A wall that destroys life
Participants in the interfaith dialogue conference in Jerusalem concluded their Saturday conference with a protest march against the separation wall. At the end of their one day meeting, participants issued…
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Participants in the interfaith dialogue conference in Jerusalem concluded their Saturday conference with a protest march against the separation wall. At the end of their one day meeting, participants issued…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday that ‘we will not allow anyone to take the law into his own hands,’, criticizing PA security officials for failing to do their jobs. …
A group of Ramat Yishi settlers under army protection took over Saturday the home of Judah and Zaki Bakri, which is adjacent to the settlement fence. A local source in…
Israeli soldiers leveled on Friday six homes in Wad Rahhal, west of Bethlehem, and claimed that the homes were constructed without obtaining the needed permits. A local source in the…
The Palestinian security forces are being slammed for the way the Palestinian Authority handled the latest ‘riots’ in the West Bank city of Ramallah, which led to the resignation of…
Media and Information Center, reported that the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, published a report about military predictions of a new round of violence in August, 2005. “The higher command of…
Bir Zeit University Environment Health Center reported Friday that tests has revealed that the material settlers threw in quantities in Tiwani region near Hebron last week is toxic and dangerous,…
The Jerusalem District Court sentenced on Thursday, two Palestinian residents to seven life terms and additional 30 years. The Israeli prosecution charged that the two residents, identified as Ahmed Obeid,…
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Israeli troops opened fire at a crowded demonstration in Asseera Al-Shamaliyeh, near Nablus. The demonstration, organized by students of Al-Najah University, was a protest against the presence of a military…
“Our son is suffering of critical health conditions in detention, we appeal humanitarian organizations, local and international institutions, Arab members of Knesset and the free nations of this world to…
 The Israeli peace bloc “Gush Shalom†said that the Gush Katif Settlers, who are willing to evacuateâ€Â, are unable to do so since the Israeli government did not decide…
Israeli soldiers placed on Friday, 22 Palestinian detainees in Majeddo in solitary confinement. Prison administration in Majeddo claims that one detainee attempted to attack a soldier, and when soldiers tried to…
Informed Palestinian sources reported on Saturday that the Palestinian Authority is carrying out major changes on the Security forces device. Following the riots by some gunmen in Ramallah, who many…
Head of PA West Bank Intelligence service submitted Thursday his resignation to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, protesting ‘lack of action’ against security chaos in the West Bank and the Gaza…
A report released by the “International Solidarity for Human Rights†revealed that Israeli soldiers killed 86 Palestinian residents since the beginning of 2005. According to data collected by the ISHR,…
The Palestinian Authority said that it is preparing a campaign and an international case against the Separation wall in Jerusalem and the “security fences†in the Gaza Strip. The London…
Thursday at dawn, Israeli soldiers arrested four residents in the villages of Beit Ummar and Halhoul, north of Hebron, in the West Bank.  The Hebron office of the…
A group of settlers from Keryat Arab’ settlement, in the center of Hebron, attacked a farmer while he was planting his orchard and forced him out of his land. A…
AMNESTY International said in a report released on Thursday morning that the Palestinian women are suffering from violence carried out by the Israeli army and in their societies. The report…
A group of Palestinian burned down tents used as offices by the Palestinian Authority police force in the West Bank city of Tul-Karim early on Thursday. The angry crowd, mostly…
A Palestinian-American family from Detroit, original from the village of Beit Hanina in Jerusalem revealed that the Israeli authorities will seize lands of the family to build part of the…
The Palestinians Authority security forces handed Tuesday Israel army forces an explosive belt that PA security seized in a raid in the city of Beit Sahour near the West Bank…
The PA is considering cracking down on armed groups in the West bank cities of Ramallah and Tul-Karim after such groups has attacked PA bases, including the presidential compound in…
A group of armed settlers from Yitzhar attacked Tuesday night Palestinian shepherds near the village of Aqraba in the nablus region and stole four horses. Mohamed Mayadma, the owner of…
