Category: Miscellaneous

At least 5000 members and supporters of Hamas participated on Monday in a ceremony commemorating Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, the wheelchair bound spiritual leader of Hamas, who was assassinated by the…

Thursday at dawn, Israeli soldiers, supported by dozens of military vehicles and jeeps the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia , and broke into dozens of homes. A local source…

Wednesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded the old city of Nablus and Balata refugee camp and broke into dozens of homes. An Israeli military source claimed that a number of…

Palestinian medical source warned Tuesday that Israel uses radiant glass rooms to inspect Palestinian passengers at border crossings. Dr. Juma’ Saqa, the head of emergency section at Shifa medical center…

Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded Dahiat Al-Barid, north of Jerusalem and started marking the lands to erect the separation wall in the area. Resident Hamdi, Al-Masrawi, said that the news…

Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded Dahiat Al-Barid, north of Jerusalem and started marking the lands to erect the separation wall in the area. Resident Hamdi, Al-Masrawi, said that the news…

Half of the Palestinian Society is composed of women, while the world and the Palestinians celebrate the Mothers Day; Palestinian women are suffering of imprisonment, death and refuge in their…

A poll conducted by the Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies An-Najah University in Nablus during the period from March 16 to 19, 2005 revealed that 70.2% of the…

The Palestinian delegation delayed their planned visit to Lebanon till after forming a new Lebanese government. The deputy of the Palestinian Ambassador to Amman Atallah Kheiry stated that during this…

Dr. Mahmoud Zahhar, one of the leaders of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, said that talks with Israel are not a taboo, but the negotiators should aware of what are…

In spite of his childhood, Ehab Riyadh Marhsoud, 5 year old, speaks as a professional politician as a result of his repeated participation in talks about detainees at home in…

Download MP3 http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/03/4054.php This Week in Palestine – a service of the International Middle East Media Center, for the week of Friday, March 11th to Thursday, March 17th, 2005. This…

Fadi Fqeisha, a prominent leader of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fatah, denied any relation between the brigades and the a lad form Askar refugee camp in Nablus,…

Rashid Abu Shbak, head of the Palestinian Preventive Security in the Gaza Strip, said that thousands of Palestinian security men were trained and prepared to protect the settlements after the…

An Israeli source reported that five Palestinian workers were injured, one seriously, after dozens of extremist settlers of Nahlilel settlement, west of Ramallah, attacked a group of Palestinian workers. The…

Chief Islamic Judge, Sheikh Taiseer Tamimi condemned the military procedures on the entrances of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, after soldiers forced several worshippers to undress prior to entering the…

Abdul-Fattah Hamayel, head of the Wanted and Deported Palestinians committee said that the Palestinian and Israeli negotiators arrived to a final agreement on the issue of wanted and deported resistance…

Tuesday afternoon, a Palestinian child was injured near the Ibrahimi Mosque in the old city of Hebron after a settler rammed her with his car. A medical source at Al-Ahli…

A Palestinian woman from the village of Atteel, near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem , managed to uncover spy equipment installed on a tree in front of a…

Since 1993 almost every Israeli negotiator laid on the table a proposal to evacuate the Gaza Strip as the concession Israel is welling to provide in exchange for a political…

Thousands of unemployed Palestinians stormed the Palestinian parliamentary building in Gaza on Saturday, smashing windows and clashing with police, eyewitnesses reported. About 2,500 unemployed Palestinians, who had previously worked in…

Israel soldiers arrested four Palestinians in the village of Baka al-Sharkiyeh in the northern West Bank before dawn Sunday, Israel Radio reported. Israeli army source claimed that the four arrested…

Israeli army continued to impose a curfew on the old city of Hebron for the sixth consecutive day. Soldiers have also restricted the mobility of Palestinians in adjacent city neighborhoods.…

The Islamic resistance movement (Hamas) confirmed Saturday that it will participate in the slated for July Palestinian legislative elections. The Palestinian Authority has welcomed Hamas’s decision. Following lengthy and heated…

