Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for Tel Aviv bombing
The Al Quds brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the Tel Aviv suicide bombing which took place on Thursday afternoon near a central bus station…
International Middle East Media Center
The Al Quds brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the Tel Aviv suicide bombing which took place on Thursday afternoon near a central bus station…
A suicide bomber blew himself up near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv at around 3:45 P.M. on Thursday, wounding at least 10 Israelis and killing one. All…
After a 45-minute-meeting with US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, Shimon Peres said, on Wednesday, that Israel will be ready to hold negotiations with the Palestinians on a permanent peace…
After a 45-minutes meeting with US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, Shimon Peres said, on Wednesday, that Israel will be ready to hold negotiations with the Palestinians on a permanent…
According to a study published, on Thursday, in the Israeli online daily Haaretz, more ore than half of the Israelis are willing to give up East Jerusalem’s Arab neighborhoods and…
Israeli army troops invaded, on Thursday morning, the West Bank city of Jenin, and arrested two residents, local sources reported. Assem Abu Al Haiga, 20, and Mustafa Abu Al…
Israeli forces resumed their harassments against the candidates and the Palestinian parties participating in the January 25 Legislative Council elections. The International Press Center, IPC, reported on Thursday, that Secretary…
Israeli army forces invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the West Bank city of Nablus and took positions in the city center. Soldiers stormed the Hannoun housing building, forced the residents…
A Homemade shell fired, on Wednesday at night, by the Palestinian resistance at an Israeli area landed on a Palestinian house in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the…
The Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights held two meetings with leaders of the Al Aqsa Brigades in the West Bank cities of Jenin and Nablus regarding a smooth flow…
Israeli army invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the village of Ein Al Baida in the Jordan Valley, and arrested three residents. The arrestees were identified as; Hisham Fokaha’ 17, and…
Israeli troops stormed, on Thursday morning, the village of Al Asakra, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and arrested one resident. Fadi Al Mo’ti, 27, was arrested after…
Hasan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese based Hezbollah party said on Wednesday at night that he believes that the Israeli Navigator Ron Arad, who has been missing since 1986 after…
The recent proposal that Norway boycott Israeli goods has provoked passionate debate. In my view, a rational examination of this issue would pose two questions: 1) Do Israeli human rights…
Hamas leader and candidate for the Palestinian Legislative Council elections, Mahmoud Al Zahhar, said on Wednesday at night, that the movement has no choice but to abduct Israeli soldiers in…
Settler leaders sharply attacked, on Wednesday, the acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for calling the army to devise a plan to evacuate 20 illegal outposts in the West Bank,…
Fateh and Hamas movements agreed on Wednesday to honor and protect the Palestinian Legislative elections which will be held on January 25, 2006. The two movements, along with several other…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Abu Mazin, said that he is ready for immediate resumption of peace talks with Israel, and that he is ready to convene with the acting Israeli…
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, claimed responsibility for the killing of an Israeli soldier on Wednesday, Maan News Agency reported. The agency added that the soldier was…
Israeli police arrested, on Wednesday, Abdul-Latif Shihada, a parliamentary candidate of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, while he was holding a press conference at a hotel in East…
Israeli troops posted at the military checkpoint between the West Bank cities of Nablus and Qalqilia, arrested on Tuesday at night, resident Ahmad Qawadri while attempting to cross the checkpoint.…
In a press release, the Al Naser Salah Ed Deen brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, claimed responsibility for firing two homemade shells at the Sofa Crossing,…
The Israeli military court of Salem sentenced, Wednesday morning, two brothers from the village of Atteel north of the West Bank city Tulkarem to consecutive terms and imposed fines on…
The Israeli Army stopped on Wednesday the opening of farming road in Jensafot village, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia. Troops stopped the Palestinian bulldozers working in…
