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To the great consternation of most of the world, the European Union, followed now by Norway and Canada, has halted payments to the Hamas-led government of the Palestinian Authority (PA).…
{mosimage}Palestinian activist Mazin Qumsiyeh penned the following letter to the US readership on Wednesday. PNN is reprinting it in full, including an article by former US President Jimmy Carter who…
The Israeli army arrested Mostafa Aqel, 30, from Aida refugee camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Friday night, in a military operation that lasted for five hours, local…
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{mosimage}A three-year old child, Nour Naji Ghanim, was separated on Thursday from his mother, Manal Ghanim, 30, from Tulkarem refugee camp, who gave birth to him while in Israeli detention.…
Thursday, the Israeli prosecution at the Jerusalem District Court decided to charge Ahmad Saadat, former Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and four other…
Palestinian political prisoner, Fatah leader, and elected official to the Palestinian Legislative Council, Marwan Al Barghouti is holding talks with jailed prominent leaders in the Hamas party to contain the…
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It took Jamil Khairi, a Jenin resident, seven hours to arrive to his home city from Ramallah during which he was forced to navigate difficult dirt roads in order to…
Ahmed Ayad was unfortunate to fall sick while living under what Israel and its allies in the west are defining as the "ministries of terror". The 42-year-old Palestinian father of…
Dor Energy, the Israeli company that provides fuel to the Palestinian areas, has cut off all fuel shipments to the West Bank and Gaza, leaving Palestinians without fuel — a…
Three Palestinian children who suffer from kidney failure died Tuesday at Shiffa Hospital in Gaza due to the severe medicine shortage caused by an Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip,…
Peace may now be possible if the international community grabs the olive branch tentatively offered by Abbas and Hamas. “Peace at last, peace at last, thank God Almighty, there’s peace…
Innocent Palestinian people are being treated like animals, with the presumption that they are guilty of some crime. Because they voted for candidates who are members of Hamas, the government…
The Bethlehem area is suffering a serious gas shortage which if continued would paralyze traffic in the district. Prices were already high, and have now skyrocketed. Lines of cars are…
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Israeli bulldozers leveled on Tuesday morning one Palestinian house in Beit Hanina neighborhood, in Jerusalem after claiming that the house was illegally constructed seven years ago. Another house was leveled…
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The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday morning and arrested 9 residents including a young woman.Army vehicles and jeeps stormed the city and the nearby…
A newspaper article published Sunday has incensed the armed resistance wing of Hamas, the Al Qassam Brigades. The piece claims that Al Qassam intended to assassinate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.…
Three Palestinian school children were injured in the West Bank city of Hebron after being attacked by extremist settlers living in illegal settlement outpost in the city. The attack…
Last night Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian citizen at a military checkpoint occupying the western Hebron area of the southern West Bank. At the same time, Israeli forces are intensifying…
Many remain unaware of Israeli soldiers’ behavior against Palestinian citizens at checkpoints in the West Bank, the racial slurs, the torturous behavior and humiliation. This is the story,…
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Facing sky-high petrol prices and fewer passengers, Palestinian taxi driver Abdel-Hakim Yassin now powers his shabby cab with cooking gas canisters as a financial crisis deepens in the Gaza Strip.…
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What is to be done with Mofaz now? As an elected MK on Kadima’s list, his place is in the Knesset. The mark of shame on his brow will only…
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Several Health Ministry officials at the Palestinian National Authority have warned of a serious health crisis in Gaza Strip due to the shortage of medicines and basic medical supplies, caused…
The entire debate between the old and the new historians revolves round the question of moral responsibility for the consequences of the first Arab-Israeli war. It is a pleasure and…
As the workers of the world, and the Palestinians, celebrated the First of May, Palestinian workers remained jobless as a result of the Israeli military procedures, attacks and checkpoints barring…
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The Israeli Army commander of the West Bank issued three military orders on Tuesday — to demolish a house and a barn in the West Bank city of Hebron and…
Despite the daily repression, 45 year old Abu Fathi goes to work in an industrial zone beside an Israeli settlement in the Salfit District. Among the thousands of Palestinians working…
