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Al-Aqsa Brigades threatened to split from Fatah Movement if the Qorei Government and Fatah’s Central Committee does not fulfill their demands to conduct new procedures in order to solve the…
Refraining from expressing any preference for either U.S. President George W. Bush or his rival Senator John Kerry, the Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said that the next U.S. president…
An Egyptian government source announced Monday that eight Egyptian and a Palestinian were involved in the three simultaneous car bombings of a hotel and a tourist resort in Sinai on…
Two Jewish families moved into a house near Rachel’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Bethlehem this week. The two families joined yeshiva students who earlier moved to the…
During it’s Sunday weekly meeting, the Israeli cabinet approved by 13 to 6 vote the ‘compensation-evacuation law’ bill, which will compensate settlers evacuated under the disengagement plan. Likud ministers Yisrael…
As Israel intends to maintain control over the crossings to Gaza, its coastline, and airspace, it will still be considered under international law as the occupying power, concluded to an…
A local source in Hebron said that soldiers detained two residents in Hebron, and held scores of residents during vast military searches conducted in the city, on Sunday morning. The…
A local source in Hebron said that soldiers apprehended two residents in Hebron, and withheld tens of residents during vast military searches conducted in the city, on Sunday morning. The…
‘If Sharon believes that with a pullout from Gaza everything is already done and that peace would come automatically, we won’t support that, that wouldn’t be a dream, but a…
A Palestinian Authority treasury source said Saturday that about half of the Palestinian Authority budget deficit was caused by seizures imposed by Israeli courts on PA funds. According to the…
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is assured that the disengagement plan will be approved on Tuesday’s Knesset session, but fears lacking a majority to approve the state budget for 2005…
Translated by: Saed Bannoura Ala ’ Al-Shalash, 19 years old, said that he was severely clubbed by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint known as “the container checkpointâ€Â, to the east…
For the two years following September 11th, the Western public was inundated with propaganda to such a vociferous degree that to be a critical voice was to be heretical and…
How would it feel to be targeted in the street, or in the car, what sort of live you will be living while knowing that you might be a moving…
Saed Bannoura, IMEMC Children are the most affected by any conflict in this world, the faultless victims of brutality and advanced weapons technology; tiny angels, the builders of the future…
Translated by: George N. Rishmawi-IMEMC PNN: How do you view the latest Israeli offensive in Gaza Strip? Rajoub: The Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip and other areas in…
Ten minutes stroll northward from the lively alleyways of the Old City and its renowned Golden Dome lays one of the Holy Land’s smallest parishes; the Anglican Church, with its…
A Palestinian medical source Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, said that the Israeli army killed more than 31 and woudned over 200 Palestinians in the past 36 hours in…
The Prisoners’ Supporters Society said that soldiers continued their assaults and violations against the Palestinian detainees in Al- Maskobiyya prison in Jerusalem, for the second day. The society, centered in…
In an interview with Al-Jazeera TV, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell called Wednesday on the Palestinians to end the four-year-old Intifada, as it is hindering the creation of an…
A group of Palestinian Lawmakers are planning to force a no-confidence vote that could bring down the Palestinian cabinet. Lawmakers said on Wednesday they had collected enough signatures on a…
A Palestinian medical source Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, said that the Israeli army killed more than 31 and woudned over 200 Palestinians in the past 36 hours in…
The Prisoners’ Supporters Society said that soldiers continued their assaults and violations against the Palestinian detainees in Al- Maskobiyya prison in Jerusalem, for the second day. The society, centered in…
In an interview with Al-Jazeera TV, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell called Wednesday on the Palestinians to end the four-year-old Intifada, as it is hindering the creation of an…
A group of Palestinian Lawmakers are planning to force a no-confidence vote that could bring down the Palestinian cabinet. Lawmakers said on Wednesday they had collected enough signatures on a…