The Israeli army invaded, Wednesday at dawn, the village of Surif, north of the West Bank city of Hebron; four residents were arrested and one injured. Troops stormed the village,…
Israeli troops invaded, on Wednesday afternoon, the village of Kofer Qaleel, south of the West Bank city of Nablus; one resident was injured, and one was arrested. Soldiers stormed…
Israeli army arrested, on Wednesday at dawn, five residents from Aida refugee camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Several army jeeps stormed the camp, searched several houses…
The Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fateh, claimed in a press release issued on Wednesday morning responsibility for killing one Israeli soldier. The press…
Israeli troops invaded, on Wednesday morning, the villages of Allar and Saida north of West Bank city of Tulkarem, and arrested five residents. Soldiers searched several houses in the…
Israeli troops invaded, on Wednesday morning, the villages of Allar and Saida north of West Bank city of Tulkarem, and arrested five residents. Soldiers searched several houses in the…
Israeli military forces invaded, on Wednesday morning, Al Ama’are Refugee Camp south west of the West Bank city of Ramallah, and arrested four residents, the Maan News Agency reported. …
Speaking at a national security conference at Haifa University, on Tuesday evening, Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Halutz addressed attempts of settlers to resettle in the evacuated northern West Bank…
Speaking at a national security conference at Haifa University, on Tuesday evening, Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Halutz addressed attempts of settlers to resettle in the evacuated northern West Bank…
Speaking at a national security conference at Haifa University, on Tuesday evening, Israeli Chief of Staff Dan Halutz addressed attempts of settlers to resettle in the evacuated northern West Bank…
Six senior experts in the HIV/AIDS field of Physicians for Human Rights in Israel published an open letter on Wednesday, regarding a young Palestinian man from the Gaza Strip, who…
Apparently, the political issue is becoming a marginal consideration in the coming Palestinian legislative elections. The political headlines presented by competing lists seem to be ignored by the majority…
Salah Ed Deen Brigades, the military resistance wing of Popular Resistance Committees, fired homemade shells at military posts in the Gaza Strip, the Maan News Agency reported. The group…
The Israeli acting Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, formally appointed Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, from Kadima party, as a Foreign Minister instead of Silvan Shalom, who resigned along with three other…
Ismael Abu Haneieh, a prominent leader of Hamas in Gaza Strip, said on Tuesday that the group had never wanted to throw Jews in sea. "We don’t hate Jews because…
Three Palestinians were wounded and at least 14 Palestinians were arrested and two Israeli soldiers were wounded in Israeli army invasions in different parts of the West Bank, Palestinian media…
The Israeli Salem Military Court convicted, on Tuesday, two brothers from the Tulkarem area of members of Islamic Jihad. Fadi Barakat, 27, was sentenced to 22 months imprisonment and…
The Israeli High Court rejected, on Tuesday, an appeal by the Gaza Community Mental Health Center and Doctors for Human Rights to end usage of "sonic-booms" over the Gaza Strip.…
The Maan News Agency in Bethlehem reported that senior Fateh leader, Hani Al Hasan, was transported to Maqassed Hospital in Jerusalem after losing consciousness during a speech in Al Biereh,…
Israeli acting Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert said that he hopes that negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel will resume after the elections in both the Palestinian territories and Israel,…
As the sunset of Sunday January 15th, religious leaders from Jerusalem, Central Israel, and the Galilee gathered in the Arab city of Rama. Over 200 Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Druze…
Israeli military bulldozers, backed by large number of soldiers, invaded the village of Al-Furdeis, east of Bethlehem, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, and leveled two houses, the Maan…
The Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh movement, issued a press release on Tuesday, harshly slamming the Lebanese Druze leader, Waleed Jumblat, for his statements which considered the…
Israeli troops sealed off the northern entrance of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, and barred the residents form crossing. Soldiers stopped dozens of vehicles, searched them and checked…
A report published by the German newspaper Koelner Stadtanzeiger revealed that German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) provided the Israeli Mossad espionage agency with German passports, which were used for carrying…
