Category: Miscellaneous

I have seen so many photos of war and dead people and I can say that I got used to see these photos,, however, I was never disgusted more than…

The spokesman for the Hamas parliamentary bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr. Salah Bardawil, denied any organizational relationship between the Palestinian Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah. In a press statement,…

According to official sources from the Hebron Municipality, about 22,000 Palestinian citizens living in the villages just south of Hebron will face a water crisis in the upcoming weeks. This…

The Rafah-Egypt border crossing was partially reopened on Tuesday morning to allow Palestinians who had been trapped for the past 23 days on the Egyptian side of the crossing, to…

A mother and son, both American citizens, were savagely beaten last week by Israeli security at the Israeli entry point into the Palestinian West Bank from Jordan: Allenby Bridge. The…

Whatever may be the fate of the captive soldier Gilad Shalit, the Israeli army’s war in Gaza is not about him. As senior security analyst Alex Fishman widely reported, the…

IMEMC exclusive Interview with Dr. Mustapha Barghouthi, Palestinian independent legislator, on the current situation in Gaza, and his public statement that the crisis could cause the dissolution of the Palestinian…

"I have lost a total of $1000 US dollars since the power supply has been cut, the number of my customers has decreased to minimum, I stay idle at my…

The three-day-old baby, Mohammed, and his mother Asam 23, were sleeping in their room when an Israeli missile hit their house early Monday morning in the heart of Jabalia refugee…

The Palestinian people live a life of contradictions- joy and sadness, life and death, construction and demolition. Despite the continued Israeli incursions into the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and…

In light of the escalating conflict between Israeli forces and the Lebanese resistance party Hezbollah, on top of the already heightened Israeli military aggression in the Gaza Strip, many prominent…

After years of asymmetric attacks on the First Amendment – assassinating journalists, surveilling dissent and censoring the free flow of information – the Democracy Mukhabarat rules. Using national security to…

I am Douglas Giles, an adjunct professor who was fired for allowing students to speak in a World Religions class at Roosevelt University, Chicago. I have taught college philosophy, ethics,…

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry was bombed by Israeli aircraft for the second time in a week, injuring five residents. An 8-story section of the building collapsed and dozens of houses…

An Israeli soldier was killed and seven others were injured early Monday morning in an explosion in the West Bank city of Nablus.  Al Aqssa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing…

Today in Izbat Tabib, in the Qalqiliya region, in the northwestern West Bank, over 250 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists successfully removed a land mound road block in order to…

Today in Izbat Tabib, in the Qalqiliya region, in the northwestern West Bank, over 250 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists successfully removed a land mound road block in order to…

We woke up this morning to the footage. No less than six hours after we watched, live, the Israeli bombing of a Gaza building last night, the same rogue military…

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A Golf  ball landed in my front yard. It came from the direction of my neighbor across the street. I was not sure if one of my neighbor’s kids threw…

One Palestinian was killed and eight were injured as Israeli air force war planes bombed a house in Gaza city on Saturday morning. The house is located in Al-Sheikh Radwan,…

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After nearly three weeks of border closure between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, in which at least eight Palestinians waiting there have died from heat exposure, a group of Palestinian…

Community Voice, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, June 10th, 2006 In Rafat, as throughout Palestine, the spirit of resistance against the Occupation has passed through generation to generation. The land…

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The “apartheid state” is worse than the apartheid that was conducted in , Willie Madisha, the Congress of SA Trade Unions president, said on July 10 on the South African…

Racism is "the belief that one ‘racial group’ is inferior to another and the practices of the dominant group to maintain the inferior position of the dominated group. Often defined…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that five children were killed and at least seven were injured after Israeli soldiers fired a missile at a playground in Dir Al…

In response to an article by Dr Steven King, Prof James Bowen , chairman of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, outlines why people should join the group’s protest today.Irish Examiner, 8…

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Wednesday afternoon. The new Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Far East (UNRWA), visited several shelled areas in the Gaza Strip,…