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, chair of “Health and Development Information Policy Center†(HDIP), said that 3334 Palestinians were killed and 53,000 were wounded since the…
Jerusalem – Four years ago on September 28, 2000, when Ariel Sharon made his operatic visit to the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem igniting the Second Intifada,…
It’s absurd that officials on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are convinced that the four years fighting is all about making a point. An Israeli foreign minister official told…
A medical source in Dir Al-Balah, in the north of the Gaza Strip said that a military helicopter fired a missile at a group of residents in Karm Al-Zaytoun area,…
It’s absurd that officials on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are convinced that the four years fighting is all about making a point. An Israeli foreign minister official told…
Two International volunteers of the Christian Peace Makers Team, Chris Brown, 40 and Kim Lamberty, 44 were attacked by five masked men around the settlement outpost of Maon in the…
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, chair of “Health and Development Information Policy Center†(HDIP), said that 3334 Palestinians were killed and 53,000 were wounded since the…
A medical source in Dir Al-Balah, in the north of the Gaza Strip said that a military helicopter fired a missile at a group of residents in Karm Al-Zaytoun area,…
It’s absurd that officials on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are convinced that the four years fighting is all about making a point. An Israeli foreign minister official told…
Two International volunteers of the Christian Peace Makers Team, Chris Brown, 40 and Kim Lamberty, 44 were attacked by five masked men around the settlement outpost of Maon in the…
“It is likely that Israel acted in order to force Hamas to run a global war, hoping that such a move will remove the borders that differentiate between the Palestinian…
AP reported that RIad Abu Ali, CNN Producer has been released after negotiations between the PA and the group that abducted Abu Ali on Monday night in Gaza Strip. PA…
“It is likely that Israel acted in order to force Hamas to run a global war, hoping that such a move will remove the borders that differentiate between the Palestinian…
A Palestinian non-violent protester, Mansour Mansour from the village of Budrus northwest of Jerusalem and another German activist were badly beaten and at least 15 Israeli activists have been arrested…
Israeli Magistrate court in Kfar Saba near the West Bank city of Qalqilia released on Tuesday, the Israeli settler Yihusha Alitzur who killed a Palestinian from the village of Salem…
AFP reported that the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu Al-Gheit is scheduled to visit Israel next week, for talks with Israeli officials on the Israeli unilateral disengagement plan. AFP also…
Four officers in an elite Israeli Army Air Force unit recently sent a letter to senior Army officers in which they harshly criticized the army’s operations in the Palestinian occupied…
Jordan said on Monday that the West Bank wall will interfere with establishing a stable Palestinian state and presents a threat to neighboring countries. In a speech to the United…
The Israel army launched a broad operation in the West Bank city of Jenin early Monday. Eyewitnesses said Israeli forces are backed with armored vehicles and Apache gun ships. Troops…
AP reported that RIad Abu Ali, CNN Producer has been released after negotiations between the PA and the group that abducted Abu Ali on Monday night in Gaza Strip. PA…
An Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, said on its online edition on Sunday that more than 140 settlers are preparing to erect two settlement outposts in Hebron, in the West Bank.…
Palestinian sources said that one man was killed and three others were injured after an Israel helicopter fired a missile at a vehicle in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza…
Palestinian sources from the village of Budrus west of Ramallah that Israeli troops sealed all entrances of the village Sunday night. Residents of the village expressed their worries that the…
Soldiers apprehended two residents in Nablus after raiding several neighborhoods in the city, and Al-Ein refugee camp, and firing at tens of homes on Monday morning. A local source in…
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories released a report on Thursday which revealed the number of casualties among the Palestinians since the beginning of the…
