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Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, offered the settlers to be moved to other outposts in exchange of agreeing to evacuate the “Ammouna” illegal settlement outpost, which is to be evacuated…
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported, on Monday morning, that the Israeli government has formulated a plan for a train that will run from the cities of Lod, north of Israel,…
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported, on Monday morning, that the Israeli government has formulated a plan for a train that will run from the cities of Lod, north of Israel,…
An extremist settlers group cut down, on Sunday, more than 200 olive trees which belong to Palestinian farmers from Salem village, near the West Bank city of Nablus. Villagers told…
As hundreds of Palestinian residents waited at the Rafah Crossing, on Saturday, dozens packed the first bus, as the terminal was opened for business one day after a formal opening…
Karen Abu Zayd, UNRWA head reported that the UNRWA intends to construct 600 new houses for Palestinian refugees in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Abu…
Israel officially announced that there are “political considerations”, including the upcoming elections, which are barring the evacuation of illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank, including outposts installed on lands…
Israel officially announced that there are “political considerations”, including the upcoming elections, which are barring the evacuation of illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank, including outposts installed on lands…
Hanna Khoury, member of the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Aboud, near Ramallah, reported on Friday that eight residents were injured; one Israeli peace activist was detained after Israeli…
Residents, Israeli and international peace activists conducted their weekly protest in Bil’in, North West of Ramallah and marked the day of the partitioning of Palestine in 1947. The protestors carried…
The Consulate of the United Kingdom in Israel, complied a report, in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry, slamming Israel for its settlement constructions in east Jerusalem, and accusing Israel of…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will officially announce the opening of the Gaza-Egypt border terminal during a ceremony on Friday; the ceremony will be attended by dozens of Palestinian officials and…
Yitzhak Herzog, the outgoing Israeli Housing Minister, and Labor party member, approved the construction of 310 housing units, in large settlement blocs in the West Bank. This decision was…
Sunday morning, Israeli soldiers fired at dozens of residents who were peacefully protesting against the construction of the Separation Wall in Sawahra area in the southeast of Jerusalem. Soldiers fired…
Head of the Labor Party Amir Peretz said on Sunday during a party meeting that he apposes the Right of Return of the Palestinian Refugees into Israel, and apposes any…
Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs at dozens of residents who protested against the Separation Wall, in Aboud village, North West of Ramallah, in the West Bank, several residents suffocated after…
A Palestinian resident was shot and injured, on Friday evening, by Israeli soldiers near the West Bank city of Hebron; soldiers claim that he carried a suspicious object. Earlier on…
Bil’in residents, international and Israeli peace activists celebrated the “Palestinian Independence Day” by carrying small balloons which carried the colors of the Palestinian flag, and carried two symbolic Styrofoam walls, representing…
The National Office for Land Defense based in the West Bank city of Nablus, warned that Israel is attempting to isolate Jerusalem from its surrounding Palestinian areas by announcing the…
Israel issued, on Thursday, building tenders for settlement constructions in the West Bank, directly violating the Road Map Plan for peace in the Middle East. Israeli online daily Haaretz reported…
Senior Israeli police officers, who took part of the evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip, and four settlements in northern West Bank, have been rewarded with trips abroad, Israeli…
Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, said on Wednesday said that construction of the Separation Wall in the West Bank, lining up with settlement blocs, and enforcing them should be resumed,…
Six settler girls from Benjamin, a settlement Northwest of the West Bank city of Ramallah, attacked Palestinian farmers while they were working in olive orchards in the nearby village of…
Palestinian Interior Minister, Nasser Yousef, said that the ministry prepared a plan to control the security situation in the Palestinian territories, and impose law and order. In an Interview with…
