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The Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip announced on Wednesday morning that a resident convicted of collaborating with the Israeli occupation was executed..The Ministry said that resident (A Sh)…
Dozens of Egyptians held a protest in front on the Israeli Embassy on Wednesday demanding the Egyptian government to sever ties with Israel, and to stop exporting natural gas to…
The Egyptian Authorities allowed on Wednesday evening six Palestinians who were in Egyptian prisons to return to the Gaza Strip via the Rafah Border Terminal. Imad Al Sayyid, spokesperson of…
The Palestinian Embassy in Algeria confirmed Wednesday that three Palestinians, wielding knives, attempted to assassinate the Palestinian ambassador, Hussein Abdul-Khaleq, this last Monday, the Al Quds newspaper reported.In its statement,…
Unknown persons detonated, on Wednesday at dawn, that a pipeline that transports natural Gas from Egypt to Jordan and Israel. The explosion took place at near the Al Arish Egyptian…
Vik, habibo, you’re not gone, not for me at least. In life you brought the warmth everytime I met you, and to everyone else. You did not see it as…
On Friday morning, the Palestinian District Coordination Office transferred to the Jordanian side the body of Abdul-Rahman Al Breizat, one of the extremists involved in the abduction and murder of…
On Behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas, Christian and Muslim Palestinian officials arrived in Italy on Wednesday to offer their condolences to the family of Italian peace activist, Vittorio Arrigoni, who…
Israeli TV, Channel 2, reported on Tuesday at night that an Australian man from a Saudi descent was arrested at the Ben Gurion Airport on suspicions that intended to spy…
The Palestinian Police in Gaza released pictures and names of three persons believed to be behind the murder of Italian peace activist, Vitorio Arrigoni. The Police stated that evidence against…
The Tawhid and Jihad fundamentalist Salafist group in Gaza, claimed it has no connection with the murder of Italian peace activist, Vittorio Arriogoni, whose body was found hanged on Friday…
The body of an Italian peace and human rights activist, member of the Free Gaza Movement, was found on Friday at dawn in an abandoned house in the Gaza Strip,…
On Thursday evening, and while Peace Now General Director, Yariv Oppenheimer, was waiting at the prep room at the Israeli TV, Channel 1, preparing to be interviewed by the Israeli…
A Palestinian fighter was accidentally killed on Wednesday evening while handling a grenade west of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.The fighter is a member of the…
While Hamas and the Islamic Jihad boycotted Student Senate elections at Bethlehem University on Wednesday, Fateh movement garnered 18 seats while the leftist coalition garnered 13 seats. The leftist coalition…
Palestinian medical sources reported Tuesday that four Palestinians were killed and six others were injured when a tunnel collapse on them in Al Barazil border area, in Rafah, in the…
Thousands of Palestinian participated on Wednesday in the funeral ceremony of Israeli-Palestinian peacemaker who was shot dead by a masked gunman on Monday in the Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin…
The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, issued a press release stating that one of its fighters was killed on Thursday evening when a tunnel collapsed…
Dr. Mohammad Al Ahmad, the Dean of Student Affairs in Bir Zeit University, near the central West bank city of Ramallah, stated that the Yasser Arafat Bloc of the Fateh…
The Hamas movement issued a press release mourning Dr. Andan Abdul-Hafeth Masoudy (Abu Al Abed), 72, who died on Saturday evening due to a number of chronic diseases. Dr. Abu…
The Maan News Agency reported that a Palestinian man, originally from Gaza, was killed after gunmen opened fire at a vehicle carrying him, a physician and a nurse in Dir’a…
Dozens of Palestinian children in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip sent letters to Japanese children to express solidarity with them after the massive earthquake that hit Japan and the…
The explosion that took place in Jerusalem was caused by an explosive device placed in a phone booth close to a bus stop near the Jerusalem Convention Center. An Israeli…
Latest reports revealed that one Israeli woman died of serious wounds sustained during the blast the took place in at a bus stop in West Jerusalem, and that 31 Israelis…
Israeli sources reported that an Israeli soldier was stabbed in Jaffa city on Sunday, and that the masked assailant snatched his weapon and fled the scene.The soldier suffered moderate wounds…
