Army shells electricity generators in central Gaza
Friday after midnight, the Israeli air force fired missiles at electricity generators in the central Gaza Strip causing complete power blackout in the whole area. Eyewitnesses reported that the…
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Friday after midnight, the Israeli air force fired missiles at electricity generators in the central Gaza Strip causing complete power blackout in the whole area. Eyewitnesses reported that the…
Thousands of residents in several of Arab and Muslim countries protested on Friday in support of the Palestinian people facing the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip. The protests…
Friday night Palestinian medical sources reported that three residents, members of the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, were injured after the Israeli Air Force fired a missile at a…
A press release issued by the Media Office of the Islamic Jihad movement in the West Bank revealed that prison administration and soldiers at the Megiddo Israeli detention facility broke…
Palestinian human rights organization sources are reporting identical information regarding an immediate call by Palestinian detainees in Israeli Prisons for hunger strike upon the arrest of Palestinian government officials. The…
Friday evening, three Palestinians was injured in an Israel air strike in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources reported. An Israeli military source confirmed the attack and said that a…
Palestinian residents, Israeli and international peace activists held their weekly non-violent protest in Bil’in village, west of the West Bank city of Ramallah, and protested against the Israeli military operations…
The Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniya said that the ongoing Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip obstruct efforts to release the Israeli soldier, who was captured by the Palestinian resistance…
Palestinian medical sources in the West Bank city of Nablus reported that one resident was killed, at least thirty were injured, during clashes that erupted in the city after the…
Friday morning, Israeli authorities announced that they have not rejected a proposal put forth by Hamas for the release of the Israeli soldier captured Sunday, as was stated by Egyptian…
A Palestinian medical source at the Rafah Governmental Hospital reported that a resident succumbed to serious injuries sustained a few months ago during an air strike that targeted a group…
Palestinians active in the non-violent struggle against the illegal Israeli Apartheid Wall were taken from their homes in the West Bank last night, according to a statement from the International…
Archbishop of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Atallah Hanna, described the Israeli offensive against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as "an ugly crime, an organized…
Thursday after midnight, one Palestinian fighter was seriously injured in an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the souther part of the Gaza Strip. At least four civilians were injured…
Airstrikes from Israeli planes have destroyed the Interior Ministry in Gaza City as Israeli forces continue to destroy Palestinian infrastructure and civil installations in a bid to totally destroy the…
The Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Thursday that Hamas has conditionally agreed to free the abducted Israeli soldier but Israel rejected the conditions set by the group for the release…
The Palestinian Ministry of Interior in Gaza City was destroyed shortly after midnight Thursday from Israeli missiles, Palestinian witnesses reported. Smoke and flames could be seen coming from the building.…
A Palestinian medical source Gaza reported that one Palestinian child was injured, shortly after midnight Thursday when an Israeli F16 fighter jet fired missiles at several areas in the northern…
Deputy Head of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Ahmad Bahar, said the abduction of eight Hamas ministers and 24 Hamas PLC members is a kidnapping of national personalities, and as…
The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) spokesman gave three possible scenarios as to the current status of the captured Israeli soldier at a press conference in Gaza on Thursday. The first…
Thursday, a group of Palestinian fighters blew a 4-meter hole into the border wall that separates the Gaza Strip from Egypt. Two Palestinian security men were injured in the border…
Israeli warplanes flying over Gaza have been dropping leaflets, in addition to bombs, on the Palestinians living there. The IMEMC managed to obtain a copy of the leaflet, and have…
In a pre-dawn invasion of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Israeli forces apparently found the body of an Israeli settler abducted on Monday, having been tipped off as to…
Israeli troops invaded several areas in the West Bank late Wednesday night into the early hours of Thursday morning, abducting 64 Palestinian officials, including 8 ministers, 20 lawmakers, and a…