US Senator Hillary Clinton said that she supports the Separation Wall Israel is constructing in the occupied West Bank, and accused the Palestinian National Authority of not implementing enough efforts…
Israeli soldiers broke, on Saturday morning, into the Islamic Waqf department in Bethlehem, and attacked and forced the employees, and residents, out of the building. Mohammed Taha, head of the…
500 Palestinian protestors, 50 international and 100 Israeli peace activists protested against the Wall in Bil’in village west of Ramallah, and sat on the ground in front of the bulldozers;…
The Jerusalem District Court Wednesday rejected a request by the Israeli Police, West Bank division, to deport four international peace activists arrested earlier in the day in the West Bank…
Ron Shechner, Settlement Affairs advisor to Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, resigned on Wednesday over implications in assisting in the construction of illegal settlement outposts. Shechner is accused of giving…
A technical team of the World Bank is examining the provision of a “safe road” which is intended to link the Gaza Strip with the West Bank areas controlled by…
One thousand Palestinian residents of Beit Iksa village, north-west of Jerusalem became unaware of their future while the Shin Bet security service and the Israeli Defense Ministry are debating on…
Palestinian Cabinet Minister, and Chief Negotiator, Dr. Saeb Erekat, said on Sunday that the P.A will discuss several important issues with the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, during his…
Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, said as he concluded his visit to Washington on Saturday evening that the Rafah Border Crossing would be reopened in two weeks, but he conditioned…
Israeli Defense Mofaz, decided to demolish the Amona illegal settlement outpost, which was constructed by an extremist settlers group in the West Bank, by the end of January 2006. Mofaz’a…
The family of Manhal Hussein, 14, from Jeet village, south west of Nablus, denounced the Israeli decision to release four settlers who attacked their son at a junction near the…
The family of Manhal Hussein, 14, from Jeet village, south west of Nablus, denounced the Israeli decision to release four settlers who attacked their son at a junction near the…
Israeli soldiers arrested on Friday, Nabeel Mazzawi, a cameraman who works with the Qatar based Al Jazeera news station, after attacking and hitting him with batons and confiscated his journalists’…
Fifty international and Israeli peace activists and dozens of residents arrived on Friday morning at a construction site of the Separation Wall near Bil’in village, west of Ramallah; the activists…
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that, Irwin Moskowitz, a Jewish millionaire is behind the project which aims to construct a Jewish neighborhood in the Arab Sheikh Jarrah area, east of…
A senior Palestinian source, reported on Wednesday, that the joint Palestinian-Israeli meeting which was conducted on Tuesday at night failed to arrive to any deal for reopening the Rafah Border…
The Israeli Cabinet approved on Tuesday a proposal which aims to enable European Union personnel to operate the Rafah Border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. The approved decision…
Member of Knesset, Eliezer Cohen, from the National Union Party submitted a bill, on Monday, which aims to annex parts of the West Bank to Israel. The bill specifically proposes…
Residents of Azoun Atma village, south of the West Bank city are facing daily hardships after the Israeli Separation Wall isolated them and separated them from the surrounding villages and…
Israeli soldiers invade the village of Bil’in, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday at dawn, attacked and clubbed several residents, and arrested three, inducing a two 14…
Israel has officially agreed to have European observers as a third party on the Gaza – Egypt border crossing in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli official source said…
Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Al-Kidweh warned on Monday against turning the Gaza Strip into a big open-air prison soon, if the hanging problems were not over come. Al-Kidweh…
Israeli army is planning to divide the West Bank into three isolated parts by setting up a checkpoint that separates the northern section of the West Bank with its middle and southern…
Israeli soldiers invaded overnight the village of Bil’in, near the Wets Bank city of Ramallah and arrested four residents, Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall…
Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs and rubber coated bullets at a peaceful protest against the Separation Wall in Bil’in village, near the Wets Bank city of Ramallah, several residents were…
The settlement of Qadumim east of Qalqilia and directly adjacent to the villages of Kafer Qaddoum and Jet has become an enclave for extremist settlers who practice and preach the…
