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Israeli forces stationed at the northern borders of the Gaza strip opened fire at a Palestinian man and injured him on Wednesday midday.Mohamed Ishehada, 25, sustained an injury in his…
The bodies of a child and a woman were found in the Gaza strip on Wednesday morning, Palestinian Medical sources in the Gaza strip reported. Dr. Mou'awiah Hassanin, director of…
The Israeli army invaded the northern West Bank cities of Nablus and Tubass on Wednesday at dawn, attacked residents' homes, wounded one resident and abducted three includinf the wounded, Palestinian…
Officials of the rival Fateh and Hamas movements traded accusations over the renewed violent clashes between the two movements, and accused each other of acting for further escalation. Abdul-Hakim Awad,…
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that three of six Hezbollah detainees imprisoned by Israel appealed to the Israeli High Court of Justice on Wednesday, demanding be recognized as prisoners of…
Palestinian security sources reported on Tuesday that the Rafah Border Crossing, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, will be opened on Thursday morning on both directions for five continuous days.…
Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Dan Hallutz, admitted on Tuesday that Israel failed in achieving its objectives in its war against Hezbollah, but rejected calls to resign as a result…
Palestinian security sources reported on Tuesday that a Palestinian security officer was shot and injured by unknown gunmen in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of…
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, slammed on Tuesday that abduction of Jaime Razuri, abducted a Peruvian photographer working for the French press agency (Agence France-Presse).Azuri was abducted by unknown gunman in…
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday January 2, 2007. || Click here to Download MP3 file 4.04 MB || time:4m 24s A…
“I could only provide stones as gifts to the heads of the British churches after Israeli bulldozers demolished our house,” 19 year old Bethlehem University student Motaz told PNN…
The Palestinian Information Center, controlled and run by Hamas, reported on Tuesday that a member of the Executive Force that belongs to the Ministry of Interior was killed in an…
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported on Tuesday that Hamas movement accepted Israeli offer to release 450 Palestinian detainees in the second stage of a deal that would see the release…
Political parties in Bethlehem organized on Tuesday a symbolic funeral for the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in protest against his execution. The funeral procession started in Al-Azza refugee camp…
Indeed we live in a global village, in a sealed monolithic ghetto in which medieval pornographic images of barbarism travel around the world at the speed of light for our…
A Palestinian government source denied that a short meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh was held in Cairo, according to Palestine News Network. According to…
A mortar shell was fired on Tuesday morning at the Karni border crossing at the eastern Gaza strip. A Palestinian truck driver was wounded in the attack, which no Palestinian…
Israeli army gunboats have abducted three Palestinian fishermen off the Rafah seashore on Tuesday at dawn. The three were identified as Ayman Al Ejbur, Isma'el Basalah, and his brother Samer,…
The Israeli army has abducted 11 Palestinian men in pre-dawn invasions to several areas of the West Bank on Tuesday. Israeli forces invaded, searched and ransacked residents' homes in Aida…
Residents of Burqin in the northern West Bank report that their lands are being polluted by an Israeli settlement built on Salfit District lands. Farmers told PNN on Monday that…
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, held a session on Monday morning with his special envoy for the release of the captured soldier, Ophir Dekel, and members of several security agencies,…
The Islamic Jihad Movement and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced that they have struck a deal late on Monday evening that would see the release…
Palestinian security sources in Gaza reported on Monday that an unknown armed group abducted a Peruvian photographer working for the French press agency (Agence France-Presse). So far, no armed group…
The hardships on the Israeli military checkpoints in the West Bank are still making the life of Palestinians who need to travel a nightmare, despite the Israeli claims of removing…
The Ramattan News Agency reported on Sunday that a prisoner swap deal that would see the release of hundreds of Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel is expected to be declared…
Ismail Radwan, spokesperson of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, stated on Sunday that a prisoner swap deal between Palestinian factions and Israel will be reached soon. Radwan added that…
An Arab League report released Sunday indicated that Israel is the cause of the water problems in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and controls 80 percent the water resources.…
The year 2006 was one of the most dramatic in the internal Palestinian arena in recent history. Amid a rash of political and economic transformations of most aspects of Palestinian…
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas arrived on Saturday afternoon in Gaza to celebrate the Eid Al Adha Muslim feast, Abbas’ office reported. The visit is considered the first to the Gaza…
2006 is one of the most dramatic years that greatly affected the Palestinian arena and left its permanent marks and effects in the minds of the Palestinian people since it…
The Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for firing seven homemade shells into Israeli military camps and settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip. The…
Palestinian human rights organizations reported on Saturday that Israeli interrogators at the Maali Adumim interrogation center, near Jerusalem, tortured a Palestinian detainee and hit him with metal chains. The center…
Saddam Hussein's execution is being widely condemned by Palestinians, with this considered a “black day.” The decision of the "American client government in Iraq to execute the Iraqi President is…