The United States cannot denounce Iran’s nuclear program while accepting Israel’s possession of nuclear bombs, the Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa told the US Arab Economic Forum in Houston,…
Thursday at dawn, Israeli F-16 fighters fired several missiles at areas in Gaza city and in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources reported. A local source in…
In an exclusive interview with IMEMC, Uri Avnery, a former Member of the Israeli Knesset and founder of the Israeli peace bloc Gush Shalom, warned, "If the Israeli army continues…
Palestinian medical sources in southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis reported that two brothers were killed and seven residents were injured in an explosion that took place in a…
The Union of Palestinian Refugees in Iraq reported Wednesday evening that two Palestinian refugees were shot an killed in Abu Ghreib area in Iraq. The Union issued a press release…
sraeli army started preparing for a complete invasion into the Gaza Strip in an operation that aims to “put pressure on the Palestinian Population” in northern Gaza Strip. Israeli Defense…
An anonymous statement from Palestinian resistance fighters reported the abduction of a 62-year old Israeli from Reshon Lizion area in Tel Aviv. The group said that the Israeli was abducted…
It appears that the Hamas government has declared a state of alert and begun disappearing upon receiving Israeli assassination threats. None are reachable by phone as all numbers have changed.…
Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, described the Israeli large scale military offensive in the Gaza Strip as a war crime and as an attack on infrastructure and civilian targets. The statements…
According to official sources in the General Land Defense Committee in the Hebron District, Israeli forces continued to build a fence around yet another illegal Israeli settlement south of Hebron.…
An Israeli police source reported on Wednesday that a group of 50 Christian tourists, said to be pro-Israel, were attacked by some 100 extreme ultra-orthodox Jews living in the Mea…
The Palestinian government called on Wednesday for a prisoner swap, saying the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip is not the right way to release the captured soldier. Spokesman of…
Palestinian security sources in Gaza reported that Israeli war-jets fired missiles at two locations said to be used by resistance fighters of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of…
It seems that the Hamas government has declared a state of alert and begun disappearing upon receiving Israeli threats. None are reachable by phone as all numbers have changed. This…
On the morning of Tuesday 27th of June, Israeli bulldozers guarded with armed personnel started cutting and uprooting olive trees in the Cremisan area of Beit Jala in preparation for…
Palestinian chief negotiator Dr. Sa’eb Ereikat said the has planned for the invasion to the Gaza Strip is prior to the capture of the Israeli soldier in Sunday’s attack against…
The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported on Wednesday at dawn that Israeli fighter-jets and tanks fired several shells at Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Soldiers who…
Abu Abeer, media spokesperson of the Popular Resistance Committees said on Wednesday at dawn that his group will kill the Israeli settler it abducted in the West Bank if Israel…
Several Palestinian factions declared on Tuesday that they have reached an agreement on the National Unity document after ten days of intensive talks. Saleh Zeidan, member of the Political Bureau…
After an Israeli military spokesperson officially declared that the Gaza invasion has been launched, dozens of tanks and armored vehicles advanced towards Rafah and reached the Gaza International Airport in…
Israeli troops stationed at the Gaza borders were seen moving towards the Gaza Strip late on Tuesday at night shortly before two air strikes that targeted the main power-plant in…
Tuesday at night, the Israeli air force attacked the main bridge that links between Gaza city and Khan Younis. Arm source reported that the shelling comes in a bid to…
Israeli military sources reported on Tuesday afternoon that the teenage settler who went missing since Sunday might be in the hands of Palestinian resistance fighters as some armed groups reported.…
Palestinian security sources in Gaza reported on Tuesday evening that an Israeli war-jet fired two missiles at a Palestinian vehicle, apparently carrying fighters, near the house of the Palestinian president,…
Palestinian tractors and bulldozers have blocked major roads into Gaza with dirt mounds and large rocks in an attempt to slow Israeli military vehicles, and the Palestinian Health Ministry has…
Under the close supervision of the Arab Doctors Union (ADU), Egyptian surgeons have successfully extracted Israeli rocket shrapnel from the body of 4-year-old Lateefa Ghalia, who was critically wounded in…