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, announced on Saturday that is has decided to participate in the upcoming Palestinian Parliamentary election in July 2005. Hamas, which is a main Palestinian faction,…

At the age of 23, Rachel Corrie was full of life. At the age of 23, she was a senior in college ignited by a passion for justice. At the…

I cannot help but feel the contradictions that flow from the Isreali and US demands that Syrian pull its troops out of Lebanon. Indeed, I feel they reveal their own…

An American and a Soviet soldier meet in Berlin in 1945 and get into an argument about which of their countries is more democratic. ‘Why,’ the American said, ‘I can…

Mahmoud Zahhar, a prominent Hamas leader, said that temporary cease fire will not become permanent until Israeli accepts our list of demands, espcially the release of all prisoners.  Zahhar vowed that if…

Islamic Jihad organized a demonstration in Gaza , Friday afternoon, affirming its choice to continue the resistance and its rejection to the “American and Israeli attempts to control the Middle East”  Dr. Mahmoud Al-Hindi,…

Palestinian sources reported on Friday that Israeli Authorities will allow four Palestinian deportees to immediately return to the West Bank. Abdul Fattah Hamayel, responsible for the ‘Wanted and Deportees’ file,…

Israeli authorities barred Adel Abu Ni’ma from leaving the country, and refused to provide him with a travel permit in order to participate in a conference Rome ; the authorities…

The Islamic jihad movement slammed the results of the Abbas-Mofaz saying that the meeting “did not fulfill the aspirations of the Palestinian people”. Khaled Al-Batsh, a leader of the Islamic…

Download MP3  http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/03/3983.php   This Week in Palestine – a service of the International Middle East Media Center, IMEMC.org, for the week of March 4th to March 10th, 2005. Talks…

Tuesday afternoon, Israeli soldiers lifted the curfew which was imposed over the old city of Hebron on Monday morning, while several military units conducted military searches of homes forcing the…

As women celebrate the International Women Day on March 8, the Palestinian woman celebrates this day on her own way, enduring tremendous pain and sufferings. Many Palestinian women were killed…

, 08 March, 2005 With the U.S. administration throwing around the word ‘terrorist’ so loosely, using it to refer to virtually anyone who disagrees with their line, it should be…

David Evri, a settler of Tafoah settlement, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, told an illegal Israeli radio station that settlers groups are recruiting thousands of settlers to…

In the flurry of interviews conducted following the successful popular defeat of the pro Syrian government in Lebanon, opposition leader Walid Jumblatt spoke about Arab nationalism. He said that the…

Many years ago, I read a book called “The Quiet American” by Graham Greene. Its central character is a high-minded, naive young American operative in Vietnam. He has no idea…

April 2002 the Israeli army invaded Bethlehem and surrounded the Church of Nativity for 40 consecutive days, trapping dozens of resistance fighters at the Church. After extensive negotiations and intervention…

While it is very encouraging to see the U.S.-led world recruited behind a just cause, calling an immediate, full and ‘unconditional’ pullout of Syrian troops and intelligence from Lebanon, the…

Mohammad Dahlan, Palestinian Minister of civil affairs, responsible of the withdrawal file, said that the Palestinian Ministry of Planning has finalized the regional plan needed for the period following the Israeli…

With the U.S. administration throwing around the word 'terrorist' so loosely, using it to refer to virtually anyone who disagrees with their line, it is not surprising that the term…

Translated & Edited by Saed Bannoura-IMEMC, February 24, 2005 The family of Mohammad Ali Abu Sgheera, from Tulkarem refugee camp appealed to humanitarian organizations to aid them in demanding the…

Ala’ Sanaqra, one of the prominent leaders of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank, said that the “file” of the wanted resistance fighters and their fate should be…

The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem reported that Israeli military checkpoints, monitoring towers and concrete blockades are barring the residents from moving between their…

Israeli soldiers arrested on Tuesday afternoon, the chief Islamic judge Sheikh Taiseer Bayyoudh Tamimi, and two of his entourage. The Israeli online daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Sheikh Tamimi was…

