Al-Aqsa Brigades call for punishing spies for Israel
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah ruling party, called on the Palestinian Authority to track down informers and punish them, describing them as a ‘source…
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The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah ruling party, called on the Palestinian Authority to track down informers and punish them, describing them as a ‘source…
Israeli Interior Minister Ophir Pines on Friday visited the coastal town of Nitzanim to check on preparations for absorbing hundreds of Gush Katif settlers, who will be evacuated from the…
Israeli TV Channel 2 reported on Friday at night that Israel is weighing the possibility of allowing Egypt to provide the P.A with ammunition. “The development comes after the United…
The Israeli military police has launched a probe against three non- commissioned Israeli officers suspected of looting settlers’ homes in the West Bank settlements of Kadim and Ganim. The two…
Israeli authorities on Friday morning barred the transfer of a sick Palestinian infant to an Israeli hospital, a Palestinian medical source reported.  Taiseer Alloun, only a few days old,…
The Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bel’in, west of Ramallah, reported on Friday evening that Israeli soldiers fired at a peaceful protest against the Separation Wall. Three residents were injured…
Israeli police said on Friday they plan to ban pullout opponents from protesting in the south of the country next week. The decision was made in an attempt to prevent…
Palestinian informed sources reported on Friday that the prisoner Ikram Al-Taweel had received a renewal order for her administrative detention from the Israeli prison authorities. Al-Tawil a 27-year-old single female…
A Palestinian security source reported, on Friday evening, that the two international workers kidnapped in the Gaza Strip were released following extensive negotiations between the P.A and the captors. Officials…
Ansar al-Sajeen, of the Prisoners’ Support Society, demanded that the Israeli prison authorities probe the death of detainee Jawad abu Mgheisib, 18, who died at the Negev detention, apparently from medical neglect.…
Israeli Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz has rejected a recommendation by senior army officers to launch a major offensive in the Gaza Strip shortly before or simultaneously with the pullout.…
Marwan Sa’id al-Qawasmi, a 20-year-old from Hebron who is being held in Israel’s Kfar Atzion detention camp, is suffering from critical health conditions, according to attorney Mohammad al-Shadfan of the…
abdul-Raziq Dharaghma, 33, a prominent leader of the Islamic Jihad in the West Bank, has been arrested by Israeli soldiers, according to Sheikh Adnan Khader, media spokesperson for the resistance group. Khader…
An armed Palestinian group belonging to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah, abducted a Palestinian security official in al-Boreij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, a Palestinian…
Israeli soldiers and settlers clashed on Thursday evening at the West Bank settlement of Shavei Shomron after the army arrived to install a new gate in preparation for the upcoming…
Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian resident in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, a Palestinian security source in the city reported on Thursday evening. The army claims that the their target…
Six anti-wall protestors were wounded on Thursday when Israeli troops and police attempted to disperse a demonstration in the West Bank villages of Bil’in and Budrus, west of Ramallah. Israeli…
Israeli soldiers arrested on Thursday afternoon, a Palestinian youth, and injured his 80-year-old grandmother, in the village of Budros, west of Ramallah. A local source in the village reported that…
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported on Thuyrsday, that detainee Jawad Adel abu Mgheisib, 18, died at the Negev Desert Detention of medical neglect and mistreatment. The ministry stated that…
Israeli soldiers arrested on Thursday three residents in the West bank city of Hebron, after invading the city and breaking into dozens of homes. The Hebron Office of the Palestinian…
Israeli authorities stepped up its destructive policies against the Palestinian residents, leveling dozens of homes and constructions in the West Bank and in Jerusalem, which is a direct violation to…
For over six months, since the start of the construction of the separation wall near the village of Bil’in west of Ramallah, residents of the village joined by scores of…
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said on Thursday that he hopes pullout from the Gaza Strip and four minor northern West Bank settlements to take two to three weeks, Israeli…
The Knesset voted on Wednesday on law to limit citizenship rights of Palestinians married to Israeli citizens, the law passed by 59-12. According to the approved law, the state will…