Detainee Ahmad Yousef Al Tameemy, 45, from Ramallah, demanded through his lawyer Johana Lehrman, who represents Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, the disqualification of Judge Noga Ohad of the Tel Aviv…
Israeli military forces invaded, on Tuesday morning, Al Fawwar refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, the Maan News Agency reported. Eyewitnesses told Maan that soldiers used…
A group of Jewish Americans who call themselves, "The Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace" called the American Administration to urge Israel to evacuate all the Jewish settlements in the…
The Israeli Salem military court sentenced, Tuesday morning, Ahmad Shurafa, 19, from the West Bank city of Tulkarem, to 32 months imprisonment and 2000 NIS as a fine. Shurafa…
Israeli army troops invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the village of Aseera Al Shamaliyya near the West Bank city of Nablus, and arrested eight residents. Soldiers stormed the village…
The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) has asked to host matches on home soil for the first time since Palestinians gained control of the Gaza Strip, PFA president Ahmed Al-Afeefy said.…
Israeli army units stormed, on Monday evening, the office of leftist Palestinian People Party in Jerusalem, and arrested nine of the party activists. Troops confiscated all the posters and…
Salah Ed Deen brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees and the Al Aqsa brigades, the military wing of Fateh, claimed joint responsibility on Monday at night, for…
Israeli soldiers assassinated, on Tuesday morning, the general leader of the Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, Thabit Ayada, 24, in the West Bank city of Tulkarem after…
Israeli troops assassinated a senior leader of Hamas, and arrested three residents in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, one soldier was injured. Thabit Salah Ed Deen, 23, was…
Israeli soldiers arrested, on Tuesday at dawn, 18 residents in several cites in the West Bank. Eight residents were arrested in the West Bank city of Nablus, nine Hebron,…
The Israeli District Court in Be’er Shiva, acquitted on Monday Avri Ran, an extremist settler, and the leader of the Hilltop Youth settler group, of charges which included attacking and…
In an article published, on Monday by the New Yorker magazine, Israeli sources revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered, before he suffered the stroke, the Israeli National Security…
Israeli soldiers invaded Jalboun Village, east of the West Bank city of Jenin, on Monday evening, searched a number of homes and detained a group of children playing near the…
Israeli army GOC Central Command Major General Yair Naveh, signed on Monday evening, an order an order declaring the Jewish settlements in the West Bank town of Hebron closed military…
Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, reported that leaders of the Israeli Labor Party are trying to convince Labor Party leader, Amir Peretz, to announce his support to another unilateral withdrawal from…
Israeli army invaded on Monday afternoon the southern area of Nablus in the West Bank. Eyewitnesses said that troops arrested one resident identified as Mohammah Al-Khalil 26. Witnesses said troops…
Israeli bulldozers demolished on Monday morning a Palestinian housing building at the northern entrance of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, near Rachel’s Tomb. The Jerusalem municipality alleged that this…
In an interview with the Palestine news Network, Sheikh Yasser Mansour, a prominent leader of Hamas, said that the movement decided to participate in the Legislative Elections in order to…
Israeli solders attacked, on Monday morning, several taxi drivers north of the West Bank city of Nablus. Troops smashed the windows of at least 10 vehicles since morning hours,…
Israeli troops stormed, on Sunday evening, Aida refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Several army jeeps invaded the camp and took photos of several houses,…
Israeli soldiers arrested on Monday morning two residents from Atteel and Allar villages, south of the West Bank city of Tulkarem. Troops invaded the village of Allar conducted military…
Israeli army invaded, on Monday at dawn the West Bank city of Qalqilia, and arrested 14 residents. Soldiers conducted wide scale house-to-house search in the city, and broke into…
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine called on its supporters to boycott the upcoming Palestinian Legislative Council elections scheduled for January 25. The movement said that the elections are based…
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, is not showing any signs of reviving from his induced coma; if his condition persists into next week,…