An Israeli source reported on Monday that the Israeli Defense Minster, Shaul Mofaz, is slated to visit Cairo on Wednesday, to meet the Egyptian President, Hosny Mubarak. Mofaz will also…
Israeli soldiers arrested, on Sunday, nine residents in the village of Bil’in near the West Bank city of Ramallah, after invading the village and breaking into dozens of homes. A…
Residents and peace activists in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, invented a new way in countering a Robot which the army started using against them during the weekly peaceful protests…
Nathmi Mhanna, General Director of the Border Crossing Department at the Palestinian National Authority, said on Friday that the Rafah Border Crossing, in the Gaza Strip, will be opened on…
The Israeli government decided to encourage constructions and development in the Galilee areas, north of the country, and offered tax breaks and special grants for the residents. Israeli Vice Premier…
Israeli and international peace activists who regularly protest along with the Palestinian residents against the Separation Wall in Bil’in village, near Ramallah, said that Israeli soldiers are continuously using and…
An Israeli source reported on Thursday that Israel will delay the implementation of its E1 project, which aims to link Maali Adumim settlement with Jerusalem from the east. The move…
American President George W. Bush is expected to pressure Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, on their Thursday meeting, in order to end the attacks carried out by resistance groups against Israeli…
An extremist settlers group of the Ma’oun illegal settlement outpost, which is constructed on Palestinian annexed lands, east of Yatta village south of Hebron, attacked homes and properties in the…
A Palestinian organization which monitors settlement activities reported on Monday that the Israeli Authorities annexed 1000 Dunams of Palestinian orchards to Rotem settlement in Wadi All Maleh area, east of…
An extremist settlers group, estimated by 40 settlers, attacked dozens of Palestinians residents and vehicles after controlling Beit Forik – Beit Dajan checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of…
The Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) accepted a petition filed by the state to cancel a temporary injunction preventing Israel from building the Separation Wall through a Palestinian neighborhood…
Three Palestinian residents were injured and four international peace activists were arrested in Bil’in village, near Ramallah, during the weekly protest against the Separation Wall. Coordinator of the Popular Committee…
Israeli Finance Minister, Ehud Olmert, was attack by pullout opponents on Thursday after arriving at the “Big Synagogue” in Jerusalem to participate in prayers for the Yum Kippur Jewish feast.…
The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that settlers of the illegal “Al Qana†settlement outpost, west of the West Bank city of Salfit, attacked a Palestinian family and forced them…
Palestinian Cabinet Minister Dr. Saeb Erekat, demanded Israel to add the names of the jailed legislator and Fateh leader Marwan Barghouthi, and Sameer Quntar, a Lebanese fighter who was captured…
Settlers of Nave Daniel settlement, which was constructed on Palestinian confiscated lands which belong to residents of Al Khaader village near Bethlehem, grabbed farmlands which belong to the family of…
Sewage waste has become a nightmare threatening the farmlands of the Palestinian residents north of the West Bank city of Qalqilia. Farmers in this area say at the start of…
Chief Palestinian negotiator and cabinet minister Dr. Saeb Erekat, met of Friday with Sharon’s advisor Dov Weissglas, in Tel Aviv, and agreed to meet again before the Abbas-Sharon summit scheduled…
The World Bank said that it supports building a passage which links between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in a form of a sunken road, but Sharon said…
The Israeli Central Court, in Jerusalem, indicted two settlers from Keryat Araba’ settlement, in the West Bank city of Hebron, of abducting and abducting and abusing two Arab youth from…
An Egyptian source reported on Thursday that Egypt started constructing a new crossing which links its borders with Israel and the Gaza Strip, south of Rafah. The source stated that…
The European Union offered to aid the Palestinian Authority if the peace process advances; the aid is intended to rebuild the Gaza Strip after Israel withdrew from the area. European…
Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, said on Tuesday that he apposes any unilateral withdrawal from West Bank settlements, adding that settlements in the West Bank are considered the future borders…
Israeli soldiers barred dozens of residents of Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, from reaching their orchards to pick their olives. The residents and international peace activists attempted of Friday afternoon…