Israeli troops raided Wednesday morning the village of Asira Shamalyah north of Nablus, searched and vandalized several homes, local source reported. A local source said that several army jeeps, covered…
Prisoners’ media center reported Wednesday that a bullet, which was accidentally fired by an Israeli soldier during counting prisoners, passed a centimeter far from the head of a prisoner. The…
The Prisoners Media Center reported on Wednesday evening that an Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian detainee after counting the detainees, in Ofer detention, near Ramallah. The Center stated that…
Palestinians in Israel, West Bank organized several activities commemorating the 29th anniversary of the Land Day. In Bethlehem city, hundreds of Palestinians, and International Peace Activists marched towards the houses…
Soldiers fired Wednesday afternoon rubber coated metal bullets at around 300 demonstrators in the village of Surif, near the West Bank city of Hebron, wounding Three Palestinians. Protesters gathered in…
Children of Palestinian detainees live in deprivation, while their fathers or mothers live in detention away from their families, away from their beloved children and homes. The suffering of these…
Palestinian Foreign Minister Nasser Al-Qidwa, criticized the American position concerning settlement blocs in the West Bank, and welcomed its position rejecting settlement expansion. After his meeting with the Foreign Minister…
Wednesday morning, Israeli authorities started erecting a new section of the Separation Wall which extends for a distance of 43km, south of the West Bank. The Wall section extends between…
Residents of dozens of villages near Salfit are trapped behind concrete blocks closing the streets and blocking them from the rest of the Palestinian areas. Residents of Qarawa Bani Hassan,…
On Sunday, Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz said that Strela missiles “may†have been smuggled into Gaza Strip, calling the Palestinian Authority to find and collect them. On Tuesday, few…
Yehoda Glek, the previous spokesperson of the recruitment department in Israel, told the Israeli TV channel 2 after the Knesset voted down the public poll on disengagement, that “those who…
The fatal flaw in most analyses of the Israel-Palestine conflict is the assumption that if the Palestinians can just get a state of their own, then all will be fine.…
Islamic Jihad head Mohammed al-Hindi attended a Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee meeting Tuesday, marking the first time that an Islamic group has participated in a meeting of the PLO’s…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported on Tuesday that detainees in “Gilboa-Shatta†detention are suffering of skin diseases which spread among the detainee. Lawyer of the society, Raed Mahameed reported that…
The Israeli Online daily Yedioth Ahronoth revealed on Wednesday that right-wing MK Effie Eitam suggested to disarm settlers before implementing the Gaza pullout. Eitam well knows for his apposition to…
Major General Mousa Arafat, head of the General Security at the P.A, slammed the Israeli claims that the P.A is violating the truce and agreements arrived with Israel. General Arafat…
The Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei criticized the ‘conflicting’ American positions on the settlements Israel is building and expanding in the West Bank. ‘We have heard two conflicting positions by…
Israeli police has arrested 3 Israelis, including a soldier, on suspicions of attempting to sell weapons to right wing activists to be used in hostile operations with the aim of…
‘Sharon has ruined chances of bringing the disengagement plan to the people for a decision and thus prevent a violent confrontation and a civil war,’ the Yesha settlers’ Council said…
Palestinian sources said Monday evening that one Palestinian was seriously injured, two mildly, in a car blast in the center of Gaza city. Apparently the blast targeted the car…
Abdul-Rahim Mallouh, deputy secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), member of the PLO executive committee, said that the Israeli announcement to withdraw from the…
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called Israel to reciprocate declaration of calm announced by the Palestinian factions following the Cairo talks last week. ‘We have agreed to declare…
Prominent Hamas West Bank leader Sheikh Hassan Yousif said Monday that the existing calm period is impossible to maintain if Israel continues to imprison 8,000 Palestinians, to expand settlements and…
35 settler families from the Nissanit settlement in the Gaza Strip signed an agreement with the Israeli Disengagement Department, in order to move to Karmia area behind the Green Line,…
A Palestinian prominent source said that the Palestinian leadership has decided to reduce coordination with Israel concerning the Gaza withdrawal, and limit the meetings on withdrawal from the West Bank…
