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The Israeli Military Prosecutor’s Office indicted, on Monday, two soldiers of the engineering Corps over charges of abusing three Palestinian residents, after arresting them at the Qalandia roadblock, north of…
Two Israeli extremists attempted to abduct an Arab resident of Israel from Rahat area in the Negev, yet the Israeli police released them several hours after their arrest. “You are…
Dozens of Arab residents of Israel were barred from entering the Gaza Strip on Thursday while they were heading to visit their relatives for the Muslim Eid Al Fitir feast.…
As part of its campaign targeting Islamic Jihad operatives, some 50 Israeli military vehicles invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and arrested Sheikh Abdulhalim Izziddin, 37, leader of the…
Israel and Egypt agreed on Wednesday to reopen the Palestinian-Egyptian border crossing in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli sources reported. In a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak…
Salem Israeli military court delayed, on Sunday, announcing the verdict against the jailed Palestinian legislator, and head of the Refugees Rights Defense Committee, Husam Khader, until November, 27, 2005. The…
Avigdor Lieberman, member of the Israeli Ichud Leumi party (National Union) called for banning Arab Knesset member Ahmad Tibi from running in the upcoming Knesset elections after he asked foreign…
Israeli sources revealed a plan by the Israeli government to build roads in the West Bank that will be used only by Israeli settlers to move among the settlements in the West Bank.…
Israeli prosecution filed an indictment, on Sunday, against a soldier of a paratrooper unit accusing him of abusing an Imam (Muslim Sheikh) from Dir Nizam village, near the West Bank…
Dozens of Jewish worshippers attacked an Israeli military official at the Wailing Wall plaza in Jerusalem on Friday night, Israeli sources reported. Chief of Manpower branch of the Israeli army, Major…
Under the pretext that no Palestinian was killed when used as a human shield, the Israeli Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz will try to convince the Israeli High Court of…
The Machsom Watch organization in Israel reported that four Israeli soldiers severely beat a Palestinian man at a military checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Nablus, on Thursday.…
Israeli Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that it is illegal for the Israeli army to use Palestinian civilians as “human shields”. Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Aharon Barak,…
The Israeli High Court is expected to issue its ruling on Thursday morning after reviewing an appeal which was filed in 2002 after the Israeli soldiers repeatedly used Palestinian residents…
The Israeli army imposed full closure over the Palestinian occupied territories, and increased military presence in the central cities and junctions in Israel as it starts Jewish New Year celebrations…
Israeli media reported on Monday that Israel is set to deport a young Jew from Brooklyn suspected of planning to assassinate the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon. Israeli is set…
An Israeli Court Martial sentenced an Israeli army colonel to eight months after he was found guilty of statutory rape and committing indecent sexual acts on a female soldier when…
The Israeli Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni proposed a bill to the cabinet asking for $1 million to be allocated to defend senior army officers charged in Britain with war…
Israeli Minister of Defense, Shaul Mofaz on Tuesday instructed his soldiers on the road blocs in the West Bank to be very tough on Palestinians and to hold conduct a…
An Israeli military Colonel identified as Aref Zaher, 45 years old, was convicted on Monday, by a court martial, of indecent sexual acts and acquitted of “statutory†rape charges, of…
An Israeli source reported that three ultra-Orthodox Jews, including a Canadian national, were arrested Sunday Shfa-Amr, an Israeli Arabs town, while they were hanging posters with pictures of the Jewish…
A fundamental Jewish group attacked, on Thursday evening, an Arab resident of Israel while he was working in his orchards, and demanded him to leave his land after claiming that…
In the beginning of July 2005, the Israeli Peace Now movement submitted a petition to the Israeli High Court of Justice where the respondents were the Minister of Defense, the…
A mob of extremist Jewish Israelis attacked two Arab residents of Israel, from Ar’ara village, in the north of Israel, while the residents were working at a public park in Ramat Gan city.…
The Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz considers running for the Likud Primaries if the Israeli Prime Minister, chair of the party Ariel Sharon resigns or decides not to run. Mofaz…