Physicians For Human Rights published a report on the implications of the unilateral pullout, and military closure, on the lives of the Palestinian residents in the Gaza Strip “This report…
Eyad Arad, a senior strategy advisor of the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said on Wednesday that Israel may consider annexing the West Bank if the diplomatic impasse with the…
Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz said on Tuesday that the occupied Syrian Golan heights will remain under Israeli control “for everâ€Â. Israeli online daily Maariv reported that Mofaz uttered his…
Members of the Central Committee at the Likud party met on Sunday evening in Tel Aviv to discuss a proposal to advance the date of Likud leadership primaries. The committee…
A number of Israeli jetfighters ripped in the last 24 hours through the Palestinian airspace of the ‘freed Gaza Strip’, launching raids that killed at least four Palestinians, wounded several…
Israeli soldiers arrested, on Friday afternoon, ten protestors against the Separation Wall, Bil’in village, west of Ramallah in the West Bank; dozens of protestors were hurt after inhaling gas fired…
Zakariyya Zobeidi, leader of Al Aqsa Martyres Brigades, said that the evacuation of the settlements in the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the West Bank is an outcome of…
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, reported that settlements installed by Israel in the occupied West Bank are considered illegal and violate the International…
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that the Tel Aviv District Court ordered the remand of two brothers, apposed to the pullout plan, until the end of legal proceedings against them.…
Israeli officials said on Wednesday that Israel has declared its frontier with the Gaza Strip, thus formally setting part of the boundary, for the first time, with the future Palestinian…
An Israeli military source reported on Wednesday afternoon, that a group of settlers attacked the convoy of the Israeli Central Command Chief, Ya’ir Naveh, near the West Bank settlement of…
Israeli settlers who were evacuated from the Gaza Strip are planning to move their mobile houses to a new settlement in the West Bank with an informal promise by the…
In spite of repeated reports which were published by the Israeli military intelligence, that Palestinian resistance groups managed to smuggle long-range Katyusha rockets and shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, Israeli military intelligence…
Israeli soldiers withdrew on Tuesday at night from Ghanim and Kadim settlements, east of the West Bank city of Jenin, without any coordination with the Palestinian Authority. Hundreds of residents…
A senior source at Sharon’s office said, on Tuesday, that if the Palestinian do not fulfill their commitments, Israel will consider the possibility of handing the West Bank to Jordan,…
The Palestinian Authority announced on Tuesday that it rejects any international presence at the Rafah Border Crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. “There is no need for…
In a press conference held in Tel Aviv, Israeli Reserves’ Major General Uzi Dayan unveiled his plan for disengaging from some of the Palestinian areas, Israeli online daily Haaretz reported.…
The meeting which will join the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in early October, will focus on the final settlement and other issues, Palestinian…
The Palestinian people have once again demonstrated drive to peace, given the latest fact on the ground ‘the Israeli unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip’, by saying ‘No need for…
The Israeli army withdrew overnight from the evacuated settlement of Sa-Nur after it completed burying the Synagogues there, and deployed its forces around it, and around Homesh settlement. Dozens of…
The European Union announced that it intends to increase its aid provided to the Palestinians in order to rebuild their economical facilities in the Gaza Strip. E.U Foreign relations Commissioner,…
In an article published on Sunday by the Israeli daily ‘Yedioth Ahronoth’, Israeli Reservist Brig. Oudid Tairah, said that the Jordan Valley is more important to Israel than the other…
“The Independent†British newspaper reported Israel is considering allowing forces which belong to the European Union to deploy along the Philadilphi route, on the Gaza-Egypt border. The paper reported that…
The Islamic Jihad movement demanded the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, to refrain from meeting the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in their scheduled meeting on October 2, 2005. “We advise…
The Israeli Radio reported on Monday that senior Palestinian and Israeli security officers met on Sunday evening at the Eretz (Beit Hanoun) Crossing, in the northern part of the Gaza…