Army attempts to assassinate a fighter in Gaza
Wednesday, an Israeli surveillance plane fired a missile at a Palestinian vehicle near Tal Al Hawa area, south of Gaza City. The missile missed its target and the vehicle sped…
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Wednesday, an Israeli surveillance plane fired a missile at a Palestinian vehicle near Tal Al Hawa area, south of Gaza City. The missile missed its target and the vehicle sped…
Tuesday night, Israeli soldiers tortured Palestinians waiting to pass through Jit Checkpoint east of the West Bank city, not leaving alone the handicapped man with them. The beatings were described…
Several home-made Qassam shells were fired at the western Negev town of Sderot, one of which hit a building near the house of the Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz, Israeli…
Israeli soldiers demolished on Wednesday several Palestinians homes and public service constructions in Um Al Safa village, east of Yatta, south of the West Bank city of Hebron. The Army…
The Israeli High Court of Justice approved Tuesday the continued construction of the annexation Wall around the settlement Shavei Shomron despite the petition against it. The wall isolates the residents…
The Israeli army decided to step up its ground assaults by special forces in the northern party of the Gaza Strip; the decision comes only a day after the under-cover…
Tuesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers shot and killed an Egyptian resident while attempting to infiltrate into Israel through the borders with Egypt. According to Israeli media sources, the man is…
After seven Palestinians were killed in less than one day in the west Bank and the Gaza Strip, Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz vowed Tuesday that the operations of the…
The Palestinian government, headed by the Hamas party, denounced Israel’s arrest of Aziz Kayed, deputy secretary of the Palestinian cabinet, after breaking into his home in Al Biereh city, near…
Four Palestinian legislators, including the cabinet minister of Jerusalem affairs, Khaled Abu Arafa, refused an ultimatum issued on Monday by Israeli Interior Minister, Ronnie Bar-On, to quit their parliamentary posts…
Israeli soldiers attacked on Tuesday several detainees in Al Damoun detention facility after breaking into a section of the facility and violently attacking and beating them, causing several injuries. Al…
Hundreds of Palestinian workers conducted a sit-in today at Erez Crossing, the crossing point from the northern Gaza Strip Beit Hanoun area into Israeli territory. It is the only route…
At least three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in West Bank invasions early Tuesday morning. This makes a total of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces early Tuesday,…
Israeli authorities issued a military order to annex 30 Dunams of Palestinian lands that belong to residents of Al Jab’a village, south-east of Bethlehem. The annexed lands will be used…
The Prisoner Support Society reported Tuesday morning that political prisoners in Israeli Al Damoun detention facility are being repeatedly attacked by the soldiers, while their lawyer are not allowed to…
Two Palestinian refugees were reportedly killed in Iraq Monday in the latest wave of violence against the Palestinian refugee population in Iraq. Thousands of Palestinian refugees living in Iraq have…
According to a report monday in London’s Financial Times newspaper, the Palestinian Authority may be forced to abandon the Israeli shekel and adopt the Jordanian dinar as its currency as…
A medical source at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Hanoun reported that three Palestinians were killed and at least seven residents were injured during armed clashes that took place between…
The largest university and college lecturers’ union in Britain on Monday voted in favor of a motion recommending that its members boycott Israeli academics and institutions that do not publicly…
The Israeli government has approved a decision to expand N. Maskiyot settlement in Jordan Valley, seizing Palestinian land for a ‘military training base’. This expansion of the settlement will expel…
The European Union (EU) is soon to announce an offer to by-pass the Hamas government in Palestine in order to transfer aid to the Palestinian people, media sources reported. …
Hundreds of Palestinian workers conducted a sit-in today at Erez Checkpoint, the crossing point from the northern Gaza Strip Beit Hanoun area into Israeli territory. It is the only route…
The Israeli Police arrested the daughter of the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniya Monday when she entered Israeli areas , Palestinian sources said. The daughter whose name…
Palestinian president. Mahmoud Abbas has begun 10 days of intensive talks with Hamas and other Palestinian factions aimed at persuading them to accept a plan that implicitly calls for the…