A former senior Palestinian Authority official, now jailed in PA’s Jericho prison, offered to assist father to discover the fate of the Israeli American soldiers who went missing in Israel’s…
An Israeli security source reported that two Lau missiles hit a residential building in Jaffa city, earlier on Friday, apparently as part of conflicts between underworld families in the coastal…
As many as 54 percent of the Israelis said they believe the Israeli government should withdraw from more territories in the West Bank and to reach peace with the Palestinians,…
The Israeli Security Services, Shabak, arrested on Thursday at night two Jewish extremists suspecting of throwing a pig’s head at Hassan Bek mosque in Jaffa near Tel Aviv in Israel,…
Despite declaring several times that the Philadelphi deal between Egypt and Israel is ready to be signed, Israel keeps delaying signing the deal which allows Egypt to deploy 750 Egyptian…
Muslim worshippers were shocked to find a pigs head in the yard of the Hassan Bek mosque in Jaffa near Tel Aviv in Israel, on Friday night. As worshippers were…
As speculations about a political ‘big bang’ in Israel intensify, Yousef Lapid, chairman of the Israeli Shinui party and former Minister of Justice, said on Thursday that he does not…
Israeli human rights organizations called on the Israeli government to take the steps necessary to protect the Palestinians in case of an escalation in violence by settlers during and after…
The Israeli government approved the 2006 State Budget by a 12-8 vote in the early hours of Wednesday, Israeli sources reported. The budget was prepared by Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,…
The Israeli cabinet, meeting Tuesday, is set to okay the disputed 2006 state budget, Israeli media sources reported. The ratification of the budget comes two days after the Benjamin Netanyahu…
Israel’s security cabinet on Monday decided to allow 40 collaborator families now living in the Gaza Strip to move into Israel. The collaborator families currently live in the al-Daheena area, in the southern…
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz signed orders placing three extremist settlers who are members of the outlawed Kach movement in administrative detention. The three extremists were charged with attacking Palestinian residents.…
As the interim Israeli Minister of Finance, Ehud Olmert from Likud, is getting ready to present the 2006 State Budget on Tuesday, Labor party ministers are threatening to vote against…
Torkey family, which lost two daughters in the Shfa-Amr terrorist attack carried out by an Israeli settler-soldier, said that it received phone threats from a settler in Tapoah settlement, threatening…
Israeli Defence Minister, Shaul Mofaz, said on Saturday that the Israeli military establishment would consider placing right-wing activists in administrative detention without trial, which is a move he said that…
The existential threat Arab residents of Israel feel following the Shfa-Amr terrorist attack by an Israeli soldier could push them to lanuch a peaceful intifada (uprising), Abed Anabtawi, member of the…
Israeli authorities cancelled recently 7,000 work permits that had been given to Palestinian workers in the Gaza Strip, a source at the Palestinian Authority reported. “In spite of the Israeli decision to…
An Israeli army officer linked to the killing of a Palestinian youth in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip was promoted to colonel. Israeli sources said Army Chief of Staff…
Israeli authorities on Friday morning barred the transfer of a sick Palestinian infant to an Israeli hospital, a Palestinian medical source reported.  Taiseer Alloun, only a few days old,…
The Knesset voted on Wednesday on law to limit citizenship rights of Palestinians married to Israeli citizens, the law passed by 59-12. According to the approved law, the state will…
The Knesset plenum approved on Wednesday amendments to a law called “Intifada lawâ€Â, in order to limit the ability of Palestinian residents to sue Israel for damage occurred during the…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Friday, that the Israeli Authorities re-operated the X-ray search machine chamber at the Rafah Boder Crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza…
A committee of Israel’s Knesset is set to vote Monday on a bill that would make it virtually impossible for Palestinians to seek compensation from the state for damages caused…
An Israeli military court sentenced a soldier charged of killing a Palestinian resident in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, to disciplinary measures but did not delay his…
Wednesday at night, an Israeli military source reported that soldiers recovered 11 pipe bombs after detaining two Palestinian youngsters at a flying checkpoint near the West Bank city of Qalqilia.…
