Israel to release few Jordanian prisoners
Israel intends to release some Jordanian prisoners ahead of Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom’s visit to Amman scheduled for the end of the month. Sources in Jerusalem said Saturday that…
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Israel intends to release some Jordanian prisoners ahead of Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom’s visit to Amman scheduled for the end of the month. Sources in Jerusalem said Saturday that…
Undercover border policemen suddenly popped up among anti-wall demonstrators in three occasions during last weeks daily protests in the village of Beit Surik in the Jerusalem region; a tactic aims…
April 2002 the Israeli army invaded Bethlehem and surrounded the Church of Nativity for 40 consecutive days, trapping dozens of resistance fighters at the Church. After extensive negotiations and intervention…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to meet with the U.S. President George W. Bush later in March, Palestinian official source said on Saturday. ‘The visit will take place in the…
While it is very encouraging to see the U.S.-led world recruited behind a just cause, calling an immediate, full and ‘unconditional’ pullout of Syrian troops and intelligence from Lebanon, the…
Friday afternoon, dozens of residents, internationals and Israeli peace activists suffocated after inhaling gas fired by the Israeli soldiers during a procession against the seperation wall, west of Dir Ballout, south…
Mohammad Dahlan, Palestinian Minister of civil affairs, responsible of the withdrawal file, said that the Palestinian Ministry of Planning has finalized the regional plan needed for the period following the Israeli…
With the U.S. administration throwing around the word 'terrorist' so loosely, using it to refer to virtually anyone who disagrees with their line, it is not surprising that the term…
Palestinian sources welcomed on Thursday the new changes in the diplomatic departments and Palestinian representatives, the new Palestinian foreign affairs Nasser Al Kidweh is planning to carry out. Changes in…
Wednesday afternoon, dozens of residents were injured in Beit Sorik, North West of Jerusalem after soldiers fired at anti-wall protesters. A local source in Beit Sorik reported that soldiers fired…
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon likely has shed more tears on late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat than any other world or regional leader. Suddenly, he lost the main element that…
In response to the resignation of 32 Fatah young leaders, the movement central committee member Hani Al-Hasan said Friday evening that their move aimed at creating a coalition ahead of…
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas urged Egypt, on Thursday, to help the P.A maintains truce with Israel, and asked Mubarak to personally oversee the adherence of the Palestinians and Israelis to…
The Israeli army announced on Wednesday that it intends to annex 10677 Dunams of Palestinian family farmlands in the villages of Al-Sammoua’, Yatta, and Al-Thaheriyya “near the southern West Bank…
A senior Israeli Military source stated that the army expects the Palestinian Authority to replace its senior level of the security service in the West Bank, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported…
Thursday at dawn, a car bomb and other explosive charges detonated near Israeli military jeeps operating in the northern West Bank city of Nablus and Balata refugee camp. The military…
The following is an interview with Brian Avery, an American ISM activist shot in the face by the Israeli Occupation Forces in Jenin in April, 2003. When he was shot,…
Translated & Edited by Saed Bannoura-IMEMC, February 24, 2005 The family of Mohammad Ali Abu Sgheera, from Tulkarem refugee camp appealed to humanitarian organizations to aid them in demanding the…
Leaders of Settlements Council in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip met on Tuesday evening with the Israeli Minister of Interior, and Police chiefs in Tel Aviv. The settlers…
Ala’ Sanaqra, one of the prominent leaders of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank, said that the “file†of the wanted resistance fighters and their fate should be…
The Islamic Jihad movement asserted, on Tuesday, that it did not decide yet to send a delegation of leaders local leaders to participate in the Palestinian factions meeting in Cairo.…
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem reported that Israeli military checkpoints, monitoring towers and concrete blockades are barring the residents from moving between their…
Palestinian sources reported that Palestinian Interior Minister Gen. Nasser Yousef met on Tuesday with the Aqsa Brigades leader in Jenin area, Zakaria Al-Zubeidi, during which they tackled the shooting incident…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Sana’ Dweik Harbawi, visited female detainees in Telmond detention who informed her about the daily violations they are subjected to. Harbawi said that the…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said during the London Meeting on supporting the Palestinian Authority, that security procedures adopted by the Palestinian Authority should be part of a broader political path…
