas south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Troops broke into several homes in the village and searched them. Among the…
Israeli troops sealed off on Wednesday at dawn the Tubas- Tiaseer road near the West Bank city of Tubas. Soldiers closed the road and barred the vehicles from driving on…
The Israeli army invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the village of Rommana west of the West Bank city of Jenin, and arrested one resident. Mohamed Amro 24 , resident of…
Delegates of Peace Now leftist movement visited Modi’n Elite settlement, west of Ramallah, in order to report on the implementation of a project which will lead to the construction of…
In the first stage of its plans to create a northern Gaza buffer zone, which is claimed to keep Palestinians from firing Qassam home made shells into Israel, Israeli air…
The breakaway Fateh faction has formally announced, on Wednesday, that it would reunite with the Fateh elections list in the January 25 legislative elections, ending a dangerous split in the…
Dozens of masked Palestinian gunmen took over election offices in the Gaza town of Khan Younis, on Wednesday, in an attempt to prevent the ruling Fateh party from registering a…
The International Popular (nonviolent) Resistance Conference opened on Tuesday night under the auspices of the Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem with an attendance of 200 internationals from around the world…
Israeli war jets shelled several areas, on Wednesday shortly after midnight, in Al Nusseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza strip, and demanded the residents of the northern Gaza strip…
Israeli Labor Party chairman, Amir Peretz, slammed the policy of the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, regarding illegal settlement outposts, and said that the they damage Israel’s image internationally. Israeli…
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Freed Detainees, reported that 9200 Palestinian detainee are still detained in more than 28 Israeli prisons, detention facilities, and interrogation centers. The ministry released…
Mohammad Hijazi, one of the prominent leaders of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh, in the Gaza Strip, said that Fateh is passing through a real crisis,…
Hundreds of settler youth installed 14 illegal settlement outposts in several West Bank areas, on Tuesday, in what was described by the Israeli media as a campaign to show their…
The Ofer Israeli military court, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, sentenced on Monday evening, five detainees, from Hebron to high terms. Palestinenet news agency, reported that the…
Israeli soldiers leveled on Tuesday morning one morning, one home, in Al Aqaba neighborhood, in Beit Hanina area, north of Jerusalem. Resident Nabil Al Emwassi, the owner of…
This evening, the International Nonviolence Conference will open in Bethlehem under the auspices of the Holy Land Trust. The conference will continue over a three day period with the participation…
The Palestinian Independent Commission For Citizen’s Rights (PICCR )expressed its rejection to any illegal arrests against the Palestinian residents, and demanded the Palestinian Authority to releases all of the political…
A group of gunmen broke into and took over, on Tuesday morning, the governor’s office in northern Gaza, took positions inside the building, and demanded employment. Twenty-to-thirty gunmen, members of…