Former White House correspondent Helen Thomas, 89, who was fired last year after making controversial comments about Israel, told Playboy magazine in a feature interview that her comments were misinterpreted…
The Israeli army enforced a full closure on the occupied territories as Israel and its West Bank settlers celebrate the Purim holiday.Effective Thursday midnight until midnight Monday, the occupied territories…
Israeli Ynet News reported that a Jewish man, member of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council was stopped by a policewomen who racially profiled him as an Arab. The man described…
Egypt announced Wednesday that it managed to uncover a spy network working for Israel on Egyptian soil, and that its intelligence services are trying to locate two Israelis and one…
The United Nations believes that a Palestinian Engineer, who lived in Gaza and worked as a senior engineer at the Gaza Power Plant, and went missing in Ukraine more than…
Palestinian medical sources reported that one worker was killed late on Tuesday evening in a tunnel accident in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.The sources stated that…
The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, issues a press release stating that one of its fighters was killed in what was described “a mission in…
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || 12 m 59s || 11.8 MB || The following interview is with Rania Khayyat, the head of public relations for…
Tuesday marks International Women’s Day, a global celebration of women. In Palestine, rallies and conferences were organized to celebrate this day. These provided a chance and space to reflect on…
The Ministry of Detainees at the Hamas-led interim government issued a press release calling on the Egyptian government to immediately release all Palestinian detainees held in Egyptian prisons. The Ministry…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Friday evening a young Palestinian woman from Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, after claiming that she attempted to stab a soldier at the Etzion Junction. Palestinian…
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a number of Palestinian prisoners who were detained by Egypt arrived on Thursday evening at the Rafah Border Terminal between the Gaza…
Clashes were reported in Jaffa city, on Wednesday evening, as a group of extremist Israeli settlers and fundamentalist right-wing leaders and members, marched in the city demanding the Jaffa to…
A Palestinian student studying in Libya was shot and killed on Thursday by a group of armed mercenaries in Misrata city, east of Tripoli in Libya, the Maan News Agency…
Palestinian medical sources reported on Wednesday evening that a Palestinian child was killed, and three residents were wounded, in an explosion that took place in Khan Younis, in the southern…
Speaking to an audience that included a number of Israeli officials, including President Shimon Peres and Culture Minister Limor Livnat, British author Ian McEwan strongly criticized Israel’s policies of land…
Dr. Ahmad Shafiq, the acting head of the temporary Egyptian Government, stated that former Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, is currently in a coma in his residence in the Egyptian resort…
Two days after Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak was toppled by a torrent of peaceful protests, a rally headed by Gazan youth gathered in Gaza City calling on Egypt to open…
The Palestinian information Center’s website came back online after a cyber attack blocked access from online users temporarily after midnight Saturday, the PIC reported on Sunday. The news outlet denounced…
The Higher Council of the Armed Forces in Egypt, currently in power after the resignation of Hosni Mubarak, vowed to ensure a smooth transition of power towards what it called…
Yesterday evening, after it was announced that Hosni Mubarak had met the first demand of the revolution and left office, I headed toward the Egyptian embassy in Amman. The joy…
A few hours after the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, resigned from his post after nearly three weeks of massive protests against his regime, Arab League Secretary-General, Amro Mousa, stated that…
The Palestine News and Information Agency, WAFA, reported Thursday that Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, signed an agreement with the French State Minister and Minister of Foreign and European…
An official at the Egyptian Passport Control department stated, Wednesday, that instructions were handed down to the department to prevent the Palestinians from entering Egypt amidst the current protests against…
The Huwwara and Beit Furik checkpoints are to be removed, beginning immediately, according to the Ma’an News Agency.The Huwwara checkpoint prevented movement in and out of Nablus until restrictions were…