Following the suicide attack in Tel Aviv, which took the lives of 5 Israelis, Israel’s government froze relations with the Palestinian Authority, halted both the process of transferring West Bank…
Monday afternoon, the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon slammed “the petitions filed against the seperation wallâ€Â, and the what he described as ‘the balance’ which the judges are using between…
The final statement to be issued at Tuesday’s London international conference will call for establishing a sovereign, independent, viable, democratic and territorially contiguous Palestine. The conference, called by British Prime…
Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful protesters in Tal Rmeida neighborhood in Hebron , after dozens of residents and international peace activists protested against a settlement road which soldiers intend to…
Israeli soldiers handed Jaba’ village council, north east of Jerusalem, military orders to annex 1000 Dunams of family farmlands in order to erect the seperation wall in the area. Abdul-Karim Bsharat, head…
Islamic Jihad Gaza leader Dr. Mohamed Hindi explained Monday that a local Islamic Jihad group carried out the Tel Aviv Friday bombing without coordination with the groups’ “inside†or “outside 
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blamed unnamed party for Tel Aviv bombing on Friday, and said that he will not tolerate any bombings adding that the Palestinians are ready to reach…
Sunday, the Israeli police reported in a press conference, that a Jewish company known as “Hemnota†forged documents of Palestinian land ownership and sold it to the Kerin Kayemit, “The…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged the heads of the Palestinian security forces in the West Bank to seek out and apprehend the perpetrators of Friday night’s attack in Tel Aviv.…
Two-and-a-half years after they were evicted by settlers, the Palestinian of the village of Gawish in the south-Hebron hills on Saturday returned to their homes. Gawish, which is close to…
Mandela Institute reported on Saturday that lawyer of the institute, Ma’moun Al-Hasheem, who visited two female detainees in Al-Ramlah detention, reported worrying information on prison conditions. The society reported that Al-Ramlah…
The WAFA news agency reported that Mohammad Abdul-Halim Basha, 16, from the northern West bank city of Qalqilia, died of wounds sustained January 26, 2005. The child was injured during…
Saturday evening, Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured a 14-year-old girl in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. The Israeli army claimed that the girl attempted to stab a…
Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a prominent leader of Hamas stated on Friday that the movement has decided to take part in the legislative elections slated for July of this year. ‘Hamas…
The Palestinian President’s Advisor for the National Security, Jibreel Al-Rajoub, arrived in Cairo Friday night, for talks with some Egyptian officials on developments on the Palestinian government after forming the…
In an official statment released saturday afternoon, Hezbollah denied any relation to Tel-Aviv bombing, saying that news on the party’ involvment are lies, and part of the ‘zionist’ incitment against…
The Israeli army imposed strict closure over the northern West Bank city of Nablus and the surrounding villages. The Israeli security claimed receiving intelligence information about intention of an armed…
Thousands of Hamas’ supporters demonstrated on Friday in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip., demanding an immediate release of all the Palestinian Prisoners from Israeli jails. Fathi Hammad,…
After Friday’s attack in Tel Aviv which killed 3 and injured 38 Israelis (according to Israeli police), the American media has been quick to repeat the Israeli claim that Palestinians…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged Friday night to track down and punish those responsible for Friday’s suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Abbas’s pledge followed an emergency meeting with PA top…
Kerin Kayemit (The Permanent Israeli Fund) has prepared a plan to expand Israeli settlements in the West Bank ; the plan includes building 6391 new flats and legalizing 120 illegal…
Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said that the new government needs to conduct “extensive…
The Israeli Peace Bloc, Gush Shalom, said that the Israeli government is planning more settlements in the West Bank, in violation to assurances given to the U.S. and to the Palestinian Authority. Gush Shalom revealed…
As the construction of the separation wall continues, residents of the Palestinian villages north of Jerusalem organized a meeting in the village of Bir Nabala on Thursday in which they…
A West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef expected Friday that the upcoming Cairo meeting between Palestinian factions will not result in a formal truce unless Israel meets Hamas demands,…
