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Member of the PLO executive committee Yasser Abed Rabbo warned that Israel seeks to obstruct the Palestinian legislative elections slated for July 17. The statements of Abed-Rabbu came during his…
Israel has halted the construction of the wall around the settlement of Ariel in the northern West Bank, following injunctions issued by the High Court of Justice, in response to…
In addition to raising the risk of new tension with the United States an Israeli government decision to issue tenders seeking bids for construction of 50 new houses in the…
Members of the Aqsa Martyr Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah invaded on Sunday the Palestinian Legislative Council office in Jenin and demanded the members to resign in protest to…
As the local government elections in Bethlehem area nears, the final number of candidates reached 413 competing on 118 seats, among which 67 women. Firas Yaghi, director bureau of the…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society Karim Hammouda, visited several detainees in Ofer military detention and reported that infectious skin diseases are spreading in sections 7 and 9. Prison administration…
The northern Gaza Strip settlements – Alei Sinai, Dugit and Nisanit – will be the first to be evacuated in the first week of the implementation of the disengagement plan,…
Israeli soldiers and police on Sunday night removed three unauthorized outposts put by settlers near Hebron earlier in the evening. Two outposts were set up near the settlement of Kiryat…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society revealed that Israeli arrested in 2004, 63 females, from several Palestinian areas, among them wives of detainees and residents who were killed by the army. Also,…
Israeli soldiers invaded on Sunday several areas and villages near the northern West bank city of Tulkarem, and arrested two brothers in Baqa Al-Sharqiyya. A local source in Tulkarem stated…
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who is paying a visit to Egypt, said Sunday he is ready to coordinate fully with Israel in the implementation of the disengagement plan. Abbas…
Seven Jordainian prisoners will be released on Thursday, an Israeli prison authority offical said, but failed to expalin why only seven out of the 9 approved by the cabinet will…
A group of unknown gunmen opened Saturday fire at a building in the West bank city of Nablus, where two Palestinian Authority ministers held a press conference to explain the…
Palestinian Housing Minister Mohammed Shteiah expressed Saturday hopes that Israel demolish settlers’ homes and clean the resulting rubble, to help the PA replace them with high rise buildings as a…
‘We have no intentions or desire to delay these elections,’ Abbas told reporters at his Ramallah headquarters, dismissing reports over a planned delay of Palestinian legislative elections slated for July…
Israeli Prime Minister Advisor Dov Weissglas is scheduled Sunday to meet Palestinian Authority official Saeb Erikat, marking a resumption of security talks. Two months ago, at the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit,…
Leaders of the Gaza Strip Gush Katif settlers Saturday canceled a meeting scheduled for Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The move indicates strong differences around the proposed entire…
Palestinian official sources announced on Saturday that the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, will visit the United States for meetings with the U.S. president George W. Bush in early May. Abbas…
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian, PFLP, and the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, rejected calls of the Palestinian Authorities to disarm. The two movements said that the weapons…
Israeli soldiers conducted extensive searches in the village of Doura, near Hebron, and several surrounding villages after closing the area. A local source in Doura reported that soldiers, and under-covered…
According to data collect by the Department of Planning and Census at the Ministry of Detainees and Liberated, 177 Palestinian detainees died in Israeli prisons since 1967, 69 of them…
Palestinian lawmakers said Saturday that parliament will delay for at least several days a planned vote on an election law. The election law is seen crucial to holding the July…
Download Headline in MP3: http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/headline041605.mp3 As Caterpillar refused to reconsider selling D9 bulldozers to Israel, 8 more Palestinians were wounded while attempting to block Caterpillar bulldozers from uprooting their trees. …
Local sources reported Friday that Israeli military authorities informed Aboud’s village council that a decision was made to expropriate 6000 dunams of the village farmland, which represents one third of…
Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayad met Friday U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to discuss international aid needed to overcome economical hardships in the Palestinian territories. The meeting focused on…
The Islamic Jihad has decided to boycott the upcoming Palestinian legislative elections, a senior leader of the resistance group said on Friday. Even so, Islamic Jihad would also not call…
Sami Abu Zuhri, Hamas media spokesperson, warned that the truce is about to collapse as a result of the Israeli rejection to respond to the Palestinian demands, especially concerning the…
The Israeli army decided on Friday evening to grab 6000 Dunams which belongs to residents of Aboud, west of Ramallah. An Israeli military source reported that the lands will be…
Israeli soldiers attacked on Friday afternoon a peaceful protest against the Separation wall in Bal’in, west of Ramallah; five residents were injured and two international peace activists arrested. A local…
April 8 – 14, 2005 This Week in Palestine – a service of the International Middle East Media Center, IMEMC.org, for the week of Friday, April 8th to Thursday, April…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society said that 8000 Palestinians detainees in all Israeli prisons and detention camps, decided to conduct hunger strike on Sunday, April 17, commemorating the Palestinian Prisoners Day. The Society…
Khaleel Al-Tafakjy, a Palestinian expert in estates, said that the World Bank estimated settlers’ estates in Gaza Strip settlements by 500 million US Dollars. This estimation was made after evaluating…
Palestinian lawyers and detainees revealed that the Israeli Prison Authorities used the media to deceive the detainees and grab confessions from them. An interrogation teams which belongs to the…
A Palestinian official source said on Friday that an Israeli soldier who entered Jenin was captured and handed over to the Israeli army. Israel Radio reported that the soldier entered…
Local informed sources in the West Bank city of Bethlehem reported that the Israeli troops and special units’ officers wearing civilian outfits backed with at least ten military vehicles invaded…
Hundreds of Palestinians gathered at the Church of the Nativity square when the start of the Marathon for peace was announced on Thursday Morning. The Marathon ended at the Franciscan…
the Holy Land Trust organization and Panorama center organized a two-day conference in Ramallah on the strategies of the civil based nonviolent resistance against the Israeli occupation in Palestine. The…
A settler family from the Gush Katif settlement Bloc received compensation from the Israeli government in accordance with the disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip; the family is considered the…
Despite the United States objections to the settlement expansion, Israeli authorities continue the construction in Ma’ale Adumim settlement east of Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses reported seeing Israeli vehicles building new roads around…
The ruling Fatah movement is seriously considering a move to delay Palestinian legislative elections, which is scheduled for mid-July, over fears of a solid defeat at the hands of the…
A group of armed settlers attacked on Thursday evening dozens of residents on a bypass road east of Hebron, one resident was injured, several cars damaged. A local source In…
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas unified the P.A security devices into three apparatuses in an attempt to control chaos and implement reforms in these devices. P.A security devices will now…
For the second time in less that three weeks, settlers poisoned on Thursday, large areas of grazing land near Yasuf and Iskaka, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.…
Settlers of Ramat Yeshai illegal outpost in Tel Rmeida neighborhood, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, attacked a Palestinian man and six children, marking a new wave of…
Israeli soldiers detained eight residents, including elderly, after invading the village of Shoufa, south east of Tulkarem, and conducted military searches. A local source Shoufa reported that soldiers, supported by…
The ‘Jerusalem and Return’ coalition that joined Fatah with the Palestinian People’s Party (former communist) won 16 of the 31 student senate seats in Bethlehem University marking a clean victory…
Palestinian sources reported that special units of the Israeli army assassinated an Aqsa Martyr Brigades operative on Thursday afternoon in Balata Refugee Camp, near the West Bank city of Nablus.…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that Dr. Majeda Fidda was transferred on Wednesday to administrative detention for a period which is not fixed yet. The society reported that the Israeli…
Family of detainee Fadil Odeh Shahin, 44, from Gaza, appealed international and local human rights organizations to help them and campaign for his release, since he is suffering from critical…