The Israeli southern district police arrested on Sunday a settler youth suspected to be the ringleader of attempting to murder a Palestinian youth at al-Mawassi beach in Gaza on Wednesday.…
Israeli police clashed Thursday with residents of the unrecognized village of Bir Al-Mashash in the Negev desert, Palestinian media sources reported. A large police force, including around 20 vehicles, raided the…
An Israel soldier was killed and three others were lightly wounded Wednesday in an exchange of fire with Hezbollah in the Sheba Farms area along the Israel-Lebanon border. At least…
Two 15-year-old Palestinians were beaten Tuesday – one of them critically – by a crowd of almost 200 Israelis. The youths, residents of the West Bank city of Nablus, had…
Leaders of Israel’s social-democratic Yahad party have decided to retitle it Meretz-Yahad, reclaiming the name the group had before its current leader, Yossi Beilin, took over. The move reflected displeasure…
An Israeli military source reported that settlers and far-right activists clashed with the soldiers as the army was preparing to raze abandoned beachfront cottages in Gush Katif settlement, in the…
In a bid to end the crisis with the United States over arms exports, Israel has decided to comply with all of Washington’s demands regarding the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)…
The Israeli army distributed leaflets at roadblocks stating that the Palestinian residents are paying the price as a result of the military attacks carried out by the Islamic Jihad against…
Seven people were killed and 195 were injured Tuesday afternoon when a passenger train collided with a truck near Kibbutz Revadim in the northern Negev. 15 of the wounded are…
Retired Israeli Supreme Court Justice Theodore Or accused the state of Israel of ignoring the findings of the probe into the killing of 13 Arab citizens of Israel by the…
An Israeli source reported that 16 Israeli soldiers committed suicide since the beginning 2005, similar to 2004 suicide remains the number one killer in the Israeli army. One soldier commits…
An Israeli military source claimed that the Lebanon based Hezbollah party is financing cells of al-Aqsa brigades, the military wing of Fateh, in the Palestinian territories. Israel charged t that…
Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, rejected a request by the US administration to hold a joint press conference between him and U.S. secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, when she visits…
Gabi Gal, human resources chief at the Israeli police said that 8000 Israelis requested to assists in settlement pullout during disengagement from the Gaza Strip, August 2005. Gal said that…
The Israeli radio reported that an Israeli police chief in the north has ordered an internal investigation department to probe into the death of a Palestinian detainee at Rosh Pina…
Israeli sources reported that the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government survived three no-confidence votes in the Knesset proposed by Shinui, Shass and the National Union (Mafdal). The three motions…
Ahead of a special address by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on governmental corruption to the Knesset plenum, MK Zahava Gal-On (Yahad) said Tuesday ‘the fish stinks from the head’…
Naveh Dikalim Rabbi, Shaul Bar-Illan, the head of the Tal Orot yeshiva at Kfar Darom settlement in the Gaza Strip, said that of the State of Israel disengages ‘he will…
There has been an increase in the reports of Israeli soldiers’ assaults against protestors in nonviolent anti-wall actions. Apparently there has been an increase in the anti-wall demonstration especially around…
Israeli military source said Tuesday that two workers, a Chinese and a Palestinian were killed and six other Palestinian workers were lightly wounded in a mortar attack at hothouses in…
Israel has been exercising strong diplomatic pressures on the Palestinian Authority in order to prevent it from executing 50 Palestinians, convicted of collaborating with the Israeli security. Also, the American…
Israel has bought a 100-ton behemoth, made by U.S. company Trencor Inc, to use in uncovering weapons’ smuggling tunnels in the Gaza-Egypt border area, according to an Israeli army publication.…
The new chief of staff of the Israeli army Dan Halutz, was sworn in Wednesday afternoon, succeeding outgoing Moshe Yaalon in a military ceremony in Jerusalem. His first statement as…
In a strange move, hundreds of former Likud supporters attend showed up at a rally at the Labor party headquarters in Tel Aviv n Tuesday.The rally was in support of…
Israeli soldiers started constructing a military camp on Palestinian owned lands in Jabal Johar, east of Hebron. A local source in Hebron said that military gear, armored jeeps and vehicles,…
For the third time, a Druze refusenik youth identified as Wisam Qabalan from Beit Dajan Druze village, was imprisoned after ejecting military service. Qabalan was sentenced to seven days after…
