Eritrean Migrant Killed by Egyptian Fire near Border
The Egyptian Border Police shot and killed an Eritrean migrant on Monday after he reportedly attempted to cross into Israel. His death brings the number of migrants killed by Egypt’s…
Egyptian Protestors Demand Expelling Israeli Ambassador
Dozens of Egyptians held a protest on Thursday in front of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry in Cairo demanding the country to expel the Israeli ambassador from the country, and to…
Sudanese Man Wounded By Egyptian Fire Near Border
A Sudanese man was shot and wounded by Egyptian police fire on Wednesday evening as he tried to infiltrate into Israel from an area south of the Kerem Shalom Crossing.…
Iraq Accuses Israel Of Stealing Ancient Manuscripts
The Iraqi Tourism Ministry accused the Israeli Mossad, Israel’s Security Agency, of involvement in the theft and of ancient Iraqi manuscripts that were illegally transported out of Iraq and sold…
Egyptian Navy Arrests Three Fishermen
The Egyptian Navy arrested on Saturday evening three Palestinian fishermen who accidentally entered Egyptian territorial waters.The three were in a fishing boat when they approached the Egyptian waters, near international…
Netanyahu Gives Private Talks For The Right Amount
Directly after finishing his first term as a Prime Minister (1999-2002), Benjamin Netanyahu turned into “an independent figure” who became accustomed to giving lectures and is paid millions of US…
Palestinian Youth Dies In Tunnel Accident
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Monday at night that a Palestinian youth died by electric shock at a tunnel in Rafah, in the southern part of the…
Egypt’s Navy Arrests Two Palestinian Fishermen
The Egyptian Navy arrested on Sunday three Palestinian fishermen after their boat capsized near the Al Arish Egyptian Port. The fishermen were in Palestinian territorial waters when their fishing boat…
Five Killed In Crash With Israeli Military Hummer
Five Palestinian were killed on Friday evening and two others were injured when their vehicle accidentally slammed into a military hummer at the Silwad Bridge, by the entrance of Ofer…
Qassam Fighter Killed In Gaza
The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, reported Friday morning that one of its fighters was killed “in a mission” in the Gaza Strip.The Brigades identified the…
Jordan Imprisons Six Residents For Attempting To Enter Gaza, Fight The Army in 2009
A Jordanian Court ordered, on Tuesday, the imprisonment of six Jordanians who attempted to form an armed wing that would try to enter the Gaza Strip and carry out a…
Sheikh Yousef Disowns His Son
Hamas leader, Sheikh Hasan Yousef, imprisoned by Israel at the Negev detention camp, has officially disowned his son who converted to Christianity and also collaborated with the Israeli security, Shabak,…
Egypt Fortifies Gazan Border
Egyptian Authorities have begun the installation of bulletproof watchtowers, replacing older wooden towers, along its border with the Gaza Strip. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/feb2010/egyptiansoldiers.jpg 300 0) Egyptian Authorities have begun the installation of…
Egypt Started The Installation Of Fortified Iron Watchtowers
The Egyptian Authorities stated the installation of fortified iron, bulletproof, watchtowers on its border with the Gaza Strip. The watchtowers will be installed along the 13.5 kilometer border stretch with…
Egyptian Forces Stop Illegal Border Crossing
This Wednesday, three Chinese men, aged 42-47, were stopped by Egyptian border police while trying to illegally enter Israel.The Egyptian patrol reportedly fired at the three while they attempted to…
Haaretz: “Son of Hamas Leader Worked for Israeli Shin Bet For years”
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported Wednesday that Mosab Hasan Yousef, the son of Hamas political leader and one of its founders, Hasan Yousef, worked for the Israeli Shin Bet “Security Service”…
Israeli Mail Delivery Halted Due To Explosive Mail Suspicion
The Israeli Police, in Jerusalem, had to shut down all mail deliveries throughout the country on Tuesday after what is believed to be an explosive package was located at the…
Fighter Killed During Training In Gaza
The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement, reported Monday, that one of its fighters was killed in what the group described as “preparing and training” accident in the…
Palestinian Dies Due To Electrocution In Rafah Tunnel
Palestinian medical sources in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported, Monday evening, that a Palestinian youth died by electric shock at a tunnel in Rafah.The sources…
Nine German Physicians Arrive In the West Bank To Perform Delicate Surgeries
Palestinian sources reported Thursday that nine physicians, including a professor in medicine, arrived in the central West Bank city of Ramallah to perform delicate surgeries. Omar al-Nasr, head of the…