The National Information Center released a report of Thursday about the Israeli violations in the occupied territories; the report revealed that soldiers killed four residents and injured 29 during the…
Mahmoud Al-Zahar, a prominent leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip said the Israeli withdrawal from the strip will be a ‘victory for the fighters,’ media sources reported on Thursday.…
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas warned Palestinians and institutions from buying real estate from private of public Israeli owners in areas slated for evacuation. On Wednesday, Abbas held a meeting in…
A group of ‘pragmatic’ settlers from Gush Katif, acting as an ‘alternative leadership,’ are pushing for a deal that allows a quite pullout in exchange to moving en bloc to…
There’s a popular Palestinian folk song called ‘Wein a Ramallah’ – we are going to Ramallah. It’s largely a nostalgic tune cherished by the Palestinian diaspora and sung at festivals…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday rebuffed Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s accusations made during U.S. talks, blaming Palestinians for stalled peace moves. Sharon told U.S. President George W. Bush at…
Palestinian and Israeli mayors gathered in the West Bank city of Jericho on Wednesday to show support for the cease-fire and call parties back to the negotiating table. 20 Israeli…
Five kids were injured in clashes with the Israeli soldiers in the village of Surif northwest of Hebron on Wednesday afternoon. Arafat Al-Hidmi, 14, was shot in the leg and…
100 days away from the starting day for implementing the disengagement plan, there is no coordination between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, PA source. The Palestinian ministerial committee for…
Israeli soldiers, On Wedensday used force to disperse an anti-wall, anti-caterpillar peaceful protest in the village of Beilin near the West bank city of Ramallah. According to local sources, soldiers…
Settlers bulldozed on Wednesday afternoon, several orchards which belongs to residents of Kafer Qaddoum, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. A source at Qaddoum village council, reported…
Israeli soldiers arrested on Wednesday three residents in Qalqilia, after invading it and conducting military searches in dozens of homes and orchards, south of the city. A local source in…
 Israeli foreign minister Silvan Shalom surprised his Egyptian counter part as he called on Egypt to help Israel carryout its “regional road map.†which aims at normalizing relations and…
For the fifth day, Palestinian resistance fired homemade shells at the Gush Katif settlement Bloc in the Gaza Strip. Resistance groups said that the firing of the shells came after…
Gaza settlers have begun preparations for building camps in Gush Katif to accommodate tens of thousands of people who are expected to come to help them resist the evacuation. Settlers…
Three Palestinians were arrested in the northern West Bank city of Nablus as the Israeli army resumes its invasion in the city, and the surrounding villages and refugee camps for…
After the Bush-Sharon summit, and 100 days prior to the implementation of the unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip, Palestinians feel pushed to the corner. Dr. Sae’b Ereikat, former chief of…
In a strong coming back, Fatah won Tuesday more seats than Hamas in the students’ council elections at Bir Zeit University, ending ten years of Islamic movement monopoly over one…
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was quoted Wednesday as saying that Israel would be ready to reconsider destroying settlers’ homes if the pullout is coordinated with the Palestinian Authority. ‘The…
Israeli soldiers arrested on Tuesday a child near Huwwara military checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and claimed that he attempted to detonate a pipe bomb. The…
A report released by Jerusalem Center for Social and economic rights revealed that the Israeli government is planning to erect a chain of small Jewish neighborhoods in the east of…
More than 200 Palestinian resistance operatives have pledged not to carry out acts of violence, considered an important step towards solving the problem of “wanted†Palestinians, a Palestinian official said…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Hussein Al-Sheikh, said that several detainees imprisoned in Maali Adumim detention complained that they were tortured and wiped with wires during interrogation. Detainee Abdullah…
The Islamic Resistance movement warned Monday that the “calm†period could collapse due to Israeli violations and PA lack of seriousness in implementing internal reforms approved in the factions’ talks…
Israeli Prime minister Ariel Sharon advised U.S. president George Bush to start planning for the post-Abbas era, saying the Palestinian leader is on the verge of collapsing, and is losing…
The Palestinian Environment Authority claims there are dumping sites for toxic wastes, in some of the Gaza Strip settlements Israel is planning to evacuate within disengagement plan, Palestinian sources reported…
