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The Israeli army took four residents prisoner from the West Bank city of Tulkarem and neighboring villages during a morning invasion Thursday. In Kofer Zeid, troops stormed the residents houses,…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus Thursday morning, taking five residents, including a young girl, prisoner. Local residents said the military operation started late Wednesday night…

Israeli sources reported on Thursday that Hezbollah gunmen fired of Katusha shells into northern Israeli towns, a mother and her child were killed in the Arab Galilee town of Dir…

An attempt to draft a revised UN Resolution of the Lebanon/Israeli conflict failed yesterday, when the United States refused to consider  France’s revisions to the original draft.   The crux…

The Israeli army forces invaded the West Bank city of Rammallah Thursday morning, surrounded several buildings and imposed a curfew in the city. Troops stormed Al Murjan building near the…

The Israeli army invaded the west Bank city of Jenin its refugee camp and the nearby village of Al Yamon, early Thursday morning. Army jeeps and bulldozers stormed the area,…

Israeli army troops stormed shepherds’ huts is Al Maleh and Ein Al Helwa areas in the Jordan valley late Wednesday night. The shepherds reported that soldiers searched their huts and…

An attempt to draft a revised UN Resolution of the Lebanon/Israeli conflict failed yesterday, when the United States refused to consider  France’s revisions to the original draft. The crux of…

Israeli war planes targeted and destroyed two homes in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip after warning residents with a phone call to evacuate.  The planes struck in the…

Whatever we think of Israel’s assault on Lebanon, all of us seem to agree about one fact: that it was a response, however disproportionate, to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah.…

This 23 minutes audio piece presents 3 villagers that are struggling against Israeli law to have right of ownership of their own lands. Hanin Amr and Tania Tabar report. Click…

There were bulldozers turning over the tons of rubble, a cloud of dust and smoke a mile high over the smashed slums of Beirut’s southern suburbs and a tall man…

A Sky News newscaster, interviewing British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Sunday, July 30 demanded an answer to this paraphrased question: if indeed Israel had precise intelligence that a Hezbollah…

Sheikh Hasan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanon based Hezbollah party, said in a televised speech on Wednesday evening, that his party will continue to fight and that it backs the…

After the capture of the Palestinian Legislative head Dr. Aziz Dweik by Israeli forces this weekend, adding to the eighty Palestinian government officials already being held without charge by Israel…

Palestinian medical sources in Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza reported on Wednesday at night that three Palestinians, including a three- year old child were killed, and three other residents were…

Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that the so-called Israeli Security cabinet approved the expansion of ground assault in Lebanon authorizing the army to invade Lebanese areas up to the Litani…

Nigel Parry, The Electronic Intifada 9 August 2006 As the Israeli war on continues to dominate world headlines, ‘s ongoing war against Gaza seems to be taking place in a…

Two Palestinians were extra judicially killed and several were injured in an Israeli air strike in Jenin Refugee Camp in the northern West Bank on Thursday morning, Palestinian News Network…

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Israeli forces invaded the Balata refugee camp in the early hours of Wednesday morning and surrounded one house of a Palestinian family and threw several tear-gas bombs in the neighborhood,…

As the sun baked the densely populated camp, young children carrying empty plastic bottles and cooking pots chased a United Nations truck transporting drinking water to schools which had been…

Palestinian resistance fighters shelled four home made shells at an Israeli army post in Kerem Shalom crossing south of the Gaza strip on Wednesday.   The National Resistance Brigades, the…

Leaflets being dropped into the Lebanese port city of Tyre today and yesterday by Israeli aircraft have warned all residents that anything that moves in the city will be bombed.…

Wednesday morning, the Israeli air force assassinated Amjad Sa’id Ajamy, 20, from Atteel village, one of the senior leaders of the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic…

Israeli army troops detained dozens of Palestinian civilians at a military checkpoint newly installed between Halhool village and the near by West Bank city of Hebron. Soldiers prevented cars and…

Gazan resistance fighters launched shells at an Israeli army post in the southern Gaza Strip Tuesday, while Israeli soldiers responded with their own shells in various parts of the Gaza…

A group of illegal settlers with the participation of Israeli army soldiers attacked two members of the Christian Peacemaker Team late Tuesday night in Sousya east of the West Bank…

The Israeli army arrested Faudil Dendis from the old town area of the West Bank city of Hebron Wednesday morning and intensified its presence in the city.  Local sources said…

The spokesperson for the European Union monitors working at Rafah crossing south of the Gaza Strip said that the Israeli army banned them from reaching their work station at Rafah…

Akram Awwad was arrested while crossing a military checkpoint near Isebet Jabara village south of the West Bank city of Tulkarem Wednesday morning.  According to eyewitnesses, Awwad was going from…

Israeli army troops took four prisoners from Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus Wednesday at dawn.   The four arrested are brothers from the Abu Ayyash…

Israeli army troops invaded the village of Fahma south of the West Bank city of Jenin Wednesday morning.  Palestinian security sources said that several army vehicles stormed the village and…