In the Negev Desert, 1,200 Palestinian political prisoners have launched a hunger strike to protest the arbitrary practices of the prison administration praticed against them. The strike comes in the…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday issued a surprise presidential decree relieving the Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, of his duties, saying that he had reached the pension age. …
America’s largest Presbyterian church voted to continue policies of economic engagement in the Middle East. It affirmed its willingness to use its investment policies to press for peace in Israel-Palestine.…
Israeli sources reported Monday night that the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee passed a controversial bill that would significantly reduce the rights of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails.…
Palestinian medical sources reported that two Palestinian workers were shot and killed Monday night by Israeli military fire at Sheikh Sa’ad checkpoint, south of Jerusalem, the Arabs48 news website reported.…
A source at the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) reported Monday night that its fighters abducted a settler in the West Bank. Abu Abeer, media spokesperson of the PRC, reported that…
Member of Knesset Avigdor Lieberman, chairman of the extreme right wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, called on Monday for a massive military invasion into the Gaza Strip and for the abduction…
A statement released by three Palestinian armed groups claiming responsibility for the Kerem Shalom Israeli crossing attack Sunday demanded that Israel release all women and children detainees in Israeli prisons…
Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, will provide six new ambulances to the Palestinian Authority as part of a deal that will allow the Israeli group…
Palestinian farmers scored a victory Monday, at least on paper, when the Israeli High Court curtailed the army’s power to deny West Bank farmers access to their lands. In response…
Inside sources told the Palestine News Network Monday that negotiations on securing the release of an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian resistance fighters are underway. The soldier was captured during…
The Israeli daily newspaper Ha’aretz has quoted diplomats living in Gaza, who say that they know which Palestinian group kidnapped the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The diplomats say that the…
Israeli ground and naval forced completely sealed off the Gaza borders in an attempt to prevent what an Israeli military spokesperson described as “any attempt to smuggle the abducted Israeli…
Three Israeli peace activists said they were assaulted Saturday by a group of Jewish settlers at the village of At-Tuwani near the West Bank city of Hebron. According to the…
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ruled out any talks with the Palestinian Authority to secure the release of an Israeli soldier who is believed to be in the hands of…
The ‘Jews-only’ settlement of ‘Elkana’, built on illegally seized Palestinian land, has begun construction of an additional 54 houses on farmland belonging to Mas’ha village farmers. Elkana settlement has been…
The Israeli cabinet has extended, on Sunday,a law banning most Palestinians from living in Israel with their spouses. The law was endorsed by Israel’s highest court by the narrowest of…
Brukin village, located in the central West Bank, in the Salfit district, has been subjected to massive sewage dumping from the illegal Israeli settlements ‘Ariel’ and ‘Brukhin’, which are ‘Jewish-only’…
The Israeli political-security cabinet approved a plan that authorizes the army to start preparing for a “fierce” military operation in the Gaza Strip in order to secure the release of…
Three Palestinian resistance factions that carried out the Kerem Shalom Crossing attack earlier on Sunday reported that their gunmen did not abduct any Israeli soldier during the attack. Three Palestinian…
The Hamas government called upon the Palestinian resistance groups who were involved in the attack against the Israeli military post Sunday to keep the Israeli soldier captured during the operation…
At least three Palestinian resistance fighters and two Israeli soldiers were killed in an attack launched by Palestinian resistance early Sunday morning at the Israeli military post of Kerem Shalom…
Khaled Al Batsh, one of the political leaders of the Islamic Jihad ,reported that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and leaders of the Islamic Jihad will meet at 10pm Palestinian time…
Khaled Al Batsh, one of the political leaders of the Islamic Jihad reported that the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and leaders of the Islamic Jihad will meet at 20hours Palestinian…
Khan Younis-Ma’an-Well-informed Palestinian sources have told the Ma’an correspondent that Palestinian political factions have reached agreement on the Prisoners’ Accord Document. All the political factions, including the Hamas movement, have…