Nablus Fighter Dies From Wounds Suffered In 2002
Palestinian sources reported, Thursday, that a fighter died at hospital in Berlin, Germany from wounds suffered during an attack targeting Alon Moreh settlement near the northern West Bank city of…
Bedouin Youth Killed During Scuffle With Russian Jews In The Negev
A Bedouin youth was killed, on Wednesday at night, and another youth was seriously wounded during a scuffle that took place between Bedouins and a group of Russian Jews in…
3.5 Tons Of Explosives Located Near Gaza Border
A senior Egyptian security source reported, on Thursday, evening that the Egyptian Border Police located, and confiscated, 3.5 Tons of explosives near the border area in Rafah. The explosives were…
Two African Immigrants Wounded by Egyptian Fire
Egyptian security sources reported Wednesday that two African immigrants were wounded by Egyptian border policemen, and three others were detained during two attempts to infiltrate into Israel seeking work.The men…
Arab Parliamentarians Arrive In Gaza
A group of Arab parliamentarians managed to cross into the Gaza Strip on Monday in a visit of solidarity with the Palestinian people living in the besieged, war-torn, and devastated…
Arab Parliamentarians In Gaza Monday
The Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) reported that 26 Arab Parliamentarians from different countries will visit, Monday, to express solidarity with the residents of the war-torn & impoverished region. The…
Medical Aid Convoy Makes It Into Gaza
The Arab Physicians Union’s Committee of Relief and Emergency in Egypt stated Saturday that a convoy filled with medical aid, estimated by 2.5 Million USD, made it into the besieged…
Dr. Husseini On TV To Talk About “Scandal Report” Targeting Him
Head of the Palestinian President’s Office in Jerusalem, Dr. Rafiq Husseini, will be participating in the “All In The Open” program at the Palestinian TV to talk about the details…
P.A Plans To Investigate Corruption Tape Scandal
Israeli Ynet news reported Thursday that Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is planning to investigate a video tape showing the Palestinian Authority’s head of bureau trying to solicit sexual relations, the…
Qassam Fighter Killed In Gaza
The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, reported on Thursday morning, that one of its fighters was killed in Gaza City during what the group described as…
Egypt Detonates Rafah Tunnel
The Egyptian security forces detonated, on Tuesday, a tunnel on the Gaza-Egypt border in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.Local sources reported that the Egyptian security forces…
Five Israeli Family Members Wounded in Mine Explosion In The Golan Heights
Israeli sources reported, Saturday, that five members of the same Israeli family, including three children, were wounded when a land mine detonated near them as they were vacationing in the…
Explosion hits Red Cross convoy in Gaza; no injuries
A vehicle driving as part of a Red Cross envoy, was damaged by an explosion in Gaza, on Thursday.Palestinian sources reported that they believe the explosion that blew out the…
Hamas Leader Survives Assassination Attempt
A Hamas leader survived, on Tuesday at dawn, an assassination attempt after unknown assailants placed an explosive charge in his parked vehicle in Khan Younis refugee camp, in the southern…
Ethiopian Man Wounded By Egyptian Fire, Another Man Detained
Egyptian security sources reported Monday that a young Ethiopian man was shot and wounded by Egyptian Border Police fire, and another man was arrested while trying to infiltrate Israel through…
Palestinian Killed In Tunnel Accident In Rafah
Palestinian medical sources reported Saturday that a man was killed by an electric shock in a tunnel in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.The resident was identified as Ashraf Al Attar, 23.…
Swedish Mayor Denounces Zionism As Racism
A Swedish mayor has upset the Jewish community by saying that Zionism is unacceptable in an interview published on the 27th of January, the International Holocaust Memorial Day.Ilmar Reepalu, mayor…
Egypt Allows Twelve Aid Trucks Sent by UAE To Gaza
Omar Hadhoud, the representative of the Palestinian Authority at the Al Oja trade terminal, stated Friday that aid trucks filled with food products donated the by the Red Crescent of…
Jerusalem Palestinian Man Sentenced to 10 Years For ‘Smuggling” Palestinian Workers
Israeli sources reported Wednesday that a Palestinian man from Jerusalem was sentenced by the Israeli Central Court in Jerusalem to 10 years and 9 months imprisonment after being “convicted of…
Protester Throws Shoe at Senior Israeli Judge
A protester attacked Dorit Beinisch, Israel’s Supreme Court chief justice, on Wednesday, striking her in the face with his shoe.The assailant, Pinchas Cohen, an Israeli, was reported to have screamed,…
Danish Companies To Divest From Israel