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Hamas’ spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri distanced the movement from the plot to attack Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip which was foiled by the Palestinian security forces last week. Abu…
On September 9, 1969, a big brown envelope was delivered to the Oval Office on behalf of CIA Director Richard Helms; on it he had written "For and to be…
A major Palestinian nonviolent march swept through the West Bank streets of Ramallah Monday in honor of International Workers Day. Their first stop was with Fateh spokesperson Ahmed Abdul Rahman…
The Israeli army invaded several villages and areas in the West Bank city of Hebron and arrested 17 residents, Monday morning, Palestinian sources rerported. In Bani N’aim village, troops stormed…
On Friday the 28th of April on behalf of the International Middle Eastern Media Centre I traveled to Bilin to cover the weekly protest and resistance to the Israeli illegal…
It’s still too early to say if there is going to be a change of Israeli policies vis-a-vis the internal Palestinian situation by the yet-to-be-formed new Israeli government. Ehud Olmert…
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Islamic Jihad Movement official in Jenin, Mahmoud Al Sa’adi, said that Israeli forces launched a wide arrest campaign on Friday against resistance fighters in several areas of the Jenin District.…
If I were an Israeli I would have built a wall, but not as a way of stealing land. We have been conned again. The Israeli elections, we are told,…
Palestinian Legislative Council Secretary General, Dr. Mahmoud Al Rahmahi has strongly condemned Iseael’s arrest of Palestinian Legislative Council member Ahmed Mubarak from Ramallah Thursday morning. On Thursday morning, a large…
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The Israeli Army evacuated the Osh-Ghrab military base east of of Beit Sahour near Bethlehem in the West Bank, on Thursday morning. Residentsfrom the surrounding area rushed inside the military…
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Three resistance fighters who belong to the Popular Resistance Committees were injured Wednesday, when they clashed with the Palestinian Security forces who prevented an attack with a car bomb at…
Palestinian government spokesperson Ghazi Hamad accused the United States’ administration of terrorism against Palestine by preventing Banks from transferring aid money to the Palestinian Authority causing a severe financial crisis…
Rubber bullets being fired in the occupied West Bank have seriously injured another Palestinian civilian. Ruba Mahmoud Awayes, 21, was on her way home from college when she was hit…
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniya said the government managed to collect funds needed for the state employees’ salaries, from Arab countries. Haniya said the money is now with the Arab…
The maze of Israeli military checkpoints inside the West Bank ensure that not only vegetables must be carried to market, but also students must walk to school, workers to their…
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Palestinian Minister of Finance, Omar Abdul Raziq said on Tuesday the government has no objection if the President’s office will receive and manage international aid for the Palestinian Authority including…
The international community double-standard policy towards the Middle East region, particularly, Palestine, has been steadily apparent since the formation of a Hamas-led Palestinian government in both the West Bank and…
Following statements made by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in which he threatened to fire the Hamas-run government, Ghazi Hamad, a spokesman for the government said that Abbas should not…
President of the Political Committee in the Palestinian Legislative Council, Abdullah Abdullah, said the three-day national dialogue will begin Tuesday in Gaza and Ramallah via video conference. Hamas, Fatah, and…
On a Sunday, during the intermediate days of Pesach, Jerusalem was quite empty. Maybe the sudden rain kept the tourists away. In the city center, next to the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian…
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) submitted two strongly-worded condemnations Sunday against aggressions in Nablus. Armed members of resistance parties, defying internal agreements, are using weapons reserved only to…
The Hamas-led Palestinian government and the Fateh movement, headed by the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, have pledged on Sunday to work in order to end the tensions between them after…
Fridays’ speech by Hamas Political Office leader Khalid Mashal, put Fateh officials over the edge. They went so far as to refer to Mashal’s words from exile in Syria to…
The Fateh linked armed resistance wing, the Al Aqsa Brigades, demanding Hamas for clarifications of the statements made by Khaled Mashal on Friday. Saturday, the Al Aqsa Brigades, demanded the…
Israeli forces arrested two Palestinian in Bethlehem and Hebron areas in the West Bank on Saturday morning, a Palestinian source reported. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society in Hebron said Israeli forces…
Two months before the Palestinian election, I met in Ramallah with Hassan Yousef, a senior West Bank leader of Hamas. Talking to him before he began an interview on our…