After the failure of repeated attempts by the Israeli embassy in El-Salvador to prevent the inauguration of a statue of the late Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, Israeli decided to delay…
Israeli police stopped and detained on Wednesday morning five Palestinian officials in while being in Jerusalem claiming they "illegally" entered Jerusalem, Palestine News Network reported. Eyewitness reports stated that the…
In an interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz, outgoing army chief of staff Moshe Ya’alon predicted that unless Israel commits to further withdrawals after implementing the disengagement plan, another violent crisis…
An Israel army source said that army is considering a response to bombing attack near the workers gate at the Erez border crossing in the Gaza Strip, Israel Radio reported…
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Israel will not hold any negotiations on the Road Map if the Palestinian resistance does not stop its operations, and until the…
Friday at dawn, an Israeli military source reported that 13 soldiers were injured, 3 seriously when a military truck carrying troops flipped over near Har Dov area, along the Israeli-Lebanese…
The Israeli Knesset has decided to form a parliamentary committee of inquiry into corruption cases in the government that has been increasing lately. The sponsor of the measure, the National…
The Israeli Knesset voted, on wednesday, to establish a parliamentary committee to investigate cases of increase corruption in the government. The inquiry came upon a call by National Union party…
The Israeli police reported on Wednesday at night, that pullout opponents blocked segment of Tel Aviv highway, burnt tires and managed to block major traffic. “Pullout opponents burnt tires along…
The Knesset approved in a first reading Wednesday an amendment to the Citizenship Law meant to allow the extension of family unification restrictions. The bill allows Palestinians men over the…
Haifa District Court convicted Tuesday Alexander Rabinovitch, 22, from Haifa, of involvement in terror activity against Israeli Arab residents. Rabinovitch was found guilty of the attempted murder of MK Isaam…
Saturday afternoon, an Israeli military source reported that Hezbollah fighters fired machine guns at Israeli military positions in the Sheba Farms area, on the Israeli-Lebanese borders. According to the army…
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon approved Thursday Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s tax reduction plan, which the later described as ‘imperative for market growth.’ The plan is expected to be submitted…
The Jerusalem Central Court sentenced two Israeli soldiers after convicting them of abusing and degrading two Palestinian residents studying at Abu Dis University, near Jerusalem. The students, Firas al-Bakri, 22,…
Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, issued direct orders to the army to kill any Palestinian who attempts to fire at Israeli settlements or military camps in the Gaza Strip. The…
Yuval Diskin, the new director of the Israeli Shin Bet internal security service, said Tuesday that ‘Israeli society would not be able to tolerate the murder of another prime minister.’…
Several dozen Jewish and Arab students protested Tuesday morning at Haifa University against an academic conference titled ‘The Demographic Problem and Israel’s Demographic Policies’, describing the conference as a gathering…
The newly appointed Shin Bet Chief Yuval Diskin expressed his fears Tuesday over terror attacks conducted by Jews especially in light of the escalating threats against Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.…
Israeli military officials conditioned the handover of security in Qalqilia to the Palestinian Authority to collecting the weapons of wanted Palestinian fighters in Tulkarem and Jericho, Israeli sources reported on…
Shimon Peres, the acting Labor party leader said on Sunday that his party reported recently 120.000 new members. The statements of Peres came during his speech at the party headquarters…
An Israeli judge in beer Sheva central court warned that if the DA does not reveal the accusations against Neria Ofen, an extreme right wing activist placed under administrative detention,…
The Israeli cabinet on Sunday extended the temporary law limiting offering citizenship to Palestinians from the occupied territories married to citizens of Israel, Army Radio reported. Sixteen ministers voted in…
An exchange of fire across the borders between Hezbollah and Israeli troops took place near Sheba Farms on Friday afternoon, the third incident in less than 48 hours. Army source…
An Israeli source reported on Friday that security guards of the Israeli embassy in the Uzbek capital Tashkent shot and killed a man near the embassy. The Israeli Ynet news…