The Danske and Pensioner Bank (PKA) have decided to withdraw all investments from two Israeli companies, Elbit and Magal Security Systems, for their role in constructing the annexation wall in…
Qassam Fighter Dies In Exile
The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, reported that one of its fighters, from the northern part of the Gaza Strip, died at age 50, in the United…
Qassam Fighter Dies Of Previous Wounds
Palestinian medical sources reported Wednesday that a fighter of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, died of wounds sustained last week in northern Gaza.The fighter was identified…
Abu Zuhri: “Israel Deliberately Trying To Flood The Palestinians”
Sami Abu Zuhri, spokesperson of the Hamas movement, stated that Israel deliberately opened the dams allowing the water to flood the Gaza valley area, and added that this is yet…
Hundreds Displaced By Gaza Flood
Dozens of Palestinian homes were flooded in the Gaza Valley area on Monday evening, and hundreds of families were rendered homeless after Israel opened one of its dams that were…
Qassam Fighter Killed in Gaza
The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, reported on Friday at dawn that one of its fighters was killed “while performing a task” in Dir Al Balah, in…
A People’s Cartoon History of Gaza
The launch of a new book by Joe Sacco is a major event, and with considerable expectation a crowd recently gathered in London to hear the great Maltese-American cartoonist and…
Bomb explodes near Israeli diplomat’s car at the West Bank’s border with Jordan
A bomb exploded Thursday afternoon near an Israeli diplomat’s car near the Allenby Bridge crossing between Jordan and the West Bank. According to media sources, three Israeli diplomats were crossing…
‘Fund of National Dignity’ Launched
The Palestinian National Authority has launched a venture, with private sector companies and civil society institutions, that intends to remove all settlement products from the Palestinian market by the end…
Strip Search, Arrest and Car Detonation at Reikhan Barta’a Checkpoint, Jenin
A Palestinian man was subjected to a strip search today at the military checkpoint of Reikhan Barta’a, near Jenin in the North of the West Bank, before having his vehicle…
Rawabi – The First Planned Palestinian City
Ground has been broken at the site of Rawabi, the first planned city to be constructed in Occupied Palestinian Territories by Palestinians.The project, funded jointly by the Palestinian Authority and…
Several Residents Injured In Gaza Explosion
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday evening that several Palestinians were wounded in an explosion that took place at a Coffee Shop in Gaza Strip.The Coffee…
Bethlehem celebrates Orthodox Christmas, local Christians protest at the Manger Square
Scores flocked on Wednesday to the Manger Square in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem celebrating Christmas according to the Gregorian calender. As the Greek Orthodox Church leader, Patriarch…
Death Threat Sent To Barak Over “Settlement Freeze”
Israeli TV, Channel 10, reported Tuesday that a death threat letter was sent to Israel’s Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, over the claimed 10-month freeze on settlement activities in the occupied…
Christian Peacemakers deported from Israel
Two members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams have been refused entry into Israel, and deported by Israeli authorities.One of them told the IMEMC that she was scheduled to be part…
Bethlehem Celebrates Christmas, very low tourist turnout
Families, church officials and government figures marked on Thursday the start of the Christmas festivities in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. As is the case every year Boy…
Israeli Soldier Killed During Training
Israeli sources reported Monday that a soldier of the Golani Brigade was shot in the head and died of his wounds during a training accident at a military base in…
PM Fayyad starts Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem district
The Palestinian Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, toured the Bethlehem district , southern West Bank, on Sunday, marking the start of Christmas celebrations. In the town of Beit Jala, Fayyad was…
Egyptian Soldier Killed By Smugglers Fire
Egyptian sources reported that a border-guard Egyptian policeman was shot and killed on Thursday evening during armed clashes with armed drug smugglers along the Egyptian-Israeli border.A senior Egyptian security official…
I’m Sorry But We Blew Up Your Laptop (welcome To Israel)
I was sitting on the deck overlooking the Red Sea. Israeli security officers (most who looked around 18 years old) had completed around two hours of questioning and searching me.…
Three Palestinians Missing Under Collapsed Tunnel
Egyptian security sources reported Tuesday morning that three Palestinians went missing when a border tunnel collapsed on them in an area close to the Rafah border terminal, in the southern…