Translated by: Saed Bannoua-IMEMC Wisam Abdul-Kareem, 14 years old, from the village of Kafr Al-Deek, in the north west of Salfit, in the West Bank, tells his story of military…
Israeli security sources confirmed Sunday that Israel is involved in the car bombing that killed one of the senior Hamas officials in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Minutes after the…
The Israeli Newspaper Haaretz said that army in preparing a wide-scaled operation in the Gaza Strip, which aims to stop the launching of Qassam shells at the Israeli settlements in…
UN Human Rights investigator dismissed Israeli claims that the West bank separation wall was built to keep out suicide bombers, saying that the findings of his investigation affirms that it…
In response to Palestinian Prime minister Ahmed Qurei’s Friday hints that it was possible to dismantle Fatah’s military wing, a brigades spoksman, nicknamed as Abu Mahmoud called Qurei to resign…
Palestinian security sources confirmed Saturday that Israeli Authorities at the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt denied exit to Palestinian security personnel who were supposed to go to Egypt for…
A group of International peace activists, cycling for peace from London to Jerusalem, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, arrived in Palestine on September 22. The tour, that started on…
Soldiers withdrew from West Khan Younis refugee camp on Saturday morning, after conducting a vast military raid leaving one resident dead, seven wounded and eighty homes destroyed. A local source…
 The Palestinian Prisoner Society said that the detainees in Nafha detention informed lawyer Fayez Al-Shalloudy, that the situation now is worse than it was before the hunger Strike conducted in…
Translated by: Saed Bannoura The cries and screams of Wael, the baby child of Mirvat Taha, a political detainee, imprisoned in an Israeli detention camp, were not enough to convince…
Once again, Egypt called off invitations to hold talks between Palestinian different factions in Cairo. Egypt blamed ‘Israel’s lack of cooperation’ as the reason for the ever lasting suspension. Egyptian…
Once again, Egypt called off invitations to hold talks between Palestinian different factions in Cairo. Egypt blamed ‘Israel’s lack of cooperation’ as the reason for the ever lasting suspension. Egyptian…
Disagreeing with US officials, France’s foreign minister reiterated his country’s stance, that no progress can be made in the Middle East peace process by marginalizing or not negotiating with Palestinian…
Israel signed an agreement Thursday that allows experts from the commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) to carry out inspections and collect data at nuclear monitoring…
An Israeli military source said that three soldiers and two Palestinian activists were shot dead on Thursday morning in a fire exchange which erupted in the settlement on Thursday morning.…
Israel threatened Thursday to boycott an international conference on a nuclear free Middle East sponsored by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency). Israel demands dropping a paragraph which mentions Israel…
More than 3.000 students, mainly girls, peacefully protested in a peacful anti-Wall protest in the village of Beit Awwa, in the south of Hebron , in the West Bank ,…
A Palestinian medical source at Nasser Hospital , in Khan Younis said that 14 residents were shot wounded in Khan Younis, three seriously, including two children under the age of…
An open war is a one in which you opt to destroy the enemy. Opting for an open war opens the gate for a similar war launched by the opponent.…
In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, U.S. president George Bush hinted that the Palestinian leadership is not qualified as a peace partner. He called for…
Over ninety protestors, including internationals, were injured in the village of Bodrus, in the west of Ramallah and Al-Biereh in the West Bank, in protests against the Separation Wall in…
Palestine News Network (PNN) online website reported that approximately at 10:30 on Wednesday morning the ‘Peace Cycle’ started cycling from the city of Al-Affoula heading towards the city of Jenin…
Syria, began moving troops from the hills surrounding Beirut on Tuesday. According to Lebanese sources, some 3,000 Syrian soldiers are being redeployed, and some of them will return to Syria.…
The Hamas delegation to ended three days of talks with Egyptian officials in Cairo. Mohammad Nazzal who was on Hamas’ delegation dismissed reports claiming that Egypt suggested a temporary truce…
Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom assured the Bush administration Tuesday that Israel would not build or enlarge any settlements, but would continue construction in “built up areas†to meet “natural…
