Category: Miscellaneous

The measure of a human rights organisation is to be found not just in the strides it takes to seek justice for the oppressed and victimised but also in the…

On a humid afternoon, an hour or two after lunch, Nadi al-Attar, 12, set off on a donkey-drawn cart with his grandmother Khariya and two of his young cousins to…

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Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a…

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported that the estimated total cost of the damages in the Gaza Strip assessed for the period between June 28 and August 27, 2006,…

23 Internationals from different European countries and the United States are sitting at the Jalama military checkpoint as they were denied entry to the West Bank city of Jenin. The…

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Riziq Al Barghouthi, member of the General Committee for the Teachers Union in the West Bank, told the IMEMC that teachers are ongoing with their strike and that no agreement…

At a press conference on Wednesday, foreign passport holders, human rights organizations, and representatives of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem charged Israel with separating families that have long lived together…

Muhsan described to Ynet on Wednesday the events which had taken place on Saturday a week and a half prior: He was on his way from Nablus, where he studies…

On Saturday the 26th of August, Israeli military invaded the Jabal Shamali area of Nablus and destroyed 22 homes, according to an eyewitness report from the International Solidarity Movement. The…

This is IMEMC interviewing Faisal Sawalha from the Regional Council for the Arab Unrecognized Villages in the Negev.  Mr. Sawalha works in resource development and public relations.  Today is Wednesday…

I am an Italian citizen, born and raised as a member of the German-speaking minority in northern Italy (the relevance of this fact will be apparent later). For the last…

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A genocide is taking place in Gaza. This morning, 2 September, another three citizens of Gaza were killed and a whole family wounded in Beit Hanoun. This is the morning…

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The Israeli army injured one women and three reporters during a search campaign of residents' houses in the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday.     Medical sources in…

Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses reported, on Sunday evening, that an unknown group of gunmen stopped the car of Dr. Nabil Shaath, a senior Fateh official and a Palestinian legislator…

When garbage men went on a strike in Gaza three days ago, garbage covered the streets. In order to encourage people to do the same thing, Palestine Prime Minister Ismael…

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After an eight-hour standoff, special Israeli police captured an armed Palestinian who broke into the British Embassy in Tel Aviv and demanded political asylum, Israeli sources reported. No one was…

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The Israeli army took nine residents as prisoners in the West Bank city of Hebron and the nearby towns of Al-Thahria and Sa'eer towns, on Thursday morning. Troops, backed by…

During a meeting with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan voiced support to the formation of a Palestinian National Unity Government saying that this could…

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This past March, 44-year-old Hayan Ju'beh's tourist visa expired, and he had to travel to Amman in order to receive a new one – a routine procedure for him over…

Palestinian Fatah Legislative Council member, Issa Qaraqi', has appealed to the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, who will visit the Palestinian territories on Wednesday, for the deployment of international forces…

IN HIS latest speech, which infuriated so many people, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad uttered a sentence that deserves attention: "Every new Arab generation hates Israel more than the previous one." …

Israeli Public Security Minister Avi Dichter and Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Hizbollah was using modern anti-tank weapons of Russian make, specifically the RPG-29 Vampirs with a tandem warhead. Such…

After the funeral, we stopped to photograph and shoot video of three large pictures of what appeared to be resistance fighters. An old man grabbed our attention and asked if…

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I am always amazed at the proximity and inextricability of lives between Palestinians and Israelis in Jerusalem. The rub off effect is incredible and the acquaintanceship between the two sides…

Palestinian medical and security sources reported that two fighters were killed and seven residents were injured by Israeli forces in an invasion of Al Shujaeyya area, east of Gaza City,…

The former ruling Fatah party declared that it had agreed to unconditionally join the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in a National Unity Government.     Palestinian sources said that Hamas…

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An Israeli military court extended Khalid Abu Arafa’s prison sentence for another eight days yesterday.This is the seventh time the court extended the Palestinian Minister of Jerusalem Affairs’ sentence, while…

