Category: Palestine

Not even for a moment did Engineer Wasfi Izzat Qabha, forget the pain of his fellow detainees who remained in Israeli detentions and prisons, after he was released. Wasfi spent…

The Jerusalem Municipality Plans to Demolish 88 Houses in Silwan, East Jerusalem The Municipality of Jerusalem intends to demolish an entire East Jerusalem neighborhood — 88 homes housing 1000 residents…

A senior Israeli army officer has warned against underestimating the force of resistance expected to be offered by settlers during the upcoming Gaza Strip and West Bank pullout, according to…

About half the farmers in the Gaza Strip Gush Katif settlement have reached tentative agreements with the Israeli government Disengagement Administration (Sela) to receive alternative agricultural lands inside Israel. 60…

The International Solidarity for Human Rights prepared and published a report which documents the Israeli military violations in the occupied territories, and the internal Palestinian situation. The report revealed that…

Dozens of residents, international and Israeli peace activists protested against the Separation Wall, and around Ariel settlement, in the West Bank city of Salfit. The Popular Committee Against the Wall,…

Palestinian media sources reported that the members of the Palestinian Military Intelligence demonstrated against the Palestinian Authority’s decision to dismantle this unit, and merge it with the National Security Forces.…

Military bulldozers started expanding settlements surrounding several villagers, east of the northern west Bank city of Nablus, bulldozed farmlands near Alon Moreh settlement and a hill, 1km away from the…

Only a few hours before the Israeli army announced the release of 85 Palestinian detainees from Hebron area, soldiers arrested at least 15 residents after invading Ithna, al-Thaheriyya, and al-Fawwar refugee…

{mosimage}In one of the alleys of the old city of Jerusalem, I saw several Palestinian children running and chasing each other, while one child carrying a plastic rifle, was following…

The Islamic Jihad movement denied Israeli reports of foiling a double suicide bombing in Jerusalem after arresting two Islamic Jihad activists. “The movement is committed to the truce” an Islamic…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas underwent on Wednesday a heart procedure in an Amman hospital in Jordan, and he is recovering well, a senior Palestinian official said on Thursday morning. Tayyeb…

The “special committee” of the Israeli Disengagement Administration decided on Wednesday that settler families who will be evacuated from the northern West Bank settlements and choose to move to Afula…

The Israeli High Court rejected an appealed filed by “the Legal Center for Terror researches” against the release of 398 Palestinian detainees. The center claims that the detainees did not…

Palestinian and Israeli sources reported on Wednesday evening that the summit between the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, and the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will be held June 21. The…

Settlers of Neveh Dekalim, in the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip turned a hotel into a "Central Command for Anti-Disengagement activists," Israeli sources reported on Wednesday. A…

Wednesday at noon, four residents were injured in Beit Sorik, north west of Jerusalem during clashes which erupted after the military bulldozers uprooted farmlands in order to construct the Separation…

Chair of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, Issa Qaraqi that the list of prisoners slated for release announced by Israelis government is unilateral and does not have any political dimension. The…

Wednesday morning, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a resident in the northern west Bank city of Qalqilia.The WAFA news agency reported that soldiers fired at a resident near al-Taiba check…

According to Human Rights Organizations, Red Cross, and Israeli jail authority reports, around 28,000 Palestinians were detained since September 2000, around 7500 of them are still held behind bars. On…

The Palestinian local elections committee decided Tuesday to put of the revote of some Palestinian local elections set for Wednesday until further notice. The committee decision followed a request made…

The Israeli authorities started to implement a plan which aims to evacuate an Arabic neighborhood, east of Jerusalem, as part of a wider plan which aims to transfer thousands of…

Tuesday afternoon, settlers of the Ramat Yeshai illegal settlement outpost in the center of Hebron, attacked dozens of residents and homes in the city. Raja’ Abu Aisha, a resident of…

Tuesday afternoon, Israeli soldiers invaded the villages of Doura, Bani Neim, and Yatta, near the West Bank city of Hebron, and conducted military searches. Yousef al-Masry, a resident of Doura…