Administrative detainees, held in the Negev detention camp, appealed the International Community, humanitarian organizations and the Red Cross to pressure Israel in order to end the administrative detention files and…
Palestinians expressed dissatisfaction with statements made by the United States President George W. Bush supporting Israel on keeping control over the Settlements built on the West Bank land. Hassan Abu…
Translated by Saed Bannoura “They arrested my three sons, and leveled our home, but we will remain steadfast in our land, the occupation is punishing us for defending out land,…
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and U.S. President George Bush could have instead exchanged letters listing their agreement and differences. Unless Sharon badly wanted to taste the famous Texan steaks,…
The Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, demanded the U.S. President George W. Bush to press the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who is visiting the U.S. now, to immediately stop…
Few hundreds Palestinian protesters from the Nablus region, supported by Israeli and International peace activists blocked Monday the way of garbage trucks coming from the center of Israel to dump…
The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, issued an order barring P.A security heads in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip from holding talks with foreign parties, unless talks are conducted…
The Israeli army reported that soldiers arrested a Fatah member on Sunday for suspected ties with Hezbollah party and planning an attack in Israel on behalf of Hezbollah. The source…
A Palestinian military source in Nablus said that Israeli soldiers shot and injured eleven residents in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and arrested fifteen other residents. A local…
Head of the Israeli ‘Civil Administration Department’ in Qalqilia area, informed dozens of residents of Jayyous, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, that the army intends to grab…
Palestinian Minister of security affairs, Mohammad Dahlan, said that the P.A is seeking to implement development, consultant and service projects in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli withdrawal. Dahlan added…
Thousands of Palestinians took the streets of the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah and took part in the funeral of the three Palestinian children, who were killed by army…
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday night to request an immediate move to crack down on the armed groups in Gaza. According to Mofaza,…
As a decent person, I am supposed to feel compassion for the Gush Katif settlers. To embrace them. To shed a tear for their plight. And indeed, there are grounds…
On Saturday afternoon, Israeli soldiers stationed near the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah opened fire at a group of Palestinian children playing soccer at an open field, killing three…
The planning-construction process of the Har Homa settlement north of the West bank city of Bethlehem, took place over an extended period following the signing of the Oslo accords between…
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah claimed responsibility for detonating an explosive charge near a military jeep near Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem. The Israeli army confirmed…
Israeli soldiers fired on Saturday afternoon at a group of children playing at a playground near Salah Ed-Deen Crossing “Philadiphi Route†in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli…
Israeli soldiers broke on Saturday into a kindergarten which belongs to the Red Crescent Society in Hebron. Sameeha Al-Nather, headmaster of the kindergarten stated that soldiers into the building, and…
Dozens of settlers’ families moved recently into settlements and settlement outposts in Hebron, south of the West Bank. The WAFA news Agency reported that dozens of settlers came to the…
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday that settlement activities conducted by the Israeli government in the Palestinian territories are illegal. The statements of Abbas were made as the…
Prison administration in Gilboa detention barred a youth from visiting his brother as he came along with his father to visit him. The father, Yousef J’eidi, said that after he…
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army issued written land confiscation memos to some residents of the city of Beit Jala and the villages of Al-Walajeh and Al-Khader. Adnan Al-Atrash,…
Israeli Prime minister Ariel Sharon toured Friday Nitsanim area, which settlers of Gush Katif proposed to move to in their entirety. Sharon demanded that work starts immediately to build a…
A collection of testemonies by survivors of the massacre Mr. Fahimi Zeidan, 12,:’The Jews ordered all our family to line up against the wall and they started shooting us. I was…