The Knesset plenum approved on Wednesday amendments to a law called “Intifada lawâ€Â, in order to limit the ability of Palestinian residents to sue Israel for damage occurred during the…
Israeli soldiers, supported by 30 armored vehicles, invaded the West Bank city of Jenin, on Wednesday afternoon, killed one youth and injured al least seven other residents. A local source…
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ahmad Qurei, said on Wednesday that the Palestinian Authority is ready to control the Palestinian areas following the Israeli withdrawal. Qurei added that the P.A finalized all…
Israeli soldiers bulldozed on Wednesday, farmlands in Beit Doqqu village, north west of Jerusalem, in order to construct sections of the Separation Wall in the area. Sa’id Yaqeen, member of…
Israeli soldiers based at al-Matahin checkpoint, north of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, fired rounds of live ammunition at hundreds of residents attempting to cross…
A sergeant in the Israeli army was dismissed from duty when he declared that he will refuse orders to evacuate settlers under the disengagement plan, Israeli sources reported on Wednesday.…
Mohammad Dahlan, Palestinian Minister of Civil Affairs, said that the P.A and Israel agreed to remove the rubble of the settlers’ homes in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank,…
Dr. Ghassan Hamadan, head of the Nablus office of the Palestinian Medical Relief, said that the Spanish authorities detained him for more than eight hours at the Madrid Airport without…
The U.S. administration has deepened the crisis with Israel over the Israel’s weapon-related exports by refusing to rescind the sanctions against Israel, Ze’ev Schiff, a prominent military expert wrote in…
A medical source at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, in Hebron, reported, on Tuesday at night, that a child from Beit Ummar village was killed after being struck by a…
The Israeli TV, Channel 1, reported in Tuesday evening, that Israel has decided to evacuate from the Philadilphi Route, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, immediately after completing the Gaza…
The Israeli Newspaper Maariv reported on Tuesday that the Israeli government plans to construct a settlement at Bab al-Zahera area, in the old city of Jerusalem. The plan which was…
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qorei called on the United States, the International Community and the Quartet to hold their responsibilities, and pressure Israel in order to stop its violations in…
Israeli Prison Authorities transferred detainee Ghalib Hasan Jaradat, 23, from Sielet al-Harithiyya, west of Jenin to solitary confinement in Hadarim detention. Jaradat was arrested during a special under-covered military operation…
Israeli soldiers arrested a resident in Azzoun village, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia; another resident was badly bruised east of the city after the soldiers attacked and…
A Palestinian security source in Hebron reported on Monday that soldiers fired and seriously injured a resident in al-Hawouz area, south of Hebron, and arrested him. The source stated that…
Around five thousand soldiers and policemen started a rehearsal on Monday for the pullout from the Gaza Strip, shortly before the start of the operation, Israeli sources reported. Three army…
The Emirate State News Agency said that the United Arab Emirates intends to build a new Palestinian town on site of demolished settlements in the Gaza Strip, after the Israeli…
Palestinian officials at the Gaza Municipal council said on Monday that the council has signed an agreement to launch a campaign to renovate the Gaza Coast in with the Association…
Israeli soldiers arrested on Monday, one resident in the old city of Hebron, and resumed its house-to-house searches in the old city for the third day. A Palestinian Security source…
Israeli sources reported, on Monday, that the Israeli army is preparing a plan to foil any attempt to fire at settlers and soldiers during disengagement, if the Palestinian Authority does…
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon slammed London Mayor, Ken Livingstone, for stating that members of the Likud and Hamas were “two sides of the same coinâ€Â, Sharon also slammed Likud…
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz met on Sunday evening with Palestinian Authority Interior Minister Nasser Yousef. Yousef reported that “Israel was not serious,†and not providing any answers to issues raised by…
Chief of Staff of the Israeli army Dan Halutz warned settler leaders on Sunday that their plans for mass refusal by right-wing religious soldiers to carry out disengagement related orders…
Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres said on Sunday that Israel must divide Jerusalem and leave the West Bank city of Hebron for a peace deal with the Palestinians to be…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoner society, Hasan al-Sheikh, reported that he met two child detainees in Aztion detention center, near Hebron, who informed him of the ill treatment and abuse they…
