Category: Palestine

Leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Monday that Jordan has promised its support to help revive the stalled Middle East peace process. ‘We need Jordan’s support……

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas separately told Newsweek that they are prepared to meet each other. “When they would like to meet, we will meet.’…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas separately told Newsweek that they are prepared to meet each other. “When they would like to meet, we will meet.’…

The Palestinian Authority said Saturday it will disband a small Gaza security force known by Palestinians as the death squad. The head of the Palestinian Authority Preventive Security Service, Brig.…

Palestinian informed source said that a top Palestinian delegation will head on Saturday to Egypt for talks with the Egyptian officials. Palestinian President Rouhi Fattouh, head of the Palestinian Liberation…

Palestinian sources reported that so far, nine Palestinians declared their intention to run for the upcoming presidential elections and expected the number to raise. The candidates so far are, Sheikh…

Palestinian Prisoners Society, in Hebron, said that the Israeli Prison Services barred entry of winter clothes and covers to the detainees an Atzion detention near Hebron. Amjad Al-Najjar, head of…

Israeli MK Omri Sharon (Likud) will lead a group of Israeli officials in talks with PA officials set to take place in the U.K. next week, British newspaper the Telegraph…

PLO new Head Mahmoud Abbas was officially nominated as Fatah’s candidate Thursday by the Fatah Revolutionary Council. The revolutionary council, in its Thursday meeting, unanimously approved Fatah’s central committee decision…

The Zionist Council will publish its annual report soon. Early findings reveals that more Jews left Israel than moved in during the year 2004. According to information from the Israeli…

Aranbs48 news website interviewed the Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Saadat, who is currently jailed in a Palestinian prison in Jericho under…

Raed Mahameed, lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, said that detainees in the Negev detention camp and Majeddo told him that they are facing daily hardships, violations and over crowded…

An Israeli military court in Ofer detention, near Ramallah, sentenced a Hamas activist to one life term after charging him participating in killing two Israeli soldiers. The Palestinian Prisoners Society…

In a statement he gave to the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv, the Israeli President Moshe Katsav, said, he suggests stopping building the West Bank wall if a permanent cease-fire agreement is…

After he was released from detention, Sheikh Hasan Yousef talks to the PNN in an exclusive interview about the long solitary imprisonment and interrogation. Sheikh Hasan Yousef, who was released…

Israeli High court of justice rejected Wednesday a petition against Jerusalem section of the wall revised route, paving the way for army to resume the construction of the stalled barrier.…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is considering delaying bringing the revised route of the separation wall for cabinet approval. Sources in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Bureau said on Tuesday that…

Soldiers raided the village of Yatta , in the south of Hebron . They shelled a home, moderately wounding three youths, and arrested two residents. A medical source at Abu…

The Israeli General Security Service, known as the Shin Bet, prevents Palestinians from using Ben-Gorion international airport in Tel Aviv claiming security reasons, Israeli sources reported on Wednesday. Palestinians who…

The giant heavy products company ‘Caterpillar’ dismissed calls to cease its bulldozer sales to the Israeli army claiming that all sales conform with the American trade law within the Foreign…

There is now a chance for peace – but not because of Arafat’s death Published in the Guardian on November 12, 2004 Throughout his political career, Yasser Arafat was the…

Translated by, Saed Bannoura, IMEMC After he was released from detention, Sheikh Hasan Yousef talks to the PNN in an exclusive interview about the long solitary imprisonment and interrogation. Sheikh…

Translated by George Rishmawi Israeli sources revealed information about Russian Snipers recruited to the Israeli Army to join the army’s military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. These…

Before the death of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat on November 11th, 2004, there had been an enormous amount of speculation raised, and analysis offered, concerning the issue of succession.…

Translated by: Saed Bannoura-IMEMC Palestinian Resistance between slogans and Facts Rumors of differences and interior crises between the military wings of Palestinian factions, especially Fatah, required clarification in order to…

As hundreds of thousands of Palestinians marched and chanted praising their late president Yasser Arafat, the Israeli media was preparing a flash clip which they called “The Godfather of Terror”.…

Translatd by Saed Bannoura-IMEMC Saturday, October 30, 2004, was supposed to be the most beautiful day of Shima’s life. On this day she refused to go to kindergarten in order…

A double consensus is forming around Yasser Arafat: one, that the old man is dying and two, that he was a failure. The first assumption is, alas, all too plausible.…

Residents of Nablus district, in the north of the West Bank, are in continuous fear of attacks carried out by soldiers and settlers which forced them to avoid picking their…

A 13 years old girl from Khan Younis, who was shot wounded while sitting inside the classroom, filed charges against the army, seeking compensations. The incident took place in an…

The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said in the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday that Israel will proceed with the Disengagement Plan despite Arafat’s health condition, and added; “As long…

The Palestinian envoy to France and Arafat’s spokesperson in France, Leila Shaheed ruled out on Saturday afternoon, any possibility that P. A Chairman Yasser Arafat is suffering from Leukemia. “Doctors…