Palestinian Man Prevented By Jewish Municipality From Building On His Own Land
Aadel Suad, a Palestinian resident of the town of Mitzpe Ramon in southern Israel, has been prevented for twelve years from building on his own land, and continues to live…
Egypt Uncovers Tunnel Meant For Smuggling Vehicles Into Gaza
Egyptian security sources reported Sunday that the Egyptian Border Police located a border tunnel meant for smuggling vehicles into the Gaza Strip. The sources told Reuters that the entrance of…
Three Siege-busting Tunnels Uncovered
Egyptian security sources reported that a tunnel was located inside a home of an Egyptian smuggler in the Salah Ed Deen border area, while two more tunnels were uncovered nearby.…
Islamic Party Slams P.A For Sponsoring Miss Palestine In The West Bank
The “Liberation Party” voiced sharp criticism of the Palestinian Authority (P.A) for sponsoring “Palestine Beauty Pageant” Contest in the West Bank city of Ramallah. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/dec2009/miss_palestine.jpg 300 0) File; Miss Palestine…
Jewish Terrorist Stands Trial In Jerusalem
The Jerusalem District Court initiated on Wednesday the trial of Jewish terrorist, Yaakov Teitel, after official charges of two murders, five attempted murders, weapons violations, arson and incitement to commit…
Palestinian threatens lawsuit against ‘Bruno’ for misrepresenting him as a terrorist
Former political prisoner and Christian peace activist from Beit Sahour, Ayman Abu Aita, has threatened to file a lawsuit against filmmaker Sacha Baron Cohen for misrepresenting him as a ‘terrorist’…
Egyptian Security Uncovers Tunnel, Two Storehouses
Egyptian security forces uncovered a tunnel and two storehouses filled with goods meant to be smuggled into the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip. The tunnel and storehouses were uncovered as…
Palestinian fighter killed in Gaza car bomb
A fighter with the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Fateh party, was killed on Monday when his car exploded in Al Shati refugee camp, near Gaza…
Israeli army admits that hundreds of soldiers can’t speak Hebrew
The Israeli military’s Education Corps admitted Saturday that hundreds of new immigrants to Israel are allowed to serve in combat units in the Israeli occupying forces in the West Bank…
Army Closes Huwwara Roadblock Due To Settlers’ Protest
Israeli soldiers closed on Thursday evening Huwwara roadblock, leading to the northern West Bank city of Nablus, as fundamental settlers held a protest for more than two hours demanding to…
Two Qassam Fighters Killed In Gaza
The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, reported that two of its fighters were killed on Tuesday at dawn in an explosion that took place in a home…
Palestinian Swine flu patient died in the West Bank, death toll reaches six
A Palestinian suffering from H1N1, also known as swine flu, died in the central West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday bringing the death toll to six since the virus…
H1N1 patient dies in the West Bank, death toll reaches five
A Palestinian H1N1 patient died on Monday in the West Bank bringing the death toll because of the flu to 5 since the outbreak. The Palestinian Health Ministry also announced…
Palestinian Dies In Gaza Tunnel
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Monday morning that a Palestinian young man was electrocuted in a tunnel near Khan Younis, in the southern part of the…
African Man Killed By Egyptian Fire, Three Wounded
Egyptian border guards opened fire on Saturday at four African men trying to infiltrate into Israel from an area 5 kilometers away from the Salem terminal. An Egyptian border police…
No Independence Holiday for Gaza Schools
The Palestinian Ministry of Education in Gaza stated Friday evening that Independence Day, Sunday November 15, will be an ordinary school day, but Gaza schools would designate the first two…
P.A Returns To Israel Four Settlers Who Mistakenly Entered Bethlehem
Israeli sources reported on Saturday at night that four Israeli settlers mistakenly drove into the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and were transported by the Palestinian police to the Israeli…
Swedish Journalist, Bostrom, Attends Conference In Israel
As the Swedish Journalist, Donald Bostrom, arrived Sunday at the Ben Gurion Airport, several Israelis protested his visit to the country. Bostrom, who wrote an article accusing Israel of harvesting…
Two Palestinians Killed In Gaza Tunnel
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Sunday evening that two Palestinians were killed in tunnels located between Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and…
Israeli Tourist Killed, 34 Wounded In Traffic Accident In Jordan
Jordanian security sources reported that an Israeli tourist was killed on Friday afternoon and 34 Israeli pensioners were wounded when their bus flipped over south of Amman while they were…