Beit Hanoun’s veteran bridge builder shrugged off his latest misfortune: the Israelis destroyed the main span into town three years ago. The European Union rebuilt it. And overnight the Israelis…

"It must be a mistake, the caprice of a clerk at border control," Aadel Samara responded when his wife Enayeh informed him by phone on May 26 that her entry…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported a Palestinian woman and child died on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Border Crossing Tuesday.  This makes a total of four Palestinian…

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The following is a translation of an official Israeli Government Notice published in Hebrew in Haaretz on July 9, 2006 describing  a 32% increase in subsidies for Israeli industry that…

“My child does not know me,” says just released Palestinian political prisoner, Mohammad. “I felt great pain, but I must accept this fate as she came into this life while…

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Israel is more worried about resistance attacks against its soldiers than its civilians, for the former are the guardians of Zionism and the prestige of self-appointed supremacy, writes Azmi Bishara.…

One element fueling the current crisis in Gaza is the ongoing failure of US corporate media coverage of Israel/Palestine. US policy, public opinion and mainstream media coverage of Israel/Palestine are…

Several international organizations working in the Gaza Strip expressed their concern over the recent developments in Gaza, and the ongoing Israeli attacks that have left dozens of Palestinians dead and…

There is arguably no modern state that more shamelessly employs the propaganda technique of the Big Lie than Israel. Since July 6, Israel has been deploying its military forces in…

Few readers of a British newspaper would have noticed the story. In the Observer of 25 June, it merited a mere paragraph hidden in the "World in brief" section, revealing…

"Summer rains are a good blessing" — this is the title for a lesson in the second-grade grammar book of Palestinian children in Gaza.  And while it is true that…

A statement by Christian leaders issued Saturday stated, "Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands at a distance; for truth stumbles in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter. Truth…

On a covered, concrete sports pitch in Bethlehem, 12 women are being put through their paces by the coach.  They run around the pitch several times, do their warm-up exercises…

The power is still off. It comes on and off irregularly. The electricity company is trying hard to supply power to 1.5 million people who used to get electricity from…

The Palestinian Health Ministry on Friday called on Gaza Strip residents to donate blood, reporting that apart from 24 Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours, 82 Palestinians were wounded…

As the Israeli offensive into the Gaza Strip continues, claiming over 40 Palestinian lives this week alone, thousands of Palestinians are stuck at the closed border, sweltering in the heat…

The June 25 Palestinian fighters’ raid on an Israeli military post near the Gaza-Egypt border has sent Israel “scrambling to defend itself,” the voice of a BBC news reporter declared…

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In a step aimed at confronting the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip,  Palestinian Interior Ministry gave orders to the Palestinian National Forces to be on highest alert and…

At least five Palestinians have been killed and several injured in an air strick at a residential block in Al Salteen area in Beit lahya town in the Gaza steip,…

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Thursday morning Israeli army will charge the Ministers and Parliament Members with the affiliation with the Hamas movement in military courts in both detentions of Salem near the West Bank…

The Palestinians have no partner for peace. They will only have one if Israel agrees to recognise Palestine’s right to function. Thank goodness for the Swiss. Alone in Europe, their…

The Gaza strip, the most densely populated place on earth is completely walled up no one can get out or in, without the Israeli armies’ blessing. The Gaza strip has…

The Gaza strip, the most densely populated place on earth is completely walled up no one can get out or in, without the Israeli armies’ blessing. The Gaza strip has…

The Gaza strip, the most densely populated place on earth is completely walled up no one can get out or in, without the Israeli armies’ blessing. The Gaza strip has…

Palestinian officials and witnesses said at least seven tanks, along with armored personnel carriers, entered the abandoned settlement of Nissanit, one of ‘s former settlements in northern Gaza, on Wednesday…

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Israeli war planes shelled Dar Al Arkam School in the center of Gaza city Wednesday at dawn. The school was hit with two missiles that completely destroying the building along…

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Israeli army arrested Hamas spokesperson Farahat Assad in the West Bank Tuesday while he was on his way home to the  Al Teera neighborhood near the West Bank city of…