Residents of southern village of Al-Arakib in Israel clash with JNF workers who came to plant trees in the area. Three people arrested for allegedly hurling stones. Residents of al-Arakib,…
At the eighteenth day of massive protests demanding the removal of Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, and his regime, the Egyptian army was extensively redeployed in several streets in Cairo, especially…
A Palestinian youth was wounded after being shot in the leg by the Israeli Army in Urif.An 18 year old Palestinian man was taken to Rafedia hospital in Nablus for…
A Palestinian youth was wounded after being shot in the leg by the Israeli Army in Urif.An 18 year old Palestinian man was taken to Rafedia hospital in Nablus for…
Dov Lior, Chief Rabbi of the Keryat Arba’ illegal settlement in Hebron, in the southern part of the West bank, stated that killing non-Jews is justifiable, in some cases, without…
A year ago, Stop the Wall and itisapartheid.org launched the first International Israeli Apartheid Short Film Contest. Palestinians and international participants were encouraged to submit short films on the theme…
Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days are the Israeli connections. A central and critical reality is that it…
An explosion Friday morning took out a natural gas pipeline in the northern Sinai in Egypt, near the border with Israel. Egyptian national television initially reported that ‘foreign elements’ had…
Israel’s continued destruction of Palestinian water resources has been criticized by the UN and the Palestinian Water Authority.In a joint statement, the two organizations condemned the destruction of water cisterns…
As thousands of protesters gathered in Cairo, on Thursday, to continue their call for President Mubarak to step down, they were attacked by anonymous individuals who identified themselves as ‘Mubarak…
Amnesty International today called on the Egyptian authorities to protect the right to peaceful protest as clashes erupted with organized groups of pro-government supporters attacking protesters in Cairo and across…
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians filled the main square and surrounding streets in Cairo Tuesday, in response to the call for a ‘Million Person March’ to challenge the regime of…
The Egyptian Army deployed two brigades in the Sinai Peninsula in order to fortify the security presence in the area. The move was made after obtaining an Israeli approval. This…
Amnesty International has condemned the Egyptian government’s continuing crackdown on freedom of expression after six Al Jazeera journalists were briefly detained by the military and their Cairo bureau was shut…
For the seventh day, the Egyptians continued their massive protests against the regime of Hosni Mubarak, and are preparing for the Million-man march planned to be held in Cairo on…
Massive crowds of Egyptians and supporters held a protest on Saturday outside the UN Headquarters in New York to express support to the ongoing protests against the regime of Hosni…
Despite the excessive use of force by the Egyptian Police and security forces, Egyptian protesters continued their activities demanding the regime of Hosni Mubarak to be removed, and calling for…
In the latest move to repress the wave of protest that has swept across Egypt in the last four days, the Egyptian government has apparently cut off access to the…
As hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Egypt Friday in the 4th straight day of protests, President Hosni Mubarak said that he would replace his cabinet…
A young Egyptian man was shot and killed by Egyptian Security Forces fire during clashes that took place in in front of Sheikh Zweid Police station in Sinai. A Police…
As the massive protests against the Egyptian regime of America’s ally, Hosni Mubarak, continued in Cairo and several other Egyptian cities, the Egyptian Police and Security Forces have escalated their…
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that an Israeli citizen who killed an Israeli peace activist in 1983 will be set free on Wednesday. Yona Avursham, was convicted in 1983 of throwing…
As massive protests swept across Egypt demanding the removal of Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, and his government, two protestors and one police officer were killed, the Qatar-based al-Jazeera network reported.Thousands…
A crowd of angry Palestinians attacked the office of Al-Jazeera TV in the city of Ramallah, on Monday afternoon, in protest against recently leaked documents regarding the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks,…
The fan page of Ismail Haniyya, Prime Minister of the Hamas-led government in Gaza, has been removed from Facebook, the Palestinian Information Center reported. In reaction to the removal of…