Palestinian Youth Killed In Jerusalem After Being Chased By The Police
Medical sources in Jerusalem reported Wednesday morning that a 21-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem was killed at dawn after the Israeli police chased his vehicle.His vehicle flipped over during the…
Google Co-founder Donates $1 Million To The Hebrew National Immigration Society
Jewish Billionaire, Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google, donated $1 million to the so-called Hebrew national Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) which heavily encourages Jews around the world to…
Sudanese Man Tries To Hijack Egyptian Plane, Demands To Land In Jerusalem
A Sudanese man flying with EgyptAir flight from Istanbul to Sudan had reportedly threatened the crew with a knife demanding that the plane lands in Jerusalem. He obtained the knife…
US Scientist Apprehended For Spying For Israel
Israeli sources reported Monday that an American Scientist is believed to have transferred classified date to an Israeli intelligence officer. The Scientist worked for the Pentagon and the United States…
Egypt Locates Goods Meant To Be trafficked Into Gaza
Egyptian sources reported that Egyptian border guards located a deposit at the border with the Gaza Strip filled with supplies and goods worth more than 1,000,000 Egyptian pounds.The sources added…
Egypt Locates a deposit filled with supplies to Gaza
Egyptian sources reported that Egyptian border guards located a deposit at the border with the Gaza Strip filled with supplies and goods worth more than 1,000,000 Egyptian pounds.The sources added…
Shot Fired At The Israeli Ambassador’s Car In Chile
The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed Wednesday Chilean media reports stating that a bullet was fired Sunday at the vehicle of Israel’s Ambassador, David Dadon, smashing the windshield.El Mercurio Chilean newspaper…
Egyptian soldier dies of self-inflicted wounds, report says
Israeli sources reported Sunday that an Egyptian border guard officer was killed by self-inflicted wounds while he was at an Egyptian military post near the Rafah Border Crossing, between southern…
Palestinian Detained In Tel Aviv
Israeli sources reported that the Israeli police arrested a 23-year old Palestinian man dressed like an Israeli border-guard policeman. He was trying to enter the Central station in Tel Aviv.…
No justice for murdered journalist
The Israeli military advocate-general stated in a 12 August letter to the Reuters news agency that it had found Israeli soldiers had acted properly in the April killing Fadel Shana’a,…
Israel reopens probe on a missing soldier
Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, reported that 11 years after an Israeli soldier went missing under unclear circumstances, the Central Unit of the Galilee Police Force reopened the investigation and is…
Hamas runs out of passports
The Hamas-run interior ministry announced on Monday that they have run out of passports, including those needed for urgent cases. A statement released by the Palestinian ministry accused the Palestinian…
Challenging the siege from Rafah to Cyprus
On Sunday, hundreds of Hamas supporters, many stranded Gaza patients, students and travelers, took part in a rally at the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing terminal in southern Gaza,…
Israeli police demands Cell Phone companies to provide them with precise details on clients
Celcom mobile phone company in israel revealed on Wednesday during a Law and Constitution Knesset session that the Israeli police is demanding it to provide the force with illegal information…
The Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O) must go back to its roots
On Saturday the 9th of August we headed out to upper Nablus where we’d arranged an interview with the ex-mayor of the city, Bassam Shaka.Our taxi left us in front…
Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish laid to rest in Ramallah
Thousands of Palestinians and internationals attend Darwish’s funeral on Wednesday in Ramallah, after his body arrived from the USA with a special Emirates airplane, then with special helicopters from Jordan…
Gaza Artists commemorate Darwish
In commemoration to Palestinian intellect and poet, Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian artists lit candles on Tuesday in the Unknown Soldier Square in Gaza in respect to the life, work and character…
Jewish taxi drivers resign after learning their new boss is an Arab
Israeli Ynet News reported on Monday that eighteen taxi drivers decided to resign from the Gilo taxi station after learning that their new boss and owner of the station is…
Darwish to be laid to rest in Ramallah on Wednesday
Palestinian Minister of Culture, Tahani Abu Doqqa, stated on Sunday that the burial ceremony of Palestinian poet and intellect Mahmoud Darwish will be held on Wednesday in the West Bank…