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The ruling Hamas party in Gaza organized on Sunday morning a rally in claim of reopening the Rafah crossing terminal in southern Gaza, closed since June2007, when Hamas-led forces took…
Mahmoud Darwish, a renowned Palestinian poet, one of the intellectual figures known as the voice of the Palestinians in Diaspora and under occupation, died on Saturday evening at age 67…
Israeli sources reported that a private small plane crashed while attempting to land in Haifa airport, on Thursday afternoon, killing three Israelis and wounded three others. Israeli online daily, Haaretz,…
The U.S. state department has cancelled the visas of the 3 remaining Palestinian scholars set to study in the States citing unspecified security concerns. The New York Times reported yesterday…
The immediate punishment that comes to Israeli officials and security forces for Palestinians who attack Israelis is to raze their homes. This has become a norm in Israel since a…
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported that five Palestinians were killed and at least 15 others were wounded when a tunnel on the Gaza- Egypt border, near Rafah, collapsed…
The Hamas-run news website, Palestine-Info, reported on Thursday that the family of legislator Hasan Yousef, imprisoned by Israel, denied Israeli reports and allegations that their son, Mos’ab, who lives and…
Wataniya Palestine has been granted its operational radio spectrum which will allow it to launch the second GSM network in Palestine, specialized sources reported on Tuesday.Cellular News, a website that…
These days Rami Abdo’s duties include gardening, teaching and caring for his 10-year-old nephew. Abdo, a 30-year-old student from Gaza City, is still waiting along with hundreds of others to…
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Sunday that the Prime Minister of the dissolved government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyya, underwent a successful medical procedure at a local…
Jamal Alkhudari, chairman of the local popular committee to break the Gaza siege, confirmed on Sunday that two international boats, loaded with internationals and assistance packages, will arrive in Gaza…
Israeli sources said that a bulldozer driver hit a number of cars at a busy street in Jerusalem City; the sources said that 16 Israelis were injured in the attack.…
The Al-qassam brigades, the armed wing of the ruling Hamas party in Gaza, announced on Tuesday that one of their fighters was killed and two others were wounded in eastern…
Israeli sources reported on Friday that a Sudanese man died of dehydration while attempting to infiltrate into Israel via the Negev desert seeking work. The sources added that three Sudanese…
Nasser Judeh, Jordan’s information Minister, reported on Thursday night that six tourists, including an Israeli Arab woman, where shot by a gunman who opened fire at a tourist bus in…
‘Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews worldwide condemn the savage pograms unleashed against the Palestinian people in the West Bank by the Zionist terrorist gang known as the ‘IDF’, ‘ a statement by…
Every Monday for over a year, dozens of women gather at the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza City to protest their inability to…
Palestinian sources reported on Friday at night that one Palestinian was wounded and four others went missing when a tunnel on the border between Rafah and Egypt collapsed during evening…
The Egyptian authorities closed on Wednesday afternoon the Rafah crossing terminal after hundreds of Palestinians, mainly patients and stranded, flooded into the Egyptian side of terminal, as their entry has…
Dr. Yiha Mussa, a Hamas MP, slammed on Wednesday the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas because the latter introduced the Israeli Defense Minister Ehod Barak to the Iraqi President Jallal Al…
‘We gather here as Russian wives who are married to Gazan husbands, to preserve our culture, language and some of our lifestyle, particularly under these bad conditions in Gaza,’ said…
I love Adam Sandler. From Billy Madison to Happy Gilmore to the Chanukah Song, the predecessor of the Superbad generation has effortlessly conquered the domain of slapstick comedy and inappropriate…
Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, decided last night to seal off all of Gaza's crossings, after they have been partially reopened over the weekend, in response to yesterday's homemade shells…
The French President Nicolas Sarkozy invited the French community living in Israel and Palestine to a reception at King David Hotel, in Jerusalem, on 23 June 2008, as part of…
The Hamas-run interior ministry in Gaza ordered a deployment of of security and police forces near Gaza-Israeli border crossings on Sunday. In a statement, delivered to the press by the…