All Palestinians participate in the resistance in some form or another, even if it means going to the market or refusing to leave their home under threat of demolition. Children…
The Israeli army abducted two men during a morning invasion in the village of Al Showawra east of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Saturday. Several army vehicles…
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli army navel boats have abducted three Palestinian brothers near Rafah beach south of the Gaza strip on Saturday. Majied Farahat, his two brothers Mohamed and…
Saddam Hussein's execution is being widely condemned by Palestinians, with this considered a “Black Day.” The decision of the "American client government in Iraq to execute the Iraqi President is…
Foreigners are now going to be required to apply to Israeli authorities in advance in order to travel to the West Bank. In addition to the visa generally received at…
Uri Dan, an Israeli journalist who died recently, and was close to the former Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, published, before his death, a book in which he accuses Sharon…
The Gaza Strip, home to 1.2 million Palestinians, has faced an unprecedented rainfall this week that has resulting in flooding in many places. With all major bridges having been obliterated…
Israeli soldiers installed on Saturday evening a roadblock at the southern entrance of Qabatia town, south-east of Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank. Local sources reported that…
Hamas political bureau chief, Khalid Mashal, stated on Saturday that the only way to end the current Palestinian crisis is to return to a direct and unconditional dialogue between all…
Palestinian security sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Friday evening that the Rafah terminal, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, will be opened on Saturday on both directions from…
Abu Obaida, spokesperson of the Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, stated on Friday that two engineers, members of the “manufacturing division” of the brigades were killed while…
The brother of a jailed Palestinian man whose children and pregnant wife are being held in a Texas jail says he will stage a small protest with his 3-year-old niece…
Abu Obaida, spokesperson of the Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, stated on Friday that two engineers, members of the “manufacturing division” of the brigades were killed while…
Israeli Ynetnews reported on Friday that the office of the Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has not yet set date to discuss release of Palestinian detainees, despite Olmert’s suggestion at…
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Around 200 hundred people, including international and Israeli activists joined together in Bil'in village near the city of Ramallah in the West Bank for the weekly demonstration against the illegal…
Palestinian residents of the West Bank reported on Friday that the Israeli troops stationed at the checkpoints which separate West Bank cities from each other, have tightened searches and inspections…
On Friday morning raids in various parts of the West Bank, Israeli forces abducted five Palestinian men, according to local sources. One was abducted from the village of Beit Oniah,…
Pakistan announced Tuesday its intention to build a wall of landmines and security fencing along its disputed 2,500km-long border with Afghanistan, in order to curb the flow of militants between…
A group of Palestinian fighters fired one home made Qassam shell at the town of Asqalan North West Israeli on Friday midday. Al Qudes Brigades the armed wing of the…
Israeli sources reported on Friday that the Israeli government will not release any Palestinian detainees being help in Israeli detention camps during the Muslim holiday of Eid Al Adha. Israeli…
Israeli media sources reported that two Israeli border police officers were injured near the illegal Israeli wall surrounding the northern West Bank city of Ramallah Friday morning. Apparently the two…
The Israeli army abducted two Palestinian men during pre dawn invasions in villages around the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday. Mohamed Khamis, 60, from in the Al…
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, warned on Thursday that it cannot stand idle as Israel continues its settlement activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem, adding that the new approval of…
In the month of December alone, 90 new Israeli trailers were placed on illegally-seized Palestinian land in the West Bank. The trailers are the first stage of expanding existing Israeli…
Israeli sources reported on Thursday that Egypt transferred to Palestinian Authority security forces, under the direct control of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fateh party, large amounts of weapons…
The Israeli Center for Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories (B’TSELEM), reported Thursday that the year 2006 saw an obvious deterioration of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories,…
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday December 28th 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 4.41MB|| time:4m495s Israeli activists blocked the central…
Palestinian Minister of Planning, Samir Abu Aisha, stated on Thursday that he is willing to meet with his Israeli counterpart Abraham Hertzishon, to discuss financial issues with him. In an…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Thursday that 140 residents suffering from heart problems and cancer were allowed through the Rafah border crossing on their way to Egyptian hospitals…
There are 28 Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli Ramle Prison Hospital. But they are not receiving medical treatment. Thousands of Palestinians go without the basic necessities of health care…
The Rafah Border Crossing, in southern Gaza Strip connecting Gaza to Egypt, was shut down by European monitors on Thursday midday after Palestinian Prime Minister Isma'el Haniyeh passed through the…
Residents of the northern Jordan Valley in the West Bank are living in state of fear and anxiety as Israeli forces overtake more land. The Wall is being built on…
Israeli forces detained scores of Palestinians in a waiting hall at the Karameh "Allenby" crossing located at the West Bank – Jordanian border for a long period of time without…