The WAFA news agency reported that Mohammad Abdul-Halim Basha, 16, from the northern West bank city of Qalqilia, died of wounds sustained January 26, 2005. The child was injured during…

Saturday evening, Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured a 14-year-old girl in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. The Israeli army claimed that the girl attempted to stab a…

The Palestinian President’s Advisor for the National Security, Jibreel Al-Rajoub, arrived in Cairo Friday night, for talks with some Egyptian officials on developments on the Palestinian government after forming the…

In an official statment released saturday afternoon, Hezbollah denied any relation to Tel-Aviv bombing, saying that news on the party’ involvment are lies, and part of the ‘zionist’ incitment against…

The Israeli army imposed strict closure over the northern West Bank city of Nablus and the surrounding villages. The Israeli security claimed receiving intelligence information about intention of an armed…

After Friday’s attack in Tel Aviv which killed 3 and injured 38 Israelis (according to Israeli police), the American media has been quick to repeat the Israeli claim that Palestinians…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged Friday night to track down and punish those responsible for Friday’s suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Abbas’s pledge followed an emergency meeting with PA top…

Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said that the new government needs to conduct “extensive…

The new Palestinian cabinet took office on Thursday after it was sworn before the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in the northern West Bank city of Ramallah. The Palestinian Legislative Council…

The annexation wall which Israel started to erect in the summer of 2002 isolated, surrounded some Palestinian areas, nearly from all directions. The village of Azzoun Atma , south of Qalqilia is one…

This weekend marked the end of a 30-day ceasefire negotiated in late January by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with all of the Palestinian armed factions. Israeli officials had made such…

The stormy Tuesday’s Palestinian Legislative Council PLC session forced Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei to withdraw his newly formed cabinet, accept forming a technocrat cabinet “with a majority of new…

The Palestinian security in Ramallah handed the army an Israeli resident after he entered Ramallah to search for an apartment; Israeli police says he might be suffering of mental disability.…

The acting Prime Minster Ahmad Qurei said after withdrawing his proposed cabinet that he intends to propose a government which includes “more reform-minded” ministers, and represents competent figures from a wide…

A Palestinian source reported on Monday that the Palestinian factions will hold negotiations and internal dialogue in the Egyptian capital Cairo , March 1 st . The source stated that…

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahamd Qurei told the Palestinian Legislative Council that security, reforms and preparation for the legislative and local elections are top priorities in the agenda of the news…

Palestinian parliamentarian sources hinted a crisis between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei to be behind the heated crisis in the Palestinian legislative council over the approval…

Palestinian source revealed information that Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas is considering joining the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority institutions. The source said Hamas leaders are holding intensive consultation…

Translated by Saed Bannoura Ala’ Sanqra, one of the leaders of Al-Aqsa brigades, the military wing of Fatah, and the number one wanted resistance fighter said that the brigades have…

Niveen Akram Kahleel, 25, from Kafr Aqeb in the West Bank, gave birth recently on a military checkpoint after soldiers stationed at Qalandia checkpoint, north of Jerusalem , refrained from…

Translated by Saed Bannoura-IMEMC, Ala’ Sanqra, one of the leaders of Al-Aqsa brigades, the military wing of Fatah, and the number one wanted resistance fighter said that the brigades have…

Palestinian journalists organized on Wednesday a protest against the frequent assault against them by different groups. {mosimage}A number of representatives of different Palestinian factions and Human Rights activists joined the…

The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas approved lately execution orders against a number of collaborators with the Israeli occupation; the collaborators were charged of murder and attempted murder of Palestinian fighters,…

A Palestinian official source reported that a new PA cabinet was approved on Wednesday in a meeting of Fatah Movement that lasted for three hours. More of the allies of…

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei said Wednesday that he will present his new cabinet to the Palestinian Legislative Council on Tuesday. {mosimage}Qurei’s announcement followed the approval of the new cabinet…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed on Tuesday, reports saying that a new Palestinian cabinet headed by the Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, to be announced in the coming 24 hours,…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday night, that the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Al-Hariri in Beirut on Monday is a big loss, and described…