International peace activists from all around the world have become a friend of Palestinian farmers and villagers who are isolated from their orchards by the Israeli annexation Wall. Their nonviolent…
Saturday morning, Israeli troops invaded the Gaza Strip through Sofa Crossing east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Strip, and arrested two Hamas gunmen after surrounding a house…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Saturday with his Prime Minister Ismael Haniya in Gaza city to discuss several issues of interest, Palestinian sources reported. Abbas and Haniya will…
Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a Hamas leader imprisoned by Israel, dismissed reports by the Israeli daily Haaretz in which the paper claims he said Hamas would negotiate with Israel. Haaertz reported…
Palestinian medical sources in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that a baby girl whose mother was injured in an Israeli air strike was stillborn…
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, reported on Friday that he will meet with President Mahmoud Abbas after the later arrives in Gaza. Among other issues, the meeting will focus on…
Friday, The United States Senate on passed a bill that blocks United States aid from going to the Palestinian government, headed by Hamas movement, but gives humanitarian relief to the…
Approximately 250 Palestinians and 60 international and Israeli peace activists protested on Friday against Israel’s annexation Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah in the West Bank. Several protesters, wearing…
Courage To Refuse conscientious objectors movement in Israel has renewed its activity in wake of the oscillating number of innocent Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in recent weeks. “The…
In 2005, there were approximately 6.8 million Palestinian refugees and 400,000 internally displaced Palestinians representing 70 percent of the entire Palestinian population worldwide (9.7 million). The legal status of some…
Israeli authorities at the Ben Gorion International Airport in Tel Aviv barred on Thursday eight international peace activists from entering the country for what the authorities described as “conducting activities…
The Palestine News Network learned Friday that Israeli security forces and police intend to evict a Palestinian cancer patient, Mustafa Al Hilo, because of that fact that he is required…
A recent report by the International human rights organization Human Rights Watch, (HRW) states that the investigation run by the Israeli Army in the killing of a Palestinian family on…
Surveys conducted for Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu “Israel Our Home” party showed that 70% of the Israelis who supported the Gaza Disengagement Plan last year object to a West Bank…
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said at an economic conference in Jerusalem that he instructed the Israeli army to resume the targeted killing policy against resistance fighters in the Palestinian…
Israeli media sources reported that a French Jew identified as Raphael Schoemann, 65, received 10-month suspended prison sentence for sending bullets accompanied by threatening notes to high-profile figures who are…
Thursday evening, Palestinian sources in the West Bank city of Ramallah reported that a Palestinian intelligence officer and member of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement, was…
Israeli Newspaper Maariv reported on Thursday that the Israeli security services are preparing for a campaign to bar international peace activists from entering the occupied West Bank this summer to…
Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that Palestinian detainees in Al Maskobiyya Israeli Prison in Jerusalem are facing bad treatment, torture and are suffering from deteriorating mental and health condition as a…
King Abdullah II of Jordan hosted on Thursday the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas at Petra convention in what was described by Israeli media…
The Palestinian Prisoner Society )PPS) is currently preparing to send a delegation of lawyers to visit Palestinian political prisoners in Al Naqab (Negev Desert) Prison inside southern Israeli borders. The…
Israeli forces and settlers injured four Palestinians, including several youth, in separate attacks in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. A fifth individual was arrested following the attacks. Medical…
Palestinian medical sources and eyewitnesses in Gaza reported on Wednesday evening that a Palestinian woman has been killed and 14 other civilians, including children, were injured in a second Israeli…
The Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Israel plans to conduct yet another large-scale military operation on the Gaza Strip. This news came in the wake of a heated…
In an attempt to deepen public knowledge of World Refugee Day, the UN Relief Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees hosted a series films about refugees Tuesday evening in the Palestinian…