An Israeli military source claimed on Monday that soldiers foiled what was described as “an attempt to carry out a bombing in Israel”. In a area close to Yitshar settlement,…
At 5pm on May 28, 2006, Palestinian workers from the nearby settlement of Modi’in Illit called Abdullah Abu Rahme, from Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements of Bil’in, to…
Palestinian sources reported on Monday morning that one Palestinian fighter was shot and killed by Israeli military fire east of Gaza city. The source stated that fighters of the Al…
The leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) party has officially notified Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya that the party is ready to participate in the…
A Palestinian police source reported that an unknown gunmen burned the vehicle of Wasfi Kabha, Palestinian Minister of Detainees and ex-detainees in the Hamas-led government, Sunday evening in Jenin, north…
One Palestinian fighter, and one fighter of Hizbollah were killed during clashes with the Israeli army in south Lebanon. The Al Manar Television, which belongs to Hizbollah, reported that one…
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, is slated to meet with the Egyptian President President, Hosney Mubarak, next Sunday at the Egyptian Resort of Sharm Al Sheikh, an Israeli source reported.…
Israeli sources reported on Sunday that one Israeli soldier was seriously injured in his stomach after exchanging fire with Hizbollah fighters near Kibbutz Minora, close to the Israeli-Lebanese borders. An…
Hamdan Al Salem has stopped dreaming of leaving the city of Nablus after the hours upon hours has spent waiting at checkpoints dotting the city, creating a lone island called…
Five months after suffering a debilitating stroke, former Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, remains in coma but will be transferred for rehabilitation at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israeli…
Former Mossad head, Efraim Halevy, said on Saturday that the Road Map Plan includes articles that contradict with the interests of the State of Israel; the Mossad is the Israeli…
By the beginning of 2007, 486 kilometers of the Annexation Wall will be completed, reported Israeli defense Ministry officials this week. This constitutes 93 percent of the 523-kilometer fence route…
Israeli Knesset member Ami Ayalon met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Saturday and discussed the possibility of future negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, reported Israeli…
Detainees of the Hamas movement imprisoned in Israeli detention facilities have dissociated themselves from the National Unity Document signed by jailed leaders of various movements. The prisoners said that they…
Palestinian chief justice Sheikh Tayseer Al-Tamimi has scathingly condemned the most recent invasion of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third most holy site in Islam, by Jewish extremists protected by Israeli…
Friday evening, a Palestinian refugee living in Iraq was abducted and shot dead by unknown gunmen in Al Dawra area, in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. A group which calls itself…
An Israeli army and police force stopped on Saturday Israeli peace activists and Palestinian farmers and prevented them from delivering water to Susa village near Hebron. The village has been…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has given Hamas 10 days to endorse a plan accepting the idea of a Palestinian state alongside Israel or he will submit the plan to a…
The Hamas party has rejected a deadline set by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resolve Palestinian internal factional fighting within ten days. Talks on the plan, drafted by Palestinian leaders…
Prior to this week, the United States had consistently opposed any Israeli unilateral moves on final status negotiations with the Palestinians, as such moves would exclude the Palestinians from negotiating…
The Israeli army attacked a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance in the West Bank city of Nablus, and also attacked a woman in labor the ambulance was carrying, Saturday morning. The…
Friday’s protest in Bil’in village, west of the West Bank city of Ramallah called on the Palestinian factions and people to renounce all sorts of internal violence and conflict, and…
As the Israeli army continued its shelling of Palestinian neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday night, five Palestinians, including three teens – two of them members of the…
A Palestinian medical source in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Friday afternoon that one Palestinian child was seriously injured after the Israeli army…
Mahmoud Majzoub, known as Abu Hamza, an Islamic Jihad official has been reported dead at a Lebanese hospital hours after he was seriously injured in a car bombing in Saida…