A number of teachers working in Jewish Schools in Israel stated that more instances of racism are reaching alarming levels as more students are expressing their views that exceeded their…
This is a video of IMEMC Editor-in-Chief, Saed Bannoura, speaking to Middle East Journalism Students at Stanford University. This video was filmed and edited by two Middle East Journalism students,…
An article in the Israeli Jewish Orthodox publication ‘Fountains of Salvation’, which purports to be a ‘family magazine’, suggests that Israel will create death camps for Palestinians in order to…
The US State Department signed a deal with a company closely associated with the Blackwater security firm to provide ‘security services in the West Bank’, The Washington Post said on…
An extremist Israeli group published a video on the internet calling for assassinating Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, for what the group called “his stances that would give the lands…
Egyptian security personnel shot and wounded, on Wednesday morning, a Sudanese migrant while attempting to infiltrate into Israel, apparently seeking work.Egyptian security sources reported that a border police patrol noticed…
Prime Minister Fayyad and an E.U. Representative agreed today to support the P.A.’s institution building plan, a European information centre claimed on Friday. European Neighborhood Partnership Institute (ENPI) Information Center,…
(Image below) Bashar Masri shows US Consul General in Jerusalem Daniel Rubinstein (left) and USTDA Director Leocadia Zak (second from left) around the site of the planned Rawabi real estate…
The Tel Aviv District Court convicted on Thursday, former Israeli President, Moshe Katsav, 65, of two counts of sexual assault and rape. By Israeli law, the maximum punishment of rape…
Israeli journalist Gideon Levy left a message of no hope, on Tuesday night, during his visit to the Alternative Information Center in Beit Sahour, the PNN reported. “I don’t see…
A construction firm headed by Palestinian businessman, Bashar Al Masry, intends to buy an Israeli Construction Firm that builds Jewish settlements in occupied East Jerusalem. The news angered residents of…
On Tuesday, dozens of residents of Jaffa held a protest in front of a school after its principal decided to prohibit Arab students from speaking Arabic inside the classrooms. The…
Around 20 suppliers agreed to assist building the first modern Palestinian city in the West Bank, however with no use of material produced in Israeli settlements, the Associated Press announced…
As part of the ongoing security cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority returned to Israel a military vehicle…
Around 150 Israelis shouting “Death to Arabs and to Jews who date Arabs” gathered in the town of Bat Yam this week for a rally called “Keep Bat Yam Jewish”.…
A number of Israeli Military Jeeps were seen driving in Bethlehem while accompanied by members of the Palestinian Security Forces. They “toured” in several areas, including the Manger Square. The…
Sabbine Haddad, a spokeswoman for the Israeli Ministry of Interior, stated Tuesday that French peace activist, Olivia Zamour, was detained at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, and…
The city of Nablus officially gets a Facebook profile, the PNN reported on Tuesday.The profile on the social network which counts over 500 million users, www.facebook.com/NablusCity, is aimed to connect…
Egyptian Security sources reported Sunday that an explosives storage was located in Sheikh Zweid area, in the Sinai Desert, just 10 kilometers away from the border with Gaza. The sources…
The Israeli Army officially confirmed that its forces carried out the Air Strike that led, on Saturday, to the death of five Palestinians, believed to be resistance fighters. The army…
On Sunday’s Parliamentary session, the Knesset pretends to limit to five years the stipends that yeshiva students receive from the government, Haaretz reported.According to the new passage of the budget,…
The European Union, on Thursday, announced it, along with the PA, made a joint social services allowance payment, Ma’an News said. A payment of social assistance benefits, amounting to €11.5…
On Friday morning, a group of religious Israeli Jews entered in the village of Kifl Haris, in the central West Bank. Local sources estimated some 3,000 people arrived, accompanied by…
On Wednesday, the P.A. Interior, Communication, and Information Ministries informed about the reopening of three local radio stations, that were shut down on Monday, after they settled registration and licensing…
A joint initiative between Ramallah’s International Art Academy Palestine and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands, is trying to bring an original masterpiece by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso to…