Palestinian Authority ministries are preparing plans for the construction of thousands of apartments in the slated for evacuation Gaza Strip settlements to resettle refugees now living in refugee camps.  {mosimage}The…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was quoted Monday as saying that the war with the Israelis is effectively over and that the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is speaking ‘a…

Translated by Saed Bannoura Nayef Hawatma, secretary general of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said that the front will support Abbas as long as he remains committed…

The urge towards violence is an instinct human beings inherited from the animal kingdom. Proponents of totalitarian ideologies that tolerate or even encourage violence as a legitimate means towards an…

Translated by Saed Bannoura Nayef Hawatma, secretary general of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said that the front will support Abbas as long as he remains committed…

The US weekly Newsweek newspaper reported on Wednesday, that the new Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, expressed worries over his life in front of two members of the US senate. {mosimage}According…

After the concluding of Sharm A-Sheikh summit the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs  Dr. Nabil Sha’ath stated that the issue of dismantling the Palestinian resistance groups was not discussed. {mosimage}’We…

According to Israeli and Palestinian sources, at the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will announce a cease-fire, but Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will only promise to end…

Palestinian officials met on Monday with the Egyptian security delegate, headed by Mustafa Al-Boheiry, deputy chief of the Egyptian intelligence, who is currently visiting the Gaza Strip. The meeting, which…

A Palestinian political source voiced some expectations that a new Palestinian Cabinet will be announced within the coming 24 hours. The source said that some ministerial changes took place where…

One day before the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, Abu Mazen, met on Monday afternoon, with Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. Secretary of State, and announced in a press…

The Egyptian delegation security delegation met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and senior PA security officials in Gaza on Sunday to discuss PA security needs and a comprehensive Palestinian security…

Ala ‘ Sanaqra, a prominent leader of Al-Aqsa brigades, the military wing of Fatah, said that the brigades’ rejects moving its fighters to Palestinian controlled cities after the Israeli army…

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said that the Palestinian security released two of its three leaders arrested on Saturday morning. {mosimage}Saleh Zeidan, one of the leaders of…

Palestinian security forces arrested on Saturday three top officials of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian security forces arrested on Saturday three top…

The campaign against Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip and four marginal settlements in the Westbank is gaining momentum. Right-wing Zionist and ultra-orthodox religious activists are joining forces to derail…

Would it work? A pre-mature answer would be: ‘very unlikely’ {mosimage}The current optimism over a likely solution to the Palestinian-Israeli crisis is based on two unusual moves; an Israeli unprecedented…

Contemplating Bush’s speeches there is the temptation to discuss words and their meanings. But Bush does not write his own speeches. Commentaries on his inaugural address of 20 January in…

Translated by Saed Bannoura-IMEMC Head of Hamas political bureau, Khaled Mashal said that Hamas considered Sharm Al-Sheikh summit as a positive step which enables the Palestinians examine the real Israeli…

Contemplating Bush’s speeches there is the temptation to discuss words and their meanings. But Bush does not write his own speeches. Commentaries on his inaugural address of 20 January in…

Thursday, the Israeli High Court of Justice rejected a petition filed by Bethlehem and Beit Jala municipalities against the path of the annexation Wall surrounding Rachel’s Tomb. Lawyer Arieh-Cohen who…

Thursday, the Israeli High Court of Justice rejected a petition filed by Bethlehem and Beit Jala municipalities against the path of the annexation Wall surrounding Rachel’s Tomb. Lawyer Arieh-Cohen who…

42 Palestinian policemen from different security devices left to Egypt on Thursday to receive training there, in order to control the security in the Gaza Strip prior to the Israeli…

Upoun the initiative of the Egyptian President Husni Mubarak, leaders from Israel, Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority will hold a summit meeting in the Egyptian Sharm Al-Sheikh resort on…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordanian King Abdullah II, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will hold a summit meeting in the Egypt’s Red Sea resort of…