Israeli Minister of Justice, Haim Ramon, said in an interview with Israel’s TV Channel 10 that the document presented by the Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons is part of the…
The Palestinian Hamas-led government has ordered on Friday its fighters off Gaza’s streets in the wake of deadly clashes with the Fatah movement that stirred fears of civil war in…
The US-led political and economic blockade continues, yet contrary to popular belief, it is not only affecting Palestinian Authority employees and the merchants they buy from. Palestinian organizations are also…
A large force of the Israeli military stormed the Social Club in Tulkarem in the northwestern West Bank at dawn Friday. The Social Club belongs to Hamas and is known…
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat Thursday denounced a decision of Israeli police to allow extremist Jews to enter the al-Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem, the third-holiest site in Islam, and…
Israel on Wednesday released Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli army describes as “security-related” violation. Rajoub, 28, was charged with harboring pro-Hamas…
Israeli State Prosecution decided Thursday evening to bar British lawyer Kate Maynard, who was behind the war-crimes charges against retired Israeli Major-General Doron Almog, from entering Israel, Israeli sources reported.…
Rep. Betty McCollum, a Minnesota Democrat, is refusing to meet with representatives of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee until she receives an apology from the pro-Israel lobbying powerhouse. McCollum…
In today’s Palestinian National Dialogue session, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas set out an ultimatum for the various internal factions to reach an agreement, saying he will call for a referendum…
A member of the Fatah-controlled Palestinian security forces was killed and four others were wounded Thursday, doctors and witnesses said, in the latest factional clashes in the Gaza Strip. The…
During his speech in front of the US congress on Wednesday evening, the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, attacked the Palestinian Authority headed by Hamas, and claimed that Hamas is…
Israeli soldiers killed during this week nine Palestinian residents, including three women and one child, in several military attacks carried out in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Among…
Palestinians in southern Nablus were held under curfew while dozens were imprisoned in small rooms since Wednesday. Early this morning Israeli forces finally left. Lawyer Zayed Omran reported that Israeli…
One week ago heavily guarded Israeli bulldozers dredged the lands of Amatin Village, 15 kilometers east of Qalqiliya in the area known as Jabal Abu Suwayd. Farmer Al Haji Suleiman…
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on Wednesday threatened to begin an open-ended hunger strike if the national dialogue failed to reach an agreement that would end the state of tension…
In West Bethlehem, between al-Khader and the villages to be isolated in a ghetto on the west side of the Wall, Israeli forces have begun building a tunnel under the…
Representatives and leaders of different Palestinian factions and religious sects are set to convene on Thursday in Ramallah and Gaza to put an end to the internal conflicts which escalated…
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, said after a seven-hour meeting with leaders of Fateh and Hamas movements in his Gaza office that the only way to end tension and violence…
At lest one senior Palestinian security officer was killed and another injured when a bomb went off in his car in Gaza. Officer Nabil Hudhud, director of the Palestinian Preventive…
Several Israeli army vehicles, accompanied by three bulldozers / drills, invaded the village of Funduq near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia at the early hours of Wednesday morning.…
A rPalestinian man with heart problems died after being beaten in the head and chest by Israeli soldiers at a military checkpoint in Abu Dees suburb, south of occupied East…
The number of Palestinians were killed in an Israeli invasion to the West Bank city of Ramallah has increased to four after a young man died of wounds sustained earlier…
The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly backed on Tuesday, May 23, a bill calling for the Palestinian Authority to be designated a "terrorist sanctuary," imposing broad restrictions on US aid…
Hours after the Israeli army assassinated the Al Quds Brigades leader in Gaza City on Saturday, his wife gave birth to a baby girl. During the assassination, Israeli forces also…
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported on Wednesday that at least two settler families moved on Tuesday into apartments in a illegal settlement neighborhood of the West Bank settlement of Upper…