An Israeli military source reported on Sunday that a Jewish settler and his wife were killed and three other settlers were injured, after three Palestinian gunmen ambushed and fired their vehicle…
Palestinian detainee Manal Ghanim demanded international humanitarian organizations to intervene for her release, in consideration that her child, Nour, will be two years old in two months, and thus will be…
The Ramallah office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, PPS, reported on Saturday that detainee Abdul-Ra’ouf Mustafa Ismail, 38, from Silwad near Ramallah, is suffering from critically deteriorating health conditions, in…
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threatened to use harsh means if Palestinian resistance launches attacks during the disengagement, slated to start mid-August. Sharon’s comments followed the deadly attack, carried out…
An Israeli security source reported that soldiers arrested a Palestinian bomber from the Gaza Strip on his way to carry suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. “The bomber was arrested inside…
An Israeli military source reported on Saturday at night, that two settlers were killed after a Palestinian resistance group fired at their vehicle on a road leading to the Kissufim…
The Detainees Media Center reported on Saturday evening, that Israeli Prison Authorities intends to transfer 600 detainees from central prisons to the Negev detention camp, in the Negev desert. The…
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said there is a need for more coordination with Israel over the intended Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements,…
Israeli police assaulted on Friday, three Palestinian workers in Israel, arrested two of them while the third was badly injured and hospitalized in Jenin. A Palestinian security source in Jenin…
A local source in Nablus reported that soldiers and settlers attacked dozens of Palestinian homes in Oref village, south east of Nablus, in the West Bank. The source stated that…
At least 65 people were killed in a series of powerful explosions that rocked the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheik early Saturday, Egypt’s interior minister said. There…
An Israeli military court sentenced on Friday two Palestinian children to harsh terms, after charging them of membership in al-Aqsa brigades, the military wing of Fateh. Nasser Kahled Daoud, 15,…
Israeli soldiers fired on Friday afternoon, at a peaceful procession against the Separation Wall in Bel’in, west of Ramallah; six residents were injured, and five others were arrested. A local…
Israeli soldiers shot killed,a Palestinian youth, on Friday at night, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. An Israeli army source said on Friday, that a Palestinian gunman fired…
A mass wedding ceremony sponsored by the Islamic Jihad organization in the Gaza Strip, 222 Gazan couples got married in Gaza city on Friday, Maan news agency reported. In addition…
US secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, met on Friday, with the Israeli prime Minister Ariel Sharon at his Negev Ranch, Sharon was reportedly “very pleased†with the outcome of the…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Friday, that the Israeli Authorities re-operated the X-ray search machine chamber at the Rafah Boder Crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza…
The Palestinian police arrested on Thursday evening an armed group of Israeli youths after they entered Beit Jala, near Bethlehem. The youths were then handed over to the Israeli army, which…
Israeli military officials admitted that the army failed to completely seal off the Gaza Strip to Israeli civilians, as it had intended to do in preparation for the upcoming evacuation of…
A committee of Israel’s Knesset is set to vote Monday on a bill that would make it virtually impossible for Palestinians to seek compensation from the state for damages caused…
A Palestinian medical source has said that a resident of Gaza died on Thursday of wounds sustained last week. Dr. Jom’a al-Saqqa, head of the Public Relations Office at Nasser Medical Compound in…
The economic ministerial council at the Knesset approved a plan to provide 97 million shekels in aid to improve infrastructure, agriculture and for settlement expansion in the Jordan Valley area. The…
Israel denied access to a group of 130 international human rights and peace activists of the Caravan for Justice in Palestine, who tried to access the country, coming from Jordan,…
After landing in Israel on Thursday U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with the Israeli Foreign Minister, Silvan Shalom, and praised the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, for what…
Blasts at Underground stations and on a bus caused panic in London last night just two weeks after fatal attacks that claimed the lives of 56 people and wounded hundreds.…