The Israeli artillery shelled, on Monday at dawn, several in the southern part of the Gaza strip. This shelling is part of the Blue Skies operation the Israeli army…
Israeli soldiers invaded on Sunday at night the village of Kafer Dan, near the West Bank city of Jenin, and broke into dozens of homes searching for members of the…
Former PA Minister of Civil Affairs, Mohammad Dahlan, who resigned his post to run in the Palestinian Legislative Elections elections, slammed on Sunday Hamas movement for what he said its…
Israeli soldiers fired several shells at areas in the northern Gaza Strip, the targeted areas are said to be uninhibited. An Israeli army source reported that a Palestinian resistance…
The Israeli government approved on Sunday the participation of Jerusalemite Palestinians in the legislative elections scheduled for January 25, but did not authorize Hamas movement to campaign in the city.…
The jailed General Secretary of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmed Saadat, was elected to his position following the assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa in 2002.…
The Maan News Agency reported that Israeli soldiers arrested, on Sunday, three Hamas candidates in the Old City of Jerusalem. The agency stated that soldiers arrested Mohammad Abu Tair, Mohammad…
Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Sunday, two residents in Kafr Al Deek village, near the West Bank city of Salfit, one resident was also arrested during the invasion. Over…
A Palestinian woman and her son were killed, and five members of their family were injured, on Sunday at dawn, when under-cover units of the Israeli army opened fire at…
An Israeli military source reported on Saturday at night that hundreds of settlers, most of them masked, attempted to break into Al Qasaba neighborhood, in the West bank city of…
On Thursday January 12th, two members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) were attacked by a group of 30 Israeli settler ‘girls’ while walking near the Tel Rumeida settlement in…
Israeli settlers form Mitzpe Lakhish settlement outpost, east of Doura village near the West Bank city of Hebron, annexed on Saturday afternoon, 150 Dunams which belong to residents of the…
Resident Kamal Abed, 29 form Rafah city in the Gaza strip died, late of Friday at night, of wounds sustained three years ago during an Israeli military invasion. Abed…
Resident Kamal Abed, 29 form Rafah city in the Gaza strip died, late of Friday at night, of wounds sustained three years ago during an Israeli military invasion. Abed…
Ayman Joudah armed group, one of the military wings of the Al Aqsa Brigades, declared that its fighters shot and killed, on Saturday morning, an Israeli soldier in Beit Hanoun,…
The Palestinian Holy Land Trust, a non-governmental organization based in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, organized on Friday afternoon, a peaceful procession against the Separation for children in the…
Israeli troops invaded, on Saturday at dawn, the West Bank city of Jenin and arrested Mohamed Tawalba, 30, one of the senior leaders of the Islamic Jihad movement. Soldiers surrounded…
Israeli soldiers invaded on Saturday at dawn, Yatta town, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, and arrested one resident. A local source in the town reported that…
The Israeli authorities released on Saturday morning, Ashraf Shawawra, 23, form Al Shawawra village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, after detaining and interrogating him for one week…
Dozens of gunmen, including off-duty Palestinian policemen, blocked two major roads in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, demanding vengeance for the killing of a policeman in a drug bust a…
U.S. diplomatic sources said on Friday that the U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority would be reviewed and possibly reduced if Hamas participates in a government after this month’s Palestinian…
Following a conciliatory meeting with Likud party Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom resigned from the government Friday. Netanyahu had asked, on Thursday, Likud ministers to resign in…
American envoy to the Middle East, David Welch, said on Friday during a visit to the West Bank city of Ramallah, that the United States strongly believes that Palestinians everywhere…
In protest of the death of their college Palestinian police officers closed, on Saturday morning, the high way road the connects the central Gaza strip area with the city. …
The Maan News Agency reported that one woman of Kafr Ad Deek village, near Salfit city, in the West Bank, was injured after military dogs attacked and bit her while…
Israeli troops invaded the West Bank city of Jenin on Friday morning,stormed and searched several houses in the city. Army units backed with military bulldozers and heavy vehicles surrounded and…