Israeli analysts are busy setting scenarios for the ‘after Arafat era’. Already criteria to judge the newly expected leadership performance has been laid out. Names have been assigned positions, and…

Lawyer of the Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported that female detainees under the age of 18, in Al-Ramlah prison are suffering from inhumane conditions and treatment, in violation…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights released its weekly report which revealed that soldiers, during the past week, shot dead 26 Palestinians, including two children and one girl, in addition…

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat landed in Paris on Friday afternoon and boarded a helicopter to a military hospital outside the French capital for medical treatment. Jordanian helicopters transported Arafat from…

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, and the Islamic Jihad Movement called for forming a unified leadership which will be a higher political representative of the Palestinian people. The two movements…

Hanan Al-Khateeb, a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoners Society said that she met with two detainees in Al-Ramlah detention camp, who told her about the dangerous situation and continuous assaults…

Translated by: Saed Bannoura After more than four years since the beginning of Al-Aqsa Intifada, different aspects in the Palestinian life were deeply affected by the situation, and the continuous…

Arafat’s advisor, Nabil Abu Rodeina, denied reports released by the Israeli media that P.A Chairman Yasser Arafat appointed a three-man committee to act in his absence. According to the released…

A Palestinian source said that all need arrangement have been carried out to transfer Arafat to France for treatment. The source added that a Jordanian helicopter will transfer Arafat at…

A Palestinian source said that the doctors decided to transfer Arafat to a Hospital in Paris in order to follow up his health condition. The source added that the doctors…

In a Phone call with the Qatar Based Al-Jazeera TV, Dr. Ashraf Al-Kurdy, from Jordan, said that he will arrive in Ramallah on Thursday morning along with a Jordanian medical…

An Israeli military source said that a Palestinian resistance group fired mortal shells at a military post near the settlement of Morag, south of Gaza, and exchanged fire with the…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said that a female detainee from Bethlehem, detained in Atzion military detention, is subjected to daily physcological pressures due to daily torture and harassments conducted against…

Detainee Husam Badran, from Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the north of the West Bank, told lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoner’s society, Khaled Al-Dosouqy, that Gilboa prison administration…

Israeli sources quoted a Palestinian source as saying that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s health had begun to deteriorate as of Wednesday night. Senior Palestinian officials, including Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia,…

Inspite of the controversial nature of his politics, Palestinians look at former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas as a man of integrity. As a founder of Fatah, unlike of most Palestinian…

Israeli Haaretz said in its online edition that the settlers of an unauthorized settlers outpost near the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar in Nablus area, held up the ambulance coming…

The International Women Peace Service (IWPS) reported that Angie Zelter, a prominent nonviolent peace and human rights activist from the United Kingdom is currently being held for deportation by the…

Dr. Moaweya Hassanen, head of the emergency Unit in the ministry of health, said that one resident, identified as Abdul-Aziz Abu-Mo’ammar, died of wounds sustained earlier on Tuesday at dawn,…

P. A Chairman Yasser Arafat, met with the Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qorei and head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Rawhi Fattouh, and Minister of Negotiations, Saeb Erekat on Tuesday…

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat underwent minor exploratory surgery on Monday in his Muqata headquarters and is in stable condition. A senior Palestinian official said that Doctors carried out an endoscopey…

An Israeli army source said on Sunday that some Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza Strip may have anti-aircrafts missiles in their possession. Generals of Israeli military establishment think that resistance…

Israel decided Monday to allow Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to leave his headquarters for a medical check in Ramallah hospital, about 2 kilometers away from where the President is besieged…

Al-Aqsa Brigades threatened to split from Fatah Movement if the Qorei Government and Fatah’s Central Committee does not fulfill their demands to conduct new procedures in order to solve the…

Refraining from expressing any preference for either U.S. President George W. Bush or his rival Senator John Kerry, the Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said that the next U.S. president…

Two Jewish families moved into a house near Rachel’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Bethlehem this week. The two families joined yeshiva students who earlier moved to the…

Several female detainees accused the Israeli Security of sexually harassing them, in order to force the detainees to confess to charges laid against them, in addition to repeatedly imposing physiological…

A local source in Hebron said that soldiers detained two residents in Hebron, and held scores of residents during vast military searches conducted in the city, on Sunday morning. The…

A local source in Hebron said that soldiers apprehended two residents in Hebron, and withheld tens of residents during vast military searches conducted in the city, on Sunday morning. The…

A Palestinian Authority treasury source said Saturday that about half of the Palestinian Authority budget deficit was caused by seizures imposed by Israeli courts on PA funds. According to the…

For the two years following September 11th, the Western public was inundated with propaganda to such a vociferous degree that to be a critical voice was to be heretical and…

Translated by: Saed Bannoura Ala ’ Al-Shalash, 19 years old, said that he was severely clubbed by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint known as “the container checkpoint”, to the east…

How would it feel to be targeted in the street, or in the car, what sort of live you will be living while knowing that you might be a moving…

Saed Bannoura, IMEMC Children are the most affected by any conflict in this world, the faultless victims of brutality and advanced weapons technology; tiny angels, the builders of the future…