Israeli army tanks stationed at the Gaza Israeli border continued shelling residential areas in the northern sector of the Gaza Strip Wednesday.   The shelling targeted areas in Beit Lahia,…

Israeli Apache helicopters fired missiles into a resident’s home in Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin Wednesday afternoon.  The house collapsed and caused the death of…

The Information of Office of the Fateh Movement is calling for public attention to ’s policy of arresting women and girls intended to pressure other Palestinian political prisoners.   Wednesday’s…

{mosimage)Hundreds of people from the Palestinian and Arab community in marched in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese people yesterday in the capital city of Lima in South America. Not…

Two representatives of the Arab Bedouin community attended a United Nations meeting in Geneva last week entitled, “The Forum of Coexistence.” The UN meeting dealt with the difficulties of Indigenous…

Israeli forces invaded the Balata refugee camp, near the West Bank city fo Nablus in the early hours of Wednesday morning and surrounded one house of a Palestinian family and…

An Israeli strike on the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain Al Hilweh kills at least one person and wounds 15, including 5 children, early Wednesday, AlJazeera reported. According to Palestinian…

Thirteen people were killed Tuesday evening in Al Ghazziya, Lebanon, while attending the mass funeral of the fifteen Lebanese people killed just the day before. Local sources reported that 1500…

Thirteen people were killed Tuesday evening in Ghaziyeh, Lebanon, while attending the mass funeral of the fifteen Lebanese people killed just the day before. Local sources reported that 1500 people…

Official Israeli sources reported on Wednesday night that fifteen Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes with Hezbollah fighters in several areas in southern Lebanon. The sources added that in one…

Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz told Haaretz Tuesday that Israel would not hold back because of diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis.  Israel is prepared to do whatever it takes…

In protest at the Israeli attacks against , has canceled a deal with Israel Aircraft Industries to upgrade aircraft, Israeli sources said on Tuesday. The cancellation of this deal is…

Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file 6.6 MB   Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East…

An Israeli military sources reported on Tuesday that one soldier died on Tuesday afternoon during in clashes with Hezbollah fighters. A medical source in Zef Hospital in Safad reported and…

Israeli sources reported tat at least two Israelis were wounded after Hezbollah gunmen fired some 100 Katusha shells into northern Israel on Tuesday, damage to constructions was reported. The two…

According to official Lebanese sources, at least 1000 residents were killed and 3369 were injured since the clashes started in July 12, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.   The Higher Relief…

Israeli army troops took, Sami Ghawadra, 20, prisoner during an invasion to Bir Al Bash village near the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday. Soldiers searched several houses and…

One child was shot and injured by Israeli military fire in Beit Lahia twon in the northern part of the Gaza Strip Tuesday afternoon. The child was injured when army…

Battles between Israeli forces and Hizbullah fighters raged Tuesday across south Lebanon as diplomats at the United Nations worked frantically to hammer out a peace plan that would take into…

It is impossible to speak of a Hizbullah victory’ when nearly a thousand Lebanese civilians have been killed, thousands more injured, a million people internally displaced; and Lebanon’s infrastructure, environment…

It is 28 days since Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers, prompting a ground and air assault on by the Israeli army. In that time, 932 people have been killed in…

The Israeli army conducted a wide scale military offensive in the village of Qabatia near the West Bank city of Jenin Tuesday morning, which led to the imprisonment of three…

The Israeli army took one prisoner during an invasion of Qarowwit Beni Hasan village near Sulfit city in the West Bank late Monday night.  The prisoner was identified as Aziz…

Israeli army forces stormed Deheisha refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem Tuesday morning and took one prisoner. Nader Abd Rabu, 24, who works as a security…

Five residents were taken prisoner when Israeli army troops invaded the village of Taqua located east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem early Tuesday morning.   The prisoners were identified…

Israeli forces invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp on Tuesday at dawn. According to local residents, a massive number of army vehicles and jeeps stormed…

Israeli forces arrested Al Aqsa Brigades leader Mohammad Adib Hanaish while invading Qabatiya Village southwest of Jenin Tuesday. Members of the armed Palestinian resistance began fighting back at dawn as…

The Israeli heavy artillery continued shelling northern parts of the Gaza Strip Tuesday morning.  The shelling targeted residential areas in Beit Lahya, Jabalia refugee camp and Beit Hanoun.  No injuries…

Four residents, including the wife of a political prisoner, were taken prisoner during an Israeli invasion of the West Bank city of Nablus, Tuesday morning. A massive army force stormed…

Israeli army troops invaded the village of Kofer Daann west of the West Bank city of Jenin late Monday night. Troops and army jeeps stormed the village from several directions…

The Jerusalem Center for Democracy and Human Rights issued its report for the month of July on Israeli violations in the Governorate of Occupied Jerusalem. A sample of the report…

Lawyers for leftist activist Abraham Tsarfati, author Amran al-Malich and human rights group official Zion Asidon filed a petition against Peretz, a Moroccan-born Israeli, to Rabat’s high court. They say…

The Young Men’s Christian Association and the Ministry of Sport and Youth helped organize Monday’s event which condemned “the massacres being carried out by against the children, women and the…