"One million of the estimated 3.8 million Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories rely on Palestinian Government salaries for their livelihoods. Impoverishing and embittering our people will not only exacerbate…
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The executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, (PLO) approved in a statement published on Friday, the Presidential decree preventing the government to form a special security unit in the…
In bid to ease the hard situation, the state employees are facing because of the financial crisis the Palestinian Authority is in, the Palestinian Minister of Finance Omar Abdul Razeq…
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Occupation is the seed-bed for terrorism. It creates a uniquely fertile environment for random acts of violence directed at civilians. The insightful analysis of Robert A. Pape “Al Qaidas Smart…
The shells keep falling. They’ve gotten inside my head, so that it’s not just my house shaking but but my brain throbbing. It’s like someone is banging a gong next…
Food for everybody in the world is a means to survive, to stay alive and maintain a normal, healthy life. But in Palestine, food has become increasingly hard to buy,…
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{enclose dailynews041806_ready.mp3} The daily news, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, http://www.IMEMC.org, for Tuesday April 18, 2006. The Israeli Army invade several West Bank cities and conduct…
I know there are many people who mendaciously and maliciously or maybe ignorantly portray us as bellicose and anti-peace and prone to violence. As the Palestinian people continue their long…
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The Popular Resistance Committees, and the Al Aqsa Brigades, demanded the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to apologize for slamming and denouncing the Tel Aviv suicide bombing carried by a suicide…
Two young human rights activists spoke last night in California about the Palestinian population of Tel Rumeida, Hebron, a West Bank neighborhood that also contains some of what were considered…
For the second day, Israeli troops broke into Anata Secondary School for Boys, and Salah Ed Deen Elementary School in Anata, north of Jerusalem, and detained dozens of students. Head…
I met Olmert in the 60s, when I was a Member of the Knesset. He was the apprentice and servant (literally) of another Member: Shmuel Tamir. Ehud Olmert is now…
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Anatomy of a Statistical Flim-Flam On March 14, 2006, a report on anti-Semitism in was published with sensational findings. It claimed that a significant proportion of the Swedish public harbor…
An empty watchtower overlooks a deserted road lined with rusting vehicle parts. The only traffic is a pregnant bitch and a mule and cart. This is Gaza’s economic lifeline, the…
On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners Day, Hussam Khader, who was an elected Palestinian Legislative Council Member at the time of his arrest, issued a statement regarding his case. The…
A Palestinian college student from the Nablus area has lost her right eye after an Israeli army marksman shot at her while she on her way home from school. The…
The scenes from Gaza are heartbreaking. Heartbreaking? That’s not for certain. The sight of the Aben family from Beit Lahiya mourning its 12-year-old daughter Hadil last week did not stir…
Israeli soldiers barred on Friday and Saturday thousands of Arab residents of Israel from entering the West Bank city of Jericho after Israel announced the Palestinian controlled city as a…
The Mayor of Gaza, Dr. Majed Abu Ramadan said, work in more than thirty projects has stopped because of the current closure imposed on the strip by the Israeli army.…
This is, as they say, the crunch. This is the political moment all Israeli governments – all of them, Labor, Likud and ‘National Unity’ – have been working towards the…
Adnan Abu Haniya, 48 from Huwwara village said he is willing to sell his house and to offer the money to the Palestinian authority in a challenging step to the…
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Despair and fear is on the rise among Palestinian Authority employees [one of the largest sectors of the employed in Palestine] because of the delay in getting their salaries. After…
Weeks after a British magazine published a long article by two American professors titled "The Israel Lobby," the outrage continued to howl through mainstream U.S. media. A Los Angeles Times…
The Palestinian village of Isdud, about 50 km south of Tel Aviv on the Israeli coast, was taken over by Israeli forces during the creation of the state of Israel…
Two weeks ago, on Israeli Election Day, at 8 A.M., drivers wishing to leave Tul Karm from the eastern exit (toward Anabta) discovered that their permits were invalid. A soldier…
Tawfiq Musmar takes up his place behind the lost luggage desk at Gaza international airport each morning, checking all is in order at the baggage carousel before wandering off to…
Palestinian fighters of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh movement, briefly briefly took over the Cabinet building in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Thursday, protesting…
There is widespread international agreement that Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons is an alarming prospect, but very little attention is paid to the most obvious, immediate reason why: that there…