Translated by: George N. Rishmawi-IMEMC PNN: How do you view the latest Israeli offensive in Gaza Strip? Rajoub: The Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip and other areas in…

Ten minutes stroll northward from the lively alleyways of the Old City and its renowned Golden Dome lays one of the Holy Land’s smallest parishes; the Anglican Church, with its…

A Palestinian medical source Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, said that the Israeli army killed more than 31 and woudned over 200 Palestinians in the past 36 hours in…

The Prisoners’ Supporters Society said that soldiers continued their assaults and violations against the Palestinian detainees in Al- Maskobiyya prison in Jerusalem, for the second day. The society, centered in…

A group of Palestinian Lawmakers are planning to force a no-confidence vote that could bring down the Palestinian cabinet. Lawmakers said on Wednesday they had collected enough signatures on a…

A Palestinian medical source Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, said that the Israeli army killed more than 31 and woudned over 200 Palestinians in the past 36 hours in…

The Prisoners’ Supporters Society said that soldiers continued their assaults and violations against the Palestinian detainees in Al- Maskobiyya prison in Jerusalem, for the second day. The society, centered in…

A group of Palestinian Lawmakers are planning to force a no-confidence vote that could bring down the Palestinian cabinet. Lawmakers said on Wednesday they had collected enough signatures on a…

Two International volunteers of the Christian Peace Makers Team, Chris Brown, 40 and Kim Lamberty, 44 were attacked by five masked men around the settlement outpost of Maon in the…

Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, chair of “Health and Development Information Policy Center” (HDIP), said that 3334 Palestinians were killed and 53,000 were wounded since the…

Jerusalem – Four years ago on September 28, 2000, when Ariel Sharon made his operatic visit to the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem igniting the Second Intifada,…

It’s absurd that officials on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are convinced that the four years fighting is all about making a point. An Israeli foreign minister official told…

It’s absurd that officials on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are convinced that the four years fighting is all about making a point. An Israeli foreign minister official told…

Two International volunteers of the Christian Peace Makers Team, Chris Brown, 40 and Kim Lamberty, 44 were attacked by five masked men around the settlement outpost of Maon in the…

Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, chair of “Health and Development Information Policy Center” (HDIP), said that 3334 Palestinians were killed and 53,000 were wounded since the…

A medical source in Dir Al-Balah, in the north of the Gaza Strip said that a military helicopter fired a missile at a group of residents in Karm Al-Zaytoun area,…

It’s absurd that officials on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are convinced that the four years fighting is all about making a point. An Israeli foreign minister official told…

AP reported that RIad Abu Ali, CNN Producer has been released after negotiations between the PA and the group that abducted Abu Ali on Monday night in Gaza Strip. PA…

“It is likely that Israel acted in order to force Hamas to run a global war, hoping that such a move will remove the borders that differentiate between the Palestinian…

“It is likely that Israel acted in order to force Hamas to run a global war, hoping that such a move will remove the borders that differentiate between the Palestinian…

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…

An Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, said on its online edition on Sunday that more than 140 settlers are preparing to erect two settlement outposts in Hebron, in the West Bank.…

Palestinian sources said that one man was killed and three others were injured after an Israel helicopter fired a missile at a vehicle in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza…

Soldiers apprehended two residents in Nablus after raiding several neighborhoods in the city, and Al-Ein refugee camp, and firing at tens of homes on Monday morning. A local source in…

The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories released a report on Thursday which revealed the number of casualties among the Palestinians since the beginning of the…

Translated by: Saed Bannoua-IMEMC Wisam Abdul-Kareem, 14 years old, from the village of Kafr Al-Deek, in the north west of Salfit, in the West Bank, tells his story of military…

A group of International peace activists, cycling for peace from London to Jerusalem, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, arrived in Palestine on September 22. The tour, that started on…

 The Palestinian Prisoner Society said that the detainees in Nafha detention informed lawyer Fayez Al-Shalloudy, that the situation now is worse than it was before the hunger Strike conducted in…

In response to Palestinian Prime minister Ahmed Qurei’s Friday hints that it was possible to dismantle Fatah’s military wing, a brigades spoksman, nicknamed as Abu Mahmoud called Qurei to resign…

Palestinian security sources confirmed Saturday that Israeli Authorities at the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt denied exit to Palestinian security personnel who were supposed to go to Egypt for…

Once again, Egypt called off invitations to hold talks between Palestinian different factions in Cairo. Egypt blamed ‘Israel’s lack of cooperation’ as the reason for the ever lasting suspension. Egyptian…

Once again, Egypt called off invitations to hold talks between Palestinian different factions in Cairo. Egypt blamed ‘Israel’s lack of cooperation’ as the reason for the ever lasting suspension. Egyptian…

Translated by: Saed Bannoura The cries and screams of Wael, the baby child of Mirvat Taha, a political detainee, imprisoned in an Israeli detention camp, were not enough to convince…

An Israeli military source said that three soldiers and two Palestinian activists were shot dead on Thursday morning in a fire exchange which erupted in the settlement on Thursday morning.…