In the southern Gaza Strip’s Khan Younis Refugee Camp 72 year old Mohammad Salameh received notice to evacuate his family home. Israeli warplanes were overhead and intended to continue the…

It is clear that Israel, the occupying power, does not care about the international condemnation of its actions in the occupied Territories, nor of its constant violations of international law.…

Marty Wrin, Boston-based activist and Grassroots International staff member walked over 120 miles in 36 hours to raise money and awareness to ship medical supplies to hospitals and clinics in…

The European football governing body, UEFA, decided on Monday to bar Israel from hosting international soccer matches until further notice, as a result of violence in the region. The UEFA…

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Five Lebanese civilians were killed and eight Israeli soldiers were wounded after a raid that took place in the south of Tyre.  Israeli commandos clashed with Hezbollah fighters after raiding…

Hundreds of Palestinian and International demonstrators took part in the symbolic funeral procession in the town of Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, Sunday. The event was organized to protest the silence…

Israel will continue its offensive until a UN-sponsored ceasefire is agreed upon, sources from the Israeli military General Staff confirm, adding that the military will recommend a considerable expansion of…

Monday morning, Naseem Abu Amoud, 34, and Mahmoud Abu Amoud, 19, were injured due to an explosion by an unidentified object in Nuba village, south of the West Bank city…

The Israeli army troops invaded the village of Kafr Ra’ee, south of the West Bank city of Jenin, Monday at dawn. Eyewitnesses reported that soldiers stormed the village, conducted a…

Israeli forces took five Palestinians from the west Bank city of Hebron prisoners after invading the city on Monday. The invasion began in the northeast and including breaking into several…

The Israeli army troops invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and took Mohammed Al Tubassyi, 20,  prisoner. Troops and army vehicles stormed the city and searched several homes before…

Five Palestinian Government employees were hospitalized in the West Bank city of Ramallah after inhaling suspicious material that was in an envelope addressed to the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, …

Lebanese security and medical sources reported that dozens of people were killed as Israeli warplanes fired missiles at several houses in a village at the Lebanese border. The sources estimate…

During Monday’s early dawn hours Israeli settlers shot and killed a man, and injured his son south of Nablus in the West Bank. Palestinian security sources report that the Qalqilia…

Israeli forces invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp on Monday at dawn. Local sources said that troops fired their guns randomly at residents’ homes and…

Israeli sources reported on Monday that three Israelis were injured after Hezbollah fighters fired some 25 Katusha rockets at northern Israel. The sources added that eight Katusha shells landed in…

The Israeli army took five prisoners from the West Bank city of Hebron and the nearby Al-Shiokh village, Monday at dawn. Troops stormed residents’ homes in the city and the…

Monday morning, an Israeli F-16 jetfighter fired missiles at a house in Bait Lahia town, in the northern part of the Gaza of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses reported that the…

Israeli army troops and jeeps invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem Monday morning. Soldiers stormed residents’ homes and ransacked them in the Al Midbesa neighborhood in the center of…

Saed Ibrahim was taken as prisoner, late Sunday night from the West Bank city of Tubas, after being attacked by the Israeli soldiers. Local residents said that the boy Ibrahim…

Fadil Hamdan, Hamas Legislator in the Palestinian Legislative Council, was taken prisoner by the Israeli army from the West Bank city of Ramallah, late Sunday night. Soldiers surrounded Hamdan’s home…

Monday evening, Israeli air force shelled several civilian houses in Bretal village, in Al Biqa’ area in Lebanon killing at least 13 civilians; 23 were injured. In Al Shayyah neighborhood…

Israeli soldiers invaded the Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank, and took three Palestinians prisoners. One of the arestees is Mohammad Al Tubassy,…

Sunday evening, Israeli soldiers assassinated Rashid Al Omary, 24, of the leaders of the Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, in Sielet Al Harthiyya town, west…

Sunday morning, Israeli troops invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus and took two residents prisoners, eyewitnesses reported. Soldiers broke into the homes of Ibrahim Al Mazni, and Ali…

Palestinian medical sources and eyewitnesses in Gaza reported that one child was killed after midnight Saturday night, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The sources…

Palestinian medical sources in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, reported on Saturday that Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinians, including two children, in three air strikes in the city. The…

Saturday, Israeli soldiers deliberately fired at a main electricity network in Fahma village, south west of Jenin in the West Bank. Residents of the village reported that two Israeli military…

At least five people have been killed and eight Israeli commandos injured in a raid near the Lebanese port city of Tyre. Israel said the troops landed in Tyre by…

Sunday evening, Israeli settlers opened fire at a Palestinian vehicle south of the West bank city of Nablus, killing one resident and injuring his brother, Palestinian medical and security sources…

Israeli military and medical sources reported on Sunday that Hezbollah fighters fired, on Sunday afternoon, Katusha shells at soldiers in an open area in the northern settlement of Kfar Giladi…

The International News Safety Institute appealed last week to all parties in the current Middle East debacle to respect the safety and security of journalists and other news media staff.…