Israel will begin Sunday allowing increased shipments of goods and commodities into the Gaza Strip, Israeli radio reported. According to the radio, shipments will increase by 30 percent and that…
Marzouq Mo’amar’s smile has returned to his face after he had almost lost hope because of thyroid cancer that had spread to his neck. Just a few weeks ago Palestinian…
Tuesday morning at 9:00am, 220 Palestinian children gathered at al-Sherouq and al-Amal children’s club in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis refugee camp. Dressed in colorful clothes accompanied by cheerful smiles, the…
Ismail Haniyya, Prime Minister of the Palestinian dissolved government, which is still active in Gaza, stated on Thursday evening that his government managed to crack down of network of collaborators…
The Hamas-run ministry warned on Sunday of a health crisis in Gaza due to the continued fuel shortage in the coastal region, a ministry’s statement read. The statement, delivered to…
Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, will ask his government to fund a plan to fortify Israeli houses near the Gaza Strip. The Israeli minister and his deputy, Matan Valnaie, will…
The Egyptian authorities decided yesterday to reopen the Rafah crossing terminal on Egypt-Gaza border line in southern Gaza Strip for three days this week for humanitarian purposes. Palestinian sources at…
Al-Khozendar Electronics in Gaza City has become a recent point of pilgrimage for many Palestinians. The visitors come to observe Gaza’s latest invention of necessity: an electric car. Gazan engineers…
Chairman of the United Nations probe panel on the Israeli army killing of 19 Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza in November2006, former South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu expressed shame over…
One more Palestinian patient died on Tuesday after having been denied access treatment outside of the Gaza Strip, raising the death toll of such patients to 167. The spokesman of…
Former U.S President Jimmy Carter, described the EU’s position towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict ‘ supine’, urging the EU to break up with the U.S and lift the embargo on Gaza.…
The Former US president Jimmy Carter has broken the silence about Israel’s nuclear power and told reporters at a literary festival in UK on Sunday that Israeli has an arsenal…
The Israeli army vacated on Sunday a military outpost near the Gaza Strip, Israeli media sources reported. ‘ For the first time since Israel withdrew forces from the Gaza Strip,…
The Israeli authorities reopened on Sunday the Eritz checkpoint in northern Gaza Strip to allow entry of patients in need of medical care outside of Gaza, Israeli media sources reported.…
Chief of the political and security division of the Israeli army, Amos Gil’ad , will arrive in Cairo today in order to listen from Egyptian mediators about latest round of…
Haifa, Palestine – May 19, 2008 Standing on the beach of Haifa, on the coast of the Mediterranean sea in northern Israel, I had a very strange phone conversation. Standing…
The Israeli army authorities reopened on Thursday afternoon the Sufa commercial crossing in southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources told media outlets earlier that the Israeli authorities closed the main food…
The Palestinian investment conference that will start today (Wednesday) at Bethlehem is being held at a time when the West Bank is more ghettoized than ever before, while Jerusalem is…
The Alqassam brigades, the armed wing of the ruling Islamist Hamas party in Gaza claimed on Wednesday that one of their fighters was killed early in the morning to the…
Father of the captured Israeli soldier, Gil’ad Shalit, Hamas and other resistance factions hold in Gaza since 2006, said yesterday that Israel must ensure the release of his son. No’am…
The Islamic Jihad group said it has uncovered a network of collaborators with Israel, made up of seven persons, in the southern parts of Gaza Strip. In a statement, faxed…
Egyptian security sources reported on Tuesday that Egyptian border police at the crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt have uncovered seven underground tunnels on Monday night. The tunnels were…
The US Embassy in Jerusalem issued a press release stating they US President George W. Bush, announced on Thursday that he is designating an official presidential delegation to the West…
As the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip enters its 11th month, the population’s living conditions further deteriorate, with scores of people in different parts of the coastal region lining…
President of the United States, Gorge W.B Bush arrived on Wednesday in Israel to attend the Hebrew state’s celebrations of the establishment of Israel on historical Palestine in 1948. Leaders…