Israeli activists blocked central downtown of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv with razor wire from the illegal Wall on Thursday afternoon. The activists stretched the razor wire across Basel…
Palestinian security forces under the command of President Mahmoud Abbas, known as the presidential guards, working in the Gaza Strip received 2000 machineguns, twenty thousand gun chargers and one million…
In a televised interview with the Aljazeera Channle’s show ‘Without Frontiers”, Naeyf Hawatma, senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), revealed that Israelis and a number of Hamas officials…
Egyptian President Husni Mubarak stressed that a fair solution to the Palestinian question would lead to stability in the Middle East. In a speech to the Arab League yesterday, delivered…
Israeli media sources reported that two Palestinian prisoners managed to escape on Thursday morning from the Israeli Katziot detention camp located in the Nigev desert in northern Israeli. One of…
The Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, which is the only way in or out of the Strip, was reopened on Thursday morning from both sides. Palestinian Sources…
Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday that an unknown armed group fired rounds of live ammunition at a member of Hamas near Borqeen village, west of Jenin in the northern part…
The Israeli government has approved the construction of a new Israeli settlement on Palestinian land in the West Bank to house Israeli settlers who moved out of settlements in the…
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday December 27th 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 4.81MB|| time:5m15s The Israeli army abducts 17…
Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, said during an interview with the Israeli online daily, Haaretz, that it is possible to hold peace talks with the Palestinians even if there was…
As the civil war in Iraq increases, sparked by the three-year U.S. military occupation of that country, Palestinian refugees that had been living in Iraq are fleeing in increasing numbers,…
Twenty Israeli military vehicles stormed Umm Salamuna Village south of Bethlehem to protect four military bulldozers. The bulldozers were massive and there to bulldoze Palestinian land for Wall construction. What…
Two international volunteers working with International Solidarity Movement teams in the West Bank city of Hebron were detained by the Israeli army for more than four hours on Wednesday afternoon.…
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday authorized the Israeli army to resume a policy of targeted assassinations against what he called 'rocket-launching cells' of Palestinian resistance fighters. Although he…
Today, about 40 British Jews will arrive in Israel, bringing the number of British Jewish émigrés this year up to 700, according to the Jewish Agency, a group responsible for…
The Israeli army bulldozers demolished one Palestinian house in Shu'fat refugee camp in Jerusalem city on Wednesday midday. Israeli soldiers and police surrounded the camp and closed it totally while…
The Israeli army bulldozers demolished a Palestinian house in Shu'fat refugee camp in Jerusalem city on Wednesday midday. Israeli soldiers and police surrounded the camp and closed it totally while…
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army has abducted at least 17 Palestinian men from several parts of the West Bank in pre dawn invasions on Wednesday morning. In the…
Palestinian sources reported on Tuesday that president Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Egypt for talks with his Egyptian counterpart Hosny Mubarak. The visit came as the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya,…
Israeli sources reported on Tuesday evening that two Israeli youth were injured, one seriously, after Palestinian fighters fired homemade shells into the Israeli Negev town of Sderot. The two…
Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday December 26th 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 4.95MB|| time:5m24s One Palestinian farmer injured by…
On Tuesday Morning unknown gunmen detonated a bomb in the Madhoun trading company based in the town of Beit Lahyia in the northern Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said that the gunmen…
Palestinians from Um Salamunah village, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, nonviolently tried to block Israeli army bulldozers from destroying their lands on Tuesday afternoon. Residents reported that…
The Israeli army attacked a medical center and abducted two Palestinian men and Israeli settlers destroyed Palestinian farm lands in three separate attacks in the southern West Bank city of…
On Tuesday morning the Israeli army invaded several cities, villages and refugee camps across the West Bank and abducted six Palestinian men Troops invaded Al Khader village south of Bethlehem…
A Palestinian farmer was shot and injured by the Israeli army in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya on Tuesday morning. Palestinian medical sources in the town reported…
At least 2000 Palestinians and Internationals joined the Candle Light procession in the town of Beit Sahour on Christmas Day to light a candle for the End of Violence, Unity…
Palestinian medical sources reported on Monday at night that Israeli soldiers took prisoner ten residents including a senior fighter of the popular Resistance Committees in Qabatia town, near Jenin in…
Palestinian sources reported on Monday that the Israeli Prison authorities deported a Palestinian detainee from Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, to the Gaza Strip. The detainee,…
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said on Monday that Israel will negotiate with Syria over a peaceful settlement to the conflict if it cuts its ties with Iran. The statements…
Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, claimed on Monday during his security cabinet session that he will instruct the army to remove 59 out of 400 checkpoints installed by the army…
During a session for Israel’s “security Cabinet” on Sunday, several Israeli ministers warned that Israeli would carry a large military offensive in the Gaza Strip if Palestinian fighters continue to…
Shoppers crowded the market place in Nablus Monday for Eid Al Adha. The Muslim holiday was called for 30 December this year and people in the streets said they were…