The filed candidacy of Fatah’s jailed leader Marwan Barghouthi for PA chairmanship against Fatah’s central committee decision to nominate PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas, and Hamas’s decision to boycott elections, turned…
Jamal Shobaki, local government minister and the head of the Higher Election Committee said on Thursday that the second stage of the local elections will be conducted on May 5,…
Israel submitted Wednesday its first official reaction to the International Court of Justice ruling in regard to the West bank separation wall, issued on July 2004, accusing that the ruling…
The new Palestinian cabinet took office on Thursday after it was sworn before the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in the northern West Bank city of Ramallah. The Palestinian Legislative Council…
The annexation wall which Israel started to erect in the summer of 2002 isolated, surrounded some Palestinian areas, nearly from all directions. The village of Azzoun Atma , south of Qalqilia is one…
The Palestinian detainees in Salem detention camp in the northern of the West Bank started an open hunger strike to protest the harsh living conditions in the detention. They informed…
This weekend marked the end of a 30-day ceasefire negotiated in late January by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with all of the Palestinian armed factions. Israeli officials had made such…
The stormy Tuesday’s Palestinian Legislative Council PLC session forced Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei to withdraw his newly formed cabinet, accept forming a technocrat cabinet “with a majority of new…
For the tenth time, prisoner Raed Qadiri, 35, received an extension to his administrative detention order. Qadiri, who already spent 45 months in Israeli detention centers, received Tuesday a 3…
Israeli High Court ordered Tuesday a freeze to the construction of the separation wall near the village of Safa, west of the West Bank city of Ramallah. The court decision…
The Palestinian security in Ramallah handed the army an Israeli resident after he entered Ramallah to search for an apartment; Israeli police says he might be suffering of mental disability.…
Last Monday, Israeli settler leader Pinhas Wallerstein said that the Yesha Council of the Israeli Settlements of the West Bank and the Gaza strip plans to carry out 100,000 demonstrators…
The acting Prime Minster Ahmad Qurei said after withdrawing his proposed cabinet that he intends to propose a government which includes “more reform-minded†ministers, and represents competent figures from a wide…
Tuesday at dawn, a Palestinian security source reported that unknown armed men assassinated a Palestinian security officer in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of the Gaza Strip. The source stated that…
Reuters claimed on Monday that the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas expressed willingness to give away the right of return of the Palestinian refugees to their original villages if a peace…
A Palestinian source reported on Monday that the Palestinian factions will hold negotiations and internal dialogue in the Egyptian capital Cairo , March 1 st . The source stated that…
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahamd Qurei told the Palestinian Legislative Council that security, reforms and preparation for the legislative and local elections are top priorities in the agenda of the news…
Ten Palestinians were wounded on Monday as Israeli soldiers used force to disperse several hundred protesters in the village of Bil’in near Ramallah. Several hundred Palestinian, Israeli and international peace…
Chief of the Israeli Public Security Service, Shin Bet, Avi Dichter warned Sunday that the modified route of the wall south of Jerusalem would lower security for travelers on Road…
Ayed Kamal, head of Madama village council, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus , said on Saturday that the village’s spring was deliberately contaminated and its water supply…
Palestinian Authority officials welcomed on Sunday the Israeli decision to pull out from the Gaza Strip, but warned that the move was insufficient. The officials described the Israeli government’s vote…
Detainees placed in solitary imprisonment in Al-Ramleh (Ayalon) detention demanded the Palestinian Leadership to place their case on the agenda and conduct extensive efforts to end the tragic situation they…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said after meeting with the first group of deportees which was allowed back in the west Bank, that all of the deportees will return home within…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated that the Palestinian Authority would ensure that the Gaza withdrawal takes place quietly – which Israel views as a concern. The Palestinians, Abbas said, would…
Palestinian parliamentarian sources hinted a crisis between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei to be behind the heated crisis in the Palestinian legislative council over the approval…
Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel on Monday morning reached five drop-off points in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, where they will undergo a final check by Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials.  …
Palestinian security official Mohammed Dahlan proposed Friday that the Palestinian Authority receive responsibility for the city of Tul Karm first, because of the dispute over the transfer of Jericho. Dahlan's…
Israeli police arrested Saturday night 5 settlers, including a minor, suspected of physically assaulting Palestinians and Israeli soldiers in the old city of Hebron. The five settlers, whom identity was…
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and ex–detainees Affairs said that the list of 500 detainees released by the Israeli prison authorities on its website includes only 4 female detainees, and…
Wajeeh Nazzal, 38, from the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia , was informed of renewing his administrative detention for additional six month, for the sixth time, in spite of…
Sa’eed Syam, a leader on Hamas in the Gaza Strip said on Friday during a protest in Gaza that Hamas will not consider a cease fire with Israel unless it…
Palestinian source revealed information that Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas is considering joining the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority institutions. The source said Hamas leaders are holding intensive consultation…
Translated by Saed Bannoura Ala’ Sanqra, one of the leaders of Al-Aqsa brigades, the military wing of Fatah, and the number one wanted resistance fighter said that the brigades have…
An Israeli military source reported that dozens of residents in Nablus and Hebron , and international peace activists complained on continued settlers attacks and harassments. {mosimage}The source stated that a resident…
Niveen Akram Kahleel, 25, from Kafr Aqeb in the West Bank, gave birth recently on a military checkpoint after soldiers stationed at Qalandia checkpoint, north of Jerusalem , refrained from…
Thursday afternoon, Israeli soldiers arrested two International peace activists and two residents during clashes which erupted after settlers and soldiers attempted to bar the residents and peace activists from reaching…
According to Israel Radio, Palestinian Authority security official Mohammed Dahlan said that the PA will ensure that Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is not carried out under fire, but…
The Israeli online daily Haaretz, reported that Israel and Palestinian officials reached an agreement allowing Palestinians aged 16 to 25 to leave the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing.…
Translated by Saed Bannoura-IMEMC, Ala’ Sanqra, one of the leaders of Al-Aqsa brigades, the military wing of Fatah, and the number one wanted resistance fighter said that the brigades have…
The Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners Affairs submitted a report on Wednesday to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) on the latest situation of the Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli jails. {mosimage}There are…
The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society said that the 500 detainees who are slated for release, have already served most of the terms, and that the list did…
Palestinian journalists organized on Wednesday a protest against the frequent assault against them by different groups. {mosimage}A number of representatives of different Palestinian factions and Human Rights activists joined the…
Hamas and the Islamic Jihad said on Wednesday that they will continue the dialogue among them until arriving a final decision on declaring a truce. {mosimage}Khader Habeeb, the media spokesman…
Israeli soldiers based at Tzofim checkpoint, east of Qalqilia, barred dozens of residents from reaching their family farmlands located behind the annexation wall, north of Qalqilia. {mosimage}Soldiers claimed that the…
The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas approved lately execution orders against a number of collaborators with the Israeli occupation; the collaborators were charged of murder and attempted murder of Palestinian fighters,…
The Jailed legislator and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi, said on Thursday that he will be free by the end of the year, and called Israel to release 5000 detainees. {mosimage}In…
A Palestinian official source reported that a new PA cabinet was approved on Wednesday in a meeting of Fatah Movement that lasted for three hours. More of the allies of…
Mortar shell were fired at an Israeli army outpost in the southern part of the Gaza Strip early Wednesday. Five more shells were fired at the Gaza Strip settlement of…
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei said Wednesday that he will present his new cabinet to the Palestinian Legislative Council on Tuesday. {mosimage}Qurei’s announcement followed the approval of the new cabinet…
Monday at night, an Israeli source reported that the Israeli High Court will review appeals submitted by Israelis against the release of Palestinian detainees; Israeli army announced that it postponed…