Late last month, a fortnight into Israel's war against Lebanon, the Hebrew media published a story that passed observers by. Scientists in Haifa, according to the report, have developed a…

A STORY has it that Oscar Wilde once attended the premiere of a colleague’s play and every few minutes raised his hat. When asked about this odd behavior, he replied:…

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“The ceasefire in Lebanon was holding by a thread last night after sanctioned a commando raid in the east of the country. Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary General, said…

Israeli army troops stormed the West Bank city of Jenin and the nearby village of Azzon Thursday morning and took 12 prisoners. More than 20 army vehicles invaded both the…

Israeli soldiers occupying the eastern Bethlehem District’s Wadi Nar Checkpoint, also known as The Container, detained a Nablus professor yesterday.   Wednesday afternoon An Najah University School of Journalism professor,…

Bilal Rizek, 25, a resident of Hendaza neighborhood in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, was taken prisoner by the Israeli Army during a pre-dawn invasion of the city, early…

With the UN-sponsored ceasefire between Israel and Hizbullah going into effect, Palestinians are apprehensive that might embark on a fresh rampage in Gaza in order to boost the morale of…

On Jerusalem’s Jabotinsky Street, opposite the President’s Residence, a medium-sized plaque is fixed on a locked gate, enclosing a broad building and a lovely garden: "This building was the location…

My wife tapped me on the shoulder, saying, "Wake up and take Mohammad. I’ve fed him and changed his diapers, but he won’t go to sleep. I’m too tired to…

Today in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, the Israeli army went from house to house and forcibly entered every Palestinian home…

As I walked into one of the largest food processing plants in the central Gaza Strip, the first thing I noticed were two workers lying idle in the ice-cream production…

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Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses report that Israeli forces invaded Bethlehem’s Aida Refugee Camp early Tuesday. The Israeli Wall lines the northern edge of the camp and Rachel’s Tomb military…

Israeli soldiers arrested on Tuesday, one Palestinian child in Tulkarem city, in the northern part of the West Bank. The arrest took place after the troops invaded the eastern neighborhood…

Israeli forces arrested 15 Palestinians from the southern West Bank Tuesday. The raid spanned southern Bethlehem to southern Hebron city. The southern Hebron village of Dura lost nine residents after…

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What is really portended by UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which set the terms for the present ceasefire in ? The very fact that it was signed at all might…

The Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, gave a speech on Tuesday which was televised throughout the country.. Speaking directly to he stated,  "I say to the Israeli enemy to stop…

Israeli army carried out wide scale of searches in the residents’ homes of two villages and one town of the west Bank area of Hebron Tuesday. Israeli army invaded Tuesday…

Tuesday the Palestine News Network spoke with Yoram Ben Nur, an Israeli journalist and political analyst, regarding the current state of thinking among the Israeli people. The 50 year old…

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Troops stationed at Kitsofem border crossing in the eastern Gaza Strip injured four Palestinian resistors on Monday morning, the Israeli army claimed. The Israeli newspaper Yideot Ahranot reported that the…

Two residents from the West Bank city of Tulkarem escaped an assassination attempt by the Israeli army, while the army took 10 prisoners in several other West Bank areas on…

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friends, for those of you that don’t know i’ve been in lebanon for the past   three weeks, trying to provide a biased alternative to the bullshit   that the…

As the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s popularity has grown, so has bizarre Israeli behavior. It is difficult to find another adjective to represent what is happening. Israeli…

At first sight, the peaceful scene at a west Beirut fishing harbour seems far removed from the conflict that has raged in for the past five weeks.Small boats line the…

The Israeli army kidnapped the Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Nasser Iddin El-Sha’er from his house in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday, Palestinian sources reported. Ghazi Hamad,…

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Israeli special army unites assassinated two Palestinians in Al-Obaydiya village east of Bethlehem in the early hours of Friday morning, Palestinian sources said. Khaled 24, and Okla Shalyta 32, were…