Israeli security forces and settlers are being allowed to perpetrate abuses against Palestinians with no real fear of being brought to justice, Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday. The…
Ehud Olmert, since taking the position of Israeli Prime Minister a month ago, has waged a daily war against Arab citizens and their homes in Al Naqab, the Negev Desert.…
A Palestinian security source in Gaza reported that one member of the Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, was killed and two others were injured after being abducted…
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that the Israel Army Chief of Staff, Dan Halutz, said during a session with the Knesset Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that he would not…
The Israeli High Court of Justice rejected on Tuesday an appeal filed by the residents of Al Ezariyya town, east of Jerusalem, against the rout of the annexation Wall which…
Tuesday, Israeli troops arrested Sheikh Ibrahim Hamid, leader of Iz Ed Deen Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and “number 1” wanted fighter in the occupied West Bank, Israeli army…
The United Kingdom’s attorney general has asked Israel to pay compensation to families of two Britons who were shot dead in 2003 by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip, a…
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that Israel’s retreat to 1967 lines will bring peace to the region. "If Israel withdraws to the…
The Palestine News Network has learned from informed sources that the Americans are contributing major funds through the health system in spite of the siege imposed by the US administration…
Thursday at night, Israeli soldiers invaded West Bank city of Bethlehem and arrested a resident, said to be a member of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh…
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that the Israeli Prime Minster, Ehud Olmert, is set to meet with the U.S Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to prepare for his first meeting…
The European Union Commission is currently formulating a plan to transfer dozens of millions of US Dollars to ministries withing the Palestinian government in order to enable them pay the…
Israeli High Court of Justice approved on Monday the route of the annexation Wall near Qalqilia, north of the West Bank. The decision involves isolating thousands of Dunams of Palestinian…
Palestinian security sources reported on Monday that one homemade shell fired by Palestinian fighters at an area in southern Israel hit a Palestinian house in Beit Hanoun, in the northern…
{mosimage}A Palestinian medical source in Gaza reported on Monday that one Jordanian was killed, and two other residents were injured after the newly formed Hamas-led security force exchanged fire with…
Monday, Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported that one Fateh gunman was killed, and one was injured, after midnight during renewed clashes between Fateh and Hamas gunmen in Abasan town,…
Israeli Prime Minster, Ehud Olmert, said that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is a powerless leader and that he cannot represent the Palestinians in peace talks with Israel. Olmert’s statements…
The Palestinian president and Israel’s foreign minister have met the highest-level talks between the two sides since the Islamist group Hamas formed the Palestinian government in March. Israeli foreign minister…
The Palestinian president and Israel’s foreign minister have met the highest-level talks between the two sides since the Islamist group Hamas formed the Palestinian government in March. Israeli foreign minister…
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader Ahmed Sa’adat, seized during an Israel Defense Forces raid on a Palestinian jail last March, was indicted in a military court…
Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, has approved on Sunday the expansion of four West Bank settlements, the first such approvals since he came to office. Peretz considers the expansion…
Spokesman of the Palestinian government, Dr. Ghazi Hamad has said that an investigation was underway into Saturday’s attempt to kill the chief of the Palestinian Authority (PA) intelligence service in…
Dozens of Palestinian school children from Um Touba village, in the West Bank, were attacked on Sunday morning by an extremist settlers group living in the Ma’oun illegal settlement outpost.…
Palestinian security sources from the Fatah party claim that the armed resistance wing of Hamas, Al Qassam Brigades, purchased large quantities of light weapons in the West Bank recently. The…
A security source in the Palestinian Preventive Security reported on Sunday that an explosive was discovered today on the main road along the route of Director General of Internal Security,…
Israeli forces took six Palestinians to unknown locations from Hebron this morning. The raid began early Sunday in the southern West Bank. Four of those arrested are brothers. The incursion…