The Society of Bakeries in the Gaza Strip announced on Sunday that all bakeries in the coastal region were forced to shut down midday as fuel supplies could not be…
The Palestinian energy authority said on Sunday that the Israeli authorities blocked on Sunday morning delivery of industrial crude diesel to Gaza’s power plant, which generate’s electricity to Gaza’s population.…
There is no doubt for anyone following the US media in general, and policy in particular, that the present American administration intends to foment public American opinion to be in…
The ruling Hamas party in Gaza and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (General Command) in Damascus demanded on Wedensday an end to the Israel-enforced siege on the…
‘Closed because of the siege,’ a sign reads on the front door of the Al-Yazji factory on the main Salah al-Din road in Gaza City. Al-Yazji, the largest producer of…
One Palestinian was reportedly killed an five others were wounded when a tunnel on Gaza-Egypt border lines was collapsed Monday. Medical sources confirmed that Rami Alsha’er, was killed and five…
–>To download or listen to these interviews, visit: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=27485 –>These interviews will also be airing as part ‘Radio Free Palestine’, an international radio broadcast to be held on May 15,…
I wonder when we will get our freedom? While we are passing the 3rd of May of each year, World Press Freedom Day, but which freedom we are obtaining? While…
As the siege and ongoing Israeli attacks and violations continue in the Palestinian territories, the International Workers Day, or May Day as some chose to call it, makes no difference…
Israel decided on Wedensday to allow shipments of international food aid into the besieged Gaza Strip through an alternative crossing, as the Israeli closure of the coastal territory remains in…
The Israeli Hight Court of Justice in Jerusalem ruled on Tuesday against villagers of Al Aqaba, located in the northern part of the West Bank. The Israeli army issued orders…
The military operations in Gaza and Bethlehem last May signalled once more that the Israeli security establishment (the military-industrial complex encompassing also the private security sector) has no interest in…
Palestinian information minister and spokesman of the Ramallah-based government , Riyad al-Maliki, said yesterday that his government has agreed with Egypt to connecting the Gaza Strip’s electricity lines with Egyptian…
Israeli media sources reported Sunday that the Israeli government has conditioned halt of homemade shells as well as weapons smuggling through the Egypt-Gaza border lines as a precondition for a…
The Arab states league expressed Saturday concern over the increasingly deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip amidst the Israeli closure and lack of essential living items including food and…
The Al Ahram Egyptian Newspaper reported Saturday that Hamas movement is collaborating with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in order to obtain or develop drones that could carry explosives and…
Representatives of some Western countries walked out of a session of the UN Security Council on Wednesday after a speech which was delivered by the deputy of the Libyan representive,…
Calling all community radio broadcasters: You are invited to join an international collaboration and historic radio opportunity. We would like to confirm your station’s participation on Thursday, May 15th. This…
The Israeli authorities began this morning shipping large quantities of industrial gasoline to the Gaza Strip’s power plant, after reports said the plant would be shut down by Wednesday due…
Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday that Yasser Arafat Student Bloc, which belongs to Fateh movement, won 25 out of 51 seats of the Student Council in Bir Zeit University. The…
The sole power plant in Gaza declared on Tuesday it will stop generating electricity for Gaza’s 1.5 million residents by tomorrow evening, due to sharp shortage of gasoline, needed to…
Israeli sources said today that Israel decided to partially reopen the Eritz checkpoint (Beit Hanoun crossing), to the north of Gaza Strip. The sources told Israel’s radio that the reopening…
Dr. Fathi Abu Maghli, Palestinian minister of health of the West Bank-based government, warned of an imminent health crisis across the Gaza Strip because of the lack of fuel and…
The Palestinian health ministry of the ruling Hamas party in Gaza has been reportedly fighting to keep up providing services for the 1.5 million residents of Gaza Strip as the…
[To read the full report, along with the accompanying photos, visit http://aaron.resist.ca/node/176]Ramallah, Palestine – April 18, 2008 Three years can be a long time, or a little blip in history.…