Israeli authorities released the British peace activist who was arrested in Bilin protest earlier this morning after questioning her, IMEMC correspondent reported. Esther Cohen said, she was released from the…

Monday afternoon, Israeli soldiers bulldozed the main entrance of al-Nu’man village, east of Bethlehem in order to construct the Separation Wall section which will surround the village from all directions.…

An Israeli source reported on Tuesday that settlers of Ghanim and Kadim settlements, north of the West Bank, are interested in moving to Wadi A’ara area, north of the country.…

Hamas will motivate its voters to participate in local election re-votes in four districts in the Palestinian territories, despite the group’s official boycott, sources close to the group said Tuesday.…

Download MP3 (25.8 MB – 28:10 min)As the Israeli military occupation of Palestine drags on amidst promises of ‘disengagement’, women in Palestine and around the world are bearing witness to…

Palestinian Authority security forces in the Gaza Strip on Monday evening discovered a tunnel dug under the Gaza Strip settlement of Gush Katif, Palestinian and Israeli sources reported. In the…

Israel will free 400 Palestinian prisoners on Thursday, an Israeli defense ministry source said. The release will be carried out in cooperation between the defense ministry and the Israel Prison…

The good is when the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships share common interests to put an end to violence and conflict. It is when they seriously seek a fair and just…

Spokesman of Hamas in the Gaza Strip Sami Abu Zuhri said his movement still did not decide whether it will participate in the local elections repeat in some polling stations…

Palestinian sources reported that the recently elected Mayor of Qalqilia Wajeeh Qawwas is among the 400 prisoners slated to be released from Israeli jails.According to the Sharm A-Sheikh summit in…

Abdul Fattah Hamayel, Palestinian chair of the committee of the Deportees and Wanted affairs said the joint Israeli-Palestinian committee is scheduled to meet Monday afternoon. Hamayel said, the Palestinians invested…

Palestinian and Israeli commentators are still busy analyzing every single word that U.S. President George Bush spelled out during his press conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Washington last…

The Palestinian National Information Center reported that the Israeli army killed since the beginning of the Intifada in September 29, 2000, 4032 residents, and injured 44666, excluding 8435 residents who…

Palestinian Foreign Minister Nasser Al-Kidwa said that the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza does not mark the end of the occupation, and that it is only a small part of the…

On Sunday at night a masked gunman shot dead reporter Samir Rantisi, an aid of former Palestinian information minister Yasser Abed Rabo, a leading figure in the Geneva initiative. Rantisi…

The ‘Ofer’ Israeli military court, near Ramallah, sentenced on Sunday three children of al-Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron to consecutive terms, and imposed high fines on them. The Hebron…

Sunday evening, the Israeli police reported that some 18 anti-disengagement protestors blocked traffic between Raanana and Mosrasha junction, known as the old Tel Aviv – Haifa road, and lay down…

Download MP3 (9.60 MB) | Listen to Real Audio  (10:32 min) This week in Palestine –a service of the International Middle East Media Center IMEMC.Org, for the week of Friday, May…

In an interview with ABC news, the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said, "We have started to deal with the culture of violence, we stopped the culture of violence and the…

The Israel Air Force fired missiles at the Jabaliya refugee camp early Monday, wounding a man and two women. Army said the missile targeted a group of armed Palestinians preparing…

Sunday afternoon, a Palestinian security source reported that two residents were killed in an explosion east of Gaza, and another resident was killed in a seperate explosion in Khan Younis, south…

Detainee Murad abu Sakout, appealed humanitarian organizations and the P.A ministry of detainees, to interfere for his release, after his health condition critically deteriorated in Israeli detention. Abu Sakout, from…

Israeli soldiers opened fire and killed Sunday a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Hebron, saying he was holding a knife and running from a distance towards soldiers in…

Palestinian local sources in Arraba village identified the Palestinian killed near the village to be Mohammed Mustafa Amin Al-Haj, dismissing the army report that he was killed in an exchange…

The Israeli cabinet approved Sunday the release of 400 Palestinian, representing the second dispatch of the 900 prisoners Israel promised to release during the February Sharm’s summit. Only three of…