Israeli soldiers closed on Thursday evening, abu Holy and al-Matahin checkpoints, on Salah Ed-deen Road, the main link between northern Gaza Strip areas with the south. The WAFA news agency…
A Palestinian medical source at Nasser hospital in Khan Youni reported on Thursday evening that one child was killed and his brother injured, after a home made shell exploded in their…
Israeli soldiers abused a Palestinian taxi driver from Dir Samit village, near the West Bank city of Hebron, after stopping him at a military checkpoint adjacent to Doura village. Ibrahim…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree on Thursday dismissing Radwan Abu Ayyash, chair of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, Palestinian sources reported. Abu Ayash is to be given another task…
The Israeli army’s chief of staff, Dan Halutz, this week approved a series of steps to toughen disciplinary measures against soldiers who refuse orders, ahead of the planned disengagement from some…
On Thursday at dawn Israeli soldiers invaded the villages of Yatta, al-Sammoa, and Beit Kahil, south and west of the West bank city of Hebron, and arrested two residents. The…
The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on Thursday that a senior military source said that Israel might detonate synagogues and religious schools before it evacuates from the Gaza Strip in accordance…
An informed Israeli source reported on Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected an American proposal that he meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during the visit of the…
Israeli police arrested on Wednesday at least 250 anti-disengagement protestors who managed to infiltrate to Gush Katif, declared by the army as a closed military zone, Israeli sources reported. Police…
A Palestinian medical source in Qaryout village, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, reported on Wednesday evening that an extremist settlers group stabbed a child to death. The…
Thousands of right-wing Israelis attempt to start their planned anti-pullout march towards the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip, Israeli sources reported Wednesday evening. At least 20,000 Israeli…
Israeli authorities on Wednesday issued two military orders grabbing hundreds of dunams of farmlands near the settlements of Kiryat Arba’ and Kharseena, east of Hebron, in order to construct the…
Israeli Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres said on Wednesday that an agreement was reached, under American supervision, to sell hothouses in Gaza Strip settlements to the Palestinians. The Israeli radio…
The Israeli Knesset rejected bill postponing the disengagement plan on Wednesday afternoon, with a margin of 69-41 with members abstained from voting, Israeli sources reported. Two key Likud ministers, Finance…
Settler leaders surprisingly called temporary halt to a planned anti-disengagement demonstration to Gush Kativ settlement in the Gaza Strip. Yesha Council Chairman Bentzi Lieberman said the bulk of the demonstrators…
Israeli soldiers on Wednesday invaded the town of al-Thahiriyya, near the West Bank city of Hebron, and broke into dozens of homes and stores. A local source in the village…
Soldiers arrested on Wednesday seven residents and international peace activists in the village of Bil’in, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, six residents were injured. Mohammad Khateeb, member of…
Detainee Abboud Mahmoud Samaro, from Nablus, appealed to humanitarian organizations and the Red Cross to intervene with Israeli authorities to seek his release so he can receive medical treatment abroad. Samaro…
Twenty detainees in Israel’s Majeddo detention center resumed a hunger strike they announced last week to protest the bad living conditions and inhuman treatment they face. Lawyer Mahmoud Azim, who is…
A Palestinian security officer from Tulkarem died on Wednesday morning of wounds sustained on July 13, 2005. Mohammad Ghannam, 25, who was injured after the Israeli army invaded Nour Shams refugee camp in…
Ismail Haniyya, one of the prominent political leaders of Hamas, said that the movement ended all forms of tension, and is ready to meet and hold talks with the Palestinian…
Israeli soldiers, supported by several armored vehicles, invaded the Shweika area on Tuesday afternoon. They conducted military searches of homes, a Palestinian security source reported. “Dozens of homes were searched,’ the…
On Tuesday the President of the Israeli High Court of Justice, Aharon Barak, instructed the state to provide buses for the return of anti-disengagement protestors from Kfar Maimon, in southern Israel, where a…
Israeli soldiers arrested on Tuesday, four residents in Hebron and the neighboring village of Kharas, northwest of the city. A local source in Hebron reported that soldiers arrested Mousa Mohammad…
Israeli soldiers killed two leaders of the Islamic Jihad in al-Yamoun village, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, an Israeli military source reported on Tuesday. The army claims…