What is the common denominator between the decision of the Israeli military to invade the West Bank in March 2002, and their decision to invade Gaza this week? One could…

When the Justice Ministry submits its report in August in Geneva, social groups will simultaneously submit documents criticizing the state report and elucidating state discrimination against the Bedouin sector. Bedouin…

Beyond the barren Judean Mountain range, east from Jerusalem, lies the Jordan Valley, an area which receives almost no media coverage, despite being home to 52,000 Palestinians and accounting for…

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Some three hundred Palestinian residents are currently stuck at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing after Israeli closed the Palestinian side. Palestinian officials are currently holding talks with…

Israeli soldiers guarding the gate of the annexation Wall near Azoun Atma village, 10 kilometers to the south of Qalqlia in the northern West Bank, stopped an ambulance transferring a…

From where I sit, that soldier appears to have become one more pawn in Tel Aviv’s attempt to destroy forever the Palestinian hope of a homeland. I am so tired…

The Israeli Archeology department decided to destroy one of the gates in the Jerusalem old wall, which leads to the Aqsa mosque yards, in the old city, media reports said…

Most areas of the Gaza Strip are currently experiencing an extremely difficult period — Israeli warplanes and tanks never stop, day or night, firing heavy artillery against   every target possible.…

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The chance for peace is such a fleeting thing. Blink and you miss it. Open your eyes again and the guys with the biggest guns have shot peace down. I…

The Israeli Occupation Forces have called this a "Summer Shower" of their re-occupation (as if they ever left) of Gaza. While I’m hearing this, I feel like I’m watching my…

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When is the legitimate right to self-defense against a mighty military machine by a defenseless people called ‘terrorism’? The answer, a puzzling one, is that it is called ‘terrorism’ by…

The Israeli shelling of Gaza beach is just another episode in the endless carnage that is the holy land’s 21st century manna from heaven, another level of the global war…

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Under the close supervision of the Arab Doctors Union (ADU), Egyptian surgeons have successfully extracted Israeli rocket shrapnel from the body of 4-year-old Lateefa Ghalia, who was critically wounded in…

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Palestinian farmers scored a victory Monday, at least on paper, when the Israeli High Court curtailed the army’s power to deny West Bank farmers access to their lands. In response…

The US government, with European urging, has requested that Israel give negotiation of a bilateral agreement with the Palestinian Authority one last shot. If by the end of the year…

The Hamas government called upon the Palestinian resistance groups who were involved in the attack against the Israeli military post Sunday to keep the Israeli soldier captured during the operation…

In Israeli discourse, Israel is always the side exercising ‘restraint’ in its conflict with the Palestinians. This was true again for the events of the past week: As the Qassam…

My Name is Rachel Corrie was first staged in London at the Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs on 7 April 2005, then on 11 October 2005 at the Royal Court,…

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A senior official at the Preventive Security force in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that gunmen attacked on Sunday at dawn with shells and…

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Members of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed resistance wing of the Fateh movement, stormed the Tulkarem headquarters of the Legislative Council late Thursday night.  Once inside, the members opened…

Dr. Ghassan Bannoura, a doctor at Al Hussein Hospital (The Governmental Hospital) in Beit Jala, spoke recently of a patient named Mustafa Ahmaro, two and a half, from Hebron who…

An inquiry conducted by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has revealed that there has been a huge rise in the number of houses destroyed by the Israeli army in the process…

When a fighter dies who is lost? When a young man ends his life strapped to a bomb who is left behind? And where do the new generations find a…

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The World Health Organization (WHO) called for urgent action to avert a humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories. WHO reported that the health sector in occupied Palestinian is currently…

Israel’s Justice Minister, Haim Ramon, has ordered his department to hurriedly draft the country’s first immigration law to protect Israel’s Jewish majority. He said a Basic Law was needed within…

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Palestinian Authority employees stormed the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) headquarters in Ramallah while the MP’s were in session,on Wednesday at noon.The demonstrators entered the hall while the PLC was in…