The Palestinian National Authority began a process of recruiting additional 5000 Palestinian policemen to ensure a smooth Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. According to the Israeli online daily, Haaretz,…

Saturday morning, an extremist settlers group attacked dozens of residents and homes in the West Bank city of Hebron, moderately injuring a child near the Ibrahimi mosque. A medical source…

Female detainees in Telmond detention for women revealed horrific stories of continuous abuse and daily humiliations conducted against them by Israeli soldiers. {mosimage}“Telmond became worse than the American prison of…

Hamas and the Fatah ruling party have finally ended their dispute over the results of the local elections held on May 5. The dispute was resolved through the mediation of…

Iz Ed-Deen al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas reported that one of its fighters died near Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The brigades stated…

Residents of the Palestinian village of Bil’in organized an anti-wall demonstration on Friday. After the noon prayer at the village mosque, at least 300 of the villagers marched at the…

On Friday, Hamas leaders pledged for the first time that their resistance fighters will not attack withdrawing Israeli troops during the planned evacuation of the Gaza Strip. "There is no…

Friday afternoon, a group of extremist Israeli settlers, apparently celebrating a Jewish feast day, attacked dozens of Palestinian residents and homes in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and…

Video footage broadcast Friday on Israeli TV showed soldiers breaking into a Palestinian home in the Hebron area and taking over the TV room in order to watch a soccer…

Friday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Beit Liqya, south of Ramallah, and arrested eight residents. A local source in the village reported that soldiers, supported by armored vehicles,…

Israeli soldiers resumed their operations and invasions in the Palestinian territories killing four residents, and injuring 25 others over the last week. A report prepared and published by the Information…

Settlers of the Neveh Dekalim in the Gush Katif settlement bloc decided that half of them will move to a tent city as means of protesting disengagement, Israeli media sources…

Friday at dawn, a 56 year old man died after Israeli soldiers based at a military check post near Nablus, barred a car transferring him to the National Hospital in…

An Israeli official source in the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s office said on Thursday that the United States President George W. Bush rejected a demand by the Palestinian President Mahmoud…

In an interview to Haaretz, the Palestinian Foreign Minister Nasser Al-Kidweh warned U.S. President George W. Bush that not resolving the Palestinian problem would endanger his plans in the Middle…

Israel informed the Palestinian Authority that it is prepared to discuss the possibility of releasing the fighters who assassinated the Israeli Tourism Minister, Rehavam Ze’evi, in October 17, 2001, Fatah…

More than one thousand families from the Gush Katif bloc of settlements in the Gaza Strip have signed a document expressing readiness for voluntary collective evacuation to permanent homes in…

Settlers of the Kfar Darom settlement in the Gaza Strip turned away the Director-General of the Prime Minister’s Office Ilan Cohen as he was planning to visit the settlement for…

Palestinian Minister of Prisoner and Ex-Prisoner Affairs, Sufian Abu Zaida, commented that Sharon is ‘trying to make the release of 400 Palestinian prisoners who were supposed to be released two…

Wednesday afternoon, Israeli soldiers intensified military presence in Bab al-Zawiya area, in the center of Hebron, and interrogated dozens of residents. A local source in Hebron reported that soldiers broke…

Academic institutions and Palestinian factions demanded Al Quds University President Dr. Sari Nusseibeh to resign from his position after signing an agreement of cooperation with the Hebrew University. The institutions…

It has often been assumed that the problem of Jerusalem is exceptionally difficult because of religious claims made upon the Holy City and its holy sites by members of the…

The Tuesday night meeting in the Beach Hotel in Gaza, between the Egyptian delegate and representatives of Hamas did not bring forwards any new positions except clarifying Hamas’ position on…

Palestinenet news website reported that Israeli soldiers informed residents of Khazza’a area in Khan Younis, who live near the Kissufim settlement road, to store food enough for twenty days. Apparently…

The al-Aqsa brigades, the military wing of Fatah, denied military reports that it dispatched two teens carrying explosives to Huwwara check post, south of the West Bank city of Nablus.…