Chief of the Israeli liaison committee at the Eritz checkpoint in northern Gaza Strip, denied in a statement, faxed to press today , that Israel has not recently deprived Gaza…
The Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) decided on Friday to grant Palestine full membership in the Union as of next October, Palestine News Agency (WAFA) reported.The decision came…
Amna Abu Sido was waiting for a ride at the so-called Universities Junction in the heart of Gaza City on Tuesday afternoon when she explained how difficult her commute has…
Israeli authorities imposed a blanket closure on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as they celebrated the Jewish holiday of "Passover".This blanket closure will be in effect from Thursday…
Deputy-head of the Gaza Strip fuel society, Mahmoud Al-Khuzendar, stated that Israel allowed small quantities of fuel into the coastal region on Wednesday afternoon. In a phone interview with IMEMC,…
Former US President, Jimmy Carter, arrived on Tuesday in the West Bank city of Ramallah and laid flowers on the grave of the late Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat. During the…
On Friday Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State, slammed ex-US president Jimmy Carter for planning to meet Hamas official during his imminant visit to the region. A press release was…
Sources at the Norwegian government stated on Friday that the Israeli Nuclear whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu, filed a second appeal to the Norwegian government to grant him political asylum. The sources…
A mural commemorating the Sixtieth anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre and the Palestinian Nakba was on Friday unveiled in the predominantly Nationalist area of the Falls Road, located in…
Cairo sent out yesterday a firm warning to the ruling Hamas in Gaza against any breach of the Egyptian borders with the Gaza Strip. According to the London-based aL-Hayat Arabic…
The Hamas-run Ministry of Agriculture warned on Tuesday of a likely complete halt of services that the ministry offers to the civilian population in Gaza, and that the population will…
The death toll of patients who are unable to get proper medication due to the Israeli closure of Gaza’s travel crossings, rose Tuesday to 125 after the passing away of…
The Israeli Police closed on Monday Ram FM Radio station, which broadcasts in English and calls for Israeli-Palestinian coexistence, Israeli online daily Haaretz reported.The station plays western music and calls…
In the first initiative of its kind, a "Study in Europe" Open Day was held today at Al Quds University in Abu Dis. Some 200 students attended the event, which…
Senior Hamas leader, Mousa Abu Marzouq, who is based in Damascus, told an Arab newspaper Sunday that Israel has refused an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire. Speaking to the Al-Qabbas Kuwaiti newspaper, Abu…
In a special report issued by the Gaza-based aL-Damir society for human rights revealed that the Israeli closure of the coastal enclave since June2007, has impacted the Palestinian environment in…
Scores of local Palestinian residents in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, organized on Sunday a human chain in protest of prices of goods , made high, because of…
The Palestinian health ministry of the ruling Hamas party in Gaza said today that 71 percent of Gaza’s children are suffering from malnutrition and that 35 children have died because…
Veteran Palestinian detainee and a Fatah MP, Marwan Barghouti, believed that Israel should admit the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, if it really wants to reach a solution to the…
The Gaza-based popular committee for breaking the Israel-enforced siege accused on Thursday Israel of perpetrating a war crime against the patients of Gaza Strip, who are in need of medical…
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in Gaza (UNRWA), recieved Thursday a fund from the United Arab Emirates, worthy of $4 million dollars, to be allocated…
The Palestinian health ministry of the Hamas-rule Gaza warned on Wedensday of a humanitarian crisis across the Gaza Strip, because of continued Israeli closure on the coastal territory, since June…
The death toll of Gaza patients, who have been unable to get medication, due to the Israel-enforced closure since last June, mounted on Wedensday to 121, after the passing away…
Israeli daily Newspaper, Maariv, reported on Tuesday that The Israeli Foreign Ministry decided to prevent Professor Richard Black, a high profile Jewish leader at the United Nations, from becoming the…
Palestinian media sources reported Sunday that Cairo has decided to allow tens of stranded Egyptians, who have been stuck on the Gaza side of border in January, back to Egypt.…