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reiterated his intention Tuesday to press on with the disengagement plan according to the timetable approved by the cabinet. Speaking at the Likud convention at…
At least two Israelis were killed and some 16 hurt in a blast took place in the French Hill settlement in Jerusalem , on Wednesday afternoon. The blast took place…
The Israeli High Court of Justice on Monday turned down settlers’ petitions against the evacuation of the unauthorized West Bank outpost of Givat Haroeh. Residents of the outpost said that…
Three Palestinians were wounded in the village of Budrus in clashes with soldiers on Tuesday morning during a protest against the construction of the West Bank separation wall. Five left-wing…
Brigadier General Abdul Razzak Al-Majaydeh, chief of the General Security Apparatus said Tuesday the PA will send 45 Police officers to Egypt for training by the end of this…
Organizers of ‘Breaking the Silence’ exhibition distributed to the press this week a new collection of soldiers’ testimonies, reporting incidents in which officers and soldiers knowingly broke army open-fire regulations.…
The Israeli prison authority is looking into establishing a new prison, or adding new sections to already existing prisons, to be ready to jail hundreds of settlers who are expected…
Soldiers assaulted a detainee after he asked them to use the toilets at the end of a court session where he was prosecuted in the Negev detention camp on Monday.…
Preparations will begin next week in the Belgian capitol to announce plans to establish a joint Palestinian-Israeli maternity hospital in the town of Kisofim near the Gaza Strip. The hospital…
Despite rising “provocative†and possibly inciting statements of settlers and right wing hardliners, Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decided not to launch an investigation against Rabbi Yosef Dayan. Dayan, the…
Palestinian sources reported that Khaled Abu Shamiyeh, 30, from Al-Shati refugee camp were killed and six bystanders were wounded in an Israeli air strike at a civilian car in Gaza…
About a month ago, Israeli army agreed that a limited number of the Palestinian police can carry revolvers in city centers only. The Israeli Right wing objected to the plan…
Monday evening, a military Apache fired several shells at a jeep on Tal Al-Hawa Street in the south of Gaza, completely detonating it and killing two men IDF alleges were…
IMEMC correspondent said that about two hundred resident of Beit Awwa and Sikka and lead by the youths of the villages, were joined by international peace activists on Sunday. All…
In a poll conducted by Birzeit University shows that the majority of the Palestinians prefer to have the Palestinian Law Maker Marwan Barghouthi to be president after Arafat. The poll,…
The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee declared a general strike on Saturday to commemorate the anniversary of the 12 Israeli Arabs killed by the police on October 1, 2000 . On…
Israeli Shin Bet Chief Avi Dichter told cabinet ministers on Sunday that a planned attack against Israeli tourists in the Sinai over the Rosh Hashanah holiday was foiled, likely as…
An Israeli government official said Saturday that while the Americans asked the Israeli delegation visiting Washington many questions, they did not express any concerns or opposition to the West Bank…
Hamas’s Political Bureau Chief Khaled Mashaal arrived in Cairo late Saturday, an airport official said. His arrival to Cairo is believed to be linked to the ongoing Egyptian efforts to…
Iran rejected on Sunday UN International Atomic Energy Agency resolution that it should freeze uranium enrichment, warning that if the case is sent to the UN Security Council, Iran will…
Sources close to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Friday denied reports on advancement that could launch again prisoners’ swap with Hezbollah, saying that they were ‘another spin by Hezbollah,’…
According to Al-Hayat newspaper, Egypt has postponed the Palestinian factions’ Cairo meeting, scheduled for Sunday. AlHayat said in its Saturday edition that the decision to postpone the meeting was ‘due…
According to Israel Radio, the U.S. State Department announced its intentions to stem the number of resolutions against Israel passed in the United Nations General Assembly. The United Nation’s General…
“Settlements Council†in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, said that it is preparing to conduct a wide-scaled public campaign to counter Sharon ‘s disengagement plan from the Gaza…
Israeli army chief of staff Moshe Ya’alon said Thursday that the army preparations for the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the removal of four small West bank settlements are…