According to the United Arab Emirates newspaper al-Bayan, the U.S. and the European Union have offered Hamas a deal to remove the group’s name from the list of terror organizations…

Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Nabil Sha’ath said Wednesday that the PA cannot organize parliamentary election by mid-July, pointing to the unsettled dispute between Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah lawmakers.…

  Translated by George Rishmawi-IMEMC {mosimage}Farouk Al-Qadoumi, chair of the Political Department of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, (PLO) says in an interview he gave to the Arab Media Internet Network…

On eve of the Wednesday Palestinian-U.S. summit, Palestinian Authority officials expressed concerns that the visit will not yield any significant achievements, Palestinian sources said on Tuesday. During his meeting with…

Tuesday at night, an Israeli military source reported that soldiers intend to break into Ansar detention, in the Negev, if the detainees do not stop their strike. The detainees are…

Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers leveled a home, and three big constructions used as a farm, seed storage and electricity generators, in the village of Ithna, south of Hebron. The WAFA…

Ahead of his visit, to start on Thursday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas complained Tuesday about ’Israel’s incitement against him and its lack of cooperation with the Palestinian Authority, saying he…

Dan Rubenstein, an Israeli attorney working with the Israeli online daily Haaretz, reported that 300 Palestinians, including children, were killed near Nitzarim settlement in Gaza since the beginning of the…

After the horrific story of soldiers abusing two Palestinian workers, and forcing one of them to drink the soldiers’ urine until he fainted, one of the soldiers stood in court…

The high committee for local Palestinian elections declared on Monday that the elections in disputed areas will be repeated on May 31, Palestinian sources reported. According to a court ruling,…

The Central Election Committee responsible for organizing the Legislative elections held a meeting to discuss chances of holding the elections on time in light of the changes on the election…

Spokesman of the Islamic Resistance movement Hamas, Musheer Al-Masri said on Monday that the movement did not receive letters from the United States Administration and the government of the United…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is seeking American assurances that implementation of the road map will begin as soon as Israel completes its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Abbas, who will…

Israeli TV, channel 10 reported on Monday night, that Israeli soldiers used a Palestinian child as a human shield in the village of Doura, near the West Bank city of…

Monday afternoon, an Israeli military source reported that that a Palestinian youth was arrested near the Gush Atzion settlement bloc, west of Bethlehem. According to the army report, the youth…

With no body noticing, the problem of Palestinian refugees’ rights was solved around ten years ago. Israeli Prime minister Ariel Sharon is busy right now to save Israel the damage…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas may decide to delay the upcoming legislative elections scheduled for July 17 for few months due to lack of preparations, Israeli sources reported. The Central Election…

Palestinian Interior Minister Nasser Yousef presented Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz with a plan for deploying PA security forces in the Gaza Strip during and after the implementation of the…

Sunday afternoon, Israeli soldiers forced dozens of families out of their homes and residency barracks in Msafer Yatta area, south of Hebron. Saber al-Hreiny, head of al-Litwani village council, which…

Nine detainees held by Palestinian security forces over suspicions of involvement in a suicide bombing in Israel have begun a hunger strike to demand their release, Palestinian security officials said…

Mossa Abu Marzouq, deputy of Hamas’s political bureau head, called on Saturday the Palestinian Authority to form a cabinet of technocrats after the Palestinian legislative elections, moving political decisions to…

The Israeli army has postponed the collection of weapons from Gaza Strip settlers, and will reexamine at the last minute whether there is a need to do so at all,…

Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni’s bureau issued Saturday a statement explaining that the minister’s press conference of last week was misunderstood as an ultimatum. "The week-long period given the settlers…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a statement on the weekend, saying the situation in the Gaza Strip was "under control". The statement came after four days of violence triggered by…

Saturday afternoon, Israeli soldiers arrested some 30 left-wing Israeli peace activists in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. An Israeli military source reported that the activists were protesting in…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas demanded the US president George Bush to take a clear stance on the Road Map plan after Israel completes its Gaza Withdrawal. Abbas said that…