Israeli army barred the Arab residents of Israel from entering the West Bank Road Nr. 557, which extends from Taibeh to Avnie Hefetz and Einav settlements, north of the West…
Israeli housing ministry has ordered around 600 familes, who recently moved into Gaza Strip settlements to protest the disengagement plan, to leave the Palestinian strip. In recent weeks a total…
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas remarked on Sunday, that Fatah, is preparing to hold primaries to choose its candidates for the upcoming general elections next July. The Palestinian National Liberation…
The National Office for Land Defense revealed that Israel annexed during the months of February and March 93132.5 Dunams, and approved constructing 10291 homes for settlers in the West Bank.…
A Palestinian resident of the village of Salem, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, said that Israeli soldiers occupied his home on Friday and are using it as…
Monday morning, an Islamic Jihad leader said that the Palestinian Liberation Organization, PLO, is considering allowing Hamas and the Jihad join it for the first time. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas…
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, demanded Israel to announce a truce and to halt all settlement activities. “We agreed to the cease fire, and we demand Israel to calm the situation…
Sunday, Israeli soldiers handed on dozens of residents of Nahhalin, west of Bethlehem, military orders to evacuate from their lands within 45 days. The Popular Committee Against the Wall reported…
At least three residents were injured on Sunday morning, one arrested after soldiers invaded several neighborhoods in the old city of Hebron. A medical source at Hebron Governmental Hospital reported…
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Sunday that Palestinian Authority military intelligence agents were involved in recent attempts to smuggle anti-aircraft missiles into Gaza. Mofaz told Israeli cabinet members at…
Rashid Sbeih, a resident of Aqraba east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus stated that the residents are suffering of continuous attacks carried out settlers groups from a…
A recent well researched study on Fatah- the main and largest Palestinian faction within the PLO- published by the Jerusalem Institute for Peace Studies, showed that the movement is witnessing…
It is all well and good for Palestinian factions to meet, talk things over and agree on a united stand. The need for calm on the frontline is all too…
It all started as a nuisance in 1993. Twelve years later, this nuisance is becoming a major catastrophe for the over 200,000 Palestinians of East Jerusalem, following the abduction by…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Friday that all Israeli settlement built on Palestinian territories occupied during the 1967 war are illegal. ‘We have accepted to establish our state within the…
Local sources in Dier Balout village, south of the West Bank city of Qalqilyah, reported that 14 Palestinians and an Israeli peace activist were wounded to various degrees on Friday…
Israeli settlers attacked Friday with wooden sticks Rahmah Howari, 50, while standing near her home in the village of Einyabous south of the West Bank city of Nablus. Howari, who…
More than 20,000 Hamas supporters attended a Friday rally in the soccer stadium of the West Bank city of Nablus to commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of Hamas spiritual…
Settlers from Yitzhar attacked once again in 48 hours the village of Asira al-Kabaliya. a group of armed settlers broke into the village on Saturday night opened fire at homes…
A local source in Dir Ballout, near Salfit, reported that at least 14 residents were injured during clashes which erupted after Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful protest against the Separation…
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Friday afternoon, Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Bodrus, west of the northern West Bank city of Ramallah and injured five residents, including two children. A medical source in Bodrus…
The Israeli civil administration in the northern West Bank area revealed plans to expropriate some 224 Dunams, (60 acres) in the village of Kufur Thulth and many other villages east…
When all Israelis feel the radical change in the security situation since Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas took power, the government of Israel stepped up criticisms against him, accusing the new…
A Palestinian security source in Bethlehem stated that the Palestinian Security arrested three resistance fighters of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah. The source reported that the three…
Minister of Detainees at the Palestinian Authority Sufian Abu Zaida, said that there are currently 360 child detainees in Israeli prisons and detention camps; at least half of them are…