Despite of his health set back, an Israeli military court has extended Thursday, the detention of Dr. Aziz Dweik, the chair of the Palestinian Parliament until next Tuesday, Palestinian sources…

Now you see them, now you don’t. Hizbollah weapons? None to be seen. And none to be collected by the Lebanese army. For when this august body of men crossed…

The Israeli Occupation is not only is responsible for the physical dismemberment and destruction Palestine’s assets, it is also socially destructive. Denying Palestinians their right to education prevents the development…

Three Israelis expelled from Fiji described their experience as "The most humiliating experience we have ever gone through".  They should recognize that such humiliation is a daily occurrence for millions…

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[ed. note: “Summer Rains” is the name the Israeli military has given to their ongoing operation in Gaza] In wintertime, we are used to having heavy rains sometimes in some…

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Hezbollah has triumphed as the only Arab force that fought Israel to a standstill. But its victory will be apparent in other spheres as well. Hezbollah has a well-earned reputation…

Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, strongly slammed the abduction of two international reporters (American and New-Zealand) in Gaza city, and demanded the abductors to release them immediately and to stop these…

Thousands of Palestinian residents stranded at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing and at Al Areesh airport in Egypt since several weeks have voiced an appeal to the…

The 35-day-old Israel-Hezbollah war ended at 8 a.m. on Monday after a UN-brokered cease-fire went into effect. The toll: over 1,000 dead, 4,000 wounded and one million rendered homeless on…

Operation "Change of Location"? A team of Israeli lawyers is now suing the Lebanese government for starting the war. The case, to be filed in US civil court, will sue…

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IMEMC Interview with Reem Natour, resident of Nazareth. Q: Could you speak about how some of the first casualties by the Hezbollah rockets were Israeli-Palestinians, or so-called Arab-Israelis? Why do…

Today, B’Tselem and HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, are publishing Perpetual Limbo , a report on ‘s policy freezing family unification for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories…

It is a measure of the scale of ‘Israels atrocities against the Lebanese that the worst environmental disaster in Lebanon’s history has gone largely unreported in the midst of all…

IMEMC Interview with Uri Avnery, founder of the Israeli Peace Bloc Gush Shalom, and former Israeli Parliament member, on August 10th.Interview transcribed by Tania Tabar Audio: Download MP3 Q: Could…

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Christian Peacemakers Team (CPT) members Dianne Roe and John Lynes went through five hours of questioning at the Kiryat Arba police station on 11 August before Israeli authorities released them…

Arifa Salman is a former Palestinian political prisoner and student activist at Al-Quds Open University, in the West Bank city of Nablus. In 2004, Arifa was charged with the ambiguous…

The fighter plane is the quintessence of modern civilization, the modern goddess. It is the product of the collective input of all the sciences and the neutralization of all morals…

In the furthest reaches of eastern Rafah City, in the southernmost part of Gaza Strip, the village of Shouka , population 14,000, is located.  Reaching the village at night time…

Following is the text of the operative provisions of a draft resolution circulated to members of the UN Security Council on Friday, August 11. The preambular provisions have been omitted…

Residents of Modi’in Illit do not consider themselves settlers. The housing shortage has pushed large ultra-orthodox families to the settlement, where they get public housing and government assistance not available…

Israeli forces have killed 203 Palestinians and injured 800 others since the start of their operations in the Gaza Strip, dubbed "Operation Summer Rains", launched June 25, according to a…

In its weekly report, from August 3-9, 2006 on the Israeli violations of human rights in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) said 25 Palestinians, including…

“What is happening in Jerusalem goes beyond security needs, and reflects the essence of the original Zionist dream: maximum territory, minimum Arabs." -Israeli historian Tom Segev As the Apartheid separation…

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A reader recently emailed to ask if anyone else was suggesting, as I have done, that Hizbullah’s rocket fire may not be quite as indiscriminate or maliciously targeted at Israeli…

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip have seen a significant increase in war casualties with severe injuries over the past month and are running out of medical supplies, the Medical Emergency…

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