A Palestinian medical source in Hebron reported that a settler woman of the illegal outpost of ‘Ramat Yeshai’ in Hebron attacked and stoned a 9-year-old child, while the soldiers, present…
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas remarked that all Palestinian factions are still committed to the agreements they reached in Cairo last week of maintaining calm until the end of the…
Shnider children hospital demands the family of Batoul Tibi, who sustained serious wounds on April 17, 2004, when soldiers ‘mistakenly’ opened fire as she was coming back from school, to…
Palestinian officials are to discuss settlements file with the American envoys Elliot Abrams, assistant Secretary of State, and David Welch, responsible of the Middle-East file at the US Foreign Ministry.…
Archimandrite Atallah Hanna, spokesperson of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem stated on Wednesday that he does not pay a lot of attention to the death threats he has been receiving…
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei said that there can be no solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict without Jerusalem, and added that settlements and the separation Wall and buying lands which…
Thursday afternoon, Israeli soldiers attacked a protest against the Wall in the village of Safa, south west of Ramallah. A local source in the village reported that soldiers fired gas…
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei said that there can be no solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict without Jerusalem, and added that settlements and the separation Wall and buying lands which…
A Palestinian non-violent protester, Mansour Mansour from the village of Budrus northwest of Jerusalem and another German activist were badly beaten and at least 15 Israeli activists have been arrested…
Palestinian factions demanded the Arab leaders meeting in Algeria not to normalize relations with Israel , and to have the issue of Jerusalem as a top priority of the conference.…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society revealed that the Israeli Authorities has decided to open a new section in Ansar 3 detention camp in the Negev desert, to accomodate additional 1200 detainees. The…
Israeli soldiers placed barbed wires and iron gates surrounding 16 families, south of Wadi Al-Salqa village, near the Kissufim settlement road, in the central Gaza Strip. A local source in…
At least 5000 members and supporters of Hamas participated on Monday in a ceremony commemorating Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, the wheelchair bound spiritual leader of Hamas, who was assassinated by the…
Thursday at dawn, Israeli soldiers, supported by dozens of military vehicles and jeeps the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia , and broke into dozens of homes. A local source…
Wednesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded the old city of Nablus and Balata refugee camp and broke into dozens of homes. An Israeli military source claimed that a number of…
Israeli Police detained Tuesday evening 66 settlers at the Glilot junction north of Tel Aviv. Police believes were in way to block traffic in an unauthorized protest against the disengagement…
Israeli Soldiers, who used force to disperse a peaceful anti-wall protest, fully burned a Palestinian home in the village of Belein, west of the city of Ramallah. Home owner, Marzoq…
Palestinian medical source warned Tuesday that Israel uses radiant glass rooms to inspect Palestinian passengers at border crossings. Dr. Juma’ Saqa, the head of emergency section at Shifa medical center…
Tuesday morning, residents of the southern Mount Hebron area reported that Jewish settlers attempted to poison flocks of sheep owned by local shepherds. The settlers reportedly dispersed contaminated seed over…
Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded Dahiat Al-Barid, north of Jerusalem and started marking the lands to erect the separation wall in the area. Resident Hamdi, Al-Masrawi, said that the news…
Half of the Palestinian Society is composed of women, while the world and the Palestinians celebrate the Mothers Day; Palestinian women are suffering of imprisonment, death and refuge in their…
A poll conducted by the Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies An-Najah University in Nablus during the period from March 16 to 19, 2005 revealed that 70.2% of the…
Palestinian Interior Minister Nasser Yousif placed Monday restrictions on possessing weapon and publicly displaying them. The move was welcomed by Israel. A Palestinian security official, speaking on condition of anonymity,…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society revealed on Monday that a child detainee from Jenin was severely tortured causing sever bleeding, while prison administration refuses to provide him with the needed medical…